What can these events teach us about efforts to control global climate change?

Consider what you learned about how COVID-19 shutdowns affected air quality. What can these events teach us about efforts to control global climate change? What do you think are fair and realistic expectations of the world’s more-developed and less-developed countries in this effort?

Discuss whether you think the cast of characters in this book, episode, or movie is diverse. How many different diversity factors are shown via the cast? Is it minimally diverse or maximally diverse? 

Examining Representations of Diversity
The Media Representations of Diversity final project in this course will have you analyze how media representations of diversity shape our understanding of groups that we may not be familiar with. This assignment will help you begin to narrow down your topic for that assignment and prepare you to do research on your topic of interest.
In your Week 1 Discussion, you reviewed Chimimanda Aidichie’s The Danger of a Single Story TEDTalk and identified some of the “single stories” that you learned from books, TV shows, and movies that you watched as you were growing up. As we discussed, media of various sorts can have a huge impact on how we understand our own identities and those of other people. This is true of the media we consumed as children and that which we consume as adults.
For this assignment, please choose a fiction book, episode of a TV show, or movie that you have viewed recently or that you found particularly memorable. You can love the source, hate it, or be indifferent to it, so long as you know it well enough.
Using at least two of the required resources from Week 1 and Week 2, please do the following in a brief essay:
Provide an introduction that includes the author and title of the fiction book, name of episode and name of TV show, or the title of the movie that you chose.
Provide a brief (1-paragraph, no more than 250 words) summary of the book, episode, or movie.
Discuss whether you think the cast of characters in this book, episode, or movie is diverse. How many different diversity factors are shown via the cast? Is it minimally diverse or maximally diverse? 
How intersectional are the characters? In what ways do they have privilege and in what ways do they not have privilege? 
Do you “see yourself” in any of the characters? How might this relate to how much you liked or didn’t like the work?
Conclude with your initial thoughts about whether the book, TV episode, or movie you chose provides a positive representation of diversity.
Essay Formatting:
The essay should be 750-1000 words long and double-spaced with 1-inch margins.
Use and cite at least two (2) of the required resources from Week 1 and/or Week 2 of this course. You may use additional scholarly or credible sources.
Use in-text citations in APA (American Psychological Association) style.
Record all source documents cited in a references list at the end of your paper, also in APA format. Follow bibliographic formatting as shown in UMGC’s Online Guide to Writing and Research (https://www.umgc.edu/current-students/learning-resources/writing-center/online-guide-to-writing/index.cfm)
Be sure to include a cover page with your name, the date, and the assignment topic on your paper.

What are the impacts to unemployment, income disruption, and recovery plan by each state?

Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.

Big D Incorporated is nearing completion of its portfolio of recommendations for the outdoor sporting goods company. There are a wide range of measures that could be of value to the Board of Directors to consider.

Think of each measure as being a paint stroke in a corporate picture. By itself, it may not have much value. However, when combined with others, a picture is formed. The more variables examined regression, the clearer the picture. For example, consumer age, income, gender, background, industry, and interests could provide guidance to the best marketing approach to take.

Although past data are used to indicate the future, the social and economic impact of the coronavirus needs to be considered. What are the impacts to unemployment, income disruption, and recovery plan by each state?

Clearly state variables that you would utilize in your path that you are recommending. Utilize a regression model to determine if the recommendation is to expand into the new market or to not expand. Ensure that you provide adequate justification for your recommendations. The Board of Directors requires your input based upon your previous exercises from Units 1, 2, and 3. 

Additional Resources

Statisticshowto.com. (n.d.). Regression analysis: Step by step articles, videos, simple definitions. https://www.statisticshowto.com/probability-and-statistics/regression-analysis/

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. (2020). Unemployment rates for states, seasonally adjusted. https://www.bls.gov/web/laus/laumstrk.htm

Franck, T., & Schoen, J. (2020). This map shows which states are seeing the most job losses due to the coronavirus. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/02/this-map-shows-states-are-seeing-the-most-job-losses-due-to-the-virus.html

How can each multivariate technique be utilized in Big D Incorporated, and what purpose would each serve?

Deliverable Length:  1-2 pages 

 Using the information from Units 1, 2, and 3, Big D Incorporated will be examining how multivariate techniques can serve the organization best and how they can be applied to its new client, the outdoor sporting goods customer. The Board of Directors has asked you to research and explain 3 major ways in which multivariate statistics are utilized in this scenario. In this case, be sure to justify your decision.

Research using the library and the Internet to find an example of how a real company has used each of the following multivariate techniques:

• Factor analysis
• Multidimensional scaling
• Cluster analysis

This can be considered a benchmark if you can justify how it could benefit Big D Incorporated.

Write a summary to upper management explaining the following:

• How can each multivariate technique be utilized in Big D Incorporated, and what purpose would each serve?
• Which technique is your preferred method, and how is your chosen multivariate technique different from the other two techniques?
• What will the Board of Directors learn from your selected technique and more importantly, how will it contribute to the overall decision-making process? Ensure that your explanation is clear and concise.

What are the implications for Big D Incorporated regarding its client in the outdoor sporting goods?

For this assignment, do the following:

• Download the file Sample Data.
• Prepare a chart similar to the one in the downloaded file to indicate whether the correlation between variables A and B were found to be positive, negative, or minimal.
• Provide explanation and justification for your decisions.

In your own words, explain what it means if the correlation of 2 variables is positive, negative, or minimal (close to 0), and give an example of each.

• What do you deduce from the correlations? Explain if you believe these to be short or long-term objectives and outcomes.
• What are the implications for Big D Incorporated regarding its client in the outdoor sporting goods?
• What are the implications for the penetration into the indoor sporting goods market?
• Also, how can you use the correlation tools to identify the variables in the research toward the expansion into the indoor sporting goods market?

is Christianity a religion of works or faith?

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PART A

 Christianity is rooted in Judaism and Jesus was a Jew. Jesus, using his interpretation of the Golden Rule, took the 10 Commandments of his Jewish faith and elaborated on them in his teachings such as the Sermon on the Mount. In later years, however, the Church focused on faith as seen in its creeds.

• This legacy of Christianity raises the question: is Christianity a religion of works or faith? Within the broader context of world religions that we have studied so far, is religion about works or beliefs? Can it be both? If so, should it favor one more than the other?
• Be sure to respond to at least one of your classmates’ posts. Responses should be substantive, provide additional context, and provide evidence (cite source) to support ideas. Dialogue should be meaningful, constructive, and respectful.

PART B 

When you set goals, it’s important to think through the steps you will need to take to achieve them.

For this week’s discussion, respond to the following prompts by Sunday at 11:59 pm EST. You are encouraged to submit your initial discussion post by Wednesday so your classmates have a chance to provide feedback.

• In one paragraph, explain what you do to achieve your goals.
  • Do you write them down, stick them on your mirror, enter them in an app on your phone, something else?
• In one paragraph, provide an example of a recent goal you or someone you know has achieved.
  • What steps were taken to get there?

Each paragraph should include 5–7 sentences and be grammatically correct.

Respond to at least one other person in the class by Sunday, writing at least three sentences.

Analyze the effects of specific legislation on health care facilities, health plans, communities, and patients.

By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assignment criteria:

• Competency 2: Evaluate significant federal and state legislation that affects the scope of, access to, availability of, and reimbursement for health care services.
  • Analyze the effects of specific legislation on health care facilities, health plans, communities, and patients.
• Competency 3: Analyze the effects of values and assumptions inherent in the changing priorities in health planning and resource allocation.
  • Determine the influence of values and assumptions in setting health care priorities and allocating resources.
• Competency 4: Evaluate the combined effects of social, economic, ethical, legal, and political forces on health care.
  • Analyze the effects of social, economic, ethical, legal, and political forces on health care.
• Competency 5: Recommend possible initiatives available to address current gaps in health care policy.
  • Determine the nature and extent of current health care policy gaps.
• Competency 6: Communicate effectively, in an appropriate form and style, consistent with applicable organizational, professional, and scholarly standards.
  • Support main points, arguments, and conclusions with credible evidence from peer-reviewed sources.

Scenario

Over the last two weeks, you have spent your time analyzing the data and information that you gathered during your literature review. Your supervisor in the health policy think tank is pleased with your literature review and has asked you to move forward with your analysis, considering various perspectives.

The think tank serves multiple health care organizations and policy makers. Health care organizational leadership will depend on your analysis to help them determine strategic, legally compliant measures and lobby policy makers for needed change. You must develop a solid factual analysis to support policy makers in evidence-based policy making.

Consider topics such as painful versus painless cost controls and reimbursement models or quality initiatives that could be improved as indicated by your analysis.

Instructions

Conduct an in-depth analysis that answers the research question that you posed in Unit 3.

Analyze your findings from the literature:

• What were the research findings?
• What do the findings mean to you?
• What is your own perspective on the legislation and scholarly support for your analysis?
  • Do not simply copy information from the literature or agree with a single source.
• How would you answer your research question?
  • You may also wish to restate your research question based on your analysis.

Document Format and Length

• Consider adding appropriate headings to this section to help delineate your thoughts. No two papers will require the same headings, as each piece of legislation is different.
• Your analysis and answer to your research question should be 3–5 pages in length.

Supporting Evidence

Cite at least 10 sources from the literature review you completed in Unit 5 and add 3–5 credible sources from peer-reviewed journals or professional industry publications to support your analysis.

Evaluation

The following requirements correspond to the scoring guide criteria, so be sure to address each point. Read the performance-level descriptions for each criterion to see how your work will be assessed.

• Analyze the effects of social, economic, ethical, legal, and political forces on health care.
  • What evidence supports your analysis?
• Determine the influence of values and assumptions in setting health care priorities and allocating resources.
  • Are there areas of uncertainty or ambiguity reflected in the literature?
  • What evidence supports your conclusions?
• Determine the nature and extent of current gaps in health care policy.
  • Is there a general consensus on this issue or key points of disagreement?
  • What evidence supports your assertions and conclusions?
• Analyze the effects of the legislation you have chosen to investigate on health care facilities, health plans, communities, and patients.
  • Consider the scope of services, access, availability, and reimbursement.
  • Answer your research question.
• Support main points, arguments, and conclusions with credible evidence from peer-reviewed sources.
  • Be sure to apply correct APA formatting to source citations and references.

What parametric and nonparametric statistical tests can you use to obtain the information you need? Explain.

1. Imagine you are a state-level health policy maker interested in health care access. You want to identify geographic areas and ethnic communities that are underserved to be able to correct problems and ensure fair access. You can only use archival data for your study. What data do you need for your study? What variables will you use? Do you expect any difficulties in obtaining those data? Why or why not? What kind of design would you use? Why? What parametric and nonparametric statistical tests can you use to obtain the information you need? Explain.

2. Now, imagine you are the CEO of a large hospital. You are interested in reducing turnover among nurses. You wish to find out to what extent nurses’ turnover intention is related to their overall job satisfaction, their average number of hours worked per week and their level of professional stress. You plan a correlational study, administer an anonymous survey, and collect interval data for all four variables. What parametric and nonparametric statistical tests can you use to analyze the data?

Discuss how the policy balances employee and employer rights.

 Prepare a workplace policy and provide a written rationale for your policy that presents a thorough analysis using strong argument and evidence, choose one of the common workplace torts (Defamation). Prepare a detailed and specific policy for your employer that balances both the employer’s and employees’ rights. This policy must be no longer than one page in length. Next, write a two-page rationale for your policy in which you include the following:

• Explain the foundation and necessity of the policy,
• Discuss how the policy balances employee and employer rights.
• Offer evidence of your state and/or federal laws that support or relate to your policy.

 Total of three pages

Do you think that it is ethical for a company to change auditors if there is a difference in opinion on how accounting issues should be handled? Why or why not?

Opinion Shopping

“We have had Paige & Gentry as our auditors for many years, haven’t we, Jane? They have been here since I became president two years ago.” “Yes, Bob, I have been the CFO for seven years, and they were here before I came. Why do you ask?” “Well, they were really tough on us during the recent discussions when we were finalizing our year-end audited statements—not at all like I was used to at my last company. When we asked for a little latitude, our auditors were usually pretty obliging. Frankly, I’m a little worried.” “Why, Bob, we had nothing to hide?”

“That’s true, Jane, but let’s look ahead. We’re going to have difficulty making our forecast this year, and our bonuses are on the line. Remember, we renegotiated our salary/bonus package to give us a chance at higher incentives, and we have to be careful.”

“Looking ahead, we’ve got a problem with obsolete inventory that’s sure to come to require discussion for a second year in a row. We’ve got the warranty problem with the electrical harness on the mid-range machine, which is going to cost us a bundle, but we want to spread the impact over the next three years when the customers dis-cover the problem and we have to fix it up. And don’t forget the contaminated waste.

spill we just had—how much is that going to cost to clean up, if we ever get caught?”

“These are potentially big-ticket items. Bill Paige, the guy who is in charge of our audit, is not going to let these go by. He said the inventory problem was almost material this year, and we had to argue really hard. You are a qualified accountant; how can we handle this?”

“Well, Bob, we could have some informal discussions with other auditors—maybe even the ones at your old company—to see how they would handle issues like these. The word will get around to Bill, and he may be more accommodating in the future and will probably shave his proposed audit fee for next year when he meets with our Audit Committee next month. If you really wanted to play hardball, we could talk the Audit Committee into calling for tenders from new auditors. After all this time, it’s logical to check out the market anyway. We would have advance discussions during which we would sound them out on how they would assess materiality in our company’s case. Our audit fee in getting pretty large—almost $50,000 this year—so some big firms will be really interested.”

“Jane let’s play hardball. Get a list of audit firms together for the tender process, and I will approach the Audit Committee. Be sure to list some small firms, including Webster & Co., the firm auditing my old company.”

Questions 1. Who are the major stakeholders involved in this situation?

2. What are the ethical issues involved?

3. Is this situation unethical? Why and why not?

4. What should Jane do if Webster & Co. looks like the choice the Audit Committee will make and recommend to the board of directors?

After reviewing the case study, consider the following questions in your report.

Who are the major shareholders in this situation?

Do you think that it is ethical for a company to change auditors if there is a difference in opinion on how accounting issues should be handled? Why or why not?

What actions should Jane take if there is a change in auditors?

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