• Select a movie or TV show that effectively communicates the cultural, values and norms of a society that is different from your own culture. Ideally, this movie or TV show would be a foreign film with subtitles. The movie or TV show you select should provide you with a glimpse of what life is like in another culture. The process of watching this movie or TV show should provide you with a unique, cultural experience.
• Watch the movie/TV show that you selected, and use your reactions as part of your response to the following topic: Define ethnocentrism and how it affects individuals, societies, and multinational corporations.

Your paper should provide a comprehensive overview of the concept of ethnocentrism. You should use your cultural experience of watching the selected movie or TV show to discuss the effect of ethnocentrism on individuals, societies, and multinational corporations. Please feel free to use any personal experiences you may have had visiting different countries around the world as part of this paper; however, do not let your personal experiences with other cultures be the focal point of this paper. The focal point of the paper is your cultural experience watching the selected movie or TV show and your comprehensive overview of the concept of ethnocentrism. Please note that this paper is not intended to be a summary of the movie or TV show. Your paper should focus on the cultural observations that you are able to make based on this experience. Your response should be 2–3 pages.

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In this assignment, you will explore the ethical issues present in the healthcare system.

 

Research the ethical issues of reforming the healthcare systems in the United States and at least one other country using your textbook, the Argosy University online library resources, and the Internet.

 

Respond to the following:

 

• Does the government have an ethical obligation to provide some form of healthcare for its citizens?
• Identify the key features of the major proposals currently being considered to reform the healthcare system in both the United States and one other country.
  • In what ways do these features reflect a continuation of the existing system?
  • In what ways would they represent a significant overhaul?

 

Write your initial response a minimum of 200–300 words. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.

 

By Sunday, February 10, 2013, post your response to the appropriate Discussion Area. Through Wednesday, February 13, 2013, review and comment on at least two peers’ responses. Cover the following items in your posts:

 

• Provide a statement of clarification.
• Provide a point of view with rationale.
• Challenge a point of discussion, or draw a relationship between one or more points of the discussion.

 

 

 

 

Write a 275 word answer to each bullet below. Must cite your sources in the body of each paragraph.

 

·         Describe the concepts of territoriality, privacy, and personal space.

 

·         Examine how the concepts of territoriality, privacy, and personal space have become increasingly important as populations become denser.

 

·         Clarify the effect nature (e.g., zoos, parks, gardens) has on individuals living in urban environments.

 

·         Describe the concept of noise and examine the effect that it has on individuals.

 

 

·         Examine at least two strategies that can be used to reduce noise in the workplace or in the living environment.

Most decisions in the petroleum industry involve elements of risk and uncertainty, particularly in the area of oil exploration. When a decision is made to drill an exploratory oil well, company geologists and engineers are not able to measure or define specific values of factors contributing to overall profit (or loss) at the time of the decision. In addition, future events that could affect timing and/or size of projected cash flows from the prospective well (e.g., government price controls, cessation of oil imports from Iraq) cannot be reliably predicted. These risks and uncertainties have decision-makers in the oil industry relying more and more on decision analysis techniques. Chi U. Ikoku, Associate Professor and Associate Director of Drilling Research at the University of Tulsa, writes: “Decision analysis methods provide new and much more comprehensive ways to evaluate and compare the degree of risk and uncertainty associated with each [oil] investment choice. The net result is that the decision-maker is given a clearer insight of potential profitability and the likelihoods of achieving various levels of profitability than older, less formal methods of investment analysis. Because of rising drilling costs, the need to search for petroleum in deeper horizons or in remote areas of the world, increasing government control, etc., most petroleum exploration decision-makers are no longer satisfied to base decisions on experience, intuition, rules of thumb, or similar approaches. Instead, they recognize that better ways to evaluate and compare drilling investment strategies are needed. Decision analysis is fulfilling this need.” Ikoku lists several distinct advantages that decision analysis has over the less formal oil drilling decision-making techniques used in the past:

 1. Decision analysis forces the decision-maker to consider all possible alternatives and their corresponding outcomes. 2. Decision analysis provides an excellent way to evaluate the sensitivity of various oil-drilling factors to overall profitability.

 3. Decision analysis provides a means to compare the relative desirability of drilling prospects having varying degrees of risk and uncertainty.

 4. Decision analysis is a convenient and unambiguous way to communicate judgements about risk and uncertainty. 

5. Exceedingly complex oil investment options can be analyzed using decision analysis. 

The decision-making technique discussed in his World Oilarticle is the expected value criterion. This procedure requires the decision-maker to assess the probability of occurrence of each possible state of nature. “Assigning probabilities of occurrence to various outcomes of a petroleum venture,” says Ikoku, “requires the cooperative judgement and skills of geologists, engineers, and geophysicists.” Some of the types of risks that oil investors commonly encounter and consequently need to assess are: risk of an exploratory or development dry well; political risk; economic risk; risk relating to future oil and gas prices; risk of storm damage to offshore installation; risk that an oil discovery will not be large enough to recover initial exploratory costs; risk of at least a given number of oil discoveries in a multi-well drilling program; environmental risk; and risk of a gambler’s ruin. Because of certain characteristics that are unique to a petroleum exploration, these state-of-nature probabilities cannot be determined exactly, and furthermore, their estimates often must be made on the basis of very little or no statistical data or experience. (Additional data can be obtained from additional wells, but, says Ikoku, ” normally, delaying decisions until there is sufficient data upon which to base probability estimates cannot be afforded.” Thus, the decision-maker usually must rely on his or her subjective judgment or past success ratios in order to assess the state-of-nature probabilities. As an illustration of how decision analysis may be applied to the petroleum industry, Ikoku presented the following example: A company is considering the purchase of 320 net acres in a proposed 640-acre oil unit.

 Three decision alternatives or actions are available to the company:

 a1: Participate in the unit (i.e., drill) with non-operating 50% working interest.

 a2: Farm out, but retain 1/8 of 7/8 overriding royalty interest.

 a3: Be carried under penalty with a back-in privilege after recovery of 150% of investment by participating parties. The possible outcomes or states of nature and their corresponding probabilities, based on detailed geological and engineering analyses of the prospect and surrounding wells, are given in Table 19.17. Since the company will base its decision on the objective variable Net Profit, the projected net profits for the action/state-of-nature combinations were determined as shown in Table 19.18 

(a) Construct a payoff table for the oil-investment decision problem.

 (b) Using the expected payoff criterion, which of the three alternative actions should the company accept?

 (c) What is the maximin decision? The maximin dicision?

 (d) Construct an opportunity loss table for the oil investment decision problem and find the minimax regret decision. 

Table 19.17 state of nature= probability

 Dry hole=.30

 Unit produces 20000 barrels=.25

 unit produces 40000 barrels=.25

 unit produces 80000 barrels=.10

 unit produces 100000 barrels=.10 

Table 19.18

 Drill/dryhole=-40000 Drill/20000=50000

 Drill/40000 bbls=300000

 Drill/80000 bbls=700000

 drill/100000=800000

 farm out/dry hole=0

 farm out/20000 bbls=12000

 farm out/40000=60000

 farm out/80000=120000

 farm out/100000=130000

 backinoption/dry hole=0

 backinoption/20000=12000 

backinoption/40000=145000 

backinoption/80000=400000 

backinoption/100000=500000

I have 4 Chem 100 quizzes and  i need to get i100% on them.