CHOOSE ONE OF THESE PROMPTS.

1. Explore the theme of sacrifice in THE LOTTERY and THE ONES WHO WALK AWAY FROM OMELAS. How does this theme show up in other stories and events throughout human history?

2. In THE ONES WHO WALK AWAY FROM OMELAS, the people of the utopian city know that they owe their happiness to the suffering of one child, and many of them decide that it is worth their own happiness to continue exploiting that child. How does this parallel the way wealthier countries exploit less wealthy countries?

3) Look at THE LOTTERY again. When the story came out, many people in America in 1948 were upset that the author seemed to be implying that something as horrific as the Holocaust could happen in America. Discuss how the story mirrors actual events that have happened in America (racial discrimination, etc).

Personal Narrative Essay.
Write about a refugee man who is immigrated from Burma to the United States at the age of 13. Highlight his first, seeing the airport in the USA. How tired he was traveling 30 hours. Highlight how to confuse he is the first day in the USA, going to school, grocery store, the struggle of adapting American culture.
The struggle he faces speaking English and doing Homework. In Conclusion, write how he overcomes all those obstacles. Include vivid language US lots of descriptions that appeal to the five senses.

outline in details make sure each subheading has a point of its own. English should be fluent

Find an issue or case study in the health care system in the United States. I went with
Personalized Healthcare (medicine):

Personalized medicine refers specifically to the use of genetics and genomics. An example of personalized medicine includes the use of specific tumor markers to guide therapy for breast cancer. We view personalized healthcare as a broader platform that includes genetics and genomics but also includes any other biologic information that helps predict risk for disease or how a patient will respond to treatments. An example of personalized healthcare would be the inclusion of specific biomarkers like Lipoprotein (a) that can help to better predict risk for heart disease or stroke in some individuals. These biomarkers can augment our traditional means of assessing risk based on age, menopausal status for women, diabetes, high blood pressure, or high cholesterol levels.

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).

This is a teaching assignment where I am to choose a type of behavior change (drinking more water) and pick an audience (college students) to present the information to. The instructor gave a template of the assignment, which I will attach with further instructions.

1a) DESIGN Worksheets 1 & 2
Worksheet Step 1: Decide behavior change or action goal
Select a group to teach a nutrition lessons
o Please begin as soon as possible speaking to potential site to do you nutrition education presentation.

o Think about what population you are interested in designing a nutrition education program

Pre-Assessment: Ideally we would like to create a formula evaluation tool for group to complete prior to planning our education session so that we know the level of knowledge and topics of interest. However, this is most often not practical and for the purpose of this project we do not want to burden our volunteer group. Instead try to briefly ask the groups organizer a few questions to better understand your audience.
o Please review Worksheets steps 1 & 2 to see what information that would be helpful to gather about your group to complete your worksheets.
o When you speak to your groups organizer you will need to ask them:
What topic they feel most appropriate for your group? Be prepared with some suggestions in case they do not have a topic in mind.
After choosing your topic with the group organizer, ask them about what knowledge level they feel their group is on the topic or if there is anything in particular they were like to be included in the presentation
Ask about the groups demographics and environment. (see step 2)
Ask any other pertinent questions that will help you create an appropriate presentation for your selected group.
o When you complete Worksheet Step 1, include applicable information in the section What can you learn about your specific audience? Please note the difference than the previous section What can you learn about your audience in general? which is based on a literature review about your group. This information will also be need for Worksheet Step 2.

Literature Review: In the worksheet section: What can you learn about your audience in general?, it is expected that you conduct a literature review to further explore what the research can inform you about your audience.
o Questions to think about while looking for studies are:
Are there nutrition or health concerns that are prevalent in your selected population?
What have been successful education strategies?
What have been successful education programs?
Are there other community and societal issues that may impact nutrition, health and access to food?

Worksheet Step 2: Explore determinants of behavior change or actions.

Question:
Your research should be about social problems where the free markets are not allowed to function, which includes the market for a particular illegal good or service, a regulated market, etc.

Select a social problem where free markets are not allowed to function, and conduct research on the social problem.

Describe how free market features could be introduced to help alleviate the social problem through free market operations of supply and demand.

Discuss the risks of introducing market mechanisms of supply and demand in situations where ethical issues are present.

Explain roles of the government in maintaining ethical business practices.

Criteria

Your Assignment should have a cover sheet with the following information: Title of the paper, Your Name, Course Number and Section Number, and Date.

It must be a minimum of five pages long (excluding title page, references, etc.). *Double Spaced*

Be sure to include the criteria located in the rubric below within your paper.

It must be APA formatted with citations to your sources and your last page should list all references used. For assistance on APA format, visit the various writing resources, accessed under the Academic Tools area in the left navigation pane.

You must use a variety of three objective, high quality, and current sources. Peer reviewed articles, articles published in journals, textbooks, and library resources found in the Library are examples of high quality resources.

Note that Wikipedia, Investopedia, etc. are not considered as reliable resources for this research.

Choose a diagnosis or diagnostic category, and find information about it in the DSM-5 or other professional source. Be sure to complete the following:

Give the name of the disorder you are discussing, along with a description of signs and symptoms.
Detail what you might encounter when working with a client who has this disorder with regard to:
Communication.
Thinking.
Emotions.
Interpersonal relationships.
Social functioning.
Daily living skills.
Work, school, and other productive activities.
Be specific, and describe what you might expect in trying to form and maintain a therapeutic working relationship with this client.

Choose a modern story from our syllabus (YoungGoodmanBrown to An Adventure in Paris) and focus on its setting. Discuss the setting’s features as romantic, gothic, realist, or naturalist, and in the final section of the essay comment on the way the setting shapes the experience of the characters and the story’s outcome.

I. Introduction (2 pages)
a. Description of problem/question to be investigated
b. Significance of problem and the rationale for studying it
c. Purpose of proposed study
II. Literature review (5 pages)
a. Summary of previous studies
b. Identified gaps in the literature what do we/dont we know at this time?
c. Theoretical/conceptual basis for proposed study
d. Statement of research question(s)/hypothesis(es) to be addressed in your study
III. Methodology (5 pages)
a. Proposed research design and data collection procedures
b. Sampling design, description of proposed sample
c. Description of plan to protect human subjects
d. Description of data collection procedures and instruments (operational definitions of all variables, instrument reliability and validity information)
e. Plan for data analysis and use of data
IV. Discussion (3 pages)
a. Expected findings
b. Application to practice, implications for future practice
c. Weaknesses and limitations of proposed study
V. References: at least 8 of which should come from social work-related journals (if possible)
VI. Appendices: copies of instruments, cover letters, informed consent forms, other relevant information