DESCRIBE AND DISCUSS A FAVORITE work  

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. DESCRIBE AND DISCUSS A FAVORITE WORK

  1. Picture and describe a favorite work of visual art. Your selection may come from the entire range of visual arts, anything from a famous painting in a museum to an iconic architectural masterpiece to a handmade basket or an especially well-designed object. The only restriction is that you need to see the actual work of art, rather than a photo or online image.
  2. Describe the medium it represents within the scope of visual arts. Tell us about its maker or designer. What year is it from? Where is it located? What was its intended function? What is its significance to you?
  3. Use at least two of the vocabulary, concepts or techniques you or any of your classmates posted in Discussion 1.1. to say something more about this piece of art.

Briefing a Case

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Terry v Ohio, 392 U.S. 1 (1968)

Brief the case of Terry v. Ohio.

Facts: SUMMARIZE the facts of the case. DO NOT COPY AND PASTE FROM ANOTHER SOURCE

Procedure: list what happened in the lower court(s). Just a few details here is sufficient.

Issue(s): What is question facing the court? Form the issue questions in a way that they can be answered by yes or no.

Holding: How did the court answer the issue question? YES/NO?

Reasoning: This is the most important section –
explain the court’s reasoning behind its holding. If the law is
changing, explain that too.

Concurring/dissenting opinions: Only include this section is you believe the concurring or dissenting opinion is important in some way.

littr210 ,econ303,finC300

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LITR21O FORUM 5: Do you consider Milton’s “Paradise Lost” an epic poem? Why, or why not? What characteristics of the epic does it share? 250 words, intext citation, and reference

LITR210 FORUM 6: Pick one of the three question and work on it.

1. Consider Trefry, as a character. Is he presented sympathetically? Using defining character traits from the story, defend your response.Are we meant to like him at all?

2. What do you know about slavery in the antebellum United States, and how does it compare to slavery as discussed in “Oroonoko?”Use examples from the text to support your comparisons.

3. Aphra Behn is a female writer publishing in 1688.Explore this oddity using outside research.Is her choice of topic indicative of her station and/or sex?What effect does her sex have on our understanding of the piece, if any?

LITR210 FORUM7: PICK ONE QUESTION AND WORK ON IT

1. Putting aside your own possible biases on the subject, determine who makes the better case, Burke or Johnson? Use actual quotes and/or examples from the text to support your argument.

2. How does Olaudah Equiano’s story either support or undercut the sorts of qualities and ideals that the colonists, Burke, and Johnson are arguing about?

ECON303 ASSIGNMENT 6: Carbaugh, Chapter 10, Study Questions # 9, p.366

Complete this problem in a Microsoft Word document and submit it to the Assignments section of the classroom.

9. Indicate whether each of the following items represents a debit or a credit on the U.S. balance of payments:

a. A U.S. importer purchases a shipload of French wine.

b. A Japanese automobile firm builds an assembly plant in Kentucky.

c. A British manufacturer exports machinery to Taiwan on a U.S. vessel.

d. A U.S. college student spends a year studying in Switzerland.

e. American charities donate food to people in drought-plagued Africa.

f. Japanese investors collect interest income on their holdings of U.S. government securities.

g. A German resident sends money to her relatives in the United States.

h. Lloyds of London sells an insurance policy to a U.S. business firm.

i. A Swiss resident receives dividends on her IBM stock.

LITR210 ASSIGNMENT 3:Final Project Instructions: Develop a project/presentation of 750 to 1000 words minimum/maximum (or the equivalent) with an introduction, body, and conclusion. This may be a traditional essay, or it may involve other sorts of projects/presentations.

Potential Projects include:

1. Write your own original piece following the style of one piece we read. You could craft your own religious allegory using the American church or rewrite the General Prologue in Modern English. Possibly you would like to write your own Soldier’s Tale or Mother’s Tale. Creativity is key here.

2. Recast one of the works in another form. For example, turn the “Miller’s Tale” into a script for a popular sitcom (using those sitcom characters as stand-ins for Chaucer’s characters), or rewrite one of the pieces we’ve read as a play. Be creative
3. Select any piece we’ve read and modernize it for a new generation.

Note that this assignment should include an author’s note at the beginning to explain what the project is. Also, all MLA rules should be followed to include quoting when appropriate with in-text citations and a works cited section.

FINC300 ASSINMENT 5: Complete the following homework questions in Word or Excel, as applicable. Clearly label your response and organize your work. Save your file as “LastnameFirstinitial-FINC300-5.”

1. (Calculating rates of return) On December 24, 2013, the common stock of Apple Inc. (APPL) was trading for $700.73. One year later the shares sold for only $298.02. APPL has never paid a common stock dividend. What rate of return would you have earned on your investment had you purchased the shares on December 24, 2007?

2. (Expected rate of return and risk) Potts Enterprises is evaluating a security. One-year Treasury bills are currently paying 2.9 percent. Calculate the following investment’s expected return and its standard deviation. Should Potts invest in this security?

Probability

Return

0.15

3%

0.3

 2%

0.4

 4%

0.15

 6%

3. (Expected rate of return) Robert Gage is considering whether to invest in a newly formed investment fund. The fund’s investment objective is to acquire home mortgage securities at what it hopes will be bargain prices. The fund sponsor has suggested to Robert that the fund’s performance will hinge on how the national economy performs in the coming year. Specifically, he suggested the following possible outcomes:

State of the Economy

Probability

Fund Return

Rapid expansion and recovery

 5%

100%

Modest growth

45%

35%

Continued recession

45%

5%

Falls into depression

 5%

–100%

Based on these potential outcomes, what is your estimate of the expected rate of return from this investment opportunity?

Calculate the standard deviation

project management Assignment

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here is the description of the assignment

and attached examples of the assignment

HW 1: Project Initiation & Payback Analysis

Create
a project initiation form (using a standard format and font that you
design) which includes the elements described below.

•
Product scope description – describes the characteristics of the
product, service, or result that the project was undertaken to create.

• Project objectives – include the measurable success criteria of the project (can include cost, schedule and quality targets).

•
Project requirements – the conditions or capabilities that must be met
or possessed by the deliverables of the project to satisfy a contract,
standard, specification, or other formally imposed documents.

•
Project boundaries – identifies generally what is included within the
project. Also states explicitly what is excluded from the project.

• Project deliverables – tangible, verifiable work products.

• Product acceptance criteria – describes the process and criteria for accepting completed products.

•
Project constraints – lists and describes the specific project
constraints associated with the project that limits the team’s options

•
Project assumptions – lists and describes the specific project
assumptions associated with the project scope and the potential impact
of those assumptions if they prove to be false.

•
Stakeholder analysis – includes a list of all of the stakeholders
affected by the project. Search the book materials, and the Internet for
potential fields to be included such as: name, position, influence
(positive/negative), level of power, level of trust, etc…

•
Cost-benefit analysis – The high-level project budget (costs), benefits
(inflows or recurring cost savings) and payback period of the project.

Experiment: An Organization’s Study of Training Programs Presentation

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Individuals in the field of training and development need to be able to evaluate and compare various training methods to assure the best and most effective means to boost employee skills, improve staff performance, revitalize team dynamics, or encourage employee development and promotion.

For this assignment, you will design a faux experiment (you will design the experiment but will not actually conduct it). This experiment will compare different types of training modalities. You will include an explanation of how this task would be measured and achieved. It is a complex assignment that also builds on what you learned in your Research Methods course. Review the following definition, scenario, and directions to complete the assignment and summarize it in a presentation of approximately 6- to 8-slides.

Experimental Research Design Definition:

Morrison-Beedy and Melnyk (2012) provide a comprehensive definition for experimental research design:

The only type of research that allows us to draw conclusions about cause and effect relationships between an intervention or treatment and an outcome. A true experiment or randomized controlled trial is the strongest type of intervention study for testing cause and effect relationships. There are three components required in a true experiment: An intervention or treatment, a comparison or control group and random assignment of participants to experimental or comparison/control groups. (p. 1)

Scenario:

You are working as a consultant with a large national corporation and have been assigned the task to discover which training method option gives the best results for the organization. Specifically, leadership is interested in discovering which training modality has the best rate of training transfer.

Directions:

The training topic to compare will be “How to Design and Manage Effective Meetings.” In 6- to 8-slides (including detailed speaker’s notes), design an experiment that will compare the effectiveness of three different training modalities.

  1. Analyze the following training methods:
    • On-site training
    • Virtual training
    • No training (this is your control group)
  2. Design an experiment comparing three modalities of training. You should include “no training” as your control group.
    • Identify the three groups you will include in this experiment. What is included in these training modalities?
    • Identify the variables within this training study and explain how they will be manipulated or controlled.
    • Discuss how you will randomly assign your participants (i.e., employees in your organization) to each of these groups.
    • Analyze and determine the ethical considerations in such a study.
    • Determine how you will measure the results, particularly in regard to Kirkpatrick’s model.
  3. With all of these elements explored, the next step is presenting this information to leadership. Discuss how you will approach the leadership team and present how you have designed and will conduct this experiment.

Your final product will be a Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation approximately 6- to 8-slides in length (including detailed speaker’s notes). You will utilize three to five scholarly sources in your research (beyond your textbook). Your presentation should be written in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; and display accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.

Contract with the university of phoenix, management homework help

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Select a contract that you are currently engaged in (University of Phoenix, Cell Phone, Electrical, Power, Car, Insurance, etc.).

Write a review of the contract in a minimum of 1,050 words in which you include the following:

  • Consider the elements that were necessary to form the contract.
  • Explain how your selected contract (or selected portions within the contract) can be applied within a business managerial setting.
  • Summarize the potential legal defenses available to contract formation.
  • Evaluate the potential remedies for breach of contract that might be available to someone who breached the contract you have selected.
  • Examine how the contract deals with intellectual property issues.

Cite a minimum of 3 scholarly references.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

Continuing Case: Carter Cleaning Company – The Better Interview, management homework help

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Continuing Case: Carter Cleaning Company – The Better Interview

7-20: In general, what can Jennifer do to improve her employee interviewing practices? Should she develop interview forms that list questions for management and non-management jobs. If so, how should these look, and what questions should be included? Should she initiate a computer-based interview approach? If so, why and how?

7-21: Should she implement a training program for her managers, and if so, specifically what should be the content of such a training program? In other words, if she did decide to start training her management people to be better interviewers, what should she tell them and how should she tell it to them?

Complete Three part General Capstone Assignment NO PLAGIARISM

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PLEASE SEPARATE EACH PART OF THE ASSIGNMENT….I HAVE ATTACHED MY WEEK 1 ASSIGNMENT FOR MY TOPIC WHICH IS TEEN DRUG ABUSE

Researching Community Partnerships

Case Study Scenario:

You have been hired by XYZ University as a consultant. They want you to evaluate an organization to see if a service learning opportunity would benefit future students and the community. Your initial recommendation is due in week 5 and will be based on the research you collect in your first four assignments.

WEEK 2 ASSIGNMENT:

  • Last week you introduced your social issue and an organization where future students might perform service learning.
  • Your task this week is to expand your research to community partnerships and volunteerism within the organization.
  • XYZ University has required you to find at least three peer-reviewed articles in the EBSCO library to support your research this week. EBSCO Quick Guide.
  • You will turn in a 2-3 pages paper following APA guidelines. Click here for the web version of the APA sample paper. Click here for a downloadable version of the APA sample paper.

PAPER REQUIREMENTS:

Complete the following steps.

Step 1: Introduction – Introduce the topic of service learning and community partnerships.What are the benefits for students and the community when partnering in service learning opportunities?Describe some challenges students might face as service-learners in the community. Introduce your organization as a potential community partner. Provide at least one citation from a peer-reviewed article to support your claims in this section.Citation tutorial

Step 2: Community Partnerships – What other partnerships (companies, businesses, organizations, universities, etc.) does the organization have?What are the benefits of these partnerships? What are past partnerships that the organization no longer maintains?Why were these partnerships ended?What additional partnerships should the organization have and why? Provide at least one citation from a peer-reviewed article to support your claims in this section.

Step 3: Volunteers – Discuss how the organization uses volunteers.What are the benefits to volunteers and the community when volunteers give their time to the organization?Describe the difference between volunteering and performing service learning at the organization. Describe the benefits of service learning for the student and community beyond the service performed at the organization.Provide at least one citation from a peer-reviewed article to support your claims in this section.

Step 4: Conclusion – Provide a Summary the organization’s partnerships and how they use volunteers.Summarize the difference between volunteering and service learning. Conclude with a summary of the benefits and challenges of service learning for students and the community at this organization.Provide at least one citation from a peer-reviewed article to support your claims in this section.

Step 5: References – On a separate reference page, list all the references you have cited in your paper to support your claims.


Researching Cultural Challenges

Case Study Scenario:

You have been hired by XYZ University as a consultant. They want you to evaluate an organization to see if a service learning opportunity would benefit future students and the community. Your initial recommendation is due in week 5 and will be based on the research you collect in your first four assignments.

WEEK 3 ASSIGNMENT:

  • Last week you described community partnerships and volunteers within your organization. You also discussed the benefits of service learning for students and communities.
  • Your task this week is to expand your research to cultural challenges, humanitarian considers, and roadblocks faced by the organization.
  • XYZ University has required you to find at least three peer-reviewed articles in the EBSCO library to support your research this week. EBSCO tutorial.
  • You will turn in a 2-3 pages paper following APA guidelines. Click here for the web version of the APA sample paper. Click here for a downloadable version of the APA sample paper.

PAPER REQUIREMENTS:

Complete the following steps.

Step 1: Introduction – Provide a quick introduction to the organization you have chosen.Briefly describe the population that the organization seeks to serve.Describe briefly how the organization’s mission connects to what the organization does to help these populations.Briefly describe what the organization does to serve these populations.Provide at least one citation from a peer-reviewed article to support your claims in this section.Citation tutorial

Step 2: Humanitarian Considerations – Describe the challenges the populations served by the organization face in our current society. Based on research and specific evidence, does the organization engages in “charity” work or “solidarity” work?What specifically could the organization do differently to engage more fully in “solidarity” work? Provide at least one citation from a peer-reviewed article to support your claims in this section.

Step 3: Cultural Challenges – What challenges might students have in engaging with the unique and diverse populations served by the organization? Based on your research, how might students overcome these issues?How might the university support students in overcoming these challenges?Provide at least one citation from a peer-reviewed article to support your claims in this section.

Step 4: Roadblocks – What potential liabilities could exist by having students of the XYZ University participate with service learning and the organization?Has the organization had any issues in the past that might reflect poorly on the University?What risks might the student face by participating in service learning with the organization?How are these liabilities and issues related to the diverse cultural populations served by the organization?Provide at least one citation from a peer-reviewed article to support your claims in this section.

Step 5: Conclusion – What cultural conflicts are likely to occur if a student participates in service learning at this organization?How might cultural issues or disagreements between the student, the organization, and the diverse populations the organization serves be resolved?How can the University support these resolutions?What are the potential risks to the university?Provide at least one citation from a peer-reviewed article to support your claims in this section.

Step 6: References – On a separate reference page, list all the references you have cited in your paper to support your claims.

Reflection Journal

Overview:

Welcome to the week 3 reflection journal. Throughout the course you will reflect on your weekly research experience and make connections to previous learning as well as the university learning outcomes.

Directions:

In the week 3 reflection we will be focusing on the following university learning outcome:

  • Respect for Diversity.

Please respond to all the following items in your reflection journal.

  • How does Respect for Diversity connect with the course material this week?How did Respect for Diversity help you with your research this week?
  • Write down at least one specific aspect of Respect for Diversity that you need to still develop and describe how you could work on developing that aspect.
  • How does Respect for Diversity connect to achieving your career goals?
  • Based on your work in the course as well as general education courses at Grantham University, explain what Respect for Diversity means to you.
  • Describe a specific assignment, presentation, or project you worked on in one of your past courses at Grantham University that allowed you to develop Respect for Diversity?
  • Write down at least one question you have about your organization, your research project, or this course in general.

Should Companies That Fire Shoot First?, communications homework help

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In the recessions in the early eighties and nineties and after the 2001 terrorist attacks, layoffs were fairly private affairs. To be sure, news would often leak out to local and national media outlets, but companies did their best to keep it as quiet as possible. One consequence of the growth of the Internet in general, and of social networking sites in particular, is that this is no longer possible.

When Starbucks laid off employees in 2008 and 2009, the website StarbucksGossip.com received a barrage of posts from disgruntled employees. One 10-year employee wrote, “This company is going to lose every great partner that it has. I am sick and tired of being blamed for not meeting my budget when the economy is in a recession. I used to be proud of my company . . . now I am embarrassed and feel physically ill every time I have to go to work.”

Some companies are taking a more proactive approach. When Tesla Motors laid off employees, its CEO, Elon Musk, posted a blog entry on the topic just before announcing the layoffs to employees. “We had to say something to prevent articles being written that were not accurate,” he said.

“Today, whatever you say inside a company will end up in a blog,” says Rusy Rueff, a former executive at Pepsico. “So, you have a choice as a company—you can either be proactive and say, ‘Here’s what’s going on,’ or you can allow someone else to write the story for you.”

Illustrating the perils of ignoring the blogosphere, when newspaper giant Gannett announced it was laying off 10 percent of its employees, it posted no blog entries and made no statement. Jim Hopkins, a 20-year veteran who left the company just before the layoffs, writes the unofficial Gannett Blog. “I try to give the unvarnished truth. I don’t think the company offers the same level of candor to employees,” he said. Gannett spokeswoman Tara Connell replied, “We attempt to make those personal communications happen as quickly as possible.”

Says blog expert Andy Sernovitz, “There are hold-out companies that still wish there was traditional PR control of the message, but that day is long over.”

Based on the above reading and the knowledge gained from your assigned readings, respond to the following questions:

  • Do you think Tesla CEO Elon Musk did the right thing when he blogged about impending layoffs just before announcing them to company employees? Why or why not?
  • Do you think employees have a responsibility to be careful about what they blog about their company? Why or why not?
  • Do you think employees who blog about their companies have an ethical responsibility to disclose their identities?
  • Develop one or two principles of a sensible policy for handling communication of sensitive issues inside and outside your company and tell us why they are good principles.

humanities

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The Project Paper focuses on a suggested topic related to art, architecture, history, music, or literature. The project will reflect your views and interpretation of the topic. This project is designed to help you stretch your mind and your abilities to be the creative, innovative, and critical thinker you already are! 

Choose one (1) of the topics from the list of topic choices below. Read the topic carefully. Write a three to four (3-4) page paper (750-1,000 words) that responds to each of the items described in the topic.

Note: Submit your topic choice to the instructor for approval before the end of Week 2. 

For the topic you choose:

  1. Support your ideas with specific, illustrative examples. If there are questions or points associated with your chosen topic, be sure to answer all of the listed questions and address all of the items in that topic. If your topic requires you to do several things related to the topic, be sure to do each of the things listed.
  2. While some of the topics tend to lend themselves toward particular writing genres, you are not restricted to the specific format suggested for the individual topic. For example, you may do an “interview,” a “proposal,” a “letter,” a “short story,” a “blog,” an “essay,” an “article,” or any other written genre for almost any of the topics. The project is intended to be fun as well as informative, so feel free to be creative with the delivery of your information.
  3. Use at least two (2) sources besides the textbook, which counts as one (1) source. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as academic resources.

Topic choices (pick 1):

  • Self-Portraits. Journal. The Renaissance artists Titian, Rembrandt, and Durer have each painted self-portraits. Imagine yourself as one of these artists (or another artist of your choice that has painted a self-portrait) and write a journal expressing your thoughts on “your” art (in other words, the journal entries the artist would probably write.) (1) Explain “your” primary reason for painting a self-portrait. (2) Describe “your” artistic choices in composition: use of color, space, etc. (3) Explain what the portrait represents about “you” (as the artist.) (4) Explain “your” choices of subject with regard to at least three other specific pieces “you” have painted.
  • Ladies & Gentlemen. Survey & Report. Some may believe that being “gentleman” or a “lady” in today’s society is an outdated notion, but others may disagree. (1) Briefly summarize the main characteristics of a well-rounded person, “l’uomo universal,” referring to specific sections within the excerpt from The Courtierwhich identifies these characteristics. (2) Create a “survey” based on the identified characteristics and “poll” at least ten people to find out whether or not the characteristics are relevant for a “gentleman” or “lady” of today. (3) Tabulate and discuss the responses in terms of gender, age, vocation, etc. of your survey participants, making note of any interesting or surprising results which show up in your poll answers. (4) Finally, explain whether or not you agree with the characteristics expressed by Castiglione in The Courtier.
  • BayeuxTapestry Experience. Letter. Imagine yourself as one of the figures in the battle depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry; in a letter home, you describe your experience to your family. (1) Write a first-person account of this historical event from the perspective of one of the figures in tapestry. (2) Use your senses to describe your impression of the event. (3) Describe specific elements of the scene such as uniforms, weaponry, fighting styles, etc. (4) Explain why you believe your side was justified in participating in the battle and how you would like the battle to be remembered.
  • Ancient Chinese Contributions. Essay. To win a trip to China, you enter a contest to determine the four most useful contributions or inventions created by the ancient Chinese. (1) Identify eight to ten of these useful inventions or contributions. (2) Nominate four that you believe are the most ingenious or innovative. (3) Explain why you believe these four inventions or contributions are the most useful inventions or contributions from the ancient Chinese. (4) Identify one invention or contribution that you cannot live without and explain why.
  • Other topic choice recommended and approved by the professor and supported by the grading rubric.

The Project Paper will be graded on:

  1. The level to which the instructions were followed.
  2. The extent to which all four (4) parts in the topic were addressed.
  3. The adequacy of information, examples, and details which support the general claim or main idea.
  4. The relevance of the explanations and descriptions.
  5. The inclusion of three (3) required references (two additional sources besides your textbook) documented using APA style.
  6. Adherence to standard rules of grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

  • Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; references must follow APA Style format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions specific to the selected topic. (Note: Students can find APA style materials located in the course shell for reference)
  • Include a cover page containing the tile of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

  • Explain how key social, cultural, and artistic contributions contribute to historical changes.
  • Explain the importance of situating a society’s cultural and artistic expressions within a historical context.
  • Examine the influences of intellectual, religious, political, and socio-economic forces on social, cultural, and artistic expressions.
  • Identify major historical developments in world cultures during the eras of antiquity to the Renaissance.
  • Use technology and information resources to research issues in the study of world cultures.
  • Write clearly and concisely about world cultures using proper writing mechanics.