In a well-written essay of 1200-1500 words (4-5 pages), answer the following questions: “How would Paul Tillich understand the significance of Lame Deer’s experience recounted in his essay “Alone on the Hilltop”? What elements of Lame Deer’s essay would he draw attention to? What key concept in “Religion as a Dimension of Man’s Spiritual Life” would Tillich find at work in Lame Deer’s religious experience? How, by contrast, would Bruce Lincoln approach Lame Deer’s essay? What questions would he ask of it? How would he challenge or critique Tillich’s approach?” Finally, which (if any) of these approaches to Lame Deer’s experience do you find preferable? Which would you criticize, and how?” Essays should be written in 12 point, standard fonts with 1″ margins and double spaced. For full credit, submit them in pdf format

Create a 5- to 6-slide PowerPoint presentation that can be used in a staff development meeting on presenting different approaches for implementing the stepwise approach for asthma treatment. Be sure to address the following: Describe long-term control and quick relief treatment options for the asthma patient from your practice as well as the impact these drugs might have on your patient. Explain the stepwise approach to asthma treatment and management for your patient. Explain how stepwise management assists health care providers and patients in gaining and maintaining control of the disease. Be specific. Please include 5 references

EXCEL, DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS, AND VISUAL DISPLAYS Assignment Overview You are a consultant who works for the Diligent Consulting Group. In this Case, you are engaged on a consulting basis by Loving Organic Foods. In order to get a better idea of what might have motivated customers buying habits you are asked to analyze the ages of the customers who have purchased organic foods over the past 3 months. Past research done by the Diligent Consulting Group has shown that different age groups buy certain products for different reasons. Loving Organic Foods has sent a survey to 200 customers who have previously purchased organic foods, and 124 customers have responded. The survey includes age data of past customers who purchased organic foods in the previous quarter. Assignment Using Excel, create a frequency distribution (histogram) of the age data that was captured from the survey. You should consider the width of the age categories (e.g., 5 years, 10 years, or other). That is, which age category grouping provides the most useful information? Once you have created this histogram, determine the mean, median, and mode. After you have reviewed the data, write a report to your boss that briefly describes the results that you obtained. Make a recommendation on how this data might be used for marketing purposes. Be sure to conduct adequate research on organic foods industry, organic market analysis, and healthy food industry using IBISWorld database or other databases such as Business Source Complete (EBSCO) and Business Source Complete – Business Searching Interface in our online library. Provide a brief description on the industry background and the consumer changing attitudes and behavior toward healthy lifestyles. Also identify the customer demographics of organic food industry and explain how the customers of Loving Organic Foods are different from this target market. **Data: Attached. Use these data in Excel to create your histogram. Assignment Expectations Excel Analysis Complete analysis in Excel using the Histogram function. Check the following video on histogram: https://youtu.be/4eLJGG2Ad30 If you are not so familiar with Excel, refer to the following link on Excel training videos: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Excel-training-9bc05390-e94c-46af-a5b3-d7c22f6990bb?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US Check the professional market research reports from IBISWorld database to conduct the industry analysis. IBISWorld Overview (n.d.). IBISWorld, Inc., New York, NY. IBISWorld Forecast (n.d.). IBISWorld, Inc., New York, NY. IBISWorld Data and Sources (n.d.). IBISWorld, Inc., New York, NY. IBISWorld Navigation Tips (n.d.). IBISWorld, Inc., New York, NY. Written Report Length requirements: 4 pages minimum (not including Cover and Reference pages). NOTE: You must submit 4 pages of written discussion and analysis. This means that you should avoid use of tables and charts as space fillers. Provide a brief introduction to/background of the problem. Provide a brief description of organic food industry and target market characteristics such as their demographics, lifestyles and shopping behaviors. Provide a written analysis that supports your Histogram age groups (bins). Based on your analysis of the histogram data, provide complete and meaningful recommendations as the data relates to Loving Organic Foodss marketing strategy. Write clearly, simply, and logically. Use double-spaced, black Verdana or Times Roman font in 12 pt. type size. Have an introduction at the beginning to introduce the topics and use keywords as headings to organize the report. Avoid redundancy and general statements such as “All organizations exist to make a profit.” Make every sentence count. Paraphrase the facts using your own words and ideas, employing quotes sparingly. Quotes, if absolutely necessary, should rarely exceed five words. Here are some guidelines on how to conduct information search and build critical thinking skills. Emerald Group Publishing. (n.d.). Searching for Information. Retrieved from https://www.emeraldinsight.com/learning/study_skills/skills/searching.htm Emerald Group Publishing. (n.d.). Developing Critical Thinking. Retrieved from https://www.emeraldinsight.com/learning/study_skills/skills/critical_thinking.htm Other Background info: Required Reading Statistics are all around you, sometimes used well, sometimes not. We must learn how to distinguish the two cases. Just as important as detecting the deceptive use of statistics is the appreciation of the proper use of statistics. You must also learn to recognize statistical evidence that supports a stated conclusion. When a research team is testing a new treatment for a disease, statistics allows them to conclude based on a relatively small trial that there is good evidence their drug is effective. Therefore, it is important to understand statistics. In this course, you would reform your statistical habits from now on. No longer will you blindly accept numbers or findings. Instead, you will begin to think about the numbers, their sources, and most importantly, the procedures used to generate them. In this way, you can become a more rational decision maker by analyzing the past performance to make business planning. Statistics are often presented in an effort to add credibility to an argument or advice. You can see this by paying attention to television advertisements. Many of the numbers thrown about in this way do not represent careful statistical analysis. They can be misleading, and push you into decisions that you might find cause to regret. If you cannot distinguish good from faulty reasoning, then you are vulnerable to manipulation and to decisions that are not in your best interest. Statistics provides tools that you need in order to react intelligently to information you hear or read. In this sense, statistics is one of the most important things that you can study. For these reasons, learning about statistics is essential to business intelligence. This course will help you refresh some statistical essentials that are related to business analytics and decision making. The primary resource for this module is Introductory Business Statistics, by Alexander, Illowsky, and Dean. Alexander, H., Illowsky, B., & Dean, S. (2017). Introductory Business Statistics. Openstax. Retrieved from https://openstax.org/details/books/introductory-business-statistics For Module 1, you should read through the following material in this textbook: Chapter 1: Sampling and Data This chapter provides a general overview of statistics, data terminology, and sampling techniques. Chapter 2: Descriptive Statistics This chapter explains measures of central tendency, including mean, median, and mode. It also carefully discusses statistics that measure variation, including variance and standard deviation and covers important concepts such as skewness. As mentioned in the overview, it is very important that you become comfortable with Microsoft Excel. This course, along with many others in the graduate program, uses Excel extensively. It is also very likely that you will use Excel in the workplace. Below are important videos that will help you get started with some of the basics. If you have never used Excel before, you will benefit from working through these tutorials: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/excel-for-windows-training-9bc05390-e94c-46af-a5b3-d7c22f6990bb If you have used Excel before and are comfortable with entering data and working with the dropdown menus, you can start by ensuring you have the Analysis Toolpak add-in, which will allow you to quickly generate many of the statistics we will discuss during this course: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/load-the-analysis-toolpak-in-excel-6a63e598-cd6d-42e3-9317-6b40ba1a66b4 Once the Analysis Toolpak is added, you will be working with the Descriptive Statistics tool. Please read through the following instructions for help in using this feature: https://www.excel-easy.com/examples/descriptive-statistics.html Please ensure you add references
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1. Identify and describe the core values of the agency. a. Discuss the degree to which those core values are aligned with advocacy, leadership, or social change. b. State how those core values contribute to the well-being of individuals, groups, societies, or international communities. 2. Identify and describe the mission of the agency, organization, or community. a. Evaluate whether the mission statement is aligned with the core values of the agency, organization, etc. b. Describe whether the mission statement promotes advocacy, leadership, or social change. c. Discuss whether the mission statement provides evidence of how the agency/organization contributes to the well-being of individuals, groups, societies, or international communities. 3. Identify and describe the vision of the agency. a. Evaluate whether the vision is aligned with the core values of the agency, organization, etc. b. Describe whether the vision promotes advocacy, leadership, or social change. c. Discuss whether the vision provides evidence of how the agency/organization contributes to the well-being of individuals, groups, societies, or international communities. 4. Identify and describe key stakeholders involved with the agency. a. Discuss whether each stakeholder is internal or external to the agency/organization. b. Describe the role each stakeholder has in the organization (i.e., leadership, management, staff, recipient of services, etc.). c. Discuss how each stakeholder can be an essential element for gathering information to develop the strategic plan.

Assignment: Summarize and critique a scholarly article from an academic journal dealing with one of the authors, historical figures or events we have covered during the first part of the semester. The first half of your essay should present a concise, objective summary of the authors thesis, major supporting points and evidence, along with a clear understanding of the topics overall importance to the reader. The second half of the essay should present a detailed evaluation, assessing the validity of the author’s thesis commenting on the implications of the argument as it relates to topics we have been discussing in class and offering your own insight into the issues examined in the original article, backed by evidence from primary resources.

CONFIDENCE INTERVALS AND HYPOTHESIS TESTING Assignment Overview You are a consultant who works for the Diligent Consulting Group. In this Case, you are engaged on a consulting basis by Loving Organic Foods. In order to get a better idea of what might have motivated customers buying habits you are asked to analyze a customer database. You realize the database is still incomplete, so you recontact these customers and collect additional information. The database now includes Annual Amount Spent on Organic Food, Age, Annual Income, Number of People in the Household, and Gender. Case Assignment Using Excel, generate descriptive statistics for these new variables: Annual Income, Number of People in the Household, and Gender. After you have reviewed the results generated above, write a report to your boss that briefly describes the results that you obtained. Please include the following in your report: 1. The descriptive statistics you generated. 2. Your interpretation of the descriptive statistics and any visual displays or other tools you used to analyze the data. 3. Your recommendation on how this new data might be used for marketing purposes. 4. Comment on whether this new recommendation is different than the one you provided in the Module 1 case. If so, explain why it is different. 5. Compare your statistical results from the new variables with those of the industry. 6. Lastly, your client argues that the amount of money spent on organic food is the same for females and males. You decide to test this at the ? = 0.10 level, using a two-sample hypothesis test. You dont know the population standard deviation, but you assume they are the same. Run this test in Excel and interpret the results. Can you support your clients claim? ***Data: Attached as an excel document Assignment Expectations You can again search the professional market research reports from the IBISWorld database to conduct the industry analysis. IBISWorld Overview (n.d.). IBISWorld, Inc., New York, NY. IBISWorld Forecast (n.d.). IBISWorld, Inc., New York, NY. IBISWorld Data and Sources (n.d.). IBISWorld, Inc., New York, NY. IBISWorld Navigation Tips (n.d.). IBISWorld, Inc., New York, NY. Written Report Length requirements: 4 pages minimum (not including Cover and Reference pages). NOTE: You must submit 4 pages of written discussion and analysis. Provide a brief introduction to/background of the problem, Provide a brief description of organic food industry and target market characteristics such as their demographics, lifestyles, and shopping behaviors. Provide a written analysis that addresses each of requirements listed under the Assignment section. Write clearly, simply, and logically. Use double-spaced, black Verdana or Times Roman font in 12 pt. type size. Please use keywords as headings to organize the report. Avoid redundancy and general statements such as “All organizations exist to make a profit.” Make every sentence count. Paraphrase the facts using your own words and ideas, employing quotes sparingly. Quotes, if absolutely necessary, should rarely exceed five words. Required Reading The primary resource for this module is Introductory Business Statistics, by Alexander, Illowsky, and Dean. Alexander, H., Illowsky, B., & Dean, S. (2017). Introductory Business Statistics. Openstax. Retrieved from https://openstax.org/details/books/introductory-business-statistics For this assignment, you should read through the following material in this textbook. There is quite a bit of detailed material, so please start early. Chapter 7: The Central Limit Theorem Sections 7.1 and 7.2 only This chapter explains sampling distributions and the Central Limit Theorem. Chapter 8: Confidence Intervals Sections 8.1, 8.2, and 8.3 only This chapter explains how to calculate confidence intervals for population means and proportions. Chapter 9: Hypothesis Testing with One Sample This chapter introduces hypothesis testing, including the general steps and how to conduct one-sample tests. Chapter 10: Hypothesis Testing with Two Samples Sections 10.1, 10.3, and 10.6 only This chapter expands on Chapter 9 material and focuses on two-sample tests. There are five tests introduced in this chapter, but we will only focus on three of them. Check the following video on histogram: https://youtu.be/4eLJGG2Ad30 If you are not so familiar with Excel, refer to the following link on Excel training videos: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Excel-training-9bc05390-e94c-46af-a5b3-d7c22f6990bb?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US
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Paper must be double spaced, with 12 point font and include section headers for each of the paper sections noted below (Effective Campaign Issues, Summary of Formal and Informal Powers, Formal Powers Applied to Issues, Informal Powers Applied to Issues) Objective: The objective for this assignment is for students to understand the critical linkage between participatory democracy (elections) and public policy in a representative democracy. It is the individual and corporate responsibility of the voters to make sure that elected officials implement public policy beneficial to the public and, if they do not, to remove them from office the next election. Students must explain how elected governors can use their formal and informal powers to influence public policy. Congratulations! You have recently been elected the Governor of Texas. You built your successful campaign around promises to address four issues that are significant to the voters of Texas: controlling immigration from Mexico, upgrading the states roads and highways, making sure the death penalty is applied fairly and improving k-12 education. Please discuss each of these issues and focus on the following: Why these issues likely helped get you elected Governor (refer to Campaign message and campaign strategy from Unit 2)? (Unit 2 Written Lectures, Slide 2-25) Discuss the formal and informal powers of the Governor Texas? (Unit 6 Written Lectures, Slides 6-5, 6-6, 6-7, 6-8, 6-9, 6-10)) What is at least one formal power (do not use the same formal power all of the issues) that you can use to get each policy passed by the legislature? (Unit 6 Written Lectures, Slides 6-5, 6-6 & 6-7) What is at least one informal power (do not use the same informal power for each of the issues) that you can use to get each policy passed by the legislature? (Unit 6 Written Lectures, Slides 6-9 & 6-10) Paper should be organized using subject headers (ie. Campaign issues, Formal and informal powers, etc.).
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Evaluate the roles and behaviors of teams in organizational settings.Scenario InformationAs a leader, you have been tasked with building a team whose purpose is to recommend a new performance evaluation system. The current system is outdated and greatly reduces employee morale each year.InstructionsAs the leader of this problem-solving team, you are tasked with assessing types of teams, benefits, and determinants of successful teams. The company has asked you for a two-page report outlining issues and recommendations for team interventions.In your report, you will want to:1. Compare the types of teams and how they are utilized within an organization.2. Discuss habits that can be used to enhance team success.3. Summarize the advantages of teams and benefits of teams in relation to the organization, manager, and employees.4. Provide your recommendations of key determinants that contribute to successful teams and how they can be implemented in an organization.

talk about a particular event or a series of events and describes the kind of experience that the writer (or protagonist) got from it.

what do you want the audience to take away? Take care with the background and color schemes for your PowerPoint slides. Simple is best. Keep your presentation simple, innovative, and interesting. Dont overuse animation or sound. Use pictures to enhance, not dominate, the presentation. Keep your time frame in mind: usually one slide per minute works well. Use no smaller than a 20-point font on a slide if the presentation is for a smaller audience or room, no smaller than a 28-point font for larger rooms or audiences. Use text on a slide for sharing highlights and important points, not for everything. Revise your presentation at least three to five times before submission. Keep backups of the presentation on a jumpdrive (or two) Have fun as your create YOUR presentationbe unique.
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