Select a multinational firm (Starbucks or any other) and create a 10-15-slide (excluding
cover and reference slides) PowerPoint presentation on the philosophy of the company and global strategies that are currently used, along with your recommendations for changes in
their global marketing strategies.
You should have a reference slide with at least three (3) references.
The slides should be a mixture of visuals and text for the viewer and should not be in complete sentences.
The slides need to contain enough detail to explain this company’s strategies.
No single picture or quotation slides.
Category: Globalization
Using the thesis statement, abstract, and bibliography developed in Part II, and incorporating classmates’ and professor’s feedback, students must compose an academic research paper. Your paper must be a maximum of 8 double-spaced pages in proper MLA citation format. Students are highly encouraged to workshop their paper with the professor during office hours prior to the assignment due date. Your paper must be original, be based on thorough research of the topic, and contain a clear thesis and supporting arguments. Your paper must present an issue or problem in globalization and offer a proposed solution.
6-6.5 pages is okay with me, but you can do 7 pages if needed.
Research Assignment (30%): Students are required to develop an analytical and research based paper (of 1,500 words) that examines the impact of globalization on a narrow and clearly defined issue or a specific locale. The primary goal of the assignment is to demonstrate your independent mastery of the course material. The paper will be developed through two submissions; both submissions are graded. Part 1 (15%) and part 2
(15%).
Part 1 must include: i) an informed and content-rich thesis statement; ii) a 400-word introduction to the topic with a detailed explanation of how the topic relates to the course materials/class discussions; and iii) a reference list. The paper is to be submitted as a Word document on iLearn by the due date. Late-submitted papers will be duly penalized. 10% will be deducted if the paper is submitted within 24 hours after the deadline; and 20% will be deducted if it is submitted within 48 hours after the deadline. No work will be accepted later than 48 hours after the deadline.
Part 2 is the final version of the research paper (1,500 words excluding the reference list).
The paper is to be submitted as a Word document on iLearn by the due date. Late submitted papers will be duly penalized. A grading rubric will be available on course webpage.
As the writing
Define your topic. The who, what, where when of your issue
Introduce and define neoliberal globalization.
Briefly highlight the interconnectedness of your topic and neoliberal globalization and the impact on urban landscapes and/or those people most affected by the issue. (In other words, what tension arises from your issue? The economic, cultural, or political shifts, for example.)
Briefly discuss historical context
Explain how neoliberal social or economic policies have facilitated or precipitated your issue.
Discuss the positions of different “stakeholders”, for example developers, investors, national government, local governments, grassroots organizers, etc.
Contestation and Resistance
Discuss the tensions arising from your issue: economic, cultural, political shifts for example.
Describe community resistance efforts, grassroots movements, and policy advocacy.
Consider the possibilities of alternative approaches.
Conclusion
Summarize the relationship between your issue and neoliberal globalization.
Bibliography Page – List your sources in MLA format ( at least 3 sources)
below is my proposal
Your final paper will analyze the film Snowpiercer. You will write 10 to 12 pages, double-spaced, following the guidance provided below. We are writing this outside of class and turning it in on Canvas by May 16th at 10:00 am. This means you do not come to the classroom on the final exam day and time.
Overall Aim
You are trying to thoughtfully analyze the whole film Snowpiercer using our course materials (lectures, slides, videos, readings).
Objective One
The first objective for this paper is for you to use these four key topics from the class in your analysis: neoliberalism, empire (sometimes called imperialism), environment, and culture. These four main topics are a guide for how to approach the film. Your paper must cover them all, but how you cover them will vary.
There might be key concepts you use that derive from or are a subset of these topics, say, for instance, for environment you might find the more specific concepts of environmental justice and/or climate migration most appropriate. Culture is certainly a broad topic. To narrow in to concepts useful to your analysis, you might think about our study of language, homogenization and absorption, religion, and/or multiculturalism. You want to choose ideas that you think best help you explain this film and what it means. It is vital that you define each key term you use in your paper.
You are welcome to use examples or comparisons from the class of similar phenomena in the film. This is a great way to show knowledge. Examples or comparisons do not stand in for definitions, though.
Note: We are only using ideas about these topics that come from our class lectures, readings, and videos. No outside sources are to be used. AI or other online sources should not be used, as first of all it is against academic integrity, and second, it will not be able to utilize our ideas in a way that is specific to the class. Violations of academic integrity must be submitted to the university, so please only use your own thoughts and our class sources.
Objective Two
You are also explaining how the film shows the viewer how it thinks about the class topics listed above. In other words, you are being asked to think about the film as teaching you how to understand its logic.
Recall, for instance, how the opening scenes from Crazy Rich Asians show us how to interpret the narrative and characters. I want you to utilize specific scenes, symbols, narratives, and characters from Snowpiercer to show how the film is depicting issues related to neoliberalism, empire, environment, and language.
The following questions are meant to be suggestive, but you should not feel like you must answer them all, or only as I have framed them:
What does the opening of the film tell us about this world?
What does the train represent? What about the sections of the train?
Who are the characters that are powerful and the characters in a subordinate positions meant to refer to in our actual world? We are not speculating here. We are trying to discern how the film tells us about the real world based on this fictional world using our class materials.
What key term or terms help you explain the resistance movement?
What does the “Sacred Engine” mean? The engine only works through a certain kind of laborers. What is this meant to represent from the real world?
The story will come to a conclusion in a certain way. Is that ending meant to suggest something about what needs to change in our world or what we must do to “save” or “heal” our world?
Similar note as above: You are welcome to use examples or comparisons from the class of similar phenomena in the film. This is a great way to show knowledge. Examples or comparisons do not stand in for analysis of the film itself; it is a complement to that analysis.
Citations
You will use our class sources in your paper. We are not using any outside sources. If the idea is not yours, you cite it, whether you paraphrase a source or provide a short quote from it.
If you paraphrase or quote, use this format at the end of the sentence, after the period: (Moreton 201). If you are using a source that does not have page numbers, you could write something like: Taub writes, “Quote from Taub’s article here.” If you use a video, you could write: In the video entitled, “Here’s Why Reaganomics is so Controversial,” the speaker says, “Quote from the speaker.”
You do not need a works cited or bibliography at the end of your paper because all sources are internal to the class.
Formatting
Include your name on the first page
Add a title to your paper
Double space your paper
Times New Roman 12-point font
1″ margins
Indent all paragraphs
See citation guidelines above
Organization
You have two objectives. How you organize your paper to address these two objective is up to you. Something we do not need is a long plot summary. You can assume that the reader knows the plot of the film.
What you must have is an introduction, body paragraphs, and conclusion. This is a longer final paper, so your introduction might be more than one paragraph if you wish. Do not veer from the purpose of an introduction, though, which is only to tell the reader what will happen and the flow of the paper. We do not need a long intro that waxes poetically about the film or the state of the world. Your analysis belongs in the body, not the introduction. A conclusion only recaps your analysis.
Body paragraphs always begin with a topic sentence. A topic sentences introduces the topic of the paragraph.
These are some possible ways you could organize the body of the paper:
You might have four sections of the body, one for each topic. In each section, you define terms and show examples from the film.
The body of the paper may be divided into two sections, the first for objective one and the second for objective two.
You might use a certain scene, character, or storyline to talk about multiple topics and repeat this process until all four topics have been handled well.
You might have early body paragraphs that introduce all of the key concepts you will utilize later. The other body paragraphs are all application to the film, as in, we can see aspects of neoliberalism in X scenes or Y character conflicts.
As you can see, there are various ways to accomplish the two objectives. You can organize the paper in a way that makes sense to you, as long as it is clear that you are completing both objectives.
write the thrid paragraph of the essay, it would be about how the propaganda posters had affected people back then as well as now. How its viewed now as a historical record or an ideological tool.
Political, economic, and legal systems are like the tripod a country’s existence is standing on. Those systems, although each evolve like their own beast and at various rates, share similar roots. Each society’s structure, history, general belief system, moral structure, and national identity impact the type of political, legal, and economic system they formulate. Those systems affect the way people do business, interact in the marketplace, construct their contracts, interact with the outsiders, predict the outcome of current events, and manage their resources.
Failure by international business leaders and entrepreneurs to understand each of those three systems individually and their effect on each other as well as their mechanism collectively can result in complete business failure (and maybe serious liabilities and losses).
However, and like anything else, understanding the core mechanism of the political, economic, and legal systems in a given country can help business leaders avoid unnecessary challenges and also find new opportunities. The main idea is to be open minded while remaining realistic, respectful, and objective when assessing another country’s systems.
Assignment Description
Pick two countries, each one from a different continent (and preferably one from a developed region and one from a developing region) and perform a higher level (just key points without detailed explanation) comparison between the two nation’s political, economic, and legal systems. Highlight the key differences in each country’s political, economic, and legal systems. Also, based on the structure of political, economic, and legal systems in those countries, highlight the key risks and opportunities for doing business in those countries.
Create three to six slides, not counting the separate Title slide and the separate References slide.
Content Structure:
Introduction slide: In your own words, briefly discuss the relationship between a country’s political, economic, and legal systems and how they shape doing business in that country.
Data: The Various Systems:
Use data, graphs, facts, and figures, to describe each country’s political, economic, and legal systems (just key characteristics).
Perform a high level comparison (side-by-side) of the three systems in each country. Only state the differences in the political, economic, and legal systems.
Findings and Analysis: In your own words and based on your understanding of the three systems in each of the two countries, state the key risk and opportunity in each country. Basically, what is that one action, move, or consideration that an international business leader or operator must avoid doing in that country (or must do) to succeed in that market?
Conclusion and Looking Ahead: Managerial Critical Thinking: Opinion: Based on what you have learned, state what industry, commodity, idea, business approach, or business market focus might be most appropriate to benefit from operating in that market based on your understanding of their political, economic, and legal systems.
Use at least three reliable sources to obtain facts, data, news, updates, graphs, and so forth. Cite all sources used. The references need to be in APA 7th ed format.
Paper: 2,500-3,000 words (8-10 Pages)
Times New Roman 12-point font
Cite at least 2 sources per question besides the textbook or lecture.
I will put 7 questions on the exam, and you will answer 5 of them.
The long essays should answer the question using ideas from the class lectures and as many of the “Concept, Ideas and Terms” as possible. Make the answer as specific (facts, names, data, vocabulary) as possible. Base the responses on in-class lecture and conversation. AI will probably be detrimental to your response as it won’t be class specific. 5 paragraph format is preferred.
How has Brazil used the concepts of Growth Pole and Forward Capital?
What are the impacts of the colonial experience and geography on Sub-Saharan Africa?
What are the differences between “Mainland and Rimland” Middle America?
Why is Nigeria a good example of the problems facing the African Transition Zone?
How does increased cooperation with the USA lead to greater economic development in Middle America? Utilize the specific examples we discussed in class.
What factors of location, history and approach to modernization led to the economic success of Japan and then the “Economic Tigers” of Asia?
Explain in detail how, where and why the Monsoon happens in South Asia and what are the economic, cultural and political impacts?
Political Geography: How are borders formed, what are the types of borders, explain Spatial Morphology, and how borders influence the political and economic stability of a country. Utilize as many specific vocabulary words, concepts, and examples as possible to make your point.
Since 1979, how has China worked to improve its economy whilst maintaining political control? Be as specific as possible utilizing examples. This will include discussion about ethnic groups, geographic specific zones, historical and cultural attitudes etc.
Utilizing the examples from class and your text, what are major conflicts in the Middle East and how do they hurt the region.
Why is Russia economically behind Western Europe?
What are the environmental problems in Central Asia and why (politically, economically, locationally) did they appear and persist?
Explain in detail the concept of a “Shatter Belt” utilizing the Balkans and Transcaucasia as examples.
What advantages of location helped propel Western Europe to economic prosperity?
How has the Europe integrated after WWII – 1945 and what are the main challenges facing the EU today?
Why did the “3 Revolutions” happen in the United Kingdom before the rest of Europe?
What are the effects on Globalization of the Russian attack on Ukraine?
Answer ALL 4 questions in short yet detailed essay format please . readings are attached
Q 1: Getachew provides two sets of evidence in support of her thesis that the founders of the League of Nations were counterrevolutionaries? Explain each and relate it to her thesis of chapter two. Is the evidence convincing? Why? (Make sure you are clear about the meaning of the term “evidence” as opposed to the term “claim”. Example: Water in this pot is hot, is a claim. Evidence is, for example, the temperature of water on a thermometer.)
Q 2: Why did securing the right to self-determination of nations not lead to an egalitarian world order as anti-colonial nationalists hoped? Do you think Getachew is correct in that regard? Why?
Q 3: What was the difference between Wilson’s and Lenin’s interpretation of self-determination?
Q4: What is the difference between how the 1945 Charter of the United Nations and the 1945 Pan-African Congress envisioned self-determination?
Answer ALL 4 questions in short yet detailed essay format please . readings are attached
Q 1: Getachew provides two sets of evidence in support of her thesis that the founders of the League of Nations were counterrevolutionaries? Explain each and relate it to her thesis of chapter two. Is the evidence convincing? Why? (Make sure you are clear about the meaning of the term “evidence” as opposed to the term “claim”. Example: Water in this pot is hot, is a claim. Evidence is, for example, the temperature of water on a thermometer.)
Q 2: Why did securing the right to self-determination of nations not lead to an egalitarian world order as anti-colonial nationalists hoped? Do you think Getachew is correct in that regard? Why?
Q 3: What was the difference between Wilson’s and Lenin’s interpretation of self-determination?
Q4: What is the difference between how the 1945 Charter of the United Nations and the 1945 Pan-African Congress envisioned self-determination?