After reading the background materials as well as additional information you find from the literature and online sources, respond to the following questions for this module’s SLP: Discuss the sources of health insurance coverage in your home state, or any state of your choosing, for the following groups: Seniors age 65 and older Children younger than 18 Low-income families with at least one child, whose […]

  Creating a managers framework – 100 points You are a manager in your organization or an organization you are familiar with.  You must understand your organization in order advise IT strategy. Answer the following questions about your organization to better understand the organization’s design: 1. What are the important structures and reporting relationships within the organization? 2. Who holds the decision rights to critical decisions? […]

Part 1 – Chapter 10: Select one work of architecture or sculpture from the chapter. Describe how either Buddhist or Hindu ideas are expressed through their decoration, form or iconography. Locate a second artwork, not in the textbook, that also uses these expressions and explain. Cite your source. Part 2 – Chapter 11: Summarize the main tenets of Confucianism. Then select a work from the […]

Instructions  Literature review In consultation with your instructor, choose a specific business research topic and complete a full literature review on the topic. The topic for this assignment should be different than your topic in the W3 project. In your review: Synthesize relevant and relatively current (last 10 years) literature in a focused field or topic. Although the review should focus on recent literature, include […]

The text of the paper should be approximately 3-4 pages long (double-spaced) with bibliography and footnotes. Included images are in addition to the 3-4 pages of text.   Select a work of art from a museum in your area (or an architectural structure in your area). Basically, this is an assignment to have you look at original works of art and use the skills acquired in class to analyze […]

Choose one of the following artists for an examination of their stylistic development into abstraction: Arthur Dove Stanton Macdonald-Wright Marsden Hartley Max Weber Georgia O’Keeffe Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper examining your selected artist’s development into abstraction that responds to the following: How and why did early American abstraction develop? What subjects were present in your artist’s abstract works? Describe with at least one […]

For your Week #9 Discussion Board, you can look at the latest New York Times (NYT) News Quiz–OR–if you could use a break from today’s often-depressing “real news,” why not check out the next two sites for a laugh or two. The Onion is a “spoof” of the news that still sounds realistic, and you probably know that Stephen Colbert takes the fun to the next level. His ratings have […]

Which is more important, dieting or exercise? Well that seems to be an age old question. Here is my take on the issue. If you’re severely overweight or in extremely poor shape then forgo the exercise. You need to be on a good diet plan to shed some pounds rather quickly. Actually, exercise may do more damage than good. The stress on your joints and […]

 PROJECT #2: Designing with a Grid Read Chapter 3, on the historical development of space, and Chapter 4 of your textbook, Elements of Design by Alex W. White. This project pertains to specifically to Chapter 4. As noted in Chapter 4, grids are a common and effective means of organizing space and the elements, text and imagery, in it. This article about grids goes into […]

After reading “How Samsung Became a Design Powerhouse” and “Design Thinking Comes of Age”, respond to the following prompts.  What do you think about the choice to build/hire design talent in house at a business, organization, or government agency as opposed to hiring outside design consultants? What do you see as the pros and cons of each approach? Draw on your own work experience (or […]