Using an Internet search engine, search for “strategic alliance” and identify three recently formed alliances. Be sure not to share the same alliances shared by your classmates. For each alliance, identify whether the companies’ other products are generally competitors or complementary. What are the goals of each alliance? What brought them together? Discuss how you think a strategic alliance is or is not an effective way for these organizations to meet their goals.

Program This program is meant to be your first basic Object-Oriented Program (OOP). You will write 2 of your own classes, each of which represent a 2D shape and inherit some methods from a base class. You will then tie the program together with a Main class which has been partially written and provided to you. See the Example Output for examples of program runs.

• First you will have to create your own project and add the provided source files to your project. We have not provided any project files in this assignment. You must create your own project. However, you must keep all source files in the folder called src which is one directory in from the root of your repository (i.e. YourRepo/src). Also, do not commit multiple copies of the same name file to your repository. All of this is important for grading purposes

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Read “Voir Dire” by Don Lee and “Doing Time in the Thirteenth Chair” by Scott Russell Sanders to answer the following question in an analytical essay format. Are the readers ever meant to feel sympathy for villains of stories? If so (or if not), what is the significance of being able to relate (not relate) to a villain?
*Write a unified thesis
*Create an argument by comparing and/or contrasting two bad guys or villains.
*Write the essay by analyzing and utilizing the texts.
*the bad guys are: Chee Seng Lam in “Voir Dire”
Bennie in “Doing Time in the Thirteenth Chair”

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Research paper. Topic is:

• Freedom of speech.

What are the key concepts, ideas, models, theories, instruments, diagnostic tools etc. from each class you have completed — do a reflective inventory.

• Types of analytic tools that were presented/used/referenced in each course?

• What analytical and/or qualitative models did you discover or learn to use?

• What theories, constructs, premises were helpful?

• What are the “generally accepted practices” related to the course content that you need to remember?

• Are there any “professionally” required analyses, formulas or concepts you need to be familiar with in order to be successful?

1. First, you should give the primary argument of the reading. This is the thesis or claim that the author is trying to support with historical evidence (“This essay claims that…”), not the topic of the essay (“This essay is about…”). This should be about a sentence.

2. Then you should explain the evidence that the historian uses. This requires looking at the footnotes. What primary historical documents does the author reference? What about secondary sources? Provide a general overview of the kinds of sources the author uses, and then identify at least two primary sources, explaining what evidence the author draws from them. This will be about a paragraph.

3. Finally, you should evaluate the efficacy of the author’s argument. Is it convincing? Does the author acknowledge possible counterarguments? If not, can you think of counterarguments of your own that would merit further exploration? This will be a few sentences

Human Resource Management (MGT211)

1. Which HR Practices do you believe are the most critical for the Marriott to maintain and grow its competitive advantage? Explain why?

2. Would Marriott have been successful without its current HR Practices? Explain.

3. Can companies in other industries such as health care, manufacturing, or research and development adopt Marriott’s value and practices and have similar success? Explain why or why not.

4. What other types of HR Practices should Marriott consider adopting that would appeal to its growing number of Millennial Employees?

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2020 Environmental Law Midterm (EENV 387)

1. Name the three branches of the federal government (3 pts):

2. Please give two examples of how the judiciary serves as a check on legislative power. (2 pt)

3. True or false: the federal government has the power to enact laws regulating wholly intrastate commerce. ________ (1 pt)
4. Please explain your answer to the previous question. (1 pt)

5. Please explain the two ways in which a constitutional amendment may be added to the U.S. constitution (2 pts).

2020 Environmental Law Midterm (EENV 387)

7. You believe that your neighbor, Acme Incorporated, has allowed hazardous substances to spill onto the ground, and that those substances have infiltrated the groundwater, forming a plume beneath your property. Based upon this
fact scenario, please answer the following:
a. If you decided to file a court case, what are two causes of action you might bring against Acme Incorporated? (2 pts)

b. Where would you bring your lawsuit, and why? (2 pts)

c. You prevailed in your lawsuit—good for you. However, Acme wants to appeal. based upon your answer to (b), what court would Acme appeal to? (1 pt)

d. Bob lives 2,000 miles away from you, and has no relationship to you or your property; in fact, he’s never been to your state. Nonetheless, he read a newspaper article about your travails, and is absolutely outraged that Acme would contaminate your groundwater. Give one basis upon which the Court could have dismissed the lawsuit had Bob brought it, instead of you. (1 pt)

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Acme Enterprise Scenario Residency Week

Acme Enterprise is a private company that is gearing up for an initial public offering (IPO).  Prior to going public Acme must be in compliance with:  GDPR, PCI DSS, and SOX.  Acme is in the water purification business with new technologies that purify water in any form whether it is sewage, ocean, lake etc.

Part of its IPO process is to show due diligence and due care.  Acme has identified your team to conduct a risk assessment and analysis of its information technology infrastructure to uncover any threats and exposures and provide mitigations and controls to reduce those uncovered threat/exposures, so it can have a successful IPO.

Using the Network Infrastructure design of the Acme Enterprise you are to assess risk of Acme’s:

1. Perimeter Security

2. Network Security

3. Endpoint Security

4. Application Security

5. Data Security

6. Operations

7. Policy Management

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ECOM421 – E-Business Strategies & Business Models

Questions

Q1. Select any ONE organization from the below. Write a brief profile of the organization and prepare a Business Model Canvas. (5 Marks)

Q2. Suggest your business strategy to help that organization in overcoming its challenges arose due to COVID19 pandemic. (5 Marks)

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