Explore the issues and respond to the content – assess the book’s themes and arguments: are they significant, clear or obscure, relevant or dated, overdrawn or realistic?
Public Private Partnerships
Book Review Assignment
Using the Halvorsen (2017) book review as a model, you are to write an integrated book/article
review where you review, integrate, relate, and compare the three readings for this week. The
primary focus of your review should be Empowering the Public-Private Partnership: The Future
of America’s Local Government by Senator George Voinovich. You should relate this book to
Vogelsang-Coombs et al.’s article on PPPs in administrations of Mayors Voinovich and Jackson
and Ostrower’s article on the pitfalls of PPPs. Think about how the main argument or thesis for
each article relates to the Voinovich book. What are the main ideas, challenges, and/or lessons on
PPPs for local governments outlined in these respective readings? Your review should be four
(4) pages double-spaced.
Additional helpful hints:
The following tips are taken from Dr. Judy Millesen’s book review assignment in the MPA 6200
course.
Writing a Book Review
A quick search on Google revealed a number of useful “guides” providing information about
how to write a book review. In general, the advice offered clusters around five key themes:
1. Read the book, the whole thing, and think about what it says – good book reviews are
intellectual statements in their own right, take the time necessary to do them well
2. Organize your thoughts and carefully consider what you want to say
3. A book review describes not summarizes – it is a critical, subjective analysis of what the
author wrote (key themes, characters, examples, conclusions, recommendations, etc.)
4. Explore the issues and respond to the content – assess the book’s themes and arguments:
are they significant, clear or obscure, relevant or dated, overdrawn or realistic?
5. Place your review within a broader context, whether that is your personal or professional
experience, current events, or other literature in the field.
Below are the links to a few of these sites:
Purdue University: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/704/01/
Carleton College: http://apps.carleton.edu/curricular/history/study/criticalbookreview/
St. Cloud University: http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/acadwrite/bookrev.html
University of Wisconsin-Madison: http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/CriNonfiction.html
Concordia University: http://library.concordia.ca/help/howto/bookreports.html
Your book review should take the form of other reviews written for an academic audience. It
should focus on what scholars and practitioners (particularly since public administration is an
applied field) can and cannot lean from the general themes developed in the book. Book reviews
regularly appear in many of the public administration journals (e.g., Public Administration
Review, The Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory).”
Using your chosen company’s domestic environment identify its economic environment and compare and contrast it with your selected global economic environment using Rostow and Galbraith
Course Objectives:
Students will become familiar with business theories and approaches relating to various business environments (Domestic, Global, Technological, Political-Legal, Socio-Cultural, and Economic).
Students will evaluate the business environments and practices of selected companies.
Students will evaluate the business environments of a company identified as a “worst” company to learn why it is not successful.
Students will apply successful company strategies and business theory to recommend a successful strategy for the “worst” company.
The economic environment comprises of economic factors, such as employment, income, inflation, interest rates, productivity, and wealth, which influence the buying behavior of consumers and firms. This week you will analyze the economic environment of both your domestic and global countries for your chosen “Worst” company. Continue to Lesson 7 for more information and details.
LO – 7 – Given two economic theories, the student will compare and contrast each theory using a chosen company’s Domestic and Global environments
Prompt:
Continue working with your chosen worst company and its industry and write a paper covering the following:
Using your chosen company’s domestic environment identify its economic environment and compare and contrast it with your selected global economic environment using Rostow and Galbraith (see Lesson and Required Readings).
Instructions: (See Attachments also.)
Organize your paper using topic headings (APA format).
This paper contributes part of your your material for your Final Simulation that details the items above.
Research requirement: minimum 2 sources with at least one source from your required readings.
Minimum page requirement: 2 pages in APA format.
Submit Assignment 7 by midnight, Day 7, week 7.
For further guidance please review the Grading Rubric for this and all assignments for guidance in preparing your paper.
What need or problem does your product or service address in the market?
This will be a fun discussion! In 200 – 300 words tell your classmates about your business idea by answering these questions:
- What product or service will your company offer?
- What need or problem does your product or service address in the market?
- Who is your target customer? What will your most successful customer look like?
- How will you differentiate yourself in the market? What will your company do better than anybody else?
- Why will your company matter? Why will it be important?
After you make your post, engage with at least one other classmate and help him or her consider one or two challenges that the new company may face in getting off the ground.Don’t worry about APA formatting on this assignment. Just have a conversation and help each other out!
identify and discuss at least one aspect about WWI that you believe historians should focus on. What do you think is the most important story about WWI?
Read Chapters 18 and 19 in Give Me Liberty textbook.
This discussion asks you to apply the concepts from the module’s readings to present your thoughts on a major event in U.S. History. This practice helps you to develop the skill of engaging with sources. You have the opportunity here to practice applying, translating, and re-working what you have learned to function in unexpected ways.
1. Recall key events, figures, and ideas of WWI and the interwar period in the United States. 2. Contextualize, criticize, defend, and debate significant ideas found in historical primary sources of
WWI and the interwar period in the United States.
Discussion Prompt World War I essentially determined the trajectory of twentieth-century world history, and the conflict had an important impact on American history. The historiography on WWI is immense, with historians (from all over the world) taking a number of different perspectives, contributing different arguments about the significance of the conflict, and examining a wide range of issues and topics.
This discussion asks you to identify and discuss at least one aspect about WWI that you believe historians should focus on. What do you think is the most important story about WWI? If you were writing a history about WWI, what would you write about? What is the experience that students of WWI absolutely need to know about? What is the story that needs to be told? What is most significant about WWI history? What is the “big take away”? Your answer can focus on the American, European, or global historical experience.
Your response to the question(s) needs to first identify in the introduction at least one part of WWI history that you find most interesting/significant—the big takeaway(s). Then the remaining page should explain why. The explanation needs incorporate historical evidence. The discussion should not be a “general history.”
Explain how this composer influenced the development of jazz.
American jazz served as the foundation for rock and roll music. American jazz is explored in the discussion this week.
Select one jazz composer that is not covered in the course text. (These are some in the text: Scott Joplin, Sippie Wallace, Original Dixieland Jazz Band, Louis Armstrong, and Jelly Roll Morton.) Write the post from the perspective of the chosen composer. Discuss the style of his or her music. Explain how this composer influenced the development of jazz. Also show how his or her contributions have impacted popular American music.
Write from the composer’s perspective–using first person voice. Do not just include a biography of the composer. The focus is to be on the style of music, contributions to the evolution of jazz music, and the impact this composer’s music has had on popular American music. Include a YouTube link featuring a performance of the composer’s music. Write in your own words. Cite all sources/provide links to your source
Describes current and proposed changes in public policy/law.
- Technical Aspects
Provides necessary medical and scientific information to understand the issue. - Public Policy
Describes current and proposed changes in public policy/law. - Arguments For and Against
Include a summary of the arguments in favor of and opposed to specific interventions, techniques, or products and a discussion of underlying ethical principles. Discuss the public policy with two additional argumentative paragraphs- one discussing the in favor of and one paragraph discussing the opposing argument - Conclusion
Expresses your personal opinion regarding the importance of the topic and the strength of the pro and con arguments. - Topic Sentences and Paragraph Transitions
Each section of your outline should include topic sentences and paragraph transitions that tie your significant points together. - Detail Sufficient to Evaluate your Thinking
Write complete thoughts. - Quotes and Paraphrases
Include from three outside sources, indicated by APA in-text citations. Sources should be less than five years old unless recent research is not available, and at least one reference must be a peer-reviewed article from a professional journal. Do not use Wikipedia or an encyclopedia as they are not considered reliable academic sources and will not be accepted. - Proper APA Formatting
Include a Title Page and References. No Abstract is required for this assignment.
Explain which social work values and ethics were evident
Looking Ahead
In Week 6, you will submit a 6- to 8-slide PowerPoint presentation based on your interview with a social worker. This week, you submitted the details (i.e., agency and individual’s names and degree qualifications) about that interview.
You are strongly encouraged to schedule and conduct your interview as soon as possible. When you do conduct your interview, it will be helpful to have the requirements of the presentation in mind.
To prepare, review the requirements below and be sure to account for all relevant points when conducting your interview.
In your presentation, you will address each of the following areas:
· Describe the agency you visited. Include:
· Services offered
· Mission of the agency
· Clientele or population served
· Describe the social worker’s job activities and professional roles.
· Explain what brought the social worker to the field and their work history.
· Explain opportunities for advancement and what the social worker does for professional development.
· Describe the social worker’s overall job satisfaction.
· Identify the strategies the social worker uses for self-care.
· Analyze your experience. Specifically:
· Discuss your thoughts and feelings related to the agency, clientele, and type of work.
· Reflect on why you may have experienced these reactions to the agency, clientele, and type of work.
· Explain which social work values and ethics were evident (or not evident) during the interview.
· Explain how cultural awareness was demonstrated (or not demonstrated) within the agency or by the social worker.
· Explain how social justice relates to the services provided or population served by this agency.
Explain how both independent and dependent demand items are present at crayola.
- Watch the “Inventory Management at Crayola” video (http://mediaplayer.pearsoncmg.com/assets/S890LQMIgh3uv_Cf3putUcWGtiokpjTF).
- Review the “Inventory Management at Crayola” video case on pages 354-355.
- Respond with answers to the questions using your critical thinking and moral reasoning skills. If you are asked to draw an illustrative figure such as a chart, graph, or diagram, please do so and upload your document/s with your responses. Refer to your uploaded document/s in your responses, e.g., Question 2: See attached MS PowerPoint presentation for my detailed flowchart of the Ice Cream making process.
QUESTIONS: 1 consider the pressures for small vs. Large inventories. Which situation does crayola seem to fit, and why?
2. Explain how both independent and dependent demand items are present at crayola.
3. The marker maker product recently experience and unexpected surge in demand and the supply chain agility was credited with helping to meet the crrisis. We have discussed four ways to classify operational inventories by how they created. Regarding the ways managers can use these inventories to satisfy demand, explain how Crayola can achieve the flexibility to adjust to unexpected demand surges
NOTE: 250 WORDS
There are 3 major types of muscles. What are they and where are they found?
There are 3 major types of muscles. What are they and where are they found?
What tropes or motifs define the Snow White story?
LINK : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxMG0Hcy4qw&ab_channel=BingeSociety
1. Include some notes here of features you found striking in the two clips, especially in comparison to the original story or the Disney film.
This part is informal, so don’t worry about complete sentences, etc., just focus on pulling out some key details from the scenes. (1paragprah)
2. LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl32KHydFRY&ab_channel=Sora4277
Why do you think the film added this backstory for the Queen? Does it change the story in a significant way? Or does it add to and develop themes that already exist?
(On this one, you can give me some complete sentences, and some specific explanation, please.
3. LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0y7FRZ82Gc&ab_channel=%C3%8BLI%C3%8B%E5%8D%8D%C3%8BR%E0%A5%90%E5%8D%8DLOV%C6%8F%E5%8D%90%E0%A5%90
Pablo Berger’s silent film Blancanieves may actually take even more liberties with the Snow White tale, and yet manages to preserve the basic plot structure, along with most of the classic motifs.
This Snow White, whose name is actually Carmen, lives in 1920s Spain; her father is a famous bullfighter, who teaches her to love the sport, but when he dies she is (as you would expect) left at the mercy of a wicked stepmother.
Again, as you watch the videos, keep in mind our guidelines for analyzing films, and consider how this scene might be in conversation with, or commenting on, the parallel scenes in the Disney film and/or Snow White and the Huntsman.
4. Now let’s put it all together…
What tropes or motifs define the Snow White story? Which do you see that show up across all 4 variants of the Snow White story we’ve examined so far? Are there any that seem to be missing?
Choose one example of a motif, and discuss whether it is present or not in each of the 4 versions of Snow White we’ve examined so far.
If it’s missing from any of the stories, why do you think it was left out? Does its absence fundamentally change the story?
If it’s there in every version of the story, does the way it is represented or incorporated into the plot shift or change? How so? Why do you think this change was made? How does it impact what the story communicates to its audience?
