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Locate a recent article (published within the last year) that discusses capitalism and economic market systems in the United States.

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Module 2: Is Capitalism Alive and Well in the U.S.?

Discussion

Select & Determine

Understanding the different types of market systems and policies will help you have a better idea of the effectiveness and relevance each market system has on our economy to include capitalism, market, and economic systems as well as the role of policies.

Locate a recent article (published within the last year) that discusses capitalism and economic market systems in the United States. You can use the Hunt Library, economic journals, newspapers, new stations, or other credible sources to locate an article. Analyze your article, review the assigned readings and then discuss the concepts of capitalism, market, and economic systems and policy. Address the following in your discussion.

  • Explain how capitalism began.
  • Discuss different market economic systems.
  • Evaluate the pros and cons associated with capitalism and market economic systems including answers to these questions:
    • Which type of economic systems you believe are most effective and why?
    • Does capitalism best describe the economy of the United States?

Summarize your findings using at least 250 words and provide a minimum of one reference. Use current APA formatting to document your sources.

 

What topic in the course helped you the most? What information was the most enlightening for you? How did you relate this to your everyday life?

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As the term draws to a close, the last writing assignment in the course you will ask you to take some time to reflect on what you have learned in the course. This reflection should follow the proper formatting that has been the standard thus far (including appropriate citations). You may write in the first person but when you discuss material from the course, cite the book. Please address the following questions throughout your reflection:

1) How would you describe the science of psychology to someone unfamiliar with the topic? What do you think is most important for people to understand about psychology?

2) Why is it important to emphasize the science of psychology?

3) Think back to when you first started the course. What were your expectations for what we would learn in the course? How has the course differed from your expectations? Do you think others share your misconceptions about psychology?

4) What was the most challenging topic for you to learn? Did you use your new knowledge of learning and memory to overcome these challenges?

5) What topic in the course helped you the most? What information was the most enlightening for you? How did you relate this to your everyday life?

6) Highlight at a time since you started learning about this topic where you were able to use your knowledge.

How does innovation contribute to competitive advantage? Support your answer with illustrations from both manufacturing and services.

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How does innovation contribute to competitive advantage? Support your answer with illustrations from both manufacturing and services.

Demonstrate economic, business and management issues in relation to planning, decision-making and development of a business.

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Assessment Task Instructions:

As part of your group project, you are required to present your business idea. This business idea will be the foundation of your group report. The presentation must cover the following key information.

·         Introduction of your business.

·         What legal form of your business (sole trader, private limited liability company etc.)

·         Description of your products and / or services ideas and their features.

·         Product / service’s Unique selling point(s) (USP)

·         Who are your market / customers?

·         Who will your top five rivals?

·         What strategy do intend to compete against your rivals (price, quality, distribution etc.)

·         How do you intend to finance the business idea?
Theory and/or task resources required for the assessment:

§  Exploring small businesses and entrepreneurship; market structure and international markets.

§  Strategic planning – what is strategic planning and how does it fit into business development

§  Learning to create a business plan and determining how to use the marketing mix in a new business.

§  The role of marketing in business – the marketing mix from 4Ps to 7Ps and the link to with customers Using the 7Cs.

§  Running a business and managing product development

§  Running a business- operating in the business environment and the influences of cultural differences, legal issues and funding.

§  Running a business – human resource management, identifying required skills in a business, employing and working with people.

 
Assessment reference style:

· You should refer 8 relevant sources for your report.  Minimum 4 sources should be printed texts.  Please refer to your module handbook for a list of useful resources.

· You must include a Harvard style reference list at the end of your report.

· A full bibliography is NOT required.
Expected word count:

Approximately 10 – 15 slides (remember, however, that each group will be allocated approximately 20 minutes’ presentation time)

 

 

The following learning outcomes are assessed in this task:

1. Evaluate the key features of the business environment and assess their potential impacts on business activities

2. Demonstrate the use of business analytical tools by assessing examples of internal and external business environments.

3. Demonstrate economic, business and management issues in relation to planning, decision-making and development of a business.

4. Discuss the application, and transfer, of a wide range of business/management skills to a specific business/management situation.

5.  Recognize the challenges of organisation and management in small businesses, European organisations and global businesses.

6.  Demonstrate an awareness of ethical constraints and cultural differences within both organisations and the business environment as a whole.

7.  Reflect on different market structures and their impact on the decisions made by individual firms in terms of price determination and the effect on consumers.

 

Identify Driscoll’s reflective model, & the use of reflection in nursing practice. Subheadings may be useful to demonstrate each stage of the framework.

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Title: Positive Professional Values.

Using Driscoll reflective model. a Nurse care of a patient with a leg ulcer or palliative (end of life) patient

Learning outcomes:

  1. Incorporate core values from the NMC Code, NHS Constitution and 6 C’s (care, communication, commitment, courage, competence, compassion).
  2. Consider both legal and ethical issues.

Examples of positive value in practice.

  • Medication delivery involving effective communication, care, commitment and courage.
  • Competent and compassion end of life care.
  • Competent wound dressing changes with effective communication, care and compassion.
  • Gain consent from a patient.
  • Handwashing.
  • Briefly discuss Frances report or Keogh report. (Just one example of bad practice).
  • Discuss confidentiality in healthcare (GDPR, and NMC)
  • Being implemented to provide safe and effective care.

A definition of professionalism

Introduction

This should signpost your reader to the key issues that you will address in the essay. A brief description of the experience, the type of setting and your rationale for the chosen experience. All names of people and places must be anonymised.

A definition of professionalism in nursing must be discussed (Learning Outcome 1).

Discuss and rationalize the importance of reflection in practice and introduce Driscoll’s reflective model.

Main body

  • Identify Driscoll’s reflective model, & the use of reflection in nursing practice. Subheadings may be useful to demonstrate each stage of the framework.
  • Use the reflective model to discuss:

– Implications of the experience in relation to the NMC Code, NHS constitution, & the 6C’s (Learning Outcomes 1 & 3).

– Key concepts of professionalism, advocacy, legal aspects & ethical issues associated with the care provided.

– The evidence which underpins care in this situation (including policies. Procedure, guidelines & research)

– The role of the multidisciplinary team.

  • Identify your own learning and actions to take forward for your future practice.

Conclusion

  • Sum up the themes of discussion
  • Links discussion to learning outcomes 1 & 3 of the module.
  • No new material should be included.

References

  • Present references using the Harvard Referencing system
  • Use a wide range of current information from relevant professional sources to support your work (e.g. journals, books, policies & guidelines).

You Have to incorporate:

  • Aspects of the NMC Code (2018)
  • NHS Constitution (2015)
  • NHS Values (DoH, 2015)
  • The 6Cs (DoH, 2012)
  • Ethics (beneficence, non-maleficence, justice and autonomy (Beauchamp and Childress, 2013) to demonstrate your knowledge and understanding of the professional nature of nursing
  • Legal aspects of your chosen scenario e.g. consent, mental capacity
  • Policy, standards and guidelines that inform practice e.g. NICE, DoH, NMC, RCN, WHO, local policies.

Examples of the situations where professionalism, 6Cs, NHS values and ethical considerations may be witnessed could include (but are not restricted to):

  • Medication delivery involving effective communication, care, commitment and courage.
  • Effective moving and handling during a bed bath.
  • Competent and compassionate end of life care.
  • Competent wound dressing changes with effective communication, care and compassion.

Presentation:

  • A contents page MUST be included.
  • Can be written in the First Person or Passive.
  • Set header & footer to display your SID number & the page number on every page. Use only your SID & not your name to identify your essay.
  • An appropriate font should be used i.e. Times New Roman, Ariel or Comic Sans.
  • Font size should be no less than size 11, utilizes 1.5 or 2 line spacing & align the text consistently.
  • The reference list should appear before any appendices.
  • Upload all work as a single electronic file.

Explain the potential personal liability to Acme Fireworks if a spectator is injured by a stray firework from a fireworks display.

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You are the manager of Acme Fireworks, a fireworks retailer who sells fireworks, puts on ground display fireworks, and large aerial display fireworks. The company started in the owner’s garage two years ago and now has 15 employees that you manage. The company started as a sole proprietorship, and the owner has never changed the entity. The owner has informed you that the company has received inquiries from several large businesses wondering if the company could create several fireworks displays on a regular basis. The owner told the inquirers that the company could fill such display orders, and a price per display was agreed upon. It was discussed that most of the cost for a fireworks display is for skilled labor, insurance, and the actual service of setting off the fireworks. No other details were discussed. The owner is anticipating that new employees will need to be hired, but he is worried that if the large orders for fireworks displays do not continue, the company will not have the funds to pay the new employees. The owner is now considering changing the business entity, but he does not know what entity to form or how to form it.

The owner has asked you to do the following:

Determine if the contracts with the businesses will be governed by common law or the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC), and explain why.
Analyze whether the owner formed a contract with the businesses, and apply the five essential elements of an enforceable contract.
Explain the potential personal liability to Acme Fireworks if a spectator is injured by a stray firework from a fireworks display.
Discuss the different employment types and relationships relevant to agency law, and analyze the advantages and disadvantages of each type specific to Acme Fireworks.
Explain why Acme Fireworks should not operate as a sole proprietorship. Recommend a new business entity, and provide rationale to support your recommendation.
For each task, be sure to analyze the relevant law, apply the facts to the law, and make a conclusion.

What is the history of the firm, including sales, profits, and organizational philosophies?

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Part II SITUATION ANALYSIS (SWOT ANALYSIS)

  1. Internal Strengths and Weaknesses
  • What is the history of the firm, including sales, profits, and organizational philosophies?
  • What is the nature of the firm and its current situation?
  • What are the firm’s resources (financial, human, time, experience, asset, skill)?
  1. External Opportunities and Threats
  • Social: What major social and lifestyle trends will have an impact on the firm? What action has the firm been taking in response to these trends?
  • Demographics: What impact will forecast trends in the size, age, profile, and distribution of population have on the firm?
  • Competition: Which organizations are competing with the firm directly by offering a similar product? How effective is the competition? What benefits do competitors offer that the firm does not?
  • Technological: What major technological changes are occurring that affect the firm?
  • Ecological: Are the firm’s products, services, and operations environmentally friendly?

Complete the SWOT analysis for Starbucks.

What (if any) new measures do you think governments or internet businesses ought to put in place in order to protect young children’s right to privacy?

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This essay is for a competition that I’m joining for, this essay is very very important as it will determine my future. There are more than 10000 participants who will be writing about the same topic and there’s only one winner.

The winner of the best essay will be chosen based on:
1.Creativity
2.Originality
3.Detail
4.Clarity

Make sure you follow those 1,2,3,4 at the top.

Essays will be graded on the completeness and clarity of their theses and arguments. While it is encouraged writing with personality and style, please note that this is not a creative writing exercise. Responses must take a clear position on the prompt to be considered.

Write an essay answering the prompt below.

While privacy is often recognized as a human right, young children are frequently incapable of making choices in defense of that right. For example, babies have no say in whether their parents post photos of them on Facebook.
To what extent should parents be free to make privacy-affecting decisions on behalf of their children? What (if any) new measures do you think governments or internet businesses ought to put in place in order to protect young children’s right to privacy?

The amount of words should be from 600-800 words

Explain how the concept fits today with other concepts of strategic management, and discuss how/if the concept is relevant or not to today’s business challenges.

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Part One (approx 3000 words)
1. Choose a concept/model in strategic management. You can choose the concept from the ones discussed in the course or you can choose another one. Examples of concepts are: Mergers and acquisitions.
2. Critically examine the concept: define the concept; identify when it was first discussed and what the arguments were for its creation; discuss how the concept then evolved by identifying the arguments for and against it over time and by noting any adaptations.
3. Explain how the concept fits today with other concepts of strategic management, and discuss how/if the concept is relevant or not to today’s business challenges.
In Part One you must demonstrate you can research and develop a deep understanding of a concept by identifying, examining and challenging different views of it. You should reference a minimum of 10 academic sources: academic books and/or articles from academic journals that are peer-reviewed. This excludes textbooks, articles from business magazines and ‘popular’ books you may find in airport bookstores, but you can use these as additional supporting references if needed.
All sources should be correctly referenced using the Harvard system, as for any professional academic document.
Part Two (approx 1500 words)
4. Present a real life case study of the concept that you chose in Part One ‘in action’. You can use your own organisation or an organisation of your choice – we recommend you use an organisation you are personally familiar with as it will be easier for you to ‘see inside’ the organisation.

Using supply and demand analysis identify the main factors in determining the price of private rental housing in the UK. Support your analysis with the use of supply and demand graphs.

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Task 1
Using supply and demand analysis identify the main factors in determining the price of private rental housing in the UK. Support your analysis with the use of supply and demand graphs.
(50 marks)
Task 2
Identify and explain the main governmental/economic policies that could be used to influence the demand for private rental housing in the UK.
(40 marks)
Note: 10 marks are available for referencing and effective communication.