Week One Discussion Question ECO 365 August 29‚2013 Week One Discussion Question What is economics? What role does economic play in your personal and organizational decisions? Provide an example of the role of economics in decision making? According to the background history of economics‚ economics is the study of how individuals and groups make decisions with limited resources as to fulfilling and satisfying ones needs‚ desire‚ and wants. Economics is also another term related to money
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demonstrate proven growth in the United States market that could translate to similar success in Canada. “Total sales of specialty foods in 2010 were $70.32 billion‚ with $55.92 billion of sales at retail; Specialty foods represent 13.1 percent of all retail food sales; 76 percent of specialty food manufacturers report sales
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writing why not? When I am writing about topics that I am not very familiar with I can become discouraged or afraid of criticism from my instructor. From reading chapter 1 I learned that most writers feel the same way when they are first starting on writing. Did you have any of the misconceptions about writing discussed in chapter 1? I thought writers enjoyed writing but the truth is most are afraid when initially starting on a writing assignment. Although good writers have fears‚ they continue writing
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English 122: Composition II An Intro to Argument Argument and Rhetoric An argument’s a method for communicating a singular position w/evidence‚ logic‚ & persuasion. There are essential elements to all valid arguments‚ though they may take different forms. 1. Claim 3. Counterargument 2. Evidence 4. Rebuttal A successful argument depends upon the balance between these elements. The claim is the basis of the argument. A big opposing viewpoint‚ called the counterargument‚ is constantly pushing
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Carolyn Smith SPE-226 Educating the Exceptional Learner April 29‚ 2012 Amy Petrovich Weekly Journal Week 6 The reading week provided many new ideas and one of those was the gifted and talented‚ creative. Learning about children and youth with these extraordinary abilities of; elaboration‚ transformation and visualization. Sternberg‚ states in the reading that‚ “Individuals can be talented and may display extraordinary skills in mathematics‚ sports‚ music‚ or other performance areas
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Running Head: Research Design Analysis 1 Research Plan Outline Shamika Cockfield Strayer University Dr. Brian Stark Educational Research Methods EDU508 08-10-2014 Running Head: Research Design Analysis 2 Educational research involves a decision to study or describe something. All educational inquiry requires that some type of data be collected‚ that the data be analyzed in some way‚ and researchers come to some conclusion or interpretation. The largest distinction that can be made in classifying
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BUS630 WEEK 1 Ashford University MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING: This week students will: 1. Explain the primary ethical responsibilities of the management accountant. 2. Illustrate the key principles of managerial accounting including cost concepts. 3. Distinguish between the behavior of variable and fixed cost. 4. Explain the significance of cost behavior to decision making and control. 5. Determine the necessary sales in unit and dollars to break-even or attain desired profit
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After watching the class video on our health care system I was shocked to learn several statistics. First that there are 20‚000 citizens die every year because they do not have health insurance. That is unacceptable. You are talking about people‚ as in the case of Maria that is a hard worker but because of not having health insurance‚ she delays going to her family physician until she can no longer have a quality of life that she can tolerate and then she still is defeated. I am amazed about several
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advantages and disadvantages of synchronous and asynchronous learning in an online class with students from different professions living all over the United States – just like Ashford? The advantages of asynchronous learning are self-motivated‚ work at your own pace‚ and don’t have to meet in a class room at a certain time‚ getting to meet different people all over. Disadvantages of asynchronous learning would not be in a class room setting‚ procrastinating‚ and not having the interaction with
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Predictive Policing Information Systems for Decision Making October 21‚ 2012 In 1994‚ the New York City Police Department adopted a law enforcement crime fighting strategy known as COMPSTAT (COMPuter STATistics). COMPSTAT uses Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to map the locations of where crimes occur‚ identify “ hotspots”‚ and map problem areas. COMPSTAT has amassed a wealth of historical crime data. Mathematicians have designed and developed algorithms that run against the historical
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