Author: chris

Argumentative essay

Topic:

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You are now ready to become a ruler for the day :^) as you represent a country of your choice. Identify that country and address how you would seek to balance the goals of economic growth and environmental sustainability.

As part of your response, also cite examples on whether you would choose preventative or adaptive strategies to address Global Climate Change; or if you would elect to take no action.

Conduct a short ethnographic exercise in which you observe and participate in a food event, documenting as much of the process as you are able through fieldnotes, subsequent interviews with participants, photography, etc. An essay will provide a synthesis of your research, in which you should describe the food event from conception to culmination, locate it within the larger food repertoire of the particular group and the group’s socio-cultural tradition, and relate it to other cultural performances. Students should consult and cite the relevant literature for analogous food performances in different contexts. Anticipated length: 5-7 pages double-spaced (exclusive of bibliography).
How to interpret this
“Conduct a short ethnographic exercise…”: All assignments need to cover a particular instance of a food event which you are actually present at. For example, you shouldn’t do “Eid” or “Moon Festival” or “Thanksgiving”: you should do a particular observance of Eid, or a particular Moon Festival celebration, or a particular Thanksgiving. You are to address how this particular observance came to be, what decisions were made so that the general patterns of how it is “usually” celebrated could be made present for this one instance of it, and what changes/substitutions/adaptations (in menu, in scheduling, in attendees) were made in order for the food event to actually come together in a meaningful way. This touches on the two overriding themes of conservatism (keeping things as they have been in the past because that sense of continuity provides one with a connection to that past) and dynamism (adapting to the needs of the present to create something that is meaningful to the particular circumstances of the moment of performance).
“Ethnographic” can include “autoethnographic”: you can look at your own activity, but you should be doing so with the same critical eye, and asking the same sort of questions about precisely why you are making the decisions you are making. The assignment is by no means restricted to named events like cultural festivals, but they serve as good illustrations for my point. Dates, birthday dinners, family suppers, game night at Don Cherry’s: these are equally valid, and so too are even less marked events like “Ian makes a sandwich”, “Ian goes to Caper Convenience,” or “Ian buys a loaf of bread.”
“An essay will provide…”: you will need to:
1. “describe the food event from conception to culmination”: who initiated it, what was the occasion, who was present, who was responsible for what (including who had no obvious responsibilities), how did it unfold, how was it received, etc.
2. “locate it within the larger food repertoire of the particular group”: how this particular instance coincides with the history of this particular group’s celebration of the event (your family’s Eid celebrations; your friendship group’s birthday celebrations; a typical date night with your spouse / partner, etc.). If this group has no shared history (if, for example, they are celebrating Moon
Festival for the first time away from their families, or if this was a first date), then there will be interesting negotiations and perhaps different receptions to the event from the various participants.
3. “and the group’s socio-cultural tradition”: the broader patterns of how this is done in a culture (at their most general, i.e. we’re back to “Eid,” “Moon Festival,” and “Thanksgiving”). (There may be a further intermediary step: this Eid, my family’s Eid, Eid in Pakistan, Eid in Islam.)
4. “and relate it to other cultural performances”: which provides a certain amount of latitude. You can compare and contrast this event not only as you have above (i.e. with other instances and/or the more general patterns of observance) but also with other forms of marked celebrations, or with unmarked ones (quotidian food events).

In her autobiographical novel Still Alive, Ruth Kluger asks us to “rearrange a lot of furniture” in our “inner museum of the Holocaust.” She does not want us to settle down in whatever attitude to the Holocaust we have created for ourselves. Analyze how Kluger achieves this goal through the use of metacommentary and dialogical narrative. Then focus in on a particular aspect of her novel (though you are not limited to just one), for example:  * How does Kluger reflect on the difficulties of telling her story? Of representing  Holocaust experiences? * How does she describe the life in the ghetto and/or concentration camps? * You could also discuss the relationship between author and listener/reader in the text.     What does Kluger expect from her listeners and readers? * How are the Germans represented in the text? * You could discuss the image of ghosts or the recurrent motif of silence. * What does she think about museums? * What does she think about gender inequalities?

‘The call for the adoption of a US-style rule of reason should be resisted and, indeed, there is much to be said for dropping this term (and the terms ‘ancillary
restraint’ and ‘per se illegality’) from [Union] antitrust law altogether, on the basis that they do more to confuse than to clarify. [Union] competition law requires its own vocabulary, carefully honed to express its own particular tensions.’
Critically assess this statement in light of the case-law of the CJEU on the application of Article 101(1) TFEU to vertical agreements.

Write a reflective essay (5-paragraph essay).  In addition to an introductory and conclusion paragraph which tie your essay together and present a brief thesis, include three content paragraphs, each of which introduces 1 point and then discusses it. Try to include reference from at least one relevant online article from a major newspaper.

Tiger Air, and airline owned by Member State A, has been asked to assess certain of its current rules on employment of their pilots and air crew (air hostesses and stewards)
a) The compulsory retirement age for pilots is 60 on ground of air security; the compulsory retirement age for air crew is 50 (after that staff can apply for carrying out ground work) on ground of customer expectations (based on customer feedback) and air security;
b) Special benefits, such as free flight tickets for air crew, are reserved for employees who are married and are not to be extended to those in a civil partnership (Member State A generally maintains a distinction between marriage and civil partnerships);
c) Pregnant air hostesses are transferred to perform ground duties (office work) on the ground that work as air crew exposed them to physical agents, such as ionising and non-ionising radiation which may cause foetal lesions. These transfers lead to the loss of the special ‘air crew supplement’;
d) The pension contributions of air hostesses are higher than those of stewards reflecting the fact that retired air hostesses live longer than retired stewards.
Advise Tiger Air as to the compatibility of these rules with EU anti-discrimination law.

Planning  –

Starbucks? Chairman, Howard Schultz, has poised the company to take it the next level: $23B in annual sales. To do this, he must triple annual sales in 5 years.

Case Assignment Expectations

Please write a 3-4 page paper answering this question:

Can CEO Howard Schultz lead Starbucks to reach 23 B in three years?  Please perform a SWOT analysis to answer this question. If yes, what strategies does he need to implement successfully? If Not, which are the reasons?

Helpful Hints:

Please first read in-depth the Background Materials.
Read both articles
Analyze the current situation using the SWOT framework.
Environment such as economy trends overall industry
Competition (other players and newcomers)
Strengths (company strength such as customer base, brand etc)
Weaknesses (premium pricing, saturation, etc)
Given the environment (threats and opportunities) and company (strengths and weaknesses) can S reach 23 B?
Make the decision of Yes or No based on results of your analysis.

Identify facts in the case that match concepts of strategic planning (vision, goals, strategies) and relate them.

Apply these concepts to facts in the case in order to develop your arguments.

Format: Introduction; Main Body: SWOT (each item a separate section), Discussion (Yes and how; or No and why); Conclusions

Format

In order to develop good business communication skills, it is recommended you write papers using the following structure, using headlines and titles.

Introduction (road map,  explain main issue and list and main points)

Main Body: Develop each point in the Introduction, applying theory to facts, in subsections (one subsection per main point).

In this case, there are 5 subsections: 1 per each SWOT factors and 1 for the discussion following the SWOT analysis!

Using “Five Ways to Skin a Cat,” discuss the tension between reason/unreason and individual/society in the following:
•Rational Choice and Exchange theory
•Sexism/Feminism
•Racism/Racial Equality
Choose one thinker in each of the categories above. Bring in examples from the Contexts Reader to support or contrast your analysis.

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