We have come to depend on using the internet for so many things. We pay our bills via websites, banks online, and buy many products online such as music, software, and equipment. Visit one of your favorite websites where you spend money and identify three ways that the site is making money. Discuss the market for this website – do they have a global customer base?
Select a country of your choice and explain the role of government protectionism in business activities and economic growth. What are the different viewpoints about government protectionism? What effects do the current increase of protectionist pressures have on the global economy?
Development of personal nursing philosophy is a way for the nursing student to begin to contemplate and articulate their beliefs and values and the role that those values will play in their nursing career. The student can use and may modify this nursing philosophy as they move forward to guide their nursing education and assure that their nursing career aligns with their values. The paper will be: A professional nursing philosophy developed by the student throughout the semester which includes, but is not limited to, a definition of caring and how it relates to nursing, characteristics of a professional nurse and nurse leader, community awareness and involvement, and methods of lifelong learning A consideration of what makes up the student’s own value system and how that will be applied to nursing The result of contemplation and introspection as well as research and inquiry into the field of nursing. Guided by the following: Start with when you were cared for? Or when you have cared for another? What was that experience like? What are your personal beliefs and values that drew you toward nursing? What have you learned so far that may have changed you in any way? How will you put your beliefs and values into practice? How can you maintain your beliefs and values when practicing as a nurse? How do you want your patients to see you as a nurse?
Choose 1 of the following 3 essay topics below and write a paper responding to the prompt. Those questions and suggestions are designed to get you thinking about potential ways to address the prompt, but you cannot hope to address all of these matters sufficiently in your paper. Rather, the point is to help you brainstorm ways to address the central questions of the essay prompt. Recall Robert Nozick’s “Experience Machine” set of example scenarios from your reading—not just the first case, but the whole series of machine-examples, including the “result machine.” Describe if/explain how Nozick’s examples count against various views of the good or well-being(especially those we discussed). What sort of views of well-being or what’s good, if any, might escape the worries his examples generate? Explain. Is there a type of consequentialism that might satisfy Nozick’s misgivings as expressed by his “Experience Machine” examples? If so, what sort and how so?(You may wish to bring Susan Wolf’s paper, “Happiness and Meaning: Two Aspects of the Good Life” into your discussion here, but you do not have to.) Potential ways of proceeding and questions you might consider along the way: What might Nozick mean by “[p]erhaps what we desire is to live (an active verb) ourselves, in contact with reality”? Is he right that “this, machines cannot do for us”—why? How so? What kinds of views of the good, if any, seem unassailable by intuitions about “experience machines”? Why? If you do not think Nozick’s machine-example worries could not, in principle, be adequately addressed by a consequentialist theory, explain why you think this, providing an argument that touches upon consequentialist views and views of the good that we have discussed in this course (perhaps among others). If you do think a consequentialism can be formulated that steers clear of Nozick’s objections, explain why you think this:what view of well-being or good/bad consequences would be involved? What does this consequentialism say should be done with regard to this understanding of the good—viz. should it bemaximized, evenly distributed, etc., or something more complex? How does such a view differ, if at all, from the classical utilitarianisms of Mill and Bentham? Provide an argument that this form of consequentialism can quell the misgivings that Nozick articulates by means of his “Experience Machine” examples.
Demand-side Policies and the Great Recession of 2008 Macroeconomic analysis deals with the crucial issue of government involvement in the operation of “free market economy.” The Keynesian model suggests that it is the responsibility of the government to help to stabilize the economy. Stabilization policies (demand-side and supply-side policies) are undertaken by the federal government to counteract business cycle fluctuations and prevent high rates of unemployment and inflation. Demand side policies are government attempts to alter aggregate demand (AD) through using fiscal (cutting taxes and increasing government spending) or monetary policy (reducing interest rates). To shift the AD to the right, the government has to increase the government spending (the G-component of AD) causing consumer expenditures (the C-component of AD) to increase. Alternatively the Federal Reserve could cut interest rates reducing the cost of borrowing thereby encouraging consumer spending and investment borrowing. Both policies will lead to an increase in AD. Develop an essay discussing the fiscal and the monetary policies adopted and implemented by the federal during the Great Recession and their impacts on the U.S. economy.
The assignment for this week has you look at a project that has been or is currently being undertaken by either the World Bank or the IMF. Course Objectives: Students will learn how to associate theories and approaches to international business management. Instructions: Go to either the IMF or World Bank website and look at what they are doing. You will select one initiative from ONE of the two organizations as the subject of your written paper this week. At the World Bank site: World Bank, click on the “Projects and Operations” http://projects.worldbank.org/?lang=en tab. You may then select a project based on Sector, Theme or Country. At the IMF site: IMF, go to the Home Page and then select “Our Work” http://www.imf.org/external/about/ourwork.htm which will give you access to information about initiatives being undertaken by the IMF. Select ONE project or initiative of interest from either (not both) the IMF or World Bank and answer the below questions. Questions: Your paper should include the following information: A brief overview of the project or initiative. This should be an overview of the type of project, the partners involved in the project and the goals/outcomes of the project. How does this project/initiative reflect the role of the organization in the global business environment? What is the long-term benefit of the project/initiative to the global business environment? Write a complete analysis thoroughly answering the above questions using applicable research.
Remember, that the purpose of this discussion is not to answer my initial or follow-up questions. The purpose is to engage with the assigned readings and integrate them with other ideas and into your daily (or future) practice. Please do use terminology from the assigned readings, cite the textbook with at least an in-text citation (Dipboye, 2016), and bring in current events (provide a URL) to add to the conversation and to support your points. These discussions are the main learning and assessment tool in this course.
This text discusses numerous employee training techniques. Discuss those which have been successful and unsuccessful with you and why?
Create an entry in your strategic management research journal. You will use information from this entry in your presentation due in Week 5. Respond to the following prompts in your journal entry:
Let’s look at a real-world scenario and how the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) plays into it. In the scenario, the United States will be hit by a large-scale, coordinated cyber attack organized by China. These attacks debilitate the functioning of government agencies, parts of the critical infrastructure, and commercial ventures. The IT infrastructure of several agencies are paralyzed, the electric grid in most of the country is shut down, telephone traffic is seriously limited and satellite communications are down (limiting the Department of Defense’s [DOD’s] ability to communicate with commands overseas). International commerce and financial institutions are also severely hit. Please explain how DHS should handle this situation.
