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The numbers of regular season wins for 10 football teams in a given season are given below. Determine the range, mean, variance, and standard deviation of the population data set.

22,

99,

1515,

33,

1212,

1010,

1515,

1010,

44,

77

a) the range

b) the mean

C) the variance

d) the standard deviation

Please write a three to four page essay (around 900-1200 words), answering one of the questions below. In order to do well on this assignment you will need to use primary sources in our reader, Sources of the Western Tradition, as evidence for your argument. You will also need to acquaint yourself with the relevant secondary sources (i.e. lectures and the editor’s comments in Sources of the Western Tradition) so that you better understand the context of the documents in our reader.*

Woodrow Wilson: The Idealistic View

(May 26, 1917) We are fighting for the liberty, the self-government, and the undictated development of all peoples, and every feature of the settlement that concludes this war must be conceived and executed for that purpose. Wrongs must first be righted and then adequate safeguards must be created to prevent their being committed again…No people must be forced under sovereignty under which it does not wish to live. No territory must change hands except for the purpose of securing those who inhabit it a fair chance of life and liberty. No indemnities must be insisted on except those that constitute payment for manifest wrongs done. No readjustments of power must be made except such as will tend to secure the future peace of the world and the future welfare and happiness of its peoples.

And then the free peoples of the world must draw together in some common covenant, some genuine and practical cooperation that will in effect combine their force to secure peace and justice in the dealings of nations with one another.

(The following are excerpts from the 14 Points, the plan for peace that Wilson announced on January 8, 1918)

IV. Adequate guarantees given and taken that national armaments will be reduced to the lowest point consistent with domestic safety.

V. A free, open-minded, and absolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial claims, based upon a strict observance of the principal that in determining all such questions of sovereignty the interests of the populations concerned must have equal weight with the equitable claims of the government whose title is to be determined…

VIII. All French territory should be freed and the invaded portions restored, and the wrong done to France by Prussia in 1871 in the matter of Alsace-Lorraine, which has unsettled the peace of the world for nearly fifty years, should be righted, in order that peace may once more be made secure in the interests of all.

IX. A readjustment in the frontiers of Italy should be effected along clearly recognizable lines of nationality.

X. The peoples of Austria-Hungry whose place among the nations we wish to see safeguarded and assured, should be accorded the freest opportunity of autonomous development…

XII. The Turkish portions of the present Ottoman Empire should be assured a secure sovereignty, but the other nationalities which are now under Turkish rule, should be assured an undoubted security of life and an absolutely unmolested opportunity of autonomous development, and the Dardanelles should be permanently opened as a free passage to the ships and commerce of all nations under international guarantees.

XIII. An independent Polish state should be erected which should include the territories inhabited by indisputably Polish populations, which should be assured a free and secure access to the sea, and whose political and economic independence and territorial integrity should be guaranteed by international covenant.

XIV. A general association of nations must be formed under specific covenants for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike.

(February 11, 1918) …The principals to be applied in the peace settlement are these:

First, that each part of the final settlement must be based upon the essential justice of that particular case and upon such adjustments as are most likely to bring a peace that will be permanent;

Second, that peoples and provinces are not to be battered about from sovereignty to sovereignty as if they were mere chattels and pawns in a game, even the great game, now forever discredited, of the balance of power;

Third, every territorial settlement involved in this war must be made in the interest and for the benefit of the populations concerned, and not s apart of any mere adjustment or compromise of claims amongst rival states;

Fourth, that all well defined national aspiration shall be accorded the utmost satisfaction that can be accorded them without introducing new or perpetuating old elements of discord and antagonism that would be likely in time to break the peace of Europe and consequently of the world.

(April 6, 1918)…We are ready, whenever the final reckoning is made, to be just to the German people, deal fairly with the German power, as with all others. There can be no difference between peoples in the final judgment, if it is indeed to be righteous judgment. To propose anything but justice, even-handed and dispassionate justice, to Germany, at any time, whatever the outcome of the war would be to renounce and dishonor our own cause. For we ask nothing that we are not willing to accord.

(December 16,1918)…The war through which we have just passed has illustrated in a way which can never be forgotten the extraordinary wrongs which can be perpetrated by arbitrary and irresponsible power. It is not possible to secure the happiness and prosperity of the world, to establish an enduring peace, unless the repetition of such wrongs is rendered impossible. This has indeed been a peoples war. It has been waged against absolutism and militarism, and these enemies of liberty must from this time forth be shut out from the possibility of working their cruel will upon mankind.

(January 3, 1919)…Our task at Paris is to organize our friendship of the world, to see it that all the moral forces that make for right and justice and liberty are united and are given a vital organization to which the peoples of the world will readily and gladly respond. In other words, our task is no less colossal than this, to set up a new international psychology, to have a new atmosphere.

(January 25, 1919)…We are…here to see that every people in the world shall choose its own masters and govern its own destinies, not as we wish, but as it wishes. We are here to see, in short, that the very foundation of this war are swept away. Those foundations were the private choice of small coteries of civil rulers and military staffs. Those foundations were the aggression of great powers upon the small. Those foundations were the holding together of empires of unwilling subjects by the duress of arms. Those foundations were the power of small bodies of men to work their will upon mankind and use them as pawns in a game. And nothing less than the emancipation of the world from these things will accomplish peace.

Georges Clemenceau: French Demands for Security and Revenge

Wilson’s promised new world clashed with French demands for security and revenge. Almost all the fighting of the war’s Western Front had taken place in France; its industries and farmlands lay in ruins and many of its young men had perished. France had been invaded by Germany in 1870 as well as in 1914, so the French believed that only by crippling Germany could they gain security. Premier Georges Clemenceau, who was called “the Tiger,” dismissed Wilson’s vision of a new world as mere noble sentiment divorced from reality, and he fought tenaciously to gain security for France. Clemenceau’s profound hatred and mistrust of Germany are revealed in his book The Grandeur and Misery of Victory (1930), written a decade after the Paris Peace Conference.

For the catastrophe of 1914 the Germans are responsible. Only a professional liar would deny it…

What after all is this war, prepared, undertaken, and waged by the German people, who flung aside every scruple of conscience to let it loose, hoping for a peace of enslavement under the yoke of militarism destructive of all human dignity? It is simply the continuance, the recrudescence, of those never-ending acts of violence by which the first savage tribes carried out their depredations with all the resources of barbarism. The means improve with the ages. The ends remain the same…

Germany, in this matter, was unfortunate enough to allow herself ( in spite of her skills at dissimulation) to be betrayed into an excess of candor by her characteristic tendency to go to extremes. Deutschland uber alles. Germany above everything! That, and nothing less, is what she asks, and when once her demand is satisfied she will let you enjoy a peace under the yoke…

And what is this “Germanic civilization,” this monstrous explosion of the will to power, which threatens openly to…impose the implacable mastery of a race…? The historian Heinrich von Tireitschke asserts that Germany find herself condemned, by her very greatness, either to absorb all nations in herself or to return to nothingness…ought we not all to feel menaced in our very vitals by this mad doctrine of universal Germanic supremacy over England, France, America, and every other country?…

What document more suitable to reveal the direction of “German culture” than the famous manifesto of the 93 super intellectuals of Germany, issued to justify the bloodiest and the least excusable of military aggression against the great centers of civilizations? At the moment…violated Belgium lay beneath the heel of the malefactor (October 1914)…and German troops were razing…great historical buildings to the ground and burning down…libraries…

Professor Ostwald had already written, “Germany has reached a higher stage of civilization than the other peoples, and the result of the War will be an organization of Europe under German leadership.” Professor Haeckel had demanded the conquest of London, the division of Belgium between Germany and Holland, the annexation of North East France, of Poland, the Baltic Provinces, the Congo, and the great part of the English colonies. Professor Lasson went further still: We are morally and intellectually superior to all men. We are peerless. So too are our organizations and our institutions. Germany is the most perfect creation known in history, and the Imperial Chancellor, Herr von Bethmann-Hollweg, is the most eminent of living men.

Coming from duly hallmarked professors, such statements explain all German warfare by alleging that Germany’s destiny is universal domination, and that for this very reason she is bound either to disappear altogether or to exercise violence on all nations with a view to their own betterment…

For this project I want you to make believe you are an entrepreneur running your own company. It can be any kind of company you wish, some are easier to work with than others, but that is up to you. I want you to write a story about your company telling how you run the company and how it operates with emphasis on those things you have learned in the course. Make sure you reference your business plan, include a business case in your story (How you used it not how you define it), a project plan should be included and you can throw in anything else you learned in this course to make the story interesting. This a story you are making up, , it should read like a short story on your business. Remember, this is an IT course. Your company could be banana distribution business, but when you talk projects, they will be IT projects

*****ORIGINAL WORK ONLY PLEASE. NO PLAGIARISM. YOUR WORK WILL BE CHECK FOR AUTHENTICITY AND QUALITY OF WORK. NO GRAMMATICAL ERRORS OR POOR WRITING SKILLS.*****

PLEASE READ THE ATTACHED COURSE MATERIAL TO PROPERLY COMPLETE THIS TASK

Project 4: Strategy Selection, Implementation and Evaluation

Outcomes Met With This Project:

• Examine the impact of ethical decision making, social responsibility, stakeholder analysis, and corporate governance on organizations and society
• Utilize a set of useful analytical skills, tools, and techniques for analyzing a company strategically;
• Integrate ideas, concepts, and theories from previously taken functional courses including, accounting, finance, market, business and human resource management;
• Analyze and synthesize strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) to generate, prioritize, and implement alternative strategies in order to revise a current plan or write a new plan and present a strategic plan;
• Evaluate the outcomes of identified strategies to determine their success and impact on short-term and long-term objectives.

Instructions:

Step 1: Specific Company for All Four Projects

• The company Adaptimmune Therapeutics PLC must be used for this project. After reading the course material and research, you will complete the steps below.

Step 2: Course Material and Research

• Although you are required to research information about the focal company and the external environment for this project, you must use the course material to support the ideas, reasoning and conclusions made. Course material use goes beyond defining terms but is used to explain the ‘why and how’ of a situation. Using one or two in-text citations from the course material and then relying on Internet source material is not allowed. A variety of source material is expected and what is presented must be relevant and applicable to the topic being discussed. Avoid merely making statements but close the loop of the discussion by explaining how something happens or why something happens, which focuses on importance and impact. In closing the loop, you will demonstrate the ability to think clearly and rationally showing an understanding of the logical connections between the ideas presented from the research, the course material and the question(s) being asked.

Note: This report is based on the results of the research performed and not on any prepared documentation. What this means is that you will research and draw your own conclusions that are supported by the research and the course material rather than the use any source material that puts together any of the tools or techniques whether from the Internet, for-pay websites or any pre-prepared document, video or source material.

The analysis is based on research and not opinion. You are not making recommendations and you will not attempt to position the focal company in a better or worse light than other companies within the industry merely because you are completing an analysis on this particular company. The analysis must be based on factual information. Any conclusions drawn have to be based on factual information rather than leaps of faith.

To ensure success, as stated above you are expected to use the course material and research on Adaptimmune Therapeutics PLC’s focal global industry and the focal company. It is necessary to provide explanations (the why and how) rather than making statements. Avoid stringing one citation after another as doing so does not show detailed explanations.

Library Resources

You may also use Market Line and should be looking at the focal company’s Annual Report or 10K report. You are not depending on any one resource to complete the analysis. It is impossible to complete a Porter’s Five Forces, competitive analysis or OT by using only course material.

You should not be using obscure articles, GlassDoor, or Chron or similar articles.

Research for Financial Analysis: Financial Research (see attached document Financial Research (1))

Research for Industry Analysis CSI Market

Scholarly Research in OneSearch is allowed.

To search for only scholarly resources, you are expected to place a check mark in the space for “Scholarly journals only” before clicking search.

Strategic Management:

• Chapter 9: Executing Strategy through Organizational Design

• Getting Organizational Redesign Right
• Hsieh, T. and Yik, S. (2005, February). Leadership as the starting point of strategy. McKinsey & Company
• It’s Not The CEO, It’s The Leadership Strategy That Matters
• Does Your Strategy Need a Strategy Part 1
• Does Your Strategy Need a Strategy Part 2
• Strategy and Corporate Culture
• Levels of Culture
• Structure and Strategy in Multinational Corporations: A Reexamination of the Stopford and Wells Model (see attached)

Complete:

Step 3: Preparation for the Project

Before you begin writing the report, you will read the following requirements that will help you meet the writing and APA requirements.

• You will be doing an analysis on the selected company. When doing an analysis you are not merely making statements that may be cited. Instead, you will be supporting the statements made. “Support” is the process of explaining, discussing and analyzing “why” and “how,” which is a higher level critical analytical skill that is required for this class. Support is needed to do well on this project.
• Read the grading rubric for the project. Use the grading rubric while writing the report to ensure all requirements are met that will lead to the highest possible grade.

Step 4: How to Set Up the Project

Use this template to complete the project: Project 4 Template. The document has to be written in Word. No other format is acceptable. Use 12-point font for a double-spaced report. The final product cannot be longer than 16 pages in length, excluding the title page and reference page. Those items identified in the implementation and action plans should appear under the appropriate heading in the paper. Do no use an Appendix.

Step 5: Introduction

Create an introductory paragraph. The Introduction should clearly and concisely convey the main points of the project’s requirements. Review the following attached document labeled “The Introductory Paragraph” to learn how to write an introductory paragraph.

Step 6: Alternative Strategy Generation

• To generate a pool of strategies, you will look at the organization’s business level strategy, corporate level strategy and global strategy. Using the information and data collected from your research, and the analytical outcomes from
  • (a) external factor analysis in your Project 1
  • (b) internal factor analysis in Project 2, you will generate a pool of strategies.

• Generate a minimum of three possible alternative strategies for the company
• Identify and discuss cultural and organizational factors that should be considered in analyzing and choosing among the alternative strategies.

Step 7: Strategy Prioritization

• Prioritize strategies and explain using the course material to support the reasoning.

Step 8: Strategy Selection

• Explain how to select the best strategy (or strategies);
• Recommend the best one or two strategies and long-term objectives among the alternative strategies and explain why these strategies and objectives are best;
• Identify strategy recommendations using the following format for the formulation of strategies. Make sure you are thorough in your presentation.

• View Strategy Content Guidelines (see attached document “Strategy Content Example”.
• Goal (The desired outcomes to be achieved)
• Objective (Measurable milestone toward accomplishing the Goal)
• Strategy (The approach used to achieve the Goal)
• Tactic (A specific activity undertaken to implement the Strategy)

• Review this resource to differentiate between Strategy Versus Operations and Strategy Versus Tactics
• Recommend procedures for strategy implementation;
• Discuss who, what and how to implement the selected strategy (or strategies) at the corporate level, business-unit level, and functional level.

Step 9: Strategy Implementation

Step 10: Strategy Evaluation

• Discuss procedures for strategy review and evaluation;
• Discuss the appropriate evaluative measures (including who, what, when and how) at the corporate level, business-unit level, and functional level.
• Discuss a corrective action plan (including who, what, when and how) at the corporate level, business-unit level, and functional level.
• Use frameworks and tools discussed throughout the course;
• Support the reasoning and conclusions made.

Step 11: Conclusion

Create a concluding paragraph. The Conclusion is intended to emphasize the purpose/significance of the analysis, emphasize the significance/consequence of findings, and indicate the wider applications that are derived from the main points of the project’s requirements. Review the following attached document labeled “The Concluding Paragraph” to learn how to write a concluding paragraph.

Report Requirements to Follow

In writing the report:

• Use the grading rubric while completing the project to ensure all requirements are met that will lead to the highest possible grade.

• Third person writing is required. Third person means that there are no words such as “I, me, my, we, or us” (first person writing), nor is there use of “you or your” (second person writing).

• Contractions are not used in business writing, so do not use them.

• No direct quotes except for mission statement and vision statement. For all other source material used in the analysis, you will not use direct quotation marks but will instead paraphrase. What this means is that you will put the ideas of an author or article into your own words rather than lifting directly from a source document. You may not use more than four consecutive words from a source document, as doing so would require direct quotation marks. Changing words from a passage does not exclude the passage from having quotation marks. If more than four consecutive words are used from source documents, this material will not be included in the grade and could lead to allegations of academic dishonesty.

• Use in-text citations and provide a reference list that contains the reference associated with each in-text citation.

• You may not use books in completing this project.

• Provide the page or paragraph number in every in-text citation presented.

• You may not use Fern Fort University, Ibis World or any other for-fee website.

Please check your work against the attached rubric to ensure you are meeting and exceeding task requirements.