Category: Analysis papers

Topic: toulims module
Review the characteristics of a strong argument, which can be applied to an argument for change in your community or workplace. Look at logical fallacies that you may encounter while conducting research because it is important to recognize when people are making unsound arguments, such as what you may see in newspapers or on the Internet. You will review the Toulmin Model of an argument and identify the various parts of this model such as the claim and rebuttals.
Seminar is an opportunity for you to share ideas, insights, and questions with your peers and instructor. Attending the Seminar allows you to practice what you have learned through the unit’s Learning Activities and Assignments. Seminar is required; therefore, you must either attend the synchronous Seminar or complete the Option 2 alternative Assignment in order to be eligible for credit.
Option 1 : Participate in the scheduled synchronous Seminar, where you will learn about a strong argument and logical fallacies and how to avoid these fallacies. You will also discuss the Toulmin Model of an argument.
Option 2 : Prepare a response and submit it through the unit’s Seminar Dropbox. This option should be composed in Word, written in Standard American English, and you should respond to the prompt below with at least two well-developed paragraphs .
Respond to the following prompt:
After reviewing the archived version of the Seminar, summarize three key points provided by the instructor. How will you use the knowledge you acquired from the Seminar to defend your argument for change in the community or workplace?
Submitting your Assignment:
Put your Assignment in a Word document.

In this activity, you will review a specific critical infrastructure (Level 1) for risk using the MBVA model.
Select a specific Level 1 critical infrastructure used in this module (water in Norfolk, Virginia) and review it for risk using the MBVA model. You may want to focus on a specific sector in your hometown or one that you deem in need of analysis. Use the steps outlined in module 4 to assess the risk. Upon completion of the risk analysis scoring, propose actions or activities that will reduce the risk/vulnerability of the infrastructure. The final paper should show all calculations in the MBVA risk model and include an introduction, summary of your findings, and conclusion where you suggest actions or activities to reduce the risk.
1. Take Inventory: What assets do you have to consider within the scope of the analysis?
2. Perform Network Analysis: Is the network scale-free? Small world? Which are the critical nodes?
3. Construct Fault Tree: Identify vulnerabilities, model the sector using logic gates, and assign probabilities (none, low, medium, high, certain).
4. Derive the Event Tree: Combine all combinations of events and compute probabilities of possible outcomes.
5. Compute Allocation Strategy: Using budgets, cost estimates, and damage estimates.
MBVA is a four stage process:
• The first stage is the network model. We’ve already seen that we can model sectors or parts of sectors as networks of nodes and links. In order to do this, you have to understand how the sector works so you can correctly identify what the nodes and links should be. These are the assets of the sector. The outputs from this stage are the node histogram and the critical nodes or hubs in the network.
• The second stage is the fault analysis. The inputs here are the vulnerabilities, the logic that connects the assets in the sector together, and the probabilities of faults for each vulnerability. Here, we build the fault tree. This is the stage where it is most critical that you understand how the sector works. If you don’t understand how the different parts of a sector operate, you’re almost certain to build a poor fault tree.
• Next, in the third stage, we create the event tree from the fault tree. From this stage we obtain an identification of the threat combinations that we care about the most and the probabilities associated with these (Lewis, 2006).
• Finally, the fourth stage is where we reduce fault or risk to reveal a resource allocation strategy. During this stage, we need to identify what our working budget is, what the costs are if any vulnerability were to be exploited, and lastly, what the damage costs would be to repair that asset if it were successfully attacked (Lewis, 2006).
The final stage of the MBVA process is step five – computing the allocation strategy. Here, the cost and damage estimates are taken to produce an investment strategy for reducing vulnerability or risk. There are eight analytical tools used to complete the MBVA process. The following summary illustrates these eight tools:
1. MBVA Step 5: This final step defines how best to allocate a given budget.
2. Network-Wide Investment: The components of a critical infrastructure network are nodes and links. Asks the question, “What is the best way to allocate funding to nodes and links such that the risk to the entire sector is minimized?”
3. Ranked Allocation: The most common strategy used by practitioners. It funds the highest-ranking components first, the second-highest next, and so on, until funding no longer remains.
4. Apportioned Allocation: A method of allocating limited funds to protect the infrastructure by reducing the likelihood that faults occur across the entire fault tree.
5. Optimal Allocation: The overall fault tree; it may or may not be the same as the other strategies.
6. Manual Allocation: Computes the vulnerability or risk that results when allocation is performed by hand.
7. Network Analysis: Demonstrates that the best allocation strategy for a network is to fund the highest-degreed and highest-valued nodes, and diminish funding of links to zero.
8. FTplus: The FTplus program calculates how much of the budget to allocate to each vulnerability given in the form of a fault tree. It computes the event tree outcomes, applies one of four allocation strategies, and produces an allocation.
In critical infrastructure protection, there is no clear-cut solution as to how to best protect critical sectors. For that reason, the final step of the MBVA process allows for various strategies that may be applied to specific sector scenarios. Basically, this final step requires the derivation of an investment strategy that removes or diminishes the likelihood of faults occurring. Knowing how much money to spend on each threat to minimize the probability of faults occurring is the closest we can get to risk reduction. In the end, it is a policy decision. As Lewis (2006) states, “all of these policy decisions come with a price tag”.
Lewis, T. G. (2006). Critical infrastructure protection in homeland security: Defending a networked nation. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

In 5 pages ,not including the pages with your title and references, analyze an occupation of your choice (engineer). That is, provide job description, job requirements, and results of interviewing at least 2 workers. The interviews should highlight the workers’ firsthand accounts of what they consider the chief inputs and rewards associated with the occupation. Your term papers must receive a plagiarism score of 20% or less.

A critical analysis of information systems within an organisation and its potential impact on management decision making
Guidelines
1. Select an organisation with which you are familiar and consider the different types of information systems within that organisation.
2. Critically analyse the information systems in relation to their potential impact on management decision making. (Depending on the size of the organisation and the information available, you can focus on one or more information systems.)
Key content areas for the report will be discussed during the weekly timetabled classes.
3. Present your findings in a report format, following the structure and guidelines provided on Blackboard.
4. The word count is a maximum of 3,000 words.
Only the main body of the report contributes to the word count (i.e. executive summary, contents page, reference list and appendices are not counted).
format MLA

Campaign Analysis
select a communications campaign and analyse it in terms of intended audience, message and channel using the key themes of rhetoric, language, and other communication materials (such as logo’s, signs, photos etc.). This will allow students to show their understanding of how theoretical communication models are used in practice.
Use The McDonalds Happy Meal Campaign and then write about how it went wrong.

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.

 

Prepare an Analytical Report: Pick a product, a firm, or an industry, then apply Microeconomics theories and concepts  to explain and analyse the Challenge for corporate strategy relating to that product, business or industry that you pick, and then provide Recommendations for it

The report proposal must be submitted as a Word document then later the report

Word Count: 2,700

1. Choose a topic for your assignment:

a) Pick a product, a firm, or an industry

b) Pick a challenge for corporate strategy relating to that product, business or industry

c) Use appropriate/useful concepts of the list  to address this challenge

2. Report proposal: Prior to the final drafting and submission of the assignment, a proposal MUST be submitted for consideration and feedback. A proposal must consist of:

I. The name of the product, firm or industry

II. The challenge for corporate strategy, which should be phrased as a single question (e.g. How should banks set executive bonuses in the wake of the financial crisis?)

III. Write a commentary (of between 150 and 250 words) on how you intend to leverage the ideas, concepts and analysis listed to analyse the chosen challenge.

3. In order to proceed to the preparation of your assignment, you must first receive approval for your proposal. This initial stage in the process allows us to have some inputs into your selection of a question, and plan for addressing it. Once approved , you can proceed to develop it into the full assignment.

The marking criteria – the report must show:

1) Thorough Research: it may be helpful to imagine that someone  will use your analysis as the basis for investment or business decision.

2) You must apply economic concepts: it is not sufficient to simply vaguely mention concepts/theories without attempting to apply them to your chosen case. If a concept is not relevant don’t try to put it in – the assignment is not about squeezing as many concepts in as possible, it is about demonstrating your ability to think like an economist.

3) An impartial document based upon verifiable data and well justified arguments. Do not hesitate to use numbers, figures, tables or diagrams. If you use a firm’s website to find out information,but not as the sole source, please do not cut and paste company sound bites into your assignment

 

 

Topic: Incident Action Planning (IAP) and IMS
Tha paper should include all components of IMS. The paper should also utitize the required text, “Emergency Incident Management Sysytems: Fundamentals and Applications; Molino, 1st edition 2006;
Should be APA format. 8 pages, not including cover page, Abstract page and Reference page.

Topic: analysis about Coles
Please follow the example which i upload.
no need to write all issue from example, just focus on Domain, search engine position, 13c’s and marketing mix. the screenshots are necessary, however it might can be cut some screenshots when it is not useful.
This example is analysis two companies and make compare. But in this essay just analysis Coles is ok.
http://www.alexa.com this website gonna be use as one of the reference
please use some reference profession and not too old.
no introduction and conclusion require.