1.What was the relationship between power and artistic and literary culture in the Greek world?
2.In what ways were the economic foundations of the Roman and the Han empires similar? How do you account for the similarity? How were they different? What were the consequences of the differences?
Adler, Philip J. et. al. (2015). World Civilizations. Volume I: to 1700 (7th ed.). Boston
1.) As you are starting a business for the first time, what do you believe are the greatest personal obstacles to obtaining funds for your new business? Why? Based on your insight gained this week, where would you start looking for capital? What advice would you give an entrepreneur who was trying to finance a startup?
2.) reply to two student posts below.
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Lario Welsh,
As you are starting a business for the first time, what do you believe are the greatest personal obstacles to obtaining funds for your new business? Why? Based on your insight gained this week, where would you start looking for capital? What advice would you give an entrepreneur who was trying to finance a startup?
If I am starting a new business from the ground the first thing I would believe to need is obviously capital to start up the business. If I don\’t have my own capital I would find investors to diverge into whatever business I have going on. I would start looking for capital as soon as I knew what business I wanted to start, where I wanted to start, and why I wanted to start. Advice I would give to any entrepreneur that would like to finance a business is look for ways for you be be as cost efficient as possible. Rather than just say, “I want to build a multi-million dollar company,” you need to break financial goals down into reachable and measurable ones. Monthly, weekly or even daily revenue goals allow you to stay on track and make the adjustments necessary for constant growth. You can even set milestones to hit along the way, giving you a lot of smaller goals to constantly hit. Knocking out little goals can give you the confidence needed to keep powering through the entrepreneurial journey.
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Avory Caruthers,
The greatest obstacle to obtaining funds for my business is not having a track record of entrepreneurial success. If a person doesn’t know how to manage a business well, then being financially set is going to be hard. Besides this, the other greatest obstacle faced in starting a new business is having a lack of personal capital. In order to rent a space, buy equipment, bring in new products, market and sell services, there needs to be some form of capital. Capital allows you to start and launch your business and pay for those expenses until revenue starts coming in. Every business requires one thing; money. This is why every business owner needs to start with some capital in order to pay for staff, equipment, products, etc. Without some form of capital, the business will be hard to start and keep running.
According to module 5 lecture chapter 12, there are many different areas to look at when trying to gain capital. “The Small Business Administration (SBA) does not make loan money but serves as a guarantor of loans through five basic programs.” A person might qualify for loans to help them financially by looking into these programs. Business angels also are a good place to look. They are “private individuals who invest in others’ entrepreneurial ventures.” Informal venture capital also is “funds provided by a wealthy private individual to high-risk ventures.” Another way to gain capital is crowdfunding which “ is the process of raising very small investments from a large number of investors.” There are so many different sources out there to help an entrepreneur gain capital. In my own business, I would start looking at the different loans and look at the different programs and investors who are willing to work and help me with loans and gaining capital.
The advice I would give to any entrepreneur is every penny counts! Learning to increase revenue while lowering expenses will be important to your business. Look for people who can provide lower or markdown prices making equipment and products cheaper. Find cheaper and easier ways to market your brand. Have well-trained staff who are skillful instead of hiring too many staff. The best advice is to start small and spend wisely! You don’t need to go overboard, especially at first. See what your consumers like and put money into that rather than a million different things that may end up a waste. Start small and build from there. Once the business grows and revenue is coming in, a budget will be figured out, and what to budget for and use that money for will be used wisely!
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In at least 200 words, write a description about the artwork: https://pixels.com/featured/you-are-my-space-gapch…
Please include the following:
Artwork Name
Artist
Date of Creation
Picture and/or Link
Include formal analysis, investigation a work through the Big Questions and genres of art, and context around the medium and/or history.
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After Tom and Elise Ryan finished veterinary school in the early 2000s, they spent several years working for other veterinary clinics. By 2010, they felt it was time for them to start their own practice. They considered several towns in the south-central United States, visiting local chambers of commerce and studying each town’s demographics. They finally settled in Wardston, a small city in Arkansas. Wardston is a regional center for the surrounding counties, located at the intersection of a two major cross-state highways. The industry rule of thumb is that it takes a population of 1,500 pet owners to support one veterinarian. Wardston appeared to be an underserved area, and no other veterinarian in the area was treating large animals. A big factor in their decision also was the fact that Elise’s parents and three brothers lived in Wardston. “If we failed, at least we knew we could get a good homemade meal,” said Tom.
They bought an abandoned veterinary clinic with a three-quarter-acre plot of land on the major thoroughfare. The clinic, a sturdy 2,000-square-foot cinderblock structure, had been constructed in 1950 and needed major renovations. Tom and Elise were still paying off $85,000 in student loans and had no savings to draw on. However, Elise’s parents agreed to deed them a house and tract of land to get started. Now a property owner, Tom was able to borrow $165,000 from a local bank. Tom’s family took out a home equity loan to help them complete the renovations. When the clinic opened in the summer of 2008, the small concrete building had been transformed into the Wardston Animal Hospital, a 4,000-square-foot veterinary clinic, complete with treatment room, surgery, kennels, and offices.
As they had anticipated, the area badly needed another vet clinic, and business began to boom. They were able to pay off the loan from Tom’s parents and make improvements to the clinic’s parking area. By 2014, the Wardston Animal Hospital had grown large enough to need another vet, and Dr. Laura Hyde joined the practice. She soon became an equal partner with Tom and Elise.
The clinic building, while adequate for a small practice, was still half a century old with an inconvenient traffic flow. The building was designed around a single center hallway going from north to south. Clients going to exam rooms, animals being weighed, vets heading to treatment rooms, staff going to the break room all had to go down same central hallway. The partners always knew that they eventually wanted to build a new “ideal” clinic. Elise kept a notebook full of ideas and possible floor plans that they dubbed their “five-year plan.”
Then in April 2019, a line of severe thunderstorms passed through the city. It was a Wednesday afternoon, the clinic’s early closure day, and the staff—with the exception of the office manager—had left the building. At 3:00 p.m., a tornado dropped out of the squall line and plowed through the northern part of the city, tearing the roof off the Wardston clinic and wrapping it around several nearby pine trees. For three hours, a steady downpour flooded the damaged building, leaving six inches of water on the treatment room floor. Worse still, the rainwater soaked into the insulation in the walls, the sheetrock on the walls, and the ceiling tiles. Volunteers, staff, even other veterinarians flocked to the clinic to help ferry the boarded animals to temporary homes and clean up the shredded interior. None of the animals were hurt, and no one was injured, although the clinic office manager was in shock for a few days.
Within two weeks, the partners were back in business, operating out of a doublewide trailer set up on the north side of the parking lot. They hired a cleanup service to start the long process of recovery. The cleaning crew soon realized the extent of the damage and told the partners that the cleanup would be very costly. They also warned that the soggy walls and ceiling would probably have mildew problems in the future no matter how thoroughly the building was cleaned.
Tom, Elise, and Laura had to make a decision about how to proceed. As Tom saw it, there were four options to consider:
Plan A: Restore the building to its existing condition before the tornado. The $150,000 insurance settlement would just cover the renovation costs. This option would be the least costly, but they would still have the same 55-year-old building with the same bad traffic flow.
Plan B: Gut the old building and create the “ideal” building within the old shell, total cost approximately $400,000.
Plan C: Level the old building and rebuild on the site. This option was almost immediately eliminated for several reasons. First, the cost just to demolish the building would be $50,000. Also, the clinic staff was using undamaged parts of the old building for kennel space and storage. The doublewide trailer alone would be inadequate to support the practice if the old building were immediately demolished.
Plan D: Build the clinic of their dreams on land the partners owned adjacent to the clinic. The clinic would take almost a year to complete at a cost of $650,000.
Instructions
In at least two full pages (double-spaced), provide thorough responses to the following questions. Responses to each question should be in a separate paragraph with respective paragraph headings.
Are there other options that have not been considered? Explain.
How should the renovations or rebuilding be financed—debt or equity financing? Why?
What would you advise the veterinary partners to do? Why?
If the Wardston area suffered a major economic blow, what risks would the partnership face?
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Distinguish between point and interval estimates. Please provide an example of each one.
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Close read about the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster. This to be done with solo.
https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/quake-leaves-destruction-fear (Links to an external site.)The two of you compare what learned and you will write a summary and about your thoughts.1. Write a summary together on the reading at least 1 paragraph in a Google doc.
2. Write a 2nd paragraph of your thoughts of how life would change for you if this were to happen at Duke Energy\’s McGuire Nuclear Station ( https://goo.gl/maps/Dhtqe7n1eCoRvP3FA (Links to an external site.) ) and the effects on your life.Follow up reading:Fukushima Cleanup 2018https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZV2HRKNvao (Links to an external site.)
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Poetry explication with annotated bibliography. 5 pages , 5 Sources use TNR / 12pt font. and works Cited page at the end of the essay. Poem Barbie Doll.
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Read the article from your course-pack entitled Algorithmic Bias in Marketing.
Discussion Questions
Summarize the causes of Algorithmic Bias in Marketing
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Please read Artea (D): Discrimination through Algorithmic Bias in Targeting (521043-PDF ENG)
From reading this mini case what conclusions can you and what actions would you take as a manager.
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Week 3 Activity – Analysis of a Natural Environmental Risk
Overview
Nature itself presents hazards to human health, including disease, natural poisons, and radiation. Regulators use a process called environmental risk assessment to decide whether they need to take risk management steps in relation to a risk. In this activity you will carry out three steps of an environmental risk assessment called release analysis, exposure analysis, and health effects analysis. This activity will require outside research in addition to the textbook and will set the stage for a larger assignment in Week 4.
Write a 1–2 page paper using the following instructions.
Select an environmental risk that occurs in nature, and research information about its release, exposure scenarios, and health effects. The specific data in each area of the analysis will depend on the environmental risk you choose. Write at least one paragraph for each analysis:
Release Analysis: Identify the contaminant, how it is released, measured, or detected. Include units of measurement, setting for the release, and scientific fields related to the contamination or measurement.
Exposure Analysis: Analyze the risk of exposure such as settings in which people encounter the risk or plausible scenarios in which exposure occurs.
Health Effects Analysis: Estimate the risks to human health, including short and long-term effects, demographic groups at risk, and health effects to individuals and populations.
Use 1–2 sources to support your writing. Choose sources that are credible, relevant, and appropriate. Cite each source listed on your source page at least one time within your assignment. For help with research, writing, and citation, access the library or review library guides.
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Introduction to Sociology – Week 2 Assignment
The Building Blocks of Culture
Culture can be seen in every society if you know the building blocks of it.
Write a 500 or more word essay about a culture that you encountered that is different from your daily culture.
This paper should include:
A discussion of the different building blocks and how you saw them exhibited.
Comparisons of the building blocks that you encountered with those from another culture or your daily culture.
Reflection on your reaction towards this different culture and what helped you to adapt.
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