Darkness Too Visible
Contemporary fiction for teens is rife with explicit abuse, violence and depravity; why is this considered a good idea?
GURDON, MEGHAN COX. The Wall Street Journal (Eastern Edition) Volume: 257 Issue 129 (2011)
Amy Freeman, a 46-year-old mother of three, stood recently in the young-adult section of her local Barnes & Noble, in Bethesda, Md., feeling thwarted and disheartened.
She had popped into the bookstore to pick up a welcome-home gift for her 13-year-old, who had been away. Hundreds of lurid and dramatic covers stood on the racks before her, and there was, she felt, "nothing, not a thing, that I could imagine giving my daughter. It was all vampires and suicide and self-mutilation, this dark, dark stuff." She left the store empty-handed.
How dark is contemporary fiction for teens? Darker than when you were a child, my dear: So dark that kidnapping and pederasty and incest and brutal beatings are now just part of the run of things in novels directed, broadly speaking, at children from the ages of 12 to 18.
Pathologies that went undescribed in print 40 years ago, that were still only sparingly outlined a generation ago, are now spelled out in stomach-clenching detail. Profanity that would get a song or movie branded with a parental warning is, in young-adult novels, so commonplace that most reviewers do not even remark upon it.
If books show us the world, teen fiction can be like a hall of fun-house mirrors, constantly reflecting back hideously distorted portrayals of what life is. There are of course exceptions, but a careless young reader -- or one who seeks out depravity -- will find himself surrounded by images not of joy or beauty but of damage, brutality and losses of the most horrendous kinds.
Now, whether you care if adolescents spend their time immersed in ugliness probably depends on your philosophical outlook. Reading about homicide doesn't turn a man into a murderer; reading about cheating on exams won't make a kid break the honor code. But the calculus that many parents make is less crude than that: It has to do with a child's happiness, moral development and tenderness of heart. Entertainment does not merely gratify taste, after all, but creates it.
If you think it matters what is inside a young person's mind, surely it is of consequence what he reads. This is an old dialectic -- purity vs. despoliation, virtue vs. smut -- but for families with teenagers, it is also everlastingly new. Adolescence is brief; it comes to each of us only once, so whether the debate has raged for eons doesn't, on a personal level, really signify.
As it happens, 40 years ago, no one had to contend with young-adult literature because there was no such thing. There was simply literature, some of it accessible to young readers and some not. As elsewhere in American life, the 1960s changed everything. In 1967, S.E. Hinton published "The Outsiders," a raw and striking novel that dealt directly with class tensions, family dysfu.
The CultureBooksdu r ing t he f ir s t se a son of her.docxtodd241
The Culture
Books
du r ing t he f ir s t se a son of her cr i t i-
cally acclaimed HBO series, Girls, Lena
Dunham’s character Hannah Horvath,
high on opium, tells her parents, “I don’t
want to freak you out, but I think that I
may be the voice of my generation—or
at least a voice of a generation.” The line
made waves as people conflated the fic-
tional character with her creator, perhaps
not wrongly. How dare a young woman
make such a bold claim? All too often our
culture tells young women their voices
don’t matter or deserve to be heard.
In her debut essay collection, Not That
Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You
What She’s “Learned,” Dunham demon-
strates her 28-year-old voice’s admirable
range. While some celebrity essay col-
lections and memoirs are lackluster,
even embarrassing to read, Not That Kind
of Girl suffers few missteps. Dunham’s
cinematic flair translates to the page
with vigor and clarity—not unlike the
late Nora Ephron, to whom she is often
compared and to whom the book is
dedicated (along with Dunham’s family
and her boyfriend Jack Antonoff of the
indie-rock band fun.). Instead of tossing
pithy, pseudo-motivational observations
at the reader, Dunham has crafted warm,
intelligent writing that is both deeply
personal and engaging, clustered in five
topical sections: “Love & Sex,” “Body,”
“Friendship,” “Work” and “Big Picture.”
Each of the 29 pieces—essays mixed
with lists, like “18 Unlikely Things I’ve
Said Flirtatiously”—is confident and
assured, sidestepping self-deprecation
and instead offering intense self-
examination. Dunham’s self-awareness
can almost overwhelm with truthiness,
as in “Barry,” her glancing, tragicomic
account of being raped by a “mustachioed
campus Republican” who, among other
nonconsensual acts, removes his condom
without her permission or knowledge.
“A sexual encounter that no one can
classify properly” sounds precisely like
a voice of her generation, one struggling
to come to terms with rape culture.
(And yet, “I feel like there are fifty ways
it’s my fault . . . But I also know that at no
moment did I consent to being handled
that way” sounds like a voice of every
generation of women.)
Unlike Hannah Horvath, Dunham in
her self-awareness does not come across
as self-obsessed. When she is absurd,
she acknowledges that absurdity. “13
Things I’ve Learned Are Not Okay to
Say to Friends” is among the most drolly
enlightened of the lists, made up of osten-
sible real-life Dunham quotes like “No,
please don’t apologize. If I had your moth-
er I’d be a nightmare, too” and “There’s
nothing about you in my book.”
She reveals her vulnerabilities in
a deadpan manner, showing us how she
loves and has been loved, how she has
wronged and been wronged. But it’s not
all laughing around the hard stuff. At
the end of “Barry” comes a teary phone
call with Antonoff, in which she tells
him what happened with the hipster
rapist; here the narrative tur.
Hours, A. (2014). Reading Fairy Tales and Playing A Way of Treati.docxsimonithomas47935
Hours, A. (2014). Reading Fairy Tales and Playing: A Way of Treating Abused Children. Journal Of Infant, Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy, 13(2), 122. doi:10.1080/15289168.2014.905337
Marshall, E. (2009). Girlhood, Sexual Violence, and Agency in Francesca Lia Block's "Wolf". Children's Literature In Education, 40(3), 217-234.
Sanyal, N., & Dasgupta, M. (2017). Fairy tales: The Emotional Processors of Childhood Conflicts in Dynamic Interpretative Lens. SIS Journal Of Projective Psychology & Mental Health, 24(1), 39-47.
Basile, G. (2012, May 24). Sun, Moon, and Talia. Enchanted Conversation, 1-4.
Grimm, J., & Grimm, W. (1975). Briar Rose: The Sleeping Beauty. London: Pelham.
.
How are authentication and authorization alike and how are the.docxsimonithomas47935
How are authentication and authorization alike and how are they different? What is the relationship, if any, between the two?
The paper should be 2 pages in length. Need to provide a minimum of two references and need to use APA format in the reference section and no playgarism
.
The CultureBooksdu r ing t he f ir s t se a son of her.docxtodd241
The Culture
Books
du r ing t he f ir s t se a son of her cr i t i-
cally acclaimed HBO series, Girls, Lena
Dunham’s character Hannah Horvath,
high on opium, tells her parents, “I don’t
want to freak you out, but I think that I
may be the voice of my generation—or
at least a voice of a generation.” The line
made waves as people conflated the fic-
tional character with her creator, perhaps
not wrongly. How dare a young woman
make such a bold claim? All too often our
culture tells young women their voices
don’t matter or deserve to be heard.
In her debut essay collection, Not That
Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You
What She’s “Learned,” Dunham demon-
strates her 28-year-old voice’s admirable
range. While some celebrity essay col-
lections and memoirs are lackluster,
even embarrassing to read, Not That Kind
of Girl suffers few missteps. Dunham’s
cinematic flair translates to the page
with vigor and clarity—not unlike the
late Nora Ephron, to whom she is often
compared and to whom the book is
dedicated (along with Dunham’s family
and her boyfriend Jack Antonoff of the
indie-rock band fun.). Instead of tossing
pithy, pseudo-motivational observations
at the reader, Dunham has crafted warm,
intelligent writing that is both deeply
personal and engaging, clustered in five
topical sections: “Love & Sex,” “Body,”
“Friendship,” “Work” and “Big Picture.”
Each of the 29 pieces—essays mixed
with lists, like “18 Unlikely Things I’ve
Said Flirtatiously”—is confident and
assured, sidestepping self-deprecation
and instead offering intense self-
examination. Dunham’s self-awareness
can almost overwhelm with truthiness,
as in “Barry,” her glancing, tragicomic
account of being raped by a “mustachioed
campus Republican” who, among other
nonconsensual acts, removes his condom
without her permission or knowledge.
“A sexual encounter that no one can
classify properly” sounds precisely like
a voice of her generation, one struggling
to come to terms with rape culture.
(And yet, “I feel like there are fifty ways
it’s my fault . . . But I also know that at no
moment did I consent to being handled
that way” sounds like a voice of every
generation of women.)
Unlike Hannah Horvath, Dunham in
her self-awareness does not come across
as self-obsessed. When she is absurd,
she acknowledges that absurdity. “13
Things I’ve Learned Are Not Okay to
Say to Friends” is among the most drolly
enlightened of the lists, made up of osten-
sible real-life Dunham quotes like “No,
please don’t apologize. If I had your moth-
er I’d be a nightmare, too” and “There’s
nothing about you in my book.”
She reveals her vulnerabilities in
a deadpan manner, showing us how she
loves and has been loved, how she has
wronged and been wronged. But it’s not
all laughing around the hard stuff. At
the end of “Barry” comes a teary phone
call with Antonoff, in which she tells
him what happened with the hipster
rapist; here the narrative tur.
Hours, A. (2014). Reading Fairy Tales and Playing A Way of Treati.docxsimonithomas47935
Hours, A. (2014). Reading Fairy Tales and Playing: A Way of Treating Abused Children. Journal Of Infant, Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy, 13(2), 122. doi:10.1080/15289168.2014.905337
Marshall, E. (2009). Girlhood, Sexual Violence, and Agency in Francesca Lia Block's "Wolf". Children's Literature In Education, 40(3), 217-234.
Sanyal, N., & Dasgupta, M. (2017). Fairy tales: The Emotional Processors of Childhood Conflicts in Dynamic Interpretative Lens. SIS Journal Of Projective Psychology & Mental Health, 24(1), 39-47.
Basile, G. (2012, May 24). Sun, Moon, and Talia. Enchanted Conversation, 1-4.
Grimm, J., & Grimm, W. (1975). Briar Rose: The Sleeping Beauty. London: Pelham.
.
How are authentication and authorization alike and how are the.docxsimonithomas47935
How are authentication and authorization alike and how are they different? What is the relationship, if any, between the two?
The paper should be 2 pages in length. Need to provide a minimum of two references and need to use APA format in the reference section and no playgarism
.
How are self-esteem and self-concept different What is the or.docxsimonithomas47935
How are self-esteem and self-concept different? What is the origin of these characteristics? What are the characteristics of children and adults with low self-esteem?
Consider Erik Erikson’s theory. Why is it important for children in middle childhood to learn to do something and to do something well?
Suzy wants to follow the moral code established by her parents and teacher. She wants them to view her as obedient, cooperative, and productive. According to Kohlberg Suzy is functioning at the __________ stage of moral development.
How does the aggression of girls and boys differ? Why is it important for a child to learn self-regulation?
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How are morality and religion similar and how are they different.docxsimonithomas47935
How are morality and religion similar and how are they different?
Discuss how your religious beliefs, or lack thereof, have shaped your own morality.
What is natural law theory? How does it compare to religion?
What criteria did Thoreau argue must exist before engaging in civil disobedience?
.
How are financial statements used to evaluate business activities.docxsimonithomas47935
How are financial statements used to evaluate business activities?
What is managerial accounting and how does it help businesses create a competitive advantage
What skills must be developed to evaluate company performance?
How are investment and operations alternatives evaluated and selected?
2pages
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How are Japanese and Chinese Americans similar How are they differe.docxsimonithomas47935
How are Japanese and Chinese Americans similar? How are they different? After exploring your course material and outside sources, please share the differences and similarities on such topics as immigration patterns, family life, economic picture, etc. Be sure to cite your sources properly. At a minimum, students should include summarized (no direct quotes) information from the course text. Do not forget to include page numbers in your in-text citations!
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Hot Spot PolicingPlace can be an important aspect of crime and.docxsimonithomas47935
Hot Spot Policing
"Place" can be an important aspect of crime and crime prevention. Behaviors occur across space and time. In the 1990's hot spot policing became a very popular topic.
In this paper, you need to address the following:
Define the concept of "Hot Spot" from the context of law enforcement,
Define the concept of "Hot Product" from the context of law enforcement,
Describe VIVA and CRAVE (as they relate to hot spots and hot products),
Identify a few products or objects that might be prime targets for crime, and
Indicate how these products or objects fit the ideas of VIVA and CRAVED.
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HOSP3075 Brand Analysis Paper 1This is the first of three assignme.docxsimonithomas47935
HOSP3075 Brand Analysis Paper 1
This is the first of three assignments you will complete by studying the hotel brand you have chosen. Please organize your paper using the topic headings below. You must use at least four sources to help you (including the company website). Use MLA format, and remember to cite your sources within the paper. Please double space.
Brand Overview and History (1/2 to 1 page)
Provide a brief history of the brand, with a timeline. Explain the geographic locations of the brand’s hotel properties, for example – “primarily in the Southwestern United States”, or “in the US, Canada, and Europe”. What is this brand’s parent company (if there is one)? What are the other brands in the company portfolio, and how does the brand you selected fit in?
Target Markets (1 to 2 pages)
Identify and describe two of the brand’s target markets.
In your description of each market, describe its geographic, demographic, psychographic, and/or behavioral characteristics. For example your brand might pursue a Leisure Transient Market that has these characteristics: millennial (demographic - life cycle), strivers (psychographic - lifestyle), from the USA (geographic - state), seeks free WIFI (behavioral – benefits sought).
Brand Position (1/2 to 1 page)
Describe the position of your brand. Start by making a clear, one or two-sentence positioning statement. Then provide some details, including any points-of-parity or points-of difference. Also, write a “brand mantra” for your brand. (See pages 65-67.)
Brand Elements (1 to 2 pages)
1. Identify and describe the brand elements (also known as brand identities). Elements include the brand name, URL, logo, symbols, characters, spokespersons, slogans, jingles, signage, and more.
2. Choose one of the brand elements, and analyze it based on the “criteria for choosing brand elements” as described in Chapter 4.
Conclusion (1/2 page)
Based on what you have learned about this brand so far, what is your opinion about its future?
Works Cited
Please use MLA format for your Works Cited page.
Research Proposal Part-2
Course Title and Code
Research Methods, C39RE
Course Lecturer
Dr. Esinath Ndiweni
Title of Research Proposal
Occupational Stress Management: Stress, Burnout and Coping among Nurses operating at Emergency Departments in Abu Dhabi
Student Name
Jesvin Joseph Augustine
HWID
H00259465
Program title:
B.A. Business and Finance
Word Count:
1854
Table of Contents
Introduction……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..3
· Research Aim and Objectives……………………………………………………………………………………………….3
Research Strategy…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….3
· Research Philosophy…………………………………………………………………………………………………………….3
· Research Approach………………………………………………………………………………………………………………3
Data Collection Methods………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….4
· Semi-structured Interviews…………………………………………………………………………………………………..4
· Web-based Survey Questionnaires……………………………………………………………………………………….5.
Hou, J., Li, Y., Yu, J. & Shi, W. (2020). A Survey on Digital Fo.docxsimonithomas47935
Hou, J., Li, Y., Yu, J. & Shi, W. (2020). A Survey on Digital Forensics in Internet of Things IEEE Internet of Things Journal, I(1),1-15,.
Chen, J. & Zhu, Q. (2019). Interdependent Strategic Security Risk Management With Bounded Rationality in the Internet of Things. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 14(11), 2958-2971.
Borek, A. (2014). Total Information Risk Management: Maximizing the Value of Data and Information Assets (Vol. First edition). Amsterdam: Morgan Kaufmann
The readings this week discusses broad context of risk and investigative forensics. Part of risk management is to understand when things go wrong, we need to be able to investigate and report our findings to management. Using this research, or other research you have uncovered discuss in detail how risk and investigate techniques could work to help the organization. ERM helps to protect an organization before an attack, where as forensics investigate technique will help us after an attack - so lets discus both this week.
Please make your initial post and two response posts substantive. A substantive post will do at least two of the following:
Ask an interesting, thoughtful question pertaining to the topic
Answer a question (in detail) posted by another student or the instructor
Provide extensive additional information on the topic
Explain, define, or analyze the topic in detail
Share an applicable personal experience
Provide an outside source that applies to the topic, along with additional information about the topic or the source (please cite properly in APA 7)
Make an argument concerning the topic.
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How (Not) to be Secular by James K.A. SmithSecular (1)—the ea.docxsimonithomas47935
How (Not) to be Secular? by James K.A. Smith
Secular (1)—the earthly plane of domestic life as distinguished from the sacred.
Secular (2)—areligious, neutral, unbiased, “objective”
Secular (3)—a world in which it is possible to imagine not believing in God; religious belief is no longer axiomatic.
Cross-pressured—The simultaneous pressure of various spiritual options or the feeling of being caught between an echo of transcendence and the drive toward immanentization.
Immanent frame—A constructed social space that frames our lives entirely within a natural order, an order “whose working could be systematically understood and explained in its own term, leaving open the question whether this whole order had a deeper significance....” (Taylor, A Secular Age, p. 15)
Exclusive humanism—A worldview that is able to account for meaning and significance without any appeal to the divine or transcendence.
Self-transcendence—a turning of life toward something beyond ordinary human flourishing. (Taylor, p. 44)
Fullness—The human impulsion to find significance, meaning, value—even within an entirely immanent frame.
Spin—A construal of life in an immanent frame that does not recognize itself as construal. Does not grant plausibility to the alternative,
Take—A construal of life in an immanent frame that is open to appreciating the viability of other takes.
Modern Moral Order (MMO)—Understanding of morality that focuses on the organization of society for mutual benefit rather than obligation to higher or eternal norms.
Faith
Faith Development Theory and a Look at Faith Today
Definitions of Faith
Faith (in general) = one’s ultimate concern (Paul Tillich)
Religious Faith = a relationship with God which engages a person’s total personhood; (Fischer and Hart reading); personal knowledge of God (Richard McBrien)
Faith is not primarily belief in ideas but in God
Difference between faith and “the faith”—the latter usually refers to a collection of “beliefs”
Misunderstandings of the Meaning of Faith
1. Having faith is believing things, “assenting to truths”—the rationalist misunderstanding
2. Having faith is behaving morally—the moralist misunderstanding
3. Having faith is feeling something —the emotionalist misunderstanding
These are all aspects of faith but faith cannot be reduced to any one of these.
Key Points about Faith
1. “Faith seeks understanding and is a friend of reason.” (The United States Catholic Catechism for Adults) In the words of Vatican I, faith is “consonant with reason.” Faith and reason are compatible. Faith is not “blind faith.”
2. Although faith has a content (beliefs), what Christians believe in are not the formulas of faith but in the realities they express.
3. Faith is a commitment of the whole person, not just the intellect of the person.
4. Faith is both personal and communal.
Faith Development Theory
Fowler’s Stages of Faith
Similar to Lawrence Kohlberg’s Stages of Moral Development
Overview of the Stages.
Hopefully, you enjoyed this class on Digital Media and Society.Q.docxsimonithomas47935
Hopefully, you enjoyed this class on Digital Media and Society.
Question #1:
Has your impression of digital media and society changed after taking this class? How? What in your opinion is the future of digital media and the Internet?
Topic 2: One Takeaway
There are no readings assigned this week. Reflect on the weekly Read & Watch content you have been exposed to throughout the semester to craft your response.
Discussion:
There are many interesting concepts, ideas, and theories presented in this class. We talked Curly Fries, Filter Bubbles, Global Collaboration, Digital Divide, Privacy, Big Data...
Question #1:
What is the most important thing you have learned from this class? What is your Number One Takeaway?
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(1) one
childhood experience from the list provided below. This list has been generated from the Australian Institute of health and Welfare (2020) Australia’s Children report.
Asthma in children aged 5-14
Type 1 diabetes in children aged 0-14
Brain cancer in children up to 14 years
Anxiety disorders in children aged 5-14
Dental decay in children over 12
Overweight/Obesity in children 5-14
School aged child living with an intellectual disability
Children experiencing homelessness
Low birthweight babies
Children who are exposed to or a victim of family violence
After researching the prevalence of your chosen childhood experience, develop a brief hypothetical case study (200 words or so) about a child and their family highlighting the health care setting in which you (the nurse) meet the family;
the case study helps to guide your essay and provide context for your reader.
To explore the impact of your chosen childhood experience on the child and their family in the case study you have developed, read widely and address the following prompts informed by
contemporary and relevant
developmental, nursing and family care theory:
Outline the prevalence in Australia of the childhood experience chosen and highlight the short term, medium term and potential long term health outcomes/impact on the child
Discuss the impact (protective or otherwise) of family, culture and environment on the identified health outcomes for children identified from prompt 1
Explore the impact of the chosen childhood experience on the learning and development of the child in the case study, in light of their age/stage of development
When you (the nurse) meet the family (as outlined in your case study) how might you engage therapeutically with the child and family? Outline age/development appropriate communication strategies that you could adopt to support child/family flourishing
Based on the chosen childhood experience selected and the case study specifics, provide two priority nursing actions/interventions with rationales, that would advocate for positive child/family health outcomes
This essay will be developed with an introduction, body and conclusion, with correct grammar and spelling and acknowledging sources using APA 7th Edition referencing style. Word count of 2000 words +/-10% will be maintained; inclusive of intext references, excluding reference list.
Rubric
Assessment 3: Case study and literature review
Assessment 3: Case study and literature reviewCriteriaRatingsPtsThis criterion is linked to a learning outcome1.Case study developed is clear, informative and feasible
5
PtsExceeds expectationsVery well considered case study. The child/family circumstances are realistic and comprehensively presented in light of the chosen childhood experience; the context of the family and nurse interaction is clearly defined.4
PtsMeets ExpectationsWell considered case study. The child/family circumstances are realistic and thoroughly present.
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honesty, hard work, caring, excellence
HIS 1110 Dr. G. J. Giddings
ANALYSIS PAPER: GREAT MIGRATION HISTORY AS TACTIC
4 pages; 4 “works cited”/reference sources (at least 1 primary source)
Related Course Outcome: Identify and analyze connections between individual events and national
historic events.
OPTIONS I
Analysis Paper: Migration As Tactic/
Solution
(Long Interviews as main resource) (4 pages)
Millions of African Americans escaped or ran away from their homes in the South to seek refuge
in the North. Explore your individual interviewees’ descriptions of problems (lack of opportunities, racial
terrorism, personal reasons, etc.) they faced in the South or wherever, and how they attempted to
escape these problems by choosing migration as a tactic or solution. Explore how the individual
migration stories connect to or compare with the general Great Migration “push” and “pull” factors,
which motivated so many African Americans to leave the South. To help draw these connections,
identify and compare the “pull” and “push” factors of the Great Migration as well as other related
course themes such as: leadership tactics, African America socio-economic and culture status/state,
protest; demographic shifts/changes, etc.
OPTIONS II
Analysis Paper: Migration As Tactic/
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hoose one of the four following visuals:
Image courtesy of: Nike® 2013 advertisement
Image courtesy of: Parents magazine June 2011
Image courtesy of: Harley Davidson® advertisement
Image courtesy of: Bank of America advertisement
In a
2-3-page APA formatted paper with an additional reference page
(
template here
), analyze the strategic use of perceptual visual communication:
Analyze how specific semiotic visuals in your chosen image affect different cultural perceptions (age, ethnicity, social group, etc.).
Describe how each culture’s cognitive memories and experiences may affect how they perceive this image.
Explain why cultural perception is important to consider when working with international or global cultures.
Discuss why it is important to consider cultural perception when interacting with different age cultures and different social groupings.
Support the items above by including relevant quotes and paraphrases from academic/scholarly sources.
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Homework
Choose a site used by the public such as a supermarket, doctor's office, library, post office, or department store and observe one or more key processes, the associated suppliers, inputs, process steps, outputs, customers, the measurement systems, and how the measurements are used to manage and improve the process. Submit a Word document in which you include the following:
Company visited.
Process observed.
SIPOC elements.
Process measurements.
Process management systems used.
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Homework 2: Please answer the following questions in small paragraphs:
• What were the conditions in Europe that led to the conquest of America?
• What effects did the conquest had on the native peoples of America, as well as, in the Europeans?
• What were the motives, mindset, and social backgrounds of the Spanish conquistadors?
• What factors explain the relative ease with which a small number of Spaniards conquered great and populous indigenous empires?
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Course Resource Booklet (Final Submission Due)
Child Welfare Advocates have many resources available to them to assist those in need. The key is to know what resources are available. This assignment will require students to create resources on local and child welfare social services and present in a booklet format. This will be an ongoing course project as you learn about new resources in each module. As you continue with your classes, you may even choose to add additional resources.
Timeline
Module 1
— Course Resource Project assigned
Module 2
— Submit for instructor feedback – non-graded.
Students will submit the title page, introduction and one agency description in Module 2 for purposes of non-graded feedback.
Module 5
— Final Course Resource project due
Directions
Students will create a booklet that compiles information for twelve different agencies.
The twelve agencies must represent the following categories of general services. No category can be eliminated.
Adult Assistance — include one agency that specializes in helping the homeless
Child Development — include one agency that specializes in helping those in poverty
Family Support Services — include one resource on family violence
Health — include one agency that specializes in helping those with addiction
Legal — include the Guardian Ad Litem program
Mental Health
Each category should include:
A maximum of two agency resources for each category.
No more than one state agency may be included in each category.
Do not use the same agency more than once.
Agencies should be alphabetized by category.
Students should work on the Course Resource Booklet each module so they have a cumulative booklet ready for submission. Do not wait until the last minute.
Each local agency resource should include the following information. Use headings for components, as needed.
(See sample page attached.)
Name of Agency
Agency address (Domestic Violence shelters may use outreach center)
Website URL
Hours of Operation
Agency Description of 150 to 175 words
. This part of the resource booklet must be written and paraphrased in paragraph format and must include the following information:
(1.5 spacing for submission to instructor)
Mission/Purpose of the resource
Populations Served
Specific Type of Services
Eligibility Requirements
One strength and one limitation of the agency or its services
The final booklet should include:
A Title Page
Table of Contents
An introduction with a statement of purpose and definition of child welfare
Use paragraph form for agency description, strength and limitations of resource
Agency information should be alphabetized and spaced at 1.5
Use Times New Roman, size 12 font
Include page numbers
Be visually appealing and professional in appearance
Submit your document to Turnitin®. Turnitin® will tell you if you have copied text from o.
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Homeless: The Motel Kids of Orange County
Write a 1-2 page paper double spaced using 12 point Calibri/Times New Roman font.
Your paper should be written using the “conflict” and “symbolic interactionism” perspective. 1) What was the premise of the video? 2) Give two examples of how the children understood the situation they are in. 3) Why or why not do you see hope for the children. 4) How did the video make you feel?
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Home work 8
Date 04/22/2020
1. what are the different between waterboards.ca.gov and water.ca.gov government agencies?
Go to website waterboards.ca.gov and water .ca.gov government
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HistoryPart1: No minimum wordsDiscussion 1: The Rise of Communism and Fascism
Compare and contrast the two types of authoritarian governments that arose after 1917, that is, communism and fascism. What were the origins of these governments, their accomplishments, and their failures? What accounts for the fact that the masses mobilized to support these movements? Elaborate.Discussion 2: Nationalism and the Treaty of Versailles
What were reasons that led to the ultimate failure of the Treaty of Versailles? What were the challenges facing the newly-formed League of Nations, and why was it so difficult to form a lasting agreement that would prevent another war? Elaborate.
Discussion: The Rise of Fascism, World War II and the Holocaust
Analyze Adolph Hitler's rise to power and the policies he used to rule Germany. The following statement was taken from a contemporary account of Germany in 1939:
"Though the Fuhrer's anti-Semitic program furnished the National Socialist party in the first instances with a nucleus and a rallying-cry, it was swept into office by two things with which the 'Jewish Problem' did not have the slightest connection. On the one side was economic distress and the revulsion against Versailles: on the other, chicanery and intrigue...Hitler and his party promised the unhappy Germans a new heaven and a new earth, coupled with the persecution of the Jews. Unfortunately, a new heaven and earth cannot be manufactured to order. But a persecution of the Jews can..."
How do you interpret this contemporary account of the persecution of people who are Jewish? Elaborate.
Part 2: Minimum 900 wordsCase Study: Imperialism and Exploitation
IntroductionThe exploitation of colonial resources and indigenous labor was one of the key elements in the success of imperialism. Such exploitation was a result of the prevalent ethnocentrism of the time and was justified by the unscientific concept of social Darwinism, which praised the characteristics of white Europeans and inaccurately ascribed negative characteristics to indigenous peoples. A famous poem of the time by Rudyard Kipling, White Man's Burden, called on imperial powers, and particularly the U.S., which the poem was directed at, to take up the mission of civilizing these "savage" peoples.
InstructionsRead the poem at the following link:
· Link (website): White Man’s Burden (Rudyard Kipling) (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
After reading the poem, address the following in a case study analysis:
· Define social Darwinism in your own words.
· Analyze the motivations and consequences that Kipling presents for undertaking the "White Man's Burden."
· What specific examples of ethnocentrism can you identify?
· Were the "Half-devil and half-child" peoples truly uncivilized?
Case Study: Mobilizing the Masses
Introduction
Adolph Hitler was a charismatic figure with remarkable oratory skills that he was able to use to unify the German people under his leadership by appealing to .
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Home work for modifying the syntactic analyzer for the attached compiler by adding to the existing grammar. The full grammar of the language is shown below. The highlighted portions of the grammar show what you must either modify or add to the existing grammar.
function:
function_header {variable} body
function_header:
FUNCTION IDENTIFIER [parameters] RETURNS type ;
variable:
IDENTIFIER : type IS statement
parameters:
parameter {, parameter}
parameter:
IDENTIFIER : type
type:
INTEGER | REAL | BOOLEAN
body:
BEGIN statement END ;
statement: expression ; |
REDUCE operator {statement} ENDREDUCE ; |
IF expression THEN statement ELSE statement ENDIF ; |
CASE expression IS {case} OTHERS ARROW statement ; ENDCASE ;
operator:
ADDOP | MULOP
case:
WHEN INT_LITERAL ARROW statement
expression:
( expression ) |
REAL_LITERAL
NOT expression
expression binary_operator expression |
|
INT_LITERAL | IDENTIFIER
| BOOL_LITERAL |
binary_operator: ADDOP | MULOP | REMOP | EXPOP | RELOP | ANDOP | OROP
In the above grammar, the red symbols are nonterminals, the blue symbols are terminals and the black punctuation are EBNF metasymbols. The braces denote repetition 0 or more times and the brackets denote optional.
You must rewrite the grammar to eliminate the EBNF brace and bracket metasymbols and to incorporate the significance of parentheses, operator precedence and associativity for all operators. Among arithmetic operators the exponentiation operator has highest precedence following by the multiplying operators and then the adding operators. All relational operators have the same precedence. Among the binary logical operators, and has higher precedence than or. Of the categories of operators, the unary logical operator has highest precedence, the arithmetic operators have next highest precedence, followed by the relational operators and finally the binary logical operators. All operators except the exponentiation operator are left associative. The directives to specify precedence and associativity, such as %prec and %left, may not be used
Your parser should be able to correctly parse any syntactically correct program without any problem.
You must modify the syntactic analyzer to detect and recover from additional syntax errors using the semicolon as the synchronization token. To accomplish detecting additional errors an error production must be added to the function header and another to the variable declaration.
Your bison input file should not produce any shift/reduce or reduce/reduce errors. Eliminating them can be difficult so the best strategy is not introduce any. That is best achieved by making small incremental additions to the grammar and ensuring that no addition introduces any such errors.
An example of compilation listing output containing syntax errors is shown below:
1 -- Multiple errors 2
function main a integer returns real; Syntax Error, Unexpected INTEGER, expecting ':'
b: integer is * 2; Syntax Error, Unexpe.
How are self-esteem and self-concept different What is the or.docxsimonithomas47935
How are self-esteem and self-concept different? What is the origin of these characteristics? What are the characteristics of children and adults with low self-esteem?
Consider Erik Erikson’s theory. Why is it important for children in middle childhood to learn to do something and to do something well?
Suzy wants to follow the moral code established by her parents and teacher. She wants them to view her as obedient, cooperative, and productive. According to Kohlberg Suzy is functioning at the __________ stage of moral development.
How does the aggression of girls and boys differ? Why is it important for a child to learn self-regulation?
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How are morality and religion similar and how are they different?
Discuss how your religious beliefs, or lack thereof, have shaped your own morality.
What is natural law theory? How does it compare to religion?
What criteria did Thoreau argue must exist before engaging in civil disobedience?
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How are financial statements used to evaluate business activities?
What is managerial accounting and how does it help businesses create a competitive advantage
What skills must be developed to evaluate company performance?
How are investment and operations alternatives evaluated and selected?
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How are Japanese and Chinese Americans similar? How are they different? After exploring your course material and outside sources, please share the differences and similarities on such topics as immigration patterns, family life, economic picture, etc. Be sure to cite your sources properly. At a minimum, students should include summarized (no direct quotes) information from the course text. Do not forget to include page numbers in your in-text citations!
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Hot Spot Policing
"Place" can be an important aspect of crime and crime prevention. Behaviors occur across space and time. In the 1990's hot spot policing became a very popular topic.
In this paper, you need to address the following:
Define the concept of "Hot Spot" from the context of law enforcement,
Define the concept of "Hot Product" from the context of law enforcement,
Describe VIVA and CRAVE (as they relate to hot spots and hot products),
Identify a few products or objects that might be prime targets for crime, and
Indicate how these products or objects fit the ideas of VIVA and CRAVED.
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HOSP3075 Brand Analysis Paper 1
This is the first of three assignments you will complete by studying the hotel brand you have chosen. Please organize your paper using the topic headings below. You must use at least four sources to help you (including the company website). Use MLA format, and remember to cite your sources within the paper. Please double space.
Brand Overview and History (1/2 to 1 page)
Provide a brief history of the brand, with a timeline. Explain the geographic locations of the brand’s hotel properties, for example – “primarily in the Southwestern United States”, or “in the US, Canada, and Europe”. What is this brand’s parent company (if there is one)? What are the other brands in the company portfolio, and how does the brand you selected fit in?
Target Markets (1 to 2 pages)
Identify and describe two of the brand’s target markets.
In your description of each market, describe its geographic, demographic, psychographic, and/or behavioral characteristics. For example your brand might pursue a Leisure Transient Market that has these characteristics: millennial (demographic - life cycle), strivers (psychographic - lifestyle), from the USA (geographic - state), seeks free WIFI (behavioral – benefits sought).
Brand Position (1/2 to 1 page)
Describe the position of your brand. Start by making a clear, one or two-sentence positioning statement. Then provide some details, including any points-of-parity or points-of difference. Also, write a “brand mantra” for your brand. (See pages 65-67.)
Brand Elements (1 to 2 pages)
1. Identify and describe the brand elements (also known as brand identities). Elements include the brand name, URL, logo, symbols, characters, spokespersons, slogans, jingles, signage, and more.
2. Choose one of the brand elements, and analyze it based on the “criteria for choosing brand elements” as described in Chapter 4.
Conclusion (1/2 page)
Based on what you have learned about this brand so far, what is your opinion about its future?
Works Cited
Please use MLA format for your Works Cited page.
Research Proposal Part-2
Course Title and Code
Research Methods, C39RE
Course Lecturer
Dr. Esinath Ndiweni
Title of Research Proposal
Occupational Stress Management: Stress, Burnout and Coping among Nurses operating at Emergency Departments in Abu Dhabi
Student Name
Jesvin Joseph Augustine
HWID
H00259465
Program title:
B.A. Business and Finance
Word Count:
1854
Table of Contents
Introduction……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..3
· Research Aim and Objectives……………………………………………………………………………………………….3
Research Strategy…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….3
· Research Philosophy…………………………………………………………………………………………………………….3
· Research Approach………………………………………………………………………………………………………………3
Data Collection Methods………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….4
· Semi-structured Interviews…………………………………………………………………………………………………..4
· Web-based Survey Questionnaires……………………………………………………………………………………….5.
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Hou, J., Li, Y., Yu, J. & Shi, W. (2020). A Survey on Digital Forensics in Internet of Things IEEE Internet of Things Journal, I(1),1-15,.
Chen, J. & Zhu, Q. (2019). Interdependent Strategic Security Risk Management With Bounded Rationality in the Internet of Things. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 14(11), 2958-2971.
Borek, A. (2014). Total Information Risk Management: Maximizing the Value of Data and Information Assets (Vol. First edition). Amsterdam: Morgan Kaufmann
The readings this week discusses broad context of risk and investigative forensics. Part of risk management is to understand when things go wrong, we need to be able to investigate and report our findings to management. Using this research, or other research you have uncovered discuss in detail how risk and investigate techniques could work to help the organization. ERM helps to protect an organization before an attack, where as forensics investigate technique will help us after an attack - so lets discus both this week.
Please make your initial post and two response posts substantive. A substantive post will do at least two of the following:
Ask an interesting, thoughtful question pertaining to the topic
Answer a question (in detail) posted by another student or the instructor
Provide extensive additional information on the topic
Explain, define, or analyze the topic in detail
Share an applicable personal experience
Provide an outside source that applies to the topic, along with additional information about the topic or the source (please cite properly in APA 7)
Make an argument concerning the topic.
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How (Not) to be Secular? by James K.A. Smith
Secular (1)—the earthly plane of domestic life as distinguished from the sacred.
Secular (2)—areligious, neutral, unbiased, “objective”
Secular (3)—a world in which it is possible to imagine not believing in God; religious belief is no longer axiomatic.
Cross-pressured—The simultaneous pressure of various spiritual options or the feeling of being caught between an echo of transcendence and the drive toward immanentization.
Immanent frame—A constructed social space that frames our lives entirely within a natural order, an order “whose working could be systematically understood and explained in its own term, leaving open the question whether this whole order had a deeper significance....” (Taylor, A Secular Age, p. 15)
Exclusive humanism—A worldview that is able to account for meaning and significance without any appeal to the divine or transcendence.
Self-transcendence—a turning of life toward something beyond ordinary human flourishing. (Taylor, p. 44)
Fullness—The human impulsion to find significance, meaning, value—even within an entirely immanent frame.
Spin—A construal of life in an immanent frame that does not recognize itself as construal. Does not grant plausibility to the alternative,
Take—A construal of life in an immanent frame that is open to appreciating the viability of other takes.
Modern Moral Order (MMO)—Understanding of morality that focuses on the organization of society for mutual benefit rather than obligation to higher or eternal norms.
Faith
Faith Development Theory and a Look at Faith Today
Definitions of Faith
Faith (in general) = one’s ultimate concern (Paul Tillich)
Religious Faith = a relationship with God which engages a person’s total personhood; (Fischer and Hart reading); personal knowledge of God (Richard McBrien)
Faith is not primarily belief in ideas but in God
Difference between faith and “the faith”—the latter usually refers to a collection of “beliefs”
Misunderstandings of the Meaning of Faith
1. Having faith is believing things, “assenting to truths”—the rationalist misunderstanding
2. Having faith is behaving morally—the moralist misunderstanding
3. Having faith is feeling something —the emotionalist misunderstanding
These are all aspects of faith but faith cannot be reduced to any one of these.
Key Points about Faith
1. “Faith seeks understanding and is a friend of reason.” (The United States Catholic Catechism for Adults) In the words of Vatican I, faith is “consonant with reason.” Faith and reason are compatible. Faith is not “blind faith.”
2. Although faith has a content (beliefs), what Christians believe in are not the formulas of faith but in the realities they express.
3. Faith is a commitment of the whole person, not just the intellect of the person.
4. Faith is both personal and communal.
Faith Development Theory
Fowler’s Stages of Faith
Similar to Lawrence Kohlberg’s Stages of Moral Development
Overview of the Stages.
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Hopefully, you enjoyed this class on Digital Media and Society.
Question #1:
Has your impression of digital media and society changed after taking this class? How? What in your opinion is the future of digital media and the Internet?
Topic 2: One Takeaway
There are no readings assigned this week. Reflect on the weekly Read & Watch content you have been exposed to throughout the semester to craft your response.
Discussion:
There are many interesting concepts, ideas, and theories presented in this class. We talked Curly Fries, Filter Bubbles, Global Collaboration, Digital Divide, Privacy, Big Data...
Question #1:
What is the most important thing you have learned from this class? What is your Number One Takeaway?
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(1) one
childhood experience from the list provided below. This list has been generated from the Australian Institute of health and Welfare (2020) Australia’s Children report.
Asthma in children aged 5-14
Type 1 diabetes in children aged 0-14
Brain cancer in children up to 14 years
Anxiety disorders in children aged 5-14
Dental decay in children over 12
Overweight/Obesity in children 5-14
School aged child living with an intellectual disability
Children experiencing homelessness
Low birthweight babies
Children who are exposed to or a victim of family violence
After researching the prevalence of your chosen childhood experience, develop a brief hypothetical case study (200 words or so) about a child and their family highlighting the health care setting in which you (the nurse) meet the family;
the case study helps to guide your essay and provide context for your reader.
To explore the impact of your chosen childhood experience on the child and their family in the case study you have developed, read widely and address the following prompts informed by
contemporary and relevant
developmental, nursing and family care theory:
Outline the prevalence in Australia of the childhood experience chosen and highlight the short term, medium term and potential long term health outcomes/impact on the child
Discuss the impact (protective or otherwise) of family, culture and environment on the identified health outcomes for children identified from prompt 1
Explore the impact of the chosen childhood experience on the learning and development of the child in the case study, in light of their age/stage of development
When you (the nurse) meet the family (as outlined in your case study) how might you engage therapeutically with the child and family? Outline age/development appropriate communication strategies that you could adopt to support child/family flourishing
Based on the chosen childhood experience selected and the case study specifics, provide two priority nursing actions/interventions with rationales, that would advocate for positive child/family health outcomes
This essay will be developed with an introduction, body and conclusion, with correct grammar and spelling and acknowledging sources using APA 7th Edition referencing style. Word count of 2000 words +/-10% will be maintained; inclusive of intext references, excluding reference list.
Rubric
Assessment 3: Case study and literature review
Assessment 3: Case study and literature reviewCriteriaRatingsPtsThis criterion is linked to a learning outcome1.Case study developed is clear, informative and feasible
5
PtsExceeds expectationsVery well considered case study. The child/family circumstances are realistic and comprehensively presented in light of the chosen childhood experience; the context of the family and nurse interaction is clearly defined.4
PtsMeets ExpectationsWell considered case study. The child/family circumstances are realistic and thoroughly present.
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honesty, hard work, caring, excellence
HIS 1110 Dr. G. J. Giddings
ANALYSIS PAPER: GREAT MIGRATION HISTORY AS TACTIC
4 pages; 4 “works cited”/reference sources (at least 1 primary source)
Related Course Outcome: Identify and analyze connections between individual events and national
historic events.
OPTIONS I
Analysis Paper: Migration As Tactic/
Solution
(Long Interviews as main resource) (4 pages)
Millions of African Americans escaped or ran away from their homes in the South to seek refuge
in the North. Explore your individual interviewees’ descriptions of problems (lack of opportunities, racial
terrorism, personal reasons, etc.) they faced in the South or wherever, and how they attempted to
escape these problems by choosing migration as a tactic or solution. Explore how the individual
migration stories connect to or compare with the general Great Migration “push” and “pull” factors,
which motivated so many African Americans to leave the South. To help draw these connections,
identify and compare the “pull” and “push” factors of the Great Migration as well as other related
course themes such as: leadership tactics, African America socio-economic and culture status/state,
protest; demographic shifts/changes, etc.
OPTIONS II
Analysis Paper: Migration As Tactic/
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hoose one of the four following visuals:
Image courtesy of: Nike® 2013 advertisement
Image courtesy of: Parents magazine June 2011
Image courtesy of: Harley Davidson® advertisement
Image courtesy of: Bank of America advertisement
In a
2-3-page APA formatted paper with an additional reference page
(
template here
), analyze the strategic use of perceptual visual communication:
Analyze how specific semiotic visuals in your chosen image affect different cultural perceptions (age, ethnicity, social group, etc.).
Describe how each culture’s cognitive memories and experiences may affect how they perceive this image.
Explain why cultural perception is important to consider when working with international or global cultures.
Discuss why it is important to consider cultural perception when interacting with different age cultures and different social groupings.
Support the items above by including relevant quotes and paraphrases from academic/scholarly sources.
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Homework
Choose a site used by the public such as a supermarket, doctor's office, library, post office, or department store and observe one or more key processes, the associated suppliers, inputs, process steps, outputs, customers, the measurement systems, and how the measurements are used to manage and improve the process. Submit a Word document in which you include the following:
Company visited.
Process observed.
SIPOC elements.
Process measurements.
Process management systems used.
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Homework 2: Please answer the following questions in small paragraphs:
• What were the conditions in Europe that led to the conquest of America?
• What effects did the conquest had on the native peoples of America, as well as, in the Europeans?
• What were the motives, mindset, and social backgrounds of the Spanish conquistadors?
• What factors explain the relative ease with which a small number of Spaniards conquered great and populous indigenous empires?
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Course Resource Booklet (Final Submission Due)
Child Welfare Advocates have many resources available to them to assist those in need. The key is to know what resources are available. This assignment will require students to create resources on local and child welfare social services and present in a booklet format. This will be an ongoing course project as you learn about new resources in each module. As you continue with your classes, you may even choose to add additional resources.
Timeline
Module 1
— Course Resource Project assigned
Module 2
— Submit for instructor feedback – non-graded.
Students will submit the title page, introduction and one agency description in Module 2 for purposes of non-graded feedback.
Module 5
— Final Course Resource project due
Directions
Students will create a booklet that compiles information for twelve different agencies.
The twelve agencies must represent the following categories of general services. No category can be eliminated.
Adult Assistance — include one agency that specializes in helping the homeless
Child Development — include one agency that specializes in helping those in poverty
Family Support Services — include one resource on family violence
Health — include one agency that specializes in helping those with addiction
Legal — include the Guardian Ad Litem program
Mental Health
Each category should include:
A maximum of two agency resources for each category.
No more than one state agency may be included in each category.
Do not use the same agency more than once.
Agencies should be alphabetized by category.
Students should work on the Course Resource Booklet each module so they have a cumulative booklet ready for submission. Do not wait until the last minute.
Each local agency resource should include the following information. Use headings for components, as needed.
(See sample page attached.)
Name of Agency
Agency address (Domestic Violence shelters may use outreach center)
Website URL
Hours of Operation
Agency Description of 150 to 175 words
. This part of the resource booklet must be written and paraphrased in paragraph format and must include the following information:
(1.5 spacing for submission to instructor)
Mission/Purpose of the resource
Populations Served
Specific Type of Services
Eligibility Requirements
One strength and one limitation of the agency or its services
The final booklet should include:
A Title Page
Table of Contents
An introduction with a statement of purpose and definition of child welfare
Use paragraph form for agency description, strength and limitations of resource
Agency information should be alphabetized and spaced at 1.5
Use Times New Roman, size 12 font
Include page numbers
Be visually appealing and professional in appearance
Submit your document to Turnitin®. Turnitin® will tell you if you have copied text from o.
Homeless The Motel Kids of Orange CountyWrite a 1-2 page pa.docxsimonithomas47935
Homeless: The Motel Kids of Orange County
Write a 1-2 page paper double spaced using 12 point Calibri/Times New Roman font.
Your paper should be written using the “conflict” and “symbolic interactionism” perspective. 1) What was the premise of the video? 2) Give two examples of how the children understood the situation they are in. 3) Why or why not do you see hope for the children. 4) How did the video make you feel?
.
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Home work 8
Date 04/22/2020
1. what are the different between waterboards.ca.gov and water.ca.gov government agencies?
Go to website waterboards.ca.gov and water .ca.gov government
.
HistoryPart1 No minimum wordsDiscussion 1 The Rise of Communism an.docxsimonithomas47935
HistoryPart1: No minimum wordsDiscussion 1: The Rise of Communism and Fascism
Compare and contrast the two types of authoritarian governments that arose after 1917, that is, communism and fascism. What were the origins of these governments, their accomplishments, and their failures? What accounts for the fact that the masses mobilized to support these movements? Elaborate.Discussion 2: Nationalism and the Treaty of Versailles
What were reasons that led to the ultimate failure of the Treaty of Versailles? What were the challenges facing the newly-formed League of Nations, and why was it so difficult to form a lasting agreement that would prevent another war? Elaborate.
Discussion: The Rise of Fascism, World War II and the Holocaust
Analyze Adolph Hitler's rise to power and the policies he used to rule Germany. The following statement was taken from a contemporary account of Germany in 1939:
"Though the Fuhrer's anti-Semitic program furnished the National Socialist party in the first instances with a nucleus and a rallying-cry, it was swept into office by two things with which the 'Jewish Problem' did not have the slightest connection. On the one side was economic distress and the revulsion against Versailles: on the other, chicanery and intrigue...Hitler and his party promised the unhappy Germans a new heaven and a new earth, coupled with the persecution of the Jews. Unfortunately, a new heaven and earth cannot be manufactured to order. But a persecution of the Jews can..."
How do you interpret this contemporary account of the persecution of people who are Jewish? Elaborate.
Part 2: Minimum 900 wordsCase Study: Imperialism and Exploitation
IntroductionThe exploitation of colonial resources and indigenous labor was one of the key elements in the success of imperialism. Such exploitation was a result of the prevalent ethnocentrism of the time and was justified by the unscientific concept of social Darwinism, which praised the characteristics of white Europeans and inaccurately ascribed negative characteristics to indigenous peoples. A famous poem of the time by Rudyard Kipling, White Man's Burden, called on imperial powers, and particularly the U.S., which the poem was directed at, to take up the mission of civilizing these "savage" peoples.
InstructionsRead the poem at the following link:
· Link (website): White Man’s Burden (Rudyard Kipling) (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
After reading the poem, address the following in a case study analysis:
· Define social Darwinism in your own words.
· Analyze the motivations and consequences that Kipling presents for undertaking the "White Man's Burden."
· What specific examples of ethnocentrism can you identify?
· Were the "Half-devil and half-child" peoples truly uncivilized?
Case Study: Mobilizing the Masses
Introduction
Adolph Hitler was a charismatic figure with remarkable oratory skills that he was able to use to unify the German people under his leadership by appealing to .
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Home work for modifying the syntactic analyzer for the attached compiler by adding to the existing grammar. The full grammar of the language is shown below. The highlighted portions of the grammar show what you must either modify or add to the existing grammar.
function:
function_header {variable} body
function_header:
FUNCTION IDENTIFIER [parameters] RETURNS type ;
variable:
IDENTIFIER : type IS statement
parameters:
parameter {, parameter}
parameter:
IDENTIFIER : type
type:
INTEGER | REAL | BOOLEAN
body:
BEGIN statement END ;
statement: expression ; |
REDUCE operator {statement} ENDREDUCE ; |
IF expression THEN statement ELSE statement ENDIF ; |
CASE expression IS {case} OTHERS ARROW statement ; ENDCASE ;
operator:
ADDOP | MULOP
case:
WHEN INT_LITERAL ARROW statement
expression:
( expression ) |
REAL_LITERAL
NOT expression
expression binary_operator expression |
|
INT_LITERAL | IDENTIFIER
| BOOL_LITERAL |
binary_operator: ADDOP | MULOP | REMOP | EXPOP | RELOP | ANDOP | OROP
In the above grammar, the red symbols are nonterminals, the blue symbols are terminals and the black punctuation are EBNF metasymbols. The braces denote repetition 0 or more times and the brackets denote optional.
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Darkness Too VisibleContemporary fiction for teens is rife with .docx
1. Darkness Too Visible
Contemporary fiction for teens is rife with explicit abuse,
violence and depravity; why is this considered a good idea?
GURDON, MEGHAN COX. The Wall Street Journal (Eastern
Edition) Volume: 257 Issue 129 (2011)
Amy Freeman, a 46-year-old mother of three, stood recently in
the young-adult section of her local Barnes & Noble, in
Bethesda, Md., feeling thwarted and disheartened.
She had popped into the bookstore to pick up a welcome-home
gift for her 13-year-old, who had been away. Hundreds of lurid
and dramatic covers stood on the racks before her, and there
was, she felt, "nothing, not a thing, that I could imagine giving
my daughter. It was all vampires and suicide and self-
mutilation, this dark, dark stuff." She left the store empty-
handed.
How dark is contemporary fiction for teens? Darker than when
you were a child, my dear: So dark that kidnapping and
pederasty and incest and brutal beatings are now just part of the
run of things in novels directed, broadly speaking, at children
from the ages of 12 to 18.
Pathologies that went undescribed in print 40 years ago, that
were still only sparingly outlined a generation ago, are now
spelled out in stomach-clenching detail. Profanity that would
get a song or movie branded with a parental warning is, in
young-adult novels, so commonplace that most reviewers do not
even remark upon it.
If books show us the world, teen fiction can be like a hall of
fun-house mirrors, constantly reflecting back hideously
distorted portrayals of what life is. There are of course
exceptions, but a careless young reader -- or one who seeks out
depravity -- will find himself surrounded by images not of joy
or beauty but of damage, brutality and losses of the most
horrendous kinds.
Now, whether you care if adolescents spend their time immersed
2. in ugliness probably depends on your philosophical outlook.
Reading about homicide doesn't turn a man into a murderer;
reading about cheating on exams won't make a kid break the
honor code. But the calculus that many parents make is less
crude than that: It has to do with a child's happiness, moral
development and tenderness of heart. Entertainment does not
merely gratify taste, after all, but creates it.
If you think it matters what is inside a young person's mind,
surely it is of consequence what he reads. This is an old
dialectic -- purity vs. despoliation, virtue vs. smut -- but for
families with teenagers, it is also everlastingly new.
Adolescence is brief; it comes to each of us only once, so
whether the debate has raged for eons doesn't, on a personal
level, really signify.
As it happens, 40 years ago, no one had to contend with young-
adult literature because there was no such thing. There was
simply literature, some of it accessible to young readers and
some not. As elsewhere in American life, the 1960s changed
everything. In 1967, S.E. Hinton published "The Outsiders," a
raw and striking novel that dealt directly with class tensions,
family dysfunction and violent, disaffected youth. It launched
an industry.
Mirroring the tumultuous times, dark topics began surging on to
children's bookshelves. A purported diary published
anonymously in 1971, "Go Ask Alice," recounts a girl's spiral
into drug addiction, rape, prostitution and a fatal overdose. A
generation watched Linda Blair playing the lead in the 1975
made-for-TV movie "Sarah T: Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic"
and went straight for Robin S. Wagner's original book. The
writer Robert Cormier is generally credited with having
introduced utter hopelessness to teen narratives. His 1977
novel, "I Am the Cheese," relates the delirium of a traumatized
youth who witnessed his parents' murder, and it does not (to say
the least) have a happy ending.
Grim though these novels are, they seem positively tame in
comparison with what's on shelves now. In Andrew Smith's
3. 2010 novel, "The Marbury Lens," for example, young Jack is
drugged, abducted and nearly raped by a male captor. After
escaping, he encounters a curious pair of glasses that transport
him into an alternate world of almost unimaginable gore and
cruelty. Moments after arriving he finds himself facing a wall of
horrors, "covered with impaled heads and other dripping, black-
rot body parts: hands, hearts, feet, ears, penises. Where the f --
was this?" No happy ending to this one, either.
In Jackie Morse Kessler's gruesome but inventive 2011 take on
a girl's struggle with self-injury, "Rage," teenage Missy's secret
cutting turns nightmarish after she is the victim of a sadistic
sexual prank. "She had sliced her arms to ribbons, but the
badness remained, staining her insides like cancer. She had
gouged her belly until it was a mess of meat and blood, but she
still couldn't breathe." Missy survives, but only after a stint as
one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
The argument in favor of such novels is that they validate the
teen experience, giving voice to tortured adolescents who would
otherwise be voiceless. If a teen has been abused, the logic
follows, reading about another teen in the same straits will be
comforting. If a girl cuts her flesh with a razor to relieve
surging feelings of self-loathing, she will find succor in reading
about another girl who cuts, mops up the blood with towels and
eventually learns to manage her emotional turbulence without a
knife.
Yet it is also possible -- indeed, likely -- that books focusing on
pathologies help normalize them and, in the case of self-harm,
may even spread their plausibility and likelihood to young
people who might otherwise never have imagined such extreme
measures. Self-destructive adolescent behaviors are observably
infectious and have periods of vogue. That is not to discount the
real suffering that some young people endure; it is an argument
for taking care.
The novel "Scars," a dreadfully clunky 2010 exercise by Cheryl
Rainfield that School Library Journal inexplicably called "one
heck of a good book," ran into difficulties earlier this year at
4. the Boone County Library in Kentucky, but not because of its
contents. A patron complained that the book's depiction of
cutting -- the cover shows a horribly scarred forearm -- might
trigger a sufferer's relapse. That the protagonist's father has
been raping her since she was a toddler and is trying to engineer
her suicide was not the issue for the team of librarians re-
evaluating the book.
"Books like 'Scars,' or with questionable material, those provide
teachable moments for the family," says Amanda Hopper, the
library's youth-services coordinator, adding: "We like to have
the adult perspective, but we do try to target the teens because
that's who's reading it." The book stayed on the shelves.
Perhaps the quickest way to grasp how much more lurid teen
books have become is to compare two authors: the original Judy
Blume and a younger writer recently hailed by Publishers
Weekly as "this generation's Judy Blume."
The real Judy Blume won millions of readers (and the
disapprobation of many adults) with then-daring novels such as
1970's "Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret," which deals
with female puberty, 1971's "Then Again, Maybe I Won't,"
which addresses puberty from a boy's perspective, and 1975's
"Forever," in which teenagers lose their virginity in scenes of
earnest practicality. Objectionable the material may be for some
parents, but it's not grotesque.
By contrast, the latest novel by "this generation's Judy Blume,"
otherwise known as Lauren Myracle, takes place in a small
Southern town in the aftermath of an assault on a gay teenager.
The boy has been savagely beaten and left tied up with a gas
pump nozzle shoved down his throat, and he may not live. The
protagonist of "Shine," a 16-year-old girl and once a close
friend of the victim, is herself yet to recover from a sexual
assault in eighth grade; assorted locals, meanwhile, reveal
themselves to be in the grip of homophobia, booze and crystal
meth. Determined in the face of police indifference to
investigate the attack on her friend, the girl relives her own
assault (thus taking readers through it, too) and acquaints us
5. with the concept of "bag fags," heterosexuals who engage in gay
sex for drugs. The author makes free with language that can't be
reprinted in a newspaper.
In the book business, none of this is controversial, and, to be
fair, Ms. Myracle's work is not unusually profane. Foul
language is widely regarded among librarians, reviewers and
booksellers as perfectly OK, provided that it emerges
organically from the characters and the setting rather than being
tacked on for sensation. In Ms. Myracle's case, with her
depiction of redneck bigots with meth-addled sensibilities, the
language is probably apt.
But whether it's language that parents want their children
reading is another question. Alas, literary culture is not
sympathetic to adults who object either to the words or
storylines in young-adult books. In a letter excerpted by the
industry magazine, the Horn Book, several years ago, an editor
bemoaned the need, in order to get the book into schools, to
strip expletives from Chris Lynch's 2005 novel, "Inexcusable,"
which revolves around a thuggish jock and the rape he commits.
"I don't, as a rule, like to do this on young adult books," the
editor grumbled, "I don't want to compromise on how kids
really talk. I don't want to acknowledge those f -- ing
gatekeepers."
By f -- ing gatekeepers (the letter-writing editor spelled it out),
she meant those who think it's appropriate to guide what young
people read. In the book trade, this is known as "banning." In
the parenting trade, however, we call this "judgment" or "taste."
It is a dereliction of duty not to make distinctions in every other
aspect of a young person's life between more and less desirable
options. Yet let a gatekeeper object to a book and the industry
pulls up its petticoats and shrieks "censorship!"
It is of course understood to be an act of literary heroism to
stand against any constraints, no matter the age of one's readers;
Ms. Myracle's editor told Publishers Weekly that the author
"has been on the front lines in the fight for freedom of
expression."
6. Every year the American Library Association delights in
releasing a list of the most frequently challenged books. A
number of young-adult books made the Top 10 in 2010,
including Suzanne Collins's hyper-violent, best-selling "Hunger
Games" trilogy and Sherman Alexie's prize-winning novel, "The
Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian." "It almost makes
me happy to hear books still have that kind of power," Mr.
Alexie was quoted saying; "There's nothing in my book that
even compares to what kids can find on the Internet."
Oh, well, that's all right then. Except that it isn't. It is no
comment on Mr. Alexie's work to say that one depravity does
not justify another. If young people are encountering ghastly
things on the Internet, that's a failure of the adults around them,
not an excuse for more envelope-pushing.
Veteran children's bookseller Jewell Stoddard traces part of the
problem to aesthetic coarseness in some younger publishers,
editors and writers who, she says, "are used to videogames and
TV and really violent movies and they love that stuff. So they
think that every 12-year-old is going to love that stuff and not
be affected by it. And I don't think that's possible."
In an effort to keep the most grueling material out of the hands
of younger readers, Ms. Stoddard and her colleagues at Politics
& Prose, an independent Washington, D.C., bookstore, created a
special "PG-15" nook for older teens. With some unease, she
admits that creating a separate section may inadvertently lure
the attention of younger children keen to seem older than they
are.
At the same time, she notes that many teenagers do not read
young-adult books at all. Near the end of the school year, when
she and a colleague entertained students from a nearby private
school, only three of the visiting 18 juniors said that they read
YA books.
So it may be that the book industry's ever-more-appalling
offerings for adolescent readers spring from a desperate desire
to keep books relevant for the young. Still, everyone does not
share the same objectives. The book business exists to sell
7. books; parents exist to rear children, and oughtn't be daunted by
cries of censorship. No family is obliged to acquiesce when
publishers use the vehicle of fundamental free-expression
principles to try to bulldoze coarseness or misery into their
children's lives.
---
Mrs. Gurdon writes regularly about children's books for the
Journal.
(See related letters: "Letters to the Editor: Dark Literature for
Young Adults Can Be Good or Bad" -- WSJ June 11, 2011)
Credit: By Meghan Cox Gurdon
Running Head: STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT 1
STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT 5
Strategy Development
Name
University
Case: Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
Strategy
Strategy refers to a course of action that needs to be followed
for the interest of achieving various goals and objectives (Erica,
8. 2011). Organizations usually have various goals that should be
met. For this to be achieved, they need a strategy. The
definition of strategy fits Wal-Mart and its situation because the
company always has a course action in place. Wal-Mart believes
that through the implementation of relevant strategies, it can
achieve its goals and objectives in the most effective and
efficient manner.
Main strategies
Wal-Mart believes that its success revolves around customers
and employees; its main strategies are concentrated on the
welfare of the customers and employees. One of the strategies is
focused on ensuring the customers are satisfied by the quality of
products and services that they receive. Another main strategy
is related to employees and most specifically, job satisfaction.
The company makes sure that employees are comfortable and
satisfied so that they can do their best. Comfortable employees
are self-motivated and more productive.
Industry and competitors
Wal-Mart operates in the retail industry. It is a business
organization whose major purpose is to sell products to final
consumers; it creates the link between manufacturers of
different products and the final consumers. Amazon and Netflix
are among the top competitors of Wal-Mart because they
operate in the same industry and target the same market.
The competitors make use of a range of strategies to beat
Wal-Mart in the market. The strategy that Amazon uses is the
wide range of products. This strategy basically refers to
availing as many products as possible in different categories to
make sure that customers do not lack anything that they need.
This leads to customer satisfaction in some way because the
customers always find what they look for. The strategy that
Netflix uses is speed. The company ensures that customers get
goods delivered to them as soon as they make orders. This
strategy is intended to enable the business in reducing the time
that customers would otherwise have to wait before the products
9. they ordered are delivered to them.
The selected strategies are effective because they are
enabling the competitors to achieve their goals and objectives.
A strategy is successful if it is able to meet the purpose for
which it was established (Freeman, 2010). The success of the
strategies is piling more pressure on Wal-Mart.
Industry analysis and current organization standing
The retail industry is among the most competitive industries
given the number of businesses involved. Despite this, Wal-
Mart is holding on to the lead as a result of its strategies,
resources, and capabilities. The company has a team of
competent managers that have ensured success despite the stiff
competition.
Performance goals
When a business is established, its major purpose is to grow
from one level to another. To achieve this, performance goals
are usually set and they determine whether or not the business is
growing on not depending on their level of achievement.
In the next one year, Wal-Mart has three specific goals that
should be achieved. The first goal is an improvement in
customer service. The company understands that customers are
important assets that should be focused on. Improvement of
service provision to them is necessary. Better customer service
makes the customers feel important to business and they will
remain loyal because they like the services provided to them.
The second goal is employee satisfaction. In the next one year,
the company intends to improve the overall conditions under
which employees work. This is intended to boost job
satisfaction as well as performance. Better working conditions
improve the level of employee satisfaction. The last
performance goal in the next one year by Wal-Mart is to ensure
that there is a remarkable improvement in terms of sales. To
achieve this, the business intends to boost its marketing so that
it creates awareness and demand for the different products that
it offers. Through this, sales will be more frequent and there
will be more revenues realized (Adekola & Sergi, 2012).
10. One of the goals of Wal-Mart in the next 5 years is the
achievement of corporate social responsibility. The business
intends to expand its services to the surrounding communities
by enabling them to meet their objectives. This will also be
achieved through the application of environmentally friendly
strategies. The second goal is to build a positive organizational
culture. This is intended to boost the overall performance of the
business. The last goal for Wal-Mart in the next five years is
about brand recognition. The business intends to boost the
recognition of its brand across the world especially in the most
remote areas in which it is not yet present.
References
Adekola, A. & Sergi, B. (2012). Global Business Management:
A Cross-Cultural Perspective. Hampshire: Ashgate Publishing.
Erica, O. (2011). Strategic Planning. Indianapolis: Wiley
Publishing.
Freeman, E. (2010). Strategic Management: A Stakeholder
Approach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Running head: WALMART’S RESPONSE TO CHANGE
1
WALMART’S RESPONSE TO CHANGE
2
Walmart’s Response to Change
Name
University
The strength or weakness of Walmart’s industry, based on the
evolution industry
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., commonly known as Walmart is an
11. American retail corporation operating a chain of discount
department stores, grocery stores and hypermarkets. The
company operates in the retail industry. Since its founding by
Sam Walton in 1962, the company has grown to become an
international brand, currently owning 11,593 stores and clubs
spread across more than 28 countries (Hwang, & Park, 2015).
The stores are operated under 63 banners. According to the
Fortune Global 500 list of 2016, Walmart is the largest company
in the world by revenue, which means its growth has been
steady and exponential. Additionally, its growth in the retail
industry has expanded to a position of 2.2 million workers,
which puts the retail giant as the largest private employer
globally. By market value, Walmart has grown to become one of
the most valuable firms in the world by market value, and
topping the list of grocery stores in the United States (Hwang,
& Park, 2015).
For the past half-decade, the brick and mortar retail
establishments has experienced significant challenges. The
retail industry is not declining, it is maturing with the
advancement of technology. The economic experts, marketers
and the shoppers believe that the operations of brick and mortar
retail stores are going the way of dinosaurs. However, the retail
industry has manifested continued resilience and therefore it
deserves more credit than it is getting currently (Pantano, et al.
2014). Data-driven shopping experiences, personalized mobile
experiences and emerging mobile shopping technologies like
iBeacon are giving brick- and mortar retail shops a second look.
The future of the retail industry will largely depend on how the
physical stores can coexist with and adjust to their digital
counterparts (Pantano, et al. 2014).
Now, benefits of the digital world and the lines between the
physical shopping experiences are converging to create new
retail experience based on excitement, convenience and ease.
There exists four trends in the retail industry which is likely to
12. make the future of the industry brighter for Walmart and other
companies operating along this line. Firstly, it is important to
consider all-inclusive mobile shopping experiences (Pantano, et
al. 2014). The emergence of personalized shopping trips and
mobile apps are changing retail. The digital personal concierges
are used in welcoming shoppers into stores; with some stores
using the iBeacon technology to as a form of digital messaging
to guide purchases to their favourite goods and services,
alerting them of the new deals and discounts (Pantano, et al.
2014). Mobile shopping apps are increasingly improving the
area of customer service.
Through tablet devices or mobile, sales representative are able
to respond to questions immediately, construct customized
shopping experience and pull up buying histories of customers
that is profitable for the store and convenient for the customers.
The second component of the retail industry making it mature is
digital advertisements sent to the passers-by. Soon, retailers
will start targeting people with digital messages as they walk by
their retail stores (Pantano, et al. 2014). For instance, if a man
passes by men’s grooming store stocked with products
appealing to him, an in-app or email alert can use his past
purchasing habits to notify him of some other products currently
being sold. For customers, personalized advertisements of these
forms are likely to make the shopping experience more
convenient.
Smart shelving and 3-D holograms are making the retail
industry more mature than what we have seen in the past
(Pantano, et al. 2014). Advanced holograms assist the customers
in better visualization of the upcoming products, Retail stores
strategically position the eye-catching 3-D renderings in glass
windows and at checkout counters to engage the customers at
higher levels. For instance, the technology-based intelligent
shelving by Intel positions prominent digital displays close to
new products to increase awareness amongst the customers. The
13. displays are updated easily to move products efficiently before
their sell-by dates. This innovation can help retail stores
improve sales and revenue on several products.
Lastly, the improved self-checkout experiences are improving
the maturity of the retail industry. When the self-checkout
kiosks were introduced by grocery stores, they got it right there.
The tactic can continually be used on larger scales in several
other retail verticals. For instance the EasyPay self-mobile
checkout by Apple is an important innovation that is helping
revolutionize the customers’ experiences as they grow in their
comfort using contactless payments (Sorace, Pantano, Priporas,
& Iazzolino, 2015, November). From these perspectives, the
future of the retail industry is not bleak. The brick- and-mortar
retail stores are continuing to combine the benefits of the digital
and physical world to become mature and hence gain positive
response from the loyal customers.
Using Porter’s National Diamond to evaluate the main
advantages and disadvantages of vertical integration versus
outsourcing for the company.
According to Michael Porter, a nation is able to create new
advanced factor endowments in the form of knowledge base,
culture, government support, strong technology and skilled
labor. The diamond used in illustrating the determinants of
national advantage by Porter represents the national play filed
that nations establish for their nations (Fainshmidt, Smith, &
Judge, 2016). The ingredients leading to national comparative
advantage are; the pressure on firms to invest and innovate; the
goals of individuals in business organizations; the availability
of skills and resources; and the information that organizations
use to decide which opportunities are to be pursued with those
skills and resources (Fainshmidt, Smith, & Judge, 2016).
The points of the diamond: factor conditions, demand
conditions, related and supporting industries and the firm
14. strategy, structure and rivalry. Using the diamond, vertical
integration should be largely used by Walmart where outside
industries are outsourced to provide services which can be
easily obtained if vertical integration is used (Fainshmidt,
Smith, & Judge, 2016).
Firstly, vertical integration is cost effective. Because of the
eliminated market transaction cost, implementing vertical
integration at Walmart will control costs using their own supply
and distribution strategies and channels. More importantly, by
setting the goods and services directly to the consumers without
third party involvement, Walmart is able to minimize the
distribution costs and hence increase their profits. Secondly,
vertical integration is important for Walmart since it is a
weapon against competition and the competitors. Components
business can be applied as a competitive weapon (Markusen, &
Xie, 2014). Using vertical integration, and according to Porters
force of threat of new entrants, high barriers can be set by
Walmart for those newly entering the market.
Thirdly, for Walmart, vertical integration is important because
of secured supply. With vertical control, Walmart is able to take
more control over the supply and distribution. When the
company outsources from other firms, several uncertainties
come up especially when the outsourcing company is also a
competitor. Once Walmart’s supply chain is controlled by itself,
it is able to ensure their own sufficient supply. The other
strength of vertical integration is its ability to allow for positive
differentiation. Positive differentiation can give Walmart access
to more process and retail channels, more production inputs and
distribution resources (Markusen, & Xie, 2014).
According to Porter, vertical integration based on the diamond
provides more competitive advantages. However, vertical
integration has weaknesses such as: capacity-balancing
challenges when Walmart needs to create excess upstream
15. capacity to ensure the downstream operations get sufficient
supply; decreased feasibility; can create barriers to market
entry; and requires extensive capital used in investment
(Markusen, & Xie, 2014). On the other hand, outsourcing
according to the pyramid, has some setbacks. Loss of
managerial control of the outsourced roles is top of the list.
Secondly, Walmart is likely to suffer hidden costs in the
implementation of outsourced roles (Markusen, & Xie, 2014).
The third challenge is that outsourcing can be a threat to
confidentiality and security especially on customer information.
Lastly, the outsourced roles can lack in quality.
The company’s strategic position as of 2013 using the Boston’s
Consulting Group’s growth-share matrix
The BCG Growth-Share Matrix is based on the observation that
Walmart’s business units can be classified into four categories
based on the combinations of market share and market growth
relative to the largest competitor (Palia, De Ryck, & Mak,
2014). The matrix framework is based on the assumption that an
increase in relative market share can result in an increase of the
generated cash. The assumption is true most of the time because
of the experience curve; when the relative market share
increases, it implies that Walmart is moving forward on the
experience curve relative to its competition, hence a cost
advantage is developed (Palia, De Ryck, & Mak, 2014).
Secondly, since the retail market is growing, investment is
required in the assets to increase capacity and hence lead to
consumption of cash. The strategic position of Walmart as of
2013 on the growth –share matrix provides an indication of its
cash consumption and cash generation. Since the retail store has
been investing in the market to become the market share leader
since its formation in the 1960s in a rapidly growing retail
market, its business unit’s move along the experience curve and
hence develop a cost advantage (Palia, De Ryck, & Mak, 2014).
The four categories of the matrix are: dogs, question marks,
16. stars and cash cows. Dogs have low growth rate and low market
share, and hence neither consume nor generate large cash
amounts.
As of 2013, Walmart business units were in this category.
Secondly, question marks grow rapidly and hence large amounts
of cash are consumed but since they have low market shares,
much cash is not generated. The net cash consumption is
therefore larger. Stars on the other hand generate large cash
amounts owing to their strong relative market shares, but large
amounts of cash are also consumed since the growth rate is
high; and therefore the cash in each direction nets out
approximately. As of 2013, the strategic position of Walmart
was that of cash cows (Palia, De Ryck, & Mak, 2014). Since
Walmart has been a leader in the mature retail market, it
exhibits a return on assessment that is larger than the market
growth rate.
Implementing strategies and Changes decision making, main
changes in planning structure and measures of success.
Decision making remains a key pillar of Walmart’s success, not
today, but even tomorrow. Therefore, effective changes should
be implemented aimed at improving results and efficiency of
operations both in the United States and other stores offshore.
Making effective decisions require the input of a lot of
information on the issue at hand. The management of the
organization should involve employees more regularly and
deeply in decision making process. Business analytics and
technology should also be integrated in the decision making
process.
The planning structure should be leaner and effective; and this
means incorporating best planning strategies such the teamwork
and development. The planning structure is very important for
the success of Walmart and hence it should be transparent,
invest in knowledge and skills. The planning structure should be
more focused on the philosophy of Walmart and the goals or
17. objectives of the organization. The other change is
incorporating the industry and environmental analysis of
Walmart into the planning structure and conducting a SWOT
analysis regularly. Measures of success include: financial
viability of Walmart, which can be determined by its
profitability; customer satisfaction which is indicated by
performance on customer satisfaction surveys; employee
satisfaction and the firm’s contribution to the society.
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PROJECT DELIVERABLE
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Project Deliverable
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Wal-Mart
Importance of innovation for the long term survival
Changes made by Wal-Mart will benefit the organization in
many ways. The three key innovations; generating zero waste,
selling products that will sustain resources of the environment
and using 100% renewable energy will help the organization to
remain at the top. The world is going green because of the
effects of global warming (Don, 2005). Each and every nation
has been advised by the United Nations to ensure that it tries to
use renewable energy and save the environment. The innovation
of Wal-Mart is timely, and it is likely to work to the advantage
of the organization.
Overall strategy to foster innovation
The overall strategy is to ensure that all products that are sold
by Wal-Mart are 100% natural. The approach will go a long way
in winning the trust of the customers and attracting more
customers. The emergence of diseases like cancer and
hypertension has boosted the demand for organic products and
therefore the strategy is likely to work.
Expected industry evolution over a period of five (5) and ten
(10) years
19. In the next five to ten years, Wal-Mart will still be one of the
most successful organizations globally. Currently, Wal-Mart is
the fourth private organization globally that has employed the
biggest number of employees. However, that is likely to change
in the next five to ten years. The innovation is likely to put the
organization in a more favorable position on the map of the
world.
Top advantage(s) over its competitors
i) A big number of customers
Wal-Mart is one of the organizations that have a big number of
clients who visit their stores on a regular basis. Statistics
indicate that Wal-Mart attends to at least 100,000,000
customers in a week. An organization that has a big number of
clients is likely to reach a big number of people in selling its
strategies thus having an advantage over the competitors. On
the other hand, Wal-Mart has a lot of outlets, and that means
that most of the customers can acquire products of Wal-Mart in
any place as long as there are Wal-Mart stores.
ii) Unique products
Wal-Mart offers products that are environmental friendly. In the
twenty-first century, people are trying to avoid products that are
rich in chemicals due to their effects on people's health. Wal-
Mart has ensured that products that leave its doors are not only
environment-friendly but also healthy for human consumption
(Berg, 2012). Other organizations have tried to go green like
Wal-Mart, but that has been impossible. The innovation of
ensuring that all products are free from chemicals is likely to
work to the advantage of Wal-Mart. Looking at the statistics;
most people are more interested in buying products that are
environmental friendly. Therefore, a big number of individuals
are likely to choose to shop at Wal-Mart than any other place
out there.
20. Strategies to use to exploit innovative breakthroughs
iii) Selling natural products
Advantages
i) Many customers will decide to buy from the organization than
from any other organization.
ii) The organization will receive favors from the agencies that
advocate for the selling of natural products.
Disadvantages
a) Getting reliable suppliers can be challenging and that will
affect that business.
b) Most of the natural products change in price now and then
and convincing the customers can be difficult (Berg, 2012).
iv) Extensive marketing
Advantages
i) Many people will get to know about the innovation of the
company.
ii) The number of customers is likely to increase thus increasing
the revenue.
Disadvantages
i) Extensive marketing is expensive.
ii) By marketing, the competitors get to know about the
strategies of the organization.
21. Strategies to exploit advantages over competitors and how to
minimize key weaknesses.
Selling natural products
The most suitable strategy that Wal-Mart can apply is ensuring
that all products sold are natural (Leshmik, 2011). Wal-Mart has
been in a scandal before whereby most of the customers
complained that the organization was not selling a hundred
percent natural products. If the organization made the same
mistake today, it would lose a lot of clients and trust from the
stakeholders. The company can ensure that it has produced
quality products by making sure that the suppliers observe the
standard of goods that the firm wants. If the company made sure
that all the products sold are natural and chemicals free,
customers would flock in its shops and a case of any
weaknesses; the customers will not have the time to observe it.
On top of that, the company will be ahead of its competitors
since it will have won the hearts of many customers.
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Leshmik. (2011). Wal-Mart- Innovation Case Study. Retrieved
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Don, S. (2005). The Wal-Mart Way. Nashville, Tennessee:
Thomas Nelson Publishers.
Berg, N. (2012). Wal-Mart: Key Insights and Practical Lessons
from the World’s Largest
Retailer. Philadelphia: Kogan Page Publishers.
Running head:INNOVATION AND COMPETITIVE ANALYSIS
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INNOVATION AND COMPETITIVE ANALYSIS
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Innovation and Competitive Analysis for Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
Name
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Innovation and Competitive Analysis for Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
The Porter’s Five Forces of Competition
To analyse the competition in the supply chain in the American
market, the use of the Porter’s Five Forces will be favored.
This is where the poser of the supplier, the buyer power, and the
competitive rivalry, threat of the substitute products and threats
of the new entry are analysed. Walmart is a retail juggernaut
that has overseen a continuous six-year upward surge and
recorded staggering grosses of over $486 billion in the
concluded fiscal year on January 2015. This was a $10 billion
increase from the amount recorded for the 2014 fiscal year. The
store giant has thousands of stores in the U.S alone, a factor
that has seen the firm move up the Gartner’s annual ranking to
13th in the list of the best performing supply chain
organizations. The greatest weapon that has been put to use by
Walmart is its ability to engage in mammoth purchasing
business hence shaping the behavior of its suppliers and
subsequently pushing the costs down (Michaux, Cadiat, &
Probert, 2015). The last few decades have seen Walmart rise to
take the leading centre stage due to its unmatchable supply
chain management that has enabled it to continuously have an
improvement when it comes to investing millions of USD into
the emerging technologies. This has enabled the store to capture
a good portion of the e-commerce market. The rise of the
Walmart store is directly attributed to three very strong
elements shown buy the organization. They include, being in
23. total control over its own fleet of trucks; strict practices when it
comes to distribution; and the use of technology.
Two innovative and technology trends that Wal-Mart Stores,
Inc. or its competitors introduced
The Walmart Stores using the strength of the internet to
help it with connecting online. The organization has gone all
out by embracing the use of technology so as to develop
adequate understanding of the possible shift they have been
recorded in the technological industry and in retail. A greater
portion of the technology being used by the organization has
been split into two distinct parts. We have the Walmart
Technology that has Bentonville as its base and oversees
building and the technology for management for the
organizational, stores. On the other side, Global eCommerce,
that is situated in Silicon Valley, which is in charge of the
development of the e-commerce technologies and is in charge of
running the sites.
In terms of innovation, Walmart is known for the
milestone acquisitions when it comes to technology. In fact, the
organization has overseen a staggering 12 acquisitions over the
last three years only. This has enabled the organization to
develop a competitive advantage over its rivals thin the
industry. For instance, acquiring the Vudu streaming video
service was a milestone on innovative skills that was shown by
the organization in the general practise. Through this, the
organisation has been able to maintain feasibility and expected
market impact by firms. Further, cementing the position of
Walmart as the leading retail store in the whole world.
Assessment of the situations for the company (Capabilities and
resources)
One of the most significant capabilities that the
24. organization has shown over the last couple of years is its
ability to bring in fresh blood into its mainstream. This has
enabled it to incorporate fresh talent and hence leading to an
improvement on the product quality for the organization.
Further, the use of Torbit by the organization has enabled the
acceleration of its website and ensure that the site is made
faster. The use eCommerce business has overseen an increase
of sales in the organization by USD billion in this financial year
alone. This is a staggering 3% of all the sales being used by the
organization, while the general eCommerce accounts for about
10% of the whole of the retail.
Whether the company’s organizational structure supports or
impede its ability to innovate and be a successful company
The structure used by Walmart greatly supports its bid
to be the leading retail store in the whole of the United States.
The greatest goal that the firm has had for quite a while is to
ensure that the customers are engaged in the best way possible
regardless of whether they are engaging on online stores or off
it. This is facilitated by the ability of the organization to
incorporate the Data Café that is very fundamental ensuring that
the whole process is achieved. This is an appreciation for
Collaborative Analytics Facilities for Enterprise, that allows for
enhance analytics, like the recent focus that has been shown on
the data visualizations regarding Sam’s Club.
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