Day: September 5, 2020

Operational Environment/Defense Strategy

September 5, 2020 Leave a comment APA (edition "APA 7"), Political science

No Plagairism, provide references

1. What variables do commanders use to aid them in understanding the operational environment; and what are the ramifications of not understanding the Operational Environment (OE)?
2. How do the defense objectives identified in the National Military Strategy (NMS) correlate to the National Security Strategy?

3. How do the instruments of national power translate down to the tactical level in operations?

4. What are the differences between critical and creative thinking and how can the enemy use paradigms, models, and mental models against us?

Situation: “The United States underwrites global security by exercising leadership in support of four core national interests (pillars).”

1:  NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY.  PICK A REGION BASED ON P. 45 IN THE NSS AND WRITE A POST FOCUSING ON HOW PILLARS ARE BEING IMPLIMENTED TODAY IN THAT REGION.

2:  NATIONAL DEFENSE STRATEGY (SUMMARY).  PICK A REGION BASED ON P.45 IN THE NSS AND WRITE A POST FOCUSING ON HOW FOUR OF THE DEFENSE OBJECTIVES ARE BEING IMPLIMENTED TODAY.

3:  INSTRUMENTS OF NATIONAL POWER.  PICK A REGION BASED ON P.45 IN THE NSS AND WRITE A POST FOCUSING ON HOW THE INSTRUMENTS OF NATIONAL POWER (DIME or MIDFIELD) ARE IN USE TODAY .

4 Explain the reason behind the NSS.
5.What happens when DoD strategies are ineffective?
6 What are the Department of Defense objectives?
7. How do the defense objectives identified in the National Military Strategy (NMS) correlate to the National Security Strategy?
8. What personal experiences have you had dealing with joint operations?
9. What sister sevices are associated with a joint operation?
10. Explain how Warfighting Challenge #7 will affect future operations.
11. Under Informational, how would providing new or needed information with allies and partners have on achieving national strategic objectives?
12. Under Military, how would providing training and/or support to allies and partners have on achieving strategic objectives?
13. Under Economic, what effect does a trade embargo have on achieving strategic objectives?

your portfolium

September 5, 2020 Leave a comment APA (edition "APA 6"), Other

Your Portfolium (e-portfolio)

Many individuals use electronic portfolios to collect, store, and highlight their academic and professional accomplishments. Portfolios go beyond traditional resumes and transcripts to really document and provide concrete examples of achievement and specific skills.

For your final assignment in this course, you will start your electronic portfolio. Then, in your future Excelsior courses, especially your Capstone course, you will be asked to update and add to this portfolio so that by the time you graduate you will have a well-rounded portfolio that reflects your diverse strengths.
What is Portfolium?

Portfolium hosts an ePortfolio network that provides students and alumni with a digital repository to creatively compile and showcase their respective educational (and work-related) competencies, skills, accomplishments, and experiences. It is a free interactive resource that also serves as a professional network. You can watch a one-minute video introduction to Portfolium entitled A Digital Portfolio Platform (Links to an external site.). You can see examples of exceptional portfolios in different disciplines through Porfoliums Discover page (Links to an external site.).
How to access Portfolium and Complete the Required Components: 

Begin by reading page 8.11 in the webtext which will help you get started. 

Read the Portfolium Instructions for details on the steps and requirements for this assignment.
Submission Instructions

In the dropbox for this assignment, you will copy/paste the link to your completed portfolio or upload the PDF of your portfolio.

Your final portfolio must include:

    An introduction statement about yourself
    An education section with information about Excelsior College and your degree plan
    A courses section with the Cornerstone listed along with a description of the course (in your own words)
    The Cornerstone Final Project uploaded to the portfolio as a project, with a description of the project (in your own words), and at least 3 associated skills

*In addition, while it is not required, we recommend that you include profile and background images, information about any previous education institutions, and any other information about yourself that you think would help a potential employer. You will return to this portfolio for future courses to continue adding projects and other information.
Evaluation

    This assignment is due Sunday by 11:59 pm ET.
    This assignment will be evaluated according to the IND101 Portfolium Rubric. Make sure to review the rubric before submitting so you know how you will be assessed.
    This assignment is worth 5% of your overall course grade.

History of Pharmacy

September 5, 2020 Leave a comment Health Care and Life Sciences, Not applicable

1. Given that this is an online course, were the weekly reflections and their deadlines useful in keeping you moving forward through the course? What alternative methods to the weekly reflections do you suggest that could be used to gauge your progress through the material and assess your comprehension of it?

2. What pertinent topics, not covered in the course, do you feel might be important to add to this course? Why? Should they be added to the content or replace something (what?)?

(The topics we covered were Why learn history?, Early Pharmacy in America, Pharmacopeia, Industry, Professional Organizations and Associations, Pharmacy Education, Drug Information, Clinical Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Care, Disease State Management, MTM, Provider Status, Pharmacy Regulation via State and Federal Government, State regulation of pharmacy practice, and standards of practice.

advanced competitive strategy

September 5, 2020 Leave a comment cost accounting,, Graduate

The exam involves identifying an existing business opportunity, perform a cost analysis, and come up with a strategy to reduce some of the highest cost components in the business opportunity (we will discuss some prominent examples in file attached).
The written analysis should include the following elements: (1) description of the business opportunity that you identify, (2) quantitative analysis of cost  (3) the element of cost or differentiation that you wish to focus on and why, (4) outline your strategy to target the cost  drivers to generate a competitive advantage.
The entire written report should be no more than 6 pages, single spaced

Business Plan

September 5, 2020 Leave a comment APA (edition "APA 6"), Business and Management

Select a topic that interests you to write a business plan on.

Include a brief, one to two paragraph introduction of your topic.

This introduction in some ways acts as a summary of your product and country, its primary purpose is to introduce the sources you have annotated and to explain how they relate to each other.

Research the topic.

Create a bibliography.

The bibliography includes annotations for at least 10 sources that you might use in your research paper.

Provide bibliographic information for each source, just as you would in the references section of a paper. Use APA format for these citations.

Types of sources

At least six of these sources must be scholarly journals;

At least two sources must be publicly available on the Web.

Annotate the bibliography.

Summarize each source in a one-paragraph annotation. These annotations should provide brief overviews of the sources. Write a concise one paragraph annotation that summarizes the central theme and scope of the book or article.

Include one or more sentences that include the following:
Evaluate the authority or background of the author
Comment on the intended audience
Compare or contrast this work with another you have cited
Explain how this work illuminates your topic
The key points addressed in the source

Psychology

September 5, 2020 Leave a comment Not applicable, Psychology and Education

1)Give at least six people one version of the case summary and a copy of the questionnaire.Distribute the case summaries randomly and evenly so that three people get Case Summary A and three people get Case Summary B.The case summary describes a criminal case in which a defendant has been accused of armed robbery. One version of the case summary includes information about the defendants criminal history and the other does not.What we are doing here is we are focusing on how information about a defendants criminal history influences jurors perceptions of guilt and we are collecting this data for a class project.Don’t collect any identifying information from the people like their names on the forms.

2)Design an experiment about how does social media use influence self-esteem.Describe what your experimental design would look like. What are the independent variable(s) and how would you operationalize them? What are the dependent variable(s) and how would you measure them? Who would serve as your sample? What would the materials consist of and/or what would the procedure be? Will it be between- or within-subjects?