The purpose of this assignment is to provide you with the opportunity to apply the knowledge you have gained toward mitigating the probability of a terrorist attack. You will assume the position that you are an officer in charge of providing security in the scenario you have chosen. You will analyze the physical location of the scenario, mitigate probable areas of concern, and identify probable targets that may require special attention. It is up to you and your personnel to ensure that terrorists will have no opportunity to disrupt the event or unleash any form of attack. The lives of the participants in the event depend on your ability to predict every given situation and provide security to prevent such attacks. Please identify all weak areas, and provide your analysis of how to protect property and personnel during the event as well as before and after the event. The paper must address the following areas of concern: How does the terroristic act in your paper impact future prospects of terrorism whether by genetic engineering, cyberterrorism, biological warfare, or any other weapons of mass destruction (WMD)? Evaluate the moral and ethical implications of the use of this type of WMD destruction. Assess the capabilities of the WMD portrayed in your scenario, and mitigate counteraction strategies. Complete a research paper that must be a minimum of five pages in length, not including the title page and the reference page. The research paper must follow APA guidelines and contain the following components: Title page: The title page must be in APA format, which includes the APA running head and the page number in the header. Abstract: Provide a brief explanation of the purpose of your paper. This must be a minimum of 150 words. This should be similar to the topic description you submitted in the Unit II assignment. HLS 3301, Weapons of Mass Destruction 4 Introduction: Intermediate headings: Intermediate headings help the reader transition from one subject to the next. This is the focus of your research and analysis on the scenario you have chosen, where you identify the risks and mitigate solutions that will provide the appropriate protection as well as provide reactive measures in case terrorists manage to complete an attack regardless of your preventive measures. The content must center on the three areas of concern identified above. Conclusion: Provide a summary of your findings and solutions based on best practices. Reference page: You must include the heading (References) centered above the reference list on a separate last page. All references must be in APA format, and each reference must relate to at least one in-text citation.
The Economics of Long-Term Care
Your father has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and the physician tells you he will slowly deteriorate to the point of needing full time nursing care. You and your family must weight the pros and cons of placing your father in a long term care facility or providing care for him at home. To ensure that you have made the right decision for his long term care, what factors must be considered from a cost and quality-of-care perspective?
Response Guidelines
From an administrator’s point of view, what factors must be considered from a cost and quality-of-care perspective to ensure a good decision for his long term care?
Respond to these question using available resources from your text, the Capella University library, and the Internet. Make sure to include the source citations and references for any outside sources used. Your reply should be in approximately 250–400 words and in APA format.
The Cost of Research and Development for Medications
In recent years, the cost of developing new medications has become astronomical. Complicating this problem is the need for more effective medications as newer mutations of diseases are increasing and these new mutations (according to western medicine) render traditional medications ineffective.
What are the associated reasons for the increased number of mutated diseases? What are the associated reasons for the costs of developing new drugs? How can this issue be resolved?
Response Guidelines
Respond to the posts of any two of your peers. What does eastern medicine say about using medications? What does alternative medicine practices in the U.S. (such as applied kinesiology or chiropractics), say about using medications? What solutions do eastern medicine and alternative medicine practices in the U.S. offer to the rising costs of drugs?
Respond to these question using available resources from your text, the Capella University library, and the Internet. Make sure to include the source citations and references for any outside sources used. This reply should be in approximately 250–400 words and in APA format.
death investigations and their classification
Some people get confused with the terminology surrounding death investigations and their classification, such as natural death, accidental, suicide, and homicide. For this reason, criminal investigators must be well-versed in the various death classifications. Use your textbook, the Internet, and / or Strayer Library to research articles on death investigation.
Write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which you:
- Compare and contrast the fundamental differences in natural death, accidental death, suicide, and homicide.
- Select an article concerning a type of death of your choice and summarize the key factors that the police used to classify the type of death. Suggest one (1) additional factor that the police should collect for the death investigation.
- Compare the fundamental differences in investigating a death case versus other types of crimes.
- Determine the goal and the main procedure of a preliminary death investigation. Include one (1) example of a successful preliminary death investigation to support your response.
- Analyze the main ways in which various environmental factors may influence the medical examination and autopsy in death investigations.
- Use at least two (2) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar type Websites do not qualify as academic resources.
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; citations and 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 assignment page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
- Describe the major components of and responsiblities involved in the investigative process.
- Recommend improvements to the criminal investigation process in selected areas.
- Recommend effective ways to apply the investigative process to violent crimes.
- Use technology and information resources to conduct research in the criminal investigation process.
- Write clearly and concisely about the criminal investigation process using proper writing mecha
corporate organization
Evaluate the following statement: Managers should not focus on the current stock value because doing so will lead to an overemphasis on short-term profits at the expense of long-term profits.
Suppose the firm in Problem 3 had 90,000 shares of common stock outstanding. What is the earnings per share, or EPS, figure? What is the dividends per share figure?
The 2014 balance sheet of Steelo, Inc., showed current assets of $4,630 and current liabilities of $2,190. The 2015 balance sheet showed current assets of $5,180 and current liabilities of $2,830. What was the company’s 2015 change in net working capital, or NWC?
The Green Corporation has ending inventory of $417,381, and cost of goods sold for the year just ended was $4,682,715. What is the inventory turnover? The days’ sales in inventory? How long on average did a unit of inventory sit on the shelf before it was sold?
If Roten Rooters, Inc., has an equity multiplier of 1.15, total asset turnover of 2.10, and a profit margin of 6.1 percent, what is its ROE?
Consider the following simplified financial statements for the Yoo Corporation (assuming no income taxes):
The company has predicted a sales increase of 15 percent. It has predicted that every item on the balance sheet will increase by 15 percent as well. Create the pro forma statements and reconcile them. What is the plug variable here?
The most recent financial statements for Schenkel Co. are shown here:
Assets and costs are proportional to sales. Debt and equity are not. The company maintains a constant 30 percent dividend payout ratio. What is the internal growth rate?
legal issues
Apa style , 3 scholarly references
prepare a 5 to 8-page paper that identifies the legal issues and potential solutions and answers all questions presented, supported by relevant legal authority. Properly cite all sources using APA format.
This assignment requires application of the concepts learned in Weeks 1–3 and is worth significantly more than previous assignments.
This assignment requires application of the concepts learned in Weeks 1–3 and is worth significantly more than previous assignments.
Scenario
Will Doolittle works as a financial analyst at the corporate headquarters of Home Décor Stores in Atlanta, Georgia. Doolittle regularly spends time on the office computer sending email to his friends and playing his favorite slot machine games with the sound muted. Doolittle usually sends the personal e-mails from his own Gmail account, but he occasionally uses his Home Décor account when he doesn’t want to bother accessing his personal account.
The manager of human resources, Lida Lott, called Doolittle into her office on Friday afternoon, where he was asked about the emails sent to friends containing jokes of a sexual nature. The director also questioned him about the use of the Internet to play slot machines and other computer games. Doolittle was terminated for violating provisions of the employee handbook and escorted out of the building.
The employee handbook contained standard provisions explaining that company property, including computers, email, software and access to the Internet, were for business purposes and employee use was subject to monitoring. The company policy also prohibited any form of sexual harassment, discrimination, violence and other illegal acts, which includes transmitting such information by computer. Violations of the stated policies include disciplinary action that may result in termination. The handbook also contained a provision that required all disputes arising from the employment relationship that cannot be resolved internally to be resolved through the alternative dispute resolution process of mediation.
Angry after his dismissal, Doolittle stopped by Burger and Brew, hoping a few beers would make him feel better. Several hours later as he was on the way home, Doolittle was pulled over by Laura Norder, an officer on the local police department. Detecting a strong odor of alcohol, Norder requested that Doolittle take a breathalyzer test, but he refused. The officer spotted a beer can on the seat of the car and searched Doolittle’s car. When searching the car, the officer found a loaded handgun and an unmarked bag of pills that looked like OxyContin.
Two weeks after Doolittle was terminated, Home Décor received a phone call from the human resources department at DIY Home Innovations seeking to obtain a reference for Doolittle. Lida Lott, the human resources manager for Home Décor answered the standard questions, but when asked if she would rehire Doolittle, she made the following comment.
The manager of human resources, Lida Lott, called Doolittle into her office on Friday afternoon, where he was asked about the emails sent to friends containing jokes of a sexual nature. The director also questioned him about the use of the Internet to play slot machines and other computer games. Doolittle was terminated for violating provisions of the employee handbook and escorted out of the building.
The employee handbook contained standard provisions explaining that company property, including computers, email, software and access to the Internet, were for business purposes and employee use was subject to monitoring. The company policy also prohibited any form of sexual harassment, discrimination, violence and other illegal acts, which includes transmitting such information by computer. Violations of the stated policies include disciplinary action that may result in termination. The handbook also contained a provision that required all disputes arising from the employment relationship that cannot be resolved internally to be resolved through the alternative dispute resolution process of mediation.
Angry after his dismissal, Doolittle stopped by Burger and Brew, hoping a few beers would make him feel better. Several hours later as he was on the way home, Doolittle was pulled over by Laura Norder, an officer on the local police department. Detecting a strong odor of alcohol, Norder requested that Doolittle take a breathalyzer test, but he refused. The officer spotted a beer can on the seat of the car and searched Doolittle’s car. When searching the car, the officer found a loaded handgun and an unmarked bag of pills that looked like OxyContin.
Two weeks after Doolittle was terminated, Home Décor received a phone call from the human resources department at DIY Home Innovations seeking to obtain a reference for Doolittle. Lida Lott, the human resources manager for Home Décor answered the standard questions, but when asked if she would rehire Doolittle, she made the following comment.
“Off the record, Doolittle was terminated for a cause. I would not re-hire him because he is lazy and may have been involved with drugs too.“
Lott made up the part about drugs because she did not want Doolittle to get the job. DIY Home Innovations did not hire Doolittle.
A new position in advertising was created for Lacey Fair, the granddaughter of Home Décor’s CEO. Lacey was a senior at Western University, majoring in marketing. Lacey was in charge of revamping the company’s website. Lacey copied images from various websites and pasted them into Home Décor’s site. Susan Wynns was a full time law student who worked as an intern for Home Décor. After reviewing the new and improved website, Wynns explained to Lacey that using images and text without permission violates intellectual property laws. Lacey explained that she could use the images because everything on the Internet is free for people to use. Lacey also suggested that Wynn go read about the fair use doctrine that was covered in her business law class.
After Doolittle resolved his issues with his arrest, he created a blog called Death to Home Décor. The blog contained a picture of the Home Décor logo and CEO in a casket. Doolittle promises readers that he will provide stories about working for Home Decor and invites his readers to tell their stories. In the first article, Doolittle included a cartoon of his boss flying on a broomstick. The second article provided details about a coworker who is having an affair with her manager.
Based on the different situations described in the scenario, create a 5 to 8-page Microsoft Word document that includes detailed answers to the following questions. Support your answers with sources such as examples in your textbook, cases, statutes and other scholarly information found in your research.
A new position in advertising was created for Lacey Fair, the granddaughter of Home Décor’s CEO. Lacey was a senior at Western University, majoring in marketing. Lacey was in charge of revamping the company’s website. Lacey copied images from various websites and pasted them into Home Décor’s site. Susan Wynns was a full time law student who worked as an intern for Home Décor. After reviewing the new and improved website, Wynns explained to Lacey that using images and text without permission violates intellectual property laws. Lacey explained that she could use the images because everything on the Internet is free for people to use. Lacey also suggested that Wynn go read about the fair use doctrine that was covered in her business law class.
After Doolittle resolved his issues with his arrest, he created a blog called Death to Home Décor. The blog contained a picture of the Home Décor logo and CEO in a casket. Doolittle promises readers that he will provide stories about working for Home Decor and invites his readers to tell their stories. In the first article, Doolittle included a cartoon of his boss flying on a broomstick. The second article provided details about a coworker who is having an affair with her manager.
Based on the different situations described in the scenario, create a 5 to 8-page Microsoft Word document that includes detailed answers to the following questions. Support your answers with sources such as examples in your textbook, cases, statutes and other scholarly information found in your research.
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- Doolittle claims the employer violated his rights by monitoring his personal email and use of the Internet. What are the legal rights of the employer and the employee in this situation? Explain. Is Doolittle correct in his allegations? Why or why not?
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- Since Doolittle believes he was wrongfully terminated and various rights were violated, he plans to consult with a lawyer and sue his employer. What are Doolittle’s options with regards to resolving his claims through the court or ADR?
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- Did Officer Norder violate any of Doolittle’s constitutional rights? Explain.
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- Has Lida Lott committed any offenses? Explain.
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- Did Lacey violate intellectual property laws?
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- Has Doolittle committed any violations in his Internet postings concerning his former company?
- Discuss any ethical issues that might be present in the scenarios.
Based on the different situations described in the scenario, create a 5 to 8-page Microsoft Word document. Support your answers with appropriate research, reasoning, cases, laws, and other relevant examples.
Submit the paper in APA format and properly cite sources on a separate page using APA.
Submit the paper in APA format and properly cite sources on a separate page using APA.
critical thinking
Critical thinking is an important part of problem solving, decision making, and everyday life. So, what is critical thinking and why is it so important?
Assignment Steps
Prepare a 700-word memo to yourself on critical thinking including the following:
Explain critical thinking.
Provide an example from your personal experience of critical thinking applied to a business decision.
Discuss the importance and benefits of using critical thinking.
Relate the importance and benefits of critical thinking to the example provided.
Discuss ways you might use critical thinking in your current job or chosen career path.
Format your assignment consistent with APA guidelines.
Project Management
Consider the following scenario:
Your company has been using Traditional Project Management (TPM) methods for years, but is now looking into the possibility of adopting agile practices. Your boss has asked you to prepare a paper comparing TPM to agile practices and summarizing the benefits and limitations of each.
Write a 4-5 page paper including, at a minimum, the following information:
- Briefly describe the TPM waterfall method.
- Briefly describe one or more Agile project management approaches.
- Compare and contrast TPM and Agile methods, emphasizing the strengths and weaknesses of each.
- Discuss what kind of projects would be more appropriate for TPM approaches and what types would be more appropriate for Agile approaches.
- Discuss how a project approach is selected for different types of project. Provide an example by selecting an approach for one of the following three projects shown below, and explaining your rationale for the selection. Remember to focus on the project approach and not get involved in the technical details of the project.
- Converting a large enterprise from using IPv4 to IPv6
- Managing a Business Process Reengineering (BPR) project to modernize and integrate a major company’s business systems (accounting, sales, logistics, manufacturing, etc.) into an enterprise-wide unified architecture
- Building a new data center for an international business
The Existence and works of Satan
Dr. Wilmington makes the claim that most of the world today pictures the devil as a medieval and mythical “Disney” character and thus he has been ignored and/or downplayed by most of the population. In this essay build a case for the existence of Satan through the Scriptures. Be sure to discuss who he is and his personality using relevant Scripture and supporting sources to substantiate your response.
For the next prompt, continue the discussion surrounding Satan. Explain what he is doing in the world today along with his limitations. As always, be sure to use relevant research throughout to support your claims.
This should be at least 3 pages double spaced.
serial killers
In a 2 page paper, compare and contrast David Canter’s Radex Model and The MacDonald Triad.
Based on your knowledge, which model would be beneficial to law enforcement?
Must be in APA format