I am an Mongolian trader on the Silk Road.  Your job is to gain access to spices, incense, glassware, and other commodities the elite demand. Remember that trade in this age has followed the old contours of gift exchange (items intended by and for elite consumption and redistribution in order to solidify political alliances). What if you made these goods available to a broader audience? What if you took the profit made transporting these goods and used it to leverage business growth against native and foreign competitors? For you to succeed in this scheme, you must get eliminate of some of the middle men. Then, you must secure alternative safe passages to the main caravan hubs in central Asia. Will you need naval power to accomplish this bold and audacious plan? 
Present an update on the status of your plan to usurp the silk trade from a powerful and cutthroat competitor. Use words with precision and skill as you present your step-by-step plan to gain control over the silk trade. Present an overview that makes an explicit argument. This will serve as your thesis statement. Then, in a systematic and logical fashion, lay out your bold and cunning strategy in your initial post of at least 300 words. Think about these issues as you draw up your proposal:

1. An adventure of this scale is costly. How do you propose to raise the money without incurring the wrath of your already heavily taxed subjects?
2. Do you plan to use military forces for this operation?
   • If so, are you asking for specialized elite forces to play the role of merchants in disguise?
3. How do you propose to usurp trade from a rival empire that marks up the price of luxury goods that arrive in your empire? They are the cause of your negative balance of trade, and the time has come to bypass the middleman. Unfortunately, diplomacy has failed to reach a negotiated settlement because the stakes are too high for each side to make concessions.
4. Do you seek out religious minorities within your rival’s domain and empower them in an effort to politically or economically undermine your adversary? Is there a potential for backlash?
5. Do you seek to take advantage of social or economic divisions within your rival’s domain in an effort to politically or economically undermine your adversary? How sure areyou that encouraging dissent will weaken, rather than strengthen, your rival’s hand?
6. Do you dispatch envoys to China in an effort to monopolize the export of goods such as silks, spices, and exotic herbs? Who will you send?

I would like to write an essay should be no longer than 2 pages single-spaced not including any tables and feel free to use any sources that will support my paper. Below you will find the topic.

Apply the Stakeholder Model to Cleveland State University.  Make sure you identify the various groupings of stakeholders and their stakes in the university.  Do you think that Cleveland State University properly manages its stakeholders?

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1. Descriptive Research

Descriptive research describes something. The six W’s of descriptive research are Who (who should we consider?), What (what information do we want to collect?), When (when should we collect the information?), Where (where should we collect the information?), Why (why are we obtaining the information?), and Way (how are we going to collect the information?).

Chocolate Sandwich Cookie Company is planning to launch a new line of cookies and wants to assess the market size. The cookie has a vanilla cookie outside with a dark chocolate and praline filling, and will be targeted at the premium end of the market. Assemble the six W’s of a descriptive research design that may be adopted by the Chocolate Sandwich Cookie Company. Support your claims with examples from required material(s) and/or other scholarly resources, and properly cite any references. 

2.   Quantitative/Qualitative

Critique the following statement: “Quantitative research is more important than qualitative research because it results in statistical information and conclusive findings.”

Read “Designation of North American Emission Control Area to Reduce Emissions from Ships,” (Attached below) a report published by the EPA. Write a two- to three-page paper in APA format. Describe the environmental impact of shipboard emissions and the potential impact and restrictions of the Emission Control Area. Discuss the conflicting strategic, financial, and environmental goals of implementation of the Emission Control Area