Analyze the following scenario: River County is planning several capital acquisitions for the coming year.  

These include the purchase of two new garbage trucks at $150,000 each, one new bulldozer at $240,000, three new riding lawn mowers at $16,000 each, and construction of an activity center in the part for $650,000. 

 The expected lifetime of the various capital items is 10 years for the garbage trucks, 8 years for the bulldozer, 5 years for the lawn mowers, and 40 years for the activity center.  

Prepare a capital budget for the items to be acquired, showing their estimated lifetimes, and their per unit and total costs.

Clearly label the calculations for the required components of the capital budget using Excel. 

 Use formulas to show the interrelationships and format the cells to insert a comma if there is more than three numbers and round to the nearest whole number.  Explain your budget to the county council.

Submit to your instructor your two page Word document (not including the title and reference pages) and your Excel worksheet. Your paper should be formatted according to APA style as outlined in the approved APA style guide, and you must cite at least two scholarly sources in addition to the textbook. 

Please use site

Finkler, S. A., Purtell, R.M., Calabrese, T.D., & Smith, D.L. (2013). Financial management for public, health, and not-for-profit organizations (4th ed.).  Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall. ISBN: 978-0-13-280566-7.

 

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Assignment 5: Persuasive Paper Part 3: Possible Disadvantages, Answers, with Visuals
Due Week 10 and worth 250 points

Using feedback from your professor and classmates, revise Parts 1 and 2, and add Part 3. Plan to include visuals to illustrate the advantages of your proposed solution.

Write an eight to ten (8-10) page paper in which you:

Provide Part I: Revision of A Problem Exists (3-4 pages)

1. Revise your Persuasive Paper Part 1: A Problem Exists, using feedback from the professor and classmates. 

Provide Part 2: Revision of Part 2: Solution to Problem and Advantages (3-4 pages)

2. Revise your Persuasive Paper Part 2: Solution to Problem and Advantages, using feedback from the professor and classmates.

Develop Part 3: Possible Disadvantages, Answers, with Visuals (1-2 pages, for 7-9 total pages)

3. Included a defensible, relevant thesis statement in the first paragraph. 

4. State, explain, and support the first disadvantage (economic, social, political, environmental, social, equitable, ethical/moral, etc.) to your solution and provide a logical answer. This should be one (1) paragraph. 

5. State, explain, and support the second (and third if desired) disadvantage (economic, social, political, environmental, social, equitable, ethical/moral, etc.) to your solution and provide a logical answer. This should be one or two (1-2) paragraphs.

6. Include one or two (1-2) relevant visuals that help illustrate an advantage.  

7. Use effective transitional words, phrases, and sentences.

8. Provide a concluding paragraph to summarize the proposed solution, its advantages, possible disadvantages, and answers to the disadvantages. Repeat or paraphrase your thesis statement.  

9. Develop a coherently structured paper with an introduction, body, and conclusion.

10. Use one (1) or more rhetorical strategy (ethos, logos, pathos) to explain claims. 

11. Support disadvantages and answers with at least two (2) additional quality relevant references. Use at least eight (8) total for Parts 1, 2, and 3. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting guidelines:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

Note: Submit your assignment to the designated plagiarism program so that you can make revisions before submitting your paper to your professor. 

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Recognize the elements and correct use of a thesis statement. 
• Associate the features of audience, purpose, and text with various genres.
• Analyze the rhetorical strategies of ethos, pathos, logos in writing samples and for incorporation into essays or presentations.
• Correct grammatical and stylistic errors consistent with Standard Written English. Prepare a research project that supports an argument with structure and format appropriate to the genre.
• Revise drafts to improve clarity, support, and organization. 
• Recognize how to organize ideas with transitional words, phrases, and sentences.
• Incorporate relevant, properly documented sources to substantiate ideas.
• Use technology and information resources to research selected issues for this course.
• Write clearly and concisely about selected topics using proper writing mechanics.  

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Throughout this course, you will be designing a Counseling Group from start to finish. The assignment will be broken into three parts. Due at different intervals in the course. You will choose from the following group types (If you are in the addiction program, select an addiction group):

1.   Treatment for adults who are addicts.

  For Part 1:
  Identify what type of group you will design.
  Write a summary (300-600 words) of your group. Be sure to include:

1.      Group type.
2.      Why you chose this type of group.
3.      Population serving.
4.      Number of sessions.
5.      Number of participants.
6.      Goals of the counseling group.

APA format is not required, but solid academic writing is expected. 
You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.
Submit Group Design Part 1 to the instructor by the end of Module 2.

 

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Description of the Piece of Legislation

     Intellectual property laws are created to protect the rights of creators of original works. The essence of enacting intellectual property laws is to promote national economic growth through the innovation, invention, and artistic expression. The legislative arm of the United States government has passed several laws to protect intellectual property rights of every creator, innovator, inventor and artist in the country. I have chosen the U.S. Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. §§ 1 et seq. (as amended December 2003) as the intellectual property legislation for this discussion post. This law gives the creator of an original work exclusive rights to the creation for a specified period (Samuelson, 2003). The context of the copyright is to give creators of original works the right to copy, right to be credited for the work and right to determine adaptation and performance of the work and category of people to who are to benefit from any financial gain that comes from the work. It is pertinent to note that copyright is an intellectual property form that similar to the trademark, patent and trade secrets.

How the Legislation May Be Applied in a Social Media Forum

     The U.S. Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. §§ 1 et seq. (as amended December 2003) is for the protection of intellectual property within the United States. However, international agreements through the World Intellectual Property Organization permit the enforcement of this law for copyrights protection outside of the United States. Several jurisdictions allow the issuance of certain copyrights to other people other than the creator of the work (Samuelson, 2003). The emergence digital technologies and social media resulted in occasions where the copyright acts require further legal interpretation in real life scenario. The new digital technologies and social media platforms make it easy for users to share and rework copyrighted contents thereby posing a threat to the enforcement of copyright laws. Businesses who depends on the copyrighted works have been the primary advocate for the extension of the content of the act to other social media and new technology.

How Social Media Might Contribute to Intellectual Property Theft

     The extension of the copyright law to social media and new technologies will help protect industries such as the entertainment industry. Free use, copying, and distribution of artistic contents amount to both privacy and digital copyright infringement. Merges (2000) noted that the “Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), criminalize the production and dissemination of technology, devices, or services intended to circumvent measures (commonly known as digital rights management, or DRM) that control access to copyrighted works. It also criminalizes the act of circumventing an access control, whether or not there”. The additions of DMCA to the copyright act gave a statutory right to creators for their creations whether it is available online or provide. By so doing, the individuals and organization who creates copyrighted materials are motivated to produce more items since they know their creations will be proceeded by the law.

References:

Merges, R. P. (2000). One Hundred Years of Solicitude: Intellectual Property Law, 1900 – 2000. A Case. California Law Review, 2187- 2240

Samuelson, P. (2003). DRM {and, or, vs} the Law. Law Communications of the ACM 46(4), 41-45.

“ To what extent should social media sites be responsible for identifying when copyright violations are taking place through their platform?  Should they be held responsible if files are being illegally shared on their site, or is it sufficient for them to take down materials that violate the law once they are made aware of them? 

A friend of mine posted a video on Facebook of her little boy singing a Nirvana song, and she mentioned Nirvana in the name of the video, and it was taken down by Facebook within 24 hours. Other people have posted similar things but they have not been removed, but they also did not name the band/singer in the name of the video.  Should it be Facebook’s responsibility to look for these violations, or simply to remove them if someone reports it?” 

Respond to the bold paragraph ABOVE based on the original post that is not highlighted… in APA format with At least two reference…..

 

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The Constitution allocated different powers to each of three branches of the government, in a manner that produces more moderate policy decisions through a system of checks and balances. The U.S. Constitution has adopted this separation of powers approach for the integrated resolution of policy controversies that can occur frequently among the branches.

For example, the president of the United States can order troops into foreign territory for combat, Congress can declare war, and the courts can order equal rights in the workplace. These decisions can be done independently of the other branches of government under the Constitutional provisions of the separation of powers. Each branch of government is considered coequal, and the Constitutional provisions created checks and balances to ensure each branch is operating within its proper jurisdiction and no branch has ultimate power. In regards to the creation and execution of law and public policy, each branch of government has its own role and responsibility.

To prepare for this assignment:

• Review the Constitution in Appendix E of the course text, Administrative Law and Politics: Cases and Comments. Consider the powers of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government.
• Review Chapter 4 in the course text, Administrative Law and Politics: Cases and Comments. Pay attention to the law of the separation of powers.
• Review Chapter 3 in the course text, Administrative Law and Politics: Cases and Comments. Think about how powers of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches are used and limited in the creation and execution of law and public policy.
• Review the article, “Public Administrative Theory and the Separation of Powers.” Think about how the roles of the three branches of government impact the creation and execution of law and public policy.
• Review the Web site, “Separation of Powers.” Think about the cases of encroachment and the impact on the case outcomes and policies.
• Consider your position on whether the encroachment of one branch of government on another is necessary in the creation and/or execution of law and public policy and why.

The assignment (1–2 pages):

• Explain how constitutional provisions provide a legal basis for what the three branches of government can and cannot do in the creation and execution of law and public policy. Be specific and use examples to illustrate your explanation.
• Explain your thoughts as to whether the encroachment of one branch of the government on another is necessary in the creation and/or execution of law and public policy and why. Be specific

Readings

• Course Text: Harrington, C. B., & Carter, L. H. (2015). Administrative law and politics: Cases and comments(5th ed.). Washington, DC: CQ Press.
• • Chapter 4, “The Statutory Authority of Agencies”
  • Chapter 3, “The Constitutional Authority of Agencies”
  • Chapter 10, “Judicial Review” (pp. 315-317)
  • Appendix E, “The Constitution of the United States”
• Article: Bailey, M. A. & Maltzman, F. (2008). Does legal doctrine matter? Unpacking law and policy preferences on the U.S. Supreme Court. American Political Science Review, 102(3), 369–384.
• Article: Funk, W. F. (1997). To preserve meaningful judicial review. (Symposium: The future of the American administrative process). Administrative Law Review, 49(1), 171–178.
• Article: Rosenbloom, D. H. (1983). Public administrative theory and the separation of powers. Public Administration Review, 43(3), 219–227.Click here for directions on how to access the database articles. 
• Course Handout: Fundamentals of Law and Public Policy – Resources

Web Site

• Separation of Powers
  http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/separationofpowers.htm

Optional Resources

• Article: Bernstein, D. E. (2003). Lochner era revisionism, revisited. Lochner and the origins of fundamental rights constitutionalism. Georgetown Law Journal, 92(1), 1–60.
• Article: Great Neck Publishing (2009). The Constitution of the United States 1787, Great Neck Publishing, 18.
• Article: Hamilton, L. (2006). The hard truth of writing laws. State Legislatures, 32(2), 17.
• Article: Stephenson, M. C. (2003). “When the devil turns…”: The political foundations of independent judicial review. Journal of Legal Studies, 32, 59–8 9.

One page with APA citation 

 

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