you will submit a 800 to 1000 response essay on any THREE readings, summarizing their main points and connecting major themes.
summarize between these three articles and connect points.
In addition, no outside sources needed.
you will submit a 800 to 1000 response essay on any THREE readings, summarizing their main points and connecting major themes.
summarize between these three articles and connect points.
In addition, no outside sources needed.
Complete a powerpoint Presentation making recommendations on how Southwest Airlines should expand into Mexico.
Using three resources and recommendation considerations for Mexico in regards to Employee Compensaton, Benefits, Payments and Performance Evaluttions. Provide recommendations for dealing with the identified issues.
1. Provide a description of the issues
2. Provide an explanation of why the issue could arise if Southest Airlines was to expand into Mesico
3. Provide a recommended strategy for dealing with the issue, including enough detail that has specific tactical actions that could be developed
4. Provide recommendations along with potential issues for the Southwest Board of Directos. Include detailed Speaker notes.
– the scope includes ONLY political doctrines covered during the course and all texts covered during the course are understood as political theories.
The limit for the essay: 2500 words.
Use standardized format (pdf, word) and font which is easy to read (not to small, and standard shape – not Comic Sans, for example).
SOURCES-
1) Please, read the Plato’s dialogue “Apology” which tells us about philosophy of Socrates http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/apology.1b.txt. (Why do we read Plato in order to learn about Socrates? While reading, please find out what conclusions about Socrates’es approach to politics we can draw? Illustrate them with relevant fragments from the text.)
2)Machiavelli and the early modern statecraft-
Please find the link to Machiavelli, chapters from 1 to 17 are assigned. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1232/1232-h/1232-h.htm
While reading, please find the fragments best illustrating:
– the general vision of politics included in the text
– the characteristics of the good statesman.
Do you think it applies to contemporary politics? think about your own examples.
3) :Thomas Hobbes: the state of nature and the social contract
Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes, chs. 1316. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3207/3207-h/3207-h.htm#link2HCH0013.
My major questions are:
– how Hobbes characterizes humans?
– why we need state?
– who is the ultimate source of power in the state?
4) John Locke – liberal approach to the state of nature and social contract
John Locke, Second Treatise on Government, chrs. 16 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/7370/7370-h/7370-h.htm
5)The Communist Manifesto, Ch.III. http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch01.htm#007. Please read it text carefully and compare marxism with liberalism on the basis of the texts you already know (Locke & partly Hobbes) and the Manifesto. Find similarities and differences. How to distinguish somebody with Marxist political views? What is feudalism? What is capitalism?
6)John Rawls and the principles of modern social-democracy
“The Theory of Justice” by John Rawls
“The Theory of Justice” by John Rawls. Please read carefully the fragments of part I, up to page no. 22. Try to compare Rawls with liberalism and marxism – find relevant quotes.
What are the “original position”, “the veil of ignorance”. What rules people will agree upon under the veil of ignorance? Varieties of conservatism
Oakeshott, Michael. “On Being Conservative.” In Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays, 2nd edition, pp. 407-437. Liberty Fund: Indianapolis, 1991.
7)Please, read this essay by M.Oakeshott and compare conservatism with liberalism, marxism, and social-democracy. Find relevant fragments.
8) Feminism-
feminism.
Sylvia Walby: Theorising Patriarchy, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990. Ch. 7 “State”
Please, read chapter 7 “State” from the book by Sylvia Walby: Theorising Patriarchy. How the state and major political doctrines are seen from the perspective of feminism?
9)Nationalism, fascism, and populism.
the third major ideology connected with fascism and populism – nationalism.
Mann, Michael. Fascists. Cambridge University Press, 2004, ch. 1 “Sociology of fasict movements”
What are the features of fascism, one of the most vague concepts in political debates, and still frequently used. How fascism differs from populism?
Mudde, Cas, Rovira Kaltwasser, Cristobal.; Populism: A Very Short Introduction, chapter 1
Please, read this short chapter discussing what is populism.
Part I: Short Answer. Please answer one of the following questions in 2 pages. Feel free to write more if you find it necessary. (2-page minimum)
1. In your Fitzgerald textbook Chapter 8 deals with Economic Inequality and the Role of the State. Can you tell me why it is important to understand economic inequality from a structural standpoint and explain what the role of the state has been? How have people of color been impacted and specifically explain policies that impacted them differently than it impacted white people. In Chapter 9 Housing is discussed. Please include a discussion on housing and then briefly use the film, Race The Power Of An Illusion: The House We Live In, to tie the two chapters together.
2. In this short essay I would like you to discuss the main ideas developed in Chapter 11, Race in the Cultural Imagination. What does culture has to do with the perpetuation of white supremacy, systematic racism, discrimination and prejudice? What do you think we can do to change the cultural messages so we can change our institutions and change the minds of people to think outside the trap of race? Use one film watched in the 2nd part of this class and discuss how cultural ideas are used to maintain the status quo, white supremacy and systematic racism in American society.
Part II: Essay. Please Answer the following question in 4-5 pages. Please feel free to write more if necessary. (Please be concise in constructing this essay)
1. Race invades every institution in our society and education and the criminal justice system is no exception. Education is an important institution. Based on your readings in Chapter 7 on Education and the lecture on Education, how are students of color impacted? Please explain what are some of the barriers to equal education using the information discussed by Dr. Aguirre, Holly Sklar, the film featuring Tim Wise, the film Tracking by 60 Minutes and the movie Walk Out. Why is it important for people not to look at the issues that plague the education institution on a micro level rather than a macro level? What is the school to prison pipeline? Explain the connection between education inequality and inequality in the criminal justice system in terms of education, poverty, gender and race. Discuss the Criminal Justice System and why education can be used as a deterrent and why we pour more money in the criminal justice system rather than the education system. What does Adam Foss discuss? Why is Deanna Van Buren discussion so important in understanding the connection between opportunity and incarceration? Finally, Chapter 13 speaks about The Future of Race. What is the future of race according to Fitzgerald and what can we do to make our society better?
Writing Assignment Instructions
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GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS
Please review this information at the start of Week 1 and for each assignment!
There are four writing assignments, due in Weeks 2, 4, 6, and 8 of this course.
In this document you will find the format instructions that apply to all four assignments.
Review the Writing Assignment Rubric
You will use the same one product or service as the subject of each of your four writing assignments.
Please select ONE company or product/service offering from the list below.
Nabisco
Proctor and Gamble
IBM
Chevron
PRODUCT CHOICE & CONTENT
Think carefully about your choice as you will focus on this product or service offering for each of the four writing assignments. It is in your best interest to select a product or service that interests you and for which you feel you can gain sufficient information.
Your focus will be on the domestic, or U.S. marketing of this product only. If the product is also marketing in other countries you do not need to concern yourself with the global operations.
You are not expected to be an expert on the product or service, and you will have large gaps in your knowledge due to proprietary information. You are not expected to purchase any sources that may have the information you need. You are expected to form well-reasoned conclusions based on what you do know or have found through research, or can reasonably assume. Respond comprehensively. Give examples when appropriate. Be sure to provide your own perspective on each of the questions. See Supporting Conclusions with Your Ideas and Reasoning.
FORMAT & WRITING
Each writing assignment will require you to respond to four questions total (two in Part 1 and two in Part 2). You must respond to all four questions, or the assignment will be unsatisfactory.
Each assignment should be approximately four to five pages of double-spaced text in length. A page is approximately 250 words. You may attach exhibits if you wish. More pages are acceptable, however, fewer than three pages is not satisfactory.
Note that a percentage of your grade will be based on your grammar, composition, adherence to the submission requirements, and use of an appropriate college-level style guide for writing and referencing (APA format).
Prepare each assignment in Microsoft Word. Here are the technical requirements:
Use a simple 12-point font such as Times New Roman and black ink primarily. Use color where it enhances your ability to communicate your thoughts
A cover page is required. A references page is required. The cover page and references page are not included in the written analysis or the page count.
Be sure your name, writing assignment number, the date, and the name of your product or service are on the cover page of your writing assignment.
Use headings to separate topics (e.g., Part 1, 1. Creating Value for Customers)
Use a minimum of six (6) references, four (4) of them dated 2016 to the present.
Includes references that explain the assignment concepts and references to the actual product.
Use credible academic sources. See, Is My Source Credible?
Wikipedia it is not acceptable as a reference source.
Use APA format for citation of sources, both in-text and on the references list. See, Using APA in this course .
You should use APA style for a student paper. Follow APA 7th edition. See a sample APA 7th edition student paper here.
THE ASSIGNMENT: PLEASE STILL USE PROCTOR AND GAMBLE IF POSSIBLE
Learning Outcomes
Consumer decision-making process. Student can identify how marketing strategy can influence each of the steps in the consumer decision-making process.
Segmentation. Students can use the segmentation characteristics to identify and describe market segments.
Target market & strategy. Students can identify a usable market segment to be a target market and determine an appropriate target-market strategy
Positioning. Students can develop and interpret a perceptual map.
Directions
Refer to the product or service you selected for your first writing assignment. This week, you want to take a closer look at what consumer factors may be relevant for customers who are considering buying your product or service offering. This will require some critical thinking on your part based on your own behavior if you are a customer yourself, or you may want to talk to others who have purchased the product. Sometimes you can find clues when looking at the marketing messages that may be addressing some of these factors.
So far, you have only been considering the customers of your product or service as one big group, or a mass market. More astute marketing breaks down this large group into smaller market segments of consumers who have similar characteristics. For any specific product or service, there could be numerous market segments. However, company resources may only allow a company to pursue one or two or these market segments, which then become target market(s). In this paper, you should divide the mass market for your product or service into at least two market segments and then pick one target market you think would have the most potential for future growth.
Chances are you picked a product with which you are familiar. That is a good starting point, and you may represent one target market. But you may represent a target market that is saturated and therefore not the best target market to pick for the remainder of the semester. So be sure your second target market is different enough and represents growth potential.
If you did not do a thorough analysis of the competition in the prior writing assignment, you may need to go back and figure out the nature of the product’s or services competition. This will be important when you address the positioning of your product for your newly identified target market inasmuch as positioning is a competition-based concept.
Part 1
Consumer decision-making process. Go through the six steps of the purchase process outlined in the readings and identify where marketing can influence each of the six steps. For example, if a consumer just identified a need for your product in step one, then the company can advertise how your product fills that need. Or, if a consumer purchased your product, the consumer can be called and asked about their satisfaction with the product and if there is any dissatisfaction steps can be taken to ensure the customer satisfaction. Be sure to be more specific with respect to your product or service than this example.
Segmentation. View Table 5.1 of your Week 4 Reading, in Section 5.2, How Markets are Segmented. Using the various criteria of the segmentation bases described in Table 5.1, identify at least two distinct market segments for your product or service. Each market segment description must include at least three (more if needed) of the characteristics from amongst any of the four bases categories (e.g. one from demographic variables, one or two from psychographic variables, and one from behavioral variables, or a similar scheme). Be sure to explain your choices based on what customer need the product or service offering can fill for each segment.
Part 2
Target market & strategy. Select one of the market segments you described in your segmentation response as the one you believe is or can be the most profitable for your product or service offering and explain why you feel they can represent growth for the company. Refer to the six criteria for an attractive market segment as described in Section 5.3 of the reading Selecting Target Markets. Name your target market so you can use this name throughout all of your remaining writing assignments. Your name should be descriptive of the segments’ characteristics like ‘savvy young shoppers’ or ‘educated baby boomers’, or ‘urban hipsters’, or the like. The goal is for your faculty member to get a mental image of your target market for the remainder of the semester. Should the company focus all their resources on this new target market (concentrated marketing) or should they continue to pursue both the new and the existing target market as well as other market segments (multi-segment marketing)? Alternatively, is the market so saturated might they be more successful by focusing solely on an even more narrow market segment, perhaps an even narrower version (niche marketing) of your selected target market, as their best chance for growth? What is your reasoning?
Positioning. Draw a perceptual map as illustrated in the week’s readings or the website in the directions. Be sure to pick two criteria that are important to your new target market for your two axes, perhaps two of the criteria you used in Week 1 in your competitive analysis. Map at least the two major competitors you noted in the previous writing assignment and add any others that you may have discovered since then. You may want to visit this resource for more information on how to construct a perceptual map. Describe what the perceptual map is telling you regarding how each product is perceived in the minds of the new target market you described above. You may have to make a series of educated guesses for some of the data points. Ideally, you want to find uncontested space. If your product overlaps with a competing offering discuss whether or not your product or service should try for an uncontested space on the map and reposition itself; or if it should keep the same position and compete head on with the other product.
Depression in later life is usually diagnosed on the basis of two clusters of symptoms: feelings and physical changes. In a 3-page paper, written in APA format using proper spelling/grammar, research the topic of depression in the elderly and address the following:
How would one know if an elderly relative had clinical depression or was sad because of specific life changes and losses?
What are the consequences of depression in the elderly?
Which behaviors would indicate a person going through depression needs therapy?
What kind of therapy would a professional recommend and why?
Be sure to include APA citations for any resources you used as references.
This is for an entrepreneurship class. The discussion post must contain 10 or more sentences and plagarism free, and should have a descriptive subject. Content must be clear and concise. Use standard English grammer and punctuation, avoid usine slang.
Topic: What is the key/ most important part of your business plan?
****MUST be familiar with and have access to SPSS****
Dataset to use is included in “Uploaded Files (along with a sample paper).”
Homework instructions are as follows:
Repeated Measures ANOVA
For this homework assignment, we will practice running the
analysis and writing up the results, using the Rubric as a guide. Well use the
data set from Module 5 (one way ANOVA) but we will include more variables this
time (pre and post scores)
I. Introduction
The purpose of this study was to explore the use of the
Solution Focused Narrative Therapy model with cancer patients and those who are
in remission, in a group therapy setting, as a means of re-entry into life and
to discover whether using SFNT can affect positive outcomes of hope.
Comparisons between SFNT group therapy, traditional therapy, as well as a group
receiving no therapy, were made. Outcomes of hope were measured by the QOL or
the Quality of Life Instrument (Ferell, Hassey-Dow, & Grant, 2012) which
measures the quality of life of a cancer patient. All participants completed
the QoL Instrument before the treatment period began and again after treatment.
The purpose of this study (Homework #6) is to determine to what degree the
three treatment groups (SFNT, CBT, and No Therapy) pre to post test scores
changed over the course of treatment (TotalPre and TotalPost). Use the data set
Homework 6 Data.sav to complete this assignment.
II. Analysis
Fill in this section on your own. Remember, according to the
rubric, it should:
Clearly state what statistical analysis was
conducted
Clearly state the appropriateness of the
statistical tests
Clearly link the statistical tests to the logic
of design and analysis and
Describe the statistical tests them in enough
detail that they could be replicated by a competent data analyst
In other words, what analysis did you run, why is it
appropriate for this scenario, what are your dependent and independent
variables, what software did you use?
III. Data Issues
In this section you will
Report the results of any assumption checks you
made (and you should always check the assumptions of whatever analysis you are
running).
Use your notes to see what the assumptions are
for this analysis.
List the assumptions in this section and provide
directions for how to check them.
Once you have checked the assumptions, indicate
whether your data met those assumptions.
IV. Descriptive Statistics
Here you will provide the descriptive statistics for your
dependent variable(s) (TotalPre and TotalPost). Remember, descriptive
statistics are:
mean,
standard deviation,
skewness, and
kurtosis
These statistics can be tabled, and any interesting finding
can be highlighted with a sentence or two. Run the descriptive statistics for
your dependent variable(s) for this scenario. Report the descriptive statistics
in a table in this section. Comment on any noteworthy or interesting result.
V. Inferential Results
Inferential results are your statistical significance
results. When you ran the analysis were the results statistically significant?
Remember to look at the sig column in the SPSS output. Is the value less than
.05? Report the results of your significance test in this section.
VI. Effect Sizes
Here you will report the effect size for your result.
Remember, statistical significance tells us whether the result is likely.
Effect sizes provide information regarding whether the result is usefulyes/no
the result is statistically significant, but is it practically significant?
Effect sizes provide an indication of practical significance.
What is the effect size for this analysis? Report it here.
VII. Conclusion
Link your findings back to your research scenario,
qualitative interpretation of what you found.
You can handle this section. Report the conclusions here.
Explain perimenopause, surgical menopause, stress menopause, and postmenopause.
Describe the signs of menopause.
Which other life changes (e.g., physical, psychosocial, and cognitive) may influence a women’s experience during menopause?
Which women are at the highest risk for osteoporosis?
Describe the traditional and alternative therapies for the conditions associated with menopause.
Suggest appropriate health, nutrition, and exercise guidelines for middle-aged and older adults.
Be sure to include APA citations for any resources you used as references.
***** 1 of the sources used has to be the document attached *****
Instructions
In this unit, you were introduced to various leadership strategies for communicating organizational vision, goal setting, and decision-making. Effective leaders are known for seeking ways to better connect with followers in order to enhance team performances, promote organizational effectiveness, and seek clarity on what has been working well while determining what may need to change.
Using your current employer or a company that interests you, respond to the following questions/topics.
Briefly describe your company, including its vision. How does leadership support the vision?
Identify potential problems or issues (current or future) that your company might experience if teams do not respectfully follow the requests of leadership when making crucial organizational decisions.
Explain how followers can play a vital role in decision-making and goal setting if they are highly engaged in organizational processes and collaborate effectively in meetings.
Analyze how different delivery styles of communication from leaders can positively or negatively affect the behavior and performances of followers.
What might this company do in the future to improve leadership practices and performance measures for all workers? Include your rationale.
Your APA-formatted response must be a minimum of two pages in length (not including the title page and the references page) and must include an introduction, a thesis statement (concise summary of the main point of the paper), and a clear discussion of the questions/topics above.
Your response must include a minimum of two credible references, one of which must be from the CSU Online Library. You may use an article from your required reading. All sources used must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.
WHICH IS AN ATTACHMENT