Given Relay’s mission, why is the Relay program to which you are applying the right program to prepare you for the classroom?

Relay’s Mission: Our mission is to teach teachers and school leaders to develop in all students the academic skills and strength of character needed to succeed in college and life.

Application Question: Given Relay’s mission, why is the Relay program to which you are applying the right program to prepare you for the classroom? (Responses should be 500 words **at least 2 pages).

Relay’s Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) program gives you the opportunity to earn your graduate degree and the credentials you need to launch or advance your career. Our MAT program has options for completing an apprentice year, earning a teaching certification, completing a special education certification, or completing your master’s degree only, so you can choose the path that meets your needs. This program adds the Special Education Certification curriculum to the traditional MAT coursework, allowing new and experienced educators to complete their graduate degree and special education certifications simultaneously. The Special Education Certification program provides a foundation for teachers to support a wide range of learners and qualifies them to pursue roles available to special educators.

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identify a specific job and think about some of the competencies that might be assessed using some sort of test. Next, research several online vendors to identify some of the types of related tests that are available. Evaluate the range of information provided by these vendors for evaluating the appropriateness of using one or more of their assessments for a particular organization or set of jobs. Is reliability or validity data provided?

Employment test vendors often provide online in-formation about their candidate assessment instruments. First, identify a specific job and think about some of the competencies that might be assessed using some sort of test. Next, research several online vendors to identify some of the types of related tests that are available.
Evaluate the range of information provided by these vendors for evaluating the appropriateness of using one or more of their assessments for a particular organization or set of jobs. Is reliability or validity data provided?
Are any occu-pations identified as not being an appropriate application of the assessment? You should end up with at least two examples of vendors who provide good information for evaluating their products as well as two that do not. Test vendors to consider include Psionline, Hogan Assess-ment Systems, Pymetrics, ApplicantPro, Sigma Assess-ment Systems, Outmatch.com, Wonderlic, and HireVue. If you have time, request technical documentation from some of the vendors to assess the quality of what they send. Was the test validated on an appropriate sample and not just a few high-and low-erforming employees? Are they just testimonials, or is the information based on the solid science you learned about in this chapter?

erform a ratio analysis on the financial statements. Focus on the financial statement analysis chapter (PDF) you are reading this week. You will want to compute ratios for your company for the last two years. Do not compute each ratio you learned about for your company. There may be some that are not relevant. Rather focus on those eight ratios that you feel are the most important and relevant to analyze how your company is doing.

you selected a publicly traded company(Apple Inc.) and found their annual report(attached). Now that you have their financial information I would like you to perform a ratio analysis on the financial statements. Focus on the financial statement analysis chapter (PDF) you are reading this week. You will want to compute ratios for your company for the last two years. Do not compute each ratio you learned about for your company. There may be some that are not relevant. Rather focus on those eight ratios that you feel are the most important and relevant to analyze how your company is doing. Make sure to justify the ratios that you choose for your analysis. Compare how your company has done to the industry averages. Do you notice any trends that are positive or negative? Does anything look good or bad that is notable? Do you have any suggestions on things they could be doing to improve these ratios? Please analyze what you found for each of the eight ratios. Then organize your findings into a 15 minute presentation. Be sure to include some background on your company in your presentation.Submission Details:

15 minute presentation
Please use PowerPoint for your presentation.

Discuss whether or not morality is possible in light of egoism, providing a rationale and examples to support your position.

Discuss his views and provide a valid and logical analysis and response.

Write a two to three (2-3) page paper in which you:

1. Analyze James Rachel’s arguments regarding psychological egoism and ethical egoism.

2. Provide at least two (2) examples that support the idea of moral skepticism.

3. Discuss whether or not morality is possible in light of egoism, providing a rationale and examples to support your position.

4. Include at least three (3) credible, academic references. (Do not use such open sources as Wikipedia, About, Ask.)

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

· Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.

· Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

· Explain the views of the main philosophers and the primary ethical concepts associated with each of the major ethical theories presented in the course.

· Recognize basic ethical theories, such as Divine Command Theory, Relativism, Utilitarianism, Kantianism, Social Contract Theory, Egoism, and Virtue Ethics.

· Demonstrate an understanding of how to examine questions and issues from diverse ethical perspectives and how these different ethical perspectives can be applied to evaluate contemporary ethical dilemmas.

· Demonstrate recognition of the role and function of moral arguments addressing traditional and contemporary moral issues.

· Present complex ethical ideas, theories, and perspectives fairly, objectively, and critically.

· Use technology and information resources to research issues in ethics.

· Write clearly and concisely about ethics using proper writing mechanics.

Do you think there is discrimination in this text and why?

Answer the following questions 2 SEPARATE WAYS – BASED ON THE STORY BELOW
Some intellectual writers from Argentina said that it was because of the Barbarians that the country was in terrible shape and that it was because of them that they had Rosas, the dictator in Argentina, in power.
1.- What do you think of this terms? (base your answer on the reading)
2.- Do you think there is discrimination in this text and why?
3.- why do you think this is consider a Romantic Short Story?

El Matadero
The second section of this course deals with Romantisism in Latin America. It goes from 1810 to 1860 aproximately. The first reading is The Slaughter House (El Matadero), which was written two century ago by the Argentine poet Esteban Echeverria (1809-1851), is included today among the outstanding classics of Latin American literature. It is one of the very earliest works of prose fiction written in America by an American and dealing with American characters and background. A disciple of Byron who resided in Europe during a period of revolutionary upheavals and literary insurgence, Echeverria was a romantic poet and a liberal inspired by the new ideals of democracy. Any form of tyranny enraged him. ‘That is why he hated the Dictator Rosas and his fhenchmen, the Federalists.

The Slaughter House is a genre painting reminiscent of Hogarth and Breughel in its grotesque realism and caustic details. But, above all, it is a virulent political diatribe against the Federalists and their Fuhrer Rosas, and, by indirection, a defense of the Unitarians, who championed the democratic tradition to which Echeverria was devoted body and soul.

Even if one overlooks its political and propaganda content, one may still consider The Slaughter House of great significance: it provides a picture, unsavory though it often is, of Buenos Aires in 1830, and it utilizes in its naive style a terse, colorful idiom peculiarly Argentine. But what is perhaps most remarkable is Echeverria’s strange juxtaposition of realism and surrealism, which makes the comparison to Breughel so striking. By way of illustration: into the filth and mire of the slaughter house, so truthfully depicted in the realistic tradition of the Spanish picaresque, suddenly falls the severed head of a child (surrealist surprise) while its trunk propped on a forked pole of the corral spouts blood from innumerable jets. Even the denouement-the undaunted Unitarian congested with anger, bursting like a ripe fruit has much of surrealism in it. In Echeverria, as in Kafka, unreality blossoms from the most mediocre, everyday reality.

Describe how alignment between the values of an organization and the values of the nurse impact nurse engagement and patient outcomes.

Prepare a 10-minute presentation (10-15 slides, not including title or reference slide) on organizational culture and values.

1. Describe how alignment between the values of an organization and the values of the nurse impact nurse engagement and patient outcomes.

2. Discuss how an individual can use effective communication techniques to overcome workplace challenges, encourage collaboration across groups, and promote effective problem solving.

3. Identify a specific instance from your own professional experience in which the values of the organization and the values of the individual nurses did or did not align. Describe the impact this had on nurse engagement and patient outcomes.

Describe the impact this had on nurse engagement and patient outcomes.

While APA style format is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected and in-text citations and references should be presented using APA documentation guidelines, which can be found in the APA style guide, located in the student success center.

Do you agree with Leiber and Weisberg portrayal of American primacy in determining identity on a global scale?

Please read: Robert J. Lieber and Ruth E. Weisberg, “Globalization, Culture, and Identities in Crisis, International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, Vol. 16, No. 2 (Winter, 2002), pp. 273-296; Available on the course website and on JSTOR at: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20020163

And discuss: Do you agree with Leiber and Weisberg portrayal of American primacy in determining identity on a global scale? How does this relate to our discussion in class in in the Misa chapter?

Describe any information that may help Alliance reduce costs while providing better service.

Alliance Supermarket and Point-of-Sale (POS) Systems

Read the “Alliance Supermarket” case study in Chapter 10 of your text.

Alliance Supermarkets has been using a point-of-sale (POS) system for some time to track its inventory. The system uses a laser scanner to read the universal product code (UPC) on each item at the checkout container. The UPC is a number that uniquely identifies the product on which it appears. Currently, Alliance is using the UPC information to update inventory records for each item. Although the system has greatly improved the company’s ability to replenish inventory promptly, the company still has some problems. For example, sudden changes in demand for a particular item can catch the company by surprise as it bases inventory replenishment on historical demand patterns. Further, demand patterns and preferences may vary from one store to another depending on the customers served by each, but the inventory system groups all demand information together and treats each store equally. Finally, the manufacturers that make the products stocked by Alliance Supermarkets are always pressuring Alliance to help them target appropriate customers for special promotions and sales.

The chief information officer (CIO) of Alliance realizes that much more could probably be done with the data collected from its POS system. For example, the company could analyze the relationship between each product’s sales and weather patterns. It is even possible to analyze an individual customer’s buying habits and identify instances in which a customer may be persuaded to try a different brand of a certain product.

For this assignment be sure to address the following points:

Study this situation and formulate new and innovative uses of the information from the POS system. Ideally, these ideas should help Alliance better serve its customers by ensuring that adequate quantities of each item are available, that costs are kept low, and that customers are made aware of new products that may interest them.
Describe any information that may help Alliance reduce costs while providing better service.
Propose a new approach that could be used by Alliance by using the purchase information that can be obtained on individual customers.
Assess ethical and privacy considerations of information gathered from the POS system or purchased items.
Your paper should be in paragraph form (avoid the use of bullet points) and supported with the concepts outlined in your text and additional scholarly sources

Submit your three- to four-page paper (not including the title and reference pages). Your paper must be formatted according to APA

The Case Study
Alliance Supermarkets

Alliance Supermarkets has been using a point-of-sale (POS) system for some time to track its inventory. The system uses a laser scanner to read the universal product code (UPC) on each item at the checkout container. The UPC is a number that uniquely identifies the product on which it appears. Currently, Alliance is using the UPC information to update inventory records for each item. Although the system has greatly improved the company’s ability to replenish inventory promptly, the company still has some problems. For example, sudden changes in demand for a particular item can catch the company by surprise as it bases inventory replenishment on historical demand patterns. Further, demand patterns and preferences may vary from one store to another depending on the customers served by each, but the inventory system groups all demand information together and treats each store equally. Finally, the manufacturers that make the products stocked by Alliance Supermarkets are always pressuring Alliance to help them target appropriate customers for special promotions and sales.

The chief information officer (CIO) of Alliance realizes that much more could probably be done with the data collected from its POS system. For example, the company could analyze the relationship between each product’s sales and weather patterns. It is even possible to analyze an individual customer’s buying habits and identify instances when a customer may be persuaded to try a different brand of a certain product.

Suppose you have been asked to study this situation and suggest possible new and innovative uses for the information generated by the POS system. Ideally, these ideas should help Alliance better serve its customers by ensuring that adequate quantities of each item are available, that costs are kept low, and that customers are made aware of new products that may interest them.

Discussion of management’s ability to manage earnings in the long-term given the operational manipulations discussed in the case.

After reading the case, “The Dangerous Morality of Managing Earnings”, write an essay that includes the following elements:
1. A formal introduction.
2. Discussion of the five generalizations from the findings in this study relating to managing earnings.Please Note: Do not simply restate the generalizations. You are being asked to discuss each in the context of professional experiences or examples given in the case itself.
3. Discussion of management’s ability to manage earnings in the long-term given the operational manipulations discussed in the case.
Your submitted paper should be at 2-3 pages. Include an introduction, body and conclusion. Following APA style, and properly referenced.

Explain what the Dalai Lama is saying here in your own words. Do you agree with it? Why or why not?

A. This week we are thinking about the fact that there are many different religions in the world. Consider this issue: given that there are so many different religions in the world, what kinds of problems and tensions is this responsible for causing in the world today?
B. In our reading from the Dalai Lama he says, “I generally believe that every major religion has the potential for giving any human being good advice; there is no question that this is so” (666). Explain what the Dalai Lama is saying here in your own words. Do you agree with it? Why or why not?
C. In our reading from Hick this week, he quotes Raymond Firth on the point that “religion is universal in human societies” (633). And he quotes Wilfred Cantwell Smith on the point that “In every human community there exists something that we, as sophisticated observers, may terms religion or a religion” (633). Provide at least two concrete examples from either the modern world or from your knowledge of past history that illustrate Firth and Smith’s points.
D. This week we talked about 4 different positions: 1) Strict Exclusivism, 2) Soteriological Inclusivism, 3) Religious Pluralism, and 4) Religious Skepticism. Briefly explain each of these positions in your own words. End by stating which one you think is the most plausible, and be sure to make your reasons for favoring that position clear.