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“Change and Civilizations.” Go to http://www.learner.org/interactive/collapse. This is a Web site maintained by Annenberg/CBP about why great civilizations collapse. Read the story of one of the great civilizations in this Web site. What can Corporate America learn from this experience? How does this relate to the business world? What would happen to a business if it continued to ignore change?

Reflective Essay: Consider the process of putting together a social media plan for a client. Describe the steps you took and critically reflect back on what you felt you may do differently in the future. You should describe the theory and/or practices influencing your decisions. Only high academic references and books and top research. Harvard citation. Some additional notes are attached, in case they help.

Reflective Essay: Consider the process of putting together a social media plan for a client. Describe the steps you took and critically reflect back on what you felt you may do differently in the future. You should describe the theory and/or practices influencing your decisions. Only high academic references and books and top research. Harvard citation. Some additional notes are attached, in case they help.

Do the United States and Mexico Really Want the Drug War to Succeed? by Robert Joe Stout
Article
Prepared by: Mary H. Maguire, California State University, Sacramento Kim Schnurbush, California State University,Sacramento
Psychology of Drugs and Abuse
Do the United States and Mexico Really Want the Drug War to Succeed?
Robert Joe Stout
Learning Outcomes
After reading this article, you will be able to:
• Discuss the history of the narco-war on the Mexico–United States border.
• Discuss the contributing factors and barriers to ending the “war on drugs.”
• Discuss policy reforms that affect the current state of drug trafficking.
Until 1914 laudanum and morphine were legally sold and distributed in the United States, heroin was pre- scribed as a cough medicine, and coca and cocaine were mixed with wine and cola drinks. Although most of the opium came from the Orient, Chinese settlers on Mexico’s west coast, particularly in the state of Sinaloa, began cultivat- ing adormidera (opium gum) during the 1870s and gradually developed an export trade.
Even after the use of opium-based products was declared illegal in the United States the exportations from Sinaloa con- tinued; prosecution of offenders, if it happened at all, was benign. The adormidera crossed into the United States through places like Tijuana, a dusty little frontier town until the mid- twentieth century; San Luis Rio Colorado, across the border from Yuma, Arizona; Nogales, also on the Arizona border; and Ojinaga, across the Rio Grande River from Presidio in Texas’s isolated Big Bend country. Customs agents on both sides of the border, but particularly in Mexico, cooperated with the export- ers and the flow of drugs, though not large by 1960s or ’70s standards, went through virtually unimpeded.
The majority of those involved were locals who spent the cash they acquired in the areas in which they operated. They hired
local residents for construction, transportation, ranching, and other sidelines in which they invested their earnings. As far as most of their neighbors were concerned they were good citizens whose business was no better or worse from that of any other.
Prohibition changed this genial and basically cooperative landscape. Large amounts of liquor were harder to conceal than adormidera or marijuana, making it necessary for exporters to bribe—or form partnerships—with those in charge of customs. Politicians ranging from local councilmen to state governors became involved, forcing the local exporters either to join them or evade them as well as evade law enforcement.
The end of Prohibition wounded but did not slay the golden calf of liquor exportation. The politically connected entrepre- neurs that controlled the aduanas (customs inspection stations) also controlled prostitution and a percentage of drug exporta- tions. They financed the construction and operation of luxuri- ous night clubs, gourmet restaurants, and gambling activities that attracted large numbers of U.S. residents. Both politically affiliated and independent drug exporters invested in these enterprises as Tijuana, Ciudad Juárez, and other border cit- ies became brightly lit tourist meccas surrounded by desolate slums packed with new arrivals, deportees, addicts, beggars, and petty criminals.
By 1948 the volume of Sinaloa adormidera crossing the bor- der triggered harsh recriminations from representatives of the U.S. federal government. Mexico’s Attorney General responded with equally acerbic suggestions that officials north of the bor- der deal with those who were purchasing the drugs since the market attracting the exports was in the United States. Mexican federal and state law enforcement did arrest a few farmers and mulas (mules, i.e., those hired to transport contraband) but did not prosecute any leading political or business figures.
Despite cinema and television depictions of drug runners as gun-toting, Pancho Villa-like gangsters, the truth was that
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Your company, a large online high school, is planning to implement a new innovative social networking technology for their students. The technology would allow students to get to know one another, network, and participate in school activities, such as having virtual student body elections and virtual student committees. The company feels that the ability to have this type of interaction and involvement among students will set the school above the competition.

As the Chief Innovation Officer, you are responsible for the implementation and evaluation of the chosen technology. The company must decide between developing their own social networking system or acquiring a small online high school that has already started development on a similar type of system and is struggling financially. Your director, the company CEO, has come to you with some specific concerns and questions regarding which technology to select.

Submit a one-page response to your director answering all of the following questions:

1. What factors must be considered when implementing an innovative technology internally? What factors must be considered when implementing an externally acquired innovative techology? How do the implementaion issues differ? How are they the same?

2. What factors must be considered when evaluating an internally implemented innovative technology? Why?

3. What factors must be be considered when acquiring an innovative technology externally? Why?

Topic: Physical activities and self-efficacy

This is a part of an educational research paper.

“Literature review” section.

I have attached 5 articles related to this topic.

You may use other articles that would support this topic.

Information from . gov sites are good too.

APA style

1 page double-spaced

Topic: Effect of physical activities on psychological wellbeing/functioning

This is a part of an educational research paper.

“Literature review” section.

I have attached 3 articles related to this topic.

3 articles must be used.

You may use other articles that would support this topic.

Information from . gov sites are good too.

APA style

1 page double-spaced

Select a topic on which your persuasive writing paper will be focused.

Write a one to two (1-2) page research proposal in which you:

1. Identify the topic you selected and explain two (2) reasons for using it.
2. Include a defensible, relevant thesis statement in the first paragraph.
3. Describe three (3) major characteristics of your audience (official position, decision-making power, current view on topic, other important characteristic).
4. Describe the paper’s scope and outline the major sections.
5. Identify and explain the questions to be answered.
6. Explain your research plan, including the methods of researching and organizing research.
7. Document at least three (3) primary sources and three (3) secondary sources. Use credible, academic sources available through Strayer University’s Resource Center. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting guidelines:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; 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 page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Recognize the elements and correct use of a thesis statement.
• Write a research proposal that states the claim and scope of the research project.
• Outline the main sections of the research project.
• Devise an ordered research plan to obtain appropriate resources.
• Write clearly and concisely about selected topics using proper writing mechanics.
• Use technology and information resources to research selected issues for this course.

• Holland (1995) suggested that seven basics (four properties and three mechanisms) are common to all complex systems. See Brownlee (2007), Smith and Bedau (2000), and Holland’s TED Talk for details on these complex systems basics to respond to in this week’s Discussion.

  1 Page, include:

• Your perspective on Holland’s properties and mechanisms of complex adaptive systems.

• Next, explain what is useful and/or problematic in his approach.

• Finally, explain how Holland’s ideas might inform your understanding of the structure of organizations and how that may support your ability to lead or manage effectively.

Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 600-800 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas:

Note: All character and company names are fictional and are not intended to depict any actual person or business.

View problem scenario B to learn more about regulatory challenges. This scenario provides key information in helping formulate answers for assignments in Phases 3 and 4.

You have scheduled a meeting with the newly combined management team of UWEAR and PALEDENIM for next week. In anticipation of the meeting, Tom Tramlin, the CEO, has sent you an e-mail requesting that you cover some topics for during your meeting with his team, as follows:

UWEAR and PALEDENIM were relatively small companies when we started in business. Our team has never dealt with any government regulations or compliance issues, but we may be doing so soon because of the merger.

Additionally, PALEDENIM has always been a privately-owned company and will now be merged with UWEAR, which is publicly-owned. The management team of PALEDENIM needs to be briefed on any issues that are relevant to that transition as well.

During the meeting next week, please be sure to cover any government regulations and/or compliance issues that you feel may be pertinent to our business or to the current business climate as a whole.

Answer the following:

• What do you need to do to prepare for this meeting?
• What do you currently know about the topic?
• What resources do you have that can help you prepare for this meeting?
• What information will you present to the management team at the meeting?
• How will you present the information to the UWEAR and PALEDENIM management team at the meeting?