Assignment 2: Required Assignment—Balancing Company Interests vs. the Public Interest

Select a topic and work on the relevant tasks for this assignment.

Topic A:

The United States has still not recovered from the  recent wave of  mortgage defaults and foreclosures. Experts predict that  the housing  market will take years to recover in some locations due to a  variety of  factors. There are numerous publications that detail how the  problem  developed. Many of the reasons for the collapse of the housing  market  have ethical implications.

Tasks:

• Using the Argosy University online library resources or the Internet, research the financial collapse of the housing market.
• Create a 10- to 12-page report discussing your findings. Explore the evidence from an ethical point of view.

Topic B:

Tasks:

• Select three or four essays from your textbook relating to your  area  of experience and expertise (for example, finance, accounting, or   technology).
• Create a 10- to 12-page report critiquing your chosen readings.        
  • Include a literature review of your chosen essays, starting with a synopsis of the major ideas and themes in each essay.
• Conduct an in-depth critique of the essays by comparing and contrasting the essential points discussed in each work.
• Include a reflective assessment of what lessons one can learn from   the points brought up in the essays and how they can effectively be   implemented in a typical business setting.

The following is a checklist that you can use in analyzing or critiquing your chosen essays:

Each piece of writing is different; but, in most cases,  the majority  of these questions are applicable. Use these questions as a  point of  reference for your critique. You may also cover other relevant  aspects  of an essay not addressed by the critique question list below:

• Is the essay's title a clear depiction of its content? Why or why not?
• Is the author qualified to write about the subject matter?
• What is the purpose of the essay? Is it stated clearly?
• Identify the problem statement in the essay. Does the introduction and conclusion focus clearly on the problem statement?
• Is the statement of facts (beyond commonly known facts) supported by appropriate citations in the text and/or references?
• Which ideas in the essay need further development?
• What ideas in the essay are practical enough to be implemented in a   business setting and which ideas are rather impractical? Why?
• Does the essay contain discursive or irrelevant sections? If yes, what are they?
• Is the work biased in any way? Examine the author's biases.
• Is there an idea that is common to all the essays?
• How is the essay different from the other essay(s) you are also critiquing?

Complete the tasks pertaining to the chosen topic.

Economics

Evaluate the following statements using graphical analysis. Provide a brief narrative explanation of your graph to support your evaluation. Make sure the axes and curves in your graphs are properly labeled. 

a. True or false, “When demand for home heating oil increases, a shortage of heating oil will occur.” 

b. True or false, “A decrease in the supply of random access memory (RAM) chips for personal computers causes a shortage of RAM chips.”

 Q5: Ch 3 (10%) Appalachian Coal Mining believes that it can increase labor productivity and, therefore, net revenue by reducing air pollution in its mines. It estimates that the marginal cost function for reducing pollution by installing additional capital equipment is MC= 70P, where P represents a reduction of one unit of pollution in the mines. It also feels that for every unit of pollution reduction the marginal increase in revenue (MR) is MR= 1,200 −10P. How much pollution reduction should Appalachian Coal Mining undertake?

Short Answer About The Documentary "Money As Debt"

Watch the documentary "Money as Debt" and briefly explain the historical origin of the "fractional banking." 

What have you learned from this movie regarding how money is generated our economic system? 

Link to Full Transcript: https://singjupost.com/full-transcript-money-as-debt-full-length-documentary/

Constitution Law

1. examine the arguments for and against the belief that there is an independent right to privacy under the U.S. Constitution.

250 words

ASSIGNMENT: Did Jim And Laura Buy A Car?

Jim and Laura Buyer visit the local car dealership because they are interested in buying a new car. The car they currently have is aging and is starting to have mechanical problems. Jim and Laura would share the new car, and use it to go back and forth to work and school. Before going to the dealership, Jim and Laura decide that they can only afford $400.00 a month in car payments. Once at the car dealership, Jim and Laura meet Stan Salesman. Stan shows them several vehicles and Jim and Laura test-drive several of the cars. Jim and Laura particularly like the blue 4-door sedan.  Therefore, they agree to give Stan Salesman a $100.00 deposit to hold the car for a day. Stan Salesman does not give them the receipt but guarantees that the $100.00 is refundable. No documents were signed. The next day, Stan Salesman calls Jim and Laura to ask them when they would like to take delivery of the car. Jim and Laura, on the way home from the dealership, decided that they were not going to buy the car because they did not want to spend that money each month. Therefore, Jim and Laura tell Stan salesman that they have decided not to buy the car and request their $100.00 deposit back. Stan insists that the $100.00 was a deposit on the car and was meant to be part of the contract to buy the car. Stan is very persistent and insistent that Jim and Laura have contracted to buy the car; therefore, the $100.00 will be applied to the purchase price of the car. Jim and Laura are shocked and angry as not only do they not want to spend the money, but now feel as though they are being duped by Stan Salesman. Jim and Laura have an appointment to see a lawyer in a few days, but know you are a student taking a business law class and come to you for advice. They are very frazzled, and understandably upset that they may have just purchased a car. Since you have been taking business law, you have read and understand the elements of a contract and the defenses to a contract. Therefore, although you are not a lawyer, you provide some basic advice from what you've learned in your business law class. In three to five (3-5) pages, advise Jim and Laura based on the above facts as presented, the material provided in the text, and material covered in the lecture. In your paper, be sure to address the following: Define the elements of a legal contract using examples from the scenario where applicable. Decide whether or not there was a contract for the purchase of the automobile. Identify the facts from the scenario which support your decision on whether or not a contract exists for the purchase of the automobile. Use at least two (2) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as quality academic resources. Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements: Typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides. Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the professor's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length. Include a reference page. Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length. Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using the following rubric. Click here for the grading rubric.

Healthcare Organization Departments, Groups, And Teams

Suppose a local, private hospital established a goal of reducing its carbon footprint by 25 percent in three years. As a healthcare administrator at the facility, you are asked to help create a new Cut Carbon committee. Draft a statement of the purpose for the committee, describe how membership to the committee would be determined, who would be accountable for the progress of the committee, and to whom the committee would report.

Be sure to support your statements with logic and argument, citing any sources referenced.

plagiarism free (less than 15%)

in-text citation

2 pages

4 references

APA style

Evaluating And Managing Risk

Research a healthcare organization within Saudi Arabia in which you are currently employed or choose one with which you are familiar.

Respond to the following questions: (NGHA or kfshrc – King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre)

• What specific steps does the chosen healthcare organization take to identify risk, manage risk, reduce risk, or prevent risk?
• Do they employ a dedicated risk manager? If so, what are the key responsibilities of that person (training staff, onboarding, auditing, etc.)?
• If they do not have a specific risk manager, who is responsible for managing risk?
• How do they manage risk for both the employees and the patients?
• Are there separate programs or do they overlap?
• Lastly, in your opinion, are they doing enough to address risk?

Your paper should meet the following structural requirements:

• The paper should be 4 pages in length, not including the cover sheet and reference page.
• Format the paper according to APA style.
• Provide support for your statements with in-text citations from a minimum of six scholarly articles.

Design To Analyze Research Information For Company Amazon

Human resources class, I need a 2-3 page paper on how I would prepare to design and analyze research information for company AMAZON! paper should explain the process or design I intend to use to gather and analyze the research information. Please make professional quality work, in APA format with apa references. 

 Remember that the subject of your paper is human resource practices, policies, and functions, not the company whose practices you are studying. Concentrate on the employee-related developmental resource practices, policies, and functions, not the mission, strategic plans, and performance of the company.  

Issues In Communication

Effective communication throughout a workplace is an essential ingredient to align people’s efforts towards achieving goals. Yet it seems that ‘communication problems’ are continually mentioned as one of the main difficulties for most organisations. 

Your boss, the CEO of ABC Company, has asked you to investigate the issues associated with each of the following four workplace communication strategies: 

1. Social media to improve internal and external communication 

Convention Sales And Services

The International Association of Conference Centers (IACC), North America, is an organization of member conference centers that have met the "Universal Criteria" for conference centers worldwide.

The IACC mission is "to assist members in providing the most productive meeting facilities around the world. These facilities represent the highest-quality venues available to meeting professionals on a global basis" ("About IACC: Our Mission," 2008, par.)

Read through the details of the case study and then write an essay responding to the prompt taken from the case study, copied below.

Your mission for this case study is to select, with a solid rationale, the best conference center for the meeting described. This meeting is entirely fictional; it is based on several meetings held by several corporations. The meeting, though, presents a scenario that could fit at any one of the three conference centers described in this case study. Differences between the facilities, though, will have an impact on the meeting (as well as the planning decisions made). After careful study of the meeting requirements, and reflection about the venues and the needs and desired by the client, you should be able to select one of the properties and you should be able to successfully defend that selection. <o:p>

CaseStudy II-ConferenceCenters.doc