Select a country as a possible new market for a new video game system, the M-Box by MES-Sim Corporation.

Objectives [CLO 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5]
On successful completion of this assignment, students should be able to:
1. explain the role culture can play in an organizational context,
2. identify means of creating sustainable business practices in a global context,
3. describe key components and dimensions of the international trade, investment and financial systems, and
5. explain differences in the management function in macro business environments.
Brief Description
The Capstone Project will be done in teams. The professor will place students into teams. Each team member is expected to cooperate in a professional and respectful manner; and on a unit basis, submit work that meets the standards of the program and university.
Submission Working as part of a team, students will complete a Market Entry Strategy Project. Each team will:
· Select a country as a possible new market for a new video game system, the M-Box by MES-Sim Corporation.
· Research and analyze that country.
· Recommend whether the market should be developed, or not, by MES-Sim Corporation.
This project has four distinct parts. Teams will work one section at a time in the sequence and according to the schedule outlined below. Draft Versions of each Part will be submitted to the professor as a ‘Check-in’; the professor will not mark the Check-Ins but will provide feedback. Teams can therefore improve the Draft before submitting the Final Version of the Report at the end of the course for marking.
The Capstone Project has four distinct parts, which are material to the development of your team’s Recommendation. When formatting the project, it must be remembered that written submissions are professionally presented, including an Executive Summary and Conclusion. Each Part should be done in the order described above as Parts 2, 3, and 4 build on previous work. Draft Versions of each Part will be submitted to the professor as a “Check-in;” the professor will not mark the Check-Ins but will provide feedback. Teams can therefore improve the Draft before submitting the Final Version of the Report at the end of the course for marking. Each part should be 3-4 pages in length.
Project Deadlines
· Learning Team Agreement submission – 11:00 p.m. on Sunday of Unit 2.
· Marketing Intelligence Report (MIR) – 11:00 p.m. on Sunday of Unit 4.
· Business Environment Analysis Report (BEAR) – 11:00 p.m. on Sunday of Unit 6.
· Report on Opportunities for Market Entry (ROME) – 11:00 p.m. on Sunday of Unit 8.
· Market Entry Strategy Assignment (MESA) – 11:00 p.m. on Sunday of Unit 10.
· Final Report Submission (inclusive of all sections) – 11:00 p.m. on Sunday of Unit 11.
Late Submission Policy
· This assessment is subject to the Late Submission penalty policy, namely 5% per day for three days.
· This page will close and will not allow further submissions after this Late Submission period has expired.
· In the event of an emergency preventing you from submitting within this time frame, special permission must be obtained from your instructor. Documentation substantiating emergency is required. In such a circumstance, if the extension is granted, the professor will reopen the submission function for you on an individual basis.
· Please do not email your submissions to your professor, either before or after the due date; all coursework should be submitted through the online course (Moodle).
· For time management purposes, students are strongly advised to submit their assignments by the due date above, relative to their local time zone. Late penalties will not be applied until after 8:00 a.m. Atlantic Time the following day.
Capstone Group Project Preparation – Team Management
· Weight Ungraded but required
· Due no later than 11:00 p.m. on Sunday of Unit 2
Description
It is critical that all each team makes meaningful progress towards completing the Capstone Project on a unit-by-unit basis.
Each team will be managed according to the Learning Team Agreement (LTA). Each team member will be required to agree to and abide by the LTA. LTA must be submitted for approval by professor by 11:00 p.m. on Sunday of Unit 2.
· This work will be managed by the Team but the Project Deliverables (refer to the LTA) must be approved by the professor, and the actual work done each unit will be reviewed by the professor. Students can assign the work in whatever manner the Team Members believe is most appropriate for them, For example, students can divide each section according to the issues listed below or they can share the work collectively.
· Each team will write a brief work plan as outlined in the Project Deliverables section of the LTA and submit it to the professor for approval by the end of the third day of the course.
· Each team will also submit a brief unit report to the professor based on the Project Deliverables, which will indicate what work was done and by whom. This approach gives the professor the ability to assess not only the team’s progress but also the contribution of each team member. Unit reports will be submitted to the professor at the end of each unit.
· Team members must advise the professor of any issues relating to peers as soon as they occur so that they can be handled in a proactive and respectful manner. Again, each team member is expected to cooperate in a professional and respectful manner; and on a unit basis, submit work that meets the standards of the program and university.
Capstone Group Project Part 1 – Marketing Intelligence Report (MIR)
· Weight Ungraded but required
· Due no later than 11:00 p.m. on Sunday of Unit 4
Description
The MIR requires teams to gather current, or the most recently available, data on the market’s people, economy, government, and technological status from online sources. The MIR should be 3-4 pages in length.
Capstone Group Project Part 2 – Business Environment Analysis Report (BEAR)
· Weight Ungraded but required
· Due no later than 11:00 p.m. on Sunday of Unit 6
Description
In the BEAR, students will analyze the business environment in the market. The submission should be 3-4 pages in length. Students should remember that this is about developing a market in the selected country, not going there to have fun as a tourist. Therefore, your work should not include data that is not directly relevant to the goal of deciding whether the market should be developed or not. Data that would be relevant could include, but may not necessarily be limited to, the following items:
· Political and regulatory stability – Students will need to describe and discuss the political and regulatory system with reference to their stability and receptivity to international business, including foreign investment.
· Legal system – Students will need to describe and discuss the kind of legal system that exists there. The following questions are typically important in such a discussion – Is the legal system transparent and independent? Is it fair and objective? Does it protect intellectual property, foreign investments, etc.?
· Business customs and practice – Students will need to describe and discuss the business customs and practices that exist there. The following questions are typically important in such a discussion – What role do ethics, corruption, and respect of law play? How are environmental concerns and human rights issues addressed?
· Religion and culture – Students will need to describe and discuss the cultures that play a significant role in the country, specifically how these cultures might impact international business.
· Economic analysis of key indicators –
o Demographics
o GNP/GDP
o Major sectors and industries
o Currency, interest, and inflation rates
o International Trade patterns
o Labour Force

Our group chose to sell to Japan
Just write it down without going into too much detail

class importance

What is the importance of taking a course like this one in college?
Should courses which focus on race, class and gender be introduced in K-12 education? Why or why not?
What privileges can you attribute to your identity

Safety usage of the children in the internet

Virtual world is not like real world. You have to be careful when you have any virtual conversations.With this rate of increase in Internet users, people should be made aware of the cyber-attacks and scams that are running currently on the Internet.Childrens are most at risk when surfing on the internet because they use it more than anybody else on average; social websites are where you are most at danger for example Tiktok, Twitter,Instagram and Facebook.

Sociology research proposal

Guidelines
for Research Proposal
Due: Monday, February 28th on Blackboard by
Midnight

You are a budding sociologist who is interested
in examining a particular social phenomenon related to social justice/advocacy
(you have flexibility in how you define social justice/advocacy). For this
assignment you are being asked to submit a brief (4-5 page, double-spaced)
research proposal. This proposal should reflect your understanding of the
sociological imagination and the research methods sociologists use to study the
social world. You will not be asked to
undertake this project, but simply to propose research. In your proposal
you should:
1) Propose
a research question about a social phenomenon that you are interested in
understanding better (what you propose to study). You are free to choose any topic other
than friendship diversity.
2)
Briefly discuss why you think this is a
sociologically important (or interesting) topic to study. How is this research
relevant to understanding issues of social justice and/or advocacy?
3)
Identify the population that you are interested
in studying. If you plan to take a sample of the general population, how will
you choose this sample?
4)
Identify your dependent variable as well as
several possible independent variables.
5)
State a hypothesis that proposes a causal
relationship between your dependent variable and your “key” independent
variable.
6)
Provide an explanation that lays out why you
expect this relationship to exist.
7)
Discuss at least one other possible explanation
of the outcome you plan to study and what this would mean for your hypothesis.
8)
Propose a method and lay out a specific plan for
gathering your data.
a.
Why is this method well suited to your
hypothesis?
b.
Is what you propose realistic?
c.
Will you be utilizing a macro, meso or micro
orientation in undertaking your research?
9)
How will your project adhere to the standards of
“good research?” If you expect any shortcomings along these lines, address them
accordingly.
10) Discuss
any ethical issues that you must address when undertaking your study (and how
you will address them). If there are none, explain why.

Murder on the Orient Express Analysis

Murder on the Orient Express )
DO: SUBMIT AS A WORD DOCUMENT ATTACHMENT TO AN EMAIL DO NOT: submit as a pdf attachment
DO NOT: submit as a link to a file
DO NOT: submit as a Google Drive shared file and any other file share
This paper is to be written about the following 2010 British television dramatization of Agatha Christie’s story Murder on the Orient Express: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDtZNg2gIaQ
I want you to imagine that you are Hercule Poirot, and you are confronted with the facts of Murder on the Orient Express (as they are portrayed in the 2010 television dramatization of this story). When you disembark the train after solving the mystery, you have two options when you meet with the group of Yugoslav policemen. Which of those options do you choose, and why?
Write a 4-5-page paper that answers this question by drawing upon material from chapter one of the Swanson textbook.
When you incorporate discussion of that reading into your paper, it should be in a well-formulated, critical analytical manner. In other words, you should not simply describe the reading’s content; instead, you should focus on demonstrating to me that you can analyze that content and apply it to the Murder on the Orient Express question in a thoughtful and interesting manner.
Do not use the first person.
POL 215 Law and Courts (Spring 2022)
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RESEARCH SOURCES AND CITATION RULES:
Although you must make use of the movie and the Swanson book, you are also permitted (but not required) to incorporate additional outside research. Just remember that every source that you use needs to be listed in the bibliography AND, where appropriate, cited in a footnote.
For this paper you will be expected to follow the citation rules outlined in the chapters that I have assigned for you to read from Kate L. Turabian’s A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations. This is the default style manual for all political science courses at SUNY Oswego.
DON’T BE THAT PERSON WHO…
I expect you to correctly spell the name of any character from the movie that you choose to refer to in your paper.
You can find those names here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1554113/?ref_=fn_al_tt_7
Formatting requirements:
4-5 pages double-spaced
1” margins
Coversheet
12-point Times New Roman
Footnote citations (conforming to Turabian style)
Bibliography (conforming to Turabian style)

econmetrics

Exercise #4.
The variables described below occur in both the WorkWomen.csv and WorkMen.csv data sets, which are based on Chakraborty, Holter, and Stepanchuk (2012). Answer the following questions about the relationship between hours worked and divorce rates:
A. For each of the data sets (WorkWomen.csv and WorkMen.csv), create a scatterplot of hours worked on the Y-Axis and divorce rates on the X-Axis (3 points).
B. For each data set, estimate a fitted OLS regression in which hours worked is regressed (is dependent) on divorce rates. Write the estimated regression equation and include the coefficients in both fitted equations. Discuss all of the coefficients between the two data sets and compared any differences between them (3 points).
C. Calculate the fitted value (Y-hat) and residual for men in Germany (in R, you can look at the row for Germany with WorkMen[6,]). Make sure you show how you arrived at your calculations (3 points).
D. Calculate the fitted value (Y-hat) and residual for women in Spain (in R, you can look at the row for Germany with WorkWomen[14,]). Make sure you show how you arrived at your calculations. (3 points).
Exercise #5.
Answer the following questions about hours worked and tax rates:
A. For each data set (WorkWomen.csv and WorkMen.csv), create a scatterplot of hours worked on the Y-axis and tax rates on the X-axis (3 points).
B. For each data set, estimate an OLS regression in which hours worked is regressed (is dependent) on tax rates. Write the estimated regression equation and include the coefficients in both fitted equations. Discuss all of the coefficients between the two data sets and compared any differences between them (3 points).
C. Calculate the fitted value (Y-hat) and residual for men in the United States (in R, you can look at the row for United States with WorkMen[18,]). Make sure you show how you arrived at your calculations (3 points).
D. Calculate the fitted value (Y-hat) and residual for women in Italy (in R, you can look at the row for Germany with WorkWomen[9,]). Make sure you show how you arrived at your calculations (3 points).
Codebook for Exercises 4 and 5 (Table 3.6):
Variables for Divorce Rate and Hours Worked
Variable Name: Description
ID: Unique number for each country
country: Name of the country
hours: Average yearly labor (in hours) for gender specified in data set
divorcerate: Divorce rate per thousand
taxrate: Average effective tax rate

Using what you have learned in this course about labor and employment laws, the employee selection process, training, and various leadership styles, how would you address the challenges identified in the scenario below?

Instructions:
Read the case study below. Using what you have learned in this course about labor and employment laws, the employee selection process, training, and various leadership styles, how would you address the challenges identified in the scenario below?
Write a 3-page paper identifying how you would handle the challenges identified in the case study.
Professional Formatting Requirements
Include a Cover page containing the title of the assignment, your name, the professor’s name, and the course title and date.
Include a References page, showing all your sources (minimum of three references)
The Cover page and the References page are not included in the required page length
Double-spaced, professional font (Times New Roman or Ariel), 12 font
FINAL PAPER – Case Scenario
Congratulations! You are the new manager of Alexandria’s hottest Sports Bar & Grill. There are 12 employees, including yourself. Your staff includes an assistant manager, two cooks, two bartenders, four servers, one busser, and one dishwasher. Unfortunately, you never have a full crew because at least one person calls in sick every day (if not more!) One of the cooks is out on worker’s compensation because he slipped and fell. When you walked into the breakroom, you overheard one of the servers telling another server that the assistant manager was having an affair with one of the bartenders and receiving special treatment. When they noticed your arrival, the chatter in the breakroom turned to silence. You feel like you are spinning your wheels hiring new staff. As soon as you hire a new employee, seems like someone else quits.

Excel: Countif, IF, Nested IF, VLOOKUP_Exact Match; Approximate Match, Index and Match, PMT

In the attached excel workbook there are 3 tabs. Complete the following tasks on each tab on the excel attached and return it complete.

Part 1 –
Task 1: Use formula to calculate the final grade and the
letter grade

Task 2: Use function to calculate Computer Skills. Both
skills Yes: show “Sufficient”, only one skill: show “Good”,
no skill: show “Poor”

Part 2 –
Task 3: Generate a column
chart with the States showing as X-axis. Create a chart title “Units
Produced”. Place the chart on right side of the data.

Task 4: Generate a
pie chart with legend and title “Sales in Pounds”, showing the percentage
of each quarter. Place your chart on the right side of the data.

Part 3 –
Task 5: Create Line sparklines in column H in the Summary
sheet to display six-month trends for each agent. Show the high point in each
sparkline.

Task 6: Insert an IF function in column I that
displays a $600 bonus if an agent’s average sales are greater than the
average of all sales for the six months. Use two nested AVERAGE
functions in the logical _test argument of the IF function to
make the comparison. Use cell reference for Bonus

Readings on Mistrust of the Media from Elements of Argument pages 608-620

The reading was attached
This discussion forum is based on the four short readings from the “Mistrust of the Media” from Elements of Argument, pages 608-620: Download “Mistrust of the Media” from Elements of Argument, pages 608-620:
EA 608-612, Carson, “Fake News: What Exactly Is It – and How Can You Spot It?”
EA 612-614, Jones, “US Media Trust Continues to Recover…”
EA 614-618, Rosling, “The Blame Instinct,”
EA 618-620, Rusbridger, “Journalism Has Changed in the Blink of an Eye”
Questions
Please number and answer the four following questions in four to five sentences each:
James Carson, in “Fake News: What Exactly Is It – and How Can You Spot It?”, writes that “the rise of social media has broken down many of the boundaries that prevented fake news from spreading in democracies.” What support does he offer for that claim?
According to Jeffery M. Jones, in “US Media Trust Continues to Recover from 2016 Low,” what has happened to Americans’ level of mistrust in the media since 2016? Why have Republicans and Democrats had such different levels in trust? What assumptions underly the thinking of each party?
Do you agree or disagree with Hans Rosling’s statement in “The Blame Instinct” that “You should not expect the media to provide you with a fact-based worldview any more than you would think it reasonable to use a set of” vacation photos “as your GPS system to help you navigate” around a major city? Elaborate on your reasons for your answer.
According to Alan Rusbridger in “Journalism Has Changed in the Blink of an Eye,” how has social media changed journalism? What are some of the positives and negatives of those changes?

Bread Giver’s Review

Book Review On Bread Givers
1. Describe the author’s main point or points. If you are unfamiliar with finding a main
please google it.
2. What do you think are the strengths and weaknesses of the book.
3. Are there any biases inherent in the author’s observations about the topic written? If
unfamiliar with what bias means, please look it up in a dictionary.
4. Is this book appropriate for an introductory United States history class or better
suited for an advanced class? Why?
5. What do you think is the value of learning the material in Bread Givers in a United
States history class?
6. Is the book accurate for basic facts? Are the citations proper? For the proper footnote
or citation form, please consult and use the examples of footnotes included in your syllabus packet.