Author: chris

Due By 3:00am (EST)

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Prepare a 5- to 7-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation with speaker notes totaling 50 words per slide that includes the following:

An introduction slide
Slides that present on or answer the following 5 points:

Top three elements of health and wellness you would want to improve in society
How will you incorporate nutrition and fitness as active parts of your life?
Describe an effective strategy for making effective healthcare decisions.
What are the environmental effects on your health from your home and other places you spend a great deal of time?
What are ways to protect and enhance your immune system?
A conclusion slide
A minimum of two academic references

Applying Capital Budgeting
For your final discussion assignment, respond to the following questions.
Is it realistic to assume that the economic concept of operating at the point where marginal revenue and marginal cost are equal can be applied to real-world strategic planning while at the same time marrying this concept to the capital budgeting process? If so, how can that be done? If the concept is applied, how confident should we be that the firm will achieve the point where marginal cost and marginal revenue are equal?
Your initial response should be two or three paragraphs in length. After you have posted your initial response, read all of your classmates’ responses and comment on at least two other postings.
Write your response as a one-page memo. Post your memo in the discussion forum and solicit feedback from your classmates

Read the case study for this unit regarding ExtremeNet and Allen Lopez.

As the Chief Executive Officer for ExtremeNet, you are responsible for resolving the conflict between Allen Lopez and ExtremeNet in a manner that demonstrates solid ethical reasoning skills and the ability to manage stakeholder interests

Case Study

For seven years, Allen Lopez had worked for ExtremeNet, a well-known, global, high-technology company that provides clients with Internet services such as e-commerce and Web development, online marketing, strategic planning, and research. Allen was well paid and performed well in a responsible middle-management position, which he found rewarding. However, as ExtremeNet struggled to manage the effects of an economic downturn, Allen became disenchanted with the company’s treatment of lower-level employees, including his own assistant. Among Allen’s concerns were gender and age discrimination during layoffs, as well as changes to personnel policies that he believed treated lower-level employees unfairly.

Allen’s frustrations grew after he raised his concerns in vain with his superiors. What he did next put his career in jeopardy: Working at home over several weekends, Allen created and published on the Internet a satiric website that inveighed against the abusive management practices of a fictional company that bore a striking resemblance to ExtremeNet. The site gained some notoriety among high- tech websites and in the business press.

The vice presidents of ExtremeNet were incensed to learn of the site’s existence and were concerned that the site generated so much traffic and publicity. Although Allen protested that he acted out of a sense of justice and asserted that his creative work was protected by his first amendment rights, this did not prevent the leadership team of ExtremeNet from hastily assembling an emergency meeting to decide whether Allen Lopez should be discharged, and whether ExtremeNet should file suit to have his satirical website removed from the World Wide Web.

As the leader of ExtremeNet, it is your responsibility to resolve the following questions:

1. Should Allen Lopez be allowed to keep his job with ExtremeNet? Support your answer using ethical theory.

2. Should ExtremeNet attempt a lawsuit to force the removal of this website? Support your answer using ethical theory.

3. How can ExtremeNet’s leadership best respect the rights of Allen Lopez and ExtremeNet? Explain the impact of your ethical decision on Allen Lopez and the company.

4. How can ExtremeNet’s leadership best repair the relationship between management and employees while meeting the needs and goals of the company? Demonstrate an understanding of the issues and how to best unify the company to move forward.

Write a one to two page decision in which you address the above questions and explain your reasoning.

BUSINESS TACTICS – Costco Wholesale

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Using your text book, the AUO library and the Internet, research Costco Wholesale Corporation. the following in 2-3 paragraphs:

How does Costco’s strategy provide a competitive advantage over their primary competitors?
What recommendations could you provide regarding Costco’s strengths and opportunities for improvement?

MICRO – M1 A2 Capitalism and the U.S. Economy

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In a command or planned economy, the government, not the market, regulates the factors of production and economic activities considered essential to the function of the economy. Economic decisions including what goods and services to produce (supply), how resources are allocated and regulated and how profits are distributed are made and implemented by the government.

How is the U.S. economy different from a command economy? Can the U.S. economy be called a true free market economy? Explain your answer by discussing the ways in which the federal government interacts with and regulates the U.S. economy in the context of both a command and free market economy.

Provide examples and justify your conclusions. Quotations, paraphrases, and ideas you get from books or other sources of information should be cited using APA style. Help with citing sources can be found through the Academic Resources page under Course Home.

EDU 671 WK5 DB2

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Consider the image/quote below.

Interpret what this quote means to you in light of this week’s readings on personal writing rituals. What conclusions can you make from this simple statement?

Considering Chapter 8 of Action Research: A Guide for the Teacher Researcher, develop a list of up to five of your current personal writing rituals and how they help or hinder your writing. What ideas did you gain from chapter 8 that could help improve your writing practice as you progress through your Master program?

Psychopathology and Criminality

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ou are part of a citizen’s watchdog committee on the circuit court in your region of the state. Recently, the state has started a mental health court, in which defendants may voluntarily enter into a treatment program instead of being prosecuted and sentenced to a prison term.

Mr. John Snodgrass was recently arrested at a local park playground while attempting to look up the skirts of little girls about 5 or 6 years old playing on the park’s monkey bars. His lawyer explained that Snodgrass has a heterosexual pedophilia disorder, but it only results in him looking at little girls—he has never touched one. The judge allowed Snodgrass to voluntarily enter a diversion program for the new mental health court.

Please respond to the following questions. You must provide meaningful feedback to the main postings of at least two of your classmates.

What is the intent of the mental health court in general?
Did the judge make an appropriate decision in this case, and why?

Variations in Approaches to Care

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Choose a specific culture or ethnicity of an immigrant or refugee population.

Analyze their cultural and social norms.
Discuss how they experience the healthcare system in America.
Include an evaluation of how both the community and market-oriented approaches to health care, as highlighted in Chapter 10 of your text, can assist your chosen culture in getting the care they need. Provide an analysis of a multidisciplinary approach that can be used to deliver the best care to your population.
Discuss a program in your community, or the nearest large community, that serves immigrants and refugees. Are the services truly accessible to a wide population of immigrants and refugees? Identify one approach which could improve accessibility, cost, or the quality of care for the population.

Your initial contribution should be 250 to 300 words in length. Your research and claims must be supported by a minimum of two scholarly sources beyond your course text. Use proper APA formatting for in-text citations and references as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

Making a Difference

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Imagine you are a policymaker for your city or town. Based on what you know and what you have learned in this course, what would you modify or improve to make a positive change in the life of a vulnerable group we have not covered in class? Justify whether or not you would consult the vulnerable group when developing programs or policies? Propose a policy you would create to improve health care services accessibility, cost, and quality related to your selected group?

Your initial contribution should be 250 to 300 words in length. Your research and claims must be supported by a minimum of two scholarly sources beyond your course text. Use proper APA formatting for in-text citations and references as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

Guided Response: Review several of your classmates’ posts. Provide a substantive response (minimum of 100 words) to at least two of your peers. What new things did you learn about another vulnerable population from your colleagues? Compare and contrast your proposed policy to those of your peers.

M1_A2

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Assignment 2: Discussion Question

Important note: Discussion questions in this course use a case study that is found in Doc Sharing area in the file named “Project Management Case.docx.” It is strongly recommended that you read this case study before attempting an assignment. Also, it is mandatory that you to attempt all assignment questions in the order they are presented in.

By Saturday, August 15, 2015, respond to the discussion question. Submit your responses to the appropriate Discussion Area. Start reviewing and responding to your classmates as early in the week as possible.