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Assignment 1: LASA # 2: PowerPoint Presentation

Utilizing the information you compiled for your literature review paper, and the feedback you received from your instructor about the literature review, prepare a 10-15 minute Power Point presentation on your topic, summarizing the key points and conclusions. Be sure to direct this presentation to an audience in the community. For example, if your paper pertained to a topic in developmental psychology, direct your presentation toward parents, or a parenting center. If your topic pertained to substance abuse, direct it toward a community service agency which may use this information for educating teens or parents about preventing drug use, or current clients about treatments and facilities available. Please state in your presentation the specific audience toward whom your presentation is aimed. Include a reference page in APA format, as well as speaker notes and an audio file with your presentation.

Your slides should provide answers to the following questions:

• What was your topic?
• What question did you hope to answer by completing this literature review paper? Explain the practical implications of the conclusions of the literature review and the audience to which they are directed.
• Given the results of your literature review, what is/are the prevailing argument(s)? In other words, which of those is supported by the existing evidence? Be sure to include full coverage of the arguments, including strengths and weaknesses of each of them, supported by your findings from reviewing the relevant articles.
• Did the researchers consider multicultural factors in their studies? If not, what factors may be involved? What multicultural factors should future studies include?
• What ethical issues are related to your topic and/or discussed in the studies you reviewed?
• How do the conclusions of your literature review relate to the various specialization areas in psychology? Tie them to as many as apply from the following areas: biological, cognitive, developmental, social, personality theory, psychopathology, and applied psychology.
• How can the conclusions of your literature review inform the population towards whom your presentation is directed? How can they apply this information to their daily lives? What advice or ‘take home message’ can you provide to your audience based on the research you reviewed?
• What research question could you ask in order to further develop this area of study?
• Why is your research question important and relevant to the current work being done on your topic?

Your presentation should also follow these guidelines:

• It should be approximately 10-15 minutes in length.
• It should be clear, concise, and professional.  Writing should be free of spelling and grammatical errors; it should conform to current APA style (including any in-text citations).
• It should include graphs, tables, figures, or images illustrating your ideas.
• There should be a final slide listing references in current APA style.
• The bulk of the text should be placed in the Notes pages of each slide. Keep the amount of text on the slide, itself, to a minimum.
• You should record an audio file of your oral presentation. You should also type the text of the speech you would give while showing these slides to an audience should be typed into the Notes area.  If you are unable to use the audio feature, the Notes text will suffice.
• You can refer to the Power Point tips document provided in the Doc Sharing section of the course

1. Recall that Rowan Williams told us that many people start believing in God because other people show them that God is trustworthy. With that in mind, write a paragraph that explains the importance of Victorinus and Ponticianus for Augustine’s eventual conversion. Try to explain what it is specifically about each of those men that is so important for Augustine.

2. Look through the chapter for the times that Augustine mentions his friend Alypius. Write a brief paragraph here about Alypius’ role in the chapter.

3. What finally pushes Augustine to fully convert to Christianity? How does Antony factor in to that final decision?

APA, no minimum word count

Week 2

What is callable preferred stock? Why do corporations issue such stock? Given the different features that are associated with stock (callable, cumulative, preferred, etc.), what type of stock would you want to buy personally and why?

Review the roles of management accounting within a company. What is the most important role of management accounting? How is that different than financial accounting?

Week 3

Describe three issues/problems that a company could encounter when trying to determine the actual cost of a good or service to be used in the cost of goods sold. For each of your issues, provide an example of a company or industry where these issues could be present.

We’ve all experienced (or heard about) the challenges that the airlines have been facing. Read the Zacks Investment Research article, “Airline Industry Stock Outlook – August 2012.” Identify three factors that are affecting airline company’s ability to break even. For each of your factors, discuss how these have an impact on the breakeven (contribution margin, fixed costs, variable costs, a combination, etc.), and what happens if these factors increase or decrease.

Week 4

Review the Standard costs: wake up and smell the coffee.article.  When evaluating performance, many organizations compare current results with the actual results of previous accounting periods. Is an organization that follows this approach likely to encounter any problems? Explain.

Flexible budgets provide different information than static budgets. Discuss some of these differences. Is a flexible budget always better? Are there times when you’d recommend using a static budget over a flexible budget?

Week 5

List a few of the issues and considerations businesses should have when it comes to the selection of long-term investments and how those issues impact the various financial statements.

Review the “Rights & Responsibilities of a Certified Management Accountant” article. What are some of the ethical responsibilities and obligations that management accountants have within an organization? Provide some examples. Are these responsibilities different than the obligations for financial accountants

Remember that this chapter 8 is in the same pdf that you looked at last class to read chapter 2.

1. Recall that Rowan Williams told us that many people start believing in God because other people show them that God is trustworthy. With that in mind, write a paragraph that explains the importance of Victorinus and Ponticianus for Augustine’s eventual conversion. Try to explain what it is specifically about each of those men that is so important for Augustine.

2. Look through the chapter for the times that Augustine mentions his friend Alypius. Write a brief paragraph here about Alypius’ role in the chapter.

3. What finally pushes Augustine to fully convert to Christianity? How does Antony factor in to that final decision?

Assignment 1: Unemployment and the Economy

For this assignment, you should use the information in the textbook and the information found on the official Department of Labor website, http://www.bls.gov/home.htm.

Unemployment is one of the major concerns that people have in today’s economy, since losing one’s job can be one of the most devastating events a person can experience. But what do the numbers actually mean? What is the actual state of the economy, in terms of its ability to generate jobs for its citizens?

Questions:

1. What is the labor force participation rate? What was the labor force participation rate in 2008? How has it changed since 2008 and what does this change imply for the state of the economy? Does the labor force participation rate effect the unemployment rates reported in the media?

2. How is unemployment measured and reported?

3. What is a discouraged worker? Are they included in the basic unemployment rate? Are they included in any measure of unemployment? How has the number of discouraged workers changed since 2008? How does the exclusion of the discouraged worker affect the basic unemployment rate reported in the media?

4. What is frictional unemployment? What is structural unemployment? What is cyclical unemployment? What economic policies should be used to deal with these types of unemployment? Which type is most prevalent in today’s economy?

5. Unemployment insurance is designed to help the unemployed. Do these benefits encourage or discourage a person from looking for work? How long should these benefits last?

6. Does the existence of unions help or hurt the overall economy and the employment rate? Why or why not?

Deliverables:

1. Submit an 3-6 page paper in Microsoft Word format, to the W2: Assignment 1 Dropbox by Saturday, November 21, 2015, addressing the above-noted items.

2. Create a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation of 5-10 slides that summarizes your findings in your report. Post your presentation to the Assignment 1 Discussion Area by Saturday, November 21, 2015.

3. Comment on at least two other presentations and identify the strengths and weaknesses of each.

Name your documents SU_ECO2072_W2_A1_LastName_FirstInitial.

All submissions must be original and all resources must be acknowledged.

Watch the documentary and answer one or more of the following questions in a 2-3 pages paper:

– What is the relation between colonialism and the industrial revolution?

– What is the role played by missionaries, explorers, businessmen, local chiefs, colonial officers, journalists etc.?

– How were colonialism and exploitation justified?

Links to the documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUZLtkLA0VE

Here is some additional info:

1. Did this exercise contribute to your understanding of the conflict itself? If so, how? If not, why not?
2. Did the exercise help you understand the process of conflict mapping? Is so, in what ways? If not, why not?
3. How did the information you received shape your understanding of the conflict compared to the analysis of the other groups

What case? WYMAN V. JAMES, 400 U.S 309 What is a Case Brief? A quick, no more than one page summary of a Supreme Court case. How do I brief a case? There are several ways, but here are the essential components I want to see: 1. Capsule summary 2. Facts 3. Issue 4. Decision 5. Reason 6. Significance What is a capsule summary? A one-sentence summary of the case, stated without reference to the parties to the case. In other words, this is the Supreme Court’s message to the criminal justice community. What are the facts? A brief description of what happened. Don’t worry about tracing the progression of the case through appellate courts. What is the issue? A one-sentence (possibly two) question that represents the question before the Supreme Court. In every Supreme Court case, the Court is answering one (or sometimes, but rarely, more than one question). What is the decision? There are two parts. First, there should be a “Yes” or “No” that answers the issue question. Next, include a short quote from the case that captures the decision. What is the reason? The logic the Court offered for its decision. Use a quote. What is the significance? I hate to answer a question with another question, but ask yourself this: Why does this case matter? Your answer to this question is the case’s significance. What is the appropriate format? I don’t care what spacing or font you use, I just want to be able to read it. Most importantly, YOUR BRIEF SHOULD NOT EXCEED ONE SIDE OF ONE PAGE. NO TITLE PAGES, PLEASE.

1. Describe in detail and with the aid of diagrams the Photoelectric Effect experiment. (500 words) 2. Describe the Davisson and…

1. Describe in detail and with the aid of diagrams the Photoelectric Effect experiment. (500 words)

2. Describe the Davisson and Germer Electron Scattering Experiment. (500 words)

3. Describe the excitation of electrons in an intrinsic semiconductor and derive an equation for the conductivity of the material. (500 words)

4. Explain what is meant by the following terms in the context of semiconducting materials: (i) p-type, (ii) n-type, (iii) majority carrier, (iv) minority. (500 words)

5. Explain with the aid of energy band diagrams the flow of current through a p-n junction under (i) zero bias, (ii) reverse bias and (iii) forward bias conditions. (500 words)

Assignment 2: LASA 1—The Strategic Components of State Healthcare Management Company

The State Healthcare Management Company (a fictitious company) has been established to provide coordinated healthcare to state workers.  You are a new manager in this company.  Your supervisor has asked you to review your company’s mission, vision, goals and strategies.  She/he posed the following questions and has asked you to provide a report (5 – 8 pages) answering each question.  Your report should follow APA guidelines and include at least four outside resources.

Given:

The mission of the State Healthcare Management Company is to improve access to cost-effective, quality health care services for state workers.

Our vision for the next three years includes:

• The public and government agencies are confident that our customers are being treated fairly in the determination of eligibility and benefits.
• Healthcare providers see us as proactive partners to provide preventative care to our customers.
• Turnover of key personnel is minimal, with sufficient staff education to insure compliance with new regulations.

Our values are:

•  Provide prevention and early intervention information to help customers make good health care choices.
• Negotiate with suppliers, including service providers, to achieve value for customers
• Assess, evaluate and continuously improve the quality of our work.

Our strategic goals for this year are:

• Increase the number of state workers covered to 70% of the population of state workers
• Improve Health Outcomes by linking provider payments to decreasing occurrences of the customer’s disease outbreaks
• Contain Health Care Costs by asking for specific evidence from physicians when they request payment for customer care
• Improve the long-term care service delivery system by identifying a baseline for nursing homes.

Questions:

1. Do you believe our company’s mission, vision and values statements align well?   Why or why not?
2. I noticed that the vision statement does not address diversity.  How would you change it to include diversity in hiring?
3. Understanding that the employees must actively work towards the strategic goals established, describe an activity that each of the members of the following teams should work on that are supportive of one of the strategic goals.
   1. Finance
   2. Marketing
   3. Human Resources
4. Do our company strategic goals relate directly to our vision and values?  Why or why not?
5. What should be added to the values to address the ethics of the business?

Your supervisor also asked you to use the internet and/or the Argosy online library to research a recent (within the last year) article that describes the current difficulties faced by healthcare companies regarding new or impending government regulations.

6. Summarize the article you found in 1-2 paragraphs and explain how the concepts presented in the article could affect our company.
7. Explain how the management of our company, using the mission, vision and/or values to provide guidance, should react to this issue.
8. Why is it important for healthcare companies to keep current with the competition’s strategies and new regulations?
9. Should a healthcare company rely solely on competitive research in developing their strategies? Why or why not?  Provide sufficient detail.