Andrea Stone

The Hull House and Modern Welfare PracticesWhen it comes to women in social work, the most important personality that needs to be mentioned is Jane Addams. At the core of her social work, her aim was to improve the living conditions of others as well as through her actions and her initiatives she wished to enhance the civic responsibility of people around her. She is known to start the settlement House which is known as the Hull House. Hull House can be seen as the symbol which paved way for ...

Q1: Business Cycles and VolatilityQ1. According to a report by IMF in 2007: “World growth in recent years has been much more rapid than at any time since the oil price surges of the 1970s. This growth is being shared across countries to an unprecedented degree. Moreover, output volatility in most countries and regions has significantly declined. Analyses show that these changes in business cycle characteristics and finds that the increasing stability and the associated increase in the d...

Scenario One: Missing Laptop and Wrongful DismissalThe following case scenarios concern a medium sized organisation, the Big Kitchen Company Ltd., which employs 240 workers. The company manufactures and sells kitchen units and operates from a main site in Camborough and a number of small showrooms throughout the country. The Sales department is split into two divisions – one is ‘Retail’ sales where individual customers can purchase kitchen units direct from the company via the...

Task: Assignment task Tasks Select an appropriate technological topic from the lecture series and write a 2,000-word report review on the themes, trends and arguments emerging about that topic. The topic is to be agreed with lecturer before detailed research on it has begun. This means a) needs to be completed and agreed first.  The report should include: a. Why you deem this topic to be of importance. b. How this has topic has developed c. A detailed description of the technolog...

Part A: ABC Kids Care LtdABC kids care Ltd (ABC) is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange. The company provides childcare servicesfor pre-school children. ABC has undertaken significant expansion of its operations over the past two years.This strategy has resulted in the acquisition of a total of 400 new centres with childcare licences in Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. The expansion strategy has been funded mainly from borrowings thathave been sourced in both local and ...

Question 1 Indicate whether each of the following statements is true, false, or uncertain, and explain your answer. Use mathematics and/or diagrams to support your answer. (a) The demand for automobiles must be less elastic than the demand for CD players because a $100 reduction in the price of cars does not affect the number sold nearly as much as a $100 reduction in the price of CD players. (b) The Internet makes price discrimination less feasible. (c) Consider a duopoly market in which fi...

BackgroundH&H Financial was founded in 1997 as a local insurance and investment consulting firm specializing in financial, estate, and retirement planning. The business started as a part-time consulting practice given Mr. Blake’s dissatisfaction with his full-time job working for a franchise office affiliated with a large insurance agency. Mr. Blake found that his agency’s focus on productivity and numbers precluded his ability to do what he really wanted to do for his clients...

Important NoteA Discourse Community Analysis provides an explanation of how a discourse community functions and provides specific, research-based recommendations for newcomers to a discourse community. We are asking you to present your Discourse Community Analysis as a short report in memo style. For this assignment, imagine that you are a member of a particular discourse community and that you have been asked to prepare your analysis as a way to introduce newcomers to the community. Your ...

AbstractHow electric car manufacturing transforms automotive supply chains Florian Klug Department of Business Administration, Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany? Supply chain management can be seen as capability matching the value chain resources and capabilities to the requirements of the market place. The increasingly important role of electric cars needs to develop new supply chain concepts in automotive industry. This not only involves inbound and outbound processes with ext...

Question # 1Suppose that your college decides to give away 1000 tickets to the hockey game against your school’s biggest rival. The athletic department elects to distribute the tickets by giving them away to the first 1000 students who show up at the department’s office at 10 A.M. the following Monday. a. Which groups of students will be most likely to try to get the tickets? Think of a specific example and then generalize. (2.5 marks) b. What is the opportunity cost to studen...