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Task 2: Examples of how Colgate can strategically apply organizational capabilities and resources

Colgate’s organizational capabilities and resources for new plastics

Colgate has been in operations for a long time. The advantage of its size and experience in its industry include the fact that it has gained a lot of capabilities and resources that are used strategically to provide competitive advantage in its industry and market. Some of the main organizational capabilities for Colgate include talent, speed, brand identity, accountability, leadership, customer connectivity, innovation, and efficiency.

VRIO Analysis Colgate

Value Rarity Imitability Organization

Colgate has a diverse product line supported by highly valuable financial resources that help in investments The distribution networks and the financial resources of the company are very rare The company focuses more than 70% on its main product (toothpaste) making it very hard for other firms to imitate Reinforces differentiation factor through targeted advertising to supplement consumer loyalty

Consumer insights drives innovation and a team of highly specialized employees Endorsements from industry experts such as doctors and dentists are also rare Very high advertising expenditure that makes imitation very difficult Reinvestments are internally funded without tapping into parent company’s resources

Very low production costs driven by the company’s large R&D Its vast research and development is very rare Trust with the consumer base for the company’s product is very hard to imitate Very strong global market presence due to years of existence

Advantages (S) and Disadvantages (W) of Colgate

Resource/Capabilities Valuable Rare Imitable Organization Competitive Advantage

Financial resources yes yes yes yes Sustainable

Distribution Networks yes yes yes yes Strong

Positive Market reputation yes yes no yes Long term

Employees yes no no yes Unused

Cost Structure yes yes no yes Disadvantage

Research and Development yes no no yes Parity

From the VRIO analysis above, the financial resource and the distribution network of the company are the main sources of sustained competitive advantage and its major strength. However, the cost structure of the company, especially through its R&D structure, is a source of weakness and a competitive disadvantage.

Application of Capabilities and Resources

Financial resources can be used to fund the new plastic campaign

Financial resources will create optimization of the performance in the competitive business environment, which requires that an organization understands the dynamics of change, whether external or internal (Martelo, Barroso, & Cepeda, 2013). Optimization means creating efficiency and innovation in the internal firm environment.

Financial resources will help to reinforce new plastic-related innovation

Innovation is a key resource in the sense that it not only generates competitive advantage, but also overturns that of other rival firms.

Financial capabilities will overturn the strength of rival organizations in creating plastic alternatives

Colgate is also able to neutralize threats and exploit opportunities in the future or current business environment while utilizing its strengths and minimizing its weaknesses. Due to its size and period of operations, Colgate has the ability to buy and build capabilities and resources. These advantages also enable it to sustain competitive advantage.

Financial resources can be used to create competitive advantage through vigorous advertising of new plastic initiatives

Colgate can use its unique resources to distinguish itself from the competitors and become a source of sustainable superior performance and competitive advantage. Colgate would achieve this competitive advantage when the resources or competences are valuable, rare, are inimitable, and non-substitutable. Colgate must also be in a position to organize its resources well to attain superior performance.

Its distribution network will be used to reach millions of users to get ahead of the competition

Colgate can use its core competences to integrate its major resources to provide quality services, processes and products. For example, the organization culture and the interfirm social relationships enable innovation in the organization since they provide tacit knowledge. Examples for Colgate include strengths and competences that connect the company to customers facilitating an opportunity to perform better such as market access, brand management, technical customer support, integrity, quality and knowledge management system, innovation management, customer value, and functionality.

Problems and Issues Colgate may have with their current capabilities and resources and suggestions to overcome them

Colgate has several strategic resources and capabilities that have evolved from decades of improvements and innovations. The value added products, many aspects of creating user and buying experience, price advantages, an innovation culture, and superior products are just some of the valuable, rare, inimitable, and non-substitutable resources and capabilities the company has gained over the last years of operations.

However, some emergent problems and issues with the current capabilities and resources include new market entrants with the knowledge and capabilities that the firm has had years to perfect. Newer dynamics in the toothpaste and related sectors have also led to a need for the organization to constantly keep innovating (Amui et al., 2017). The changing external environment has also created a situation where the company has had to constantly keep changing its products and market strategies, meaning that it has constantly faced challenges in relation to learning and growth. The overall effect of these problems includes the emerging issue of a very uncertain environment. While opportunities may arise from these issues, the challenges cannot be underestimated. Creating strategies to suit a constantly changing external environment drains the resources and capability of the company. It increases the cost of products due to last minute changes to aspects such as design, packaging, and other value addition approaches.

To overcome the issues mentioned above, Colgate must look at the shifting consumer sentiments to evaluate the likely direction for the organization in near future strategies. It is recommended that the company simplifies, diversifies, considers, and avoids aggressive strategies. The external uncertainties do not have a best-practice strategy. Rather, it would be beneficial for the organization to simplify its approach through narrowing down of the strategic initiatives. For example, the issue of plastics might need the company to consider what has worked in the past while abandoning unproven and risky products. Additionally, diversification allows a firm to reduce and spread risk. For example, it is suggested that Colgate expands into a new area that includes new products that accompany the main products and through pursuing newer customer segments. This would enable the firm to leverage its resources and capabilities to ensure that if market dynamics change for one area, other areas are covered. Lastly, it is important to reduce aggressive strategies. For example, Colgate could focus on reducing new products in the market instead of aggressively expanding its operations. This would ensure that growth is controlled and the uncertainties in the market addressed.

References

Amui, L. B. L., Jabbour, C. J. C., de Sousa Jabbour, A. B. L., & Kannan, D. (2017). Sustainability as a dynamic organizational capability: a systematic review and a future agenda toward a sustainable transition. Journal of Cleaner Production, 142, 308-322.

Martelo, S., Barroso, C., & Cepeda, G. (2013). The use of organizational capabilities to increase customer value. Journal of Business Research, 66(10), 2042-2050.

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How College Education is Different for Millennials and Generation X

Introduction

Generation X refers to people born between 1965 and 1980, while millennials are individuals born between 1981 and 1996. Compared to their parents, the lives that millennials lead are entirely different from those their parents lived when they were their age. The college experiences have changed drastically over the years. It is no secret that current generations are more learned than all other preceding generations of people with the number of young adults holding a bachelor’s degree rising steadily from 1968. This text discusses the differences in education experience between millennials and generation X as regards the cost, diversity, religiousness and technological advancements.

College Education is More Expensive Today

One of the ways in which college education differs for generation X and millenials is that it is more costly than it was a few decades ago, between 1965 and 1980. According to statistics, the cost of college tuition has doubled in number since the 1980s. Worth noting, between the 1980s and 2018 academic year, the cost of attaining an undergraduate degree increased by 213% in public schools to adjust for inflation. Additionally, the annual public tuition fees were $1 490 compared to today’s exorbitant price of $9,970. When adjusted for inflation, private tuitions saw a 129% increase in tuition fees for the same period. On the other hand, during the 1980s, a private undergraduate degree costs $7 050 and equivalent of $15 160 in today’s currency. On the contrary, its costs an average of $34 740 to complete a Bachelor’s degree today. As a matter of fact, college education in the States is expensive to the extent that federal and local governments finance it. The majority of students who take up student loans to finance their college education graduate with student loans amounting to up to 40,000 dollars which they repay once they have graduated and found employment.

College Education for Millennials is More Technologically Advanced.

Secondly, another difference is that the current college education is more technologically advanced than that generation X experienced. Millennials enjoy great benefits of technology, such as the use of laptops, iPods, and mobile devices, which their parents never enjoyed because there was no internet at the time. Although electronic gadgets have made learning easier and convenient, they have their downside too because they distract students. The college education experience for millennials has completely revolutionized because if they happen to miss a class, most lectures provide them with recorded lectures (Enam and Karthik, 70). Additionally, desktops and typewriters have been replaced with laptops which they use to take notes in class. Furthermore, millennials are in a better position than generation X because they use computers instead of writing notes manually. Students also rate professors online and use social media to stay connected to each other. These are privileges that generation X individuals could not enjoy because back them technology was not as advanced as it is today.

Increased Ethnic and Culturally Diverse Student Population.

Diversity is the third factor that shows how different the college experiences for millennials were from those of their parents. Statistics drastically suggest that since 1970, the student population in colleges has transformed. 2018, a student research project carried out by Chegg, a renowned educational company, found a minority enrollment of 42% compared to 15% in 1970. This is after sampling a population of 1,000 students. It’s worth noting that females comprise more than 50% of the total student population compared to 1970 when they less than half. Moreover, millennials are also attending colleges while they are a bit older than before. Currently, 40% of millennial student populations are more than 25 years old in comparison to 28 years during the previous years.

Millennials are Not As Religious as Generation X

Religion is another aspect that shows the differences between college education between millenials and generation X. The Huffington Post posits that the number of college first years that do not identify with religion has risen from 16% in 2005 to 15% in 2014 (Kurz, Geng, and Daniel, 194). The research cited the University of California’s Cooperative Institutional Research programs, which surveyed over 150,000 full-time first-year students in over 200 universities and colleges. Additionally, the number of students in catholic colleges that do not identify with any religion rose by over 4% during the period in review. Moreover, the percentage of college students that do not associate with religion in religious institutions also rose. This is contrary to generation X, who were more religious than millennials.

Conclusion

In closing, the college experiences of generation X is very different from that of millennial. The cost of a college education has increased over the years, and college students’ composition has become more diverse. Moreover, Millennials are lucky as they currently employ technology in their learning, which generation X did not encounter because back- technology was not as advanced as today. Further, millennials are less religious than their generation X counterparts. Both generations had unique experiences in college education and while some are negative majority are positive.

Works Cited

Enam, Annesha, and Karthik C. Konduri. “Time allocation behavior of twentieth-century American generations: GI generation, silent generation, baby boomers, generation X, and millennials.” Transportation Research Record 2672.49 (2018): 69-80.

Kurz, Christopher J., Geng Li, and Daniel J. Vine. “Are millennials different?.” Handbook of US consumer economics. Academic Press, 2019. 193-232.

Week 4: Collaboration Cafe

With new information continually emerging, professional nurses must be equipped to critique scholarly literature and discern its value for practice.  

Select one current, qualitative or mixed methods scholarly nursing article related to your PICOT question and determine its strengths, limitations, and potential application.

Complete the Johns Hopkins Nursing Evidence Based Practice Appendix E Evidence Appraisal Tool Download Johns Hopkins Nursing Evidence Based Practice Appendix E Evidence Appraisal Tool. Once you’ve completed the tool, use your own words to summarize your appraisal of the article. Include the following:

Description of the purpose

Explanation of research design

Discussion of sample

Description of data collection methods

Summary of findings

Strengths of the study (minimum of 1)

Limitations of the study (minimum of 1)

Recommendations regarding potential application for future practice that are insightful and appropriate.

Attach the article to your post, in addition to including the full reference for the article in your post.

During the week, read a minimum of two articles posted by peers and add your thoughts about whether you feel their article would support an EBP change.

The John Hopkins tool does not need to be turned in, it is a worksheet for you to decide what type of article you have. 

**To view the grading criteria/rubric, please click on the 3 dots in the box at the end of the solid gray bar above the discussion board title and then Show Rubric.

WEEK 4 QUALITATIVE OR MIXED METHODS JOURNAL ARTICLES QUANTITATIVE, META-ANALYSIS, CPG

Qualitative or mixed methods studies only. Types of qualitative research:  narrative (phenomenology), ethnography and historical. Type of mixed methods research: explanatory, exploratory, transformative, triangulation, transformative.

To prepare for the Café, review Appendix E in the Dang and Dearholt (2018) eBook and search the library for a qualitative or mixed methods article related to your area of interest. Use library resources to assist you in your search. For additional questions about Collaboration Café requirements, refer to the grading rubric.

In obese, school-aged, low-income children what is the effect of education on healthy diet and encouragement to exercise compared to lack of education and absence of exercise on lowering body weight, BMI, and percentage of body fat over one school year?

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Collaborative Planning, Forecasting, and Replenishment CPFRF is a technique used by large-scale and small-scale firms in their supply chain to assist and support joint practices at different levels of the supply chain. The CPFR is adopted to enhance cooperative inventory management and improve an organization’s supply chain. It seeks to eliminate mistakes and errors in the supply chain that would otherwise disrupt operations in different supply chain levels.

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Collaborative Planning, Forecasting, and Replenishment CPFR is a technique used by large-scale and small-scale firms in their supply chain to assist and support joint practices at different levels of the supply chain. The CPFR is adopted to enhance cooperative inventory management and improve an organization’s supply chain. It seeks to eliminate mistakes and errors in the supply chain that would otherwise disrupt operations in different supply chain levels. The supply chain for Feets Shoe Company can improve its performance by incorporating the CPFR method in its supply chain. It will allow the company to share adequate information regarding the respective product at different supply chain stages to facilitate planning, especially at the retail level, and the ultimate satisfaction of their customers.

The CPFR approach enhances the vertical coordination and incentives specialization across firm-level boundaries. It gives directions and principles to determine ethical and unethical behaviors in the company and its supply chain. Through adequate information distribution through the CPFR approach, Fleets company can recognize the implications of local and federal laws regarding business ethical standards. High-profile cases such as the shoe wear supply chain are prone to lack transparency to determine the activities at every stage of the supply chain. The Fleets company can benefit from using the CPFR technique and allow for transparency and effective coordination. The Fleets shoe company can identify their source of influence for ethical behaviors in the supply chain and implement the outcomes, hence perfecting operations at different supply chain stages.

The CPFR model provides a stable and practical framework that facilitates a smooth flow of commodities and information from vendors to the final consumer of the product. The technique also helps the Fleets company enhance its supply chain management by allowing the leaders to discover their true definition of loyalty. It makes it much easier to resolve disputes at different levels of the supply chain if players at this stage fail to adhere to the code of conduct or are involved in unethical behavior that can potentially jeopardize the supply chain of the Fleets Company. The CPFR model guides the retailers who provide shoes to act ethically by forecasting and determining the correct orders to offset consumer demands. An unbalanced market will likely lead to overpriced commodities due to very high demands. It means that retailers exploit consumers due to the disruption in the supply chain.

It is undeniable that the CPFR has helped many organizations streamline their supply chain and improve their general performance. It helps eliminate grey areas and allows for more trust between players at different levels of the supply chain. Fleets Company should consider adopting the model to gain more transparency and establish ethical behaviors for its employees, vendors, and retailers. This action will provide guidelines for handling unethical behaviors and consequent punishments.

Topic: Collapse of the Soviet Union

Requirements:

10-15 pages

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Unlimited sources accepted as long ass they are cited correctly.

Causes that led to the collapseEffects of the collapse

What did this mean to the United States and how did the United States respond

Look into events and/or uprisings that led to the collapse

Collecting Resources Worksheet #1

(30 raw hw pts)

Name: Mireya Ibanez

Research Question:

Options for Asking a LibrarianUA Specific Research SupportMore TutorialsWorksheet Table of Contents

TOC h u z n Activity #1: Search the Library CatalogActivity #2: Search for Resources in PeriodicalsActivity #3: Search HumanitiesActivity #4: Search Natural SciencesActivity #5: Social SciencesActivity #6: Applied FieldsActivity #7: Reflect on Disciplinary Learning

Activity #1: Search the Library Catalog

You will find a wide variety of types of resources just searching the library catalog.

Go to the UA Library homepage and use the search engine for a general search. The general search will pull up books, both paper and digital, as well as other digital sources (journal, magazine, and news articles, films, etc.). Keep track of your more promising search results; write down titles, authors, and URLs below for at least two (2) results (make sure you know where/how to find the sources again; you might want to download a PDF if you have the option).

Resource #1:

Title: Sports- related concussions-media, science and policy

Author: Rebekah Mannix, William P. Meehan iii and Alvaro Pascual-Leone

https://arizona-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/1h28lag/TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_5333496

Resource #2:

Title: It’s Not All Fun and Games: Sports, Concussions, and Neuroscience

Author: Christopher C. Giza, Mayumi L. Prins, and David A. Honda

https://arizona-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/1h28lag/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1913398832

Activity #2: Search for Resources in Periodicals

These search results will most likely provide both popular (non-academic) and academic sources.

Academic Databases: click on the “databases” tab from the UA Library homepageUA Library Databases by Subject PageGoogle Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/ (I suggest you go to settings and connect Google Scholar to the UA Library)

Newspaper Databases (searched the UA library database list)

Be sure to keep track of your more promising search results; write down titles, authors, and URLs below for at least two (2) results (make sure you know where/how to find the sources again; you might want to download a PDF if you have the option).

Resource #3:

Tittle: Why is it hard to stop sports concussions?

Author: Stephen Piazza

http://ezproxy.library.arizona.edu/login?url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43707837

Resource #4:

Tittle: Schools should heed concerns over sports’ brain injuries

Author: Julie Underwood

http://ezproxy.library.arizona.edu/login?url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24893267Activity #3: Search Humanities

Go to the UA Library Databases by Subject page. Search one arts and one humanities database using some/all of your research search terms (it doesn’t matter whether you think your research is related to the arts or humanities). Find at least one (1) source (you must be able to read the full text) about your subject/topic in each database, two (2) sources total. Seriously consider limiting your database search results to only peer-reviewed/refereed sources. For each source, write down titles, authors, and URLs below (make sure you know where/how to find the sources again; you might want to download a PDF if you have the option).

Resource #5:

Tittle: Traumatic brain injury reduction in athletes by neck strengthening

Author:

https://arizona-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/1h28lag/TN_cdi_doaj_primary_oai_doaj_org_article_62a012f58d334d3a869d651a9c81cdf5Resource #6:

Tittle: Concussions: A sport ethics commentary

Author: Dr. rob Hudson and Dr. Brandon Spradley

https://thesportjournal.org/article/concussions-a-sport-ethics-commentary/

Activity #4: Search Natural Sciences

Go to the UA Library Databases by Subject page. Search two different sciences databases using some/all of your research search terms (it doesn’t matter whether you think your research is related to the sciences). Find at least one (1) source (you must be able to read the full text) about your subject/topic in each database, two (2) sources total. Seriously consider limiting your database search results to only peer-reviewed/refereed sources. For each source, write down titles, authors, and URLs below (make sure you know where/how to find the sources again; you might want to download a PDF if you have the option).

Resource #7:

Tittle: Cerebral Microhemorrhages in a collegiate Football Player: Clinical Implications in the Management of Sports ConcussonsAuthor: Irfan M. Asif, Kimberly G. Harmon, Jonathan A. Drezner, John W. Okanehttps://doi-org.ezproxy4.library.arizona.edu/10.1177/1941738110374628Resource #8:

Tittle: Prevention of Sport-Related Concussion

Author: Peter K. Kriz and William O. Roberts

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csm.2020.08.007Activity #5: Social Sciences

Go to the UA Library Databases by Subject page. Search two different social sciences databases using some/all of your research search terms (it doesn’t matter whether you think your research is related to the social sciences). Find at least one (1) source (you must be able to read the full text) about your subject/topic in each database, two (2) sources total. Seriously consider limiting your database search results to only peer-reviewed/refereed sources. For each source, write down titles, authors, and URLs below (make sure you know where/how to find the sources again; you might want to download a PDF if you have the option).

Resource #9:

Tittle: Concussion Epidemiology in Youth Sports: Sports Study of a Statewide High School Sports ProgramAuthor:Benjamin Chun, Troy Furutani, Ross Oshiro, Casey Young, Gale Prentiss, Nathan Murata

http://ezproxy.library.arizona.edu/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=sph&AN=147578669&site=ehost-live

Resource #10:

Tittle: Concussion Knowledge, Attitude, and Risk Management Practices of High School Girls’ soccer coaches

Author: Kim Sungwon, Daniel P. Connaughton, Michael Sagas, Yong Jae Ko

http://ezproxy.library.arizona.edu/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=sph&AN=147377265&site=ehost-liveActivity #6: Applied Fields

Go to the UA Library Databases by Subject page. Search two different applied field databases using some/all of your research search terms (it doesn’t matter whether you think your research is related to the social sciences). Find at least one (1) source (you must be able to read the full text) about your subject/topic in each database, two (2) sources total. Seriously consider limiting your database search results to only peer-reviewed/refereed sources. For each source, write down titles, authors, and URLs below (make sure you know where/how to find the sources again; you might want to download a PDF if you have the option).

Resource #11:

Tittle: Implications for concussion assessments and return-to-play standards in intercollegiate football: How are the risks managed?

Author: John J. Miller, John T Wendt, Nick Potter

http://ezproxy.library.arizona.edu/login?url=https://www-proquest-com.ezproxy4.library.arizona.edu/scholarly-journals/implications-concussion-assessments-return-play/docview/1730037906/se-2?accountid=8360

Resource #12:

Tittle: Reducing Traumatic Brain Injuries in Youth Sports: Youth Sports Traumatic Brain Injury State Laws, January 2009-December 2012

Author: Hosea Harvey

http://ezproxy.library.arizona.edu/login?url=https://www-proquest-com.ezproxy4.library.arizona.edu/scholarly-journals/reducing-traumatic-brain-injuries-youth-sports/docview/1399924101/se-2?accountid=8360Activity #7: Reflect on Disciplinary Learning

You just read about your topic from a variety of different perspectives. What did you learn? What surprised you? What would you like to know more about? Free write for at least 2-3 paragraphs.

I learned a variety of ways and clinical studies that were being conducted regarding concussions in general. I was able to see the different ways people were being affected by concussions not only in high school. As well as some techniques being made to help prevent but also to help after the concussion was attained. This was very interesting to look at the different ways concussions were incorporated in different peoples lives. Although I did find some research that wasn’t narrowed down to high school, I believe learning about all ages is important. I also think it was crucial for me to get research that looked at before, during, and after the injury has occurred.

I was surprised at the facts and statistics that were being presented in the research. As well as the fact that I thought about neck strengthening and then I found an article regarding that. I was very surprised at how common and universal concussions were. They occurred all over and there was an abundance of research being done to learn more about the topic. I was also surprised at the type of studies that were being conducted involving young athletes.

I would like to know more about the repercussions from getting a concussion. So, what short term affects there and what long term affects there are. As well as does playing sports from a young age have any affect? Does continuing on to college ball or professional have any affect? If so, what are they? I would also like to know if age and gender have any affect with obtaining concussions? As well as if a certain time period is better for recovery and prevention?

Coast Guard

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Amanda Hallman

Savannah State University

Coast Guard

Coastguard is a sea retreat association of a definite nation. The term assumes roughly to

different responsibilities in various nations, from being a dynamically prepared armed power with backgrounds and security to being unpaid assistant association assigned with an analysis, defends works, and without any law prerequisite powers (Michel,2016). The platform gets ready substitutes for open and reserved area positions in the emerging field. The HSEM program exploits an interdisciplinary tactic, planning alternates with the knowledge, skills, and dimensions to use and establish the full choice of bound and resources to enhance results in a humiliation whether systematic or human-caused.

The program offers understudies' info particular to numerous kinds and aims for the disaster, lessons from past calamities, and both comprehensive and threat of a particular practices that swift viable hatred, improvement, willingness, response, and retrieval.

This course gives strategies and policies to understudies who want to shape their vision, abilities, and dimensions in the security of crucial basis mechanisms. The course focus around the directing agenda areas, for example, marine, energy, SCADA, regulator, broadcasting public services, network and numerical foundation (Michel,2016).

The course gives introductory point of interpretation in the problem of how our current administration crisis management and point protect advanced on the potentials, abilities, and properties of its combined contexts. This course moreover focuses on the morals and performs of nation security and emergency management at the region, national, and government levels. The exploration of Country Safety and Emergency Administration gives the responsibilities that might depend on a theme watch. Some of the assistances skilled include, pursuit and protect, Execution of sea law, Security of containers, upkeep of seamarks, and boundary control.

The sole purpose of HSEM is to ensure that the community is resilient and well prepared. It, therefore, serves as the starting point for preparedness, response, recovery, and education in an emergency or disaster. The coast guard in united states operates under the department of homeland security. Its role is that it ensures the law is reinforced at sea by providing that drugs interdicted in addition to protecting the interests of the United States in as far as fishing is concerned.

Additionally, it provides illegal immigration is maintained at a minimum in the sea. HSEM uses several tools to achieve this objective of law enforcement. The coast guard efficiently ensures that lives are saved at sea. Many lives are lost in the sea owing to illegal activities and lack of predefined laws to protect the people who depend on the sea. HSEM, therefore, serves as the primary response in case disaster strikes at sea. Effectively, many lives saved and future occurrences deterred by providing training and intervention programs.

Through effective training methods, the United States Coast Guard adequately ensures that all individuals at sea know about responding to a disaster. Disaster management is at the forefront of the tools that the department uses to mitigate any impending attacks. Secondly, the coast guard uses patrols to efficiently gain intelligence and prevent any imminent assaults of natural disasters. All the waters under the United States control are effectively under the umbrella of the Coastguard. By patrolling, the department prevents illegal activities which may be dangerous on the American people. Illicit goods intercepted at sea.

These goods if allowed into the country would be detrimental to the economy and may pose more significant health dangers since they do not undergo the prerequisite standards which ensure the safety of the people. In addition to preventing illegal smuggling, it also protects the resources of the United States. Water is a natural resource in conjunction with fish. Frequent patrolling of the sea waters prevents at most illegal activities which pose a danger to the fish. Illegal fishing activities are therefore reduced to a bare minimum by the Department of Homeland Security and Emergency management department.

Additionally, the coast guard uses the search and rescue tool to ensures patrols at sea are for the safety of the people. It possesses many ships and boats with the sole aim of carrying out constant searches and rescue operations in the coast and the sea. Under the emergency umbrella, individuals who work at the coast guard efficiently ensure that all the citizens who use the sea are comfortable and accounted. In case of any discrepancies, the coast guard takes the mantle of providing that its people are safe at any particular instance.

The Coast Guard has many laws, but I wanted to focus mainly on Law Enforcement

Detachments. Law Enforcement Detachments are specialized deployable maritime law

enforcement teams of the United States Coast Guard. It was established in 1982. The

primary mission is to deploy aboard the U.S and allied naval vessels to conduct and support

maritime law enforcement, interdiction or security operations. The coast guard officially

established the Law Enforcement Detachment program in 1982. In 1986, the public law specifically authorized the establishment of billets for active duty coast guard personnel to carry out drug interdiction operations from naval surfaces vessels provided by the department of defense.

The Posse Comitatus Act and department policy didn’t aloud department of defense personnel from directly engaging in law enforcement activities were tasked with operating abroad United States Navy ships to investigate contacts and conduct boarding’s by Coast Guard policy and directives. The Coast Guard designated the lead agency for the interdiction and apprehension of illegal drug traffickers on the high seas. To meet these statutory responsibilities, the Department of Defense began deploying surface assets to drug interdiction areas, making ships available for direct support of Coast Guard law enforcement operations.

In the 1990s the individual Law enforcement detachments were consolidated under three Tactical Law Enforcement Teams. The Tactical Law Enforcement team North based in Chesapeake, Virginia and the Tactical Law Enforcement Team Gulf based in New Orleans Louisiana. The Tactical Law Enforcement South based in Opa-Locka, Florida and lastly the Pacific Area, Tactical Law Enforcement Team, based in San Diego, California. In 2004, Tablet north was decommissioned and merged with Maritime Safety and Security Team to form a new counter-terrorism unit which was eventually named the Maritime Security Response Team.

From July 2007 to April 2013 the Tactical Law Enforcement and Law Enforcement Detachments were part of the Coast Guards Deployable Operations Group to organize the Coast Guards. Various deployable specialized force under a single command. In April 2013, the DOG disbanded, and the Tickets returned to control of the area commanders. The Law Enforcement Detachments currently consist of anywhere between six to eleven members and are usually commanded by Lieutenant. Personnel is trained in close quarters to combat vertical insertion techniques and container climbing.

Counterdrug operations are the LEDETs primary mission, although they also conduct other military indication mission types. The first joint U.S Coast Guard, U.S Navy airborne use of force interdiction, occurred on September 10th 2006 from the Tablet South and Detachment 1 from the United States Navy helicopter. This topic is essential in our daily activities and our future at significant because it deals with important parts of our lives.

Every Citizen is entitling to security hence this topic is making an alarm on how we can respond to national security threat. Coast Guard is always with Homeland Security because It is operating under Homeland Security. The only time the Coast Guard doesn’t deal with Homeland Security is when working as a service in the Navy. Hence it has maritime law enforcement missions with the jurisdiction in both domestic and international waters. Coast Guard is pretty cool because people don’t realize how much Coast Guard benefits our country and how much they help.

Things that The US Coast Guard will do in a day are things like, Conduct 109 search and rescue cases. Protect 2,791,841 in property, board 144 vessels, seize 169 pounds of marijuana and 306 pounds of cocaine worth 9,589,000 dollars, and respond to 20 oil hazardous chemical spills totaling 2,800 gallons and much more stuff that they have to do. I think this is a better job to be carried on to enhance better and tight security for more safety to our nation. That is many things that the Coast Guard has to deal with during a typical day. Those are essential things that have to get done to keep our country safe. The Coast Guard has set core values that they go through. It doesn’t matter if you’re active duty, reservists, auxiliaries or civilians.

The Coast Guard core values are Honor. Respect and Devotion to Duty. The United States Coast Guard played a hugely important role in the planning, response and recovery efforts of the government in three mission areas: search and rescue, marine pollution response, and the management of maritime commerce. This topic is essential for future holds since it offers safe rescue and faster response efforts. Over 5,600 Coast Guardsmen participated in the Coast Guard’s response efforts.

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Co-Culture Group Report AssignmentEnsure your group report:

Uses language that skillfully communicates meaning to readers with clarity and fluency. Virtually error-free.

Uses college-level word usage, spelling, grammar, punctuation

MLA source citation, in-text and works cited

Has common format for your individual sections!!! Headings/responses/font, etc —

while different people write each section, the look should be consistent across the entire document

Format of report:

Title/cover page with names of group members (1 page)

A summary (2-3 pages) where you address the communication “problem”. Provide a clear “opening” to your report and ensure you state a thesis!!

Answer the following:

Why is it important to study about co-cultures?

What potential communication problems/barriers exists between a co-culture and the dominate culture?

What co-culture did your group select? HOMELESS

Refer back to the “Setting the stage” Assignment, what was your group’s hypothesis concerning interviewees personal experience communicating with the larger culture around themes/aspects of his/her co-culture? Group hypothesis: What do your group member think the interviewees will report per communicating with the larger culture? Do you think they have had to hide their connection to the co-culture? Have they felt uncomfortable? Do you think they have assimilated or accommodated? What do you expect to uncover? They might’ve had to hide their co-culture because they’re afraid to reach out and ask for help because they want to save themselves from being embarrassed. They may have felt uncomfortable, even there are many people like them, there are people all around judging them. We believe they have gotten used to the way they live and have learned how to get through the day. We expect to uncover that each individual has their reasons and their own why’s as to the reason they are in the streets and are homeless. There are many adults on the streets for reasons we wouldn’t or couldn’t imagine.

Present RESEARCH on your co-culture – what did your group learn (prior to the interviews) about the co-culture. It’s up to your group to determine what important information to provide here. Use phrases like “According to such and such source” — ensure you provide quotations for direct quotes, and use in-text citations as well. This should NOT be opinion based – use RESEARCH

Give an overview of how you found people to interview

Interview section: First provide the questions your group prepared to ask individuals (1 page).

Individual group member sections:

Name of group member

Name and demographics about person you interviewed

Interview questions and answers from individual

Summary of your individual “take-aways” from your interview – what did you learn about the co-culture? Did the person report that they had to assimilate, accommodate, etc.

Conclusion (1-2 pages)

NOTE: This section should NOT be written just by one person— this section should be based on a GROUP discussion of your findings!

Provide a summary:

Was your group hypothesis correct? Did the individuals within your co-culture have communication challenges with the larger culture as your group expected? Why or why not?

What did you learn as a group about communicating with this co-culture?

What could society as a whole do to improve communication with this co-culture?

The “body” of the report should include college-level research, grammar, vocabulary with MLA in-text citation AND a MLA works cited sheet. REMEMBER, if you pull information directly from a source, you MUST put it in quotation marks.

Please see https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/ for reminders. If you are new to MLA format/citation, PLEASE take advantage of the writing lab at PAC: http://www.alamo.edu/pac/tutoring-writing/

Code of Street Peer Response

Peer 1: Ariel

I agree with your perception of decent values as a significant identifier within the American middle class. The values advanced through the working poor are what are termed as American by mainstreaming the ideas of self-reliance, sacrifice, hard work, observation and abiding by the laws, and pursuit of education. I particularly like your introduction of religion into these values, because it plays a vital role in defining the said value and giving them more power. Street values and respect have created a buzzword, which you mention in your work; street cred. I like how you define it simply as a response to various situations that are used to define worth and personhood. On collective efficacy, do you think the concept goes beyond a community into larger societies such as a nation’s ability to maintain order?Peer 2: Sandra

The idea of mainstream thought that is embedded in decent values are important in defining a society as you have mentioned. I agree with your position that the definition of these values is largely left to the working poor, or the middle class. Particularly, your presentation provides an important perspective that the values held by these working poor allow them to navigate life, as evidenced by their status in their communities and also their understanding of respect and code of the street. By having decent values, these communities do not neglect the rules of the street, but rather steer clear of their path. Your focus on collective efficacy as a tool to enhance the education system is refreshing. I think ore can be achieved by societies if they focus all of their energies on ensuring that decent values are a part of the education system for the working poor communities.