Explain “Freedom of Contract,” and how it was used by employers to justify their policies.

  1. What was the Compromise of 1877? How did it end the Reconstruction Era?
  2. What were the political implications of Ku Klux Klan terrorism?
  3. Explain the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution. How did it transform the role of the federal government?
  4. How did efforts to extract natural resources transform the American West in the second half of the nineteenth century?
  5. Who were the women of the western frontier? What motivations drove their efforts? What impact did they have?
  6. What was “Social Darwinism”? How was it used to justify the growth in economic inequality?
  7. What were political machines? How did they operate within major cities?
  8. How were baseball and football at the center of new leisure and mass culture in the late 1800s?
  9. How did the United States go from a technological borrower to a technological innovator in the second half of the nineteenth century?
  10. Explain “Freedom of Contract,” and how it was used by employers to justify their policies.

Evaluate the events occurring in a business setting and determine how to properly analyze those events to identify the impact on both cash and accrual accounting methods.

Report Issue

Evaluate the events occurring in a business setting and determine how to properly analyze those events to identify the impact on both cash and accrual accounting methods.

 

Assignment Steps

Scenario: BizCon, a consulting firm, has just completed its first year of operations. The company’s sales growth was explosive. To encourage clients to hire its services, BizCon offered 180-day financing – meaning its largest customers do not pay for nearly 6 months. Because BizCon is a new company, its equipment suppliers insist on being paid cash on delivery. Also, it had to pay up front for 2 years of insurance. At the end of the year, BizCon owed employees for one full month of salaries, but due to a cash shortfall, it promised to pay them the first week of next year.

As the senior accountant, the Chief Financial Officer has asked you to prepare a memo to be sent to management notifying them of the delayed wage payments.

Prepare the memo in a maximum 700 words including the following information to better outline the situation:

  • Explain how cash and accrual accounting differs for each of the events listed in the above scenario and describe the proper accrual accounting.
  • Assess how at the end of the year, BizCon reported a favorable net income, yet the company’s management is concerned because the company is very short of cash. Explain to management how BizCon could have positive net income and yet run out of cash.

What are the most significant barriers or hurdles to making major strides forward in multiagency and whole-of-government interagency coordination?

Part 1

Respond to the following operative questions:

  • If the 21st century, post-9/11 threat environment requires elevated levels of cooperation and coordination across the interagency, what areas offer the most opportunity to build collective action and increased interagency coordination?
  • What are the most significant barriers or hurdles to making major strides forward in multiagency and whole-of-government interagency coordination?
  • How might you leverage the unique capabilities of the private industry to benefit the interagency process? What changes or incentives would be needed to increase their involvement?

Part 2

Summative Discussion Board

Review and reflect on the knowledge you have gained from this course. Based on your review and reflection, write at least 3 paragraphs on the following:

  • What were the most compelling topics learned in this course?
  • How did participating in discussions help your understanding of the subject matter? Is anything still unclear that could be clarified?
  • What approaches could have yielded additional valuable information?

Discuss the quality of the ‘best evidence identified’ making sure to describe what criteria were used to determine the quality of the evidence.

1. Identify a researchable nursing issue/problem from current nursing education. Locate the issue within a brief nursing education scenario to provide context to the issue. (Education issue, such as, the use of simulation to support student learning about a particular issue). Write a researchable question that you want answered regarding the issue. Use the PICOT format to develop your researchable question. 2. Strategically search for and critically review the quality of the research literature to identify the best evidence to answer your research question. Describe your search strategy in detail. 3. Discuss the quality of the ‘best evidence identified’ making sure to describe what criteria were used to determine the quality of the evidence (make sure you reference the critical appraisal tool you used, i.e. CASP tools, AGREE II tool); 4. Describe how and how well the best evidence you identified answers your researchable nursing issue; and 5. Would you mobilize the best evidence you identified into practice? Discuss the rationale for your decision. Support your rationale with the literature.

Draft a section to forge consensus within the U.S. Government’s interagency to garner financial support on Capitol Hill

Prepare a  overview that distills the themes and imperatives from your case study and the National Southwest Border Counternarcotics (NSWBCN) Strategy analysis, providing an integrated and comprehensive summary of your research.

Way Ahead or Recommendations

Draft a  section to forge consensus within the U.S. Government’s interagency to garner financial support on Capitol Hill. Answer the following question:

  • How do you propose putting this case study/analysis to a productive use?

Key Assignment Final Draft

After reviewing the comments from your peers and instructor, submit the final draft of your case study analysis. Be sure to include the following:

  • You will write an introduction to the project which highlights the strategic purpose for the NSWBCN Strategy and outlines your case study on the threat of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) being smuggled across the Southwest border (SWB).
  • You must include highlights of the all-threat environment that exists on the SWB for the key stakeholders of the Interagency Police Committee (ICP) within the interagency.
  • You should create a graphic diagram of the rules and policies that apply to the region, along with a list of overarching themes that summarize the challenges.
  • You should write a point paper emphasizing the need for better multiagency coordination on the SWB.
  • You should prepare an executive outline of the specific chapters of the NSWBCN Strategy that describes how they might support the state-level objectives of governors of the border states with homeland security equities on the SWB.
  • You should include a policy proposal explaining how SWB-related critical infrastructure protection (CIP), response, and resilience imperatives should be fully integrated into future versions of department of homeland security (DHS) strategies and policies, with general recommendations that would be appropriate for DHS planners to consider.
  • You should have a quad chart and supporting information that explains the planning variables associated with cross-domain strategies.
  • You should write a thought piece on improving cooperation with Mexico.
  • You should include a road map with proposed steps to significantly raise the level of coordination among the constellation of interagency players at the SWB.
  • You should add an Executive Summary and a Way Ahead or Recommendations section.

Discuss the sales operation roles and responsibilities in your company?

1)Discuss the sales operation roles and responsibilities in your company?

2)What are some activities and techniques that your company incorporated in to expand its business through new market development?

3)Do you believe Americans’ concern for the environment is a stronger value than their materialism? What ethical issues do you see relating to green marketing? Provide with some real-life examples.

  1. Provide your explanations and definitions in detail and be precise. Comment on your findings. Provide references for content when necessary. Provide your work in detail and explain in your own words. Support your statements with peer-reviewed in-text citation(s) and reference(s).

4)DC (QP) – Discussion Question 1 – CLA2 Preparation & Course Learning Outcomes

Welcome to week 5 of your course. This discussion question will help you prepare for your CLA2 paper and final CLA2 PPP and as such, will have a fair amount of detail. Read the CLA2 assignment listed in week 8 of the course in your Syllabus. Then, please provide an outline that itemizes the concepts that you will include in your CLA2 paper and final PPt. Please be sure to include concepts learned in the course and information (findings, conclusions) from your PA1 and CLA1, papers. Provide some brief details for each item that is outlined. Please keep in mind that you should have place-holders for material not yet covered in lecture from week 6 and 7. Here is an itemized list that summarizes the requirements of this DQ (include every item in the bullet list below, or you will not receive full credit):

● Outline that itemizes concepts learned in the course

● Include information (findings, conclusions) from your PA1 and CLA1.

● Brief details for each item that is outlined

● Place-holders for material not yet covered

CLA2(CLA 2 Comprehensive Learning Assessment 2 – CLO 1, CLO 2, CLO 3, CLO 4, CLO 5,

CLO 6, CLO 7, CLO 8

Develop and present a paper that demonstrates you have learned and know how to apply the

learning objectives in this course; if you use your discussion question responses, PA and CLA1

assignments, you should be able to encompass all of the learning objectives. Please center your

CLA2 around the fictitious company from CLA1.

The product does not matter, but how you sell it to the consumers does.

Your paper should be from the perspective of a manager or an executive that uses Information

Systems to increase the bottom-line and grows the company.

Determine how AFI strategy framework acts as an integrative facilitator for strategic management planning.

Determine how AFI strategy framework acts as an integrative facilitator for strategic management planning. Identify the guiding principles used for preparing effective statements that describe the mission, vision, and the core values of an organization. Review the mission statement in Chapter 1 of Strategic Management: Concepts (p. 13), and determine whether the Caterpillar Inc. mission statement conforms to the description in the text. State the reasons the mission statement conforms or does not conform. Research public information, such as news releases, financial reports, and marketing analyses. Based on your research evaluate the alignment between what Caterpillar is currently doing and their mission, vision, or values statement.

What are the clinical guidelines for acute sore throat treatment?

Acute pharyngitis or tonsillitis is characterized by the inflammation of posterior pharynx and tonsils is a pretty common complaint that we might see with patients. Some are caused by several viruses and others are from different strains of bacteria. Nevertheless, patients’ main complaints are the symptom of pain and discomfort. After reading the article, Effect of Oral Dexamethasone Without Immediate Antibiotics vs Placebo on Acute Sore Throat in Adults A Randomized Clinical Trial it shows several limitations.1 It doesn’t give much information regarding treatment of specific diagnosis. Those given dexamethasone will show no significant difference in symptoms resolution but have more pain relief after 48 hours. Out of 565 randomized participants, 288 were given dexamethasone and 277 received a placebo. After 24 hours, not much difference between the two groups. Even with antibiotics versus delay antibiotic treatment, the results were pretty similar. After 48 hours, 35.4% of patients that received dexamethasone over all experienced resolution of discomfort where 27.7% of the placebo weren’t as successful. Several questions need to be asked and answered. Where can I find the best available evidence to support the patient’s complaint? As I tend to use Up-To-Date for a quick search and reference. After reading this article, should I change the way I practice? Well, that depends. Does this study show the exact or very similar complaints to mine? Will my patients benefit from oral steroids for his/her complaint? Sure, some can given the right situation but oral steroids is only to relief the symptom of pain. It doesn’t treat the problem. Viral pharyngitis will have to run its course of symptoms. Bacterial pharyngitis will need antibiotics. We all know that oral steroids will not cure bacterial infections. Are there other ways of treatment that is just as effective? What are the clinical guidelines for acute sore throat treatment?2 How about the patient’s preference? It’s a laundry list of questions to make a safe diagnosis with the most effective, less invasive with cost conscience answer. From someone who has treated thousands of patients complaining of sore throat, oral steroids would not be my go-to treatment to subside any discomfort from the complaint. Whatever happened to Motrin or Tylenol?3 Studies has also shown that acute sore throat should be treat with self-medication. Although this article was well written, the use of oral corticosteroid has not convinced me to routinely treat acute sore throat with anything but Motrin or Tylenol for pain relief. Oral steroids like dexamethasone doesn’t take in effect until after 48 hours which means it doesn’t reduce the time off for work or school. So, for me, unless given the right patient with severe sore throat and diff swallowing, over the counter analgesic with supportive care is the way I will continue to practice.