There are two questions in this assignment. You need to write a full page, double space, (no more, no less) on each question.
1. Define interest groups and distinguish between economic and non – economic interest groups nationwide and in California.
2. Identify what factors account for differences in voter turnout both in California and at the national level.
TEXTBOOK :
California, the Politics of Diversity, by David Lawrence & Jeffrey Cummins, 9th Edition, published by Cengage Learning.
The essay kindly should be answered accordingly to the question sir/madam. Therefore the question is “Discuss some of the inclusive approaches that can help address issues across human development. Focus your discussion on the following:
a. food
b. lifestyle
c. environment
d. education.
For this final SLP, imagine that your business has become successful and you are now considering expanding the scope of your company. Carefully review all of the required background materials, and then write a three-page paper answering the following questions. Make sure to cite at least one of the required readings for each of your answers:
1.If you were to engage in horizontal integration, which of your direct competitors would you decide to acquire? Overall, do you think horizontal integration is the best long-run plan for your business if it is successful?
2.Do you think your business should vertically integrate over time? Should you engage in backwards vertical integration, forward vertical integration, both, neither? Explain your reasoning.
3.How about diversification/conglomerate strategy? Any advantage to diversifying your business? Discuss unrelated diversification and related diversification and whether or not these strategies might be good for your business. Explain your reasoning.
SLP Assignment Expectations
•Answer the assignment questions directly.
•Stay focused on the precise assignment questions. Do not go off on tangents or devote a lot of space to summarizing general background materials.
•Make sure to use reliable and credible sources as your references. Articles published in established newspapers or business journals/magazines are preferred. If you find articles on the Internet, make sure they are from a credible source.
•Reference your sources of information with both a bibliography and in-text citations. See the Student Guide to Writing a High-Quality Academic Paper, including pages 11- 14 on in-text citations. Another resource is the “Writing Style Guide,” which is found under “My Resources” in the TLC Portal.
For the SLP 4 assignment, you will explore some aspects of an organization’s culture, at least as you see it. (Select an organization you have worked with, if possible.) Since the concept of organizational culture is open to many interpretations and classifications, this assessment offers a slightly different approach from your background reading on organizational culture.
Required Reading
Debra Woog McGinty and Nicole C. Moss have compiled a short corporate culture survey aimed at identifying characteristics of workplaces. The categories of workplace description that it generates are fairly self-explanatory.
Assignment
When you have completed the assessment think about it for a minute, and how it compares to the Academy, Baseball Team, Fortress, and Club cultures described by McNamara in the Background reading. Then prepare a 2- to 3-page paper addressing:
•Your scores on the McGinty/Moss assessment and whether or not they fit your general expectations or constitute a surprise in some ways. Interpret the results of the assessment in terms of your own experience, either to confirm or to question the results. Compare your findings with the McNamara categories.
•The degree to which the McGinty/Moss assessment and the McNamara information tell you similar or dissimilar things about your organization.
•Do the assessment and the McNamara categories help improve your managerial understanding and/or skills? What can you infer from the assessment results about how your organization’s culture fits or doesn’t fit with you? What (if anything) can you do to make your interaction with the culture more effective?
•Provide your opinion on whether or not the questions asked help you understand the organization and how you cope with it. Do they accurately assess what is needed to analyze a company’s culture?
•Include the actual results to the survey in an Appendix section in your paper.
SLP Assignment Expectations
Your paper will be evaluated using the criteria on the SLP rubric (see the rubric for more detail): Assignment-Driven, Critical Thinking, Business Writing, Effective Use of Information, Citing Sources, and Timeliness.
In this exercise you will compose an essay based on your family’s history of migration, starting from the ancestral origin of our species in Africa in a process described by the authors of our textbook as the first round of globalization: Africanization. Your essay must also describe the background of both of your parents’ families. Regardless of your ethnic background or family origin, all people living in the Americas (North, Middle, and/or South America) are descendants of migrants or are recent migrants. Even the ancestors of Native American populations came to the Americas crossing the Behring Land bridge (today’s Behring Strait) more than 14,000 years-before-present. It is interesting to note that in Canada, these groups are known as “First Nations.”
In this essay you must include references of your family’s [or your own] migration to the United States or to South Florida, and the push or pull factors that may have influenced or contributed to their/your migration, starting from our African origins. You may describe your family’s originating country and culture, and how living in the United States has influenced or changed various tenets within that culture.
Your answer should reflect knowledge of the topic applying the concepts learned in our course, and, most importantly, using your own words. Please note that it is not allowed to work in teams. You must explain your answer in NO less than 500 words and no more than 800 words. Essays that are less than 500 words in total will lose points. The word count does not include your name, PID, the title of your essay, Bibliography, or if you copy the question posed in your work.
You must also demonstrate knowledge of this topic by using key definitions related to the topic of this assignment: migration, push and pull factors, globalization, etc., and included in our course textbook related to the topic of migration, and others presented in class (i.e., Africanization). Your work must also include at-least one additional reference (including the course textbook, and other books or a popular news forum – i.e., The New York Times) that relates to your family’s history of migration. You must include this reference in a separate page using only one of the following titles: Bibliography, Reference, or Works Cited; making a full citation of this/these source/s. Note that students are not allowed to use Wikipedia in any written assignment.
Any geographically-based essay must answer three broad questions: Where? Why? (and how?), and, So what? (or, in other words, why is this important?). For instance, you can answer the following questions after tracing your family origin to the place of origin of our species: Africa: Where did your father’s family (or his last name) originated? Where did your mother’s family (or her last name) originated? Why did your father’s/mother’s family migrated from their homeland? [push – pull factors?] In answering to the “So what?” question you must use the information you have included in the first two sections (Where? and Why?); this is an overview of your family background. It is also important to mention that if you don’t know much about your family background, you can include references to your ethnicity, and their path to migration to this country we know today as U.S.A. You can also make reference to the origin of the last names of your parents.
Answer these based on assigned reading, research and your experience.
1.Discuss your thoughts on the statement “Ineffective communication is the sender’s fault.”
2.For one day, track nonverbal communication you observe in others. Compare and contrast the nonverbal communication with the verbal or written communications received from those situations.
3.How are planning and control linked in your organization? Is this linkage effective, why or why not?
4.Compare and contrast feedforward, concurrent and feedback controls.
5.Chose two tasks you do each week then describe how you can be more productive in accomplishing those tasks. Be specific and include detail that shows your thought processes.
Upload your responses as a single Word document that is in APA format.
Reading Chapters 13 and 14
1)The most direct factor in establishing a celebrity endorsement.
2)The relationship between celebrity endorsement and consumer spending through pie charts and secondary data analysis
3)The impact of celebrity endorsement on consumer spending
every part need 3 or 4 references
i will show you my introduction:
The structure of the article is Introduction background, data analysis, conclusion, analysis of advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is to increase awareness. The disadvantage is that it may only make the customers remember that the celebrities did not remember the product which the celebrities endorsement.
Celebrities , because of their high visibility and high exposure, have been regarded as the best medium for goods to reach consumers. Therefore, the use of celebrities to promote corporate products, thereby increasing product awareness, and thereby expanding the market share of products is the reason most companies promote sales. The best means.
Advertising endorsements, that is, convey the brand’s distinct and unique personality claims in the form of image endorsements, enable the product to establish some kind of external or internal connection with the target customer group, and thus smoothly enter the consumer’s life vision and achieve the mutual understanding with the mind. Collide, establish a certain image and position in the heart, make the brand become a “sign” with special meaning and super value
Background is data shows that celebrity endorsement products are often sold much more than products without celebrity endorsements(Bhavesh, K. and Rajnikant, P. 2015).. In consumer behavior, consumer’s psychological activity occupies a high position in the system of influencing factors of consumer behavior. Therefore, the advertisement will use different appeal methods to attract consumers, require the consumer to grasp the psychological, make it a psychological change, and then generate a purchase motivation, and finally pay a certain purchase behavior.
Many companies develop their products by taking advantage of the consumer’s psychology, such as celebrity endorsements, or the same style and the same kind of celebrities.
Previous studies have said two things. First, popularity, celebrity shows that there is a certain degree of popularity enough to attract the public eye, and even can lead to public discussion( C S, J. 2013).. Second, celebrities have a good public image, including all aspects in and out of the world, which makes the public feel more trustworthy( Chung, S. and Cho, H. 2017). But they didn’t mention the degree of integration, the degree of matching of stars and their endorsement products is also very important.
Research question:
What is the direct effect of celebrity endorsement?
Objective:
1)The most direct factor in establishing a celebrity endorsement.
2)The relationship between celebrity endorsement and consumer spending through pie charts and secondary data analysis
3)The impact of celebrity endorsement on consumer spending
After reading Chapter 6 – The Ethics of Duty, consider Professor Michael Sandel’s lecture on Immanual Kant’s moral philosophy.
German Enlightenment philosopher Immanel Kant (1724-1804) is one philosopher who did much to articulate an ethics of obligation.
Kant asked, among many other questions, what is it that can stop people from being evil? His answer, briefly, was reason. Only reason can provide the basis for an ethics of obligation. Kant’s thinking about such a rationally based ethics of obligation center on two notions: universality and respect for persons. Our text mentions the Kantian Categorical Imperatives:
Universality: Always act in such a way that you can will that the maxim behind your action can be willed as a universal law. (page 171)
Respect for persons: Act in such a way that you always treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never simply as a means, but always at the same time as an end. (page 173)
There is so much literature about Kant’s contributions to thought, but I suggest the following interview with a leading scholar on Kantian philosophy:
In the interview, concentrate on those elements that relate to the ethical questions.
Consider discussion question #11, on page 182. Here is the first of several sequenced clips to the film Liar Liar.
Respond to the questions listed:
What is the movie’s message about being truthful?
Do you agree? Why?
Consider the following cases:
Immanuel Kant offers three examples that, to his mind, are not moral actions. In terms of Kantian moral philosophy, explain his reasoning.
Example 1: The shop-keeper at the self-owned cafe-bakery always gives the correct change to her customers and a small free cupcake, since being honest and giving a freebee are good for business.
Example 2: The fellow’s life is wretched; his wife left him for another man; his children never visit him; even his dog got up one day and left. The same man lost his job because of a layoff, and his kidneys were failing. He commits suicide, to shorten his miserable life.
Example 3: Sarah felt so good inside for helping the homeless lady at 11 West Division Street, in Chicago. Sarah felt so much better after giving the woman some good shoes, a thermal, water-proof quilt and fifty dollars. Sarah felt happy because she helped the homeless lady.
Were any of the people depicted in the examples truly moral, in terms of Kantian ethics? Apply Kantian moral thinking to one of the examples.
Respond with a substantive entry of 250 words or more, as needed, as a post before but no later than Thursday of the forum week; failure to add the substantive entry when requested results in a 10-point reduction. During the rest of the forum time, respond to two or more other students’ major posts, not later than 11:59pm, CST, of the last day of the forum. Do not wait till the last hours of the last day to post; doing so is counter-productive to the idea of a forum designed for the exchange of views.
When someone steals a piece of property, there is seldom a question whether a crime has been committed. But Randal Schwartz clearly did not think he did anything wrong, and many disinterested observers in the system-administration community at the time agreed. Similarly, while Aaron Swartz certainly knew he was bypassing something, many have claimed he had no reason to think what he was doing might be criminal.
Terry Childs may not have intended to be cooperative, but it seems clear he had no idea that he could end up in prison for four years. Jeremy Hammond certainly appears to have understood some might see his actions as criminal, but he felt what he was doing was a form of civil disobedience.
Certainly some judges and many prosecutors feel that they are quite capable of determining which computer crimes are “serious” and which are not. Should the rest of us trust their discretion? Crimes involving firearms are given hefty additional penalties; should the same be true of crimes involving a computer?
The CFAA criminalizes “unauthorized access”. This makes sense by analogy with physical property, but there is quite a bit of ambiguity as to what constitutes “unauthorized” access to a computer. Unauthorized use of physical property pretty much means stealing it; unauthorized use of a computer can cover a wide range of things.
For example, the CFAA, in theory, criminalizes creating a second Facebook account, or use of Google search by minors before the terms-of-service change on March 2013. These uses are explicitly “unauthorized” by the sites’ terms of service. When Bidders’ Edge got in trouble with E-Bay for collecting data about E-Bay auctions, it was because they had to create E-Bay accounts to get access to the system, and they used these accounts in ways contrary to the E-Bay terms of service. Using a workplace computer to check out Facebook, or even to check news headlines during lunch, is often “unauthorized” by your employer, and thus an unauthorized use of an employer-owned computer.
On the other hand, Lori Drew was acquitted of violating the MySpace terms of service, in a case in which Drew created a fake MySpace account that may have contributed to the suicide of Megan Meier.
Here is the central question: is a law against “unauthorized access” a good idea, or must there be some other standard as well, and, if so, what? Some possibilities are
the perpetrator caused actual harm (a problem with this approach is that harm is notoriously hard to evaluate)
the perpetrator acted with malicious intent, ie intent to cause harm (the government would have trouble proving that for most of our examples here)
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Another way to summarize this question is simply “Is the CFAA too broad? If not, why? If so, how might it be fixed?”
A closely related question is that of restitution: should a hacker be obligated to pay costs that clearly are part of normal security procedures? Sometimes hackers are asked to repay system owners for the costs of basic retroactive patch installation.
A brief argument in favor of the CFAA approach is that computer crimes often have unforeseeable effects, and so a very broad proscription is in order.
Research a Radio or Television Icon or Broadcast event that contributed heavily to the industry
Write a report on either a significant event or person that contributed greatly to the broadcasting industry.
This can be a person who was or is a performer or someone behind the scenes who you personally feel helped to shape and influence radio or television
– OR –
Document an event that helped to stimulate improvements or create awareness in radio or television. This event is something you feel was worthy of changing the broadcasting industry for the better. NOTE: You should think carefully about who in particular, or what event to use. It REALLY needs to be a person or event that was, or is currently significant in making the broadcast media better in technology or in presentation of performance. If you are not sure, contact me for clarification in determining if your person or event falls into this category properly.
REQUIREMENTS:
This essay should be at least 5(full pages)or more in length (No Exceptions), double-spaced and typed. Cover page is not included as one of the 5 pages.
Any quotes or information taken verbatim from a source must be footnoted at the bottom of the corresponding page.
The final paragraph should include your own opinion supporting your view on the subject matter.