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In 1963, they began selling Tiger shoesmanufactured by Onitsuka Tiger in Japanout of cars at track meets in the United States. The company became Nike in 1972, named for the Greek goddess of victory.Nike grew rapidly, securing 50% of the U.S. running shoe market by 1979; the company went public in 1980. The shoemaker expanded into other sports with Michael Jordans Air Jordan in 1985 and the cross-trainer in 1987. Nike signed Tiger Woods to a $40 million endorsement contract in 1995 and continued its prowess into most major sports. Nike acquired competitor Converse in 2003 and currently competes with shoemakers Adidas, Reebok, and others. The firm continued to expand its product offerings to a variety of sports-related categories, including apparel, clothing bags, two-way radios, and even heart monitors. Nikes late 1980s advertising slogan Just Do It is still widely renowned as highly effective and memorable.Today, Nike is the number one shoemaker in the world and controls over 20% of the athletic shoe market in the United States. The company designs and markets shoes for basketball, baseball, golf, cheerleading, volleyball, and other sportsin addition to Cole Haan dress and casual shoes and a line of athletic apparelin about 200 countries. Chairman, CEO, and cofounder Phil Knight still owns controlling shares in the company. Much of Nikes success may be attributed to its endorsements, including such notables as LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan, and Roger Federer.Nike products are distributed through an estimated 23,000 retail sporting goods and shoe stores in the United States and 30,000 abroad. The firm operates about 700 company-owned stores, accounting for about 15% of revenues. The Nike brand accounted for 87% of revenues in 2010. Nike also operates 24 distribution centers worldwide, with approximately half of the companys revenues coming from outside of the United States. Nike veteran Mark Parker has been CEO since 2006.Because most of its shoes are manufactured by contractors in low wage companies, Nike has been a constant target of human rights activists citing poor wages and alleging child labor violations and substandard working conditions. Nike has taken steps to improve conditions, but critics continue to charge that more should be done.Case Challenge Questions:How important are Nikes expensive endorsements to the companys success? Are the endorsements really worth the money? Explain.
To what extent, if any, is Nike liable for the actions of its manufacturing contractors with regard to employment issues and human rights violations?
Do small rivals like Chinas Li-Ning pose a serious threat to Nike? Could private label athletic shoes challenge Nike, especially in poor economic times?
Internet Sites of InterestCorporate website: www.nike.comWebsite of a key competitor, Adidas: www.adidas.comWebsite of a key competitor, Li-Ning: www.li-ning.comSporting Goods Manufacturers Association: www.sgma.comAmerican Apparel & Footwear Association: www.wewear.org

One of your other two witnesses CANNOT be the other client. The testimony of your witnesses should be written out in a narrative form, as though the witness was talking, and should be at least a couple paragraphs, but no more than one page per testimony. Lindsay is my client the testimony by witnesses should be in support of her to win the case.
Scenario:
In your contract you did not address the clients direction that they agree the vehicle was to be stored at Lindsays residence. It just so happens that every time Charlie used the limo, he returned it to Lindsays driveway. The problem is that Lindsay lives in a gated community and the neighborhood rules prevent people from leaving vehicles in their driveway overnight. Each time Charlie left the limo at Lindsays residence (about 200 times over the course of one year) Lindsay was fined $100, for a total of $20,000.00. Lindsay sues Charlie to be reimbursed for the $20,000.00 in fines.

The setting is an 82-bed hospital located in a small city. One day an employee of the maintenance department asked the supervisor, George Mann, for an hour or two off to take care of some personal business. Mann agreed, and he asked the employee to stop at the garden equipment dealership and buy several small lawnmower parts that the department required. While transacting business at a local bank, the employee was seen by Sally Carter, the supervisor of both human resources and payroll, who was in the bank on hospital business. Carter asked the employee what he was doing there and was told the visit was personal. On returning to the hospital, Sally Carter examined the employees time card. The employee had not punched out to indicate when he had left the hospital. Carter noted the time the employee returned, and after the normal working day she marked the card to indicate an absence of 2 hours on personal business. Carter advised the chief executive officer (CEO), Jane Arnold, of what she had done, citing a long-standing policy (in their dusty, and some would say infrequently used, policy manual) requiring an employee to punch out when leaving the premises on personal business. The CEO agreed with Sally Carters action. Carter advised Mann of the action and stated that the employee would not be paid for the 2 hours he was gone. Mann was angry. He said he had told the employee not to punch out because he had asked him to pick up some parts on his trip; however, he conceded that the employees personal business was probably the greater part of the trip. Carter replied that Mann had no business doing what he had done and that it was hisMannspoor management that had caused the employee to suffer. Mann appealed to the CEO to reopen the matter based on his claim that there was an important side to the story that she had not yet heard. Jane Arnold agreed to hear both managers state their position.Present a 12 15 slide PowerPoint on the emerging health issue you picked. The number of slides exclude the title and reference pages. Substantial Speaker Notes are required throughout the entire presentation.
2.In similar fashion, thoroughly develop the argument you would advance if you were in Sally Carters position.
3.Assuming the position of the CEO, Jane Arnold, render a decision. (Document your decision in whatever detail may be necessary, complete with explanation of why you decided in this fashion)
4.Based on your responses to Questions 1 to 3, outline whatever stepspolicy changes, guidelines, payroll requirements, or something elseyou believe should be considered to minimize the chances of similar conflict in the future.

1. Telling the story/ies of place through traditional and/or contemporary moolelo that you have identified through research and/or through interview/s.
2. Identifying how you apply the moolelo you have found (through research and interview/s) to better know a place (geographically, culturally, historically, ecologically, etc.); for example, a moolelo might explain the geographical features of a place, or it might explain the significance of the place ecologically/in terms of environmental stewardship (for example, a place might support the replenishing of the water table), or the history of a place.

4. We will be visiting the library for a workshop and tour Oct. 2 during class. Please be there; it will support your research process.
For moolelo, you may use traditional and/or contemporary stories of place, including hula, mele, and oli. You should also explore the meaning of indigenous place names, and consider how these stories have changed and/or remained the same over time (for example, you might think about how Carlos Andrade or Jonathan Osorio discuss the changing of names of places, and/or a places significance to people).
For interviews, you must identify at least one person who is deeply connected to or who knows a lot (historically, culturally, geographically, ecologically, etc.) about the place you have chosen to write about. This might be a kumu hula and/or other cultural practitioner, your geography or forestry teacher, a community leader/elder, a community organizer/activist, or someone who works with a nonprofit working to support this place. You may interview someone in your family or a family friend if they match these criteria. We will cover what is required for an interview. After selecting your interviewee/s, you will design your own questions, plan the interview, and record and transcribe the interview for use in your paper.
Visual text:
You should be thinking about a visual accompaniment to your text as you read and analyze and apply moolelo and as you talk with your interviewees. For your first essay, you submitted a photograph. For this essay, you will overlay a photograph with a second layer that represents your new knowledge of place (it could be a map, or a story, or markings with pen/s, thread, or other images by collage). Be creative. Include a title for your image, and a caption explaining how the image illustrates the deepening of your understanding or relationship to place through moolelo.
Tips for a good research paper:
1. Choose a place that is already important to you.
2. Research moolelo about this place (use our library tour and talk to the Hawaiian
librarians for help selecting sources).
3. Identify someone to interview early in your process.
4. Begin with a research question. For this paper, for example, a potential thesis question
might be:
a. What do moolelo of place reveal about its significance
(geographically/socially/spiritually/ecologically/culturally, etc.)?
b. How do moolelo of place transform me/my relationship to place?
5. Use your research question to help you draft a thesis statement.
6. Write an outline/map your essay using the draft thesis statement.
Writing Process & Formatting Requirements
Make an appointment to meet with me to discuss your paper.
Your paper should be a minimum of 5 pages, double-spaced, using 12-point font and 1-
inch margins. Please make sure your paper has your name at the top of the page, ENG 100 Fall 2018, my name, Essay 1, and your essay title. Please paginate. For peer review on Oct. 11, you must bring at least 2-3 hard copies of your draft for feedback. Email me your essay & your letter via google docs.
You are required to use MLA format to cite all sources (including interview and all moolelo sources) within the text and in your bibliography/reference page.
Write me a 1-page letter describing your process (how you worked on drafting, revising, responding to peer feedback and my feedback); 3 things you are proud to have accomplished in this paper; 2 things you would do if you had more time; and 1 thing you commit to doing with your next paper. Since this is your second essay, please address whether you have made the improvements or met the commitments you made when you submitted the first essay.
Submit any free writes, reflection & summary papers, rhetorics and outline worksheets, first draft with peer review comments in class.

Directions: For this extra credit assignment, write a two- to three-page analysis of the episodes from the NPR podcast Code Switch entitled Talk American (August 7, 2018 broadcast) and Rap on Trial (July 17, 2018 broadcast). Here is the link to the page where you can find these episodes online – https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510312/codeswitch Specifically, answer this question: Consider the first concepts that we covered during the beginning of the semester. Define prescriptivism and descriptivism. Do you think that each case illustrates something different about the power of prescriptivism? If so, how would you describe that difference? Some Ideas and Questions to Keep in Mind: For Rap on Trial —- (1) This is a transcript of the words on the front of the paper found in Oduwoles vehicle: I lead, she a follower/Im single and not wid her/But she got a throat deeper than a sword-swallower (2) This is a transcript of the words found on the back of the paper found in Oduwoles vehicle: Send two dollars to ___/If the money doesnt reach $50,000 in the next 7 days/Then a murderous rampage similar to the Virginia Tech shooting will occur at another highly populated university – THIS IS NOT A JOKE If you were to prescribe the kind of language found in gangster rap, would these lyrics fit that prescription syntactically? What is different about the syntax of the first set of lyrics and the second set? Now, what do you think about the consequences that Oduwole faced for creating these lyrics. Your essay must include: All of the necessary conventions of the generic essay (introduction with an arguable thesis, body paragraphs, conclusion) and must be typed, Times New Roman, 12-point font It must be formatted in either MLA or APA style It must include either a Works Cited or a References page

http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2013/aug/10/dolls-house-henrik-ibsen-relevantWrite an initial post in which you describe a hypothetical, modern day example of a marriage in which the two spouses (and their friends) would mirror the characters in A Doll’s House. THEN, RESPOND to two of your classmates – do you think that their examples could indeed happen today? How do you think that the situation could be resolved in a positive way? What would THAT play look like? Would it be “realistic” the way that A Doll’s House was supposed to be? TWO RESPONSES DUE WED at noon

When teaching a client a new skill, behaviour therapists document all the necessary components into a Skill Acquisition Program. This individual assignment will provide students the opportunity to identify a behaviour deficit in a hypothetical client and develop a comprehensive teaching plan to support learning. Often in the field a Skill Acquisition programs is a short document outlining teaching steps. As this is an Academic Skill Acquisition Program, students are required to connect to theory. Students will based their Skill Acquisition Program on one of the client profiles described below.
Client 1: MarcusMarcus is a 15-year old group home resident that has been in the foster care system for 6 years. Marcus is verbal and reads at grade level. Marcus is about 30 pounds overweight and has very unhealthy eating habits. He frequently skips staff-prepared meals and eats nutrition-poor foods like chips or ice cream as meal substitutes. When asked why he does not eat the meals prepared for him he says that they are not to his liking. He is given money to buy his lunches at school. He usually buys nutrition-poor foods for lunch an average lunch for Marcus would be a bag of chips a chocolate bar and a can of soda. When asked why he chooses these for his lunch he explains that these foods are easy and quick to get as he buys them from a vending machine rather than going to the cafeteria or the restaurants that are within walking distance to his school. Marcus is very unhappy with his weight. He wants to lose weight but does not know how. When he tries reducing the amount he eats, he becomes very hungry and has a hard time getting through the day. He will often eat in excess later because he is so hungry. You have been called in to the group home to do a behavioural consultation as well as to develop a skill acquisition program that would target nutrition,healthy lifestyle. Client 2:GordonGordon is an 18 year old student in a life-skills program. He has a mild intellectual delay and reads at approximately a grade 6 level. Gordon has almost no exercise or recreational skills. He knows how to swim, ride a bike, and use some exercise equipment. However, since he stopped taking a mandatory physical education class at school, he has virtually no physical activity in his life. He plays a lot of video games, which is prime recreational activity. He is bused to his school, which is about 3.5 kms from his home. He is has put on about 20 pounds over the last few years, and his parents are concerned that if he does not develop some healthy physical activity habits now, he wont ever become healthy and active as an adult. Gordon used to enjoy exercising as part of his mandatory physical education program at school. His parents have suggested that he join the YMCA, but he resists going whenever they suggest it. They suspect he is intimidated at the thought of navigating the new environment of a gym. You have been hired to develop a program to get Gordon to be more active.Client 3:CheyenneCheyenne is a 16 year old group home resident. She is having issues at school and is failing many of her courses. Cheyenne had a recent psycho-educational assessment that showed that she performs at or above grade level, so you know that she could do the work. You have found out that her attendance at school is inconsistent. She also does not complete assignments on time (or, sometimes, at all). She leaves her homework and/or studying until the last minute then becomes overwhelmed and distressed at all that she has to do. As soon as she feels overwhelmed she gives up saying that the work is too hard or that she is too stupid to do it. Once she begins to fall behind in a class, Cheyenne shows classic avoidant behaviours skipping that class, not completing the work, and trying to avoid thinking about it altogether. You know that Cheyenne is capable but repeated failure is crushing her self-esteem and you are concerned that she is at high-risk of dropping out. You decide to develop a behavioural skills training program to address Cheyenne`s study habits, time management and organization skills.Assignment ComponentsEach Skill Acquisition Program should include the following:a) Brief of 3 skills:From the client profiles outlined below, there are a range of behaviour deficits that could be addressed. Provide a short description (1 paragraph) of 3 skills you could teach your client
b) Operational Definition and RationaleFrom your list of 3, choose 1 skill that you are going to teach. Write an Operational Definition for that skill (Objective, Clear, Complete). All teaching should be supported with a Rationale Describe how the Skill Acquisition Program will improve the clients Quality of Life (connect this to normative data)c) SettingProvide a brief description of the context when/where can this skill be practiced
d) Teaching your SkIllAntecedent Strategies (minimum 3): Describe two strategies you will use that will enhance the Learning Environment (do not need to be faded)
Prompting: Describe the specific prompting strategy you will use to teach your skill
e) Prompt FadingDescribe your plan to systematically remove prompts
f) ReinforcementDescribe your initial and long-term reinforcement schedule (moving from dense schedule to thin)
g) Generalization and MaintenanceDescribe 2 strategies you will use to promote Generalized Respondingh) Data Collection Important Information This Skill Acquisition Program is a writing task. Accurate APA referencing is expected for all sources (i.e. definitions)
Your Skill Acquisition Program should be formatted as a Word Doc with relevant headings.
Edit your work before submitting. Deductions for grammar, spelling errors

You have been asked to provide an educational session about a complementary and alternative medicine therapy of your choice as part of a community health and wellness seminar. As a group, choose a CAM therapy and write a 6-8 page evidenced-based paper and prepare a 15-minute presentation for your chosen therapy. To prevent duplication of CAM therapies, all topics will be approved by the course leaders. When researching your paper, be sure to include actual clinical trials and/or systematic reviews of clinical trials to further support your therapy. Consider the following when writing your paper: Origins of therapeutic practice (Historical beginnings/context of the chosen therapy) Discuss the effectiveness of your chosen therapy Multimedia resources (such as power point, Prezi, Wiki, or any other interactive multimedia format available) are encouraged as teaching and learning tools. Exhibits, music, artifacts, rituals, religious icons, and ethnic costumes may be used to enhance the quality of the presentation. EVIDENCE-BASED PAPER GRADING RUBRIC Accurately introduces topic of discussion in an organized and well-detailed manner; clearly articulates rationale for why this is an important issue for healthcare professionals and consumers. Accurately discusses the origins of selected therapy in an organized and well-detailed manner. Includes discussion of how to practice the therapy Accurately analyzes the evidence, supportive and unsupportive, for the effectiveness of this treatment modality discussion in an organized and well-detailed manner. More than 3 advantages and 3 disadvantages from a nursing and/or patient perspective are identified and supported by citations. Six or more in total Complete discussion of practice and safety concerns Summary is detailed and accurate; content reflects significant depth and insight into topic. Paper is 6-8 pages (excluding title and reference pages); APA format 100% accurate; no spelling errors. The references should be less than 5 years.

One way to adjudicate this disagreement is to examine the depiction of artificial intelligence in movies and TV shows. For this assignment, you will discuss what you think is the most advanced artificial intelligence in either a movie or TV show and present Turing and Searles opposing positions. Task In your paper, you must do the following four things: Identify the relevant TV show or movie. Describe the artificially intelligent character. Is it a robot? An operating system? What is the movie/TV show about and what role does this character have in it? With reference to your chosen character, explain the claim that only beings that are able to pass the Turing Test are able to think. With reference to your chosen character, explain Searles objection to the claim that every being that passes the Turing Test is able to think. Pick a side! With reference to your chosen character, explain why you agree with your chosen side, i.e., if you agree with Searle, why do you agree with Searle? If you agree with Turing, why do you agree with Turing? The assignment is from the reading and from the pdf . This is the link for the pdf https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/77ba/8c7fcffb676758bece2bb3107f1706c1dde7.pdf. I also uploaded chapter pictures. The first 7 screenshots that I provided are the notes of the chapter. Thank You

You can work on this independently or as a group with a maximum of 3 team members. The final paper must be independent, even if you work as a group. Conduct the following research, and develop an analysis paper covering: Specify at least one, and no more than three, critical service and/or operational capabilities the company must excel in to succeed. E.g. product quality, speed of delivery, customer service, competitive pricing, service flexibility, availability or dependability, etc. Do not be generic and list everything, focus on the business core competencies. How does the company attempt to excel at these capabilities against their competitors? How can it improve? Chart the current Value Stream Map of a key process (such as production, the customer communications or customer service, or order management cycle), analyze the opportunities for improvement. Chart the future state (and the ideal state if possible) of the Value Stream Map. Based on your research, how do the companys operations strategy impact their marketing and business strategies, and provide competitive advantages or lead to disadvantages? Which areas do you think the company should focus on operationally in order to scale or grow? Propose a growth strategy operationally for 2019. Research methods: Focus on the first-hand research and original critical analysis, supported by some secondary research based on published materials such as through SEC documents, online news archives, company websites, NYU library, etc. The secondary/literature research should not exceed 20% of the paper and only sourced if it is essential to support the key points of your analysis. The first-hand research can be conducted via interacting with the business as a customer (signing up for email newsletters or promotions, requesting catalogs, calling customer service to gather product information, requesting customer materials from the company, making a purchase, returning the goods or submitting a complaint, conducting a usability test, etc.), interviewing key employees, or observing the process as an employee. Deliverable requirements: The final analysis paper should be 8-10 pages including the exhibits and annotation. Single line spacing, normal or moderate margin setting. Font size: 10-12 points. Exhibits should be properly annotated, and clearly illustrate a key point in the paper. Exhibits should not exceed 4 pages. Be analytical, not just descriptive. Be as objective as possible: how the company manages the customer experience not if you personally like or do not like your experience, or if the website looks pleasing, etc. The project should NOT focus on customer acquisition, direct-response campaigns, marketing strategies, etc. Instead, it should focus on the business processes and customer interactions or communications the company addresses to the prospects and customers, such as fulfilling an order or delivering a satisfactory experience. Extraneous material not related to the topics of the class will count negatively in the grading of this project.
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