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Organizational Analysis Complete your Module 9 Assignment by the end of Week 9. Cost modeling for disaster recovery is a very complex task that goes beyond the scope of this course, but good disaster recovery begins with a needs assessment.  In a 3-4-page paper, for your organization, identify the top two likely disaster events that you need to prepare for and create a list of the likely response resources that would be needed to effectively recover from an incident.  Using information from previous assignments, is your organization in a financial position, considering overall financial health and available reserve funds, in which they are capable of recovering from a critical incident without seeking outside funding?

Case Study: Assignment – The Regency Grand Hotel  Read the Case Study 6: The Regency Grand Hotel, Selected Cases of the textbook. The Case Study is found in the Word document below. Answer, discuss, and examine the following questions: What is your diagnosis of the situation in the company and the accounting department? Use 4 theories from chapters 5-7 in the textbook to diagnose the situation. How would you go about helping Becker determine if empowerment is a good fit for the Regency Grand Hotel? What might a new decision-making process look like at the Regency? How would you expect it to benefit the overall performance of the hotel? How should the Regency transition to self-managed teams if it chooses to go in that direction?

Describe Cell Culture Introduction Animal Cell Culture Medium, and Cell Culture Models.

Write a paper that identifies and discusses a conflict featured in one of the poems (Anne Bradstreet, The Author of Her Book , Phillis Wheatley, “On Being Brought from Africa to America, ” “To S.M.A Young African Painter, On Seeing His Works,” and “To the Right Honorable William, Earl of Dartmouth, “or speeches from part 1 pages 1-37 Great Speeches By Native Americans Dover Thrift Editions.

Write a persuasive essay[about the importance of developing an ecological conscience].

For this RP you will use especially a chapter from A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn. The URL to the document is here: http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/zinncol1.htm (Links to an external site.) Answer and explain the following question in detail: What sources are the textbook authors using? Pay special attention to Zinn’s sources; they give his history a certain credibility on this topic.

The NAFTA Tomato Wars When the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) went into effect in December 1992 and tariffs on imported tomatoes were dropped, U.S. tomato producers in Florida feared that they would lose business to lower-cost producers in Mexico. So they lobbied the government to set a minimum floor price for tomatoes imported from Mexico. The idea was to stop Mexican producers from cutting prices below the floor to gain share in the U.S. market. In 1996, the United States and Mexico agreed on a basic floor price of 21.69 cents a pound.  At the time, both sides declared themselves to be happy with the deal. As it turns out, the deal didn’t offer much protection for U.S. tomato growers. In 1992, the year before NAFTA was passed, Mexican producers exported 800 million pounds of tomatoes to the United States. By 2011, they were exporting 2.8 billion pounds of tomatoes, an increase of 3.5-fold. The value of Mexican tomato exports almost tripled over the same period, to $2 billion. In contrast, tomato production in Florida has fallen by 41 percent since NAFTA went into effect. Florida growers complained that they could not compete against low wages and lax environmental oversight in Mexico. They also alleged that Mexican growers were dumping tomatoes in the U.S. market at below the cost of production, with the goal of driving U.S. producers out of business.  In 2012, Florida growers petitioned the U.S. Department of Commerce to scrap the 1996 minimum price agreement, which would then free them up to file an antidumping case against Mexican producers. In September 2012, the Commerce Department announced a preliminary decision to scrap the agreement. At first glance, it looked as if the Florida growers were going to get their way. It soon became apparent, however, that the situation was more complex than appeared at first glance. More than 370 business and trade groups in the United States—from small family-run importers to meat and vegetable producers and Wal-Mart Stores—wrote or signed letters to the Commerce Department in favor of continuing the 1996 agreement. Among the letter writers was Kevin Ahern, the CEO of Ahern Agribusiness in San Diego. His company sells about $20 million a year in tomato seeds and transplants to Mexican farmers. In a letter sent to The New York Times, Ahern noted that “yes, Mexico produces their tomatoes on average at a lower cost than Florida; that’s what we call competitive advantage.” Without the agreement Ahern claimed that his business would suffer. Another U.S. company, NatureSweet Ltd., grows cherry and grape tomatoes under 1,200 acres of greenhouses in Mexico for the American market. It employs 5,000 people, although all but 100 work in Mexico. The CEO, Bryant Ambelang, said that his company couldn’t survive without NAFTA. In his view, Mexican-grown tomatoes were more competitive because of lower labor costs, good weather, and more than a decade of investment in greenhouse technology. In a similar vein, Scott DeFife, a representative of the U.S. National Restaurant Association, stated, “people want tomato-based dishes all the time. . . . You plan over the course of the year where you are going to get your supply in the winter, spring, fall.” Without tomatoes from Mexico, a winter freeze in Florida, for example, would send prices shooting up, he said.  Faced with a potential backlash from U.S. importers, and from U.S. producers with interests in Mexico, the Commerce Department pulled back from its initial conclusion that the agreement should be scrapped. Instead, in early 2013, it reached an agreement with Mexican growers to raise the minimum floor price from 21.69 cents a pound to 31 cents a pound. The new agreement also established even higher prices for specialty tomatoes and tomatoes grown in controlled environments. This was clearly aimed at Mexican growers, who have invested billions to grow tomatoes in greenhouses. Florida tomatoes are largely picked green and treated with gas to change their color. Page 620 Sources: E. Malkin, “Mexico Finds Unlikely Allies in Trade Fight,” The New York Times, December 25, 2012, p. B1; S. Strom, “United States and Mexico Reach Tomato Deal, Averting a Trade War,” The New York Times, February 3, 2013; J. Margolis, “NAFTA 20 Years After: Florida’s Tomato Growers Struggling,” The World, December 1, 2012. Case Discussion Questions Was the establishment of a minimum floor price for tomatoes consistent with the free trade principles enshrined in the NAFTA agreement? Why, despite the establishment of a minimum floor price, have imports from Mexico grown over the years?  Who benefits from the importation of tomatoes grown in Mexico? Who suffers? Do you think that Mexican producers were dumping tomatoes in the United States? Was the Commerce Department right to establish a new minimum floor price rather than scrap the agreement and file an antidumping suit? Who would have benefited from an antidumping suit against Mexican tomato producers? Who would have suffered? What do you think will be the impact of the new higher floor price? Who benefits from the higher floor price? Who suffers?  What do you think is the optimal government policy response here? Explain your answer.

WEEK 1, PHARM ASSIGNMENT •As a nurse practitioner, you prescribe medications for your patients. You make an error when prescribing medication to a 5-year-old patient. Rather than dosing him appropriately, you prescribe a dose suitable for an adult. • •A friend calls and asks you to prescribe a medication for her. You have this autonomy, but you don’t have your friend’s medical history. You write the prescription anyway. • •You see another nurse practitioner writing a prescription for her husband, who is not a patient of the nurse practitioner. The prescription is for a narcotic. You can’t decide whether or not to report the incident. •During your lunch break at the hospital, you read a journal article on pharmacoeconomics. You think of a couple of patients who have recently mentioned their financial difficulties. You wonder if some of the expensive drugs you have prescribed are sufficiently managing the patients’ health conditions and improving their quality of life. During this week of Week 1, we will analyze factors that may influence pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamics processes of a patient and assess the details of a personalized plan of care that you develop based on influencing factors and patient history. We will also evaluate and analyze ethical and legal implications and practices related to prescribing drugs, including disclosure and nondisclosure, and analyze the process of writing prescriptions to avoid medication errors. The learning objectives are as listed below: •Analyze factors that influence pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic processes in patients •Assess patient factors and history to develop personalized plans of care •Evaluate ethical and legal implications related to prescribing drugs •Analyze ethical and legal practices of prescribing drugs •Analyze strategies to address disclosure and nondisclosure •Justify advanced practice nurse strategies to guide prescription drug decision-making •Analyze the process of writing prescriptions to avoid medication errors  •Assignment: Ethical and Legal Implications of Prescribing Drugs:

In Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan, Hobbes invites us to consider what life would be like in a state of nature, that is, a condition without government.  It is sometimes easier to imagine that people might fare best in such a state, where each decides for him/herself how to act.  A state where each person is judge, jury, and executioner and stands to adjudicate disputes in their own interest.  Arguably,  this state is the appropriate baseline against which to judge the justifiability of political arrangements.   In this state of nature people would posses the right to do whatever one sincerely believed necessary for their preservation; yet because it is at least possible that virtually anything might be judged necessary for one’s preservation, this theoretically limited right of nature becomes in practice an unlimited right to potentially anything, or, as Hobbes puts it, a right “to all things”.   Given this perspective and based on lecture and your reading and understanding of chapter 13 of the Leviathan; imagine that you must lead a group of people that have survived the Zombie Apocalypse.   While the zombies have been eradicated and the virus contained, people are still largely fragmented and tribal in their alliance and organization.  As the leader of a community, you are now tasked with rebuilding societal structures and creating a ruling model capable of governance while hopefully avoiding the pitfalls of the conditions that cause conflict as noted by Thomas Hobbes. 1. Develop a list of the five (5) most central/ important rights, rules, policies, or regulations that your new society would develop and implement. Why do you believe these rules, regulations, and policies are necessary for society to function, and thrive?  Are these rules and policies capable of eliminating or limiting political struggle and the need to utilize influence to achieve goals? How?   2. Describe what methods of enforcement your new society would use to deter unwanted behavior and ensure compliance with these new laws.  Would these methods encourage the use of punishment, rehabilitation, or incentive-based compliance, or some combination of all three? Why or why not? 3. Given these considerations do you believe Hobbes is accurate in his assessment that a government is necessary to control the self-interests of people, or can we exist peaceably without a “Leviathan?” Why or Why not?  Be certain to cite arguments or content from chapter 13 of the Leviathan that support your position.

“When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.” Audre Lorde. Do you agree? Disagree? Why or why not?