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You are the chief executive officer (CEO) of MetaLife, a major life insurance company that has received negative exposure about deceptive practices in its sales division. MetaLife just settled a class-action lawsuit last month. You receive a call from the television show 60 Minutes requesting an interview concerning the allegations and the class-action lawsuit. The corporate legal team does not object to the interview, and you feel that it is important not to “hide” from the public’s eye. You agree to be interviewed.

Based on your understanding of the scenario, respond to the following:

• Evaluate the different approaches to the interview that you can consider. Then, explain how you will handle this interview.
• Outline and justify your selected approach to the interview, explaining why you would choose one approach over another.
  • Will you try to defend your company and rationalize what happened to play down the ill effects? Why or why not?
  • Will you openly admit to the lack of a stringent sales compliance procedure in your company and offer a public apology? Why or why not?
• Provide a substantial explanation of the ethical implications you considered before choosing an approach.
• How will your approach to the interview impact the organization’s sales strategy moving forward?

scarcity and opportunity cost.

1. In your own words, describe how opportunity cost is used in decision making?
2. Why is it important to think about what is forgone when decisions are made?
3. Write an example of a decision that you made recently where you had to think about the opportunity cost

You are a European explorer living in the fifteenth century. Think about what that means for empires that are in decline as well as the emergence of ambitious rising powers that aspire to profit from the Silk Road. This situation presents you with an opportunity to amass a fortune, assuming you know enough about the geographic, economic, social, religious and political realities of your times that you can translate this dream into reality. How you go about that task depends on you, your bravery, and your cunning.

For the elites of fifteenth-century Western Europe, the task is a daunting one: they must reopen the Silk Road at all costs. But who is going to sell a feasible plan to potential investors? The Crusades, though far from over, have tapered off, having sustained heavy recent losses. The papacy is preoccupied with scandal and schism. Circumnavigating the horn of Africa to reach the Indian Ocean is possible, but it is costly, and the journey is a long and arduous one. Simply put, there must be a shorter, faster way to get to Asia.

Your job is to write a proposal to a powerful individual or a group of wealthy investors willing to advance vast sums of money to fund your expedition. While your first thoughts may turn to approaching a nobleman or noblewoman, keep in mind that the rise of Venice and other commercial city-states throughout Europe have witnessed the rise of great banking houses and with them, fabulously rich merchant bankers. Whom will you seek as your sponsor? How will you convince your sponsor that your plan will reap profits?

When formulating your proposal, make sure you consider the following questions

• What will your efforts bring them as rewards?
• Once you secure financing, what shipwrights and shipyards do you plan to visit?
• Who in Europe at this time makes the best, most accurate maps?
• How you recruit your crew?
• What “prize” will you offer them (e.g., spiritual reward, gold, and/or glory)?
• When do you plan to set sail?
• Will part of your journey be over land?
• Have you secured permission to enter certain realms?

Nanotechnology (also called nanotech) is a branch of materials science that deals with manipulating matter on the atomic scale. It is so called because this field deals with engineering on the scale of a billionth of a meter, also known as a nanometer. Nanotechnology seeks to solve a wide range of problems from the construction of atomic scale machines to changing material properties at the atomic level.

Use the Internet, Argosy University library resources, and your textbook to research the field of nanotechnology.

Write a paper discussing some of the basic scientific and technical concepts of nanotechnology. Do the following in your paper:

• Discuss current or future applications of nanotechnology in fields such as medicine, engineering, space exploration, fuel cell development, air and water purification, and agriculture.
• Provide at least three examples of real-world applications in use or in development with reliable references.

You are a business consultant to the National Minority Supplier Development Council. An international petroleum products distribution company, based in the U.S., consults with you on cultural diversity matters. It faces some complex choices at its overseas locations.  While equal opportunity, affirmative action, and individual civil rights are the law of the land in the U.S., this frequently is not the case in other countries. Therefore when moral and legal issues run counter to host-country customs, problems are bound to arise.

Prepare an executive summary, briefly discussing the following specific topics:

• Should U.S. civil rights laws apply to U.S. companies’ foreign operations? Express your opinion on this issue.
• Describe a cultural diversity policy for the firm expanding overseas operations. Highlight any differences that might arise in some Middle Eastern countries where a distribution center is currently being built.
• Explain the value of understanding the importance of, and complying with, the other country’s legal system while operating in a foreign country.
• Americans tend to believe that the U.S. legal system is better than that of most other countries. Discuss the ramifications of this belief in an overseas, culturally diverse operation.

1. Professionals must develop plans for gathering and using assessment data. Select three of the strategies presented on pages 139–142 of Assessing and Guiding Young Children’s Development and Learning, and explain how each strategy that you selected can be used to provide ongoing support for children’s development and learning.

1. How and what professionals communicate regarding assessment data will vary according to the purpose of the assessment and how the data is likely to be utilized. Review pages 204–210 of Assessing and Guiding Young Children’s Development and Learning and explain how assessment data can be used within different contexts and for different purposes.

1. According to the DVD segment, “Partnering with Families,” communicating with families is an essential part of quality assessment practices. Review pages 194–205 of Assessing and Guiding Young Children’s Development and Learning and the DVD segment, “Partnering with Families.” Put yourself in the place of a parent of a young child. Describe how you would like to be involved in the assessment process and explain which reporting strategy or strategies that you would like your child’s teacher to use to communicate information about your child to you and why.

Most managers in organizations develop strategic plans without realizing the importance of internal and external assessments and their implications on the four functions of management. Assume you are hired as a new manager and you want to improve your company by helping upper management develop a better understanding of these issues.

Using the Argosy University online library resources and the Internet, research internal and external assessments.

Then respond to the following:

• Explain the four functions of management and the purpose of internal and external assessments.
• How would you convince upper management about the importance of internal and external assessments?
• How would you demonstrate the critical relationships that exist between assessments and the four functions of management implemented in most organizations?

After your initial post, respond to the following:

• List and examine the key factors you think affect the four functions of management.
• What do the four functions of management have in common?
• How do managers at different levels apply the four functions of management?
• How do the four functions of management affect organizational success?

Research essay. What are the usual signals suicide victims give? What signals did Willy give? Could Willy have been prevented from killing himself? 5 works cited, including the book. Sources must be books or from Galileo. I have several sources already that I can provide. MLA format with quotes and text notes.

You will need to summarize the short reading and then explain how it supports, broadens ,challenges, contradicts or changes your understanding of the social issue that the article adders “pulling out” at least two points to comment on. Although you will need to provide a short overview of the op-ed somewhere in the beginning of your essay, you should focus on what new information you have acquired and how the professional journalists discussion of the issue has affect/ impacted your understanding of the topic. Further more you will research and select an academic source that will support, demonstrate, challenge and or expand on your analysis and document that source according to MLAspecifications.
The topic of the essay you working with is “Get a Knife, Get a Dog, but Get Rid of Guns” by Molly Ivins. Contact me for any questions.

First watch the movie called Tsotsi, directed by Gavin Hood 2005.
1.How do you feel about what you see?
2. What do you agree or disagree with?
3.Can you identify with the situation?
4.What would be the best way to evaluate the story?
5.What you think of it (Tip: You have to have a theory about what the work means to provide focus for your research and analysis. You don’t have to say everything possible about the work: be guided by what interests you most, which might change as you do research. Be prepared to wander and explore a bit).
6. What the thing is
7. What its parts are (words, punctuation, literary techniques or devices)
8. What those parts are used for and how they’re put together (structure, patterns, and themes)
9. Who made it, and the influence of that person’s beliefs and ideology on his/her work (Tip: Don’t guess, assume, or psychoanalyze.)
10. Where and when it was made, and the interplay of that context and the thing itself
11. Who its original audience might have been and what they thought of it
12. What you think of it (Did your research confirm or disprove your theory? Now what do you think the work means? Who cares?)