Author: chris

This assignment requires that you visit at least three brick-and-mortar retail stores Ralph Lauren. Select a set of stores that sell the same general product category. (Note that websites do not qualify; they must be physical facilities that you can visit.) Visit each of three at any point in the semester. Shop them through the eyes of a retail store merchandise buyer, as though you are responsible for the overall look of each store and how it supports the store’s branding and market position.
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Introduction
Provide an introductory paragraph stating the product category that is the focus of your analysis. Also state the date(s) and time(s) you visited each retail store.

Target Market
Discuss the lifestyle, age range and gender of the target customer for each store. (This should be the primary or main target market, and should not include all potential customers.) Also summarize the brand image or market position for each.

Point of Purchase Signage, Visuals, Store Experience
Describe each of the following aspects of the marketing for each store separately:

Merchandising/Merchandise Presentation
• Signage inside and outside the store,
• featured products (often those displayed prominently upon entering)
• in-store displays
• general colors, fabrics, or styles displayed
• in-store graphics
• background sounds/music
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Employees/Sales Associates
• Attire
• Level of interaction with customers

Overall Brand/Message
Summarize the “overall message” or “story” each store communicates to customers through its merchandising and employees. Describe how this corresponds to the store’s brand image or market position.

Store Comparisons and Critiques
Describe how each store markets to its customer through its overall store experience. Identify which store was the most appealing to you, personally, providing justification. Justify your position in terms of strength of messages, consistency of presentation, impact of merchandise, ease of shopping experience, and responsiveness of sales associates.

Personal Insights
What insights did you have as a result of this exercise, or what did you learn from it?

Reflect on the importance of DSS in supporting strategic planning.
Consider how DSS can support each of the main points and levels of strategic planning.
Submit a 2- page paper that presents an analysis of how an organization can use DSS as part of strategic planning. The paper should include the following:
An explanation of the concept of business intelligence and its use in business
An explanation of the importance of alignment of IT and business strategy
A description of each of the four main points and three levels of strategic planning
An explanation of how each of the four main points and three levels of strategic planning can be supported by DSS

Virginia Satir theory
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Biographical information about the theorist (1 page)
A thorough explanation of their theory or contribution to the field (2 pages)
Clinical applications of their theory [how has their theory helped people?] (2 pages)
Your views/opinions about why their theory is important. Why did you resonate towards this person?

In her essay “Generation Why?,” Zadie Smith makes a controversial claim that “When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced.”

Using the Zadie Smith article and two of the three texts listed below, investigate her claim. Consider some of the following questions: What does she mean by this statement? How valid is her claim? How is a person “reduced?” How does the other text you selected support, complicate, or refute this notion? Why is the claim worth considering? How do these texts support each other? How do these texts differ?
Please use sources from these texts ONLY
You must use the Zadie Smith text along with TWO of the three texts listed below:
Can You Hear Me Now? by Sherry Turkle
Working for the Man by Steven Poole
Worldwide Mush by Jaron Lanier

Preparedness, response and recovery activities and programs in disaster response or disaster recovery (See Department of Homeland Security | Preparedness, Response & Recovery
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Formulate a research question and supporting hypotheses

1. Identify a key issue and explain the supporting research question in Homeland Security and Emergency Management. (1 page)
2. State one research hypothesis that may answer the research question. You may use one that you formulated for Week One assignment, “Research Project Prep.” (1 page)
3. Establish research variables for analysis and subsequent confirmation or refute of the research hypothesis. (roughly 1-2 pages)
4. Present results of research informing the proposed research variables. This research must be supported by at least three legitimate academic resources. The course textbook will not be considered for the resource requirement. (2 to 3 pages)
5. Analyze the research question and supporting hypothesis. (1-2 pages)
6. Construct a conclusion of research

Take an IQ test; there are many available for free online http://www.free-iqtest.net/

While you are taking it, try to notice the questions and how you are being tested. Share your results, if you feel comfortable. Do you believe it truly reflects your intelligence? What are some things you can do to improve your intelligence? Why do you believe these things will improve your intelligence?

Many argue that IQ tests only measure analytical intelligence. But other researchers have argued that there is more than one type of intelligence. Sternberg proposed a triarchic theory of intelligence, and Gardner proposed 8 specific intelligences.

What do you think is the best model for measuring intelligence, and why? Be specific

Essay 3 Guidelines

For this essay, you will be asked to work with a variety of texts closely and synthesize the information into an independent argument.

Prompt:

After browsing the various essays and poems in the anthology Wildbranch, choose one out of the section parts that provoke the keenest interest in you (Part II – V). Read and annotate the texts carefully. Reflect on the presented ideas and consider your own thoughts on the common theme and focus.
You will then create an opinionated thesis that showcases relevant and factual ideas with a focused assertion as center. Your thesis may not use a list, though.
In the body of your essay, you will present clear ideas that utilize all or most texts in the section as evidence. Develop a critical analysis of the evidence and link clearly to the topic sentences and the thesis

Computers Journal
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Read the article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” The Journal should discuss:
1. Explain Deep Reading/Deep Thinking
2. How has the internet affected our reading? according to the author, do you agree? personal experience?
3. Why is the article titled “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”

Google the Title “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” It should be the first article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”–The Atlantic

PTSD and One Size Fits All Approach to Treatment
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4 pages with 4 reasearched sources in MLA form. I would like to argue that the VA’s current belief that one treatment is effective for everyone is false

For this assignment you will need to incorpoarte three things: (1) sociology of aging (2) a Story and (3) a reflection on your family of origin and its “culture” around aging and older adults.

HOW TO:

(1) Read and understand the sociology of aging on pages 203-217 (Worlds of Difference)(recall class discussion on gender, ethnicity and socio-economic class and how these factors influence how we think of older adults).

(2) Select a family diversity story (p.221-261) from Worlds of Difference: read and understand the story.

(3) Next, think about your own family of origin (Grandparents/Mother & Father, Siblings, Aunts and Uncles) and what your family culture conveyed about getting older and older adults.

Now, using the language in the sociology section (gender, class, race, etc.) along with the Story, compare and contrast your Family expereince with your selected Story. Pull this together in three or four well thought-out, complete, and well-developed paragraphs