Author: chris

complete a 5 page response paper (typed, double-spaced, using MLA format with parenthetical documentation and a Worked Cited page) from book: The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
The response paper should demonstrate that you have read the book carefully and understand the author’s thesis or theme. Some summary will be expected, but the bulk of the paper should be analytical, reflecting your evaluation of the book. Has the writer expressed him/herself clearly? What is particularly engaging about the work? Where do you most agree or disagree with the writer’s position and why? These are just a few of the question’s you might address. Again, he does not want us to just summarize the book; instead, explain why they are meaningful. Would you recommend the book to someone? Why or why not?

IMPORTANT: This case study is for a negotiation class, please use negotiation terms and strategies.
The class readings are the knowledge base for understanding what is happening in the case. If you do not explicitly state how you are applying this material, I have no way of knowing how well you have learned it.

Your paper should consist of the following two sections:

1. Your thorough analysis of the re-opened negotiations, and the strategies/tactics used by the different participants in negotiation. As part of this analysis, please also make sure to answer the following questions:
If you were Muenning, what would you have done differently? Why? If you were Reliant, what would you have done differently? Why?

2. Recommended Actions: What recommendations would you make to Muenning Oil at the end of the case? Here you must decide what should be done. You should also be specific about exactly how you implement your plans. Be sure to provide a compelling rationale for why you have recommended these actions. Defend your recommendation with sound analysis and by pointing out the pros and cons of the choice(s) you have made.

Finally, beyond the 6 pages of text, you should also have a separate title page with a very creative and clever paper title.

Environmental Analysis

External Environment Analysis

4. Analyze the external environment of the selected industry, and market/segment based on chapter two of your text book. The analysis will use scanning, monitoring, forecasting, and assessing. This to include the following:

4.1 Description and analysis of the opportunities and threats in the industry in general and to your company in particular: Market size and Trends; Market profitability; Segmentation and Target Customer Profile; and Online markets.

4.2 Description and analysis of the general environment with its most 3 influential components (out of the 7 components).

4.3 Description and analysis of the industry environment using the five forces model of competition. Here you need to address all the components of the five forces. *The project is about a small Café in a gas station.

Warm-Up Activity 1.1: Sharpen Critical Thinking Skills

Throughout this course, you will use critical thinking to analyze the emergence of new ideas in science and psychology. Review the following website, located under your weekly resources, for tips to sharpen your critical thinking skills: The Critical Thinking Community.
Spotlight on Skills: Developing a PowerPoint Presentation
For this assignment you will prepare a PowerPoint Presentation. For help in using this tool, review the PowerPoint Tutorial, located under your weekly resources.
Assignment
For this task, you will prepare a PowerPoint presentation of key figures in the prehistory of psychology (from 300 BC to 1888 AD). Your target audience for this presentation will be students in an undergraduate history of psychology course.

This paper is supposed to explain the significance and why collective effort is required. Data and stats should be used when possible.

Investor Insight: How to Read Stock Quotes. For stocks traded on organized exchanges, how are the dollar prices per share established? What factors might influence the price of shares in the marketplace? Choose stocks from two similar companies, I would like to use Jetblue airways and United Airlines and Review the history of changes in the stock price over the past decade? What factors have caused them to move in dissimilar ways. Only needs to be about 400 to 500 words….Please reply to the questions with question marks and then compare the stock history of jetblue and united airlines.

I will provide two articles on the company Whole Foods in the attachment and the chapters you will use when you are working it is very important to put informations from slides. I do not want you to use any other sources. The only sources you will use I will provide them 2 power point presentations and 2 articles.Things to do, Identify the marketing concepts demonstrated in the two articles. Indicate the marketing strategies implemented by the Whole Foods company and explain why they implemented those strategies. In other words include what you believe are the marketing goals and objectives for implementing the strategies using good marketing reasoning and models developed in the classroom. Hint: AT THE VERY LEAST consider Whole Foods strategy canvas, product mix, and supply chain strategy. The paper must be free of spelling and grammar errors and the sentences must be clear in meaning. The professor suggest therefore that you use good marketing terminology to clarify what you mean. I am an international student so be careful about the simplicity of the essay.

LASA 1: Case Studies Presentation
Create a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation to educate a group of medical students participating in their grand rounds. There should be at least ten slides in your Microsoft PowerPoint as well as a title slide and a slide listing all your sources for creating this slideshow. You should also create speaker notes for each slide of your presentation, which include the main talking points for the topic addressed on the slide In order to create your slideshow, review the two case studies and then answer the questions following each case study:

Case Study 1: Isaac is a fifty-nine-year-old man. Several months ago, he noticed a slight tremor in his hands. He assumed this to be a normal consequence of aging. The tremor, however, gradually worsened, along with some muscular stiffness and slowness in initiating movement. The tremor was more pronounced when he was not voluntarily moving. Isaac was referred to a neurologist, who diagnosed him with Parkinson’s disease. After visiting the neurologist, Isaac and his family ask you to further explain this disorder. Isaac also asks about L-dopa as a treatment—the neurologist had mentioned L-dopa as an effective medication but had instead prescribed selegiline:

• What are the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease?

• What are the possible causes? Be sure to discuss both hereditary and environmental factors thought to contribute to this disease.

• What parts of the brain does this disease affect?

• Why do you think the neurologist prescribed selegiline instead of L-dopa?

Case Study 2: Sabrina is a twenty-seven-year-old woman who recently underwent a corpus callosotomy. Initially after surgery, when given a verbal command, Sabrina demonstrated marked apraxia of the left hand. However, the extent of this issue diminished over time. Answer the following questions about this client:

• What disorder was most likely being treated by this operation, and how is the surgery performed?

• In what way is the surgery expected to help Sabrina?

• What are the risks and benefits of the surgery? Compare these to the risks and benefits of an alternative treatment. If the decision were yours, which would you recommend? Explain your decision.

• What was the cause of the apraxia?

• What does the reduction in apraxia symptoms tell us about hemispheric specialization?

Assignment: In the role of the advisor or consultant to the CEO of a company or organization of your choice, you are to outline and analyze the company’s integrated market and nonmarket strategy to deal with a nonmarket issue (or set of nonmarket issues) the organization faces. The report should clearly identify the issue, argue why it is important for the company’s success, and should conclude with clear recommendations to the CEO. The analysis should make clear how those recommendations have been reached.

Choice of topic: Choose a relatively current issue in the social, political, or legal/ethical environment of a company, nonprofit organization, or (somewhat less desirably) an industry. You may select a company for which you have worked. [If you feel that it is necessary, you may indicate that parts or the whole of the contents is confidential, in which case I and the course grader will treat it as such.]

The issue (or set of issues) may be specific to one country in which the company operates, in which case you are to propose an integrated strategy to deal with this issue for this particular country; or the issue(s) may span a number of countries, in which case the proposed strategy may be specific to each country or be the same for all countries you have identified.

A broad issue (such as “climate change”) should be recast at the company or organizational level. For instance, “trade barriers” is much too broad an issue, but a study of how a Korean semiconductor company should address EU trade barriers is a good topic. If your strategy is designed to address a set of issues, those issues should probably be related in meaningful ways.

Structure: One possible structure for a paper would start with a concise statement of the challenge facing the firm. You then should briefly analyze the particular problem. In your analysis you main emphasis should be on the non-market aspect of the case. You may then discuss a few strategic options and recommend your preferred option to your client. Alternatively, you can discuss and critique the strategy chosen by a company based on your analysis. Whatever structure you choose, your paper must include sound analysis of both the market and nonmarket environments and a clear recommendation for the company. Using the frameworks encountered in class is recommended. A successful final report should be usable as the basis for a future case for this class!

Format: The report should be approximately 2,500 words long (±10% is acceptable). It should contain a brief executive summary (appx. 150 words). A title page, executive summary, exhibits, graphs or references do not count towards the word count. I strongly encourage you however to restrict these to the necessary minimum. The evaluation of your work will be based on the analysis in the main body of the paper. Please use 12pt font, double spaced, standard margins (at least 2.5 cm on all sides), and use page numbers. Include a word count on the front page.

Assignment: In the role of the advisor or consultant to the CEO of a company or organization of your choice, you are to outline and analyze the company’s integrated market and nonmarket strategy to deal with a nonmarket issue (or set of nonmarket issues) the organization faces. The report should clearly identify the issue, argue why it is important for the company’s success, and should conclude with clear recommendations to the CEO. The analysis should make clear how those recommendations have been reached.
Choice of topic: Choose a relatively current issue in the social, political, or legal/ethical environment of a company, nonprofit organization, or (somewhat less desirably) an industry. You may select a company for which you have worked. [If you feel that it is necessary, you may indicate that parts or the whole of the contents is confidential, in which case I and the course grader will treat it as such.]
The issue (or set of issues) may be specific to one country in which the company operates, in which case you are to propose an integrated strategy to deal with this issue for this particular country; or the issue(s) may span a number of countries, in which case the proposed strategy may be specific to each country or be the same for all countries you have identified.
A broad issue (such as “climate change”) should be recast at the company or organizational level. For instance, “trade barriers” is much too broad an issue, but a study of how a Korean semiconductor company should address EU trade barriers is a good topic. If your strategy is designed to address a set of issues, those issues should probably be related in meaningful ways.
Structure: One possible structure for a paper would start with a concise statement of the challenge facing the firm. You then should briefly analyze the particular problem. In your analysis you main emphasis should be on the non-market aspect of the case. You may then discuss a few strategic options and recommend your preferred option to your client. Alternatively, you can discuss and critique the strategy chosen by a company based on your analysis. Whatever structure you choose, your paper must include sound analysis of both the market and nonmarket environments and a clear recommendation for the company. Using the frameworks encountered in class is recommended. A successful final report should be usable as the basis for a future case for this class!