Argumentative Essay

The thesis statement and essay should be derived from the question below.

Using Geoffrey Parker’s Western Way of War thesis, which element or elements best explain the evolution of modern war between 1648 and 1941? What are the implications of your answer for the US military in the 21st Century?

The essay should address the everything below as it pertains to the evolution of war between 1648 and 1941.

1. The Western Way of Way
a. Reliance on technology
b. Aggressive military tradition – Decisive victory
c. Discipline
d. Innovation – doctrinal adaptation – Punctuated Equilibrium
e. Finance – who pays / drives creation of states > long term credit

Revolutions in Military Affairs (RMA)
Military Revolutions (MA)

Westphalia
Fredrick The Great
Gustav Adolphus / Maurice of Nassau
Napoleon Bonaparte / French Revolution
Decline of Napoleon
Clauswitz’s On War / Trinity
Jomini’s Concepts of warfare
Prussian / German RMA
WW I
WW I and Combined Arms Wars

Use the Following Sources:
Dynamics of Military Revolution – Knox & Murray
Makers of Modern Military Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age – Peret
The Cambridge History of Warfare – Parker
On War – Carl Von Clausewitz

respond the following (4) Discussion posts by either agreeing or disagreeing and why. Use 100 words and two sources each.Discussion 4:
Contractual Entry Modes
Contractual entry modes provide options for companies to enter international markets. Discuss the different options. What are the pros and cons of each?
Companies that do not have a tangible product and that need to market their unique and specially designed assets and skills can enter international markets by a variety of contracts. These contracts can be in the form of licensing, franchising, management contracts, and turnkey projects.
Licensing involves one company (the licensor) granting another company (the licensee) the right to use their specially designed assets or skills for a specified period of time to produce a finished product. Another form of licensing is cross licensing. Cross licensing is when companies use licensing agreements to exchange intangible property with one another. (Wild & Wild, 2016) A couple of advantages of using licensing is that it can be used by licensors to finance their international expansion and it also can be used as a method to upgrade existing production technologies. It also helps to reduce risks that the licensor may face when operating in unstable markets. Disadvantages to licensing include restricting the licensor’s future activities and reducing the global consistency of quality and marketing of the licensor’s product.
Franchising involves the practice of one company (the franchiser) supplying another (the franchisee) with intangible property and other assistance over time. An example of this is starting a fast food franchise like McDonald’s. One advantage of franchising is that its a low-cost, low-risk entry mode into a new market. Another advantage is that it allows for rapid expansion into other geographical locations. Some disadvantages of franchising is that it can be cumbersome to manage many franchisees in different national markets and it also lessens franchisees’ organizational flexibility.
Management contracts is the practice by which one company supplies another with managerial expertise for a specific period of time. (Wild & Wild, 2016) Some advantages of management contracts are that it reduces the risk to its physical assets while exploiting an international business opportunity. It can also help develop the skills of local workers and managers and also helps nations finance projects and investments. Some disadvantages of management contracts are that it puts the supplier’s personnel at risk and it can create a competitor by giving expert suppliers the opportunity nurture that new competitor.
Turnkey projects are the last contractual entry modes. Turnkey projects is the practice by which one company designs, constructs, and tests a production facility for a client firm. Turnkey projects are usually large-scale projects that involve government agencies. An advantage of turnkey projects is that it allows firms to specialize in their core competencies and take advantage of opportunities that they couldn’t do by themselves. Another advantage is gives nations the opportunity to obtain designs for infrastructure from the world’s leading companies. A couple of disadvantages are that turnkey projects may be granted to the company with the best political connections for political reasons instead of being based on its technological knowledge. Turnkey projects can also create future competitors.
References
Wild, J. J., & Wild, K. (2016). International Business The Challenges of Globalization (8th ed.). Pearson Education.

respond the following (4) Discussion posts by either agreeing or disagreeing and why. Use 100 words and two sources each.

Discussion1:
When it comes to relationships at work things can be hard. In order to make things work out there has to be an understanding and lots of compromising. Good relationships at work will help you get along well with people and help you to do your job better. Showing respect, understanding the feelings of others, having a good attitude, and knowing have to actively listen are all ways to establish and manage good relationships in the workplace (7 Interpersonal, 2017). Strong relationships with the people you work with will help you succeed in the workplace. If things are made difficult when trying to work together as a team nothing gets accomplished and it makes the task ten times harder. If one is not able to work together this makes it hard for the company to be successful because when there are problems with workers within the company there work is affected and this leads to a problem with production within the company. One a relationship is established with an individual and you learn a person you know how to act when in the presence of that person. You know how to handle different situations when they arise. One has to know that they cannot handle everyone the same way. Once you learn an individual it becomes easier to give direction and work with that person.

Reference

7 Interpersonal & Social Skills for the Workplace. (2017, April 30). Retrieved from https://www.conovercompany.com/7-interpersonal-social-skills-for-the-workplace/

Promote an Innovative Product/Service within the
organization you work
This week you are assigned to prepare an assignment that shows evidences of the
understanding on how to promote innovation and creativity within an organization.
Describe a new product/service that it is promoted into the organization you work
following the steps below:
– How you promote your idea internally (e.g. meetings, presentation, providing
information)
– Is it easily acceptable by your employer/manager/colleagues
– Try to convince them that this product/service will create a competitive
advantage in the market
– Refer to similar product/service that your competitors have
– How the competitors’ product can be considered as a Threat to your new
product/service
– How much will the whole procedure cost to the business?
– How the new product /service will influence the whole organization’s
environment?
– Conclusion
Note: Please use of scholar references and regular in-text citation in order to support
your documents. Make sure you are familiar with the APA Referencing System.
Words: 3000 (10% +/-)

Mongolia and WHO cooperation strategy 2017-2021

 

Introduction

According to Girum and Wasie (2017), maternal mortality is a significant public health issue in low middle income countries ( LMIC) because, 99% of maternal death is happening in those countries. One of them is Mongolia.

For definition, Maternal mortality is the death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and site of the pregnancy, from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management but not from accidental for incidental causes ( WHO, 2012). According to WHO, (2010), Maternal Mortality Rate(MMR) is 89.6 in 100,000 live births in 2007 in Mongolia. While, this number is decreased twice which was 44 in 100,000 live births in 2015 ( Central Intelligence Agency, 2017). The main reason for maternal mortality is classified two groups which is direct and indirect reasons and those are registered  as 52.5 % and 46.3% respectively in Mongolia(UNFPA, 2017). Also, this journal mentions that the main three direct causes for maternal mortality are septic condition  (24.2%), hemorrhage (17.7%) and preeclampsia (17.7%) and other causes should be remaining remaining percentage. This essay will argue that what approach has been implementing to reduce MMR, what is strengths and weakness for this approach and several possible recommendation about how to improve this approach.

To compare, Taft et.al ( 2015) said that MMR in Australia is 8.4 per 100,000 live births and this rate can show huge gap between LMIC (Mongolia) and developed country (Australia) and also this is why MMR should be consider in this work.

 

Current approach for reducing maternal mortality in Mongolia.

 

At this moment, the most effective and international standardised strategy for implementing reducing maternal mortality rate is “Mongolia- WHO cooperation strategy 2017-2021”. This strategy supports work towards achievement of the goals of the Mongolia Sustainable Development Vision 2030 (MSDV) which target of 30 maternal mortality per 100,000 live births by 2021 and this MSDV also support towards achievement of the goals of the  Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) global target of less than 70 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births globally by 2030.  SDG global target 2030 is based on Millenium Development Goal (MDG) 5 which project was intended for implementation for a reduction of 75% in the MMR between 1990 and 2015 including 183 countries and one of them was Mongolia where has implemented this goal extremely successful. This is because, According to WHO, (2010), Maternal Mortality Rate(MMR) is 89.6 in 100,000 live births in 2007 in Mongolia. While, this number is decreased twice which was 44 in 100,000 live births in 2015 ( Central Intelligence Agency, 2017).

According to WHO (2017), to implement this strategy, WHO has provided some support and Ministry of Health Mongolia is implementing such as:

• Effective public health interventions and best practices are extremely important to reduce maternal death. Therefore, more focus on these public health interventions
• To maintain capacity-building at primary , secondary and tertiary levels of health service and  prepare more complete and international standardised guidelines, protocols, standards of health services in order to increase the high quality of maternal care
• To maintain coordination and collaboration across priority programmes, in significantly for the preventable maternal mortality reasons.

In addition, Mongolia-WHO cooperation strategy has been continuously pursuing many important tasks, including the development of high qualified health care, the preparation of skilled medical practitioners and promotion and prevention diseases and these implementations will be bring extremely  positive results for reducing MMR.

 

 Strengths and Weaknesses for Mongolia-WHO cooperation strategy 2017-2021

The question prompt is: Based on the materials from class (see attached below), how convincing do you find the evidence and arguments for the costly signaling model. What are the strengths and weaknesses of this evidence? To what degree are you convinced that this model explains an important component of human social behavior? What additional evidence (experimental, sociological, anthropological, etc) would be particularly helpful for evaluating this model?
Aside from the documents provided (pls cite these, please find three additional sources to cite in answering the these questions as well). Please provide a reference page in the end. I have also attached another word document here called “discussions” is what the TA has said in our discussion board regarding the topic. Be sure to speak about the Nash Equilibrium and Proximate and Ultimate Explanations of thoughts and behaviors as these are recurrent themes in the class. I have attached a lecture slide on these. The writer might find these useful.

The manuscript (Article) is for publication in one of the international journals indexed with Scopus. Therefore, the manuscript should include followings:

1. The topic should be new and have something valuable that makes paper worthy for publication.
2. The article should include theoretical and empirical/practical parts.
3. Besides the Abstract and Introduction, the writer should include:
• Keywords
• Highlights
• Problems of the Study
• Significance of the Study
• Objectives of the study
• Hypotheses
4. Literature review (Previous studies tackled by other previous researchers about the same or similar study).The Writer should state how his study is different from the other ones tackled before, and how does it differ from the previous ones in the literature review.
5. In the practical part, the writer is kindly requested to specify the sample of the study included in the study. It also should include:
• Results
• Conclusions
• Implications
• Recommendations
6. The article should have a proper model of analysis upon which the entire study is based.
7. The practical part should include:
• Statistical methods
• Figures
• Tables with titles
• Equations
8. All the sources cited inside the manuscript body should be mentioned in the References section. All the sources have to be cited from top tier journals.
9. The manuscript should be identical to a format guide that will be uploaded upon the acceptance of handling the order by the author.

You will choose one topic on which to write. The paper should be at least four pages typed, double-spaced and use a 12 point font. You must include at least three resources as evidence of your research in a bibliography (No Wikipedia please).

1) Examine the influence of the Protestant Reformation on the art of Northern Europe. Choose at least two artists to use as examples.

2) Looking at the work of Michelangelo, examine how the changing politics and religious beliefs of the day affected his artistic output.

3) Using two to three artists as your examples, explain why the center of the art world shifted to New York after the two World Wars.

4) Using two artists as your examples, examine the difference in artistic approach between the Neo-Classicists and the Romantic artists of the late 18th and early 19th century.

The Structure of the proposal (please note that the study will be made in Australia so make sure that you explain the proposal in that sense and to state the data to be collected in Australia)

Introduction (you need to state what? Why? And how? Which will include the research questions)

Literature Review ( again how and why? and you will also have to literature on topic, literature on method, theoretical approach, find a hole and look for debates please be critical). The following are some suggestion of the headings and subheadings you should look for to explain the literature review.

• Financial liaison
  • brokers in the stock exchange
    • Realtor
    • Realtor agent
    • Lounge dealers
    • E-Brokers
  • Stock orders
  • Exchange pricing
  • The theories of the efficiency of financial marketing

Methodology (how? You will need to define the research design to be used, research procedures, kind of data, collection procedures, selection and access, ethic statement and hypothesis will be tested in this project (it has to be novel according to the gap in the literature). The following is in a equations it might be helpful for you to define the methodology and how you measure the data. You can use more than one equation.

E ( Pj,t+1|t)= Pj,t[ 1+E(Rj,t+1|t ]

E(r j,t+1 )= E(Pj,t +1|)- pjt

Preliminary Data (what? in this section you will need to define evidence of importance, informs methodology, important categories and relationships and limitations.

Conclusion ( a sum up of the proposal).

 

Sources might be helpful;

Bachelier, L. (2000). “Theory of Speculation“, In Cootner (1964) pp. 17-78  Encyclopedia,p294.

 

Cowles, A.(1933). “Can Stock Market Forecasters Forecast?”.Econometrica, 1, pp. 309-.423

 

Cowles, A. (1944). “Stock Market Forecasting”, Econometrica, 12, pp. 206-.412

 

Kendall, M. 1953. “The Analysis of Economic Time-Series-Part I: Prices”. Journal of the Royal

Statistical Society, Vol. 116, No.1, pp. 11–.43  , No. 2, pp.145-173

Osborne, M.F. 1959. “Brownian motion in the stock market”, Operations Research, Vol.

 

suggestions”. Journal of Finance, Vol. 14, No.1, pp. 1-

 

Roberts, H.V. 1959. “Stock-market patterns and financial analysis: methodological

Fama, E. (1965). “The Behavior of Stock Market Prices”, Journal of Business, 38, pp. 34-105.

Samuelson, P.A. 1965. “Proof that properly anticipated prices fluctuate randomly.” Industrial Management Review, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 41-.94

 

Fama, E. (1970). “Efficient Capital Markets: A Review of Theory and Empirical Work”, Journal of Finance, 25, pp. 383-417

 

Cootner, P. (ed.) (1964). The Random Character of Stock Market Prices, MIT Press. Copeland, Thomas and Dan Galai (1983). “Information Effects on the Bid- Ask Spread”, Journal of Finance, 38, pp. 1457-.9641

 

Shleifer.A, 2000 “inefficient markets :an introduction to behavioral finance”clarendon lecturesnin

economics,oxford.p2.

 

J¨urgen Huber, Michael Kirchler, Matthias Sutter “Is more information always better?Experimental financial marketswith cumulative information” Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Vol. 65 (2008) 86–104,p88

 

 

Search term – Middle office
Use at least 3 different search tools (OneSearch, Databases, Google, etc…)
Come up with a minimum of 5 search terms on your topic
Apply those search terms in a minimum of 3 different strategies
These may include use of Boolean Operators, quotation marks, subject headings, etc…
You will be expected to come up with a minimum of 5 sources using these tools. These sources may (but are not required to) include images to add to your stub.

If you choose to include images, no more than 2 of your first 5 sources may be images.

After retrieving your sources, you will write a reflective essay (3-4 pages, double-spaced). In this essay, consider the following questions:

Where did you look for sources and what did you find?
Which databases or tools did you use?
Why did you choose to use those specific databases or tools?
What type of materials did you find using each specific tool? (videos, images, articles, books, statistics, etc…)
What search terms did you use?
In what combinations did you use these terms?
Did you use Boolean operators, quotation marks, etc…
Which strategies or tools do you think provided you with the best results?
Why do you think those particular strategies or tools were effective?
Do you need more information/resources to complete your project?
If so, where do you think you will find the information or resources you still need.
This assignment is worth 220 points, or 10% of your total class grade.

You will be graded on the following criteria:

Clarity of writing (spelling, grammar, formatting)
Variety of search terms and strategies utilized to find resources (minimum of 5 terms and 3 strategies)
Retrieval of the minimum required number of sources on the topic (minimum of 5)
Reflection on what worked and why