Create a work breakdown structure (WBS) for a project you have involved in professionally, or a common activity around the house that would span more than one month.

This particular WBS can be in outline form, with more than two but no more than five high level work packages with no more than 3 tasks in each work package. Assign resources to each task, and provide an appendix for the high level skills required for the task. Identify one work package that could use a contingency plan, and write describe that plan in one hundred words or less.

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Harlequin Enterprises Case

1. Apply the VRIO framework to Harlequin in series romance fiction. Why has Harlequin been so successful?

a. What is your assessment of Harlequin’s value chain? How does Harlequin create and capture value?

b. How difficult is it to imitate what Harlequin does in series fiction? Why? How likely are competitors to imitate Harlequin?

2. What is your assessment of the single-title market opportunity for Harlequin?

a. Does Harlequin have the necessary capabilities to compete in this market?

3. Should Harlequin enter the single series market?

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Epidemiology

 Identify a particular population that is suffering from an unusually high Mortality Rate from a specific cause. . What Public Health interventions may be able to help lower this high rate? 

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Evolution

Describe and explain evolution

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Thirteen Days Book

1. How did the United States find out that the USSR1 was placing missiles in Cuba? 2. What did the USSR disguise a large naval shipyard in Cuba as? 3. Did the United States expect that the USSR would put offensive weapons in Cuba? 4. Did the USSR say that it would put offensive weapons in Cuba?
5. Had the USSR put offensive weapons in any of its satellites before?
“The President…knew he would have to act.”
6. Why did Robert McNamara not recommend a strategic air strike against USSR missile bases in Cuba?
7. How soon did it appear that USSR missiles would be operational? 8. Where were the missiles in Cuba pointed? 9. What was the situation in Berlin, Germany, in the fall of 1962 that made it vulnerable?
(see HIST 202 PowerPoint 01) 10. Why did a blockade of Cuba seem better to President John F. Kennedy than an attack on
Cuba? (Hint: It has to do with the tradition, history, and moral position of the United States.) 11. What kind of assistance did USSR ambassador Andrei Gromyko claim the USSR was
providing to Cuba?
“A majority opinion…for a blockade…”
12. In addition to a legal basis for a blockade2, what other conditions did advocates for a blockade have to consider?
“It was now up to one single man.”
13. What were reasons that a surprise air attack was not a good idea? 14. The United States had missiles that it considered withdrawing in an attempt to resolve the
crisis. Where were those missiles located? 15. In which country was (is) the U.S. naval base at Guantánamo Bay? 16. What was the significance of the Organization of American States’ (OAS) support for a U.S.-
led quarantine of Cuba? 17. How did U.S. troops, ships, bomber forces, and atomic weapons prepare before the U.S.
announcement of a quarantine/blockade? 18. What did Robert McNamara think it would take to invade Cuba in terms of men, air sorties,
and Marines? What was the estimate of U.S. casualties?
“The important meeting of the OAS…”
19. What kind of support did the OAS give the U.S. proposal for a quarantine/blockade? 20. What is the significance of John F. Kennedy’s statement about the possibility of baby food on
a USSR ship bound for Cuba?

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1 USSR was the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. It is also often called the Soviet Union. Robert F. Kennedy frequently called it “Russia” in his book.
2 In this guide and in Robert F. Kennedy’s book, quarantine and blockade mean the same thing.21. While neither the United States nor USSR seemed to want to go to war over Cuba, for what reasons might an attack, response, “counterresponse and escalation into armed conflict” happen?
“I met with Dobrynin…”
(In this chapter, Robert Kennedy, in a meeting with Anatoly Dobrynin, revealed that the United States had known about the Soviet missiles in Cuba for several days and that Andrei Gromyko had lied to John Kennedy about them. Oddly, Dobrynin asked Robert Kennedy why John Kennedy had not told Gromyko he knew about the weapons, while Robert Kennedy asked Dobrynin why Gromyko had not told John Kennedy he knew.)
“The danger was anything but over”
(This chapter describes the televised confrontation between U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Adlai Stevenson and Soviet ambassador to the United Nations V. A. Zorin in a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly) 22. Why did John Kennedy disagree with U Thant, the acting Secretary General of the United
Nations, that the quarantine be lifted? 23. Did the USSR stop building missile sites after ships were stopped at the quarantine line?
“There were almost daily communications with Khrushchev”
24. Why did John Kennedy assume that no sane man would “deliberately plunge the world into war”?
25. Why did John Kennedy want the Marculainspected?
“Expect very heavy casualties in an invasion.”
26. What was Nikita Khrushchev’s explanation to John Kennedy for sending weapons to Cuba? 27. What did Khrushchev think was the effect on the economy for accumulating (stockpiling)
armaments? 28. What did Khrushchev want the United States to do in exchange for withdrawing from, and
sending no additional weapons to, Cuba? 29. What was the role of ABC (the U.S. television network) in negotiations between the United
States and USSR? What does this say about the quality of communication between the two countries?
“This would mean war.”
30. What did the USSR ask the United States to do in Turkey? Why did it seem like a good idea to the United States?
“Those hours in the Cabinet Room…”
31. In his letter to Nikita Khrushchev, to what was John Kennedy referring in saying “a more general arrangement regarding ‘other armaments’”?
“The President ordered the Ex Comm…”
32. Why did the United States insist on continuing to fly photographic reconnaissance planes over Cuba?
33. Who had the ultimate authority to remove missiles from Cuba?

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Chilean miners

Resource: “Over 30 Workers Trapped After Chilean Copper Mine Collapse” article found in the Electronic Reserve Readings

Research additional articles and information about the Chilean mine collapse.

Write a paper using this and other articles as a resource. Because communications must be designed with the audience in mind, answer the following questions:

What are some considerations to remember given the different roles and people in the audience?

o What would be the potential needs of the families of the miners in receiving a message about this incident?
o What would be the potential needs of the company’s employees when receiving a message about this incident?

What actions must you take before and after the message is delivered to ensure that it was received as intended?

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JPMorgan Chase

Discuss how administrative agencies like the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) or the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) take action in order to be effective in preventing high-risk gambles in securities / banking, a foundation of the economy.

Determine the elements of a valid contract, and discuss how consumers and banks each have a duty of good faith and fair dealing in the banking relationship.

Compare and contrast the differences between intentional and negligent tort actions

Discuss the tort action of “Interference with Contractual Relations and Participating in a Breach of Fiduciary duty” and, if the bank you’ve chosen were to behave as JP Morgan did, would you be able to prevail in such a tort action.

With the advent of mobile banking, discuss how banks have protected the software that allows for online transaction to occur through automation.

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