Comparing Leadership Models

Create a 10- to 12-slide PowerPoint® presentation to compare the Universal Model of Leadership in Mastering Leadership to one other leadership model. 

Include the following: 

• Include a graphic to compare and contrast those two models, noting similarities and differences.
• Develop your conclusions regarding the significance of those models in business. How might they apply?
• Include detailed speaker notes, supporting citations, and references.

Format your assignment consistent with APA guidelines.

Summary & 2 Page Argumentative Essay

1. Submit summary regarding the Bill of Rights. Briefly discuss the major or key provisions (rights afforded) in the Bill of Rights. 

 2.  Write a 2 – 3 page Argumentative Essay on one of the following two Topics.

A. Should Gun Control laws pursuant to the 2nd Amendment be more regulated or less regulated.

B. Does drug policies punishing possessors of "Crack" Cocaine v. "Powder" Cocaine violate the 8th Amendment and Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution .

Communications Challenges and Strategies

Assignment Steps 

Read Case 2: Global Shared Services, McDonald's Corporation located in Mastering Leadership.

Analyze in 1,050 to 1,225 words the communications and group behavioral issues that might arise in an organization hiring employees for their first job based on the discussion from your learning team. 

Include a strategy to address these challenges.

week 3 Mastering Leadership dq

1. What role does ego play in group and team communications?
2. What are the communications needs in organizations?
3. How can leaders manage productive and unproductive conflict?
4. How does moving from patriarchy to partnership affect group and team communications?
5. How do reactive dynamics affect group and team communications?
6. What strategies for skillful communications are discussed in this reading?

7. How do you handle conflict in your professional life? How do you respond when someone is challenging your viewpoint? What are some of your best practices for handling conflict?

8.  

   Please describe a situation in your experience, whereby your leader, the organization provided communication skills training and the impact on you and team?  What were the key messages conveyed?

Marketing makes life better

Turn in a one page report, single or double spaced, where half of the report tells of how “Marketing”

makes your life better. Then half a page on how Marketing may make your life worse. Be creative.

Example, fast food is cheap, quick, and tasty and will keep you alive. However, the pollution from the

millions of cars on the road may destroy your lungs.

WEEK 3 BSA 530 Week 3 Learning Team Software Engineering Environment

Create 2 to 4 PowerPoint® slides describing the software engineering environment your team recommends for the business solution defined in the previous week. A typical software engineering environment contains a central database and a set of software tools such as security monitoring or a software performance optimizer. Include descriptions of the following:
• The database, including the type and the size
• Software tools, including what is needed to fulfill the proposed IT business solution Submit your assignment using the Assignment Files tab. Supporting Material:Learning Team Instructions: IT Business Solution Proposal

BSA 530 Week 3 Individual Assignment Service-Oriented Integration Solution
Due to mergers and acquisitions, GTI finds themselves saddled with different enterprise applications that need to be integrated. They have asked you to recommend an integration solution. Create a high-level Visio® diagram of the integrated system. Save the finished Visio® diagram as an image file (.jpg, .gif, .png, .eps, .psd, .qti, .tiff) or PDF file and submit separately. Write a 1- to 2-page narrative describing the use of a middleware service-oriented integration architecture plan that clearly explains the diagram. Submit your assignment using the Assignment Files tab. SupportingMaterial:Individual Project Instructions: GTI Enterprise Application SolutionToolwire® Personal Student Desktop Access

HIS 206 Week 5 Final Project

For your Final Project, you may write a paper or create a PowerPoint presentation.

• If you choose to write a paper, it must be four to five pages in length, plus a title page and reference list, formatted according to APA style.
• If you choose to create a PowerPoint project, it must be 12 to 15 slides, plus a title slide and a reference slide, formatted according to APA style. Be sure to save your presentation as a PDF before submitting it to Waypoint.
  • Please note that whether you choose to write a paper or create a PowerPoint presentation, you must properly cite your sources according to APA style.

To complete this project

• Choose from one of the topics below and analyze its history from 1877 to the present.
• Select four specific events or developments that span the years covered by this course, based on their impact on the topic. Two of the events must be from before 1945 and two events must be from after 1945. You must assess how the events in relationship to the topic changed over time and explain how the changes occurred. Please refer back to your Week Three Assignment, consider your instructor’s comments and make any necessary revisions.
• Write an introduction with a thesis. Your thesis should summarize the main conclusions that you discovered while researching your topic and that you will support with a logical argument based on evidence (sources). Please refer back to your Week Three Assignment, consider your instructor’s comments, and make any necessary revisions to your thesis statement.
• Connect each of the events or developments you have chosen back to your main thesis. The information presented must be organized and in chronological order.
• You must use at least four sources in your paper other than the textbook, with at least two primary sources and at least two secondary sources. Please refer back to your Week Three Assignment, consider your instructor’s comments, and make any necessary revisions.

Choose one of the following topics:

• Native Americans/American Indians
• African Americans
• Immigrants
• Women

For example, a student writing a paper about the topic African Americans might choose the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Power Movement as two of their events. In that case, the paper would provide a description of the two movements. It would explain what each one revealed about the role of African Americans in broader American society in, respectively, the 1920s and the late 1960s, explain how and why the roles of African Americans in the 1920s differed from their roles in the late 1960s, and explain how events in the 1920s may have contributed to developments in the later decade.

Writing the Final Project
The Final Project

• Must include a separate title page with the following:
  • Title of project
  • Student’s name
  • Course name and number
  • Instructor’s name
  • Date submitted
• Must begin with an introductory paragraph that has a succinct thesis statement.
• Must address the topic of the paper with critical thought.
• Must end with a conclusion that reaffirms your thesis.
• Must use at least four scholarly resources other than the textbook, including a minimum of two primary sources. Your secondary sources must come from the Ashford University Library. For help locating primary sources refer to the HIS206: Primary Sources Research Guide
• Must document all sources, including images, in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
• Must include a separate reference page, formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

If you choose to create a PowerPoint presentation: You should use visual elements to contribute to your explanation of the topic. PowerPoint presentations should avoid plagiarism and have proper APA citations for all source material either in the note section at the bottom of each slide, or on the last slide of the show indicating sources for each slide. The final slide must be a correctly formatted reference list containing all of your sources. You may use non-scholarly sources for your images, but not for the text of the presentation. Make sure to pay attention to color and style. You will need to save your PowerPoint presentation as a PDF before you submit it to Waypoint.

Essay – Exploring Ancient Mysteries

Choose one (1) of the topics below and develop a three to four (3-4) paragraph essay (of at least 250-500 words) which adequately address the topic you have chosen.

Topic Choices

• There have been many theories regarding how the pyramids at Giza were constructed. Most experts agree that they were constructed as burial monuments for pharaohs, but “how” these ancient people constructed monuments of such great size without modern machinery is a mystery which is still being debated.      
• No one can say for certain what happened to the great urban Mayan civilization, but theories abound and include varied possible alternatives to explain the relatively abrupt and mysterious disappearance of the Mayan civilization.
• Tutankhamen died young, at approximately eighteen (18) years of age. However, his cause of death has been the subject of quite varied scholarly theories and conclusions. Did he die of an injury, of illness, of murder, or something else?.
• Minoan Crete was a major civilization in its time, but several theories have been advanced to explain its demise, including speculations associating it with mythical Atlantis. What were the causes of Minoan Civilization's decline?
• Great Zimbabwe is an enormous complex of structures in East Africa. Since the builders and occupants left no written records, several theories have developed as to the identity of its builders and the functions of the structures. Which theory makes the most sense?
• The monumental size and complexity of the Tomb of Shihuangdi is astounding, yet its location and construction details were to be kept secret. What was the emperor’s purpose for such an elaborate, secret burial place?
• Other topic choice recommended and approved by the professor and supported by the grading rubric.

Essay – Exploring Ancient Mysteries

Threat, Vulnerability, and Exploits Assessment Practices

There are multiple ways to bring threats and vulnerabilities to light. Common practices and lessons learned can help us explore for known or common threats, but how does an organization with a unique or highly unusual setup discover its vulnerabilities? Many organizations turn to ethical hackers.
Write a four to five (4-5) page paper in which you:

1. Describe common tools and techniques for identifying and analyzing threats and vulnerabilities.
2. Critique the practice of offering rewards for discovering vulnerabilities.
3. Explain the risks of challenging individuals to exploit vulnerabilities in your systems.
4. Give your opinion on the formation of ethical hackers.
5. Use at least two (2) quality resources in this assignment.Note:Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• 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 and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

Assignment 2: Journaling Exercise

Assignment 2: Journaling Exercise

This assignment prepares you for the final Microsoft PowerPoint assignment in M5: Assignment 1. Throughout this course, you have learned to apply a variety of critical-thinking techniques to explore and assess contemporary issues.

Often, you may get the best results using a multistep process that provides adequate time to think, write, research, and rewrite. For this assignment, you will review the article by Peter Singer titled “America’s Shame,” which you will also use in M5: Assignment 1.

Using the Argosy University online library resources, review the article by Peter Singer. •Singer, P. (2009). America’s shame. The Chronicle of Higher Education, 55(27), B6–B10. (EBSCO AN 37137370)http://search.proquest.com.libproxy.edmc.edu/docview/ 214643086?accountid=34899

Complete the following: •Record and describe six of your initial impressions of the article in a journal format. •Critically analyze each of these impressions and determine if they are value based, or fact based. Record these as part of your journal notes. Do note that you will use these points for M5: Assignment 1. •Support your statements with examples and appropriate scholarly references.

You can use the Cornell Note-taking tools to complete this assignment. This tool has been widely used to systematically format and organize notes. Review this document to see how it works.

Download and review the blank Cornell Notes Template.

Write a 600–800-word paper in Word format. You may write your paper in standard essay format or by completing the Cornell Notes Template. Apply APA standards to citation of sources. Use the following file naming convention: LastnameFirstInitial_M4_A2.doc.

http://www.chronicle.com/article/americas-shame/30309