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Economic Base Analysis of a Local Community-Broward County and State Florida

Economic Base Analysis of a Local Community-Broward County and State Florida

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If need more pages, you may add. I have a sample assignment from other student attached. I expect have this assignment similar as sample. Please use that following. USE BROWARD COUNTY & STATE FLORIDA. Economic Base Analysis of a Local Community In this assignment students are expected to write a short report to profile a local community?s basic vs. non-basic sectors. Use the same county that you selected for your first assignment. The report should follow the structure indicated below and must have an electronic copy submitted to Canvas. All the student assignments are subject to check for originality. All the charts, tables and maps should be sequentially numbered and named (e.g. Figure 1: Racial composition of the county; Table 1: Historic population counts, etc.). Sources of the data should be properly credited following the charts/tables/maps. Sparely cite the charts/tables/maps from other sources and create them yourself if possible. Use APA citation format for all your references. Use 1.15 line spacing and appropriate font types. Either landscape or portrait page orientation is acceptable. Organize the tables, graphs, maps, and the text in a way that is nether cluttered nor with too much space. Align your texts, tables, graphs, maps, and the text. Insert page numbers. Use headings and subheadings, which will be useful for creating the Table of Contents automatically. Headings and subheadings should be stressed with either bold, larger font sizes, different colors, or a combination of these techniques. Maps should have all the map elements, such as the map itself, legend, north arrow, scale bar, creator, and creation date. Page margins should be 1? all around. You can use Microsoft Publisher or Photoshop Illustrator to format your report if you choose to do so. Otherwise, please submit a Microsoft Word or Adobe pdf file to Canvas. Adobe pdf files are highly suggested since Word files sometimes shift when opening in a different version, different computer, or different operating system. Learning objectives of the assignment: ? Format and techniques of professional report writing ? The use of secondary data sources in profiling a local community ? Basic techniques in creating professional charts and tables ? The calculation of Location Quotients to measure economic strength of an area Structure of the report: 1. Cover page: topic, student name, course name and number, date Topic: e.g. Economic Base Analysis of Palm Beach County, Florida 2 2. Table of Contents, List of Tables, and List of Figures 3. Executive Summary: main findings should be in this section. 4. Introduction Briefly introduce the county?s economic characteristics. Then mention that you will focus on economic base analysis by using the Census data. Explain your methodology. 5. Economic Base Analysis In this section you need to find the employment data by different industries for your county, compare the data with those at the state level and calculate Location Quotients and Base Multipliers. Most of the aggregated data on business establishment, employment and payroll can be obtained from the American FactFinder (https://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/index.xhtml.) and the County Business Patterns (https://www.census.gov/econ/cbp/index.html). Some data can be also retrieved from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In this assignment we use data from the County Business Patterns website. Go to https://www.census.gov/econ/cbp/index.html, choose Data, and ?CBP Data Tables?. Choose ?U.S., States, Counties, Puerto Rico and Island Areas Tables – 2014?. Choose the state where your county is located at. Then either copy and paste the data, or down load the data table to Excel. Downloading is recommended to preserve all the data information. After you download the state-level data and save them to an Excel file, on the same webpage, choose ?add/remove geographies? and find your county. Remove the state information if you prefer and download the county information to another Excel file. Or you can keep the state and the county information together, save it to one Excel file and then reorganize the data based on the following assignments. Two-digit NAICS (North American Industrial Classification System) industry code is sufficient. 5.1 Calculate the percentage share of employment for each industry among total employment at the county and state levels. Create two radar/rose diagrams to delineate the shares at both the county and the state levels. Include the charts in your report and describe your findings and comparisons. 5.2. Calculate the percentage share of annual payroll for each industry among all industries at the county and state levels. Create two radar/rose diagrams to delineate the shares at both the county and the state levels. Include the charts in your report and describe your findings and comparisons. 5.3. Calculate the annual payroll per employee for each industry at the county and state levels. Create a clustered bar chart to delineate the annual payroll per employee for each industry at the county and the state levels. Include the chart in your report and describe your findings and comparisons. 3 5.4. Create a few new worksheets and organize your county and state data in Excel based on the Excel file ?Assumption and LQ Model?. Calculate the basic employment of the county based on Assumption approach, Location Quotients approach, and Simple Combination approach. Create a radar/rose diagram of the LQs for each industry in the county. Explain what the LQ means for each industry. Include all three tables (assumption, LQ, and simple combination) and the LQ chart in your report. 5.5. Calculate the employment base multiplier for the county based on the simple combination approach. Explain what it means. 6. References 7. Appendices (if applicable)

Examine an Organization, Movement, or Cause.

Examine an Organization, Movement, or Cause.

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OVERVIEW:?? All forms of media have the capacity to shed light and educate by sharing information and giving people the tools to learn more about various subjects. When this happens, people are often better able to explore relevant issues that may impact their lives. Knowledge gives people a voice, especially when people of like minds come together to make plans instead of just waiting to see what happens. This often involves community organizations and other interest groups working to cultivate support by making their case. It may also involve members of the media working to decode the complexities of proposed legislation and other efforts to initiate some type of change at either the local, state or federal level. This may be accomplished by the media ?fact checking? a campaign, a movement or prevailing public perceptions. Even fact checking, though, is difficult because there are many subtle complexities that may be interpreted in more than one way. ? Unfortunately, with the power that various media possess to reach the public consciousness, there is also potential for abuse, but spotting what is manipulation versus what is productive dialogue is so hard to decipher. So-called ?grass roots? campaigns for a certain cause may be genuine or they may not actually be grass roots at all even though the description suggests that they are relatively spontaneous events in which communities come together, often to right a wrong or to do something collectively for the greater good. Organizations, institutes and councils are funded by political parties, lobbyists, religious or cultural organizations, war mongers, pacifists, liberals, conservatives, philanthropists, people with a shared financial interest, people of certain socio-economic groups, self-appointed ?guardians? of the public morals, extremists or people who share a particular interest in one side of a controversial issue. ??WHAT YOU?RE DOING: ? Please go online and search to learn more about a controversial issue in which an organization is pushing a certain point of view or even just trying to create a general perception. Is that organization working toward a greater good? How legitimate does its message seem to you? How is the message of that organization being received in the media? If you feel that the message has merit, is it being heard? If you feel that the public or the media are being manipulated, is it working? Will any changes that could result from a different way of thinking be to the benefit or detriment of a certain segment of society? Do those who demand more or fewer rules stand to benefit or suffer from such a change?? Try searching for such terms as ?interest group,? ?media manipulation,? ?hidden agenda,? ?civil discourse,? ?lobbying,? ?weasel words? or other similar terms and try to analyze the machinery that is at work in that cause or campaign. Please dig a little deeper, though, by not just stopping at the first few search results that you receive. Is there an organization or cause that is shedding light or is it trying to put a blindfold across the eyes of the public? Is it a little of each? Doing this, of course, is like peeling an onion because after each layer comes off, there is another. For example, you may find a web site for an organization with a pleasant-sounding name or even a title that suggests a benevolent mission or noble mission. The purpose of this assignment is NOT to suggest that you suspect conspiracy at every turn, but it is asking you to dig a little deeper and try to identify anonymous voices that are wrapped in a slick and seemingly sincere package. Perhaps you will come across an organization that has a pleasant-sounding name such as ?Americans For (fill in the blank)? or so-called think tanks or ?councils? or ?institutes.? What is their mission? Who do they represent? Do they have a central mission that seeks more or less government control over particular things that may or not need a different level of regulation? Do they suggest that tipping the scale in the other different direction will make things fair or may they be seeking to shift an advantage from one side to another?? In three to four pages, please examine an organization, movement or cause that is, by your estimate, getting media and public attention for either a good reason or a bad reason. Is this group promoting a better understanding of an issue that you think needs to be more prevalent in the public consciousness? Is there a fairness or lack of fairness in the message? Does the organization seem to be working to right a wrong, perpetuate something destructive or distract the public? Does the perception or even perceived-reality that the organization is representing have a hidden agenda? Does the organization want to shift a burden from one segment of society to another, achieve a balance of power, hold people back or claim an unfair advantage? Please cite specific examples that demonstrate a depth of thinking. The idea behind this assignment is that you, as a future member of the media, will be bombarded with communications seeking attention or even trying to ?get you onboard.? People will try to reach you with sincere missions to make the world better, concerted efforts to spread hate, cloaked efforts to obscure an issue or just seemingly irrelevant messages that are unfocused and may not even be worthy of your attention. ? As always, please avoid clich?s and assumptions that lead to general statements about ?unfairness? or ?manipulation? without citing what, specifically, you think the forces are at work. Again, please cite examples to support your observations. This is not just a personal stream-of-consciousness rant about an issue that is familiar but undefined. You?re looking for a good example of how you think that somebody? for better or worse?. is trying to float a message that will influence public perception. So, you will want to pause to reflect when somebody tells you that ?the American people? want something or that all of the ?smart,? ?decent,? ?forward thinking,? ?open-minded,? people are doing something because they?re the ones who ?get it.? The message may be true, or it may not be true or it may be somewhere between the two. It?s time for you to go exploring.

Tattoos on the Heart Reflection Paper:

Tattoos on the Heart Reflection Paper:

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Tattoos on the Heart Paper (1000-1500 words, 100 points total). Each student will write a paper reflecting on the book Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion. This paper will put this book into conversation with at least 2 primary sources
Imagine that one day, you have as a house guest an alien from another planet. He comes from a planet that has a similar conception of religion and similar instances of organized religion as we do on Earth. He is not, however, at all familiar with Christianity, but he has picked up and read a copy of Tattoos on the Heart that he found on your coffee table. Imagine as well that you yourself have only ever been exposed to the ideas about Christianity that you came into contact with in RS220 in Fall semester 2016.

Our alien asks you why you had to read this book for your course on Christianity. You answer, correctly, that your teacher assigned this book because it is a work of Christian theology, in reflective, narrative form, that elucidates some of the fundamental ideas about a Christian understanding of God and God?s relationship to human beings. Your guest is full of further questions: What are these fundamental ideas? How does this book exemplify these ideas? How do you know those are fundamental to a Christian understanding of God? What other texts have you read this semester that show forth those ideas? Where is this book?s understanding of God (and God?s relationship to human beings) found among some of the other examples of Christian theology or Christian spiritual writing that you read this semester? What do you, personally, think of such a conception of God and God?s relationship to human beings?

You agree to answer his questions and to put your answer into writing, so that he can take it back to educate beings on his own planet about this Earthling religion. Your written answer takes the following form:

1) You explain who Greg Boyle is and what he does and why he wrote a book about it (10%).
2) You argue that his book Tattoos on the Heart, understands God and God?s relationship to human beings as ____________________________________ (20%).
3) You give at least three detailed examples from the book Tattoos on the Heart, that prove that what you have put forth is, indeed, how this book primarily understands God and God?s relationship to human beings (20%).

Examine the influence, both positive and negative, of western European and American knowledge and ideals on the Ottoman and Qing states in the nineteenth century.

Examine the influence, both positive and negative, of western European and American knowledge and ideals on the Ottoman and Qing states in the nineteenth century.

Examine the influence, both positive and negative, of western European and American knowledge and ideals on the Ottoman and Qing states in the nineteenth century. Why would these states be both attracted to and repelled by these influences?

what is the relationship between interest groups and government?

what is the relationship between interest groups and government?

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We continually hear about interest groups in the news. Understanding this, what is the relationship between interest groups and government? How does this apply to government-created interest groups? In addition, what are the effects of bureaucrats as interest groups? Do you believe this crossover between bureaucrats and interest groups to be right? Please be sure to provide specific examples in your response.

Roskin, M. G., Cord, R. L., Medeiros, J. A., & Jones, W. S. (2014). Political science: An introduction.

Critically discuss what motivates the contemporary Western leisure tourist with specific reference to heritage/cultural tourism and/or beach tourism.

Critically discuss what motivates the contemporary Western leisure tourist with specific reference to heritage/cultural tourism and/or beach tourism.

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2,400 words maximum. This assignment is a traditional academic essay and should adopt an appropriate format. It is vital that you underpin clear arguments and conclusions with reference to appropriate theory. You may use a variety or examples to help clarify your argument(s) but you should not adopt a case study approach or focus solely on one type of tourism. This assignment brief assumes a Western perspective unless you specifically state otherwise.

Guidance for module –

? Your answer should be a critical evaluation and not purely descriptive nature.
? You should provide a clear and relevant argument.
? Your work should include an introduction and conclusion.
? The work should be clear and produced / presented to a high standard.
? The use of the ideas of others without acknowledgement (plagiarism) will be reported.
? Provide a bibliography using the Harvard system & cite sources as appropriate.
? Good students will incorporate relevant and current academic theory as appropriate.
? Good/excellent students should demonstrate a high level of independent study/ thought.
? Excellent students will consistently link examples of touristic practice to theory.
? Excellent students will also critically consider relevant viewpoints whilst presenting a lucid argument, culminating in a clear conclusion.

Assignment criteria for 70%+

Knowledge and criteria – Demonstrates outstanding knowledge and critical understanding of the well-established principles associated with the sociological, anthropological and psychological and study of tourists.

Argument/Evaulation and Application – Insightful application of underlying concepts and principles (beyond the context in which they were first studied)

Research/Evidence and Interpretation – Authoritative use of a range of data/ techniques in order to undertake critical analysis

Presentation/Structure and Referencing – Information professionally presented, structured and communicated (to specified audience?); references accurate, reliable and precise. Harvard style referencing

Develop a plan for your own weekly tabloid-format newspaper

Develop a plan for your own weekly tabloid-format newspaper

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Develop a plan for your own weekly tabloid-format newspaper with at least 24 pages. Explain your plan in a 800 word report, led by a synopsis.
(BTW, in spite of popular wisdom, the word ?tabloid? refers to the size of the newspaper pages. Some people wrongly use that term to describe a sensationalistic newspaper).

You may ALSO decide to produce/propose an online version of your newspaper. But you cannot create just an online version.

You do NOT have to write the 24 or more pages of the newspaper. What I ask is for a detailed description of your newspaper. Start by explaining why you have chosen your newspaper and what you want to accomplish with it.

Why is there a need for this newspaper? Who will be your readers? Why do they need your publication? Who would be your advertisers? Why would they want to place an ad in your newspaper?

As with the other assignments, the final project reports will be posted in the Discussion Board by midnight on Friday, Nov. 25, and the class discussion for you to comment on each other?s work, will be from Nov. 25 to midnight Friday, Dec. 9.

Consider the following in your report and explain your choices:

? Editorial content. If ethnic, will it be written in the foreign language, in English, both? How many sections will it have? What are those sections – opinion, sports, entertainment, etc.? How many pages would you devote to each section? Will your newspaper focus on international, national, local news? Or all of the above? Would you create a niche publication, for example, dedicated only to sports, or even a specific sport? You must decide on a publication that would not just appeal to you, but to many people. Would it be an ethnic or mainstream publication and why?

? Advertising/Classifieds What percentage of your paper would you devote to advertising? Again, given the publication you envision, what kind of advertisers do you think you can attract? How much do you think you can charge for ads? Would you even bother creating a classified section? Why? Who would want to buy a classified ad in your publication?

? How many issues would you print? Where would your newspaper be distributed? Would it be sold or free? Why?

? Online version. Who is your readership? How would you attract readers to your site? How often would it be updated? How much would you charge for online ads?

? Bottom line. Can your proposed publication realistically sell enough ads and get enough subscriptions to raise enough funds to pay a staff to produce the news content you want to offer? ? not to mention printing costs, etc.?

I don?t want to see idealistic proposals for dream newspapers. Your proposal must be REALISTIC, especially regarding how you expect to raise funds and from whom. For example, if you want to start an ethnic weekly, based on what you have already learned in this course, you should not expect many full page ads from major advertisers. But you might be able to get those big ads from government agencies. It?s not about the advertisers you choose. It?s about the advertisers who would chose the kind of publication you are proposing to publish.