Archive for November 15th, 2018

Pricing And Transparency

Prior to engaging in this discussion, please read Chapter 11 in your text and review any relevant Instructor Guidance. It is suggested that you review the recommended articles to glean any helpful information. Analyze the role of the paradigm shift under the Affordable Care Act and discuss how transparency will play a greater role in pricing of health care. In your opinion, will consumers begin to demand increasing transparency in pricing? Provide at least one peer-reviewed reference outside of your textbook to support your position. Do you believe accrediting commissions (e.g., the Joint Commission) will demand greater transparency in pricing?  How will these demands be weighted as compared to individual consumers’ demands? Again, be sure to cite research that supports your statements.

 

Assignment 1: Discussion—Sustainability And Corporate Practices

This assignment gives you an opportunity to practice your newly developed skills in assessing the sustainability of a company. In a statement of its business policies, British Petroleum (BP) asserted that “A good business should be both competitively successful and a force for good.”However, moving from a general statement to implementation of positive corporate practices that advance sustainability is challenging and progress is often incremental.

 

Using the module readings, the Argosy University online library resources, and the Internet, research Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) at BP. Provide your evaluation of how successful BP has been at achieving its goals of CSR.

 

Cover the following in your analysis:

 

What is the relationship between business operations and CSR at BP?

 

Does the organization consider CSR as obligatory or do they seek opportunities for CSR? In other words, is the organization reactive or proactive?

 

What are some elements of corporate culture and policies that impact CSR? Examine the policies of BP such as the stated environmental policy, cultural diversity policy, equal employment opportunity (EEO), and so on.

The Differences Between Two Famous Historical Figures

Basic Requirements:

 

Type of writing expected – Cause and Effect and Comparison-Contrast

 

Length requirements – 500 words

 

Formatting requirements – MLA format

 

Documentation format – MLA citations necessary

 

Amount or type of research expected – Minimal outside research necessary

 

Write a comparison-contrast essay discussing the differences between two famous historical figures.  Focus on specific similarities and differences.  Feel free to use specific examples from different spheres of influences, like music, film or literature, but be sure that they are analogous.  Some things you might want to think about:

 

What are the backgrounds of the individuals?

 

Where are they from?

 

Discuss their achievements and accolades.

 

What is the public perception of these people?

Reflective Journal 7: The End of Music

Reflective Journal 7: The End of Music Write a 3/4 to 1 page journal entry (300 to 500 words) in which you:

 

1. Predict one or two (1-2) ways people will obtain music if CD production were to be stopped completely.

 

2. Complete the page requirement. 

 

3. Write with clarity, following mechanics and formatting requirements.

 

The specific course learning outcome(s) associated with this assignment are:

 

· Apply critical thinking skills to the analysis of issues involving mass media and society.

 

· Analyze various issues affecting the media business.

 

· Evaluate the effects of the digital information expansion / explosion on society

 

· Write clearly and concisely about media and society using proper writing mechanics.

Assignment 2: Required Assignment 1—Multiple-Stakeholder Process

Using the module readings, the Argosy University online library resources, and the Internet, research the impact of public advocacy groups on sustainable business practice and the multiple-stakeholder process.

 

Write a paper addressing the following:

 

Identify and research at least two examples of companies that have been impacted by the campaigns of public advocacy groups. What is the value of democratic inputs in business decision making?

 

Identify and list all of the sustainability stakeholders at Top Shelf. Does each group have equal weight throughout the program development process? When should each be brought into the discussion?

 

Explain the advantages of implementing a multiple-stakeholder process that significantly influences a company’s agenda for sustainability.

 

Describe the challenges in a multiple-stakeholder process for developing a sustainable business plan. Do the interests of one group outweigh the others?

 

Develop a step-by-step plan for implementing a multiple-stakeholder process. Your plan should assure the credibility of Top Shelf’s sustainability plan in the public sphere and also be effective in meeting the goal of sustainability.

 

Suggest metrics for tracking the progress.

Assignment 1: Discussion—Sustainability And Corporate Practices

This assignment gives you an opportunity to practice your newly developed skills in assessing the sustainability of a company. In a statement of its business policies, British Petroleum (BP) asserted that “A good business should be both competitively successful and a force for good.”

 

However, moving from a general statement to implementation of positive corporate practices that advance sustainability is challenging and progress is often incremental.

 

Using the module readings, the Argosy University online library resources, and the Internet, research Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) at BP. Provide your evaluation of how successful BP has been at achieving its goals of CSR.

 

Cover the following in your analysis:

 

What is the relationship between business operations and CSR at BP?

 

Does the organization consider CSR as obligatory or do they seek opportunities for CSR? In other words, is the organization reactive or proactive?

 

What are some elements of corporate culture and policies that impact CSR? Examine the policies of BP such as the stated environmental policy, cultural diversity policy, equal employment opportunity (EEO), and so on.

 

Brand Card

Understanding the role of the brand as a key strategic asset is a critical challenge facing all firms today.  As markets become more competitive, as price pressures continue to rise, as customers (at all levels) become more savvy about their purchase decisions, the brand can play an important role in the success of new products and the continued success of mature product lines.  The Brand Report Card exercise is designed to give you the opportunity to evaluate your firm’s brand (or a brand of your choosing) by breaking down individual attributes and analyzing performance in these areas.  In doing so, you will be able to isolate a brand’s distinctive characteristics and decide which areas are the most crucial for improving brand performance. 

 

The Brand Report Card exercise should take about 20 minutes to complete.  After tabulating the results, prepare a brief report (maximum two pages plus the Brand Report Priorities page, 1.5 spacing, 12-point font, one-inch margins) to address the following questions:

 

What is the brand’s biggest vulnerability?  If your key competitor had access to this analysis, what opportunities would they see?

 

What appears to be the brand’s biggest strength?  Does this present new opportunities?

 

What are three possible action steps that can be taken to strengthen the brand?

Aspiration Of The Idealism As Defining American Character

How and why do the terms Jazz Age and Roaring Twenties relate to Fitzgerald’s writing?

 

  

Are there any autobiographical notes in Winter Dreams? If yes, then which?

 

  

Did you sympathize with Dexter Green in his tangled feelings for Judy Jones? Explain why or why not.

 

  

What details does Fitzgerald use to persuade us that Dexter is an ambitious young man? What does the story suggest are Dexter’s motivations? Explain how Dexter’s actions reveal his deepest motivations and conform to what the narrator and the other characters say about him.

 

  

In Richard III, Shakespeare refers to “the winter of our discontent.” How do Dexter’s “winter dreams” reflect his discontent? Does his sense of deprivation subside when he fulfills his ambition to become rich? Explain.

 

  

What makes Dexter “newer and stronger” than the wealthy people he meets? Why, then, does he want his children to be like those people?

 

  

A recurring theme of Fitzgerald’s work is the pursuit of the American dream. Based on this story, explain what you think Fitzgerald saw as the American dream. (Be sure to include Dexter’s quest for Judy as part of your answer.) What, if anything, do you think is left out of his vision?

 

  

Why do you think Dexter feels a profound sense of loss when he hears about Judy at the end of the story?

 

  

Do you think Dexter would have been happier in the end if Judy had married him? Why or why not?

 

  

Do you think the themes of this story are universal and timeless, or is this a story that could only have happened in its specific time and place? Explain.

The Southern Gothic And William Faulkner

In the first paragraph of the story, we see that Faulkner uses a first person plural narrator. Why do you think Faulkner prefers this? How does this affect your understanding of the story?

 

  

Why is Miss Emily Grierson described as “a fallen monument”?

 

  

What could Miss Emily’s house represent? Comment on the narrator’s description of the house in the first and the fifth paragraphs.

 

  

What does the father’s portrait, as mentioned in the fifth paragraph, represent? Does the narrator mention about the portrait anywhere else in the story? If yes, in what ways could this be significant?

 

  

What could Miss Emily’s ticking watch symbolize? What does it tell us about Miss Emily? How does the watch contribute to our understanding of the themes of the story?

 

  

Part 3 opens with the following paragraph: “She was sick for a long time. When we saw her again, her hair was cut short, making her look like a girl, with a vague resemblance to those angels in colored church windows–sort of tragic and serene.” What might be the reason for the narrator’s emphasis on her looking like a girl?

 

  

What do we learn about the attitude of the community towards the relationship between Homer Barron and Miss Emily in Part 3?

 

  

Comment on the following excerpt: “When the town got free postal delivery, Miss Emily alone refused to let them fasten the metal numbers above her door and attach a mailbox to it. She would not listen to them.” Why not?

 

  

Comment on the title of the story: What does “rose” symbolize?

 

  

What does the depiction of the manservant tell us about the historical and social context in America then? How do the townspeople approach him? What is his name and what might it connote?

Analyze the famous discussion between Fagin and Noah Claypole in Book3

 Analyze the famous discussion  between Fagin and Noah Claypole in Book3, Chpter 4 “Looking out for  number one.”  How does this help characterize the characters, develop a  major theme of the novel, or suggest a moral or sociological view of the  criminal underworld of the novel? 

 

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