Communication
1. Select a business with which you are familiar, such as a past or current employer, or NAU. 2. Under the heading Formal Communications, list at least two examples of each of the following communication channels: downward communication, upward communication, and horizontal communication.
American Government II GP215.
The American people express a relatively high degree of confidence in the military as an institution yet express less confidence in Congress than in other major institutions. Could people be holding various institutions to different standards, and if so, what might these standards be?
Juvenile Justice CJ303.
Enter the terms "delinquency theories" into a search engine. Select a site of interest to you and review the material presented. In a 2-3 page paper, compare and contrast the information on the website to the information presented in your textbook. Be sure to cite your resource(s), use APA style formatting.
Week 8: Informational Interview
Compile a list of individuals in your target career field whom you would like to interview. Try to identify people who are working at a company in which you are interested. This is a good opportunity to practice your networking skills. Let your classmates, friends, family members, and colleagues know that you need to complete an informational interview with someone in your intended career field. You’ll be amazed at how effective networking can be.
BUS 599 Assignment 2: Executing Strategies in a Global Environment
• Analyze Federal Express’s value creation frontier, and determine which of the four building blocks of competitive advantage the company needs in order to continue to maintain above-average profitability. Provide a rationale to support the response. • Determine the main aspect of product differentiation and capacity control that Federal Express could use in order to maintain an edge over its rivals. Justify the response. • Assess the efficiency of Federal Express’s current business model, and recommend one (1) new business-level strategy that gives the company a competitive advantage over its rivals. Provide a rationale for the recommendation. • Examine the manner in which overall global competition may impact the new business strategy that you recommended in Question 3. Next, suggest one (1) significant way that Federal Express may confront its global competition. • Use at least three (3) quality academic resources in this assignment. Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements: • Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions. • Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.
GP215 Lobbyists
About half of the paid lobbyists in Washington are former government staff members or former members of Congress. Why would interest groups employ such people? Why might some reformers want to limit the ability of interest groups to employ them? On what basis might an interest group argue that such limits are unconstitutional?
CJ303 Life Imprisonment for Juveniles
When Terrence Graham was 16 years old he was convicted of armed burglary and attempted armed robbery. He served a 12 month sentence and was released. Six months later Mr. Graham was tried and convicted by a Florida state court of armed home robbery and sentenced to life in prison without parole. On appeal, he argued that the imposition of a life sentence without parole on a juvenile, on its face, violated the Eighth Amendment and moreover constituted cruel and unusual punishment, and thus violated the Eighth Amendment. The District Court of Appeal of Florida disagreed. It held that Mr. Graham's sentence neither was a facial violation of the Eighth Amendment nor constituted cruel and unusual punishment.
CJ303 Death Penalty for Juveniles
Your textbook gives you several U.S. Supreme Court cases that have been decided involving questions of executions of juveniles. These cases have been especially significant in providing a legal foundation for such executions. In no more than 3 pages, should juveniles be subject to the death penalty. Use a case(s) from your textbook to support your answer as well as 3 additional outside resources, use APA style formatting.
Discouraged Workers and the Economy
A “discouraged worker” is an individual without a job who has a desire to work; however, the worker has not actively searched for a job within the last six months, because the worker believes that there are no jobs available. Such a worker is not included in the official unemployment count. Consider a scenario where discouraged workers are now included in the official unemployment rate during a recessionary period in the economy. Which of the three types of unemployment—frictional, structural, or cyclical—do you believe that these unemployed workers would most closely qualify for? How about during a period of economic expansion? Explain your answers and include examples.
Supply, Demand, and Government in the Markets
Questions: 1. Using Microsoft Excel, draw a graph illustrating the supply and demand in this market. 2. What is the equilibrium Price and Quantity in the market? 3. Now suppose the government imposes a special tax on these computers. Describe what would happen in this market in terms of the supply and demand curve. 4. Disregard the new tax in part three. Now assume that the government imposes a price ceiling of $100 in this market, as a result of protests of price gouging by the sellers. What would happen to the price and quantity in this market? 5. Disregard the events of part four. Assume that the manufacturers of this product lobby the government’s lawmakers, in terms of this product being an essential for college students but they are considering halting production due to the lack of profits. The lawmakers agree and now set a price floor at $150. What would happen in this market? 6. If consumers’ expectations were such that they were concerned about the economy and jobs, what would you think would happen in this market?