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The Geopolitical Aspect of Education in west Africa since independences

The new topic is : “Education and policy in the West African countries: obstacles to universal literacy and development in the post colonial era”

Please revise the paper accordingly. Review other parts for them to fit the new design.

Examine area of development such as the The millenium development goals and the sectorial provisions that identified education as a key sector that

can create development.

What have been done for countries to miss targets? The objective of universal literacy is part of the challenges west Africa is faced with.

Assignment 3: The Convergence of Healthcare Financing and Economic Trends and Forces

Due Week 8 and worth 100 points

Note: Use the textbook, course readings, Strayer online library, and other reputable online sources to complete this assignment.

Prepare a fifteen to twenty (15 to 20) slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation with detailed scholarly speaker notes in which you:

1. Compare the three (3) current health care financing and funding models (i.e., employee based, government based, and individual based) used with the healthcare delivery system of the United States.
2. Compare and contrast key economic goals of public and private health insurance plans.  Evaluate the success potential of key economic goals in terms of populations covered, services included, financing arrangements, reimbursement strategies, and economic competition policies.
3. Analyze the key effects of labor market, insurance market, and competitive market factors on health care delivery requirements at your current or previous organization of employment.
4. Determine what changes are occurring in the economy or concerning labor and regulatory factors that must be considered in the future.
5. Suggest the key national trends that you believe currently affect competition and pricing initiatives. Justify your response.
6. Suggest the main quality indicators that typically affect health insurance pricing at the local level. Justify your response.
7. Use a minimum of six (6) reputable references sources including three (3) sources from peer reviewed journals.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• 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:

• Assess current economic trends that influence the cost, quality, and access to care.
• Analyze the impact of managed care on cost, quality, and access within managed care organizations and the health insurance market.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in health economics.
• Write clearly and concisely about health economics using proper writing mechanics.

The effectiveness of tasers and how they could be used to reduce officer and suspect injury 350 WORD PLEASE IM DOING THE CONCLUSION PART OF THIS.

Instructions: The discussion topics below are based on course material information you have read; which includes the course text chapters, and the Module Week-1 Learning page information and handouts for Chapter 1 The Spirit of American Politics/ and Chapter 2 The Ideas That Shape America to response to discussion topic questions. Reading the relevant material will benefit students to answer relevant chapter questions on study guide number 1, and to Know terms associated with each chapter. [There  are also added areas or topics students should “know:” for exam number one.]

 

Democracy

Philosophers Thomas Hobbes, John Locke’s and Jean-Jacques Rosseau’s theory on Social Contract implied agreements by which people form nations and maintain a social order. In laymen’s terms this means that the people give up some rights to a government in order to receive social order. Social contract theory provides the rationale behind the historically important notion that legitimate state authority must be derived from the consent of the governed.

 

Topic: Social Contract

1. Discuss: How does the theory of Social Contract mean to your participation

in a government of democracy?

 

Topic: Representative Democracy

2. Discuss: If you think that all election voting should be available to everyone on

home computers provided by government? Will it cure the low voting turnout problem

for elections? Will it increase the voice of the majority in reference to getting closer to

obtaining a true representative democracy?

 

Topic: Political Culture

3. Discuss: Which source(s) do you learn your American Political Culture from [which is

defined in the chapter 1 extra terms handout] the most out of the five main areas?

Explain how.

 

Topic: Political Ideology (handout)

4. Discuss: Which Political Ideology you like the most and why? Discuss which Political

Ideology you dislike the most and why?

Nevada Early History and Constitution

 

Topic: Nevada Early History and Constitution

[Read: resource notes on this topic located on Module-Week 1 course information module

page.]

 

Know: What are the three events that was the result of settlement in Nevada by the

1840s?

 

Know: some of the explicit reasons why Nevada Settlers wanted their own territory.

Settlers felt that they were receiving unfair treatments and it led to a chain of events in

which the settlers petitioned Congress and the President for their own territory, and to be

separated from the Western Utah Territory (currently Nevada), which was overseen by

Brigham Young. Settlers, who were predominately Non-Mormon, complained that some

laws made by the Utah territorial officials had “no separation of church and state.”

Settlers believed they had no true representation in their own interest, and felt their

interests were ignored within the jurisdiction they lived in. The capital was far away (first

it resided in Fillmore City and then in Salt Lake City which was 500 miles distance); and

the Western Utah Territory lacked law and order. The settlers eventually created a

squatter government; and hired an attorney to travel several times to Congress to

petition for their own territory, and statehood.

 

Know: how the leadership of the Utah territory affected the settlers’ liberty and equality?

 

Topic: Nevada Early History

1. Discuss: How would that type leadership affect our liberty and equality today?

 

Topic: Statehood and Territory

[Read: notes on this topic located on Module-Week 1 course information module page.]

 

Know: What were the two main barriers that stop the ratification of the first Nevada 1863

constitution?

 

Know: What are the four significant reasons Lincoln wanted Nevada to become a state?

Is the mind like a computer program? Could machines (ever) have consciousness?
Paper Details
This critical reflection paper will critically asses the attached readings with this question provided. Is the mind like a computer program?

Could machines (ever) have consciousness? Please use these steps below to do the Critical Reflection Paper by reading the attached documents.
1. Being able to identify the key concepts and arguments in the reading
2.Being able to express key concepts and argument in my own words
3.Identifying my own view on the question at hand, and the reason why I hold that view
4. Engaging thoughtfully with the arguments against my view and /or in favor of competing.
Please note: The writer will read all readings and must be able to identify his own view on the question at hand and the reason why he holds

that view. Please follow these listed guidelines in doing the critical reflection paper.

1.predict two HR functions that are likely to be affected by the implementation of MRP system. propose two ways in which you as a HR manager can help the organisation carry out this change successfully.

2.determine 2 HR skills that would be impoertant for success in leveraging the new MRP 3.based on the planned growth of the organisation predict 2 factors that might the organisations ability to hire new employees that posses the technical skills neede to perform a job.

it needs to be 3 page with references and 1500 words

Research the Kelley model of followership. Write an essay describing how a leader might utilize the Kelley model of followership to assess follower effectiveness, and discuss how this leader might develop this individual into a more effective follower.

The following attached article from the required reading section of this unit will help you with this assignment:

Be sure to include the following in your paper:

 Describe the importance of organizational climate and motivation.

 Describe Kelley’s model of effective followership (moving between roles).

 Explain how knowledge of effective followership can help one’s leadership perspective. Be sure to follow the guidelines below:

 Writing should include proper grammar, sentence structure, and writing mechanics.

 Organization should be logical, clear, and appropriate.

 Provide strong evidence of critical thinking.

 Make use of logical transitions.

 Paragraphs should contain strong topic sentences.

 Your paper should be at least two pages in length.

 

Compare the Articles of Confederation to the Constitution. Which document did a better job of protecting liberties? Running a government? Explain your

answer with specific examples.

Foner, Eric. Give Me Liberty!: An American History (Volume 1). Seagull 5th Edition. W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2016. ISBN # 978-0-393-60342-2

 

The Fundamentals of the Economic Perspective
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Questions 1 to 20: Select the best answer to each question. Note that a question and its answers may be split across a page
break, so be sure that you have seen the entire question and all the answers before choosing an answer.
1. The problems of aggregate inflation and unemployment are
A. major topics of microeconomics.
B. not relevant to the US economy.
C. major topics of macroeconomics.
D. peculiar to command economies.
2. “Because the outputs of many industries are the inputs to other industries, the failure of any single
industry to fulfill the output quantities specified in the central plan caused a chain reaction of adverse
repercussions on production.” This quotation best identifies the
A. coordination problem under central planning.
B. self-sufficiency dilemma under communism.
C. incentive problem under central planning.
D. resource overcommitment problem under communism.
3. Which of the following statements is an explanation of the law of increasing opportunity costs?
A. The opportunity cost of producing additional units of a particular good decreases as production increases.
B. The economy is achieving productive efficiency by producing goods at the least cost.
C. The opportunity cost of producing additional units of a particular good rises as production increases.
D. The opportunity cost of producing additional units of a particular good remains the same as production increases.
4. Why do economists make the assumption that most variables will be held constant when creating models
of economic ideas?
A. Assumptions allow economists to study cause and effect of one variable without being confused by changes in other variables.
B. Assumptions must be made to reflect the real-life complexity of realistic economic behavior.
C. Real-life economic situations only have one variable.
D. Economists are unable to accurately describe real-life behavior.
5. Suppose that a university decides to spend $1 million to upgrade personal computers and scientific
equipment for faculty rather than spend $1 million to expand parking for students. This example illustrates
A. opportunity costs.
B. distorted priorities.
C. increasing opportunity costs.
D. productive efficiency.6. What is likely to happen to the production possibilities curve of a society that has experienced
technological advances?
A. It will shift to the right reflecting decreased production.
B. It will shift to the left reflecting increased production.
C. It will shift to the left reflecting decreased production.
D. It will shift to the right reflecting increased production.
7. Which economic resource consists of human effort and skills?
A. Labor
B. Tools
C. Land
D. Capital
8. Who ultimately decides what will be produced in a market economy?
A. Workers
B. The consumers
C. The government
D. Resource suppliers
9. Mia wants to buy a book. The economic perspective suggests that Mia will buy the book if
A. she has enough money to pay for the marginal cost of the book.
B. the marginal benefit of the book is a positive value.
C. the marginal benefit of the book is greater than its marginal cost.
D. the marginal cost of the book is greater than its marginal benefit.
10. The government may not implement policies intended to redistribute income in which of the following
economic systems?
A. Mixed economy
B. Command system
C. Laissez-faire capitalism
D. Market system
11. Opportunity costs exist because
A. the decision to engage in one activity means forgoing some other activity.
B. most decisions don’t involve sacrifices or trade-offs.
C. wants are scarce relative to resources.
D. households and businesses make rational decisions.
12. Robin gave up a Saturday afternoon with friends to do some yard work. The time given up with friends
can best be described as
A. scarcity.
B. opportunity cost.C. utility.
D. aggregate.
13. The above graph is the production possibilities curve of a nation. Based on this graph, which of the
following combinations would be unattainable?
A. 7 drill presses and 2 bread
B. 2 drill presses and 3 bread
C. 10 drill presses and 4 bread
D. 8 drill presses and 1 bread
14. The Latin term “ceteris paribus” means
A. that if event A precedes event B, A has caused B.
B. other things equal.
C. that economics deals with facts, not values.
D. prosperity inevitably follows recession.
15. Which of the following is a difficulty faced by command economic systems?
A. Profits become too large for certain firms within the economy.
B. The difficulty people have in terms of access to health care.
C. The difficulty central planners have raising revenues for production.
D. The difficulty central planners have accurately predicting consumer demand.
16. McDonald’s introduced the “Big Mac” in 1968 and it turned out to be a hit, but the “Arch Deluxe”
introduced in 1996 was not. The success or failure of a product in the market system is determined by
A. capitalism and entrepreneurship.
B. specialization and exchange.
C. capital goods and roundabout production.
D. consumer sovereignty and dollar votes.
17. What is one of the benefits of restricting risk to business owners?
A. Restricting risk makes it easier for a business to get loans.
B. Business owners typically have the excess money to lose.End of exam
C. Workers are more willing to supply labor to the business since they don’t risk losing financial resources.
D. There is very little risk in running a business, therefore restricting risk is fair.
18. In a competitive market economy, firms select the least-cost production technique because
A. “dollar voting” by consumers mandates such a choice.
B. this will prevent new firms from entering the industry.
C. to do so will maximize the firms’ profits.
D. such choices will result in full employment of available resources.
19. Which of the following is a way specialization increases the productivity of a business or society?
A. Specialization leads to greater job satisfaction.
B. Specialization allows workers to get trained in all areas of production.
C. Specialization requires less training.
D. Specialization saves time by not having workers constantly switch jobs.
20. A budget line is a graph that shows the various combinations of two products that a
A. household can produce with a given amount of resources.
B. business can produce with a given budget.
C. consumer can buy with a given amount of income.
D. nation can trade with another nation.

Homework Set #5: Chapter 12

Due Week 10 and worth 100 points

Directions: Answer the following questions on a separate document. Explain how you reached the answer or show your work if a mathematical calculation is needed, or both. Submit your assignment using the assignment link above.

In your own words, complete the Mini-Case on Page 562 of your textbook.

Suppose you decide (as did Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg) to start a company. Your product is a software platform that integrates a wide range of media devices, including laptop computers, desktop computers, digital video recorders, and cell phones. Your initial market is the student body at your university. Once you have established your company and set up procedures for operating it, you plan to expand to other colleges in the area and eventually to go nationwide. At some point, hopefully sooner rather than later, you plan to go public with an IPO and then to buy a yacht and take off for the South Pacific to indulge in your passion for underwater photography. With these issues in mind, you need to answer for yourself, and potential investors, the following questions.

1. What is an agency relationship? When you first begin operations, assuming you are the only employee and only your money is invested in the business, would any agency conflicts exist? Explain your answer
2. If you expanded and hired additional people to help you, might that give rise to agency problems?
3. Suppose you need additional capital to expand and you sell some stock to outside investors. If you maintain enough stock to control the company, what type of agency conflict might occur?
4. Suppose your company raises funds from outside lenders. What type of agency costs might occur? How might lenders mitigate the agency costs?
5. Suppose your company is very successful and you cash out most of your stock and turn the company over to an elected board of directors. Neither you nor any other stockholders own a controlling interest (this is the situation at most public companies). List six potential managerial behaviors that can harm a firm’s value.
6. What is corporate governance? List five corporate governance provisions that are internal to a firm and are under its control.
7. What characteristics of the board of directors usually lead to effective corporate governance?
8. List three provisions in the corporate charter that affect takeovers.
9. Briefly describe the use of stock options in a compensation plan. What are some potential problems with stock options as a form of compensation?
10. What is block ownership? How does it affect corporate governance?
11. Briefly explain how regulatory agencies and legal systems affect corporate governance