Disaster Plans

The SNS is a pivotal tool in the event of a disaster.

Using the Online Library or the Internet, research SNS. Based on your understanding, respond to the following:

• List and explain the types of items a community hospital will require and seek from the SNS in the event of a disaster.
• List and explain at least two concerns you may have when forced to rely on this facility.
• During the creation of disaster plans, it is common and essential that neighboring hospitals work together. List and explain some of the problems that may arise from a disaster plan which may be ten years old and involved all of the local community hospitals at the time it was originally designed.

 

Using Microsoft Word: What Does the Library Have to Offer?

Write a one- to two-page essay that describes the benefits of using the Ashford University Library. Your paper should:

• Explain the differences between scholarly resources and popular resources.
• Describe the key things to remember when searching for sources within the Ashford University Library (e.g., databases, FindIt@AU search tool).
• Detail how you will be most effective and efficient in finding resources that fit your research needs.

Please watch the required video tutorial Quick ‘n’ Dirty by clicking on the video below. Runtime: 4:15 min.

Click here for the Quick ‘n’ Dirty Transcript.

Format your paper according to APA style guidelines as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

Your paper should demonstrate your ability to use the functions within MS Word to create a document with the following elements:

• A title page (see below for specific information to include on this page)
• Page numbers located in the top, right corner of the page (header page number function)
• Paragraphs that are double spaced with the first line indented by .5 inch (line spacing function)
• Page margins set to one inch on all four sides (margins function)
• Spelling and grammar check (spelling & grammar function)

The Paper:

Discuss what are the economic benefits of union membership to employers, and to what extent can these benefits be increased before employers face problems?

Description: Please answer each question with at least 4 sentences or more.

Thank you.

1.  How can you determine a core competency?

2.  What is the relationship between capabilities and core competencies?

 

During any 5-day period of your choice during this week, select 3 stories from the online edition of your local newspaper or any credible national news outlet pertaining to a leadership story/report. Write an analysis paper in which you:

1. Summarize each story.
2. Read the blogs and comments after the story.
3. Describe the tone and analyze the nature of the readers’ comments using any concepts learned from your text book, please cite properly from both the newspaper and text book.
4. Summarize what you learned about the nature of leadership and the reaction of readers when anonymity is assured
5. What you discovered about the culture of the community in which the story took place as a result of the story and
6. The nature of the readers’ reactions to the story.

Support your paper with minimum of three (3) resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including older articles, may be included.

Length: 6-8 pages not including title and reference pages

Use the Internet to research one (1) developing nation of your choice. Your research should include an examination of the effects that war and peace have on the distribution of foreign aid, as well as the material covered by the Webtext and lectures in Weeks 1 through 3.

Write a three to four (3-4) page research paper in which you:

1. Assess the positive and negative effects that peace and war, respectively, have on the distribution of foreign aid in the developing country that you have selected. Support your response with concrete examples of each of the results that you have cited.
2. Analyze the specific actions that the leadership of the selected country has taken, through the use of its foreign aid from donor nations and international lending institutions, to relieve the severe problems caused by warfare.
3. Discuss whether or not the extension of foreign aid has successfully reduced poverty and the incidence of warfare in the selected country. Support your response with examples.
4. Use at least five (5) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia, blogs, and other nonacademic websites do not qualify as academic resources. Approval of resources is at the instructor’s discretion. Resources must also be within the last seven (7) years.

When referencing the selected resources, please use the following format:

• Webtext Format:
• • Name of the author. Name of title. Retrieved from website url.

• Lecture Format:
• • Name of the Author. Name of the lecture [lecture type]. Retrieved from lecture url.
  • • Example:

University. (2013). Understanding Development [PowerPoint slides]. Retrieved from /bbcswebdav/institution/SOC/300/1136/Week1/lecture/story.html.

• Internet Resources:
• • Author’s Name. (Date of publication). Title of the resource. Retrieved from website url.
  • • Example:

Wuestewald, Eric. (2014). Portraits of people living on a dollar a day. Retrieved from http://www.motherjones.com/mixed-media/2014/04/living-on-a-dollar-a-day-photos-renee-byer-thomas-nazario.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• 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 and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Analyze how funding in the form of aid, investment, and loans moves from industrialized nations to the developing world to alleviate the problems caused by warfare.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in sociology of developing countries.
• Write clearly and concisely about sociology of developing countries using proper writing mechanics.

In this assignment you will have the opportunity to look at an organization that failed to change.

• What was the string of minor breakdowns that led to this failure?
• What can we learn from their failure?

Using leadership concepts learned during the course, write a paper about an organization of your choice (for-profit or not-for-profit, preferably one located in your locale (Phoenix, AZ) that failed to change within its industry environment or did not anticipate change.

Explain the situation as it existed that led to the crisis, describe the culture of the organization, the quality of enterprise’s leadership, how the organization’s leader/s reacted (or didn’t react) to the changes in the environment, what process or event led to the decline or failure of the enterprise (or organization) and explain what the entity’s leadership could have done differently to prevent failure.

Support your paper with minimum of three (3) resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including older articles, may be included.

Length: 6-8 pages not including title and reference pages

Your paper should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course and provide new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA 6th edition standards

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regulates public companies. The SEC has found that some of these companies have violated GAAP by using creative accounting practices to mislead investors and creditors regarding the health of their company.

Use the Internet or Strayer Library to research a recent accounting scandal within the last five (5) years where the SEC accused public companies of accounting irregularities.

Write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which you:

1. Analyze the audit report that the CPA firm issued. Ascertain the legal liability to third parties who relied on financial statements under both common and federal securities laws. Justify your response.
2. Speculate on which statement of generally acceptable auditing standards (GAAS) that the company violated in performing the audit.
3. Compare the responsibility of both management and the auditor for financial reporting, and give your opinion as to which party should have the greater burden. Defend your position.
4. Analyze the sanctions available under SOX, and recommend the key action(s) that the PCAOB should take in order to hold management or the audit firm accountable for the accounting irregularities. Provide a rationale for your response.
5. Use at least two (2) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• 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 and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper discussing the four different schedules of reinforcement.  Include the following:

• Describe the four schedules of reinforcement.
• Apply the schedules to specific scenarios.
• Describe the behavior patterns that result from the various schedules from both the experimental literature and human application.
• Explain if avoidance training would be beneficial or not, and describe why.