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International Business Practices DB4

Students will keep a portfolio of world political events that correspond to the topics covered in the course. Feel free to choose any events you like. You will need to clip (or print), save, and analyze 10 articles related to topics that reflect the major themes covered in class: institutions, bargaining, cooperation, conflict, power, and sovereignty. These themes overlap and will subsume multiple issues. Your job will be collect articles across multiple issue areas that reflect these themes. Your analysis should discuss how the event described in the article reflects elements of multiple themes. For instance, an article on the economic crisis in the European Union may fit under any of the themes. So would an article about potential United Nations or NATO intervention in Syria. I encourage you to think about these points of connection and think broadly about the topics.

Articles should be taken *only* from The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Wall Street Journal, Der Spiegel, or The Financial Times, and The Economist. It is ok to use the online version, but you will need to clip, save, and comment on the articles.

“For Cicero, virtues exist most meaningfully in the various duties we perform for and with others in society” write an essay discussing the greek and roman views on this quote using book 1 and 2 of “cicero on duties” and consolation of philosphy book 1.

1. Prewriting part.

I heard speculation that media events, like the cable tv coverage of a
balloon over Colorado, could actually make people “dumber” by serving as an ongoing distraction. The timeless theme of appearance vs. reality gains new venues through the media of video, the internet, etc.  For this discussion, before you start reading White Noise, I wanted you to think about the role of technological innovations in changing society, for the better or worse, especially in the realm of communication. How do we know what to believe? Why are we blindsided by an economic meltdown or the breech of levies in New Orleans, both of which informed people should have known were coming? How much do we rely on experts to fix our problems, and can we rely on experts? How much do we end up believing what we want to believe—what is convenient for us, or what will make us feel better about ourselves or safer? And what might be the consequences?

2. Question part. (You can choose one of them for writing answer. not all of them.)

Question 1: The station wagons arrived at noon, a long shining line that coursed
through the west campus. In single file they eased around the orange I-beam
sculpture and moved toward the dormitories. The roofs of the station wagons     were loaded down with carefully secured suitcases full of light and heavy     clothing; with boxes of blankets, boots and shoes. . . As cars slowed to a crawl     and stopped, students sprang out and raced to the rear doors to begin removing the     objects inside; the stereo sets, radios, personal computers; small refrigerators. . .     fruit chews and toffee popcorn; the DumDum pops, the Mystic mints. (3)
Why does the novel open this way, with a parade of students moving into the dorms?
What recurring themes of the book do you see introduced here? (3)

Question 2: Babette and I and our children by previous marriages live at the end
of a quiet street in what was once a wooded area with deep ravines. There is an
expressway beyond the backyard now, well below us, and at night as we settle into
our brass bed the sparse traffic washes past, a remote and steady     murmur around
our sleep, as of dead souls babbling at the edge of a dream.     (4)
How might it be significant that the highway takes the place of the ravine?

Question 3: “Not that I’m complaining. I like it here. I’m totally enamored of this place. A small-town setting. I want to be free of cities and sexual entanglements. Heat.     This is what cities mean to me. You get off the train and walk out of the station     and you are hit with the full blast. . . The eventual heat death of the universe that     scientists love to talk about is already well underway and you can feel it happening all around you in any large or medium-sized city.” (10)
According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the second law of thermodynamics states that a closed system will always move towards disorder, entropy. The universe as a whole moves towards greater randomness and will eventually end in a heat death in which there is no more order, pattern, heat, or life. The heat given off by the sun is an example of progressing towards greater disorder, which is balanced out by the increase in order created by the sun through life on earth.

Why do you think Murray prefers Blacksmith to the city?

Question 4. Of the most photographed barn in America, Murray asks,
“What was the barn like before it was photographed?. . . What did it look like,
how was it different from other barns, how was it similar to other barns? We can’t
answer these questions because we’ve read the signs, seen the people snapping     the
pictures. We can’t get outside the aura. We’re part of the aura.” (13)
An aura is a trace of the refined and spiritual, the sacred, which is often hidden in today’s world. What does Murray mean? How does being the “most photographed barn in America” prevent people from really seeing it? How does its fame create a “collective perception”? Can you think of any examples of this from your own experience?

Question 5: So Hitler gave me something to grow into and develop toward. . . The glasses with thick black heavy frames and dark lenses were my own idea. . . Babette said     she liked the series J. A. K. and didn’t think it was attention-getting in a cheap     sense. To her, it intimated dignity, significance and prestige. (17)
What does Jack mean when he says “I am the false character that follows the name
around?” (17) Why do you think DeLillo made the main character a professor of Hitler
Studies? Is this anti-semitic? Is the idea of Hitler Studies unethical?

Question 6: What might be suggested by some of the details of Jack’s family, such as that fourteen-year old Heinrich’s hairline was receding, and baby Wilder’s vocabulary has not progressed beyond twenty-five words (22)?

Question 7: Read the dialogue between Jack and Heinrich about if it is raining on pages 22 to 24. Why does Heinrich question empirical (observable) reality? Who do you agree with more in this argument? In what sense might Heinrich be correct?

Question 8: Why might Jack have stated to his class, “All plots tend to move deathward” (26)?  Is this true? Why or why not?

Question 9: Their daughter Steffie reports that she heard on the radio that they should
boil their water. Babette says, “’They’re always saying boil your water. . . It’s the new
thing” (34). Why do you think Babette takes this warning about the water so lightly, as if it is just a fad?

Question 10: In the morning I walked to the bank. I went to the automated teller machine     to check my balance. . . The figure on the screen roughly corresponded to my independent estimate. . . Waves of relief and gratitude flowed over me. The     system had blessed my life. I felt its support and approval. . . A deranged person     was escorted from the bank by two armed guards. The system was invisible,     which made it all the more impressive, all the more disquieting to deal with. But     we were in accord, at least for now. The networks, the circuits, the streams, the     harmonies. (46) Why does Jack find being in accord with the bank system to be reassuring, even though a deranged person was being escorted from the bank? (46) How does this scene take on a new meaning today?

Question 11: Why are the trick or treating children frightened? (53)

Create a plan to evaluate the intervention program.  This evaluation should be developed to the point that someone else would be able to implement it.
Your strategies for addressing the key focus in your community below.

1.    Summarize the intervention plan, incorporating any comments from the facilitator.
(FACILITATOR COMMENTS): THIS IS FROM LAST PAPER SUBMITTED.
In-depth Plan for Intervention This section has a good start but needs more indepth discussion on each of the specfic areas below in the required criteria.
Create an in-depth plan for interventions
—including specifics concerning all :
A.Activities,
B. Audience
C. Setting

2.    Discuss the potential formative and summative approaches to the evaluation.
3.    Provide the details of the evaluation plan, including tools, process and any data analysis.

Internet Search for Article and Written Report on the Design, Delivery, or Evaluation of a Human Services Program

 

Use Internet or Online resources to investigate a human services program (any of your choosing within the United States). The report should focus either on how the program was designed and how services are delivered

SUPPLY & DEMAND PAPER OUTLINE

Introduction and Background:  Ex”s : Why is your good service interesting to you, what is its historical background, preview some of the major points from below.  Appx one page.
Demand:  Discuss and analyze each of the specific  5 Demand IV’s (Income, Substitution etc.) for your good or service, which ones are the strongest/weakest in changing buyers decisions to buy and why. Include a few graphs. Two pages minimum.  Include graphs
Supply: Discuss and analyze each of the specific 5 Supply IV’s ( Technology, Taxes etc.) for your good or service, (which ones are the strongest/weakest in changing sellers decisions to sell and why. Include a few graphs. Two pages minimum. Include graphs.
Elasticity:  Discuss the price elasticity you would expect for both supply and demand and explain why each is either elastic or inelastic and what this means to how the A of R changes as the IV’s for Demand and Supply change.  Include a graph.  2 page minimum.
Demand & Supply:
(1) Discuss and analyze how and why both Demand and Supply have changed because of changes in their IV’s and then how together buyers and sellers have allocated this resource during a past time period showing  the changes in P* and Q* explaining how winners and losers have been determined and how it has changed over time.  Include why the price elasticity of demand and supply are important in creating chnages in P* and Q* and the Allocation of Resources. Two Pags minimum.  Include graphs.
(2) Also discuss how changes in the A of R for your chosen good or service has affected the A of R for at least two other goods and services and vice versa.  Include one graph. Two Pages Minimum.  Include graphs
(3) Discuss how the government has (or could) regulate both directly and indirectly your good or service to change the A of R. Also include in your discussion how this regulation would also affect the A of R for another good or service.  Include graphs.  Two Pages Minimum.

Discuss your economic predictions for the A of R for your good or service in the future.  Explain which IV’s will be most influential and what role government regulation will play in these predictions.  Include graphs.  One page minimum.

Write a memo to the organization’s senior management and board of directors explaining the financial strengths and weaknesses based upon your analysis. The liquidity, profitability, and capital structure will be assessed and communicated to the leaders of the organization.

After reading about the changing forms of journalism, what do you think makes a person a journalist or more of a credible journalist in the public’s view? Should any blogger be protected by journalist shield laws? Where does Edward Snowden’s helper on The Guardian, investigative reporter-blogger Glenn Greenwald, who published some of the leaked NSA documents, fit into this discussion? Does Greenwald gain or lose credibility in this situation? How is Greenwald’s situation different from that of Daniel Ellsberg’s (the Pentagon Papers)? And what about Julian Assange with his wiki?

1. From the first seven chapters, (excluding chapter 3), choose one and write a 5 page paper analyzing the primary sources in the corresponding chapter in Voices. As you write, focus on answering the questions: What are the primary sources arguing? How do they relate to each other?