for this assignment you will select a representation of Los Angles- this can be a television show, a song, a piece of literature, a website, ect. you will then write a page paper in which you rhetorically analyze how and why Los Angeles is presented.
Watch the PBS-NOVA Documentary “Secrets of the Viking Sword”. I believe it is also available to watch on Youtube.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/secrets-viking-sword.html (you can watch the documentary and find Transcript in this website, use the documentary as references)
What are all the Marketing related terms and concepts that you were able to glean from the documentary? They would not be spelled in as many words, but I expect you to interpret them given the context.
Here is an abbreviated example: Build a superior product (the first P) and customers will beat a path to your door (better mousetrap). The Product/production era. The Ulfberht was “cutting edge” technology.
There are many such marketing concepts that you can talk about. Please make references to the documentary when you write about them. ALso, make connections to International marketing as the VIkings used these swords for trade or attack with/of foreign nations.
Research the adoption and use of XBRL standards. Based on your research discuss the advantages and disadvantages.
This week’s discussions help you to develop the skills to master the following course competencies:
•Critically evaluate information from core business functions and the value chain to enhance organizational knowledge of strategic position and direction.
Activity Instructions
In this discussion, you will further your knowledge of strategic development by:
•Identifying important ethical issues with a firm’s strategy.
Focus on the goals and values of your project firm to identify important strategic ethical issues or dilemmas. Analyze the firm’s actions for instances of inconsistencies, or practices where the words in the mission, espoused values, or goals, don’t match the actions of the firm. Should the firm be concerned about its Corporate Social Responsibility or balancing stakeholder and stockholder needs?
Write an essay about the end of conventional oil inspired by the the text in the attached image, the questions in the text are not meant to be answered directly, they are meant to just give an idea about the topic.
if the image is not clear enough please notify me.
Q1) Some say oil is the excrement of the devil , oil is black blood, oil is the blood of the dinosaur, oil is the blood of the earth however, most would agree that oil is the blood stream of the world economy. Debate this notion?
Q2) Discuss how we are moving from an era of cheap abundant energy to an era of scarce hard to get expensive energy ?
Q3)Why are oil exporting nations interested in keeping the world dependent on oil as long as possible?
Q4) Increased unemployment, poverty, bankruptcy, starvation their are all kinds of things that happen when a society collapses, we are entering a new world of unbelievable oil shortages and its only a few years away. Discuss how this will affect your life.
Q5) Describe how oil is not like wheat, we are not growing it every year. The great bulk of the worlds oil was formed in two very brief epochs, in periods of extreme global warming 90 and 150 years ago. when the organic material was buried to a depth of 2000 m a chemical reaction converted it into oil. formed once, briefly over 4B years geological time.
Q6) All the oil created over earth’s 4B years, humans will use up in one or two centuries. How will this affect an engineers career ?
Q7) one barrel of oil costing just over $100 will produce as much energy as you can get from 12 people working all year invest $1 to extract oil out Iraq and get back 25,000 hours of human labor. How can we replace oil?
Q8) Oil is our gad. This energy is so dense it nearly free energy. The most invaluable resource we have ever discovered?
Q9) What is the actual cost of products you enjoy? Discuss why the construction of an average car consumers the energy equivalent of 27 and 54 BBL of oil. Construction of a laptop PC consume 10 times their weight in fossil fuels. Microchips consumes 630 times its weight in fossil fuel during its construction. What is all this going to cost when we run out of cheap oil?
Q10) There are 7B people living on the planet. Most are reasonably well fed as a consequence of the green revolution.
Q11) Describe how the green revolution consisted in large measures of fertilizing land with petrochemicals derived from petrolum.
Why would you buy stock or invest in Wal-Mart Stores company? Why or why not?
Address the following:
1. Identify how changes in the social and political climate can lead to modifications in the way governments and individuals define crime.
2. Address the difficulties that arise when attempting to define and measure crime.
3. Discuss whether crime statistics reflect more about the individuals that are collecting the statistics or the crimes and criminals.
4. Examine the various ways that crime is measured and discuss the possible benefits or issues that could arise with each type of measurement tool.
Write a paper about types of artifacts in MRI Scan, what is the causes of those artifact what is the effect on the images and how we can solve this problems. I will upload study guide file so please follow the instructions in study guide
By the way,”Deogratias: A Tale of Rwanda” is the main book of this essay.