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Discuss The Future Of The Commerce. How The Internet Will Change The Consumption In 10 Years?

Demand Elasticity

Please, read the article Hainer, R. (2010), provided in the required readings section for this week. The tobacco industry is a prime example to consider when talking about price elasticity of demand. While nicotine use can be addictive for many users, it is not addictive for the so-called “social smokers”.

What can we say about the price elasticity of demand for nicotine products (such as cigarettes, pipes, tobacco) in the group of nicotine addicted users, versus the group of “social smokers”? Can we say whose demand is likely to be more elastic? Why?

Guided Response: Provide your response to the discussion question in 300 words or more. Further, comment on the effectiveness of government policy aimed at reducing the negative effects of smoking on health. For example, consider high taxation on producers? – is that effective? Respond substantively to at least two of your classmates’ postings. Substantive responses use theory, research, and experience or examples to support ideas and further the class knowledge on the discussion topic.

Technology and Social Change

 

Select one of the following options to deliver your assignment:

Option 1

Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word essay.

Format your assignment according to appropriate course level APA guidelines.

Submit your assignment to the Assignment Files tab.

 

Option 2

Prepare a 12- to 15-slide Microsoft^® PowerPoint^® presentation.

Include photos, illustrations, graphs, diagrams, animations, videos, or audio clips. Document the source of each media item you include.

Include the following in your paper or presentation:

• Provide an introduction that defines both technology and social change, and discusses how they are related.
• Discuss the impact of the personal computer, cellular phones, and the Internet on society.
• Using the three major sociological perspectives, describe the equilibrium model, the digital divide, and cultural lag in relation to these technologies and social change.
• Include how technology has influenced social epidemiology, health and the environment.
• Explore a recent or emerging form of technology and discuss its potential benefits or consequences for society.
• Provide a conclusion that summarizes key points.

Cite at least three academic, peer-reviewed sources and two popular magazines.

Format your references according to appropriate course level APA guidelines. Include citations in the speaker notes or in a separate reference list.

 

THIS IS THE BOOK WE ARE USING IN CLASS—-Reference:

 

Griffiths, et. al. (2015). Introduction to sociology (2nd ed.). OpenStax College

The purpose of the course project is to provide you with an opportunity to synthesize various influences that help define ethical and legal behavior in a health care environment into a formal paper. Draw upon scholarly literature and trends to predict how theory will be modified and applied to evaluate dilemmas health care providers must confront.

This formal paper asks you to evaluate day-to-day ethical and legal dilemmas and examine cultural, ethical, and legal norms within the health care arena; for example, right to die issues and health care as a privilege or right.

use the following theory:
Utilitarianism.

You will use the theory selected to analyze the value dilemmas that health care providers must confront. You may integrate several theories as necessary, but the theory you select must be the prominent one you use to guide your analysis throughout the paper.

Paper Contents:
Title page: Include a descriptive title that indicates your chosen topic focus.
Table of contents: Orient the reader to the main parts of the paper.
Introduction: State your approach and assumptions, the background the reader needs to understand your approach, and how you intend to address the key issues.
Applications: Evaluate how legal and ethical practice standards and health care decision making are applied in health care services delivery.
Assumptions: Synthesize the information from the trend and application analyses with assumptions about the current and future use of ethics and decision making in health care. Provide the rationale and supporting data for each assumption.
Conclusions: Summarize your findings and speaks to future applications and research areas in ethics and health care decision making.

Introduction to Radiologic Technology
Based on your reading of Chapter 2 from your textbook, answer these following questions by writing an essay:
1. Describe your life style to identify causes of stress and conflict
2. Describe your values and determine what is and what is not important to you
3. Describe ways in which conflict may be resolved in the work place (create a scenario. Please be sure to describe both the conflict and the solution)
• Your essay must be in two pages

 

 

Marketing
Scenario 8: Your business unit is growing and you need to build the leadership talent within
your group to bring onboard new talent for junior positions. You have one employee with
leadership potential, but he often is inappropriate in meetings and emails. How do you
address the areas for improvement and push this employee to become an effective leader?
How do you develop new leaders?
THATS WHAT WE CAME UP AS A GROUP ABOUT THE SCENARIO
INTRODUCTION:
– average sized company
– Marketing firm
– all projects are done through team work and then reported back to one supervisor
– Overall company atmosphere is positive and supportive of the growth of their employees
GENERAL STATEMENT
– employee character:
– talented and skilled worker with high leadership potential
– speaks his mind without a filter
– words can come across in a wrong and hurtful way
– makes a lot of jokes that can sometimes be offensive even through he doesn’t mean it
that way
– consequences:
– disrupts the teams social setting and atmosphere
– people feeling get hurt
– slows down the work flow and the workers aren’t as productive
– conflicts with the values, visions and goals of the company
-not respecting the diversity
-not able to provide best workDETAILED PROBLEM STATEMENT
– offensive jokes
Causes:
Consequences:
– impulsive ideas (considers his ideas as the final ones)
Causes:
Consequences:
– doesn’t share the company’s common visions
Causes:
Consequences:
ALTERNATIVES SOLUTIONS AND OBSTACLES
OBSTACLES
– People do not see him as their leader
– he wants to change but does not see the issue
– teammates have different different communication styles and don’t know how to work
together
– his own unwillingness to change
ALTERNATIVES SOLUTIONS
– sitting the employee down and simply trying the honest approach and telling him whats going
on and what the company expects of him
– team building exercises monitored by superior and extra curriculum
– Discussing their belief in his potential growth and success which would him more wiling to
change and become a better leader
(read instruction) Alternative Solutions and Obstacles: Use this section to develop
3 specific alternatives (possible solutions) and potential obstacles. Note carefully
the material below.
▪ Support your analysis with at least two examples and your research. Use
proper citations.
▪ Be clear and specific, these should all be things that can be implemented
and are directly related to the leadership topics discussed in this class (i.e.,
they are actually possible).
(read instruction) Solution: Develop an argument to support the solution you think is
the best of the three alternatives you presented. We are now down to WHAT you
think should be done to fix
things.
▪ Be sure the solution matches the problem.
▪ Support your solution with at least two research concepts.
List A:
Harvard Business Review
MIT Sloan Management Review
Business Horizons
Organizational Dynamics
List B:
Fortune
Fast Company
Inc.The Economist
Entrepreneur
Wall Street Journal
New York Times
Financial Times
City-based newspapers (e.g., Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune)
INSTRUCTIONS
My part about what we came up as a group about the scenario is the “alternatives solutions and
obstacles” but i posted the other parts just for the writer to understand the scenario a bit more. So
“alternatives solutions and obstacles” thats where the writer need to focus on. Read my part
about the “alternatives solutions and obstacles” that we came up with as a group and also read
the instruction of “alternatives solutions and obstacles” and also “solutions”. Then do the
research by using a source from “list A” and “list B”. focus your research about what i came up
with the “alternatives solutions and obstacles” if you do that, then you can do the “Solutions”
itself mentioned above because it goes together.(just read the instruction).
PS: Please if you DONT get anything ask me about it.

The essay prompt is: Does Samantha in the movie Her represent A.I. or is she just a program? Is Samantha just a software program, or does she represent the next stage of human evolution? Please debate the issue of A.I. and transhuman values by referring to the ideas of John Searle and Nick Bostrom.*

*The readings for the class you should include are: John R. Searle, “The Myth of the Computer,” and Nick Bostrom “Transhuman Values.”

Here is a link to two Ted Talks by Nick Bostrom on End of Humanity and Artificial Intelligence.

Nick Bostrom: Ted Talk: End of Humanity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0Nf3TcMiHo

Nick Bostrom: What happens when our computers get smarter than we are? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnT1xgZgkpk

Please make sure your essay has a title, your name is on it, there is a cover page and you do proper citations.

Here is the grading rubric I will use:

A project: Papers in this range demonstrate a thorough and exceptional understanding of the movie and the philosophy behind artificial intelligence and transhumanism. An A essay shows originality, and goes well beyond the partial understandings achieved in class discussions. There is discussion of Searle and Bostrom, both authors are quoted and discussed. An A essay gives insights to the readings and movie Her that surprise me, and is able to focus on ideas that go overlooked. The essay uses quotations properly and quotations from reading are often closely woven into essay. In the best A papers, the writer is (sometimes self-consciously) working not to be simplistic or reductive.

UNIT SIX INTRODUCTION
In this unit, we will focus on the benefits of series preaching – the friend of the busy pastor. The Bible is replete with examples of

sequential issues that could serve as the biblical foundation for a sermon series. In fact, you may just want to use the text above to serve as

your next 8 part preaching series!
UNIT SIX OUTCOMES
Upon completion of this unit you should be able to:
1. Identify the benefits of preaching in series.
2. Distinguish the limitations of preaching in series.
3. Examine a late or contemporary preacher who modeled series preaching.
4. Outline a six weeks’ preaching series.

UNIT SIX RESOURCES
Textbook: The Art and Craft of Biblical Preaching
Your Bible
The Internet
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UNIT SIX ASSIGNMENTS
6.1 TEXT/MEDIA: TEXTBOOK
INTRODUCTION AND ALIGNMENT
The course text goes to some length, in several chapters, to highlight characteristics of series preaching. This assignment aligns with the

course in that it helps the student not only to examine the characteristics of series preaching, but to also apply them as well in one’s own

preaching ministry.
Upon completion of this assignment you should be able to:
• Identify the benefits of preaching in series.

RESOURCES
Textbook: The Art and Craft of Biblical Preaching

BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Series preaching has long been favored by both expository and topical preachers. A few primary benefits of series preaching are:
• It gives the preacher time to stay in a book of the Bible, or on a topic, and then be able to adequately deal with the material for some time.
• It gives the audience time to stay in a book, or on a topic, as well. So often, laypeople do not stay long enough in one place in their

reading of the Word to serve them well. Series preaching exposes them to thought that has been allowed to germinate, grow root, and bear fruit.
• Series preaching, once guided by the Holy Spirit to the content, gives the preacher a nearly inexhaustible supply of sermon material. The

Gospel communicator can plan months, or even years in advance.

INSTRUCTIONS
1.Read the textbook, chapters- 118, 119, 120, 165, 184, 193.
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6.5 UNIT ASSIGNMENT: SERMON SERIES OUTLINE
INTRODUCTION AND ALIGNMENT
Before we leave the subject of series preaching, we want to give you the experience of planning your own series – hence, this assignment. It

aligns with the course in that this assignment actually prepares you to do your own preparation for a series that you can one day actually

preach.
Upon completion of this assignment you should be able to:
Outline a four week preaching series.

RESOURCES
Textbook: The Art and Craft of Biblical Preaching
Your Bible
Your own creative thought

BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Now is the time for you to get alone by yourself, roll up your sleeves, do some real praying and thinking, and ask the Lord for some guidance in

creating your own preaching series with the text readings for this unit also in mind. You are not asked to write an entire series of completed

sermons, but rather an outline that lays out a series of no less than six messages to be preached in serial fashion at some point in the future.

Consider the following:
• Will you start with a topic in culture that needs to be addressed via scripture, or will you start with scripture (perhaps a small book like

Jonah or James)?
• Why have you chosen topical over expository, or expository over topical, and why?
• What, if any, media will you use (YouTube, etc.)?
• What is the goal of this series? What do you want your listeners to take away from this series?

INSTRUCTIONS
1. Decide on the nature of your 4 week sermon series – either a book of the Bible, a doctrinal series, or a topical series arising from current

events.
2. In a document of no less than 4 pages (1 page minimum per sermon), outline the sermon series, with each outline to include:
a. the title of the message
b. the biblical text
c. a brief introduction
d. 3-5 main points, with a germane illustration for each main point
e. any sub-points you wish to include
f. a brief conclusion

3. In another Word document (after completing your series outline), answer the following questions in no less than 250 words:
a. Did you start with a topic in culture, or did you start with scripture, and why was that your starting point?
b. Did you use any media (YouTube, etc.)? Why or why not?
c. What was the goal of this series?
d. What did you want your listeners to take away from this series?
4. Submit in Word document.

Pick a company that uses social media as a marketing and branding tool. Review at least three social media accounts your company of choice uses and assess the following:

1. In your opinion, what kind of image is the company trying to create using their social media accounts? Please use specific examples (tweets, Facebook posts, etc.)
2. How does this company use social media as a branding tool? How are they conveying what they are and do through social media?
3. Are users responding to the company’s social media posts? If so, how are they responding?
4. Do you think the company you are assessing has an effective strategy for using social media as a marketing tool?

At least two sources should be used. You are encouraged to use specific examples from social media accounts to support your point of view.