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How has democracy in Latin America been shaped by populism? Make a theoretical argument as to how populism would shaped democracy, and then examine that topic with a case study from Brazil.
Films on Demand: Sociology Collection: Social Institution
Review the list of Films on Demand: Sociology Collection: Social Institutions to select and watch one video from each of the following categories listed: family, education, and religion.
Prepare a 10- to 12-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation.
Include photos, illustrations, graphs, diagrams, animations, videos, or audio clips. Document the source of each media item you include.
Include the following in your paper or presentation:
Prepare an introduction that identifies the major social institutions in society and why they are important. Describe each video and the social institutions it addresses. Identify any relevant models of power structure or political behavior that might be influential. Explain the functionalist, conflict, and interactionist perspectives on the family, religion, and education. Which perspective does each film use to discuss the institution? Explain specific examples from the videos. Provide a conclusion that summarizes the main ideas of the essay and describes how these institutions have influenced you.
1- Research the utilitarian approach to business, and explain if you believe this approach is ethical. You must support you statements with academic research., You can use the Ford Pinto case Study or the Merck River Blindness case study. Please provide an analysis of each case and how it is relevant to the topic we are discussing.,,2- “ Locke’s views on property , smith’s views on free markets , and Marx’s view on capitalism obviously do not hold true when applied to the organizational structure and the operations of moderns corporations “. Comment on this statement. What reforms if any, would Locke, Smith and Marx advocate with respect to current corporate organization and performance?,,3- In your judgment, should a US company operating in a foreign country in which collusive price – fixing is not illegal obey the US laws against collusion? Explain your answer?
Post an explanation of how the use of CBT in families compares to CBT in individual settings. Provide specific examples from your own practicum experiences. Then, explain challenges counselors might encounter when using CBT in the family setting. Support your position with specific examples from this week’s media.
Determine if exponential functions only model phenomena that grow, or if can they also model phenomena that decay. Then, explain what is different in the form of the function in each case. Support your answer by describing differences and similarities
Your management team identifies LipLife as a business to acquire. LipLife owns the technology for a new lipstick that lasts five days and changes hues each night. The firm’s founders are out of money and want to sell their lipstick algorithm and the technologies it is based on. Because you and your team don’t have enough money to acquire the firm outright on your own, you turn to outside sources of funding. A venture bank is willing to put up a $5 million, six-year loan at 13% per year, which only has interest payments due during its life; the principal balance will be paid off at the liquidity event. Your team puts up $2 million of its own capital. One of your friends from the MBA program is a venture capitalist. His firm agrees to invest $2 million at an expected 40% annual return for six years, at which time it expects a liquidity event in order to obtain its money and return back. Include all your calculations to support each answer in order to earn full credit. Answers must be completed in sequence.,Required: ,(a) Assume that in six years, LipLife will have an expected exit enterprise value of $27 million, based on an expected exit EBITDA of $2.25 million. What does this indicate the firm’s expected exit EBITDA multiple will be?,(b) Given the future value calculated in (a), what will be the equity value at that time? ,(c) Because the VC firm expects a 40% compound return on its investment, what would be the dollar value of its portion of the equity value you calculated in (b)?,(d) Based on your answer in (c), what would be the amount of the equity up front that you would have to give up in order to obtain LipLife’s original venture capital investment? ,(e) What will be the dollar value of the management team’s original $2 million equity investment at the time of the liquidity event?
Suppose in one year, total revenues from digital sales of pop/rock, tropical (salsa/merengue/cumbia/bachata), and urban (reggaeton) Latin music in a certain country amounted to $25 million. Tropical music brought in twice as much as urban music, and pop/rock music brought in $13 million more than the others combined. How much revenue was earned from digital sales in each of the three categories?
Senior management will always ask what business value they will realize from a project management office (PMO). How would you measure the return on investment for your PMO? What factors contribute to a successful PMO? Please be specific and back up your suggestions with valid reasons and Refernces. (200 words )
The Small Business Administration (SBA) provides a variety of services to small business owners. One service is the SBA’s information on developing a Business Plan. A Business Plan is a key management document that provides management, bankers, investors, and appropriate stakeholders, with a road map that a company will be following.,,Using the link below, research and report on the nine components of a Business Plan as listed on the SBA’s website:,,http://www.sba.gov/category/navigation-structure/starting-managing-business/starting-business/how-write-business-plan,, Identify the nine major sections of a Business Plan, as stated in the SBA site, and, in your own words, write a brief explanation of the information found in each., Select three of those components and, in your own words, provide a detailed explanation of the information contained in each section and why it is important.
The United States tends to be on the leading edge with technology and uses it in unique ways to meet challenges that face the country. Specifically, technology has proven to be very effective in the war on terrorism but it also comes with concerns. Prior to beginning work on this discussion, read Chapter 15 in Martin (2016). Martin’s discussion on the future of terrorism and the role technology plays to keep us safe is interesting as technology can be a two-edged sword. It can be useful in law enforcement, business, and education, for example; on the other hand, technology can potentially inflict harm on society. Further, it can be used by the terrorists as much as it can be used by the government. In fact, Martin (2016) looks at this issue from the perspective of terrorists’ use of technology. He also points out that government agencies use technology very effectively for electronic surveillance.
For this discussion, examine how government agencies use technology to counter terrorism. Additionally, examine how terrorist groups use technology to project terror. Address a minimum of two of the following elements posed by Martin (2016, p. 464) for your initial post:
Evaluate the threat from abuses of new technologies.
Assess how new technologies should be regulated.
Determine whether it is necessary to sacrifice freedoms to protect national security and to ensure the long-term viability of civil liberty.
Evaluate whether the same protocols should be used for domestic electronic surveillance and foreign surveillance.
Assess the likelihood that new surveillance technologies will be used as tools of repression by authoritarian regimes in the near future.
Your initial post must be a minimum of 400 words in length. Support your post with examples from required materials, scholarly sources, or official government sources. Use APA formatting as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center to cite your sources in-text as well as at the end of your post.