You will follow a contract-first approach using interfaces. Here are the main specifications of the contract to build the graph application. There are four interfaces.

ILocation: defines a generic interface for any location object

• It is an empty interface
• It is Comparable

ILocation2D: defines an interface for 2D locations

• gets and sets its x and y coordinates
• it extends the generic interface ILocation

ILocation3D:

• gets and sets its z coordinate.
• It extends the interface ILocation2D

ICity: defines an interface for City objects.

• gets and sets
  • the name (String),
  • location (ILocation), and
• It is Comparable.

IRoute: define a generic interface for a route.

• it is Comparable and can be compared to another IRoute object.
• gets the path as a List of ICity object
• returns the length of path as a double
• returns the location of the start location of the path as ILocation object
• returns the location of the destination location of the path as ILocation object

Transactions for Fixed Assets, Including Sale

The following transactions and adjusting entries were completed by Robinson Furniture Co. during a three-year period. All are related to the use of delivery equipment. The double-declining-balance method of depreciation is used.

Required:

Journalize the transactions and the adjusting entries. If an amount box does not require an entry, leave it blank. Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your final answers to the nearest cent.

Explain and provide an example of how a speech topic could be organized using different organizational patterns.

AND

Explain the connection between the type of outline you choose and the impact it can have on delivery.

Assignment Instructions – You must answer three questions from each chapter, for a total of 6 questions. The answer to each question that you choose should be approximately ½ page in length, single-spaced.

Chapter 9 Questions --- Answer ANY 3

1. What are some of the issues you might include in a defense of strategic philanthropy to company stockholders?
2. Describe your personal experiences with philanthropy. In what types of activities have you participated? Which companies that you do business with have a philanthropic focus? How did this focus influence your decision to buy from those companies?
3. How have changes in the business environment contributed to the growing trend in strategic philanthropy?
4. Compare and contrast cause-related marketing with strategic philanthropy. What are the unique benefits of each approach?
5. Compare social entrepreneurship to cause-related marketing and strategic philanthropy.
6. What role does top management play in developing and implementing a strategic philanthropy approach?

Thomas Railroad Company organizes its three divisions, the North (N), South (S), and West (W) regions, as profit centers. The chief executive officer (CEO) evaluates divisional performance, using income from operations as a percent of revenues. The following quarterly income and expense accounts were provided from the trial balance as of December 31:

The company operates three service departments: the Dispatching Department, the Equipment Management Department, and the Treasurer’s Department. The Dispatching Department manages the scheduling and releasing of completed trains. The Equipment Management Department manages the railroad cars inventories. It makes sure the right freight cars are at the right place at the right time. The Treasurer’s Department conducts a variety of services for the company as a whole. The following additional information has been gathered:

Required:

1. Prepare quarterly income statements showing income from operations for the three regions. Use three column headings: North, South, and West. Do not round your interim calculations.

2. What is the profit margin of each division? Round to one decimal place.

Identify the most successful region according to the profit margin.
North

3. What would you include in a recommendation to the CEO for a better method for evaluating the performance of the divisions?

1. The method used to evaluate the performance of the divisions should be reevaluated.
2. A better divisional performance measure would be the rate of return on investment (income from operations divided by divisional assets).
3. A better divisional performance measure would be the residual income (income from operations less a minimal return on divisional assets).
4. None of these choices would be included.
5. All of these choices (a, b & c) would be included.

Please Use your keyboard (Don't use handwriting) Thank you..

Courses Name: Introduction to Anatomy and Physiology BIOL 102

***Please i need more than 500 words ..

I need new and unique answers, please. (Use your own words, don't copy and paste)

Q) Choose any system of the human body and prepare a response to the following questions in 1-2 pages:

1. Introduction(Explain the system with the components)
2. Body(Explain how the system relates to achieve homeostasis in human body)
3. Conclusion( Choose any disease common in KSA and explain how and which part of the system is affected)

***Please i need more than 500 words ..

I need new and unique answers, please. (Use your own words, don't copy and paste)

Name a few operating systems that you worked on (or had contact with).

Describe your experience and answer comparative questions like:

- Which one was the oldest / most recent?

- Which one was the oddest? why? - Which one was more fun? why?

- Which particular OS feature do you like most? why?

- Which particular OS feature do you dislike most? why?

What are some ways that you can display ethics and core values to parents?

1. MagnetoBalls are composed of 216 strong magnet beads that can be arranged into different shapes. Due to the mutual attraction between the mini magnet poles, Bucky balls small magnets cube can be combined in to any geometry freely. These are sold and marketed by MagnetoBalls, Inc. In their marketing Magneto Balls states that they are a “stress relief desktop toy” and “cool magnetic building intellectual toy”. All of the advertising and marketing materials produced by the company contain the prominent warning: “Caution: Keep Away from all Children” but does not explain that the magnet balls can cause severe injury or death to children if swallowed, despite notification from the Consumer Product Safety Commission that an explanation of the danger is needed. The television commercial for the product shows several scenes of people enjoying Magnetoballs, including an executive making different shapes while at a meeting and a group of 13 year old student in class using Magnetoballs for a physics experiment. Ginny Genius, age 13, sees the commercial and purchases Magnetballs to do her own experiment. One of the balls comes loose from the shape she has formed and she accidentally swallows it. That night she complains to her parents of severe stomach pain and she is rushed to the hospital. The hospital removes the magnet but informs her parents that she has lasting damage to her stomach lining as a result of the magnet. Ginny sues MagnetoBalls for the medical costs as well as pain and suffering currently and in the future from this incident. Please evaluate this claim against MagnetoBalls.

To be done in Python 3.7

Some Web sites impose certain rules for passwords. Write a function that checks whether a string is a valid password. Suppose the password rules are as follows:

• A password must have at least eight characters.

• A password must consist of only letters and digits.

• A password must contain at least two digits.

Write a program that prompts the user to enter a password and displays valid password if the rules are followed or invalid password otherwise.

• A password cannot contain the word ‘password’
• A password cannot end with ‘123’

Your program should define a class called Password, which is in its own file called password.py. You should have another file called assn13-task2.py that has code the creates and uses a Password object. All input and print functions should be in in this file. Your program will prompt the user for a password, and after completing will ask the user if they want to enter another. The program should only ever create one instance of Password. Your Password class should have at least the following:

• setPassword() method
• isValid() method
  • This should return a Boolean
• getErrorMessage() method
  • This should return a string that indicates all problems with the password
  • It should be called if isValid() returns False
  • The isValid() method can generate this string as it tests each password requirement
    • Hint: create a private instance variable called __message to save it
  • Example return string
    • “must have 8 characters\nmust have at least 2 digits\ncannot end in 123”

Northwest Paperboard Company, a paper and allied products manufacturer, was seeking to gain a foothold in Canada. Toward that end, the company bought 40% of the outstanding common shares of Vancouver Timber and Milling, Inc., on January 2, 2021, for $600 million.

At the date of purchase, the book value of Vancouver's net assets was $875 million. The book values and fair values for all balance sheet items were the same except for inventory and plant facilities. The fair value exceeded book value by $5 million for the inventory and by $30 million for the plant facilities.

The estimated useful life of the plant facilities is 15 years. All inventory acquired was sold during 2021.

Vancouver reported net income of $220 million for the year ended December 31, 2021. Vancouver paid a cash dividend of $60 million.

Required:
1. Prepare all appropriate journal entries related to the investment during 2021.
2. What amount should Northwest report as its income from its investment in Vancouver for the year ended December 31, 2021?
3. What amount should Northwest report in its balance sheet as its investment in Vancouver?
4. What should Northwest report in its statement of cash flows regarding its investment in Vancouver?

⦁   CASE STUDY

The Allure of Franchising

Neil Erlich knew that he wanted to be an entrepreneur when he helped start a contracting business when he was just 14 years old. During his junior year at Sonoma State University, Erlich, with help from his father, a corporate executive, began investigating franchise options that would suit his interests and skills. They honed in on the automotive service industry and reviewed the regulations of several franchises, including Total, Jiffy Lube, and Midas, before settling on Express Oil Change. Erlich was particularly impressed with the support that Express Oil Change offered its franchisees. When Erlich graduated with a business degree, his father put up $375,000 to help him purchase and set up the $1.5 million franchise operation. Erlich, who is the youngest franchisee in the Express Oil Change system, sees the franchisor’s support as one of the greatest benefits of choosing to open a franchise rather than an independent business of his own.” The franchisor is there for you," he says. "It’s very comforting. "

Like Erlich, a growing number of college graduates and twenty-something adults who are disenchanted w*+
th the prospects of a dull job in the corporate grind are looking to franchising as a promising career choice. Indeed, franchising is attracting people of all ages and backgrounds, from corporate dropouts and military veterans to retired Baby Boomers and corporate castoffs.
” People say, ’I put 20 years into a company, and because they ran into some tough times, they let me go,’” explains Ray Titus, head of the United Franchise Group.” They think, ’Do I want to put myself into a position where I may get laid off again?’ Instead, they take control of their future by running their own businesses." For many of them, franchising is the perfect fit.

Retirees who are looking for second careers also are turning to franchising as well. "They’ve got school-of-hard-knocks experience and business skills that they can apply on day one at a franchise," says Michael Shay of the International Franchise Association. Judy Divita, a retired corporate human resources manager, and her husband Charlie, a retired college professor and consultant, decided to embark on second careers as franchisees rather than stop working. After researching franchise opportunities, they opened a Subway franchise in Columbia, South Carolina, not far from where Charlie had taught at the University of South Carolina. Over the next nine years, the Divitas opened five more sandwich shops in Columbia, including one on the university campus. In addition to their built-in market of college students, they target the players on the athletic teams that come to campus to participate in more than 400 sporting events ranging from baseball and football to basketball and volleyball each year. The Divitas have won the MVP Award Winner for Innovation from Multi-Unit Franchisee magazine. Their nine outlets generate $4.5 million in annual sales, and the couple’s goal is to have 13 Subway locations within 10 years.” The franchise gives you the basic things to put you in business pretty quickly," says Charlie.” You have to take it beyond that and be creative to come up with novel ways of doing things that are particular to your company and your community.”

Franchising can be the ideal path to owning a business for people in almost any phase of professional life, whether they are retirees looking for a new direction and extra income or recent college graduates who are ready to embark on exciting careers. "Boosted by a brand name, training, advertising, and an established business plan, a franchise can ease the struggle and the risk of opening a business and still let you call some shots,” says one business writer.

⦁   QUESTIONS:
Answer the below questions based on the text above, the course material, your own experience and information search on the internet and in academic sources from the AOU e-library. (i.e. companies’ webpages, AOU e-library databases…)

⦁   These examples show people at different stages of their professional lives choosing to become business owners with the help of a franchise. What conclusions can you draw from their stories about the benefits and appeal of franchising? (300 words – 40- marks)

⦁   What are the disadvantages of investing in a franchise? (200 words – 30 marks)

⦁   Suppose that one of your friends who is about to graduate is considering purchasing a franchise. What advice would you offer him or her before signing the franchise contract? (200 words – 30 marks)

How might you use IR spectroscopy to determine whether the reaction is really complete after 35-40 min?  

When Kim Smith graduated with a degree in civil engineering, she pictured herself designing buildings and managing construction. She never imagined herself behind a computer writing reports. However, that is exactly where Kim finds herself today. She has just finished a major project: an environmental assessment of a plot of land on which a client wants to build an office park. Emily, the senior engineer on the project has asked Kim to write the client report. When Kim asked Emily if she could give her a model to follow, Kim pointed to the file cabinet and said, "Sure, you'll find lots of reports in there." Kim found a lot of reports: long ones, short ones, letter reports, and memo reports. The diversity confused her, but she was glad that she saved her business communication textbook from Concordia University. Kim begins writing her report using the 3x3 Writing Process. Her audience, the CEO of Halvorson Properties, wants to know whether it is safe to build an office park on the property he owns. Because this decision has significant financial and environmental effects, Kim decides to write a formal letter report that clearly communicates the message that the property is safe. Kim's research indicated that the site has not been affected by hazardous waste or contaminated groundwater. In the body of the report she will provide enough details about her methodology and findings to give Mr. Halvorson confidence in the assessment. With those decisions in mind. Kim sits down and write's the following report introduction: Dear Mr. Halvorson: At your request, we have conducted an investigation of the site defined by the attached survey map for the purposes of rendering an opinion as to whether the site contains hazardous waste or is being impacted by contaminated groundwater. Our investigation consisted of making soil borings and visual observations of the ground surface, vegetation, and drainage patterns and laboratory testing of soil samples. The testing included physical properties testing and chemical testing of the water extracted from the soil. In addition, we have examined various maps and aerial photos, contacted various government agencies, and contacted the power company in our efforts to determine whether the hazardous waste is known to have impacted the site. our findings are as follows: Your task is to revise Kim's introduction and rewrite it to promote clarity and conciseness.

Anna Wright is considering opening a Kwik Oil Change Center. She estimates the following monthly costs: rent $6,000; depreciation on equipment $7,000; and wages $16,400. Additionally, each oil change will include five quarts of oil at $1.80 per quart and one oil filter that will cost $3.00. She must also pay The Kwik Corporation a franchise fee of $1.40 per oil change. In addition, she has collected the following data from the company regarding utility costs. The total utility cost is based on the number of monthly oil changes.

What is the variable cost per oil change?