APPLYING LEGAL KNOWLEDGE TO BUSINESS ORGANIZATION,AGENCY, LIABILITY, AND CONTRACTS

Week 9 Assignment – Applying Legal Knowledge to Business Organization, Agency, Liability, and Contracts.
Introduction
In this assignment, you will make determinations for each of the scenarios provided below. Read the scenarios, answer the three questions that follow in a 2–4 page paper, and include at least two academic sources to support your decisions and rationale.
Scenarios
1. Otis Owner loves to bake cookies. Everyone loves his cookies, and his friends recommend that Otis open his own shop. Otis likes the idea, and after saving some money, decides that he will open his own business. Otis is familiar with sole proprietorships, limited liability companies, and corporations, but he is unsure which option would be best for his business.
Consider the scenario and answer the following question:
Determine if Otis should select a sole proprietorship, limited liability company, or corporation. Explain why the form of business organization selected is the best for Otis.
2. Otis hires Kelly Kleaner to help in his shop. Kelly enjoys the job, is always on time, and is happy with the hourly pay. Otis, however, is concerned about his liability if Kelly injures someone while working at his business. After Kelly mopped the floor one day, Doug Driver shows up to deliver a package and slips on the wet floor. Doug breaks his leg.
Consider the scenario and answer the following questions:
Determine if Otis is responsible for the injuries suffered by Doug Driver. Explain the elements of an agency relationship as they relate to the scenarios in your response.
3. Otis is looking to expand his business. He has the opportunity to make sugar-free cookies using a new artificial sweetener. The sweetener is very inexpensive and would increase Otis’ profit margin. However, there are some health concerns about the artificial sweetener and studies show that it may cause cancer. Otis would like to increase his profits, but he is concerned about the health risks of using the artificial sweetener.
Consider the scenario and answer the following question:
Should Otis use the artificial sweetener? Discuss both the financial and ethical implications of Otis’ decision.
In a 2–4 page paper, answer the three questions relating to the scenarios. Be sure to cite your sources and include a reference page with at least two (2) academic sources.
Academic sources can also be called scholarly sources. The sources may be books, journal articles, and published expert reports. Academic sources have been peer-reviewed, which means they have been reviewed by experts on those topics.
Note: The reference page is not included in the required page count.

You are an Imperial Court Counselor to your Emperor Resources

Unit 3 Writing Assignment–YOU ARE AN IMPERIAL COURT COUNSELOR TO YOUR EMPEROR
Resources:
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/world-history/ancient-medieval/zhou-qin-han-china/a/the-philosophers-of-the-warring-states
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/ps/cup/confucius_govt.pdf
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/ps/cup/laozi_govt.pdf
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/ps/cup/hanfei_five_vermin.pdf
Instructions for this assignment:
For this essay, you will look at one of three Chinese dynasties described in our Chapter 4 embedded, Berger, World History textbook:
Qin Dynasty,
Han Dynasty
Tang Dynasty
You will write your essay from the perspective of an imperial court counselor to the emperor recommending one of the three types of Chinese governing philosophies described in the links about AND in the Chapter 4 readings. In your recommendation keep in mind the strengths and weaknesses of each philosophy but also the goals of your emperor and empire. For example, if you empire is concerned primarily with conquering land and controlling large amounts of territory, then one of the three philosophies does this better than the other two. If the goal of your dynasty is to promote a general peace and to promote kind and wise inspiration from your emperor to his people, then another kind of philosophy works best, and if your dynasty is quite cosmopolitan and is interested in establishing vast trading links and embracing new ideas of governing and religion from the outside world, another philosophy will do that allows the people more freedom of choice.
To help you better understand the philosophies read selections linked above on governing from Confucius’s Analects, the Laozi (“Old Master”, also known as the Dao de jing), and the Han Feizi (Master Han Fei). These are, respectively, Confucian, Daoist, and Legalist texts, and the selections introduce the author or the person to whom the writing is rightly or wrongly attributed.
To write this essay, introduce the historical dynasty (time, place, events) and then move into your role as imperial court counselor. Remember to explain why one philosophy will be better for your emperor to use in ruling over another. Use the sources in the links and Chapter 4 to inform your comparison of the philosophies and which one will work best and when doing so refer to key ideas as comments made by the ancient philosophers themselves.
Writing Guidelines:
Your completed assignment should be roughly 700-1000 words.
You must write in complete sentences and paragraphs. Bullet points or lists will not be accepted.
Using Turabian/Chicago style format only, please cite your sources internally using parenthetical citations or footnotes, and include a complete bibliography at the end of your paper.
Introducing materials from other sources risks plagiarism and should be avoided and will disqualify your work.
There are also links to formatting information for Chicago Style, and Turbian in our syllabus.
Be original – All papers submitted in this class are reviewed via Turnitin.com, a proprietary software database that identifies unoriginal material in papers. Please review the syllabus statement regarding the penalty for plagiarism–a zero for a grade.
Submit your citations and bibliography within your paper. Everything should be saved and submitted in one document.

Creativity and Innovation Best Practices

Write a paper that discusses Creativity and Innovation Best Practices. The final paper should include the following sections:

1. A brief overview of your organization (your current workplace or an organization of your choosing) The workplace that I chose is customer service/call center.

2. Overview of theories of creativity and innovation

3. Overview of perspectives on creativity and its importance and application in the workplace

4. Overview of individual, group, and organizational creativity

5. Current issues of individual and group creativity and addressing potential restraints on creativity

6. 4 recommended creative -thinking exercises or tools that would be of value to the organization such as brainstorming and reframing

The paper should be written in APA style and include a minimum of 8 scholarly references

A supplemental essay for USC admission

supplemental essay for USC admission
USC believes that one learns best when interacting with people of different backgrounds, experiences and perspectives. Tell us about a time you were exposed to a new idea or when your beliefs were challenged by another point of view. Please discuss the significance of the experience and its effect on you.USC faculty place an emphasis on interdisciplinary academic opportunities. Describe something outside of your intended academic focus about which you are interested in learning.What is something about yourself that is essential to understanding you?
USC believes that one learns best when interacting with people of different backgrounds, experiences and perspectives. Tell us about a time you were exposed to a new idea or when your beliefs were challenged by another point of view. Please discuss the significance of the experience and its effect on you.

Reading summaries of different literatures

My assignment is a reading summary of certain passages or literatures. Very short, the minimum is 500 words. It is simply an expository essay that talks about the content of the reading of course I will provide the readings. No need to give opinion or perspective.

These are the original intructions for the assignment:
Reading Summaries should be a minimum of 250 words and a maximum of 500 words (approximately 1-2 pages in standard formatting)
All reading summaries must follow standard formatting requirements. (That is, standard margins, font size, and paragraph spacing is observed. Students cannot manipulate font size, margins, and paragraph spacing to meet length requirements.)
Reading Summaries require that you read a primary source selection from the end of each chapter, then write a short summary that identifies the thesis and outlines the main argument. Reading summaries are not about your opinion or perspective – they are expository essays that explain the content of the reading. All reading summaries must include substantive content based on the students reading of the material.
When writing Reading Summaries, you may not quote the author without proper citations. In other words, if you use the exact words of the original author (copy-paste) you MUST do a proper citation. Similarly, if you use any other website (such as Wikipedia, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, etc.) you must cite the source. Failure to cite sources properly is in violation of Student Rights and Responsibilities Manual which may result in grade penalties.
When in doubt, quote/cite your sources. All quotes, references, and ideas lifted from any source – including internet sources MUST be properly cited in MLA/APA format.
All reading summaries must be thoroughly proof-read and checked for spelling, grammar, and punctuation. Students should write in professional, academic prose and use only appropriate language. Spelling and grammar count towards your grade in every assignment.

What is normal blood pressure, and heart rate?

Review the following case and answer the questions that follow. Collaborate with other classmates. Be sure to ask them questions that will help to keep the conversation going. You may need to do some outside research but put your answers in your own words.
1. Do you see any risk factors that might have contribute to Alexander’s MI?
2. What is normal blood pressure, and heart rate?
3. Is there anything abnormal in the CMP? Could it contribute to heart disease?

Explain how the article is relevant to your career path or personal interests.

Discussion 1
Please complete the following steps for your primary discussion post:
Research the topic of controlled substance prescribing. Select an article published within the last year that provides relevant details about legislative or professional association guidelines for providers prescribing controlled substances. You may find it helpful to focus on the related concepts of reducing drug dependency, cost containment, care coordination, etc. The article may be editorial or scholarly.
Summarize the article’s key points (do not copy/paste the abstract).
Explain how the article is relevant to your career path or personal interests.
Discuss how you can apply the information in the article to your professional practice.
Provide the APA style reference at the bottom of your post, ensuring a link is included for easy access by your peers and instructor.
Discussion 2
Apply systems thinking to case study scenarios.
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Please complete the following steps for your discussion post and response.
You are the manager of the patient admissions department at the local community hospital. You have created a team consisting of different job titles to identify opportunities for the department to decrease duplicate patient admissions. The team leader comes to you after the first meeting and relates that some of the members are very negative and seem to be holding the team’s efforts up. Answer the following questions:
How would you advise the team leader to explain positive thinking to the team?
What examples of positive thinking could you provide the team leader to help?
Discussion 3
Find a podcast that interests you.
The topic should relate to leadership or organizational development (healthcare or general business context).
Listen to the podcast at your leisure.
While taking a walk, while making dinner, etc. This should be a time for self-improvement and self-reflection. It is not necessary to take notes while listening.
Provide a brief summary of what you liked (or disliked) about the podcast.
This is your opinion, and the only source necessary is the podcast itself.
Share a link to the podcast, including the APA style citation.
If you access your media through a mobile app, you can also check websites like YouTube and Soundcloud where many podcasts are available for easy web-linking.
Accessibility

Formal Analysis of the attached piece of art

Length: 4 double spaced pages in 12pt. font (Times, Cambria or another common font)
Instruction: You are to write an interpretative formal analysis essay about the work of art you selected for your Meeting in Pictures assignment. You are to use the tools of formal analysis presented to you in the first two modules of this class. If you are uncertain about your chosen work of art — i.e. you selected a costume or a work of decorative art — please contact me. Generally, a painting is the most suited to this assignment, though if you are ambitious sculpture can also work (but you should contact me for additional resources).

Your written work should include both description and interpretation
For example, it is descriptive to state “the man’s face is painted in shades of orange and yellow.” But to develop this beyond description to an interpretive observation you should explain why this is significant and note the effect produced by the style. You could do this by adding a few lines, “The artist has made the man’s face bright orange, producing a disquieting effect which contradicts the otherwise naturalistic style she uses elsewhere in the composition.” This makes it clear why you are noting this particular detail, and how it works in relation to the rest of the image. Ask yourself what effects are created by the formal elements or artistic techniques used and how do they contribute to the meaning of the work of art?
Here is another example:
The artist’s use of light and shadow create the effect of a spotlight on the girl’s face. The left side of her cheek, forehead and left side of the bridge of her nose are painted in light skin tones, creating a strong sense of light shining on the left side of her face. In contrast, the lower right side of her cheek is painted in dark hues of brown with a green undertone. The back of her neck and ear disappear into shadow. The background of the painting is nearly black, which creates a high contrast with the girl’s luminous face. The dark background and the use bright light and dramatic shadow on the girl’s face focuses the viewer’s attention on her alluring expression, intensified by her parted lips and glistening eyes.
[Topic sentence, in blue, states which formal element will be analyzed and what visual effect they create. Text follows topic sentence with close, descriptive visual analysis. Paragraph closes with more in-depth interpretation, in blue, of the effect of the visual analysis in the body of the paragraph].
The Thesis Statement
Your paper should advance a thesis, preferably in the very beginning of the paper. A thesis statement names the specific topic and makes an interpretive assertion about it that the writer will support with details later in the essay. To develop a thesis statement about your topic, you must first ask questions of your topic (in the brainstorming process.) You can think of a thesis as a key question that you are asking about your subject. Please see worksheet for writing a thesis statement.
For example, some of you described that you would feel peaceful if you were within a picture, energized, curious, in awe, etc. You could organize a thesis statement around this early impression. Below is one possible way to structure your thesis statement:
The artist’s use [light, composition, line, & colar] in his/her, [name of your chosen artwork] , creates an effect of sadness. You can then elaborate on this effect. For example, you could write, “While sadness dominates the atmosphere in [chosen work of art] it is not despair; the picture emanates a glimmer of hope in the face of sorrow.”
From this thesis statement you can organize a series of thoughtfully ordered paragraphs each focusing on one one or two elements of form. In each paragraph you would balance close visual description and follow with a description of the effect of what you have described. This process is an exercise in interpretation.
Paragraph Structure and Paragraph Order
Every paragraph should have a topic sentence and should stick to the topic throughout. Think of each paragraph as a mini-paper. It is a good idea to assign titles to your paragraphs while the paper is still in the draft stage (write “color,” “composition,” “texture,” etc. in the margins to remind yourself what each paragraph addresses.) This keeps the coherence of each paragraph fresh in your mind and will prevent you from including irrelevant information.
After you have sharpened the point of each paragraph, you must consider the order in which your paragraphs flow. Remember, in a comparison paper it is clearer to address any similarities between the works of art in the beginning, and then focus the rest of the paper on the differences between the works (which are often the crux of a comparison paper.)
For this reason, it useful to work from an outline of your paper. An outline (or a flow chart) can be drafted after you have begun the writing process and have a clearer idea of what you want to say. As we write, our ideas do not always emerge from us in any particular order. But drafting an outline helps us to understand the best possible flow so that your argument is steadily building in a clear and sensible way.
Technical Paper Requirements:
Upload your paper as a .doc or .pdf file into the canvas portal.
The titles of works of art such as paintings, photographs, sculptures and prints should be italicized or underlined.
Identify the title, date and name of the artist (if known) of an artwork.
All papers must be 4-5 full pages in length. Page length may vary somewhat according to topic.
The font should be size 12, Cambria font style.
The margins on the page top and bottom should not be in excess of an inch and a half.
The margins on the left and right should be approximately an inch.
The spacing between each line should be double spaced. No single-spaced papers will be accepted.
Include a copy of the image you write about as part of the paper.

Provide the name of the text you referenced in a “Works Cited” section at the end of your paper. You can either use MLA or Chicago Manual of Style citations (see examples in How to Write an Art History Essay below).

What are the various operational styles of the police?

Theres short questions just answer each question. Each question should be written in 2 paragraphs for each question please. Each question has youtube videos based on the question.

Question 1: What are the managerial concepts used in organizing police departments?



Question 2:How does the police selection process work?



Question 3: What are the various operational styles of the police?


Question 4: Is there such a thing as a police culture?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UECVR1L5kXo

Identify the model or tool for analysis of the selected problem, and provide rationale.

Health care has become a data driven industry that practices evidence-based decision making. Whether
the issue is clinical or financial, health care leaders are expected to analyze problems using logic,
established tools, and data. Effective leaders engage team members in the problem resolution process,
and encourage a wide variety of perspectives. Once the problem is clearly defined, the health care leader
is charged with selecting an appropriate, established framework or tool with which to analyze the problem. Research, critical thinking and team collaboration are important facets of problem solving.
In this assessment you will have an opportunity to reflect upon the industry and organizational contexts
before engaging in application of a tool for problem analysis. You will consider the organization’s setting
with respect to level of care, mission, strategy, operations and culture. Additionally, you will think critically about legal, regulatory, ethical, and risk management operational issues that relate to the selected
problem.
Submission Requirements
Application of a tool for problem analysis that is accompanied by a minimum of two visual data displays, a short summary of observations, and evidence-based recommendations. This will vary significantly
depending on the project; however, a few examples include:
Cost Benefit Analysis: Excel spreadsheet, converted into 2–3 graphs.
Compliance Assessment: 3 major Criteria converted into 3 separate pie charts.
Lean Analysis: The percent of variance by major factor converted into 2–3 trend lines.
In addition to the above:
Identify the model or tool for analysis of the selected problem, and provide rationale.
Analyze and compare data relative to internal and external benchmarks.
Construct evidence-based recommendations that include ethical, legal, regulatory and organizational standards.
Include the raw data in a readable format in a Word document or spreadsheet with appropriate categories, titles, and labels.

**Previous assignments can be provided for review if needed.**