Homework

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Discussion 1

 

Read the article, “Business Ethics in Asia: Lost in Translation?”  

Based on the information presented in the article, consider business ethics in the global environment.  Explain the similarities and differences between ethics in the United States and in a global market such as Asia.  Describe how you will establish a code of ethics for the global marketplace.  What would be different and the same as an American code of ethics?  A situation arises that offends the foreign culture; what steps might you take to rectify the situation and improve the reputation of your organization?

Cite the textbook, Kent, and a third source when responding to this question.

Ensure that you respond to at least two students.

Reference
Kent, J. (2014, Mar). Business ethics in Asia: Lost in translation? Forbes. Retrieved from http://www.forbes.com/sites/connorconnect/2014/03/25/business-ethics-in-asia-lost-in-translation

 

Discussion 2

 

Watch the video:

Examine a code of ethics from an organization of your choice. 

Research Tip: Organizations often make their business ethics programs, codes of ethics, or codes of conduct public on their websites.  Be sure to include a link to your chosen organization’s business code of ethics in your post.

Consider the following:

  • Why might this organization need a code of ethics?
  • Which elements of effective business ethics systems, as described in your text, are utilized in your chosen organization’s program?
  • How does your chosen company’s code of ethics minimize risk? 
  • What does the organization’s code of ethics say about the organizational culture? 

Be sure to reference your textbook and at least one article or scholarly source to support your findings.  Include the link to your chosen organization’s business ethics program. 

Respond  

Forum: “Viva La Vida” Poetry Analysis

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English 300OL
“Viva La Vida” Poetry Analysis!!!

For this discussion, we are going to consider contemporary songwriters as contemporary poets. In addition to poetic lyrics, music offers us melody and rhythm. Please consider both aspects of this genre AND our How to Analyze Poetry handout as you analyze meaning. So, let’s get our semester “rocking!”

Coldplay’s “Viva la Vida” takes its name from a painting by 20th century Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, and translates as “Long live the life” in Spanish. The album’s artwork features the painting Liberty Leading the People (La Liberté guidant le peuple) by French painter Eugène Delacroix, commemorating the July Revolution of 1830. Please view the painting online:Liberty Leading the People

Scroll down our Moodle page to watch the YouTube video of “Viva La Vida!” 

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Here are the song’s lyrics – please read carefully:

I used to rule the world
Seas would rise when I gave the word
Now in the morning I sleep alone
Sweep the streets I used to own

I used to roll the dice
Feel the fear in my enemies eyes
Listen as the crowd would sing:
“Now the old king is dead! Long live the king!”

One minute I held the key
Next the walls were closed on me
And I discovered that my castles stand
Upon pillars of salt, and pillars of sand

I hear Jerusalem bells are ringing
Roman Cavalry choirs are singing
Be my mirror my sword and shield
My missionaries in a foreign field
For some reason I can not explain
Once you know there was never, never an honest word
That was when I ruled the world
(Ohhh)

It was the wicked and wild wind
Blew down the doors to let me in.
Shattered windows and the sound of drums
People could not believe what I’d become
Revolutionaries Wait
For my head on a silver plate
Just a puppet on a lonely string
Oh who would ever want to be king? 

I hear Jerusalem bells are ringing
Roman Cavalry choirs are singing
Be my mirror my sword and shield
My missionaries in a foreign field
For some reason I can not explain
I know Saint Peter won’t call my name
Never an honest word
And that was when I ruled the world
(Ohhhhh Ohhh Ohhh)

Hear Jerusalem bells are ringings
Roman Cavalry choirs are singing
Be my mirror my sword and shield
My missionaries in a foreign field
For some reason I can not explain
I know Saint Peter will call my name
Never an honest word
But that was when I ruled the world
Oooooh Oooooh Oooooh

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In your response to this song, I would like you to consider the following poetic elements and the Basic Questions for Rhetorical Analysis :

1. Who is the speaker in this song? What is the rhetorical situation (the situation/problem/conflict for the song’s speaker)?

2. What occasion or event (historical or personal) may have compelled the song writer to write this song? Is this song about the life of one person or are the song’s themes of religion and power universal to humankind?

3. What is the speaker’s intention? Coldplay’s album cover displays a famous painting regarding Napoleon’s French Revolution. Is this song about Napoleon? Is it about revolution? Personal or national liberty? Are there parallels to today’s leaders?

4. Who is the intended audience? What values does the audience hold that the author or speaker appeals to? Their are several references to Christianity in this song. What do the references symbolize? What do the references mean to the speaker of the poem? What is your personal reaction to “hearing” this song and “reading” the lyrics?

Please post an initial response of 500 words.  Kindly post a 3-4 sentence response to five (5) of your peers.  Please be specific, thorough, and POSITIVE in your responses.

Good luck and have fun!

English 300 – The Laramie Project

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In October 1998, 21 year-old Mathew Shepard was found savagely beaten, tied to a fence, and left to die in Laramie, Wyoming. “The Laramie Project” is the portrait of a town painfully forced to confront itself in the reflective glare of the national spotlight responding with love, anger, sympathy, support, and defiance.

In writing the original play, Kaufman and the Tectonic Theater Project interviewed approximately 100 Laramie residents, and included their own reactions to the crime and to the interviews they carried out.These interviews served as the basis for the play and the HBO film version we will be discussing in class. The film is structured as if it were a documentary; it attempts to re-enact and dramatize the events that occurred on that fateful night. Kaufman’s objective was to learn through the Laramie residents’ raw responses how the issues of homosexuality, religion, class, economics, education, and non-traditional lifestyles were reflected through this crime.

For your 1000 word written analysis, focus on how the crime against Mathew Shephard defined the culture, not just of Laramie, but of the entire United States. In addition to your analysis of 1998 American values, please consider this hate crime in light of today’s society. How would Americans react to such a crime today? Consider current and proposed legislation (and attitudes) towards hate crimes, gay marriage, gay parenting, and gay rights. You may include a reference to Queer Literary Theory.

You will need to make specific references to the people of Laramie and events that took place after Shepard’s beating, so keep a pen and pad handy as you watch the film. You need to refer to at least 5 specific scenes and people as portrayed in the film. Your grade will be based on the thoroughness of your analysis, the strength of your quotes/examples, and your thoughtfulness and openmindedness! You may write more than the 1000 word minimum, but please keep your analysis under 2,000 words!

Good luck and enjoy!

HUM 112 Please i need an answer ASAP only one paragraph of 7 to 8 sentences!

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ONLY RESPOND TO ONE OF THE QUESTIONS BELOW

 

“Great Composers and Color Analysis” Please respond to one (1) of the following, using sources under the Explore heading as the basis of your response:

  • Determine whether you prefer Debussy or Mahler after listening to works by each at the Websites below or in this week’s Music Folder and after reading about them. Explain the reasons for your preference. Here we find musical composers inspired by poetry and by philosophy. Identify one (1) element within a work that you find interesting or intriguing by either composer, with regard to the manner in which the work is performed or conducted. Describe the types of things that inspire you to creativity.
  • Describe two (2) color paintings by different artists (selected from the list or sources in the Explore section below) that you believe represent the following quote by Kandinsky on the subject of color in art. Justify your response. From Concerning the Spiritual in Art: “If you let your eye stray over a palette of colors, you experience two things. In the first place you receive a purely physical effect, namely the eye itself is enchanted by the beauty and other qualities of color. […] These are physical sensations, limited in duration. They are superficial, too, and leave no lasting impression behind if the soul remains closed. And so we come to the second result of looking at colors: their psychological effect. They produce a correspondent spiritual vibration, and it is only as a step towards this spiritual vibration that the physical impression is of importance. … Generally speaking, color directly influences the soul.” – Wassily Kandinsky. Discuss these ideas for the use of color and its impact in our own times, such as its effect for advertising and sales, or its impact in the workplace and home.

Explore:

Debussy and Mahler

Kandinsky on Color

Due in 1 hour

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Assignment 1: Discussion—Evaluating Sources (Scholarly versus Popular)

When creating research papers, the quality of the sources you use is critical to the success of your investigation of the subject. Therefore, it is important to be able to effectively evaluate the appropriateness of the information you are collecting.

Post to the Discussion Area your response to the following:

  • What are the criteria you use to judge the quality of the resources you use when doing research?
  • How do you maintain the balance between writing your own thoughts and quoting or paraphrasing from your sources? What percentage of your paper is original?
  • How do you maintain the balance among Web resources, print media, and other source channels, and what is the percentage of such content?

Write your initial response in about 150–200 words. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.

Note that your response to this assignment will also be submitted as a piece of writing for M8: Assignment 2 for a review of your writing skills. Therefore, make sure your response to this assignment is logical, clear, and well organized. Also, proofread your response for spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors.

By Saturday, June 28, 2014, post your response to the appropriate Discussion Area. Through Wednesday, July 2, 2014, review and comment on at least two peers’ responses.

Grading Criteria and Rubric

Assignment 1 Grading Criteria
Maximum Points
Explained the criteria used to judge the quality of the resources when doing research.
20
Described how to maintain balance between writing your own thoughts and quoting or paraphrasing from sources.
8
Explained how to maintain balance among Web resources, print media, and other source channels. Stated the percentage of such content.
8
Wrote in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrated ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; displayed accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
4
Total:
40

 

REL*330 Christian Morality Question to Answer

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•                  Discuss the influence of culture, authority, and education on our moral foundation.  

 

•                  Review the terminology used to describe various methods of moral decision-making.

 

•                  Explain the difference between a morality of obligation and a morality of happiness.

 

•                  Explain the relevance of object, intention, and circumstance in the determination of morally good or evil acts.

 

•                  Define and identify various classifications of norms and recognize the values these norms protect.

 

•                  Define virtue and explain how virtues shape character.

 

•                  Define temperance, prudence, incontinence, continence, intemperance, erroneous conscience, and cognitive manipulation.

 

•                  Explain the difference between invincible and vincible ignorance.

 

 

•                  Explain how humor is a virtue.

 

PLEASE DO NOT PLEAGIARISM 

Essay

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Assignment 1: Cultural Contexts

How Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality Resonate Beyond the Novel

The Awakening was published in 1899, and the plot focuses on several months in the life of Edna Pontieller, a 28-year-old mother of two.  As modern-day readers we may not entirely identify with the strict societal expectations of both men and women at that time, yet the theme of self-fulfillment still resonates today. Chopin introduces us to a few key characters who are influential in Edna’s evolution from a traditional mother and wife to a woman who decisively frees herself from a mortal life of “bondage” (i.e. marriage and motherhood). 

The novel touches on many social issues, including motherhood, sexuality, socioeconomic differences, marriage, and suicide.  Struggles similar to Edna’s thirst for independence, identity, and freedom are also explored in contemporary media.  Here are a few film examples of female characters in untraditional roles, and/or characters addressing controversial issues in an effort to find freedom:

Motherhood, Marriage, and Family

A Doll’s House; The Scarlet Letter; He Said, She Said; Muriel’s Wedding; The Age of Innocence; Erin Brockovich; and Mermaids

Sexuality

The Color Purple, The Piano, Frida, Fried Green Tomatoes, She’s Gotta Have It, Out of Africa, Heavenly Creatures, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, and The Crying Game

Socioeconomic/Racial Differences

The Long Walk Home, Jungle Fever, Ever After: A Cinderella Story, The Joy Luck Club, Beloved, A Woman Called Moses, and Saving Face

Suicide

The Virgin Suicides, Dead Poet’s Society, The Hours, The Shawshank Redemption, What Dreams May Come, Romeo and Juliet, Full Metal Jacket, The Happening, White Oleander, Seven Pounds, Thelma and Louise, and Girl, Interrupted

Independence, Identity and Empowerment

A League of Their Own, Thelma and Louise, Waiting to Exhale, Bend It Like Beckham,The Wizard of Oz, Norma Rae, Silkwood, If These Walls Could Talk, and Fargo

For this assignment, compare and contrast the way one social issue is portrayed in the novel The Awakening with the way it is portrayed in one or two of the above-mentioned films or another film that speaks to you in an important way in relation to Chopin’s work. 

For example, you could examine Edna’s suicide in contrast to Brooks’s suicide in The Shawshank Redemption.  Brooks was finally released after over 40 years in prison, but he could not cope in a world that had progressed without him.  Brooks could not live without rules and structure. His need for the assurance of a strict system of rules is illustrated when Brooks continually asks the manager in his new job if he can be excused for a bathroom break.  In contrast, Edna finds that she cannot live with rules and societal “structure” in a marriage she finds constricting.  In your analysis, you might conclude that while both characters ultimately chose similar fates, Brooks’s fate was based upon the fear of living without structure, and Edna’s fate was based upon the fear of living with structure.

There are other aspects to consider in this analysis, including how the roles of mother and wife, family, and sexuality have changed over time.

Choose one of the social issues from above and consider the questions below as you write your analysis.

  1. What differences and similarities are apparent between the characters in the novel and your chosen film?  How do the characters react to their circumstances?  Do they grow or change in any way?
  2. How does social environment play a role in how certain characters are viewed by others?  How would the characters be treated differently in another social environment?
  3. Are we challenged to consider any commonly held social or political beliefs?  If so, how do the choices made by the author, director, or actors contribute to that process?
  4. What conclusions can you make about societal values based on the portrayal of your chosen social issue?  What has changed and what has remained the same?
  5. Explore your reactions to The Awakening and your chosen movie.  Did you empathize with any of the characters? Which situations stirred a personal reaction or response?  Why do you think you reacted as you did?

By Monday, August 20, 2012, post your response to the following prompt to this Discussion Area.

By Tuesday, August 21, 2012, respond to at least 2 of your peers