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Compare and contrast german nazi ideology-communist ideology

Compare and Contrast German Nazi ideology and Communist ideology as espoused by Marx?In what respects were similar and what respects did they differ?You may use bullets, but don’t vague.

Explain the effects of american entry into the war

1. Discuss the reform efforts of the Progressive era and the groups involved in those efforts.

2. Describe the methods used by the various states to bring about reforms in state governments during the Progressive era.

3. Discuss the involvement of women’s groups in Progressive-era reform movements

4. Describe ways in which American culture was influenced by the Progressive movement

5. Explain the major reasons for the growing call in the late 1800s for the United States to develop an empire

6. Describe the first moves Americans made toward empire

7. Explain the major reasons for the Spanish-American War of 1898, and discuss the controversy over imperialism that developed after the war

8. Describe the growth of imperialism in America during the Progressive era

9. Discuss the reasons the United States entered World War I

10. Explain the effects of American entry into the war.

11. Describe the effects of the treaty that ended the war.

Financial Analysis Project Guidelines

1. Obtain the most recent annual report for a company included in the Dow 30 (http://www.cnbc.com/dow-components/). The report should contain at least three years of income statement data and two years of balance sheet data. This will be your base company. 2. Next, obtain the most recent annual report for one of the primary competitors of your base company. Again, the report should contain at least three years of income statement data and two years of balance sheet data. 3. For your base company, analyze at least three items on the income statement that would be important to an investor. Discuss whether your company’s performance related to those items appear to be improving, deteriorating, or remaining stable. 4. For your base company, analyze at least three items on the balance sheet that would be important to an investor. Discuss whether your company’s performance related to those items appear to be improving, deteriorating, or remaining stable. 5. Identify two items not included in (or derived from) the financial statements that you think would be important to someone considering whether to invest in your company. Discuss your reasons for including these two items. (Hint: you might want to consider items you have discussed in other business courses.) 6. Compare your base company’s financial statements with those of the second company you chose. If you were deciding to invest in one of the two companies, which company would you choose? Why? (Note: your answer in this section must include, but need not be limited to, financial issues.) Notes:  You must submit the entire annual report for each company being discussed.  Your analysis must include page references to relevant portions of the annual reports, and the relevant portions of the annual report should be highlighted. Your report must also properly cite material taken from other sources.  Your analysis is limited to five pages, must be typed, double-spaced, and use a 12 point

Disease outcomes in minorities

For this assignment, develop a reflective and analytical paper consisting of no more than 5 pages of text [excluding title and references pages] with at least 3 scholarly and current (within 5 years) references beyond the course text). Focus on one type of health problem and the health disparities for the health problem that a group of people are experiencing (preferably within your scope of practice). Consider the historical, social, economic, cultural, and systemic factors contributing to the health disparity. APA Format

 

Your paper should include the following:

 

ï‚· Provide a description of the health problem (describe the epidemiology of the disease), and why it is an important public health problem. Define and describe what is meant by health disparity, and which group of persons is affected by the health problem you chose to write about.

 

ï‚· Provide a description of the health disparities that exist for one health problem and how the disparities affect the health and wellbeing of individuals, families, and communities in which they live. If possible, link your discussion to similar health disparities observed among the people you serve.

 

ï‚· Include contributing factors as well as the consequence of health disparities on the individuals, families, and communities in which the patient with health problems lives.

 

ï‚· Identify how reducing the health disparity discussed in your paper is linked to the goals and objectives of Healthy People 2020 (you can access the goals and objectives at: https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/about/foundation-health-measures/Disparities

 

 

ï‚· Discuss explanations offered for the health disparities and provide evidence that supports the explanation.

 

ï‚· Suggest research questions that have not been studied and support their importance (why is this question important and what new information will it add when answered).

 

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In conclusion, identify the role of nurses to lessen health disparities by advocating for and upholding the principles of social justice. What needs to occur for you and other nurses to be part of the solution? What are some social justice-based actions that you and other nurses can implement to reduce or eliminate the health disparity on which your paper is focused? For example, would use of Kleinman’s Explanatory Model to promote a culture of social justice when working with patients from cultures different than your own ensure that patients receive the best of care. The following link has key questions to ask patients regarding cause of illness using the Explanatory Model at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781444311686.app2/pdf.

 

ï‚· Please refrain from generalizations. Discus what you and your fellow nurses can actually do to minimize the health disparity you chose to discuss

 

 

 

 

research assignment 3 – political science

Part III (due August 15) Your Four Local Representatives:  County, City, School Board

1. County.  Most counties are divided into five districts, and are governed by 5 Supervisors, each representing one district.  Go to your county’s website and find out which County Supervisor represents your address.

Note:  If you live outside a city in an unincorporated area, provide a brief summary of what your county’s website says about its responsibilities to unincorporated areas.

3. School District.  Find out the name of the K-12 School District, and look up that District’s governing school board.  Choose one school board member.

4. After clearly identifying the four individuals and district numbers (if applicable), analyze who most closely represents your own interests and priorities.

Time saving hint:  Look at the instructions for Research Assignment 5 now, and see if you can collect this information while you are doing this assignment.

 

Part V (due August 29)

 

Find the public agenda for the next official meeting for one of the local government organizations you identified in Part III.  Describe the  items on the agenda, and for each one, explain how it does or how it might affect you.

Managerial Economics and Business Techniques

4 Page APA Style Case Study using at least 3 references including Textbook:

Samuelson, W. F., & Marks, S. G. (2015). Managerial economics (8th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.

 

Founded in 2009 by Travis Kalanick, Uber provides transportation service in U.S., European, and Asian cities. In the year 2014, its gross revenues were $2.957 billion; net revenue after commissions and incentives, $495 million; cost of revenue, $400 million; operating expenses, $661 million; for an EBIT of $565 million. The original Uber model of operations was for

the driver to use his or her own vehicle and offer services as and when they liked. The Uber webpage for drivers emphasizes that drivers can use their own car, set their own schedule, and get paid weekly. More recently, Uber has arranged for drivers to rent cars to provide Uber services. Uber clients book and pay for rides through the smartphone. As noted in Business Insider’s article by James Cook, after each ride, the Uber client rates the driver on a scale from 1 to 5. If a driver’s rating falls below a particular level, Uber discontinues her or him from offering the service. Uber also allows drivers to rate clients. In January 2015, Uber extended fare cuts from the largest U.S. markets to 48 more cities. Uber asserted that the lower fares would benefit clients and drivers because the higher demand would allow drivers’ incomes to increase. The higher demand makes the drivers more efficient, so that they can get more trips every hour, which means more earnings for them. By contrast with Uber, whose drivers provide service with private cars, the Chinese services, Didi Dache (backed by Tencent) and Kuai Di Dache (backed by Alibaba) are smartphone-based applications to book taxis. In 2015, faced with competition from Uber (backed by search engine Baidu), Didi Dache and Kuai Di Dache merged. Following the merger, they continue to operate as separate services.

 

Based on the case above, answer the following questions:

1. To what extent do you think that any economic inefficiencies of the original Uber operating model may impact the operational strategy and ultimately the success or failure of the firm?
2. Considering the abundance of consumer ethics-related concerns about Uber, do you think that the industry should be further regulated?
3. Based on the literature presented in this unit and your own research, do you think the current regulations are fair?
4. Appraise the economic concepts of the operational strategy which may result in reduction in prices and resultantly lead to increase in demand. Explain how to use this concept to calculate the change in revenue from a 1% cut in prices.
5. In Chicago, the reduction of fares by 23% led to 12% increase in revenue. What do these data imply about the concept of regulations, mentioned above?
6. On a figure with dollars per hour on the vertical axis and hours of labor supplied on the horizontal axis, please sketch the driver’s marginal benefit from providing labor. Note: If the driver supplies more hours, he or she raises the probability of getting work, but at a diminishing rate.
7. Explain how a reduction in the fare affects the marginal benefit from providing labor. Consider both the direct effect of the fare and the indirect effect (lower fare attracts more customers and raises the probability that the driver gets work).
8. From a driver’s viewpoint, what is the optimal quantity of labor to supply?

 

9. Intuitively, does an increase in earnings necessarily make drivers better off?

Anatomy and Physiology

Discuss how the heart rate changes with time after excercise. All I need is the introduction. See requirements below.

Use the measurement data gathered in class to form hypotheses/reasoning for the experiment

 

1. Focus on how the heart rate changes with time after exercise.
2. See attachment for results.

 

2. Introduction
3. Explain the purpose of the experiment that you came up with.
4. Explain why you chose the measurements and how you think it might explain your data.
5. I am not giving you sources for this experiment, therefore, you must find your own. Use your book. Use sources online. Do not use Wikipedia.
6.      Cite at least 2 sources other than your textbook
7. Make sure to provide the reader with all the information.
8.      What factors influence HR.
9.      What factors influence BP.

                                                 iii.     How does the heart’s sympathetic functions work

 

1.      Etc…

The Introduction

• Provide the reader with background to the experiment and a brief review of the anatomy and physiology of the body system involved.
• Do not repeat the lab manual, but show your own comprehension of the problem in your own words.
• State the objective/purpose of each activity of the experiment

 

• A hypothesis is optional

movie 300 (2007)

Question #1

What do you think of King Leonidas as a leader? His men appear very loyal to him. How much of that loyalty do you think is because of his position as king, and how much is due to the loyalty that he has earned by his actions? Does it matter if loyalty is achieved by position versus a leader’s actions?

 

Question #2

Examine the scene early in the movie where Leonidas has the confrontation with the messenger and his party. Were you in his position, would you have handled it similarly? Notice the subtle but very powerful non-verbal communication between Leonidas and the queen. Instead of her slight nod of approval, imagine she had shaken her head. Do you think he would have acted in the same highly-aggressive way?

 

Question #3

Reflect on how Leonidas handled the deformed Spartan who wanted to be part of the battle group. Did he handle this encounter well as a leader? The outcome of this meeting was very costly. Might you have handled it in a different way if you were in that position?

Ratio Analysis

Resources: Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), U.S. Securities and Exchange Committee (SEC)

Scenario: You are a loan officer for White Sands Bank of Taos. Paul Jason, president of P. Jason Corporation, has just left your office. He is interested in an 8-year loan to expand the company’s operations. The borrowed funds would be used to purchase new equipment. As evidence of the company’s debt-worthiness, Jason provided you with the following facts:

	2017	2016
Current Ratio	3.1	2.1
Asset Turnover	2.8	2.2
Net Income	Up 32%	Down 8%
Earnings per Share	$3.30	$2.50

Jason is a very insistent (some would say pushy) man. When you told him you would need additional information before making your decision, he acted offended and said, “What more could you possibly want to know?” You responded you would , at minimum, need complete, audited financial statements.

Develop a minimum 700-word examination of the financial statements and include the following:

• Explain why you would want the financial statements to be audited.
• Discuss the implications of the ratios provided for the lending decision you are to make. That is, does the information paint a favorable picture? Are these ratios relevant to the decision? State why or why not.
• Evaluate trends in the performance of P. Jason Corporation.
• List three other ratios you would want to calculate for P. Jason Corporation.
• Based on your analysis of P. Jason Corporation, will you recommend approval for the requested loan? Provide specific details to support your decision.

Format the assignment consistent with APA guidelines.

Case Study: Officer Robert Barton Paper

Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper that answers all the case study questions that follow.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

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CASE STUDY Officer Robert Barton

Officer Barton joined a big city police department six years ago. He was a high school graduate from a middle-class family in a small town. His parents spoke French, English, and Spanish, and he was fluent in all three languages. His first six months in the department (after the academy) was an eye-opener and somewhat of a cultural shock. At first he was lost, and he had some difficulty in adjusting to the lifestyles of a big city. It soon became apparent that the police had bonds of loyalty and secrecy and that there was a general feeling of “us against them.” He found that he was part of a subculture that demanded a high level of esprit de corps and solidarity. It was soon apparent that the officers he worked with viewed themselves as the “thin blue line.” His fellow officers that were in his academy class came from varying backgrounds, and most of them had lived in metropolitan areas all of their lives. They shared diverse values, attitudes, and perspectives. Slowly but surely the officers felt the need to belong and assimilated the new subculture, and in relatively short time, they became comfortable interacting with one another. They became a source of mutual support to each other.

Robert Barton, like most of his peers, started out slowly and was somewhat overawed by the total process, but in time he began to think, act, and feel like a cop. He wanted to be a good cop. His goals were to preserve the peace and to protect people and society from criminals. Barton placed a relatively high value on individual rights and due process of law. He really wanted to protect and serve, but with the reality of the street and the social status that he sought, within the group, he quickly accepted the norms and values of his peers and of his field training officers (FTO). Barton was a good candidate for the socialization process and quickly learned the importance of going along with the flow. The taboos were readily apparent such as failure to back up an officer who is in danger and above all exhibit bravery in the face of danger or suffer the consequences and be ostracized by the group. Barton also learned that his immediate sergeant would be the most important in his life while working. This proved to be especially true during the two-year probationary period.

After three years in the patrol division, Officer Barton was reassigned. He was placed in a Joint Gang Task Force, which consisted of 26 investigators and 1 supervisor from 6 jurisdictions who formed a tightly knit work group. This was a group that was just organized, and he wanted to become a full-fledged member of the group.

It consisted of a homogeneous and cohesive group of bilingual people who identified with each other and shared a unique set of values, attitudes, and beliefs related to their job. Based on continual face-to face interaction among themselves and with gang members, they soon became a viable component in the effort to control gang activities. It was immediately apparent that the task force rewarded loyalty, secrecy, and conformity to group-shared expectations. Their highest priority was to suppress gang activity to reduce the occurrence of gang-related crimes. Some of the activities the task force performed skirted the law, and it was not uncommon that they conducted illegal searches and stopped many individuals who were not known to have a gang affiliation. In other instances, arrests were made without probable cause, and many suspected gang members were booked and then released. In other words, get them off of the street. Although Bob Barton tried to remain neutral and adhere to his set of personal values, he needed recognition, support, and approval from the group. Subconsciously, he wanted to be a “stand-up guy,” and he felt compelled to sacrifice his standards to achieve acceptance and status from the work group. Membership in the group became an end in itself. Abstract notions of right and wrong became irrelevant to him. Integrity consisted of loyalty to and protection of the group. The rationalization was that no one really got hurt, and there was a real need to preserve peace in the communities.

QUESTIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :

1) Using concepts related to groups and group dynamics, explain what happened in this situation.

2) When does group cohesiveness cease to be positive and become pathological?

3) Are subcultures in police work inevitable? Explain.

4) What steps might you take, as a police administrator, to prevent this from occurring?