For this midterm essay exam you are required to answer all five (5) of the questions. Although there is no set word limit for these essay questions, you will be graded on your knowledge of the material and the detail with which you write your answers. You should take care to cite your sources in APA format and provide full references in a Works Cited list.

1. Modern astronomy basically begins with the re-emergence of the heliocentric view of the universe by Copernicus. Who were the four other major contributors to the development of modern astronomy after Copernicus? Explain what those contributions were. Finally, why did it take so long for the geocentric view of the universe to be overthrown and what does that tell us about scientific research and our society, even today?
2. Explain the relationship of geography to other scientific disciplines. What is a good definition for geography or the geosciences in general? What are the strengths and weaknesses of geography as a discipline and how do you think that has influenced its development, or lack thereof?
3. Weather and climate are separate, but related, terms. Provide a definition of each and then give an example of a concept related to both weather and climate. Additionally, since they are important issues when dealing with the subject of climate today, what is the greenhouse effect and global warming? Are they the same thing? If not, how are they different? What influence would global warming have on “nature” and our lives?
4. Explain the pressure gradient force, the Coriolis Effect and the frictional force and their effects on the direction and speed of air at the surface and aloft in the atmosphere. Describe the wind and pressure systems (surface and aloft) that exist in the zone from the Equator to the North Pole in the Northern Hemisphere. There is a close relationship between atmospheric pressure patterns, wind zones and precipitation patterns. The global map of total annual rainfall shows great differences in precipitation received from place to place. Using at least 3 reasons, explain why this is so.
5. Compare/contrast the Mediterranean (Csa) climate found along the coast of southern California and the humid subtropical (Cfa) climate found in South Carolina. Considering that comparison, also explain why the western United States has dramatically different climates from the eastern United States. An important consideration when considering climate and climatic change today is the role of El Nino. Explain the ocean/atmosphere changes that take during an El Nino/ENSO cycle and the effects these changes have on our lives and societies. Be sure to submit your essay exam using the APA writing style

“This Is What It Means To Say Phoenix, Arizona”
by Sherman Alexie

You will argue that your interpretation and
evaluations of a text are valid ones, and you will use the text itself as evidence to prove your argument. To accomplish this, you need to prove your points by briefly summarizing and quoting from the short story, “Phoenix, Arizona.” This does not mean you should summarize great chunks of the work in your own essay. Focus on how and why the elements of the story work together, not on what sequence of events is given within the story. Remember, one of your first tasks is to narrow this topic down to a manageable main idea and thesis.

Is the ending of “Phoenix, Arizona” an optimistic or pessimistic one? Argue your interpretation, and be sure to define how you are defining optimistic or pessimistic. Are there indications in the text that the characters will change, or does the text show they
will stay the same? Use the words of the story as evidence for your analytical argument.

The critical thinking outcome will be met by your change leadership paper. It will be a
critical reflection on change leadership considering the leader’s knowledge, skills and
abilities required for leading change at the team level, with stated implications at the
individual and organizational levels.

9-10-page paper (excluding cover page and
reference page) will have the appropriate use of APA style and format.

This is a two-part paper: In Part 1 you will focus on identifying and laying out a plan to
implement changes primarily at the team or department level, using Figure 8.1 of
Cheung-Judge and Holbeche (2015). You will also include how it will affect the
individuals involved and the organization as a whole. Because the leader’s knowledge,
abilities and skills are essential to a successful change, include those in your analysis.

Part 2 will be your reflection: Now that you have laid out your plan, where are there
gaps in your thinking? What could go wrong that you have not thought about? Lastly,
include how you will bring about this change.

Part 2 will be your reflection: Now that you have laid out your plan, where are there
gaps in your thinking? What could go wrong that you have not thought about? Lastly,
include how you will bring about this change.

References
Cheung-Judge, M., & Holbeche, L. (2015). Organization Development : A Practitioner’s Guide for OD and HR. London: Kogan Page.

Buono, A. F., Jamieson, D., & Barnett, R. C. (2016). Consultation for Organizational Change Revisited. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.

3 different memos within this paper answer 3 questions in memo format

To: Consulting Team Expert
From: CEO
Re: ACI Case Study

We have been approached by a new startup company “Attitude Clothing, Inc.”, (or ACI), which has an innovative new line of business clothing that reflects a person’s mood. Their research and development department has teamed up with expert mood psychologists to create clothing of a certain color, material, and design which will reflect a person’s attitude and mood. ACI also manufactures the “AT-ME”, which is a specially designed attitude meter that determines a person’s attitude, and suggest the appropriate clothing to be worn that day.

ACI’s marketing campaign is “Wear your attitude on your sleeve”. ACI is promoting this clothing as a way to increase better communication among workers because co-workers will know just by looking at someone how to approach them. ACI’s business strategy is to provide high quality customer service along with this unique product. ACI recognizes that this high end product comes with a high price tag, and wants its employees to create a service-oriented atmosphere for which customers are willing to pay.

Consequently, ACI’s sales staff is essential to its success as the sales staff must be highly motivated to get the unique product off the ground. I am bringing you in as an expert to create a system for ACI’s sales staff that motivates them and creates a competitive advantage over other clothing lines to assure ACI’s success. I will give you a good amount of latitude to create this system. Market competitive salaries have already been established, but ACI has decided to allocate 10 percent of the company’s profits for you to use in the system you create to motivate the sales staff in any way you see fit.
Directions:

Working individually, please discuss the following questions, and then draft a memo to me with your suggestions. The memos should be one paragraph in length and be numbered Memo #1, Memo #2, and Memo #3. Remember to identify and apply the material from the text when answering the questions and use heading to correspond to the questions.

What behaviors would you advise ACI to look for in hiring ACI’s sales staff?

What goals would you set for the sales staff, given your answer to number 1?

What types of reward systems would you advise ACI to set up to reward the behaviors and goals you have outline? Discuss in detail 4 types of reward systems, and explain why you chose these.

Provide a title page with your name and date.
Your content should include 600 words, and use a double-spaced Times New Roman font.
You should include headings, topic sentences, and the inclusion of the weekly learning.
Citations and references should be APA compliant.
Review the rubric for my specific expectations and completely answer all of the questions
Provide at least one quality reference and it cannot be your text book.

write an essay that compares and/or contrasts. Your essay’s focus needs to be on theme and setting and/or characterization; your essay’s focus will depend on which prompt you choose.

(The lessons in Unit 2 will walk you through how to write this essay. Carefuly review all the content in this unit first before writing the essay.)

You may choose one of the following prompts:

1. Compare/contrast Mary in “Lamb to the Slaughter” to one of the women in “A Jury of Her Peers” (Minnie Foster, Mrs. Hale, or Mrs. Peters — or possibly all three), paying particular attention to theme as well as setting and/or characterization, and make an argument about justice and the role of gender.

2. Compare/contrast the parent/child relationships in “Everyday Use” and “Marriage Is a Private Affair,” paying particular attention to theme as well as setting and/or characterization, and make an argument about the conflicts that can exist between generations.

3. Compare and/or contrast the grandmother in “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” and Mathilde in “The Necklace,” paying particular attention to theme as well as setting and/or characterization, and make an argument about the pitfalls of pride.

Again, Unit 2 will cover, in detail, how to write a comparison/contrast essay. In brief, “an essay in comparison and contrast shows how two works are similar to and different from each other” (Abcarian and Klotz 57).

For this particular essay, you must demonstrate your understanding of characterization, setting, and/or theme, which we will also cover in this unit.

Your essay must be between 750-1000 words and adhere to MLA formatting. It needs to quote directly from your chosen text(s) for support, but it should not use any secondary research.

Keep in mind that the comparison/contrast essay should not just summarize the story or stories, nor should it just state how two things are alike and/or different: the essay should move beyond that and also present an original opinion or argument based on those similarities/differences, as you see them.

1. Summarize main ideas from To Err is Human executive summary and write it down in your own words
To Err is Human was the first report from the committee first report and it mainly focused on the quality issues. The report indicated as a result of human errors, thousands of Americans die each year as they receive care while hundreds of thousands suffer or barely escape non-fatal injuries that can be prevented under a truly high-quality care system. The report emphasized the importance of redesigning the existing health care structure and adopt the new ones that can enhance the realization of quality healthcare services that mitigate the issues that result in human errors in healthcare. The report reflected on safety in the healthcare services where it established both the patient and the workers are at risk of injuries and deaths (Committee on Quality of Health Care in America, Institute of Medicine, 2001). For instance, it indicated that 6000 Americans workers die due to workplace injuries with medication errors alone occurring whether in or out of the hospital contributing to more than 7000 deaths yearly.
The errors conducted in health care are very expensive in terms of opportunity costs in terms of the money spent to conduct diagnostic tests, purchasers and patients pay for errors when insurance costs and component are inflated by services that would not have been spent, if the proper care was offered in the first place. In this consideration, the committee felt the importance of drafting the second report that focuses on the key issues that need to be improved for perfect health care services that reduce the number of errors that results in costly issues at later stages such as death and funding for the medication afresh. The Err is Human led to the second report that purposes to highlight the different activities that needed to be upheld for improvement in American health delivery system to be realized as a whole.

2. What are the Six Domains of Healthcare Quality as outlined in the IOM report, Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century

The six domains of healthcare quality as reflected in the IOM report include safety, patient-centered, timeliness, efficiency, equity, and efficiency. The IOM recommended fundamental changes in health care and emphasized the 21st-century healthcare be based on the aforementioned domains. In the case of safety, the IOM emphasizes a healthcare profession is expected to avoid hurting the patients from the care that is anticipated to help them recover. Timelines domain emphasizes the reduction of waiting and harmful delays, efficiency stresses on avoiding waste while accountability guarantees all the peoples’ quality care despite their color, geographic location, socioeconomic status and the gender among other characteristics. Effectiveness domain emphasizes on the importance of providing health care services based on scientific knowledge to all the people who are likely to benefit and avoid providing services to individuals who are not likely to benefit as a way to avoid overuse and underuse (Committee on Quality of Health Care in America, Institute of Medicine, 2001). Patient-centeredness expects the healthcare professionals to provide care that is respectful of and responsive to individual patient preferences, values, and needs.
The IOM report emphasized the importance of all the stakeholders such as the policymakers, purchasers, health care trustees, consumers, providers and management among others, to be guided by the six domains as an attempt to realize the health care that matches the 21st century. The improvement of the stakeholders will lead to the realization of health care services that are desired by all people in the society. The needed health care should not hurt and at the same time fail to deliver the expectations or the potential benefits to the people. In this consideration, it remains important to uphold the current technology to provide the assistance that is needed by the society and the entire country to achieve quality health care services. There are various issues that need to be changed in the health care system such as its structure to enable the realization of efficiency where all the resources are considerably utilized for the effectiveness of resources.

No. Quiz Example ( in Healthcare if possible)
3. What are the 8 lean wastes?

1. —-Transportation
2. —-Waiting
3. —-Overproduction
4. —-Defects leading to rework
5. —-Not utilising skilled talent
6. —-Inventory
7. —-Motion
8. —-Extra processing
Transportation in cases of moving of medical equipment from one ward to another during treatment, waiting as patients wait to get treated by a doctor, overproduction as in requiring patients to do unnecessary tests in the lab, defects leading to rework an example is surgeries done wrong and would thus require correctional procedures, lack of use of skilled talent such as nurses required to clean hospital wards, inventory lean waste where medicine expires due to overstocking, motion when a patient has to be moved to a separate hospital for specialized treatment and extra processing collecting many blood tests that are more than is required from the patient (Hearn, n.d.)
4. What does complacency mean?
(With clarification or example why it’s dangerous for Quality in organisation )

This is when nurses or health practitioners feel satisfied with their situation or abilities that prevents them from growing their skills. It is dangerous since lack of growth means in case of challenges and pressing situations chances of errors are high.

Health practitioners become reluctant to improve their knowledge and skills in practice.

The topic has three subcategories to narrow it down in detail to the specific element of Branding.

First I want to discuss briefly about the the History of online crowdfunding and its most common used types and further only focusing on the reward based crowdfunding. This all should not exceed more than 3 pages

Second is the importance of branding for crowdfunding. Its definition, Importance and use of branding in digital media. And also defining social media and using social media as a branding tool.

Third one is the core part of the research and its Importance of storytelling. This is the main sub chapter of the theoretical framework Including definition, history and its importance for crowdfunded projects.

There is specific writing style used by my university which I can send later also the additional docs which includes already written part of thesis plan.

I need a potential writer who has an idea and have an experience of writing on this specific topic.

Read the vignette below about Dr. Lance and Mr. Battin Your objective for the essay is to answer the question, What morally right action should Dr. Lance perform?
In your essay, you will give an argument for the action that you judge to be the morally right one for Dr. Lance to take, all things considered. You will explain your reasons for your judgment, using relevant moral theories, bioethical principles, and any evidence you discover in your research.
You will be evaluated not on what action you chose, but rather according to how well you thoroughly develop your argument.
You should write in the first person.
Your essay should be in the range of 1,000-1,250 words.
VIGNETTE1

Dr. Lance and Mr. Battin
After Lorine Lance, Pharm.D, counseled Ferris Janowski, an elderly patient, about his three cardiac maintenance medications, she was surprised by Mr. Janowski’s final question, “Would you please open these prescriptions and count them for me so that I know I’m getting what I paid for? There was a letter in my favorite advice column last night that told about how you can get shorted on your prescriptions, so I just want to make sure all the pills are there. No offense meant, you understand. I just can’t afford to pay for pills and not get them.”

1 Adapted from Robert Veach, Amy Haddad, and Dan English, Case Studies in Bioethics (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015).
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Mr. Janoski’s prescriptions had been filled by the owner of the pharmacy, Glen Battin, R.Ph., who would not be in for several hours. Dr. Lance decided to humor Mr. Janowski and opened the first bottle. To her dismay, the prescription was four tablets short. She made up the difference. The remaining two prescriptions were also short by the same amount—four pills each. Dr. Lance remedied the shortage in these two and returned all three prescriptions to Mr. Janowski. “I guarantee you that these are filled accurately and fully,” Dr. Lance told Mr. Janowski as she handed him his medications.
Mr. Janowski was not the only patient with concerns about shortages that day. Evidently, several patients were prompted by the newspaper article to count their pills and found less than there should have been. Dr. Lance took numerous calls from angry patients and tried to determine if the caller might have miscounted, lost a pill, or took more than they should have–all reasons that the prescriptions could appear short. She noted that all of the prescriptions that patients claimed were shorted were for maintenance drugs and that Mr. Battin had filled them.
When Mr. Battin arrived at the pharmacy, an exhausted Dr. Lance told him about what she had discovered and the number of dissatisfied patients that called to complain about shortages. She was certain Mr. Battin would have a reasonable explanation. He stated, “It’s really a shame that advice column printed that letter. We’ll have to stop shorting maintenance prescriptions for a while until people get over the excitement and the need to count every prescription.”
Dr. Lance could not believe what she was hearing. “You mean that you have been shorting prescriptions?” Mr. Battin shrugged, “Just the maintenance prescriptions and only on the higher- end products. People don’t miss three or four pills a month and the pharmacy recoups a steady amount. Besides, they always come in for a refill before they run out, so the patients aren’t harmed. Plus, most people are covered by insurance.”
Dr. Lance would have to think about what to do now.

Project 1 – Major – Marketing Application

Developing a Marketing Plan

The marketing plan you develop for this Major Project should use an all-inclusive (holistic) approach for a company’s specific product or service. Think and write in a more inclusive manner (i.e., traditional marketing, network marketing, print, radio, television, web-based, app-based, social media, etc.).

For example, do not focus solely on social media marketing as you did in Minor Project 2, but focus on additional marketing strategies which may be more applicable to the selected business, organization, or specific product or service.

You need to invest the time to format this as a professionally-prepared and visually-appealing proposal. It is strongly recommended that you use graphs, charts, diagrams, photos, and other visual images which best communicate the content of this project.

Each of these projects are for you to formally present, or for presentation to CEO’s, CFO’s, and COO’s who don’t typically take a lot of time to read long narratives. They want the facts and to comprehend the document in the most efficient and effective manner possible.

Content/Format: Using the outline below, produce a marketing plan for a product or service of your choice. You are encouraged to use the business you have been working with for minor project 1 and minor project 2. Use the applicable prior research data and information where appropriate in the outline below. This can also be your future business product/service, your current business product/service, the product/service for the business where you currently work, a friend’s business product/service, or another business with whom you have contact.

Make sure your marketing plan has ALL of the headings below. Points are deducted if sections are left out.

Cover Page

Table of Contents (Using Word TOC Command)

Executive Summary

Introduction

Brief Company History, Purpose, Mission, Vision

Brief Product/Service Description

Product/Service Goals & Strategic Objectives

1. Market Research

Current Market Situation

Industry Trends

Industry Analysis

2. Product/Service Description

3. Customer Identification & Description for Product/Service

Consumer/Customer identification & Description

Demographics

Psychographics

Consumer/Customer Analysis

4. Current Competitive Situation

Competitor Analysis

5. Distribution Channels

6. SWOT Analysis

Strengths

Weaknesses

Opportunities

Threats

Converting the Weaknesses to Strengths

Converting the Threats to Opportunities

7. Marketing Strategies

Positioning

Product

Pricing

Distribution

8. Communication Strategies

Advertising

Public Relations

Promotion

Communication Plan

Crisis Management Plan

9. Marketing Budget (Based on the proposed marketing/advertising activities included in this marketing plan)

Sales projections (for 12 months)

Expense projections (for 12 months)

Financial Analysis

10. Implementation Strategy

Action Plan and/or Next Steps

Media plan

Schedule (Gantt Chart)

Assignments (Who does what when)

11. Evaluation Method(s)

How do you know if your marketing plan is working?

Lead tracking systems

Sales reviews

Other

12. References, Bibliography

13. Appendices

There is no length limit on this major project. It needs to be as long as it needs to be. This project is estimated to take 20 hours. You may need six hours of reading in addition to the two hours of reading for the period still available. You should spend another six hours thinking through the sections.

Be sure to demonstrate your knowledge of marketing strategy. Set clear SMART objectives.
Show how the strategies relate to the objectives. Show how you will measure results.
Use the remaining eight hours of the allotted time to write the report.
Make the report a professional polished document.
NOTE: Failure to submit Major Project 1 will result in an overall score of 0 for Major Project 1, and will prevent the professor from submitting a passing grade for this course.

For this project, you will take on the role of a nurse practitioner treating a patient with a chronic condition. Your patient is not completely satisfied with the treatments you’ve tried and asks about a specific alternative therapy. Unfamiliar with these sorts of therapies, you decide to do some research before making recommendation. In this case, you get to decide what condition your patient has and which intervention he or she is interested in trying. Your objective is to determine whether or not you would recommend the regular treatment either alone or in combination with alternative treatment. The paper should not be more than 4 pages excluding the title page and references. APA format is required with a professional paper.