Create a table containing the project activities used in the letter assigned to each activity, the time estimates, and the precedence relationships from which you will assemble the network diagram.

Read Case: The Pert Mustang at the end of Ch. 7 (pp. 273). Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper in which you address the following points: Prepare the report that Vicky Roberts requested, assuming the project will begin immediately. Assume 45 working days are available to complete the project, including transporting the car to Detroit before the auto show begins. Discuss, briefly, the aspects of the proposed new business, such as the competitive priorities that Roberts asked about. Create a table containing the project activities used in the letter assigned to each activity, the time estimates, and the precedence relationships from which you will assemble the network diagram. Draw a network diagram of the project similar to Figure 7.3. Determine the activities on the critical path and the estimated slack for each activity. CASE: The Pert Mustang Roberts Auto Sales and Service (RASAS) consists of three car dealerships that sell and service several makes of American and Japanese cars, two auto parts stores, a large body shop and car painting business, and an auto salvage yard. Vicky Roberts, owner of RASAS, went into the car business when she inherited a Ford dealership from her father. She was able to capitalize on her knowledge and experience to build her business into the diversified and successful mini-empire it is today. Her motto, “Sell ‘em today, repair ‘em tomorrow!” reflects a strategy that she refers to in private as “Get ‘em coming and going.”Roberts has always retained a soft spot in her heart for high-performance Mustangs and just acquired a 1965 Shelby Mustang GT 350 that needs a lot of restoration. She also notes the public’s growing interest in the restoration of vintage automobiles. Roberts is thinking of expanding into the vintage car restoration business and needs help in assessing the feasibility of such a move. She wants to restore her 1965 Shelby Mustang to mint condition, or as close to mint condition as possible. If she decides to go into the car restoring business, she can use the Mustang as an exhibit in sales and advertising and take it to auto shows to attract business for the new shop.Roberts believes that many people want the thrill of restoring an old car themselves, but they do not have the time to run down all the old parts. Still, others just want to own a vintage auto because it is different and many of them have plenty of money to pay someone to restore an auto for them.Roberts wants the new business to appeal to both types of people. For the first group, she envisions serving as a parts broker for NOS (“new old stock”), new parts that were manufactured many years ago and are still packaged in their original cartons. It can be a time-consuming process to find the right part. RASAS could also machine new parts to replicate those that are hard to find or that no longer exist.In addition, RASAS could assemble a library of parts and body manuals for old cars to serve as an information resource for do-it-yourself restorers. The do-it-yourselfers could come to RASAS for help in compiling parts lists, and RASAS could acquire the parts for them. For others, RASAS would take charge of the entire restoration.Roberts asked the director of service operations to take a good look at her Mustang and determine what needs to be done to restore it to the condition it was in when it came from the factory more than 40 years ago. She wants to restore this car in time to exhibit it at the Detroit Auto Show. If the car gets a lot of press, it will be a real public relations coup for RASAS—especially if Roberts decides to enter this new venture. Even if she does not, the car will be a showpiece for the rest of the business.Roberts asked the director of service operations to prepare a report about what is involved in restoring the car and whether it can be done in time for the Detroit show in 45 working days using PERT/CPM. The parts manager, the body shop manager, and the chief mechanic have provided the following estimates of times and activities that need to be done, as well as cost estimates: a. Order all needed material and parts (upholstery, windshield, carburetor, and oil pump). Time: 2 days. Cost (telephone calls and labor): $100. b. Receive upholstery material for seat covers. Cannot be done until order is placed. Time: 30 days. Cost: $2,100. c. Receive windshield. Cannot be done until order is placed. Time: 10 days. Cost: $800. d. Receive carburetor and oil pump. Cannot be done until order is placed. Time: 7 days. Cost: $1,750. e. Remove chrome from body. Can be done immediately. Time: 1 day. Cost: $200. f. Remove body (doors, hood, trunk, and fenders) from frame. Cannot be done until chrome is removed. Time: 1 day. Cost: $300. g. Have fenders repaired by body shop. Cannot be done until body is removed from frame. Time: 4 days. Cost: $1,000. h. Repair doors, trunk, and hood. Cannot be done until body is removed from frame. Time: 6 days. Cost: $1,500. i. Pull engine from chassis. Do after body is removed from frame. Time: 1 day. Cost: $200. j. Remove rust from frame. Do after the engine has been pulled from the chassis. Time: 3 days. Cost $900. k. Regrind engine valves. Do after the engine has been pulled from the chassis. Time: 5 days. Cost: $1,000. l. Replace carburetor and oil pump. Do after engine has been pulled from chassis and after carburetor and oil pump have been received. Time: 1 day. Cost: $200. m. Rechrome the chrome parts. Chrome must have been removed from the body first. Time: 3 days. Cost: $210. n. Reinstall engine. Do after valves are reground and carburetor and oil pump have been installed. Time: 1 day. Cost: $200. o. Put doors, hood, and trunk back on frame. The doors, hood, and trunk must have been repaired first. The frame must have had its rust removed first. Time: 1 day. Cost: $240. p. Rebuild transmission and replace brakes. Do so after the engine has been reinstalled and the doors, hood, and trunk are back on the frame. Time: 4 days. Cost: $2,000. q. Replace windshield. Windshield must have been received. Time: 1 day. Cost: $100. r. Put fenders back on. The fenders must have been repaired first, the transmission rebuilt, and the brakes replaced. Time: 1 day. Cost: $100. s. Paint car. Cannot be done until the fenders are back on and windshield replaced. Time: 4 days. Cost: $1,700. t. Reupholster interior of car. Must have received upholstery material first. Car must have been painted first. Time: 7 days. Cost: $2,400. u. Put chrome parts back on. Car must have been painted and chrome parts rechromed first. Time: 1 day. Cost: $100. v. Pull car to the Detroit Auto Show. Must have completed reupholstery of interior and have put the chrome parts back on. Time: 2 days. Cost: $1,000. Roberts wants to limit expenditures on this project to what could be recovered by selling the restored car. She has already spent $50,000 to acquire the car. In addition, she wants a brief report on some of the aspects of the proposed business, such as how it fits in with RASAS’s other businesses and what RASAS’s operations task should be with regard to cost, quality, customer service, and flexibility.In the restoration business there are various categories of restoration. A basic restoration gets the car looking great and running, but a mint-condition restoration puts the car back in original condition—as it was “when it rolled off the line.” When restored cars are resold, a car in mint condition commands a much higher price than one that is just a basic restoration. As cars are restored, they can also be customized. That is, something is put on the car that could not have been on the original. Roberts wants a mint-condition restoration for her Mustang without customization. (The proposed new business would accept any kind of restoration a customer wanted.)The total budget cannot exceed $70,000 including the $50,000 Roberts has already spent. In addition, Roberts cannot spend more than $3,600 in any week given her present financial position. Even though much of the work will be done by Roberts’s own employees, labor and materials costs must be considered. All relevant costs have been included in the cost estimates.

Describe Possible Future Issues with Technology.

Science Fiction Short Essay Topic – Possible Future Issues with Technology Gerry Santoro, a co-founder of the College and a retired IST faculty member, was the good friend of the late author Phil Klass (who wrote under the name William Tenn). Phil has been hailed as an Author Emeritus of Science Fiction and published many stories in the 1940s, 50’s and beyond. Phil once told Gerry that science fiction is not about science; rather, it is about people and how they deal with the outcomes of science. Because of this, science fiction can be a very important place to examine the possible utopian and dystopian outcomes of any particular technology. It allows readers to consider the dangers of a technology before society is dependent upon that technology. Your goal in this essay is to identify any piece of science fiction and discuss the people/technology issues that it encompasses. The piece may be a movie, book, short story, comic book, cartoon, anime or whatever. Be sure to select a piece that facilitates your essay. For example, in the George Lucas movie THX-1138, people live in an underground society controlled by computers. People are drugged to keep them as docile workers in the great ‘system’. When one man escapes the drugged fog, the computers send robot police after him. This movie is a metaphor for how we are so consumed by technology that it becomes the master and we the slave. It also points to the need for people to maintain control through an understanding of technology. In the end… well, see the movie for yourself. Some Additional Comments to Help You Get Started First, it might help to understand that the purpose of references is three-fold: To identify the sources of information you’ve used so that people who might want to use your work as a building block for a project of their own can check what you’ve done to make sure everything is correct So that people who get interested in your work can go to the sources of information you’ve used and find out more about it, and To give proper credit to the people whose work yours is built upon. For example, if you’re writing about a film, people will want to know what that film is, who created it, and how to find it to view it for themselves. Second, what you write about is pretty much up to you. The only constraints are that: It must discuss a work of science fiction (book, movie, short story, whatever – and of course one of your references should identify the work so that your readers can find it if they get interested), and  Your discussion should focus on how the work portrays the relationship between people and some form of technology. For example, the Terminator movies depict a very specific danger that might arise from the military deployment of AI technology (there are lots of SciFi works on specific dangers of various technologies). Don’t get nervous because this assignment seems vague — believe it or not, most of IT is like that (you have five different ways to solve a problem, all of which have pros and cons, there is no clear winner, and you have to choose based on conflicting goals – in other words, high levels of ambiguity abound in IT). Hope you didn’t think it was just 1’s and 0’s. Your finished essay (without references) should occupy approximately two pages of double-spaced text.

Medical Versus Social Model.

Long-term care (LTC) has often been thought of as the place where people go to die. Thankfully, this is one area of health care that has experienced significant reform over the years. Although there are still many improvements needed, the system has evolved into two basic delivery models: community and institutional. For this assignment, take on the role of a case manager and prepare a paper on the two primary models used in delivering LTC to present and potential long-term care client families. You should write a paper that compares and contrasts the two models, being sure to address any questions a family might have when considering long-term care options.  The paper should meet the following minimum requirements:  The paper should be a minimum of 1,050 words (3–4 pages), excluding the cover page, abstract page, and reference page. The paper should be in proper APA format. Work should be supported with at least 4 academic or professional peer-reviewed sources that were published within the past 5 years.

Managing Resources and Operations.

Assignment Details For this assignment, you will present organizational structure recommendations for your employer or for a different organization with which you are familiar. Choose an organization that is not yet global, and then prepare a 15-minute presentation using PowerPoint (about 15 slides) on your organizational structure recommendations (global, mixed, transnational, subsidiary, export, or others) and why you are making these recommendations. Be sure to incorporate concepts, such as communication or global strategy, from Units 1 and 2 into your presentation. Please use the following layout for your PowerPoint presentation: Slide NumberSlide Topic 1Title 2Introduction of Selected Company 3Review of Globalization and Impact on Selected Company 4Review of Global Organizational Structure Type 5Review of Mixed Organizational Structure Type 6Review of Transnational Structure Type 7Review of Subsidiary Structure Type 8Review of Export Structure Type 9Presentation and Justification of Selected Organizational Structure 10Structure for Selected Company of Selected Organizational Structure 11Potential Barriers to Implementation (e.g., Social, Cultural, Economic, Political, and Others) 12Role of Operations Managers in Selected Structure 13Corporate Social Responsibility in Selected Structure 14Methods and Tools in Selected Structure (e.g., Capacity Planning, Quality Tracking, Forecasting 15References

Describe Professional Nursing and State-Level Regulations.

Professional Nursing and State-Level Regulations Boards of Nursing (BONs) exist in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Virgin Islands. Similar entities may also exist for different regions. The mission of BONs is the protection of the public through the regulation of nursing practice. BONs put into practice state/region regulations for nurses that, among other things, lay out the requirements for licensure and define the scope of nursing practice in that state/region. It can be a valuable exercise to compare regulations among various state/regional boards of nursing. Doing so can help share insights that could be useful should there be future changes in a state/region. In addition, nurses may find the need to be licensed in multiple states or regions. To Prepare: Review the Resources and reflect on the mission of state/regional boards of nursing as the protection of the public through the regulation of nursing practice. Consider how key regulations may impact nursing practice. Review key regulations for nursing practice of your state’s/region’s board of nursing and those of at least one other state/region and select at least two APRN regulations to focus on for this Discussion. My state is California united state Post a comparison of at least two APRN board of nursing regulations in your state/region with those of at least one other state/region. Describe how they may differ. Be specific and provide examples. Then, explain how the regulations you selected may apply to Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs) who have legal authority to practice within the full scope of their education and experience. Provide at least one example of how APRNs may adhere to the two regulations you selected.

Explain how the Art Periods and Movements reflect cultural values.

For this assignment, you will be able to understand the following: 1) The difference between and Art Period and Art Movement 2) Various Art Periods and Movements and their style  3) How the Art Periods and Movements reflect cultural values Directions: For today’s assignment, you will be discovering various art periods and art movements. As art history unfolds over time, many of these distinctive eras throughout history reveal the cultural values and ideas that defined the era. As human beings progressed more rapidly, so too did the art movements change and shift quickly. In fact, many of the art movements tend to overlap in other forms of such as art such as music, theater and poetry. Also, another aspect that you will discover is that most art movements build on from the previous while also rejecting certain aesthetics of the previous movement simultaneously.  When encountering a work of art for the first time, it is often helpful to learn which period/movement it belongs to because with this information, you will discover the time period, place, visual culture, cultural culture and ideology that surrounds the work of art. You may even begin to develop preferences for specific art movements over your art education that will allow you to appreciate artworks more fully. After watching the videos below, click on the link to Google Arts and Culture to discover all of the distinctive art movements since the inception of art history. Click on at least 10 periods/movements that interest you and write a short synopsis in your own words of all TEN of the period/movement that you selected. Aspects to consider are artists who participated, the style, medium, concepts, subject, region and time period.  Vocabulary Terms: Culture, Medium, Aesthetics Word Count: This should be 400 words minimum. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfX1tvloLNA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyabu9mU1bk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6rPtmiJ678 https://artsandculture.google.com/category/art-movement You must also use the vocabulary terms mentioned and they must be typed within the essay in bold letters. HOW TO USE THE TERM IN YOUR WRITING:You can use a variation of the word in your Writing Assignments if necessary. For example, if the word is Allegory, than you may use the word Allegorical. As mentioned above, you must you the word within the context of the artwork. For instance, one of your terms this semester is PATTERN. You would use this term and relate it to a specific work of art. For example: “The painting by Sean Scully uses repetitive motifs of lines and shapes to form a quilt-like pattern in his artwork.” You would NOT use pattern in a sentence that follows: “We can find that humans often create patterns throughout history.” The more specific to the provided content, the better!

What is the function of mass culture?

The Gangster as Tragic Hero by Robert Warshow Due Sep 9 at 10am Points 100 Questions 13 Time Limit None Read this first article in the Course Reader (yellow book) and then take the quiz. These are short answer questions. Type your answers in the quiz box. 1.Why does Warshow say “it becomes an obligation of citizenship to be cheerful?” 2.What is the function of mass culture? 3.What is the normal condition of a citizen? 4.According to the author, why is the gangster film remarkable? 5.Why does the author say “the experience of the gangster film as an experience of art is universal to Americans?” 6.Why does the gangster speak for us? 7.Why does the author say “the gangster is the man of the city?” 8.What is the audience response to the sadism in gangster movies? 9.According to Warshow, what does the typical gangster movie present? (p. 5) 10.What is the final meaning of the city? 11.The author says in the movie Scarface, the gangster Big Louie is about to be killed. How does the audience know this will happen? 12.According to the author, why is the gangster doomed? 13.What is “our intolerable dilemma?