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From an executive’s position, identify and explain at least three challenges and opportunities that might face an international executive over the next five years. Provide possible solutions of how the executive might address these issues in order for their firm to maintain a competitive advantage.

Prepare a 4-6 page paper that describes the impact of globalization on U.S. businesses. In your analysis, please include information about the impact of at least four economic drivers that might impact globalization.

Write long responses to these questions– a MINIMUM of two pages double spaced is required for every question. Provide at least three citations from the book with page numbers for each question. Each answer must refer to concepts from the book, and you may use external resources as well.

Please meet the length or citation requirements.

Question 1: Think about the nature of lying. How does it function in your life? Why is it in your life? What are the implications of lying and communication? What are positive and negative aspects to lying?

Write a long answer to this. Please consider the big picture: how does lying influence a person’s life and communication? Do not forget to reference the book at least three times. Include page numbers.

Question 2: Miscommunication has been a prominent theme in this course. When are times you’re experiencing miscommunications? Why are they happening? What is your role in the miscommunication? What are five different things you can do to start combating them?

Do not forget to reference the book at least three times. Include page numbers.

Question 3: There are several barriers (4 in total) to effective intercultural communication. First, define each one. Then provide three examples of each one from your own life (so you will have 12 examples total).

Do not forget to reference the book at least three times. Include page numbers.

Question 4Technology is rapidly changing the way we communicate. It’s influence is almost impossible to eliminate from our lives. According to the book, what are some of these ways technology influeces our communication. Now discuss how it specifically relates to your life. Finally, make a list of things (minimum of 8 different things) you can do the improve the way you communicate with technology.

Do not forget to reference the book at least three times. Include page numbers.

Question 5:  Think about some of the more interesting things you’ve learned in this course. Discuss five of them and how they can impact your life. This might seem like a really easy question, but you will need to explain how you can change your communication in response to this information. Finally, talk about the outcomes you can expect to find for each and why you can anticipate it.

Do not forget to reference the book at least three times. Include page numbers.

In essay form, compare and contrast the devastation of New Orleans as shown in “In the Ruins” to the setting of the valley of ashes in The Great Gatsby.  In what ways are the two settings similar?  How are they different?  What do you think the author of “In the Ruins” thinks about New Orleans as a place, and what would he think of the valley of ashes if he were to see it?  Besides the physical devastation/ruin, what sort of human/spiritual devastation do you think is present in each of these locations?  Make sure to quote from both the essay and the novel in some significant way in your response as evidence/support.

please use reference

For this assignment, you will submit the Ratio Analysis. For this milestone, you will be analyzing the financial performance of Starbucks using the financial ratios of liquidity, solvency, and profitability (Critical Element III). Include your calculations and amounts in a table in the appendix of your paper. Be sure to show your calculations for each ratio. You will also discuss what each ratio and ratio category tells the user about the financial health of the company, including stating appropriate methods for comparison such as benchmarking and trend analysis.

Note: To calculate the ratio amounts you may use the document Key Financial Ratios Explained and Set Up in Excel. This Excel document may also be used for your assignment (See attached).

Specifically below, the following Critical Elements III must be addressed:

Ratio Analysis: Analyze and discuss the financial performance of Starbucks using financial ratios. Include your calculations and amounts in a table in the appendix of your paper. Be sure to show your calculation for each ratio.

A. Liquidity Ratios

1. Accurately present and calculate two liquidity ratios for Starbucks.

2. Discuss what the liquidity ratios reveal about Starbucks, including any description of benchmarks, standard measurements, or other types of analysis used once the ratio amount is known.

B. Solvency Ratios

1. Accurately present and calculate two solvency ratios for Starbucks.

2. Discuss what the solvency ratios reveal about the company, including any description of benchmarks, standard measurements, or other types of analysis used once the ratio amounts are known.

C. Profitability Ratios

1. Accurately present and calculate two solvency ratios for Starbucks.

2. Discuss what the profitability ratios reveal about the company, including any description of benchmarks, standard measurements, or other types of analysis used once the ratio amounts are known.

Paper Format Guidelines for Submission:

Milestone one should adhere to the following formatting requirements: 2–3 pages (not including cover page or appendix), double-spaced, using 12-point Times New Roman font, 1-inch margin and the most current guidelines for APA formatting. Be sure to include all calculations in an Excel document.

Paralegals may attest to the fact that their work can be demanding and thus requires proper time management to meet multiple deadlines. Imagine that a senior partner has assigned your supervising attorney to litigate a breach of contract case, and your supervising attorney has asked you to help her prepare. In preparation for trial, complete the following.

Write a five to six (5-6) page paper in which you:

Describe two (2) ways in which using an electronic research tool could increase your productivity on the case.

Explain two (2) ways that you could use electronic spreadsheets in order to organize your case load.

Explore the concept of document review, and indicate the manner in which you could use Microsoft Office to establish a document review for the case.

1. Draft a legal memorandum, discussing whether paralegal fees for the electronic spreadsheets that you have created should be billed as clerical or legal services. The legal memorandum should include the question presented, a brief answer, the rationale for the selected billing service, and a conclusion.
2. Draft a general letter to the client, requesting additional financial records for you to submit as a part of a timely response to a discovery request from opposing counsel. The legal correspondence should include the following lines / elements: to, from, regarding, date, body (including your specific request), and closing.
3. Use at least three (3) quality references. 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.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Develop effective research strategies, and conduct effective and efficient research using conventional sources, the Internet, and computer-assisted legal research.
• Develop effective legal writing skills using the following techniques: precision, clarity, readability, brevity, and order.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in legal research and writing.
• Write clearly and concisely about legal research and writing using proper writing mechanics.

As you read in your assigned reading, children who lose either their sight or their hearing usually rely on their other senses to navigate the environment. To simulate this experience try to watch television for fifteen minutes without the sound on. Rely only on your vision to follow the story line. After you complete the loss-of-hearing activity, blind fold yourself so you cannot see at all and turn away from your television. Try listening to a television show for fifteen minutes. Notice that it is more difficult to follow the story without any visual cues.

Once you complete these exercises, respond to the following:

• Summarize your experience.
• Identify at least two obstacles that you think children with a hearing or vision disability might experience in daily life.
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Discuss strategies (including technology and supports) they have to use in order to learn social and academic skills.

Think about the difficulties of making friends or learning to read without sight or hearing.

• Describe how deafness might affect a child’s acquisition and use of speech and language, academic achievement, and social functioning.
• Discuss how blindness and low vision affect learning, motor development, and social interaction.

1……”Security Controls and the Business” Please respond to the following:

• Discuss in your own words the importance of balancing security and business functionality. Determine why upper management buy-in for a security program is essential for the program’s success and compliance of end users.
• Evaluate why administrative, technical, and physical controls need to be implemented in tandem for a security program to be effective and determine which of these control sets you believe is the most important. Justify your response.

2…..”IDS” Please respond to the following:

• Compare and contrast network-based and host-based IDS use in an enterprise. Determine the feasibility and necessity of utilizing one of these IDS implementations over the others and explain which you feel is more important and advantageous in an enterprise setting.
• From the e-Activity, discuss the tool’s primary uses, strengths and weaknesses, competing products, costs, and system requirements. Explain why you would or wouldn’t consider implementing this product in your organization. Justify your response.

Advanced Accounting requires many rules and regulations. The latter come from many sources. In your Journal this week you will research two rules or regulations that pertain to Advanced Accounting topics and submit them to your Unit #1 Journal. For each of the rules or regulations, answer the following questions.

1. What is the name of the rule or regulation?
2. What agency or government created the rule or regulation?
3. Does any agency or government have the power to enforce the rule or regulation? If so how? If not, does this hinder the enforcement of the rule or regulation?

Your Journal response should consist of a minimum of 250 words