Describe the changes in economics
1. Describe the changes in economics and warfare that were introduced in the Hellenistic world.
2. How did Christianity move from a persecuted sect to the religion of the Roman Empire?
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Ethics in the Workplace / Globalization
Ethics in the Workplace / Globalization
Ethics in the Workplace / Globalization
Ø Support your claims with examples from required material(s) and/or other scholarly resources, and properly cite any references.
Part 1
Ethics in the Workplace
Analyze three of the following ethical scenarios:
· Lorna is an administrative assistant in the human resources department. Her good friend, Bill, is applying for a job with the company, and she has agreed to serve as a reference for him. Bill approaches her for advice on preparing for the interview. Lorna has the actual interview questions and considers making him a copy of the list so he can adequately prepare. Is this unethical behavior? Why or why not?
· Betty is a high-producing, devoted employee who, at her boss’s request, will often volunteer to work overtime in an emergency. One morning, after arriving late to work, she told her boss that she got caught in traffic, when in fact, she overslept. Is making up an excuse for being late to work unethical behavior in Betty’s case? Why or why not?
· Suzy and Tom work on an assembly line making computer parts. While there are safety protocols in place to prevent workplace injuries, these policies slow down the pace of work. Since employees are paid per computer part that gets assembled, Suzy and Tom decide not to follow the safety procedures so that they can speed up the pace of assembly. Is this unethical behavior? Why or why not?
· Bob noticed his supervisor, a young married man, taking his divorced co-worker Joanna home two nights in succession, and decided something was going on between them. Without any malicious intent, Bob introduced the matter into the local grapevine and, as so often happens, the rumor got out of hand. Is Bob’s behavior unethical? Why or why not?
· Jennie was recently hired to work as a receptionist for the front lobby. As a receptionist, she is responsible for making copies for the associates. Her son Bruce comes in and needs to make some copies for a school project. He brought his own paper and needs 300 copies for his class. If he does not bring the copies with him, he will fail the project. The company copier does not require a security key, nor do they keep track of copies made by departments, so Jennie allows her son make the copies at her work. Is this unethical behavior? Why or why not?
Part 2
Globalization
In preparation for this discussion, review the following resources:
Globalization Easily Explained Explainity ® Explainer Video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXN_jl2abEE
Globalization Backlash, (Hansen, 2001) – http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/document.php?id=cqresrre2001092801
In your initial post, address the following:
· Describe how globalization has changed the way American companies are doing business.
· How do these strategies affect people in other parts of the world?
· In what ways do you believe this change has benefited American organizations and their customers?
· Are there ways in which organizations and their customers have been adversely effected? Explain your position
Critical thinking
Critical thinking
Provide an example from your own experience where you acted in accordance with one or more of the patterns of irrational or unethical decision making. Explain the egocentrism or sociocentrism, as well as any pathological tendencies of mind, involved in your thought process. How could you have applied the keys to sound decision making to approach the situation more rationally? If you prefer not to discuss your own decision making experience, you may instead discuss someone you know, a historical figure, or a fictional character. Your response should be at least two pages in length and should be typed using 12-point Times New Roman font. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations in APA format. The title and reference page do not count towards the two-page minimum.
Toxicology /Journal. Identify and discuss an event that has been in the media within the last six months that involves a chemical adversely impacting the health of humans or the environment. What actions (if any) have been taken to reverse the impact? How do you public opinion has influenced how the situation has been addressed?
Toxicology /Journal.
Identify and discuss an event that has been in the media within the last six months that involves a chemical adversely impacting the health of humans or the environment. What actions (if any) have been taken to reverse the impact? How do you public opinion has influenced how the situation has been addressed?
Aircraft Selection-Vertical Takeoff and Landing.
Aircraft Selection-Vertical Takeoff and Landing.
Aircraft Selection-Vertical Takeoff and Landing.
To accomplish the design project’s Outback Challenge mission, your first design topic to research is Aircraft Selection-Vertical Takeoff and Landing. Your research selection is for the airframe, engine, and propeller/rotors only. At this time do not include additional items like GPS, camera, controllers, etc. You will add these items to the design later. You are building a custom UAS system for the purpose of Search and Rescue, therefore, do not select a complete system that is ready to fly as they are typically designed for recreational flying and will not work well for the mission. If you find a complete system with an airframe, engine, and propellers/props that you feel will work as a good platform to build the rest of your system; determine if purchasing only the items you need is allowed without buying the entire system.
Using the criteria found in the Outback Challenge rules, research and select the type of aircraft you feel would best accomplish the two-fold mission of searching for and delivering a rescue package to Outback Joe. (Note: Your entire UAS system cannot exceed $10K, so do not select an aircraft that costs more than your budget can afford. You are required to build your UAS from off the shelf items. Do not select an entire ready to fly or military system that you cannot build from components available on the civilian market).
Paper Guidelines: This information applies to all Technical Analysis Research papers and will not be repeated.
Analyze and summarize your research and prepare a (minimum) two-page paper. Include at least two credible reference resources to support your information. Current APA standards apply. The nature of this course is specific to UAS/UAV robotics and control. The focus of your paper must revolve around this theme. Papers that do not address this topic, but focus instead on other important, but irrelevant UAS or manned aircraft issues will not grade well. Review the assignment rubric for specific grading details and to ensure your paper meets or exceeds grading standards. Important: You will use the research you gather from each paper for the development of the UAS Design Project Presentation.
Inside the Meltdown:
Inside the Meltdown:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/meltdown/view/
Ten Trillion and Counting:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tentrillion/view/
After watching the above two videos, and please write the two pages essay.
Single spaced and times new roman.
No plagiarism, and No late.
Feasibility Report
Feasibility Report
Situation: Rex Hill (a winery located in Newberg, Oregon) has asked you to investigate a proposal for installing a PV solar panel system at their property. As Rex Hill’s consultant, you will examine the relevant factors that come into play and write a brief feasibility report (single spacing; cover page; professional formatting) that informs the winemaker with a recommendation as to whether to pursue the project.
In planning your report, assume that Sunbridge Solar is the solar installation company and that the project would include a ground-mounted 20-kW solar array. Also, assume that the owners of Rex Hill, including their financial and business advisors, will be reading the report (therefore, don’t include any information pertaining to the class, such as “WR 327” or “Technical Report Writing”).
The capital cost of the solar panel system is $82,000. The system is warranted for 20 years and has an expected lifespan of 40 years. If Rex Hill moves forward with the project, they would finance the system with a 5-year loan at 6% interest. The payments over the life of the loan are $1,585 per month. After investigating and researching the benefits of the project, you (as the consultant) determined the following information:
• Based on the current electrical rate, the project will save around $900 per year on utility costs over the first 5 years. That amount will likely increase in the future.
• By installing the system, Energy Trust of Oregon would provide a first-year rebate of $20,000.
• Rex Hill qualifies for a state Business Energy Tax Credit worth 50% of the cost of the system. The tax credit would be spread evenly over the course of 5 years.
• Rex Hill also qualifies for a Federal Tax Credit worth 30% of the cost of the system. The tax credit would be spread evenly over the course of 3 years.
• Rex Hill is eligible for a tax benefit relating to the ability to write off the rapid depreciation of the equipment. After talking with a tax advisor, you find out that the actual tax savings amount to $2,500 per year for the first 5 years.
• As part of the solar project, Sunbridge Solar would also provide an energy monitoring system, which would allow Rex Hill to display energy-saving data on a flat panel screen (hint: think of the public relations opportunity of incorporating environmental responsibility/sustainable practices)
In writing your report, please assume that the tax-related benefits are directly proportional to the other savings. Also, in writing your report, be sure to take into consideration design strategies and visual aids. If you want to use other assumptions in writing your report, please be sure to list them (or run them by me beforehand).
Environmental benefits/Energy generation potentialhttp://www.solarcity.com/commercial/agriculture-solar-projects/king-estate-winery
Operations and Maintenance costs/considerationshttp://assets.fiercemarkets.net/public/smartgridnews/1021496AddressingPVOaMChallenges7-2010_1_.pdfhttps://energizeohio.osu.edu/sites/energizeohio/files/imce/TB-1291-2.pdf
Sustainability considerationshttps://www.environmentalleader.com/2017/01/consumers-will-pay-more-money-for-sustainable-products/http://www.rexhill.com/?method=pages.showPage&PageID=1F6BF17A-BBCF-FC9B-6697-77981AF8BC9B&originalMarketingURL=The-Winery/Our-People/Vineyardshttp://www.rexhill.com/?method=pages.showPage&PageID=21162A77-F149-11D7-B9AC-A215B3DE4789&originalMarketingURL=The-Winery/Our-People/Financehttps://www.wineinstitute.org/initiatives/sustainablewinegrowing/benefits
For the financial evaluation, I highly recommend developing a table and comparing all costs/savings/outlays.
Planning the feasibility report
A feasibility reports investigates whether to pursue a project, sizing up the project before it is undertaken. A feasibility report is an analysis of the practicality of an idea through a disciplined and documented process of thinking through the idea from its logical beginning to its logical end. The analysis is carried out to assess the viability of a new project and should lead the reader to the desired conclusion. The structure of your report should embrace a rational thought process, arriving at a decision that is justified.
For planning a feasibility report, remember to:
• Consider the audience
• Determine the criteriao Selecting logical criteria is crucial to the entire feasibility report because you will ultimately provide a recommendation that is based on those criteria. • Determine the standards o To determine standards is to state the limits of the criteria.
• Organize your discussion around the criteria
With your feasibility report, consider the structuring of your report:
• Introduction o Purpose statemento Explanation of methods of investigation o Statement of scope? A scope statement reveals the topics in a report. With a feasibility study or recommendation report, the scope statement will cite the criteria you used to evaluate the data. You can also explain their ranking. o Background or explanation of the situation• Conclusions • Recommendations/Rationale section • Discussion section
mortgage crisis is, and what you have learned from this crisis. Just summarize what mortgage crisis is, and what you have learned from this crisis. Around 500 words.
mortgage crisis is, and what you have learned from this crisis.
Just summarize what mortgage crisis is, and what you have learned from this crisis. Around 500 words.
English Summer Homework – GRADE 9 – All Teachers/http://articles.latimes.com/print/1998/apr/19/books/bk-42979
English Summer Homework – GRADE 9 – All Teachers/http://articles.latimes.com/print/1998/apr/19/books/bk-42979
1) Read and annotate “Superman and Me.” (The article is provided on the next two pages.)
2) Mark annotations directly on the article to record meaning as you read.
3) Prepare to write a timed short response on “Superman and Me” on the first day of school. Plan to use your annotations to generate ideas and evidence for the “first day” essay.
4) Visit a library to obtain a library card or to read the fines off your current card.
5) Be ready to show your library card to your English teacher on the first day of school.
6) Talk to a librarian and then make a list of 10 books you want to read.
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7) Read at least one of these books (we hope you’ll read more!).
8) Use the “Scholar” Mark below as your bookmark, and also to record the page numbers of important passages, sentences, ideas, and events throughout your selected book.
9) Talk about your book with someone, and be prepared to discuss your book with a classmate during the first week of school.
Sherman Alexie: “Superman and Me” I learned to read with a Superman comic book. Simple enough, I suppose. I cannot recall which particular Superman comic book I read, nor can I remember which villain he fought in that issue. I cannot remember the plot, nor the means by which I obtained the comic book. What I can remember is this: I was 3 years old, a Spokane Indian boy living with his family on the Spokane Indian Reservation in eastern Washington state. We were poor by most standards, but one of my parents usually managed to find some minimum-wage job or another, which made us middle-class by reservation standards. I had a brother and three sisters. We lived on a combination of irregular paychecks, hope, fear and government surplus food. My father, who is one of the few Indians who went to Catholic school on purpose, was an avid reader of westerns, spy thrillers, murder mysteries, gangster epics, basketball player biographies and anything else he could find. He bought his books by the pound at Dutch’s Pawn Shop, Goodwill, Salvation Army and Value Village. When he had extra money, he bought new novels at supermarkets, convenience stores and hospital gift shops. Our house was filled with books. They were stacked in crazy piles in the bathroom, bedrooms and living room. In a fit of unemployment-inspired creative energy, my father built a set of bookshelves and soon filled them with a random assortment of books about the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, the Vietnam War and the entire 23-book series of the Apache westerns. My father loved books, and since I loved my father with an aching devotion, I decided to love books as well. I can remember picking up my father’s books before I could read. The words themselves were mostly foreign, but I still remember the exact moment when I first understood, with a sudden clarity, the purpose of a paragraph. I didn’t have the vocabulary to say “paragraph,” but I realized that a paragraph was a fence that held words. The words inside a paragraph worked together for a common purpose. They had some specific reason for being inside the same fence. This knowledge delighted me. I began to think of everything in terms of paragraphs. Our reservation was a small paragraph within the United States. My family’s house was a paragraph, distinct from the other paragraphs of the LeBrets to the north, the Fords to our south and the Tribal School to the west. Inside our house, each family member existed as a separate paragraph but still had genetics and common experiences to link us. Now, using this logic, I can see my changed family as an essay of seven paragraphs: mother, father, older brother, the deceased sister, my younger twin sisters and our adopted little brother. At the same time I was seeing the world in paragraphs, I also picked up that Superman comic book. Each panel, complete with picture, dialogue and narrative was a threedimensional paragraph. In one panel, Superman breaks through a door. His suit is red, blue and yellow. The brown door shatters into many pieces. I look at the narrative above the picture. I cannot read the words, but I assume it tells me that “Superman is breaking down the door.” Aloud, I pretend to read the words and say, “Superman is breaking down the door.” Words, dialogue, also float out of Superman’s mouth. Because he is breaking down the door, I assume he says, “I am breaking down the door.” Once again, I pretend to read the words and say aloud, “I am breaking down the door” In this way, I learned to read. This might be an interesting story all by itself. A little Indian boy teaches himself to read at an early age and advances quickly. He reads “Grapes of Wrath” in kindergarten when other children are struggling through “Dick and Jane.” If he’d been anything but an Indian boy living on the reservation, he might have been called a prodigy. But he is an Indian boy living on the reservation and is simply an oddity. He grows into a man who often speaks of his childhood in the third-person, as if it will somehow dull the pain and make him sound more modest about his talents. * A smart Indian is a dangerous person, widely feared and ridiculed by Indians and nonIndians alike. I fought with my classmates on a daily basis. They wanted me to stay quiet when the non-Indian teacher asked for answers, for volunteers, for help. We were Indian children who were expected to be stupid. Most lived up to those expectations inside the classroom but subverted them on the outside. They struggled with basic reading in school but could remember how to sing a few dozen powwow songs. They were monosyllabic in front of their non-Indian teachers but could tell complicated stories and jokes at the dinner table. They submissively ducked their heads when confronted by a non-Indian adult but would slug it out with the Indian bully who was 10 years older. As Indian children, we were expected to fail in the non-Indian world. Those who failed were ceremonially accepted by other Indians and appropriately pitied by non-Indians. I refused to fail. I was smart. I was arrogant. I was lucky. I read books late into the night, until I could barely keep my eyes open. I read books at recess, then during lunch, and in the few minutes left after I had finished my classroom assignments. I read books in the car when my family traveled to powwows or basketball games. In shopping malls, I ran to the bookstores and read bits and pieces of as many books as I could. I read the books my father brought home from the pawnshops and secondhand. I read the books I borrowed from the library. I read the backs of cereal boxes. I read the newspaper. I read the bulletins posted on the walls of the school, the clinic, the tribal offices, the post office. I read junk mail. I read auto-repair manuals. I read magazines. I read anything that had words and paragraphs. I read with equal parts joy and desperation. I loved those books, but I also knew that love had only one purpose. I was trying to save my life. Despite all the books I read, I am still surprised I became a writer. I was going to be a pediatrician. These days, I write novels, short stories, and poems. I visit schools and teach creative writing to Indian kids. In all my years in the reservation school system, I was never taught how to write poetry, short stories or novels. I was certainly never taught that Indians wrote poetry, short stories and novels. Writing was something beyond Indians. I cannot recall a single time that a guest teacher visited the reservation. There must have been visiting teachers. Who were they? Where are they now? Do they exist? I visit the schools as often as possible. The Indian kids crowd the classroom. Many are writing their own poems, short stories and novels. They have read my books. They have read many other books. They look at me with bright eyes and arrogant wonder. They are trying to save their lives. Then there are the sullen and already defeated Indian kids who sit in the back rows and ignore me with theatrical precision. The pages of their notebooks are empty. They carry neither pencil nor pen. They stare out the window. They refuse and resist. “Books,” I say to them. “Books,” I say. I throw my weight against their locked doors. The door holds. I am smart. I am arrogant. I am lucky. I am trying to save our lives.
http://articles.latimes.com/print/1998/apr/19/books/bk-42979
Explain different races and ethnicities in the united states
Explain different races and ethnicities in the united states
Write an essay comparing and contrasting the experiences or activities of 3 different races and ethnicities in the United States (but NOT Native Americans and African Americans).
Because you are not using the textbooks for this paper, you will need to find other sources of information. These will need to be scholarly sources, such as from jstor.org.
As usual, you will want to find some kind of theme that ties the material together. For example:
– The impact of religion on the experience of the different groups.
– The similarities or differences in experiences of different groups at different times in US history.
– Strategies used by the different groups for gaining political power.
– Stereotypes of the different groups in the media.
– Ways the different groups have impacted US culture.
– Challenges faced by the different groups today.
– Responses to the different groups from the mainstream WASP culture.