For this assignment, you will write an outline before you write your paper. Use the outline as an organizational tool to help you arrange your thoughts logically. Construct your outline after you have selected your topic and done your initial research.

Resource: Writing Wizard at the Center for Writing Excellence

Outline your paper using the Thesis Generator at the Center for Writing Excellence; a link is available on the student website. Your outline does not need to have complete sentences, punctuation, or paragraphs.

Include some ideas for the following items in your outline:
Thesis statement
Itemized supportive arguments
Conclusion statement
Submit a screen shot of your Thesis Generator result.
Use the outline as a basic template to organize your ideas and develop this essay.

Write a 700- to 1400-word essay exploring various schools of thought from India, China, or Japan. Select one school of thought each from China, Japan, and India, and identify a prominent thinker from each.

Describe each school of thought, setting forth the major principles of each school.
Describe your selected thinker’s philosophies as applicable to his/her school of thought.
Compare each school to the others from the region.
Discuss which school of thought more closely aligns with your own world view and why.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

You have been asked to write a report for a group of new stock brokers about the NYSE-Euronext and the NASDAQ.

 

Visit both the NYSE Homepage, and the NASDAQ Homepage, and write a paper of 2–3 pages on how the two exchanges operate. Make sure to address the following three questions:

• How are NYSE and NASDAQ similar, if at all?
• How are the two exchanges different from one another, if at all?
• What is The Public Company Accounting and Investor Protection Act of 2002? Describe the law in your own words.

You may first want to create an outline to determine the information you want to include before you actually start writing the report.

Assignment Guidelines:

• Using the links in the assignment description, research the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (NASDAQ).
• Answer the 3 questions listed in the assignment description.
• Compile your answers into a Word document of 2–3 pages.
• Provide a list in APA format of all sources used and insert any necessary in-text quotations.

Your submitted assignment (125 points) must include the following:

• A double-spaced Word document of 2–3 pages that contains your answers to the questions listed in the assignment description.
• An additional reference page in APA format.

Determining what factors contributed to the murderer’s behavior for each specific case might be informative when deciding the most suitable way the offenders should be processed through the criminal justice system. Murderers might decide to kill for very different reasons, including but not limited to passion, anger, and greed. Murderers’ behaviors might be influenced by multiple environmental, psychological, and biological factors.

For this Assignment, select a convicted murderer. You also will write about this convicted murderer per the guidelines of your Final Project. Then consider any social, environmental, psychological, and/or biological factors that may have contributed to the convicted murderer’s behavior.

Note: This Assignment will be a part of your Final Project. You are required to incorporate Instructor feedback from this Assignment before submitting your Final Project in Week 11.

The Assignment (2–3 pages)

• Describe the convicted murderer you selected.
• Describe any social, environmental, psychological, and/or biological factors that may have contributed to the murderer’s behavior and explain how.

 

Sudson Washer and Dryer Service is in the business of leasing used washers and dryers to apartment landlords for a contracted lease term. The coin-operated machines are used by apartment tenants. Letisha, 25, a human resource clerk, owns a five-unit apartment complex. While she resides in one of the units, the others are occupied by tenants. Sudson contacts Letisha and offers to lease one washer and one dryer.

 

The washer and dryer in Letisha s apartment complex are old and worn-out. Anxious to keep her tenants happy, Letisha meets with Sudson s salesman who presents her with a one-page agreement for the use of one washer and dryer for five years. The five-year term is standard and the front page of the contract states the lease period. Letisha (as lessee) and the salesman for Sudson (as lessor) sign the front page of the contract and Letisha retains a copy of the signed agreement.

 

The salesman did not inform Letisha of, nor did she bother to read the back of the agreement which contained additional terms, one of which is an automatic renewal clause that states: If the lessee fails to provide a 90-day written notice to terminate the contract by certified mail to the lessor, the five-year lease term period shall automatically renew for three additional five-year terms and shall only be subject to termination by the lessor.

 

Letisha uses the machines for the five-year period and just a few weeks prior to the end of the term, calls Sudson to provide them with a courtesy notice saying she is not going to renew her agreement. The operator replies that since she failed to provide the 90-day written, certified notice of termination, the lease will be renewed for three five-year terms or another 15 years.

 

Letisha says that she never saw that clause. The operator replies that it was her obligation to read the back page of the agreement and Sudson will require her to make monthly payments for the next 15 years. Letisha does not know what recourse she now has.

 

Research whether Letisha has a contract formation or enforcement defense based on the legal and ethical use of automatic renewal clauses in lease agreements, using your textbook, the Argosy University online library resources, and the Internet. Based on the facts of the case and research, write an analytical paper. In the paper, respond to the following questions:

 

If Letisha does not pay and Sudson sues her for breach of contract, what legal arguments could be raised in Letisha s defense against the enforcement of the automatic renewal clause? Explain.

What legal arguments could be raised by Sudson in support of the enforcement of the automatic renewal clause against Letisha? Explain.

What ethical issues are raised, if any, by Sudson s practice of using the automatic renewal clause in their lease agreements? Explain.

Does the Uniform Commercial Code Article 2A apply in this case? Explain.

Are there any government or private entities available to Letisha for lodging complaints about businesses which treat consumers unfairly? Explain.

If Sudson sues Letisha for breaching the contract s automatic renewal clause, what do you think the outcome of the case will be? Explain.

Write a five-page paper in Word format. Apply APA standards for writing style to your work

The Impact of Neuromarketing on Contemporary Marketing Research.

Resources: The Color of Justice: Race, Ethnicity, and Crime in America.

Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper on the Furman v. Georgia case. Be sure to include the following:

Explain how racial discrimination is a consideration in the decision and the ultimate impact of the case.

Provide applications and examples of the case in more recent sentencing cases.

Analyze the decision.

State whether you agree or disagree and provide an explanation why.

Format your paper in accordance with APA guidelines.

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The idea of “servant leadership” may be considered a paradox. Describe this paradox in the context of leadership.

In a well-written paper, address each of the following as they relate to the leadership development. For each item, I’d recommend doing the following:

• Identify the self-assessment activity or activities that are relevant to the question .
• State what the result was.
• Say whether you believe the result is accurate.
• You may also want to discuss specific items or questions from the self-assessment that you feel are particularly important to your self-assessment.

 

• Self-Confidence is a large part of developing as a leader. Where are you currently with regard to self-confidence based on the self-assessments? What does this mean for you as a leader? What steps can you take to improve your self-confidence score?

 

• Leadership traits, skills and styles are all relevant in leaders today. Where are you currently with regard to traits, skills and styles as they relate to leadership based on the self-assessments? What does this mean for you as a leader? What steps can you take to improve these scores to become a more effective leader?

 

• Some approaches to leadership include situational, Path-Goal, and Leader Member Exchange. Where are you currently with regard to these three approaches based on the self-assessments? What does this mean for you as a leader? What steps can you take to improve upon these areas?

 

• Other approaches to leadership include Team Leadership, Collaborative Leadership, Participatory Leadership, and Transformational Leadership. Where are you currently with regard to these approaches based on the self-assessments? What does this mean for you as a leader? What steps can you take to improve upon these areas?

 

• With regard to gender, the Gender-Leader Implicit Association Test and Masculinity-Femininity Self-Assessments can provide further insight into your leadership styles. Where are you with regard to these assessments? What does this mean for you as a leader? What steps can you take to improve in these areas?

 

• Culture plays an important role in leadership today. The Culture Questionnaire and the Individualism-Collectivism Self-Assessments can provide insight into the dimension of culture and leadership. Where are you currently with regard to cultural aspects of leadership? What does this mean for you as a leader? What steps can you take to improve in these areas?

 

• Integrity and Trust are essential to successful leadership. Where are you currently with regard to trust and integrity as shown in the self-assessments? What does this mean for you as a leader? What steps can you take to improve in these areas?

 

• How do you compare your current leadership, based on the previous assessments, to where you want to be as a leader? Are you close to where you want to be? Are you better off than you thought? Would other people agree with your self-assessments, or do you think that answers would be different if they came from your coworkers, superiors, or subordinates? How would they differ?

 

• How do you feel you compare in your current leadership as compared to your best examples of great leadership? These could be people at work, people in your personal life, etc. What qualities do you have that they don’t? What qualities do they have that you don’t? How do you achieve that level of leadership?

 

The paper should be a minimum of 5 double-spaced pages. You should use at least three additional, credible sources beyond the textbook. Follow APA style guidelines, citing references as appropriate.

1. Assignment 1: Questions

1) Analyzing the ethical frameworks needed in decision making, which ones best align to the eight ethical principles of the Global Business Standards of Codex.

2) What are the deontological and teleological frameworks of business ethics? Give examples of them in today’s business environment.

3) Why were the three simple ethical test established in business ethics? Give examples of them.

4) Why is it important to study ethics in business, and what is the foundation and history of business ethics and theory?

2. Assignment 2: Article Review 1

For this assignment, choose an article from SAGE Journal Articles on www.sagepub.com/stanwick. The purpose of this assignment is for you to practice reviewing articles that contribute to the industry. The authors of

these articles are researchers and professionals that have shared or experimented with ideas that demonstrate potential

to improve the industry. As a professional in the industry, it is in your best interest to review the literature and trends. This

provides you with the opportunity to read about what was successful and how they accomplished it. Plus, it allows you to

analyze what was unsuccessful, how you can improve it, or at least avoid repeating the mistakes of others. These skills

are vital when contributing to research papers and other scholarly writing. If you have not already, hopefully you’ll

contribute to the industry by publishing an article and sharing with your community of peers.

As you read the articles, consider the following questions:

 Who were the stakeholders in the article?

 What was the firm’s corporate reputation?

 How could the topic of this article apply to your personal or professional life?

 How could it apply to an organization you have observed?

 What conclusions can you draw about the ethical issues facing business leaders?

Your first paragraph should briefly introduce and summarize the article while identifying the author’s main points. Your

Article Review should be double spaced, 12pt New Times Roman font, with references and

direct quotes in APA format. Title page, abstract, and running head are not required.

3. Assignment 3: Article Review 2 (Minimum 500 words)

Read Case Study, “Bernie Madoff: How “One Big Lie” Can Destroy Thousands of Lives.” Summarize

the overall viewpoint of the author, and discuss the major issues presented in the case. Answer the four “Questions for Thought” below:

1) Trust is extremely important in business transactions. Greed also plays a role in some business transactions.Discuss how these two concepts were interwined in this case.

2) Describe a Ponzi Scheme. Find Several examples of other ponzi schemes that have occurred in recent years.

3) In this case, it appears that Madoff has many friends and family members who were involved in the fraud. Speculate about how likely it is that Madoff’s own sons, who were employees of the firm , know nothing of the fraud as they stated.

4) Explain the ethical issues associated with running a family-owned business. Are these issues present at Madoff’s firm?

Your summary of the author’s viewpoint and your discussion of the major issues presented in the case must be in

paragraph form. However, your responses to the four “Questions for Thought” can be answered either in paragraph form

or as a numbered list. Ensure to include your summary of the author’s viewpoint, your discussion of the ethical issues

facing Bernie Madoff, and your responses to the questions.

Title page, abstract, and running head are not required; however, if you paraphrase or quote words or ideas from any

resources, you must cite your sources following the APA style citation guidelines.

Write a 200- to 300-word response to the following DB question:

How has the global economy affected the importance of cost estimation and cost control for many project organizations? Please be specific and offer examples. Feel free to use your own organization if possible

 

Pinto, J. K. (2010). Project management: Achieving competitive advantage (2^nd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.