Develop a business continuity plan for your organization. Describe the basic activities that must be managed by the BCP. Develop plans for alternate site relocation, and develop an estimated monthly budget for the alternate site operations.
Our previous week’s discussion required an explanation for inappropriate/criminal conduct committed by medical professionals.
In a paper, examine which criminological theory best explains this inappropriate/criminal conduct.
Which theory best describes your view of this white collar offender. Support your position with at least three (3) external references
Create an annotated bibliography of four sources that could be used for your research project, including at least two articles from scholarly journals.
Sources: Four sources related to your research question, including at least two from scholarly journal articles. All four sources should be high-quality sources that you can use in your research project. Refer to Week 3: Selecting Sources Wisely. You may decide to use some or all of the sources that you posted in Week 3, Discussion 1: Identifying and Evaluating Sources.
Due date and grading: This assignment is due by the end of Week 4. This assignment will be graded with a rubric and will count for 20% of your course grade. To view the grading rubric, access the assignment through the Assignments area of the classroom.
Outcomes you should achieve by completing this assignment
The annotated bibliography contributes to the research project by helping you collect and analyze your sources. The outcomes for this assignment are listed below, with the associated course outcomes in parentheses:
Your assignment is to compose a five to seven page paper of around 1,500 words (excluding title page and bibliography) that responds to the prompt given below. Be sure you answer ALL the questions asked in the prompt. You should submit your paper through Canvas (emailed papers will NOT be accepted). Whenever possible, cite the texts we used in the course, both the weekly texts and the other readings (any recognized citation format is acceptable). Please avoid citing the lectures directly. Outside research or sources are neither expected nor encouraged for this assignment.
Science fiction provides some of the starkest reflections on the relationship between power, modernity and freedom, offering glimpses of dystopian futures in which modernity’s promise of freedom has instead led to a totalitarian future of domination and control. Compare and contrast the dystopian futures portrayed in The Matrix and Brave New World. What forms of power limit human freedom in these narratives, and how do they relate to the forms of power that inform critical theory? What kind of freedom is possible given this power, and how do the protagonists navigate their dystopian worlds to achieve (or not) emancipation?
Your paper should be organized as follows. In the first section (after your introduction), discuss how critical theory conceptualizes power and the modern forms of domination it enables, noting the role that ideology and false consciousness play in undermining human freedom. In the second section, discuss how these forms of power are illustrated in both The Matrix and Brave New World. How do the practices of power and the forms of domination they produce differ in these two works? Finally, in the third section, discuss how emancipation is achieved or not by the protagonists in each story, and reflect on what this might tell us about the nature of power, domination and its relationship to freedom.
Wish You Wood is a toy boutique located in the main shopping
strip of a resort town near Piney Lake. People who
own cabins near the lake or come to visit the local state
park enjoy browsing through the town’s stores, where they
pick up pottery, landscape paintings, and Wish You Wood’s
beautifully crafted wooden toys. For these shoppers, Wish
You Wood is more than a store; it is a destination they associate
with family and fun.
The store’s owners, Jim and Pam Klein, personally select
the toys from craftspeople and toymakers around the
world. They enjoy their regular customers but believe selling
mostly to vacationers has limited the company’s growth.
They decided that the lowest-cost way to expand would be
to sell toys online. However, after several years, they had to
admit that traffic to the store’s website was unimpressive.
Thanks to e-mail and Facebook reminders, they were luring
some of their loyal in-store shoppers to the site to make
off-season purchases, but few other people looking for toys
ever found Wish You Wood online.
Jim and Pam concluded that the next-best way to sell
online would be to partner with Amazon.com. Amazon’s
Marketplace service lets other retailers sell products on
Amazon. The Kleins signed an agreement to list the store’s
most popular items with Amazon. For example, if a shopper
is searching for wooden dollhouses, Wish You Wood’s dollhouses
will be included in the search results. A customer
who chooses to buy from Wish You Wood places the order
right on Amazon’s website. Under Amazon’s participation
agreement, the listings must be honest and may not link to
Wish You Wood’s own website or invite phone calls from
customers. In exchange for giving the products exposure on
the site, Amazon charges a monthly fee plus a commission
on each sale.
Initially, Jim and Pam were thrilled about their decision
to partner with Amazon. They tracked each month’s
sales and compared them with in-store sales. In the first
five months, sales jumped 45 percent, mainly because
of sales on Amazon. Then, suddenly, sales of popular
toy train sets, which were particularly profitable, stopped
altogether. Puzzled, Jim visited Amazon to make sure the
train sets were still listed. To his surprise, he found that
the train set was there, at the usual price of $149, listed
right after the same set available directly from Amazon,
at $129. He and Pam concluded that shoppers were now
buying the product directly from Amazon. It appeared that
their store had helped Amazon identify a product consumers
value.
The Kleins worried that they needed a new strategy.
If they matched Amazon’s price, they would lose most of
the profit on their most popular items. Wish You Wood was
too small of a business to negotiate better prices from its
suppliers. If the store didn’t match Amazon’s price, it would
continue to lose sales at the Amazon site. Jim and Pam wondered
whether they should pull out of Amazon altogether
or find a way to continue working with the partner that had
become a competitor. They also considered rethinking
which toys to offer on Amazon.
Discussion Questions:
1. Prepare a SWOT analysis for Wish You Wood toy store, based on the information given.
2. Using the SWOT analysis, what general corporate strategy would you recommend for Wish You Wood? Should the store continue or change its current approach? (PFA image for to develop ideas)
Locate a minimum of three community or national resources for your illness group chosen in Week 1, preferably in your community. Study these resources and write a report about them in a 4- to 5-page Microsoft Word document. Include in your response all the information the patient should know about them (the specific services they offer, fee schedules, if and when appropriate, criteria for eligibility, and any other important information). Discuss potential advantages and disadvantages for vulnerable populations in seeking these resources.
Write a research paper with the topic sentiment analysis in business intelligence and how it affects and benefits businesses.
Develop a business continuity plan for your organization. Describe the basic activities that must be managed by the BCP. Develop plans for alternate site relocation, and develop an estimated monthly budget for the alternate site operations.
Provide a reflection of how the knowledge, skills, or theories of this course have been applied or could be applied, in a practical manner to your current work environment.
If you are not currently working, share times when you have or could observe these theories and knowledge could be applied to an employment opportunity in your field of study. ( Sub: Telecomm Network Security)
Use of proper APA formatting and citations. If supporting evidence from outside resources is used those must be properly cited.
Share a personal connection that identifies specific knowledge and theories from this course.
1. What is the function of the story that opens this reading? What feelings does the story evoke in you?
2. What is the effect of all of the products and brand names that Lasn includes in this article?
3. How does Lasn define the term “Cult”? How is his definition different (and similar to) the common usage of the word?
4. Thinking rhetorically: In this article, Lasn uses the rhetorical strategy of direct address— that is, he uses the pronoun “you” and directly addresses readers of the article. Why do you think Lasn uses this strategy? What effect does it have on you as a reader? How does the strategy of direct address contribute to (or detract from) Lasn’s argument?
5. Thesis: in one sentence, summarize Lasn’s main point in this selection. Then discuss if you agree or disagree with him and why you feel the way you do.
