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What light does Broken Spears throw on the Spanish takeover of Mexico, 1519-21? The central question you have to answer is how a group of not many more than 200-300 Spaniards could in two years take over a country of 23 million? To answer this, you are going to have to look at a) Aztec culture, Montecuzoma, and views of the apocalypse (return of the gods) — how that helped; b) tensions between Aztec and non-Aztec Mexican groups, especially Thlaxcalans; c) how Cortes exploited them to build up his army; and d) why, after the Spaniards were kicked out of Tenochtitlan in 1520 (after the Aztecs finally rose up to fight them), they were able to come back a year later, lay siege to the town and finally take over. You will also have to discuss how the interpretation given by Broken Spears on this compares, contrasts or differs to conventional European views first expressed by Spanish conquistadors in the documents you should have been reading and summarizing. You have to put in at least 6 direct quotes (3 from Broken Spears; 3 from Spanish documents); you probably need twice that to get a good grade (they must be short quotes, though, integrated seamlessly into your exposition and analysis.

Your research paper should be an argumentative essay that makes a specific claim about one of the course readings. The claim should be made by applying specific schools of literary criticism from the “Critical Strategies for Reading” section of our textbook. Support this claim and argument in a well-developed, well-written, and well-organized essay of at least 2000 words (roughly 6-8 typed, double-spaced pages). To support your argument, incorporate quotes, summaries, or paraphrases from at least five sources accessed through the GMC library. In order for you to succeed in this assignment, read and reread the following directions:

See Writing Great Research Papers by Laurie Reynolds and How to do your Research Paper by Gary Thomas

Would like some graphs and charts and possibly survey

You have four choices for your essay topic.  Please choose one of the four choices.

 

1. Analyze the impact of the Internet on journalism.  In constructing your essay, you may want to draw upon what Neil Postman says about the impact of television on journalism in Amusing Ourselves to Death, especially in chapters 6 and 7.

 

You might analyze one or more of the following.  These are just examples.  Many approaches are possible for this topic.

1. The impact of the Internet on a particular aspect of the newspaper industry
2. The impact of the Internet on multimedia news delivery
3. The impact of the Internet on how the public understands news events.

 

 

1. Analyze the impact of the Internet on political campaigns and elections.  You may want to draw upon what Neil Postman says about the impact of television on political campaigning in Amusing Ourselves to Death, especially in chapter 9, as you find sources and make an argument about the impact of the Internet on campaigning in the twenty-first century.

 

You might analyze any one or more of the following.  These are just examples.  Many approaches are possible for this topic.

1. The impact of the Internet on fundraising in campaigns
2. The impact of the Internet on speeches or debates in campaigns
3. The impact of the Internet on a politician when he or she makes a blunder in a speech or does something embarrassing in public.
4. The impact of the Internet on the personal life of a politician

 

 

 

1. Analyze or assess the impact of a particular trend in technology on education.  In constructing your essay, you may want to draw upon what Neil Postman says about the impact of television on education in Amusing Ourselves to Death., especially in chapter 10.

 

For example, you might analyze any one of the following.  These are just examples.  Many approaches are possible for this topic.

1. The impact of online courses on education.  You might focus on a particular field of study for this choice.
2. The impact of digital media on online courses.
3. The impact of the computer on writing courses or courses in other disciplines
4. The impact of certain forms of technology on reading skills or reading habits
5. Whether video games should be introduced into schools and used to help educate students
6. Analyze the impact of technology on a field of study of your choice.

This option represents a more general approach to the essay.  You may or may not find that the Postman book is helpful for this choice.

 

Some examples might be the following. These are just examples.  Many approaches are possible for this topic.

1. The impact of mobile devices on cybersecurity
2. The impact of the Internet on the field of advertising
3. The impact of cloud computing on a particular business field
4. The impact of the Internet in an area of communication studies
5. The impact of the Internet on global marketing strategies
6. The impact of a particular type of technology on health care

1.  Discuss whether organized sport in the first half of the twentieth century in the United States should be regarded primarily as a conservative — that is, tending to support the status quo — or as a progressive — that is, tending to encourage change — social force.

Your paper must be typed and double-spaced, with one-inch margins on all four sides of the page.  Times or Times New Roman font.  Papers must contain proper citation of all material taken from written sources and be free of errors in grammar, usage, spelling, and punctuation.  You must take credit of all material taken from written sources.

explain how science is applied and how it may be addressed a specific problem or issue.
discusses and evaluates the implications of the use and application of science intreatcing with moral and social.

ECO 201 Paper

 

Assignment:

• Further understand the economic way of thinking and the accounting implications.
• Give you an incentive to think critically about course information.
• Apply economic principles and accounting principles to firms at microeconomic level in the U.S.

 

Goal: Construct a case study/research paper that examines a firm in the U.S. from a microeconomic standpoint and provide suggestions based on your findings.

• Step 1: Choose a firm for your focus. In addition to picking a firm that you find interesting, you will likely want to pick a firm that has available data (or a firm that for which you can personally provide data). Publicly traded companies file reports with a great deal of data (preferred).
• Step 2: You will need to complete an analysis of the following categories for your firm. You should complete each section as we cover it in the course – although the paper is not due until the end of week 7. This will help you to reinforce topics from the course. The following must be included:

 

NOTE: Be sure to break your paper into the following sections with headings:

• What does your firm do? Introduce your firm (week 1)
• How have supply and demand conditions impacted the firm in recent years? (week 2)
• Examine price elasticity of demand for the products your firm sells. (week 3)
• Examine the costs of production for your firm. (week 5)
• What is (are) your firm’s primary competitive advantage(s)? (Week 6)
• Are there entry barriers for firms in this industry? (Week 6)
• What substitutes are available for your product? (Week 6)
• What is the market share for firms in the industry? (Week 6)
• What market structure best describes the conditions your firm faces? (Week 6/7)
• Based on the characteristics of your firm, provide advice regarding what you think the firm should do going forward and provide a prediction of their future. (Week 7)

The paper is on social darwinism in heart of darkness. The paper needs to contain an annotated bibliography. The sources I will supply. My professor has supplied me with dead lines

Assignment Topics:

Topics:

The strategic integration of banking products and services

• Retail products and services
• Commercial products and services
• Investment products and services
• International products and services
• Sales queues for non-Retail products
• Non-Retail department liaisons for proper referral channel

Please read the attached PDF files, which contains chapters: 5, 7, 8, 9, 10

Readings

Chapter 5, sections 5.1 and 5.2

Chapter 7, section 7.2

Chapter 8, section 8.1

Chapter 9, section 9.1

Chapter 10: sections 10.1, 10.2, 10.3 and 10.4

The focus on this assignment is on the strategic integration of bank products and services. You will be introduced to the various and diverse types of products and services that banks offer. You will also examine who is responsible for marketing and selling these products and services, the importance of understanding products and services in other areas of the bank, and, finally you will learn how different products and services produce revenue for the organization.

Today there are new and innovative services being added to the mix every year as technology advances. This week, you will read about the products and services of banks. Later point, we will specifically examine SunTrust bank products, how to sell and market them and establishing a strong foundation of knowing what differentiates SunTrust from other banks and financial institutions.

During client interactions, it is important for the bank employee to listen for sales queues that reveal opportunities for referring clients to another area of the bank. By not acting on client queues, teammates place the bank at risk by having customers look for alternative solutions at competitive financial institutions. For example, if a bank employee is servicing an existing client, and in the conversation, the client mentions that he has recently started a new business. This should alert the bank employee to ask the client some questions about the business:

• What type of business is it?
• How was the new venture financed?
• Does the business have bank accounts at the bank or elsewhere?
• Is the business cash intensive?

If the bank employee is not in a position to ask such questions, then, the bank employee should refer the client to the Business Banking department for further consultation. It is not a bank employee’s job to know all of the bank’s offerings, but it is the bank employee’s responsibility to know how to direct the client for additional opportunities. Consider this, what if the banker just let the comment go by and this customer has begun shopping around for business loans and business accounts. The bank could very easily miss out on this opportunity and worse; run the risk of this customer eventually taking his consumer business to the new bank helping him with his business. Making quality referrals is as important as making direct sales of your area’s products and services.

It’s more comfortable to make referrals when you know who to call, thereby establishing a trusted advisor for both you and your clients. Your contribution to not only your area but other areas across departments is vital to the success of the bank.

First complete the assigned readings. Then develop responses to Assignment 6.1 questions. Be sure to cite your sources from the reading, using the APA guidelines to support your answers. You may also use few additional sources to support your answers.

Read the questions and choose 7 of the 15 questions to answer. In a Word document, respond to each of the 7 questions from a SunTrust perspective.

Assignment 6.1 questions:

1. Why does the Federal Reserve require SunTrust Bank to keep reserves for Demand Deposits, but not for Time Deposits?
2. Why do you think SunTrust Bank no longer offers Passbook Savings Accounts?
3. What factors should SunTrust clients consider before purchasing a Certificate of Deposit?
4. Why do you think SunTrust Bank offers a variety of Consumer Loans?
5. Why might it be important for SunTrust clients to understand their credit card agreements?
6. What incentives make home ownership and the taking on of long term debt attractive to consumers?
7. Identify three major differences between Consumer Lending and Commercial Lending at SunTrust Bank.
8. Why is it essential that loan analysts at SunTrust Bank understand the nature of a business, not just the balance sheets, when making a loan decision?
9. How is it possible that SunTrust Bank might make a poor loan decision for a long time Commercial Customer?
10. Why would SunTrust Bank be in a good position to offer trade consulting?
11. How did the Glass-Steagall Act restrict banking services offered by SunTrust Bank?
12. Why is SunTrust Bank now able to offer one-stop shopping to its clients?
13. SunTrust Bank now outsources many services that it used to provide itself, what are the advantages of this?
14. What puts SunTrust Bank in a great position to offer cash management services?
15. What information would your clients need to know if they wanted to set up a living trust with SunTrust Bank?

 

Research paper

Topic:

How did U.S. policymakers justify their policies in the Caribbean, Mexico, and Central America in the early years of the 20th century? What influence did the U.S. assert there?