Liability & Risks

Background:  TLG has scheduled another meeting with the GC owners to further discuss the risks and liabilities of tort law.  This meeting will  focus specifically on product liability.

Winnie and Ralph asked you to participate in the GC meeting and to be prepared to discuss specific product liability risks related to GC’s use and resale of EPI cleaning products. 

Instructions:  To prepare, review product liability law, product liability claims, and parties who can be sued in product liability cases using the assigned materials and Instructor Notes. 

Write a summary report addressing the following questions to use as a basis for discussion in the GC meeting with TLG and to educate GC owners about potential risks and liabilities under product liability law. 

A.  Analyze and explain specifically how and why GC could face risks under product liability for use of EPI cleaning products to clean GC clients’ commercial property. 

B.  Analyze and explain specifically how and why GC could face risks under product liability for reselling EPI cleaning products directly to customers from its public place of business. 

Format Instructions:

Prepare the summary in a report, addressed to Winnie and Ralph, to be used in discussion with the GC owners.

Analyzing Media and Pop Culture; Theories of Celebrity Gossip

1. Structural Functionalism 

What is the function (or functions) of celebrity gossip for society? What purpose(s) does it serve, and how does it help society maintain stability and order? Discuss how notions of sacred and profane are characterized. Are there manifest and latent functions of celebrity gossip? Are there any dysfunctions in it?

2. Conflict Theory

What forms of inequality are revealed in celebrity gossip? In particular, what does it have to say about class, race, gender, sexuality, or other inequalities? Whose interests are being served and who gets exploited? Who suffers and who benefits from celebrity gossip?

3. Symbolic Interactionism

What does celebrity gossip mean to society as a whole? What does it mean to individual members of society? Can gossip have different meanings for different individuals or groups of individuals? How do those meanings get constructed in interaction? And how does celebrity gossip influence our everyday lives?

ASSIGNMENT: Select the material you will analyze, and answer each of the three sets of questions in a 3 PAGE ESSAY. Discuss the main principles of the three theoretical perspectives and explain how each can be applied. You will want to include specific examples from your chosen stories to illustrate your points. Did the theories overlap at all, or did they contradict each other? Was there any one theory you felt did a better or worse job of explaining celebrity gossip? Attach printouts of the stories to the paper.

Internal And External Environmental Analysis

You work for a consulting firm whose primary objective is to help businesses improve their strategic operations. Your firm recently was hired by a newspaper company named Hoosier Media Inc. The client’s print newspaper circulation and subscriptions have declined, resulting in 30% lower revenues over the last five years. Online ad revenues have increased but currently account for just 5% of the company’s revenue. You have been tasked with providing a comprehensive internal and external analysis to help the firm improve its business operations.

Create a 700- to 1,050-word analysis that includes the following: 

Identify economic, legal, and regulatory forces and trends.

Critique how well the organization adapts to change.

Discuss the primary internal organizational considerations.

Discuss the primary external organization considerations.

Identify the major issues and/or opportunities the company faces based on your analysis.

Assignment 2: The Evolution of Probation and Parole

Compose an informative essay that discusses the evolution of probation and parole in the United States from inception to current day correctional practice. How has supervision changed throughout history? What factors have brought about these changes? Make sure to include relevant milestones and related shifts in the approach to these sanctions. Discuss the impact of this history to how probation and parole function today.

Your completed paper should be 3-5 pages in length and formatted according to APA guidelines.

Include a title and reference page.

Cite a minimum of three sources (including the course text) within the body of your paper using in-text citations where appropriate.

Could GC be liable to a potential customer injured when she slips and falls on ice directly in front of the entry door while attempting to enter GC public offices during business hours?

Use in-text citations and a Reference List in APA format to cite the course resource(s) used – an in-text citation cannot exist without a corresponding Reference List, and a Reference List cannot exist without a corresponding in-text citation. 

During a meeting with Winnie, Ralph, the GC owners, and you, the owners asked several questions about their potential liability for negligence.  Winnie and Ralph asked you to respond to the following question. 

Could GC be liable to a potential customer injured when she slips and falls on ice directly in front of the entry door while attempting to enter GC public offices during business hours?  Why or why not?

Internal And External Environmental Analysis

You work for a consulting firm whose primary objective is to help businesses improve their strategic operations. Your firm recently was hired by a newspaper company named Hoosier Media Inc. The client’s print newspaper circulation and subscriptions have declined, resulting in 30% lower revenues over the last five years. Online ad revenues have increased but currently account for just 5% of the company’s revenue. You have been tasked with providing a comprehensive internal and external analysis to help the firm improve its business operations.

Create a 700- to 1,050-word analysis that includes the following: 

Identify economic, legal, and regulatory forces and trends.

Critique how well the organization adapts to change.

Discuss the primary internal organizational considerations.

Discuss the primary external organization considerations.

Identify the major issues and/or opportunities the company faces based on your analysis.

Case 1 Questions: Tim and Brad Larsen (On Canvas)

Please recount (list) Tim and Brad’s skills in running/managing/starting a company.

What other skills/competencies might Tim and Brad consider adding to their team?

What has the purpose of including Kent Brown in the search process?  

Given Tim’s and Brad’s skills and desires under which competitive strategy are they more likely to flourish? (Differentiation, Cost Leadership, or Niche/Focus)

From Tim and Brad’s perspective which of the four companies would you choose to purchase?  Why?  Remember to consider both their selection criteria and specific business and market conditions.

What are the key factors that led you not to choose the other three?  Remember to consider both their selection criteria and specific business and market conditions.

Cultural Proficiency” Please respond to the following:

· What are the benefits of implementing programs to address cultural competence within an HCO?

· Describe how you would put in place initiatives for cultural proficiency at a medical clinic.

Please write a 1500 words essay about the plant ,Basil, with the following prompt. （100% no plagiarism）

 Short introduction of basil

Common Uses of basil

Basic information of basil

Treatments, cures of basil

Growth habitats of basil

Preparation for medicinal use of basil

Include  pictures of your chosen plant. Make sure they are integrated nicely in the text, not separate or all at the end. Also make sure they are an appropriate size.

Social innovation a solution for financial inclusion as a Global Issue.

The paper should include data that show a systematic style of identifying the problem, the steps taking in the past and current and the result and creating a narrative of how social innovation thinking can help using the current or previous methods identified. Data Data Data. And this should be focused on Developing countries especially Africa. Data should not be more then 3 years old. Harvard Style of reference. And this is a 10 pages paper excluding the the reference pages