1. a) Greenhouse gases-list major greenhouse gases and their percentage presence in earth atmosphere. List the name(s) of the satellite(s) sent by NASA/European Space Agency to earth orbit and how these satellites collect the info on greenhouse gases, what kind of data has been collected so far. Provide your opinion with supporting evidence on the sources of these greenhouse gases.
2. b) Greenhouse Effect-explain the physical principles behind Greenhouse Effect and its pros and coms. List the data collected over last 100 years on ocean, air, land temperature change vs increase of greenhouse gases in earth atmosphere. Give your opinions with supporting evidence on the relationship of the rising temperature with the increase of greenhouse gases in earth atmosphere.
3. c) Evidence of global climate change. Is climate change due to rising temperature of ocean, land and air?
4. d) Consequences of rising temperature (ocean, land and air) and its impact on environment and human society.
5. e) The core principles and measures of the Paris Agreement (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Agreement(Links to an external site.) (链接到外部网站。)链接到外部网站。). What kind of role USA would resume and what you could do slow down, or even reverse, this potentially devastating trend of global climate change.
6. The format requirements for this essay are: minimum of Four full pages of text; margin no more than 1″ on the top, bottom, left and right; single line space; size 12, font TIMES. Please include a list of references at the end of the essay (beyond PAGE No. 4). Graphs, photos and data tables are additional.

Scenario: You are sole proprietor presenting to a group of investors where you are seeking 20 million dollars to raise capital for your manufacturing company.

Prepare a 10- to 15-slide Microsoft^® PowerPoint^® presentation for your potential investors including both parts:

Part I:

Choose the one form of organization best suited for your manufacturing company and explain why:

• Partnership
• Limited Liability Partnership
• Limited Liability Company (including single member LLC)
• S Corporation
• Franchise
• Corporation

Outline for the investors which form of organization (from the list of six under the first bullet) would be the least suited and why?

Part II:

Address the following for the investors regarding the corporate form of organization only (from the list of six under the first bullet):

• Summarize for investors what legal liabilities could arise for the Director or officer of that board?
• Explain how you could minimize those liabilities for the Director or officer of that board?

Must have detailed speaker notes.

Cite a minimum of three scholarly references. One scholarly reference must be from the University Library.

Format your presentation consistent with APA Guidelines.

A1 -Topic: What is Culture?

The goal is to get you to think about what we mean when we talk about “cultural difference.” In each cultural group, people have different ways of doing and understanding things, and these differences can be major barriers when people or objects move across cultural boundaries.

You have two options. The first places you in the position of an expert in North American culture, charged with explaining that culture to people who are totally alien. The second asks you to put yourself in the position of an outsider, trying to anticipate the ways your own North American culture might cause problems for your business plans in another country.

Note that you will do better on both of these questions if you review Chapter 3 PPT and understand about cultural differences.

Option 1: Help the Vulcans.

The US government has selected Indiana University to act as host to the very first delegation of Vulcans (humanoid aliens from the planet Vulcan) visiting the USA. Thirty Vulcans will spend one semester living with various students who want to participate in this interstellar cultural exchange.

Vulcans are quite fluent in English, but cultural misunderstandings might arise between Vulcan and American students. To prevent some of these misunderstandings, IU President Myles Brand has asked you to write a two-page manual describing to your Vulcan guests how American students handle intimate, personal, social, and public space in their apartments and dormitories.

In all cultures, people distance themselves from each other in everyday life, by dividing the places they live and work. Your culture tells you what kinds of activities are appropriate and acceptable in different parts of your living area. For instance, once someone is in your living room, they have to ask your permission to use your bathroom. They are generally not allowed to go in your medicine cabinet or closet at all. In this assignment you must think about how people divide up the space where they live into intimate, personal, social and public areas. Think about the areas strangers are allowed access to, the places close friends would be allowed in, the places where people have to ask permission, the places that nobody except yourself and your spouse or lover would see or use.

You should divide your manual in two distinct parts:

1) In the first part, tell the Vulcans how you divide up the space in your own living areas. What rules regulate and control space – how are the areas named, and what goes on there? You may discuss your present living circumstances, or those where you grew up. If you are a foreign student you are welcome to discuss the different kinds of space in your house in your home country. Give examples and be specific.

2) In the second part, explain in general terms how Americans (or your own culture) define differences between intimate, personal, social, and public space in their home. What are the basic characteristics of each kind of space?

In both 1) and 2), do not forget to describe some rules that will be helpful to the Vulcans so they do not make mistakes and embarrass themselves! Discuss the reasons behind the rules!

Option 2: Selling Hot Dogs in India.

Congratulations! You have just been chosen by Baseball-Dogs Incorporated as one of five candidates for the job of directing the first international division of the company – in Rajasthan in northwestern India.

The company sells hot dogs from mobile stands at sporting events. The all-beef hotdogs, buns, and condiments are a multi-million dollar business here in the United States, and the company has decided the Indian market of 750 million hungry people, many of them sports fans, is the key to future expansion and mega-profits. You are a candidate for the job of leading this effort NOT because you know anything in particular about India, but because you are smart, adaptable, and know enough about cultural difference to be able to anticipate that there will be a number of problems you will have to face in adapting your American business to a new cultural and economic context.

You do NOT have to worry about things like financing, procuring supplies, or buildings and carts. But if you get the job you will have two major tasks. The first is to build a local management and sales force by hiring Indian workers. The second is to figure out how to sell hot dogs to Indians – to anticipate what kinds of cultural problems you might run into in selling a new food to people who are not familiar with it. People in Rajasthan have diverse religious backgrounds, for example, including Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, and several others. They speak different languages, live in different kinds of families, and eat diverse diets.

This job pays very well. You want it! Write three pages explaining what you will need to know about culture in Rajasthan in order to do this job well and build a flourishing business. Tell the company what kinds of cross-cultural issues you will consider in building a local management team, and in getting Indians to eat your dogs. Suggest some ways you will solve the inter-cultural problems which you think are going to arise.

If you are not a North American, you can do this assignment from the perspective of a business in a country you are more familiar with.

assignment 2 https://fvsu.view.usg.edu/d2l/le/dropbox/1576908/1…

As a social worker, often you need to use your policy advocacy skills to ensure that your clients are receiving the services that they need. Although you may tend to think of policy advocacy skills as separate from your clinical social work skills, they are very similar.

Think of the skills that you would use in working with a client such as Jake Levy. How could you apply these skills to policy advocacy? How will you use these skills to identify the policy and social problems that are impacting these families?

In this week’s Discussion, you will continue to follow the Levy, Bradley, Petrakis, and Cortez families to start the process of policy advocacy.

In this Discussion, select one of the four integrated videos and identify the problems experienced by the client(s).

Post your responses to the following: (Use subheadings and 1 additional APA peer reviewed reference and be detailed in response.) (Jake Levy is client. Use sub-heading, be detailed in response and use 1 additional APA reference)

• Who is defining the problem?
• What values are reflected in this definition of the problem?
• What is being omitted in this definition?
• What other problems do you see that are not being acknowledged?

Reference

Jansson, B. S. (2018). Becoming an effective policy advocate: From policy practice to social justice. (8th ed.). Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole Cengage Learning Series.

• Chapter 7, “Analyzing Problems in the First Step of Policy Analysis” (pp. 204-243)

Laureate Education. (Producer). (2013). Levy (Episode 7 of 42) [Video file]. In Sessions. Retrieved from https://class.waldenu.edu

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Identification of a Social Problem

As an astute social worker and professional policy advocate, you must be adept at identifying social problems that exist in your community or in an agency or organization with which you are acquainted.

In this assignment, identifying and describing a current social problem.

Address the following items within your group discussion:

• Describe a current social problem. How might this problem be incongruent with social work values/ethics?
• How/when has this problem been identified historically, and what were the actions taken to address this concern?
• How have the groups affected by this concern changed over time?

Reference

Jansson, B. S. (2018). Becoming an effective policy advocate: From policy practice to social justice. (8th ed.). Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole Cengage Learning Series.

• Chapter 7, “Analyzing Problems in the First Step of Policy Analysis” (pp. 204-243)

Midgley, J., & Livemore, M. M.(Eds). (2008). Te handbook of social policy (2^nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. Chapter 14, “Critical Social Policy” (pp. 215-235) (PDF)

Are there certain areas in which you excel? Math? Engine repair? Technology? Cooking? These may be among your core competencies—things you are especially good at. Companies have core competencies, too and it’s likely that you have encountered the idea of core competencies in your organization. Although companies are typically seen as collections of business units, the idea of core competency allows companies to be seen as collections of basic abilities, which are essential for existing products and product lines and represent the abilities of the organization to create future products or services.

Essentially, a core competency must be a bundle of skills or collective learning, that:

1. The company is unique in doing, or nearly unique.
2. Contributes to a product or service that customers consider valuable.
3. Is extendable into other product lines.

Core competencies are crucial for innovation because they are what differentiate one company from another. With reference to the Abernathy and or other models, core competencies are necessary for successful change within an organization as the industry ages. Previously, core competencies primarily applied to manufacturing operations. Today especially, they also apply to service industries where they are sometimes more difficult to identify. The acquisition of core competencies must be part of the long-term planning for a corporation.

Different core competencies will be required by companies as their industry progresses through phases and shifts its emphasis between product and process innovations.

Organizations are organic with vague and changing work roles and reporting structures and a high level of lateral communication. In the Fluid phase, the only companies that can enter and compete are those with competencies that allow them to innovate with particular technologies related to the product. There is limited innovation to processes early in the fluid phase, but this does begin to increase.

Industry Example

Computer Industry Although early personal computers varied widely in features and performance, consumers came to expect that a personal computer would have a hard drive, a monitor, a keyboard, a CPU of some minimum speed, and a certain amount of memory. In response to the established expectations, the various designs of companies converge to satisfy the marketplace expectations. By this interplay, a dominant design emerges. Following the emergence of the dominant design, creativity related to product design is focused on incremental changes.

Activity: Core Competencies Paper

Core competencies are examined in order to recognize their transience and the need to continually appraise them and make adjustments. Writing this paper will familiarize you with the selected company’s products or services and how the core competencies affect planning and operations.

Task Description

1. Prepare a four- to six-page paper identifying the core competencies of either the Kmart/Sears.
2. The paper should contain three sections identified below.

Background

• Profile the company

Body

• Define what is meant by core competencies.
• Identify those of the given company.
• Explain how the company has or has not evolved in today’s global market with respect to its core competencies.
• Include a bibliography (set of references) for the research (not included in page count).

Reflections

• Your personal thoughts on:
  • The theory of core competencies.
  • The core competencies of the company you researched.
  • The knowledge gained from doing this assignment.