urban studies book review 1

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Directions:

The book review essay is on Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State. The essay asks you to evaluate the book while drawing on readings and lectures from weeks 4 through 6.

Students are required to answer the four prompts below. Answers should be two pages long (double space, 12-point font, 1-inch margins). We are assessing your knowledge of course materials (lectures and readings). MLA or APA formats are acceptable. Submit in Word or PDF format only. Do not submit in Pages format.

The book review essay is worth 50 points. 5 points will be deducted for papers turned in within 24 hours after the deadline. Essays will not be accepted more than 24 hours after the deadline. Submit your papers at least two hours before the official deadline. This will help prevent last minute glitches.

Due Monday, February 24 at 5:00 p.m.

Your answers must be written in a standard essay format consisting of a short introduction (with a thesis statement), supporting paragraphs that respond to each of the prompts, and a short conclusion. There should be no more than two direct quotations.

Capital City

1. What does Stein mean by the real estate state? Is the real estate state neoliberal? Support your answer.

2. What are the principal causes of gentrification?

3. According to Stein, what are the specific things that planners do to support gentrification?

4. What are important consequences from gentrification?

plagiarism 21

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Read the ‘Plagiarism and Academic Dishonesty’ section of our syllabus and click on the link below and review the Pierce Library website material.
After reviewing the material, answer the following questions:

1- How does the ‘New Oxford American Dictionary’ define plagiarism.
2- What are the three ‘not so obvious’ plagiarism practices?
3- Is it acceptable to plagiarize when we don’t know what plagiarism rules are?
4- Is it true that using information from the web is not plagiarism because they are in the public domain? Explain why or why not.
5- Research on your own and explain briefly why Wikipedia is considered an unacceptable source for research papers.

http://library.piercecollege.edu/c.php?g=418569&p=…

forum explore kinship

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Cultural anthropologists specialize in the study of culture, including the beliefs and practices, and the cognitive and social organization of human groups. Researchers study how people sharing a common cultural system, organize and shape the physical and social world around them – and are in turn – shaped by those ideas, behaviors, and physical environments. This practice involves making observations, forming conclusions, and (especially in the past) collecting objects as examples of material culture. Much of this artifactual bounty has been preserved in museum and university collections and we’re going to explore anthropology by looking at some of these collections!

Visit ONE (1) of the following anthropology museums and complete the task below:

Alaska Native Collections at the Smithsonian
http://alaska.si.edu/ (Links to an external site.)

Lakota Winter Counts at the Smithsonian
http://wintercounts.si.edu/ (Links to an external site.)

Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology at Brown University
https://www.brown.edu/research/facilities/haffenreffer-museum/ (Links to an external site.)

The Task:

  1. Identify an object related to this week’s topic – include the URL. (10 points)
  2. Provide an image and a brief description of the artifact you selected. Identify the purpose and origin of the artifact – explain what it is and where it comes from. Your post should be a minimum of 250+ words.

write a response to one selected article from http www bioethics com links to an external site or another of your choice if it involves a controversial issue in biology this response should be approximately 400 800 words defend your

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write a response to ONE selected article from http://www.bioethics.com (Links to an external site.). (OR another of your choice if it involves a controversial issue in biology). This response should be approximately 400-800 words. Defend your viewpoint using one of the ethical approaches described in the “Framework for Ethical Decision Making”(Utilitarian, fairness and justice, common good, rights approach etc) attached in the Introduction to Bioethics link above.

Please follow the format and detailed rubric (attached). This post is worth 35 points.

amp quot real world amp quot scenario

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For the past few weeks, we have identified marketing techniques, personal branding and created a SWOT Analysis. Now it’s time to use all of these concepts in a “real world” scenario.

Please develop a marketing plan for a healthcare facility that was recently cited by the OIG (Office of Inspector General), or has been investigated by a journalist (eg., newspaper article, journal). The marketing plan must include a cover page, reference page and must be completed using Microsoft PowerPoint.

Please answer the following items in your marketing plan:

  1. Organizational Summary – Explain why the company is in trouble
  2. Analysis of the External Environment – (Public perception, economy)
  3. Threats and Opportunities
  4. Marketing Goals and Objectives
  5. The Target Market
  6. Competition – List possible competitors
  7. Marketing Strategy
  8. Action Programs (Marketing tactics)
  9. Budgets – How much money do you think this would cost?

visual representations

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Project 2 Description

This project asks you to engage with data, present data for a specific audience, and practice making effective data visualizations. The project focuses on:

  • the fair, accurate, and ethical use of data
  • how to design effective visualizations
  • the conventions of writing with numbers and data
  • how to integrate figures into a document.

Audience and purpose are central to the goal of the final deliverables. As you will learn by completing this project, numbers don’t speak for themselves. Writing with data requires critical and rhetorical thought, as well as visual design skills.

While working on this project, you will engage with different types of visuals, as well as the conventions of writing with data and numbers. To achieve these goals, you will select a data set from those listed below. After reviewing the data set you select, you will decide on an argument (thesis) you want to make for a specific audience using the data provided. You will then make decisions about which data to visualize from the larger data set and you will create three data visualizations help illustrate your argument visually. Finally, you will write about and analyze that data in brief final visual report.

The final visual report you create will include the three visuals you have made and the supporting text necessary to explain the data you have visualized and make your point.

In addition to the visual report, you also will create a second deliverable: a reflective memo of about 250-500 words. Similar to the PAD memo in the first project, this reflective memo will explain your choices and goals and how the visual report deliverable achieves them.

Data visualizations bring a number of benefits to any professional document, even short ones:

  • Though they have become extremely easy to make, people in the workplace still tend to be impressed by the extra effort and thoughtful presentation implicit in making a visualization.
  • Data visualizations also help to make the work of digesting and interpreting data more efficient by displaying trends or illustrating the significance of specific information without poring over page after page of numbers.
  • Because of this efficiency, visual elements are also better at communicating certain ideas more quickly than words or tabular data. Something that may take many sentences to communicate, a sudden drop in the efficiency of a process, or a surge in sales among a certain demographic, are instantly recognizable as spikes or dips along the X axis of a line graph.

For example:

This short report from the Department of Education (Links to an external site.) provides an overview of literacy and numeracy for men and women. In this online short report, the authors created two bar charts that are designed to show relationships between data and then they briefly explain the importance of the data.

In your visual report, you will create three visualizations and integrate them into your report, providing an introduction to the topic and analysis of the data you include to make a point about the topic using your data.

Project 2 Assignment Instructions

For this project, you will select a data set from the ones listed below and create a short (approximately two-page) informational report that includes at least three data visualizations that you create and that you feel best communicates the data you select from your data set in a form that maximizes the impact of the data to suit a specific audience and purpose.

To create your visualizations and informational report, please select one of the following data sets:

Once you have selected a data set, spend some time with the data. Identify the trends that jump out at you as most significant. As you identify your audience, think about who would want to know about the data and the point you’d like to make. You will not be able to visualize or discuss all the data in your data set. Your job is to select and visualize the data that is most relevant to your audience and the point you are making.

Deliverables

Document 1: Visual Report with 3 Data Visualizations

A short, informative, visually interesting report that makes a point about your subject using the data in your data set. This report should incorporate at three visuals that you have created along with analysis of the data in your figures. The text in your report should:

  • introduce the topic and its importance
  • explain the meaning of each of the three visuals
  • point to the conclusions suggested by the data.

You should identify a clear audience. Your understanding of the audience informs how the data is presented, the form the visualizations take, and the point you use the data to make, as well as the overall purpose of the document.

Document 2: Reflective Analysis

A 250-500 word memo that explains the following. Use memo headings to identify each of the topics listed below. Format the memo like a memo.

  • How and why you selected your data set
  • How you selected which data to visualize and why you visualized it in the form you did
  • Who was your target audience and what was your overall goal/purpose
  • How you ensured that your visualizations of the data were fair, accurate, and clear
  • A link to the raw data set used to create the report (with a citation for the data)

Data Visualization Tools

The following tools may be useful in creating your visualizations. There are other tools and apps that you can use, instead. The important thing is to create three original, effective visualizations using the data you have chosen.

conditions with elif 1

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Please write using Python

1)Write a program that prompts the user for a number from 1 to 50. If the value is equal to 5, display “gardener”. If it doesn’t display “gardener”, then test if the value is greater than or equal to 14; if so, display “banker”. If nothing else has displayed, then display “broker”.

principles of law enforcement 8

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Answer each question minimum of 300 words. Use provided material (PDF BOOK) as well as additional sources to answer questions. Reference/APA format. Dempsey, J. S., & Forst, L. S. (2016). An introduction to policing (8th ed.). Boston, MA, USA: Cengage Learning.

1.) Research the current state of marijuana laws and how these laws can/will affect the hiring of new law enforcement recruits. Where do you stand on marijuana use prior to law enforcement employment and why?

2.) Research police use of force. From the sources you find, answer the question is force justified by the police and why? What circumstances created the police use of force?

can you write a 2 page reflection on the article below 1

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Hello, I was wondering if you could write a two page reflection about the article attached below? just what you think about it.

should be 600 minimum

just a short reflection on the article attached. The professor likes it when we engage with the material instead of sounding like a “robot”

study on nike inc

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the study is on Nike Inc. 6-8 pages

Accounting is the language of business, and it is not a dead language! The FASB is responsible for ensuring that all relevant and material financial information is properly codified in Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).

The use of off balance sheet leases to distort the real liabilities of companies is a topic of long-lived concern. ASU 2016-02, Leases, is the most recent action of FASB to address this issue.

For this assignment you will select a company of your choice or use one (1) of the companies you researched in your weekly discussions to write a six to eight (6-8) page report in which you:

Summarize the impact of ASU 2016-02, Leases on the recording of leases.

Discuss at least three (3) elements featured in the current information reported by your chosen company for its leases.

Analyze the impact of the new standard on the reporting of your chosen company’s leases.

Compare and contrast the impact that ASU 2016-02, Leases will have on the financial ratios of your chosen company.

Determine the impact of the changes to accounting for leases on the recommendations of stock analysts for your chosen company.

Use at least four (4) quality academic resources in this assignment. 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.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

Examine accounting principles and concepts used in businesses.

Prepare and record financial transactions in the accounting cycle according to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) accounting methodology.

Prepare and analyze financial statements including the balance sheet, income statement, and statement of cash flow according to GAAP and IFRS.

Examine inventory costing and valuation according to GAAP and IFRS.

Analyze how GAAP is applied to asset valuation and liabilities.

Determine how to value investments and how to report them based on that valuation.

Analyze the accounting for corporation requirements related to stock valuation, dividends, and retained earnings.

Calculate financial ratios, interpret results, and draw conclusions.

Use technology and information resources to research issues in financial accounting.

Write clearly and concisely about financial accounting using proper writing mechanics.