During operational planning, an organization’s top management analyzes their competitive opportunities and threats as well as the strengths and weaknesses. (Ch 10)

In Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher,” what is the name of the one woman in the story?

Which of the following values can be used to indicate the presence of a hemolytic anemia?

100 µL of serum needs to be diluted to achieve a 1:11 dilution. What volume of water (in µL) should be added as the diluent?

A patient in the ICU is receiving mechanical ventilation through a tracheostomy and is awake, responsive, and able to follow commands. What is the most appropriate action for the PTA to take before initiating a transfer from bed to chair?

Which one of the following muscles is strengthened and which is stretched by a cervical chin tuck?

New York City police chief William Bratton’s emphasis on zero tolerance policing and stop and frisk largely followed Wilson and Kelling’s broken windows except.

A PTA is preparing a patient for gait training. The patient has a nasogastric feeding tube currently running and is positioned flat in bed. What is the MOST appropriate action before beginning therapy?

Several African American dancers that worked as dancers at FantasyLand, a cabaret night club in Mississippi filed a complaint with the EEOC for race discrimination. The club employs more than 20 workers. Your investigation revealed that African American dancers at the club were subjected to discriminatory terms of employment. For example, they were limited in the number of shifts they could work. You also found those same dancers were required to dance at another night club owned by the same owner, for less pay and with less security, even though doing so could result in arrest, because they were not licensed by the county to dance at the other club. African American dancers who refused to work at the other club were “fined” or sent home by the owner. You are the EEOC investigator investigating this complaint. What federal statute has been violated, and what statutory factors must be established in order to create a prima facie case? In other words, identify the statute (by full name), the type of claim at issue within that statute (disparate treatment, impact, retaliation, etc.), and identify and explain each element of that claim that the EEOC would need to establish in order to proceed in a case against this company. Then (in a new paragraph), apply each of those elements to our case and arrive at a conclusion whether the statute was violated or not. Essay response must cite to both the Ch. 6 lecture and Ch. 6 of the textbook and must only reference the statutes and types of claims discussed in chapters 6 textbook/lecture. Lastly, if the EEOC successfully proves the violation you identified, what must the defendant show to overcome that proof (and win the case)? This last question requires case law support.* * Note: This essay requires case law support. Remember from our work in week one (learning how to create case briefs using the IRAC method) that legal decisions must be supported by law – statute, precedent, etc. Thus, you must identify a relevant case (one that has similar facts and similar issue) that was assigned for this chapter (SEE SYLLABUS) that would be binding on this case when writing your answer. Your answer must discuss the facts of the cited case, how those facts are relevant to our case, what the holding was in the cited case, then apply that holding (precedent) to our case to explain the conclusion you reach in our case. HINT: What does the binding case say a defendant must show once the plaintiff proves their case?

_____ refers to the pricing that takes place between entities owned by the same parent firm where one subsidiary (or subunit of the company) charges another subsidiary (or subunit) for a product or service supplied to that subsidiary.    (Ch 15)