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Personal Leadership Assessment: This 600-800 word essay will provide an assessment of current personal leadership skills, traits and leader ambitions.Based on the readings to-date, assess your own personal traits as they relate to your ability to supervise and to lead. What skills do you currently possess? What traits have you come across in the reading that resonate with you, and how do you rate currently with respect to your understanding of leadership development. What skills, traits, values and styles did you read about and can relate to, and where are you currently with regards to the readings?This activity is intended to enable you to take an introspective look at your own current leadership state/style and then to be able to forecast a future desired state of leadership ability, where your gaps are and what you think you need to do to fill the gaps, or to reach that future desired state. Additionally, where do you think you would like to use your leadership skills in the future?The majority of your submission should be rooted in your self-assessment, self-reflection and in determining where your gaps are as you see them, and how will you go about filling those gaps.( The leadership challenge, 5th edition, kouzes and Posner)

Write a paper conducting a research on the average accidents/month for years 2013, 2014, 2015. Use this website: http://www.ntsb.gov/_layouts/ntsb.aviation/index.aspxUse a one factor ANOVA in stat crunch. Use this website to create graphs from statcrunch: http://www.statcrunch.com/Paper requirements: AbstractOne paragraph of a brief introductionReview methods usedDiscuss what you found. What were the results of your statistical analysis?Conclusion: Discuss how your findings relate to previous research.No Wikipedia is allowed.

Discuss the nature of who holds power and who SHOULD hold power in a society by answering the following questions:1) Why is there a conflict between state sovereignty and human rights?2) What are the arguments for and against democracy3) Where do our rights come fromYou may use as many resources as needed to answer the questions above.

TopicEach student will write prepare a report about the current conditions of the United States economy. The report will include an overview of economic conditions in the United States from the beginning of 2016 until the latest indicators available. You will use indicators from the data sets that are available in the course web page. Some of these indicators are released on a weekly or a monthly basis before the end of a quarter. Economists use these indicators to assess the performance of the economy in any period of time. Using these indicators, you will describe the current state of the United States economy. You will use data for income, consumption and sales, investment and inventory, housing prices and sales, mortgage rates, prices and inflation, unemployment and benefits, labor wages, average hours, interest rates, exchange rates, stock prices, oil prices, the trade balance, and others. The indicators that will be used include the industrial production and capacity utilization, consumer confidence, retail sales, auto sales, the index of purchasing managers, manufacturing and trade inventories, new home sales, existing home sales, building permits, housing starts, the house price index, construction spending, mortgage rates, the money stock, crude oil prices, the nonfarm payroll employment, the unemployment insurance claims, the Federal funds rate, the ten year treasury yield, the S&P 500 index, the Dow Jones index, the Nasdaq, the trade weighted exchange index, and other indicators that will be discussed in class. You will also explain the adopted monetary policy and fiscal policy in the economy.The first section of the report will include an assessment of national income including consumption spending, investment spending, government spending, and net exports. The second section will include an assessment of inflation, core inflation, energy prices, and food prices. The third section will include an assessment of unemployment and underemployment. The fourth section will include an assessment of asset prices. The fifth section will include a discussion on the business cycle. Another section will discuss the conduct of monetary and fiscal policy. A final section will consider the value of the currency. Your grade will depend on the sufficient and appropriate use of data and indicators. Your grade will also depend on the ability to link economic theory and intuition to the analysis.FormatThe paper needs to be typewritten. The analysis should be included in a maximum of 5 pages. Any bibliography or other material, such as tables and graphs, should be included afterwards. The font should be no less than 12, and the format is single spacing.

One theme covered in unit 6 is interpersonal skills. Choose one of the interpersonal skills covered this week (assertiveness, listening skill, interviewing, negotiation, persuasion, conflict resolution), and observe how this skill is used by yourself, and others you have contact with.

As a response to this task, start with a few sentences to explain why you chose this skill. Then describe (in 200-330 words) what you have observed about yourself and others.

Pretend you are a tour guide giving a tour of the human brain. In a 1-2 page paper written in APA format using proper spelling/grammar, describe the tour you would give. Be sure to highlight the major parts of the brain, the control centers and their functions, and the importance of the brain as part of the central nervous system. Conclude your tour with a description of what happens to a person when damage occurs to a part of the brain.

Research Paper: The Research Paper is an opportunity for students to write about the connection between language and culture and to conduct their own research and analyze it within the context of this course. Students are to elaborate on the concept that language and culture are connected and interdependent. Some examples include gender and language (you can be more specific — in the workplace, in romantic relationships, in families, in friendships, etc.,), or Sign Language, or babies/children and acquiring language, or becoming bilingual or multilingual, or language and class, language and politics, language and bias, etc. The possibilities are almost limitless. Almost anything can be related to language and culture. Furthermore, they must conduct their own research using studies of at least 6 different cultures/subcultures. They must also discuss at least 3 different topics (and no more than 5 different topics) that relate to this course and course material.Throughout the paper, students will analyze the information and data that they have researched. They must also explain how the data relate to the topics of their paper.To sum up, your research paper MUST include:• 3 topics• 6 cultures/subcultures• 6 OUTSIDE SOURCES of research (conducted by the student)For each of your topics, you need to have at least 2 references (hence, the minimum of 6 outside references total).For your ENTIRE PAPER, you are limited to TWO INTERNET REFERENCES. ALL the rest of your references MUST be from a non-internet source. For example, you can use a printed journal article, book, etc. – they need to be typical library references. You can use a trustworthy website as a source for any topic, but it cannot be your only source.Also, make sure that your sources are varied. For example, do not use all of your references from one website or one journal, etc.

The educational model at UoPeople places a great emphasis on examinations. Does your culture or country have the same emphasis?

Do you personally agree with the emphasis placed on examinations?

Read the following historical article about the development of nuclear energy: http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf54.html

2. As you read, take notes on the article using one of the note taking strategies presented in this unit.

3. Explain which strategy you are using and why you are using it.

4. Submit all of your notes in the note taking format selected.

5. Explain how the note taking strategy selected would help you prepare for an exam.

Reference Materials:

VIDEO Study Skills and Effective Notetaking for Online Students: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v3rFNnhYMlQY

Notetaking strategies for online courses: http://www.onlinecollegecourses.com/2011/11/23/note-taking-strategies-for-online-students/

VIDEO How to take Notes in College 5 Best Methods: https://www.youtube.com/watch?vAffuwyJZTQQ

Effective Reading and Notetaking:
http://26866a52b05332f6335894de1aa50843cd2cfcef.gripelements.com/pdf/AAS/Tutoring/effectivereading-andnote-takingstrategies.pdf

Use the book as a source: The Economics of Poverty and Discrimination, Bradley Schiller, 10th Edition

Describe the ways that higher educational attainment contributes to income according to the human capital model. Now explain how the \”sorting\” model explains the relationship between education and earnings. Women earn less than men, on average. How might the human capital model explain the gender earnings gap? Should more taxpayer money be provided for higher education subsidies? Or should students and their families pay more? Explain

Go to www.census.gov and find the poverty rate for California in 2013. Which 5 states had the highest poverty rates? Which 5 states had the lowest poverty rats? Put these 10 or 11 states into a table showing their 2013 poverty rates (poverty rates may be reported for states using an average over 2 or 3 years-use rates that include 2013 data). What might explain why some states have high poverty rates and others have low poverty rates?

Go online and find the number and percentage of children living in Female Headed Families for the years 2000 and 2015. See table 8.1 in Schiller (source mentioned above) for comparison and create a similar table for the years 2000, 2005, and 2015. Is there a trend?

What was the unemployment rate for September for the Los Angeles area? Is it better than the previous month? How many people were unemployed in Los Angeles in September?