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please no copy from online Discuss the sense in which Angela of Foligno lived a life of Christ-like compassion. How did she understand herself in relation to the Franciscan tradition? How is her service to the poor and sick different from, or similar to, the service that a caring physician or other care-taker might provide?
Please answer the questions individuallyQuestion-1: Discuss the primary factors that motivate companies to expand internationally.Requirement: 350-400 words with References and in-text citations. No plagiarism.Question-2: Pick one of the following terms for your research: economies of scale, economies of scope, global companies, global teams, globalization strategy, international division, joint venture, multi-domestic strategy, multinational stage, or standardization.Requirement:The below steps need to follow for question-2 article:1. Definition – a brief definition of the key term followed by the APA reference for the term; this does not count in the word requirement.2. Summary – 150-200 words – Be sure to note the article’s author, note their credentials and why we should put any weight behind his/her opinions, research or findings regarding the key term.3. Discussion 300-350 words – write a brief discussion, in your own words of how the article relates to the selected chapter Key Term. A discussion is not rehashing what was already stated in the article, but the opportunity for you to add value by sharing your experiences, thoughts and opinions. This is the most important part of the assignment.4. References – All references must be listed at the bottom of the submission–in APA format. (continued) Be sure to use the headers in your submission to ensure that all aspects of the assignment are completed as required.
Hi. I need a 700 word statement of purpose for admission to graduate school to be completed by Monday. If selected, I will give you the details for the assignment. It must include my background, current employment, and why this school and program will be a good fit.
Please complete all partsPart 1Ask a business leader you respect, such as your boss or a friend, what the keys to success are in business. Provide a summary on the discussion thread, answering the following questions:1. What is the role of the leader you interviewed?2. What keys to success did the leader describe?3. What are your thoughts on the leaders response? How could you implement their thinking in your own career?Part 2Think of something you purchased that you no longer use because it became outdated or obsolete. Upload a picture of the item in the discussion thread along with answers to the following questions:1. What is the product in the picture?2. Why did you initially purchase the product?3. Why do you no longer use it?4. Did you replace the product with anything? If so, what?Part 3See attachment labeled part 3 Part 4Find a recent article or video describing a new product in development. Post a link to the article or video in the discussion thread and describe the following:1. What need is the new product trying to fill? Do you think it will meet that need?2. What type of innovation does the new product represent?3. What kind of process do you think will be used to make the product? Would it be possible to produce a lot of the product in a short amount of time?Part 5Think about a financial decision you made regarding the purchase of a big-ticket item within the last five years. Provide a summary on the discussion thread, answering the following questions:1. What decision did you make?2. How prepared were you to make the decision?3. What was your thought process as you were making the decision?4. What financial information did you need to make the decision and why?5. What lessons have you learned that you will apply to future financial decisions?Part 6See attachment labeled part 6Part 7Find an income statement or balance sheet for a business. Review the accounting concepts and the income statement or balance sheet to answer the following questions:1. How is the business performing based upon your review? Is the business growing or declining, why?2. Where is the business focusing the majority of its resources?3. What advice would you offer to the owner or leadership of the business?Part 8Read this article, In Sneaker Wars, Its Also Curry (Under Armour) vs. James (Nike) (you can also view the PDF here), on the use of celebrity endorsements in the competition between Nike and Under Armour.Think about a time when a celebrity endorsement influenced you to buy a product in the last five years. In the discussion thread, describe the following:1. The product and the celebrity endorsing it2. How the endorsement influenced your decision to buy the productPart 9See attachment labeled part 9
InstructionsIn the Unit I introduction to this course, Theodore Levitts remarks about the contrasting needs of the seller and the marketer were shared. Levitt described how satisfying the needs of the customer is now the pathway to marketing success. This concept and others related to the four Ps of product, price, promotion, and place were further explored throughout the units. For this reflection paper, respond to these three prompts:Reflect on how this introductory marketing course has changed your view of how the field of marketing works.What was the most surprising thing you learned? What do you need to learn more about?
Can a computer ever have a conscious mind?SEARCH the internet for articles on this topic.read this prompt, and do your own thinking about thisissue.Imagine that it is the year 3037. All of Earth’s environmental and social problems have been solved, space travel iscommonplace, disease is a thing of the past, everyone lives very comfortably, and governments have so much extra cashthat they can afford to fund incredibly expensive scientific projects. Imagine that you are visiting one such project, ProjectTuring, which is housed in a massive space station hanging in on of Earth’s Lagrange points. Project Turing is aninconceivably large structured array of very powerful supercomputers. For comparison, imagine the most powerfulsupercomputer of the 21st century, and imagine a supercomputer about a million times more powerful than that. Thenimagine several thousand billion of these super-supercomputers hooked together in a structured array many, many timeslarger than the 21st century internet. Project Turing is something like that, only larger, more powerful, and much, muchmore structured. (Computers can be made much, much smaller than they were in the 21st century, but even so, projectTuring is clearly visible as a disk from the surface of the Earth.)After a brief tour of the enormous space station, you are taken into the control room for a brief speech from the projectdirector. She tells you that the computer array (named “Turing”) is structured in exactly the same way asa fully developedadulthuman brain, with the level of complexity found in the brain of the average adult human brain. The array containsaround 86 billion artificial neurones, (the same number as the brain) each one connected by artificial synapses to severalthousand specific other neurones, and by artificial hormones to the appropriate variety of artificial glands. Each artificialneurone behaves in exactly the same way as some human neurone, and each one functions in a way appropriate for itsposition in the array. Every structure in the adult human brain has a precise analog in the Project Turing brain, and sensorycenters, such as the auditory and visual centers, are hooked up in just the right way to take advantage of microphones andcameras in the control room. When it is turned on, the artificial brain, with its artificial senses, will function inexactlythesame way as a typical adult human brain. There will be nothing a human brain has that it doesn’t have, and there will benothing a adult human brain does that it doesn’t do.(Thus the computer issimulatingconsciousness, it will beemulatingall the significant adult human brain functions. 4/2/20)When this artificial brain is turned on, will it make a conscious mind?The basic question here is whether computers can haveminds. “Consciousness,” is the faculty of being aware of yourself,your feelings, your thoughts, and your surroundings. Most of your mental processes occur without you being conscious ofthem, which means that your mind is different from, and much bigger than your consciousness.Most people seem to think that consciousness is the whole mind. This is a serious mistake. Your consciousness does not doany of your thinking. “Conscious thought” is just you being aware of what you are thinking. You also do a lot of thinkingthat you are not aware of, and this “unconscious” thought is just as much a part of your mind as the conscious stuff.The proper way to understand the term “conscious mind” is as referring to a set of mental processes that include can and doinclude consciousness. There is no separate “unconscious mind.” You have only one mind, and that mind is aware of someof it’s processes at some times, and unaware of most processes most of the time. We call this mental awareness”consciousness.” (If you want more information, see When an organism only has mental processes that cannot include consciousness, free will or self-awareness, it is hard tothink of that organism as having a mind. Insects, for instance, may have brains that are so simple that they cannot beconscious, free-willed or self-aware. If that is indeed the case, I would personally say that they do not have minds, eventhough at times they might be thought to be thinking.Present-day computers do not have minds. This is very clear from their behavior and internal architecture. Even “chatbots”and other programs that _simulate_ conversations clearly do not have minds because the way they come up with things tosay is a randomized phrase-choosing system, and not a system that takes in information, interprets it, considers it andformulates responses on the basis of a developed personality, which is what adult human brains do.The question for this topic could therefore be formulated as either: “Can computers ever have minds?” or “Can computersever be conscious?” or both. It doesn’t really matter how you formulate the question as long as you remember the28/03/2023, 15:14 Computers Consciousness, Computer Mindmadwizard.com/ot_computerconscious.htm 2/4difference between mind and consciousness.For this paper, you can see yourself as asking the question “can a computer ever have a conscious mind?Your task is to explain the basic argument for computer consciousness, explain one argument agains computerconsciousness, critically analyze both arguments, say which one didn’t fail under analysis, and explain why the other onefailed.Remember at all times that this machine is not simulating anything. the machine is emulating adult human brain functions,the way a paper ornithopter emulates the function of a bird’s wings. (3/19/20)A few semesters ago, I read a bunch of student papers on computer consciousness, and was surprised to note that almost allof them completely ignored the basic argument for computer consciousness. Instead of discussing the argument forcomputer consciousness, these papers assumed that computers could not be programmed to do what brains do, and assertedthings like “computers only simulate consciousness” or “computers are just programmed,” without giving any reason tothink that either of these things are true. So I’ve rewritten this assignment to make it clear that 1. there is a basic argumentfor computer consciousness and that 2. you are not allowed to ignore that argument.If you ignore the basic argument for computer consciousness, you can getexactly zero points for this assignment.Basic Argument For Computer Consciousness (Pink Box)Before the advent of neuroscience, people imagined that consciousness was a form of magic power that had no connectionto physical events. After neuroscience came along, it became apparent that:1. consciousness (thoughts, feelings, emotions 3/8/20) was something made by the brain, and that2. magic powers could not even begin to explain anything about the mind.Neuroscience showed that the brain makes the mind by processing information (by means of neurones, hormones,possibly glial cells, and so on) in a way that’s very similar to the way computers process information. In fact, anything thethe brain can do in terms of information processing can eventually also be done by a computer, providing thatcomputer has sufficient processing power. The obvious implication of this is that, eventually, Inshallah an’ th’ creekdon’t rise, computers will make consciousness.The basic argument for computer consciousness can be summarized as follows:1. The functional part of the adult human brain is made entirely of arrangements of neurons (and glands that affectneurons).2. The human brain makes consciousness by processing information with these arrangements of neurons.3. Computers can process information exactly the same way that neurons do.4. Given powerful enough computers, we could make a computer that does exactly everything that the brain does.——————————————————————————————————————C. Such a computer would make consciousness exactly the same way that the brain makes consciousness.Remember that the computer is not simulating consciousness, it will be emulating all the significant adult humanbrain functions. (4/19/20).Do not ignore this argument in your response to this prompt. (In fact, if you ignore this argument, you could easily getzero for the assignment.)Your assignment, if you pick this topic, is to:First, state the argument for computer consciousness in your own words. (This is the argument in the pink boxabove.)Second, come to a conlusion about whether we have any rational reason to doubt this conclusion.28/03/2023, 15:14 Computers Consciousness, Computer Mindmadwizard.com/ot_computerconscious.htm 3/4If you decide to claim that computers can’t be conscious, and your “argument” is “computers can’t be conscious becauseconsciousness includes X, and computers can’t do X,” but you don’t explain howhumansdo X, and you don’tprovethatcomputers can’t do X, then youhaven’tproved that computers can’t be conscious, and that should be your thesis. (Do notignore this requirement in your response.)If you decide to claim that computers can’t be conscious because computerssimulate consciousness, you will have todeal with the fact that your argument basically proves thathumansonly simulate consciousness since the hypotheticalcomputer that you are saying would only simulates consciousness would be doing exactly what your brain does now tomake consciousness, so if the computer only simulates consciousness, your brain right now only simulates consciousnness,and so you’re really not conscious.If you decide to claim that computers can’t be conscious because computers areprogrammed, you will have to dealwith the fact that your argument basically proves thathumansprogrammed since the hypothetical computer thatyou are saying would beprogrammed would be following exactly the program that your brain follows now to makeconsciousness, so if the computer isprogrammed, your brain right now isprogrammed, and so you’re really notconscious.Don’t forget that if you ignore the basicargumentfor computer consciousness, you could getfor the assignment.It should go without saying that if your”argument” is “computers can’t be conscious because some guy says they can’tbe conscious,” then youhaven’tproved that computers can’t be conscious, and your thesis should be that they can.It should also go without saying that if your”argument” is some poorly explained quotation from someone else, thenyouhaven’tproved that computers can’t be conscious, and your thesis should be that they can.If you cannot come up with a clearly understood, clearly explainable reason why computers cannot ever be conscious, thenyour thesis should be that, as far as you can tell, it is perfectly possible for computers to someday be conscious.Important Note on “Imitation.” (Magenta Box):Sometimes students say that the computer won’t “actually” produce consciousnessbecause it’s onlyimitatingsimulatingwhat brains do. This is like sayingthat someone who imitatesGene Kellywon’t actually bedancing, or that someonewho imitates Julia Child inthis video, won’t actually produce Bernaise sauce,or that anornithopter(a device that imitates bird wings flapping) won’tactually fly.Important Final Note (Red Box):This prompt does NOT say that the scientists in the story make a computer to doanything different or less than what the human brain actually does. The computer is notrunning a simulation. The computer is not emulating onlyof what the brain does. It is not emulatingthe bits that make consciousness, or just the bits involved inmaking consciousness.It emulatesthe whole thing. Do NOT pretend that scientists inthis prompt made a computer to dodifferentthings than what the brain does, and thencalled it “conscious.”That is not the story.Again, if you ignore the basicargumentfor computer consciousness, you will not get a good gradefor this paper.If you have a hard time seeing how anyone could oppose the idea of computer consciousness, you can go to , and find an anti-computer argument to analyze in your paper. (If you can do28/03/2023, 15:14 Computers Consciousness, Computer Mindmadwizard.com/ot_computerconscious.htm 4/4two or three pages of analysis already, you don’t have to read this page. It’s completely optional.)
write a scenario in which someone engages in an immoral act against anotheralso explain how this person would engage in the processes of moral disengagement to distance him or herself from the situation1) Cognitive restructuring (telling oneself a story different than reality2) Minimizing one’s agency (this is not my fault/ I have no control3) Distorting the negative impact (disregarding consequences)4) Blaming or dehumanizing the victim:
Procedure:Case Analyses will be critiqued by your classmates and professor in a Discussion Forum.As in all business communication, be thorough yet succinct (as few words as possible while getting the job done).Notes:All students are to respond to two (2) Team submissions for each case whether or not their team is submitting. See Weekly Module assignments for due dates.(Please respond to the two sets of Case 8. just a simple and short response, At least 150 words.)
Please respond to the following: The discussion questions given please produce 200 words about each numbered question. please place answers under each bullet point. In Addition a response must be given back (100 words) to the other student Michael Brown. offering a substantive comment on that classmates position on the issue(s).The Pledge to Eliminate Poverty As Hite and Seitz (2016) discuss in Chapter 2: Wealth and Poverty, the Millennium Development Goals were created to provide developing countries support through the partnership of developed countries. The first goal is to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger in the world.According to the textbook, population is still increasing in the worlds poorest regions. Take a look at the Millennium Development Goals report ( The report notes that progress in reducing extreme hunger is uneven across regions and countries. Looking at the graph on page 14 of the report, which countries have the least reduction in extreme hunger? Which countries have the greatest reduction in extreme hunger? What factors contribute to this uneven progress? What are some possible strategies for creating more progress in these countries?Michael Brown RE: Week 4 | DiscussionHello class, fossil fuels like coal, oil, and natural gas are considered non-renewable resources. Scientist have predicted that coal will last until 2146, oil until 2041, and natural gas until 2071 at the present consumption. While everyone focuses on the big fossil fuels, we must remember that the soil and nonfuel minerals in the Earths crust are being exploited too at an alarming rate by industrialized countries. For example, iron, aluminum, copper, lime, phosphate rock, gypsum, sand, gravel, and rock. Salt is considered the most mined mineral that is produced a lot. But here is the reason I mentioned soil because the soil is the main ingredient in food production. Without the right nutrients in the soil food cannot grow and that is due to some of the nonfuel minerals that countries are mining for other goods.No matter if your country is developed or underdeveloped, countries should reduce, reuse and recycle is the best strategies to reduce consumption of non-renewable resources. More regulations on consumption and release of chemicals in the air is another way to conserve. Using solar, wind, hydroelectric and other renewable resources will help with the demand too. Government needs to help with the costs of renewable resources and maybe offer incentives to companies that convert to cut down on emissions. Another strategy is to buy local products to save on fossil fuels being used during transportation. Finally, people need to cut back on amount of resources within the home
Chapter 6 talks about different factors cultural, social, personal, and psychological that influence consumer behavior. After reading the chapter, discuss why culture is the most basic determinant of a persons wants and behavior. Then illustrate with an example (do not use examples from the textbook or copy from previous classmates posts) to demonstrate how a hospitality business influences the purchase behavior of a particular consumer group. Please share your thoughts and also comment at least once on the postings by other classmates .this is one of my classmate’s post. Culture is the most basic determinant of a person’s wants and behaviors because it is the set of basic values that people learn from family and society. Culture is always changing and evolving. Culture has a very big influence on the hospitality and travel industry. It can dictate so many different trends for these business such as food. Lately people are becoming more aware of what they consume and the kinds of things that food contains. People have gone into a health craze and are more concerned with their diets. Vegan diets have become more popular and so have gluten free ones. Trends are also more prominent such as farm to table restaurants. Because of this cultural shift the industry has to take into account what people want and have to be able to satisfy them. More restaurants now offer a larger vegan or gluten free section on their menus. please share thoughts about the classmate’s discussion and i attached chapter 6 ppt.