write an essay comparing and contrasting your experience as an audience member between the filmed production and the audio production you listened to.

For essay, please watch the National Theatre’s filmed theatrical production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Then, write an essay comparing and contrasting your experience as an audience member between the filmed production and the audio production you listened to.In this essay, you can give brief explanations of the plot and characters; however, the bulk of the essay should focus on making connections between your experience watching versus listening to a production. For example, you can write about the sounds and ambient noises in the audio production and how that made you feel, think and imagine, versus the sound design of the filmed production. Other elements to consider when writing your essay are: mood, tempo, character development, clarity of storytelling, visualizations, how a production engages its audience (or doesn’t), etc. For each element that you compare and/or contrast, you should provide 2 – 3 examples from each production to support your claim. The KEY to a successful essay is to provide SPECIFIC examples to support your topic ideas. essay should be 3 – 5 pages long, double-spaced, using a standard font and font size. A successful essay should have an introduction, a thesis statement, 3 – 5 body paragraphs with each paragraph focused on a specific topic, and a conclusion.

Do you think America has a fascination with turning self-destruction into entertainment?

As you know all Beginning Acting students were required to go see the production of Barbecue by Robert O’Hara and directed by guest director Keiana Richard. Please write a 2page reflection, that summarizes the play from your perspective, and make sure to answer the questions in bold below: As Barbecue opens we see both a white and black version of the O’Mallery family planning a fake barbecue. James T., Lillie Anne, Marie & Adlean plan to lure their sister Barbara (aka zippity boom) to the park to confront her drug and alcohol addiction and have her commit to go to rehab. Drug & alcohol abuse is a heavy topic; Did this storyline remind you of any of your own family members or friends who have struggled with addiction? If so how did your experience compare to the characters in the play? The changeover from the white to black family is something close to a strike of lightning – like a psychological experiment to test our unconscious biases and inhibitions. Would we have thought differently about this trash-talking, low class family if they had started out black rather than white? Do you think the playwright did this on purpose? In the second act of “Barbecue” time has passed, Barbara has gone to rehab and wrote a memoire of her life story. She is then approached by a singer-actress about turning her memoire into a million dollar movie. Do you think America has a fascination with turning self-destruction into entertainment? Is the comedy found watching others fail or is self-destruction a topic we can all relate on? The dark joke here, as we eventually learn, is that each sibling is just as much in need of an intervention – James T. drinks heavily & smokes weed, Marie carries around a bottle of Jack Daniels and has crack in her purse, Aldean is addicted to opiods and chain-smokes cigarettes and Lillie Anne is very controlling and judgemental over her siblings. Barbara makes them all agree to also go to rehab if they want a $200k cut of the movie deal. Is this a fair compromise? Do you believe Barbara was seeking revenge on her siblings or could they all use a little therapy and rehab? The deal is finally signed, the film executive just wants to make a couple of changes… she switches Barbara’s addiction from meth to crack then says “oh by the way we’re making your whole family black”. This segment personally brought up so many thoughts and feelings for me. Did you notice this part? How did it make you feel? What are some other examples of how mainstream media and television (in today’s society) frame blacks or other minorities? In the end, the memoire is made into a movie and the actors win an Oscar. The play ends with music, beautiful gowns and an applause for each member of the cast. What are your overall thoughts on the play? Did you enjoy it? Were there parts that frustrated you or were hard to watch? Did it make you laugh? 🙂 The link added may not work however you should be able to find free versions of the play online if not you can use what my professor provided above. thank you

Discuss the best practice efforts that should/could be used in your community or the community you selected to mitigate future flooding.

Instructions For the Unit IV Case Study, you will focus on floods and flood prevention in your community. Start by conducting research around your community/location for examples of mitigation and flood prevention. For example, consider any rivers or dams in your community, areas that are below sea level, etc. Take photographs of what you find so that you can show your professor what your area has done to address the issue of floods. If you are not in a flood area, research an area that does experience flooding, and use online images. Using what you learned about your community and what you learned about past floods from this course, write a case study, a minimum of four pages in length, that addresses the following points: Explain what has been done with regard to mitigation, recovery, and/or response efforts within your community or the community you researched. Explain who conducted these efforts and the vulnerabilities they faced in their community, and include the role these individuals or groups played with mitigating, responding, and/or recovering from the risk. Research at least one major flood (this is not limited to your community). Explain what caused the flood and the response. What can your community, or the community you researched, learn from past floods? Discuss the best practice efforts that should/could be used in your community or the community you selected to mitigate future flooding. Your paper should be a minimum of four pages in length, not counting the title and reference pages. You are required to use a minimum of three outside sources as part of your case study. One outside source must be from the CSU Online Library. All sources, including the textbook, must be cited and referenced according to APA guidelines. Additionally, include at least four visual aids/images that support your content (one 4-by-4- inch image per page maximum). Please incorporate those into your paper in APA format. Click here for steps on how to resize the image 1. My community is South Carolina. I’m specifically in Columbia. 2.Textbook – Case Studies in Disaster Response and Emergency Management , Nicolas A. Valcik, Second edition drafted 2017 by Routledge, 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 3.Columbia southern university library link -https://libguides.columbiasouthern.edu/esm

Explain at least two projected impacts to organization and at least two projected impacts on the community served from your priority choice.

After recently graduating with a Bachelor’s of Science (BSN) in Nursing, you were promoted to Clinical Educator for your unit. The Nurse Manager asked for your help completing an innovative practice analysis to assist the organization with determining future needs for technology to lead innovation and future service for the local community. The title for this renewed drive for innovation in practice excellence is named, “Time for the Future is Now.” Organizational characteristics: 92 bed full-service, not-for-profit regional hospital 600 employees, 120 of which are active and consulting physicians The mission is simple: improve the health, lives, and well-being of the people in the community we serve. Philosophy: we service a rural community as if we were in a suburban setting. Unique services currently offered include: A team approach to Cancer Care with an on-site multidisciplinary rounding clinical served by virtual assistants. On-site Adult Care with a focus on Adult Day Care and Overnight Respite (currently largest cost center). Genetics Counseling featuring a personalized approach to drug therapies provided via virtual visits by doctors, masters-prepared nurse genetic counselors and 24-hour access to the side-effect and drug effectiveness monitoring with a password protected laboratory portal. Virtual Primary Care offered from 7am-11pm with a fee of $25.00 per visit for routine health services. Community Demographics: Rural setting current population approximately 30,000 with 97% Caucasian, 2% African American and 1% Hispanic 60.1% of residents are retired Average age = 64.2 years High prevalence of diabetes, heart disease, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease 89% of residents own and live in their home, a single family residence. Average yearly income is $34,000.00. Instructions Listed below are two types of innovative healthcare services under consideration for purchase and integration in this organization. Complete an analysis of the two types of innovation under consideration for purchase. The primary objective is to select the innovation to serve the needs of the local community best. Virtual Sitter Service (currently contract with local employee agency to provide sitter services) Tele-Wound Consulting Service (currently contract with local home health agency to provide nurses certified in wound care) Write your analysis report of the two innovations in a Word document, including the following: Recommendation of innovation as the first or second selection for purchase with a detailed explanation of the rationale for choice including: Include analysis of the two innovations with rationale of your priority choice Include one resource from literature supporting the choice Identify at least two immediate impacts on the organization and at least two immediate impacts on the community served from your priority choice. Cost, training, patient outcomes, employee satisfaction, patient satisfaction Support with credible resources Explain at least two projected impacts to organization and at least two projected impacts on the community served from your priority choice. Sustainability, maintenance, continued training, increased services for the community Support with credible resources I got a paper done and was given feedback. I just need to fix the highlighted stuff and put it in this format that Im going to upload

Design gap assessment processes that capture the critical organizational needs and requirements for the implementation of an HR information system

Your organization is contemplating the purchase of a new human resource information system and has tasked you with formulating a proposal. Organizational details for you to consider for this assignment are as follows:  There are a total of 500 employees at the site; 450 non-exempt employees who clock in and out each day, and 50 exempt employees who do not use a time clock and are paid a standard weekly salary.  The organization has an electronic time capture and payroll system already in place that: – Is manually updated when employees are hired or terminate employment – Is a stand-alone application, not interacting with any other database system – Is maintained by two full-time payroll administrators, reporting to one payroll manager  Human resource records are primarily paper-based: – Employee personnel files are maintained in file folders – Personnel files are manually updated with demographic, performance, and disciplinary information – Demographic data is available currently in an Excel database, which is manually updated – Personnel files are maintained by four full-time human resource clerks, who are non-exempt and report to the full-time HR manager The new HRIS system is expected to drive a self-service approach to records management, while also ensuring confidential and proprietary data is secure. In a 12–14 page paper, with a minimum of eight scholarly sources, compare the current human resources data collection system with at least two new HRIS systems that are being considered. This assignment will assess your mastery with respect to the following course outcomes:  Illustrate the interdependency of HR information systems with existing organizational data-collection systems through informative visual maps  Design gap assessment processes that capture the critical organizational needs and requirements for the implementation of an HR information system  Evaluate HR information systems for their ability to meet organizational requirements based on needs assessments  Contrast and compare HR information systems on the basis of organizational financial requirements  Determine best practices for balancing the need for open access to data and information contained in an HR information system with the importance of protecting proprietary and confidential personal data Prompt Your paper should answer the following: What are the major factors to consider when an organization is considering upgrading or implementing a new human resource information system? Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:  Gap assessment – What is the present situation (legacy system), the desired future state (new HRIS), and the gaps that exist between them for the following areas of the organization? o Information Systems – requirements for hardware and operating system software architecture o Human Resources – demographic employee data variables (distinguish which system maintains, how information is updated, any controls, and connectivity with other support functions) and security of the data (availability to functional levels, i.e., employee, manager, finance, operation managers, etc.) o Operations, Finance, Quality – productivity (more or less work) of employees (management/non-management) and cost versus benefit  An informative visual map illustrating: o the current state (no HRIS) o the future state (HRIS system in place) o the interdependency and/or replacement of other databases  Capture projected implementation costs of the new HRIS, i.e., hardware, software, software license fees, facility upgrades required (electrical, mechanical, remodeling), headcount increase to recruit new skill sets, as compared to cost reductions, i.e., employee headcount reductions due to automated data collection, job eliminations, cost savings due to elimination of legacy systems, with the return on investment (ROI) calculated over a four-year period  Summarize components of each HRIS software system in a table format that visually differentiates software packages from the other. Components would be: o Objective (cost, reporting capabilities, operating system, etc.) and o Subjective (ease of use, customer service, reliability of product, customer reviews, etc.)  Develop recommendations that: o Balance the requirement to maintain the security of proprietary and confidential data with the need for self-service maintenance and access by employees o Address the varying degrees of access for managers, support functional groups based on their need to know

Outline the ethical concerns and potential outcomes in a selected ethical dilemma.

Ethical Dilemma Brief Introduction Health care administrators are confronted with ethical dilemmas and difficult decision making during their work. As we have already discovered, there are important interactions between ethical behaviors and legal issues. Health care administrators need to understand the relationships as well as the distinct differences. Health care institutions have ethics committees that play a central role in the protection of patient’s rights, the organization as a whole, and its staff. Instructions Imagine you work as a professional health care administrator in a large medical center. You have been asked to present a paper at a professional conference on medical ethics and caregiver-patient encounters. You must write a paper about a significant physician-patient ethical dilemma in a medical setting, defending the decision and conclusions made. Below is a resource with multiple ethical case studies that involved patients, their families, and members of the interdisciplinary team. Choose one of the scenarios on this site, or select a case of your own choosing from another resource. Medical Ethics and Physician-Patient Encounters: Case Studies and Best Practices. Your paper should be 3–5 pages and should include a title page and references, for a total of 5–7 pages. Strayer Writing Standards This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards. For assistance and information, please refer to the Strayer Writing Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course. Grading Criteria The grading criteria for this executive summary is as follows. It must include the elements listed below, so be sure to address each point. You may also want to review the performance-level descriiptions for each criterion in the scoring guide to see how your work will be assessed: Prepare a brief from the perspective of a lead administrator dealing with an ethical dilemma. Apply ethical and moral theories to a case study involving a patient and caregivers. Outline the ethical concerns and potential outcomes in a selected ethical dilemma. Propose a solution to mitigate the issues raised in a selected ethical dilemma. Defend the solution from an ethical standpoint. Use at least three peer-reviewed articles less than five years old. Provide appropriate in-text citations and reference section. Meet clarity, writing mechanics, and formatting requirements.

Identify and investigate barriers to success of these types of programs; and Develop a set of best practices to replicate this program in other communities.

As always, our capstone discussion will simulate a face-to-face classroom discussion. We will go through the questions as a group beginning with the first question. As we answer each of the questions, we will move to the next one together. Read what others have said and add to the discussion in a substantive manner. The earlier in the week that you begin posting, the deeper the conversation and learning will be. The first question in this discussion is opinion and experience-based, so you can begin immediately. In your opinion, based on what you have learned throughout your studies: How might ethics conflict with policy or legal requirements in providing health services? What’s at stake in these sorts of conflicts? As you discuss, think about such conflicts in professional situations you have encountered or discussed in previous courses. For subsequent questions please meaningfully integrate what you learned from reading as well as additional supportive articles or videos that you choose to include. The remaining knowledge application questions will be based on the Scenario. Please review the scenario before continuing on with the discussion. Please respond to the following discussion questions: What are the most concerning legal and policy concerns in this scenario? What policy guidelines would be helpful to us in exploring and addressing these issues? In module 7, we discussed ethics in great depth. Now, let’s talk about conflicts between ethics and the legal and policy concerns we are charged to address. In this scenario, does conflict exist or is the organization exempted from any responsibility toward the participants as the service/program was part of a research project? As we identify potential conflicts, elaborate on concerns in applying ethical guidelines to this situation. Contemplate how this situation might be viewed in your emphasis. In module 7, we explored resources that might support us in the ethical decision-making process. Given the legal and policy issues involved in this situation, which of the resources from last week would be useful here? Are there additional resources A large health organization has been managing a demonstration project in which older adults and people living with disabilities are provided with a range of services in their communities. The purposes of this project include: Conduct evidence-based research to better understand the value of these services in preventing further decline in health and help these individuals to stay in their own homes as long as possible; Identify and investigate barriers to success of these types of programs; and Develop a set of best practices to replicate this program in other communities. You oversee a program that provides direct service to older adults and people living with disabilities. The organization recently applied for refunding for the upcoming year. The answer is delayed and the end of the funding year is less than one month away. You and other staff members finally receive the long-awaited notification. You learn that the project was indeed a success from the services perspective. However, the overarching goal of the project, which was to gather data through a rigorous research study, has not been met. Therefore, the funding will not be renewed. Image representing a meeting of program leadership.Your organization has one month to close the program down. At a meeting of program leadership, it became apparent that the organization does not have a clear plan to accomplish this task. Some leaders are advocating a plan to not formally inform participants that the program is ending until the last week of service; this plan proposes providing participants with a letter and a list of resources during the last week of service. Others propose informing participants right away and working with them on a transition plan. Still others are unsure as to what the organization should do. Not only will older adults and people living with disabilities be affected, but so will their adult children and other family members, professional caregivers, and volunteers. All of the proposed plans are vague and lacking in substance; they involve actions to protect the reputation of the organization. The plans vary widely in the extent to which they directly address the needs of the participants. Attorneys for the organization have indicated that, because this is a research project, the organization has no legal responsibility to the participants, regardless of the level of service they have come to expect. You are unclear whether there might be a legal obligation beyond the research component. In addition, you want to act in manner that adheres to ethical guidelines.

Compare and contrast how Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns and Imtiaz Dharker’s Postcards from God portray women’s experiences in patriarchal societies

Topic:

Compare and contrast how Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns and Imtiaz Dharker’s Postcards from God portray women’s experiences in patriarchal societies

Description This is OCR Task 2 Comparative Essay. Both the novel A Thousand Splendid Suns and Postcards from God need to be compared and contrasted on their portrayal of women’s experiences in patriarchal societies. Context either societal, political, cultural need to be incorporated. This can be done through statistics, critics etc (please footnote these when used) Furthermore please incorporate context from both writers (how their backgrounds might affect their viewpoint for example and again footnote this) When quotes from the poems or novel are used and analysed please footnote them too. The chosen poems from the collection of poems are, Purdah I, Purdah II, Another Woman, The mask and A Woman’s place (however only 3-4 of these need to be used) These should be available online but I can provide a copy if needed. The boards expectations: Candidates submit an essay considering two texts exploring contrasts and comparisons between them, informed by different interpretations and an understanding of contexts.

How does Dunning’s Eclectic Paradigm help explain the international activities of the firm?

Global Strategic Marketing- Scenario Planning Project based on Companies Amazon & Walmart

PPT – 6 slides

Word Document report – 3000 words (based on the 6 slides)

Please Note: THE 6 SLIDES ALONE WITH SUPPORTING REFERENCES AND EXPLANATION/NARRATION IS REQUIRED IN 48 HOURS. THE 3000 WORDS REPORT CAN BE GIVEN AFTER 14 DAYS.

Acting as a Consultancy to a firm same as Amazon & Walmart for next 15 years you have to:

1. develop a scenario planning report for firms operating in the field defined by the activities of Amazon-Walmart
2. recommend a generic global strategic marketing strategy for a firm in this field

Testing the scenario:

1. How useful would it be to a CEO?
2. How consistent is it?
3. How archetypical (general) is it?
4. Does it describe an equilibrium?

You should consider such factors as: ( 6 slides should be based on these factors)

1. The regulatory environment
2. Economic conditions
3. Social conditions
4. Cultural conditions: consumer and organisational
5. Technological innovation
6. Global and local competitive structures

• In the assignment you need to consider where firms such as Amazon and Walmart will be operating in the future:
• Will they be able to operate on the same global level as they operate today? (Retail outlets / supply chains)
• Will the institutional environment be too challenging?
• Will there be fewer or more economic opportunities internationally?
• Will consumers be more cosmopolitan or more ethnocentric?

The Scenario building process must cover the 3 stages:

Stage 1:

• Scope
• Stakeholders
• Trends
• Uncertainties

Stage 2:

• Themes
• Consistency
• Relevance

Stage 3:

• Further Research
• Modelling
• Convergence

Scenarios based on:

• Questions:
  1. What do we know?
  2. What is unknowable?
• Representing:
  1. Continuity
  2. Shifts
• Such as:
  1. Demographic projections based on past and current trends
  2. 2024 US Presidential Elections

The report:

The report should be in a proper format with content page and flow without plagiarism.

Section 1: Scenario Planning Report Critique the report based on the 6 slides

You should focus on: 1. Market analysis: trends, uncertainties etc

2. Global strategic marketing recommendations

This section is of 1,500 words.

Section 2: Theoretical Discussion Building on section 1, you should evaluate ‘institutional distance’ as a framework for examining and explaining global strategic marketing activity. This section is worth of 1,500 words.

Section 3: Appendix This should contain the Group PowerPoint slides presented. Other supporting material such as a word document containing a supporting narrative and excel spreadsheets, graphs and charts to be included

Note: Use Times New Roman, font 12 and with 1.5 spacing. This word limit includes diagrams, tables. You should acknowledge data sources and provide references where appropriate. This may be drawn from a variety of sources. You are expected to clearly identify these source

The report should clearly identify the reason why you have reached your assessment and conclusions. All work should be supported by relevant data and clearly stated assumptions and suppositions. For example, if you do not consider technological innovation an important factor justify this through supporting material and/or clearly argued statements. This may be drawn from a variety of sources. You are expected to clearly identify these source

Few Sources to use:

Sven Hollensen Title: Global Marketing

Nicholas Alexander and Anne Marie Doherty Title: International Retailing

Geoffrey Jones Title: Multinationals and Global Capitalism

1. Kostova, T., Beugelsdijk, S., Scott, W.R., Kunst, V.E., Chua, C.H. and van Essen, M., 2020. The construct of institutional distance through the lens of different institutional perspectives: Review, analysis, and recommendations. Journal of International Business Studies, 51(4), pp.467-497.
2. Kostova, T., and Zaheer, S. 1999. Organizational legitimacy under conditions of complexity: The case of the multinational enterprise. Academy of Management Review, 24(1): 64–81.
3. Stevens, C.E., Xie, E. and Peng, M.W., 2016. Toward a legitimacy‐based view of political risk: The case of Google and Yahoo in China. Strategic management journal, 37(5), pp.945-963.
4. Puck, J.F., Holtbrügge, D. and Mohr, A.T., 2009. Beyond entry mode choice: Explaining the conversion of joint ventures into wholly owned subsidiaries in the People’s Republic of China. Journal of International Business Studies, 40(3), pp.388-404.

For theoretical aspects :

• Economic explanations
  • How does Dunning’s Eclectic Paradigm help explain the international activities of the firm?
  • Most recent comprehensive restatement of the Eclectic Paradigm to be found in Dunning and Lundan (2008)
• Institutional distance is a construct which helps to explain how firms operating in different national markets encounter contrasting institutional environments in the firm’s home market (in which they will be embedded) and those host markets in which the firm operates
• From a strategic marketing perspective this has fundamental implications for how firms manage their presence in a market and how they communicate with stakeholders across markets
• It has fundamental importance for the decision to adopt a global marketing strategy or a multinational marketing strategy
• Institutional distance is a construct that acknowledges contextualisation of economic activity within social structures.
• The antecedents of institutional distance lie in political economy and economic sociology.

Critically evaluate the legal effects of Brexit on UK businesses.

                 Critical essay

This coursework will be assessed against the following criteria:

• Breadth and depth of knowledge and understanding of European Union law;
• Use of relevant legal authorities and referencing;
• Critical engagement;
• Analysis and conclusions;
• Writing style and structure.

Question:

Critically evaluate the legal effects of Brexit on UK businesses. Consider, in particular, the barriers to exporting goods to the EU, and the ability of UK businesses to challenge measures that make it more difficult to trade in EU Member States.