I need help creating a thesis and an outline on My critical thinking skills. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide. An abstract is required. My critical thinking skills

My critical thinking skills were put to the test when my husband and I were displaced by Hurricane Katrina. That tragedy turned our lives upside down. and all of my plans and dreams needed to be fully re-evaluated in light of our new circumstances. Being forced to move from New Orleans to Pennsylvania was unexpected. I did not know what opportunities would await me in a new state. Spending the time and money to pursue my dream of becoming a medical doctor seemed almost like a luxury. We literally had to start all over again, and it was very difficult to find a job that was sufficient to make a living due to the economic conditions at the time, and my status as a virtual refugee of Katrina.

Critical thinking came into play when I spent six months trying to find a job but got nowhere. I was at a crossroads where I needed to make a decision about whether my time was better spent continuing to look for work, which may or may not have been a fruitless search, or whether I should rededicate myself to pursuing academics in order to invest in my future and in my husband’s future. The latter decision would be an enormous sacrifice. We really needed to make ends meet, and finding a way to boost my income rather than spending money on my education would have been the easy decision to make. Nevertheless, after seriously thinking through the options, I began to realize that making the choice to go to work now would have meant giving up on my future. I had to think critically about what I would be gaining and losing under both options.

Working right away would have helped us to live more comfortably in the short term, but would have locked us into a situation where we would always be living on the edge of subsistence. Perhaps most importantly, I knew I would never really be happy. I had decided long ago in Algeria that my happiness was directly linked to my work in the medical profession. I began to realize I would always harbor some resentment toward myself if I gave up on that dream in order to placate a temporary crisis in my life.

Researching my options for breaking back into the medical profession led me to discover the Thomas Jefferson College of Health Professions. A thorough review of the school’s reputation and the quality of its programs led me to the conclusion that this was the right course of action. This school holds out the promise of the fulfillment of my lifelong vision of caring for the health and the quality of life of other human beings. Ultimately, my ability to think critically led me to the conclusion that I needed to think with my heart and never give up on my hopes and dreams, regardless of whatever crises I might be confronted with in my life.

Provide a 12 pages analysis while answering the following question: Perspectives of Kodak in China. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide. An abstract is required. China has indeed got all the ingredients to make an IJV(international joint venture ) a success based upon its vast population, large consumer base and a less firm grasp of the brand MNC’s power and few branded commodities – a marketer’s dream come true. Many writers have described China as an enigma. With many organizations having already tried and failed”. (Heracleous, L. 2001) This is due to a lack of knowledge of the local environment and guanxi (relationships and connections). (see appendix below)

The Kodak venture in China was a different story as the international company owned by Eastman Kodak struggled to permeate into the Far Eastern Human Resource Management barriers. It is reported that currently Kodak’s Chinese revenues are currently more than $300 and it has a 40 percent market share along with 5,500 outlets. (Alon 2001).Whereas Kodak benefitted immensely from its focus on the franchises for rapid distribution and focused on brand equity and closer trust and consumer understanding, a strategy of long term investment and less short term costs and a strategy of establishing close relationships with multiple levels of government. (see appendix below) (Alon 2001).

From an HRM perspective, however, Kodak had the following potential challenges in the HRM area in front of it. It is, however, worth identifying the conceptual framework within which I will be commenting on the Kodak case study. (Alon 2001).This framework implies the whole organization and planning of the research and identification of the purpose and the methods applied and outcomes derived as a result of the organizational framework. This chart shows the framework which served a guideline for the research procedure. In commenting on the Chinese HRM challenges facing Kodak as a Western Company the table below illustrates my approach in explaining the success of Kodak in localizing management strategies in China. (Alon 2001). What is really important is the way Kodak was able to recognize the importance of developing a corporate management culture to effectively work in the Chinese market cannot be overemphasized. With economic growth exceeding 10%, Kodak fast realized that China’s enormous domestic market offers huge upside gains for those firms who successfully implement localization techniques to make their ventures more successful. In addition to settling up the methods, procedures, and environment in which to train them, Kodak also has had to devise the means via which to retain them as well, as the Heidrick & Struggles (2006) report cites that the management turnover in China ranges between 15 to 20% according to their survey of 148 executives. This situation has put those managers with the skills and expertise in this area in the position of being able to switch to jobs offering the highest compensation and fringe benefits. This leads&nbsp.the situation, where job switching, occurs on average every fifteen months among the most qualified, which is further compounded by executive head hunters (Heidrick & Struggles, 2006).

Need an research paper on stock rate of return. Needs to be 4 pages. Please no plagiarism. In other words, SRR = Capital gain + Dividend yield. It is actually the benefits reaped by an investor relative to the cost of the initial investment. On the other hand, Return On Common Equity (ROCE) relates to the net income before dividend payments on preference shares etc. It is the rate of return on investment for the company’s common shareholders. A firm’s ROCE reveals the profit it generates with the invested money of shareholders. The ROCE is also useful for comparing the profitability of a company to that of other firms. The Stock Rate of Returns and the Return On Common Equity are related to each other in the following ways. (i) Can determine (ROCE) by subtracting preferred dividends from net income and subtracting preferred equity from shareholders’ equity, given: ROCE = Net Income – Preferred Dividends / Common Equity, where as the other (Capital gain + Dividend yield) gave the (SRR). (ii) Return on stocks may also be calculated by dividing net income by average shareholders’ equity. (iii) Investors may also calculate the change in ROE for a period, first by using shareholders’ equity at the start of the period as the denominator and then using shareholders’ equity at the end of the period as the denominator.

You will prepare and submit a term paper on Ritualistic or Reverent Use of Psychedelics in Indigenous Societies: Cognition Effects. Your paper should be a minimum of 1750 words in length. This paper takes an objective and neutral position that respects the personal, subjective experiences, thoughts, and experiential interpretations of the indigenous societies and thinkers in the chosen works, and attempts to arrive at equally objective integration of all those into a cohesive picture of the cognitive effects of such reverent use of psychedelics. The treatment in other words is akin to the way the work of Sandra Ingerman on soul retrieval is treated, and that is with a measure of respect and seriousness as befits a work by a woman who has the clinical and scientific credentials of a counseling psychologist and therapist (Ingerman). On the other hand, the treatment is also akin to the way Carlos Castaneda himself treated the more fringe and mind-blowing experiences he had been with the mystic and Yaqui shaman, Don Juan, with an eye to being as exact and as respectful of those experiences, treating them with the kind of regard that serious anthropologists do any fantastic artifact, knowing that in each of those experiences lie minefields of insights into the nature of psychedelics’ impact on human cognition as well as insights into the deep aspects of the culture and people that Don Juan represented. The treatment is also akin to taking the accounts of McKenna for instance with the kind of respect that one gives a person who deserves the benefit of the doubt, and who at the very least deserves to be heard for what he has to say about an experience that is deeply personal and in many ways inaccessible to more ordinary minds living in more ordinary states of consciousness. The rest of the paper pursues this aim and applies the same kind of respect, impartiality, and presence to the works and thoughts of the other writers and their books (Castaneda. McKenna).

DeKorne discusses the nature of shamanism and goes right into the nature of shamanic work as essential work that alters cognitive processes as the byproduct of altered states of consciousness that shamans are well-versed in, and from which perspective they are able to peer into the ultimate reality of things.

Hello, I am looking for someone to write an article on Ways To Fix The Stray Animal Problem In Austin. It needs to be at least 1750 words. Among all stray animals dogs occupy the foremost position which over 500 million. This phenomenally large number has emerged as serious predicament for animal welfare organizations as these stray dogs suffering from hunger and illness seek sanctuary in human communities where they are generally seen as a nuisance by people living alongside them. Moreover diseases caused by the bites of dogs such as rabies and distemper are extremely fatal and are not easily curable.

Lack of knowledge and widespread unawareness about the problem has further worsened the problem. Communities in developing countries often take barbaric steps to solve this problem which includes measures like electrocuting dogs or simply shooting them. These appalling methods afflict great pain on the animal and simultaneously are not beneficial in long term as they fail to identify the root causes of the problem.&nbsp.

The city of Austin has always been certified as a ‘bird sanctuary’ city which can be vindicated from the fact that the city administration has allocated thousands of acres of land to preserve the species and habitats of salamanders and warblers, but concurrently the city lacks greatly when it comes to providing help to animals once they are out of their protected environment and are found injured in the backyard of someone’s residence.&nbsp.

It is commendable to see that over a period of a year or two developments in this particular segment has been phenomenal. The administration of the city has been formulating effective strategies in collaboration with non-governmental organizations to address this issue at a suitable platform. Many organizations and associations which include prominent names like Protection for Animal and Welfare Services or PAWS, Shadow Cats Rescue, The Central Texas SPCA and ARF. All these organizations are playing a laudable role to counter the looming threat of stray animals in the city. Among all of these the role of PAWS has been instrumental in every sense. The prime objective of this non-governmental organization is to increase awareness among people by initiatives like educational campaigns and promotion of human standards to prevent cruelty to animals. In addition to this it also focuses on providing shelter to homeless animals and help in the reduction of domestic animal overpopulation. PAWS have also been working in joint ventures with Texas VOAD (Voluntary Organization Active in Disaster) and UAN (United Animal Nations) in natural disasters.&nbsp.

In conjunction to this another prominent name is that of Spay Austin Coalition a group of individuals in Austin working collectively to increase acquaintance about stray animals by means of education, resources and opportunities to weather the over-population problem of such animals in the city. Town Lake Animal Center is the largest animal rehabilitation center situated in Central Texas which provides shelter to over 23,000 stray animals found in the city of Austin and other areas adjoining it. The center which has been developed in conjunction with the ASPCA focuses on training people ways by which they can identify and report cases of animal cruelty.