Day: February 17, 2020

Cover Letter

February 17, 2020 1 Comment APA, Business and Management

I need a well written cover letter applying for a Graduate Assistantship for Masters in Business Administration that highlights the following;

    Any volunteer experience you may have in the field
    Projects you initiated and completed
    What types of projects you would like to work on
    prefer to work within a department or with a faculty member?ANy
    Excellent oral and written communication skills
    Self-motivation
    Professionalism
    Computer competences( MSOffice Suite, SPSS, etc)
    Organizational skills
    Problem-solving orientation
    Multitasking
    Teamwork

See my personal profile below

Mr X is an experienced International Social Sustainability professional and a certified GIS Specialist with extensive managerial experience on livelihood related and GIS studies on development projects. His field experience span managing team of consultants conducting multi-stakeholder engagements, social mapping, GIS mapping and livelihood restoration and improvement related research. Specifically, Mr X has over 5 years experience and conducting and implementing livelihood restoration options, essentially for agriculture, oil and gas, wind, solar, and transmission line projects involving up to 600km in East and West Africa. Mr X is a trained Geomatics Engineer and has worked with COMPANY X as a Social sustainability lead and GIS Specialist on several projects in Ghana, Cote DIvoire, Burkina Faso, Kenya and Nigeria. Having trained in project management, he leads the team of quantitative and qualitative surveyors, and GIS surveyors working on households surveys, land parcel surveys and implementation of livelihood options respectively. Most recently, Mr X has led teams of multi-disciplinary consultants in conducting implementation activities under a developed livelihood restoration plan for large agribusiness projects, household surveys and multiple stakeholder engagements on projects in Northern, Southern and Western parts of Ghana. Before joining COMPANY X, Mr X worked as a Research Assistant at University X. He possesses a clear and logical mind with a practical approach to problem-solving and a drive to see things through to completion and strong attention to details. Mr X is a confident team player and a peoples person. Mr X is a certified GIS specialist with experience in developing GIS databases and performing spatial analysis with an emphasis on agriculture and livelihood related studies. Mr Xs vast knowledge in quantitative and qualitative surveys extends to multivariate data analysis, longitudinal analysis, regression analysis and statistical methods / Inferential procedures. Mr X has a BSc in Geomatic Engineering

Week 5 MGT 498

February 17, 2020 4 Comments Business & Finance

 

Assignment Content

  1. Review the and your strategic management research journal entries from Weeks 14.

    Create a 10-slide presentation for Caterpillar Inc. leadership in which you summarize your key findings, propose recommendations, and provide rationale for your recommendations. 

    Respond to the following prompts: 

    • Summarize your evaluation of the alignment between what Caterpillar Inc. is currently doing and their mission, vision, or values statement. Would you propose any changes to Caterpillar Inc.’s mission, vision or values statements? Why or why not? (Refer to Wk 1, Bullet #4.)
    • Summarize your assessment of whether Caterpillar Inc. is leveraging the appropriate value and cost drivers for their business strategy. Would you propose any changes? Why or why not? (Refer to Wk 2, Bullet #3.)
    • Summarize your analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of Caterpillar Incs competitive advantages. Based on your analysis would you propose any changes? Why or why not? (Refer to Wk 2, Bullet #4.)
    • Summarize your assessment of whether Caterpillar Inc. is using the appropriate measures to verify its strategic effectiveness. Based on your analysis would you propose any changes? Why or why not? (Refer to Wk 3, Bullet #1.)
    • Summarize your evaluation of Caterpillar Inc.s competitive position and how they have responded to shifts in the external and internal environments. Would you propose any changes in how Caterpillar Inc. responds to shifts in the external and internal environments? Why or why not? (Refer to Wk 3, Bullet #5.)
    • Summarize your evaluation of how mergers and acquisitions in the past 5 years have contributed to Caterpillar Inc.s performance. Would you propose that Caterpillar Inc. pursue mergers and acquisitions in the future? Why or why not? (Wk 4, Bullet #2.)
    • Summarize your assessment of Caterpillar Inc.s global strategy. Based on your assessment would you propose any changes? Why or why not? (Refer to Wk 4, Bullet #3.)
    • Include relevant media and visual aids on each slide of your presentation.
    • Use Speaker notes to communicate your response to each of the above prompts including citations.

data collection

February 17, 2020 No Comments APA, English and Literature

In this unit, you examined data collection and data analysis in quantitative studies. For this discussion, analyze the data collection analysis in the quantitative study you selected for the assignment in Unit 3.

What strategies were used for data collection?
How did the information yielded by the data analysis approach address the research question?
What questions do you have about quantitative data collection and analysis?

mini proposal

February 17, 2020 1 Comment APA, English and Literature

Quantitative Mini-Proposal
Assignment Description
As a counselor, you will regularly use professional literature to inform your work. Many of the important questions that you will have as your career evolves will be answered by researchers conducting quantitative studies. The quantitative designs help generate the knowledge base that becomes the evidence behind our best practices.

For this assignment, you will create a mini-research proposal for a quantitative study. As you work through the units relevant to quantitative research concepts, think through a possible quantitative study. Your work on this assignment will demonstrate that you understand the importance of the alignment of the elements of a study and how they work together.

Assignment Instructions and Grading Criteria
In preparation for this assignment, think about a problem in counseling practice that could be researched using a quantitative approach. Create a mini research proposal that addresses the problem that you identified. Your proposal must include the elements listed below the numbered grading so be sure to address each point. You may also want to review the performance level descriptions for each criterion in the Quantitative Mini-Proposal Scoring Guide to see how your work will be assessed:

Synthesize scholarly literature that supports the study of a research problem. 
Write a mini literature review of three recent empirical sources (required) and one non-empirical source (optional).
Create quantitative research questions that are aligned to a research problem. 
This specific question should be written in a way that it could be answered through quantitative data; this is the main question that will be answered by the proposed study. Identify any independent and dependent variables.
Identify research designs for quantitative studies.
Identify the research design for the proposed study.
Choose from correlational, experimental, quasi-experimental, time-series, and survey.
Provide a rationale as to why this particular design is a good fit for your study.
Employ appropriate sampling strategies for quantitative studies.
In a sampling plan describe your proposed sampling strategy, including the population from which the sample would come and how many participants you would include.
Plan data collection strategies and sources that address a research question.
Identify data collection strategies that you would use in your study and describe any instruments that you would use.
Explain how you would collect the quantitative data that would answer your research question.
Plan quantitative data analysis strategies.
Explain how you would analyze the data that you collected based upon your research question and type of data that will be collected.
Identify ethical and cultural concerns in quantitative studies.
Identify at least one ethical and at least one cultural concern that may be present in the proposed study.
Describe how mixed methods might be applied to address research problems.
Describe how the problem that you investigated might be addressed by using a mixed-methods approach.
Explain whether you believe that would be a stronger approach or not, in this particular situation.
Communicate effectively in appropriate form and style, using APA guidelines for grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.

Critical Thinking

February 17, 2020 4 Comments English
  • How does critical thinking as defined in “asking the right questions a guide to critical thinking” differ from typical ordinary thinking?
  • Why is it so difficult to find the right answer to many questions about human behavior?
  • Can you think of a time when strong feelings have interfered with your ability to think critically and youve experienced negative consequences as a result? How do you think you might keep your strong feelings from interfering with your critical thinking when you would prefer to think critically?

Critical Race Theory Film Reflection

February 17, 2020 5 Comments Social Science

 You will use this 3-4 page paper (APA format for citations, Times New Roman,12 pt. font, double spaced) to compare and contrast three films. 

 Use this paper to explore and analyze themes, symbols and symbolic representations, stereotype expressions or contradictions, as well as genre and film styles. Describe the social context of the film (what does it say about society, and how do you think society has received or reacted to these films), and whatever else you find interesting or problematic about the films. 

 Please do not summarize each film. Think critically about the content and the context of the films and share your thoughts. 

 

Choose one of:

Fruitvale Station

Roman J. Israel

Two of:

Street Kings

Race

Blackkklansman

All Eyez on Me

Straight Outta Compton

Discussion(Decission Making Using Models)

February 17, 2020 2 Comments Information Systems

 

Chapter 5 discusses decision making using system modeling. The author briefly mentions an open source software tool, EMA Workbench, that can perform EMA and ESDMA modeling. Find EMA Workbench online and go to their main website (not the GitHub download site). Then do the following:

1) Under documentation, go to the Tutorials page.

2) Read through the Simple Model (in your chosen environment), and the Mexican Flu example. 

3) Decide how you could use this software to create a model to help in developing a policy for a Smart City. 

mystery

February 17, 2020 2 Comments English and Literature, MLA

I want to introduce the main character as an intelligent young adult with a good sense of humor and a strong sense of self. She has one best friend who she is very close to and who gets her completely. Her family adores her friend and treats her like another child. Excelling in school, she is not very popular with her peers, but that doesn’t bother her, as she feels she has a good community in her friend group, consisting of four other people, boys and girls. With her immigrant parents, she has experienced discrimination but does not let that slow her down. I want to slowly develop suspense; she is the target of a shooting, and, unsure of who the shooter is, she tries to figure it out on her own.

2 Page Paper

February 17, 2020 2 Comments Reading

Signature Strengths Paper. APA formatted paper, 2-3 pages, answering these questions: Were you aware of your strengths prior to the assessment? State examples of how you have used your strengths in school, on the job, and with relationships.  Do you feel Strengths Finder provided an accurate assessment of your strengths? 

no I wasnt aware of my strengths my 5 strength are 

determination

dedication 

respectfulness

self-control 

patience