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Prepare a two page summary of their historical background and accomplishments, including any interesting anecdotes you come across.

 

Directions:Completely answer each question below. In your answer, utilize evidence (cite and reference sources) and/or examples. All answers should be

more than 50 words.

1) What is access of care?

2) How does service availability affect access of care?

3) How do affordability, physical accessibility (delivery), and acceptability (quality) of services affect access of care?

4) What are some barriers to access of care?

5) How is equity of access measured?

 

Assignment Grading Criteria(Each question is worth 30 points)

Question Grading Criteria Points Possible
Subject knowledge 80
Mechanics of writing (includes spelling, punctuation, grammar, language use) 35
Included evidence or an example 35
Total 150

 

 

Strategic Audit
i. How has your company done relative to its competitors – does it have competitive advantage
1. Key financial metrics for the industry are important (See Table 1.1)
2. There are often important non-financial metrics for a given industry (e.g. occupancy rate for hotel chains, new customer activations for

wireless network carriers, new product releases/patents for technology companies, etc.)
3. Don’t forget metrics that are more important to your industry (it’s OK to use more common metrics like ROA/revenue growth/TWCC, but don’t

only present these)
4. Make sure to benchmark (against competitors, against the company’s past performance, and against stated goals (when available; theses may be

disclosed in annual reports or investors’ meetings)
ii. How has the current strategy affected performance (remember that some long term strategies entail short-term sacrifices early in their

implementation)?

For the Strategic Audit you will be performing a check-up on the condition of a company of your choosing and using what you learn to make

strategic recommendations going forward. The link between the past (in particular: how the company has performed over time with an emphasis on

competitive advantage-which means you have to think of performance relative to others), the present (in particular: the current strategy and

trajectory), and the future (in particular: what type of strategy would best enable the company to achieve or maintain competitive advantage in

light of the internal and external environment) is key. For each section make sure you tie back to the company’s strategy.

For the presentation you can think of yourselves as a team of consultants who are presenting your strategic audit to the company’s board of

directors and top management team (CEO, CFO, COO etc.). Presentations should be about 10 minutes long and cover the four main parts (strategy,

performance, external, and internal analysis) and the conclusions and recommendations.

For the written report, each section should be about a page long (excluding tables and figures) with 1-2 pages for the conclusion and

recommendations for a total of 6-7 pages.

Below is a guideline of what you can include in each section. You do not have to stick to this guideline rigidly, but everyone should address

points with bold typeface.

I. Executive Summary
i. A brief description of the company and industry (present general facts you think here and try not to include them in the rest of the

report)
ii. An overview of the industry/industries in which your company operates
iii. Key information from the 4 parts of the audit that you will expand on in the body
iv. A short description of your conclusion (to be linked with the strategy/performance/internal/external analyses later, and expanded upon

in the conclusion)
II. Audit
a. Strategy Analysis
i. What is the company’s current strategy?
1. Try to go a more in depth than the two generic strategies (differentiation/cost leadership)
2. For diversified firms think about major business units’ strategies, the overall corporate strategy, and how they fit together
ii. How does your company’s strategy compare to the strategies of its competitors?
iii. How well has the company done in pursuing its strategy/has it changed parts of its strategy?
b. Performance Analysis
i. How has your company done relative to its competitors – does it have competitive advantage
1. Key financial metrics for the industry are important (See Table 1.1)
2. There are often important non-financial metrics for a given industry (e.g. occupancy rate for hotel chains, new customer activations for

wireless network carriers, new product releases/patents for technology companies, etc.)
3. Don’t forget metrics that are more important to your industry (it’s OK to use more common metrics like ROA/revenue growth/TWCC, but

don’t only present these)
4. Make sure to benchmark (against competitors, against the company’s past performance, and against stated goals (when available; theses

may be disclosed in annual reports or investors’ meetings)
ii. How has the current strategy affected performance (remember that some long term strategies entail short-term sacrifices early in their

implementation)?
c. External Analysis
i. What is the current industry structure/level of competition (perfect competitionmonopoly) and what are the consequences (See Table 2.7)
ii. Use at least one of tools described in our textbook (6 category description ofthe general environment in Figure 2.1, Porter’s 5 Forces,

PEST,GDPest, etc.)
iii. What are the opportunities and threats related to the external environment?
iv. How does the external environment influence the company’s strategy?
d. Internal Analysis
i. What are the key resources and capabilities for your company and are there resources/capabilities it needs to acquire/develop? In what

part of the supply chain are resources/capabilities deployed?
ii. Analyze whether the key resources are VRIOand the consequences (See Table 3.3)
iii. What strengths and weakness exist due to the internal environment?
iv. How does the internal environment influence the company’s strategy?
III. Conclusion
a. Strategic Options Identifications and Evaluation
i. What works what doesn’t and potential fixes?
ii. Try to describe a couple different paths the company could pursue and what the advantages, disadvantages, and risks exist for them?
b. Recommendations to the Board of Directors
i. What should the company do going forward?

 

Sentenced Home
watch film “Sentenced Home”

compose a one-page, single-spaced essay of about 3-5 paragraphs in which you address the discussion question
• In your view, is deportation just punishment for the different types of crimes committed by the men in the film? Why or why not? Should citizens and

non-citizens be sentenced differently for the same crime? Why or why not?

Unit 6 Writing Assignment***BE SURE TO READ THE UNIT 5 AND UNIT 6 READING****
Write a 900 word essay, drawing upon at least three texts that we have read in Units 5 and 6. All reflections must be made in relation to the

literature we have read in those units. If you have any questions about the assignment please email your instructor before you begin. Discuss

the relationship between outside knowledge (gained through education and literacy) and self-knowledge (gained through experience). You should

answer the following questions throughout your essay.
In what ways do these forms of knowledge—outside knowledge and self-knowledge—complement each other?
In what ways are they in tension with each other?
Formatting:
MLA. Access the Purdue OWL MLA Formatting and Style guide – https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/
Typed/printed, double-spaced, 1″ margins. Change them in “Page Setup” on the “File” menu.
Paragraphs indented 5 spaces at left; do not separate paragraphs by extra blank lines.
Quotations of 10 words or less should be integrated into the text; longer quotations should be indented 5 spaces at left and right margins,

single spaced, and set off from the text of the essay by a blank line before and after the quotation. Be sure to include verse numbers or line

numbers
All sources must be cited. Avoid citing college dictionaries, Wikipedia, or basic references such as the OED, Encyclopedia Britannica, etc.

Instead, use the text, discussion postings, lesson notes, and any sources accessed from GALILEO for outside reference.
Your essay should have a specific title – one that suggests what is the most interesting or important about what you have to say. It’s worth

taking a little thought over the title, not only because it creates the first impression of your essay; coming up with a phrase which

encapsulates your argument can help in focusing that argument. One popular strategy is to use a key phrase from the text followed by another

phrase of clarification.

Please come up with a heat exchanger, piping system and pump designs that meets the requirement values mentioned in the “Project Description”

file.

And explain why did you choose this design for the project, also include some calculation.

All the information about the project is the “Project Description” file, please read it carefully

 

Quality and Cost Measurements
As nurse practitioners continue to expand their role in delivering health care, it is imperative for NPs to provide the data and evidence to demonstrate the impact of NP care on patient outcomes. There are several challenges that advanced practice nurses face to provide quality care and meet productivity goals of an organization. This week it is important to explore the connection of quality care and performance measures. Some questions to consider as we discuss this topic are:

Why are quality measures important?
What is the difference between quality measures and performance indicators?
What performance measures are used for NP productivity?
Why are incentive plans used in clinical organizations?

To prepare for this:

1. Read the article, An Incentive Plan for Advanced Practice Registered Nurses: Impact on Provider and Organizational Outcomes, by Catherine A. Rhodes, Mavis Bechtle, and Molly McNett (2015)

2. Explore quality measures and identify at least one clinical performance measure, such as the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
DIRECTIONS:
1. provide an explanation of the importance of quality measures using the clinical performance measure you identified as an example.
2. Then, identify the performance measures used for NP productivity in Rhodes, Bechtle, and McNett (2015) article.
3. Finally, share your opinion on incentive payment for care, including external motivators and at least one business model.
APA format
Written via scholarly writing.
USE THE ARTICLE PROVIDED & THE WEBSITE PROVIDED!!!
NOTE: WEBSITE: http://www.ahrq.gov/

 

Answer the following questions with supportive detail and researched based educational articles. If you have any questions, do not

hesitate to ask. Please review all uploaded documents prior to completing this assignment.

Adopting Teacher Behaviors
Teacher behaviors can greatly influence the success of children who are learning to read.
• How do you envision adapting teacher behaviors to support reading?
• What must you do to change? (These include ideas such as kid watching, ongoing assessment, and adjusted instructional planning).

 

Alpha Numeric Outline of your required paper

This is the most common type of outline and usually instantly recognizable to most people. The formatting follows these characters, in this order:

Roman Numerals
Capitalized Letters
Arabic Numerals
Lowercase Letters
If the outline needs to subdivide beyond these divisions, use Arabic numerals inside parentheses and then lowercase letters inside parentheses.

 

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/media/pdf/20081113013048_544.pdf if you need to review alpha numeric outlines.

 

Write a 4 (FOUR) weekly article reports (min 500 words max. 600 words each,excluding references), and Article reports NEED & MUSTto engage

with all required references that are mentioned below each week to write the topics, the author’s arguments, the author’s literature of

reference and the empirics the author builds her/his arguments upon.

You should Focus on the big picture to identify the main arguments in the texts. Think about the logical coherence of the arguments. Compare

and contrast the concepts and theories in the writing, and You are required to widely refer to the extant literature, you should write and

reflecting upon quite a bit of literature.

Week 7 – Is ISIS a model for Islamists? The diversity of political Islam
** Kamran Bokhtari and Farid Senzai, Political Islam in the Age of democratization, Palgrave 2013 – chapter 2 (Understanding the complexity of

political Islam), pp. 15-30.
**Özbudun, Ergun. “From political Islam to conservative democracy: the case of the Justice and Development Party in Turkey.” South european

society & politics 11.3-4 (2006): 543-557.
Adaptation Strategies of Islamist Movements, POMEPS: https://pomeps.org/2017/04/03/pomeps-studies-26/
**Ozzano, Luca. “The many faces of the political god: a typology of religiously oriented parties.” Democratization 20.5 (2013): 807-830.
Farideh Farhi, ‘Religious Intellectuals, the “Woman Question,” and the Struggle for the Creation of a Democratic Public Sphere in Iran’,

International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, Vol. 15, No. 2, 2001.
Mona El-Ghobashy, ‘The metamorphosis of the Egyptian Muslim Brothers’, International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 37, No. 2, 2005.
Taniyici, Saban. “Transformation of Political Islam in Turkey Islamist Welfare Party’s Pro-EU Turn.” Party Politics 9.4 (2003): 463-483.
Charles Lister, Profiling Jabhat al-Nusra (Brookings Institution, 2016). Available online at: https://www.brookings.edu/wp-

content/uploads/2016/07/iwr_20160728_profiling_nusra.pdf

Week 8 – Political Islam, electoral politics and gender. Guest Lecturer, Dr Erika Biagini
**Durac, Cavatorta, Politics and governance in the Middle East, Chapter 8 (Gender and Politics), pp. 188-211
**Biagini, Erika. “The Egyptian Muslim Sisterhood between Violence, Activism and Leadership.” Mediterranean Politics 22.1 (2017): 35-53.
**Janine Clark and Jillian Schwedler (2003) ‘Who opened the window? Women’s activism in Islamist parties’, Comparative Politics, 35: 3, pp.

293-312.
Roksana Bahramitash, ‘The War on Terror, Feminist Orientalism and Orientalist Feminism: Case Studies of Two North American Bestsellers’,

Critique: Critical Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 14, No. 2, 2005.
Omayma Abdellatif and Marina Ottaway (2007) ‘Women in Islamist Movements: toward an Islamist model of women’s activism’, Carnegie Papers, 2,

pp. 1-13.
Evolving Methodologies in the Study of Islamism, POMEPS: https://pomeps.org/2016/03/05/evolving-methodologies-in-the-study-of-islamism/
Brown, Nathan J. When victory is not an option: Islamist movements in Arab politics. Cornell University Press, 2012 (available in the Library).
Abdelrahman, Maha. “‘With the Islamists?—Sometimes. With the State?—Never!’Cooperation between the Left and Islamists in Egypt.” British

Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 36.1 (2009): 37-54.
Francesco Cavatorta, ‘Divided they stand, divided they fail. Opposition politics in Morocco’, Democratization, vol. 16, no. 1, 2009.
Jonathan Hill, ‘Islamism and Democracy in the modern Maghreb’, Third World Quarterly, Vol. 32, No. 6, 2011.
Asli Bali, ‘A Turkish model for the Arab Spring?’, Middle East Law and Governance, Vol. 3, 2011.

Week 9- The Arab-Israeli conflict in the making of the modern Middle East
**Asher Arian, ‘Israel’ in Ellen Lust (ed.), The Middle East, 12th Edition, CQ Press, 2010.
Benoit Challand, ‘The Palestinian Authority’ in Ellen Lust (ed.), The Middle East, 12th Edition, CQ Press, 2010.
Mark Tessler, ‘The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict’ in Ellen Lust (ed.), The Middle East, 12th Edition, CQ Press, 2010.
**Durac, Cavatorta, Politics and governance in the Middle East, Chapter 9 (The Military, Security and Conflict), pp. 211-238
Avi Shlaim, The Politics of Partition: King Abdullah, the Zionists and Palestine, 1921-1951 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, revised edn,

1998)
Avi Shlaim, ‘ The Rise and Fall of the Oslo Peace Process’ in Lousie Fawcett (ed.), International Relations of the Middle East, Oxford

University Press, 2005.
Moshe Amon, ‘Can Israel survive the West Bank Settlements?’, Terrorism and Political Violence, Vol. 16, No. 1, 2004.
Rory Miller, ‘Troubled Neighbours: Europe and Israel’, Israel Affairs, Vol. 12, No. 4, 2006.

Suggested movie/s
This is Palestine, John McColgan (2017)
5 Broken Cameras, Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi (2012)
The Lab, Yotam Feldman (2013)
Omar, Hany Abu-Assad (2013)
Lemon Tree, Eran Riklis (2008)
Paradise Now, Abu-Assad (2005)

Week 10 – Post-Oslo Palestine/Israel
** Sara Roy, “Reconceptualizing the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Key Paradigm Shifts,” Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. 41, No. 3 (Spring

2012): 71-91
** Ronald R. Krebs, “Israel’s Bunker Mentality: How the Occupation is Destroying the Nation,” Foreign Affairs, Vol. 90, No. 6

(November/December 2011): 10-18
** Elliot Abrams, “The Settlement Obsession: Both Israel and the US Miss the Obstacles to Peace,” Foreign Affairs, Vol. 90, No. 4 (July/August

2011): 142-152
** Mouin Rabbani, “Rocks and Rockets: Oslo’s Inevitable Conclusion,” Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. 30, No. 3 (Spring 2001): 68-81
** Ron Pundak, “From Oslo to Taba: What Went Wrong?” Survival, Vol. 43, No. 3 (Autumn 2001): 31-46
** Daniel Byman and Natan Sachs, “The Rise of Settler Terrorism: the West Bank’s Other Violent Extremists,” Foreign Affairs, Vol. 91, No. 5

(September/October 2012): 73-86
** Avishai Margalit and Michael Walzer, “Israel: Civilians and Combatants,” The New York Review of Books, Vol. 56, No. 8 (May 14, 2009)
** Menachem Klein, “Against the Consensus: Oppositionist Voices in Hamas,” Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 45, No. 6 (November 2009): 881-892
Avi Shlaim. ‘The Rise and Fall of the Oslo Peace Process’ in Lousie Fawcett (ed.), International Relations of the Middle East, Oxford

University Press, 2005
Mia Bloom, “Palestinian Suicide Bombing: Public Support, Market Share, and Outbidding,” Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 119, No. 1 (2004):

61-88
Jerome Slater, “Just War Moral Philosophy and the 2008-2009 Israeli Campaign in Gaza,” International Security, Vol. 37, No. 2 (Fall 2012): 44-

80
Davis Brown, Michael L. Gross and Tamar Meisels, “Correspondence: Just War Theory and the 2008-09 Gaza Invasion,” International Security, Vol.

38, No. 1 (Summer 2013): 160-167
Yosef Kuperwasser and Shalom Lipner, “The Problem is Palestinian Rejectionism: Why the PA Must Recognize a Jewish State,” Foreign Affairs, Vol.

90, No. 6 (November/December 2011): 2-9
Meir Litvak, “The Islamization of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: the Case of Hamas,” Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 34, No. 1 (January 1998):

148-163
Steven Erlanger, “In Gaza, Hamas’s Insults to Jews Complicate Peace,” The New York Times, April 1, 2008
Menachem Klein, “Jerusalem as an Israeli Problem—a Review of Forty Years of Israeli Rule Over Arab Jerusalem,” Israel Studies, Vol. 13, No. 2

(2008): 54-72
Rashid Khalidi, “The Centrality of Jerusalem to an End of Conflict Agreement,” Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. 30, No. 3 (Spring 2001): 82-

87
Dov Waxman and Scott Lasensky, “Jewish Foreign Policy: Israel, World Jewry, and the Defence of ‘Jewish Interests’,” Journal of Modern Jewish

Studies (2013): 1-21
Joseph Schechla, “The Invisible People Come to Light: Israel’s ‘Internally Displaced’ and the ‘Unrecognized Villages’, Journal of Palestine

Studies, Vol. 31, No. 1 (Autumn 2001): 20-31
Mordechai Bar-On, “Remembering 1948: Personal Recollections, Collective Memory, and the Search for ‘What Really Happened’,” in Benny Morris,

editor, Making Israel (University of Michigan Press, 2007), pp. 29-46
Khaled Elgindy, “Palestine Goes to the UN: Understanding the New Statehood Strategy,” Foreign Affairs, Vol. 90, No. 5 (September/October 2011)
Rich Wiles, editor, Generation Palestine: Voices from the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement (Pluto Press, 2013): articles by Raji

Sourani, Omar Barghouti, and Ilan Pappe
Hillel Schenker, “What’s Wrong with BDS?” Palestine-Israel Journal of Politics, Economics, and Culture, Vol. 18, No. 2/3 (2012): 78-85
Joel S. Fishman, “The BDS Message of Anti-Zionism, Anti-Semitism, and Incitement to Discrimination,” Israel Affairs, Vol. 18, No. 3 (July

2012): 412-425
Peter Schmidt, “Backlash Against Israel Boycott Puts American Studies Association on Defensive,” Chronicle of Higher Education, January 10,

2014, pp. A3-A4
Curtis Marez, “In Defense of an Academic Boycott of Israel,” Chronicle of Higher Education, January 10, 2014, p. A40
Linda Gordon et al., “Don’t Cut Off Debate with Israel’s Academic Institutions—Enrich It Instead,” Chronicle of Higher Education, January 10,

2014, p. A40
Cary Nelson, “Essay Questions Why MLA Will Be Weighing In On Israeli Policies,” Inside Higher Ed, January 9, 2014

(http://www.insidehighered.com)
Peter Beinart, “To Save Israel, Boycott the Settlements,” New York Times, March 18, 2012