CRT 205 Week 3 CheckPoint Argument Credibility Part I

CRT 205 Week 3 CheckPoint Argument Credibility Part I

finance discussion 6 2

During week 6 we develop the theory and application of capital budget analysis. The theory was robust, the calculations mathematically and logically defined, and many of the real-world problems, likely to be encountered, were addressed. As capital budgeting essentially re-invents the company through major long-term expenditures it is arguably one of the most critical functions that financial management performs. However, based on my personal experiences, extensive empirical data, and antidotal data – many firms routinely experience significant failures in their selection of capital projects.

The assignment for this topic consists if two parts:

1) For your first topic in this discussion I would like for you to briefly review either your personal experiences and/or the financial literature to identify and present a description of one actual capital project/product failure and the reasons attributed to the failure.

Remember this is a one to two paragraph exercise – do not go overboard – a few hours research and summation is all that’s required. I am interested only in your short, concise description of the project and the major reasons you believe it failed.

assignment 2 vision board statements

hello i want someone to answers this Questions .

Please submit the following statements for me to review. You will be putting these on your Final Vision Board (Assignment 3 this week).

1. What is your Intention with Meditation?

2. What is your Intention with the Environment?

3. What is your Intention Regarding Rest, Relaxation & Recreation?

4. What is your Intention with Nutrition?

5. What is your Intention with Exercise?

6. What is your Intention with Mindful Communication?

7. What is your Intention with Building Positive Relationships?

8. What is your Intention with using your SENSES (sight, sound, touch, taste hearing) to be Mindful?

9. Personal Vision Statement (Copy from last week’s assignment).

10. What is your Favorite Quote?

REMEMBER – You must be specific: Examples

  • I meditate every morning before school for 10 minutes.
  • I eat one meal/snack in complete silence each day.
  • I mindfully listen at least one time each day.
  • I walk on Tuesdays and Thursdays with my neighbor/friend/spouse in the evening

signature assignment improving organizational culture

Assignment Content


  1. Purpose of Assessment
    Assess an organization’s culture to improve alignment between the culture, mission, vision, values, and strategies. You will be measured on how you assess the organization’s culture as well as how your proposed decisions for improvements align to the organization’s mission, vision, values, and strategies.
    In a 7- to 10-slide presentation to the leadership of the organization you chose to explore in Week 1,
    complete the following:

    • Assess the current culture within the organization at the time of your experience.
    • Develop the Change Management Plan using Kotter’s 8-Step model.
    • Determine the desired outcome as a result of the proposed change.
    • Analyze the alignment between the organizations, mission, vision, values, strategies, and the proposed Change Management Plan.


MGT 435 Week 4 DQ 1

  

Ashford 5: – Week 4 – Discussion 1

 

Your initial discussion thread is due on Day 3 (Thursday) and you have until Day 7 (Monday) to respond to your classmates. Your grade will reflect both the quality of your initial post and the depth of your responses. Reference the Discussion Forum Grading Rubric for guidance on how your discussion will be evaluated.

 

     

Personal   Experiences

 Think of an organizational change that you experienced.  Describe how you were impacted by the change.  What could the leadership have done to make the transition more successful?  Cite one or more change models to support your assertion.  Review several of your peers’ posts.  Compare your experiences with at least two peers and identify lessons you can apply to future organizational changes.

Your initial post should be at least 200 words in length. Support your claims with examples from required material(s) and/or other scholarly resources, and properly cite any references. Respond to at least two of your classmates’ posts by Day 7.

In this Assignment, you analyze the complex administrative responsibilities in ensuring public freedom while protecting civil liberties. For this Discussion, read one of the articles highlighting the threat to civil liberties in the United States (Greenb

Discussion: Role of Public Administrators in Protecting Civil Liberties

  More than many other professionals, public administrators face the daily challenge of balancing personal rights with the needs of society. To perform their functions and duties, public administrators may have to carry out administrative actions that invade privacy interests and violate civil liberties. What would your personal ethical code of conduct dictate in the face of political or organizational policies that threaten personal liberties? What might help you frame your responsibilities in terms of protecting civil liberties while protecting all members of society?  

In this Assignment, you analyze the complex administrative responsibilities in ensuring public freedom while protecting civil liberties. 

 For this Discussion, read one of the articles highlighting the threat to civil liberties in the United States (Greenblatt, Inazu, McKelvey, or Wilke). 

  Post a (200 Word APA Format) your reaction to the article you selected. Then, explain how that article frames the responsibilities of public administrators who face ethical dilemmas in the attempt to ensure civil liberties while protecting all members of society. Multicultural and/or international examples are welcome but not required.

Social Statistics

Assignment Instructions

SOCI 332 – Statistics for Social Sciences

Final Portfolio Assignment 

(WORD DOCUMENT BELOW ATTACHED WITH THE DIRECTIONS FOR THIS ASSIGNMENT)

Overview

One of the most crucial components of this course is developing a research project from conceptualizing a research problem and developing a number of measurement and statistical analysis approaches to bring evidence to bear on the problem.  Throughout the class, you created a research study based on publicly available data from the General Social Survey (GSS).  You chose data which were representative of your interests and satisfied your research question and hypotheses.  

This Assignment meets these course objectives: Describe and apply the concepts and logic of elementary statistics. Conduct statistical analysis in SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences). Compare and contrast different types of data and the statistics that can be used to analyze them Examine the differences between descriptive and inferential statistics and their use in the social sciences. Form critical interpretations of quantitative research literature in sociology and other social sciences. Complete and interpret descriptive and inferential statistical data analysis Critically evaluate the quality of research design and evidence in published social research.

Instructions

The Final Portfolio Assignment is where you pull together the research you’ve been working on the first seven weeks of class.  Using your weekly Forum posts, and the feedback from your classmates and instructor on your posts, construct a 6-8 page paper that fully explores your research topic in a way that provides the context and explanation surrounding the analyses provided in the paper.  Your project should display you understand what you are writing about holistically, not simply going through the motions.  

Citing literature about your research topic, be sure to set the stage for the data and analyses that you present.  Briefly describe the General Social Survey as your survey instrument.  Provide the questions, verbatim, that were asked in the survey which became the variable which you chose to use.  You will also need to include the answer choices for each of them.  This portion can be a table if you choose.  Share and explain frequency table(s) an histograms or graphs to describe your data.  Using the statistical tests you ran each week in class (crosstabs, tests of significance, measures of association), present the tests and your findings.  Clearly identify and explain your hypothesis and the five steps of hypothesis testing as they apply to your paper. Explain the results of the statistical tests and pull in some literature to provide context, demonstrating how your results and research fit into the larger body of literature on this topic.  Be sure to use proper APA formatting for citations and references. However, you do not need to include an abstract or table of contents.  You can find guidance in APA by clicking here to access the Purdue Online Writing Lab.

Because the project is a formal, you should include a title page and reference page. You may organize the paper based on the following headings:

Introduction – Introduce the topic based in current literature (briefly – show why it is important to study). Discuss why you chose the topic and what the purpose of the paper is. Give a brief overview of what you will cover.

Literature Review – Review 3-4 peer-reviewed sources that provide a background on your topic. These sources don’t have to specifically address the relationship between your IV and DV, but should address the topic and be somewhat related to your variables.

Methods – Briefly discuss the GSS (information you included in Assignment 1) as your data source. Identify and describe your specific variables, including the name, question, and responses (categories). You may state your hypothesis here, but do not go through the hypothesis testing steps until the next section.

Findings – Begin with a discussion of each variable individually, utilizing your frequency tables and charts/graphs. Then discuss your other analyses in logical order. Crosstabs are your first look at a potential relationship. Next, discuss the steps of hypothesis testing. Include the table of your significance test. Last, discuss the strength and direction of the relationship using measures of association.

Discussion – Discussion what you learned from the various analyses and draw any conclusions you found. Talk about any further research you think may be needed on your topic.

Note: 

This course has “Resubmission” status enabled to help you if you realize you submitted an incorrect or blank file, or if you need to submit multiple documents as part of your Assignment.  Resubmission of an Assignment after it is graded, to attempt a better grade, is not permitted.

Grading Rubric

View the grading rubric so you understand how you will be assessed on this Assignment. 

Final Portfolio Assignment

100 %

Exemplary

4 pts

Accomplished

3.4 pts

Developing

3 pts

Beginning
2.6 pts

Did not attempt
0 pts

Introduction
10 %

Exemplary

Student provides rich, detailed introduction to the research topic.

Accomplished

Student provides an introduction to the research topic.

Developing

Student provides an introduction to the research topic, some detail lacking, more development needed.

Beginning

Student provides an introduction to the research topic, significant detail lacking, more development needed.

Did not attempt

No introduction to the research topic is provided.

Review of literature
20 %

Exemplary

Student presents context for the current study with more than three sources, two must be scholarly.

Accomplished

Student presents context for the current study with three sources, two must be scholarly.

Developing

Student presents limited context for study and only reviews two sources, at least one is scholarly.

Beginning

Student presents limited context for study and only reviews one source; the source is scholarly.

Did not attempt

Student presents limited context for study and only reviews non-scholarly sourc

GSS
5 %

Exemplary

Student provides detailed explanation of the survey instrument used for data collection

Accomplished

Student explains the survey instrument used for data collection

Developing

Student explains the survey instrument used for data collection. Some detail lacking, more development needed.

Beginning

Student explains the survey instrument used for data collection. Significant detail lacking, more development needed.

Did not attempt

Student does not include a review of the survey instrument.

Variables
5 %

Exemplary

Student identifies the variables correctly, levels of measurement, and presents all variable data from the GSS

Accomplished

Student identifies the variables correctly, levels of measurement, and presents all variable data from the GSS. Minor corrections needed.

Developing

Student identifies the variables correctly, levels of measurement, and presents some variable data from the GSS. Some corrections needed.

Beginning

Student identifies the variables- some may be inaccurate or missing. Levels of measurement may be inaccurate or missing.

Did not attempt

Variables and levels of measurement are not identified.

Frequency tables
5 %

Exemplary

Student includes a detailed explanation for frequency tables using relevant and cited material. Student provides frequency tables with detailed and accurate findings.

Accomplished

Student includes an explanation for frequency tables using relevant and cited material. Student provides frequency tables with accurate findings.

Developing

Student includes an explanation for frequency tables using relevant and cited material. Student provides frequency tables with accurate findings. Some detail lacking, minor inaccuracy.

Beginning

Section is incomplete- either lacking a table or explanation.

Did not attempt

Student does not include frequency tables.

Histograms or Graphing
5 %

Exemplary

Student includes a detailed explanation for histograms or other graphing using relevant and cited material. Student provides histogram chart and explains findings accurately.

Accomplished

Student includes an explanation for histograms or other graphing using relevant and cited material. Student provides histogram chart and explains findings accurately.

Developing

Student includes an explanation for histograms or other graphing using relevant and cited material. Student provides histogram chart and explains findings accurately. Some detail lacking, minor inaccuracy.

Beginning

Section is incomplete- either lacking a histogram/graph or explanation.

Did not attempt

Student does not include histograms or other graphing.

Crosstabs
10 %

Exemplary

Student presents crosstabulation data with accurate and detailed explanations.

Accomplished

Student presents crosstabulation data with accurate explanations.

Developing

Student presents crosstabulation data with accurate explanations. Some detail lacking, minor inaccuracy.

Beginning

Section is incomplete- either lacking crosstabs or explanation.

Did not attempt

Student does not include crosstabs.

Hypothesis testing
10 %

Exemplary

Student provides detailed overview of hypothesis testing using and citing relevant material. Student also lists and describes the 5 steps with regards to their study.

Accomplished

Student provides an overview of hypothesis testing using and citing relevant material. Student also lists the 5 steps with regards to their study.

Developing

Student provides an overview, but there are lacking details. Student may also be missing steps within the 5 for the process as relevant to their study.

Beginning

Student is missing one area (overview of hypothesis testing or the 5 steps as applicable to their study)

Did not attempt

Student does not provide this section

Tests of significance
10 %

Exemplary

Student runs correct test for correlations and appropriately presents the findings with detailed explanation.

Accomplished

Student runs correct test for correlations and appropriately presents the findings.

Developing

Student runs the wrong test but analyzes findings appropriately for that particular test.

Beginning

Student runs the wrong test and does not provide accurate explanation of results or student provides inaccurate explanations of the correct test; or student had one portion- SPSS test but no explanation or explanation without SPSS table

Did not attempt

Student does not include a test of significance.

Measures of Association
10 %

Exemplary

Student runs correct test for measures of association and appropriately presents the findings with detailed explanation.

Accomplished

Student runs correct test for measures of association and appropriately presents the findings.

Developing

Student runs the wrong test but analyzes findings appropriately for that particular test.

Beginning

Student runs the wrong test and does not provide accurate explanation of results or student provides inaccurate explanations of the correct test; or student had one portion- SPSS test but no explanation or explanation without SPSS table.

Did not attempt

Student does not include measures of association tests.

APA Format
5 %

Exemplary

Included APA formatted in-text citations and full references for all paraphrased and quoted work from other sources

Accomplished

Minor errors in APA formatting of citations

Developing

Multiple errors in APA formatting of citations

Beginning

Little use of APA format

Did not attempt

APA format not attempted

Grammar and spelling
5 %

Exemplary

Author makes no errors in grammar or spelling that distract the reader from the content

Accomplished

Author makes a couple errors in grammar or spelling that distract the reader from the content

Developing

Author makes a few errors in grammar or spelling that distract the reader from the content

Beginning

Authors makes many errors in grammar and spelling that the intent of the paper is difficult to understand

Did not attempt

Authors makes so many errors in grammar and spelling that the intent of the paper cannot be understood

ANT 101 week 2 Discussion 1

  

Ashford 4: – Week 3 – Discussion 1

 

Your initial discussion thread is due on Day 3 (Thursday) and you have until Day 7 (Monday) to respond to your classmates. Your grade will reflect both the quality of your initial post and the depth of your responses. Reference the Discussion Forum Grading Rubric for guidance on how your discussion will be evaluated.

 

     

Race   and Identity

Historian Robin Kelley stated, “Race was never just a matter of how you look, it’s about how people assign meaning to how you look.” With that in mind:

After viewing the video clip, Social Implications      of Race, what do you think is meant by      the term racial smog? How do racial categories shape our identities and      social status?

Your initial post should be at least 250 words in length. Support your claims with examples from the required material(s) and/or other scholarly resources, and properly cite any references. Respond to at least two of your classmates’ posts by Day 7.

The Ashford Writing Center (AWC) has two kinds of tutoring available to you.

Live Chat – If you have writing-related questions about a      topic before you draft a discussion post or submit a written assignment,      you will now be able to chat live with a tutor for a short (up to 20      minute) conversation. Live Chat will be available Monday through Friday      from 10:00-11:00 am and 4:00-5:00 pm (PST). AWC Live Chat Email Paper Review – If you have a draft, partial draft, or even if      you’re having trouble getting started, you can complete a submission form      and email your paper to the AWC for review. 

Writing Tutors will do their best to return your paper       with their comments within 48 hours, not including Saturdays and Sundays.       Please plan accordingly if you would like to receive feedback before an       assignment due date. AWC Email Paper Review

Ralph Kramden and Ed Norton were general partners in a retail mattress store. Kramden contributed…

Ralph Kramden and Ed Norton were general partners in a retail mattress store. Kramden contributed $50,000 cash to the business and Norton contributed $25,000 to the business. Kramden purchased a delivery van using $15,000 of the partnership funds. The van's certificate of title listed Kramden as the owner. The business used the van for two years during which time the business paid all of the taxes and maintenance expenses. Kramden and Norton decided to close the business after two years. They dissolved the partnership and sold the assets. Kramden sold the van, but refused to share the process of its sale with Norton because he claimed that he owned the van. Was the van a partnership asset? Should Norton receive a portion of the proceeds from the sale of the van? Present the rationale for your determination supported by concepts from your textbook and research.

ANT 101 week 5 Discussion 1

  

Ashford 6: – Week 5 – Discussion 1

 

Your initial discussion thread is due on Day 3 (Thursday) and you have until Day 7 (Monday) to respond to your classmates. Your grade will reflect both the quality of your initial post and the depth of your responses. Reference the Discussion Forum Grading Rubric for guidance on how your discussion will be evaluated.

 

     

Feminization   of Poverty

 The author of the textbook uses the term “the feminization of poverty.” What do you think the author means by that term? Why would women be more vulnerable to living in poverty? What cultural factors might contribute to that?
 

Your initial post should be at least 250 words in length. Support your claims with examples from the required material(s) and/or other scholarly resources, and properly cite any references. Respond to at least two of your classmates’ posts by Day 7.
 

The Ashford Writing Center (AWC) has two kinds of tutoring available to you.

Live Chat –      If you have writing-related questions about a topic before you draft a      discussion post or submit a written assignment, you will now be able to      chat live with a tutor for a short (up to 20 minute) conversation. Live      Chat will be available Monday through Friday from 10:00-11:00 am and      4:00-5:00 pm (PST). AWC Live Chat Email Paper Review –      If you have a draft, partial draft, or even if you’re having trouble      getting started, you can complete a submission form and email your paper      to the AWC for review. 

Writing Tutors will do their best to return your paper       with their comments within 48 hours, not including Saturdays and Sundays.       Please plan accordingly if you would like to receive feedback before an       assignment due date. AWC Email Paper       Review