For this paper you can choose any topic you are interested in and research the issue by using such sources as journals, reviews, magazines (for current political and social issues); books (for assessing judgments about history, policy, etc.); biographies (for assessing people); research reports and scientific studies; periodicals that cover entertainment and sports; blogs for exploring current affairs. To formulate a claim, you may ask the following questions:• What exactly is my opinion? Where do I stand?• Do I need to qualify my claim?• Can I make my judgment more specific?• According to what standards am I making my judgment?• Will readers accept my criteria, or will I have to defend them, too?
• What major reasons can I offer in support of my evaluation?The major focus for this paper is not only for finding a specific claim, but also coming up with very clear criteria ofevaluation. Why do you think, for example, that health care plan is going to ruin our country for future generations? Is it really bad for our seniors? What do you expect from an “ideal” (in your opinion) health care plan? The main features of your expectations may serve you as your criteria. Criteria are clear reasons that you choose while evaluating. You can take any fact and examine it if it’s good/bad. For whom is it good/bad? Remember to support your claim with specific examples (quotations from the text). Write 4.5-5 pages (at least 1250-1500 words). Your audience are your peers and your teacher who do not know anything about your subject. Research and quotations are mandatory. For this paper you must have at least 3 sources. However, I do not limit your research to library databases
Day: April 25, 2018
Government and Business Paper- Outline
Once you have chosen a business from the above list complete the following:
• Write a brief business profile- •What does your business do? Where is it based? How many people does it employ? Is it publically traded? Etc.
•Summarize the relationship between your business and government- •Discuss recent interactions between your business and government(s). Have there been any major developments over the last few years? Have there been any recent controversies? Has your business recently lobbied government on behalf of a specific public policy? … etc.
•Focus on the recent past (within the last ten years).
•Identify your primary lobbying objectives- •Imagine that you are the CEO. Identify three-six policy objectives that you would like to see achieved. Explain why you chose the specific policy objectives that you did. Be thorough, and cite evidence to support your assertions regarding why the company should focus its efforts on achieving the aims that you outlined.
•NOTE- please make certain to focus on the relationship between your business and government. Don’t write about what changes you would make to the business, but rather what changes you would try and persuade government to make.
•Create persuasive pitches for your lobbying objectives- •In a clear and concise fashion lay out an argument as to why a member of Congress should support the legislation that you would like them to support.
•Create at least one pitch for each of you lobbying objectives.
•You may gear your pitch toward Congress in general or toward a specific member of Congress. If you do the latter you may incorporate arguments that the congressperson you are targeting would find particularly compelling.
Please use the attached for references and outside source.
#1
AAA Cab Company Inc.
Facts: This company is a referral service for independent cab owners who agree to put on the top of their cabs a lighted sign of the above company. To get in touch with the company the public would call the number on the cab sign or out of the phone book.
The cabs are individually owned and maintained by their owners.
Racing Ray owns cab 100mph.
Fred Stumble calls the above company to take him from his home outside of the city of Mistake into the city so he can do some shopping.
The above company calls Racing who is near Stumble and he races to pick him up. On the way to Stumble’s destination, Ray picks up a package at the company headquarters to deliver for the boss near where Stumble is going.
On the way to Stumbles destination Ray hits a car coming through an intersection and injures Mumbles and Stumbles.
After the accident is resolved, Ray who now has the company car, because of the accident, decides to go see his girlfriend across town and deliver the package. On the way back. Before he gets to his girlfriends house Ray hits Unbelievable walking her dog Oops. Ray gives Unbelievable the company card, and then delivers the package. After delivering the package Ray’s car backfires causing Flyer to jump in the path of a car injuring him.
Question:
1. To what parties are The company and Racing liable. Are there any Defenses available to the company and Racing.
#2
Winsome Ways is a boutique in New Market, Maryland that sells various accessories for women. Amy Brown is the sole owner and has two employees, Jack and Connie. Before leaving for a long vacation, Amy sends a form letter to her suppliers stating that while she is away on vacation Connie will manage the store and sign any required paperwork on behalf of the business. On the day before her departure, Amy instructs Connie that Connie will manage the store while Amy is away and sign paperwork for the business but that she may not purchase any new lines of merchandise from the suppliers or any other seller of merchandise. A week into acting as manager, a salesperson from Jewels, a regular supplier, convinces Connie to purchase a line of jeweled eyeglass cases. Connie signs an agreement to purchase five of the eyeglass cases, and she agrees to purchase five eyeglass cases each month during the next twelve months.
The following day Jack is working at Winsome Ways alone while Connie takes a lunch
break. A salesman, who works for Teapots, a regular supplier of teapots, convinces Jack to sign a contract committing Winsome Ways to the purchase of a number of expensive china teapots together with a two year contract for Winsome Ways to purchase the same type and number of pots every three months.
Amy returns from her vacation and learns of the new contracts. She calls Jewels and tells them to pick up the eyeglass cases and she calls Teapots and tells them not to deliver any teapots, as she will not accept them. Both Jewels and Teapots tell her that the contracts had been entered into with Winsome Ways and she will be held responsible.
Question:
1. Amy comes to you, a Maryland lawyer, to obtain advice on whether she has any liability to Jewels and Teapots. What advice would you give to her and why?
2. Explain fully all concepts and defenses involved as to all parties in your answer.
Slide 2 should include your Research Question and your reason for wanting to examine this question.
When you go through your slides, you do not want to read everything. If all you do is read your slides,
people will get tired and feel that they can just read them on their own. So consider a picture.
NOTE: your reason for wanting to examine this question adds that interest to what you are doing. While this is beneficial in a presentation, it should not be in your paper. Papers are more objective.
Slide 3 to 4 – Presentation of Information
Here you want to present the major piece(s) of information that you obtained from your articles that
assists you with answering your question. You may also want to include the most interesting
Remember, information should be incorporated together. You should NOT present each source on a
different slide. You should NOT try to present everything you did in your paper. You need to be
selective here. What information best helps you to answer your question? Remember, even though this
is a presentation, information still needs to be cited.
You also need to consider how you present information. You do not want a paragraph that you will
read. It is better to use bullet points with phrases that you will expand upon. The point should then serve as triggers for you to present.
Slide 4 or 5 – Conclusion
What did you learn from doing this assignment? Remember the goal, that instructors have for you
writing papers is for you to learn something. So what did you learn? You will never be able to
completely answer your research question in a class paper. You should not attempt to completely
answer your question in a presentation. The goal is for you to have gained knowledge and for your to
pass that knowledge on to your fellow classmates. Again remember you can not present everything. So
what is/are the major items learned? Here again, this is a good place for a picture.
I need a strategic audit paper on the company Starbucks.I am uploading a strategic audit guide and 2 sample strategic audit papers. This paper needs about 30 references, and a table of contents page. The paper needs regression analyses, charts, graphs to prove the information in the paper.
Strategic Audit
Introduction to the Organization – History of the Company & Current Status
When was the organization founded, why and by whom?
Discuss unusual history associated with the organization.
Is it privately or publicly held?
Other information?
Identification of the Industry and the Competitors — Industry definition is necessary so that competitors can be identified; macro-environmental forces that affect the organization and its industry can be assessed, and the organization’s relative strengths and weaknesses can be compared to other organizations within the industry.
Analysis of the Industry
Strategic Group(s) in which the company exists and competitors in it/them.
Intensity of rivalry among existing competitors (Use Porters 5 Forces for B,C,D,E, & F)
Threat of new competitors entering the industry
Threat of substitute products or services
Bargaining power of buyers
Bargaining power of suppliers
Potential Profitability of the Industry – What organizations have succeeded and failed in the industry and why?
What are the Critical Success Factors for the industry?
Analysis of the Macro-Environment
What political/legal forces affect the industry?
What economic forces affect the industry?
What social forces affect the industry?
What technological forces affect the industry?
What are the threats and opportunities facing the organization?
What is the organization’s measurement and control system?
Current financial position – Is the organization financially sound?
Compare with competitors and standards.
Use financial analysis tools.
What are the organization’s Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s)?
Analysis of the Organization (Mission, Vision, Core Values, Operating Guidelines, Core Competencies, Goals)
What is the mission of the organization? Has the mission changed over time?
What is the vision of the organization? Has the vision changed over time?
What are the organizations core values and operating guidelines?
What are the organization’s core competencies? How are they unique?
What are the organization’s broad and specific goals?
Analysis of the Organization – Organization-Level and Business Unit Strategies
What are the current organization-level strategies? Business unit strategies?
How are the strategies aligned with the goals?
Compare this organization’s strategies with those of competitors.
Use SWOT analysis and Gap analysis to suggest strategies.
Evaluate strategies (advantages & disadvantages of each strategy).
Key performance indicators (KPI’s)
Analysis of the Organization – Functional Strategies
Marketing – Finance – Operations – Purchasing – Human Resources – Information Systems
How well are the functional strategies aligned?
Analyze organization’s improvement/change initiatives (e.g., Six Sigma, SQM, TQM, Lean Manufacturing, JIT, Process Reengineering, High Performance Work Teams, Assessment using Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Criteria, ISO 9000, ISO 14000, Benchmarking, Balanced Scorecard, etc.)
Previous & current impact/success of improvement initiatives.
Alignment of improvement initiatives and integration into strategic management of the organization.
Comparison of improvement initiatives with other organizations within and outside the industry.
Conclusion and Future of Organization
Comment about the organization’s profile for future competitiveness and success.
What does the organization have to do right to succeed (organization’s Critical Success Factors)?
What are the expected results in terms of short-and long-term profitabili
For this writing task, you’ll need to respond to the following scenario:
Who are you?
You are a team leader at Anders Consulting, a small but growing strategy consulting firm in Atlanta. For a little over three months, you have been supervising a team of junior-level management consultants, who just finished developing a strategic plan with a division of RGP Financial Services.
What’s the current situation?
The work you have supervised has involved a variety of research, interviewing, writing, and speaking activities. Part of your job as team leader is to collect and calculate ratings of each junior consultant’s performance based on his or her teammates’ input over the course of the RGP project. Table 1 shows the results for one of those junior management consultants, Kyle Houston.
What’s happening today?
Your boss, Inez Anders, sticks her head in your office after lunch and says, “I need to schedule Kyle Houston’s six-month review this afternoon.”
“Wow,” you reply, “has he been here that long already? Seems like he just got here.”
Preserving Identity
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:
Competency 1: Employ sound logic in philosophical reasoning.
Defend logically this position on the integration of personal identity in social life.
Competency 4: Interpret human behavior in philosophical terms.
Describe the variety of social roles which a single individual may occupy in practical life.
Construct a clear position on the integration of personal identity in social life.
Explain how this view of personal identity fits within a more general account of human nature.
Competency 7: Communicate effectively in a variety of formats.
Use proper APA style and formatting to write effectively.
For the assignment, you are writing an essay. Begin your essay with a thorough description of yourself. What features, activities, and relationships are crucial elements of your existence as a person? Try to include a sampling of all of the different kinds of things without which you could not continue to be who you are.
Now, what is it that holds all of these disparate elements together to form a single individual? Construct a view of personal identity that explains how you create and preserve a unique personality that persists through all of the experiences in a lifetime. Use philosophical reasoning to defend your position as a coherent and practical view of our lives, showing how it compares with alternative notions.
Finally, explain how your position on personal identity fits with a more general account of human nature. Make sure that what you say about this issue is consistent with your resolution of the mind-body problem and your beliefs about the possibility of life after death.
Your paper should meet the following requirements:
Written communication: Written communication should be free of errors that detract from the overall message.
APA formatting: Resources and citations should be formatted according to APA (6th ed.) style and formatting standards.
Length of paper: Approximately 1,000 words, typed and double-spaced in Microsoft Word.
Number of resources: No external resources are required, but if you employ any, be sure to include appropriate citations and references for your sources.
Font and font size: Arial, 12-point.
Review the Preserving Identity Scoring Guide to understand how your assignment will be graded.
Prior to submitting your paper to the instructor, submit your work to Smarthinking for review and feedback from an online tutor. Once you have done this and made any necessary revisions, submit your paper as an attachment in the assignment area.
Mind and Body-1
What is human consciousness? How is this central feature of our existence related to the natural functions of our physical bodies? Which traditional resolution of the mind-body problem is most nearly correct? These are grand, abstract metaphysical questions, but we have a ringside seat for observing their application to our own experience. This is a great chance to follow Socrates’s advice about knowing ourselves.
Let us use our discussion of this topic as an opportunity to clarify, refine, and defend our own understanding of human nature. A position on this issue will probably become an important aspect of your personal philosophy of life.
Response Guidelines
Review the posts and respond to at least two learners. When responding, indicate how your peer’s comment has enriched your own understanding of the issues, either by reinforcing what had already occurred to you or by challenging the accuracy of your perceptions.
Life After Death-2
Do you believe that individual human beings survive their own deaths? Notice that your answer to this question needs to be consistent with your position on other aspects of human nature. Your account of the relationship between mind and body may significantly shape your conception of immortality. In addition, any afterlife worth having would have to provide for the notion of personal identity you have accepted.
Response Guidelines
Review the posts and respond to at least two learners. Responses should offer respectful criticism and encouragement in the development and expression of diverse points of view. Talking together about issues on which we disagree is a valuable way of increasing our understanding of ourselves and each other.
This is a literature assignment. Based on the themes of three short stories we have
read (or will read), Discuss what each reveals about the period in which it
was written. Point to characters, settings, and points-of-view to support your
assertions. Your three sources must come from what scholars have written about
these stories.
Format (No Deviations Accepted)
1200 words
Times New Roman
Typed
Font – 12
Double-Spaced
MLA format with proper heading, page numbering, in-text citations,
and “Works Cited Page.” You must have a minimum of three sources
on your Works Cited Page.
Short Stories
Revelation
http://producer.csi.edu/cdraney/archive-courses/summer06/engl278/e-texts/oconner_revelation.pdf
Good Country People
http://genius.com/Flannery-oconnor-good-country-people-annotated
A Rose For Emily
http://resources.mhs.vic.edu.au/creating/downloads/A_Rose_for_Emily.pdf
I have an introduction below. My professor said that i need to add market shares, brand awareness, number. Need to add use of visuals (diagrams, charts, pictures). Extensive use of high quality academic journals and credible sources to support argument.
Situation Analysis:
Sang Nguyen
Introduction Of Samsung Galaxy S7
Samsung Electronics Company is a multinational electronics firm that started in South Korea and has its headquarters in Suwon, South Korea. It happens to be the world’s second largest company dealing with information technology products. It lags behind the Apple Company. Given it multinational nature, Samsung company has over 8o electronics assembling plants and sales points each in a different country around the world. It employs over three hundred and seventy thousand personnel in its plants across continents. The current seating CEO is Kwon Oh-Hyun who has been the company’s CEO since 2012. For a long time, Samsung company has been a producer of electronic components such as lithium batteries, chips, hard drives, flash memory, etc., all destined for other electronics companies such as Apple, Nokia, and Sony. However, in the recent past, it started manufacturing consumer electronics such as mobile phones. As for now, it is the world leader in mobile phones and smartphones production. Its popularity was driven by it spectaculars Samsung Galaxy brand of smartphones (Garside).
Among its most ingenious works, it’s the production of Samsung Galaxy S7. The device was released in March 2016, and by its launching, the average price for the devices was $ 569. The product is a development of the previous Galaxy S6 that had got into the market in early 2015 (Marco and Morran). Its specs are described as innovation beyond science, which gives it a top value in the consumer world. This device is produced in Vietnam where over 50% of all Samsung devices are made from. The specific reason for it being produced in Vietnam being the cheap production costs as compared to other locations where it has its plants in the world.
