You have just been appointed to the post of Surgeon General of the United States. The President wants you to develop an advertising campaign called, “A healthy America by the year 2021” that encourages Americans to lead a healthier lifestyle.

What types of behaviors would you try to influence? Why? And how would you influence these behaviors?

Feel free to conduct an online search on the topic to collect materials for your answer. Provide those citations in your answer and articulate your argument with facts rather than emotion.

Recent global changes in political and economic systems show that

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• the multipolar world dominated by a number of civilizations of the Cold War era has vanished and is now being replaced by abipolar world.

• many undeveloped and impoverished national markets of eastern Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia are potentiallyenormous for international business.

• a lack of deregulation was the cause for the global financial crisis of 2008–2009.

• it is guaranteed that democracy will thrive in most of the world's newer democratic states.

• East European communist ideology is now widespread.

1. When and where did the modern Civil Rights movement get started? What was the Rosa Parks incident, and what was the outcome? What role did Dr. Martin Luther King play? What was the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

2. When and where did Africans first arrive in today’s America? What was the status of Africans in the first about 4 decades of their arrivals? Were they permanent slaves?

3. How do African Americans experience discrimination in the criminal justice and healthcare institutions?

A statistical program is recommended.

Suppose that the magnitude of earthquakes recorded in a region of North America can be modeled as having a gamma distribution with α = 0.8 and β = 2.6.

(b) What is the probability that the magnitude of an earthquake striking the region will exceed 5 on the Richter scale? (Round your answer to four decimal places.)

(c) Using an exponential distribution with mean 2.6 to model the magnitude of an earthquake striking the region, the probability an earthquake will exceed a magnitude of 5 is 0.1462. Is this probability larger or smaller than the probability found in (b)? Explain.

For each of the following transactions, construct T-account(s) to illustrate the change(s) to bank balance sheets.

a)   Midwest Bank receives a $10,000 deposit. Banking regulations require banks to hold 10% of the checkable deposits as reserves. Midwest Bank uses part of its excess reserves to make a loan worth $5,000.

b) You deposit $1,000 cash into your checking account at Bank of America. Banking regulations require banks to hold 9% of the checkable deposits as reserves.

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Brea (2014) describes the foundational approach to managing an organization's marketing analytics capability has to be ". . . direct hand-to-hand combat with the issues marketers and salespeople are tackling" [day-to-day] How was Brea able to keep executives engaged with short-term metrics while investing in technology, process, and people? How did he balance the objectives between the company's short-term perspective and long-range investments in marketing automation? Would you agree this approach is realistic in Corporate America? Why or why not?

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The amount of money requested on home loan applications at America Bank follows normal distribution, with a mean of $180,000 and a standard deviation of $6,000. A loan application is received this morning.

a) What is the probability the amount requested is $190,000 or more?

b) What is the probability the amount requested is between $178,000 and $190,000?

c) What is the probability the amount requested in below $178,000?

d) How much is requested on the largest 5% of the loans?

e) How much is requested on the smallest 5% of the loans?

You purchased 30.00 shares of Bank of America one year ago for $8.48 per share. Today, one share trades for $9.05 and paid a dividend of $1.18 per share.

A) What is the capital gain rate from holding the stock the past year?

B) What is the dividend yield from holding the stock the past year?

C) What is the total return for holding the stock the past year?

D) Based on your number of shares purchased, what is the total dollar return of your investment?

What is the role of Measurement & Knowledge Management for Performance Excellence in supporting Quality Management (QM) and Lean Management (LM)? Factoring in the impact of the Corona Virus on Measurement & Knowledge Management for Performance Excellence when America faces severe shortages of Corona Virus testing kits as well lack of ventilators and other key equipment. How would you assess their "unintended consequences" to the global economy? and how would you re-calibrate Measurement & Knowledge Management for Performance Excellence strategies based on lessons learned?