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Ford’s Research

 

Doing research for Ford

Company in Brief (General introduction about the company, its business,
industry/industries; brief history/background; year established; current revenue, stock prices; organizational mission, vision, goals. Cite your sources.)
Environmental Analysis
Macro Environmental Analysis
Have 5 separate titles under here for each of the macro-environmental factors.
1. Laws and regulations: What are some key laws and regulations affecting this company and its industry?
2. the economy: how does the state of the economy influence the sales of this company’s products?
3. technology: what new technologies strongly affect this company?
4. demographics: what changes in the population might affect the company’s customer base/work force?
5. social issues: what changes in society affect the market for your company’s products?
Have 1-2 paragraphs under each title elaborating on particular macro environmental factors’ effects on the company. Cite your sources.
Competitive Environment Analysis
1.Suppliers: how does the company’s relationship with suppliers affect its profitability?
2. Competitors: what companies compete with the firm you have selected? do they compete on price, on quality, or on other factors?
3. New entrants: are new competitors to the company likely? Possible?
4. Substitutes and complements: Is there a threat of substitutes fo this industry’s existing products? Are there complementary products that suggest an opportunity for collaboration?
5. Customers: What characteristics of the company’s customer base influence the company’s competitiveness?
Have 5 separate titles for each of the competitive forces. Have 1-2 paragraphs under each title elaborating on particular competitive factors’ effects on the company. Cite your sources.
(Under ‘competitors/rivals’ title, you should talk about 3-to-5 major competitors, and the company’s financial performance and/or market share in comparison to its competitors)
Internal Environment Analysis
Company’s resources (e.g. its size, where does it operate, how many employees does it have, is it traded on the stock market, etc. Cite your sources.)
Company’s culture (which of the 4 main organizational culture types does this company’s culture fit into (group, adhocracy, hierarchy, and rational)? Explain company’s culture, values, priorities, how they announce and celebrate their values, etc. Cite your sources. Comment on whether this culture fits with the company’s mission/vision/goals.)
SWOT Analysis (I expect to see a rich SWOT based on your research. ALL factors, news, and information presented in your environmental analysis should translate into SWOT items. Any items inserted from other SWOT analyses should be cited.)
Strengths (Use bullets to list entries)
Weaknesses (Use bullets to list entries)
Opportunities (Use bullets to list entries)
Threats (Use bullets to list entries)

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Animal Law Research Essay

 

Referencing: Australian legal citation (see attached)
Plagiarism: NEVER (I have caught the last writer literally paraphrasing the whole essay off the web and got him sanctioned and 50% of my money back)

Task: The students will undertake a research essay that pursues in-depth, an aspect of the subject through sustained research, reflection and writing 2,750 words.

The students will have a choice of four essay topics, mostly Australian focused (see below). The 2,750 word count includes all discursive text, such as any textual discussion in footnotes, but not citation information in the bibliography or footnotes. Students may exceed the word limit by ten per cent without penalty.
Questions: You are required to choose one of the following questions for the essay. Please be aware that, since these essays are Australian-focused, you are strongly encouraged to use and work around Australian sources including books, academic journals and reliable scholarly websites:

Question 1 (Australia-focused)
Discuss the status of animals under Australian law or some aspect of Australian law. What is this status and how does it affect their treatment? In your essay consider the arguments for and against changing the status of animals and the implications that such changes would have for the treatment of animals.

Question 2 (Australia-focused)
In his work, Regulating Animal Welfare to Promote and Protect Improved Animal Welfare Outcomes under the Australian Animal Welfare Strategy, (delivered at the International Animal Welfare Conference, Gold Coast, 1 September 2008) Geoff Bloom argues at pages 30-40 that animal cruelty and animal welfare should be treated as separate issues. Explain Bloom’s approach and critically evaluate it using the treatment of farm animals in Australia as a case study.

Question 3 (Australia and US-focused)
What is the attitude of the law in Australia to claims in tort for emotional distress and loss of companionship with respect to companion animals? How does this compare with the approach taken by the courts in the USA? Has the USA jurisdiction developed a pattern or consistent doctrine in this area of the law?

Question 4 (Australia and US-focused)
This essay represents an area of research helpful to the Humane Society International. HSI’s Washington office is currently taking action in the US courts to stop the use of antibiotics being fed to farm animals due to public health and environmental (including endangered species) reasons. What is the potential for such a case in Australia? What may be the role of consumer law in achieving environmental outcomes?
Some personal guidelines for the preparation of research essays:

The purpose of a research essay: A research essay gives you the opportunity to show your research skills on your selected topic. You should display your ability to find, read, consider and analyse the researched materials, and express your reasoned views. A research essay is more than a mere narrative of the materials. Marks are awarded on the process of legal reasoning rather than the conclusion reached, although obvious errors in reasoning to that conclusion will lose marks. In other words, your arguments/views/analysis are important provided they are properly argued and supported. Fundamental to success is a properly organised and structured essay. A cogent structure can take several forms, but a suggested structure is set out below.
Organisation and Structure – A research essay has five broad parts:

1. Introduction: An introduction should be a succinct summary of the essay. Introductions should be 300-600 words in length. The marker should, after reading the introduction, have a clear understanding of the topic and a broad overview of the problems/issues and the student’s methodology used to address those problems/ issues.

2. Background: Depending on the topic, setting out relevant background may be necessary, for example, defining key terms or concepts, identifying and briefly discussing relevant law or industry practice or government policy, identifying and summarizing published materials in the area, etc.
Discuss what is significant, necessary and relevant to your analysis. Avoid irrelevancies.

3. Identify the problems/issues: Clearly set out and discuss the problems and issues identified. The use of subheadings for each distinct problem is useful.

4. Resolving the problems/issues; methodology: Having identified the problems/issues you should identify the methodology used to analyse/discuss/consider/resolve the problems/issues. In Parts 3 and 4 (the key components of any essay) an examiner will look for various features including: your arguments; identifying and critically discussing other published works in the area; identifying the significant and important problems/issues; consistency and logical development of argument; consideration of the concepts applicable to solving the problem; original research/ideas; how you use existing knowledge and relate that to new knowledge; the application of theoretical ideas to industry practice; critical evaluation of existing case law (where relevant); etc

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Economics/Marketing Outline Pt.2

 

Learning Activity #2: Economics/Marketing Outline
Select a publicly traded company. The following elements regarding economic impact on the company should be addressed in outline form. (Marketing elements are bolded below).

1. Demand and Supply
2. Marginal and Total Utility
3. Money and Banking
4. Economic Growth and Development
5. Income and Employment
6. General Price Level
7. Trade Cycles
8. Inflation
9. Recession
10. Exchange Rate
11. Rate of Interest
12. Government Regulations
13. SWOT Analysis
14. Target Market
15. Competitors
16. Pricing Strategy

APA format is required for this assignment. A title page, citations, and a reference list should be included.

This entire outline including what you completed in Week Three is due

PLEASE add to the outline from WK3.

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Windshield Survey Summary and Reflection (Part 1 of the Programmatic Assessment)

 
Write a 750- to 1,050-word reflection in which you complete the following:
•Define community, community health, community as client, and partnerships.
•Summarize your overall impression of the participating family’s community and environment.
•Note your observations about cultural diversity and vulnerable populations present in the community.
•Identify 3–5 aspects of the community that could affect residents’ health.
•Identify one Healthy People 2020 Leading Health Indicator (LHI) and explain how it is relevant to the community.

Note. Remove all personally identifying information such as the family members’ names. Refer to family members by initials only

Format your reflection consistent with APA guidelines.

Complete a Windshield Survey that addresses all of the components below.

Compile your Windshield Survey data in a TABLE, SPREADSHEET OR OTHER APPROPRIATE FORMAT.

OK. So the community zip code that was assigned to me was Miami, FL 33157. The professor stated that we were to Google the demographic data below by typing the zip code and finding out this type of demographic data in that zip code which will be needed information to type the paper above.

•Housing and zoning
•Transportation
•Race, culture, and ethnicity
•Open space ( free land if any)
•Social service centers (immigration, clinics, etc)
•Religion
•Boundaries (area covered by 33157)
•Stores, businesses, and industries (Macys, Target, Publix, Wind Dixie, etc)
•Health indicators and morbidity
•Commons (Playgrounds, Parks, common areas for people to share)
•Signs of decay
•Media
•Crime Rate
•Employment Rate
•Schools
•Environmental Factors
•Public Services (Fire, Police)
•Condition of the area (nice, poor, low income)
•Street people and animals (homeless people if any, animals, which type)
•Politics

YOU MUST SENT ME THE DEMOGRAPHIC DATA IN EITHER A TABLE OR SPREADSHEET OR OTHER FORM. I MUST TURN IN THE PAPER AND DEMOGRAPHIC DATA REFERENCED BACK TO THE ZIP CODE 33157. THANK YOU.

MUST BE APA FORMAT, WITH REFERENCES MINIMUM 2.

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Application: Completing the Request for Proposal

Submitting a Request for Proposal (RFP) is usually a requirement for human services administrators who wish to pursue government grants. For example, the director of a homeless shelter might apply for a grant from the state government for supplies, such as cots for the shelter, to expand the program. Completing an RFP can be a long process that requires planning and collaboration. Before delving into the details of the RFP, it is wise for administrators to develop a strategy and an organized method for carrying out the steps of the process. Completing the RFP can be a challenge for human service administrators. Nevertheless, the effort is well worth receiving government grants for human services programs that might otherwise go unfunded.
The assignment (2–3 pages):
•Explain steps you would take to complete the Request for Proposal. Include where you might go for information, who you might talk to, and who you might enlist to assist with the process.
•Describe potential challenges related to completing the RFP and explain how you might address them.

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BTM week 6

1. Calculate the sample size needed given these factors:
• one-tailed t-test with two independent groups of equal size
• small effect size (see Piasta, S.B., & Justice, L.M., 2010)
• alpha =.05
• beta = .2
• Assume that the result is a sample size beyond what you can obtain. Use the compromise function to compute alpha and beta for a sample half the size. Indicate the resulting alpha and beta. Present an argument that your study is worth doing with the smaller sample.
2. Calculate the sample size needed given these factors:
• ANOVA (fixed effects, omnibus, one-way)
• small effect size
• alpha =.05
• beta = .2
• 3 groups
• Assume that the result is a sample size beyond what you can obtain. Use the compromise function to compute alpha and beta for a sample approximately half the size. Give your rationale for your selected beta/alpha ratio. Indicate the resulting alpha and beta. Give an argument that your study is worth doing with the smaller sample.
3. In a few sentences, describe two designs that can address your research question. The designs must involve two different statistical analyses. For each design, specify and justify each of the four factors and calculate the estimated sample size you’ll need. Give reasons for any parameters you need to specify for G*Power.

Include peer-reviewed journal articles as needed to support your responses to Part 1 above.

Support your paper with a minimum of 5 resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including older articles, may be included.
Length: 5-7 pages not including title and reference pages
References: Minimum of 5 scholarly resources.

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Accounting

What can be learned about production level in relation to sales level, If fixed manufacturing overhead costs are released from inventory under absorption costing?

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Writing a creative essay based on giving instructions to someone on how to be happy

 

The paper doesn’t have a specific format it should be creative.

The format of the paper should be based on the author Julio Cortazar’s writing “Instructions Manual”. I am uploading some documents for example the writing of `instructions to cry’ and ‘instructions to sing’ of Cortazar so that you can read them first and then the language and the structure of my paper should be based on these writings, but never give a quote from Cortazar or refer to him.

The topic of the paper: I chose to give someone instructions about how to be happy.

Introduction: begin the paper with an interesting hook maybe a rhetorical question.
No thesis written in the introduction.
The introduction should be an opening of the all instructions that will be given to the person.

Body paragraphs: please write a clear and concise topic sentence to each paragraph where in each paragraph mention a varied aspect of how to be happy. Use transitions between paragraphs to make it smooth and avoid passive voice.

Conclusion: end up in a creative way maybe with a very effective instruction on how to be happy that if that person obeys to that instruction he or she will lead to happiness of certain.

Content:
When you give advice to someone on how to be happy please in a paragraph state the obstacles of being happy and the difficulty in being a decent person. Please give daily life examples from yours. Please make sure to have deeper meanings in each instruction you give. For example: don’t say “crying or being depressed isn’t beneficial to your health” but say that sentence in a way that the reader should understand how crying in your life had a negative impact on you that you are stating this.The instructions shouldn’t be broad or easy as everyone knows, please make sure to give profound advice. Reading Cortazar’s Instruction Manual writings will be a great example

Language:
rather than only giving commandments to someone explain the topic more implicitly. For example do not only say ‘live your life at the moment’ but write this instruction in a more deeply way that has underlying problems inside.
You will see that Cortazar also doesn’t give instructions on how to do something in a straightforward way but the language is very sophisticated.
it should be full of imagery, comparison, expressive words and imperative verbs. Since it is giving advice to someone, you can use “you” language.

The author, Constance Hale has written some writings named as “Make or break verbs” and “the sound of a sentence” You should read these short writings and include those literary devices and sentence structures in the paper.

Please write full 4 pages of creative instructions on how to be happy, according to the MLA format and without plagiarism.

I ordered 5 pages, because the fifth page has to be a reflection of the creative writing.
5th Page: is an academic formal paper style where you have to show the influence of the author’s Cortazar and Hale’s writings to your paper. You should state how you used their guidance or writings in your paper. (ex: if you did repetition in your paper as Hale said it was important to) explain why you used it? Briefly explain the influence the authors’ writings had on your paper. Please give quotations from the writings of both authors. At the end of the reflection please state what was challenging for this assignment and what was rewarding. But do not use “I” pronoun. The reflection should be 1 page long.

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Disability

Short summery of the topic in the article:
disability advocates argue that everyone has an equal right to life. Only a disabled person, they claim, is in a reasonable position to judge whether a life with a serious disability such as quadriplegia is as good as a life without it. However, Singer takes the contrary position, viz. that if a life with quadriplegia is as good as life without it, there is no health benefit to be gained by curing it (a position with which disability advocates will obviously reject as sophistry and illusion).

It gives the following example of how a QALY can be used to calculate the benefit of life-value: “If we return to the hypothetical assumption that a year with quadriplegia is valued at only half as much as a year without it, then a treatment that extends the lives of people without disabilities will be seen as providing twice the value of one that extends, for a similar period, the lives of quadriplegics.” In short, the QALY, according to Singer, tells us “to do what brings about the greatest health benefit, irrespective of where that benefit falls.”

QUESTIONS to be answered:

Singer seems to suggest or imply that the life year of a severely disabled person might be worth much less than that of a person without a disability.

1- Is Singer’s way of evaluating and measuring the value of a human life — based upon the utilitarian idea of a QALY — ethically justifiable?
2- Do you think this approach discriminates against persons with disabilities?
3- Do you agree or disagree with Singer’s idea mentioned above?
State the reasons why you agree or disagree.
4- If you agree, what implications does Singer’s position have for the rest of us?

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B- The grading will be based on the Adaptation to Dr. D’s “5 Step Ethical Deliberation Method” which i will

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Cellphones and Their Enemies

Use both research materials and personal experience to write an essay on “______ and Their Enemies,” filling in the blank with a subject you can explore in depth. Present both your point of view on the topic and the ideas of those with whom you might disagree. Review Wilson’s piece for ideas about organization and tone.
(I prefer to approve the positive effects of cellphones rather than negative sides,)