Review carefully and thoughtfully the information provided in the introduction to Topic 1 (see above) and in PowerPoint slides 84-118 of Topic 1, especially (1) the “Major Middle East Events of 1978-1979” (during which Egypt left Axis 2 and joined Axis 1 whereas Iran left Axis 1 and joined Axis 2) and (2) the written and/or videotaped statements made by (or about) US National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, US President Ronald Reagan, Iranian Leader Ayatollah Khomeini, US Secretary of State George Shultz, former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Soviet Jewish leader Anatoly Sharansky, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, US Evangelical Pastor John Hagee, former Israeli Mossad head Dagan, Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti Abdul Aziz al–Asheikh, Qatar-based Muslim cleric Sheikh Youssef al–Qaradawi, former Congressman Paul Findley, Salman (who became king of Saudi Arabia in January 2015), Professors John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, US Secretary of State Colin Powell, Declassified DIA document, Pentagon Press Secretary Navy Rear Admiral John Kirby, U.S. Senator Rand Paul, and US Vice President Joseph Biden. Based on your critical thinking and your learning (homework assignments are writing-to-think assignments) from the above introduction and from PowerPoint slides 84-118, write a CONCISE essay (250-350 words) in which (1) you provide a clear explanation of why the Christian Zionists in the United States, the Jewish Movement in the Soviet Union, the Israeli Liaison Bureau Nativ, and the Islamic jihad in Afghanistan in the 1980s were all brought together and laser-focused on ONE common goal (to defeat the Soviet Union, which bans the emigration of Soviet Jews to Palestine) and (2) you draw a clear comparison between the broad goals and means of the Islamic jihad in Afghanistan in the 1980s and the ongoing war in/on Syria. Homework 1 is worth 10 points (10 percent of your final grade). Sources for homework assignments MUST be cited briefly and ONLY between parentheses in the text. Each homework assignment in this course must be formatted as a Microsoft Word file and uploaded through the TurnItIn link (View/Complete) by the deadline. No other submission will be accepted. Homework assignment 1 is due by 8/27/15 at 10 pm

 

Read the instruction and follow powerpoint

Write an autobiography in complete sentences with proper grammar and spelling. Following the structure provided below, your autobiography should contain 3 paragraphs (minimum of 5–7 sentences each). This assignment needs to be concise but still completely answer the requirements. 

Paragraph 1: Provide your name, where you are from, and include some information about your family and background. Include anything interesting about yourself and your career choice or possibilities that you want to share with the class. 

Paragraph 2: Include your academic strengths, academic weaknesses, your cognate areas, and your perceived talents, reflecting upon your planned career. 

Paragraph 3: Include your Christian testimony (if you have one) or include how your experience at Liberty University with its worldview will enhance your chosen career path. 

 

My name is Jasonus Tillery and im from newport news, virginia i currently live in Colorado . My previous career was playing professional football, now im looking to get in to coaching sports.  I major in interdisciplnary studies and we start my masters next semester in sports management . you can just include your testimony lol and i’ll rewrtite that portion. if you need help just GOOGLE ME JASONUS TILLERY

 

1. Performance Standards

 

 Describe the relevance of performance standards for today’s knowledge-directed workers, and how their use will result in a more competitive compensation and benefit strategy

 

 

 

1. Performance Incentives

 

 

 

Compare and contrast when it would be preferable to motivate employee performance through short-term incentives versus long-term incentives, and vice-versa.

 

 

 

1. Executive Compensation

 

 Choose one of two statements below and construct an argument supporting your position:

 

•The market trend towards escalating executive compensation reflects the critical importance of an executive to an organization’s long-term viability.

 

•The growing compensation inequity between executive management and the average employee threatens to destabilize organizational morale and societal justice.

 

 

 

 Benefit Packages

 

Today’s globally competitive business environment has caused many U.S. businesses to reduce the value of their employee benefit packages. Examine how an organization can maintain its costly benefit structure while remaining competitive against countries whose companies do not offer such benefits

 

 

 

Unit IV Essay

In a 500-word essay, choose one of the following ratification documents, and provide a brief overview of the paper’s message and the author’s intent in writing it. If you were living during this time, what would your response be to the paper’s message? What is the correlation between the paper’s message and current events?

Click here for a PDF of additional requirements for Unit IV essay sources. Choose one from the following: 1. Antifederalist Papers # 1

2. Antifederalist Papers # 9

3. Antifederalist Papers # 37

4. Antifederalist Papers # 84

5. Federalist Papers # 1

6. Federalist Papers # 10

7. Federalist Papers # 37

8. Federalist Papers # 68

9. Federalist Papers # 69

10. Federalist Papers # 84

Suggested sources to assist you in locating the ratified documents include: http://www.thefederalistpapers.org/anti-federalist-papers http://thomas.loc.gov/home/histdox/fedpapers.html

Be sure to include all sources used, including the textbooks, in APA style on a separate references page.

 

 

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Study conditions and terms associated with insurance company as well as going company thoroughly along with crystal clear your current concerns, in case almost any, by conversing these individuals specifically.

 

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Theory of Constraints Lab	Points	Description
CPM Diagram	10	Using a method of your choice (i.e., Excel, Word, Visio, etc.), construct a CPM diagram and copy the completed diagram to a MS Word document.
Possible Paths	5	Calculate the time to complete each path, copy the calculations, show the work, and then post to a MS Word document.
Critical Path	5	Identify which path is the critical path, copy the answer to a MS Word document, and submit the completed lab via your Dropbox.
Total	20	A quality paper will meet the above requirements.

 

Read this short paper on the Critical Path Method (CPM) and how to construct this type of diagram. Then, construct a CPM chart using the following data and note which path is the critical path.

Activity	Title	Immediate Predecessors		Time (weeks)
1-2	A	n/a		1
2-3	B	A		5
2-4	C	A		2
3-5	D	B		2
3-7	E	B		2
4-5	F	C		2
4-8	G	C		3
5-6	H	D, F		2
6-7	I	H		3
7-8	J	E, I		3
8-9	K	G, J		2

 

Using the table above, construct a CPM diagram. Identify all possible paths, calculate the time to complete each of them, and identify which path is the critical path. Submit a copy of this in your report in a MS Word document.

Using a method of your choice (i.e., Excel, Word, Visio, etc.), construct a CPM diagram. Copy the completed diagram to a MS Word document.

Calculate the time to complete each path. Copy your calculations and show your work, please. Post to a MS Word document.

Identify which path is the critical path. Copy your answer to a MS Word document and submit your completed lab via your Dropbox.

Submit your completed lab in a MS Word document for grading. Please provide only one document with all responses.

Submit your assignment to the Dropbox located on the silver tab at the top of this page. For instructions on how to use the Dropbox, read these step-by-step instructions or watch this Dropbox Tutorial.

See the Syllabus section “Due Dates for Assignments & Exams” for due date information.

 

Theory of Constraints Lab	Points	Description
CPM Diagram	10	Using a method of your choice (i.e., Excel, Word, Visio, etc.), construct a CPM diagram and copy the completed diagram to a MS Word document.
Possible Paths	5	Calculate the time to complete each path, copy the calculations, show the work, and then post to a MS Word document.
Critical Path	5	Identify which path is the critical path, copy the answer to a MS Word document, and submit the completed lab via your Dropbox.
Total	20	A quality paper will meet the above requirements.

 

Read this short paper on the Critical Path Method (CPM) and how to construct this type of diagram. Then, construct a CPM chart using the following data and note which path is the critical path.

Activity	Title	Immediate Predecessors		Time (weeks)
1-2	A	n/a		1
2-3	B	A		5
2-4	C	A		2
3-5	D	B		2
3-7	E	B		2
4-5	F	C		2
4-8	G	C		3
5-6	H	D, F		2
6-7	I	H		3
7-8	J	E, I		3
8-9	K	G, J		2

 

Using the table above, construct a CPM diagram. Identify all possible paths, calculate the time to complete each of them, and identify which path is the critical path. Submit a copy of this in your report in a MS Word document.

Using a method of your choice (i.e., Excel, Word, Visio, etc.), construct a CPM diagram. Copy the completed diagram to a MS Word document.

Calculate the time to complete each path. Copy your calculations and show your work, please. Post to a MS Word document.

Identify which path is the critical path. Copy your answer to a MS Word document and submit your completed lab via your Dropbox.

Submit your completed lab in a MS Word document for grading. Please provide only one document with all responses.

Submit your assignment to the Dropbox located on the silver tab at the top of this page. For instructions on how to use the Dropbox, read these step-by-step instructions or watch this Dropbox Tutorial.

See the Syllabus section “Due Dates for Assignments & Exams” for due date information.

One of the more challenging yet under-discussed challenges for people undergoing ART, and perhaps for society in general, is the status of “extra” embryos—embryos frozen for future use.  Myriad reasons exist for storing embryos.  Generally, multiple embryos are created using the sperm or ova from the parents or from donors when a couple undergoes ART in order to conceive. The hope is that creating and implanting multiple embryos during a cycle provides the best chance of having a child. Sometimes such presumptions go awry, as in the infamous case of Nadia Suleman, dubbed Octomom by the media, who gave birth to octoplets after deciding to implant all of the embryos conceived through IVF. Sometimes couples opt to create embryos without the intent of immediate implantation. In such cases, a couple may desire to postpone parenthood, but reduce the risk of using older gametes when they are ready to start a family. 

While cases of more than two or three embryos surviving through to delivery are the exception, of graver concern to some are the number of embryos stored for future use that are never implanted or exist unclaimed and potentially destroyed or donated to research.  In 2012, the U.S. Office of Health and Human Services estimated that over 600,000 cryogenically preserved embryos were frozen (cryo-preserved) and housed in fertility clinics across the country, (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2012)) and the UK’s Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority estimated that in 2012, 1,691,090 cryo-preserved embryos were unused and discarded. (The DNAindia, http://www.dnaindia.com/health/1783970/report-millions-of-embryos-created-for-ivf-thrown-away-unused).

For those who believe that a person exists at conception, the notion of embryo orphanages sounds like a page out of science fiction and solicits moral distress.  Even for those unsure about when personhood begins, the thought of hundreds of thousands of potential persons existing in suspended animation and unceremoniously discarded as medical waste challenges their comfort zone with respect to moral standing.  In a familiar showing of law lagging behind technology and ethics lagging behind law, governmental oversight of fertility clinics and laws defining policies for the disposition of frozen embryos are virtually non-existent. Currently, each fertility clinic is entitled to generate its own policies regarding the conditions for storing unused embryos, including the fees they charge for storage, how long they will store an unused embryo and what they do with those embryos that remain unclaimed.  Although the office of HHS instituted a program in 2002 that provides funding to assist fertility clinics with promoting embryo adoption, the program does not prevent the potential unfettered increase in embryos entering ‘adoption status’ or provide policies for disposal. Equally perplexing are the disparity of decisions handed down by the courts in custody cases between divorcing couples vying for the rights to embryos conceived through ART. Often the issues involve property rights and the potential Constitutional rights or–lack thereof—of each spouse when one wishes to have a child using the embryo created during the marriage, and the other does not.

Read the following and then proceed to the discussion activity:

 

• Module notes
• Textbook pages
• Bell, L. (Writer) (2009). What happens to extra embryos after ivf?[Web series episode]. In CNNHealth.com. The Parenting Group.
• Provoost, V. V., Pennings, G. G., De Sutter, P. P., Gerris, J. J., Van de Velde, A. A., & Dhont, M. M. (2011). To continue or discontinue storage of cryopreserved embryos? Patients’ decisions in view of their child wish. Human Reproduction, 26(4), 861.

 

Watch

 

What is the fate of leftover frozen embryos?
Alternatively, you may read the transcript at What happens to extra embryos after IVF?

Please discuss the following:

Currently, the only options open to couples faced with the conundrum of unused embryos are:

 

• taking them home and keeping them or burying them;
• having them implanted during a non-fertile cycle for natural disposal; 
• having them destroyed as medical waste;
• donating them to research; or
• offering them up for a directed adoption (you know the couple who will adopt) or given them to the fertility clinic as an anonymous donation (which may incur fees until the embryo is selected).

 

Of the choices listed, which do you find the least ethical and why?  Before committing to a decision, be sure to consider any contextual concerns that might support or oppose your selection. Be sure to justify your response.

 

Compose your work using a word processor and save it, as a Plain Text or an .rtf, to your computer. When you’re ready to make your initial posting, please click on the “Create Thread” button and copy/paste the text from your document into the message field. Be sure to check your work and correct any spelling or grammatical errors before you post it.

Assignment 1: Fundamentals of Effective Communication in the Workplace

Due Week 5 and worth 80 points

Effective communication skills are essential in the workplace. Some businesses invest in training their employees on how to effectively communicate, because effective communication skills go beyond conversations. Employees must know how to express business issues effectively when writing reports and emails. Understanding the benefits of effective communication helps businesses to develop a workforce that is able to communicate effectively with coworkers, customers, and suppliers and increase productivity.

Write a one to two (1-2) page paper in which you:

1. Describe a time when you experienced effective communication in a business environment.
2. Discuss at least three (3) reasons why you perceived the communication to be effective, and explain the resulting impact to the business.

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.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Explain the elements that foster effective communication in business.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in business.
• Write clearly and concisely about business issues using proper writing mechanics.

Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using the rubric found here.