Write a 750- to 1,050-word paper that addresses the following points about your 3-day food intake:

• Recorded intake of protein, carbohydrates, and lipids
  • Which foods in your recorded daily intake provide protein? Which provide carbohydrates? Which provide lipids?
  • Review how your recorded protein, carbohydrate, and lipid intake compares with the recommendations of the dietary reference intake. If your recorded protein-carbohydrate-fat intake was too high or too low, which foods might you add or remove to achieve your goal and keep other nutrients in balance?
  • Is the protein in each food you ate complete or incomplete, combining to become complementary? Why is this important?
  • How much of your daily recommended protein, carbohydrates, and lipid intake did you achieve? If your macronutrient intake is insufficient or excessive, what might you do to bring it into the recommended range? Provide specific recommendations.
• Macronutrient intake ranges
  • Is macronutrient intake within the recommended range important? What are the effects of too much or too little of a macronutrient? What happens if you consistently eat too little protein? What happens if you eat too few carbohydrates? What happens if you eat too few lipids?
• Fiber intake ranges
  • Does your fiber total meet 100% of the recommendation for you, as calculated at iProfile?
  • Does your diet meet the minimum number of servings of foods from each fiber-containing group? If not, which of the fiber-containing groups–fruits and vegetables–fell short of the recommended intake?
  • Which specific foods provide the most fiber in your meals? Which provide the least? Identify trends in your food choices that might affect your fiber intakes.
• Dietary modifications
  • What changes might you make to increase the fiber in your diet?
  • How might insufficient or excessive amounts of proteins, carbohydrates, fats, or fiber contribute to health or illness? Provide examples.
  • What have you learned about your diet?

Cite three references other than the course text.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

Analyze the following scenario: The Hospital for Ordinary Surgery uses pharmaceuticals for its patients.  It started the year on January 1, with an inventory of 1,000 doses of an antibiotic drug that cost $17 per dose.  On January 2, it purchased another 300 does for $21 each. From January 3 through June 30 it used 800 doses. On July 1, it bought 500 more doses at $23 each.  From July 2 through the end of the year it used 400 doses.  What is the inventory value at the end of the year, assuming FIFO?  What is the value assuming LIFO?  Clearly label the calculations of the inventory amounts using Excel.  Use formulas to calculate the FIFO and LIFO inventories and format the cells to insert a comma if there is more than three numbers and round to the nearest whole number.

Explain the advantages and disadvantages of FIFO and LIFO inventory methods and evaluate the best inventory method is best for this scenario.

Submit to your instructor your two to three page Word document (not including the title and reference pages) and your Excel worksheet. Your paper should be formatted according to APA style and cite at least two scholarly sources.

Answer the following questions and attach for submission. Make sure to give full and complete answers with support. Explanations should be a minimum of 5-6 sentences each.

o If the Federal Open Market Committee is not allowed to simply declare Interest Rates, what authorities do they have? How do these lead to changes in the interest rate you pay?

o Go to the “Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System” page (there is a link provided under the reading list). Open the statement provided from the most recent FOMC meeting and explain their current outlook on Economic Growth. What are the positives and negatives they have identified?

o What is the dual mandate of the Federal Reserve? How are these two things consistently at odds? Explain. How does this make the job of the Federal Reserve tricky? Explain.

** Hint: You’ll need to find the Dual Mandate on the Federal Reserve’s website. It may also be helpful to research the intent of the mandate.

o Describe the necessity for the Board of Governors within the Federal Reserve Banking System to maintain some isolation from public policy (politics). What protections are they afforded to help avoid the issue of political persuasion/corruption? Why might these protections also be counterproductive?

Does television have positive and negative effects on children?

You will now consider your company’s strengths and weakness, along with your product or service price.

Use the Internet to research strategies for conducting a Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) analysis. Based on your company’s market information, consider the strengths and weakness of your company and its products or services.

Write a four to six (4-6) paragraph journal entry in which you:

1. Determine the key strengths and weaknesses of your company, as well as both the primary opportunities and threats that it faces within its industry.
2. Discuss your critical steps within your supply-chain and operational system. Explain the key aspects of your strategies for producing and distributing your products and services to both your stores and customers. Determine whether you will use an outside vendor or complete the work in house.
3. Analyze the company’s pricing strategy relative to its pricing objective. Examine major internal and major external factors that could potentially affect the pricing of the company’s products or services.
4. Use at least two (2) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

You will now consider mechanisms by which your customers will purchase your products and / or services (e.g., online, storefront, direct sells) and the primary manner in which you intend to reach new customers (e.g.,TV, radio, social media, special events).

Consider the marketing materials that you intend to use. According to the textbook, marketing materials are collateral used to promote your business or products. Promotional strategy may include free trial offers, money-back guarantees, and buy two (2) for the price of one (1) type of deals. Write a five to seven (5-7) paragraph journal entry in which you:

1. Determine the distribution strategy relative to your target market, location, and selection of distribution channels. Indicate whether or not you will leverage the following strategies: a.use stores located in different regions b.sell online c.hire a sales team to sell directly to suppliers and door-to-door
2. Recommend three (3) strategy options that you could use in order to get your product or services out to your customer base.
3. Outline your main marketing goals for promotions, offers, and giveaways. Discuss the key types of marketing materials that you intend to develop and share.
4. Propose three (3) action steps that you can use to move your plan forward. Consider how, when, and who will be involved in the execution of this plan.
5. Use at least two (2) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

After you have fleshed out your business plan you will have the information you will need for a slide presentation (e.g., PowerPoint). This 12-slide presentation conveys the most important aspects of your business in a short time. More sophisticated investors, such as angel investors and venture capitalists, will typically not look at your written business plan until they have seen your slide presentation.

 

Presentation (MS PowerPoint or equivalent)

 

1. Create a 12-slide presentation. Follow the outline on pp. 343–346 for the critical slides of your presentation and their placement. Click here for help accessing a specific page number in your eBook.
   • Hints: Include the highlights of your elevator pitch, which shows that you understand your business. The elevator pitch is a concise description of your company—its product, market, competitive advantages, and so on. Whether pitching your business to an investor or describing it to a potential connection at a networking event, you need to be able explain your business succinctly to someone in the amount of time it would take to ride up a few floors in an elevator. Use the worksheet in the text (p. 362 | Your “Elevator Pitch”) to develop your elevator pitch.
   • Hints: You must limit your presentation to twelve (12) slides. You do not want to overwhelm your audience with too many slides or bore them with information they already know.
2. Cite three (3) resources you have used to complete the exercise.
   • Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length

 

#1

TOPIC- CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

• Examine and summarize information from at least two scholarly sources for one of the topics that may prove valuable as you seek to defend your claims regarding your chosen topic.
• Address why scholarly sources should be used to support your writing on the selected topic.
• Support your claims with examples from required material(s) and/or other scholarly sources, and properly cite any references.
• Your initial post should be at least 250 words in length.

 

#2

Take a deeper look at your own life and determine which experiences have inspired ethical and moral reasoning. Were there any huge influences in this process?

• Explain what it means to be ethical as it relates to personal, academic, and professional growth.
• Provide at least one ethical dilemma you have encountered and describe how the issue was resolved.
• Describe how your general education courses influenced your ethical values.
• Explain why a college-educated person might have different duties to society than someone not as educated.
• Support your claims with examples from required material(s) and/or other scholarly sources, and properly cite any references.
• Your initial post should be at least 250 words in length.

 

#3

Knowing how to thoroughly research a topic is extremely important while achieving your education. You may be asked to support your information with peer-reviewed scholarly resources, but how can you find this type of resource? The Ashford University Library allows you to search through different avenues to find the requested types of resources. You can narrow your search by the author, year published, title, subject, and also by indicating what type of resource you are looking for. You even have access to a librarian if you need some guidance in finding more resources on your topic.

In a two- to three-paragraph response

• Describe your experiences using resources, including concerns encountered when conducting academic research through the Ashford University Library. Areas of concern may include developing a research strategy, using the search function within a database, or evaluating sources.
• Explain how using the Ashford University Library has improved your experience in conducting research.

The response must be formatted according to APA style. Each paragraph should be at least five sentences.

 

 

Social Cognitive Processing
Human beings process information on a regular basis both automatically (unconscious processing) and in a controlled (conscious processing) or goal-directed manner. These dual modes of social cognitive processing influence your perception of others and social behavior. The research within the field of social psychology reveals that much of our behavior is automatic and comes in a variety of ways (Dijksterhuis, 2010). For example, a person might be aware of a subliminal message in advertising, yet he or she is unaware of the effect it may have on his or her responses. A controlled or conscious processing is characterized by controllability and awareness.

It is also evident that the automatic versus controlled processing duality is demonstrated in many aspects of social cognitive functioning, including attitude formation, attribution, social judgment and stereotyping, to name a few. This dichotomy is one to which you will return periodically in this course.

For this Discussion, consider both the conscious and unconscious social cognitive processes or dual modes of processing, and how you have engaged in each within the last 24 hours, and think about why and how you engaged in these processes.

Reference: Dijksterhuis, A. (2010). Automaticity and the unconscious. In S. T. Fiske, D. T. Gilbert, & G. Lindzey (Eds.), Handbook of social psychology (5th ed., Vol. 1, pp. 228–267). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.

With these thoughts in mind:

Post by Day 4 a brief description of one example of a conscious and one example of an unconscious social cognitive process you engaged in within the last 24 hours. Then, explain one possible reason why each of the dual modes of processing occurred. Finally, explain one way each of the modes of processing impacted you. Be specific and use the current literature to support your response.

Be sure to support your postings and responses with specific references to the Learning Resources.

You are preparing to negotiate for your first car purchase. Answer the following questions:

 

• What techniques could you use to improve the outcome of this negotiation? Outline your techniques fully, incorporating suggestions from your research and readings.
• Explain whether you used distributive bargaining approach or integrative bargaining approach. Why did you choose that approach with a car dealer?

Your submitted assignment should be 1-3 pages