It’s the year 1183. You are making a trip along the pilgrim road to Santiago de Compostella from Paris, France. Your route will take you through Paris, Orleans, Tours, Poitiers, Angely, Saintes, Bordeaux, Leon, and finally Compostella. Choose FIVE of the cities along the route to highlight.
Your assignment is to write about your experience, with special attention to the music you hear along the way. Focus on the churches or courts you’ll be stopping at, not necessarily in terms of architecture, but rather the significance of the saints and musical practices they represent. Cite any sources found there. You may format the project in any way you see fit: perhaps as a diary, a series of letters, or a simple narrative. You may include drawings or other aids for the reader if you’d like. Word count should be at least 1500(the equivalent of about one double-spaced page per city.)
Make sure to incorporate experiences with Notre Dame polyphony, Aquitanian polyphony, and vernacular music among others.
Maybe you’ll run into Bernart de Eleanor of Aquitaine on leave from her imprisonment from Henry II !
Use the Codex Calixtinus as a guide for your travels. in corporate some details of life on the road at the time, and try to put yourself in the shoes of someone on the road, hearing this music with a fresh ear.
Translation of the Codex Calixtinus:
https://sites.google.com/site/caminodesantiagoproject/
HRM For Healthcare Managers-Case Studies
Within each case study you must: give a summary of the case; answer the questions provided; relate the case to a topic in the news, a piece of legislation, or a chapter covered in your book. Requirements: minimum two pages, double-spaced, 12pt Times New Roman font with 1″ margins in APA format to include a running head with page numbers, cover page and references. A detailed grading guide has been provided on this site or you can view the grading rubric.
- Begin each case study with a one paragraph summary of the case study in your own words.
- Must be a minimum of two (2) pages in length (excluding cover page and references). Double-spaced, Times New Roman, 1 inch margins, 12 point font in APA format.
- Paper is expected to be free of grammatical, punctuation and sentence structure errors.
- A minimum of two outside sources must be applied and appropriately cited with case study.
key components of a comprehensive incident response plan for any attack on an organization's network and data
Write a 750-1,000-word paper (double spaced), identifying and describing the key components of a comprehensive incident response plan for any attack on an organization’s network and data. This paper should start with the identification of trigger events and should include immediate actions that should be taken. Use APA Style.
a report that compares the cultural values of your selected organization with the work of Kohl and Hofstede
Imagine that you are a consultant hired to evaluate the culture of your organization (or another organization with which you are familiar). After reading this chapter and the other resources for this week, write a report that compares the cultural values of your selected organization with the work of Kohl and Hofstede. In your report, be sure to: •Describe the organization and the work it does (you do not have to name the organization or any identifying characteristics); •Explain each of the 13 values suggested by Kohl’s •Describe with specific details how each of the 13 values is reflected within your organization •Explain each of Hofstede’s six value dimensions •Describe with specific details where you think your organization’s culture fits along Hofstede’s six value dimensions •Evaluate any cultural challenges you identify through your reflection on your organization. Length: 5-7 pages not including title and reference pages. Use APA-formatted headings to distinguish the different sections of your report. References: minimum of 3 credible resources. (One source should be Samovar, L. A., Porter, R. E., & McDaniel, E. R. (2013). Communication between cultures 8th ed. Independence, KY Wadsworth. Chapter 6
Project Risk
Choose a project from the following Website:
http://www.pmi.org/Business-Solutions/OPM3-Case-Study-Library.aspx
Your emphasis should relate to deploying network security appliances, using biometric technologies for network and physical security, managing organizational risk, or planning for disruptions. Note: You will need to conduct further research on the above selected topic using the Internet as a resource in order to address all of the questions / statements.
Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:
· Summarize the selected project and describe the primary failures of traditional project risk management.
· Describe the levels of uncertainty and complexity for the project.
· Determine what the project manager should communicate to the customers about the project unknowns.
· Relating to the selected project, identify and discuss the risk identification for selectionism and learning.
· Discuss the contingency planning approach and the management challenges of informing stakeholders.
· Use at least three (3) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other 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.
explain the various tools and techniques utilized by effective terrorist group leaders (not specific to bin Laden; regardless of ideology, agenda, or motivating factors) to modify the psychological and behavioral factors of their followers
Assignment Instructions
Requested information will address the following course objectives:
CO-1: Describe the psychological and behavioral factors of terrorism.
CO-2: Categorize means of communication and influence they have upon advancing terrorist narratives.
CO-3: Summarize psychological and behavioral factors within al Qaeda leadership and affiliate groups.
Assignment Specifics:
In Friedman’s article, War, Psychology and Time, the manner in which bin Laden addressed the “psychology of defeat” that his followers were suffering from was explained; efforts that illustrated many of his leadership qualities.
For this assignment, explain the various tools and techniques utilized by effective terrorist group leaders (not specific to bin Laden; regardless of ideology, agenda, or motivating factors) to modify the psychological and behavioral factors of their followers.
· The body of your report is to be three pages in length (points will be deducted if the minimum page requirement is not met) and is to contain the following:
o A brief introduction, conveying what the report is about?
o A main body, containing the “meat” of the report, where you provide the requested information
o A conclusion, summarizing the content of the report clearly and concisely
· Include an appropriate title page
· Typewritten in double-spaced, Times New Roman 12-point font, 1″ margins.
· A minimum of three (3) academically acceptable sources are to be utilized. Use those provided to you throughout the course, as well as other material obtained from conducting your own research to support your work. However, such information is to supplement your work, not replace or serve as the major part of it. Therefore, assignments will be automatically submitted for review through Turnitin and will be graded in accordance with the writing assignment grading rubric. Freely utilize appropriate sources, summarize in your own words and cite accordingly, but be mindful of excessive direct quotes, as they should not make up more than 10% of your report.
· Sources utilized are to be cited and listed in accordance with the APA writing style
· Save your work as a Microsoft Word document in the following format, “SmithMidterm.doc” and attach as your assignment
a critical literature review about the latest developments in the field of online/ internet marketing in marketing communications
Literature review
This is a marketing assignment,
With reference to contemporary literature in the field of online/ internet marketing in marketing communications, conduct a critical literature review which outline the latest developments in this field.
(1500 words)
APA
10 sources
Ranking Risks and Dealing with Risks-Information Security assignment
Module 8
Overview
This module is about ranking the risks that have been identified, and then deciding what to do about those risks. Please be aware that as assessors, we might make recommendations about what to do with a risk, but whether or not a business deals with a risk is their decision, not ours. Our job is to identify the risk, bring it to the business’s decision, and then document the decision properly.
Ranking Risks
The relative risk score that you calculated on Worksheet 10 and the probability of the risk occurring are used to help a business determine which risks are most important to them. Our jobs as assessors is to present these risks to the business in a manner that they can easily understand. A good visualization technique for this is to use a heat map. If you are unfamiliar with a heat map, here’s a link to a good introduction:
http://www.cgma.org/Resources/Tools/essential-tools/Pages/risk-heat-maps.aspx?TestCookiesEnabled=redirect (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
Octave Allegro Step 8 Activity 1 shows a Relative Risk Matrix, which is in essence a heat map though it lacks some of the visual qualities. This matrix could easily be created in Word, though I would reverse the X-axis if I were to use it. Additionally, there is a sample heat map posted in the Security Risk Assessment module on Canvas. I created this sample using Microsoft Visio, which all of you should be able to download from DreamSpark.
After you have ranked the risks for your business, you should create a heat map before you review the risks with the business. Using a visual tool such as this will help the manager to understand the risks in relation to each and make better decisions concerning the risk. Regardless of the tool you use, the visual aspect of a heat map will help you communicate your findings.
Dealing with Risks
When the assessor has the risks scored and the heat map created, it’s time to meet with the manager and see what the manager wants to do with each risk. These decisions are documented on the second page of Worksheet 10. The manager has four choices for each risk: Accept, Defer, Transfer, and Mitigate. These decisions should be made based on the risk’s impact value and probability of occurrence, the X- and Y-axes on the heat map.
Accept
A business will most likely accept the majority of risks identified during a full-blown risk assessment. If you remember the main purpose of a risk assessment, we are trying to help the business spend its limited security dollars on the risks that are most important to it. There are some risks that are too expensive to mitigate. There are other risks that the probability of their occurrence makes the mitigation effort seem unimportant. When I worked in industry, we routinely discounted the bottom 90% of risks. Of the top 10%, we might mitigate the risk by taking proactive steps to prevent the risk from being realized. In other cases, we mitigated the risk by putting a plan in place to deal with the impact of the risk if it were ever realized.
Defer
A business might also choose to defer a risk. By deferring a risk, the business plans to mitigate the risk at some point in time in the future. If the business decides to defer a risk, all we do as assessors is document the decision and record the date when the business plans to review the risk again.
Transfer
It may be possible to transfer a risk to another party. That doesn’t mean a business won’t be impacted were the risk to be realized; it just means that another party will bear the brunt of the impact.
Let’s use car insurance as an example of transferring risk. Most of us that have car insurance also have a deductible amount. If we were to be in an accident, the limit of our risk is the deductible. The insurance company assumes the rest of the risk and pays for auto repairs, medical bills, etc. By having car insurance, we have transferred most of the risk to the insurance company. We may still be hurt or inconvenienced, but the majority of the financial liability has been transferred away from us.
Mitigate
The term ‘mitigate’ throws some students off. Here’s a good definition of mitigate from Merriam-Webster:
to make (something) less severe, harmful, or painful
Octave Allegro offers two ways to mitigate risk:
· You can avoid risk by implementing appropriate controls to prevent threats and vulnerabilities from being exploited.
· You can limit risk by implementing strategies that limit the adverse impact on the organization if a risk is realized.
So if an organization decides to mitigate a risk, one way they can do that is by taking steps to prevent the risk from occurring. For example, if an identified risk concerned the security of a building, an organization could mitigate the risk in several ways. They could hire a security guard, put a fence around the building, install a security system, improve the locks on the doors, and possibly several other things to help secure the building. Another example could be related to protecting the network used for a critical information asset. The organization could install a better firewall, encrypt network traffic, and probably a few other things. All of these activities occur before a risk is ever realized.
Another way to mitigate a risk is to have a good plan in place in case the risk were ever realized. The plan should be detailed and be very explicit about who does what when. For example, if a company were to be hacked and its data stolen, what should they do? At a minimum, there are certain laws that they need to follow. (See this link for an example https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reporting (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.). Those laws should be referenced in the plan and the actions required by the company should be also be included in the plan. This should include the exact person or persons that will be taking the various actions. On the page referenced by the above link, someone in the company will need to fill out the Data Security Breach Notification form. That person should be mentioned by name in the plan. Before the form can be filled out, quite a bit of information will need to be gathered. The mitigation plan should also include the steps necessary to gather that data. The more detailed a plan is, the easier it is to follow, especially if something catastrophic is happening. It’s not cheap, easy, or fast to create these plans, which is one of the reasons why not all risks get mitigated.
Terrorism in the world-describe appropriate security and counter-terrorism measures that could be employed to prevent and/or mitigate further incidents of “of the type of terrorism
Instructions for the project
Terrorism Events
Research Project
Presentation paper
This project presentation requires you to answer when, who, where, what how (tactic employed), what definition, and the specific and broad type of terrorism related to any terrorist event that has occurred anywhere in the world from “14 days prior to the start of the course” to “one week prior to your assignment being due at the end of week seven.” Events outside (before or after) this specific time/date period will receive a zero. The final section, where most points can be earned, requires you to identify and explain security and counter-terrorism measures in relation to your selected type of terrorism.
Discuss the following using the sub titles below
Slide 1:
Slide 2:
When: (date)
Who: (terrorist group and/or affiliation)
Where: (city, state, province, country)
Slide 3:
What: (“in “no more than 100 words,” relate the incident, but do “not” copy and paste news reports here). Ensure you include an in-text citation here (referenced at the end of the project). As not to make the slide “busy” (crowded), you should use the speaker notes section for most of your “100 words” (the slide for major titles, points, etc.)
Slide 4:
Tactic Employed: (hijacking, bombing, kidnapping, assassination, etc.) Be specific and concise.
Slide 5:
Formal/Major Terrorism Definition Used to Label this Event as a Terrorist Act: (FBI, UN, EU, etc.) Ensure you include an in-text citation here for the source of your definition (referenced at the end of the project presentation). Explain specifically how your event appropriately “fits” this definition. Be specific and concise. A common point deduction for “not” explaining how the definition fits the specific event.
Slide 6:
Type of Terrorism: (in “no more than 100 words,” explain the type of terrorism: religious, state, right-wing, left-wing t, biological, chemical, cyber, nuclear – including radiological materials, ecological, narcotic, separatist, or issue oriented). As not to make the slide “busy” (crowded), you should use the speaker notes section for most of your “100 words” (the slide for major titles, points, etc.)
Slide 7:
International or Domestic Terrorism: (“in “no more than 100 words,” explain why this event is either international or domestic terrorism – “or” can be argued as both broad types of terrorism). As not to make the slide “busy” (crowded), you should use the speaker notes section for most of your “100 words” (the slide for major titles, points, etc.)
Slide 8 to as necessary:
Security/Counter-terrorism Measures: (describe appropriate security and counter-terrorism measures that could be employed to prevent and/or mitigate further incidents of “of the type of terrorism,” including – if appropriate for your event, force protection and standard/typical physical, personnel, and procedural security measures and/or strategies – “not only/just” counter-terrorism measures). Sub-sections (with headings throughout “this section”) should be used for organizational presentation of your specific measures. To be considered, “each” specific measure must stand out via a heading.
Financing Tuxedo Air's Expansion Plans with a Bond Issue-Introduction To Managerial Finance : Mini-Case Analysis
CASE:
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MINI CASE
Financing Tuxedo Air’s Expansion Plans with a Bond Issue
Mark Taylor and Jack Rodwell, the owners of Tuxedo Air, have decided to expand their operations. They instructed their newly hired financial analyst, Ed
Cowan, to enlist an underwriter to help sell $35 million in new 10-year bonds to finance construction. Chris has entered into discussions with Suzanne Lenglen,
an underwriter from the firm of Raines and Warren, about which bond features Tuxedo Air should consider and what coupon rate the issue will likely have.
Although Ed is aware of the bond features, he is uncertain about the costs and benefits of some features, so he isn’t sure how each feature would affect the
coupon rate of the bond issue. You are Suzanne’s assistant, and she has asked you to prepare a memo to Ed describing the effect of each of the following bond
features on the coupon rate of the bond. She would also like you to list any advantages or disadvantages of each feature:
1. The security of the bond—that is, whether the bond has collateral.
Directions.
2. The seniority of the bond.
3. The presence of a sinking fund.
4. A call provision with specified call dates and call prices.
5. A deferred call accompanying the call provision.
6. A Canada plus call provision.
7. Any positive covenants. Also, discuss several possible positive covenants Tuxedo Air might consider.
8. Any negative covenants. Also, discuss several possible negative covenants Tuxedo Air might consider.
9. A conversion feature (note that Tuxedo Air is not a publicly traded company).
10. A floating-rate coupon.
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Follow all the Steps and instructions . NO PLAGIARISM.
Use the case method to apply concepts, share ideas, and improve communication skills toward solving a complex business problem.
You must read the case (Financing Tuxedo Air’s Expansion Plans with a Bond Issue on p. 260) carefully. Various assigned readings in this course lean toward value investing.
Concepts related to financial statements and long-term financial planning and valuation and future cash flows will help you analyze the cases.
Preparing the Case Analysis
Step 1. Define the problem (15% of assignment grade)
Be sure to identify the problem and not the symptom of a problem. For example, a decline in sales is a symptom of a problem; you must identify the actual cause of the decline in
sales.
Step 2. Formulate alternative solutions to the problem (20% of assignment grade)
It may be helpful to brainstorm as many solutions as you can and then narrow your list down to three or four solutions you feel are the strongest.
Step 3. Evaluate and compare the alternative solutions (35% of assignment grade)
To evaluate alternative solutions you should consider their strengths (e.g., increased productivity) and their weaknesses (e.g., increased cost).
Step 4. Recommend and justify an effective solution (30% of assignment grade)
Be sure to record the reasons why the chosen solution is most effective. In your analysis you must provide a recommendation that is supported by your analysis.
Note: Your analysis may require that you identify more than one problem and develop a set of recommendations.