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This is the assignment :

Read the attached case study, The Role & Value of GDS’s in Travel Distribution, and answer the following questions:

1. Based on current trends, airlines (and hotels) are now competing with GDS’s, so why did the airline industry adopt the original GDS system and structure?
2. GDS’s were thought to be the end of the travel agency business. What is the current role of travel agents and why do we still need them?
3. With increased direct bookings and restructured fees and commissions, is there a need for GDS’s?

5 short answer / 2 short essay

*short answer

1)     Define balance, informal and formal balance.

2)     Go to website http://www.pantone.com/pages/fcr/?season=spring&year=2016&pid=11

List 3 colors that you like that are from the 2016 report.

2-2) How can companies/retailers use the pantone resource?

3)     Go to website http://www.businessoffashion.com/community/bof500/2015

List 3 people and a fact about each one of them.

4)     Go to website http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/style/top-25-stylists-2015/

List 3 people and a fact about each one of them.

*short essay

1) Pick 5 products. Come up with a USP for each one. Describe in words how you would use one of the advertising motivations to develop an ad related to the USP.

2) Describe how the types of props, settings, and surroundings can affect the look of an ad or photo shoot.

Individual Rights and the Obligations of Government

Prepare: Prior to beginning work on this discussion, read chapters 8, 9, and 10 in American Government and watch the video, Episode II – It’s a Free Country.

Reflect: Our political system is characterized by certain fundamental features to include a system of laws, rights, and liberties. The laws, created and supported by the Constitutional framework, are designed to protect and secure the rights and liberties of individuals and groups throughout the U.S. However, the government also has an obligation to provide for the security of its citizens from serious internal and external threats that could cause grave or severe damage to our country. The need for homeland and national security can create a dilemma where conflicts emerge between these security needs and the demands for civil rights and liberties.

Write: In your initial post, explain what obligations the U.S. government has towards its citizens and how can these obligations impact individual and group rights? Provide real-world examples to support your explanation. Fully respond to all parts of the prompt and write your response in your own words. Your initial response must be 200 to 250 words. Support your position with APA citations to two or more of the assigned resources required for this discussion. Please be sure that you demonstrate understanding of these resources, integrate them into your argument, and cite them properly.

Week Four Reflection

Prepare: Prior to beginning work on this discussion, read chapters 8, 9, and 10 in American Government, watch the video, Episode II – It’s a Free Country, and review your results from the Political Typology Quiz.

Reflect: Political parties mobilize voters to win elections and implement policy goals. Parties use their stated policy goals (i.e., their platforms) as a way to mobilize voter support. Generally, in order to be successful in a two-party system, parties must have policy goals across a broad range of issue areas to appeal to a broad range of voters.

Write: Identify oneissue area that you want investigate. Use the assigned resources required for this discussion to gather information about the goals and proposals, in that issue area, of three U.S. political parties – the Democratic and Republican parties and a third party. Summarize each of the three parties’ policy goals in your issue area. Evaluate each party’s goals from two perspectives:

• According on your own political philosophy, values, or ideology based on the Political Typology Quiz results, which party’s position on this issue is closest to your own and which is furthest and why?
• Does each party currently have national popular support on this issue? If so, why, and if not, why not?

For example, if you are a ‘Steadfast Conservative,’ what do the Democratic Party, the Republican Party, and a third party have to say about your position on taxation? If you are a ‘Solid Liberal,’ what do Democrats, Republicans, and a third party say about your views on environmental issues? Who is the closest? Furthest away? Why?

Your initial response must be 200 to 250 words. Justify your conclusions with facts and persuasive reasoning. Fully respond to all parts of the question and write your response in your own words. Support your position with APA citations to two or more of the assigned resources required for this discussion. Please be sure that you demonstrate understanding of these resources, integrate them into your argument, and cite them properly.

Week Four Learning Activity Worksheet

Develop a detailed outline of your fourth main point.

1. Political Parties, Interest Groups, and Elections:

1. 1. Provide a paragraph that briefly describes the one positive impact and one negative impact of one of the following: political parties, interest groups, or elections.

(Use the space below to complete this section.)

1. 2. Provide a paragraph that recommends one option to accentuate the positive impact and one to lessen the negative impact.

(Use the space below to complete this section.)

1. Thesis statement:

2. 1. Provide a thesis statement for the final paper that identifies the main argument and purpose of the paper.

(Use the space below to complete this section.)

3. Scholarly Support: (For assistance with your research, the Ashford University’s Library provides tutorials and recorded webinars on a variety of topics. To access these helpful resources look for the links located under the FindIt@AU search box on the library home page. For help with writing, please review the APA Style Aid, and Ashford Writing Center’s Sample Annotated Bibliography for additional help.)

1. 1. Provide two credible sources in APA format to support your main points.

In a firm that has identified very few strategic options, what are some of the obstacles you might face in generating and evaluating strategic options? What steps would you as a manager take to overcome these obstacles? How would you measure whether your interventions were effective? Share your thoughts, supported by evidence from the readings and other

1. The future of the internet lies with IPv6.  Pick two features of the IPv6 protocol and describe how those features will make communication world wide better.

2. The suite of TCP/IP is large – let’s examine just two protocols briefly here – What is the difference between Telnet and FTP?

Directions: Using at least three resources (Wikipedia sources are not permitted), write a four page paper addressing the following prompts.  Your submission should comply with APA guidelines for formatting and citations.Be sure to list each resource used at the end of paper in the reference list section.

Part I:

1. Explain how the Cairo 1994 Population Conference strategy of increased women’s responsibility and education will help to reduce fertility rates.  What sub-issues are also brought forth from this approach?

2. Interpret and further explain the world arguments for and against birth control in Section 24. Also try to interpret and represent different cultures’ and non-western, developing countries’ viewpoints.

3. Outline clearly why declining world fertility rates do not reduce population growth at a parallel rate.

4. Describe why the concept of population carrying capacity is difficult to apply to the human population.

5. Describe the dynamics of food supply for increasing human populations.

Part II:

Explain why population growth is more rapidly growing in the lower developed countries and will account for most of the new population by 2025.

Part III:

Using the Internet and other sources, research in more detail food supply problems for LDC’s and industrialized nations in view of the next century’s population growth and their national population growth.

Directions: Describe the following terms.  Responses to each topic should be a minimum of one paragraph in length, which must consist of five to seven sentences.  Please provide examples, if applicable.  Students should utilize APA guidelines for formatting and citations.

1. Birth rate, death rate, fertility rate

2. Growth rate, infant mortality rate

3. Demography, demographic transition

4. Developed country, developing country

5. Geometric growth, exponential growth, and arithmetic growth

6. Population Carrying Capacity

7. Environmental degradation

8. Green Revolution

9. Youth bulges

10. Sustainable yields, sustainability

Part II

Population growth is a key concern in our society today. Compare population growth in lower developed countries (LDC’s) versus the industrialized world.  Give reasons for this higher population growth in LDCs. What are solutions to this problem?

Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper on diversity in the workplace and its implications for human resource development.

Address a time at your workplace you experienced or observed organizational discrimination. Include the following:

• A brief description of the event and the work environment the discrimination occurred (Omit identifying demographic information and use fictitious names as needed.)
• Federal and state legislation that supports fair workplace practices
• The responsibilities of human resource managers and their implications concerning race, culture, age, gender, sexual orientation, spiritual or religious beliefs, and disabilities
• How risk management strategies support equity within the workplace
• Why issues of diversity within the workplace are paramount for human service workers and for management of human service organizations
• How this experience or observation may influence issues of diversity within your dream organization for Week Five’s Learning Team Presentation
• How this would apply to the development and management aspects of human resources

Format your report consistent with APA guidelines.

Your supervisor at the agency where you work has become increasingly insistent that you work many hours over and above your required working hours. She has indicated that there is no discussion to be had—you must work the required extra hours in order for your agency to survive. All staff must work overtime, no exceptions. You have family and school obligations that you must meet, and working the additional hours has become very burdensome to you. You value and need your job, and want to be as helpful as possible. Although your supervisor indicated when these demands first began that they would be temporary, it is now six months since you began having to work many additional overtime hours and see many extra clients. Your work, family, and schoolwork have all begun to suffer, and you are increasingly frustrated with your supervisor for her approach to managing this organizational need.

EC Golden Rectangle
Reference our Visual Display book by Tufte, Chapter 9 “Aesthetics and Technique in Data Graphical Design.” Read the final section in this chapter, “Proportion and Scale: The Shape of Graphics” which is pp. 186-190 in my edition.

Answer these questions:

1) Should graphics tend toward the horizontal or the vertical (i.e., should they be greater in length or in height)?

2) What are three reasons supplied by the author that support your answer in 1)?

3) What is the Golden Rectangle? What is the proportion of length to width in the Golden Rectangle?

4) Provide one example (show it) of a graphic that has dimensions close to the Golden Rectangle. Remember to cite your source(s).

5) At the end the section the author suggests that, absent special situations that call for exceptional graphic designs, a good general rule of thumb is to strive for graphics of approximately what general dimensions?