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Often, you may get the best results using a multistep process that provides adequate time to think, write, research, and rewrite. For this assignment, you will review the article by Peter Singer titled “America’s Shame,” which you will also use in M5: Assignment 1.

Using the, review article by Peter Singer.

Singer, P. (2009). America’s shame. The Chronicle of Higher Education, 55(27), B6–B10. (EBSCO AN 37137370)

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Complete the following:

Record and describe six of your initial impressions of the article in a journal format.
Critically analyze each of these impressions and determine if they are value based, or fact based. Record these as part of your journal notes. Do note that you will use these points for M5: Assignment 1.
Support your statements with examples and appropriate scholarly references.

Financial Plan Paper

Consider an entrepreneurial opportunity. Write a financial plan for the opportunity. Actual amounts are not required; rather, realistic estimates can be used. The plan should include the following:

Three-year pro forma income statement
Three-year pro forma cash flow
End of first-year balance sheet
Break-even analysis

Then, answer the following questions:

How do the components of the financial plan relate to each other?
What can an entrepreneur determine by analyzing the financial plan?

Your paper should meet the following requirements:

2 pages in length
Formatted according to APA Standards

Assignment 2: Interpreting a Platonic Dialogue

This discussion assignment is designed to help you understand how to read and interpret a philosophical text. Read the assigned readings from the textbook and the online lectures on Socrates and Plato as background before completing the assignment.

Please complete the steps below and respond to all parts of the discussion by Saturday, December 19, 2015.

Read pages 36–46 from Plato’s Phaedo (Online Library resource).
Present a 2–3-page interpretation of one of these passages in your own words. You are encouraged to cite the original text, the online lectures, and the course textbook as support for your interpretation. Remember to cite your sources (including the passage you are interpreting) in correct APA citation.
Compare your interpretation to at least one of the scholarly approaches outlined in the “How to Read Platonic Dialogue” online lecture.

Remember to comment on at least two of your colleagues’ posts and follow up to the instructor’s response to your post by the end of the course week. Here are some points to consider in your peer responses:

How does your peer’s interpretation compare to your own and the scholarly approaches presented in the textbook and lectures?
What kinds of big ideas and questions does Socrates pose/examine? Does he ever define these terms?
How does Socrates demonstrate that a given idea/definition is inadequate? Why might he engage in such an examination of ideas?

United States vs. Cambodia

Conduct research using the Argosy online library, your text book and the Internet regarding the differences in culture, management styles, and communication strategies between the U.S. and Cambodia. Analyze at least three potential management conflicts that may arise due to the identified differences and propose solutions for each to help combat these conflicts. Use at least one chart or graph in your PowerPoint presentation.

submit a PowerPoint presentation (approximately 10 slides) containing both your assessment of the differences, as well as the potential conflicts, All written assignments and responses should follow APA rules for attributing sources. Please be sure to cite, in proper APA format, the information sources you used both within the body of your presentation and on a reference slide at the end of your presentation.

Assignment 2: Discussion Assignment

The discussion assignment provides a forum for discussing relevant topics for this week based on the course competencies covered.

For this assignment, make sure you post your initial response to the Discussion Area by Saturday, December 19, 2015.

To support your work, use your course and text readings and also use outside sources. As in all assignments, cite your sources in your work and provide references for the citations in APA format.

Start reviewing and responding to the postings of your classmates as early in the week as possible. Respond to at least two of your classmates. Participate in the discussion by asking a question, providing a statement of clarification, providing a point of view with a rationale, challenging an aspect of the discussion, or indicating a relationship between two or more lines of reasoning in the discussion. Complete your participation for this assignment by Wednesday, December 23, 2015.

Public Health Issues

The main goal of public health is to prevent diseases and promote health of a population level.

Using the South University Online Library or the Internet, identify, research, and read about a public health issue of your interest.

Based on your research, express your views on the following:

What is the difference between public health and individual health?
How does the system of health care delivery in the United States support the goals of public health?
Is the health issue identified by you during the research being adequately addressed? Why or why not?
What initiatives are in place to address your identified public health issue? Explain at least two such initiatives.
What are the risks or social factors associated with your identified health issue?
How are the three levels of government (national, state, and local) working together to address your identified health issue?

Assignment Guidelines, Part 1

Prepare a 2-3 page paper in Microsoft Word to address the following:

Describe the ultimate goal of the product campaign for the new shampoo.
Discuss your methods for achieving this goal.
Identify the components of marketing, pricing, and distribution for the campaign.
Include in your response a discussion and analysis of the concepts of utility, price elasticity, and demand.

Assignment Guidelines, Part 2

Using Microsoft Excel:

Prepare a graph which illustrates the desired effect of the marketing campaign as a shift in market equilibrium with reference to price and quantity adjustments.
Prepare another graph to illustrate how a change in consumer utility affects the price elasticity of demand.
Copy and paste or import these graphs into the MS Word document you prepared in Part 1 of this assignment.

After reading case 2-2 in your text, “The Dangerous Morality of Managing Earnings” (attached) write an essay that includes the following elements:

A formal introduction.
Discussion of the five generalizations from the findings in this study relating to managing earnings.Please Note: Do not simply restate the generalizations. You are being asked to discuss each in the context of professional experiences or examples given in the case itself.
Discussion of management’s ability to manage earnings in the long-term given the operational manipulations discussed in the case.

Draft a response to each of the bulleted questions below. Each question must have its own response and have a minimum of 50 words.

1. How can you use statistics to support decision making in a manufacturing environment?

2. How does statistics convert raw numbers (raw data) into information?

3. Consider tables, graphs, histograms, box plots, which one is more effective at bringing clarity to the information contained in the data?

4. What is an example of a decision made by the airline industry that was based on inferential statistics?

5. How do we know if the data is accurate?

6. Management of a retail chain has been tracking the growth of sales, regressing the company’s sales versus the number of outlets. Their data are weekly, spanning the last 65 weeks, since the chain opened its first outlets. What lurking variable might introduce dependence into the errors of the SRM?

7. Supervisors of an assembly line track the output of the plant. One tool that they use is a simple regression of the count of packages shipped each day versus the number of employees who were active on the assembly line during that day, which varies from 35 to about 50. Identify a lurking variable that might violate one of the assumptions of the SRM.

8. Bookstore Physical stores face increasing competition from online rivals. To compete, a campus bookstore collected data on sales of newly released trade books displayed on shelving near the store entrance. These data give weekly sales per week of trade books over the last two years, the number of titles on display, the amount of shelf space (in feet), and the total sales in the store.

a) What patterns are apparent in the time plot of Trade Sales?

b) The store manager built a regression model with Trade Sales as the response, using Week, Total Sales, Shelf Space, and Titles as explanatory variables. What would you recommend to improve this model? (Hint: Some claim that the typical amount of space per book is more important than the quantity of books.)

c) If the manager uses this model to evaluate a new display for trade books in the next few weeks, would you expect the model to give a fair evaluation of the new display? Why? (Hint: Look at the time plot of the residuals.)

Quantitative Business Analysis

The motion picture industry is a competitive business. More than 50 studios produce a total of 300 to 400 new motion pictures each year, and the financial success of each motion picture varies considerably. Gross sales for the opening weekend, the total gross sales, the number of theaters the movie was shown in, and the number of weeks the motion picture was open are common variables used to measure the success of a motion picture. Data collected for a sample of 100 motion pictures produced in 20XX are contained in the file named Movies, linked at the bottom of the page. Use all 100 data points.

Managerial Report

Prepare a report (see below) using the numerical methods of descriptive statistics presented in this module to learn how each of the variables contributes to the success of a motion picture. Be sure to include the following three (3) items in your report.

Descriptive statistics (mean, median, range, and standard deviation) for each of the four variables along with an explanation of what the descriptive statistics tell us about the motion picture industry.
Use the z-score to determine which movies, if any, should be considered high-performance outliers in each of the four variables. If there are any outliers in any category, please list them and state for which category they are an outlier. Describe which method you used to make your determination.
Descriptive statistics (correlation coefficient) showing the relationship between total gross sales and each of the other three variables. Evaluate the relationships between total gross sales and each of the other three variables. Use tables, charts, graphs, or visual dashboards to support your conclusions.

Advertising and the Hierarchy of Needs

Find three commercials of products in the same industry. For example, you could choose three brands from the automobile industry such as Mercedes, Harley Davidson, and Ford. Each brand should have different target markets. You may use YouTube videos or commercials from the company’s websites. Be sure to properly cite the sources of the videos.

In a media presentation of your choice, assess how each ad draws on the elements in Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs to appeal to prospective customers. Include in your assessment a comparison of the ads and the approaches they take to addressing these needs. For each ad, briefly explain the target markets and the value propositions afforded by the respective products. Is there an overarching theme in all three? Include the demographics segmentation for each brand (age, gender, ethnicity, income and wealth, occupation, marital status, household type and size, etc.) What, if any, distinctive characteristics distinguish them from one another?