I need this for Saturday. It is a discussion rather than an essay. References must be included in the discussion. I will upload what has been posted in the discussion forum so far, I have to add something similar to what everyone else is saying. The important thing here is to take into account the tutor comments when your writing the discussion piece.
1. Plot distributions (histograms) of each of these four variables, using either:
a. Engineering paper, manually preparing these plots
b. Excel which can prepare these distributions for you
2. Ensure you identify the mean value on each plot and also determine the following statistics to demonstrate the variation of queuing performance:
a. For each variable, calculate the probability that the data will exceed 125, 150, 175 and 200% of the mean
b. Determine each increment until the statistic reaches near zero
c. Again you can do these calculations manually or by Excel
Note: Make graphs out of the excel sheet that I sent you, I need a graph of the interarrival times, the t que, the t ser, and the t sys.
Assignment: Company Analysis – Writing Assignment 1
You will have time to work on this assignment in class.
Purpose
To analyze a company’s external business communication documents.
Overview
According to the Syllabus, meeting all requirements for an assignment will earn you a grade of B. The B grade indicates expected performance at the graduate level. To achieve a grade of B+ or better, your work should cover all main points of an assignment, demonstrate a clear and concise organized thought process, incorporate various levels of creativity, include additional resources and experiences into the assignment, and contain no noticeable grammatical, typographical, or spelling errors.
A grading rubric, which will be used by your professor, is included with each assignment. Carefully review each rubric to make sure you have addressed all the criteria before submitting your assignment. Most of the rubrics include the following general criteria in addition to the specific criteria for each assignment.
• Integrates established business communication principles.
At the graduate level, you must support your work with established principles in the field. Citations are required.
• Synthesizes relevant information and material to provide evidence of critical thought.
At the graduate level, you must demonstrate that you have the ability to combine various elements to form a coherent whole – not simply stating facts. You also must demonstrate that you have the ability to examine a situation from diverse perspectives before reaching a conclusion.
• Develops ideas with clarity and logic.
At the graduate level, you must demonstrate that you can present your message in a clear and logical manner and not have your message obscured by disorganized facts and information.
In this assignment you will be using a tool called turnitin.com. This tool allows you to check your paper for potential plagiarism before submitting your paper for a grade. Use the results of the originality report to modify your paper as needed before submitting.
Scenario: Your supervisor has asked you to explore a company that your organization is thinking about purchasing. Your job is to begin an initial analysis of the company. You will write a professional email to your supervisor that describes your findings.
Note: This is an individual assignment.
Action Items
1. Review Table 7.1 Tips for Effective Email Messages in your textbook.
2. Review the grading rubric for this assignment.
3. Go to the discussion topic, “Company Assignment”, and see which company your professor has assigned you to analyze for this assignment.
4. Read the two most recent annual reports of the company you have been assigned.
a. Go to the company’s website. Typically, the annual report will be stored on the Investor Relations page of the company’s website.
b. Locate and read the last two annual reports of the company as indicated.
c. Read other reports and press releases posted by the company.
5. Locate the Consolidated Statements of Income (also known as the Income Statement), Balance Sheet and Statement of Cash Flows in the most current annual report. Print them out, or if the firm offers downloadable copies, download them and save to your computer.
Note: You will need the Consolidated Statements of Income for this assignment. Data from the Balance Sheet and Statement of Cash Flows will be used in Write 2: Handout (in-class) .
6. Create a Microsoft ExcelTM worksheet to present the major portions of the firm’s Consolidated Statements of Income. See the sample provided. You are not simply to copy the sample – make your own worksheet and do your own formatting and computations. Format the Excel document to print in landscape view. See the sample for an example of how to set up the reports and the calculations you are to perform.
Note: You will likely note some extra items on the Consolidated Statements of Income – things that you do not know what to do with. Most of these are non-operating expenses or income that should be captured as such, following the sample provided. The items you are most concerned with will be clearly labeled as such.
7. Write a Word document containing a copy of your email to your supervisor that addresses the following items.
a. What is the tone of each report (its appearance, theme, look)? What feelings and impressions do you get from looking at the report?
b. Review the management letters and other front matter found in the beginning of the reports. What stands out? Can you draw any initial conclusions about the state of the business? What do the leaders have to say about their company?
c. What else is contained in the annual reports, and what is the significance of it?
d. Compare and contrast the two consolidated statements of income for the company. Consider the yearly operating performance and environmental circumstances (economy, market, trends, etc) that are readily apparent to you as an observer, and/or those mentioned specifically by the management of the organization.
e. What changes do you notice in tone and content from year to year?
f. What is your recommendation on if this company should be explored further for potential purchase by your organization? Include a rationale for your recommendation.
8. Check your document with grammarly.com. Modify your document as needed. Note: Instructions on how to access grammarly.com is available inSubmit To Grammarly.
9. Submit your document to turnitin.com (see MBA Toolbox). Use your Franklin email when setting up your account. View the tutorials on how to use the tool, especially how the Originality report works and how it can be used to improve your paper.
10. Read the Originality Report you receive from turnitin.com and make any modifications as needed to your document. This may include adding proper citations or better paraphrasing.
11. Include your Excel worksheet as an appendix to your Word document. There are several ways to do this. Here is just one method.
• Place your cursor where you would like to include the Excel worksheet into your Word document.
• Insert an “object” into your Word document at the appropriate location. b
• Select “Create from file” tab.
• A window will appear for you to search your file structure for your .xls or .xlsx file.
• The file will be inserted into your word document. You may need to resize the image to fit the page.
12. Include the grading rubric as an appendix to your document.
It should be in email format and should address the points as is listed below. I have short explanations in red.
Start with a short introduction about the research that you conducted on the company and say that you will be addressing the contents of the two annual reports to determine whether the company is worth purchasing.
Write a Word document containing a copy of your email to your supervisor that addresses the following items.
What is the tone of each report (its appearance, theme, look)? What feelings and impressions do you get from looking at the report?
Here you look at the two reports and determine how they looked different from each other. It could be that they changed the entire layout to make it look more presentable, or that they have new sections of interest to investors etc. Explain why you like one report better than teh other. or why you felt that there was not much change in both the reports
Review the management letters and other front matter found in the beginning of the reports. What stands out? Can you draw any initial conclusions about the state of the business? What do the leaders have to say about their company?
Here you need to look at the two reports and determine whether the tone of the chairman’s note and other notes by key leaders are positive in terms of how they performed, what were the key achievements, and find what was different from one report to the other.
What else is contained in the annual reports, and what is the significance of it?
List the key elements of the reports and say why they are important. For example the VW reports have extremely clear view of the financial charts that clearly match the balance sheets. This is an indication that the company want to give a better visual feel to their report as investors may not want to take a look at the entire balance sheet.
Compare and contrast the two consolidated statements of income for the company. Consider the yearly operating performance and environmental circumstances (economy, market, trends, etc) that are readily apparent to you as an observer, and/or those mentioned specifically by the management of the organization. – You would have done this comparison in the class and will have a clear understanding of the same. This will help you to answer the next question.
What changes do you notice in tone and content from year to year?
Refer to section above to address this question. For example the VW reports on the capture of market saw a decline from one year to the next. This needs to have a reason. It could have been that another car manufacturing company launched its operations in that region…
What is your recommendation on if this company should be explored further for potential purchase by your organization? Include a rationale for your recommendation.
Based on the analysis, you should be able to say whether you recommend to purchase or not to purchase and why….
The reason should be a solid one.. for example, the decline of foreign manufactured cars in the global market has seen a decline as the countries where there were high sales have begun to manufacture similar cars at cheaper rates, or whatever you deem fit based on your analysis. or if you want to purchase, then state why….
I will add more files for clarification
Final Paper Proposal
Instructions and guidelines
(due date: 11/10)
For your final paper, you can choose to write on whatever issue you are interested in, as long as you draw from the class material and discussions, and your topic has to do with a contemporary matter. Before you dive in, we need you to prepare a paper proposal of two pages, outlining what you are planning on doing.
This is a mandatory toward your final paper (meaning we will not grade final papers without having first got your proposal in due time) and it will count for part of your final paper’s grade (10%).
It is, more importantly, an occasion for us to get started on discussing your topic, give you advice about where to look for insight, how to proceed in building your reflection and eventually your paper, etc.
The proposal must include:
A 300-words abstract.
This abstract must clarify:
– The problem: in other words, the question you wish to pose. But a philosophical problem is a bit more than a simple question. As I have said a number of times in class, political philosophy (perhaps philosophy at large) excels at transforming what is commonly taken to be self-evident into a problem. This problematization endeavor is in fact the main goal of your paper: you are not going to develop an argument in the sense of most Political Science papers, which often include a prescriptive or programmatic moment. In fact, I would encourage you against making such claims. Or for any such recommendation you may make, pose further problem that may come up with their enforcement. You are not writing a policy memo, or looking for “solutions” to be “applied” in the so-called real world. You are not writing a party program or a pamphlet either.
Of course you are invited to be very critical, but in the sense that you must “stay with the trouble” (as Donna Haraway says), and rather than propose solution, the entire paper is dedicated to posing an initial problem, identifying a tension, a contradiction, a paradox, a puzzle, and going with it to reflect on what other problems this very problem poses, how to best formulate the terms of these problems (what concepts do we need to think with to investigate, reflect upon this problem deeper, etc).
For instance: Illich, in the book you’ve read poses a number of problems. But the first chapter is especially clear about one central problem that then inhabits the whole book: beyond what threshold do we fall into an industrial society’s dangerous, anti-convivial logic? In more simple terms, this problem could be re-formulated as, what are the limits of industrialism?
Bill Connolly poses many problems and advances many concepts in his Christianity and Capitalism. One of his major problem is to explain this paradox, this seemingly unlikely or surprising development, in contemporary America, whereby evangelical Christians have recently coalesced more and more with “cowboy” capitalists. One of the ways in which Connolly is able to think about this apparent paradox, is by offering his concept of “resonance machine.”
– The stakes: Your abstract must, very briefly, very concisely, but as precisely as possible, clarify why this problem you are posing matters. For whom, to whom, is this important? Why is it particularly important to our contemporary context? Why should your reader care to read you, and why should you care enough to write about this? Why is this significant to our contemporary context, today more acutely perhaps than in the past? Will this problem perhaps be seen/remembered, in the future, as a great problem of our current times?
For instance: If Black leadership is in crisis to Cornel West, this is a problem because, it matters because… he understands leadership as crucial for Black America to not succumb into nihilism. To him, Blacks cannot extract themselves from misery without models, leaders among them that would offer what he calls a “prophetic framework of moral reasoning” to replace the current “market-driven framework of racial reasoning” that prevails today. What is at stake, what matters, to West? Black lives, and the livability of these lives.
– The core concepts: of course you will discuss and mobilize more than two concepts and use lots of different terms in your paper, to address, reflect upon, think about your problem and the other problems it poses. But try, in your concise abstract, to advance no more than two concepts that you identify as crucial and in need of work so you can problematize whatever it is you are problematizing: these will provide the thread for your paper. Note that, just like you are not supposed to “solve” your problem, but rather slow down (philosophy is a form of rumination, said Nietzsche) and just pose the problem, you are not expected to define, once and for all, your concepts. Rather, you must try to discuss them, the way these notions are commonly understood and imagined, the new meanings that you may create that would better help you and your readers think through the problem under scrutiny, etc.
For instance: Ivan Illich offered a number of concepts in what we read, but one stands out of course, as it is in the very title of the book. Namely, he advances the concept of conviviality, to which he gives a different and new meaning than the common understanding of the term. At the very start of his book, he explains that what he means by a “convivial society” is a society where humans use tools rather than serving machines. Of course this differs from usual uses of the term “convivial,” which often connotes a happy jovial dinner around a table, with wine and friendship pouring abundantly. But Illich is quite intentional about this: to him, if technological threshold are trespassed, humans lose a certain ability of interaction among themselves, and a certain autonomy as human beings. The whole book is dedicated to clarifying, explaining what he means by “conviviality.” So, note that he does not define the term once and for all: he advances a provisional, synthetic meaning for it at the start, but then keeps enriching the meanings and drawing a complex picture throughout the essay.
A short, annotated bibliography:
Which must include:
– At least three sources (two books minimum, one article). Please include full reference either APA or MLA style (choose either one and stick to it).
– a 100-word paragraph for each text, explaining in as much detail and precision as possible given the concise format, why this particular text will be helpful food for thought to draw from in your paper. Why does this text matter to your problem, how can the author’s own concepts help feed into your conceptual work, how is your reflection situated in relation to this text (are you mostly refuting or disagreeing with the work done by this author, are you building upon it, or both, and why).
– I strongly recommend that you focus on the texts we have covered in class, unless your particular topic justifies that you pursue outside research. If you decide to include other theorists, include at least one text from class. Make sure that the theorist you may add is a contemporary thinker.
– Note that if you decide to add more than three sources, you can write less than 100 words of annotation for the fourth, fifth, etc sources. But make sure to explain, for each source, what is important about the source and why it will help you in your reflection, how it relates to the problem you are posing, etc.
Descriptions on the background of the topic and the sample data you chose. Then run several different regression models (two or three) with variables and analyze their differences using Stata. I will provide the professor’s instruction to you in the attachment, which is crucial and all the requirements inside should be fulfilled. Additional information I collected will also be uploaded as a reference to you. From the PPT I provided, you need to choose at least four variables and at least two models to compare the multicollinearity, heteroskedasticity, and serial correlation.
watch the movie Inglourious Basterds and answer the questions below.
a) Sketch a diagram of the movie Nation’s Pride according to Harold Laswell’s model. Describe each of the five major elements of communication in the movie.
b) The message that the Baterds send to the German leadership and to the public via the last man kept alive contain both verbal and non-verbal aspects. Looking particularly at the conversation between Hitler and the last soldier, sketch diagrams of each aspect according to Shannon- Weaver model. Indicate and explain each element in your sketches.
c) Listen to the conversation at the British HQ on German Cinema under IIIrd Reich (Chapter Four: Operation Kino- 64:20-69:25). What does it tell us about the theories of Effects of Mass Communication? How do you differantiate “powerful effects theories” from “limited effects theories”?
Part 2 – The Essay
Submission: Via Turnitin and hard copies to be placed in the GEB011 dropbox in the Wallace Building basement.
GEB011 Assessment Component: 40%
You will write a 1000 word essay on your chosen topic.
Your essay should be structured with an introduction, which contains an overview of the wider topic, a middle, which should describe in detail the observation/piece of technology/theory in the title and how this fits within the wider science, and a conclusions section. Your conclusions should include a statement on whether or not further discoveries are needed and are likely in your lifetime.
Essay writing tips and rules
• Written in the third person (no ‘I’)
• Your essay should include images, maps, or graphs, which are referenced to and used in the
text (remember, a picture says 1000 words – and no, that doesn’t mean you can just submit an image!). You can cross reference to your images/maps/graphs by giving each one a number (and caption) and referring to that ‘figure’ number. For example:
“… Figure 1 shows a map of the study area, and indicates that…”
“…The overall trend in the data is a decline from 1950 to 1990 (figure 1)…”
• Every statement should be justified and needed and should not just be a collection of facts. Don’t leave the reader thinking “and?” or “why?”; it should demonstrate that not only do you have a good grasp of the topic, but also that you can pull together lots of different sources of information and formulate your own conclusions from it.
• You should include references to peer reviewed literature that is relevant to your argument, and reproduce that information in your own words. PLEASE NOTE THAT SHOULD TURNITIN INDICATE A SIMILARITY SCORE GREATER THAN 20%, YOUR ESSAY WILL BE REVIEWED BY THE UNFAIR PRACTICE OFFICER AND A PENALTY MAY BE APPLIED. You should paraphrase other peoples’ written work, not quote or copy.
• Literature may include the use of key text books (check out the recommended reading), or may be found via online databases or search engines e.g. Google Scholar (just type ‘Scholar’ into the search bar), Web of Knowledge (which can be found at https://wok.mimas.ac.uk/), or looking through bibliographies and reference lists in key textbooks or existing articles.
• Every idea or concept that is not your own should be backed up by a citation. In general, you can approach this by one of three ways:
▪ It is widely accepted that … (e.g., Smith et al., 1991; Andrews and Peters, 2004) ▪ Sealevel during the previous interglacial may have been up to 5m higher than the
presentday (Fred et al., 2004), based upon studies of x and y, and therefore ….
▪ Based upon evidence from x and y…. Fred et al. (2004) suggest that sealevel, during
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the previous interglacial, may have been up to 5m higher than the presentday. Therefore…
• You won’t be marked down for this if you get this wrong, so don’t worry, but as a useful hint, et al. is latin for ‘and others’, and since it is Latin it should always be italicised. It is also an abbreviation, and therefore, should be followed by a full stop. Furthermore, et al. is plural, therefore Smith et al. ‘have’, not ‘has’.
• Be consistent with your referencing style. You should provide a full reference list at the end of your work and you should use the Harvard Style or APA. See guidance at https://www.swansea.ac.uk/iss/libraries/subjectinformation/ and download the link on the right hand side of the page.
Aims and Objectives/Learning Outcomes
• To understand how to effectively use the library and to find the information that you
require;
• To learn how to cite information in an appropriate manner;
• To enhance your essay writing skills;
• To cement your understanding of key topics taught in GEB011
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I ordered one before (81550434) for the same topic .. you can choose
whether to paraphrase the last order to me or to write another essay..
i will upload the last order and the question.
my order number was 81550434
you can use the same citation and references
The final capstone project is a culmination of the written research-based assignments completed throughout the course. Each written assignment contributes to the final Evidenced-Based Proposal paper. This is the first written assignment.
Think about what you have learned with regard to the five critical steps of evidence-based practice. In a formal paper of 500-750 words, address the following:
Part 1: Defining the Problem
Identify and describe one topic that may resolve a patient-care-quality problem or issue.
Draft a possible problem statement.
Describe a problem. Explain why it is a problem, and why it is significant to your discipline. Use the literature you gathered as support for why this is a problem in relation to your practice. The problem should focus on the resolution of an issue significant to improving patient care.
Draft a purpose statement in relation to your problem statement that states what you hope to accomplish if you implemented this project.
Part 2: Defining a Searchable, Answerable Question
From what you wrote about your problem and purpose, develop searchable questions using the PICOT format that will be the basis for your implementation plan. Word count is not relative in this section. Include evidence-based resources.
General Requirements:
Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
The Assignment is 2,500 words
The purpose of this assignment is to assess your ability to investigate and diagnose the nature, source and significance of complexity within organisations through applying appropriate academic theory and literature to real world situations.
Therefore you are required to prepare and produce a 2500 word written case study evaluation in which you;
� Broadly set out the context of the current situation of the case study organisation
� From your observations of issues facing the case study organisation map out the range of contributory factors
� From your mapping exercise use appropriate tools including models, theories, literature etc. to
o identify the most significant factors and
o evaluate how their relationship contributes to the emerging complexity for the organisation
Also, I want to add the marking scheme and there are 3 sections
Section 1: Introduction
Section 2: Mapping
Section 3: Research and Reading + Evaluation = the biggest mark
please review the attached paper and fix any error that found in it. after reviewing, please answer these two questions which related to the paper:
1- What are some of the various theories about the function of play? Did you find any evidence to support these theories?
2- – Can play be used as an indicator of normal development? Why or why not?