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Why is addressing this problem/challenging factor important in the cross-cultural work you will do with this population?

one state or national problem

For this Discussion, consider one state or national problem/challenging factor you might encounter when working with the Latino/a American population, and one you may encounter when working with Arab/Muslim American populations.

You may select a problem/challenging factor that impacts both groups.

Consider challenges with immigration, discrimination, poverty and lack of resources, language barriers, and acculturative stresses.

 Respond to the following:

Identify the state or national problem/challenging factor you have selected for each group. If choosing a state challenge, include the state you have selected.

Discuss how the problem/challenging factor impacts the cross-cultural group.

Why is addressing this problem/challenging factor important in the cross-cultural work you will do with this population?

Select two of the following cultural values: family, religion, acculturation, gender expectations, roles, or education.

Explain the implications of addressing these cultural values in your cross-cultural work with clients from either a Latino/a or an Arab/Muslim population.

Describe the different relevant social groups that use that technology, and how each of their perceptions of that technology differ (or where they are the same).

This is meant for a tiny discussion post so the prompt only really needs to be a paragraph.

Ensure the questions to the prompt are answered. attaching the two articles that are referenced. Again, doesn’t need to be overly detailed

Prompt:
Choose any technology that you interact with on a regular basis and discuss how it contains elements of interpretative flexibility (defined in the Pinch and Bijker reading from Thursday wk1, as well as in the Kline and Pinch reading from Tuesday wk2).

Describe the different relevant social groups that use that technology, and how each of their perceptions of that technology differ (or where they are the same).

For the choosing of any technology i suggest maybe a cell phone?

What are the benefits of being a Sophisticated Speaker? Explain.

Advanced Interpersonal Communication w/ Biblical Perspective:

 Use the attached text at the sources/references

Griffin, E., Ledbetter, A., & Sparks, G. (2019). A first look at communication theory (10th ed.).

Griffin, E. (1987). Making friends and making them count.

For each of the situations below, think of a relational context and provide an example of each. You can use a real life situation/experience or one from a movie. (e.g. Erin Brockavich could be considered a cognitively simplistic person, and this was reflected in her primary goals method of communicating with others. As she became more cognitively complex, her communication patterns changed to more “person” centered, which helped make her more successful in her career and relations with others.)

-A cognitively simple person

-A cognitively complex person

-A message using Primary goals expression.

-A message using Procedural Records method

-A message using Person Centered Design Logic

-What are the benefits of being a Sophisticated Speaker? Explain.

**Your analysis should be one paragraph in length for each situation presented in addition to one paragraph addressing the final question.

Explain why you feel these make an effective interpersonal relationship rather than another rehash or definition of these theories.

Advanced Interpersonal Communication w/ Biblical Perspective: Final Paper

 Use the attached text as two of the six sources/references. Then use a minimum of four additional scholarly sources to support your answers.

Griffin, E., Ledbetter, A., & Sparks, G. (2019). A first look at communication theory (10th ed.)

Griffin, E. (1987). Making friends and making them count.

Taking all of the theories and ideas that have been learned in this course, answer the following question: “What makes an effective interpersonal relationship?”

In your paper you must include at least five (5) communication theories (Griffin, Ledbetter, & Sparks, 2019 **attached) covered in this course, at least three (3) communication axioms or ideas from (Griffin 1987 **attached), and examples from your own life or experiences as support for your answer to this question.

The purpose of this paper is to explain why you feel these make an effective interpersonal relationship rather than another rehash or definition of these theories.

Following are theories you may wish to include:

-Symbolic Interactionism (Mead): (symbols, meaning, language, thought, looking glass self, concept of self via the “I” and “Me”)

-Expectancy Violations Theory (Burgoon): (expectancy, violation valence, communicator reward valence, interaction position, reciprocity)

-Constructivism (Delia): (message production, primary goals plan, procedural record plan, person-centered messages, sophisticated speakers)

-Social Penetration Theory (Altman & Taylor): (onion-wedge model, self-disclosure, intimate, peripheral, penetration, depenetration, trust, risk)

-Uncertainty Reduction Theory (Berger): (anticipation of future interactions, incentive value, deviance, Axioms of uncertainty reduction, passive strategy, active strategy, interactive strategy, anxiety/uncertainty management, intercultural encounter, strangers, mindfulness)

-Relational Dialectics (Baxter & Montgomery): (connectedness, separateness, certainty, uncertainty, openness, closedness, inclusion, seclusion, conventional, uniqueness, revelation, concealment, denial, disorientation, spiraling alterations, segmentation, balance, integration, recalibration, reaffirmation)

-Interactional View (Watzlawick): (roles, rules, reframing, family systems)

-Social Judgment Theory (Sherif): (attitude of acceptance, rejection and noncommitment, ego-involvement, attitude change.)

-Narrative Paradigm (Fisher): (rational world paradigm, narrative rationality, coherence, fidelity)

-Face-Negotiation Theory (Ting-Toomey): (face restoration, face giving, collectivism, individualism, avoiding, obliging, compromising, dominating, integrating, conflict management styles, knowledge, mindfulness, interaction)

Identify gaps and potential venues for improvement.Consider how effective your risk management process throughout the project was

This assignment requires you to prepare an Individual Report based on the group project work and

the Project Plan developed.

Your report should evaluate your project and review the way through which you managed it. You

need to reflect upon your presentation, evaluate your project outcome, your performance as

managing team and the decisions you took throughout your journey as well as your own individual

performance.

Effectively, you need to critically evaluate your project plan and the effectiveness of

the methodologies and processes you followed for managing the various aspects of your project.

For instance, consider how effective your risk management process throughout the project was

and to which extent RM was done according to standards of best practices.

Your analysis of your management practice against theory and best practices should enable you to

identify gaps and potential venues for improvement. This should lead to recommendations for

improving project management and ensuring success in future projects. You could also think of key

lessons that you, as an individual, are taking from the experience you had.

How would you use a decision matrix to determine the risks of your suggested strategic alternative and the potential financial implications for your company of pursuing this alternative?

American Express- Assessing and Managing Risk

In a paper of approximately 1,500 words, revisit the strategic alternatives and financial analysis recommendations that offer the greatest opportunities to add value to your firm and assess the risks of each. Use the information you have learned about American Express Company’s business model, industry, competition, and target market in conjunction with the feedback you received on your work in the previous two topics to assist you in addressing the following.

1. In the Strategic Alternatives Assessment, you evaluated potential growth opportunities and strategies for your firm, using a SWOT analysis to assess the advantages and disadvantages of each. Recapitulate your findings here in conjunction with any instructor feedback received, identifying how you determined your proposed strategic alternative(s) and calculated potential inhibitors to each. Expand upon your initial proposed alternatives to include financial considerations.

2. Throughout the course, you have developed and submitted reports for your firm based on information that you and your CLC group have acquired and assessed. However, it is equally important to consider what other information, had you been able to locate it, would have been of value in formulating recommendations. What information are you lacking that might assist you and your team in developing and suggesting value-enhancing strategic alternatives? What information are you lacking that would assist you and your team in better assessing and managing possible risks of the proposed alternatives?

3. When it comes to making strategic recommendations to management, financial considerations weigh significantly on the feasibility and viability of the available options. Revisit the Financial Analysis assignment and, with the incorporation of any instructor feedback received, reiterate your findings on the financial condition and performance of the firm respective to the risks and benefits of forming a strategic alliance, profitability ratios, and possible value-enhancing strategies.

4. Given your instructor’s feedback and considering how the financial markets have changed since you submitted your Financial Analysis assignment, how would you refine or update your assessment of the organization’s current performance and financial strategies?

5. How would you use a decision matrix to determine the risks of your suggested strategic alternative and the potential financial implications for your company of pursuing this alternative? Is the decision matrix an effective tool for predicting risk? Why or why not? How does the application of the decision matrix alter what you previously chose as the most advantageous strategy?

6. Utilizing a risk matrix, identify a minimum of 10 unique risks associated with the strategic alternative you believe will provide the most significant opportunity for your firm to add value. Choose two or three of the most critical risks and discuss their potential impacts on your selected alternative.

Submit your risk matrix with your written response.

How does your solution from part a change?  interpret the impact of these .Determine which projects should be selected to maximize the total NPV.

Statistic Problems

1)

Levinson Foods is in the process of expanding its distribution system. After some planned

acquisitions, the company will have ten regional centers, with monthly volumes (in cartons) as

listed below. Six of these sites currently act as warehouses, shipping to other regional centers and

these are designated by (W).

Center Albq.

(W)

Boise Dallas

(W)

Denver

(W)

Houston

(W)

OKC Phoenix

(W)

SLC SanAnt.

(W)

Wichita

Volume 3,200 2,500 6,800 4,000 9,600 3,500 5,000 1,800 7,400 2,700

Because these properties have been acquired under different circumstances, Levinson Food is

considering if they were to keep all of these warehouses or change the distribution plan. The

monthly capacities and monthly operating costs are summarized as follows:

Current Warehouses Capacity Fixed Operating Cost

Albuquerque 16,000 $140,000

Dallas 20,000 $150,000

Denver 10,000 $100,000

Houston 10,000 $110,000

Phoenix 12,000 $125,000

San Antonio 10,000 $120,000

Information, compiled showing the cost per carton of shipping from each warehouse to any

regional center in the system, is shared under the Excel template.

a) Assuming that all of the six warehouses stay open,

determine the distribution

plan and its corresponding cost.

b) If some warehouses could be closed, what would be

the cost minimizing new

distribution plan?

c) Discuss the differences in solutions from part (a) and

part (b). What are

implications?

2)

Majestic Enterprises is considering a investing $160 million for capital projects this year.

The managers have examined various possibilities and have proposed five projects to

consider. The projects cover a variety of activities, as listed below:

P1: Implement a new information system.

P2: License a new technology from another firm.

P3: Build a state-of-the-art recycling facility.

P4: Install an automated machining center in production.

P5: Move the receiving department to new facilities on site.

There is just one project of each type. Each project has an estimated net present value (NPV)

and each requires a capital expenditure, which must come out of the allocated budget. The

following table summarizes the possibilities, with all figures in millions of dollars:

Projects

P1 P2 P3 P4 P5

NPV 10 17 16 8 14

Expenditure 48 96 80 32 64

The committee would like to maximize the total NPV from projects selected, subject to the

budget limit of $160 million.

a) Determine which projects should be selected to maximize the total NPV.

b) If at most one of Project 3 and Project 4 can be selected AND Project 4 requires

Project 5, how does your solution from part a change?  interpret the impact of these

changes on your solution.

How will you implement formative assessment in your classroom to support the Common Core State Standards and the ongoing, formative assessment of ELL students?

Implement formative assessments for ELL students

How will you implement formative assessment in your classroom to support the Common Core State Standards and the ongoing, formative assessment of ELL students?

What are the risks and potential shortcomings in the existing Australian regulatory framework.

Cryptocurriences what are the risks and potential shortcomings in the existing australian regulatory framework

Writing a research paper on, New payment technologies specifically cryptocurrencies focusing on bitcoin, what are the risks and potential shortcomings in the existing Australian regulatory framework. will need to look at the Reserve Bank of Australia and related authorities have set out a research proposal which will attach  look at that and work from there. the research proposal attachment has comments from the proff which will assist heavily. if you are able to  cite in AGLC. this is a banking and finance law class so if applicable cite legislation.

What national or international policies contribute to the problem? Who is contributing indirectly to the problem by not taking steps to stop it?

Problem Solution Proposal

Problem/Solution Proposal Essay Outline Due date: Turnitin.com (make sure it is n M. format)

Directions: Research at least three sources (and write and annotated bib for these sources using the templates) and write your essay following the below outline of what to put in each paragraph. Make sure you use in-text and parenthetical citations.

Introduction

a. Attention-getter: An apt quotation, a striking example, or a brief anecdote may serve to capture your reader’s interest and focus it on the point you plan to make.

b. Background information: Historical background of the problem and its development. Most of the problems we will be researching did not occur overnight. There will be a history of events that led to the current situation. When and how did it start? Who is suffering? How many?

c This should clearly state the controlling idea(s) of your paper which is based upon explaining a problem and discussing the possible solutions.
II. Causes of the problem:

a. Discussion of contributing and significant causes of this problem. hour research should provide data which may include case histories, examples, statistical evidence or authoritative quotations. Who is causing the suffering? Why?

b. Who is benefiting from the situation?

c. What national or international policies contribute to the problem? Who is contributing indirectly to the problem by not taking steps to stop it?

The only genuine restriction is that the materials presented in the body must provide clear and relevant support for your

Effects of the problem:

a. Laws, regulations, and government programs that directly impact this issue can be effective evidence.

b. Discussion of the effects this problem has on society. On people (immediate and long term). On the environment. On the economy.

c. What are the short-term and long-term impacts?

What does the future hold in respect to this issue?

IV. Solutions to the problem (this section will be longer than any other):

a. What logical solutions have been proposed in the past?

How did these work out? Successes/failures.

b. What are solutions proposed for the future?

c. It would be acceptable for you to rnake assurnptions and offer an opinion or recommend a course of action in addition to those offered by authoritative sources.

you may also analyze, evaluate, and explain the most favorable course of action.
V. Conclusion

Deductions:

What deductions can you logically draw from your research?

b. The conclusion that will serve you best is one that briefly pulls together the main points of your essay and reinforces your controlling idea

c.The conclusion of a problem-solution essay should include a restatement of the problem and the benefits of the proposed solution.

d. Call to action —What do you want your reader to do now or to better understand?