Directions: Please answer each of the following questions.  Please ensure that your responses are at least 3 to 5 sentences in length.

 

1.What four functions are performed by nucleic acids?

 

2.Describe three differences in the structure of DNA and RNA.

 

3.List the sequence of events that takes place when a DNA message is translated into protein.

 

4.What is a silent mutation?  Provide an example.

 

5.Name the four stages of mitosis and describe what occurs in each stage.

 

6.Define the terms zygote, fertilization, and homologous chromosomes.

 

7.List three differences between mitosis and meiosis.

 

8.What is the difference between probability and possibility?

 

9.In your own words, describe Mendel’s Law of Segregation.

 

10.What is a Punnett square?

 

11.   What are some inherited diseases and how are these diseases passed on to the offspring?  How is cancer caused by failure to control cell division?  Explain cell division.

 

PART II: ESSAY

 

Directions: Write a 1 to 2 page, double-spaced paper in 12 pt. font in response to the following question.  Please use APA format. 

 

Stem Cells

 

Stem cell research has been very controversial in the past decade.  There are many benefits of stem cells that could potentially save lives for people diagnosed with cancer, individuals who need lung transplants, and etc.  Please look up the article titled, “Stem Cell Engineering 101” using LIRN and summarize what you learned.  The article’s information is found below:

 

 

•Publisher: American Institute of Chemical Engineers
•Author: Monk, Jonathan
•Identifier: http://search.proquest.com/abitrade/docview/807390480/abstract/embedded/V5CYU9W58QV2TU
•ISSN: 03607275
•Location: United States
•Source: Chemical Engineering Progress, 106(11), 35p.

By the end of this activity, you will have:

• Summarize the core concepts of sociology and recognize and explain the “sociological imagination” when viewing social phenomena and your own life.
• Demonstrate an understanding of individual and group differences and alliances and explain how they may be influenced by race, gender, sexual orientation, age, class, religion and/or disabilities.

Review the five PBS video segments available online at:

• A Class Divided

Note: If the link above does not work for some reason, try the main site and then click on “Watch the Full Program Online“

Please note: This is a popular site and video. You are advised to plan ahead and try to complete this assignment as early in the week as possible in order to ensure the site is available and not overwhelmed by traffic.

As you complete this assignment, think about the following:

• How is race socially constructed?
• How do we socialize children to recognize race and ethnicity?
• How do we define racism, prejudice and discrimination and how do they relate to privilege?

After viewing the various segments of the “Blues Eyes, Brown Eyes” videos, answer one (1) of the following sets of questions.

Option 1: Racism

Some people argue that racism is primarily a belief or attitude and that anyone who unfairly judges another based on race is racist. Others argue that racism is about action and systemic discrimination, so only those with the power to act, and not those who are the targets of discrimination, can be racist. Based on the quotes listed below and in an essay format, answer the following: which argument do you find more convincing and why? Is there a difference between racism and prejudice? If so, what is the difference?

“Racism couples the false assumption that race determines psychological and cultural traits with the belief that one race is superior to another.”
–A World of Difference project of the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai Brith .

“Racism is any attitude, action, or institutional structure which subordinates a person or group because of skin color.”
–U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, 1970

“We define racism as an institutionalized system of economic, political, social, and cultural relations that ensures that one racial group has and maintains power and privilege over all others in all aspects of life. Individual participation in racism occurs when the objective outcome of behavior reinforces these relations, regardless of the subjective intent.”
–Carol Brunson Phillips and Louise Derman-Sparks in Teaching/Learning Anti-Racism: A Developmental Approach, (Teachers College Press, 1997)

Option 2: Privilege

One of the goals of the civil rights movement was to ensure equal opportunity for every US citizen, irrespective of race. When the civil rights movement began, the legal system did not grant the same rights to blacks and other minorities as it did to whites. Today, those laws have been changed, leading some to argue that the US has achieved a level playing field for all. Is the field level? Is success based exclusively on merit and luck, or is race-based “privilege” still a factor? How was affirmative action policy crafted to address issues of privilege? Has it been successful?

Based on the quotes listed below and in an essay format, consider the following definitions. What are the differences between them? How do they compare with the dictionary definition of “privilege”?

• “unearned power conferred systemically”
  (Source: Peggy McIntosh, 1995)
• white privilege (hwait ‘privilidz), social relation, [ad. L. privilegi-um a bill or law in favor of or against an individual.]

  1. a. A right, advantage, or immunity granted to or enjoyed by the class of white persons beyond the common advantage of all others; an exemption in many particular cases from certain burdens or liabilities.
  b. In extended sense: A special advantage or benefit of white persons; with ideological reference to divine dispensations, natural advantages, gifts of fortune, genetic endowments, social relations, etc.

  2. A privileged position; the possession of an advantage white persons enjoy over non-whites and white individuals enjoy over non-white individuals.

  3. a. The special right or immunity attaching to white persons as a social relation; prerogative.
  b. display of white privilege, a social expression of a white person or persons demanding to be treated as a member or members of the socially privileged class.
  (Source: The Monkeyfist Collective)

Reprinted from FRONTLINE Teacher’s Center at: Student Assignment Sheet: A Class Divided 

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Galaxy International is a small privately held company in the Northeast U.S. which manufactures high- tech carbon composite skis for the U.S. market. The company has been in business for 20 years, has 125 employees, and has $50 million in annual sales. Its owner, Jeremy Riven, is an ex-Olympic skier who developed the proprietary technology and bonding polymers that give Galaxy skis their unique flexibility, durability, and propensity to need low maintenance—all of which serious skiers in the U.S. have come to prize. Major costs involved in the manufacturing of skis are oil polymers, carbon fiber, and labor. Ski technicians are highly skilled machinists, and manufacturing the finished product is as much an art form as it is a science.

 

Jeremy has recently considered an initial public offering (IPO) to allow the firm to raise the funds it needs to go international. The underwriting group from Morgan Stanley believes they could easily raise sixty (60) million in the equity markets, and fifty (50) million in the bond market. Jeremy is trying to determine the cost of debt, the cost of equity (four [4] million shares at $15/share), and the firm’s weighted average cost of capital if he goes public and issues corporate bonds with a coupon rate of 8%. Last year, the firm resided in a 28% tax bracket. The risk-free rate in the U.S. is 2%, and the expected return on the market is 14%. Morgan Stanley estimates Galaxy’s beta, if traded publicly, would be approximately 1.8%. Galaxy has been growing at 15% a year since its inception.

 

Jeremy would like to expand his current U.S. facility from 40,000 square feet to 100,000 square feet, automate certain processes which heretofore have been done manually, and outsource work to China, where he plans to either build or lease a plant to extend his ski line worldwide. He could build a 50,000- square-foot facility in Canton for fifty (50) million dollars, or lease a similar facility for ten (10) million a year. Annual operating costs would be twenty (20) million dollars, and projected free cash flow, based on past experience, would be twelve (12) million a year (whether he leases or buys). The life of the plant would be fifteen (15) years, and inflation in China is currently running at 6% annually. Galaxy would repatriate profits from the Chinese operation and consolidate them with those of the U.S. operations. All expenses of operating the plant in China would be in Yuan.

 

Use the Internet to locate information about current events in China related to its economic state.

 

(6-8) page paper

1. Examine the pros and cons of an IPO for Galaxy International. Recommend whether the company should or should not proceed with an IPO.

2. Evaluate the appropriateness of the financing alternatives and strategies that are available to Jeremy, and select the one (1) you believe best suits the company. Provide support for your rationale.

3. Determine the advantages of debt over equity, and what each would cost after taxes. Determine

Galaxy’s weighted average cost of capital (WACC) if it uses both alternatives to raise capital (i.e., debt and equity).

4. Recommend one (1) financial instrument that Jeremy could use in order to ensure a stable supply of oil for his operations and to protect his firm from currency translation losses.

5. Suggest one (1) approach that Jeremy can use to hedge his currency translation and transaction exposure to the Yuan. Provide support for your suggestion.

6. Determine whether Jeremy should lease or buy the plant in China. Justify your position using information regarding the current economic state in China.

7. Imagine that you are a portfolio manager. Determine whether or not you would want to participate in the IPO if Galaxy International goes public. Provide a rationale for your decision. Determine the expected return on the stock using Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM).

8. Determine if the Galaxy International’s expected returns would exceed its WACC. Provide a rationale.

9. Use at least five (5) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites to not qualify as academic resources.

 formatting requirements:

·        Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.

 

Using Financial Ratios to Assess Organizational Performance
Using the financial statements from your selected health care organization in Assignment 1, develop a financial plan for the next three (3) years.

 

Write a four to five (4-5) page paper in which you:

1. Suggest the financial ratio that most financial analysts would use to evaluate the financial condition of the company. Provide support for your rationale.
2. Speculate on the organization’s ability to meet its financial obligations as they come due. Provide support for your rationale.
3. Based on your ratio analysis, determine whether the profitability trends are favorable or unfavorable and explain your rationale.
4. Using financial ratio analysis, predict whether or not the company will be viable in five (5) years based on its performance over the past three (3) years. Provide support for your prediction.
5. Use at least two (2) quality academic resources. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

Review the suggestions of your instruction and peers for your customer marketing plan. Complete or expand on any sections that need additional details.

The final part of your plan will include a customer communications section. Draft and recommend one customer communications strategy to include in the plan. Detail the following:

• Decide how you will stay in contact with customers with a customer communications strategy.
• Add 1 communication vehicle that you will use such as an e-zine, a blog, a social networking page with updates, a newsletter, direct marketing campaigns, and so on.
• Choose 1 communication vehicle, and draft the communications message that you would deliver for the first piece. For example, if you are writing a customer blog, a first message could be about customer service and how it sets your company apart from the competition.
• Then, add this section at the end of your final Key Assignment plan. Organize the sections, edit them, and post the final draft of the plan.

This phase 5 assignment is a final review and revision of the International Plan developed from Phases 1-4; and particularly, faculty feedback from Phase 4. Students should add value, by including additional wording of additional 350-400 words to the final assignment.

Review and make revisions that you feel are pertinent. Just as a recap, the organization’s international business expansion plan should include the concepts and ideas covered throughout this course from Phases 1-4. You are to select a country that does not recognize all of the established legal guidelines reviewed previously, but the potential profit that could be realized warrants the risk. The following points need to be addressed in your international business expansion plan:

• The issue of common and civil law systems internationally
• Intellectual property, copyright infringements, and legal ramifications
• Violation of human rights of employees and child labor law violations
• Public perception of company doing business with companies that engage in that kind of activity
• What has been the impact of the European Union of the business environment?
• Anything else that you deem important to support your international business expansion plan

Task Name:
Deliverable Length: 400–600 words + 2 responses (100 words each)
Details:
Primary Discussion Response is due by Wednesday (11:59:59pm Central), Peer Responses are due by Sunday (11:59:59pm Central).

Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 400–600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.

As you seek information from the community on any observations or critical information that they may have on this missing child investigation, you are assigned to conduct interviews with a special population person (e.g., child, disabled, or elderly). In this case, the neighborhood children who left for school during the morning are your focus. Discuss the following:
•What is your plan for this assignment?
•What are some of the pitfalls to be aware of when interviewing children?
•How will you protect your actions for later testimony at trial?

Responses to Other Students: Respond to at least 2 of your fellow classmates with at least a 100-word reply about their Primary Task Response regarding items you found to be compelling and enlightening. To help you with your discussion, please consider the following questions:
•What did you learn from your classmate’s posting?
•What additional questions do you have after reading the posting?
•What clarification do you need regarding the posting?
•What differences or similarities do you see between your posting and other classmates’ postings?

Note: It is perfectly acceptable to disagree with your classmates, and you will often find that you have differences of opinion. When you do disagree with your classmates, this is often where learning takes place because you can see things from a different perspective. It is important that your responses to your classmates always remain respectful in nature. Choose your words to get your point across without being offensive to your classmates.

Click on Student Expectations to view the expectations for this assignment.

Assignment Grading Rubric

Due tomorrow no word limit just to the point.

The “Age Wave” is a huge problem facing American CEOs and senior managers right now. The American population over age 65 will grow from its current level of 34.6 million people to approximately 82 million people in 2050 – a 137% increase. The most rapid surge in senior population will take place between 2011 and 2030. During that 19 year interval, seniors will expand from 13% of our population to 22% of our population (Source: U.S. Census Bureau).

The surge in healthcare demand, which must be anticipated as the baby boomers age over the next several decades, will severely tax our nation’s medical resources. Most pressing will be the shortage of manpower. Physicians, nurses, and clinical support personnel will all be in high demand and in short supply over the next 30 years, so competition for their services will be fierce.

How will make your own hospital or clinic successful in recruiting and retaining medical personnel as the Age Wave hits America? Provide specific strategies that you will utilize for this purpose.

Assignment 2:  
Universal Manufacturing Corporation is located in an Eastern Canadian city of 500,000 people. At 6,000 employees, it is one of the largest employers in the country, and the company has been at its present location for the past 50 years. Despite this record, management believes that the company does not have a strong identity and lacks visibility in the community.
The director of public relations has been asked to prepare a new public relations plan for the coming fiscal year. She recommends that the company first conduct research to determine exactly what its image is in the community. You need some hard data on which to base a community-relations campaign with the appropriate core messages directed to various segments of the community.
If you were the public relations director, what kind of secondary research would you do? 
What qualitative and quantitative research would you recommend? 
The following list of questions will help determine how much research is required before you can develop an effective strategy:
• What is the problem?
• What kind of information is needed?
• How will the results of the research be used?
• What specific public(s) should be researched?
• Should the research be done in-house or should an outside consultant be hired?
• How will the research data be analyzed, reported or applied?
• How soon will the results be needed?
• How much will the research cost?

You will also be expected to adhere to effective essay writing guidelines. Grading will be based on the following components:
Subject Matter: (10)
• Key elements of assignments covered
• Content is comprehensive/accurate/persuasive
• Displays an understanding of the importance of research in Public Relations
• Major points supported by specific details/examples
• Research is adequate/timely
• Writer has gone beyond textbook for resources
ORGANIZATION (5 points)
• The introduction provides a sufficient background on the topic and previews major points
• Central theme/purpose is immediately clear
• Structure is clear, logical, and easy to follow
• Subsequent sections develop/support the central theme
• Conclusion/recommendations follow logically from the body of the paper
Style/Mechanics (5 points)
Format
• Citations/reference page follow guidelines (APA)
• Properly cites ideas/info from other sources
• Paper is laid out effectively–uses, heading and other reader-friendly tools
• Paper is neat/shows attention to detail
Grammar/Punctuation/Spelling
• Rules of grammar, usage, punctuation are followed
• Spelling is correct
Readability/Style
• Sentences are complete, clear, and concise
• Sentences are well-constructed with consistently strong, varied structure
• Transitions between sentences/paragraphs/sections help maintain the flow of thought
• Words used are precise and unambiguous
Length: 4-5 Pages double spaced

Instructions:

Due within 6-7 hours

Select a past act of terrorism from the following list:

1.       ◦Boston Marathon Bombing of 2013

2.       ◦September 11, 2001 attacks (World Trade Center)

3.       ◦September 11, 2001 attacks (Pentagon)

4.       ◦World Trade Center Bombing of 1993

5.       ◦2009 shooting at Ft. Hood

6.       ◦Oklahoma City Bombing of 1995

In a 2-3 page paper (excluding title and reference pages), explain how the government (local, state, and federal) responded to the terrorist attack. Include the following

·         ◦Explain how the government agencies (local, state, and federal) communicated with each other and the public?

·         ◦Explain how the wounded were cared for (trauma centers, hospitalizations, search and rescue, etc.)?

·         ◦Explain the challenges first responders faced (health and safety issues/concerns, supplies, etc.).

·         ◦Identify at least two actions government agencies did well and at least two actions government agencies could have done better. Evaluate how they can improve or have improved for future emergency responses. Support your evaluation with specific examples. 

 

Must include at least 3 scholarly references in APA.