Select a local government within your state to analyze. You may select either an urban, suburban, or rural government to review.

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Review the Rural, Suburban, and Urban Issues Worksheet completed in Week 2. Note. If you did not complete this worksheet in Week 2, complete it now to help you organize your thoughts.

Select a local government within your state to analyze. You may select either an urban, suburban, or rural government to review.

Prepare a 10- to 12-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation addressing the following:

  • Describe which area you chose: urban, suburban, or rural. Briefly describe the area’s demographics and characteristics.
  • Describe the local form of government and identify the major elected officials of your selected area.
  • Identify the major public policy issues, current events, and challenges this government faces and analyze one in depth.
  • Discuss how the state government is addressing the issue you selected.
  • Provide at least two potential, realistic solutions to the public policy issues, current events, and challenges this government faces.

Include speaker notes to provide more in-depth information.

Format your presentation consistent with APA guidelines.

  • For Local Campus students, these are 10- to 15-minute oral presentations accompanied by Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentations.
  • For Online and Directed Study students, these are Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentations with notes.

University of Phoenix Material

Rural, Suburban, and Urban Issues Worksheet

Determine whether the following issues are associated with a rural, suburban, or urban community. Your answers may be a mix of two or all three. Provide a rationale for your answer by explaining why you think the issue is associated with this community.

1.Not enough public transportation – Rural, Suburban, or Urban

2.Roads – Rural, Suburban, or Urban

3.Traffic – Rural, Suburban, or Urban

4.Access to public services – Rural, Suburban, or Urban

5.Gang violence on the street – Rural, Suburban, or Urban

6.Gang activity in schools – Rural, Suburban, or Urban

7.School funding – Rural, Suburban, or Urban

8.Availability of energy, water, and resources – Rural, Suburban, or Urban

9.Demands on ecosystems – Rural, Suburban, or Urban

10.Lack of diversity – Rural, Suburban, or Urban

Week 2 Lecture/Textbook Questions – History of the United States 2

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Hist. 132 Week 2 Lecture and Textbook Questions

Lecture:

1.How were cities transformed in the 1800s?

2.In the late 1800s, what activities and forms of entertainment were becoming popular?

3.How did suburbs change family life?

4.Who was Queen Liliuokalani?

5.What does the phrase “Remember the Maine!” refer to?

6.Was (is) the United States imperialistic?

Chap. 19:

7.What made America in the 1880s so different from the 1860s?

8.How did the railroads contribute to the rise of big business?

9.How did industrialization change the working day for people employed in factories?

10.Through what means, organized and unorganized, did workers respond to industrialization?

Chap. 20:

11.What role did geography play in the recovery of Chicago from the 1871 fire?

12.How did industrial cities grow and at what costs?

13.In what ways did boss rule represent “reform” of city government, and at what expense did such reform come?

14.How did city culture shape national culture?

Chap. 21:

15.How did the Chicago Exposition represent the changing nation, as well as the changing world?

16.How did the National Farmers’ Alliance and the People’s Party attempt to resolve the problems faced by farmers?

17.What social, economic, and cultural factors drew the United States into the race for empire?

Long-term respiratory disorders among World Trade Center Healthcare Providers

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This assignment is to provide a research proposal outline, i.e. a draft, if you will, of you research proposal.

The submission at this point should include, in APA format, all of the essential topic subtitles from the guide on your chosen question and research type (qualitative vs. mixed method vsquantitative).The outline may contain the parts you feel you have finished writing, or may simply include notes on your choices, and how you intend to complete the section over the next very few weeks.

The proposal (project, paper) need not be complete for this particular assignment but needs to have all the parts listed and how you intend to flesh out the formal proposal.

APA Format for titles (MUST apply)

Presume your audience knows NOTHING about the subject and define all concepts and abbreviations when first used.

Sections to be completed and proof read prior to submission includes:

  • Introduction to the problem, background, guiding questions, delimitations and limitations, significance of the study (the reason you feel it is important.
  • REFINED Literature review
  • The EXISTING theory and practices (if applicable)
  • Human Subject Institutional Review Board Draft (use PhilaU) if human subjects are to be used.
  • References
  • List of expected appendices

this link ( in the bottom ) will help you understand what i what from this research. i want something similar with the same method and aim. this draft will be the base for further expansion in the research. the research will include statistics and surveys in the future so make sure to suggest 20 questions for the survey to ask the healthcare providers.

Matthew P. Mauer, Karen R. Cummings, Rebecca Hoen; Long-term respiratory symptoms in World Trade Center responders, Occupational Medicine, Volume 60, Issue 2, 1 March 2010, Pages 145–151, https://doi.org/10.1093/occmed/kqp176

Need help with individual assignment

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Rate of Return for Stocks and Bonds

The purpose of this assignment is to allow the student an opportunity to calculate the rate of return of equity and debt instruments. It allows the student to understand the effects of dividends; capital gains; inflation rates; and how the nominal rate of return affects valuation and pricing. The assignment also allows the student to apply concepts related to CAPM, WACC, and Flotation Costs to understand the influence of debt and equity on the company’s capital structure.

Assignment Steps

Resources: Corporate Finance

Calculate the following problems and provide an overall summary of how companies make financial decisions in no more than 700 words, based on your answers:

  1. Stock Valuation: A stock has an initial price of $100 per share, paid a dividend of $2.00 per share during the year, and had an ending share price of $125. Compute the percentage total return, capital gains yield, and dividend yield.
  2. Total Return: You bought a share of 4% preferred stock for $100 last year. The market price for your stock is now $120. What was your total return for last year?
  3. CAPM: A stock has a beta of 1.20, the expected market rate of return is 12%, and a risk-free rate of 5 percent. What is the expected rate of return of the stock?
  4. WACC: The Corporation has a targeted capital structure of 80% common stock and 20% debt. The cost of equity is 12% and the cost of debt is 7%. The tax rate is 30%. What is the company’s weighted average cost of capital (WACC)?
  5. Flotation Costs: Medina Corp. has a debt-equity ratio of .75. The company is considering a new plant that will cost $125 million to build. When the company issues new equity, it incurs a flotation cost of 10%. The flotation cost on new debt is 4%. What is the initial cost of the plant if the company raises all equity externally?

Submit your summary and all calcluations.

Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.

Unit 3 Seminar how your perception is formed, homework help

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In the Unit 3 Seminar, you will discuss how your perception is formed as well as the impact it can have on your communication.

Please come to Seminar prepared to discuss the following:

  1. What does the author of the text mean when she describes perceptions as being subjective and dynamic?
  2. Identify a person you used to think about in a particular way that you now view differently. What happened to change your perception? What was the outcome of your change in thinking?
  3. What is the most important thing to remember about perceptions when attempting effective communication? Why?
  4. What are the guidelines for improving perceptions and communication and why are they important?

To earn Seminar credit for this unit, complete one of the following options:

Option 1:Participate in a synchronous Seminar discussion. You are strongly encouraged to fulfill your Seminar requirement through this option if possible. Many students find the Seminar very helpful because the instructor will clarify information and your classmates may pose questions that you also have about the material.

Option 2:Complete the Option 2 alternative assignment by answering the Seminar topics. Your responses should be composed in complete sentences and paragraphs and be 300–400 words in length. You should create your Seminar responses in MS Word, making sure to follow APA format and cite all references used. Save your answers and submit them to the Unit 3: Seminar Dropbox. The Dropbox is located at the top of this class on the blue toolbar.

Be sure to complete all questions to earn your Seminar points. You are also strongly encouraged to review the Seminar transcript to gain the full educational benefit intended.

Process Designs and Supply Chains

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This is part one of a two part assignment starting with an introductory look at process design and supply chains. I will need help with part 2 as well in coming weeks.

Identify a company with
which you are familiar.  This could be your place of employment, a car
wash, a yard service company, and so forth. (i.e, walmart, target, apple, restaurants)

Create an MS PowerPoint
Presentation in which you describe the current state of your selected
company’s supply chain and an identified process.

Required Elements:

  • Describe the company’s supply chain
  • Identify a process internal to the company that you wish to analyze.
  • Describe the process internal to the company that you wish to analyze.
  • Identify an appropriate design approach for the process you have chosen.
  • Create a high-level AS IS process flow chart using an appropriate tool.
  • Identify at least one metric to measure the process and its application (how, what, when, and who).
  • Use an appropriate tool to collect data for each step of the process.
  • PowerPoint includes 4-5 slides with detailed speaker notes.

**** this is for a graduate level operations management course toward MBA****

Quiet at night?

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Quiet at Night?
You are the night shift charge nurse on a busy surgical unit in a large, urban teaching hospital. Surgeries occur around the clock, and frequently, noise levels are higher than desired because of the significant number of nurses, physicians, residents, interns, and other health-care workers who gather at the nurses station or in the halls outside of patient rooms. Today, the unit manager has come to you because the hospital’s score on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (hCahPS) survey for the category Always Quiet at Night falls far below the desired benchmark. She has asked you to devise a plan to address this quality of care issue. The management goal in this situation is to achieve an HCAHPS score on Always Quiet at Night that meets the accepted best practices benchmark, thus assuring that patients get the rest they need to promote their recovery. The leadership goal is to foster a shared commitment among all health-care professionals working on the unit to achieve the Always Quiet at Night goal.

Assignment:

  1. Identify five management strategies you might use to address the problem of excessive noise on the unit at night. For example, your list might include structural environmental changes or work redesign.
  2. Then identify five leadership strategies you might use to promote buy-in of the Quiet at Night initiative by all health-care professionals on the unit. How will you inspire these individuals to work with you in achieving this critically important goal? What incentives might you use to reward behavior conducive to meeting this goal?
  3. Discuss whether you feel this goal could be achieved by employing only the management strategies you identified. Could it be achieved only with the implementation of leadership strategies for team building

Strategic Management Competition Strategy Formulation, assignment help

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There are four discussion questions, each discussion questions needs to be between 125-175 words. Please include the questions with the responses in the completed work. Thanks.

DQ 1

What is the role
of strategic planning in creating value for the organization? Provide an
example of how a company uses strategic planning to create value for the organization. 

DQ 2

What types of
competitive strategies are the most effective? Will the same strategy work in
most venues? Why or why not? 

DQ 3

Choose two or more
competitive strategies and compare why each strategy may be appropriate for
different companies. For example, one company may use a low-price strategy
while another may go for high quality. 

DQ 4

Why do we want to
create measurement devices early in the strategy process? How do metrics allow
us to track the strategy process once it is implemented? How is environmental
scanning helpful in choosing the appropriate metric guidelines to use?

impact of governmental action on a business

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Overview: In your role as vice president of governmental affairs, your boss, the business’s CEO, is considering retaining an outside consulting firm to
assist the company with a government issue that it is facing. Jack Harris is the president of that firm, which is called Crisis Consulting. Jack has told your
boss that he will not know if he can help until he learns more information about your company and the issue it faces. Your CEO has asked you to prepare
a memo that will provide a detailed overview of your company as well as the government action that is it facing.

your company is Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan

Address the following:

  1. Business Profile: Provide a brief profile of the business and the industry it occupies, including the business’s market share and competitors, as
    well as opportunities and threats facing the business and industry outside of the particular governmental action now facing the business.
  2. Governmental Action: Analyze the potential governmental action or political challenge that will affect the business in this particular situation.
  3. Organization and Teams: Describe the organization of the company, including divisions and project teams, and the manner in which the company
    has used these teams to respond to government regulations in the past.
  4. Stakeholders: Describe the company’s internal and external stakeholders. In your description, include the actions taken by the stakeholders to
    date to influence the political process and advocate for the business’s interests.
  5. Current Environment: Describe the current business environment, both financial and otherwise, including the initial reaction of the company to
    the situation and the initial position taken by political actors and other stakeholders.

How do you think the trend will impact external auditing in the future?other suggestions

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In your response, choose . What information presented in the posts do you find most interesting? After reviewing the article link they have provided, address one of the following:

  • If they presented an article related to trends, how do you think the trend will impact external auditing in the future?
  • If they presented an article related to an audit failure, do you agree or disagree with how the failure could have been avoided? What other suggestions do you have related to avoiding the failure?

ARTICLE TO READ AS AND WRITE ON AS FOLLOWS:

Hard to believe we are at the last discussion post already. This was my first graduate class and it was a bit of a struggle, but I did learn a great deal. Coincidently while I was taking this class my company, Community Care, was undergoing our yearly financial audit. So when I wasn’t reading about audits I was getting all the files and schedules needed for our auditors to be able to perform their work. It was quite an experience.

I found an article that talked about the challenges that face companies that need to have an IT audit. I think this will become a more common occurrence as we depend more and more on computers to house our financial transactions.

One of the trends this article talks about is the need for secure and verifiable data exchange between companies – and between a company and auditors. The ease at which data can be manipulated or corrupted during a transfer is high so there needs to be some controls over the transaction. One of the panelists, Donny Shimamoto – Managing director at IntrapriseTechKnologies and former chair of the AICPA IMTA executive committee, discussed a way to exchange data for the use of auditors and specialists and when they were done verifying and auditing the data the auditors would be able to send back a file – that had the audited information with a level of assurance. This way the company could dispense the summary data file like they would audited financial statements (Dzuranin, 2016).

I am excited about this idea because it takes financial electronic transactions – lets them be audited electronically and then returned to the company in a useable format that is secure, in a summary form, and has an auditors stamp of assurance.

Here is the link to the article I found however, I tried clicking on the link and it did not take me to the article. I also printed it and have attached a pdf of the article to this discussion post with the sections I am referring to highlighted.

I hope you find the information as interesting as I did. And I hope everyone have a very good last week of class.

Link: https://eds-a-ebscohost-com.ezproxy.snhu.edu/eds/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=28&sid=bd9905e6-c1be-4242-9d15-c8abe88ee0be%40sessionmgr4008

https://learn.snhu.edu/d2l/le/87835/discussions/po…