Author: chris

the subject of the essay is RISKS OF SNAPCHAT ON TEENAGERS

I want you to talk about :

1- what is being showed & how it can be a risk

2- what type of pictures or videos do young people post that could be harmful if they become public.

3- what are people really agreeing to when they hit the ” I accept to the terms & conditions ” button

4- how often do people use Snapchat?

5- how does Snapchat gathering now GPS become a problem?

6- how does teenagers wanting to run away from parent control by using Snapchat?

In this essay you will critically analyze, question, and discuss a specific focus of the subject/topic you’re reviewing. Your purpose is to act as a cultural critic: interpreting your topic within a particular social, economic, political, and cultural context, and making a specific claim about your topic’s significance within this context.  TOPIC SELECTION:

The topic you select to review must meet the following criteria: – It’s something you have experience with, even if only in the role of observer (you’ve seen it, read it, used it, etc.), or it has an impact on your life; – There is a larger conversation evaluating and discussing it that you can engage with and respond to (other people have written and published opinion-based reviews); – You can identify something significant about your subject within a particular larger social, economic, political, or cultural context. Within these parameters you can review almost anything: think openly and creatively about the possibilities. No matter what you select to review, you will further narrow your topic by identifying one particular angle or aspect as a focus.  DRAFTING GUIDELINES:

Your first draft will likely be an exploratory draft, in which you discuss multiple aspects and possibilities within your selected subject. After that point, you’ll identify a very specific aspect or angle of your subject to explore in depth, centering your discussion around a specific and arguable claim.   CONTEXT: Structure your essay as a response to the most pertinent aspects of the larger conversation around your subject. Summarize and synthesize the relevant parts of other reviews in order to provide a context for your response.  o All outside sources must be introduced and their credibility explained. Cite sources parenthetically in your text and provide full MLA citations in the Works Cited section.  CLAIM: Your thesis for this essay should be specific, significant, and show how it’s arguable by highlighting the points of difference with other viewpoints. Your claim should articulate your sharply focused opinion on one specific aspect of your topic.  SUPPORT & DISCUSSION: Most of your essay will be an analytical, detailed, and complex discussion that supports and explains your claim. Structure your discussion around clearly articulated ideas and reasons that fully support your claim in its entirety. EVIDENCE: Bring in multiple forms of specific and detailed evidence to illustrate the main points that support your claim. Discus in detail how each piece of evidence supports your claim.  SIGNIFICANCE: Explain the significance of reviewing your subject, and what is at stake with your take on it (articulated by your claim). Connect your review subject to one particular larger social, cultural, political, or economic context or issue.  FORMATTING:

At least 6 full pages (by the third draft)  1-inch margins, Times font, size 12, double-spaced   Works Cited section in MLA format

The Martin family has been making guitars out of its factory in Nazareth, Pennsylvania, for more than 150 years. In 2004, Martin Guitar was proud to produce its millionth instrument. Go to http://www.martinguitar.com to link to the Martin Guitar Web site and read about the company’s long history. You’ll discover that, even though it’s a family-run company with a fairly unique product, it operates like any other company. Identify the main activities or functions of Martin Guitar’s business and explain how each activity benefits the company.

2. Explain the difference between an ethical dilemma and an ethical decision. Then provide an example of each. Describe an ethical lapse and provide an example.

Learning Activity #2

1. Critically discuss the trade deficit in the United States. What is its nature and purpose? Support your claims through the use of a scholarly source.

2.You own a company that employs about two hundred people in Maine to produce hockey sticks. Why might you decide to outsource your production to Indonesia? Would closing your plant and moving your operations overseas help or hurt the U.S. economy? Who would be hurt? Who would be helped? Now, armed with answers to these questions, ask yourself whether you would indeed move your facilities or continue making hockey sticks in Maine. Explain your decision. Support your claims with a scholarly source.

Learning Activity #3

1. Talk with a sole proprietor about his or her selected form of business ownership. Ask him or her which of the following dimensions (discussed in this section) were important in deciding to operate as a proprietor: setup costs and government regulations, control, profit sharing, income taxes, skills, continuity and transferability, ability to obtain financing, and liability exposure. Discuss what you learned from the business owner, and link it to either a concept in the text book or another scholarly source.

2. Critically discuss the following questions: How ―small is a small business? If a substantial portion of small businesses in the United States suddenly closed, what would be the impact on the U.S. economy? How would all these closings affect workers, consumers, and other businesses? Use scholarly support for your claims.

Learning Activity #4

1. Without a plan, it’s hard to succeed. Successful managers set goals and determine the best ways to reach them. Successful students do the same thing. Develop a strategic plan for succeeding in this course that includes the following steps:

1a. Assess your strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats as they relate to this course.

2b. Establish goals and objectives, or performance targets, to direct all the activities that you’ll perform to            earn a high grade in this course.

3c. Describe tactical and operational plans for achieving your stated goals and objectives.

2. Describe your definition of a leader vs. a manager and how vision and communication, among other characteristics play a role. Use scholary sources to support.

Learning Activity #5

1. You‘re a marketing researcher for a multinational food-products corporation, and for the past two years, you‘ve been able to work at home. The international division of the company has asked you to join a virtual team assigned to assess the prospects for a new sandwich planned for the Indian market.

List a few of the challenges that you‘re likely to encounter as a member of the virtual team. Explain the steps you‘d take to deal with each of the challenges that you‘ve listed. Support your claims with scholarly resources

2. Communication and teamwork are critical functions in todays business environment. Discuss the characteristics of an effective team and the factors that take place in the stages of team development.  How does communication play a role in team effectiveness?

Learning Activity #6

1. If you were developing a marketing campaign for the Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Company, what group of consumers would you target? What if you were marketing an iPad/Itouch? What about time-shares (vacation-ownership opportunities) in Vail, Colorado? For each of these products, identify at least five segmentation characteristics that you‘d use in developing a profile of your customers. Explain the segmentation category into which each characteristic falls—demographic, geographic, behavioral, or psychographic. Where it‘s appropriate, be sure to include at least one characteristic from each category. Link your ideas to the reading material in your text and other sources.

2. Market segmentation. You probably know that Scion and Lexus are both Toyota brands, yet they are targeted to very different markets. Visit the Scion, Lexus, and Toyota U.S. Web sites. Based on your review of all three sites, prepare a brief report discussing Toyota’s market segmentation strategy.

http://www.lexus.com
http://www.scion.com
http://www.toyota.com

Learning Activity #7

1. How does mass production work? Describe a good or service that would lend itself well to mass production and one that would not lend itself well to mass production. Using those aofrementioned goods, describe why or why not that they could be produced in a flexible production system.

2. Discuss using personal experiences, how decision making is either aided or hindered by the use of data? How does data mining play a role in decision making?

3. Describe a personal example when utilizing data and how it was derived and analyzed played a role in a business decision.  What were the strengths and weakness of the information system?

Learning Activity #8

1. Describe the information provided by each of these financial statements: income statement, balance sheet, statement of owner’s equity. Identify ten business questions that can be answered by using financial accounting information. For each question, indicate which financial statement (or statements) would be most helpful in answering the question, and why.

2. Develop a summary statement of 25 words or less of the key ‘points’ you have gleaned from your reading and studying about business.   How will what you have studied help you in both your personal and professional life? Where will you go from here – to learn more about leadership, management, and business organizations?

Benefits of Market Impacts

The benefits related to social, environmental, and economic impacts are often categorized as either market or nonmarket impacts.

Market benefits include:

• Increased sales quantities due to increased market demand
• Increased prices due to quality and reputation
• Reductions in costs due to increased efficiencies
• Increased productivity
• Reduced future costs related to environmental cleanup, internal control, and ethics breach

What are examples of this impact in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (middle east)? In a 3-4 page paper, provide as many examples are you can of the five benefits listed above.

Use University academic writing standards and APA style guidelines, citing references as appropriate. minimum 4 references.

It is strongly encouraged that you submit all assignments to the Turnitin Originality Check prior to submitting them

Read chapter 6 in Making Sustainability Work

In this Assignment, you will have an opportunity to view a set of slides. After viewing all of the choices of sets of slides, choose one of the sets that best represents your desired career field. Then, describe and analyze what you viewed according to the following directions. Each paragraph should be a minimum of 3-4 sentences.

Part 1: View and Analysis (3-4 paragraphs)

Describe and explain what you viewed. Answer the following questions in your response:

Part 2: Personal Reflection and Connection (4 paragraphs)

Save your Assignment in MS Word format and submit it in the Dropbox for Unit 3 Assignment. When you are ready to submit it, go to the Dropbox and complete the steps below:

This week you began to learn about the basics of change management. Your discussion this week focused upon your own story of change. Now let’s consider the story of change you read about in the case: Monique Leroux: Leading Change at Desjardins. Respond to these questions based upon the need for change in 2008.

1. Analyze the environmental factors driving change at Desjardins.
2. Analyze the marketplace requirements driving change at Desjardins.
3. What must Desjardins do to be successful in the current marketplace and to meet the needs of customers?
4. Is the decentralized structure working for Desjardins? Why or why not?

Create a news release for your community to discuss the effects of aging on cognitive development. Your article should be 750 words. Address the following: Please no Plagiarism and references needed

• Evaluate the effects of aging on cognitive development.
• Provide two examples of scholarly research that support the points in your news release.

Sustained profits come from building a competitive advantage. This advantage can be accomplished not only through good financial return on a specific process but also through the correct capacity decisions that must be integrated into the organization’s mission and strategy.

Jack Welch, former CEO of General Electric (GE), understood this better than anyone else. Although GE was a profitable and respected company when Welch took over, its financial results during the1970s were troubling to both its investors and senior management. Welch immediately made changes to the company’s structure and management practices. From the beginning, he stressed the importance of being one of the top players in the industry. He told his colleagues that GE should always be number one or number two in all its businesses; if it was not, then their only options would be to fix, sell, or shut down.

Because of this strategic direction, GE today usually dominates the markets in which it participates; and if it does not, then it divests. A major part of GE’s strategy is to be the first or second in every market. As you review the module readings for this week, consider the complexity of GE’s products and its emphasis on vertical integration and capacity planning.

GE’s Profile

The General Electric Company, or GE, is a diversified company that offers

infostructure, media and finance products and services. The company was

originally founded by electrical innovator Thomas Edison. It is also listed as one

of the most admired companies, ranking as number one in electronics and 16th

overall according to Fortune Magazine. For the company’s innovation focus, it was ranked as one of the world’s most innovative companies by Business Week.

GE’s Reach

The General Electric Company is organized into 5 divisions including

“’NBC Universal”, “Technology Infrastructure”, “Consumer & Industrial”, “Energy

Infrastructure” and “Capital Finance”. The company functions in over 100

countries and has over 300,000 employees. For 2009, the company achieved

$11.2 billion in earnings and an industrial cash flow of $16.6 billion. Effective

January 1, 2011, it reorganized the Technology Infrastructure segment into three

segments: Aviation, Healthcare and Transportation.

Services

Chemicals, Petrochemicals, and Fertilizers

Food & Beverage

Government & Public Administration

Metals and Metals Fabrication

Mining (Coal, Minerals, Metals)

Oil & Gas Upstream

Power Generation

GE. (2013). The History of General Electric. Retrieved fromhttp://www.ge.com/about-us/history/1878-1904.

GE. (2013). GE fact sheet. Retrieved from http://www.ge.com/pdf/news/GE-Fact-Sheet.pdf

Using the information above and the Internet, respond to the following:

• How does GE’s framework give it the opportunity to be at the forefront of the markets in which it participates?
• Examine your own firm or a firm you would like to work for in the light of GE’s framework and respond to the following:
  • Does this firm have the means to execute like GE?
  • Which type of resources would the firm require?
  • How could GE’s lessons be applied to this firm?.

Write your initial response in 300–500 words. Your response should be thorough and address all components of the discussion question in detail, include citations of all sources, where needed, according to the APA Style, and demonstrate accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation

Select a conflict in international affairs that involves a difference of opinion. Present a research question for the issue. Present your hypothetical answer to the question. Is this is an issue that lends itself to an IO solution or not? Explain. Provide a possible IO solution.

This assignment contains two (2) Sections: Visio Diagram and Design Summary. You must submit both sections as separate files in order to complete this assignment.

Use “Appendix A: Designing Databases with Visio Professional: A Tutorial,” located in the online course shell to help you complete Section 1: Visio Database Design. (Note: This tutorial focuses on the use of Microsoft Visio. Open source applications are not covered in Appendix A; however, the use of open source applications within labs is permitted.)

Use the scenario from Assignment 1: Business Rules and Data Models to complete the lab:

Suppose a local college has tasked you to develop a database that will keep track of students and the courses that they have taken. In addition to tracking the students and courses, the client wants the database to keep track of the instructors teaching each of the courses.

Section 1: Visio Diagram

(Microsoft Visio or equivalent)

1. Use Microsoft Visio (or open source equivalent) in which you:
   1. Create a database diagram with the entities and attributes that the scenario identified (i.e., a college tracking students, courses, and instructors).

Section 1 of your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Submit the Visio diagram as a Visio file.

Section 2: Design Summary

(Microsoft Word or equivalent)

1. Write a one (1) page paper in which you:
   1. Discuss the degree to which you believe the Visio diagram reflects the database design.

Section 2 of your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Submit the design summary as a Microsoft Word file.

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.

• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Describe the role of databases and database management systems in managing organizational data and information.
• Compose conceptual data modeling techniques to capture the information requirements.

• Use technology and information resources to research issues in database systems.
• Write clearly and concisely about relational database management systems using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.