compose an argumentative essay of between 500 and 875 words (2 to 3 pages) with a strong concluding paragraph. This essay should be well organized and should exhibit proper spelling and punctuation.

Choose a topic that you feel passionate about, and use it as the basis of an argumentative/persuasive essay. Based on the feedback you received in Discussion Forum 7, begin your essay with an engaging introduction that leads to a strong argumentative thesis statement.

Start by acknowledging and explaining points of view that may conflict with yours in order to build credibility and trust with your audience. In addition, state the limits of your argument. Support your thesis using sound, credible evidence. Use a balance of facts and opinions from a wide range of sources and clearly state and explain each piece of evidence. Your conclusion should effectively summarize the main argument and reinforce your thesis.

Remember to present a strong thesis statement in your introduction with relevant supporting details throughout the body. Include transitions to connect ideas in a logical format. End with a comprehensive conclusion restating the thesis.
Review the online writing sites as needed.
Before submitting your work, please proofread it for correct spelling, grammar, complete sentences and paragraphs, and clarity of expression.

you were instructed to submit a scholarly paper on the national and community mental health state.

1. The paper must recognize the current state of mental health at the national and community levels.
2. The role of the public health and psychiatric-mental health nurses in maintaining health and wellness of individuals with psychiatric-mental health disorders.
3. Resources available including but not limited to national and community mental health programs – what exactly do mental health organizations or agencies do to protect and care for this vulnerable population.
4. Do not forget to follow the APA format, in-text citations, and references. Your 7-page paper is excluding the cover page and reference page(s). Go to PurdueOWL to learn APA quickly :).

Read through the Case Study entitled “M&L Manufacturing” in Chapter 3 of your textbook. Examine the historical trend this company has experienced for the two products discussed.

Prepare weekly forecasts for the next four weeks for both products, describe the forecasting method you chose and explain why that forecasting method is best suited to the scenario. Explain why you did, or did not, choose the same forecasting method for each product. What are the benefits of using a formalized approach to forecasting these products?

Be sure to use at least two current, scholarly references beyond any required course readings. Current sources are those published within the most recent five-year period, and scholarly sources are those from peer-reviewed journals.

Stevenson, W. (2018). Operations management (13th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Irwin. ISBN-13:
9781259667473

Basing your answer on research evidence, assess whether early intervention is an effective and appropriate way of preventing youth offending and reoffending.

NOTE: in your assignment you should use a range of academic studies including journal articles, official reports and reports of independent research.
GUIDELINES FOR SUBMITTING ASSIGNMENTS:
• Essays must be submitted with the appropriate proforma at the lecture in week 7. You should complete the proforma before arriving at the lecture.
• All essays must be submitted to ‘Turnitin’ (JISC electronic plagiarism detection) by 4pm on the day of submission. To do this go to Blackboard Learn for this module, go to ‘assignment’. You will be given instructions from there on how to submit.
• You must keep an additional copy of the essay for yourself and retain the receipt from your proforma after submitting the work.
• Essays that are more than10% under or over the word limit will be penalised.
• Essays must be typed/word processed using 12pt font and 1.5 line spacing.
Hand-written essays will not be accepted.
• The Harvard Referencing System must be used and a reference list must be
provided. (Oxford may be used by Law or Politics students).
• Consult marking criteria for level 5 and proof read your essay prior to
submission.
• Include a title page with your name, degree, essay title and word count

Causal Analysis Essay

Assignment: Explain and argue the causes of a situation (an event, a phenomenon, or a trend) that interests you. Narrow your topic enough to treat it in some detail. When seeking causes, you must decide carefully between remote and immediate causes.

Purpose: The two main purposes for a Causal Analysis academic essay are:

• To prove a point
• To argue against a widely accepted belief

 

Topic: For this assignment, you have complete control of the topic of your essay, but your topic should not be general like abortion, gun control, the death penalty, global warming, etc. These are all weak topics unless you organize and focus them correctly for this paper. Here are some possible topics to consider, but you can choose your own:

What are the current top three causes of unemployment in Florida?

Why cheating in academics is on the rise at all levels of education.

What is causing the increase in college costs?

What is causing the average American couple to have children later in life than previous generations?

What are the immediate causes holding back the current 20-30 something generations from achieving the same levels of financial stability as their parents?

The cause of the spilt in favor of a particular political party (Republicans, Democratic etc.) in American politics.

Why students are choosing non-college based, trade careers in the current economy?

 

Research: In addition to simply arguing the causes for a topic, you will need to back-up your assertions with researched evidence. You must research your topic to find evidence that helps you argue your cause. Let me be clear—this part of the assignment is non-negotiable. Papers without research or citations will earn a failing grade. We will have time in the library for access to resources to help you find evidence to make your arguments. You will cite your sources and quotes in MLA citation format. Consequently, you must have a works cited page at the end of your paper, see page 168 of The Little Seagull Handbook.

Your paper should:

Be 5-8 pages long.
Argue the causes of your topic, and use researched evidence (including direct quotes) to support your claims

Remember, 3 is the magic number—assertion, evidence, importance.
Be typed according to MLA Guidelines—consult page 161of The Little Seagull Handbook.

Be proofread for basic errors and typos.
You need at least 3 sources from credible print or library database sources ONLY. Simple google searches or random internet pages will not be accepted.

Write a paper of 1,250-1,500 words and use 6 references that presents your complete personal model of leadership. The three parts involved in creating your personal model of leadership are as follows:
Select the basic values that will provide the foundation of your model and identify the leadership behaviors that will result from those values. Be sure to select values from all four of the levels: individual, interpersonal, organizational, and societal (be sure to incorporate the feedback from your instructor from your previous draft).
Identify how your personal model of leadership helps you create a sense of meaning and purpose for yourself, others, organizations, and society.
Identify the impact of your contributions to self, others, organizations, and society.

In this paper you are to take a stand on the debate between utilitarianism and absolutism (=deontological theories) and to provide the best justification for your position that you can. Please write the paper according to the following rough outline: (i) Explain the utilitarian account of what it is for an act to be right or wrong. (You need not discuss all versions of this view. Rather, just formulate what seems to you the strongest form of utilitarianism.) (ii) With reference to specific examples, either hypothetical or from your own experience, show why it might be thought that utilitarianism gives an inaccurate account of morality. (iii) Now formulate the absolutist or deontological conception of morality as it is discussed in the work of Nagel or O’Neill. (iv) With reference to cases involving warfare, explain why the absolutist or deontological view holds that there are certain restrictions on the conduct of war that cannot be overridden no matter the good consequences of doing so. (In elaborating your position you may discuss cases in addition to those of warfare.) (v) Finally, explain whether you adopt a utilitarian or absolutist position in ethics, giving the best justification for your position that you can. Consider a possible objection to your position that a critic might raise, and explain how you would rebut that objection. (vi) Finally, close your paper with a brief summary of what you have achieved therein.

Articles: https://lms.uconn.edu/bbcswebdav/pid-2498369-dt-content-rid-37900406_1/courses/1188-UCONN-PHIL-1101-SEC001-5124/1178-UCONN-PHIL-1101-SEC001-5490_ImportedContent_20170825084508/Nagel.War-And-Massacre.pdf

https://lms.uconn.edu/bbcswebdav/pid-2498370-dt-content-rid-37900409_1/courses/1188-UCONN-PHIL-1101-SEC001-5124/1178-UCONN-PHIL-1101-SEC001-5490_ImportedContent_20170825084508/ONeill.Kantian-Approaches-To-Some-Famine-Problems.pdf

You are an investment adviser, working to build a foundation of wealth for your clients. One of your wealthiest clients already has a diversified portfolio, which includes managed funds, property, cash/fixed interest and a few direct share investments. They wish to expand their portfolio and are considering one of two companies’ shares to add to their portfolio. (They have an extra $1 million that they wish to invest into company shares.) The companies, which you will compare and examine, are those selected in your groups and must be reported to your lecturer in Class #3.
Part A: Written Report and analysis of the firms performance (including referencing)
75 marks
• By the end of week 10 you should provide:
 A hard (and soft) copy of your report to your lecturer and
 A hard (or soft) copy to the other group members.
• You have one week to study the other group’s report (company) in order to debate with them during the following week’s (week 11) oral presentation.
You are required to do the following:
1. A brief description of the companies
Prepare a brief description of the companies, outlining the core activities, the markets they operate within and any factors in the companies’ history which you consider help present a “picture” of your company.
3 marks
2. Ownership-governance structure
Specify ownership-governance structure of the company:
• Name the main substantial shareholders:
 With higher than 20.00% of shareholdings. Based on this argument you should classify a firm as a family or non-family company, and
 With higher than 5.00% of shareholdings.
3 marks
• Name the main people involved in the firm governance:
 A Chairman
 Board members
 CEO.
o Whether any of these people has the same surname as any of substantial shareholders (>20% share capital). If yes- you could use this as an argument for the presence of an owner or family member(s) in the firm’s governance.
o Whether any of shareholders with more than 5% share capital is involved in firm governance.
3 marks
3. Financial Rations
Calculate the following key ratios for BOTH of your selected companies for the past 4 years. Annual reports are accessible via company websites (show all working out):
i) Return on Assets (EBIT) = (NPAT / Total Assets)
Return on Owners Equity = (Net Profit After Tax / Owners Equity)
Gearing Ratio = Total Liabilities / Total Assets
EBIT x NPAT x TA = NPAT
TA EBIT OE OE

Be sure that you have “proven” the above equation.
15 marks
ii) Explain what phenomenon is being “captured” by the variable TA/OE, and how it is impacting on the relationship between Return on Assets and Return on Owners Equity.
3 marks
Be sure to explain why the ROE (EBIT) is significantly greater than or less than the ROA (EBIT).
4 marks

4. Research via the internet or financial/business publications
i) From research via the internet (using credible sources) or financial/business publications, note any significant announcements which may have influenced the share price of your company. These factors could include merger activities, divestitures, changes in management’s earnings forecasts, changes in analysts’ forecasts, unusual write-offs or abnormal items, macroeconomic factors, industry wide factors, significant management changes, changes in the focus of the company, impact of competitors or law suits etc. (Restrict the number of announcements to 5).
10 marks
5. Capital Asset Pricing Model
Go on-line to http://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/ and type in the code for your company into the Search Stocks field and click on the magnifying glass button.

i) What is their calculated beta for your company?
2 marks
ii) If the risk free rate is 4% and the market Risk Premium is 6%, use the Capital Asset Pricing Model to calculate the required rate of return for the companies’ shares.
4 marks
iii) Is the company you and your partner have chosen a “conservative” investment? Explain your answer.
2 marks
6. Analysis of the gearing (leverage) ratio
Consider the gearing (leverage) ratios for your company over the past two years:
i) Does it appear to be working towards the maintenance of a preferred optimal capital structure? (i.e., does it appear to be “stable”?) Explain your answer.
3 marks
ii) What have they done to adjust / amend their gearing ratio? Increase or repay borrowings? Issue or buy back shares? Has the Director’s Report given any information as to why they have made any adjustments?
6 marks
7. Dividend policy
i) Discuss what the dividend policy of the management of the company appears to be. Explain fully.
3 marks
8. Letter of recommendation
Based on your analysis above, write a letter of recommendation to your client, providing an explanation as why you would like to include this company in their investment portfolio. Please refer to the ratio results calculated earlier and any other trends or factors that you believe to be important.
10 marks
9. Formal structure and referencing
4 marks
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Part B: Oral Presentation (10min oral presentation and 5 min discussion)
(During class- Week 11).
25 marks
You are required to do the following:
• To make an oral power point presentation (in the SAME groups for the Written Report).
• Maximum ten slides (including introduction and conclusion slide).
• Assume you are in the stock market and you want to promote your company.
1. Provide a brief description of the company, outlining the core activities and any advantages which may help to convince the future investors to fund your firm.
 Explain if it is a family or non-family firm
6 marks
2. You should be prepared to argue against another group (thus, another company) in order to encourage market participants to buy securities of your company.
• Be confident during your speech
• Provide strong arguments for your company
• Use arguments from your analysis (report).
 Emphasise the strengths of your company
 Outline weaknesses of your competitor (the other company).
6 marks
3. Provide links between the theoretical concepts that we studied in this course and the practical issues that you can find out in the firm’s financial reports (information).
5 marks
4. Answer the questions of other market participants (audience) clearly.
4 marks
5. Provide a brief account of what you feel that you have learned from this analysis while undertaking this case study.
4 marks

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GENERAL REQUIREMENTS
• The report must have an academic written structure including an introduction, body and conclusion.
• This assignment must be completed in groups of two students.
• Use numbers in the body of the essay (e.g. “4. Research via the internet”).
• Provide an explanation on each of these topics and explain how they confirm the underlying theory, particularly related to the financial measures.
• You are only required to submit one assignment to StudentWeb
• You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin (one per group). Please ensure the similarity score is under 15%.

Presentation of written work
• Please submit your assignment on time.
• Please make sure that the names of all members (and student’s IDs), unit name and code are written on the cover sheet of the submitted assignment.
• You are required to use a Times New Roman font, size 12 point with 1.5 line spacing.
• Please insert page numbers into your assignment.
• Please use 3 cm margins.
• Submitted work should be your original work showing your creativity.
• Always keep an electronic copy until you have received the final grade for the Unit.
A high standard of work is always expected, so poorly presented work may be returned unmarked with a request to re-submit.
The rules apply for electronic and hardcopy submission. When you submit your assignment electronically, please save the file as ‘assessment task 3.doc’.

Referencing
When writing your assignments, a reference must be included every time you use someone else’s ideas or information. In-text referencing ALL sources, whether academic books, journal articles, newspaper articles, material from the Internet etc., must be cited in the main text of the assignment itself. Harvard Style referencing is required for this assignment.
A reference must be included when you:
• Paraphrase (express someone else’s idea in your own words).
• Quote (express someone else’s idea in their exact words).
• Copy (financial statement, reproduce a diagram, graph or table from someone else’s work).

This week we will begin to discuss the first level of trust – self-trust. Below are listed the assigned readings and questions for our discussion (they are also included in our syllabus on page 6). I look forward to hearing how did you score on the credibility test on page 50 and how are you working to improve your score (or the challenges that you are facing).

Reading: Covey, pages 41-90; complete the questionnaire on page 50 to assess your credibility

Discussion: What are the four cores of credibility? How do we define integrity? What are the main strategies to increase your integrity? Do you see opportunities for yourself after completing the questionnaire? How easy or challenging it is to increase your integrity? What is your intent with the current internship/job? How do you declare and improve your intent?

Critical Assignment: Introduction to a Biblical Book

The students will write a critical introduction to a book of Bible. Each student will select a biblical book, read it in its entirety, and research its historical background, literary structure, major themes, place in the biblical storyline, and theological message. Students should cite at least 6 non-internet, academic sources (books, journal articles, etc.). The paper should be 6-10 pages long (Times New Roman, 12-point font with 1” margins all around) and should include a bibliography (which is not counted toward the page total). The paper should contain the following sections:

a.) Critical Issues (author, date, provenance, occasion, sources, etc.)

b.) Literary structure (two-level outline the major sections of the book and then a 1-2 paragraph summary)

c.) Place in the storyline of the Bible (use Roberts here)

d.) Major themes and theological message

e.) Personal reflection on the book

Suggested resources: ESV Study Bible, New International Commentary on the Old Testament, New International Commentary on the New Testament, New Dictionary of Biblical Theology

See the rubric attached to the assignment in week 8 for more details on how the critical assignment will be assessed.

This is the Critical Assignment for this course and must be passed at an acceptable rate in order to pass the course.

* All work submitted for this course must be your own work, must have been developed specifically for this course, and may not have been submitted for evaluation or assessment in any other course. The Critical Assignment must be passed at an acceptable rate in order to pass the course.