How does the culture of an organization come about, and how do ethics and values shape the culture of an organization? Is it possible to change the culture of an organization over time? If so, how?

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Organizational Culture

How does the culture of an organization come about, and how do ethics and values shape the culture of an organization? Is it possible to change the culture of an organization over time? If so, how?

There are three characteristics that form the foundation of an organization’s corporate culture:

Corporate culture is shared (i.e., represents a common understanding and interpretation of what is important and not important within the framework of an organization);

Corporate culture is intangible (i.e., reflects the values, norms, and assumptions upon which an organization is unwilling to compromise);

Corporate culture affects the way that human capital assets behave.

Why is Planters struggling in 2012 Why do Blue Diamond and Wonderful have much lower market awareness than Planters despite outstripping Planter’s marketing spend in recent years?

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Planters case study

Read the Planters case study thoroughly in your HBR course packets. Once you carefully read the Planters case, you will answer the following case study questions. Please restate (or copy and paste) the questions in all your responses. Use  your critical thinking (quality) vs. quantity. Please utilize the standard Time Romans font, 12 point font, double space. No need for cover page. No less than 2 pages.

  1. Why is Planters struggling in 2012
  2. Why do Blue Diamond and Wonderful have much lower market awareness than Planters despite outstripping Planter’s marketing spend in recent years?
  3. What are the primary assets Planters has to employ toward its mission of creating value for its chosen customers? Is there any type of customer for whom Planters has an advantage over competitors in creating value?
  4. Kraft has a formal process of setting out the target market to be served. Evaluate the choice for Planters. Evaluate the current positioning of Planters.
  5. What positioning would you recommend for Planters going forward?

 

Are convicts still punished after serving time?

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Argumentative essay

Are convicts still punished after serving time?

Write a coherent, well-organized, and persuasive essay that takes a position on an issue primarily using the Psychologist’s View (Rogerian Argument). Should stem cell research be funded by the government? Should it be outlawed? Why or why not?

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Stem cell research

Write a coherent, well-organized, and persuasive essay that takes a position on an issue primarily using the Psychologist’s View (Rogerian Argument). Should stem cell research be funded by the government? Should it be outlawed? Why or why not?

How does this article relate to the Writing Process and illustration. How clear are the author’s statements, and does the discussion maintain cohesion?

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Illustrative writing

Illustration is the skillful use of demonstrative examples which allows a writer to present the main idea in an explanation type manner so the reader can understand the broader context of the selected topic. Illustrative writing requires being imaginative and attentive to specific details. Generally, the writer’s primary task is to find supporting textual material that may exemplify the main idea, usually by utilizing personal examples.

1. How does this article relate to the Writing Process and illustration.

2. Would this be an example of Illustrative Writing?

3. How clear are the author’s statements, and does the discussion maintain cohesion?

4. What do you think of the author’s writing? Do you feel like the author is a professional writer or an amateur?

5. How well does the organization fit the article’s purpose and articulate key goals?

Discuss the placement of apparatus to include the variations between offensive and defensive mode of operation and the consideration of utilizing master streams. Explain life safety concerns and personnel accountability in each of your chosen modes of operation and the hazards specific to the building you submitted.

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Overview

Instructions
Submit a picture or pictures of an occupancy from your community. Provide an overview of the building including the information from the COAL WAS WEALTH process, a basic description of the building construction, and how heat transfer would apply to this building.
Choose three options from the strategies discussed in the textbook or unit video (offensive, offensive-defensive, defensive-offensive, indirect method of attack, defensive, no attack or nonintervention, and SLICE-RS) that might be considered in a fire at this location.

Answer the following questions regarding your chosen strategic modes of operation.
In the event of a working structure fire in this building, outline the factors involved in selecting a strategic mode of operation. Describe the conditions that must be present to utilize each mode. How does response time factor in to each of your options?
How will on-scene prioritizing be accomplished in each option?
Discuss the placement of apparatus to include the variations between offensive and defensive mode of operation and the consideration of utilizing master streams.
Explain life safety concerns and personnel accountability in each of your chosen modes of operation and the hazards specific to the building you submitted.

Your paper must be a minimum of three pages in length, not counting the title and reference pages or the photographs. You must use at least one academic source other than your textbook to support your analysis and solutions. All sources used must have proper citations. Your paper, including all references, will be formatted in APA style.

Write a five-paragraph essay (10%) on food marketing. Choose the focus question from class, or come up with another one.

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“Why Canadians or Parents Should be Aware of Food Marketing”

Write a five-paragraph essay (10%) on food marketing.
Choose the focus question from class, or come up with another one.
Attach your outline (5%) to the end of the essay.

Remember to:
Create an APA title page.
Include at least two but not more than four quotations or paraphrases from the articles provided in class.
Double space.

Explain how symbolism is used in one of the stories from this lesson. This includes “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien or “The Birth-Mark” by Nathaniel Hawthorne only. Please keep in mind that you should be discussing how the use of symbols helps explain or supports meaning in the story.

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CASE STUDY

Your essay should hit (or come reasonably close) the last line on page 2.

Explain how symbolism is used in one of the stories from this lesson. This includes “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien or “The Birth-Mark” by Nathaniel Hawthorne only. Please keep in mind that you should be discussing how the use of symbols helps explain or supports meaning in the story. In other words, how does the use of symbols help us to better understand the lesson we should learn from this work.

Questions to consider include the following:
What symbol(s) did you notice in this story?
What “big ideas” do the symbols represent?
How do the symbols relate to the story’s meaning or overall theme?
Can these symbols be interpreted in more than one way?

Your first paragraph should include (a) the name of the story and author, (b) a one or two sentence summary of the story and (c) your thesis statement or main point about the symbols used in the story.
Your essay should be written in academic style (no first or second person, academic language, use of MLA formatting) AND include examples or quotes from the story.

Write a five-paragraph essay about ONE symbol from Yerma by Federico Garcia Lorca. Explain what that symbols means and how it affects our deeper understanding across all three acts of the play.

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ONE symbol from Yerma by Federico Garcia Lorca

Write a five-paragraph essay about ONE symbol from Yerma by Federico Garcia Lorca. Your essay should explain what that symbols means and how it affects our deeper understanding across all three acts of the play.

The symbols you can choose from:
• Water
• The earth
• Flowers
• Blood
• Milk
• Moon

If there’s no way to determine what happened, why does Mann bring this case up?

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Rock Music and Suicide Discussion Discussion Topic

Answer in 350 words: Question: If there’s no way to determine what happened, why does Mann bring this case up?

Peggy Mann begins by saying, “There is, of course, no way to determine whether a suicide would have occurred in any case, but don’t tell that to the parents.” Question: If there’s no way to determine what happened, why does Mann bring this case up?

FYI, here’s the paragraph, published in Reader’s Digest, July 1988:

There is, of course, no way to determine whether a suicide would have occurred in any case, but don’t tell that to the parents of 19-year-old John McCollum from Indio, Calif. When he killed himself, the coroner’s report stated, “Decedent committed suicide with .22 caliber pistol while listening to devil music.” John, who had been getting an earful of Ozzy Osbourne albums for five hours, was wearing stereo headphones at the time of his death. He was hearing such messages as, “Suicide is the only way out” from “Suicide Solution” and “Can you help me? Oh, shoot out my brains, ohhh yeah. . . .I tell you to end your life” from “Paranoid.” (101)