Day: April 27, 2018

This exercise is designed to provide you with the opportunity to make a decision about the usefulness of labor unions. Most people have very strong feelings about labor unions, leading to the current ongoing debate questioning the unions usefulness in the workplaces of the 21st century. The staunch supporters focus on empowerment of employees and the creation of an improved work environment. Those who avidly oppose them focus on the fact that regulatory bodies monitor working conditions, the work environment has been improved, and therefore labor unions have nothing left to accomplish.

Read the following statement and choose a side (either you agree with the statement, which is the pro side, or you disagree with the statement, which is the con side of the argument).

Resolved: Labor unions have no place in the U.S. workplaces of the 21st century.

Once you have chosen a side, research the issue to find facts to support your belief. Prepare a one page executive summary and a cover letter addressed to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) detailing three to five arguments in support of your belief (either pro or con). The executive summary should be persuasive in nature, as to convince the NLRB that unions are either useful or not useful in the 21st century.

Option 1: Write a Literature Research paper where you critically analyze a literary work in order to interpret possible meaning(s) about the work. You must incorporate scholarly academic research into your paper to support and develop your own analysis of the literary work(s). You can choose any of the literary works from the semester that you have not already written a paper on. For this option you can also choose to analyze more than one literary work from the course that accomplish some greater purpose. Your argument would then focus on the connection you are making between the works.

Your thesis statement in your Introduction should clearly state the argument/interpretation you are making about the literary work. Here are some questions to help you come up with an argument:

How is human experience portrayed? What does this work reveal about issues like reality, imagination, truth, morals, values, relationships, gender roles, power structures, etc.? What social issues are raised by this character’s actions? How does the conflict in the story illustrate changing value systems or a resistance to change? How does the narrative structure manipulate reality in the story? What do the internal and external conflicts reveal about social issues during the time period it was written? How are these issues relevant to modern readers? Why is the symbol ____ significant to the literary work? How does this symbol illustrate larger issues within the work and/or outside the work?

Incorporate scholarly research to support and develop your analysis of the literary work:
Discuss why or how this critic’s argument provides valid and significant insight to the literary work.

You should NOT use Google for your research. Use the Palm Beach State databases to find reliable, scholarly arguments about the literary work, such as Academic Search Complete (Ebsco), JSTOR, or Academic One (Gale). You will find no shortage of articles in these databases.

You must also introduce, explain, and analyze any quoted material in order to prove the interpretation you are making. Do not expect readers to simply understand your interpretation by reading the material you quote. As the writer, it is your job to make your analysis of quoted material clear. Remember that ANY information or words not from your brain MUST be cited properly or you are plagiarizing. If you are unsure about what information to cite, see me. However, when in doubt, cite.

Choose two of the UK’S largest supermarket chains companies from the list provided (Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Morrisons) and download the companies’ annual reports from their website. Produce the 2013, 2014 and 2015 ratio table for the companies you have chosen from the list above (Profitability, Liquidity and Efficiency ratios as performed in class.) Choose two ratios from each category. Based on these ratios and any other additional information available from the annual reports, compile a report comparing the performance of the companies selected.

Learning outcomes to be examined in this assessment :
• Describe and analyse the role of accounting information in a business context.
• Analyse a set of financial statements including balance sheet, profit and loss accounts and cash flow statements.
• Demonstrate the relationship between accounting data and financial planning and resource allocation decisions.

Please write up your comments in no more than 2500 words (Times New Roman, 11 font, single spaced).
Demonstrate the ability to relate theory to the real world.

For this assessment you produce a document presented using digital or multi-media. This document should be an infographic which visually documents the content as per the assignment guideline below. You can produce a short video or an A1 sized infographic sheet.

The infographic will highlight the ‘Emergence of new economies and the decline within Europe: using examples of BRIC, MINT, PIIGS, BREXIT.

Graphics, images, statistics, tables etc. should all be used to engage the reader and show how the trading economies of the world have changed. The decline of the EU and the rise of economies in India, China, Brazil etc. Brief explanations should be provided either in text or diagrammatic format.
Overall the key learning outcomes assessed include:

13. Demonstrate a clear ability to source information and to present this using correct acknowledgements and referencing of all sources

P1 Carry out research into issues relevant to trends in globalisation.
T1 Communicate effectively using a variety of media and formats
T2 Apply a range of Information technology skills when researching and presenting information

This is an group assignment of Marketing Principles, Trading & Exchange. Our chosen company is Adidas. And the relevant topic we chose to write about is Social Responsibility and Ethics, the lecture slides of this topic is attached (MPTE Lecture 8 201503.ppt). the assignment also require to use textbook as a reference so please follow it. our textbook is Marketing: Theory, Evidence, Practice by Byron Sharp 2013 published by Oxford University Press in South Melbourne. Here is a website of the textbook’s information: http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/168142880?selectedversion=NBD49557526. Also, we want the assignment to be written based on this article as one of the references: http://www.footasylum.com/adidas-invests-in-ethical-image/. So here are already 3 references that is needed to be used, textbook, lecture slides, and the website article. you may use other resources as other references, minimum 7 references, Thanks.

the following are the instructions of the assignment:

Assignment 2- Group assignment due no later than week 11
(5 marks for the oral presentation and 15 marks for the written assignment.)

Total words for written assignment: 1000 words maximum plus references.
Your company must be chosen from the first half of the alphabet ie the company
name should start from A-L.

Please seek approval for your chosen company with your lecturer before proceeding
with work on this assignment. In case you choose a local South Australian company %u0432%u0402%u201C
the alphabet rule does not apply. You still need to get your lecturer%u0432%u0402%u2122s approval before
proceeding to start work on it.

The objective of this assignment is to relate an issue facing a real company with the principles and
topics covered in the text and lecture in order to explore the differences and similarities between real
world practice and theory.

It is advisable when choosing the company to consider what issue you wish to investigate and make
sure there is some information available before you commit to that particular company.

Relevant issues can be any marketing activity the company is involved in. Some examples would be:
launching a new product, advertising, other communications like sponsorships or press releases,
strategic changes, distribution and marketing channels, response to competitor activities. Basically
any chapter we cover in the textbook and lecture are possible issues. The key criterion is that there is
some information available about the situation and the company%u0432%u0402%u2122s actions in regard to the issue. The issue does not have to be developing at the time of your assignment. It could have happened in the past, but information about the issue and the company%u0432%u0402%u2122s actions must be available.

A word of advice about choosing a company – Students may choose any company, but they
are advised to choose one, which has a reasonable amount of public information available.
Students are not to contact the company personally! Use the company%u0432%u0402%u2122s web pages,
annual reports, articles in the press, or visits (in the case of retailers/shops). Some students
may prefer to choose a company where they work or one that is owned by family or friends. In
this case, personal contact is allowed. Although there are many large companies with web
sites and annual reports, these are often vague and out of date. It is often easier to choose a
local company, which may be in the local news more often, or to consider a specific retailer,
which can be visited.

Example of issue and international company
Intel is getting ready to launch its new Skylake. You can read the press releases about the
development of Skylake and the marketing strategy on the Intel web site. You could relate this
to the parts of Chapter 12 where marketing strategy is discussed, or to Chapter 9, where pricing
is discussed.

Example of issue and local company
A new store is opening in Adelaide. There have been several articles and media releases about
it in the newspaper and online. Your group decide to make a site visit. You could relate this
event to segmentation (geographical location or type of person the merchandise is aimed at) or
the way news about the new store was communicated to the public.

Assignment Structure

Introduction %u0432%u0402%u201C 100 -150 words describing the company and the specific issue or marketing
activity to be examined without detail.

Detailed description of the marketing activity or issue %u0432%u0402%u201C 150 – 200 words describing the
activity or issue in detail.

Relevant text chapter and lecture %u0432%u0402%u201C 100 -150 words describing the part of the textbook (use
page numbers) that corresponds to this issue or activity. There may be several relevant parts of
the text and lecture, but choose only ONE that is most relevant. It is better to go into more
detail about one area than to describe many in a very shallow way.

Comparison between what the company is doing and the text/lecture – 300-400 words
comparing what the company did to what the text and theory consider to be appropriate. What
are the key differences? Why do you think there is a difference? In other words, what is the
company trying to achieve and what might be the reasons? Why the text is different?
Comment on the effectiveness of the company%u0432%u0402%u2122s actions- would following the text/lecture have
changed the outcome? In this section we want you to speculate based on what you observed
versus what you read or heard in the lecture. This section is not for more detailed description,
but should involve analysis and your ideas of why there are differences and what the outcome
of these differences might be.

SOC497: Sociological Research Methods
Extra-Credit Opportunity:
Review a Methodology Article
Comments
You may receive extra credit by reviewing an article that fits the methodological focus of this course. The grade
on this assignment, if completed, will be counted as an additional homework. (That means there would be ten
total, of which still only three are dropped, leaving seven rather than six. It does not mean an additional “lowest
grade” is dropped, or that another assignment is replaced.)
Instructions
Select an article which explores and attempts to answer a methodological question. (If you select something that
addresses an empirical or theoretical question, you will not receive the extra credit, so don’t waste your time. I
recommend that you run the article, or at least a citation and abstract, by me for approval in advance.) Typically,
this will mean that there is an independent variable which is a methodological choice, such as about something
you’ve learned, read, or studied in this course.
You will find some sociology journals, such as the American Journal of Sociology, in CSUN’s library. However,
you are strongly encouraged to consider journals such as Sociological Methodology, Studies in Qualitative
Methodology, Political Methodology, or Political Analysis, in which almost every article will fit.
Read the article with the questions below in mind. Write an annotation and/or review of at least 300 words, which
answers at least some of the questions below, and include a complete citation for the article.
Submit your typed work no later than the beginning of the last lecture meeting of the course.
Questions
1. What is the methodological question at issue?
• What is the research hypothesis?
• What is the dependent variable?
• What is the independent variable?
2. How it that question addressed or resolved?
• What kind of data is considered, and how is it analyzed?
• What conclusions are made about data (if any)?
• What conclusions are made about the research question?
3. Does this methodological research also answer any empirical or theoretical questions?
4. Was the given data and/or method an appropriate test of the methodological question?
• What would you do differently to address that question?

Writing about Nan Goldin can introduce her life and then her artistic ideas (you can also write about her life background experience on her artistic impact) select several representative analysis to be linked to her art concept mla format

The specific requirements of the professor:

The second writing assignment will require you to apply what you have learned in this course to a living artist that we did not cover in the course material. The artist you select for your case study must be currently alive and have a museum exhibition history. You can select any living artist who has exhibited at a major international museum. The focus of this next writing assignment is largely of your own choosing, but you will need to connect it to the material of this course. You must select at least two artists/works from the textbook that we covered and at least two readings that you think helps inform us of the ideas that the artist is engaged in.

I want to keep the assignment open-ended so that you can pursue that which interests you. Ultimately, you have 3-5 pages to engage with a contemporary artist utilizing the new tools of aesthetic analysis and visual vocabulary.

Here is how I might handle the assignment. I am married to Rachel Lachowicz so I want to write about her. Lachowicz is in the collections of many museums (MOCA, Whitney, etc.) and has had her work shown in places like MoMA, LACMA, etc. She meets the criteria. Much of her work references Dadaism and minimalism so I might pick Marcel Duchamp’s Urinal and Donald Judd’s Untitled to relate her work to. Her art invokes deconstructivist thinking in relation to gender bias in the arts so Foucault and Lippard will be the writings I might use to frame her work.

Please follow the English department’s guidelines for essay writing and citations using the MLA format. You are expected to list both the Art In Theory text and the Gardner textbook as works cited in order to demonstrate your knowledge of proper citation practices.

Follow these instructions and the written paper attached Final Paper: What in the World?! | 30%
Part II (20%)

Your final paper should be a minimum of 4 pages and a maximum of 5 pages long.

You will use a news article to introduce your topic.

 Adequately summarize the news article.

 Explicitly state the type of inequality you are focusing on, including the category of difference and the institutional sphere.

 Your discussion of the news article should not account for more than one-quarter of your paper (approximately 1 to 1 ¼ page, potentially distributed throughout the paper).

 Do not forget to cite your news source.

The remainder of the paper is an integrated, thematic literature review that directly relates to your stated topic.

 You will discuss at least THREE scholarly, peer-reviewed, empirical journal articles.

 You may use as many or as few additional resources (scholarly or popular) as you like. You are encouraged to cite course readings.

 A literature review is not simply a summary of pertinent information, but rather, a synthesis that reorganizes the information in a way that informs the reader of how previous researchers have investigated your topic.

 The purpose of an integrative literature review is to synthesize the literature in a way that generates new ideas about the topic.

 As such, you are expected to develop a thematic review that organizes the literature according to TWO or THREE conceptual categories. These conceptual categories should be sociological and should illustrate your mastery of key ideas/concepts covered in class this semester. (Thematic reviews do not present the research in chronological order, but instead shift between different time periods to make a specific thematic point. HINT: Almost every paragraph in your literature review should cite more than one scholarly, peer-reviewed source.)

 Your themes/conceptual categories should be clearly articulated in the paper using subheadings and topic sentences. Please note that your grade will suffer if I cannot determine what your themes/conceptual categories are.

 NOTE: Copying, pasting, and stringing your annotations from Pt. I together will result in a score of 0 on Pt. II.

 For additional information on “writing a literature review,” please visit http://libguides.usc.edu/writingguide/literaturereview. A link to this website is available on Blackboard.

Additional requirements:

 Conclude the paper with a paragraph in which you summarize and reflect on the main points.

 I expect college level writing with respect to clarity, sentence structure, grammar, punctuation, and spelling. Reading your work out loud is helpful for finding sentence fragments, run-ons, and other mistakes. Proofread your work before submitting it to avoid unnecessary errors and typos.

 Use 11 or 12 point legible font, one inch margins, and double-spaced text.

 All references must be correctly cited – in-text and in a reference list at the end of the paper – in ASA (American Sociological Association) citation style.

 Final Paper, Part II is DUE on Monday, December 12, 2016 at 2 pm.

 Save the document with YOUR NAME as the FILE NAME and upload it to Blackboard (via the “Final Paper, Pt. II” link available in the “Assignments” folder of the “Content” area).

 I will be more than happy  to pre-review and provide feedback on completed drafts of papers submitted to me by email ***

Assessment: Part II of the Final Paper will be graded on a 20 point scale. Fulfilling each requirement outlined in this document is necessary to earning a good grade.

Additional tips for writing your paper (from http://libguides.usc.edu/writingguide/literaturereview):

Use Evidence: A literature review is just like any other academic research paper. Your interpretation of the available sources must be backed up with evidence [citations] that demonstrates that what you are saying is valid.

Be Selective: Select only the most important points in each source to highlight in the review. The type of information you choose to mention should relate directly to the research problem.

Use Quotes Sparingly: Some short quotes are okay if you want to emphasize a point, or if what an author stated cannot be easily paraphrased. Do not use extensive quotes as a substitute for your own summary and interpretation of the literature.

Summarize and Synthesize: Remember to summarize and synthesize your sources within each thematic paragraph as well as throughout the review. Recapitulate important features of a research study, but then synthesize it by rephrasing the study’s significance and relating it to the type of inequality discussed in the news article.

Keep Your Own Voice: While the literature review presents others’ ideas, your voice [the writer’s] should remain front and center. For example, weave references to other sources into what you are writing but maintain your own voice by starting and ending the paragraph with your own ideas and wording.

Independently Created Case Study
As a portion of the requirements of this class, each student is to interview/survey 3 generations to determine why they buy product X. Analyze the differences in marketing strategies for the different consumer groups. Create “3 customer personas” associated with these buyers. To learn more about personas, please read the PDF article, “Stay Out of the Danger Zone: Using Personas for Content Development.”

You are to utilize and apply the theories that we are learning in this class. Describe / evaluate the experiences in the purchasing process for those you interview. Include value to the buyer, and relevance of what you learned to the study of consumer behavior marketing practices. Who is the product target market (include “personas)? Describe the technology utilized to drive the purchase. How did the store drive traffic to their product ? Give some examples of the influencers involved such as family, cultures, etc. As such, you would apply the universal consumer purchase decision, incorporating such things as the impact of advertising and promotion, what motivated him/her to make the purchase or decision, how the purchase satisfied a need or want, what research was completed, individual perception of the product or service, what was learned, any previous attitudes held (before the purchase decision) that may have changed and why, specific influence of family, friends, opinion leaders, their pervasive culture, what types of messages were conveyed to him/her, etc. Glean the “facts” from the interview conversations that you have.

This deliverable is to be a maximum of 5 pages of text (double spaced-12 inch margins) and include an Executive Summary of key points. References will be required, which may include the textbook and class discussions, relevant scholarly articles, practitioner / trade publications, etc. Utilize APA style and format which will include title page, table of contents, endnotes, and appendices (if necessary) should be a part of the assignment. (Students must research APA style and format if unfamiliar with it. Consult resources available in the DBU Writing Center.)

To give you an idea of the structure for the paper, the Table of Contents could look like this:

• Introduction
• Persona Profiles for Generational Buyers
• Descriptions of Buyers’ Purchasing Process
• Product Purchased
• Product Target Market
• Technology Used in Purchasing
• Store Marketing
• Purchasing Influencers (as noted above)
• References