You will complete a book review and critique of Bounce: Living the Resilient Life by Wicks that will consist of an opening paragraph, a summary, personal reflection and analysis, application and conclusion. Write a 5-6-page (not including the title page or references) scholarly review using the provided APA formatted paper (template) which has a correct title page, and a reference page. Use level headings to develop your paper.
Write a paper summarizing the pros and cons (at least three) of Biopsychosocial Unified Theory of Development. Add at least three reasons to identify Biopsychosocial Unified Theory of Development and reasons this theory is essential when looking at human development and utilize examples related to family processes and cild adjustment.
Please, read an excerpt from Robert A. Dahl. How Democratic Is the American Constitution? (New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 2001). In your response, summarize R. Dahls argument about the American constitution and compare it with the content of the chapter about the constitution and the founding. Conclude with your thoughts and assessments about the democratic/undemocratic nature of the constitution.
Required length: 2 full fpages, Times New Roman, 12 font.
Strategic analysis paper
Home organization: Revlon
The organization we are acquiring: ELF beauty
*This paper might require more pages, I would suggest not to focus on the appearance of it just the writing. For examples do not do the cover page, table of contents, line or paragraph spacing.
step 1: Conduct strategic analysis work on your Home Organization
Following careful research on your part—prepare a Competitive Profile Matrix (CPM; Ch. 3, p. 78-81) on your home organization using several competitors. You must include this CPM in your final paper.
Utilizing what you are learning from Chapters 1-6, perform a strategic analysis on your home organization. In your prepared analysis, you are required to include at least these five in addition to the CPM described in above:
1. Evaluation of Mission and/or Vision Statement (Ch. 2, p. 47-51)
2. External Factor Evaluation Matrix (EFE; Ch. 3, p. 77-78)
3. Internal Factor Evaluation Matrix (IFE; Ch. 4, p. 116-118)
4. Financial Ratio Analysis (Ch. 4, p. 104-106)—select at least one ratio from each of the five types (liquidity, leverage, activity, profitability, growth)—calculate and interpret each. You are not limited to only five—do more if you wish. Choose ratios with which you are most familiar and which hold the best promise of providing you useful information.
5. The SWOT Matrix (Ch. 6, p. 171-174)
When you include these matrices in your final paper, do not merely include a statistical
summary of the matrix. You are to present the full detail of the matrix in addition to your interpretation of the results. For example, if you are doing the External Factors Matrix (EFE), you are to show your entire list of opportunities (5-10 etc.) and your entire list of threats accompanied by the weight, rating, weighted score, and final total.
The student should not include in this section the complete copy of the Home organizations Income Statement and/or Balance Sheet required in Step 1 above.
Step 2: Conduct Strategic Analysis work on the Organization you plan to acquire
It is not a requirement of this assignment, but you may find it desirable to prepare a CPM on your second organization especially if they are not a competitor of your home organization.
Using the same five required analyses listed above for your home organization, prepare the same detailed analysis of the company you propose to acquire.
1. Evaluation of Mission and/or Vision Statement (Ch. 2, p. 47-51)
2. External Factor Evaluation Matrix (EFE; Ch. 3, p. 77-78)
3. Internal Factor Evaluation Matrix (IFE; Ch. 4, p. 116-118)
4. Financial Ratio Analysis (Ch. 4, p. 104-106)—select at least one ratio from each of the five types (liquidity, leverage, activity, profitability, growth)—calculate and interpret each of the chosen five, and include them in your analysis. You are not limited to these five. Choose ratios with which you are most familiar and which hold the best promise of providing you useful information.
5. The SWOT Matrix (Ch. 6, p. 171-174)
A comparison of these matrices should provide you a rich resource of information to compare and contrast the two companies, evaluate strengths and weaknesses of both, the benefits, the hazards, the cautions, etc., regarding acquisition, etc.
The student should not include in this section the complete copy of the Home organizations Income Statement and/or Balance Sheet required in Step 1 above.
Step 3: You may want to consider additional analyses
(these are not a requirement for your paper)
Additional, optional Strategic Analysis tools are described in our text which you can choose to use for your analysis—this is not a formal requirement for your paper:
As you work on this strategic analysis, you are urged to use what you consider to be the strengths you bring to this class (accounting, marketing, finance, etc.) based on previous academic training and/or personal experience. Leverage what you are already good at as you select (as you see fit) other analysis tools to include in your Strategic Analysis Paper from the list below—you, of course, are not limited to this list:
Value Chain Analysis (VCA; Ch. 4, p. 113-116)
Porters Five Forces Model (Ch. 3, p. 71-74)
Strategic Position and Action Evaluation Matrix (SPACE; Ch. 6, p. 174-178)
Boston Consulting Group Matrix (BCG; p. 178-181)
Internal-External Matrix (IE; Ch. 6, p. 181-184)
Grand Strategy Matrix (GSM; Ch. 6, p. 185-186)
Your professor wants to strongly suggest you might look closely at a couple of these for possible use in your paper . . .especially Porters Five Forces, and the SPACE matrix. . .but none of the above is a requirement for your paper.
Step 4: Make your decision about possible acquisition
Do a thorough comparison of the prospective acquisition company with your own organization with a view of proceeding with the acquisition.
As part of your comparison, analysis, and decision-making, you are required to use the Quantitative Strategic Planning Matrix (QSPM; Ch. 6, p. 186-190) to further guide you in your decision process. You are to include this QSPM in your final paper and indicate how you used the statistical summary to guide you.
You may also use information found in the text to help with your determination. For example, you might choose to use merger/acquisition strategies on p. 150-151. . .or, using the information gleaned from a BCG matrix for both organizations. You should take into account information on why acquisitions fail (page 150, Table 5-5) and some of the anticipated benefits of acquisition (page 151, Table 5-6) given in our textbook.
If in your research you are able to get a good grasp of what the organizational cultures of your two organizations are like, it would be a really smart idea to include in your paper some analysis of what the possible acquisition of a company might mean in terms of impact to the cultures of both companies. Are they significantly different? Very much alike? Would the acquisition tend be traumatic or relatively easy?
Step 4: Write your paper
Your Strategic Analysis Paper needs to conclude with either (1) a strategy to proceed with the acquisition, and what would be the anticipated benefits and challenges; (2) a strategy to abandon the acquisition effort, and your reasons why; or, (3) a strategy to continue pursuing the acquisition but conditional on gaining additional, essential, confirming information. You must specify what that information might include, but you are not actually required to develop it.
With all three possible conclusions, you must include a full development of your reasons for arriving at that conclusion.
A suggested outline for your Strategic Analysis Paper might be:
Introduction /Purpose of the paper—be sure your paper addresses these two
Strategic Analysis of Home Company
Strategic Analysis of the Company to Possibly Acquire
Comparison/Contrast of the Two Companies
Your Strategic Plan Regarding Possible Acquisition
You are not required to follow this suggested outline; rather you may create your own which may serve your purposes far better.
In preparing your paper, you have the latitude to either blend your matrix tables into the text of your paper, or you may cite them in the text as Appendices found at the conclusion of your paper.
Your paper should follow basic, simple APA guidelines to format your paper (your professor does not want to be burdensome with this). That is, prepare a cover and reference page for your paper following the APA formats, then follow these basic requirements: use 1 margins on all four sides, double space everything, use only 12-point font, allow 5-7 space indentions, and number your pages starting with the cover sheet (do not use the APA Running head).
describe how “westernized” effect shanghai at that period of time. add 1 or 2 pictures in the slides. using the common vocabulary in the script so it’s easy for me to remember and read thank you Undergraduate level of writing
Ethical, Legal, Social Responsibility, and Security Expectations: Considering the reading for this week and further research of your own, what do you consider to be the major ethical, legal, social responsibility and security expectations of information systems managers and the management of information systems? Why?
Assignment 1: Presentation – Identifying Organizations (Due Week 4).
Overview
For this assignment, we will expand upon our understanding of a social problem through analyzing the organizations that are committed to addressing it. For example, with respect to the social problem of homelessness, we see a variety of local and national level organizations that seek to enable people the opportunity to have permanent housing. Habitat for Humanity would be an excellent example of an organization that deals with such a concern. As another example, regarding the social problem of poverty, we may look at the Salvation Army as a type of organization committed to helping impoverished people, or people recently released from prison or drug treatment, to find gainful employment and reclaim a quality-of-life. Your job in this assignment will be to do your own independent research on two organizations that are committed to addressing a social problem of your choosing.
Instructions
For this assignment, you will put together a presentation of 10 slides minimum. You may use a presentation program of your choice such as any of these which offer free use:
https://prezi.com/signup/basic/
https://www.powtoon.com/home/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIi7TDytGC2QIVhAJpCh3eWQuCEAAYASAAEgLmrvD_BwE&edgetrackerid=100102882751492
https://spark.adobe.com/
https://www.google.com/slides/about/
https://www.canva.com/
https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/impress/
https://slidedog.com/
https://www.haikudeck.com/account/signup?r=0&ref=propricing
or PowerPoint.
Please attach, embed, or provide a link to your presentation to submit it for grading.
Your Presentation must do the following:
1. Select a social problem of your choice. Describe two organizations (feel free to do your own independent research on these organizations) that is seeking to address this social problem.
2. Next, analyze two major ways that each organization is addressing the social problem you have mentioned. For example, are they helping to create homeless shelters, are they helping people receive drug treatment, or are they working with state and local authorities to curb suffering in some area?
3. Define four concepts from our readings/materials that relate to your chosen social problem and analyze how these concepts help us better understand the social problem you are discussing. Some examples of concepts are ideas such as stratification, ethnicity, racism, sexism, and others as mentioned in our readings and materials (NOTE: these are just examples of concepts – they may NOT apply to your topic – you need to select concepts that apply to your own topic).
4. Define one sociological theory from our readings/materials that relates to your chosen social problem and analyze how this theory helps us better understand the social problem you are discussing. Sociological theories include functionalism, conflict theory, feminist theory, symbolic interactionism, and others as mentioned in our readings and materials.
Note – you may find our Sociological Theories and Concepts Toolkit to be helpful (found in Announcements).
Do not use unverifiable, secondary sites such as Wikipedia, about.com, ask.com, and similar. Use our course materials, peer-reviewed journal articles from the library, and other scholarly sources.
Your presentation should utilize sound critical thought and it should include appropriate APA in-text citations and full APA references at the end.
The structure of the Presentation must include the following:
— TITLE SLIDE (1 slide minimum)
— BODY OF PRESENTATION WITH SUBHEADINGS (8 slides minimum)
— REFERENCE SLIDE (1 slide minimum)
LATE POLICY:
See Syllabus
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.
Course Objectives and Learning Outcomes:
Assignment 1 will evaluate your ability to do the following:
Course Objectives:
Course Objective One
Identify specific social problems and their cause-effect patterns.
Course Objective Two
Identify current research methods that are utilized for the investigation of social problems.
Course Objective Three
Compare and contrast current and suggested policies, programs, and/or treatments in terms of their effectiveness for alleviating the negative consequences of social problems.
Course Objective Four
Apply class concepts to support opinions about social problems.
Course Objective Five
Illustrate how the sociological process enables us to identify various social concerns.
Course Objective Seven
Apply sociological theories to explain the occurrence and scope of these problems.
Some topics that could be discussed in detail the structure and role of the Board of Directors (you could certainly also look at the two-board system originating in Germany or the extremely large board structures from Japan and similar countries). Some Board committees are mandated by legislation via SEC requirements and some are unique to a firm’s history. Board composition has changed dramatically in the past few decades and is rapidly moving into the realm of being a “professional occupation” for board members. Just copying out of someone’s annual report is not enough; how has the Board evolved and what are their greatest challenges going forward?
Assignment 1: Step 1: Thesis Statement for Literary Essay
Read: “Your Thesis Statement” in the Module One Resources folder. For more detailed information, read “Draft and Revise a Thesis Statement” on pages 14-19 in “Rules for Writers, 8th edition”.
Directions:
Choose one of the topics and approaches provided for you.
Write a working thesis statement for the topic and approach you chose. Your thesis statement must be an analysis, not just a statement of fact about the novel.
Your professor must approve your thesis statement. If you did not receive at least a 70, you need to revise. You are permitted three attempts in this assignment, and the highest grade will be recorded.
THIS IS THE LINK TO THE BOOK:
– http://kkoworld.com/kitablar/con-maksvell-kutzee-rusvayciliq-eng-kko.pdf
Assignment 2: Works Cited Page for Literary Essay
Upload in correct Works Cited format, using Microsoft Word, the three entries that you will use for your analysis on Disgrace. One will be whatever version of Disgrace you have, and the other two entries will be two outside sources that you find in the MDC databases. Do not Google your research, go to the Miami-Dade databases, and find two scholarly sources.
Statement of Research Problem and Working Outline
1. Write an introductory paragraph that introduces your research topic, discuss the topic in general terms and conclude the paragraph with a clearly stated research question or statement of research problem that demonstrates the following: deterministic or cause and effect logic, inclusion/exclusion, specific disciplinary applications, and the “so what” question”.
2. Convey the Project’s conceptual structure via a well-organized outline. See “Preparing a Working Outline” handout for a useful set of notes related to building an outline.
Instructions
By the above due date you are to have submitted to me a clear statement of your now approved topic at the conclusion of a well-written introductory paragraph. To date, I have provided you with feedback to help you do this. You will also submit a working outline. It will be most helpful for you and me that, at this time, the outline’s elements be described in full sentences rather than fragments. In short, describe what each segment (i.e., numbered and lettered parts) of the outline aims to accomplish. Eventually, your outline will become a Table of Contents but, for now, I insist that your working outline represent a comprehensive description of how you will approach the analysis of your statement of research problem and organization of your Project. Finally, as part of this assignment, you will also be submitting an APA formatted cover page, an abstract, and your reference page (see APA handoutPreview the document for specific directions).
In preparing this submission you will submit the following as one file:
1. An APA formatted cover page
2. An APA formatted abstract or executive summary page
3. An introductory paragraph (on its own page)
4. A working outline (beginning on its own page)
5. A References page (beginning on its own page)
Please contact me before the due date if you have any questions or concerns regarding these instructions.
Submit your work as a MS-Word file or as a pdf file. Be sure to provide both in-text and reference citations in APA format for ALL sources utilized.
Late assignments will receive a one point deduction per each day late.
Example of a Working Outline
Without exception all working outlines will begin with Introduction and Statement of Problem. In my example, I use Roman Numerals to denote 1st level headings. I use capital letters to denote 2nd level headings and numbers to denote third level headings.
I. Introduction and Statement of Problem
This will then be followed by…
II. Justifications for the Study.
In the Justifications section, you will be required to develop no less than four arguments that explain to your reader why your topic/statement of problem is important/worth examining.
Below, you will see an example of an outline. It is an example so it may not exactly apply to your topic.
I. Introduction and Statement of Problem
II. Justifications for the Study
A. Justification/Argument 1 (write out in sentence format the basic argument you intend to make that explains why your research question/statement of problem is important)
B. Justification/Argument 2
C. Justification/Argument 3
D. Justification/Argument 4
III. Literature Review
A. Factor/Concept/Variable A (write out in sentence format what topic/concept/variable you will be discussing and how it relates to your statement of problem)
1. Why Factor/Concept/Variable A is important (write out in sentence format what topic/concept/variable you will be discussing and how it relates to your statement of problem)
2. What the published literature actually says about how Factor/Concept/Variable A relates to the problem
B. Factor/Concept/Variable B
1. Why Factor/Concept/Variable B is important (write out in sentence format what topic/concept/variable you will be discussing and how it relates to your statement of problem)
2. What the published literature actually says about how Factor/Concept/Variable B relates to the problem
C. Factor/Concept/Variable C
1. Why Factor/Concept/Variable C is important (write out in sentence format what topic/concept/variable you will be discussing and how it relates to your statement of problem)
2. What the published literature actually says about how Factor/Concept/Variable C relates to the problem
D. further lettered points as needed
IV. Summation of the Literature Review
In this section you will reinforce to the reader how the primary points gleaned from the literature review relate to the Statement of Problem (Please note that you may not really be able to develop this at this point because you are still reviewing the literature. This comment may also apply to the below V, VI, VII and VIII sections. However if you can basically describe what will be discussed in those sections, please do so.)
V. Proposed Recommendations (or Solutions)
it is here where the student conveys recommendations to address the problem. If the literature has suggested that factors A, B, and C cause the problem, then it makes sense that the recommendations made, in some way, address the mitigation of A, B, and C. The recommendations must be pragmatic and implementable. I understand that you may not be able to provide details here as you are still no doubt reviewing the published literature.
A. Recommendation 1
B. Recommendation 2
C. Recommendation 3
D. and further lettered recommendation points as needed
VI. Implementation of the Recommendations
This is a very important conceptual part of your Project! To improve the human condition and address real problems, your recommendations or solutions have to implementable. Concrete and pragmatic strategies to implement the recommendations must be given. I understand that you may not be able to provide details here as you are still no doubt reviewing the published literature.
A. Implementation Strategy A
B. Implementation Strategy B
C. Implementation Strategy C
D. Implementation Strategy D
VII. Evaluation and Follow-Up
It is not possible in a Capstone Project for students to actually implement their recommendations. They must however be able to convey to the reader how they might evaluate whether their implementation strategies are effective. Such a discussion is required here.
VIII. Conclusions
