The culture of the fire service has been developed over years of tradition. This tradition has helped create the personnel policies that have been established surrounding a para-military type of organization. In this unit, you have looked at how you can deal with conflicts, complaints, and mistakes as well as how to use a process when it comes to following personnel rules. For this assignment, […]

Refer to the complete instructions for the Final Paper, which can be found in Week Five of your online course or in the “Components of Course Evaluation” section of this guide. Construct an outline for your Final Paper. This outline should address all sections that will be covered in your Final Paper and should be written according to the outline format detailed in the Ashford […]

Hydrogen power has been considered a promising source of energy for some time. However, this week, you read about the many hurdles hydrogen power must clear before it becomes an affordable and reliable resource. Based on the article by Jeff Wise, which of the four hurdles do you believe creates the greatest hardship for proponents of hydrogen power? Furthermore, which hurdle do you think will […]

 Congratulations! You have been chosen by your chief officer to present for an upcoming officer’s seminar that is a part of the Officer Candidate School being held at your department. All future officers in your department must successfully complete this seminar before they can sit for the promotional exam to become a company officer. Your PowerPoint presentation will be included in Part III of the […]

For this assignment, you will create a mock dialogue between a scientist who is a proponent of climate change and a climate change denier. You must pick one of the following prompts of a climate denier (Prager U is an excellent source for a climate denier) to write your 550 – 600 essay.1)     Climate changes naturally without human beings involved.2)     Scientists disagree that the climate […]

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Throughout this course you will be asked to keep a journal about your experiences in the class.  The purpose of this activity is to enable you to reflect on your learning:  what new things you have discovered, what surprises you have encountered, what topics or ideas you will have fund particularly challenging, and how the curse is going for your.  During the five weeks in […]

A commercial shipping company experienced increased business prior to the holiday season and immediately needed more trained forklift operators to help with the workload. Due to the urgent need, an employee was ordered by his supervisor to start moving pallets with a forklift. Knowing that he has never operated a forklift previously and has never been trained in how to operate one, the employee was […]

Please read the following two articles by the due date. These articles discuss the problem of poverty and extremely low wages paid to workers in poor countries who produce goods for export to America. The Ricardian trade model, which we begin discussing next, will provide us with one framework around which to think about the question of how trade affects these poor workers and whether […]