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PART 1 Review the Resources. Prepare a 12- to 16-slide presentation with detailed speaker’s notes and visual elements, including graphs and tables. Complete the following in your presentation: Choose a pair of economies from the bulleted list below, (each pair has 1 highly successful country and 1 less successful country, except for NAFTA /EU): NAFTA vs. European Union (world’s two largest economic entities) China vs. India (world’s two most populous countries) South Korea vs. North Korea (two polar economic opposites, one people)

PART 1 Review the Resources. Prepare a 12- to 16-slide presentation with detailed speaker’s notes and visual elements, including graphs and tables. Complete the following in your presentation: Choose a pair of economies from the bulleted list below, (each pair has 1 highly successful country and 1 less successful country, except for NAFTA /EU): NAFTA vs. … Read more

As you engage with the material for Modules 3 and 4, what issues come up for you? What are your thoughts and feelings about the topics? Share your perspectives on the material, and support your perspectives with material from the course and/or other scholarly sources. Some topics and questions to consider are: Which theory or theories (and theorist or theorists) of development do you find more compelling? Which appear to be more supported by research? Defend your answer. (one of our readings is attached if you choose)

Discussion Thread: Theory, Metatheory, Nature/Nurture, Human Genome Project This is a graded discussion: 100 points possible As you engage with the material for Modules 3 and 4, what issues come up for you? What are your thoughts and feelings about the topics? Share your perspectives on the material, and support your perspectives with material from … Read more

Competitive Advantage & Strategic Change Competitive advantage is very important for any company to enhance profitability and higher revenue opportunities. You must know the various aspects of the same. To prepare for this assignment, read chapter 7 and 8 from your textbook. All the sections carry equal weights. Select a company from the Middle East (preferably Saudi) market and answer the following questions: A. Identify the main sources of competitive advantage of the company you have selected. Is it cost advantage or differentiation advantage? Apply Porter’s generic strate

Competitive Advantage & Strategic ChangeCompetitive advantage is very important for any company to enhance profitability and higher revenue opportunities. You must know the various aspects of the same. To prepare for this assignment, read chapter 7 and 8 from your textbook. All the sections carry equal weights.Select a company from the Middle East (preferably Saudi) … Read more

The Global Role of the US Economy Consider that some politicians, labor unions, and special interest groups argue that U.S. trade deficits are harmful to the economy, and nations that run large trade surpluses with the United States are benefiting from unfair trade practices and agreements. These parties support increasing tariffs on imports and eliminating or rewriting trade agreements.

This reflection activity is comprised of two sections collectively totaling a minimum of 500 words. Complete your reflections by responding to all prompts. Exchange Across International Borders The success of an economy in effectively employing the four factors of production determines how well that economy performs relative to its potential and relative to other economies. Address … Read more

Choose a current issue of Consumer Reports, Money, BusinessWeek, or Kiplinger’s Personal Finance and summarize an article that updates the costs of health care. How might you use this information to reduce your health care costs? You and your spouse are in good health and have reasonably secure jobs. Each of you makes about $38,000 annually. You own a home with an $80,000 mortgage, and you owe $15,000 on car loans, $5,000 in personal debt, and $2,000 in credit card loans. You have no other debt. You have no plans to increase the size of your family in the near future. You estimate that funeral expenses will be $5,000. Estimate your total insurance needs

Choose a current issue of Consumer Reports, Money, BusinessWeek, or Kiplinger’s Personal Finance and summarize an article that updates the costs of health care. How might you use this information to reduce your health care costs?You and your spouse are in good health and have reasonably secure jobs. Each of you makes about $38,000 annually. … Read more

This assignment concerns a topic on empirical research of accounting and finance. You are required to answer ALL of the research questions in that topic using empirical analysis. You will be provided with different sets of data for Topic 2: Pension fund investment. The companies in the dataset and the topic will be the main focus of your analyses. Pension fund investment decisions; Research questions: (1) To what extent can companies’ financial characteristics determine pension asset allocations? •Question (1) must be answered by independently selecting 5 or more financial ratios. Examples and data collection methods will be provided as the course progresses.

This assignment concerns a topic on empirical research of accounting and finance. You are required to answer ALL of the research questions in that topic using empirical analysis. You will be provided with different sets of data for Topic 2: Pension fund investment. The companies in the dataset and the topic will be the main … Read more

Films are often keen observations of social behavior. Culturally, we have conveyed social norms, morals, and expectations for group behavior though storytelling. Movies, especially those created for children, often see to explain social behavior. For this assignment, you will select a Disney or Pixar film and analyze it from a social-psychological perspective. To make sure your film meets the requirements of the assignment it must have instructor approval. A discussion forum in Moodle will be u

Films are often keen observations of social behavior. Culturally, we have conveyed social norms, morals, and expectations for group behavior though storytelling. Movies, especially those created for children, often see to explain social behavior. For this assignment, you will select a Disney or Pixar film and analyze it from a social-psychological perspective. To make sure … Read more

You have been asked to draft a letter to guests to address concerns about the impacts of possible cyber attacks. This particular letter should reassure guests that the company is taking positive steps to protect guest privacy. The guests’ concerns extend beyond privacy of information in databases. There have been news reports detailing situations where hackers have attacked internal building monitoring and control syste

You have been asked to draft a letter to guests to address concerns about the impacts of possible cyber attacks. This particular letter should reassure guests that the company is taking positive steps to protect guest privacy. The guests’ concerns extend beyond privacy of information in databases. There have been news reports detailing situations where … Read more

School systems often differ greatly in how their students do on statewide assessments. In this exercise you will inspect different district-wide assessment data, note differences in the percentage of passing rates as well as differences in demographic data, and hypothesize reasons for the differences in assessment data. Directions: Create a table of the school population that you are investigating. The school population such as: the student ethnic make-up and the diverse learners (ELL & ESE Population); the teacher’s ethnic make-up. Create a survey to find out how teachers feel concerning “cultural diversity”. Write a proposal on how you would conduct an in-service training on cultural differences of the student population. What methods would you implement to help teachers become more culturally sensitive?

School systems often differ greatly in how their students do on statewide assessments. In this exercise you will inspect different district-wide assessment data, note differences in the percentage of passing rates as well as differences in demographic data, and hypothesize reasons for the differences in assessment data.Directions: Create a table of the school population that … Read more

This week you will write a paper researching various Healthcare Apps (Applications) that you feel are most beneficial and easy to use from a patient perspective and: Research (i.e., Internet, personal interviews, current employer, etc.) 3 Healthcare Apps (Applications) and provide information on their primary purpose(s). Identify at least 3 strengths and 3 weaknesses for each of the 3 Healthcare Apps you researched. Based on the strength/weakness lists for each Healthcare App, prioritize them in order of preference with appropriate rationale.

This week you will write a paper researching various Healthcare Apps (Applications) that you feel are most beneficial and easy to use from a patient perspective and: Research (i.e., Internet, personal interviews, current employer, etc.) 3 Healthcare Apps (Applications) and provide information on their primary purpose(s). Identify at least 3 strengths and 3 weaknesses for … Read more