Category: Essays

E-Commerce at Amazon.com
Amazon started as an e-commerce book site and has now added music, toys, electronics, software and clothes to is list of product offerings. You are welcome to review the following articles from Proquest.
Marcial, Gene (Oct 29, 2007) The Unplumbed Depths of Amazon. Business Week. New York: . p. 112
Doherty, Kathy (Oct 2007) The New Kid In Town. Food Logistics. New York: . p. 6
Stone, Brad. (Oct 24, 2007) .Amazon Says Profit Jumped In Quarter, New York Times (Late Edition (East Coast)). New York, N.Y.: p. C.3
Please turn in a paper of one to two pages (page counting does not include cover and reference list) discussing the following questions,
1. What are the advantages and disadvantages of selling books and goods over the internet?
2. Amazon offered Prime membership and same-day delivery. Will this destroy local retail buisness?
3. What do traditional stores have to gain from setting up an e-commerce side to complement their retail stores?
Expectations:
1. Answer questions with clarity.
2. Show depth and breadth in your paper to enhance the quality of your paper.
3. Try your best to search in our library to find some papers/articles to support your argument and show them in the reference list.
This is a Signature Assignment for OPM300 Case Module 5
There are two specific learning outcomes: 1) Identify critical success factors of e-commerce operations management. 2) Compare and contrast e-commerce operations management to traditional operations management.
The grading rubric below has been developed to measure student success in meeting the expectations related to applying your knowledge to e-commerce operations.
The grading rubric below has been developed to measure student success in meeting the expectations related to applying your knowledge of global forces, culture and diversity on doing business in other countries.
Assignment Expectation
Weak (1)
Marginal (2)
Adequate (3)
Strong (4)
Organization
10%
Demonstrates the ability to organize content logically, concisely, and in a appropriate manner to understanding of global forces, country differences, culture and diversity.
There is no logical sequence of information. Wording is rambling and unfocused
Paper does not follow a logical sequence.
Paper follows a logical sequence. There are some minor problems with topic transitions. Introduction and/or conclusion are not clear.
Paper follows a logical sequence with an effective introduction and conclusion. Each segment relates to others in a carefully planned framework.
Demonstrates the ability to support a central point or viewpoint throughout the paper.
Insufficient elaboration and/or support (e.g., summaries, listings) in the paper.
Limited elaboration and/or support in the paper.
Support with some specific details and elaboration in the paper.
Support through both specific details and elaboration apparent in the paper.
Content
70%
Demonstrates the ability to address an identifiable purpose in paper—the implementation of global forces, culture and diversity in doing business in other countries.
The purpose is not identified, is unclear, or inappropriate in the paper.
Purpose is occasionally unclear in the paper.
Clear purpose, but not consistently sustained throughout the paper.
Clear purpose sustained throughout the paper.
Demonstrates the ability to gather and sort information and data on a particular subject matter or topic.
Does not have a grasp of information and appropriate data. Topic is poorly developed. Supporting materials are absent or vague. Trite ideas and/or unclear wording reflect a lack of understanding of topic.
Seems uncomfortable with information and data. Topic is evident but with little or no elaboration.
Seems comfortable with the information and data. Topic is evident with some supporting details.
Demonstrates full knowledge of the topic with explanation and elaboration. The topic is well developed, effectively supported, and appropriate for the assignment. Critical thinking is clearly and creatively expressed. Data choices are well thought out.
Delivery
20%
Demonstrates the ability to use appropriate word choice and grammar in the speech.
There are many sentences with grammatical errors. Some sentences are incomplete/halting, and/or vocabulary is somewhat limited or inappropriate.
There are a few sentences that are complete and grammatical. Word choice is not always appropriate for presentation.
Sentences are generally complete and grammatical, and they flow together easily. With a few exceptions, words are chosen for their precise meaning.
All sentences are complete and grammatical, and they flow together easily. Words are chosen for their precise meaning. Word choice illustrates grasp of content and enhances presentation.
Demonstrates the ability to make an effective speech outline that is free from bias (e.g. sexism, racism, ageism, heterosexism, etc).
Language chosen for a presentation is inappropriate and exhibits bias. Uses clichés, slang, jargon, racist, or sexist language. Some readers may be offended.
Language chosen for the paper is free from bias with one or two minor exceptions.
Language has no apparent bias. There is some inappropriate language.
Language is completely free from bias.

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Write an annotated bibliography containing brief evaluations of resources on your approved research topic. Your annotated bibliography must contain no fewer than ten resources, including at least one of each of the following:
An article from a scholarly (peer-reviewed) journal found in the Collin College Library databases
An online resource (NOT Wikipedia)
An article from Good Reasons with Contemporary Arguments (see below for sample citation)
A book or a chapter from a book
An article from a newspaper or popular magazine
Do your best to make sure that the sources you use are as credible as possible. If you are unsure whether a source is credible, refer to the guidelines given in Chapter 18 of Good Reasons with Contemporary Arguments.
As per the department requirements for English 1302, your annotated bibliography must be at least five pages long. Each annotation should be written in present tense ("is" instead of "was") and needs to be at least six sentences long, including 3-5 sentences summarizing the main idea(s) of the source, 1-2 sentences evaluating the source’s strengths and weaknesses, and an addition 1-2 sentences relating the source to other research and/or giving your personal opinion about the source’s value or credibility. No separate works cited page is needed.
Keep direct quotations to a minimum — aim for seven words or less per quotation. The idea here is for you to interpret the authors’ ideas and put them in your own words as much as possible.
Annotations should focus on what the sources say, not what they talk about. For example, instead of writing that an article "talks about" the negative effects of decriminalizing drugs, write what the article actually says about those negative effects; give examples and sum up main points. If you do this, your readers will have a better understanding of why the source is valuable, and your annotated bibliography will be a much better tool for you as you write your researched argument essay.
Keep in mind that the goal here is to gather a good variety of sources related to your research topic. Avoid using several articles from one book or book series, online database, website, or other publication. The more varied your sources, the more broad your understanding of your topic is likely to become.

The proper use of MLA format will be vital to succeeding with this assignment. The annotated bibliography will be formatted in much the same way as a standard works cited page. Each resource should be listed alphabetically in accordance with MLA format. Make sure to use in-text citations in your annotations when necessary, especially when using sources with page numbers.

Your annotated bibliography should have an original, interesting title; "Annotated Bibliography" simply won’t do. It should be double spaced and typed in 12-point Times New Roman font with one-inch margins on all sides, and it should not have a justified right margin.

You will use a hanging indent and provide full bibliographic information for each resource following the MLA style; your annotations will simply follow the required information. You should not skip lines between the bibliographic information and the annotation or between each bibliographic entry. Failure to use proper formatting will negatively impact your grade.

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Consider the organization you selected for Module 1. Integrate the concepts and operations management principles that you’ve been studying in this module and turn in your one to two page paper addressing the following questions :
1) Check the internet about the company you chose. Check the websites as well. How is e-commerce applied in the organization?
2) How can e-commerce provide competitive advantage for that organization?
3) Relate to the former IBM chairman Louis Gerstner ‘s comment "all about cycle time, speed, globalization, enhanced productivity, reaching new customers, and sharing knowledge across institutions for competitive advantage." Can you relate what you have learned in this module to the function of e-commerce in the organization?
Expectations:
1. Answer questions with clarity.
2. Show depth and breadth in your paper to enhance the quality of your paper.
3. Try your best to search in our library to find some papers/articles to support your argument and show them in the reference list.
I chose Walmart as my organization.

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Please, complete the following two applied problems in a Word or Excel document. Show all your calculations and explain your results. Submit your assignment in the drop box by using the Assignment Submission button.

Week 5 Assignment Study Guide
1. Your company, Bright Paints, is one of a dozen companies manufacturing a special reflective paint used for traffic signs. The State Department of Transportation has called for tenders to supply 10,000 gallons of blue reflective paint to be delivered within two months. You can foresee fitting in a production run of the blue paint and have decided to bid on the job. You calculate your incremental costs for this job to be $76,200. This particular contract is standard, similar in all in respects to hundreds of contracts you have bid on over the past few years. Your pricing policy has been to apply a mark-up to incremental costs to arrive at the bid price. Your mark-up has been higher when you had plenty of orders and lower when you had few or no orders to fulfill. You have assembled data relating the mark-up rate used and the percentage of contracts won at each mark-up rate, as follows
Percentage of contracts won at that rate (%)
Mark-up rate (%)
0
95.9
84.8
65.4
41.3
15.7
3.0
0.
10
15
20
25
30
35
a. Why would your company have bid with a zero mark-up on some past tenders? Why didn�t it win all of those contracts?
b. What is the bid price that maximizes the expected contribution of the contract?
c. Why, or why not, is the fixed-price mode of bidding likely to be the best one to use for this contract?
2. In calculating the incremental cost of a particular project, how would you treat the possible future costs of a lawsuit that may occur as a result of this project, where the cost of the lawsuit might range from $10,000 to $500,000 with an associated probability distribution?

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In this prompt include your reflection of the strategies that you read about. Which strategies will be the most helpful to include in your unit? Which strategies are new to you? What is something that you found in the reading that you would encourage others to make note of? How specifically do you see these strategies supporting your ELLs in the classroom?

Strategies to encourage active involvement:
1. Learning centers: extending learning through hands-on practice
2. Multiple intelligences strategies: teaching and testing to student-preferred learning modes
Strategies for language development:
3. Leveled questions: adjusting questioning strategies to the language levels of students
4. Collecting and processing words: making vocabulary your own
5. Language framework planning: supporting academic language and content acquisition

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Writing a Research Paper on the subject political science:
Questions to the essay:
Question 1: Who principally obtained power from the original American Constitution of 1787? Please use one of the eight reasonable theories(I choose Representative democracy) and please limit your thinking and discussion to the features of the original document up through the first ten amendments(the bill of rights), the characteristics of the men who wrote the constitution, and the historical period of the late 1700s?

Question 2: Was this distribution of power just or unjust in terms of freedom, equality, and order?

Essay structure:
I provided some topic sentence that I did in class, +2 more that I don’t know which paragraph they belong to.

Thesis Paragraph: (Answering Questions 1 and 2)

Body Paragraph 1(The 11 years before the Constitution):
Topic Sentence: The eleven years before the constitution suggest that the constitution would create a representative democracy because there were a series of problem that threatened the nation as a whole, and these problems left them with a fear of the government.

Body Paragraph 2(The characteristics of the 55 authors):
Topic Sentence: The fact that the 55 authors were representatives from 12 states and believed in natural rights of all men and the idea that governments are created by the people suggests that they would create a representative democracy that would represent the people.

Body paragraph 3(Indirect Selection):
Topic Sentence: The indirect selection of national government officials suggests that the American form of government is a representative democracy because the house is directly elected by the people and the other three trace their authority back to the people.

Body paragraph 4(Single member plurality elections for the house):
Topic Sentence: Single-member plurality elections in the U.S. population are divided into 435 equally populated districts thereby creating a representative democracy wherein the majority rules, and protects the minority’s viewpoint from an over-zealous majority.

Body paragraph 5(Staggered elections):

Body paragraph 6(Separation of Powers and Checks and Balances):

Body paragraph 7(Federalism):

Body paragraph 8(Supermajority Requirements and the Amendment Process):

Body paragraph 9(Slavery):

Body paragraph 10(Property Qualifications):

Body paragraph 11(The Bill of Rights):

Body Paragraph 12(Question 2: FREEDOM)

Body Paragraph 13(Question 2:EQUALITY)

Body Paragraph 14(Question 2:ORDER)

Topic Sentences (Which I don’t know where they belong):
Topic Sentence 1: Policy making is slow and difficult in the American Constitutional system because there has to be an established fairness amongst the people the majority has to be represented in a representative democracy. However they can not be partial and one sided. An accepted policy needs to be reviewed and changed until it is almost perfect reasonable and This is because the policy is not followed by one person but rather a whole in this case.

Topic Sentence 2: The author of the constitution were worried about power being centralized into one government and a representative democracy solves this problem by further dividing the power equally onto the majority while protecting the minority viewpoint from an over-zealous majority.

Sources should come from Textbooks:

-American Government and politics in the new millennium eight edition
Stowitts Stewart, Sunshine Schultz

-American Government and politics in the new millennium eight edition: Study Guide & Reader
Stowitts Stewart, Sunshine Schultz

-The Enduring Debate: David T. Canon, John J. Coleman, Kenneth R. Mayer

When Citing
Text book: (Text Page #)
Study Guide & Reader: (Reader Page #)
The Enduring Debate (Canon Page #)

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To complete the assignment, examine the data provided as attached. Save a version of this Microsoft Excel document to use to complete your assignment.

Next, calculate the mean for each of the variables below for the year 2001:

•Total Operating Expense
•Net Charity Care
•RN FTEs
•Payroll Expenses
•Bad Debt Expenses
•Staffed Beds
•Occupancy*
•Medicare Days
•Medicaid Days
•Total Surgeries
•Outpatient Visits
•Emergency Visits
*Occupancy must be calculated as Patient Days/(Licensed Beds X 365).

Then, calculate the mean for the same set of variables for the year 2005.

Finally, compute the changes between the two sets of means (for 2001 and 2005) and test for significant differences using a comparison of means test.

Note: Your version of Microsoft Excel may differ, but many students will be able to do this test by clicking on Tools, Data Analysis, t-Test Paired Two Sample for Means.

Once you have performed all of the above tasks, use the resultant data to complete the written analysis portion of this assignment, for which you will need to submit the following:

•A Microsoft Excel table that shows the calculated values for each year and the differences in means.

•A Microsoft Word document that includes:

•A paragraph that summarizes these changes and reports the statistical significance of the differences between 2001 and 2005 for each of the above variables. (Indicate significance or no significance both in the Microsoft Excel table and in this paragraph.)

•A one-half to 1 page that addresses the following: What can you conclude about the data? What are some implications for health care professionals regarding the performance of hospitals in this state in the period from 2001 through 2005? Provide your rationale.
Provide at least 3 citations and references by APA 6 standard

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PROBLEM 16. h(x) = | −2x |

PROBLEM 50. x = −3

Instructions:
• There are many ways to go about solving math problems. For this assignment you will be required to do some work that will not be included in the discussion. First, you need to graph your functions so you can clearly describe the graphs in your discussion. The graph itself is required in your post and the discussion of the graph is required. Make sure you have at least five points for each equation to graph. Show all math work for finding the points.
• Specifically mention any key points on the graphs, including intercepts, vertex, or start/end points. (Points with decimal values need not be listed, as they might be found in a square root function. Stick to integer value points.)
• Discuss the general shape and location of each of your graphs.
• State the domain and range for each of your equations. Write them in interval notation.
• State whether each of the equations is a function or not giving your reasons for the answer.
• Select one of your graphs and assume it has been shifted three units upward and four units to the left. Discuss how this transformation affects the equation by rewriting the equation to incorporate those numbers.
• Incorporate the following five math vocabulary words into your discussion. Use bold font to emphasize the words in your writing (Do not write definitions for the words; use them appropriately in sentences describing the thought behind your math work.):
o Function
o Relation
o Domain
o Range
o Transformation

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Arguments and Their Components: Consider an argument you have recently had with a friend, family member, manager, co-worker, or someone else. Identify the topic of the argument and present that argument in premise-conclusion form, identifying both the premises and conclusion.

Your initial post should be at least 150 words in length.

DISCUSSION 2 The Scope and Limits of Logic

Logic can do a great deal in helping us understand our arguments. Explain what advantages we obtain by studying logic in terms of improving our reasoning. Consider a debate over whether prayer should be allowed in public schools. Explain what logic can and cannot do. In other words, what kinds of questions and topics are not decided by logical analysis?

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One economic issue of social importance and prepare a written paper: the paper should illustrate an understanding of the economic issue and depict why it is important. Academic writing style is required; be sure to use in-text citation and bibliography (please see an academic style guide…MLA, APA, Chicago, etc.). Also, papers are expected to be proof-read and free of typos and poor grammar. No late assignments will be accepted without a preapproved valid reason. All papers need to be submitted on the due date via Turnitin on Blackboard and in hardcopy at classtime.
An appropriate topic will be based on specific topics in the course and found in a current events newspaper article or report. This exercise is designed to help and check your ability to process information, systematically analyze the data/evidence and verbally articulate the information that you have learned from the class lectures, the required readings, newspapers, different sources of media and our class discussions. In addition to news sources to detail or describe the economics issue, it is expected that the paper will include three to five academic sources for the economics concepts and/or applications. A few sample topics that we will cover that are suitable for the writing assignment (detailed below) in this course are listed below:
 The impact of the supply shocks in the oil market on the price of home heating oil and gasoline.
 Looking at the evolution of the market economies over time, how do you see the markets in our future shape and form?
 Pick a real life application of the theory of consumer behavior/utility maximization and show how in our routine daily life, we can benefit from our understanding of this theory.
 Choose a market structure such as monopoly or oligopoly with a specific industry in mind and show how these industries behave within the context of microeconomics
 How does a regulated monopoly work? Choose an actual example of a regulated monopoly in the United States and discuss how regulation of that industry could benefit the consumer as well as the monopolist.
 What is a Cartel? Based on your understanding of a cartel, in what kind of an industry can we see cartels form? Why are they illegal in the United States? How could cartel manipulate markets?
 Discuss the impact of raising minimum wages on minimum wage earners and economy as a whole.
 What are the desired benefits of rent control? What are the real effects of the rent control policy on its expected beneficiaries and the society?
In addition consider sources like the Economic Naturalist frank.com/book.html), The Cartoon Introduction to Economics or economics books about general issues (like Miller, Benjamin and North’s The Economics of Public Issues) or specific economic issue (like Rivoli’s The Travels of a T-Shirt, see .

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