Research and share a current news article on international trade that supports the argument economists make in favor of free trade agreements (FTAs).

The United States has a comparative advantage over China on the production of specialized and capital-intensive labor. It also has a comparative advantage in the production of services, such as travel and tourism.
For this discussion, first play these simulation games in the MindTap environment:
Comparative Advantage (Without Trade)
Comparative Advantage (With Trade)
In your initial post, share your experience playing the games, and include an image of one of your simulation reports. (See Module Two Simulation Discussion Screenshot Instructions PDF.) Then address the following:
Countries trade goods just like the food trucks do in the simulation. Did the food trucks benefit from specialization and trade? How can the United States benefit from specialization and trade? Provide examples from the textbook.
Research and share a current news article on international trade that supports the argument economists make in favor of free trade agreements (FTAs). In what ways is the article supportive of FTAs?

What does it suggest your strengths and weaknesses are as a project manager?

Do an Internet search for the Keirsey Temperament Sorter Questionnaire and find a site that appears to have a reputable self-assessment questionnaire. Respond to the questionnaire to identify your temperament type. Read supportive documents associated with your type. What does this material suggest are the kinds of projects that would best suit you? What does it suggest your strengths and weaknesses are as a project manager? How can you compensate for your weaknesses? 

Identify the factors that influence your food choices.

Discuss the following topic using your personal diet.
Identify the factors that influence your food choices. 
Do you consider the nutritional contents of foods before they choose to eat them? 
Do your food choices have economic, cultural, social, or religious significance to them. 
Explain why these foods are personally significant.
Discussion Expectations:  
The minimum requirements for class discussions are to respond directly to the discussion prompt and to respond to at least two other posts, by other students or the instructor, by the end of the week. The discussion will close on the due date and will NOT be reopened for a late submission. 
Submit one main post responding directly to each part of the discussion prompt. This should be a substantive response (between 75 -150 words minimum) to the topic(s) in your own words, referencing (using APA format) what you have discovered in your required reading and other learning activities.  You may use resources in addition to your textbook that supports your post(s); however, you must mention the source(s) that you used in your post(s) using APA format in-text citations and reference lists. You can review APA formatting here: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/general_format.html

How should an official make these calls?

Discussion 2
Home Field/Court/Mat advantage: I know as fans we always look down on an official if the call doesn’t go our way. However, I would like you to watch any sporting event live or on TV, not as a fan but as an observer. While viewing this sporting event, do you feel that the official was making favorable calls towards the home team or make the correct call. Please describe any events/plays where the calls went to the home team.  How should an official make these calls?

Explain how a legal case could impact a specific organization not a party to the case.

Write a 2-3 page executive briefing of a selected business-related case pertaining to the topic of contract law.
Introduction
In this introductory course to business law, you will examine real-world court decisions pertinent to the topics that you will be studying. This is not a course designed to train lawyers, and you are not expected to be an attorney-in-training. However, you will be asked to do a substantial amount of independent research in the scholarly and professional resources of the field. You will be called upon to locate court cases relevant to the topics of contracts and torts and to write an analysis for each case.
To help you get your research started, some prominent searchable databases of court cases have been recommended for you in the assessment resources. Try to imagine yourself as either the plaintiff or the defendant in the cases you review, to make these cases more meaningful to your life.
Use the resources provided to familiarize yourself with the legal terminology as early as possible, in order to help you make sense of the legal language found in court cases. The terminology that you will learn in this course will be useful in both a scholarly and everyday context.
Overview
Contracts are the heart and soul of commercial transactions. Different types of contracts bind parties together in business dealings. Review contracts that you have signed recently—a lease, an employment agreement, an extended warranty—to examine not only the language but also the scope of these agreements. Examine the language in the contract that outlines how disagreements will be resolved, and the penalties that adhere to either party for breach of the contract.
Preparation
The first step in preparing your case law analysis is to locate a published court decision and select an organization you believe would be impacted by the decision.
Choose a decision about contracts. To help you get started, use the Capella University Library Legal Research Library Guide and these well-known searchable databases of court cases. Try to imagine yourself as either the plaintiff or the defendant in the cases you read to make these cases meaningful to your life:
Findlaw. (n.d.). United States Supreme Court cases. https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-supreme-court
Legal Information Institute. (n.d.). Supreme Court: Most recent decisions. http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/
Nolo. (n.d.). Legal topics. http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia
Oyez, Inc. (n.d.). https://www.oyez.org/
Select an organization not a party to the case that you believe would be impacted by that court decision. It can be an organization you work for or have worked for, an organization you would like to work for, or some other organization.
Use the following media simulations to help you with this assessment:
Analyzing a Case.
This multimedia walks you through a written court decision and explains each part’s purpose.
Business Law Foundational Concepts.
This multimedia will help you to understand your reading materials and articles you find.
Review the terms or concepts listed under the tabs Foundational Legal Terminology and Contracts and Bankruptcy Terminology. You may start by studying the terminology listed in the Transcript view (click Transcript at the lower right corner of the screen). After you’ve studied the terms, go back to the interactive view, and try matching the terms to their definitions.
Use this multimedia to view several approaches to ethical thinking that can be applied to business.
In addition to your textbook, use the transcript as another resource to quickly look up some of the more common terms. This terminology will be useful in personal, scholarly, and professional settings.
Four Ethical Theories.
This multimedia sets forth several approaches to ethical thinking that can be applied to business.
The Case Analysis Report: Executive Briefing Exemplar [DOCX] shows a sample case law analysis. You may wish to refer to it as you work on your assessment.
Instructions
Once you have selected a decision and an organization impacted by the decision, assume you’re a senior manager in the organization you selected and that you were asked to prepare an analysis of the court decision and brief the executive team of the organization about the impact the case might have on the company. Your briefing should include a summary of the case, as well as an evaluation of how the court’s decision impacts the organization from a business, legal, and ethical perspective. Be sure to list your case citation in the References page at the end of your briefing.
Step 1: Exhibit information literacy skills as applied to business law.
Identify the court, the parties who are before the court, and the date of the decision.
Ensure that your briefing provides an accurate context in terms of who brought the lawsuit and the outcome of the case.
Report research from a recognized authority that adds insight into the meaning, history, or impact of the case with relevant legal research from credible databases or online sources.
Step 2: Summarize the facts and ruling of a legal case and its impact on businesses.
Provide a brief background and context associated with the case. Summarize the facts in no more than 1-2 paragraphs.
Identify the specific disagreement between the parties. Was there a dissenting opinion? If so, explain it.
Summarize the court’s ruling, including its rationale.
Analyze the impact of the case on businesses, including both negative and positive impacts.
Step 3: Explain how the court decision impacts legal and ethical compliance in a business environment.
Identify the ethical and legal implications for a business that were suggested by the court’s decision.
Discuss whether or not the conduct of a party in the case was ethical or unethical.
Propose and explain an ethical theory that describes why a party’s conduct was ethical or unethical.
Step 4: Explain how a legal case could impact a specific organization not a party to the case.
Explain the impact of the court’s decision on your selected organization. In light of the court’s ruling, how might the executive team of the organization make future decisions or policy?
Additional Requirements
Based on your executive audience, your executive briefing should be no more than three pages, in addition to a References page, and should be well organized and written in clear, succinct language. Follow APA rules for attributing content to sources that support your analysis and conclusions.
Your submission should meet the following requirements:
Written communication: Write in complete sentences free from errors that detract from the overall message.
Font and font size: Arial, 12 point.
Format and length: Double-spaced, 2-3 pages.
Citations: Include complete citations of your sources along with a Resources page. Review Evidence and APA for more information on how to cite your sources.
Review the assessment scoring guide for details on how your assessment will be graded.
Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the course competencies through the following assessment scoring guide criteria:
Competency 1: Articulate the importance, context, purpose, and relevance of law in a business environment.
Summarize the facts and ruling of a legal case and its impact on businesses.
Competency 2: Evaluate key judicial concepts that influence the decisions related to business.
Explain how the court decision impacts legal and ethical compliance in a business environment.
Explain how a legal case could impact a specific organization not a party to the case.
Competency 4: Develop information literacy skills as applied to business law.
Exhibit information literacy skills as applied to business law.
Competency 5: Convey purpose, in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards.
Convey purpose, in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards.

Identify, and elaborate upon, four reasons for maintaining accurate and objective employee records. 

Session 1: Maintaining Accurate Employee Records—In this session, you identify, and elaborate upon, four reasons for maintaining accurate and objective employee records. 
Session 2: Ethical and Legal Termination—In this session, you examine the legal and ethical aspects of selecting and terminating an employee out of a group of people with similar performance, behaviors, and jobs as a part of a broad-ranging cost saving initiative. Employee differences: 
One has a disability.
One is paid significantly more than others.
One is 60 years of age and older than the others.
One is planning on soon taking an extended family leave
Session 3: Succession Planning—In this session, you recommend a process to identify and groom an internal candidate to move into a senior-level leadership position in a health care organization such as CEO, COO, and CFO.
Consider the scenario above and imagine that your audience is a group of department managers. Write an executive summary that introduces the topics in an introductory paragraph and then describes the content to be delivered in each of the three sessions in detail.
Your work will be measured against the following criteria:
Identify, and elaborate upon, four reasons for maintaining accurate and objective employee records. 
Analyze the legal implications or requirements of a termination decision. (Make sure to reference specific statutes or laws that govern this area of employment law.)
Analyze the ethical facets of a termination decision. (Make sure to reference an ethical framework to support your assertions or positions.)
Recommend and justify a process to identify and groom a candidate for a senior-level position.  

evaluate your own strengths and weaknesses when it comes to effectively managing your time. 

“Accomplish 2For this week’s assignment, I want you to evaluate your own strengths and weaknesses when it comes to effectively managing your time. To start this assignment, take a few moments and reflect on what a typical day or week for you is like. How do you manage your time to be sure that you get through everything you need to accomplish? Here are a few example questions to guide you: How many hours a week do I currently spend on class or homework? How many hours do I spend working, volunteering, or on extracurricular activities? How long is my daily commute? How much sleep do I get a night? Do I prioritize making sure that I get enough sleep? How many days before an assignment is due do I start working on it? Do I utilize the syllabus to plan ahead? After you answer these questions, reflect on some of the following:
What negative activities am I participating in that are taking time away from being more productive?
If I had to pick one thing to eliminate, what would it be? What should I prioritize more? Your assignment should be at least one page in length.

Have you ever used a class syllabus to plan out your assignments ahead of time, and to familiarize yourself with what assignments you will be responsible for?

Discussion
As you’ve learned this week, having effective time management skills is one of the foundations of being successful in education and beyond. How you budget your time determines the amount of effort you will spend on each activity. One of the best tools you can use to plan your time on the front end of a class is your syllabus. You will find that a syllabus for most classes will outline the assignments, how much the assignments will be worth, and when those assignments will be due. By knowing this information up-front, you can plan how much time you will need to spend on each part of the course. In this discussion, answer the following questions:1.) Have you ever used a class syllabus to plan out your assignments ahead of time, and to familiarize yourself with what assignments you will be responsible for?2.) If so, how do you use this to plan out your homework for the week?3.) If not, what other tools have you used to help you plan out your assignment due dates in advance? Your original post should be at least 75 – 150 words in 1-2 paragraphs. Also, your response should be 50 words or more. 

Were you surprised to learn about how common CAM use is?

“Growth of Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Were you surprised to learn about how common CAM use is? What political, economic, and social factors do you think have led to the tremendous interest in complementary and alternative medicine that you see today? Why is it important for health practitioners to be aware of CAM practices?
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What is the relation between ethics and religion?

· Minimum of 2 scholarly sources (in addition to the textbook)
Instructions
Review the following ethical dilemmas:

1. John Doe has decided to clone himself. He is sterile. He cannot find anyone to marry him. He wishes to have children. He knows that he will not be able to love a child that is adopted or not connected directly to him biologically. He will be making use of a new procedure that involves taking his skin cells to produce a twin. The twin starts out as an embryo and grows into a child. The child in this case will have the same genetic information as John Doe. John Doe and his child will be twins.
2. Jane Doe is eighteen. For as long as she can remember she has been sexually attracted to other females. Her parents belong to a religion that has a religious text stating that God forbids one to be a lesbian. This religion goes on further to say that lesbians will be punished in the afterlife. Jane Doe is debating whether she should tell her parents about her sexual attraction. She has not yet decided if she should come out to her parents and live as a lesbian now that she is a legal adult.
3. Joe and Mary are a couple. Before becoming sterile, they had a child. This child died of a rare disease. Joe and Mary miss their child terribly. They have heard that there is a new IVF procedure that can ensure that they can have another child. However, their religion forbids using IVF.
   Use the resources assigned for this week and additional research,
   Instructions
   Select two of the situations above and then address 2 of the following:
4. What is the relation between ethics and religion? Formulate and investigate the relation.
5. For each case, determine the ethical path of conduct. Then, determine what paths of conduct would be unethical
6. For each case, what would an emotivism say to appraise what you determine is the ethical form of conduct?
7. For each case, would a natural law ethicist agree with what you say is the ethical form of conduct? Why or why not?
8. Articulate, explain, and evaluate in each case an approach that makes use of divine command ethics.
   Writing Requirements (APA format)
   · Length: 2-3 pages (not including title page or references page)
   · 1-inch margins
   · Double spaced
   · 12-point Times New Roman font
   · Title page
   · References page (minimum of 2 scholarly sources)
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