Many factors affect intellectual sharpness. Think of an occasion when you felt stupid and an occasion when you felt smart. How did the contexts of the two experiences differ? How might those differences affect the performance of elderly and young adults who go to a university laboratory for testing (Berger, 2015, p. 727)? you can choose your own ideas it doesn’t matter as long as the questions are answered and in correct format. Make sure what they are asking you and its answered in 2 pages 12 pt. font double spaced and in APA style. use citations as examples. FOR YOUR ASSIGNMENTS TO BE DONE AT A CHEAPER PRICE PLACE THIS ORDER OR A SIMILAR ORDER WITH US NOW
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For this writing task, you’ll need to respond to the following scenario: Who are you? You are the vice president of operations at Exquisite Entertainment, an entertainment company that owns and operates 19 seasonal and yearround amusement parks (Worlds of Play) located throughout the U.S. You are responsible for providing overall direction and guidance with regard to the operational activities of the organization.
What’s the current situation? The company’s amusement parks have always been popular, but recently they haven’t been very profitable. Operating costs have been rising, and every dollar of extra revenue has been hard won. At the company’s annual management offsite meeting held that morning at Worlds of PlaySeattle, Alex Harrington, a business strategy consultant from Ernst & Young LLP, unveiled “Operation Upmarket,” a business strategy proposal aimed at addressing the issue of profitability for Worlds of Play. This plan proposed that Worlds of Play offer its customers the option of a “preferred guest” card. Cardholders would pay more, but they would get first crack at the rides and would get seated immediately at any of the park’s restaurants. According to Alex, the plan would help Worlds of Play finances because it would target the “mass affluents”wealthy but timepressed people who might visit the park more often and spend more time while there, were it not for long lines at the rides. You think back to that morning’s meeting. You respect Alex’s plan, but what about the initiatives you had implemented to tap into that same segment? In fact, you have already had some successes. Roughly 20% of Worlds of Play souvenir shops have been upgraded to gift boutiques with more appealing displays and higherpriced merchandise, and some snack concessions have been converted to seated dining. The most upscale of the restaurants are already earning almost double the profit per square foot of the other foodservice facilities. Alex had done an impressive amount of work developing the idea, commissioning surveys and focus groups, and getting finance to run the numbers. Her presentation had been persuasive, you admit. Her tactic had been to get people arguing the detailsshould the pass cost $20 more than general admission or $30 more?while ignoring the question of whether it was a good idea at all. At first, this approach seemed to be working. But Grace Jones, Exquisite Entertainment’s vice president of human resources said, “Clearly, there’s revenue to be gained from offering these differentiated service levels. But it just doesn’t seem like us. The founder of Worlds of Play created a place where families could come together for a day to forget about their cares.” Alex said, “Our history is great, but if things don’t turn around fast, we are going to be history. The company has to make changes quickly to avoid cashcrunchdriven bankruptcy or a hostile takeover.” It was no secret to anyone in the meeting that theme parks have only three ways to bring in more revenue: (1) increase visits per customer, (2) increase average spending per visit, or (3) attract new customers. Alex argued that the guest card would address the last two items by attracting a different type of customertimestarved, highincome professionals and their familieswho might otherwise avoid the whole experience. Adam Goodwin, the VP of marketing said, “It strikes me as a very shortsighted strategy. I mean, sure we could make a lot of money on those cards in the first couple of seasons. But just think about what it does to the overall customer experience. The average Joe with his wife and three kids is not going to shell out for five upgrades. So they are going to be sweating through even longer lines and just steaming when they see some yuppie waltz ahead of them. I don’t even think it’s a great experience for the preferred guests. Who wants to feel all the anger directed at them? The key to this business is that the customers feel good while they are here. A couple of ugly glances, a nasty remark, and the day is spoiled for everybody. Neither side’s coming back.” 12/7/2016 Register now with WritersHub.org! http://www.writershub.org/writer/orders/98399#instructions 4/5 “I should have explained,” Alex said. “We would definitely separate the lines so the preferred cardholders wouldn’t be in people’s faces and we’d limit the percentage of special tickets issued on any given day. But I don’t think you are giving your customers enough credit. People have a lot more awareness and appreciation of the fact that time is money. This program lets them choose which they want to save.” What are you supposed to do? You have been charged by CEO Len Becker to summarize the merits of the option presented at the meeting in his absence. Craft the body of a document for Mr. Becker. Develop a response that includes examples and evidence to support your ideas, and which clearly communicates the required message to your audience. Organize your response in a clear and logical manner as appropriate for the genre of writing. Use wellstructured sentences, audienceappropriate language, and correct conventions of standard American English. FOR YOUR ASSIGNMENTS TO BE DONE ...
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For my Communication Research Methods class, we are supposed to select a topic we will be studying and write a Research Paper at the end of the semester. For my Research topic, I have chosen to write about: To what extent do U.S. companies utilize social media to reach their audiences? The main parts of the paper should include a: rationale justifying the research, transitional paragraph into the review of literature, review of literature (largest chunk of the paper) focusing on all sources found, a summary paragraph to wrap everything up, and a hypothesis. i have my rationale down but need help with writing the review of literature. I have found 7 sources but if you could find a couple more I would greatly appreciate that anything that is relevant to my topic and shows consistency. here are the sources (that need to be in APA format, in fact, everything in the paper needs to be APA format!): 1) http://eds.a.ebscohost.com.proxy.emerson.edu/eds/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=86307378c01d4c1490e3 2dbf39f04e6a%40sessionmgr4007&vid=2&hid=4205 Customer Relations in Social Media: Social Media Usage Motives, Expected Responses from Organizations, and Electronic Word of Mouth (eWOM) by MingYi Wu 2) http://eds.a.ebscohost.com.proxy.emerson.edu/eds/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=f0ba818b459442d3a154 3e04aec27bf6%40sessionmgr4010&vid=1&hid=4205 Social Media, Social Me: A Content Analysis of Beauty Companies’ Use of Facebook in Marketing and Branding by BIN SHEN and KIMBERLY BISSELL 3) http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do? p=AONE&u=ecl_main&id=GALE%7CA369198052&v=2.1&it=r&sid=ebsco&ugroup=outside&authCount=1 How GE uses social tools to support its digital strategies; Social media is a key tool to getting its message out by John Dix 4) http://eds.a.ebscohost.com.proxy.emerson.edu/eds/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=a32b69bf1a004b19aae7 65082ad6b154%40sessionmgr4008&vid=1&hid=4205 Missed eWOM opportunities: A crosssector analysis of online monitoring behavior by Nora Ganim Barnesa * and Stephanie L. Jacobsenb 12/7/2016 Register now with WritersHub.org! http://www.writershub.org/writer/orders/98433#instructions 4/5 5) http://eds.a.ebscohost.com.proxy.emerson.edu/eds/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=b6b7dd0c42de42878671 54523c62c5fd%40sessionmgr4009&vid=6&hid=4205 America’s Most Admired Companies Social Media Industry Divide by MARCIA W. DISTASO, TINA MCCORKINDALE, and ALEXA AGUGLIARO 6) http://eds.b.ebscohost.com.proxy.emerson.edu/eds/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=0d0371a74f6a45768886 346c5dd99aea%40sessionmgr106&vid=2&hid=117 Social Media in the Inc. 500: The First Longitudinal Study by Nora Ganim Barnes, Ph.D. and Eric Mattson 7) http://eds.b.ebscohost.com.proxy.emerson.edu/eds/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=d54155ff473d4c32a983 60aa7faf5283%40sessionmgr103&vid=3&hid=117 A Social Media Compliance Update Ten Years Later by Robert Springer FOR YOUR ASSIGNMENTS TO BE DONE AT A CHEAPER PRICE PLACE THIS ORDER OR A SIMILAR ...
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Department of Advanced Nursing Studies Theoretical Foundations of Nursing Practice Reflective practice assignment Purpose The purpose of this assignment is to help the student develop techniques for reflective practice as driven by NONPF’s advanced nursing practice leadership competencies and within the context of values-based practice and evidence-based care guided by nursing theory. Course Outcomes This assignment enables ...
Read More »To what extent do the writers and their arguments extend, corroborate, complicate, contradict, correct, or debate one another?
To what extent do the writers and their arguments extend, corroborate, complicate, contradict, correct, or debate one another? To what extent do the writers and their arguments extend, corroborate, complicate, contradict, correct, or debate one another? FOR YOUR ASSIGNMENTS TO BE DONE AT A CHEAPER PRICE PLACE THIS ORDER OR A SIMILAR ORDER WITH US NOW
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State of Play Film Essay 3 Draft For Unit Three, you’re essay will have as its central texts a film of your choice from an assortment of five conspiracy films—The Manchurian Candidate (1962), State of Play, All the President’s Men, and Wag the Dog. Conspiracy films, by their nature play on widely held fears. As you develop your ideas, if ...
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How strong and dangerous can Russia be? Does Russia have enough power to go against the world?Will it still be a threat with Trump as our new president? FOR YOUR ASSIGNMENTS TO BE DONE AT A CHEAPER PRICE PLACE THIS ORDER OR A SIMILAR ORDER WITH US NOW
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Reading Response Paper Topic 1 One way to think about justice is to raise the question of rights and where they come from. Following elements of John Locke’s political philosophy, modern libertarians such as Robert Nozick maintain that we are born with certain basic entitlements. Principal among these so called natural rights are liberty and property. Questions of a just society for Nozick, then, become questions of how to best safe guard our right to liberty generally and, in particular, our right to private property and free exchange. Others, such as John Rawls, reject the idea that we have rights independent from societal inclusion. One way of putting it is that from the communitarian perspective all rights are civil, not natural, in origin. For many of this viewpoint justice then becomes a question of protecting the principals agreed upon for social living. Write a 46 page essay for a general reader that: 1) Lays out what a Lockean right or natural right is supposed to be; 2) Explains how such rights are supposed to relate to Nozick’s entitlement theory of just distribution; 3) Demonstrates how Nozick uses the Wilt Chamberlin example to argue for his preferred view; 4) Raises the question of society and natural rights by considering Rawls’ focus on the original position and fairness; 5) Shows how the veil of ignorance is supposed to work and why ignorance might be required in thinking about justice; 6) Says what two principles allegedly fall out of the veil of ignorance and why Rawls thinks free exchange must be conditioned by equality of opportunity; and, 7) Explores in some detail the possible implications of these two different approaches to justice and economic distribution for the poverty case study outlined in section 3.3 of chapter 3. You may advance a thesis if you choose but be sure to offer reasons for the view you wish to defend. In writing for a general reader you should assume very little by way of background knowledge. In particular, make sure you do not address your remarks directly to me or anyone familar with the essay prompt or our other course materials (including our text). In this regard it is very useful to include an introductory paragraph that both presents your overall ethical concern in a way that would capture a general readers attention and provides a sketch of what you plan to say about it. Avoid bullet points and make sure your paragraphs bear some relation to one another and to carrying out the agenda presented in the introduction. You may use other sources and direct quotation but as always you must cite your sources and use largely your own words and ideas. Format This assignment should be 4 pages long, double spaced, with 1 inch margins, 12 pt. font, and submitted as a (.doc), (.docx) or Rich Text File (.rtf) document. Check the syllabus for acceptable file name format. FOR YOUR ASSIGNMENTS TO BE DONE AT A CHEAPER PRICE PLACE THIS ORDER OR A SIMILAR ORDER WITH US NOW :)
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Part 1: Choose your company and locate its 2016 annual report (or 2015 if 2016 not available). Please avoid financial services companies, i.e. banks, insurance companies, and real estate companies (SIC codes 6000). Part 2: 1. What product does your company sell? Which industry is that? Who are the competitors of the company? 2. Compare the company’s daily stock returns with one of its competitors and those of Dow Jones Industrial Average in the past five years (Jan 2011 Dec 2016) and explain the trends you observe. You are required to use a graph to support your comments. 3. Obtain one recent analyst report and summarize it. You should address the analyst’s current assessment of your company, and you should summarize the analyst’s prognosis for your company. Part 3: Find three articles in the financial press describing events that have occurred in the company and potentially affected its stock performance. Each article should be at least 500 words, and they should be published within the last three years. At least one article must come from The Wall Street Journal and one article must come from The Financial Times. Print out the articles and provide a summary of more than 100 words for each of them. Part 4: 1. Who is the company’s auditor? What is the responsibility of the auditor? What is the auditor’s opinion? 2. Who is responsible for the preparation of the company’s financial statements? 3. Find out and state the responsibility of the audit committee. Part 5: 2 1. Who is the company’s CEO? Who is the company’s CFO? How long have they been in the company? What do they have to do regarding financial reporting after the Sarbanes Oxley act of 2002? 2. How much did the CEO of the company make in total compensation? How was he/she paid: salary, bonus, stock, stock options? Repeat the two questions for the CFO. 3. What is the management’s view on the financial performance of the company? (Summarize three key items in the management discussion and analysis section.) 12/5/2016 Register now with WritersHub.org! http://www.writershub.org/writer/orders/93362#instructions 4/6 Part 6: 1. Prepare a 5year trend analysis, using 2011 (or 2010) as the base year of (1) net sales, (2) net income, (3) total assets, (4) total liabilities, (5) total stockholders’ equity, and (6) operating cash flows. Comment on the significance of the results. 2. Prepare a vertical analysis for 2016 (or 2015) of net sales based on the income statement data: cost of goods sold, operating expenses, interest expenses, income tax expense, other income/expenses, and net income. Comment on the significance of the results. 3. Prepare a vertical analysis for 2016 (or 2015) of total assets based on the balance sheet data: current assets, plant assets (net), intangible assets, other assets, current liabilities, longterm liabilities, other liabilities, preferred stock, common stock, additional paid in capital, retained earnings, treasury stock, and other equity. Comment on the significance of the results. 4. Identify a competitor of your company and calculate the following ratios for your company and its competitor for 2016 (or 2015), and comment on significant differences of the two companies in terms of the ratios: a. Liquidity ratios: current ratio, quick ratio, receivables turnover, and ...
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Analyze the work of a theorist (from Hobbes and on) that we have read in terms of his/her approach to liberty. “Liberty” is a large topic, so it is important to structure your analysis with some fundamental questions: Does the theorist view liberty as fundamental to what it means to be human? Why or why not? Does the theorist view liberty as fundamental to the (good or bad) functioning of the state? Why or why not? Is liberty / should liberty be integral the arrangements of power? Has this theorist’s approach to liberty fundamentally influenced the way we view liberty in the 21st century? Alternatively, is there a fundamental part of our understanding of liberty of which this theorist has not taken account? Why/why not? FOR YOUR ASSIGNMENTS TO BE DONE AT A CHEAPER PRICE PLACE THIS ORDER OR A SIMILAR ORDER WITH US NOW :)
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