...Individual Project 1 Kevin Hensley AIU Online PHIL201 July 25, 2013 Earl Barnett Individual Project 1 Over the years, I have asked myself many questions about life, its meaning and where I will or want to go in life. Many I have answered, and many which I have no answers to just more questions. In this paper I will try to express the times I have asked questions and come to what I feel are reasonable answers. Metaphysics When I was young, my Grandfather died quite unexpectedly. The night after the funeral I was lying in bed with my back facing the door to my room. I heard my Grandfather’s voice calling my name. When I rolled over, he was standing there in my room. He said, “Kevie, you be good and take care of your mother.” And then he was gone. After many more experiences of this kind, I have come to the conclusion a person’s soul does go on after death. How this is possible, however, I have not yet come to a reasonable conclusion other than our bodies are merely a vessel we use for time. Epistemology My daughter once asked me, “Dad, how do you know so much?” This question, for some reason, made me stop and think for a moment. How did I know or have the knowledge of the things I spoke of or acted upon? The conclusion I came to was I had the knowledge through several ways. Some knowledge was gained by life experience, while another bit of knowledge was gained by a teaching of some sort. My Grandfather teaching me about engines and how to work on them is an example. Ethics Over...
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...Individual Learning Project 1 Liberty University BUSI 601-Accounting for Decision Making July 22, 2012 Individual Learning Project 1 Apple was incorporated on January 3, 1977, along with its subsidiaries .Apple is engaged in designing, manufacturing and marketing mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, software and portable digital music players. Apple was created by Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs in Silicon Valley, California. The two began building Apple Computers in 1976 in the living room of Steve Jobs’ parent’s living room. Steve Wozniak would build the computers and Steve Jobs would market and sell the computers. Apple uses various marketing techniques to promote their products. These processes are distinct in design and are adhered to throughout Apple’s organization Individual Learning Project 2 S.W.O.T Analysis Chart Strength 1. Innovators of high-tech quality products. (i.e. IPhone, Ipad, and Mac). 2. Globally recognized symbol (i.e. Apple sign) 3. Loyal customer (“Apple Culture) 4. Retails stores are made to be hands on with customers to experience Apple products. 5. One of a kind Research and Development team 6. Solid presence in the education division Weakness 1. The passing of Steve Jobs 2. Lower market share and higher price compared to other competitors (i.e. Microsoft, Dell). 3. Apple TV has limited selection compare to other TV companies such as Comcast or Direct TV. 4. Apple has not been able to go as deep mixing Facebook...
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...Individual Project Unit 1 Eng106/1304A A Work Event I am so excited to be hosting my Launching Party for my business (Beautiful Smooth Melts). It will be my first party and I want it to be spectacular. So I need to make a list of things to do. Before I know it March 28th will be here and I will have a houseful of supporters. So first things first, I sat down and immediately got to work on the guest list. Before I knew it I had 64 guests within a short time. As I was filling out the invitations I had realized that I didn’t have addresses for some. So I proceeded to go on the internet to my facebook account. I sent out invites to the few people that I didn’t have addresses for. Then all of a sudden I had remembered that I could post an event. So I did. As soon as I had it posted, guests were already accepting the invites. I felt amazing but very nervous at the same time. As I was putting the invitations in the mail, I was praying that I would have a great number of acceptances. I wanted to be able to show off my business at the party. So I started printing some material off of my website. I also had a video on how the products were made and designed. I was so proud of my creativeness. I had even taken an old bookcase that I had and painted it light grey. Being that Easter was around the corner, I decided to go with an Easter theme. I went to the Dollar Tree in town. I picked up the cutest Easter baskets. Then I thought that I could get some of the grass...
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...Phase 1 Individual Project International Business Communications Professor Randi Plante Colorado Technical University Online Octavia Briggs 16 April 2014 Opening a fast food restaurant anywhere can be challenging but going to another country to open a burger joint will take a lot of research and training of the right people. Language barrios will need to be gapped and food studies put into place. I am going to be writing about opening a fast food hamburger restaurant in China, Israel, United Arab Emirates and Mexico. Every country has differing foods and tastes thus it will be beneficial to do a lot of studying before anything else. Israeli food is very flavorful and all ingredients are at its best. This is true whether it be the foods from the streets or a fast food restaurant. Israeli people's sense of taste differs greatly from those in the United States; they are "Toffee Nosed" when it involves food. You would have to have a very tasty burger to make it in Israel and probably have to cook it on a charcoal grill rather the electric or gas before they will eat it. "The kosher social seal is awarded to eateries that pledge to treat those preparing and serving the food in an ethical way. This means paying overtime, providing health insurance, and ensuring the equal treatment of minorities – the list goes on." (Harman, D. 2008) In china, the elders are fed first; always wait until the host has finished their offer of words of greeting to start eating...
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...DIRECTV Stephone Bickham MGMT 422 October 11, 2015 Eugene Kaufman DIRECTV DIRECTV is your basis for the finest in audiovisual amusement, no matter where you are living. Observe the same cinemas and TV show anyplace, on your television, processer, tablet, or mobile phone with DIRECTV far and wide. DIRECTV also proposals extra full-time HD channels no additional television supplier comes close. And our leading-edge technology takes your amusement know-how toward an entire fresh level. DIRECTV is one of the earth's primary suppliers of digital television entertaining services distributing a low-grade audiovisual know-how across up-to-date technology, supreme software design, and business primary client facility to further than 37 million clienteles in the U.S. and Latin America. DIRECTV presents more than 190 around the clock HD channels in Dolby-Digital 5.1 theater-quality sound, admission to select software design, and the greatest inclusive group of game software design obtainable anyplace, comprising NFL Sunday ticket, NHL center ice, and NBA league pass. They distribute the finest in audiovisual entertaining to households, airfields, guesthouses, eateries, hospices, workplace edifices, aircraft, cars, and cellular phone expedients. DIRECTV is also the elite home of spectators, an exceptional TV know-how with innovative succession like the praised rascal and realm, sports conversation shows, elite performances. Clienteles can brook viewers live or observe spectacles...
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...Unit 1 - Fundamentals of Statistics Ellen Johnson American InterContinental University Abstract In this paper I will be selecting qualitative data and quantitative data. I will identify the data I selected. I will explain why the data was selected. I will explain what was learned by examining these data set. Will explain why charts\graphs are important in conveying information in a visual format and why standard deviavartion are important. Introduction Remember to always indent the first line of a paragraph (use the tab key). The introduction should be short (2-3 sentences). The margins, font size, spacing, and font type (italics or plain) are set in APA format. While you may change the names of the headings and subheadings, do not change the font or style of font. Chosen Variables Introduce the variables that you chose to analyze and why you made that choice. Please remember you are limited to the choice of Gender or Position for your qualitative variable, and Intrinsic or Extrinsic for your quantitative variable. Difference in variable types Explain In your own words the difference between qualitative and quantitative variables. Which descriptive statistics are appropriate for qualitative variables and which are appropriate for quantitative variables and why? Descriptive statistics: Qualitative variable Copy/Paste appropriate descriptive statistics from Excel here for your qualitative variable Explanation of descriptive statistics ...
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...AIU Online THE BENEFITS OF RECYCLING 2 Introduction Recycling is the process that takes used materials and turns them into new products. First of all, this process reduces the amount of waste in the landfills which helps the environment. There is already too much land that has been taken over by these landfills. Secondly, recycling also promotes environmental awareness. It’s important to be aware of what the waste is doing to our environment. Third of all, recycling will also help with the economical aspect by providing job opportunities. This would be a great benefit for people who cannot find jobs. The environmental, political, and economical situations would all benefit from the recycling industry. Saving the Environment What would happen if we became over run by trash? We probably wouldn’t be living in a healthy environment then. Recycling promotes the reuse of recycled materials to make new products. Most products are made with recyclable materials like plastics, glass, paper, metals, and even rubber can be recycled. All these materials can prevent the landfills from filling up and will also prevent the usage of land. Not everyone stops to think about what happens to the land when garbage is buried in it. Garbage is pollution and when it’s buried in the ground it causes the soil to be contaminated. It pollutes our beautiful natural...
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...How to Choose and Use Financial Software Hop in your car for a long drive and you probably start glancing at your speed, gas, miles and temperature gauges. Yet during that other long drive known as life, most of us turn a blind eye to our financial gauges—either out of fear or because we aren’t sure what to do about what we see. When installed on your computer, financial software functions like a dashboard for your money, tracking your transactions and giving you early warning when problems arise. Most programs track and display your budget, spending, banking, bills, savings, investments, retirement plans and debt levels—all in one convenient place. The more often you look at these numbers, the richer you’re likely to become. Studies show that people who get into the habit of monitoring their money wind up wealthier than those who don’t. Generally, financial software divides into two broad categories—money-management and tax-preparation programs. Among the best-known money management programs are Intuit’s Quicken, Microsoft Money or iCash. Web-based money management programs include Mint, Wesabe and Geezeo. For tax preparation, Intuit’s Turbo Tax and H&R Block’s software are the leading brands. Money-management software offers: • Budgeting — You set spending limits and manage your cash flow. • Banking — Pay bills electronically on time, print checks and reconcile account balances. • Planning — Monitor and pay down debt, estimate major life expenses, forecast retirement...
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...of each. Brief Interpretation of the Scenario The problem in this scenario is the individual that invented it believes that it will be of use to outside parties, but he or she does not have the money to fully finance the duplication and distribution of his or her product. The best way for him or her to get the funding and get his product out to the general public would be a partnership business, in which he would gain a better financial standing by having a second, or perhaps even third parties financial assistance Advantages and Disadvantages of Proprietorship, Partnership, and Corporation The three different types of business are sole proprietor, partnership, and corporation. Each type has its pros and cons, its positive and negative aspects. Sole proprietorship is when one person owns and runs his or her own business. Therefore, he or she is individually responsible for all moneys owed, to investors, employees, and et cetera. A sole proprietor can sell his or her business as they see fit or give it away to a family member or friend. He or she has to pay taxes on their business’s income. The owner of the business has control over all aspects of the business. A huge downside to having a sole proprietorship business is that the actions or inactions of an employee of the business become the direction problem of the owner. Partnership businesses are formed when two or more individuals agree to start a business and split the...
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...Name: Jennifer Schneider Date: 2/11/2016 Instructor’s Name: Meiko Thompson, Ph.D. Assignment: SCIE211 Phase 1 Lab Report Title: Human Impacts on the Sustainability of Groundwater • If current human development does not change, will groundwater sustainability be affected? Part I: Time Period |Impact to Forest |Groundwater Levels |Saltwater Intrusion |Farming |Industrial development |Population | |1800s |Large forests |Lots of groundwater |No salt water intrusion |Small farms |No cities |Limited Housing | |1900s |Decreased by 50% |Decreased by 50% |Ocean moved into groundwater |Farms are larger, but there are fewer |Exceptional growth of cities and industrial |Substantial increase in housing | |2000s |Decreased by 90% |Decreased by 90% |Great movement of ocean into ground water |Same number of farms, but size decreased by 20% |Industrial development decreased by 10 – 15% |Housing development decreased by 10 – 15% | | Part II: • Purpose o To observe the different effects on earths resources by different climate and man made revolutions to the eco-system. • Introduction o A number of forces continue to seriously affect our natural water resources. Many of these are primarily the result of human actions and include ecosystem and landscape changes, pollution, over-abstraction and climate change. o The removal, destruction or impairment of natural ecosystems are among the greatest causes of critical impacts on...
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...Wilson C. Powell Jr. American InterContinental University Unit 2 Individual Project MGMT220-1202B-01 Introduction to International Business May 6, 2012 Abstract When you talk about international trade and world output, you will be describing the relationship between supply and demand. We will be discussing and providing example which is the specific countries which are the United States and China. International trade is the buying and sale exchange of goods and services between two countries. (Griffin, Pustay 2010) International trade is very important for any country to do business with another country specially in exporting of goods and services and also to import goods and services into a country which the country do not have readily accessible too. Trade between two countries provides good choices for the consumer and jobs for many people in difference country. 1. Explain the relation between international trade and world out. The given quantity of world output within a year will cause some changes in the international trade. When countries slow down on it economic output the international trade in volume will slow down. The same thing will happen when the world output is higher the international trade will be higher. Trade will go up and down do, to the consumer not spending to buy or sale their goods and services. When a recession is in a country the consumer will not buy or sale their goods and services. The exchange rates will cause problem...
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...about what is the right way to solve this scenario by exhausting duty-oriented, consequence-oriented, and virtue-ethics reasoning. After all of that, I will discuss what the outcome is when individuals apply different principles of healthcare conclusions as well as how a person determines who is correct when multiple conclusions are found. Having to Sacrifice One to Save a Dozen More There will always be difficult conclusions that have to be made with people that work in the medical field. There will always be instances where sacrifices have to be made to save the lives of others. Introduction The appropriate action for this scenario is the ethical theory of utilitarianism. The main point of utilitarianism is to maximize serviceableness. When one makes a choice regarding a certain course of action, and one needs to exhaust the decision that will give the largest good for the largest amount of individuals. To do this, one can’t only think about themselves, one must think of all individuals that are involved. Every person that is injured or can prosper from this decision has to be examined so that precise evaluation of the end decision can be made. What is the appropriate action for this scenario? In addition, from an ethical point of view, several individuals think that all types of actions are acceptable as long as the profits are larger than costs; however, this isn’t the case at all. The main idea of utilitarianism is to locate the best decision...
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...Traditional Versus Online Management American InterContinental University Abstract This paper will address the internet structure of an organization and the traditional structure of an organization. The Appalachian Lending Corporation is a small finance organization that will be used to show the traditional organization. The online retailer used will be eBay. The management and leadership roles and functions will be explained. Two challenges facing both the types of organizations will be described. The similarities of the challenges will be discussed. Suggestions will be given, about how to transition from a brick and mortar organization, to an online organization. Traditional Versus Online Management The new age of business is moving towards the internet age of business. The internet is attractive compared to the traditional brick and mortar because of the low startup costs. New companies need less capital for their initial startup and this allows more small businesses to be established. The internet also allows new businesses to reach consumer markets, which could not be reached before, by the brick and mortar businesses. With the change in the type of business comes the change in the leadership styles and management styles needed to run these businesses effectively. This paper will look at both, brick and mortar and internet organizations, and discuss the differences in structure, management obstacles and the solutions to these issues. Addressing Management and...
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...Grade Received, "A" Abstract Being the CEO of Like Home Medical Care for Children, our ambition is to establish a successful environment for customers, patients, and staff, having a good plan makes it possible for us to do so. Like Home Medical Care for Children Like Home Medical Care for Children is a Catholic healthcare organization that specifically treats children from birth to eighteen years of age. We are a full-service organization and will treat children for whatever it is they need to be medically treated for. This includes high temperatures, broken bones, flu, colds, etc. We will also do well-child visits. This will include yearly exams and shots. Like Home Medical Care for Children’s core competencies will be to bestow fundamentals for information, knowledge, expertise, as well as attitudes expected from every children’s healthcare organizations and to provide a framework for ongoing specially designed programs for children of all ages. Our core competencies give our facility a significant distinctness in terms of administering benefits and observed values. The wants and needs of the populace tends to vary according to the patient (the child), the patient’s families, and the services required. Each patient’s anticipation will be unique due to the fact that every patient is unique in terms of mentality and individuality. The necessities of rendered services will be different as well. Like Home Medical Care for Children’s...
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...FORCE SIZE BY RANK | The Defense Department's latest official accounting of Army active and reserve personnel strength showed these manning levels Feb. 1: | Rank/Grade | Regular Army | RA women only | Army National Guard | Army Reserve | General | 12 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Lieutenant General | 49 | 5 | 0 | 0 | Major General | 116 | 8 | 64 | 36 | Brigadier General | 131 | 6 | 150 | 75 | Colonel | 4,275 | 488 | 1,500 | 1,853 | Lieutenant Colonel | 9,669 | 1,251 | 3,677 | 5,442 | Major | 16,738 | 2,910 | 6,725 | 6,882 | Captain | 29,248 | 5,798 | 10,674 | 10,503 | First Lieutenant | 14,134 | 2,750 | 8,394 | 5,122 | Second Lieutenant | 6,487 | 1,340 | 5,468 | 2,499 | CW5 | 657 | 39 | 381 | 96 | CW4 | 2,117 | 180 | 1,484 | 562 | CW3 | 4,134 | 391 | 2,060 | 792 | CW2 | 6,311 | 629 | 3,499 | 1,446 | WO1 | 1,969 | 187 | 1,129 | 395 | Total Officers | 96,047 | 15,982 | 45,206 | 35,703 | Sergeant Major | 3,506 | 263 | 2,057 | 1,562 | Master Sergeant | 11,643 | 1,298 | 7,424 | 5,559 | Sergeant First Class | 38,275 | 4,437 | 21,727 | 15,766 | Staff Sergeant | 59,718 | 6,462 | 40,197 | 19,673 | Sergeant | 72,826 | 9,810 | 63,777 | 28,353 | Specialist | 116,602 | 17,045 | 90,302 | 58,158 | Private First Class | 51,030 | 7,417 | 39,322 | 17,114 | Private E-2 | 26,273 | 3,828 | 21,775 | 7,962 | Private E-1 | 18,146 | 2,407 | 17,592 | 8,147 | Total Enlisted | 398,019 | 52,967 | 304,173 | 162,294 | Military Academy cadets | 4,335 | 767 | n/a | n/a | ...
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