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Political Government Assignment 2: It May Not Work in Politics

Political Government
Assignment 2: It May Not Work in Politics
Due Week 10 and worth 225 points
Write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which the student addresses the following three (3) items using headers to separate each response:
Congressional Ethics. Identify one (1) member of Congress who has been charged with ethics violations. Briefly discuss the reason for the charges and provide two (2) reasons why you agree or disagree with the verdict and any penalties. Provide examples to support your answer. Note: Consider how the verdict and penalties impacts your trust of the members of Congress.
Third Party Candidates. Discuss two (2) political reasons why a third party candidate has never been successful in winning a presidential election. Provide examples to support the answer. Note: Consider the political impact of the Republican and Democratic Party if a third party was successful.
Federal and State Authority. Identify one (1) current issue facing the United States today. Analyze the respective roles of Federal and state authorities in addressing the issue. Determine whether the U. S. Constitution constrains the Federal and state responses to the issue. Explain.
In your research, you cannot use Wikipedia, online dictionaries, Sparknotes, Cliffnotes, or any other Website do that do not qualify as an academic resource.
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; 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 page length.

International Law How are themes of realism and idealism expressed in the current laws of war?

International Law
How are themes of realism and idealism expressed in the current laws of war?

DETAILS

Note: A successful answer will be driven primarily by the concepts covered in the readings and lecture notes for this week and relevant prior weeks. Examples are very important to illustrate the concepts.

The assignment should be well written. This is the equivalent of a s

HM 3150 – Keong is considering an investment in Leong’s Bar & Grille

HM 3150 – Keong is considering an investment in Leong’s Bar & Grille

Keong is considering an investment in Leong’s Bar & Grille Corporation. Keong is planning to buy the stock today, hold it for 2 years, and then expects to sell the stock for $30 at the end of 2 years. Keong expects the first dividend to be $1.00 and the second dividend to be $1.30. If Keong requires a 15% rate of return, what is the value of Leong’s Bar & Grille common stock to Keong today

BCM Negative message

BCM Negative message
ask: Choose one of the situations below and write an appropriate message. Audiences and formats are built into each problem. Make up whatever details you feel are necessary and develop your case.

Grading criteria: In this assignment, retaining goodwill is important – you might need the recipient’s services in the future. Be attentive to how you use credibility, audience emotions, etc. All aspects of communication matter. “Organization” includes how present the negative information (direct or indirect approach). “Self expression” is about maintaining goodwill. “Language use” includes tone.

Credit Refusal
You are the manager of Sports Warehouse, a new sporting goods store near the mall. Your store policy is to offer in-store credit accounts for customers who have good jobs and excellent credit. This week, you received a credit application from Maja Patel, a full-time graduate student at Brookfield University and an avid sports enthusiast. Maja went from high school to college, then to graduate school without ever working full time. She has few assets but not many liabilities because her parents paid for all of her expenses until she started graduate school. She is scheduled to graduate with a master’s degree next year. You have decided to refuse her credit application but you do not want to upset her because she will hopefully become a good customer after graduation. Write a credit refusal message to Maja, but retain goodwill.

Work Request Refusal
You have been out of school for five years now and things are going well. You earned your degree and are now successfully operating your own business consulting firm (you pick the area of expertise). Business is good; in fact, it is so good that you find it difficult to keep up with all of the requests for your services. One of your best clients has just asked you to take on a huge new project that would create enough work to keep your whole organization busy for three months. One of the things that you refuse to do, however, is accept more work than you can handle in an efficient, effective way for your clients. In this case, you have other commitments, so you must turn down this request. Write a message to your client explaining the situation and suggest possible alternative solutions to their needs.

Project Management Fail

You are the project manager for a specialized software company called ByteWare. Although your project management skills are quite good, you do occasionally run into unforeseen circumstances that lead to less-than-ideal results. Halfway through the installation of a new document management system (DMS) for an important client, you realize that you underestimated the complexity of linking this new DMS to the company’s existing document storage and retrieval system. Although your current contract with the firm allows for a 20 percent budget overrun, you have an established track record for completing projects on time and within budget. This time, however, you have the unpleasant task of explaining to your client that the project will take two weeks longer to complete than expected and will be fully 20 percent over budget. Carefully craft a message to your client and inform her of the situation.

Accounting Individual Assignment

Accounting Individual Assignment

The following is a hypothetical case study where you are given an ethical problem and asked to work through the issues presented by the case study. In order to help you address the assignment requirements, please refer to ‘The Resources list to assist you’ on page 4 below.

The case study:

Garry is a financial controller at Just for you Pty Ltd (JFY). This company imports and distributes beauty products for both men and women and its employs around 100 staff, including Sue and Jane. Sue is the marketing manager of JFY; whilst Jane is the CEO as well as the sole owner of JFY.

JFY imports its products from China and distributes them all across Australia. Since its creation in 2000, JFY has had a history of profitability and growth. However, over the last two years, JFY has been facing fierce competition from other similar organisations and has been losing its market share. Also, JFY has been struggling to make positive returns for the last year and has just been able to cover its fixed costs for the last six months. Unless JFY makes a positive return in the next six months, it may have to go into liquidation.

Given the declining financial performance of JFY, Jane has been putting a lot of pressure on Garry and Sue to come up with innovative ideas that will give the company a competitive advantage in the market place and that will also generate an increase in profit margins.

One day, Sue and Garry have a phone meeting with Yong Lee. Yong is the owner as well as marketing representative of Xinni Ltd, an organisation which has been supplying beauty products to JFY for the past ten years. Yong has been a good friend of both Sue and Garry, for the some years now. Yong has suggested that Sue and Garry make a trip to Xinni Ltd in China, to discuss future business opportunities between Xinni Ltd and JFY.

Yong also mentioned it might be a good idea if Sue and Garry bring their family on the trip. Yong reassured Sue and Garry that Xinni Ltd will incur all the expenses associated with the trip. Yong added that the trip will give Yong’s family the opportunity to meet as well as get to know both Sue’s and Garry’s families.

During the phone meeting, Yong advised Sue and Garry that Jane need not know about the business meeting, as Xinni’s sponsorship of the Sue’s and Gary’s family trip to China is unrelated to JFY and is not part of the business trip.

Required:

Answer the following questions, i.e. (a) to (f) inclusive, based on the Case Study presented above on page 1 and assume that you are Garry, the financial controller of JFY.

(a) Identify the facts which are relevant to you, from the case study.
(b) List four key stakeholders who are affected in the case study.
(c) The APES code 110 sets out ethical standards which are applicable to Professional Accountants (including Financial Controllers). Discuss, with reference to the case study, the ethical principles which apply and/or which do not apply to Garry.
Set your answer out to part (c) as follows:

Ethical principle
Discussion (how the principle applies or does not apply to the case)
Integrity

Objectivity

Confidentiality

Professional Behaviour

(d) As Garry, which course of action would you take and why:
(i) Tell Jane everything (including the family trip) or
(ii) Only mention the business trip
(e) What would be the advantages and disadvantages to Just for you Pty Ltd of having a code of conduct?
(f) List three principles you would include in a ‘Code of Conduct’ for Just for you Pty Ltd and give a brief description of each.
Note: To assist you in determining this, you may like to examine the ‘Code of Conduct’ of the company assigned to the group you were in during Weeks 1 to 4 of session, a government agency, and/or a university
2 Reference List:

Includes any references you have used and cited in your report. You must use the Harvard referencing system as per the guide available from the University library website. (Note: the reference list is not included in the word count).

Resources list to assist you

1. The ‘Individual Assignment Marking Guide’ on pages 8 and 9 below. It is imperative you follow this marking guide in order to optimise the marks you may receive for this assignment. The marking guide shows what the marker will be looking for and what mark you will get if you reach certain levels of attainment. Print off a copy and use this to help you in your preparation.
2. Chapter 2 Business Sustainability of the textbook. Birt, J 2014, Accounting: business reporting for decision making, 5th ed, John Wiley and Sons Australia, Milton, Qld, pp. 40‑75.
3. APES 110 Code of Ethics for Professional Accountants, Accounting Professional & Ethical Standards Board Limited (“APESB”), issued December, 2010
4. Websites of the professional accounting bodies, such as, CPA Australia, and The ICAA Australia.

This will ensure you use the correct referencing approach.

7. The following ethical decision making models may help you in answering what is Required above.
· Langenderfer, HQ & Rockness, J 1990, Ethics in the accounting curriculum: cases and readings, American Accounting Association, Sarasota, as cited in S Henderson & G Pierson, chapter 31, Issues in financial accounting, Prentice Hall, Frenchs Forest. NSW.

· St James Ethics Centre 2012, St. James Ethics Centre, http://www.ethics.org.au/

· The Spiral Model ‑ Thompson, IE, Melia, KM, Boyd, KM & Horsburgh, D 2006, ‘Ethical decision‑making and moral theory’, in Nursing ethics, Churchill Livingstone, Edinburgh, pp. 295‑359.

· The Laura Nash model ‑ Nash, LL 1981, ‘Ethics without the sermon’, Harvard Business Review, vol. 59, no. 6, pp. 78‑90.

· The Mary Guy Model – Guy, ME 1990, ‘The Mary Guy Model ‘, in Ethical decision making in everyday work situations, Quorum Books, New York, pp. 14‑9.

A submission of no less than 500 words and no more than 750 words is expected excluding the reference list. Submissions must be word processed in either Times New Roman or Arial font, 12 point and 1.5 spaced with a footer on each page including your name, student ID and page number.

 

What sort of language does this assignment require?

Specialised terms, or “jargon”, should be defined but everyday terms should not. Do not assume that your reader is an expert in the area being discussed, nor assume that they are entirely uneducated.

How many references do we need?

The reference list should contain only those resources that have actually been referred to (or “cited”) in your answer. The quantity of references is not as important as the quality of your references, the relevance of your references and how the references are used in your assignment.

‘I A’ MARKING GUIDE

CRITERIA
UNSATISFACTORY
MEETS
EXPECTATIONS
EXCEEDS EXPECTATIONS
Addresses the specific questions under Requirement 1:

Identify the relevant facts from the case study
Identifies only 2 or less relevant facts from the case study

Identifies 3 or 4 of the relevant facts from the case study

States three valid reasons why it would help

r 0mk
r 2mks
r 3mks

List four key stakeholders affected by the case study

No relevant key stakeholder listed,

Lists 2 or 3 relevant key stakeholders

List 4 key stakeholders

r 0mk
r 1mks
r 2mks

Garry has identified the ethical principle INTEGRITY. Discuss why he should consider this with reference to the APES 110 Code of Ethics for Professional Accountants, and any miscellaneous prof statements.

No / little relevant discussion

Mostly relevant discussion

A comprehensive and relevant discussion

r 0mk
r 2mks
r 4 mks

Garry has identified the ethical principle OBJECTIVITY. Discuss why he should consider this with reference to the APES 110 Code of Ethics for Professional Accountants, and any miscellaneous prof statements.

No / little relevant discussion

Mostly relevant discussion

A comprehensive and relevant discussion

r 0mk
r 2mks
r 4mks
 

 
Garry has identified the ethical principle CONFIDENTIALITY. Discuss why he should consider this with reference to the APES 110 Code of Ethics for Professional Accountants, and any miscellaneous prof statements.

No / little relevant discussion

Mostly relevant discussion

A comprehensive and relevant discussion

r 0mk
r 2mks
r 4mks

Garry has identified the ethical principle PROFESSIONAL BEHAVIOUR. Discuss why he should consider this with reference to the APES 110 Code of Ethics for Professional Accountants, and any miscellaneous prof statements.

No / little relevant discussion

Mostly relevant discussion

A comprehensive and relevant discussion

r 0mk
r 2mks
r 4mks
Which course of action Garry should take and why?
Identifies the wrong course of action

Identifies the right course of action only.

Identifies the right course of action and also, justifies why the chosen answer.
r 0mk
r 2mks
r 4mks
Advantages and disadvantages of a Code of Conduct for JFY:

States the advantages and disadvantages

No valid advantage or

valid disadvantage stated

States one valid advantage and one valid disadvantage

States two valid advantages and one valid disadvantage OR vice versa

r 0mk
r 2mks
r 3mks

A Code of Conduct for JFY:

Outlines the principles for each code that makes up the Codes of Conduct
States one valid key principle

States two valid key principles and gives a valid brief outline of each

States three valid key principles and gives a valid brief outline of each

r 1mk
r 4mks
r 6mks

Addresses the clarity of the student’s attempt at Requirements 1 and 2:

CRITERIA

UNSATISFACTORY
MEETS EXPECTATIONS
EXCEEDS EXPECTATIONS
Referencing and paraphrasing using the “Harvard system”. Refer to the University’s Library website for details.

In‑text citation and/or paraphrasing and/or reference list missing or substantially incomplete

Satisfactory in‑text citation, paraphrasing and reference list, possibly with a few minor errors

Excellent in‑text citation, paraphrasing and reference list

r 0mk
r 2mks
r 3mks
Uses clear prose style: sentence structure, grammar, and spelling

Writing style is difficult to follow and/or contains many grammatical and/or spelling errors

Writing style is coherent, with possibly a few grammatical and/or spelling errors

Writing is clear and error‑free

r 0mk
r 2mks
r 3mks
Not appropriate length/not within the word limit

Outside the word limit i.e. more than 750 words OR less than 500 words

Length is within the set word limit i.e. between 500 – 750 words

r Minus 4 marks
r No penalty

video ” the smartest machine on earth:can a computer win on jeopardy?”

Activity 1
Essay 4 pages.
part 1-
watch a video ” the smartest machine on earth:can a computer win on jeopardy?” then select three examples or terms from the video that corresponds to something from this book ” cognition by Margert W. Matline 8th edition”.. Explain and define each concept/ example thoroughly in a paragraph each.

Part 2-
Explain two cognitive concepts from the video that are not in the textbook. explain fully and describe an example.

part 3-
use 5 refrences for each concept ” journal articles” only. List one APA style refrence

SOCW-6510-WK-Assignment Assignment 2: Process Recordings

SOCW-6510-WK-Assignment
Assignment 2: Process Recordings

A process recording is a written tool used by field education experience students, field instructors, and faculty to examine the dynamics of social work interactions in time. Process recordings can help in developing and refining interviewing and intervention skills. By conceptualizing and organizing ongoing activities with social work clients, you are able to clarify the purpose of interviews and interventions, identify personal and professional strengths and weaknesses, and improve self-awareness. The process recording is also a useful tool in exploring the interpersonal dynamics and values operating between you and the client system through an analysis of filtering the process used in recording a session.

For this Assignment, you will submit a process recording of your field education experiences specific to this week.

The Assignment: (2–4 pages)

o Provide a transcript of what happened during your field education experience (military mental health clinic), including a dialogue of interaction with a client.

o Explain your interpretation of what occurred in the dialogue, including social work practice or theories, and explain how it might relate to engagement covered this week.

o Describe your reactions and/or any issues related to your interaction with a client during your field education experience.

o Explain how you applied social work practice skills when performing the activities during your process recording.

References (use 2 or more)
Garthwait, C. L. (2017). The social work practicum: A guide and workbook for students (7th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.

Gerdes, K. E., & Segal, E. (2011). Importance of empathy for social work practice: Integrating new science. Social Work, 56(2), 141–148.

Maroon 5, a calendar-year corporation, recently sold tickets ($40,000,000) for concerts scheduled in the United States for next year and the following year. For financial statement purposes, Maroon 5 will recognize the income from the ticket sales when it performs the concerts. For tax purposes, it uses the accrual method and would prefer to defer the income from the ticket sales until after the concerts are performed. This is the first time that it has sold tickets one or two years in advance. Michael Stipe has asked your advice. REQUIRED: Write a memo to Michael explaining your findings and listing a minimum of 3 primary sources. The memo should be in correct format and addressed to the instructor of the course.

Accounting Homework
Maroon 5, a calendar-year corporation, recently sold tickets ($40,000,000) for concerts scheduled in the United States for next year and the following year. For financial statement purposes, Maroon 5 will recognize the income from the ticket sales when it performs the concerts. For tax purposes, it uses the accrual method and would prefer to defer the income from the ticket sales until after the concerts are performed. This is the first time that it has sold tickets one or two years in advance. Michael Stipe has asked your advice.

REQUIRED: Write a memo to Michael explaining your findings and listing a minimum of 3 primary sources. The memo should be in correct format and addressed to the instructor of the course.

construction Engineering

construction Engineering

write a report about the steps of block or concrete house. ( how to build it step by step?)

include the materials and the equipment that you will use.

an introduction of construction and steps of foundational or footing and first floor.

GEO assignment (Z009)

GEO assignment (Z009)
NATS 1750 A (Winter 2017): Assignment 3, Version 1.0 – February 20, 2017
Due: March 15, 2017 by 11 pm EDT via Moodle
(Late Penalty: 25% per day – including weekends. Strictly enforced.)
Instructions:
? You are expected to provide answers for every question. You are encouraged to show
all of your work so that marks can be awarded for partially correct answers.
? Although you are encouraged to collaborate with your classmates, each of you is
expected to submit a separate and distinct assignment – a point that will require
acknowledgement upon submission.
1. Using Google Maps (or a similar mapping capability):
a. Provide the latitude and longitude for a feature of your choosing on Mount Royal.
[2 marks]
b. Using your map, or some other source, provide an estimate for the altitude of
Mount Royal. (Be certain to cite your source of this estimate.) [1 mark]
c. Using your map, or some other source, provide an estimate for the altitude of
area around Mount Royal. (Be certain to cite your source of this estimate.) [1
mark]
d. Using your map, provide a three-dimensional picture of Mount Royal that
illustrates its relief relative to the surrounding area. Based on your answers 1(b)
and 1(c), provide a quantitative estimate for the relief of Mount Royal. [4 marks]
e. Based on your answer to 1(d), estimate the minimum depth of rock that the
Mount Royal would have required for intrusion (as an igneous pluton – i.e.,
assume Mount Royal intruded into a preexisting strata of sedimentary rocks.) [2
marks]
f. Through use of a sketch, provide a geological reconstruction for Mount Royal
around the time at which the intrusion took place. Add sketches that provide
before and after illustrations. [3 marks each = 9 marks; add 3 bonus marks for 3D
block diagrams]
g. Provide a geologically sound narrative to account for Mount Royal’s evolution
through use of your sketches – from the past, through to how it appears today. [3
marks]
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2. Locate a geological map of Mount Royal (e.g., Plandowski’s or Eby’s Figure 3).
a. Prepare a geological cross section that trends East-West. Your cross section
should be to scale, and intersect with the thin Utica shale lithology that is present
at the easternmost edge of Mount Royal. Label each lithology on your cross
section, and indicate which fundamental rock type it represents. In addition to
your cross section, provide an annotated version of the geological map you used
to indicate the location of your cross section in map view. [10 marks]
b. According to your cross section, which lithology (or lithologies) has the Mount
Royal pluton intruded into? [2 marks]
c. From your geological section, estimate the thickness of the Utica shale lithology
at the easternmost edge of the pluton. [3 marks]
d. According to Bodycomb (2001), the metamorphic aureole extended for about 800
m. Indicate this on your cross section by extending an 800 m thick region from
the edge of the last igneous lithology into a sedimentary one. [4 marks]
3. According to Eby: “…the intrusion is in contact with Ordovician shales (Utica formation)
and limestones (Trenton formation) that have been metamorphosed to the pyroxene
hornfels facies.” And, according to Bodycomb, maximum temperatures were estimated
at ~500 ?, while pressures would have been relatively low (less than 2 kbars).
a. Given this context, which polymorph of Al2SiO5 might you expect to find in a
sample of the hornfels rock from this location? Using the Phase Change
animation for Al2SiO5
, locate this polymorph on the pressure-temperature graph
provided. Obtain a screenshot of your graphical interpretation that includes a
representation of its crystalline shape. [2 marks]
b. Suppose that during an earlier stage of contact metamorphism temperatures
were above 725 ?, and pressures were higher. Using the Phase Change
animation for Al2SiO5
, locate this polymorph on the pressure-temperature graph
provided. Obtain a screenshot of your graphical interpretation that includes a
representation of its crystalline shape. [2 marks]
c. Suppose that at some time in the distant future, a sample of the mineral
produced in Question 3(a) is buried to a pressure in excess of 4.0 kbars, without
a change in temperature. Using the Phase Change animation for Al2SiO5
, locate
this polymorph on the pressure-temperature graph provided. Obtain a screenshot
of your graphical interpretation that includes a representation of its crystalline
shape. [2 marks]
d. Provide a process-flow diagram that makes use of The Rock Cycle to account for
the scenario described in Question 3(c). [3 marks]
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4. Age relationships.
a. The sedimentary rocks, that Mount Royal has intruded into, date back to the
Ordovician. Estimate their youngest-possible age, and add this information to
your sketches. [5 marks]
b. Eby provides ages for the igneous rocks that comprise Mount Royal. Estimate
this age and add it to your sketches. Knowing that the of the hornfels facies rocks
(Question 3) are the byproduct of contact metamorphism, what is their age most
likely to be? Explain. [8 marks]
c. Are these relative ages, i.e., your answers to questions 4(a) and 4(b), consistent
with the intrusion hypothesis? Explain. [2 marks]
5. The origin of Mount Royal remains a matter of some debate.
a. According to Tourisme Montreal, what is the myth surrounding this prominent
feature of the city? [2 marks]
b. Other sources suggest that the Monteregian Hills have an origin that is
analogous to the Hawaiian islands and seamounts.
i. Identify the island/seamount chain that the Monteregian Hills (including
Mount Royal) are deemed to be a part of. [1 mark]
ii. Briefly described the Plate Tectonic setting required for the
island/seamount chain origin. [2 marks]
iii. Based on the island/seamount interpretation for the origin of the
Monteregian Hills, describe plate motion and ages in relative terms. [4
marks]
c. Does Eby’s grain-size data, for this feature’s igneous rocks, encourage or
discourage belief in this myth? Explain. [3 marks]
d. Eby claims that a failed aulacogen? allows for an interpretation that is more
consistent with the geological/geochronological evidence.
i. Define this term and provide a sketch of its Plate Tectonic context. [4
marks]
ii. In stating “… note the approximately 120° angle between the
[Monteregian Hills] and younger [White Mountain] plutons …” draws our
attention to the spatial appearance of these intrusions. By annotating
Eby’s Figure 1, are you able to confirm the angular relationship between
these series of plutons? [3 marks]
iii. Is this interpretation consistent with the Tourisme Montreal myth? Explain.
[3 marks]
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[Marking:
? 1: 22 marks (+3 bonus)
? 2: 19 marks
? 3: 9 marks
? 4: 15 marks
? 5: 22 marks
? Total: 87 marks]
Resources
Bodycomb, V., FIELD TRIP 2: THE IGNEOUS, SEDIMENTARY AND METAMORPHIC
HISTORY OF MOUNT ROYAL,
http://transsexy.geophys.mcgill.ca/~olivia/UPE/Field_trips/trip2.html#geology, 2001.
(Plandowski’s geological map is referenced in this resource.)
Available from: Nelson Eby, Sep 15, 2015
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281784303_GEOLOGY_AND_PETROLOGY_OF_THE_MONT_ROYAL_PLUT
ON_MONTREAL_QUEBEC, DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.5022.8884 ·
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