...University of Phoenix Material Fifties and Sixties Culture, Consumerism, and the Economy Matrix Student Name: Keyiana Moye Section 1—Economic Miracle. Create a matrix overview of the economic expansion following World War II. Select five of the following topics to shape a response, and explain their significance to American history: Dwight D. Eisenhower, Adlai Stevenson, The Fair Deal, Nuclear Power, Government Spending, Suburbs, The Modern West, Keynesian Economics, Corporate Consolidation, The Postwar Contract, AFL-CIO, Antibiotics, The Salk Vaccine, DDT, Television, UNIVAC, Interstate Highways, Paul Samuelson |Topic |Significance for American History | | | | | | | | | | | ...
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...University of Phoenix Material Multicultural Matrix and Analysis Worksheet Instructions: Part I: Select and identify six groups in the left-hand column. Complete the matrix. Part II: Write a summary. Part III: Format references consistent with APA guidelines. |Part I: Matrix |What is the group’s history in the United |What is the group’s population in the |What are some attitudes and customs |What is something you admire about | | |States? |United States? |people of this group may practice? |this group’s people, lifestyle, or | | | | | |society? | |Native Americans |Native Americans were already residing in |The 2010 census reported 2.9 million |Native Americans are known because of |Throughout history, Native Americans | | |what is known today as the United States |people with Native American heritage. |their humble background. Although the |were slain, abused, and now | | |when America was discovered. They also |This number represents an increase of |majority of them do not share |outnumbered. Despite of these facts, | | ...
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...are also a huge number of initially discrete models where they also arise. As Wassily Leontief wrote in Scientific American in 1951 [153]: This article is concerned with a new effort to combine economic facts and theory known as “interindustry” or “input-output” analysis. Essentially it is a method of analysis that takes advantage of the relatively stable pattern of the flow of goods and services among the elements of our economy to bring a much more detailed statistical picture of the system into the range of manipulation by economic theory. As such, the method has had to await the modern high-speed computing machine as well as the present propensity of government and private agencies to accumulate mountains of data. It is now advancing from the phase of academic investigation and experimental trial to a broadining sphere of application in grand-scale problems of national economic policy.1 Gaussian elimination is the oldest and the simplest — but not always the fastest — algorithm for solving matrix equations. The title of this chapter is quite long because a matrix equation can be solved by many different algorithms. The only ones we discuss are Gaussian elimination and a variant which is faster in certain circumstances. Frequently in physical systems, the matrix is sparse, that is, most of its elements are zero. Then the solution of the matrix equation might be faster if an iterative method is used (MATLAB has a number of functions to use such methods) — but...
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...Modern American philosopher; Hilary Putman’s thought experiment called the Brain in the Vat, emphasizes a person’s brain placed inside a container filled with fluids and the fluids is an aid to preserving the brain. Wires are connected to the brain senses (vision, smell, hearing, taste and touch) using electronic impulses that is attached to a computer. Sense information is imputed to the brain from the computer by a computer network administrator. For example, information telling the brain, “You are running in Italy, and you smell pizza.” The brain perceives this information as reality. The movie The Matrix is based on the Brain in the Vat. The Matrix, Rene Descartes, Meditation I Of The Things Of Which We May Doubt and Plato’s, “The Allegory of the Cave,” all hold similarities to the Brain in the Vat; therefore they hold similarities to each other. Although they hold similarities to each other there are also some differences between these three reasons. The similarities between the movie The Matrix, Plato’s cave analogy and Descartes’ Meditation I are that they questioned what they knew to be their world—whether it was reality or a dream; they each wanted to leave what they knew to be their world or reality to discover what they individually sensed to be a true reality. They are equivalent in that their perception of the real world started during each ones childhood. In The Matrix, Neo is controlled by a simulated computer system. In Plato’s cave the prisoners are...
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...12345) Mid-Term Exam – Review Questions 1) All of these are pitfalls an organization should avoid in strategic planning EXCEPT (Ch. 1) Some pitfalls to watch for and avoid in strategic planning are these: Using strategic planning to gain control over decisions and resources Doing strategic planning only to satisfy accreditation or regulatory requeriments Too hastily moving from mission development to strategy formulation Failing to communicate the plan to employees, who continue working in the dark Top managers making many intuitive decisions that conflict with the formal plan Top managers not actively supporting the strategic-planning process Failing to use plans as a standard for measuring performance Delegating planning to a “planner” rather than involving all managers Failing to involve key employees in all phases of planning Failing to create a collaborative climate supportive of change Viewing planning as unnecessary or unimportant Becoming so engrossed in current problems that insufficient or no planning is done Being so formal in planning that flexibility and creativity are stifled 2) The strategic-management process represents a(n) logical , systematic , and objective approach for determining an enterprise's future direction. 3) Strategic Management is used to refer to strategic formulation, implementation and evaluation, with strategic planing referring only to strategic formulation. 4) Which statement best describes intuition...
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...Input Devices Input devices – is devices that we put INTO the computer from the real world to receive data or information. ID can be as human interaction as keyboard and mouse or simply environmental data as sensors. This is the list of possible examples of input devices such as : Camera , Compact Disk, Keyboard , Mouse , Digital Camera, Microphone , Drawing Tablet , Scanner, Disk Drive , Joystick , Touch Screen, Barcode reader , Business Card reader , Magnetic-stripe reader, etc. First of all, an input device is any hardware device that sends data to the computer, without any input devices. In other words the input unit is formed by the input devices attached to the computer. An input unit takes the input and converts it into binary form so that it can be understood by the computer. Camera is used during live conversations. The camera transmits a picture from one computer to another, or can be used to record a short video. Compact Disk (CD) - The CD can be put into another computer, and the information can be opened and added or used on the second computer. There is one possible thing like a CD-R or CD-RW can be used as an output device. Keyboard is a way to input letters or numbers into different programs or web-bourses. A keyboard also has special keys that help operate the computer. For ex. key “Microsoft” that helps us to open “start” section whenever we need. Mouse is used to open and close files, navigate web sites, and click on a lot of commands (to tell the...
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...that IKEA has found its niche, which has now apparently, spread globally. This case study examines IKEA’s role in the American market, its possible growth and everything else that could come ahead. IKEA Invades America IKEA is the world’s largest furniture retailer with sales approaching $12 billion with 154 stores in 22 countries. IKEA is a very unusual furniture retailer given the large physical size of the stores, the self-service features including self-assembly of furniture, limited product and style selection, but with customer amenities such as a playroom for children and a restaurant. Despite limitations, IKEA has been very successful and plans to open more store in the United States. In answering the questions for this case, DO NOT do any research on the company and its progress since the case was written. You must only use the information presented in the case. Adding outside information beyond what is in the case will reduce your grade! Questions What do you think of the company’s product strategy and product range? Based on IKEA’s product strategy, it can be said that the company adapts its business moment to moment, letting trends guide marketers and designers to respond to consumers’ needs. Do you agree with the matrix approach described in Figure B of the case? I completely agree and admire the Product/ Price Matrix developed by IKEA, as it reveals...
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...devices may be plugged into the computer USB ports. Modern mice and keyboards use PS/2 technology unlike older predated mice and keyboards, which used serial connectors, and a 5-pin bulky din connector. The network interface card is responsible for connecting your computer to your local network, a distant network, or to the internet. The dial-up modem is the slowest possible method of connecting to the internet, and it connects to the phone line; the standard speed for a modem is 56Kbps. Modern computers come with two types of video ports VGA and DVI, in addition may also have an S-Video port you may connect to the TV. SCSI connectors come with a variety of sizes, but the most common are the 50 pin connector for the A-type narrow SCSI cable, and the 68-pin connector for the p-type wide SCSI cable. IEEE 1394 also known as fire wire uses serial communication, it is very fast, hot swappable, and is especially useful when transmitting streaming media. Multimedia devices such as microphones, earphones, and speakers are usually located at the back of the CPU, but in some cases there is a second set on the front of the computer as well. Clip 2 Summary: There are two types of computer monitors on the market today, the older CRT monitors, which are big and bulky and the newer LCD monitors which take up less desk space.CRT monitors use cathode ray tubes and LCD monitors use a technology called TET also referred to as active matrix. Refresh rate and response time are both terms used...
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...control, and remarkably the concepts developed in Japan beginning in the late 1940′s and 1950′s, pioneered there by Americans Feigenbum, Juran and Deming. Quality Management Gurus and theories Quality Management resulted mainly from the work of the quality gurus and their theories. the American gurus featured in the 1950′s Japan: Joseph Juran, W Edwards Deming, and Armand Feigenbum; the Japanese quality gurus who formulated and extended the early American quality ideas and models: Kaoru Ishikawa, Genichi Taguchi, and Shigeo Shingo; and the 1970-80′s American Western gurus, notably Philip Crosby and Tom Peters, who further extended their thoughts towards Quality Management concepts after the Japanese successes Total Quality Management (TQM) Total Quality Management features centrally the customer-supplier interfaces, (external and internal customers and suppliers). A number of processes sit at each interface. Central also is an organizational commitment to quality, and the importance of communicating this quality commitment, together with the acknowledgement that the right organizational culture is essential for effective Total Quality Management Processes – understanding processes and methods for process improvement Understanding processes is essential before attempt is made to improve them. This is a central aspect to Total Quality Management, and also to more modern quality and process improvement interpretations and models such as Six Sigma. Quality process improvement tools...
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...Introduction The focus of this paper is to look at a strategic management expert and determine what they have done for the area of strategic management. This paper will spotlight Igor Ansoff. Igor Ansoff (December 12, 1918 – July 14, 2002) was a Russian American, applied mathematician, and a business manager (Hussey, 1999). He is known as the father of Strategic management. This paper will detail Igor Ansoff’s contribution to the Strategic management world. Review Igor Ansoff was born in Russia in 1918 and his family emigrated to the United States of America in 1936. His early academic focus was on mathematics, and he obtained a PhD in applied mathematics from Brown University, Rhode Island. He joined the Rand Corporation in 1950, and moved on to Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, where he eventually became Vice-President, Plans and Programmers, and then Vice-President and General Manager of the Industrial Technology Division (Igor Ansoff, 2012). In 1963, Ansoff was appointed Professor of Industrial Administration at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh. He went on to hold a number of positions in universities in both the United States and Europe. He continued to act as a consultant after retiring from academia in 2000 and, on his retirement, was named Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the United States International University (Igor Ansoff, 2012). Until the publication of Corporate Strategy, companies had little guidance on how to plan for, or make decisions...
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...Recently in the news, the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) fined Johnny Sauter, one of their drivers, $10,000 as well as charging him 25 points for “inappropriate” comments made after a BUSCH race in Las Vegas. The words said were at the conclusion of a race in which the driver had been putting his life on the line at over 200 mph. Fueled with adrenaline, the words spoken were not words ordinarily used by Sauter, however, NASCAR legislated just the same (McCormick). This case is the most recent of many that censorship has become a major battleground. Since first the shootings of April 1999 in Columbine Colorado, and most recently, the 2004 Super Bowl Halftime show in which singer Justin Timberlake exposed the breast of fellow singer Janet Jackson, the government has made it its priority to influence the entertainment industry to put into place new rules, such as the one in NASCAR, to regulate “inappropriate” material, therefore increasing censorship. On top of this, the industry itself has begun to attempt a type of self-censorship. Although censorship has been around for ages, what is it and why does it exist? Censorship in today’s era is a higher power attempting to prevent disturbing or painful sights, sounds, or any other information form from reaching the public in order to keep a feeling of well moral being. However, the main question in today’s times is whether or not censorship is necessary in today’s world, and if the government should be able to...
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...University of Phoenix Material Sociological Group Matrix Schaefer (2011) defines a group as “any number of people with similar norms, values, and expectations who interact with one another on a regular basis” (p. 111). Complete the Social Group Matrix by identifying and describing the relationship between yourself and the members of any social group you are a part of. |Group description | | | | | |Identify the group. |Veterans of Foreign Wars | |Social group or organization | | | |Veterans of Foreign Wars: | |Describe the function of the social|A collection of veterans from all branches of the military that come together to give support to...
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...University of Phoenix Material Environmental Movement Matrix Choose five items from the following list and identify their significance during the 1970s: • Cuyahoga River, OH (Cleveland) fire 1969 • Love Canal • Silent Spring • Population Bomb • Endangered Species Act (1966, 1969, & 1973) • Clean Water Act (1972, 1977) • Conservationism vs. environmentalism • Acid rain • Ozone layer • Rainforests • Depletion of fossil fuels • Climate change Event Significance Silent Spring The publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring in 1962 marked the beginning of modern environmentalism. Carson, known as the “godmother of modern environmentalism, impacted the American public’s consciousness with her detailed exposition on the dangers of environmental pollution to human health. By examining the ecological impacts of hazardous substances that pollute both the natural and human environments, like pesticides, Carson fundamentally altered the way Americans perceived the environment and the dangers of toxins to themselves. Conservationism vs. environmentalism By the 1870s, resource exploitation dominated development patterns in the West. Natural resources were devoured by destructive practices in mining, overgrazing, timber cutting, monocrop planting, and speculation in land and water rights. In 1902, for example, the Reclamation Act established the Reclamation Service, whose mission was to accomplish “the reclamation and settlement of the arid lands. The Reclamation...
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...consists of multiple choice questions & Short notes type questions. •Answer all the questions. •Part one questions carry 1 mark each & Part two questions carry 5 marks each. Part One: Multiple choices: 1. A plan of action designed to achieve a particular goal is: b. Strategy 2. It is important to develop mission statement for: a. Allocating organizational resources 3. The five forces model was developed by: c. Michael E. Porter 4. How many elements are involve in developing in an organizational strategy: a. Six 5. The three important steps in SWOT analysis are: b. Opportunities, Threats, Strengths 6. GE matrix consists of how many cells? a. Nine cells 7. Which of these is the type of Games: d. All of the above 8. SBU stands for c. Strategic Business Unit 9. The BCG matrix is known as: a. Growth share matrix 10. ______________ specifies sales revenues and selling distribution and marketing costs. b. Sales budget ________________________________________ Section A: Part Two: 1. What are the dimensions of Strategic management? Answer: Strategic management process involves the entire range of decisions. Typically, strategic issues have six identifiable dimensions: 1. Top management involvement: Strategic management relates to several areas of a firm’s operations. So, it requires top management’s involvement. Generally, only the top management has the perspective needed to understand the broad implication of its...
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...University of Phoenix Material Multicultural Matrix and Analysis Worksheet Instructions: Part I: Select and identify six groups in the left-hand column. Complete the matrix. Part II: Write a summary. Part III: Format references consistent with APA guidelines. Part I: Matrix | What is the group’s history in the United States? | What is the group’s population in the United States? | What are some attitudes and customs people of this group may practice? | What is something you admire about this group’s people, lifestyle, or society? | 1. Spanish Americans | The existence of Spanish Americans started since 16th century (Lawrence 2002). Juan Ponce de Leon discovered Florida on April 2, 1513 and named it Pascua Florida as a Spanish term for Easter (Hoogenboom, 2006, p. 14). | As of 2007, the population of Spanish Americans is 45,378,596 (Pew Hispanic Center, 2009). | Hispanics are mostly Catholics. According to Cultural Diversity (2008), their social customs include elders having a prestigious status in the Hispanic family because of their experience Health practices of Hispanics are being emotionally expressive that they expects to be pampered when ill (Cultural Diversity 2008). | I admire Hispanics and their contribution to society in the field of entertainment. I also admire how Hispanics respect elders as one who has more experience than younger family members. | 2. African Americans | African Americans in majority arrived in U.S. as slaves in Jamestown...
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