How would you explain the high obesity rates in the United States despite changes to our food markets? Are we focusing on the wrong things?
Obesity ratesLinks to an external site. are at an all time high in the United States. In fact, these rates have more than tripled since the 1980’s! In response, food manufacturers have attempted to create and market foods that are “healthier”, such as low-fat and low-sugar products.
Your Tasks
Task 1- Original Post
Please discuss the following in your original post:
How would you explain the high obesity rates in the United States despite changes to our food markets? Are we focusing on the wrong things? If so, what should we focus on instead? (15 points)
The post must be at least 250 words. (2 points)
Include at least 1 outside reference, cited in APA format. This reference needs to be cited both in-text and at the end of the post in a reference list. (3 points)
Task 2- Peer Response
Respond to at least 2 classmate’s posts. Discuss whether you agree or disagree with their opinion. Additionally, discuss the similarities and differences between your findings regarding food laws and health. (10 points)
Grading and Submission
Your initial post and 2 peer response posts are due on Saturday, November 4th by 11:59 PM. Please write your post in the text box (in other words, do not post an outside document). This assignment is worth a total of 30 points, and will be graded based on the overall quality of work. The point system is outlined above and you will be graded based on the attached discussion rubric.
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How are School Counselors instrumental in their role and their efforts to help meet the academic, career, and social and emotional development needs of all students?
DUE May 4, 2023
Original work no plagiarizing.
Description:
Week 1 – Discussion: School Counselor Perspectives on Social Emotional Development
In preparation for this discussion review the following:
Prepare a response in which you address the following:
How are School Counselors instrumental in their role and their efforts to help meet the academic, career, and social and emotional development needs of all students?
Select two Middle Eastern organizations and identify their industry, and their products or services. Identify supply chain aspects from both of your selected organizations like purchasing issues, supplier issues, logistics, information systems, quality, and customer service, and compare them. Explain how Information Technology impacts the Supply Chain Management for both organizations.
A supply chain is the sequence of organizationstheir facilities, functions, and activitiesthat are involved in producing and delivering a product or service (Stevenson, 2021). A supply chain involves everything related to the product or service from the beginning to the end, which involves everything from the raw materials to the final customer.
For this assignment do the following:
Select two Middle Eastern organizations and identify their industry, and their products or services.
Identify supply chain aspects from both of your selected organizations like purchasing issues, supplier issues, logistics, information systems, quality, and customer service, and compare them.
Explain how Information Technology impacts the Supply Chain Management for both organizations.
Finally, based on your results, offer recommendations for improvements for each organization.
Directions:
Your assignment is required to be four to five pages in length, which does not include the title page and reference pages, which are never a part of the content minimum requirements.
Support your submission with course material concepts, principles, and theories from the textbook and at least three scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles. Use the Saudi Digital Library to find your resources.
This discussion focuses on the evolution popular music styles in the 1970s. The emergence of punk rock began at the height of psychedelic and progressive rock in the late 1960s and early 1970s. How did punk differ from these genres? The emergence of funk stemmed from the soul music of the 1960s. How did funk differ from soul music? Who were some of the influential artists or recordings from each style (punk and funk)?
This discussion focuses on the evolution popular music styles in the 1970s. The emergence of punk rock began at the height of psychedelic and progressive rock in the late 1960s and early 1970s. How did punk differ from these genres? The emergence of funk stemmed from the soul music of the 1960s. How did funk differ from soul music? Who were some of the influential artists or recordings from each style (punk and funk)?
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Your discussion post should be around 150 words (5 pts), cover all of the topic points (5 pts), and be submitted on time (5 pts). You are also required to respond to at least two of your fellow classmate’s posts (5 pts). Be sure to add new insight and/or pose questions that are relevant to the discussion topics, and not just agree with or like their post. There are 20 points possible for this assignment.
Explain how the article applies to the real world, your major, your current job, or your future career goal. Analyze the reasons why the article chose to use the various types of data shared in the article.
Visit
one of the following newspapers websites: USA Today, New York Times,
Wall Street Journal, or Washington Post. Select an article that uses
statistical data related to a current event, your major, your current
field, or your future career goal. The chosen article must have a
publication date during this quarter.
The article should use one of the following categories of descriptive statistics:
Measures of Frequency – Counting Rules, Percent, Frequency, Frequency Distributions
Measures of Central Tendency – Mean, Median, Mode
Measures of Dispersion or Variation – Range, Variance, Standard Deviation
Measures of Position – Percentile, Quartiles
Write a two to three (2-3) page paper in which you:
Write a summary of the article.
Explain how the article uses descriptive statistics.
Explain how the article applies to the real world, your major, your current job, or your future career goal.
Analyze the reasons why the article chose to use the various types of data shared in the article.
Please
double-space the body of the text and align the text to the left
margin, leaving the right margin “ragged.” Use one-inch page margins and
12-point Times New Roman typeface. Assignment will be check for
plagiarism.
Identify three of your current life/career goals or aspirations. Explain how your family, education and work experiences are related to each of your goals. I
Keep your statements simple, short & concise. Remember you are talking to an employer. Upload as a word document.
The purpose of this assignment is to prepare you for questions about your background in an interview situation. You only have a few minutes to convey your thoughts to the employer. Think of this assignment as a method of putting your concise thoughts together to make a good impression when a potential employer ask you questions about your background. Analyze your experiences to uncover deeper meaning affecting your life/career goals. Preparing for these types of questions will pay off in numerous ways in the future.
Your Autobiography should include the following sub-headers:
a) Family Experience
Consider experiences and activities from childhood and how they have affected your life/career choices. How have work roles of your family members influenced the way you think about a career? You might want to focus on where you lived, immediate and extended family member relationships, ethnic heritage, gender, and family activities.
b) Educational Experience
You might want to focus on favorite subjects or activities in school, as well as important teachers, organizations, and achievements that have influenced your life/career.
c) Work Experience
Recall aspects of your working experiences that have had the most impact on you. Remember that the definition of work includes unpaid, volunteer experiences. You might want to focus on relationships with supervisors or peers, the nature of the work organizations, the work activities or projects (what you did and did not like about them), or trends in your work experience. Are you seeking new work experiences?
d) Current Life/Career Goals
Identify three of your current life/career goals or aspirations. Explain how your family, education and work experiences are related to each of your goals. If your goals about education and occupation are currently uncertain, try to project 5-10 years into the future and focus on what you will have accomplished, what matters to your, and how you want to be viewed by others.Microsoft word document.
Career: FBI special agent
How do swaps and forward contracts share similarities while also differing from each other?
Q1. Q. How do swaps and forward contracts share similarities while also differing from each other? (Marks 2.5)
Q2. For a $100 million equity swap with semiannual payments and an initial stock index level of 2000, one party pays a fixed rate of 5.5 percent assuming 30 days per month and 360 days in a year. On the first payment date, if the stock index is at 2173, determine the net swap payment, and specify which party makes the payment. (Marks 2.5)
Q3: Compare and contrast the similarities and differences between Forward Rate Agreements (FRAs) and interest rate swaps. (Marks 2.5)
Q 4. How can a portfolio manager rationalize the acquisition of an inverse floating-rate note? (Marks 2.5)
Why are international, regional, and/or nongovernmental institutions important in global politics?
Answer the following prompt: Why are international, regional, and/or nongovernmental institutions important in global politics?
Focus on international and regional institutions
Argue they are important (May not always be successful but important)
Examples to use: Regional: EU and AU
International: UN
International institutions are important because they give a platform for countries to meet and solve world problems
Important because we are globalized and can’t have the mindset of Not my country, not my problem
Regional institutions are important because they give a platform to smaller countries. For example, the EU can have a voice for the smaller counties
Only quote the attached sources
The most important aspect of this is to formulate a cohesive argument. Choose portions of the readings for citation purposes that you are able to explain in your own words. Simply copying and pasting numerous readings does not equal points. Doing so may take away from your argument if you are unable to coherently explain them. Rather, using these readings to assist and bolster your argument is the goal.
How were both qualitative and quantitative methods used to conduct the process and outcome evaluations of this program? Do you think the mixed-methods approach taken by the researchers was a strength or a limitation of this evaluation? Why?
How were both qualitative and quantitative methods used to conduct the process and outcome evaluations of this program?
Do you think the mixed-methods approach taken by the researchers was a strength or a limitation of this evaluation? Why?
Did the researchers’ interpretations of the study findings in the discussion section align with what was found after analyzing the quantitative and qualitative data?
Define the impact of companys culture, structure and design can have on its organizational behaviour.
Learning Outcomes:
CLO-Covered
1 Define the impact of company’s culture, structure and design can have on its organizational behaviour. (CLO3).
2 Assess challenges of effective organizational communication and share information within the team in professional manner. (CLO4).
3 Examine the differences and similarities between leadership, power, and management. (CLO5).
Assignment 3
Reference Source:
Textbook: –
Colquitt, J. A., LePine, J. A., & Wesson, M. J. (2021). Organizational behaviour: Improving performance and commitment in the workplace (7th ed). Burr Ridge, IL: McGraw-Hill Irwin.
Case Study: –
Case: MATTEL
Please read the case Mattel from Chapter 15 Organizational Structure Page: – 505 given in your textbook Organizational behaviour: Improving performance and commitment in the workplace (7th ed). by Colquitt, J. A., LePine, J. A., & Wesson, M. J. (2021) and answer the following Questions:
Assignment Question(s):
1. If you were a Mattel employee, would you be encouraged by what CEO Ynon Kriez said about how he is following up on restructuring? Is there a way he could have said it better? (02 Marks) (Min words 150-250)
2. Given that Mattel’s structure is still organized around brands (toys), how do you expect a new film division to fit in from a structural standpoint? (02 Marks) (Min words 150-200)
3. How might Mattel change its structure to be more efficient or successful? (02 Marks) (Min words 150-200)
Part: -2
Discussion Questions: – Please read Chapter 13 & 14 Leadership: Power and Negotiation & Leadership: Styles and Behaviour carefully and then give your answers based on your understanding.
4. Think about the last serious conflict you had with a coworker or group member. How was that conflict resolved? Which approach did you take to resolve it? (02 Marks) (Min words 150-200)
5. Before reading this chapter, which statement did you feel was more accurate: Leaders are born or Leaders are made? How do you feel now, and why do you feel that way? (02 Marks) (Min words 150-200)
Important Note: –
1. Support your submission with course material concepts, principles, and theories from the textbook and at least two scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles.
2. References required in the assignment. Use APA style for writing references.
