Describe the causes of the historical event. In other words, what were the underlying factors that led to the historical event?
Your historical analysis paragraphs should answer the following prompt: Analyze the historical event you selected, using your writing plan as the basis for your analysis. The following critical elements will be assessed in a 4- to 6-page word processing document. I. Introduction: In this section of your paragraphs, you will introduce your readers to the historical event you selected. Specifically, you should: A. Provide a brief overview of your historical event. For instance, what background information or context does the reader of your paragraphs need? B. Based on your research question, develop a thesis statement that states your claim about the historical event you selected. Your thesis statement should be clear, specific, and arguable, as it will give direction to the rest of your paragraphs. II. Body: You will use this section of your paragraphs to provide further detail about your historical event while supporting the claim you made in your thesis statement. Make sure to cite your sources. Specifically, you should: A. Describe the causes of the historical event. In other words, what were the underlying factors that led to the historical event? Were there any immediate causes that precipitated the event? B. Illustrate the course of your historical event. In other words, tell the story or narrative of your event. Who were the important participants? What did they do? Why? How do the perspectives of the key participants differ? C. Describe the immediate and long-term consequences of the historical event for American society. In other words, how did the event impact American society? D. Discuss the historical evidence that supports your conclusions about the impact of the event on American society. Support your response with specific examples from your sources. III. Conclusion: In this section of your paragraphs, you will discuss the impact of historical thinking. Specifically, you should: A. Explain why this historical event is important to you personally. In other words, why did you select this event to research? B. Illustrate how your research of the historical event impacted the way you thought about the event. In other words, how did thinking like a historian change the lens through which you viewed the event? Support your response with specific examples. C. Explain how a historian would pursue further study of your thesis statement. In other words, if a historian were to continue researching your thesis statement, what would be the future directions or next steps? IV. Provide a reference list that includes all of the primary and secondary sources you used to investigate your historical event and support your thesis statement. Ensure that your list is formatted according to current APA guidelines (or another format, with instructor permission). V. Communicate your message in a way that is tailored to your specific audience. For instance, you could consider your vocabulary, your audience’s potential current knowledge of historical events, or lack thereof, and what is specifically important to the audience
Cite specific examples of how we use APT to identify mispriced securities.
Cite specific examples of how we use APT to identify mispriced securities.
Determine whether these articles are suitable for inclusion in a literature review for your research topic.
As future practicing nurses, evidence-based practice helps you stay updated about new medical protocols for patient care. EBP, or evidence-based practice, is an indispensable part of health care and plays a critical role in reducing practical variability, enhancing health care quality, perfecting the health care system, improving patients’ outcomes, and decreasing costs.
As nursing students, it is important for you to understand that evidence that supports a conclusion is part of the research process. Literature reviews often accompany research assignment in the form of a summary and synthesis of the published information about the research topic. Although this week’s assignment is not a literature review, it is designed to familiarize you with the practice of finding appropriate sources and information on a topic.
Find 3 original research articles that apply to your research topic. The articles must be
- peer reviewed,
- recent (published within 5 years), and
- statistically significant.
- Write a 350-word summary of each article in which you identify
- participants
- independent variable(s),
- dependent variable(s),
- methods, and
- results.
- Determine whether these articles are suitable for inclusion in a literature review for your research topic.
If they are not, explain why. If they are, explain how the information can be used to inform practice.
Compile all summaries in 1 document.
Include a PDF of and APA citation for each article.
Submit the articles and summaries.
Analysis on why and how cash management is important in financial management.
Topic: Analysis on why and how cash management is important in financial management.
Topic 2: Analysis on how exchange rate risk plays a role in international trade.
8-10 pages with double spacing and font size of 11.
Evaluate the selected company’s sustainable competitive advantage using the SWOT analysis technique.
Successful businesses regularly analyze their processes to ensure they’re operating as efficiently as possible and maintaining their competitive advantages. Although you can assess a company in many ways, a common technique is the SWOT analysis. In this assignment, you will practice using a SWOT analysis to better understand the factors involved in making business decisions that promote sustainable competitive advantage.
Select and research a company from the 2019 Fortune 500 list that demonstrates a sustainable competitive advantage in the marketplace.
Evaluate the selected company’s sustainable competitive advantage using the SWOT analysis technique.
Write a 700- to 1,050-word modified SWOT analysis that includes the following:
- An introduction with a detailed description of the company
- A SWOT analysis diagram that includes strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats
- An evaluation of how specific internal factors (strengths and/or weaknesses) support and/or promote a competitive advantage; examples may include:
- Financial, physical, or human resources
- Access to natural resources, trademarks, patents, or copyrights
- Current processes (employee programs or software systems)
- An evaluation of how specific external factors (opportunities and/or threats) support and/or promote a competitive advantage; examples may include:
- Market trends (new products or technology advancements)
- Economic trends (local and/or global)
- Demographics
- Regulations (political, environmental, or economic)
- Conclusion with an evaluation of how the company has retained its competitive advantage
Include APA-formatted in-text citations and a reference page with at least 2 sources. Note: You may include your textbook as 1 of the sources.
Note: You can view sample SWOT Analyses by visiting the University Library > Databases > B > Business Source Complete: SWOT Analyses.
What values of the social work profession support the provision of services to immigrant populations, including those that are undocumented?
What values of the social work profession support the provision of services to immigrant populations, including those that are undocumented? Note: You only need to make your initial post and one response during the week. The Wednesday deadline and 3-day minimum do not apply.
This discussion does NOT require in-text citations.
Discuss what it meant to be a Roman citizen in Paul’s day. How were citizens better off than the slave class?
Write about half a page each, single spaced (10 points each). Mention any resources you draw from.
1. Discuss what it meant to be a Roman citizen in Paul’s day. How were citizens better off than the slave class?
2. Summarize Saul’s conversion experience and how he describes himself in various New Testament texts. In what ways do you see this as a dramatic life change?
3. Who was Barnabas? List and detail his appearances in the Book of Acts. Describe his importance in assisting Paul to get acquainted with Christians.
4. Discuss social, political, and religious factors that contributed to the rapid spread of Christianity during the first century.
What’s your reaction to the information revealed in the article? Was it surprising, or did it align with your own previous understanding of the topic?
Summary and Analysis Activity
Each week you will have an opportunity to practice different aspects of the research and writing process in a research notebook. It consists of a template you will fill out and submit in Canvas. In addition to introducing and practicing targeted components of the research and writing process, these notebooks will help you develop and practice the skills you will demonstrate on your other assignments.
This week, the research notebook focuses on summarizing and analyzing sources.
Review the following resources first:
To summarize is to take ideas and present them again in a more concise way. But to analyze is to reach your own conclusions about how the elements of a topic, theory, issue, or story fit together to create something that may not be evident at first glance.
Your written assignment this week, the Source Critique Essay, asks you to engage with one source. Here, you’ll practice the different steps and stages to building a successful critique using summary and analysis.
STEP ONE: Writing a Summary
A summary is a short objective overview of the main ideas of a larger work. It includes only the broader points or purpose of a work rather than the details or smaller plot points. You can think of a summary as how you might boil down the main points of an article to describe it to other people.
Using the article that will be the focus for your Week 2 Written Assignment, restate the main idea of the article.
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Now, break down the main points. Remember, these are just the main points that support the main idea, without any examples or evidence.
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This roadmap will help you develop the required material for your Week2 Written Assignment. Remember that to write a summary, you should include all of the main points or ideas in the work but avoid smaller details or ideas. Your summary should be written using your own words and will present the main ideas objectively, avoiding your own opinion and thoughts about the work.
STEP TWO: Analyzing the Information
Analysis means breaking something down into its various elements and then asking critical thinking questions in order to reach some conclusions of your own. When asked to write an analysis, you must also add your own understanding of what you’ve discovered about your topic.
What’s your reaction to the information revealed in the article? Was it surprising, or did it align with your own previous understanding of the topic?
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What information from the article do you think is the most important? Why?
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STEP THREE: Pulling It Together
Your Week 2 Written Assignment will ask you to interpret the information from your article. This really means that you’ll comment on the usefulness of the article, and what it contributes to understanding the topic or issue.
Use this space to share your ideas about how this article contributes to your understanding of the importance of the overall topic you are exploring. Don’t worry about writing a formal paragraph. Just try to capture the ideas you will finalize and polish as you complete your Week 2 Written Assignment.
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Critically examine the significance of culture in projects and how culture, using Hofstede’s Cultural dimensions framework, can be applied to facilitate the successful rollout of the Covid-19 Vaccine meeting the project’s aim.
Assignment Case Study – Identified as one of APM’s 50 projects for a better future
United Kingdom’s Vaccine Taskforce and COVID-19 Vaccine Roll-out
This is a single assessment. It is based on the following case study The Vaccine Taskforce (VTF) setup in April 2020 by the United Kingdom (UK) Government to rollout the Covid-19 Vaccine. The VTF brought together government officials, industry, academics, funding agencies, regulators, logistics and finance specialists to enable rapid decisions to be made allowing the UK to be in a position to accelerate vaccine development and rollout the Covid-19 vaccine vaccinate to the UK population once approved. Therefore, the objectives of the VTF were threefold (GOV, 2021):
1. Secure access to promising COVID-19 vaccines for the UK as quickly as possible;
2. Make provision for international distribution of vaccines; and
3. Strengthen the UK’s onshoring capacity and capability in vaccine development, manufacturing
and supply chain to provide future resilience for future pandemics.
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The Covid-19 Vaccine Roll-out
On 2 December 2020 the UK was the first country to approve the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine however whilst this was excellent news it was the start of the journey to escape the Covid-19 pandemic. The challenge for project managers was the roll-out, that is ‘how to get the vaccine out there and into peoples’ arms safely, successfully and at speed’ (Pells, 2021).
National Health Service England and National Health Service Improvement (NHSE&I) setup 3 main ways in which the population could access vaccines (NAO, 2022):
- General Practitioners and community pharmacies (assumed to provide 56% of vaccines);
- Vaccination Centres (assumed to provide 41% vaccines); and
- Hospitals (assumed to provide 3% vaccines).
Within the Portsmouth area, Covid-10 vaccination centres were launched across Hampshire and Isle of Wight starting with: University Health Centre, Southampton, Eastleigh Health Centre and Southsea Medical Centre, Portsmouth; and then after this, locations included St James Hospital, Portsmouth, Bassingstoke Fire Station and The Riverside Centre, Isle of Wight (NHS Portsmouth, 2022).
The UK Government planned 9 priority groups for Covid-19 vaccines delivered from January 2021 onwards, as below (IOG, 2022):
- Groups 1- 4: Care home residents and workers, 80+ years and health workers, 75-79 years, 70- 74 and clinically extremely vulnerable (under 70 years)
- Groups 5-9: 65-69 years, At risk (under 65 years), 55-59 years and 50-54 years.
In September 2021 vaccinations for lower age groups and in particular 12-15 year olds were being offered.
The focus of this assignment is the people management and risk management of the Covid-19 vaccine rollout. Reading to support this assignment is provided below for reference and on Moodle.
IOG (2022) Caronavirus vaccine rollout, Institute for Government
https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainers/coronavirus-vaccine-rollout
Date Accessed: 2 October 2022
GOV (2021) VTF Objectives and Members of the Steering Group
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-vaccine-taskforce-objectives-and-membership-of- steering-group/vtf-objectives-and-membership-of-the-steering-group
Date Accessed: 2 October 2022
Rachael Pells (2021) ‘The Great Vaccine Roll-Out’, APM PROJECT SPRING 2021.
NAO (2022) ‘The rollout of the COVID-19 vaccination programme in England’, Session 2021-22, 25 February 2022, HC 1106. https://www.nao.org.uk/reports/the-roll-out-of-the-covid-19-vaccine-in-england/
Date Accessed: 2 October 2022
NHS Portsmouth (2022) Covid-10 Vaccination Centres launch across Hampshire and Isle of Wight
https://www.portsmouthccg.nhs.uk/covid-19-vaccination-centres-launch-across-hampshire-and-isle- of-wight/
Date accessed 2 October 2022.
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Whilst links to this project are included within this document and on Moodle to help develop your assignment knowledge, you will also need to engage with further research and reading on the project for further context. You will have the opportunity to critique current practice in project management drawing on any of the concepts from this module to provide justification for your answers for this assessment which must be supported by evidence from the literature (academic books and journal articles). You may also cite from professional bodies and Institute websites e.g. Association of Project Management (APM), Project Management Institute (PMI), Chartered Management Institute (CMI), Government and Industry websites but there must be a balance with the use of academic references. Limited use of website material from a recognised authority such as Geert Hofstede, is acceptable. However, use of ‘wikis’ is to be avoided.
3. This assignment covers all learning outcomes (LOs) for this Module which are:
- Promoting and enabling the development of an organisational culture conducive to the successful management of a projects (domestically and globally) and developing the organisation and team to attain a project’s vision and goals.
- Critically examine leadership theories for a range of projects
- Managing a sustainable change initiative.
- Formulate appropriate Risk Management Strategies and develop effective project risk models, mitigation and contingency plans for appropriate action.
4. Assignment Objectives (Your Task) – YOU MUST COMPLETE ALL SECTIONS:
- Critically examine the significance of culture in projects and how culture, using Hofstede’s Cultural dimensions framework, can be applied to facilitate the successful rollout of the Covid-19 Vaccine meeting the project’s aim. Justify your answer supported by evidence from the literature and linking to the case study (LO1).
- Critically examine project management leadership literature covering definitions of leadership using 2 project management leadership theories covered on the module and recommend a leadership style appropriate for rolling out the Covid-19 Vaccine (LO2). Please ensure you relate theory to the case study.
- Critically review and evaluate 2 managing change models (Kotter or Kübler-Ross or Lewin’s model) covered on the module and recommend one model that could be could be used or adapted as a suitable framework for rolling out the Covid-19 Vaccine thus improving people’s awareness and perception of the Covid-19 Vaccine and take-up. Justify your answer supported by the literature and link this to the case study (LO3).
- Whilst the UK Covid-19 Vaccine Roll-out encountered many well documented problems you are asked as a consultant to critically analyse lessons learned and the risks associated with the Covid-19 vaccine roll-out to develop a risk register in preparation for future vaccine rollouts. To meet this requirement, you will need to:
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i) Identify 10 risks
Review all the possible sources of risks related to the Covid-19 Vaccine roll-out. Making use of the vaccine roll-out objectives identify 10 risks, construct a risk register (with headings in the risk register as covered on the module workshop) making use of the risk meta language to describe the risks;
ii) Analyse 10 risks
Qualitatively analyse the 10 risks in the risk register making use of the Probability*Impact scoring and show risks on a Probability*Impact Matrix
iii) Response to 10 risks
For the 10 risks develop risk mitigating strategies (threats and opportunities) for each of the risks and include whether approach a Threat or Opportunity and then a single sentence mitigation strategy alongside the risk contained within the register.
iv) Summarised commentary – most significant risks
Provide a summarised commentary of around 400 words of the most significant risks on the project (LO4).
5. Assignment format:
Discussion paper of 3,500 words (excluding diagrams, references and appendices). Use a report structure with a contents page, headings, sub-headings, page numbers, an introduction, main body of the work covering objectives 1, 2, 3 and 4, conclusion, list of APA7 Referencing and Appendices.
