...The problem that I have decided to solve using the Model of Critical Thinking is my computer crashing. Last week my computer crashed before I could get my assignment done, so I with the first step being Purpose-goal or objective clear and justifiable, significant and realistic, this is what I will be using as my topic. Question being the next step, we I have to answer what is the problem? The problem is it put me in a very hard place in getting my work done for three classes that I’m currently taking. Information being the next step states that data, evidence, observations or experiences, conclusions, must be accurate, clear, relevant and sufficient. So the data that supported my thinking in buying a new computer was the fact that after I turned my computer into the computer store, the owner basically said the virus that is on my computer basically killed it, and he recommends a new one. Inferences are the next step, which is interpretations or conclusions, decisions follow evidence. So after receiving the bad news, like I stated earlier I decided to buy a new computer. I did not go right out and purchase a new computer right away. I did a little price matching and searching, especially with it being Christmas time. This brings us to the next step, which is Assumptions. Assumptions are beliefs taken for granted, subconsciously or unconscious level. What I took for granted was the fact that the computer guy at the store knew what he was talking about, especially...
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...Read the “Theory to Practice” section at the end of Ch. 6 of the text. Answer Questions 1 through 6 based on the scenario in the “Theory to Practice” section, and complete the following in your response: At the end of the scenario, BTT states that it is not interested in distributing Chou’s new strategy game, Strat. Assuming BTT and Chou have a contract, and BTT has breached the contract by not distributing the game, discuss what remedies might or might not apply. Explain your answers and refer to Section 7-6 in Ch. 7 for support. Submit your answers – there should be 7 total. 1. There was never a contract. BTT asked Chou to fax them a distribution contract. Chou never did therefore BTT never had an agreed contract with Chou. 2. Things that will favor Chou are the e-mails that discussed agreed terms that would be needed for both parties to be able to do the distribution deal together. The things that will be against Chou is that BTT asked him to fax over a distribution contract in which he never did. 3. No, some will say it does because it is a recorded electronic communication. But it is not binding by any means. The two sides were mearly discussing terms. One side then asked for a contract without the other responding leaving them thinking that there was no deal. 4. By Chou not faxing over a distribution contract as requested BTT could pursue him under teh statue of frauds thinking that they had a deal with Chou for...
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...[pic] Department of Management Class of BUS 564 Advanced Decision Making Final Exam 1- A local real estate investor in Orlando is considering three alternative investments: a motel, a restaurant, or a theater. Profits from the motel or restaurant will be affected by the availability of gasoline and the number of tourists; profits from the theater will be relatively stable under any conditions. The following payoff table shows the profit or loss that could result from each investment: | |Gasoline Availability | |Investment |Shortage |Stable Supply |Surplus | |Motel |$ 6,000 |$10,000 |$20,000 | |Restaurant |2,000 |15,000 |6,000 | |Theater |8,000 |4,000 |5,000 | Determine the best investment, using the following decision criteria. a. Minimax regret b. Hurwicz (a= .4) 2- The Valley Wine Company purchases grapes from one of two nearby growers each season to produce a particular red wine. It purchases enough grapes to produce 3,000 bottles of the wine. Each grower supplies a certain portion of poor-quality grapes, resulting in a percentage of bottles being used as fillers for cheaper table wines, according to the following probability distribution: | |Profit | |Defective (%) |Grower A |Grower B | |2 |$44,200 ...
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...Writing a Literary Analysis Paper The Purpose of a Literary Analysis: A literary analysis is not merely a summary of a literary work. Instead, it is an argument about the work that expresses a writer’s personal perspective, interpretation, judgment, or critical evaluation of the work. This is accomplished by examining the literary devices, word choices, or writing structures the author uses within the work. The purpose of a literary analysis is to demonstrate why the author used specific ideas, word choices, or writing structures to convey his or her message. How to Create a Literary Analysis: 1. Read the text closely several times. Focus on the ideas that are being presented. Think about the characters’ development and the author’s writing technique. What might be considered interesting, unusual, or important? 2. Brainstorm a list of potential topics. Highlight important passages in the text and take notes on these passages. Later, when writing the paper, these notes should help a writer to remember which aspects of the story caught his/her attention. The topic chosen should always be based on a writer’s interpretation of the author’s message. Here are some things a writer may want to consider when brainstorming for a literary analysis. Character: What observations might a writer make about the characters? Are there discrepancies in what they think, say, or do? Are the observations a writer makes different from what other characters say? How does the author...
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...Week 2 Joshua Wolfe 1. There are several issues that could be involved when resolving legal disputes in international business. The first one is who you are dealing with in the nation that you are doing business with. Not all countries are stable in leadership like the United States. Changes in other parts of the world happen rapidly and without notice. Even though you may have an agreement in place with that countries current laws after a change in leadership those laws may not be in affect anymore and the new laws may prohibit your current contract and call for a new one to be put into place. Politics plays a huge role as well. If your business and it practices are not like by the host countries inhabitants it may cause civil uproar. This happened in the simulation in the deal with Costa Rica and the oil company. If civil unrest occurs amidst a deal this could cost a leader his position within his country and force him either to re-negotiate the deal or negate the deal all together. 2. Legal action against business partners could be very trying. It could heavily strain the business relationship or could kill it all together before it has a chance to even blossom. But a lack of action could result in huge losses for your company or give another company a chance to come in and steal the deal as well. 3. CadMex could lose a large amount of money by sub-leasing the agreement instead of owning right out. This will allow other companies to create...
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...Research Resources Salary Search For my search to get an idea of the salary range of a registered nurse, I went to a site called CareerOneStop (http://www.careeronestop.org/SalariesBenefits/Sal_default.aspx). I consider this a reliable site because it is sponsored by the Employment and Training Administration of the US Department of Labor. While the site does not specifically address the type of writing I hope to do, it does have information that provides me with some ballpark figures. Under the heading for writers and authors, it includes high, median, and low salaries. High: $90,000 Median: $62,500 Low: $43,900 (US Department of Labor, 2011) Although I aspire to do better than the low end of this scale, I am comfortable with the median and high end. Library Search While searching the online library, I struck gold! I found something called Nurse Journal social community for nurses world wide. Earning a nursing degree is undoubtedly one of the best educational investments that you can make today. The strong demand for nursing professionals throughout the US is a compelling indicator that nursing will remain a strong career path for many years to come. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the demand for all nursing jobs will skyrocket 19% by 2022. What is driving this demand? Several factors are, but one of the biggest is just that Americans are getting older and living longer. As people are aging and living more active lives, there are...
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...University of Phoenix Material Employment Laws Chart Complete the chart below using information from the weekly readings and additional research if necessary. Employment Law Description and Requirement of Law Court Case Influential to Establishment of Law Importance of Law Workplace Application Civil Rights Act of 1964 Prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States (1964) Recognized that “separate is not equal”. Employers are prohibited from retaliation against those who exercise this right. Equal Employment Opportunity Act Prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. Civil Rights Act of 1964 Everyone has an equal chance to get hired Employers are prohibited from retaliation against those who exercise this right Equal Pay Act This law makes it illegal to pay different wages to men and women if they perform equal work in the same workplace. Schultz v. Wheaton Glass Co. (1970) Both men and women are paid the same for the same work. Women get the same pay as men for the same work, also the same chances for raises/promotions. Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 This law protects people 40 or older from discrimination because of age. Western Air Lines v. Criswell The Recognition that the elderly are still productive. The elderly will not be excluded or removed because of age; the decision will be based...
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...University of Phoenix Material Appendix C Part I Define the following terms: |Term |Definition | |Discrimination | Discrimination is the prejudicial treatment of an individual based on his or her membership| | |- or perceived membership - in a certain group or category. It involves the group's initial | | |reaction or interaction, influencing the individual's actual behavior towards the group or | | |the group leader, restricting members of one group from opportunities that are available to | | |a group, leading to the exclusion of the individual or entities based on logical or | | |irrational decisionmaking. | |Institutional discrimination |Institutional discrimination is when an institution or dominant group promotes | | |discrimination. An example of this could be if you local community college made all the | | |girls sit outside. This would be discrimination against the females and the college would be| | |the institution. ...
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...I am taking the role of Niel Goodrich (VP of Manufacturing) - I am hiring you as a consultant, wanting your advice on what to do about the Process Engineering Proposal (PEP). You have now read about the PEP plan to increase capacity by 50%. You know that Long is in strong disagreement. As an analyst what is your belief about the PEP - is it the right way to go? Will it increase or decrease performance? Will it affect motivation and therefore performance? Help each other out here. The objectives of the PEP are to propose a plan for initiate the assembly process associate with the new line of LDTC radiation tubes, and reform the current assembly processes in the NTAD. The PEP has definitely positive influence on the Assembly process, which will expand capacity by 50% in the nuclear tube operations. However, some stages of the PEP underestimated the NTAR workers, and the Long's effort. As a result, it will decrease the existing Assembly worker's performance. One of the important factors of the proposal is to create process specifications for the nuclear tube operations, which Long strong disagree. Long prefers to use the production standards just as a guide for the employees. However, the PEP will rewrite and reform the process specifications on existing operations. After that, the PEP needs to enforce new standards into the work process. In addition, the proposal requires that Singer approve monitoring, evaluating, and documenting any deviations or changes. It will discourage...
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...GE273: Microeconomics Macroeconomic Events Event 1: The government passes a law allowing states to pay unlimited unemployment benefits to all unemployed workers for an unlimited amount of time. Event 2: The federal government increases the restrictions on the immigration of skilled workers. How the incentive to produce for workers and/or firms may be affected by this event? How efficiency and equity for workers and/or firms are affected by this event? Event 1: Workers would have to work harder and pay more taxes to compensate the people that is not working could receive the unemployment benefits, either more taxes would have to be deducted and more jobs would have to open which is contradictory in order to be able to grant unlimited benefits to all unemployed workers for an unlimited amount of time, there would have to be a rational change to that; either the costs of goods would have to be lesser or the government would have to provide some kind of benefits for active workers so in fact at least more people decide to work again. It would affect them and us big times, we are in a current debt of trillions of dollars and it gets bigger every year, it just wouldn’t be logical and fair and it would affect it all around for obvious reasons, we would not progress. Event 2: It may have a positive impact for workers since it will require more demand by them however for a company or organization that needs...
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...A Business Plan The following business plan has been formulated to obtain $200,000 in capital to establish a coffeehouse on the campus of Doane College named The Orange Cup. This plan will also serve as a formal outline for the first five year's of operation. The financial forecasts show that this investment has significant promise for the future. The Orange Cup will provide for the Doane College Community a comfortable atmosphere while serving quality coffee at an affordable price with exceptional service. A wide variety of coffee products including, gourmet coffees, latte, cappuccino, espresso, and iced coffee, will be available at The Orange Cup. In addition, The Orange Cup will offer juice, pop, and bottled water, hot cocoa, hot cider, and tea. The marking strategy for The Orange Cup is to attract students and faculty to the coffeehouse to endure in a relaxed atmosphere, or for those customers with hectic schedules, the convenience of our products. The following tables represent sales forecasts and projected profit (loss) figures. For the first year of operation, The Orange Cup has projected gross sales in the amount of $194,880. Revenues increase 5% for the calculated four following years. The 5% increase in sales represents an increase in the population of students on Doane’s campus. A profit for the coffeehouse can be seen over the five years projections. All profits will ultimately end up in a scholarship for Doane students. Year Gross...
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...Nearly every grocery store has a frequent shopper program. The program benefits both the store and it’s customers by creating an incentive for shoppers to return to the store for their grocery needs. Kudler Fine Foods plans to implement a frequent shopper program of their own, but they first need to make a plan and create a system for their program. Before implementing a frequent shopper program, Kudler Fine Foods needs to identify the goals of their program, determine the degree of success for the project, summarize the project feasibility, analyze their current business process, and identify system requirements. Scope and Goals Like any frequent shopper program, Kudler Fine Foods want customers to always return to their grocery store by providing an incentive for customers and at the same time obtain information on customer purchase behavior to help them mold their services around the customers needs. The program will offer high value rewards through a partnership with a loyalty rewards program. Customers will obtain points by purchasing items at Kudler Fine Foods and eventually be able to use those points to obtain rewards. Some of the rewards include first-class airline upgrades, specialty foods, and other high-end gift items. In this program, Kudler Fine Foods also plans to provide discounts to customers for their purchase frequency. Kudler Fine Foods hopes that these rewards and discounts will provide enough incentive for customers to continuously return to their stores...
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...Dear CIO, It has come to my attention that you are wondering why I should secure Windows and our Unix/Linux servers from shortcomings and vulnerabilities. I will explain to you what I plan to do about these. So, you can understand what these are I will explain to you first what shortcomings are and how they work. Next, I will explain what vulnerabilities are and how they work. Then, I will explain to you what my plan of action to ensure our network infrastructure is strong and make sure it stays that way. First, you are wondering what a shortcoming is. A shortcoming is the quality or state of being flawed. What this means is that there is kind of flaw occurring in the network whether it be one of our employees connecting their personal devices to our network to possible steal our information about the company. Same another example is people thinking the company's computers are their owns and using it to share photos on either Facebook, Twitter or Youtube. These are some examples of short comings that could affect the network. Next, your wondering what vulnerabilities is. Vulnerabilities is essentially being open to attack or damage. Now, your probably wondering what vulnerabilities we have on a network. For instance, we could have one of employees could save information not only on our servers but one a flash drive giving away are information to another company. Other examples might be hackers that work inside the company. Another example is when some one attempts to hack...
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...The Monk Fruit Rebecca Rasmussen DeVry University The Monk Fruit Siraitia grosvenorii is an herbaceous perennial vine of the Cucurbitaceous (bitter gourds) family should not be mistaken for purple mangosteen, The plant is cultivated for its pulp and made into an extract that is 300 times sweeter than cane or beet sugar with almost zero calories and has been used as a natural sweetener native to southern China and northern Thailand for thousands of years. In those regions is has been known to treat obesity, diabetes, heat stroke and throat infections. It’s also called “Buddha fruit “, “Longevity fruit” or “Luo han guo”. Monk fruit is not commonly used fresh because it doesn’t keep well and has offensive aromas and flavors; it’s generally dried which gives it another unsatisfactory taste and smell. Even though it’s natural nauseating taste and small native still sometimes eat it fresh or dried, the rind and pulp, steeped in hot water will make a soothing tea for sore throats Through modern processing techniques those unpleasant issues can now be removed Research suggests that monk fruit is high in antioxidants. It may have some positive effects on preventing cancer. It has also been shown to reduce the effects of Epstein-Barr virus. The carbohydrates from monk fruit are largely glucose and fructose. The US FDA (Food and Drug Administration has rated the monk fruit and its extracts as GRAS (Generally Regarded As Safe). Marketed...
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...Week 2 Ethical Dilemma Group A: An airline pilot goes for his regular medical checkup. The doctor discovers that he has developed a heart murmur. The pilot only has a month to go before he is eligible for retirement. The doctor knows this and wonders whether, under these unusual circumstances, she is justified in withholding the information about the pilot's condition. I think in this situation, with it being medical issues, the doctor should do their job and help the person with what they can do to control the heart murmur with medicine and whatever else there is to do. Is the doctor in the wrong for not following her procedure when it comes to issues such as these? As a nursing student, if I was in this position as a doctor and something happened to the patient before his retirement, I would have a reminder every day that I could’ve done something to prevent the patient from being more ill or death. I think she would be in the wrong because if something happened to him, she could be liable for not following through what she is supposed to do as a doctor. She shouldn’t think of his retirement, she should think of how to fix this heart murmur. While it may be unfortunate for him, he should also think of his health too. He is in the hands of a professional and if she does not do her job then he could be in big trouble. Now another issue I think that can play into this is her beliefs and morals. What if she believes the heat murmur is not that serious? Then what happens if she...
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