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Race, Ethnicity, Sex, And Gender

Describe the effects that the statistical information on a specific race or ethnicity in the areas of health, crime, employment, or education may have in terms of being a predictor of behavior. Provide your opinion on the most likely effects these statistics will have on an individual.
Select one (1) of the following terms: liberal feminism, socialist feminism, radical feminism, patriarchy, and multicultural feminism, and define it in your words. Describe the manner in which this term relates to you.

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Layoffs Memo

You are the SVP of Human Resources for a financial software company that has 7,500 employees. The company has decided to sell AccountSoft, one of its major products. The software has suffered declining sales for the past two years, and it no longer fits with the new mission of the company, which is to sell to small businesses and individuals, rather than larger accounting firms (currently 95% of AccountSoft’s buyers). You will have individual conversations with employees who are affected by the layoffs, but first you advise the CEO to send an email to all employees to announce the decision to sell AccountSoft and to prepare employees for the downsizing and what will happen next. As you write this memo for the CEO to send under his name, consider that not all employees from the AccountSoft division will be laid off. The software developers will go to the acquiring firm, Accounting Support Services, Inc., but the sales and marketing staff (about 150 people) will be leaving the firm. This was your agreement with Accounting Support Services, as part of the acquisition deal. Write the memo to communicate the decision clearly and help employees understand and accept the message

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Closely Examine A Contemporary Policy Issue Between The State Of Texas And The United States Federal Government. Over Its History, The Texas Government Has Had Many Conflicts With The National Government As Part Of The Dynamics Under A Federal System Of Government

Issue: Women’s rights and access to abortion services
Step 1 – Identifying the Issue
Identify an issue that involves federalism, then conduct research on how both the US federal government and Texas state government addressing it (this requires examining the history, application and effectiveness of laws at both levels).
 
Step 2 – Gathering Sources
Conduct research to locate three peer-reviewed academic journal articles (aka: scholarly sources) that specifically address the policy issue that you selected and meet the following criteria:

  • The articles must be no more than ten (10) years old.
  • The article must have more than five (5) pages of actual content (without graphs, charts, footnotes, citations, etc.).
  • Books will not count toward the minimum research requirements.
  •  Provide the formal MLA citation for each source, both in the essay and on the works cited page.

 
Step 4 – The Policy Paper
Your task will be to prepare a formal research paper regarding the selected policy. The assignment is to be around 5-6 pages with in-text citations for your research. The minimum writing requirement is a 1000 of your own words or around 3 pages of a word document (excluding the cited information). The essay is to discuss each of the following prompts:

  • An introduction and brief overview of the policy relationship.
  • What are the major issues facing each level of government?
  • What are the reasons for initiating changes to the policy?
  • What are the options to be considered (discuss several)?
  • What are the pros and cons of each potential reform (costs v. benefits)?
  • Which is the best option moving forward (pick one)?
  • A summary and conclusion
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Agile In Practice – An Agile Success Story-CIS443

Case Study 1: Agile in Practice – An Agile Success Story  Due Week 4 and worth 100 points Read the article provided here titled “Agile in Practice – An Agile Success Story” and complete this case study assignment.  Write a four to five (4-5) page paper in which you:
1. Determine the key reasons why Deloitte Consulting (DC) chose a modified SCRUM method instead of a traditional waterfall method.
2. Explain how DC performed project planning and analyze its effectiveness for later execution and product release.
3. Identify the challenges that DC encountered in each project phase and explain how they overcame those challenges. Give an opinion on whether the Agile concepts played an important role in this process.
4. Determine the techniques that DC used to monitor the project progress and evaluate how it enabled the project success.
5. Explain why DC did not use offshore resources and evaluate whether the Agile method will work in a project with diverse workforce geographically and culturally. .
6. Speculate on the leadership roles needed if you were part of the DC team.
7. Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality 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:
· Compare and contrast Agile methods with traditional project management techniques.
· Explain the challenges and opportunities of an Agile project leader.
· Summarize the iterative qualities for Agile project success.
· Describe Agile project management methods and phases.
· Use technology and information resources to research issues in Agile project management.
· Write clearly and concisely about Agile project management topics using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.
Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using the following rubric. Click here to view the grading rubric for this assignment.

Points: 100 Case Study 1: Agile in Practice – An Agile Success Story
Criteria  
Unacceptable
Below 60% F		 Meets Minimum Expectations
60-69% D		  
Fair
70-79% C		  
Proficient
80-89% B		  
Exemplary
90-100% A
1. Determine the key reasons why Deloitte Consulting (DC) chose a modified SCRUM method instead of a traditional waterfall method.
Weight: 10%		 Did not submit or incompletely determined the key reasons why Deloitte Consulting (DC) chose a modified SCRUM method instead of a traditional waterfall method. Insufficiently determined the key reasons why Deloitte Consulting (DC) chose a modified SCRUM method instead of a traditional waterfall method. Partially determined the key reasons why Deloitte Consulting (DC) chose a modified SCRUM method instead of a traditional waterfall method. Satisfactorily determined the key reasons why Deloitte Consulting (DC) chose a modified SCRUM method instead of a traditional waterfall method. Thoroughly determined the key reasons why Deloitte Consulting (DC) chose a modified SCRUM method instead of a traditional waterfall method.
2. Explain how DC performed project planning and analyze its effectiveness for later execution and product release. Weight: 15% Did not submit or incompletely explained how DC performed project planning and did not submit or incompletely analyzed its effectiveness for later execution and product release. Insufficientlyexplained how DC performed project planning and insufficiently analyzed its effectiveness for later execution and product release. Partially explained how DC performed project planning and partially analyzed its effectiveness for later execution and product release. Satisfactorilyexplained how DC performed project planning and satisfactorilyanalyzed its effectiveness for later execution and product release. Thoroughlyexplained how DC performed project planning and thoroughly analyzed its effectiveness for later execution and product release.
3. Identify the challenges that DC encountered in each project phase and explain how they overcame those challenges. Give an opinion on whether the Agile concepts played an important role in this process.
Weight: 15%		 Did not submit or incompletely identified the challenges that DC encountered in each project phase and did not submit or incompletely explained how they overcame those challenges. Did not submit or incompletely gave an opinion on whether the Agile concepts played an important role in this process. Insufficientlyidentified the challenges that DC encountered in each project phase and insufficientlyexplained how they overcame those challenges. Insufficientlygave an opinion on whether the Agile concepts played an important role in this process. Partially identified the challenges that DC encountered in each project phase and partially explained how they overcame those challenges. Partially gave an opinion on whether the Agile concepts played an important role in this process. Satisfactorily identified the challenges that DC encountered in each project phase and satisfactorily explained how they overcame those challenges. Satisfactorily gave an opinion on whether the Agile concepts played an important role in this process. Thoroughly identified the challenges that DC encountered in each project phase and thoroughly explained how they overcame those challenges. Thoroughly gave an opinion on whether the Agile concepts played an important role in this process.
4. Determine the techniques that DC used to monitor the project progress and evaluate how it enabled the project success.
Weight: 15%		 Did not submit or incompletely determined the techniques that DC used to monitor the project progress and did not submit or incompletely evaluated how it enabled the project success. Insufficiently determined the techniques that DC used to monitor the project progress and insufficiently evaluated how it enabled the project success. Partially determined the techniques that DC used to monitor the project progress and partially evaluated how it enabled the project success. Satisfactorily determined the techniques that DC used to monitor the project progress and satisfactorily evaluated how it enabled the project success. Thoroughly determined the techniques that DC used to monitor the project progress and thoroughly evaluated how it enabled the project success.
5. Explain why DC did not use offshore resources and evaluate whether the Agile method will work in a project with diverse workforce geographically and culturally.
Weight: 15%		 Did not submit or incompletely explained why DC did not use offshore resources and did not submit or incompletely evaluated whether the Agile method will work in a project with diverse workforce geographically and culturally. Insufficientlyexplained why DC did not use offshore resources and insufficiently evaluated whether the Agile method will work in a project with diverse workforce geographically and culturally. Partially explained why DC did not use offshore resources and partially evaluated whether the Agile method will work in a project with diverse workforce geographically and culturally. Satisfactorily explained why DC did not use offshore resources and satisfactorily evaluated whether the Agile method will work in a project with diverse workforce geographically and culturally. Thoroughly explained why DC did not use offshore resources and thoroughly evaluated whether the Agile method will work in a project with diverse workforce geographically and culturally.
6. Speculate on the leadership roles needed if you were part of the DC team.
Weight: 15%		 Did not submit or incompletely speculated on the leadership roles needed if you were part of the DC team. Insufficiently speculated on the leadership roles needed if you were part of the DC team. Partiallyspeculated on the leadership roles needed if you were part of the DC team. Satisfactorily speculated on the leadership roles needed if you were part of the DC team. Thoroughly speculated on the leadership roles needed if you were part of the DC team.
7. 3 references
Weight: 5%		 No references provided Does not meet the required number of references; all references poor quality choices. Does not meet the required number of references; some references poor quality choices. Meets number of required references; all references high quality choices. Exceeds number of required references; all references high quality choices.
8. Clarity, writing mechanics, and formatting requirements
Weight: 10%		 More than 8 errors present 7-8 errors present 5-6 errors present 3-4 errors present 0-2 errors present
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Hypoxia and Hyperventilation-Physiology Discussion

• What type of hypoxia do you believe to be the most dangerous to the aviator? Provide a detailed explanation on why you believe it to be the most dangerous type.
• What is the treatment for an ear block on ascent? Is this treatment different than if you had an ear block on descent? If so, why?
• Why should you not fly with an upper respiratory infection? What body parts are affected by the infection? What in-flight treatment could you use if you did fly sick?
• Compare and contrast the symptoms of hypoxia and hyperventilation.

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Journal Review

Instructions
Answer all of SECTION ONE, completely and competently for full grade.
Directions: Select a journal from a discipline that pertains to your specific research interests. In this case the topic is “MUSIC”  Use any reference resource  (or any online journal or publication in the field or on the topic of  MUSIC of  all genres and its messaging). SUGGESTION; choose one of these publications to feature and follow the outline of questioning in the instructions to reference each answer, asked below, “BILL BOARD”,”AMERICAN SONGWRITER” OR ROLLINGSTONE, a national publication, reviewing it since its inception.   Consider the history, development, major players, subscription rates, publication information, acceptance/publication rates, style manual, editorial board, schools of contributors, kind of work contributed, what gets published, forums/ book reviews. Explore the current trends in topics. Who is the current editor, what is their term, their philosophy. Where is it being edited? Are there editorial prefaces? What do they say?
Write a report that contains the following information. Note, most of this information could be obtained from the most recent issues.
SECTION TWO:
Journal name
Call number
Years of publication and volume numbers (note title changes, if any)
Issues (quarterly? semi-annually?)
Years available in our library (specify if on line volumes are available and where)
Facts of publication (who owns/sponsors the journal, where is it published, cost of subscription)
Current editor
Current style manual
Specifications for submissions (page limit, format (manuscript or electronic, etc.)
Anything else you think is relevant or interesting.

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Unit VI Case Study

Unit VI Case Study Several years ago, the Major League Baseball players’ association went on strike in September, just before the World Series started. The players’ contracts expired at the beginning of the season (May), but they held off the strike until September when they would lose only one-sixth of their salaries. In contrast, a September strike would hurt the owners financially because they earn a larger portion of their revenue during the playoffs. As one player explained: “If we strike next spring, there’s nothing stopping [the club owners] from letting us go until next June or July because they don’t have that much at stake.” Use your knowledge of the sources and contingencies of power to explain why the MLB baseball players’ association had more power in negotiations by walking out in September rather than March. Cite the text to support your ideas in an essay with a minimum of 300 words in APA format. Information about accessing the Blackboard Grading Rubric for this assignment is provided below

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Assignment 2: Analyzing World Cultures-TG_M2A2

Assignment 2: Analyzing World Cultures

Media play a very large role in both the development and the perpetuation of cultural elements. You may never have watched a foreign movie or even clips evaluating other cultures. In this assignment, you will explore online videos or movies from a culture of your choice and analyze how cultural elements are presented, compared to your own culture.
Complete the following:

  • Choose a world culture you are not familiar with.
  • Identify two–three online videos or movies representative of this culture. These could be examples of cultural expressions such as a Bollywood movie from India or Anime videos from Japan.

Evaluate two hours of such a video. Using the readings for this module, the Argosy University online library resources, and the Internet, research articles about your selected culture.

  • Select a scholarly article that analyzes the same culture presented in the videos you have observed.
  • Write a paper describing the cultural differences you have observed in the video. How are these observations supported by the research article?

Be sure to include the following:

  • Describe the videos you have watched.
  • Explain the main points of the videos.
  • Examine what stood out about the culture.
  • Compare and contrast the similarities and differences of this culture with your own. (I AM FROM HAWAII)
  • Examine the ways of this culture. Is it one you would want to visit or live in?
  • Would you experience culture shock if you immersed yourself in this culture? Why or why not?

Support your statements with examples and scholarly references.
Write a 2–3-page paper in Word format. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.
By the due date assigned, deliver your assignment to the Submissions Area.
Grading CriteriaMaximum PointsAnalyzed how a world culture is represented in a video or movie.36
Selected a scholarly article related to the observed culture and compared the observations of the video or movie with the findings of the article describing the cultural differences.44
Wrote in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrated ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; displayed accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.20
Total:100

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The Impact of Crime and Underground Businesses, post slavery period of forced labor in the U.S. on Human Rights.

The research paper will be 15 pages. Your topic has to deal with crime and underground economy in the United States, and you need to utilize both primary and secondary sources. Make sure your topic is narrow enough to master in this time and space. 

PLEASE NOTE! Your paper MUST be built upon original research and you need to forward a thesis you are seeking to prove. Avoid “Wikipedia-papers” – narrative stories with no clear thesis nor original research.

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15 page research paper focused on post-slavery, forced labor in the U.S.

Topic: The Impact of Crime and Underground Businesses, post slavery period of forced labor in the U.S. on Human Rights.

Thesis: Underground businesses, such as sweatshops are among those that utilize forced labor, “modern day slavery”, in the United States, threatens the welfare of employees, loosely veiled by the financial achievements in the mainstream business industry, harbouring safety and code violations.

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Book “Slavery by Another Name”, by Douglas Blackmon

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