CAPSTONE EXERCISE:
Using the aspects of Service Businesses explored throughout the term, develop an Audit of your planned Service, whether as a standalone business or as combined with a good. Be sure to fully explore the 4 I’s of Services:
Intangibility
Inseparability
Inconsistency
Inventory
8-10 slide power point with speaker notes.Â
Address the following:
– Explain the formation of the solar system.
– Locate an image of Earth with description of its geology and atmosphere.
– Locate images and write descriptions of other planets geology and atmosphere.Â
– Describe other kinds of objects in the solar system (asteroids, comets, stars etc.)Â
– Choose one planet , one minor planet ,and a exoplanet to compare to the earth and other planets.
You probably know that Houston is the largest city in the United States with no zoning ordinance. Can you name the second-largest unzoned city? It’s Pasadena, Texas.
Most cities, in the name of smart planning and common sense, have an official color-coded map of their city showing exactly what can and can’t happen on every piece of property in the city limits. This site is in the middle of a neighborhood – it’s zoned R-1, for single-family-residential-only. This other site is on a busy street, but it’s across the street from a church. We’ll zone it to be ok for a retail store, but not for a noisy bar or restaurant, or for anything industrial. You get the idea. Without the government to decide what goes where, it would just be chaos!
Houston has never used zoning. Houston lets property owners decide what works best for their property – essentially letting the market, rather than the a city zoning commission, control land use. Additionally, most areas (especially single-family neighborhoods) are governed by “deed restrictions,” where owners voluntarily agree to certain restrictions when they buy property. How has that worked? It depends on who you ask.
U of H Architecture Dean Patricia Oliver describes her shock in finding “finding one of the fanciest restaurants in town facing a tattoo parlor or sitting next to a laundromat, or your dentist’s office being next door to the car repair shop” in this CultureMap article. On the other hand, Chronicle business columnist Loren Steffy argues in this article that Houston’s lack of zoning may be a significant reason why Houston escaped the real estate bubble and subsequent crash seen by most other U.S. cities. Maybe the biggest challenge to Houston’s market-based system in recent years has been the “Ashby High Rise,” a proposed 23-story apartment building on a mostly-single family residential section of Bissonnet near Rice University. “Property rights” can get complicated. If the government tells me what I can and can’t do on my own property, it’s treading on my property rights. But, since you have that freedom too, if you build a junk yard on your property next door to mine, and your junk yard reduces the value of my property by 70%, have you violated my property rights?
Oliver quotes author Stephan Fox’s description of land use policy in Houston as an “exclusive dependence on individual citizens committed to planning; the apathy, if not hostility, of the general public to the purpose and mechanisms of public planning; and the ambivalence of public officials who supported the ‘progressive’ appearance of planning, while only reluctantly according statutory authority and financial support to public planning agencies.” Sound a little like that “individualism” idea in your textbook section about ideological context?
Write a essay about land use planning in Houston, the lack of zoning, and how you think this relates to Dr. Elazar’s “Individualistic-Traditionalistic” political culture discussed in your text.
Choose 2 sorting algorithms that you have read about in the text or in the supplemental resources. Discuss (compare and contrast) the time complexities and space complexities of each algorithm. Complete the following:
Write an expression for the “worst case” runtime and space required by the algorithm in terms of n where n is the size of data to be sorted.
Justify your answers: How did you arrive at these expressions?
Reformat these expressions using Big-O notation.
b) Is there a significant difference between drug type in mean relative-change* of body-mass index (BMI) from screening to follow up?
c) Is there an association between exercise and LDL levels, by comparing exercise to those with healthy LDL levels (<100) and to those with elevated LDL levels (≥100)?
b) Is there a relationship between body-mass index (BMI) and cholesterol level for female patients at the time of screening?
Research various software packages, such as Microsoft® Enterprise or SharePoint, and select one that has the most useful tools to coordinate data, resource management, scheduling, and communication. In no more than 350 words, explain why this software is appropriate.
Navigate to http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newPPM_07.htm. Download the free Power/Interest Grid .pdf file. Reproduce the grid in a Microsoft® Word document. Brainstorm various stakeholders of this project and plot them on the grid. Identify and categorize stakeholders according to reporting needs.
Create a communication plan matrix, using Microsoft® Excel. Indicate the frequency and type of communication appropriate for each stakeholder and which team member would be responsible for overseeing each communication.
Write an executive summary in which you explain how the communication plan and software will enable the project leader to effectively manage communication on the project.
Combine the software recommendation, Power/Interest Grid, communication plan matrix, and executive summary into a cohesive report.
Format your report consistent with APA guidelines.
What are three jobs that apply to biology and why?
How were colonial governments organized?
The core assignment of this course is a documented research paper (1500-2000 words in length = approx. 6 – 8 pages double spaced, 12-point font).
The essay should support a thesis statement with information gained from research or investigation.
The paper will not be just a report presenting information, but will be an essay that carefully examines and presents your own historical interpretation of the topic you have chosen and your interpretation of the information you have gathered.
The paper may include consideration of problems and solutions, define key terms, or refute arguments against your thesis statement.
It will be important to choose a topic of interest to you.
Approach this assignment with an open and skeptical mind, then form an opinion based on what you have discovered.
You must suspend belief while you are investigating and let the discoveries shape your opinion. (This is a thesis-finding approach.)
Once you have found your thesis, write the paper to support it.
You will use some of the following critical thinking skills in this process:
Choosing an appropriate topic, limiting the topic
Gathering information, summarizing sources
Analyzing and evaluating sources
Defining key terms
Synthesizing information, comparing and contrasting sources
Testing a thesis, making an historical argument, using refutation
Amassing support for a position
Documenting sources
Because this may be a longer essay than you have written before and a complex process is involved, it is recommended that you complete this paper using the following steps:
Choose a topic related to U.S. History after 1877 that you would truly like to explore and that you are willing to spend some time on. Your chosen topic should be focused. Pose a question that you really want to answer. You may want to begin with more than one topic in mind.
Do some preliminary reading on the topic(s). You may begin with the textbook, then further explore the information available. Refine your topic. Summarize your topic, your interest in the topic, the questions you want to answer, and a hypothesis you want to test.
Gather information from a variety of sources. Use a minimum of four sources for your paper, and at least one must be a primary source.
Examples of primary sources are ones that are used in our discussion forums 2 – 8.
They are sources that are contemporary to the times under investigation.
An example of a secondary source is our textbook, though the textbook also contains excerpts of primary sources, which you may use as a source in your essay.
Outline the results of your research and then plan for your essay (note you are not required to submit the outline).
Write the final draft and be sure to include a Works Cited List; be sure to use the correct MLA documentation style.