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Do you think everyone has implicit biases, why or why not? How do you think implicit biases are created?

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Take any of the implicit attitudes tests (IAT) found on this website: click here (Links to an external site.) https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/

In a one page paper (including double spaced, 12 point Times New Roman font, with one-inch margins), discuss which IAT you chose to complete and what your results were. Do you agree or disagree with your results? Why or why not? Do you think everyone has implicit biases, why or why not? How do you think implicit biases are created?

Identify and research one or more allusions in Autumn to write an essay explaining how they contribute to, expand, reframe, or otherwise affect how the novel makes meaning.

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  1. Identify and research one or more allusions in Autumn to write an essay explaining how they contribute to, expand, reframe, or otherwise affect how the novel makes meaning.
  2. Identify and research how one or more historical or cultural references of Autumn contribute to, expand, reframe, or otherwise affect how the novel makes meaning.
  3. Identify and research how one of these generic categories might be applied to Autumn: surrealism, postmodernism, comedy.
  4. Use research to support a psychoanalytic reading of one of the text’s dreams or fantasies to discuss how it contributes to the theme or characterization of the story.

Identify weaknesses in critical thinking such as fallacies, rhetorical devices, vague language, and cognitive biases.

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Evaluation of Critical Thinking: Assess the strength of the arguments and the quality of thinking surrounding this issue.
Identify weaknesses in critical thinking such as fallacies, rhetorical devices, vague language, and cognitive biases. Provide specific examples of how these weaknesses appear in arguments you encountered, using terminology and definitions from the course. Be specific! Present evidence from your sources that show these fallacies/biases being used.
Evaluate the quality of scientific and anecdotal evidence using the standards of inductive and deductive reasoning described in the course. Consider the quality of causal relationship, analogies, generalizations, and/or moral reasoning.
Conclusion: Analyze the totality of research and offer a critical thinker’s response to the issue. Identify your own position and experience with the issue and explain how your thinking of the subject has evolved as a result of your analysis. Your conclusion does not have to be absolute, but it should not be equivocal. If both sides have good arguments, which is better, even if only slightly better, and what is the argument that tips the scales in the sides’ favor? Why does that point tip the scales?

Should a firm pursue differentiation in an industry where customers are very price-sensitive?

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Question 1 (25 marks) Should a firm pursue differentiation in an industry where customers are very price-sensitive? And should a firm pursue cost leadership in an industry where customers are very price-insensitive? Use real-life example(s) to illustrate your answers.
Question 2 (25 marks) How does diversification strategy bring benefits to a firm? Illustrate your answer with real-life example(s).
Question 3 (25 marks) Watsons Hong Kong operates health care and beauty care chain stores in Hong Kong. It has various brands of products, including its own brand as well. (Examples: https://www.watsons.com.hk/All-Products/c/Product_Categories?q,productBrandCode:productBrandCod c:123155&text=&masterBrandCode=123155)
For the same type of product, why does Watsons Hong Kong sell its own and competitors’ brands? Give three reasons and discuss.
Question 4 (25 marks) Some firms favour horizontal merger rather than vertical merger. Discuss and illustrate three advantages of horizontal merger with example(s).

Outline land right when it comes to repairs.

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Outline land right when it comes to repairs.

Describe the Characteristics of a Dystopia worksheet

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Describe the Characteristics of a Dystopia worksheet

Discuss how modern homeland security environments differ from past environments.

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By the end of this course you will produce a 1,400-1,750-word research paper on the homeland security topic of your choice. Approach the topic from a researcher’s perspective looking to solve a problem or answer a question. In formulating your approach, consider how you plan to take what you have learned from this course into the security of your own community, state, or nation.

The research paper will also include the following elements:

Theories underlying the origins of homeland security and how they have evolved
Analysis regarding how public agencies have operated to secure your nation from internal and external threats
How modern homeland security environments differ from past environments.
Description of different systems which make up the homeland security enterprise

Discuss Mohammed Alharbi personal statement of purpose.

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Discuss Mohammed Alharbi personal statement of purpose.

Discuss your thoughts about the content of the news story combined with your sociological analysis.

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The news story you choose should relate to the sociological topics:

Education in Society

The paper must be constructed as follows:

Section 1 – Summary

Summarize the news story in your own words and provide the basic details (who, what, when, why, and how).

Section 2 – Analysis

Analyze the news story using some of the ideas about the importance of the social institution of education in society discussed in chapter 9 of the Core edition of the textbook. Discuss how the theories or ideas apply to your news story? Consider the broader implications of the news story.

Section 3 – Sociological Imagination

Discuss your thoughts about the content of the news story combined with your sociological analysis. Use your sociological imagination to interpret the meaning and create innovative insights. In other words, what are your views about the news story in consideration of the sociological theory that you’ve learned?

 

Why does Mearsheimer believe that international institutions like the UN offer a ‘false promise’ of greater security than the current state system can offer?

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Reasoning with clear ideas and examples in any manner you choose whether separately or integrated, answer the questions bellow indicating the limits and possibilities of justification for the UN as a global police force or negotiation facilitator between hostile or potentially hostile states.
Include the following related questions as headings:
What is the scope of its authority to act as an enforcement institution or negotiation facilitator?
What kinds of international problems does it seek to ameliorate or resolve, and does the seriousness of these problems warrant a global rather than regional or state response?
What are its methods and instruments of containment, enforcement, or persuasion—how does it get peoples and states to comply with its dictates or at least restrain themselves?
What are the chief limits of its ability to act as a legitimate global police authority or negotiation facilitator? Why does Mearsheimer believe that international institutions like the UN offer a ‘false promise’ of greater security than the current state system can offer?
Length of assignment: 5-7 pages
Format: APA
Number of citations: at least 5-7 scholarly sources
Acceptable sources: scholarly articles, books, current affairs events, Bible, etc.