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Select a more recent Supreme Court decisions (less than 2 years old) that had a significant impact on law enforcement. What are the facts of the case and what are the impacts of the decision on the police administrator?

• Describe the relationship between the police agency/police administrator and the media. In what ways are there conflicts? In what ways are there partnerships?

In this assignment, you will present what you have learned about leadership and management from this course. Combine your research from Assignment 1 and Assignment 2 into a PowerPoint presentation that focuses on best practices in organizational leadership. Your presentation should highlight at least two (2) different business leaders and describe their business and philosophy. Your presentation should also include examples of leadership characteristics, traits, and behaviors of the chosen leaders. Your presentation should be detailed enough that it could provide new leaders with strategies to help them develop their own leadership and management styles.

In addition to your textbook, review the following optional articles and videos that detail creating a PowerPoint presentation for this assignment:

• “Create your first PowerPoint 2013 presentation” by Microsoft, located at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/support/create-your-first-powerpoint-2013-presentation-RZ102925085.aspx?CTT=5&origin=HA102809627
• “Top Ten Slide Tips” by Garr Reynolds, located at http://www.garrreynolds.com/preso-tips/design/
• “Top 10 Best Practices When Using PowerPoint for Presentations” (22 min 57 s). Video Source: DNN Corp. (2012, April 9). Top 10 Best Practices When Using PowerPoint for Presentations [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtygW25vj_I

 

Create a nine to twelve (9-12) slide presentation in which you:

 

1. Develop a PowerPoint presentation in which you focus on overall best practices in organizational leadership.
2. Choose two (2) different business leaders that you learned about from the previous two assignments, and describe two to three (2-3) fundamental aspects of each of their most important business philosophies. Provide one to two (1-2) examples of the application of such philosophies to support your response.
3. Identify three to four (3-4) characteristics, three to four (3-4) traits, and three to four (3-4) behaviors that have made each of them successful leaders.
4. Provide both a title slide (see the formatting requirements below) and an introductory slide to your presentation.
5. Provide a summary slide that addresses key points of your presentation.
6. Develop narration for each of the slides. Use the speaker’s notes section of the slides to indicate what you would say if you were actually presenting in front of an audience.
7. Select three to four (3-4) relevant images, photographs, or graphs to focus your audience’s attention during your presentation.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

 

• Format the PowerPoint presentation with headings on each slide and three to four (3-4) relevant graphics (photographs, graphs, clip art, etc.), ensuring that the presentation is visually appealing and readable from 18 feet away. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a title slide containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The title slide is not included in the required slide length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

 

• Explain the principal theories of leadership and motivation, and describe the fundamental considerations in managing and motivating individual and group behavior.
• Describe control systems that can improve a firm’s operations and facilitate change.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in management concepts.
• Write clearly and concisely about management concepts using proper writing mechanics

The goal of conducting a competitor analysis is to gather information about the company’s competitors and systematically formulate a strategy to become the market leader in the industry. In formulating any strategy, it is imperative that the company understand its organizational structure as well as the internal and external forces which could impact their strategic decisions.

Based on the company you chose in the previous module, analyze the organization’s mission, vision, and values, its ability to compete, and the effectiveness of its management team in executing strategy. Some of the factors to be considered in doing this evaluation include the company’s internal resource capabilities, its relative cost position, and its competitive strength. In addition, evaluate the competitive strategy of your selected organization and examine how this strategic approach drives the rest of the strategic actions the company undertakes in terms of product line, production emphasis, marketing emphasis, and the means for sustaining the strategy. Make sure to include at least one analytical tool such as SWOT analysis, Porter’s, BCG, etc. in your analysis.

Research your selected organization’s strategy and analyze the following elements:

• The organization’s mission, vision, and values. What does it tell you about the company, their culture, their direction? Does it convey the purpose and primary objectives of the company? If so, how, if not what is missing?
• The organization’s strategic goals. Based on your research, what are the top three strategic goals of your chosen company?
• The relative alignment of strategic goals with the organization’s mission, vision, and values. Include at least three examples of how the strategic goals help and/or hinder the organization in achieving its mission, vision, and values.
• Additions or changes you would recommend to the strategic goals to better achieve the company’s mission, vision, and values. Include at least two additions or changes and justify your response.
• Describe the relevant external factors and influences (at least 3) which could affect the decisions the company makes about its direction, objectives, strategy, and business model.
• Describe the Internal factors and influences (at least 3) which could impact the company’s decision making such as the company’s market position and its competencies, capabilities, resource strengths and weaknesses, and competitiveness.
• Does your selected organization have a focused strategy that differentiates it from other companies in the same marketplace? Explain your answer.
• Is the organization seeking a competitive advantage by taking the initiative in the marketplace? Explain your answer.
• Does the organization have a strategy for competing in international markets? Does it appear to have a solid understanding of local customer needs and preferences to create customized products or services? Does it appear to know how to transfer company expertise to initiate actions to compete internationally?

First: write 5 pages ( no need for cover page and reference page) by answering these questions: What does it mean to live deliberately? Include material from chapters Economy, Where I Lived and What I lived for, Sounds, Solitude, Bean-Field, Spring, Conclusion. Second: answer my final exam questions ( just answering question, Not an essay) in a separated attachment. Thanks

1. Describe the physical, architectural ways hudud are manifested in the narrator’s home and outside of the home. You may want to consider Fatima’s home and the ways men and women are separated, such as where people eat, sleep, entertain, as well as in places outside of the home.

2. What does the author mean by claiming: “The frontier is in the minds of the powerful.”? (p. 3) How do powerful figures find ways to impose these hudud and qa’ida (rules)? How is this separation motivated by fear? Discuss how fear leads the French to impose separation between themselves and the Moroccans, between men on women, and between women? What do the French, men and some women in the novel believe will happen if frontiers and rules are not upheld?

 

Design a research study on the topic of the study selected in Week One and critiqued in Week Three. Your design should seek to resolve the limitations you identified in the study you critiqued. Your paper must address all of the components required in the “Methods” section of a research proposal:

• State the research question and/or hypothesis.
• Specify the approach (qualitative or quantitative), research design, sampling strategy, data collection procedures, and data analysis techniques to be used.
• If the design is quantitative, also describe the variables, measures, and statistical tests you would use.
• Analyze ethical issues that may arise and explain how you would handle these issues.

Your Final Paper must be eight to ten pages in length (excluding title and reference pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. Utilize a minimum of six peer-reviewed sources that were published within the last 10 years, in addition to the textbook, that are documented in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. The sources should consist of the following:

• One source should be the article you critiqued in the Week Three assignment.
• At least two sources should be about the research methodology you have chosen for your study.
• At least one source should be on ethical issues in research.
• The remaining sources may be about anything pertinent to your study.

In accordance with APA style, all references listed must be cited in the body of the paper.

Required Sections and Subsections (use these headings in your paper)

1. Introduction – Introduce the research topic, explain why it is important, and present your research question and/or hypothesis.
2. Literature Review – Summarize the current state of knowledge on your topic, making reference to the findings of previous research studies (including the one you critiqued in Week Three). Briefly analyze and critique these studies and mention the research methods that have previously been used to study the topic. State whether your proposed study is a replication of a previous study or a new approach using methods that have not been used before. Be sure to properly cite all of your sources in APA style.
3. Methods
   1. Design – Indicate whether your proposed study is qualitative or quantitative in approach. Identify the specific research design, using one of the designs we have studied in Weeks Three through Five, and indicate whether it is experimental or non-experimental. Evaluate your chosen design and explain why you believe this design is appropriate for the topic and how it will provide the information you need to answer the research question. Cite sources on research methodology to support your choices.
   2. Participants – Identify and describe the sampling strategy you would use to recruit participants for your study. Estimate the number of participants you would need and explain why your sampling method is appropriate for your research design and approach.
   3. Procedure/Measures – Apply the scientific method by describing the steps you would use in carrying out your study. Indicate whether you will use any kind of test, questionnaire, or measurement instrument. If using an existing published instrument, provide a brief description and cite your source. If you are creating a questionnaire, survey, or test, describe the types of information you will gather and explain how you would establish the validity and reliability. If you are not using such an instrument, describe how you would collect the data.
   4. Data Analysis – Describe the statistical techniques (if quantitative) or the analysis procedure (if qualitative) you plan to use to analyze the data. Cite at least one source on the chosen analysis technique (from your Week Two assignment).
   5. Ethical Issues – Analyze the impact of ethical concerns on your proposed study, such as confidentiality, deception, informed consent, potential harm to participants, conflict of interest, IRB approval, etc. After analyzing the ethical issues that apply to your research proposal, indicate what you would do to handle these concerns.
4. Conclusion – Briefly summarize the major points from your paper and reiterate why your proposed study is needed.

Writing the Final Paper

The Final Paper:

1. Must be eight to ten double-spaced pages in length, and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
2. Must include a title page with the following:
   1. Title of paper
   2. Student’s name
   3. Course name and number
   4. Instructor’s name
   5. Date submitted
3. Must begin with an introductory paragraph that has a succinct thesis statement.
4. Must address the topic of the paper with critical thought.
5. Must end with a conclusion that reaffirms your thesis.
6. Must use at least six peer-reviewed sources that were published within the last 10 years, in addition to the textbook.
7. Must document all sources in APA style, as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
8. Must include a separate reference page, formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

For this portion of your course project, put yourself in the role of the Human Resource Manager for the chosen companies. There is so much going on during a merger, you will want to know what to expect, how to handle the unexpected, and how to handle the change.

In at least 2 pages, answer the following, using specific examples from your identified mergers:

• What are the effects the mergers have on the employees of the organization?
• How can you as the Human Resource Manager help make the transition a smooth one for your organization?
• What are some processes or plans you would want to have in place before, during, and after the merger?
• How will you keep open communication with your employees?

Your submitted assignment should include at least 3 references, correct spelling, punctuation, and grammar. Be sure to cite your sources per APA formatting.

 

It is very important to get approval for the movies you choose. Unapproved movies will not receive credit. 

Choose a movie from Week 4 movie list. Your selected movie MUST be different than the one you reviewed on previous weeks. 

Select:   You need to review TWO movies for this week. Your two movies must be selected from two different geners that are included in week four movie list. (You might have done this in Week three),

Submit: Your selected movies for approval under Week Three Movie Selection Thread

Watch your approved two movies (comedy, horror, etc

Create  minimum of 8 slides, using Microsoft^® PowerPoint^® presentation (excluding references and title)   describing your selected genres and how your chosen films fit or do not not fit the standard model of the genres

 

Include the following:

 

• Description of your selected genres
• Description of the films’ following components:

 

• Summary of the film’s story
• Setting & lighting
• Makeup & costumes
• Music & sound
• Editing

 

• Discussion of the films as either typical or atypical of their respective genres and how each film’s components support your view

 

Address social context aspects of films as discussed in Ch. 10 of Film by writing the following for inclusion on one Microsoft^® PowerPoint^® slide:

 

• Discuss your films in terms of its social context. What influences from their time period are present in the films? Consider how the films might be different were they made in another time and places. Why and how would they be different?

All slides must have images. All of your slides must have descriptive Speaker Notes.

Format your presentation consistent with APA guidelines. You must have at least two references.

 

Post your Week Four Genre Presentation to the assignment link. .

 Note: Your slides need to be neat and professional. Avoid too much text on slides. A good practice is to follow a 3 by 5 method. This means each slide should have three items and each item should only have five words.

 

Movie List: (please choose 2, they need to have different genres)

 

Film Genre: Romance

Bringing Up Baby (1938)

The Philadelphia Story (1940)

Casablanca (1942)

Roman Holiday (1953)

West Side Story (1961)

Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

The Graduate (1967)

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967)

Romeo and Juliet (1968)

Love Story (1970)

Ryan’s Daughter (1970)

Body Heat (1981)

An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)

Sixteen Candles (1984)

Out of Africa (1985)

Moonstruck (1987)

When Harry Met Sally… (1989)

The Bodyguard (1992)

Sleepless in Seattle (1993)

As Good As It Gets (1997)

Titanic (1997)

Maid in Manhattan (2002)

Slumdog Millionaire (2008)

 

Genre; Western

Annie Oakley (1935)

Jesse James (1939)

High Noon (1952)

Shane (1953)

The Searchers (1956)

3:10 to Yuma (1957)

The Magnificent Seven (1960)

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)

Cat Ballou (1965)

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

A Man Called Horse (1970)

Jeremiah Johnson (1972)

Silverado (1985)

Young Guns (1988)

Dances with Wolves (1990)

Geronimo: An American Legend (1993)

Hidalgo (2004)

3:10 To Yuma (2007)

 

Movie Genre: Documentary

 

 

Nanook of the North (1922)

Moana (1926)

Four Days in November (1964)

The Eleanor Roosevelt Story (1965)

The Endless Summer (1966)

Why Man Creates (1968)

In the Year of the Pig (1969)

Salesman (1969)

The Sorrow and the Pity (1969)

Gimme Shelter (1970)

Woodstock (1970)

The Hellstrom Chronicle (1971)

Hearts and Minds (1974)

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? (1975)

From Mao to Mozart – Isaac Stern in China (1980)

The Decline of Western Civilization (1981)

Say Amen, Somebody (1982)

The Thin Blue Line (1988)

American Dream (1990)

The Civil War (1990)

Paris is Burning (1990)

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse (1991)

A Brief History of Time (1991)

Brother’s Keeper (1992)

The Celluloid Closet (1995)

Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996)

When We Were Kings (1996)

Waco: The Rules of Engagement (1997)

Wild Man Blues (1998)

The Big One (1998)

The Farm: Angola, U.S.A. (1998)

Buena Vista Social Club (1999)

American Movie (1999)

Super Size Me (2004)

 

Movie Genre: Action/Adventure

 

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

King Kong (2005)

War of the Worlds (1953)

The Fifth Element (1997)

Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003)

Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004)

ASSIGNMENT 1

Current Epidemiological Studies: Critical Review

For your dropbox assignment, using the South University Online Library or the Internet, research and select three current epidemiological studies regarding risk factors that are associated with any health problem. You can also use the following websites to search for studies as they are often used as the major sources of information for health research and often report on the most current health problems affecting the United States and global populations:

U.S. National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
World Health Organization

Based on your research, create a report in a 3- to 4-page Microsoft Word document addressing the following questions:

What were the criteria that you used to select these papers? (For example, only English language, peer reviewed articles, only a specific age group, only United States studies, etc.)
What were the types of risk factors studied in your chosen articles? (For example, environmental, socio-economic, behavioral, etc.)
Which study design was used for this study? Why do you think the researchers chose this specific study design? Provide examples from your research.
What are the proximate or underlying determinants of risk factors that are associated with any health problem for each study?

Answer the questions posted below in the Template for Assessment of Causality for Reviewing Epidemiological Studies, for each study. You should number each study, list the title, and state each question in the format it appears in the template.

Click here to download the template.

Support your responses with examples.

Cite any sources in APA format.

ASSIGNMENT 2

Implementation of the Intervention

Using the South University Online Library or the Internet, research and read about various approaches to interventions and various settings in which these interventions can occur. You can also visit your local or state health department’s websites and look for journal articles that address the approaches to interventions.

Based on your research, express your views on the following:

Identify and describe a health issue or disease and recommend an intervention. You may utilize the health issue from week one or choose another issue. In your description, include social determinants or causes and data that demonstrates why this is a health issue.
Is the intervention level (primary, secondary, and tertiary) and settings chosen justified? Why or why not?
What are the issues surrounding implementation of the intervention and its potential success?
What are the roles of government (Federal, State, and Local) and nongovernmental agencies in the development of the recommended prevention and/or intervention program?

You are concerned about the growing number of international man-made and natural disasters. You are looking for information as to what you can do to assist the victims of these disasters monetarily and operationally, and to help rebuild infrastructure in the affected areas.

 

 

Use the Internet to research ongoing disasters and crises which you predict will continue to cause international challenges over the next ten (10) years.

 

 

Create an eight to ten (8-10) slide POWERPOINT PRESENTATION in which you:

 

 

1. Select one (1) current man-made or natural disaster or crisis with international effects or implications. Analyze at least three (3) reasons why the disaster / crisis in question may cause continuing international challenges.
2. Determine two (2) specific international government-affiliated or nonprofit organizations with the ability to assist victims of your selected disaster or crisis. Explain the nature of the role of each of these organizations in providing aid to the victims who were affected by your selected disaster or crisis.
3. Speculate on two (2) obstacles that could thwart your identified organizations’ abilities to respond successfully to the selected disaster or crisis. Provide a rationale for your response.
4. Suggest one (1) way in which one (1) of your selected organizations could utilize a public-private partnership to assist in emergency preparedness and planning if the selected disaster or crisis were to occur again in the future. Provide a rationale for your response.
5. Use at least three (3) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other related websites do not qualify as academic resources.

 

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

 

• Format the slides of the PowerPoint presentation using headings on each slide (Arial size 32 font), bullet points highlighting the most important information for each topic (Arial size 20-24 font), and relevant, clear graphics where applicable.
• Format the Notes section of each slide using full paragraphs (Times New Roman size 12 font). Use the Notes section to narrate each slide as if you were actually presenting in front of an audience. Expand on the information in the bullet points in order to fully address each assignment criteria.
• Include a title slide containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. Note: Title slide is not included in the required assignment slide length.
• Include a reference slide in APA 6th edition format. Note: Reference slide is not included in the required assignment slide length.