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Using one example of your choice, explain the power of innovative and creative entrepreneurship in the modern world.

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Entrepreneurship and Small Business Start–ups

The autumn assessment consists of one essay question to be answered and submitted by 11am on Friday 14th January.

Include a front cover on your essay answer. This should include your student number, the question in full (as shown below), the module title, module code, and the word count of the essay (excluding references).

Your essay should by 2,500 words in length (not including the references). You will be allowed a margin of 250 words below and over this word count threshold.

Use the Harvard referencing style when writing the essay.

Question
Using one example of your choice, explain the power of innovative and creative entrepreneurship in the modern world.

What right does a Western company have to insist that its foreign contractors observe in their factories the protocols required in the West? What ethical responsibilities do individual consumers have when dealing with companies that rely on overseas labor?

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Culture, Time, and Business Ethics

This Case Assignment for this module looks at an update of Nike and the ongoing issue of sweatshops. The case is found in:

Byars, S., & Stanberry, K. (2018). Impact of culture and time on business ethics, chapter 5. Business Ethics. Rice University, OpenStax. Retrieved from p. 138. CC BY 4.0 license

For the Case 2 assignment review:

TeamSweat. (2011, July 28). Nike sweatshops: Behind the swoosh [Video file]. Retrieved from

And,

Bain, M. (2017). Nike is facing a new wave of anti-sweatshop protests. Quartz. Retrieved from

Mintz, S. (May 2012). Social responsibilities of a U.S. company doing business abroad. Retrieved from

St. Clair, J. (September 2018). Nike’s bad air. Retrieved from

Address the following in a 3- to 4-page academic essay that demonstrates your critical-thinking skills. It should be written for an audience of employers who are looking to expand their business overseas where labor costs are less than in the U.S. As an ethics expert, you have been asked to address the following:

Should a company advocate for labor rights, a minimum wage, and unionization in developing countries where it has operations?

What right does a Western company have to insist that its foreign contractors observe in their factories the protocols required in the West?

What ethical responsibilities do individual consumers have when dealing with companies that rely on overseas labor?

Should businesses adopt universal workplace standards about working conditions and employee protections? Why or why not?

This assignment should include third-person voice. Write a well-integrated paper with a strong introduction and conclusion, and use a few section headings (e.g., do not simply follow a Q & A format).

Bring in your Module background information. Whether or not you bring in sources outside of this Module is up to you. For all sources used, provide in-text citations and a references list.

Explain how the problem-solving model can help the client address their challenges. How is the client using defense mechanisms, and how is that impeding the ability to problem solve and move forward in the life model?

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WK 8 dis peers Use the Problem-Solving Model to Move Through the Life Model

 

This week, you will move from applying theories and theoretical perspectives to considering and applying models. Watch this video for a brief overview of the difference between the two:

Some practitioners and scholars employ the terms “theory” and “model” interchangeably, so remember that a model provides the steps, procedures, or techniques to solve the problem or to set the change in motion. This week, you will look at two social work models: the life model and the problem-solving model.

Learning Objectives

Students will:

  • Apply the life model to social work practice
  • Apply the problem-solving model to social work practice
  • Analyze the effect of defense mechanism on client progression through the problem-solving and life models
  • Analyze gaps in the life model for a specific population

Discussion: Use the Problem-Solving Model to Move Through the Life Model

Piedra and Engstrom (2009) noted how the life model “remains general and unspecific regarding factors that affect immigrant families” (p. 272). Recall that there will never be one theory or a model that fully explains a phenomenon or lays out all the steps and procedures when working with complex issues that clients present to social workers. Recognizing this, Piedra and Engstrom selected another theory in the immigration literature—segmented assimilation theory. They identified concepts from segmented assimilation theory to “fill in” the gaps that the life model does not address.

In this Discussion, you examine gaps in the life model by applying it to your field experience.

To Prepare

  • Review the life model.
  • Review this article in the Learning Resources: Piedra, L. M., & Engstrom, D. W. (2009). Segmented assimilation theory and the life model: An integrated approach to understanding immigrants and their children. Social Work, 54(3), 270–277. https://doi.org/10.1093/sw/54.3.270
  • Apply a case study from this course.  ( case studies has been upload, pick  the best one for the discussion )

Post a response to the following:

Using an example from your case studies respond to the following:

  • Identify and describe the diverse population and the unique characteristics and/or the distinctive needs of the population in 3–4 brief sentences.
  • Explain how you would use the life model to help the client understand and describe their challenges.
  • Explain how the problem-solving model can help the client address their challenges.
  • How is the client using defense mechanisms, and how is that impeding the ability to problem solve and move forward in the life model?
  • Identify where the gaps are in applying the life model for this population.
  • When looking at the gaps, explain which theory might be helpful in filling the gaps of the life model when working with this population.

 

How did African-American culture evolve in the slave community, and what form did resistance to captivity take?

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African-American culture

How did African-American culture evolve in the slave community, and what form did resistance to captivity take?

What motives led Americans to move about so frequently, and how did that mobility affect cities?

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Motives and Mobility

What motives led Americans to move about so frequently, and how did that mobility affect cities?

What is the symbolic significance of the lighthouse? Discuss it in relation to the novel’s trajectory as well as individual characters’ relationships to it.

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To The Light House Essay

These are essay options for your To the Lighthouse essay. These essays should be 4-5 pages, include an interesting and informative title, be formatted MLA style, and submitted electronically.

· Write an essay in which you identify and explore the painterly images associated with Mrs. Ramsay. Use them to elaborate the relationship between Mrs. Ramsay and Lily Briscoe as well as Mrs. Ramsay and Mr. Ramsay.

· What is the symbolic significance of the lighthouse? Discuss it in relation to the novel’s trajectory as well as individual characters’ relationships to it.

· Compare the first and last sentence of the novel. Make a claim about the critical significance of these lines and how they help to elaborate the underlying relational structures of the novel.

· Consider gender in the text and make a claim about Woolf’s view of femininity and masculinity in the text. In what ways are women shaped by expectations of them? But what about the men?

· Consider the stream of consciousness mode of storytelling that prevails throughout the novel and the claim by many critics that for Woolf’s fiction the action is on the inside. What truths about human psychology and relationality might this technique reveal?

· Write an essay about modernism and how this text hews to the characteristics of modernism. For this topic you will likely need to find outside scholarly sources that enable you to define modernism.

Provide an example of a non‐healing interaction that occurred between you and a coworker or patient. How did you handle the situation? What information from the literature could you have used in the situation?

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Non-Healing Behavior and Communication.

  • Provide an example of a non‐healing interaction that occurred between you and a coworker or patient.
  • How did you handle the situation?
  • What information from the literature could you have used in the situation?
  • Explain why these were effective.
  • Use examples and references from at least three sources of literature.

Completion:

The initial discussion posting should be at least five paragraphs. The initial discussion posting should be typed, copied, pasted, and entered in the discussion forum space.  Attach the word document.

To successfully complete the discussion forum, you must post your initial discussion and reply to TWO different student posts by the due date in Moodle. Spread your responses to other student posting over three days to get a variety of postings to respond to.

Support your narrative with citations and references with information from your text or the literature. The student is to observe rules of grammar, spelling, and punctuation and demonstrate a good writing style and flow as established by the APA Style Manual.

 

In determining the cause of the ankle pain, based on your knowledge of anatomy, what foot structures are likely involved? What other symptoms need to be explored? What are your differential diagnoses for ankle pain?

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CASE STUDY ANKLE

Evaluate abnormal musculoskeletal findings
Apply concepts, theories, and principles relating to health assessment techniques and diagnoses for the musculoskeletal system
Evaluate musculoskeletal X-Ray imaging
Case 2: Ankle PAIN

A 46-year-old female reports pain in both of her ankles, but she is more concerned about her right ankle. She was playing soccer over the weekend and heard a “pop.” She is able to bear weight, but it is uncomfortable. In determining the cause of the ankle pain, based on your knowledge of anatomy, what foot structures are likely involved? What other symptoms need to be explored? What are your differential diagnoses for ankle pain? What physical examination will you perform? What special maneuvers will you perform? Should you apply the Ottawa ankle rules to determine if you need additional testing?

Does the death penalty violate the cruel and unusual punishment clause of the Eighth Amendment? Is it legal to execute someone who has intellectual disabilities? Is it legal to execute someone who is mentally ill?

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Death penalty in the United States.

State whether you support or are against the death penalty and why.
Does the death penalty violate the cruel and unusual punishment clause of the Eighth Amendment?
Is it legal to execute someone who has intellectual disabilities?
Is it legal to execute someone who is mentally ill?
Be sure to support your answer with scholarly sources and appellate court opinions.

Create a histogram of the adjusted daily closing stock price. Make sure the histogram is meaningful by adjusting the bin size so you can see the shape of the histogram. Write several sentences explaining the process/steps by which you created this graph.

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Using Analytic Techniques to Add Meaning to Data

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• Download data on a company’s stock history. From this data, create scatterplots, histograms, and calculate the mean, median, mode, and standard deviation of some data points. Write a 5-8 page report including the graphs and descriptive statistics you have created.

Business analytics techniques are used to facilitate decision making by transforming large amounts of raw data into meaningful information. Many businesses rely on analysis of relevant historical data to make key strategic and operational decisions. Therefore, understanding how to use techniques such as graphical representation and descriptive statistics to translate raw data into useful information can be a valuable skill in an organization.

In this assessment and the next, you will have the opportunity to sharpen your analytics skills by locating and interpreting real-life stock data.

You have been learning about how to explore data. In this assessment, you will apply those skills by downloading a practical dataset and creating graphical representations of that data. The work you do in this assessment will lay the foundation for future assessments in which you analyze and interpret those graphical representations. Since the purpose of business analytics is to make sense of large quantities of raw data, this assessment helps you develop skills in applying analytics to business contexts by practicing the exploration and display of data.

In addition to graphical and tabular summary methods, numeric or quantitative variables and data can be summarized numerically using various techniques of description and display.

Descriptive methods, which describe existing data, are also methods for using a subset of the available data to estimate or test a theory about a measurement on a larger group. This larger group is called the population, and the measurement being studied is the parameter. The smaller group, or subset, of the population that is taken in order to make an inference (to make an estimate or test a theory) is referred to as the sample. The measurement taken on that sample is then referred to as the statistic, which is usually the best single-number estimate for the population parameter of interest. Most often, however, the estimate should not be restricted to a single number that would be exactly correct or incorrect. Instead, it is preferable to calculate some range of possible values between which there can be a certain percent confidence that the true population parameter falls. These are referred to as confidence intervals.

Scenario
Business analytics techniques are used to facilitate decision making by transforming large amounts of raw data into meaningful information. Many businesses rely on analysis of relevant historical data to make key strategic and operational decisions with the goal of gaining or maintaining competitive advantage. Therefore, understanding how to use techniques such as graphical representation and descriptive statistics to translate raw data into useful information can be a valuable skill in an organization.
In this assessment and the next, you will have the opportunity to sharpen your analytics skills by locating and interpreting real-life stock data, creating a business report, and presenting the information from the business report with your supervisor and colleagues as part of a decision-making effort.

Your Role
You are a member of a business analyst group interested in a publicly traded company. Your supervisor has asked you to create a presentation, including graphical representations from raw stock data. From that raw stock data, you are to create a business report for a company-wide meeting at the end of the quarter. Your work and the work of others will result in a Business Report, which will be utilized to help company leadership make decisions.

Your first task is to pick a publicly held company with only one business platform. So do not pick Apple, Amazon, Disney, et cetera. You want a company that plays in only one industry. Then you are to provide an overview of the company, including business context. Remember that business context includes many aspects of the company, industry, competition, et cetera.

The second task is prepping stock history data from the business or company and creating scatter plots and a histograms.

The third task is to calculate mean, median, mode, and standard deviation of the adjusted daily closing stock price and the stock volume.

The fourth task is to provide a summary of the information you provide (including data analysis) without bias and with factual information including citations.
It is your responsibility to present visually and to interpret the data into meaningful information using analysis and descriptive statistics.

Instructions
Select a publicly traded business or stock that plays in only one industry in which you have interest. Download the raw data on the company’s stock history.
Follow these steps to locate and download stock history from Yahoo! Finance:
• Go to Yahoo Finance.
• Search for and find the stock information of your chosen company. Remember do not use a company that plays in multiple industries.
• Once you pull up the general data on the company, review the screen links throughout until you find the link for Historical Data. Click on the Historical Data link. Then select the following settings above the table:

  • o Select Time Period of one year.
    o Select “Historical Prices.”
    o Select Frequency as “Daily.”
    o Click Apply.
    o Click Download Data. Go to the bottom of your screen or your Downloads folder to open the Excel file you just downloaded. Open the Excel file. Check to be sure that you have enough lines to show the whole year. If not, reset the settings at the top of the Historical Data chart and try again.
    o Once you are sure that you have a year’s worth of data, save the Excel file.
    Using the Excel file with the year’s stock data, conduct descriptive analysis as follows:

4. Create a scatter plot of the highest stock price (in the column labeled “High”) against time. Write several sentences explaining the process/steps by which you created this graph.

5. Create a scatter plot of the lowest stock price (in the column labeled “Low”) against time. Write several sentences explaining the process/steps by which you created this graph.

6. Create a histogram of the adjusted daily closing stock price (in the column labeled “Adj Close”). Make sure the histogram is meaningful by adjusting the bin size so you can see the shape of the histogram. Write several sentences explaining the process/steps by which you created this graph.

7. Create a histogram of the stock trading volume (in the column labeled “Volume”). Make sure the histogram is meaningful by adjusting the bin size so you can see the shape of the histogram. Write several sentences explaining the process/steps by which you created each graph.

8. Complete the following for each of the four graphs:

  • o Make sure the x and y axis have appropriate labels—“Stock Price in USD” or “Date D/M/Y” for example.
    o Change the title of the graph to communicated what the graph is communicating.
    o Add options—color, trendlines, legend, other?

9. Calculate the mean, median, mode, and standard deviation of the adjusted daily closing stock price.

10. Put answers of calculations in table format for easy review.

11. Write several sentences explaining the process by which you calculated these statistics.

12. Calculate the mean, median, mode, and standard deviation of the stock volume. Put in table format for easy review. Write a sentence explaining the process by which you calculated these statistics.

13. Prepare a 5-8 page report that you would present to your supervisor, including the following: