Interpret the Virtuous Business Model through the lens of a parable (a story told by Jesus).

The parable of the Good Samaritan is one that is unique and, most importantly, makes us think about two different questions. The first question is simple; what must one do to inherit eternal life? As one reads the parable, it is very simple that one must love God with all their heart and must love their neighbor as their self. This leads to the second question; who is my neighbor? The answer is everyone, anyone with whom you come in contact is your neighbor, people we work with, people we socialize with, and people we do not agree with; they all are our neighbors. How we care for people shows our relationship with God, and He has called us to a place of caring for each other no matter our culture, our ethnicity, or even our religion. We must love God with all our heart and love our neighbor as ourselves. 

Upon successful completion of this discussion, you will be able to:

• Interpret the Virtuous Business Model through the lens of a parable (a story told by Jesus).
• Analyze an issue or problem-related to a specific industry using the lens of the VBM as framed in this parable.

Instructions

1. Review the rubric to make sure you understand the criteria for earning your grade. 
2. Read Luke 10:30-37(new tab) and review the Virtuous Business Model(Excel spreadsheet).
3. Reflect on the following questions: 
   1. What past personal experience(s) can you relate to the parable?
   2. How does the Scripture inform your understanding of the VBM?
   3. What can you do differently or better as a result of this reflective learning exercise?

Read Luke 10:30-37(new tab) : https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+10%3A30-37+&version=NIV

Risk methodologies | Accounting homework help

5 slides with 150 words in notes section

Apix is considering coffee packaging as an additional diversification to its product line. Here’s information regarding the coffee packaging project:

• Initial investment outlay of $40 million, consisting of $35 million for equipment and $5 million for net working capital (NWC) (plastic substrate and ink inventory); NWC recoverable in terminal year
• Project and equipment life: 5 years
• Sales: $27 million per year for five years
• Assume gross margin of 50% (exclusive of depreciation)
• Depreciation: Straight-line for tax purposes
• Selling, general, and administrative expenses: 10% of sales
• Tax rate: 35%

Assume a WACC of 10%.

Should the coffee packaging project be accepted? Why or why not? Compute the project’s IRR and NPV.

In addition, answer the following questions:

• Do you believe that there was sufficient financial information to make a solid decision on what to do?
• Was there further financial information that you required that was not provided to you?
• What financial figure do you believe was the determinant to your decision and why?
• How would you be able to apply this particular financial information to other situations?
• Discuss risk methodologies used in capital budgeting.

Psychology models of loss, dying, grief, and bereavement

Crisis Intervention strategies

Chapter 12 – Personal Loss: Bereavement and Grief

1. Compare the Adaptive grieving model (Martin & Doka, 2000) and the Dual Process Model (Stroebe & Schut, 2001).
2. What are the similarities and differences?
3. Which seems to fit best with your style of counseling?
4. Why is that so?

Guidelines:

• The answer should be based on the knowledge obtained from reading the book, not just your opinion. 

The chapter has been attached in word.
• BOOK: Crisis Intervention Strategies- Author: Richard K. James; Burl E. Gilliland
• APA Style Time New Roman 12 Font.
• I am expecting a minimum of 400 words.
• PLAGIARISM will be check “0 ” tolerance.
• You must answer the question completely, in a professional and well-written presentation.
• I am expecting to answer the question and justified it based on peer review literature or information in your book.
Reference must not be older than 5 years.
If other References are used in addition to the book must have:
Serial/journal articles
Volume number, in italics.
Issue number. This is bracketed immediately after the volume number but not italicized. 

If you were a legislator, how would you vote on this bill?

Texas Legislature – H.B 21

Every August, Texas has a “tax free weekend.” School supplies and school clothes can be purchased for a few days without the addition of Texas’ 6 1/4 % sales tax – which, around Houston, is really 8 1/4% because of the additional penny for the City of Houston and the additional penny for METRO.

What about college textbooks? Have you priced them lately? Ours isn’t too bad, but some of my students pay nearly $300 for some science and engineering books.

Representative Terry Canales (D-Edinburg) – (https://house.texas.gov/members/member-page/?district=40) wants to cut college textbook customers in on the action before each regular semester.

Go to the Texas Legislature’s website, https://capitol.texas.gov/Home.aspx and look up House Bill 21. 

Hint: Make sure you use the little pull-down menu to select the current legislative session (86R-2019 – that’s the 86th Regular session of the Texas Legislature) and just type HB21 in the search window.

What do you think? 

Write a 2 – 5 page essay explaining this bill and the problem it’s trying to solve. Explain the advantages and disadvantages with this approach. Do you think it will pass? If you were a legislator, how would you vote on this bill?

Submit in Word. Cite your sources.

Resources

For anything to do with the Texas Legislature, start with the Texas Legislature’s website: http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/

Here’s Rep. Canales’ website: http://www.terrycanales.com/

CBS News writes that textbook costs are rising faster then inflation: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/whats-behind-the-soaring-cost-of-college-textbooks/

It probably doesn’t help that 80% of the textbook industry is controlled by five companies: https://www.businessinsider.com/why-college-textbooks-expensive-textbook-publishing-2018-12 

As the Big Data ecosystem takes shape, there are four main groups of players within this interconnected web

Please answer the following questions:

1. As the Big Data ecosystem takes shape, there are four main groups of players within this interconnected web. List and explain those groups.

2. How the data science team evaluate whether the model is sufficiently robust to solve the problem or not? What are the questions that they should ask?

3. Explain the differences between Hexbinplot and Scatterplot and when to use each one of them.

4. k-means does not handle categorical data?

5. local retailer has a database that stores 10,000 transactions of last summer. After analyzing the data, a data science team has identified the following statistics:

● {battery} appears in 6,000 transactions.

● {sunscreen} appears in 5,000 transactions.

● {sandals} appears in 4,000 transactions.

● {bowls} appears in 2,000 transactions.

● {battery, sunscreen} appears in 1,500 transactions.

● {battery, sandals} appears in 1,000 transactions.

● {battery, bowls} appears in 250 transactions.

● {battery, sunscreen, sandals} appears in 600 transactions.

Answer the following questions:

a. What are the support values of the preceding itemsets?

b. Assuming the minimum support is 0.05, which itemsets are considered frequent?

6. Linear regression is an analytical technique used to model the relationship between several input variables and a continuous outcome variable. Linear regression can be used in business, government, and medical. Explain by example how it can be used in those domains.

7. Which classifier is considered computationally efficient for high-dimensional problems? Why?

8. Define the following time series components:

● Trend

● Seasonality

● Cyclic

● Random

Trauma: Trauma is a universal human experience.

Trauma: Trauma is a universal human experience. We have all had trauma in our lives. 

Format: Please write a paragraph on each of the 6 areas. 

1. Please choose of a theme that emerges from your journal. 

2. Identify trauma related stressors in your work setting, future work setting and/or healthcare field in general. 

3. Identify beliefs and or values regarding these stressors. How do these work-related stressors affect you personally?

4. How have traumatic events in your personal life affected you professionally? Identify specific circumstances in your life that may be a trigger for you in your work. 

5. Identify the emotional and physical internal reactions that you experience.

6. Please describe your personal care plan that supports your well-being in a holistic way i.e., mind, body, spirit.

Discuss the significance of publicity to a sport/players

1. Review this link: https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/knowledge/strategy/ansoff-matrix/

• Discuss the significance of publicity to a sport/players. 
• What procedures would you recommend to take advantage of any publicity opportunities? 
• What growth strategy would you recommend for the players and why?  (Penetration Strategies, Market Development Strategies, Player Development Strategies, Diversification Strategies, etc.). Please provide examples. (MINIMUM 400 WORDS, 2 APA SOURCES)

2. Explain the following:

• Part I: Why is going public often the best way to increase the growth of your successful privately held sport related company? Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of going public.
  • Part II: Does studying sport entrepreneurship encourage you to think about creating your own sport business? Why or why not? (MINIMUM 400 WORDS, 2 APA SOURCES

As the president of your state fire chiefs association

As the president of your state fire chiefs association, you are concerned that not all agencies are aware of the numerous laws, national codes, and regulations that can affect a local fire department. You want to provide a simple tool to help them identify their potential legal risks and liabilities. Create a checklist of legal acts, national codes and standards, and implications that place an emergency services agency at risk. Include each of the following items for the topics or issues you choose.

• Provide the item or topic of interest that could be a risk or liability.
• Include the potential law or code associated with the topic.
• Provide a brief description of the law or code, including any court decisions that can influence emergency services agencies.
• Include a reference for each item that they could access for further information.

This is a checklist, not a general form of questions or statements. It should be the final format of a checklist with the inclusion of a title page. Include items that we have covered throughout this course. You should include at least 15 topics, and your finished checklist should be at least three pages. Provide the references for your sources in APA style.

Review your leadership structure, and identify the process by which you can propose a policy change

Review your leadership structure, and identify the process by which you can propose a policy change and how that proposal would navigate through leadership to get approved.

Identify a policy in your organization that you think could be created or amended to improve organizational governance, operations, or compliance with federal or state regulations.

Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper that outlines your policy proposal ideas in which you do all of the following:

• Provide an analysis of how your policy change would improve the organization.
• Evaluate what changes in the organization would need to be made to implement the policy change.
• Explain how you would advocate for your policy change while using the approval processes in your organization.

Cite 3 reputable references to support your assignment (e.g., trade or industry publications, government or agency websites, scholarly works, or other sources of  

Format your assignment according to APA guidelines.

What is myelination? What is the role of myelin in physical development?

1. What is myelination? What is the role of myelin in physical development?
2. What are centration and conservation according to Piaget? How are centration and conservation related?
3. Tisha is talking to her grandmother on the phone when she sees a beautiful cardinal light on the tree branch just outside the window. She says, “Look, Grammy, look at the bird!” What would Piaget call this error?
   • Rowen has two teddy bears. He talks to them and they talk to each other. They all eat lunch together and have fine conversations. What would Piaget call this behavior?
   • Three-year-old Johnny is crying. His mother gave both he and his one-year-old brother a cookie, but she broke his baby brother’s cookie into two pieces which Johnny believes gave him more. What would Piaget call this error?
4. According to Vygotsky, how should you teach a young child to ride a two-wheeled bicycle?