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“Accounting for Contingent Assets: The Case of Cardinal Health,”

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Read Case Study 13-1, “Accounting for Contingent Assets: The Case of Cardinal Health,” from Chapter 13 in the textbook.

In a 300-word executive summary to the Cardinal Health CEO, address the following:

Explain the potential justification for deducting the expected litigation gain from cost of goods sold, and explain why Cardinal Health chose this alternative rather than reporting it as a nonoperating item.
Explain what the senior Cardinal Health executive meant when he said, “We do not need much to get over the hump, although the preference would be the vitamin case so that we do not steal from Q3.” Include specific clarification of the phrase “not steal from Q3.”
Explain specifically what Cardinal Health did to get into trouble with the SEC.
Justify the timing of the $10 million and $12 million gains, and explain how Cardinal Health’s senior managers defend these decisions.
Cardinal Health received more than $22 million from the litigation settlement. Discuss whether the actions of Cardinal Health senior managers were so wrong that they justified the actions of the SEC. Classify Cardinal Health’s behavior on a scale from 1-10, with 1 being “relatively harmless” and 10 being “downright fraudulent.” Justify your rating.

 

 

“The Spiteful Chant,”

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In Chapter 5: “The Spiteful Chant,” Miles Marshall Lewis traces the history of the relationship between Kendrick Lamar and Drake. How did the interaction between the two artists influence Kendrick’s work? In other words, why does Lewis think the relationship is important? What is the larger point he’s trying to make about rap as an artistic practice?

“Should the Union Represent Slick Willie Owens?,”

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Read Case Study 10-2, “Should the Union Represent Slick Willie Owens?,” on page 534 in your textbook, and answer the questions provided.Determine the need for an investigation, the type of evidence needed, and the essential conditions of an investigation by answering the questions below.

What are Willie’s arguments that would require the union to represent him without Willie paying any money?
What are the union members’ argument that would require Willie to pay for the costs of representing him?
Is this adopted proposal fair to Willie? Is it fair to the members of the union?
If the union refuses to represent Willie and pay for the union’s attorney and its share of the arbitration costs and then Willie files a charge against the union with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), how will the NLRB rule?
If you were a member of the union, how would you have voted on the proposal? Why?
If you are a member of management and learn about Willie’s position and the union’s position, what would you do?

 

The work of the Robert Wood Foundation Committee Initiative that led to the IOM report, “

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Describe the work of the Robert Wood Foundation Committee Initiative that led to the IOM report, “Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health.”
Outline the four “Key Messages” that structure the IOM Report recommendations. Explain how these have transformed or influenced nursing practice, nursing education and training, nursing leadership, and nursing workforce development. Provide examples.
Discuss the role of state-based action coalitions. Explain how these coalitions help advance the goals specified in the IOM report, “Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health.”
Research the initiatives on which your state’s action coalition is working. Summarize two initiatives spearheaded by your state’s action coalition. Discuss the ways these initiatives advance the nursing profession.
Describe barriers to advancement that currently exist in your state and explain how nursing advocates in your state overcome these barriers.
You are required to cite to a minimum of three sources to complete this assignment. Sources must be published within the last 5 years and appropriate for the assignment criteria and relevant to nursing practice.

 

“White Man’s Burden,”

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Read the poem at the following link:

Link (website): White Man’s Burden (Links to an external site.) (Rudyard Kipling)
After reading the poem, address the following in a case study analysis:

Select a specific part of the world (a country), and examine imperialism in that country. What was the relationship between the invading country and the native people? You can select from these examples or choose your own:
Belgium & Africa
Britain & India
Germany & Africa
France & Africa
Apply social Darwinism to this specific case.
Analyze the motivations of the invading country?
How did ethnocentrism manifest in their interactions?
How does Kipling’s poem apply to your specific example? You can quote lines for comparison.

 

 

“Institutional discrimination,”

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Consider the idea of “institutional discrimination,” which is described in your text as a form of discrimination that is embedded in the way social institutions function, regardless of whether or not the actors involved are personally prejudiced or intend to commit discriminatory actions. Do you think racism is a problem of personal prejudice or institutional discrimination? Why?

 

“Sonny’s Blues,”

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In “Sonny’s Blues,” Baldwin has two main characters: Sonny and his brother. They each choose very different lifestyles and have a very difficult time understanding each other’s choices. Sonny’s brother often narrates with a sense of bafflement over Sonny’s love of music and drug addition–both part of the world that he inhabits.

After reading the story, reflect on an incident when you and a family member took a very different perspective. Why did you “see” this event differently? How was it resolved?