Major Depression and Suicide

Two of the symptoms of major depression, bi-polar disorder, and borderline personality disorder are suicidal thoughts and behavior. For this discussion, we will consider whether an individual has the “right to commit suicide.”

The right-to-suicide movement has a number of advocates, mostly outside of the mental health profession. Some say that suicide should only be allowed for terminally ill patients with the asstance of a physician. (There is presently a legal battle in Oregon about physician-assisted suicide.) Others place no restrictions, saying that “It’s your life. As long as you don’t hurt someone else, you have the right to decide when to end it.”

On the other hand, most mainstream religions oppose suicide as do most medical doctors, psychologists, and psychiatrists. In Texas, if you are suicidal, you can be committed to a psychiatric hospital. Anyone aiding a person’s suicide can be charged with a felony.

What do you think? Is suicide immoral…..a sin…cowardly…a sign of mental instability…or, at times, a rational decision?in 200 words

                                         Part 2

and  write 100 words in a comment to the 200 words discussions

in total 300 words

 

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Major Assessment 2: The “Educated Person” For educators to be effective in supporting diverse learners, they need to develop, possess, and continually refine their vision of the “educated person.” In other words, they need to have a vision of their goals and outcomes for educating students. Prepare a statement of your image of and beliefs and values about the educated person. Explain your beliefs about the role of the teacher in valuing and encouraging others to value the image of an educated person. Be certain to address the roles of cultural diversity in achieving a viable vision of the educated person. Begin by reading the key documents discussed in the chapters in this section. Reference at least five additional current professional references to illustrate your position. Organize your presentation by sections and use American Psychological Association (APA) style for citing references in the body of the text and for developing your reference list. Include the following sections in your paper:

1. Introduction

2. Vision of learning and the educated person (critical knowledge, skills, dispositions)

3. Role of the teacher in providing an effective instructional program and applying best practices to student learning

4. Critical issues in promoting the success of all students and responding to diverse community needs

5. Capacity to translate the image of the educated person into educational aims and organizational goals and processes

6. Conclusion

7. References

 

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Majestic Ocean Kayaking, of Ucluelet, British Columbia,  is owned and operated by Tracy Morben-Eeftink. The company offers a  number of guided kayaking excursions ranging from three-hour tours of  the Ucluelet harbor to six-day kayaking and camping trips in Clayoquot  Sound. The company is currently using a step-variable cost approach for  paying guides but wants to consider the impact of other approaches.

It is often necessary to predict how a certain cost will behave in  response to a change in activity (Garrison, 2015). For planning  purposes, a manager must be able to anticipate which of these will  happen; and if a cost can be expected to change, the manager must be  able to estimate how much it will change. To help make such  distinctions, costs are often categorized as variable, fixed, or mixed.  The relative proportion of each type of cost in an organization is  known as its cost structure. For example, an organization might have  many fixed costs but few variable or mixed costs. Alternatively, it  might have many variable costs but few fixed or mixed costs.

According to Garrison (2014), management accountants ordinarily  assume that costs are strictly linear; that is, the relation between  cost on the one hand and activity on the other can be represented by a  straight line. Economists point out that many costs are actually  curvilinear; that is, the relation between cost and activity is a curve.  Nevertheless, even if a cost is not strictly linear, it can be  approximated within a narrow band of activity known as the relevant range  by a straight line. The relevant range is the range of activity within  which the assumption that cost behavior is strictly linear is reasonably  valid. Outside of the relevant range, a fixed cost may no longer be  strictly fixed or a variable cost may not be strictly variable. Managers  should always keep in mind that assumptions made about cost behavior  may be invalid if activity falls outside of the relevant range. It is  important to note that the concept of the relevant range is important in  understanding fixed costs. Garrison (2014) also mentions that this  step-oriented cost behavior pattern can also be used to describe other  costs, such as some labor costs. For example, in healthcare, when a  nursing unit has a low patient census, management doesn’t automatically  layoff nurses when the number of admitted patients is below the low end  of the range. 

Conversely, management doesn’t look to hire additional  nurses with the patient census exceed the high end of the range. So, as  long as the census remains within a relevant range, personnel  levels are maintains at a constant level; however, if the low census  falls outside the range, management will need to consider their options:  1) layoffs or redistribute labor to other areas of the organization  when the volume is below the low end of the range OR hire additional  labor when the volume exceeds the high end of the range. There are  organizations that use cost behavior as a model for staff compensation,  which is being highlighted in this mini-case. Understanding costs and  their behaviors is a fundamental building block for managerial  accounting and finance.

Source:

Garrison, R., Noreen, E., & Brewer, P. (2014). Managerial accounting (15th ed.).   Columbus, OH: McGraw-Hill Education.

Unit Learning Outcomes

ULO 4. Apply various cost behavior in management decision making (CLO 2)

Directions

Initial Posting

(Initial Posting) Business is booming for the Majestic Ocean Kayaking  company as more American are deciding to vacation at home instead of  abroad. This means that more guides are needed to handle the increased  volume. As a member of the senior leadership team for Majestic Ocean  Kayaking, you, along with other management officials, are concerned that  the current step-variable approach used to pay the guides might not be  the most cost effective, which was voiced at a recent budget meeting.  The CEO has tasked the senior management team to prepare a position  paper that analyzes the current method of paying the guides to other  methods just as fixed cost or strictly variable. To complete this  analysis, you will need to collect relevant data, describe the problem,  solutions, and overall impact on the bottom line.  You will need to  include some discussion on the various approaches that can be used and  the pros and cons of each one.

This report should be prepared as a Microsoft Word document. There  is no minimum or maximum in terms of the word count; however, the  response should explicitly address all required components of this  discussion assignment. The document should be prepared consistent with  the APA writing style (6th edition) and reflect higher level cognitive processing (analysis, synthesis and or evaluation).

 

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Main Question : Specifically for Home Depot, why does its innovative Enhanced Voice Recognition System fit the criteria of the “Valuable” and “Rare” characteristics based on the Resource-Based Theory? Please provide analysis and references. 

Background Information:

Enhanced voice search – Thanks to smart assistants like Google Home and Siri, voice technology has become a part of many people’s everyday lives. For the first time, customers can speak to the Home Depot app as they smart assistant. Using new voice technology powered by Googles Dialogflow, the app can understand conversational questions and commands and deliver better, more relevant search results. The app can also search through the more than 1 million items on homedepot.com using text, barcodes or images.

Resource Based Theory: resource-based view (RBV) is a way of viewing the firm and in turn of approaching strategy

VRIN Characteristics:

·      Valuable – When resources are able to bring value to the firm they can be a source of competitive advantage.

·      Rare – Resources have to deliver a unique strategy to provide a competitive advantage to the firm as compared to the competing firms. Consider the case where a resource is valuable but it exists in the competitor firms as well. Such a resource is not rare to provide competitive advantage

·      Inimitable – Resources can be sources of sustained competitive advantage if competing firms cannot obtain them. Consider the case where a resource is valuable and rare but the competing organizations can copy them easily. Such resources also cannot be sources of competitive advantage

·      Non-substitutable – Resources should not be able to be replaced by any other strategically equivalent valuable resources. If two resources can be utilized separately to implement the same strategy then they are strategically equivalent. Such resources are substitutable and so are not sources of sustained competitive advantage.

 

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i am stuck on my assignment 1 for data structures and abstractions. Main problem is reading in data from a file using getline() and i wish to ignore some of the data while reading in the line. Would appreciate if someone will look at the document i uploaded.

 

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