The basic format of the essay should be a theory, concept or approach which is critically analysed. Then a case study or practical example should be presented that not only illustrates how the theory can be applied but also reveals further critical insights into the theory itself. The
Originality
Has the student identified and analysed the unique competitive advantage of the business?
Has the student identified and analysed what the customers value and are willing to pay for?
Has the student identified and analysed the attempts by the company to minimise its costs?
conclusion should demonstrate how the case study can lead to an improvement in the theory.
Students should make all efforts to avoid plagiarism by reading and reflecting on the information sources before committing their own thoughts to paper. There is never a reason to copy, although quotations may be occasionally appropriate. It is recommended that students should take note of the Turnitin similarity scor

Reflective Prompt ABC Clothiers, Inc. has a contract with Taylor & Sons, a retailer, to deliver one thousand (1,000) summers suits to Taylors place of business on or before May 1. On April 1, Taylor receives a letter from ABC informing him that ABC will not be able to make the delivery as scheduled, but could make the delivery a month later, on June 1. Taylor is very upset, as he had planned a big ad campaign, half the summer will be over by June 1 and wants to sue ABC right away. Assume that Taylor & Sons can either file immediately or wait until ABC fails to deliver the goods on May 1. What course of action is better under the circumstances?

Elevator Speech #1

Objective: To think about and synthesize your anthropological learning these past years, and to articulate how and why this training is significant and useful to a wider public.
Outcome: A two-minute, example or story-driven and well articulated "elevator speech" or "elevator pitch" that can be used in a variety of contexts.

An "elevator speech" is a short "pitch" that can be given immediately when a situation warrants.  In this case, it is an introduction to yourself and your interests in an anthropologically relevant way.  You will gear the speech to particular audiences at different times, but the bulk of it will remain the same most likely.  (for example I have a different one for film festivals than I have for academics).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDpe9StfGTA&feature=emb_title

Post a draft of your elevator speech by clicking "reply" below.  Write it short enough so that it would take no more than 2 - 3 m

Discussion
1. Before you answer the questions in this Discussion Forum, read the publication "This Dynamic Earth".



2.  Choose any 3 of the 8 topics/questions below and answer the related questions in the appropriate thread of this Discussion. Each well-thought relevant answer to the question, consisting of a substantive paragraph is worth up to 5 points for a total of 15 points for this assignment. The late policy is 10 % per calendar day. The due date is in the calendar in the global navigation bar.

Q.1  Distribution of Volcanoes: Why most volcanoes in the world (95%) are located along mid-oceanic ridges or found in chains parallel to trenches?

Q.2: Sea-floor topography: Why are trenches bordering chains of volcanoes and island arcs? What happens at trenches? How do oceanic ridges form?

Q. 3 Ocean floor age: Why the ocean floor is progressively older as you move away from the oceanic ridge? Why there is no ocean floor on Earth older tha

write a one paragraph summary on it. Your job is to determine the main points of the article, briefly paraphrase and/or summarize them (NO quotations!), and construct a well-written paragraph that includes an effective topic sentence, a body, and a concluding sentence. Although most marks will be for summarizing and paraphrasing ability, writing skills and formatting are always part of an English assignment, so edit and proofread your work!

From Week 3 to Week 10

Week 5, 2/1                 Pinku Eiga

Film
                             
Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41, Ito Shunya (1972) CW [reserves]

Reading
                       
Sexing Up Post-War Japanese Cinema: Looking at the 1960s/1970s Pinky Violence Films, Laura Treglia (2018)
   
Bad Girls of Japan, Introduction, Laura Miller and Jan Bardsley (2005) [reserves]


In your groups, I would like you to:

1. Respond to the question posed at the end of Tuesdays lecture

2. Ask at least one question that you have about the topics or ideas addressed in the lecture, a
    a scene from the film, or the reading

3. Respond to at least one question in the discussion.

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A manufacturer delivers a new tractor to Farmer Ted on the first day of the harvest season. But the tractor will not start. It takes two weeks for the right parts to be delivered and installed. The repair bill comes to $1,000. During the two weeks, some acres of Farmer Teds crops die. He argues in court that his lost profit on those two acres is $60,000. The jury awards the full $1,000 for the tractor repairs, and $60,000 for the lost crops. Identify the two types of awards. Is it fair that Farmer Ted received 60 times the value of the repair bill for his lost crops?

review the financials of plug power inc. in Yahoo! Finance and the SEC EDGAR database in the Filings & Forms (Links to an external site.) page. You can access the financials by going to the Yahoo! Finance website, typing in the stock symbol of your organization, and then clicking on the Financials tab. After you have read, you will continue analyzing the financial health of the company. In other words, using the ratios provided by Robinson, Henry, Pirie, and Broihahn (2015), you will continue building a comprehensive financial statement analysis of your company.

In your paper,

Calculate the following ratios:
Debt-to-assets ratio
Debt-to-capital ratio
Debt-to-equity ratio
Financial leverage ratio
Interest coverage ratio
Fixed charge coverage ratio
Evaluate the companys solvency, based on the ratios calculated above.
Recommend three areas that the company could improve in order to strengthen its financial position, based on the ratios calculated

Read Olaudah Equiano, pp. 524-566 in the textbook uploaded below.
Choose a quote from Equiano's narrative (it HAS to be from the selection in the textbook) and discuss how that quote contributes to the development of Equiano's character or a theme throughout the narrative.  Please include the quote at the beginning of the paper.

You do not need to include in-text citations and a reference list but you should make it clear
where the information is coming from. This should be done in narrative style - for example, In
Ch.11 of the textbook, the context of X is discussed in reference to Y