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Topic: Criminal Profile

Read through this investigation and decide what the important factors are and write a profile of the killer. This is a general exercise to see if you are able to identify key information needed for profiling. Write/ create a criminal Profile on the following;

Police investigation report.

The body of a young woman was discovered in the water of Belstead Brook at Thorpe’s Hill, near Hintlesham, by a member of the public on December 2, 2006.The body, later identified as 25-year-old Gemma Adams, had not been sexually assaulted. Six days later, on December 8, the body of 19-year-old Tania Nicol, a friend of Adams, who had been missing since October 30, was discovered in water at Copdock Mill just outside Ipswich. There was no evidence of sexual assault. On December 10, a third victim, found by a member of the public in an area of woodland by the A14 road near Nacton, was later identified as 24-year-old Anneli Alderton.

The body of a young woman was discovered in the water of Belstead Brook at Thorpe’s Hill, near Hintlesham, by a member of the public on December 2, 2006.The body, later identified as 25-year-old Gemma Adams, had not been sexually assaulted. Six days later, on December 8, the body of 19-year-old Tania Nicol, a friend of Adams, who had been missing since October 30, was discovered in water at Copdock Mill just outside Ipswich. There was no evidence of sexual assault. On December 10, a third victim, found by a member of the public in an area of woodland by the A14 road near Nacton, was later identified as 24-year-old Anneli Alderton.

Anneli Alderton, aged 24, a mother of one who was also in the early stages of pregnancy had been living in Colchester, Essex. Alderton disappeared on December 3 and was last seen on the 17.53 train from Harwich to Manningtree. Alderton got off the train at Manningtree at 18.15 before going on to Ipswich via another train, arriving at 18.43. Alderton’s body was found on 10 December near Nacton, in woodland in front of Amberfield School. Alderton had been asphyxiated and was found naked, and posed in the cruciform position. Alderton had been addicted to drugs since age 16, shortly after her father’s death from lung cancer in 1998.

In a press conference police warned all women to stay away from the red light district of Ipswich. On December 12, Suffolk police announced that the bodies of two more women had been found. On December 14, the police confirmed one of the bodies as 24-year-old Paula Clennell. Clennell had disappeared on December 10 and was last seen in Ipswich.

Paula Clennell, aged 24, born in Northumberland and living in Ipswich, disappeared on December 10 in Ipswich at approximately 00.20. Clennell’s body was found on December 12 near Levington. Clennell was found naked but not sexually assaulted and a post mortem reported that she had been killed by a compression of her throat. Prior to her death, Clennell commented on the then recent murders in an interview with Anglia News, stating that despite them making her “a bit wary about getting into cars” she continued to work as “I need the money.” Clennell moved to East Anglia ten years before her death, following the break-up of her parents’ marriage. Clennell had three children with Elton Norris; all were taken into care and adopted due to her drug addiction. Clennell herself had spent some of her childhood in a referral unit, and it was shortly after being placed there that she started taking drugs.

On 15 December, the police confirmed that the other body was that of 29-year-old Annette Nicholls, who disappeared on December 5. The bodies of Clennell and Nicholls were found in Nacton near the Levington turn-off of the A1156, close to where Alderton was found. A member of the public had seen Clennell’s body six metres from the main road and a police helicopter dispatched to the scene discovered the second body of Nicholls nearby.

Annette Nicholls, aged 29, a mother of one from Ipswich, was initially thought to have gone missing on December 4, but at the trial it was revealed she was last seen in Ipswich town centre on December 8. Her family reported her missing after they grew concerned at the news of the other murders. Nicholls’ body was found on December 12 near Levington, naked but not sexually assaulted, and posed in the cruciform position; a definite cause of death could not be established, but her breathing had been hampered. Nicholls, the oldest victim, had been a drug addict since the early 2000s, shortly after completing a beautician’s course at Suffolk College. Soon afterwards, she had started working as a prostitute to fund her addiction.

During press conferences on December 13 and 14, DCS Gull revealed that police believed the locations where the five bodies were found to have been ‘deposition sites’, not murder scenes, indicating that the victims were all killed elsewhere and transported to the locations where they were later found; no comment was made on where the women may have been murdered.

 

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Topic: External Remote Environment Analysis

When planning a vacation, you may do research on a variety of external factors that can impact the quality of your trip. Some of these factors, such as transportation costs and flight delays or road construction, will have a similar impact on the plans of a large number of travelers. Others, such as the expected weather conditions and location of attractions, are related to the specific area in which you plan to vacation.

Like travelers planning for a trip, organizations must carefully monitor the external environment in which they plan to operate. Organizations have a number of tools to aid them in doing this successfully. A General Forces Analysis encourages organizations to examine broad trends and forecasts that could potentially impact a broad range of organizations. Porter’s Five Forces Analysis allows organizations to more closely examine external forces that may impact profitability, which are closer to the specific organization. Taken together, the results of these analyses provide a comprehensive picture of the external environment of a specific organization.

Your total response should be 3–4 paragraphs. Using General Forces analysis, identify trends and forecasts in each of the five categories of forces in the industry environment in which your organization exists. Explain the impact of these trends and forecasts on the industry. Next, using Porter’s Five Forces analysis, identify external forces that might impact the organization’s profitability and why. Identify potential opportunities or threats created by these five forces. Justify your response. Finally, evaluate the utility of General Forces Analysis and Porter’s Five Forces analyses for developing organizational strategy. Identify 3–5 opportunities, and 3–5 limitations for each analysis tool.

Extend the conversation by identifying implications for practice or research, as well as for your own research agenda, where appropriate. Be sure to integrate one or two new related, and engaging, questions that will extend the discussion about your post in constructive ways. Try to think of a question that will engage your peers in critical analysis and thinking about your organization, which may provide insight for your use as you continue preparing your sections of the major Weeks 4 and 7 Sustainable Solutions Paper (SSP) due in this course.

Your response should have proper APA citations and adhere to all guidelines of APA style.

 

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Topic: Price Analysis for Navigation System

1. Analyze your company’s cost classification for pricing of the navigation system. Defend your cost classification to the US government.

2. Determine reasonable, allowable, allocable, variable, fixed & semi-variable costs for your company after the initial start  up phase is complete.

3. Predict the method for performing price analysis that the US government will want from your new company and Vector Cal. Justify your response.

4. Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.

• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Examine the various cost classifications, the different allocation bases, and the application of cost-accounting standards.

• Use technology and information resources to research issues in cost and price analysis.

• Write clearly and concisely about cost and price analysis using proper writing mechanics.

 

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tourism project

tourism project
Write a detail tourism plan from Las Vegas to Canada. mainly visiting vancouver, british columbia, calgary, and edmonton.
references number depend on what you wrote.
Detail description see attachment and some information should included in the project.

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Topic: the market structure

Individual students will produce an 8 to 10-page term paper that applies industry-level analysis
to the organization in which the student works; or an organization with which the student has
good contacts who are willing to provide information.* The paper provides an important
opportunity to apply the economic concepts and analytical tools (covered in class) to an
organization. Moreover, it provides an excellent opportunity to hone your writing skills. Most
employers rank written and oral communications skills as being the most important skill they
look for when hiring a business graduate.
The paper should be free of any spelling or grammar errors. It should contain a title page,
executive summary, introduction, conclusion, references, and an appendix. The body of the
paper must cover the analysis and information described below. The paper format is doublespaced,
12-point, Times New Roman font, with one-inch margins. The (8 to 10) page count does
not include the title page, executive summary, references, or appendix. Any tables, figures, or
charts should be carefully labeled and placed in the appendix.
Indicate the market structure in which the firm operates and apply Porter’s Five-Forces Analysis
to the organization to determine the profit threats it faces. Evaluate the strength of each of the
five forces using the template below as a guide. Answering the questions posed in that template
will require extensive research using multiple (cited) sources; and not “educated” guesses.
Describe any strategies the organization has used to weaken the strength of the five forces.
*Note: At least one personal interview with a policy-level person in the organization is required.
A typed copy of the list of interview questions should be included in the appendix. Personal
interviews and secondary source materials should be cited in the references.
Template for Doing a Five-Forces Analysis
Rivalry among competitors Characterization
Degree of seller concentration?
Rate of industry growth?
Significant cost differences among firms?
Excess capacity?
Degree of product differentiation among sellers? Brand loyalty
to existing sellers?
Buyers’ cost of switching from one competitor to another?
Are prices and terms of sales transactions observable?
Can firms adjust prices quickly?
Large and/or infrequent sales orders?
Use of cooperative pricing? History of cooperative pricing?
Exit barriers?
High industry price elasticity of demand?
2
Threat of Entry Characterization
Significant economies of scale?
Importance of reputation or established brand loyalties in
purchase decision?
Entrants’ access to distribution channels?
Entrants’ access to raw materials?
Entrants’ access to technological know-how?
Entrants’ access to favorable locations?
Experience-based advantages of incumbents?
Network externalities: demand-side advantages from a large
installed base of customers?
Government protection of incumbents?
Perceptions of entrants about retaliation from incumbents or
“toughness” of incumbents?
Threat of Substitutes or Support from Complements Characterization
Availability of close substitutes?
Price-value characteristics of substitutes?
Price elasticity of industry demand?
Availability of close complements?
Price-value characteristics of complements?
Power of Input Suppliers Characterization
Is the supplier industry more concentrated than the industry it
sells to?
Do firms in the industry purchase relatively small volumes
relative to other customers of the supplier? Is the firm’s
purchase volume small relative to sales of typical supplier?
Few substitutes for suppliers’ input?
Do firms in the industry make relationship-specific investments
to support transactions with specific suppliers?
Do suppliers pose credible threat of forward integration into the
product market?
Are suppliers able to price discriminate among prospective
customers according to ability/willingness to pay for the input?
3
Power of Buyers Characterization
Is buyers’ industry more concentrated than the industry it
purchases from?
Do buyers purchase in large volumes? Does a buyer’s purchase
volume represent a large fraction of the typical seller’s total
revenue?
Can buyers find substitutes for the industry’s product?
Do firms in the industry make relationship-specific investments
to support transactions with specific buyers?
Is price elasticity of demand of buyer’s product high or low?
Do buyers pose credible threat of backward integration?
Does product represent significant fraction of cost in buyer’s
business?
Are prices in the market negotiated between buyers and sellers
on each individual transaction, or do sellers post a “take-it-orleave-
it” price that applies to all transactions?

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Literature Review Assignment

Literature Review Assignment
See attached Article and answer the following question (also included in the attached Outline). Answer them thoroughly. MUST submit rough notes!!! These mean a breakdown of the intended answers, thoughts, etc. These are not included in the 6 pages. Please include in-text citations of the article in the question answers.
1. What is Blomley trying to prove about how law works when used to regulate public space? Relate your answers to lecture discussions about Lady Justice and socio-legal critique(s).
2. Explain how Blomley’s argument relates to citizenship, as viewed wearing one’s “human rights glasses”. Discuss examples from the article.
3. How does Blomley illustrate interconnected/interdependent human rights notions of neglect and oppression within his argument about public space? Discuss examples from the article, and explain how they work together.
4. Explain how the argument made by Blomley relates to the arguments made by Brown and Marshall (course readings – October 20, 2014). In other words, which invalidation ideolog(ies) support the notion of “traffic logic”? Explain.

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English Essay

English Essay
ENG105
Essay Assignment 4
“[W]hen it comes to change, what moves people is often not an argument from a principle, not a long discussion about values, but just a gradually acquired new way of seeing things” (22). Kwame Anthony Appiah.
Kwame Anthony Appiah uses the term “cosmopolitanism” to describe an ability for people who come from very different backgrounds to get along with one another in a globalized and deeply connected world, an ability he likens to having conversations. Appiah also discusses cosmopolitanism as a rubric for social change, where the practice of people getting along together, conversing, is a more effective agent for change than reason or arguments. He writes that such “Conversations across boundaries of identity—whether national, religious, or something else—begin with the sort of imaginative engagement you get when you read a novel or watch a movie or attend to a work of art that speaks from some place other than your own” (Appiah 29).
For this assignment, you’ll want to identify an online arena in which people are engaging in an ongoing conversation “across boundaries of identity” about something that genuinely interests you. Next, you will need to follow the conversation that takes place in this arena, that is, to act as an objective observer. You’ll also have to create a record of the conversation, whether by taking notes, saving a series of online links, or another format (You’ll turn this in). Keep in mind that you’re describing the conversation to an audience who may be unfamiliar with the arena you have chosen.
In the process, you will want to ask yourself whether, and in what ways, Appiah’s ideas about cosmopolitanism help you “read” the conversation you are following. You will want to pay special attention to (and write about) places where you see people expressing their values and beliefs, and watch how others respond to such expressions: That is, look for their rhetorical behaviors, and write about your sense of their importance. At the same time, Appiah argues, discourse about values, per se, is not where social understanding really occurs.
Finally, you will want to think (and write about) whether the people engaged in the conversation you have observed exhibit traits of Appiah’s cosmopolitanism. Making such an argument asks you to be both reflective and reciprocal: that is, your understanding of cosmopolitanism should help you understand the conversation, while at the same time, your reading of the conversation should help you deepen your critical questioning of Appiah’s ideas.

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Case Write-up for MANAGEMENT 420

Case Write-up for MANGT 420
40 possible points
You may choose from any of the three following cases from the textbook. Write a 2-3 page paper summarizing the case and answering three questions at the end. You are allowed to discuss the case with your classmates if you wish, but you must write your own paper.
1.- IKEA; starting on page 375; summarize the case and answer 3 of the 4 questions
or
2.- Temporary Worker (Craigslist); starting on page 409; summarize the case and answer the 3 questions
or
3.- US Airways; starting on page 440; summarize the case and answer 3 of the 4 questions
Required Text:
Griffin, Managment, Houghton Mifflin, 11th Edition. We will follow the text, mostly in order, throughout the semester.

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HR ramifications of SW Airlines merger and expansion.

HR ramifications of SW Airlines merger and expansion.
Objective of this assignment:
Provide your knowledge of the strategic and administrative function of Human Resources by thinking about the situation of Southwest Airlines recent merger and their expansion.
Deliverable:
Read and reflect on the case study below and prepare a response paper of not less than five pages (excluding title and reference pages) with appropriate in text citations. Demonstrate research and analytical skills in developing a comprehensive paper by using the organizations website and outside articles written about the organization to supplement the information provided in the case study. However, the case study is unique in that it is focused on the HR ramifications and most of the outside reports you will locate articulate the business side of the merger or expansion possibilities. Tailor your paper to the HR ramifications of the merger and expansion.
Keep in mind that the purpose is to demonstrate your knowledge of the strategic and administrative function of Human Resources. While the business side of the situation is the foundation, it is the command of the needed tasks and role for the Human Resource function that you are to focus most of your attention.
Key Components
The key components of the paper are as follows:
Title page
Introduction in which you restate the issue(s) and state the purpose of the paper
SWOT analysis from the HR perspective
Recommendations to address the issues. Scholarly research is expected to support the recommendations.
Examples of issues that may want to be elaborated upon may be possible redundant positions, maintaining the culture of both organizations (or not), combining compensation and benefits plans and union involvement (just to name some).
There are many tasks for recruiting and hiring for the expansion (in various global locations). Think about and list what those tasks are.
Provide the metrics for evaluating the outcomes of the expansion of the organization (again, from an HR perspective).
Synthesize and summarize your thoughts about the merger and expansion (from an HR perspective), including recommendations for aligning the HR function of the two organizations and addressing any of the S.W.O.T. assessment HR related elements as appropriate.
Reference page containing at least five scholarly references cited in the paper and presented in APA guideline format
Situation:
Southwest Airlines is a major airline in the United States with limited flights outside the country. The organization has a strong culture which is described in the following excerpt from Gary Kelly, CEO Southwest Airlines found on the Southwest Airlines Website.
Living the Southwest Way
(Gary Kelly states that)…..I ask three things of the 46,000 Southwest Airlines and AirTran Airways Employees every day: Work hard, have fun, and treat everyone with respect. We call this Living the Southwest Way, and it comprises three characteristics that we look for in job candidates and require of our Employees: a Warrior Spirit, a Servant’s Heart, and a Fun-LUVing Attitude. While it may sound simple (and it is), the impact can be profound. Our Culture has long been admired and has earned Southwest much recognition, including a yearly spot on Fortune’s “World’s Most Admired Companies” list (we ranked seventh this year) and the distinction of being named one of the Best Places to Work in Glassdoor.com’s 2013 Employees’ Choice Awards. Our Culture is not a program or a campaign; it is the sum of the personalities and behaviors of our People who Live the Southwest Way every day.
(The following is fiction but is the situation to consider for this assignment). Due to the recent acquisition of AirTran Airways and with the possibility of acquiring other airlines that will expand the organization to other countries, Southwest Airlines will add thousands of employees quickly from any number of existing airlines in a variety of global locations.
Faced with the tasks of maintaining the values of the organization, consider and propose steps the Human Resources team will need to take to achieve a successful merger of the two companies and to expand to additional global locations.
PLEASE NOTE: Much has been written about Southwest Airlines, its culture and the recent merger. While that information may be used as reference material, the situation you have been asked to use for your application of your knowledge about HR is unique. Do not merely cut and paste from what you find in the documents you locate.

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Weekly Summary

Weekly Summary
End-of-week summary (500-750 words) to be submitted:
From the textbook: Discovering the Bible: Story and Faith of the Biblical Communities.
This week’s reading: (Pages 283-365) (Chapters 20-25)
For (part 1), the first line of your summary should say: “All posts read.”
In addition to your own reflections on the week (part 2), your summary must include a question and your answer to it from one of the question lists on either the first or last pages of one of the chapters (Pages 283-365) (Chapters 20-25) (part 3). Do only one question each week. Do not choose one from each chapter.
Use APA format.
Here are some “starter” questions:
•What information or insights from this week do I think (and hope) will stick with me forever? (Giving specific textbook pages will help your classmates who wish to write a response to something you have written).
•What (if anything) from this week’s study did I talk about with friends and family?
•This week, what have I been moved to do, or choose, or act on?
Optional: Do you have a specific question about this week’s material that remains unanswered? If so, state that question.
Grading rubric
1.Was the summary/reflection posted between Friday evening and Sunday evening in the week in which it was due?
2.Does it meet the length requirement?
3.Is there a clear “All posts read” affirmation?
4.Was there a beginning-of-the-chapter OR an end-of-the-chapter question clearly stated and a response given?
5.Is it college-level writing?
6.Is APA format followed?