What was Reagan’s vision when he entered the White House? How did he differ from his immediate predecessors? Why did he appeal to the American electorate? What was his economic legacy?
Support your arguments with this week’s reading and other sources. Your paper should meet the following requirements:
3 pages in length
2-3 outside sources (Inlcude Reference Page)
Assignment 3: Juvenile Statistics Comparison
Data types are general categories of juvenile justice statistical data. The three primary sources for juvenile justice statistics or data types are official reports, self-report surveys, and victimization surveys. Each source has unique strengths and weaknesses, such as accuracy, breadth of coverage, and types of crime addressed. Here is an example of each data type:
Official Report: The FBI’s UCR is a summary of official crime statistics submitted by state and local law enforcement agencies.
Self-Reports: The report, Monitoring the Future, measures the extent of delinquent acts committed by high school students.
Victimization Survey: The NCVS measures household victimizations and the attitudes, habits, and responses of the victims surveyed nationwide.
Tasks:
Part A:
For this assignment, pick a location and select two of the three primary data types:
Official Report
Self-Report
Victimization Survey
Remember both your data sources must be from the same location; if your first choice is the data type victimization surveys with the location being your state then your other data source will be either official reports or self-report surveys from the same location, your state. You may conduct an Internet search using the same locale and jurisdiction, for example:
United States official reports and
United States victimization survey
The ultimate goal is to select and compare two different data sources, both from the same location, time period (usually given as a year or a range of years), and population (usually given as a geographic location or a jurisdiction).
Part B:
Using a series of line graphs, compare the data presented in each data source across four different offense types during the same five-year period. For example, you could use assault, larceny theft, truancy, or runaways, then describe two examples each of the common delinquent offenses and the status of the offenses.
In a minimum of 2 pages, write a paper that includes responses to the following:
Comment with explanations on the results of the data presented for each offense type.
Analyze any trends and state which offense type shows the greatest discrepancy between the two data sources.
Given the nature of the data sources, describe why you think this discrepancy exists. Be sure to note with reasons whether your overall results are or are not what you initially expected.
Assignment 3 Part 1: Operation, Technology, and Management Plan
Write a three to six (3-6) page paper in which you provide the following information below.
Note: Remember to assign a dollar amount to each operational cost you find, as you will need these figures for your income statement and cash flow in Week 8.
Create an operations plan for your NAB company using the template in the text as a guide (p. 214 | Operations Plan Preparation Form ). Extract appropriate information from the NAB Company portfolio, where applicable. Other required items in the template should be filled in using your personal preferences.
Provide a rationale for the competitive advantages section using appropriate functional-level and business-level strategies to explain the competitive advantages.
Note: Much of the research pertaining to the hints provided here can be found in the NAB company portfolio.
Hints: Consider whether you will rent or buy your facilities or outsource production to an existing company.
Hints: One of your biggest expenses as a startup non-alcoholic beverage company will be transitioning from a small batch prototype of your beverage to production on a large scale. Research the equipment you will need (vats, refrigerators, burners, ovens, bottling equipment, and so on), whether you will rent or buy, how you will maintain and clean it, and so forth. Consider how you will ensure quality control. What capacity do you intend to reach?
Hints: Deliberate your inventory control. Where do your supplies come from and what is your turnaround time to produce your beverage once you have received an order?
Hints: Consider your distribution method. Refer back to your notes for the SWOT analysis assignment in Week 2 of class.
Hints: How will you stay abreast of new developments in your industry? What new products do you have in development now, in addition to your flagship product?
Describe your research and development activities and explain how they will contribute to the company.
Technology Plan (1 – 2 pages)
Create a technology plan for your NAB company using the template in the text as a guide (p. 227 | Technology Plan Preparation Form ). Extract appropriate information from the NAB Company portfolio, where applicable. Other required items in the template should be filled in using your personal preferences.
Provide a rationale for the personnel needs section by incorporating appropriate functional-level strategies.
Hints: Consider the type of technology your company will use to conduct the following activities: manage personnel; take, fulfill, and track orders; manage inventory; communicate with customers and provide customer service; and produce your beverage.
“Remote Connectivity and QoS” Please respond to the following:
From a network perspective, discuss the key advantages and disadvantages of having employees or customers who are connected to the network remotely. Predict potential major security issues that may arise through the use of mobile devices connected to an organization’s network, and suggest primary strategies for mitigating these risks.
Explain the importance of QoS, and describe key strategies that network managers can implement to improve QoS. In the context of VoIP, determine the primary traffic requirements that network managers must consider prior to deployment. Provide a rationale for your response.
Ethics Commitment
A large part of ethics deals with the possibility of differing opinions on an ethical issue or problem. Many healthcare facilities use ethics committees when faced with ethical issues to sort through the different opinions and submit a decision.
Imagine you are part of a nine-member ethics committee at the local hospital. At your committee meeting, the committee is presented with the issue of a patient who has been on life support for the past six months and has not shown any signs of improvement or the ability to survive without life support. The patient has appointed two healthcare surrogates who have opposing opinions on whether to withdraw life support. Answer the following questions:
What are the major ethical issues in this case?
What laws, if any, are applicable to the decision?
How should the ethics committee render a decision in this case?
If there are differences of opinion among committee members, how should the committee deal with the differences?
So, having completed the readings for this week, do you think enforcement of alcohol abuse, at least when it comes to driving, is reliable? Are breathalyzers accurate, by and large? And what if they’re not? Could a similar system be reliably developed for marijuana? And where are we headed with all of this? If the standard is PROTECT EVERYONE (especially kids) AT ALL COSTS, then are we headed to zero tolernace? And should this concern us? Again, a question that will continually come up: how much power do we want the state (and by extention our fellow citizens and their phone cameras) to have over us…?
As the human resources manager, you are now ready to complete your diversity training manual to be used for training and sensitizing your employees on diversity issues. This final section will cover actual legislation. You would like your employees to not only be aware of issues dealing with discrimination that may not be addressed in legislation (the moral component) but to be knowledgeable of the seriousness of the discriminatory practices that have been made into law.
Affirmative Action is one of the most contentious issues; its intent and the discriminatory result of applying it in practice has become a major issue in today’s workforce.
Using this Web site (or any others you find), write a paper of 4-6 pages that will summarize the following points and become part of the training manual:
What is Affirmative Action?
What was the initial intent of Affirmative-Action legislation?
What did the landmark Bakke v. Regents case conclude? Click here to read the case.
What was the basis for the conclusion?
What are the positive and negative results of Affirmative Action legislation?
In your evaluation, is Affirmative Action legislation is still appropriate?
“IPv6, and Redistribution Configuration and Verification Commands” Please respond to the following:
Analyze IPv6 and examine the key features that IT professionals generally consider to be an improvement over IPv4. Specifically, compare and contrast the flexibility of IPv6 as compared to IPv4.
Classify redistribution configuration and verification commands. Differentiate between situations in which a network administrator would utilize redistribution configuration commands and situations requiring verification commands. Justify your response.
“Remote Connectivity and QoS” Please respond to the following:
From a network perspective, discuss the key advantages and disadvantages of having employees or customers who are connected to the network remotely. Predict potential major security issues that may arise through the use of mobile devices connected to an organization’s network, and suggest primary strategies for mitigating these risks.
Explain the importance of QoS, and describe key strategies that network managers can implement to improve QoS. In the context of VoIP, determine the primary traffic requirements that network managers must consider prior to deployment. Provide a rationale for your response.
“Manual Tunnel NAT Protocol Translation (NAT-PT)” Please respond to the following:
Compare and contrast manual tunneling methods with automatic tunneling methods. Investigate one (1) real-life situation in which a network administrator would utilize each tunneling strategy.
Examine the primary reasons why a network administrator would use NAT-PT as a translation technique. Suggest the primary reasons why a network administrator may choose this technique over other options.
“Multicast and Campus Infrastructure” Please respond to the following:
Determine the manner in which you would implement IP multicast in a campus network. In your response, provide two to three (2-3) reasons why you would choose to implement IP multicast as well as specific examples of Internet, Intranet, and multimedia applications that you might incorporate into such a system.
Determine the manner in which you would prepare a campus infrastructure to support video at your current place of employment or at your local campus. Identify the applications that may be necessary, and provide an explanation for following or not following the best practices described in the textbook. Be sure to include an explanation of wireless LAN parameters and switch configurations in your response.
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Describe the current global economic conditions and their effect on local macroeconomic indicators for your good or service.
Describe the local economy’s stage in the business cycle.
Describe how current credit market conditions affect your planning or operating decision for your good or service