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The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

Describe the legal environment of business, the sources of American law, and the basis of authority for government to regulate business.
Explain basic court procedures, types of courts, and alternative dispute resolution methods.
Explain the basis of tort law and describe the classification of torts.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in business law.
Write clearly and concisely about business law using proper writing mechanics.

Resource utilization plan: Analyze and plan resource utilization to achieve maximum/optimal capacity utilization.

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The project for this course is a portfolio management plan for a company of your choice, which is Apple Computers.

Resource utilization plan: Analyze and plan resource utilization to achieve maximum/optimal capacity utilization, for Apple Computers. 10 point font APA format 2 or 3 pages. Be creative and make recommendations on how best to deploy available resources to optimize the portfolio.

Select a foreign country and analyze its monetary system. Research the country’s monetary system using at least five scholarly sources, including a minimum of three from the Ashford Online Library. Your analysis should be an eight to ten page paper formatted according to APA style guidelines.

Address the following aspects in your paper:

Analyze the evolution of the country’s monetary system, including the impact of any fiscal monetary and trade policies.
Describe the major components of the monetary system, including organizations and financial institutions.
Describe the currency exchange rates and any significant impacts on the exchange rates.
Analyze the issues around economic exposure, transaction exposure, and translation exposure.
Recommend to investors whether they should buy or sell futures or options in that currency.

What do you make of the feminist, existential, and non-Western critiques of the essentialist/avocado self? Are there any other problems with the idea that human beings are fundamentally rational creatures?
What is the role of desire in the self? Is it really something separate from reason, as modernism, Christianity, and Islam assert? Can it be controlled? Should it be?

In this assignment, you will research and develop a presentation about the culture of a particular ethnic group different from your own (for example, Asian, Euro-American, Scandinavian, African American, Latin American, or Anglo-Saxon) as related to communication. This will help you increase your awareness of your own perspectives and the limitations of your perspectives. You will gain a better understanding of the link between culture and gender and how both impact communication.

Using the Argosy University online library resources and the Internet, research the culture you have chosen. Prepare a presentation with detailed speaker’s notes and use scholarly resources for support. Use the speaker’s notes area for explanatory comments and citation of sources.

In your presentation, include the following sections:

Introduction to the culture
Background information (history, government, cultural traditions [practices], health care practices, values, beliefs, etc.)
An overview of gender roles in the selected culture
Observations and analysis of the culture that distinguish the culture as unique
A discussion of how what you have learned about the culture you researched has impacted your general view about communicating with others different from yourself
A comparison of the culture you researched and your own cultural traditions, values, and beliefs
Conclusions and recommendations of how to “bridge the communication gap” between the culture you researched and your own
References

The Internet is a powerful tool that provides the ability to monitor natural phenomena and disasters that happen all over planet Earth.

In this assignment, you will research resources available on the Internet for monitoring natural phenomena including earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, global climate, and weather.

Based on your research, do the following:

Identify a minimum of three different natural phenomena that are typically responsible for natural disasters. Analyze the potential impact of these disasters.
Analyze how these phenomenon are monitored, or not, via the Internet. Critique available Web sites, which publicly display up-to-date monitored information related to each of the natural phenomena you have identified. Focus on the following aspects:
Geography
What parts of the world are potentially affected by these phenomena? Specifically identify the countries.
Resources
What kinds of resources are allocated toward monitoring these phenomena and why?
What types of Web resources monitor the phenomena and provide up-to-date information about them?
What kinds of technology are involved in monitoring the phenomena?
Politics
What political ramifications would this disaster-preparedness technology cause between more-developed countries and less-developed countries?
What kinds of issues could this technology cause between less-developed countries?

Discussion 1:

Read: “The Experience of Disease: Psychosocial Aspects of Movement Disorder” (Jacopini, 2000), “Caregiver Bodywork: Family Members Experiences of Caring for a Person With Motor Neuron Disease” (Ray & Street , 2006), and “Biopsychosocial Predictors of Depressive Mood in People With Parkinson’s Disease” (Moore, et.al , 2007). Additionally, review Chapter 3 in your text and watch the Andres Lozano: Parkinson’s, Depression and the Switch That Might Turn Them Off video.

For this discussion, refer to the information in the “Introduction to the Miller Family” document. Ella’s father, Frederic, has Parkinson’s disease and is known in the family as the “shaky” grandpa. In 250-300 words, given what you know about the members of the family, analyze and comment on the potential effects this condition/illness might have on them. Select two individuals from different generations and analyze the similarities and differences in their perspectives on this condition from the lens of their stage of life and development. Explain the kinds of emotional and/or behavioral changes that might be expected. How might the various family members react to them?

Write a Persuasive essay on the positive effects of subsidized housing on communities. It must be in APA format with at least 4 references and citations.

Write a 3- to 5-page paper that includes the following based on your chosen Virtual Organization:

Identify hardware and software needed to secure your choice of networks against all electronic threats.
Distinguish between local area networks (LANs), wide area networks (WANs), and wireless technologies.
Explain the concepts and building blocks of today’s data communication networks, such as switches, routers, and cabling.

Numeric -Health Analytics and Business Intelligence in Healthcare

15 slides with at least 150 words of speaker notes per slide

You have been asked to provide training for the newly hired staff of the oncology department. Prepare a PowerPoint presentation that you will use in your training. The presentation must cover the following:

Section 1: Queries

Creating, appending, updating, and deleting table queries
How queries can be used as a data source
How to locate duplicate records
Using subqueries as a criteria
The use of selecting criteria (e.g., comparison operators, limiting row and pattern matching)

Section 2: The Need for Data Warehousing

Using the library and Internet, search for information about the need for data warehousing. Additionally, consider how different approaches toward collecting data warehouse requirements help organizations in their decision-making processes.

From your research, identify the needs, basic elements, and trends in data warehousing.
Discuss how approaches to collecting data warehouse requirements can help the chosen organization in the decision-making process.
Why would this collection of data warehouse requirements help the organization?

Describe characteristics of applications and technology infrastructures commonly used in healthcare (e.g., clinical, administrative, financial).