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Select a current piece of pop culture – a TV show or series, a film, a song, video, etc. – and discuss its influence on the identity of a particular individual or group.

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Discuss the influence of media, society, and culture and a variety of significant issues. For this paper, you have two options:

1. Follow one particular story in the news media throughout a 2-week time period, taking a close look at how the reporting may have changed throughout that time. Argue for how the coverage of the story has impacted the event itself. How is the identity of those included in the story or reading/seeing the coverage changed? Through words/catchphrases? Through pictures? Through music? What is the outcome? Is someone’s identity changed? Is the nation changed? Remember you are not reporting on the event; your reader will most likely be generally familiar with the event you’re discussing. You are arguing for how the reporting and coverage of the event has changed the identity of someone in particular, analyzing a particular aspect of the reporting/coverage. Again, a specific connection and thesis is crucial here: the more specific your connection, the more in depth your analysis and argument will be, and the more interesting your entire paper will become.

2. Select a current piece of pop culture – a TV show or series, a film, a song, video, etc. – and discuss its influence on the identity of a particular individual or group. For an example, consider Steinem’s essay “Wonder Woman.” Does this pop culture work reinforce or challenge ideas or stereotypes about this individual or group? How does it fit into a larger body of work about this particular individual or group? You will want to be specific in your selection (i.e., you might want to select a few episodes of a TV series rather than the entire series); consider discussing a specific character from a film or the setting, a particular scene, etc. Make sure you select a work that provides some depth and complexity; this doesn’t mean that it has to be “high” art, only that it will provide opportunities for a complex analysis.

 

Create a PowerPoint presentation discussing the Barnum Effect. For this presentation option, you will integrate scholarly research on the Barnum Effect with a mini-experiment that you will conduct on friends and family

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Create a PowerPoint presentation discussing the Barnum Effect. For this presentation option, you will integrate scholarly research on the Barnum Effect with a mini-experiment that you will conduct on friends and family.

  1. Collect data from 5 people on the Barnum Effect by giving them the test found at the psych.fullerton.edu website
  2. Next, ask your participants to rate the accuracy of their results on a scale of 1 to 10
    (1 = not accurate at all; 10 = completely accurate).
  3. Record the participants’ ratings/results and include them as part of your presentation.
  4. Once you have told the participants their results, you may also include follow-up questions to obtain qualitative data on their reaction to the accuracy of the test or the Barnum Effect. Feel free to include those qualitative data in your presentation as well.
  5. Integrate the data you collected from your 5 participants with the scholarly research that you found on the Barnum Effect into a single, well-organized presentation.
  6. Include at least 1 peer-reviewed resource, in addition to your textbook. (That’s at least 2 scholarly sources total!)  Discuss whether or not your findings are consistent with the scholarly sources that you cite.  If not, offer an explanation of why.

 

 

Identify a target market for your sewing business, start advertising through friends and social media pages. Find the target population, keep up with the sewing trends to attract and maintain customers who can later refer their friends.

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Starting a sewing business, you need to plan for funding, licenses, space and materials (Cowell, 2019). The reason for venturing into sewing business is because almost everyone needs their clothes mended or repaired. The mission for the corporate is to earn our customers trust, respect and increase our self-esteem by giving the best services to our customers. We also want to be the best tailoring business and increase the demand for our services and profession.

Tailoring is an excellent profession that people have ventured into over the past years. The most significant challenge that is experienced in this field is finding a target market or potential customers. You should identify their preferences and taste of fashion (Kilmer, 2015). Identifying competitors and look at them to gain additional insights about sewing and repair. After determining your customer, ask yourself if there is any print or design that is most preferred your customers? Who are your target population, are they happy with your work?

Identify a target market for your sewing business, start advertising through friends and social media pages.

Find the target population, keep up with the sewing trends to attract and maintain customers who can later refer their friends.

Create a good customer base and set a standard price that all your customers can afford.

To evaluate the success and highlight areas for possible improvement of the business, we need to look at both the qualitative and quantitative indicators of the industry (Barbazette, 2006). Tailoring business can be evaluated to determine if the goals and objectives have or have not been met. The success Indicators used are the customer’s responses, returning of an old customer, and new customers referred by a client (Singh et al., 2017). To assess the business, identify the objectives and goals, define the business indicators, and select the appropriate methods (Aga et al., 2016). M&E is the best method of evaluating the business because it helps. It incorporates the views of a target population, for operational management, and accountability of the corporate (Anderson et al., 2013).

What are two environmental-policy-related challenges your chosen jurisdiction is currently facing (or, alternatively, has faced in the past)? Describe specifically what makes these two policy areas especially challenging for your chosen jurisdiction.

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Once you have made your selection, familiarize yourself with your chosen jurisdiction, its history, and its successes and challenges related to environmental policy using the jurisdiction’s official website and newspaper articles written by reporters working for news agencies assigned to cover your chosen jurisdiction. Your paper (which should be written in narrative/essay form), should address the following questions/issues:

1. What are two environmental-policy-related challenges your chosen jurisdiction is currently facing (or, alternatively, has faced in the past)? Describe specifically what makes these two policy areas especially challenging for your chosen jurisdiction.

2. How does the local political environment (or atmosphere) in your chosen jurisdiction affect the government officials tasked with dealing with the environmental -policy-related issues you have identified? In other words, does the local political environment (or atmosphere) complicate or simplify this issue? Why is this so?

3. Describe at least two ways in which the texts for our class and at least one way that the lectures for our class help you understand (or make sense of) the challenges that you identify. Your essay should contain at least two (2) citations to our texts, at least one (1) citation to our course lectures, and four (4) citations to news media articles (such as from a local newspaper or news radio station) written about your jurisdiction (Wikipedia does not count as a cite-able source for purposes of this assignment).

Write an essay of at least 500 words and no more than 600 words in which your response to one of the videos: “Donut People” – Directed and Edited by Keeley Steenson Any two of the seven “Tacos of Texas” videos, presented by Mando Rayo and Jarod Neece

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Write an essay of at least 500 words and no more than 600 words in which your response to one of the videos listed below:

  • “Donut People” – Directed and Edited by Keeley Steenson
  • Any two of the seven “Tacos of Texas” videos, presented by Mando Rayo and Jarod Neece

Write about your initial reactions to the videos. Were you entertained? Enlightened? Challenged? Explain and give specific details. Write about things you learned while Googling words and/or foods mentioned in the videos. Or, you might choose to go one step further and write about the connections between the videos. These are just a few examples and should not limit you.

In order to do well on this essay, you should:

  • Briefly summarize the video(s) about which you are writing. The word briefly is key here; the majority of your essay should be response and analysis.
  • Discuss what argument the video appears to be making (i.e. what it’s about, what story it’s telling) and discuss which elements of the video (narration, soundtrack, images) are most impactful.
  • Proofread carefully, eliminating all distracting errors.
  • Organize your ideas into coherent paragraphs and sentences.
  • Stay within the prescribed word count
  • Adhere to MLA Document Design guidelines
  • And finally, you may use first person pronouns here!

How are emotions contributing to unusual buying behaviors, such as hoarding, during this coronavirus outbreak? What measures did online retailers such as Amazon take to combat the price-gouging linked to the Coronavirus panic?

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As fears over the coronavirus grow, people are frantically buying up supplies and leaving store shelves empty. Prices are also sky-rocketing online as demand grows, such as two large bottles of Purell hand sanitizer on sale for nearly $300 on Amazon. The same size normally sells for about $9 a bottle. An Amazon spokesperson says the company does not allow price gouging and it has “recently blocked or removed tens of thousands of offers.” The teaching note discusses how consumer emotions and motivations are driving hording behaviors as well as efforts by Amazon and policy makers to discourage price-gouging by retailers.

Discussion Questions and Answers:

  1. Disasters such as epidemics or natural disasters put particular strains on the world economy, causing volatility in financial markets as well as sudden scarcity of the needed products and services that experience heightened demand due to crisis conditions. Thinking about this from a consumer behavior perspective, how are human motivations driving this phenomena?
  2. How are emotions contributing to unusual buying behaviors, such as hoarding, during this coronavirus outbreak?
  3. During the initial phases of the Coronavirus outbreak, there was an unprecedented boom in the demand for hand sanitizers and medical face masks. Such frantic demand made it possible for bad actors to buy up the limited supplies of these goods and resell them online for many times their normal prices. What measures did online retailers such as Amazon take to combat the price-gouging linked to the Coronavirus panic?
  4. In addition to the sought-after items being sold for exponentially more online, there has also been a spate of price-gouging and customer hording in brick-and-mortar stores within highly populated areas. For many items, it is very difficult to keep the shelves stocked. The onslaught of demand has led some store owners to raise prices on certain items to discourage hording, thereby enabling more customers the opportunity to purchase the items. In your view, is this approach ethical? Where do you draw the line between efforts to ensure greater customer access to goods and price gouging? Are there other approaches retailers might take to ensure that more customers have access to key goods?

What was the attitude towards Holmes of both APOC and British officials, and why did they hold that attitude. How did SOCAL become the concessionaire in Bahrain? What was Ibn Saud’s initial attitude towards oil exploration in his kingdom, and what were the pressures and influences which changed his mind?

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Write no more than five sentences on each of the following:

“The Arabian Concessions”

What was the attitude towards Holmes of both APOC and British officials, and why did they hold that attitude

How did SOCAL become the concessionaire in Bahrain?

What was Ibn Saud’s initial attitude towards oil exploration in his kingdom, and what were the pressures and influences which changed his mind?

Why was Philby ‘no mere bit player’?

Why did SOCAL and not IPC get the al-Hasa concession?

What were the political and economic challenges faced by Kuwait’s Ruler in the early 1930’s?

How and why did APOC’s attitude towards a concession in Kuwait change

Who were the shareholders of the Kuwait Oil Company, and how and why did that arrangement come about?

 

What is the main point of the article? How does the article connect to or extend what we have studied? What impact does the article have on how you will make your own financial decisions in your job or regarding your own investments?

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This article is entitled The Big Market Delusion: Valuation and Investment Implications was written by Bradford Cornell and Aswath Damodaran in the FAJ in 2020.

The complete article is attached as a pdf file (“Cornell & Damodaran FAJ 2020 The Big Market Delusion Valuation and Investment Implications.pdf”)

Once you have read the article, please write a one page article review that answers the following three questions:

1. What is the main point of the article?

2. How does the article connect to or extend what we have studied?

3. What impact does the article have on how you will make your own financial decisions in your job or regarding your own investments?

Attached several supplemental PowerPoint presentations that we have studied. It is very important that you review them and see how they can relate to the article. Specifically, the attachments:

1) “Chapter 5_Bonds, Bond Valuation, and Interest Rates.ppt”
2) “Chapter 7_Valuation of Stocks.ppt”
3) “Chapter 18_Public and Private Financing: Initial Offerings, Seasoned Offerings, and Investment Banks.ppt”

If you selected Malcolm X’s message to the grassroots you might focus on the era of the civil rights period or the rise of Black Nationalism among African Americans in the 1960s. Examine the philosophy and politics of the Nation of Islam or Malcolm X.

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-Henry Louis Gates Jr., Life Upon These Shores: Looking at African American History, 1513-2008 (Knopf, 2013).

-Kai Wright, African American Experience: Black History and Culture Through Speeches, Letters, Editorials, Poems, Songs, and Stories (Black Dog & Leventhal; Reprint Edition, 2009)

Students will select a paper topic based on one of the primary sources from the book, The African American Experience: Black History and Culture. The final paper will be 6-7 pages. The research paper is required to have an abstract (250 word synopsis), bibliography consisting of 10 sources, both books and recent scholarly articles. All papers should be typed, double-spaced, 12-point font, New Times Roman typeface 1” (one-inch) margins using Chicago/Turabian bibliographic format with footnotes in 10-point font. This paper will situate the primary source in its own historical period. For example if you selected Malcolm X’s message to the grassroots you might focus on the era of the civil rights period or the rise of Black Nationalism among African Americans in the 1960s. You may also want to examine the philosophy and politics of the Nation of Islam or Malcolm X. The aim of this paper is to provide an analysis of the primary source utilizing relevant and pertinent secondary sources. A key question to keep in mind is why did the author write this essay or develop this speech, treatise, legislation or manifesto? What were they seeking to accomplish?

Create this reflective reference letter in essay form in a way that contemplates the future. Acting as a third party, introduce yourself to an audience as you will become 20 years from today.

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  1. Compose a reflective character reference in essay format.
  2. Create this reflective reference letter in essay form in a way that contemplates the future.
  3. Acting as a third party, introduce yourself to an audience as you will become 20 years from today.
  1. Make this essay serve as a character reference to describe you, your achievements, and the

characteristics you will display in your 20-year future.

  1. Distribute the contents into the body sections.
  2. Devote primary focus to career (vocation) and the educational achievement taken to qualify for this

means of employment.

  1. Provide little to no emphasis on domestic posture and personal relationships.
  2. Introduction contains the essential treatments:
    1. The Final sentence contains the thesis
    2. Thesis describes the ethics, temperament, and potential you possess:
  1. Ethics are your principles, rules of conduct, standards
  2. Temperament is your outlook, disposition, attitude

iii.  Potential is the possibility of greatness for setting and meeting new goals

  1. Distribute the contents throughout the following body categories, as these apply:
  2. Completed education b. Career or vocational choices c. Professional accomplishments d. Civic achievement
  3. Let your Conclusion recognize or honor your overall success, and recommend you as a highly

qualified, talented, conscientious contributor to society.