The debate regarding the legalization of drugs, particularly that of soft drugs like cannabis (or marijuana) is capable of being characterized as one which pits the concept of freedom of the individual against the concept of a paternalistic State. Advocates of legalization argue, amongst other things, that cannabis is not only less harmful than legal substances like alcohol and tobacco, but as a matter of fact has been proven to possess certain medicinal properties. In stark contrast, those opposed to legalization argue that the legalization of cannabis will act as a precursor to increased addiction to hard drugs, and will necessarily lead to an increase in the crime rate itself.

In 1937, the Marijuana (Marijuana) Tax Act was introduced by Henry Anslinger and passed, levying taxes on anyone who was associated with cannabis, hemp, or marijuana. These types of association include possession, use, sale, and many other acts which would be considered illegal today. In addition to the taxes provisioned by the bill, penal codes for the procedural use and possession of marijuana were also outlined - violators could face five years in prison in up to a $2,000 fine. In 1951, an act that superseded the Marijuana Tax Act was passed criminalizing the possession and use of cannabis, hemp, and/or marijuana. In 1969, in the case of Leary v. United States, the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 was overturned on the grounds of the 5th Amendment because those seeking a tax stamp would have to incriminate themselves. In 1970, Congress passed the Controlled Substances Act listing cannabis as a Schedule I drug. Despite the Controlled Substances Act of 1970, many states and local cities began to decriminalize marijuana citing possession/use/sale/etc. as low priority offenses. Although many attempts have been made to reschedule cannabis off Schedule I, the Supreme Court ruled in a 2005 decision in the case of United States v. Raich, the federal government has jurisdiction over the legal status of marijuana.

Today, States are debating, and in some cases, bringing to their voters, the legalization of Marijuana.

What are the characteristics of absolute and relative moral theories? What is the relationship between the two?

Using the information above about marijuana legalization, what arguments can be made both "for" and "against" using these moral theories?

500 WORD MINIMUM

Background
Hotel One is one of the two hotels serving Dayville, a small town in the US Midwest. Fifty percent of its customers are out-of-town visitors to the local college, 30 percent are visiting Dayville for business purposes, and the remaining 20 percent of Hotel One’s customers are leisure travelers. The hotel is within one mile from campus, approximately four miles from the city center, and eight miles from the airport. It is easy to reach by car, taxi, or city bus. You are a manager of Hotel One. Your facility consists of 150 rooms, all of which are standard rooms with two double beds. Your only competitor in Dayville, The Other Hotel, has fewer rooms (100), but 20 of their rooms are luxury suites with king beds and a sofa couch (the other 80 are standard rooms with two double beds). This is the extent of the information provided to you at this point.

Assignment
In order to better understand your unit’s operating environment, you are asked to provide your estimate of the demand equation that would account for various factors that affect your customer traffic. This will be done by using regression techniques. The first step in estimating a demand equation is to determine what variables will be used in the regression. Please provide detailed answers to the following questions:
1. What do you think should be the dependent variable in your demand equation? What units of measurement for that variable are you going to adopt? Please provide a detailed explanation for these choices.
2. Please request information about up to five independent (explanatory) variables for your demand equation. For each variable you request, (i) provide reasons why you expect it to be
important for your analysis and (ii) explain the expected sign of the relationship between the proposed independent variable and your proposed dependent variable.
3. Show the exact demand equation you are proposing to estimate.

Project Description The BlueMont chain hotels have 4 different types of room: Single room: $60/night Double room: $75/night King room: $100/night Suite room: $150/night The size of the hotel chains in different locations may be different in terms of the number of floors and the type and the number of rooms on each floor. You are required to write a program that calculates the occupancy rate and the total hotel income for one night and displays this information as well as some other information described below. The program starts by asking the location where this hotel chain is located and the number of floors in the hotel. The number of floors may not exceed 5. The User then enters the total number of rooms for each floor. The program then asks specifically the number of occupied rooms for each room type on this floor. The total number of rooms on each floor may not exceed 30 and the program should check that the total number of occupied rooms on each floor does not exceed the total of rooms on that floor. After the information is entered for each floor, the program calculates the following: - Hotel income (based on the room type and its rate), - The total number of occupied rooms, - Total number of the uncopied rooms, - The rate of occupancy, - Floor number with the minimum number of rooms. (Assume no two floors have the same number of rooms). - A message to improve the occupancy rate for the occupancy rate of less than 60%. - Programmer’s full name - Project number - Project due date Project Specifications -Use constant variables to hold room rates, max and min # of floors and rooms. -The program should continuously ask for the correct floor number if it is not within the range of 1 and 5. -The program should continuously ask for the correct number of rooms for each floor if it is not within the range of 1 and 30. -The program should repeat the process of asking the number of rooms on the floor and number of occupied rooms if the total number of occupied rooms exceeds the total number of rooms on the floor. Refer to Sample outputs for more clarification.

Project Description

The BlueMont chain hotels have 4 different types of room:

Single room: $60/night

Double room: $75/night

King room:   $100/night

Suite room: $150/night

The size of the hotel chains in different locations may be different in terms of the number of floors and the type and the number of rooms on each floor.

You are required to write a program that calculates the occupancy rate and the total hotel income for one night and displays this information as well as some other information described below.

The program starts by asking the location where this hotel chain is located and the number of floors in the hotel. The number of floors may not exceed 5. The User then enters the total number of rooms for each floor. The program then asks specifically the number of occupied rooms for each room type on this floor. The total number of rooms on each floor may not exceed 30 and the program should check that the total number of occupied rooms on each floor does not exceed the total of rooms on that floor.

After the information is entered for each floor, the program calculates the following:

- Hotel income (based on the room type and its rate),

- The total number of occupied rooms,

- Total number of the uncopied rooms,

- The rate of occupancy,

- Floor number with the minimum number of rooms. (Assume no two floors have the same number of rooms).

- A message to improve the occupancy rate for the occupancy rate of less than 60%.

- Programmer’s full name

- Project number

- Project due date

Project Specifications

-Use constant variables to hold room rates, max and min # of floors and rooms.

-The program should continuously ask for the correct floor number if it is not within the range of 1 and 5.

-The program should continuously ask for the correct number of rooms for each floor if it is not within the range of 1 and 30.

-The program should repeat the process of asking the number of rooms on the floor and number of occupied rooms if the total number of occupied rooms exceeds the total number of rooms on the floor.

Many hotels have begun a conservation program that encourages guests to re-use towels rather than have them washed on a daily basis. A recent study examined whether one method of encouragement might work better than another. Different signs explaining the conservation program were placed in the bathrooms of the hotel rooms, with random assignment determining which rooms received which sign. One sign mentioned the importance of environmental protection, whereas another sign claimed that 75% of the hotel’s guests choose to participate in the program. The researchers suspected that the latter sign, by appealing to a social norm, would produce a higher proportion of hotel guests who agree to re-use their towels. Researchers used the hotel staff (a mid-sized, mid-priced hotel in the Southwest that was part of a well-known national hotel chain) to record whether guests staying for multiple nights agreed to reuse their towel after the first night.

(a) Identify the observational units, explanatory variable, and response variable in this study.

(b) State the null and alternative hypotheses in symbols, and be sure to define the parameter in the context of this study.

The following table displays the observed data in this study:

(c) Calculate the conditional proportions of re-use in each group.

(e) Use a two-sample z-test to test the hypotheses that you stated in (a). Report the test statistic and p-

value.

(f) Report your test decision at the α = 0.10, 0.05, and 0.01 significance levels. Also summarize what

these test decisions reveal about the strength of evidence for the researchers’ conjecture.

(g) Produce and interpret a 90% confidence interval for the difference in probabilities of re-using towels

between these two signs.

Andy wants Ben to build Andy a pool, a tennis court, and a basketball court for Andy's employer which is a small hotel. Ben tells Andy that he can do the pool for $ 10,000, a tennis court for $ 7,000, and a basketball court for $ 3,000 if this is done individually. Andy must have the pool for no more than $ 12,000. He would like the basketball court this year or next. He would like the tennis court for no more than $ 8,000. His entire budget for this year for any of these things is no more than $ 17,000 but he would really prefer $ 15,000. Andy must decide this within 10 days or lose his job. Andy knows that Ben has no time pressure at all. Andy also knows that Ben, however, does not like to waste time and likes to do multiple jobs at once if he can in order to be more efficient. Andy also knows that Ben has many other jobs he can do right now but that he prefers to do jobs closest to his office more than farther jobs because they are easier to get to etc. Andy's hotel is only a mile from Ben's office. Andy would like someone to improve the entrance to his hotel, the back area of his hotel, and the parking lot of his hotel, but he really does not care about that right now as he can do that in 3 or 4 years and has no rush for that. Andy also knows that Ben's construction business is always looking for more cement trucks and flatbed trucks and Andy happens to have a cement truck and two flatbed trucks he does not need anymore.

a. What 2 or 3 negotiation strategies would you advise Andy to use in negotiating with Ben and why?

b. In general, what 2 strategies below would you say most often ruins negotiations between people and why?

Q3: Why can a hotel, motel, or restaurant usually operate with a current ratio
considerably lower than other types of businesses, such as manufacturing
companies?

Servicescapes are the physical surroundings in which a service is delivered. What is the strengths and weaknesses of the layout of that Servicescapes from the hotel industry of both service delivery and the customer?

The Palace Theater opened on April 1. All facilities were completed on March 31. At this time, the ledger showed No. 101 Cash $6,000, No. 140 Land $12,000, No. 145 Buildings (concession stand, projection room, ticket booth, and screen) $8,000, No. 157 Equipment $6,000, No. 201 Accounts Payable $2,000, No. 275 Mortgage Payable $10,000, and No. 311 Common Stock $20,000. During April, the following events and transactions occurred.

In addition to the accounts identified above, the chart of accounts shows No. 112 Accounts Receivable, No. 136 Prepaid Rent, No. 400 Service Revenue, No. 429 Rent Revenue, No. 610 Advertising Expense, No. 726 Salaries and Wages Expense, and No. 729 Rent Expense.

A. Enter the beginning balances in the ledger as of April 1

b.Journalize the April transactions. Palace records admission revenue as service revenue, rental of the concession stand as rent revenue, and film rental expense as rent expense.

c.Post the April journal entries to the ledger.

d.Prepare a trial balance on April 30, 2017.

Some of the costs vary with the number of productions, some with the number of performances, and some are fixed and depend on neither the number of productions nor the number of performances.On the other hand, the wages of the actors, directors, stagehands, ticket booth personnel, and ushers vary with the number of performances. The greater the number of performances, the higher the wage costs will be. Similarly, the costs of renting the hall and printing the programs will vary with the number of performances. Administrative expenses are more difficult to analyze, but the best estimate is that approximately 75% of the budgeted costs are fixed, 15% depend on the number of productions staged, and the remaining 10% depend on the number of performances. After the beginning of the year, the board of directors of the theater authorized expanding the theater’s program to seven productions and a total of 168 performances. Not surprisingly, actual costs were considerably higher than the costs from the planning budget.

Required:

1. Prepare a flexible budget performance report for the year that shows both spending variances and activity variances. (Indicate the effect of each variance by selecting "F" for favorable, "U" for unfavorable, and "None" for no effect (i.e., zero variance). Input all amounts as positive values.)