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You will develop a resource guide comprised of local resources (within your community) that are pertinent to your community and surrounding area. Your assignment is to research church, para-church, and community agencies, listing what type of group resources they offer. Your list can include the types of groups listed in the Small Group Meetings section (previous section). Include at least 12 resources (if you run into trouble locating 12 references in your area, you may expand your search to include a 25 – 50 mile radius, but begin by looking locally (within 5 – 10 miles), and they should vary in format. Your list should include various types of groups. Detail relevant data such as program name, location, contact information, type of group, type of treatment offered, length of treatment, cost for services, requirements of participation, and any other relevant information about the program.

Your listing should be an accurate and comprehensive list of what you consider to be the best group resources available in your area. Include personal commentary (a couple of sentences) about each program you choose to include. This may include your thoughts about the program, what you have heard from others, the general reputation of the program, or your informal evaluation or impressions based on what you know of services offered. Format may vary, but please be clear in headings and structure.

Unit II Research Project

Marketing Plan

This week you will continue your comprehensive marketing plan researching the SAME company that you researched in Unit I. Again, utilizing the CSU Online Library, you will research the various elements of the marketing plan as it relates to this company. In Unit II you will present the Target Market and a SWOT Analysis.

Target Market

Begin by discussing segmentation of the market based upon demographic, behavioral, geographic, and psychographic criteria. Apply these criteria to your company, explaining their importance to the company. This analysis will enable you to identify the target market(s) thoroughly. Within your explanation, discuss why the identification of a target market is of the utmost importance to a company.

SWOT Analysis

Perform a SWOT analysis for your company remembering that the strengths and weaknesses are internal and the opportunities and threats are external. Set this up using a table and/or bullet points with clear explanation following the chart.

Your submission should be a minimum of two pages in length, double-spaced with a reference page and title page. References should include at least one additional, credible reference beyond the textbook. All sources used must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations and cited per APA guidelines. Include the use of subheadings (This week consider using Target Market and SWOT Analysis).

Write a 1,000- to 1,250-word informational article for a newspaper in which you do the following:

Describe the differences between dispositional and evolutionary or biological personality theories.
Discuss the strengths and limitations of dispositional and evolutionary or biological personality theories as they apply to behavior.
Discuss the Big Five personality test and how it is used to study personality.

Explain the basic elements of Lessig’s framework in an organized fashion. Watch for grammar and spelling issues.

Create a new project model using Visio® for the existing Acme Medical Center WAN.

Name your new model “Team X” and replace the X with your team identifier.

Begin creating your model by creating an empty scenario.

Use the Visio® models from the Acme Medical Center as a basis for your model

Compare and contrast the motives and goals of China, Portugal and Spain in expansion in the fifteenth century.

2. Identify and explain the effects of European expansion on Asia, Europe, the Americas, Africa and the world. How do these compare to the consequences of Chinese expansion?

3. How did various societies in the early modern era view the relationship between 1) politics and religion and 2) science and religion? Be sure to use specific examples from both within AND outside Europe.

4. Identify and discuss the new ideas and values introduced in the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment in Europe. Be sure to explain the specific ways these ideas and values were different from those that had existed before the sixteenth century.

5. How did different groups of people around the world apply Enlightenment ideas to their situation? Be sure to discuss the role of race and gender in shaping different interpretations.

6. Identify and discuss the specific ways in which the early modern world was interconnected from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. Be sure to provide relevant examples that show what parts of the world were linked with one another and explain what linked them together.

Cell Membrane

After reviewing the videos on membranes and the recommended reading, Chapter 5, section “Membrane Structure and Function”, in Campbell Concepts & Connections, address the following points:

· Write a 250- to 300-word summary describing how oxygen moves into cells and how carbon dioxide moves out of cells. Explain how water can be balanced between cells and how large molecules can be transported across membranes.

· In your response, use the terms: diffusion, permeability, concentration gradient, isotonic, hypotonic, hypertonic, osmosis, ATP, exocytosis, and endocytosis.

Application: Using Performance Reports to Inform Organizational Decisions

Very often, managers are called upon to make decisions “by the numbers.” In this Assignment, you will sort through a budget report from the fictitious Honey Bear Confections (HBC) organization in order to make decisions about productivity levels.

HBC is a small organization dedicated to making bear-shaped sweets with honey as a sugar substitute. You have just been promoted to a position as manager of the production department at HBC when your supervisor shows you the following report. She tells you to “get it fixed.” You suspect she is alluding to a problem with productivity and efficiency.

For this Assignment, review the Static Budget Report provided. Additionally, you may find valuable information in your course text, especially Exercise 6-3.

HINT: for more information about this, see the Weekly Briefing and the Performance Report video. Laureate Education (Producer). (2014). Performance report [Multimedia file]. Baltimore, MD: Author

Honey Bear Confections (HBC)

Locate the Breakeven Analysis PhxKlip in the Course Weblinks.

Run the Breakeven Analysis PhxKlip located in course weblinks under the PHX Klips. The Breakeven exercise falls under Finance and Accounting.

Prepare a 750-word summary of the exercise and the importance of conducting a breakeven analysis in event planning.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.

“The Triple Constraint of Project Management”

“The Triple Constraint of Project Management” Please respond to the following:

Briefly explain in your own words the relationship between each element of the triple constraint of project management. Then, determine whether or not you believe it is important to understand the triple constraint to be an efficient project manager. Justify your response.