Provide two (2) reasons why amending the U.S. Constitution would be necessary versus passing a law. Include Marbury v. Madison and U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton.
American Constitutional Law
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Suppose you are part of a political organization that has taken the position that one of the ways to fix Congress is to impose term limits on members of the Senate and House of Representatives. Your initial research reflects that it will be necessary to amend the U.S. Constitution to accomplish this. Prepare a plan detailing how your organization will accomplish its goal. Include the following.
1. Provide two (2) reasons why amending the U.S. Constitution would be necessary versus passing a law. Include Marbury v. Madison and U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton.
2. In view of the canons of construction and interpretation, name and explain three (3) necessary elements that you must consider before drafting language to amend the U.S. Constitution.
3. List the two (2) primary paths you would pursue to amend the U.S. Constitution. Cite the applicable section(s) of the Constitution.
4. Explain the three branches of government including each branchs authority and responsibility. How would your plan impact each branch?
Identify critical gaps in the skills, competencies, and capabilities that Trader Joes currently has versus what you think they will need in the future.
Case Analysis with Discussion: KSF AnalysisIntegrating Internal Resource and External Ecosystems Analyses: Trader Joes and U.S. Food Retailing Revisited
Trader Joes and the Food Retailing Sector Revisited
In Week 3 you utilized the case study, Trader Joes (Ager & Roberto, 2013), to analyze the current skills, competencies, and capabilities along Trader Joes value chain, which included supplier- and customer-related activities. For this weeks case analysis, you will use your prior work on the skills, competencies, and capabilities of Trader Joes, but now you will re-analyze your findings relative to the implications of a quick run-through of both general force (P.E.S.T.) and competitive force (five-force) analysis of the food retail sector in the United States.
The goal of this weeks analysis is to compare your current skill, competencies, and capabilities analysis of Trader Joes with what your think the future Key Success Factors (KSFs) for the company will be, drawing on data you research about the industry.
To develop the KSFs, consider which core skills and capabilities Trader Joes currently has (from your prior analysis). Then, based on a quick and less formal general P.E.S.T. and competitive ecosystem five-forces analysis, determine which critical skills, competencies, and capabilities Trader Joes must develop or acquire in order to thrive over the next 5 years.
The logic of the KSF analysis requires you to bring strategic analysis of external issues together with an evaluation of internal skills and capabilities for the first time. Remember, ALL strategy comes down to (1) how you deploy your current skills, competencies, and capabilities, how you develop or redevelop those, and how you augment them via more investment/training, purchase, or acquisition; and (2) what you decide to do with those skills in the future.
So, this week you are moving into future thinking mode, and are considering what are the Key Success Factors for the future?
To prepare for this Discussion:
Review all required readings, including the Weekly Briefing, which provides additional guidance on how to complete the assignment.
Review your analysis of Trader Joes from Week 3 and review your original research on the company and industry.
Conduct additional research on the U.S. food retailing industry to obtain some insights about future threats and opportunities in the industry.
Identify and review all relevant readings from the Capstone Program Bibliography.
By Day 3, post a polished Key Success Factor analysis that responds to each of the prompts below:
Based on your projections for the implications of FUTURE five-forces of competition, P.E.S.T. (general environment), and stakeholder support (or stakeholder challenges), what essential skills, competencies, and capabilities will be CRITICAL in order for Trader Joes to survive or thrive in the future? Why? Support your evaluation with evidence and reasoning linked to appropriate knowledge.
Note: These critical areas may be the same as in the past, BUT they may not. Think this through carefully and use your innovative and economic thinking skills from prior courses. You must become futurists to be good strategists, which means there IS some ambiguity about the bets you will be making (thats one of the responsibilities of senior leadership).
Identify critical gaps in the skills, competencies, and capabilities that Trader Joes currently has versus what you think they will need in the future. Think about how Trader Joes can bridge that gap. If Trader Joes were to hire you as consultant to provide strategic direction in what specific skills, competencies, and capabilities the company should invest in or acquire (and how), which would you emphasize as critical and why?
Be sure to integrate concepts and quotes from this weeks readings.
Complete an analysis of the key internal factors that have implications for successful implementation of your organizations strategy and goals/objectives.
Complete an analysis of the key internal factors that have implications for successful implementation of your organizations strategy and goals/objectives. Submit your work in your assignment folder in the form of an approximate 2,000-word double-spaced APA-formatted paper. The title page, reference list, and any appendices are not included in this suggested word count. You do not need to include an abstract.
Your paper should address these topics:
Given the companys Vision, Mission and Objectives (VMO), identify the companys core competencies and assess which ones are rare, costly, or not easily imitated. Discuss how they are related to and critical to the VMO execution.
Present a summary of your organizations strengths and weaknesses. Submit the SWOT format in Table form and add in some narrative to discuss the strengths and weaknesses in more detail. Explain in your discussion (not in the table) why you selected them and how they relate to the VMO and organization strategy. (Note: You will have an opportunity to complete a full SWOT analysis, including threats and opportunities, as part of your week 6 paper.). You might find this resource helpful:
On youtube SWOT Analysis: How to perform one for your organization
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNXYI10Po6A
Apply the Resource-Based View (RBV) to help you identify both the tangible and intangible assets your organization may be able to use to accomplish its intended strategies. You can list them in a table form and then follow with a discussion of the assets, why you selected them and how they relate to the VMO and strategy.
Resource Based View of the Firm by Jay Barney
Consider and discuss the things that may make your organizations resources and capabilities difficult for others to imitate. Use Value Chain Analysis to help you deepen your understanding of the relative value of the resources and capabilities you have identified. Seek objective and independently verifiable evidence of potential rarity of the resources and capabilities.
Prepare a 12- to 15-slide PowerPoint® presentation with speaker notes requesting initial funding of $500,000 to start and run a start-up company
Purpose of Assignment
The purpose of this assignment is to allow the student an opportunity to apply their understanding of cash flow management, break-even analysis, and short-term and long-term financing in starting and growing a business.
Assignment Steps
Resources: OECD Database, Corporate Finance
Prepare a 12- to 15-slide PowerPoint® presentation with speaker notes requesting initial funding of $500,000 to start and run a start-up company. The proposed start-up company could be an existing business model (coffee shop, pet store, etc.) or could be something entirely new and exciting.
Create the presentation in the following format, with at least one slide to cover each of the following areas:
Title Page
Table of Contents
Executive Summary
Information about the Industry
Marketing Plan
Competitor Analysis
3 Year Income Statement (Profit & Loss) Projections
Include your assumptions for why and how you will achieve your sales growth and what significant expenses and investments you expect to incur to achieve your revenue goals.
3 Year Proposed Funding Schedule (Sources and uses of the funds received.)
Break-Even Analysis
Academic and Business References
Review the following scenarios and assumption, and explain how it impacts your decision to expand:
After Year 3, the investors are interested in your company expanding internationally to possibly outsource labor or to reduce manufacturing costs. What countries would you expand to first, and why? What factors would you need to consider in making this decision?
What is the corporate tax rate in the countries you are considering expanding your business to, and how will that affect your decision to expand globally? (Use OECD Database or another resource to determine the corporate tax rate).
The investors want to see a decision tree detailing the decisions you would make if you received $300K now and $200K at the end of three years instead of $500K up front.
The investors would like your team to provide advantages and disadvantages of using debt financing versus selling company stock to raise capital for growth.
Briefly explain the venture capital process. Does it make sense for your company to raise funds through venture capital?
Suppose A is the cost of renting at Avis. Find a linear equation involving A and x.
You begin by contacting two car rental companies, Avis and Enterprise. Avis offers a midsize car for $64.99 per day with unlimited mileage. This means that for this rental the number of miles driven does not impact on the cost. Enterprise offers a midsize car for $ 45.87 per day with 150 miles free. But each mile beyond 150 that the car is driven cost $0.25. It is clear that Enterprise offers the better deal if the car is driven fewer than 150 miles. But what if the car is driven more than 150 miles? At what point will the Avis rental become a better deal? Lets analyze the situation. Let x denote the number of miles the car is driven.
1. Suppose A is the cost of renting at Avis. Find a linear equation involving A and x.
2. Now let E be the cost of renting at Enterprise. Find a linear equation involving E and x, if x ? 150. Find a linear equation involving E and x, if x > 150.
3. Graph the linear Equations found in part (1) and (2) on the same set of coordinate axes. Be careful about the restrictions on x for the equations found in part (2).
4. Find the mileage beyond which the Avis rental is more economical by finding the point of intersection of the two graphs. Label this point on this graph.
5. Explain how you can use the solution to part (4) to decide on which car rental is more economical.
6. In an effort to find an even better deal, you contact Auto Save Rental. They offer a midsize car for $36.99 per day with 100 miles free. Each mile driven over 100 miles costs $0.25. Find equation(s) that involve the cost S at Auto Save Rental and the miles x driven.
7. Graph this equation on the same graph found in part (3).
8. It should be clear that Auto Save Rental is the best choice among the three if you are driving less than 100 miles. For what values of x, if any, do Avis or Enterprise offer a better deal?
9. Still not sure you have the best deal, you call Usave Car Rental. They offer a midsize car for $35.99 per day with 200 free miles. Each mile over 200 costs $0.25. Find an equation for the cost U at Usave and graph it on the same graph found on the part (7).
10. For what values of x, if any, is Usave the best deal?
11. Discuss your choice of car rental companies if you think you will drive between 125 and 175 miles.
Create an initial post with a minimum of 150 words discussing comparative data. Comparative data means you compare your expected budget amount with your actual budget expense
Comparative Data
Create an initial post with a minimum of 150 words discussing comparative data. Comparative data means you compare your expected budget amount with your actual budget expense. Make sure to include the items below:
Using your personal home budget or workplace budget, set up a table that has your planned budget amount and budget actuals.
How does animated documentary challenge the modes of documentary?
Animated Documentary Challenges Discussion
Im working on a film discussion question and need an explanation and answer to help me learn.
Reading the two articles and reply to the following three questions:
1. How does animated documentary challenge the modes of documentary? What mode(s) would you put Waltz with Bashir into? What are the problems with categorizing this and other animated documentaries? (4-7 sentences)
2. How does animation function in Waltz with Bashir? Would you consider it a documentary? (Use the essay you read in your response). (3-6 sentences)
3. How do animation, reenactment, and moving photographs change the topics available to documentarians? What kinds of ethical concerns would Nichols say these practices might introduce? (3-6 sentences)
How would you apply the tenets of Chinese Cinema to this film?
Discussion: Wo hu cang long (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) (Ang Lee, 2000, Taiwan)
Consider the following questions about Ang Lees Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) and share your comments in the thread below. Continue checking the discussion threads to read your classmates comments. Find opportunities to reply with your thoughts to their posts, so we can have a mutual exchange of ideas and engage in discussion together about the film. At the end of the week, your instructor will post additional research from various critics and film reviews, so be sure to view those as well.
How would you apply the tenets of Chinese Cinema to this film? Cite specific examples from the film to support your conclusions.
What are each of the characters searching for and what are their priorities? What is the path of the way that the women seem to find?
What are the lies that each character lives out of fear, uncertainty, or obligation?
What values do the Wudan masters teach their pupils?
What does the sword symbolize? What does it give to those who fight with it?
What questions, if any, do you have about the material from this unit?
How is this film typical of Noir? Provide an example from the film. Billy Wilders Sunset Boulevard Movie Discussion
Billy Wilders Sunset Boulevard Movie Discussion
Please watch Billy Wilders Sunset Boulevard (1950) by renting it on Amazon
After watching the film, please answer the following questions:
Screening Questions:
1) How is this film typical of Noir? Provide an example from the film. (3 pts.)
2) Where does the story differ from traditional hardboiled stories? Provide an example from the story. (3 pts.)
3) Why do you think the film received a controversial reception from Hollywood bigwig Louis B. Mayer, the head of MGM, who criticized Billy Wilder saying, You have disgraced the industry that made and fed you! You should be tarred and feathered and run out of Hollywood! upon watching the film at the premiere? (3 pts.)
4) What do you think Wilder wants us to takeaway from this film? In other words, what Wilder want us to think about or consider about the world we live in? Provide analysis from the film?
Mclane identifies three different strains of documentary in 1930s Britain. How do Housing Problem and Night Mail fit into this paradigm? Give specific examples from the films. Looking across the film industries in the U.S. and Great Britain, how would you describe the impact World War II had on documentary filmmaking?
Mclane identifies three different strains of documentary in 1930s Britain. How do Housing Problem and Night Mail fit into this paradigm? Give specific examples from the films
According to Mclane, what were some of the key differences between British and American documentaries from the 1930s? (3-5 sentences)
Looking across the film industries in the U.S. and Great Britain, how would you describe the impact World War II had on documentary filmmaking?
