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social entrepreneurship programs

 
-Each discussion needs to be 3 paragraphs.
-Use ONLY U.S. Websites for references
– Make sure you use credible sources (website only) (NO BLOGS, real U.S. Websites)
-Will be checking for plagiarism
-DUE in 1 hour!!
 
 
Discussion 1:
 
Tell us about one of the competitors in the elevator industry and outline what you believe is their marketing strategy.  What hurdles does that company face?
 
(Use elevator company Otis elevator OR ThyssenKrupp elevator for this discussion. Whichever company you can find the most information on)
 
 
Discussion 2:
 
Thousands of high school kids drop out of high school daily.  What kind of social entrepreneurship programs might help these kids?
 

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film analysis of white material

In these analysis, I want you to resort to texts that we have read throughout the course and I want to see you use technical film terms & formal elements to support your argument about the film and video (these formal elements can be found in the material we have read from Film Art).
– How does the camera work (cinematography and mise-en-scene & editing & sound) help us make sense of the politics of representation?
– How does the history of colonialism and the after-life or effects of colonialism show themselves in the film?
– How does the film or video interrogate gender roles and sexual politics in relation to the history of colonialism.
– Write a film log for Un Prophete(1 page). Here are some guiding questions:
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Financial Management

our Discussion postings should be written in standard edited English and should follow APA guidelines. Be sure to support your work with specific in-text citationsfrom this week’s Learning Resources.  Refer to the Pocket Guide to APA Style to ensure that your in-text citations and reference list are correct. Initial postings must be 250–350 words (not including references).
Choose one of the following:

  1. The income statement, balance sheet, and statement of cash flows are three major financial statements that present varying snapshots of an organization’s financial position. For this topic discussion, consider a healthcare organization with which you are familiar with and examine the purposes and components of these documents. How they may be utilized within healthcare organizations?
  2. Consider a healthcare organization with which you are familiar with and explain the difference between cash and accrual accounting in healthcare setting. Be sure to include a discussion of the revenue recognition and matching principles.
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Government Securities

Quantitative Exercises and Final Project 3: Government Securities
 
Part One: Quantitative Exercises
 
Barbow Enterprises, Inc., is considering an expansion in their operations. One of the first items they want to examine is their cost of capital. According to the accounting department, the following items and their respective costs have been identified:
 

  • The cost of Common Equity: 15%
  • The before tax cost of debt: 12%
  • No Preferred stock

 
They have also calculated the marginal tax rate to be 40% and the stock sells at its book value.
 

Barbow Enterprises Inc.

Balance Sheet
Assets Liabilities and Owners’ Equity
Cash

$240

 Long Term Debt

$2,304
Accounts Receivable

480

 Equity

3,456
Inventories

720
Net P&E

4,320
  Total Assets

$5,760

 Total Liabilities and owners’ Equity

$5,760

 
Required:
 
Calculate Barbow’s after-tax weighted average cost of capital, using the data in the balance sheet above.
 
Deliverable:
 
Use a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet that illustrates your calculations. You may use the formulas embedded in Microsoft Excel and/or a financial calculator for these calculations.
 
Part Two:  Final Project 3: Government Securities
 
In this part of your Final Project, you will research and analyze current information (that is, within the past two months) on government securities.
 
Step 1: Go to a financial Web site to do your research. The following are three suggested sites, but you may use others. Be sure to cite your sources!
 

 
Step 2: Research current information (within the last two months) on the yields and maturity for:
 

  1. U.S. treasuries
  2. Municipal bonds
  3. Corporate bonds

 
Required:
 

  • Discuss what the pure expectations theory would imply about the yield curve.
  • Compare and contrast the yields and maturities for each of the securities.
  • Discuss which you would hold and why relative to interest rate risk.

 
Deliverables:
 
Your submission may be in a 3–6 page Microsoft Word or Excel document. Include a Microsoft Excel document that illustrates your calculations. You may use the formulas embedded in Microsoft Excel and/or a financial calculator for these calculations.

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Social Control and Criminal Deviance: Bullying

Bullying is a difficult concept to understand and reconcile the consequences. This assignment focuses on the critical thinking skills that are needed to analyze an emotionally charged topic.
Student Success Tips

Watch the video titled, “From school yard bullying to genocide: Barbara Coloroso at TEDxCalgary” (19 min 5 s) located below. You may also view the video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkG0nssouFg.
Write a one to two (1-2) page essay in which you:

  1. Identify the most important step in the student’s guide to research that you would need in order to analyze bullying.
  2. Define the identified critical step of research in your words.
  3. Explain how bullying relates to one (1) of the following topics:
    1. the agents of socialization (i.e., family, teachers and school, peers),
    2. formal organizations (i.e., conformity to groups),
    3. different types of deviance (i.e., everyday deviance, sexual deviance, or criminal deviance).

Provide a rationale for your response.
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. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
  • To keep this essay short and manageable, your only sources for the essay should be the TED video and the sections noted in your text. For this reason, APA citations or references are not required for this assignment.
  • 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 is not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

  • Define the basic concepts used in the discipline of sociology.
  • Define the various methodologies for sociological research.
  • Identify the sociological perspective to the inequalities of class, race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, socioeconomics, and political aspects.
  • Use technology and information resources to research issues in sociology.
  • Write clearly and concisely about sociology using proper writing mechanics.
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The Measurement Model

 

  1. Using the Rasch formula what is the probability of getting an item right for a person with a theta of 4 assuming an item difficulty, delta, of 3 (show all work).

Open the data in the folder pf10_dich.   What is the estimated theta for the person with research id:   716405B (look in Name column).

  1. Compare this person’s theta (person 716405B) with all of the item deltas.  Which items would you expect this person to get a 1 score  at least 50% of the time?
  2. Compare this person’s theta (person 9413932) with all of the item deltas.  Which items would you expect this person to get a 1 score at least 50% of the time?
  3. Which item (or items) is the most difficult and which item (or items) is the easiest.
  4. Which item seems to be problematic in terms of not fitting the Rasch Model very well.  (Use the outfit statistic).  How would you describe this item using variable screening methods for skewness and kurtosis.  Any evidence for floor or ceiling effects.
  5. For the item identified in #7, what does the infit value suggest with respect to this item. Is the item contributing less to the overall estimate of the thetas in the sample than the other items that are not problematic in terms of fit to the Rasch Model.  Does this value suggest that the outfit value for this item was perhaps not so bad afterall.
  6. Please use dataset “for HW 3 and 4.xls”.  This is an excel file.  Enter this data into the ConstructMap software.  Cutting and pasting saves time.  Create names for the variables.  Pretend this dataset was obtained from a measure in your research area of interest:
  7. List each of the 10 variables.
  8. What construct does this hypothetical instrument measure.
  9. Run a Rasch Model analysis for these data.
  10. Report the average theta value (you may need to copy the thetas into SPSS).
  11. Using the Wright Map, which item would you expect only the highest theta

individuals to obtain a 1 over 50% of the time?  What else can you do to see if this item is indeed a very hard item?
 
 
 

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: Human Resources and Business Policy

Business policies are common in nearly any organization. Created by or at the direction of top management, business policies establish the guidelines or limits that lower-level managers and employees have in making specific decisions. For instance, the following are examples of business policies that would detail the expectations, and guidelines, for employee performance and conduct:

  • Dress code
  • Code of ethics
  • Outside employment
  • Equal opportunity
  • Attendance/time off
  • Substance abuse

In many organizations, a human-resources department will be charged by top management to create business policies and then ensure employees adhere to the tenets of the policies. For this assignment, your well-written paper should include the following:

  • Choose an organization with which you are familiar or that you have studied and identify a business policy that is either poorly written or has not been developed by the organization.
  • Summarize the intent of this business policy and the importance to the organization that this policy be current and accurate.
  • As the human-resources professional, revise or create the business policy identified above, and then detail how best an organization can publicize this business policy to maximize employee knowledge.

Your paper should meet the following requirements: