Module 5: Project Assignment EAA Final Paper

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Instructions

In this assignment, you will write a polished analysis of the biological, psychological, and social components of the topic from your experiential activity. You will use information and evidence from the prior steps, your actual experience of the topic, and the required six sources (three of which must be peer-reviewed journal articles) to complete the following:

  1. A 6 page analysis paper of the activity, not including the title or references page. The EAA Final Paper should utilize relevant information and sources from the earlier steps, and be organized like your outline with use of the same headings (introduction, biological component, psychological component, social component, and conclusion). You will expand from the outlined ideas to a full and strong thesis, as well as fully developed topics within each component. Typically, each component will have 2-3 topics explored.
  2. Your actual experience of the topic should be incorporated as appropriate for additional evidence, but do not use first person (I, me, my, etc.). Observations from the experience can be great evidence to add to the analysis of your activity. However, part of learning APA writing format is avoiding the use of first person and writing in a more formal, academic tone. This can be especially important when studying an often personal topic like sexuality. An example of the difference between informal first person and formal APA could be:
    • The audience at the burlesque show was more than 50% female, which contradicts stereotypes of what gender(s) might want to see women perform the art of striptease.

      Versus

    • I was surprised that the audience was more than 50% female at the burlesque show I went to.
  3. An examination, explanation, and interpretation of the biological, psychological, and social aspects of your topic. Support these interpretations with evidence from your academic sources and experiential observations. Draw conclusions about your topic and support these conclusions with evidence from your academic sources. The conclusions you draw should demonstrate deep, critical analysis about the activity’s impact on the individual and/or society, and have evidence from your academic sources to support them. You may choose to write an argumentative, informative, or compare/contrast style paper. Most students choose either argumentative or informative for this assignment.
    • Remember to incorporate specific examples from your experience. The examples from your experience should be appropriately connected to your academic research.
  4. Include an accurate References page, formatted using 7th edition APA format, with at least the six required sources, three of which must be peer-reviewed journal articles.

You may not use first person (I, me, my) in this paper. Your analysis should use the 7th edition APA format and:

  • Have a title and references page.
  • Use correctly formatted in-text citations.
  • Use 12-point font, Times New Roman, double-spaced, with 1-inch margins.
  • Be spell-checked and proofread.

Smart Parking Space App Presentation

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Purpose  

This assignment illustrates how data analytics can be used to create strategies for sustainable organizational success while integrating the organization’s mission with societal values. You’ll apply statistical time series modeling techniques to identify patterns and develop time-dependent demand models. You’ll practice organizing and delivering a presentation to senior decision-makers. The PowerPoint presentation includes an audio component in addition to speaker notes.  

Resources: Microsoft Excel®, DAT565_v3_Wk6_Data_File

Scenario: A city’s administration isn’t driven by the goal of maximizing revenues or profits but instead looks at improving the quality of life of its residents. Many American cities are confronted with high traffic and congestion. Finding parking spaces, whether in the street or a parking lot, can be time consuming and contribute to congestion. Some cities have rolled out data-driven parking space management to reduce congestion and make traffic more fluid. 

You’re a data analyst working for a mid-size city that has anticipated significant increments in population and car traffic. The city is evaluating whether it makes sense to invest in infrastructure to count and report the number of parking spaces available at the different parking lots downtown. This data would be collected and processed in real-time, feeding an app that motorists can access to find parking space availability in different parking lots throughout the city. 

Instructions: Work with the provided Excel database. This database has the following columns:

  • LotCode: A unique code that identifies the parking lot
  • LotCapacity: A number with the respective parking lot capacity
  • LotOccupancy: A number with the current number of cars in the parking lot
  • TimeStamp: A day/time combination indicating the moment when occupancy was measured
  • Day: The day of the week corresponding to the TimeStamp
  • Insert a new column, OccupancyRate, recording occupancy rate as a percentage with one decimal. For instance, if the current LotOccupancy is 61 and LotCapacity is 577, then the OccupancyRate would be reported as 10.6 (or 10.6%).
  • Using the OccupancyRate and Day columns, construct box plots for each day of the week. You can use Insert > Insert Statistic Chart >Box and Whisker for this purpose. Is the median occupancy rate approximately the same throughout the week? If not, which days have lower median occupancy rates? Which days have higher median occupancy rates? Is this what you expected?
  • Using the OccupancyRate and LotCode columns,construct box plots for each parking lot. You can use Insert > Insert Statistic Chart >Box and Whisker for this purpose. Do all parking lots experience approximately equal occupancy rates?Are some parking lots more frequented than others? Is this what you expected?
  • Select any 2 parking lots. For each one, prepare as scatter plot showing occupancy rate against TimeStamp for the week 11/20/2016 –11/26/2016. Are occupancy rates time dependent? If so, which times seem to experience highest occupancy rates? Is this what you expected?

Presentation: 

Create a 10- to 12-slide presentation with speaker notes and audio. Your audience is the City Council members who are responsible for deciding whether the city invests in resources to set in motion the smart parking space app. 

Complete the following in your presentation: 

  • Outline the rationale and goals of the project. 
  • Utilize boxplots showing the occupancy rates for each day of the week. Include your interpretation of results.
  • Utilize box plots showing the occupancy rates for each parking lot. Include your interpretation of results.
  • Provide scatter plots showing occupancy rate against time of day of your selected four parking lots. Include your interpretation of results. 
  • Make a recommendation about continuing with the implementation of this project. 

Submit your assignment.

Resources

Brilliant Answers

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You have been asked by your supervisor to develop a PowerPoint presentation for an upcoming training on the following topics:

  1. Project close-out,
  2. International factors & cross-cultural considerations in project management,
  3. Agile project management,
  4. Relevant Project Management Institute (PMI) certification programs.

Using 18-20 slides, create a PowerPoint presentation in which you discuss the following as it relates to successful project management:

  1. A summary of each topic as it relates to project management
  2. For only items 1, 2 and 3 above: Challenges (common pitfalls) and opportunities for growth and/or improvement.
  3. For only items 1, 2 and 3 above: Solutions for dealing with challenges common in project management.
  4. For only items 1, 2 and 3 above: Include one scenario applicable to each concept in which your coworkers will have to determine an appropriate response to handling the issue presented in the scenario and faced by a project management team.
  5. For only item 4 above: Summarize at least two key Project Management Institute (PMI) certification programs including what is required to attain each certification credential.

Title slide, and reference slide are not included in the slide count. Include speaker notes below each content-related slide that represent what would be said if giving the presentation in person. Expand upon the information included in the slide and do not simply restate it. Please ensure the speaker notes include 75-100 words per slide.

Be sure to cite three to five relevant scholarly sources in support of your content. Use only sources found at the Library or those provided in Topic Materials.

Literature Review as a Writing Research Method

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Want to learn what a literature review is and how you can use it as a research method? This is what we are here for. In this article, we will tell you all you need to know about writing the perfect literature review.

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Without further ado, let’s get started!

What is a literature review?

Well, simply put, a literature review is the survey and reading of the sources and data available on a specific topic. It gives an overview of the existing knowledge and helps you understand how much work has been done in the field before your research. 

By learning this, you can identify the gaps in the existing work and research and give a direction to your own work and research. When you are writing literature reviews, you need to find relevant sources such as books, journals, articles, relevant literature, etc., and then critically analyze them. Once you have done that, you can critically analyze the data that you found.

An excellent literature review does not only summarize the sources. On the contrary, it analyzes and critically evaluates the findings to present a clear picture of the current state of information available on the subject. It lays down the basis for future research in an enticing and alluring manner.

How to write a great literature review

To write a great literature review, you have started from the beginning. If you are writing a literature review as a section of a research paper, you will look for data relevant to the research question. Even if the literature review is a stand-alone task, you will have to begin with the collection of data.

Search the relevant sources such as Google Scholar, JSTOR, etc., and collect relevant details. Once you have selected the publications, studies, and data, go through them thoroughly and highlight the relevant details. Keep track of your sources and take the help of online citation generators to quickly create citations and bibliography without wasting time. 

Next thing is to organize the literature review and give structure to your arguments. There are online professional services such as Paperell that will help you structure your literature review. Wondering how to structure the work as I write my literature review? The simplest way is to create a chronological order and list things according to their time of occurrence. 

If you have discovered some recurring themes in the research work, you can organize and structure your systematic review around that as well.

Why should you write a literature review

Whenever you write a research paper, thesis, or dissertation, you need to write a literature review. Wondering what is the need for an excellent literature review? Well, to find the place of your research amongst the existing knowledge, you need to write a literature review.

A good literature review demonstrates your familiarity with the scholarly context of the topic. Moreover, it helps to develop a methodology and theoretical framework for your research work. You will be able to position yourself and your work in relation to the other theorists and researchers. 

With the help of your literature review, you can show the readers how your research will address the gap in the existing knowledge or will contribute to the existing debate. If you have to write a literature review as a stand-alone task instead of as a part of your research papers, dissertations, etc. you can do that as well.

In this case, you will have to evaluate the existing state of research. Moreover, you will also have to demonstrate your knowledge of the debates that exist around a particular topic. In both cases, the literature review will look slightly different but will have the same function.

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Final Word

Whether you are writing the literature review as a standalone assignment or as a part of your research, it holds a lot of importance. A quality, well-rounded literature review tells your readers that you have excellent research and writing skills. This will end up with you getting good grades as well as praise and appreciation from your teachers and peers!

Happy Research Writing, Folks!

Human Services Ackademic only

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Dropbox Assignment

Assignment 2: LASA: Ethical Dilemma in Human Services Scenario

Direct services professionals often face many types of potential ethical dilemmas. The administrators of agencies that employ direct services professionals are responsible for guiding them in ethical decision making in addition to managing nonclinical staff in order to protect client rights. Human services administrators have to be aware of the activities of the agency at every level as managers of employees who have access to confidential information about clients.

In this assignment, you will read a scenario and determine the best course of action to resolve the ethical dilemma presented.

Scenario:

You are the administrator of a human services agency that provides services to a local native American tribe. You discover that a member of the housekeeping staff is “counseling” multiple clients who happen to be members of the tribe where he is an elder.

You learn that he is accessing client records and using this information to provide advice that sometimes contradicts the advice that is given by the professionals at the agency. You also learn that he has been warned to discontinue this practice but has refused to comply. Additionally, the agency has approached the clients to inform them that he is not qualified to provide this service, but the clients object to this restriction and threaten to leave if he is fired.

Tasks:

Analyze the situation and write a 6- to 8-page report in which you will outline and justify a course of action. In your report:

  • Identify the multiple ethical issues involved in this scenario.
  • Construct a decision tree of the various courses of action possible and their potential consequences.
  • Discuss how your personal beliefs and values may influence your decision.
  • Select and defend your decision and recommendation.
  • Include suggestions for managing the risks.

Use resources from professional literature in your research. Professional literature may include the Argosy University online library resources, relevant textbooks, peer-reviewed journal articles, and websites created by professional organizations, agencies, or institutions (.edu, .org, or .gov).

Submission Details:

  • Save your report in a Microsoft Word document named M5_A2_Lastname_Firstname.doc, and by Monday, December 7, 2015, upload it to the M5 Assignment 2 LASA Dropbox.

This LASA will be worth 300 points and will be graded according to the following rubric.

 

Tax Return Project

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* I uploaded the three forms and a screenshot of the problem from the book.

See the instructions about the project below. 

ACCT 426, Introduction to Taxation I, Spr. Sem. 2021

ACCT 426, Tax Return Project – 2

Problems: Chapter 8-53 (Janice Morgan) South-Western’s Federal Taxation, Comprehensive Volume (2021). Prepare the Tax Return for 2020.

Changes to Problem: Change all year-ends to one year later; that is, 2019 becomes 2020.

The following information should be helpful in your preparation of the tax return.

(1) (a) Requirement: Prepare the federal income tax return on the appropriate IRS forms. (Even if you use a software program, you must turn in manual entries on IRS forms.) Copies of those forms and instructions are available at www.irs.gov

(b) Additional Requirements: Prepare a brief top sheet summarizing the factual information in the format of the tax formula.

(2) Strategy: You might want to start with page 1 of the 1040 and manually make entries (pencil recommended). You may then need to do subsidiary forms (e.g., Schedules C). You might also want to work out the figures for the tax formula roughly first before beginning the return.

(3) Check figures:

Adjusted gross income 20,263 Itemized deductions 12,650Taxable income 6,090 None of SE tax is deferred(4) Check forms: (please include in your return):

(5) Grading:

a. Per the syllabus, this manual return is 16% of the grade; i.e., 40 points, since the four exams are worth 75 points each of the 400 possible points.b. Actual maximum, manual return, 43 points (3 points extra credit)c. Forms: 1040 pages 1 and 2; Schedules 1, 2, 3, A, B, C, SE; Forms 8995 and 4562

(6) Additional helpful information:

a. Please use the sequence numbers in the upper right-hand corner of the official IRS forms for the proper orderb. Do not calculate next year’s estimates or any late filing penalty or interest.c. There is a QBI deduction on Form 1040, page 1, line 10.

 

SHORT 9 QUEST QUIZ DUE IN 4 HOURS

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DUE IN 4 HOURS

 

Please look over and answer the following set of questions from the Pearson Publishing text on Public Speaking.  Then submit an essay answering the last two questions at the end of this exercise.

When Is Persuasion Unethical?

What’s ethical in public speaking? What’s unethical? Here are several situations that raise ethical issues. Respond to each situation with the following scale: A = ethical, B = not sure, and C = unethical.

_____ 1. In an Economics course you took at another school, you received a handout that very clearly explains the relationship of interest rates to stock prices, the very topic about which you’re going to give your speech. Would it be ethical to use this handout to support one of your propositions without saying where you got it or who prepared it and allow your audience to draw the conclusion that you prepared it yourself?

_____ 2. You read an op-ed article in a newspaper recently and thought the writer put the issue of homelessness into clear perspective. Since you’re going to give a speech on homelessness and you honestly agree with everything this person said (but just said it a lot better than you feel you could), would it be ethical for you to paraphrase this op-ed piece? You wouldn’t be using the writer’s exact words, you’d just use the ideas without mentioning where you got them.

_____ 3. You recently read an excellent summary of research on aging and memory in a magazine article. Would it be ethical to use this research and cite the original research studies but not mention that you got it from a summary in a popular magazine?

_____ 4. At another school you received a copy of a student speech that received an A+. You want to give your own speech, but you just don’t have the time and anyway this is a great speech and the class will profit from hearing it. In addition, you intend to give this speech a really great delivery. Would it be ethical for you to give this speech?

_____ 5. You’re giving a speech to elementary school children on the dangers of smoking pot. From your research, however, you don’t find the dramatic examples and startling statistics that you feel will convince these young children to stay away from pot. Since your aim is to achieve a good end, an end in which you firmly believe, would it be ethical to make up a few dramatic examples and allow the children to believe these are real cases of the problems that result from pot smoking? How about making up a few statistics to hammer the point home?

_____ 6. In a speech on false arrests, you develop this hypothetical story about a college student getting arrested and being held in custody unlawfully for several days. As you rehearse this story, you realize it would be a lot more convincing if the audience was allowed to think that this person was you. Would it be ethical to allow your audience to believe this incident happened to you? Actually, you wouldn’t be saying that it was you or that it wasn’t you; you’d just be allowing the audience to form their own conclusions.

_____ 7. You’re running against Pat Sanchez for student president. You’re pretty evenly matched and you need something to pull ahead. A friend tells you gossip that, if more widely known, would cost Pat the election, even though it has nothing to do with the qualifications for student body president. Would it be ethical for you to bring up this information in one of your speeches?

How did you do? Most public speaking textbooks would argue that all of these situations would be considered unethical, though some perhaps more unethical than others. The first four deal with plagiarism—using the words or ideas of another person as your own—a topic that is discussed in more detail in the ethical issue box in Unit 7. The remaining three deal with fabricating evidence, allowing the audience to believe what isn’t true, and dealing in personal attacks.

What will you do? What unifying thread runs through those situations you labeled “C”? Can you identify a general principle that would cover all the examples you labeled “C”? Do the “mitigating circumstances” contained in some of the situations influence your judgment as to what is or isn’t ethical?. Might any of the situations you labeled “C” ever be considered ethical? Did you label any situations “B”? If so, what is there about the situation that makes it difficult to label it as ethical or unethical?

Business Analysis Modelling and Design

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Prescription Fulfillment Process

Executive Summary

Prescription Fulfillment is one of the main sources of income for HealthCareOnDemand. For a small company such as HealthCareOnDemand, providing an efficient and cost-effective fulfillment of orders is essential in order to be competitive.

Recent customer complaints raised concerns
about the efficiency of such a process which may jeopardize the future of the company. This report
provides an analysis of the prescription fulfilment process and shows that such concerns are unfounded.

Introduction

HealthCareOnDemand is a health-care company providing its customers with a variety of services and
products in the context of health care. In order to maintain its position as the best health-care company in Melbourne, it is essential to have effective and efficient processes.

This report investigates how prescription orders are fulfilled by HealthCareOnDemand and provides an
analysis of its process performance via the use of process simulation.

Governance Structure (attached)

The prescription fulfilment process is one of the core processes for HealthCareOnDemand. In following we
present the process architecture for HealthCareOnDemand. The core processes of the organization are the prescription fulfilment process, drugs procurement, medical certificate process, and the medical consultation process.

The company also have few management processes making the decision on market strategies and managing the IT infrastructure. Finally, support processes with cover HR, Logistics and Customer Support.

The value chain is constituted of five parts: (attached)

1. Receive order: dealing with steps ranging from receiving the order from the customer to record
the details of the order in the order management systems;
2. Verification: dealing with the retrieval and verification of the prescription;
3. Packaging: dealing with the preparation of the package to be sent to the customer;
4. Payment: dealing with invoicing the customer or the insurance company for the cost of the drugs;
5. Shipment: dealing with the delivery of the order.

Modelling Conventions

In order to provide an easy to read process model we adopted the following modelling conventions:

• XOR gateways were used when a mutually exclusive decision was required.
• AND gateways were used when multiple paths needed to be executed at the same time.
• Activities were used to model action performed by an actor.
• Start event was used to model the start of the process.
• End events were used to model the end of the process.
• Model flows from left to right, top to bottom.
• Events, Activities and MessageFlow text labelling adheres to the convention of the first letter
being capitalized with the following text lowercase.
• Activities were labelled following the format imperative verb + noun.
• Events were labelled following the format noun + past-participle verb.

BPMN Model (attached)

In the following, we provide a BPMN diagram depicting the prescription fulfilment process, when customer and insurance company have been modelled as a black box (collapsed pools) since their behaviour is not relevant for the purpose of this analysis.

Business Process Analysis (attached)

To assess if the concerns about the performance of the prescription fulfilment process were valid, we
performed an analysis of such process via process simulation. The simulation has been performed using the BIMP simulator using the process model shown previously. We simulated a total of 500 instances.

Since the company receives on average 500 orders a week, we used a fixed inter-arrival rate of 0.21 minutes (i.e.500 / (5*8*60) ≈ 0.21).

The resources considered for the simulation count four roles: Accounts Officer, Delivery Clerk, Pharmacist, Senior Warehouse Officer, Warehouse Officer, and Data Entry Officer. Below are reported the details related to the resource pools.

ASSIGNMENT SPECIFICATION

OVERVIEW: You are asked to critically review the report titled “Prescription Fulfillment Process”.

This report provides an analysis of the Prescription
Fulfillment Process of HealthCareOnDemand.
As part of this assignment you are expected to produce a short review (around 1000 words), which should cover the following points:

• Correctness of the Process Architecture: this section will provide a critique of the proposed process architecture assessing its management, support, and core processes. A correct process architecture must be provided if the original one is incorrect.

• Correctness of the Value Chain: this section will provide a critique of the proposed value chain. A
correct value chain must be provided if the original one is incorrect.

• Correctness of the BPMN Model: this section will provide a critique of the proposed BPMN with respect to syntactical and semantical correctness. A correct BPMN model must be provided if the original one is incorrect.

• Correctness of the Process Analysis: this section will discuss if the assumptions and results of the process analysis are correct. A correct process analysis must be conducted if the original one is incorrect or based on wrong assumptions.

Any additional diagram (e.g. process architecture, value chain, BPMN model, or BPMN model annotated with simulation parameters) produced as part of the critique must be handed-in with the submission.

Evidence Based Practice (EBP) in Quality Improvement

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Discussion Questions response 

 Must respond to at least one additional discussion question. · Rationales must be provided for the response(s). · 50-word minimum/100-word maximum without the reference(s). · Minimum of one reference (the course textbook can be a reference), APA format.

 Response

                        Evidence Based Practice (EBP) in Quality Improvement

Evidence-based practice alludes to assimilating the best available investigation evidence, which is the clinical know-how and the clients’ values, to enhance the outcome. The utilization of the evidence-based practice comprises asking the relevant clinical questions, determining the best evidence to answer the question, and applying the evidence to the nursing process. In all levels of care, the nurses are involved in asking and answering focused clinical questions, which are primarily aimed at improving patient outcomes (“Evidence-based practice: Principles, procedure, strategy and proof,” n.d). 

The EBP practice is playing a fundamental role in allowing the nurses to formulate clinical questions, which are essential in identifying existing challenges, accumulation of definitive research evidence, breaking down the evidence, applying this evidence in the clinical intervention, and adding evaluation of their impact on quality improvement (Jolley, 2020). Some of the metrics that can be used in the review include the rates of readmission, mortality, satisfaction scores, among others, as evidence of whether the EBP is leading to improvement or deterioration in the quality-of-care services.

There are multiple ways in which the evidence-based practice applies to the improvement of the nursing services in the organization in which I work, including offering the best possible care services to improve patient’s experience. The evidence-based practice will also ensure continuous updating of the nurses on emerging medical protocols for the client’s care (Manivannan, 2016). The EBP is used in determining efficiency or ineffectiveness of processes such as prescriptions, electronic health records and other techniques based on their impacts on metrics such as readmission, mortality rates, patient feedback and others while unearthing areas of weakness for continuous quality improvement in the health care service delivery.

  

References

Evidence-based practice: Principles, process, policy, and proof. (n.d.). Art Therapy, Research and Evidence-Based Practice Art therapy, research, and evidence-based practice, 7-25. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781446215142.n2

Jolley, J. (2020). Evidence-based practice. Introducing Research and Evidence-Based Practice for Nursing and Healthcare Professionals, 63-88. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429329456-4

Manivannan, S. (2016). Assuring quality in nursing colleges. Nursing Education and Quality Assurance in Nursing Colleges, 249-249. https://doi.org/10.5005/jp/books/12876_25

If you were representing an MNC such as Toyota in negotiations over building an automobile factory in a foreign country, what kinds of concessions would you ask the host government for?

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1) If you were representing an MNC such as Toyota in negotiations over building an automobile factory in a foreign country, what kinds of concessions would you ask the host government for? What would you offer as incentives? In your report to Toyota’s top management regarding the deal, which points would you emphasize as most important? https://blog.keenessays.com/2021/06/17/watch-the-video-the-boston-marathon-bombings-lessons-learned-for-saving-lives/ If instead you were representing the host state in the negotiations and reporting to top state leaders, what would be your negotiating goals and the focus of your report?

2) Traditionally, foreign policy elites have faced only sporadic pressure from mass public opinion. Is the role of television and the Internet changing this relationship? If you were a top foreign policy maker, what steps could you take to keep TV news and blogs from shaping the foreign policy agenda before you could define your own goals and directions?

3) Dozens of poor states appear to be stuck midway through the demographic transition; death rates have fallen, birthrates remain high, and per capita incomes are not increasing. How do you think these states, with or without foreign assistance, can best get unstuck and complete the demographic transition?

4)Choose a recent international event and list the power capabilities that participants used as leverage in the episode. Which capabilities were effective, and which were not? Why?

5) Most of the great powers are reconfiguring their https://excellentwriter.xyz/education-homework-help/health-information-and-technology-presentation-profile/ military forces in the post–Cold War era. What kinds of capabilities do you think your own country needs in this period? Why?