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How does Jules Ferry justify French imperialism? Or, why, according to Ferry, does France need to expand its colonial possessions? Explain at least three examples using evidence from the primary source.

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Primary source

Read the selections, Jules Ferry, “Speech Before the French National Assembly,” and “Advertisements and Illustrations from British Books and Periodicals,” available on the course Blackboard page and then answer the following questions. Be sure to cite specific passages from the readings to support your answers.

Answer the questions using complete sentences and paragraphs with proofreading for proper spelling and grammar. You will probably need a paragraph or two to answer each question.

When quoting from the sources, please include the page number in parentheses at the end of the sentence, after the period. You should not need to use any sources from outside the course, but if you do, please give a full citation, including a full url for online sources.

1. Very briefly introduce the primary sources. What are the primary sources, who produced them and when?

2. How does Jules Ferry justify French imperialism? Or, why, according to Ferry, does France need to expand its colonial possessions? Explain at least three examples using evidence from the primary source.

3. Analyze one of the images from, “Advertisements and Illustrations from British Books and Periodicals,” and analyze it as an historian of imperialism. What views of the colonized peoples are presented in the image? What view of the colonizers is presented in the images? Do you find any of Ferry’s justifications of imperialism reflected in the images?

4. Do you think that these arguments or images would have appealed to people in France or Britain at the time? Why or why not?

What, in your opinion, are the most important factors that led to the Arab renaissance in the modern era? Does Arabic literature in the modern era have literary arts, as is the case with pre-Islamic literature? Talk about this topic with some examples?

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Civilization Era

  1. What, in your opinion, are the most important factors that led to the Arab renaissance in the modern era?
  2. Does Arabic literature in the modern era have literary arts, as is the case with pre-Islamic literature? Talk about this topic with some examples?

Explain how and why, after 100 years of neglect by criminologists, there was a rebirth of deterrence theory. Provide a brief description of each of the waves/phases of deterrence research.

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Discussion Question

NOTE: Students may use only the materials included in the module/course to answer the questions in their own words (do not copy directly). Students may not work with others or use other/outside online resources. Refer to the Syllabus for more information.https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WbT7_HmB3NllfRZ1k… Link is for Chapter 2

Students must answer the questions included in each of the two parts outlined below using at least 1000 words total (approximately 500 words per Part; questions do not count towards the word count). Create a thread with answers in an “Original Post” (10 points) directly in the discussion forum (do not attach a PDF, Word, or other document). Following the Original Post, students will be able to read posts by other students and must write two “Response Posts” using 250 words or more each as a reply to others on the forum (2.5 points each; 5 points total). Responses can include comments or questions about any topics discussed in posts by other students; try to engage in a dialogue to expand and share perspectives on various subjects. Posts may be in paragraph or bullet point form but must use legible/reasonable black font (such as 12 pt. Times New Roman or Arial). Because there is a possibility of technical difficulties, students are strongly encouraged to not wait until the due date to submit their work and to double-check it was posted properly; additionally, students are encouraged to back up their work in a Word document or other safe place in case an error with Canvas arises.

Part 1 (more from Module 2 – Chapter 2):
1. Explain the major assumptions/principles of deterrence theory.
2. Discuss some of the policy implications based on deterrence theory.

Part 2 (more from Module 3 – Chapter 3):
1. Explain how and why, after 100 years of neglect by criminologists, there was a rebirth of deterrence theory.
2. Provide a brief description of each of the waves/phases of deterrence research. Be sure to include:
a.) what each wave of research examined (in terms of data),
b.) what the findings showed/policy implications,
c.) the limitations of the research, and
d.) other relevant information.

Explain the concept of value and its implications for managing the supply chain. Explain how logistic costs can be managed for better value creation.

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Logistic management

4.1 Learning Outcomes:

  • Explain the concept of value and its implications for managing the supply chain.
  • Explain how logistic costs can be managed for better value creation.

4.2 Action Required:

  • The following table shows various costs incurred by a manufacturing company:
                                               Cost Variable cost Fixed cost
Depreciation    
Cost of shipping finished goods to customers    
Wood used in manufacturing furniture    
Manager’s salary    
Electricity used in manufacturing furniture    
Packing supplies for shipping products    
Sand used in manufacturing concrete    
Supervisor’s salary    
Advertising costs    
Executive’s life insurance    

4.3 Test your Knowledge (Question):

  • Answer with a tick mark or write in words which is a fixed cost, and which one is a variable cost.

4.4 Instructions 

  • Answer the question in the test your knowledge section.
  • Post your answer on the discussion board using the discussion link below

Discuss the methods the organization uses to manage and process data (1), and then give one advantage and one disadvantage of these methods (1). Who are the main individuals, groups, or departments affected by the information system?

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Mis project-part 2&3 only

Project Report Structure: Part 1

Submission: week 7 Thursday 04/05/2023                                                   

Marks: 17 Marks

  1. Cover Page (1 Mark).

This must contain topic title (0.25), student names and Students ID (0.5), section number and course name (0.25).

(You can find the cover page in the blackboard)

  1. Table of Contents (0.5 Mark).

Make sure the table of contents contains and corresponds to the headings in the text, figures, and tables.

  1. Executive Summary (2.5 Marks).

What does the assignment about (1), The name and field of the chosen company (0.5), and briefly explain the distinct features (1).

  1. Organizational Profile (3 Marks).

Brief background of the business including organization details (1), purpose (1), and organizational structure (1).

  1. Strategies (4 Marks).

Discuss different types of strategies for competitive advantages (2), and then select and discuss the most appropriate strategies to improve the performance of the organization (2).

(You can discuss any points that you learned in this course and its related to your selected organization)

  1. Technology Involved (3 Marks).

How is the organization set up in terms of its IT infrastructure? Discuss the hardware (0.5), software (0.5), telecommunication (0.5), information security (0.5), networks (0.5), and other elements (0,5).

(You can discuss any points that you learned in this course, and it’s related to your selected organization)

  1. Data Management (2 Marks).                             

Discuss the methods the organization uses to manage and process data (1), and then give one advantage and one disadvantage of these methods (1).

(You can discuss any points that you learned in this course (chapter 3) and link it to your selected organization)

  1. Identify the Stakeholders (1 Mark)

Who are the main individuals, groups, or departments affected by the information system?

(You can choose any stakeholder who has a major influence on the IS or vice versa. You can choose 1 stakeholder to discuss)

 

Project Report Structure: Part 2

Submission: End of week 12 Saturday 10/06/2023                                                  

Marks: 13 Marks

  1. Analysis of Existing System (5 Marks).

Analyze the key problems of the existing system used by the company (2). Also, discuss the Information Systems used within the company (3) for example:

  • Transaction processing systems (TPS)
  • Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems
  • Functional Area Information Systems
  • Business intelligence
  • DSS

(You can discuss any points that you learned in this course and it’s related to your selected organization)

  1. System Evaluation (2 Marks).

Evaluate the current system that the company use (your chosen company) with one of the following options (1):

  • Success
  • Partial failure/partial success
  • Total failure

Then, State the reasons for your choice (1)

  1. Suggestions for the company (3 Marks)

Design or choose a system to help the company solve its main problems. State the following:

  • The new system name (1)
  • Its features (1)
  • Problems that will be solved (1)

(If the system that the company uses is successful and does not need to be changed, you can mention that (1), mention its features (1), and mention the problems that it solved or prevented from happening (1).)

(You can discuss any points that you learned in this course and it’s related to your selected organization)

  1. Conclusion (2 Marks).

 Summarize your report (including part 1)

  1. References (1 Mark).

 Use APA referencing style format

 

Project Presentation: Part 3

Submission: Instructors will manage the date and time for presentation during week 13                                                

Marks: 10 Marks

Make a power-point presentation of your Project work mentioning all the above contents and present in a group (All team members must participate ((1).  There must be minimum 10 slides in the presentation with a good background design (0.5), readable font size and style with an appropriate color (0.5).

Presentation must have the following format:

  • First slide: Group members name and Student id & Title of the Project (1)
  • Company Profile (1)
  • Strategies (1)
  • Technology Involved and Data Management (1)
  • Analysis of Existing System (1)
  • Evaluation and suggestions (1)
  • Conclusion (1)
  • References (1)

 

Suppose that Emily and Paul purchase a $200,000 home in 5 years and make $40,000 down payment immediately. Find the monthly mortgage payment assuming that the remaining balance is financed at a 3% fixed rate for 15 What if its mortgage term is 30 years?

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Finance Question

Critical Thinking Skills Assignment

  • Evaluation skill: Evaluation is associated with the ability to judge the value of material for a given purpose. The judgements are to be based on definite criteria. These criteria may be determined by relevance, purpose, statements, and numerical values or calculations. Please watch the video clips provided on Evaluating Logic Part 1,2 and 3

Read the following vignette carefully and answer questions using the evaluation skill.

Emily Smith just received a promotion at work that increased her annual salary to $42,000. She is eligible to participate in her employer’s 401(k) retirement plan to which the employer matches, dollar for dollar, workers’ contributions up to 5% of salary. However, Emily wants to buy a new

$25,000 car in 3 years, and she wants to have enough money to make a $10,000 down payment on the car and finance the balance. Fortunately, she expects a sizable bonus this year that she hopes will cover that down payment in 3 years.

A wedding is also in her plans. Emily and her boyfriend, Paul, have set a wedding date two years in the future, after he finishes medical school. In addition, Emily and Paul want to buy a home of their own in 5 years. This might be possible because two years later, Emily will be eligible to access a trust fund left to her as an inheritance by her late grandfather. Her trust fund has $80,000 invested at an interest rate of 5%.

  1. Justify Emily’s participation in her employer’s 401(k) plan using the time value of money concepts by calculating the actual annual return on her own contributions. She will contribute $1,000 per year to her 401(k) for 25 years and the employer will match dollar for dollar. Assume that her 401(k) earns 6% per year for 25 years and all contributions are made at the end of each year.

 

  1. Calculate the amount of money that Emily needs to set aside from her bonus this year to cover the down payment on a new car, assuming she can earn 4% on her What if she could earn 10% on her savings?

 

  1. What will be the value of Emily’s trust fund in 36 years, assuming she takes possession of $20,000 in 2 years for her wedding, and leaves the remaining amount of money untouched where it is currently invested?

 

  1. Suggest at least two conditions that Emily and Paul could take to accumulate more for their retirement.

 

  1. Suppose that Emily and Paul purchase a $200,000 home in 5 years and make $40,000 down payment immediately. Find the monthly mortgage payment assuming that the remaining balance is financed at a 3% fixed rate for 15 What if its mortgage term is 30 years?

 

  1. What can you conclude about the relationship between the mortgage term and the amount of the monthly payment? From Question 5, is the monthly payment with the 30-year term half as large as the monthly payment with the 15-year term? Explain.

 

 

  • Deductive reasoning skill: Deductive reasoning is a logical process in which a conclusion is based on the concordance of multiple premises that are generally assumed to be true. Please watch the video clip provided on Deductive Reasoning

 

Do the following problems (Q1 – Q5) and then, answer the last question (Q6) using the deductive reasoning skill.

Use the following information to answer the following questions.

ABC, Inc. Income Statement (in thousands)

December 31, 2014

Sales $200,000
Cost of goods sold 140,000
Gross profit on sales 60,000
Operating expenses 56,000
Operating income (EBIT) 4,000
Interest expense 1,000
Earnings before tax 3,000
Income tax  1,050
Net income available to common stockholders $1,950

Number of shares outstanding

  

1, 500
Market price per share $22

ABC, Inc. Balance Sheet (in thousands)

December 31, 2014

Assets

Cash $2,000
Accounts receivable 17,800
Inventories   8,700
Total current assets 28,500
Gross fixed assets 70,000
Accumulated depreciation 26,500
Net fixed assets 43,500
Total assets $72,000
Liabilities and Equity  
Accounts payable $18,000

 

Accruals   13,350
Total current liabilities 31,350
Long-term debt      8,250
Total liabilities 39,600
Common stock (par value and paid in capital) 2,000
Retained earnings  30,400
Total stockholders’ equity  32,400
Total liabilities and equity $72,000

 

Industry Key Ratios

Industry Average Ratios

Current ratio                             1.1

Quick ratio                              0.60

Days Sales Outstanding (DSO)                              25 days Fixed assets turnover                          5.8

Total asset turnover                2.95

Liabilities-to-assets ratio        65%

Times-interest-earned               3.2

Net profit margin                  1.3%

Return on equity                 7.32% Price/earnings ratio                                             20.38

Market/book ratio                         3.19

  1. Calculate current ratio and acid test ratio for the

 

  1. Calculate DSO, fixed assets turnover, and total asset turnover for the

 

  1. Calculate liabilities-to-assets ratio and times-interest-earned ratio for the

 

  1. Calculate net profit margin and return on equity for the
  2. Evaluate the performance of the firm in the following areas: Liquidity management

Asset management Debt management

Profitability management

 

When you explain the firm’s strength or weakness in each area, you must support your arguments through the evaluative reasoning process by providing reasons, methods, criteria, or assumptions behind the claims made.

 

  1. Deductive reasoning starts with a general principle and deduces that it applies to a specific Deductive reasoning moves with exacting precision from the assumed truth of a set of premises to a conclusion which cannot be false if those premises are true. Explain the deductive reasoning process applied to analyze the firm’s performance.

Provide information and education regarding: Their individual (Kate and Michelle) health concerns/conditions. Maintaining their health to a level that will enhance/promote independence.

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Case study 5

Kate Stevens and Michelle Galla

Background

You are a support worker who has just started providing support to two young women who both live independently in a duplex home and both require minimal support.

Kate Steven’s medical history

Kate is 23 years old and was born with Down syndrome and has a mild intellectual disability.  Although Kate is a good communicator verbally she can at times be difficult to understand due to her dysphasia.

She has an inactive lifestyle and poor diet comprising of high fat fast/take away foods.  She prefers the ease and convenience of these foods over home cooked fresh food.  Her lifestyle choices have contributed to weight gain and poor dental/oral health issues.

Michelle Galla’s medical history

Michelle is 32 years old and has an ABI as a result of a serious car accident six years ago. Michelle is able to cook, eat, shower and do most things for herself but has difficulty staying focussed on tasks for long periods of time and requires prompting at times to complete tasks. Michelle also can become frustrated when completing lengthy complicated tasks resulting in angry outbursts and behaviours of concern such as self-verbal abuse and hitting herself, sometimes lashing out at staff both verbally and physically as well.

Your support visits

You support these young women three days of the week; with other staff providing support on other days. You have noticed that Kate has not been buying any fresh healthy foods as there are no fresh foods in the refrigerator or cupboard. On your last visit you noticed Kate has strong halitosis and she was complaining of a tooth ache.

You have observed that when coming in to close proximity to Michelle, the faint aroma of body spray/perfume does not hide her offensive body odour.  Michelle is constantly scratching her inner elbows, behind her knees and between her fingers. On checking on the itchy areas you note a musky smell and red broken skin.

As part of skill development and independence building, your role is to monitor and encourage Michelle to complete everyday household tasks.  Clothes in the washing machine appear to have been washed and are starting to dry, yet there is a urine odour in the machine.

Michelle is wearing the same dress that you last saw her in, with food stains across the chest.  You approach her tactfully with an offer to assist with her shower today and she replies in an angry tone, “I can do it myself, I don’t need any help”.

 

Your Task

To provide information and education regarding:

  1. Their individual (Kate and Michelle) health concerns/conditions
  2. Maintaining their health to a level that will enhance/promote independence

What can be done to narrow the pay gap for women?

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The Pay Gap

What can be done to narrow the pay gap for women?

Make sure to answer all discussion posts with a minimum of 250 words in proper APA format, along with at least one reference.

What assumptions about gender difference are embedded in Bem’s (1971) and Terman and Mile’s (1936) test? What does this tell you about the social construction of gender and the social construction of difference?

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Gender

Write an essay following the style and format of the file [week 7] to answer the following questions with direct quotations from the four sources.

Read and complete the “Applying Concepts” exercise on pages 576-577 of the uploaded textbook file. Then answer the following questions. Using evidence from chapter 11 of part IV and other course materials is, as always, required.

  • What assumptions about gender difference are embedded in Bem’s (1971) and Terman and Mile’s (1936) test?
  • What does this tell you about the social construction of gender and the social construction of difference?
  • Why do you suppose we don’t talk very much about the tremendous similarity between genders? Or, why we don’t talk very much about the amount of variation within one gender group of “all men” or “all women”?
  • How might these areas of focus and areas we ignore relate to the dominant gender ideology in America?

The four sources need to be used as quotations to support answer: Most importantly need quotes from part IV chapter 11 Gender of the attached pdf textbook file.

  • https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/inside-the-supreme-court-decision-that-overturns-abortion-rights
  • https://www.ted.com/talks/kimberle_crenshaw_the_urgency_of_intersectionality?language=en
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb1_4FPtzrI&t=3s

How did the impacts, response, and recovery for your event compare to the other event? Were any lessons learned from the previous event that helped communities cope with the second event?

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Hurricane Katrina

The paper will include:
• An overview of the event, including its physical and historical context;
• Impacts (physical, social, and ecological systems);
• Number of people impacted (killed, injured, displaced);
• Demographic profile of the area affected;
• Known hazard locations (if relevant) and physical barriers;
• Financial aid received;
• Potential mitigation measures and relative costs of those measures;
• Social changes necessary to reduce vulnerability and improve acceptability of mitigation measures

The paper should include a brief summary of a similar event that occurred either prior to the disaster or subsequently (preferably declared disaster). How did the impacts, response, and recovery for your event compare to the other event? Were any lessons learned from the previous event that helped communities cope with the second event?