Alexis Jiang

Increasing diversity of family and social relationshipsInitial post assignment for class:Using the learning materials to support your claims, respond to the following prompts in your original post: Discuss which demographic trends you found interesting; why did you find them interesting?What are potential impacts of the aging population on the United States as a whole?Discuss life expectancy trends and future population concerns.Identify how these trends and concerns will impact your role as...

Getting StartedPrepare a 1,200 word proposal for a project based on research that will end in a recommendation report, which is the last assignment in the course. Proposals can be fun to write, as long as you have a topic that truly engages your interest and you can locate materials for research. The psychology is like this: you skate out over thin ice, but you are confident because you have done enough research  to know you can do the job. Your first step will be to locate a topic t...

Alfred and Beatrice operated a bookshop together, sharing profits equally.  They decided to expand.  Their friend Coco offered them $50,000 to help finance the expansion.  Accordingly, she agreed with Alfred and Beatrice that she would lend the money in return for $5,000 a year payable from sales less outgoings.  However, she was concerned that she might lose her money.  Hence Alfred and Beatrice also agreed that they would consult her on any major decisions and that she...

Body: Major ThemeAfter reading the given  story you have to write the outline. Create a Key word MLA style outline that analyzes one of the major themes contained in the short story. Three literary devices must be used, and each paragraph must have two supporting details. Roof had to agree. He had lately been taking down a lot of firewood himself. Only yesterday he had asked Marcus for one of his many rich robes--and had got it. Last Sunday Marcus's wife (the teacher that near...

Scenario AnalysisIn the introduction, paraphrase the below scenario using APA format and describe what steps you would take to analyze and evaluate the advertising director’s proposal using break-even analysis. You are the plant accountant for a company that makes a popular brand of basketball shoes. Currently, your company sells 1,000 pairs of shoes each month for $100 apiece. The variable costs are 40% of sales, and the fixed costs are $35,000/month. The company's advertising director ...

The 5E Inquiry ModelIn your post, respond to each of the following questions with examples, in separate paragraphs. Your main post MUST be at least 300 words. You will will print out only your main post and include in your science note book in the appropriate week.   What were your major takeaways from the article? What was your 'AHA' moment? Something unexpected?  Reflect: Describe your personal thoughts and conclusions as they relate to the reading...

On February 14, 2012 Brandon Tyler, Assistant Treasurer at Allied Digital (AD), sits in his office, talk to himself, “I must get this hedging memo done, and get out of here. Foreign exchange options? I had better get the story straight before someone in the Finance Committee starts asking questions. Let’s see, there are two ways in which I can envisage us using options now. One is to hedge a dividend due on September 15th from AD Germany. The other is to hedge our upcoming pa...

Understanding and Preventing Cheating in AcademicsPlagiarism and collusion are forms of cheating and are not acceptable in any form in a student’s work, including this ECA. Plagiarism and collusion are taking work done by others or work done together with others respectively and passing it off as your own. You can avoid plagiarism by giving appropriate references when you use other people’s ideas, words or pictures (including diagrams). Refer to the APA Manual if you need remindin...

Operations Manager: Recruiting Temporary EmployeesDetails/Description: You have had a busy day in the office. During the day five different managers have come to you for advice. For each question you are required to give advice, but this must be based on an appropriate analysis of the law. From the Operations Manager It is great news, we have won a big order and that will mean we have a significant piece of work for six months. To meet the deadlines we are going to need to recruit an additio...

Different leadership styles in Employment heroA discussion of the leadership (required) within the organisation and its impact In the consideration of leadership aspect within the organization it has been found that, shared leadership approach is being followed in this organization. The decentralized leadership approach within the organization ensures the proper distribution of work among the management and the higher authority. In this situation analyzing the impact of leadership within the...