For your final essay for this class, you must write a research-based essay on a public figure you admire. You must get approval from your professor when you have selected a public figure before proceeding. Additionally, you should use at least two sources to support your arguments and claims about why you admire this person and what he or she has achieved that makes him or her worthy of respect and admiration. Suggestions for public figures: James Baldwin, Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, Anita Hill, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., Dwight D. Eisenhower, Albert Einstein, etc.
As a reminder, any instances of plagiarism in your final paper will cause you to receive a 0 and will be reported to the school. This can impact your financial aid.
You must type this essay in Microsoft Word using a correct header, Times New Roman font, size 12, double-spaced. Remember to provide a list of your sources at the end of the essay.
Length: 2-3 pages.
Day: October 5, 2020
Your final project is a research paper on an aspect or trend of instructional design. It should be written using APA style, make sure you use the additional resources provided if you need assistance formatting and citing in the APA style. Make sure you include all of the following information and that you read through the rubric so you know how the project will be graded. Ask if you have any questions! The ultimate goal is to make sure your paper adequately covers the topic (not to focus on the word count), but if you need a guideline to help you determine if youve gone deep enough into the topic, the paper should be a minimum of 1500 words.
LEVON is an online education company. At the end 2018 they acquired their biggest competitor. They started recognizing revenue for the acquisition in 2019 A portion of their income statement appears below:
2017 2018 2019
Sales 4096.7 4885.1 7401.8
COGS 2580.9 3077.6 5181.3
Operating Income 1515.8 1807.5 2220.5
Impairment of Goodwill 0 0 500
Please answer these questions:
Question A. The CEO of LEVON is quite excited about the increase in operating income in 2019 that occurred after their acquisition. Are you as excited as LEVONs CEO? Why or why not?
Question B: What does the impairment of goodwill tell you and how does the impairment of goodwill impact net income? Explain.
LEVON is an online education company. At the end 2018 they acquired their biggest competitor. They started recognizing revenue for the acquisition in 2019 A portion of their income statement appears below:
2017 2018 2019
Sales 4096.7 4885.1 7401.8
COGS 2580.9 3077.6 5181.3
Operating Income 1515.8 1807.5 2220.5
Impairment of Goodwill 0 0 500
Please answer these questions:
Question A. The CEO of LEVON is quite excited about the increase in operating income in 2019 that occurred after their acquisition. Are you as excited as LEVONs CEO? Why or why not?
Question B: What does the impairment of goodwill tell you and how does the impairment of goodwill impact net income? Explain.
Any sources included in your papers must be credited using quotation marks according to M.L.A. standards! Papers should be written in YOUR OWN WORDS! If quotes and ideas that are not your own are found in your paper without proper citation, you may receive a zero on the assignment. If you have any questions about formatting or how to integrate a quote into a paper, please consult the Writing Center.
please complete #8 and #12
I attached the group project so far
this is all made up (scenario is creating a pediatric dental office) create the IT part and the strategies for improvement
8.IT technology is advertising, making it easier for Covid screens with an app for example
12.strategies for improvement
To encourage you to be interested in the current issues in marketing, you are required to
summarize 2 news articles per report that include valuable marketing implications (i.e.,
things you could learn). Here is the detailed instruction:
You summarize news articles you choose to help others understanding. Please
introduce the core points others can learn from your news articles. Your summary
should include title of news article, source info (e.g., web links), your summary,
managerial implications, and etc. Adding relevant pictures are required. Detailed
items that should be included in your report are introduced below.
Your article summary should be min. 800 words EACH (1 report should consist of 2
article summaries; min. report length = 1,600 words), but not limited to that length and
include the following components in your report:
1. Title
2. Relevant Image(s)
3. Summary
4. Good marketing implications & learning points for others
(i.e., how your findings can be applied to other contexts)
5. Your opinions & evaluations based on evidence
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6. References multiple references (APA style)
(refer to the following link for APA style)
http://www.apastyle.org/learn/faqs/cite-newspaper.aspx
In grading your report, Ill consider:
– Topic uniqueness / Topic diversity
– Readability (i.e., reader-friendly)
– Length & depth
– Evidence to support your thoughts – It requires additional research.
– Above all, what we can learn from your report & how it can be applied to other
contexts in marketing or business.
This course project will help you design and formulate a compensation and promotion plan that will promote corporate goals in organizations.
See the attached guide to planning and implementing a total rewards system.
The course project will be a powerpoint presentation (around 10-15 powerpoint slides) where you will formulate a compensation/promotion plan for your hypothetical company.
You will submit a PowerPoint explaining your plan.
I will attach a sample project below so you can see how the PowerPoint should look.
Discussion 1: Classism
Income and wages are measurable indicators of how prosperity is distributed amongst social class. Wealth, often determined by an individual’s net worth (assets minus liabilities), is another indicator that is used to determine class. Wealth for working class families is measured by their cars, savings, and home. As people improve their social and economic standing, wealth may include things like stocks and bonds, commercial real estate, and expensive jewelry.
Wealth is an important indicator because it spans past, present, and future generations. For example, compare the children of parents who can save money and leave an inheritance with children of parents who economically struggle and have few assets to pass on to the next generation. Historically, the creation and accumulation of wealth provides evidence of the legacy of racism, sexism, and discrimination and their role in determining class. Black/African Americans, women, and Hispanic/Latinos have historically been denied the means to obtain assets and grow wealth. Consider the impact of chronic marginalization on the Black/African American community’s ability to build wealth. While the income gaps between various ethnic groups may be decreasing, the gap between assets remains wide. Data from the Pew Research center show that the median wealth of Caucasian households is 20 times that of Black/African American households and 18 times that of Hispanic/Latinos households in the U.S. (Pew Research Center, 2011).
Class extends beyond wealth and other financial indicators. Class also includes details like the amount of free time you enjoy (because you are not working three jobs to make ends meet) or feeling like there is a “right” way to speak and act in order to be heard. For this Discussion, analyze how classism has impacted your life.
By Day 3
Post an analysis of how classism has factored into your life. Then, explain a strategy you might use as a social worker to address the impact of class and class differences on the lives of your clients.
Part 2: Critique and Rebuttal
You will not be able to review posts submitted by your peers, until you yourself have submitted your critical analysis, for Part 1.
Review your classmates posts. Select one to offer a rebuttal or critique.
Selection Criteria and Post Formatting Requirements-
Cannot choose to reply to post of someone who shares your same prompt or your same position and analyses. You only have to do this once, but I encourage you all to reply and post to as many classmates posts to enhance discussion to make the course more engaging.
Minimum length of analysis is 1 page double spaced, or half page single spaced. Type it first in a word document for reference. Then, copy and paste. Formatting standards: 12 point font, times new roman, double spaced ( if 1 full page in word) otherwise single spaced (equivalent to half page in word).
Introduction and Background on Discussion Topic and Prompts
Modern political scientist debates begin with matters of what research methods are to be accepted as the best approach. Structuralists believe research, methods and analysis should focus on objective factors. Understanding political context of ones environment can only be objectively achieved, if focus is on factors pertaining to the way in which the world is organized. Structure and organization determine politics. Therefore, the proper objects to study are power, interests, and institutions.
Culturalists prioritize subjectivity. Exploring research of objects relative to perception is the best practices methodological approach to evaluating and understanding politics. Values, opinions and psychology are argued to be more important than objective and tangible reality.
Structuralists and culturalists agree on the issue and topic of debate. For example, both groups would acknowledge and validate there is considerable emerging inertia within the United States political systems, as it pertains specifically to presidential (s)election. The methods required to achieve an explanation is the source of opposing divergence.
Take the presidential selection issue. Structuralists research and methods would rely on explanations of factors, such as electoral laws and processes. It would be necessary to build a research method that evaluates variation or uniformity, with a state by state comparison of laws, rules, processes, and methods that govern how the states electoral college is selected, organized, structured, empowered, and ultimately the rules and processes that govern how presidential votes will be cast, tabulated and awarded.
A culturalist would require a research method that focuses on factors, such as public opinion. They would assume that the recent and increasing inertia behind electoral college concerns in deciding the countrys President, is most accurately and informatively explained as variable(s) dependent of peoples attitude in apathy towards voting system, all together. Or perhaps, evaluating the value in objects, like peoples obedience and acceptance of a 250 plus year old institution, that was created before modern United States geography. For culturalists, the root of the problem is not the governing laws and processes that structure the existence and behavior of the institution: electoral college. The explanation requires evaluation of the governed. Namely their values in acceptance and tolerance toward the current system. Their research and methods would be driven by a question focused more towards psychology. For example, despite a lack in federal lawoutside of the constitutional creation of the electoral college institutionto uniformly mandate each states electoral college selection and voting processes be the same, and with the exception of 3-4 of the 50 total states, somehow the states ended up adopting the same selection and procedural system, by which their independent electoral college and its voters operate. Thus, the higher priority being placed on values of acceptance amongst the public, instead of the institutions (lack of uniformly mandated) procedural rules, guidelines and laws.
Decide and discuss whether you consider yourself as one of the following.either
1.) exclusively one or the other: structuralist or culturalist,
2.) Neither, providing and discussing ideas about what you think a better approach and method to explaining current political system environments, include reasoning, examples and hypotheticals
3.) A combination, provided discussion must include identification of specific aspects from each approach that you would rely on, to achieve a balanced reasoning and rationalization to discuss and explain a more individualized approach, which you would defend as the best approach to finding the most accurate method to understanding political systems. Include any examples, along with hypothetical comparisons, explanations, or scenarios to fully explain your position.
Remember, there is no right or wrong answer. You can base your response on the presidential selection and electoral college example I outlined, while introducing the prompt and topic for this current event discussion. Your response does not require you to focus your analysis and response on the particular example I illustrated. You can find your own. Be thorough. Be direct. Be reflective. Be thoughtful. Be a political scientist!!
Useful Links and Resources (recommended not required)
Thinking About the Political Impacts of the Electoral College (Grofman and Feld) (Links to an external site.)
Background on Electoral College, The Right to Vote and Federalism (Links to an external site.)
this one is pretty long, but informative. Table of contents appears on the very first page. Use this as a guide to insight and information more specific to your needs in comprehending the electoral college as an institution part of our political system, in order to drive your response to prompt selection
Primary Primers: The Electoral College is a Complex Institution that may be Making Contemporary Political Conflicts Worse (Links to an external site.) (OpEd)
Overview and Primer on Structuralism (Links to an external site.)
Primer on culturalism and structuralism debates in politics (Links to an external site.) (this one is long…20 pages…..the articles introduction and conclusion are the most informative and quick
