Is it time to start sharing the results of your hard work? This is the final phase of your project: Writing up your final project and then creating a presentation that shares your solution. Before you do that, you’ll need to make sure you are comfortable creating voiceover multimedia presentations and have a professional review the draft of your paper.

• Abstract (Links to an external site.) (250 words)
• Introduction (250- 300 words)
  • Provide an overview outlining the significance of the issue related to your field of study
  • Please review this information (Links to an external site.) to make sure your introduction is different from your abstract
• Literature Review
  • Conclude this section with a concise statement of the problem based upon the literature
  • This is the literature review you submitted in Module 5; be sure to improve it by integrating feedback from your instructor
• Diversity & Ethics
  • Cultural Perspectives & Inequities (1,000 – 1,200 words)
  • Ethical Implications (1,000 – 1,200 words)
• Proposed Solution (1,000 – 1,500 words)
  • Please note: solutions should be YOUR OWN ORIGINAL ideas for maximum points
• Conclusion (250 – 300 words)
• Reference List

1. The Clean Air and Clean Water Acts assist with ensuring minimum standards must be met by businesses to operate. Given the global warming potential, consider if we need more regulations to ensure a safe environment, or, do we have too much intervention already?
2. “The average person isn’t educated on health values well enough to understand what they are consuming is much higher in calories than what they should consume as a baseline.” In this regard, who should be educating the consumers on this matter? The consumer himself, the restaurant industry, or the government?
3. what is the practice of “tying?”Why is this illegal?

Kantu Electronics is a Hong Kong company that manufacturers computer chips. Its customers

are primarily U.S. high tech companies. Those companies buy Kantu’s chips and integrate them

into their systems. The process of integration takes place in the U.S. at the factories of Kantu’s

customers. There are only 5 companies, including Kantu, that manufacture the specific chips

that Kantu manufacturers. Therefore, there are 5 companies that make up the relevant

product market for the production of these chips. They are all located in China, but they all

compete in the U.S. market.

Kantu’s main office and production facilities are in Shenzhen, China. It manufactures its chips

there and transports them to the Port of Hong Kong. The products are then taken by a vessel of

Kantu’s selection to the Port of Los Angeles. From there, the chips are taken by rail to Kantu,

U.S. which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Kantu located in Memphis, Tennessee. From there

the chips are taken by trucks to the customers’ locations where they are integrated into Kantu’s

customers’ end products.

Memphis is the site of Kantu, U.S. because it is in the heartland of the United States. Its

overland trucking is some of the best in the nation because of the number of truck terminals

that are primarily on the south and southwest sides of Memphis. If necessary, the chips are

shipped by air via Federal Express which has its headquarters and primary air shipping

operations in Memphis.

In addition, because of the development of the tech industry in Memphis and the corporate

headquarters that are located there, many of Kantu’s chips are integrated into final products by

Kanti’s Memphis customers which fully integrated products are then sold to Memphis tech

companies and corporate headquarters in the Memphis area.

Because competition among chip manufacturers has become quite intense, Kantu had a

meeting in Hong Kong with its competitors. At that meeting, all of the competitors agreed to

price their chips at the same price and that they would, thereafter compete on other attributes

of competition, such as speed of manufacturing, delivery times, and service of the warranties

that they provide customers, and the response time for servicing any warranty complaints by

customers.

Assume that there are no antitrust, antitrust conspiracy, or price fixing laws in China.

1

In the

United States, the Sherman Act prohibits monopolization, attempts to monopolize, antitrust

conspiracies, and anti-competitive price fixing, etc.

2

The Department of Justice is considering filing in the Western District of Tennessee a RICO

action against Kantu arising out of the price fixing and conspiracy to fix prices. The Western

District of Tennessee is the jurisdiction that handles federal cases in the Memphis area.

You are the primary research attorney for the U.S. Attorney in the Western District of

Tennessee. U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions invites you to Washington to a meeting with the

U.S. Attorney for the Western District to discuss this potential action. He asks you for the issues

that you see with respect to this contemplated RICO action. What do you tell him?

If, on the other hand, you were one of Kantu’s U.S. customers, would you be able to bring a civil

RICO action against Kantu in the Western District?

Using the guides and resource suggestions listed in Chapter 12, perform a strategic audit of Tesla Motors, Inc. A good starting point is the company’s investor relations website at: http://ir.teslamotors.com/

The audit should be at least 2400 words and include the following:

I. Current Situation

a. Current Performance

b. Strategic Posture

II. Strategic Managers

a. Board of Directors

b. Top Management

III. External Environment

a. Natural Environment

b. Societal Environment

c. Task Environment

IV. Internal Environment

a. Corporate Structure

b. Corporate Culture

c. Corporate Resources

V. Analysis of Strategic Factors

a. SWOT

b. Review of Current Mission and Objectives

VI. Strategic Alternatives and Recommended Strategy

a. Strategic Alternatives

b. Recommended Strategy

VII. Implementation

VIII. Evaluation and Control

Unoriginal Content:

Your essay may contain no more than 10% quotes from other sources. Paraphrase what you read instead of copying and pasting. You may not re-use work that you have submitted in previous classes. All work in this class must be original.

Essays that contain more than 50% unoriginal content will not earn any credit. Essays that contain between 10% – 49% unoriginal content will receive a substantial point deduction. Paraphrase instead of copying and pasting. Please note there is a difference between unoriginal content and plagiarism. Unoriginal content is correctly quoted and cited. Plagiarized sentences and paragraphs are not correctly quoted or cited. Plagiarism will result in an automatic zero for this assignment.

Grading Rubric

Criterion	Unsatisfactory (Below 80%)	Satisfactory (80% – 89%)	Exceptional (90% – 100%)	Percentage	Points Possible	Points Earned
Current Situation	Did not sufficiently discuss the current situation of the company.	Clearly discussed the current situation, including performance and strategic posture.	Thoroughly discussed the current situation, including performance and strategic posture. Research is well-documented.	100	10	10
Strategic Managers	Did not sufficiently discuss the strategic managers.	Provided a clear discussion of the strategic managers including the board of directors and top management.	Provided a thorough discussion of the strategic managers including the board of directors and top management. Research is well-documented.	100	10	10
External Environment	Did not sufficiently discuss the external environment	Provided a clear discussion of the external environment, including natural, societal and task elements.	Provided a thorough discussion of the external environment, including natural, societal and task elements. Research is thorough and well-documented.	100	10	10
Internal Environment	Did not sufficiently discuss the internal environment.	Provided a clear discussion on the internal environment including corporate structure, culture and resources.	Provided a thorough discussion on the internal environment including corporate structure, culture and resources. Research is thorough and well-documented.	100	10	10
Strategic Factors	Did not sufficiently discuss the strategic factors.	Provided a clear discussion on the strategic factors including SWOT and the mission and objectives	Provided a thorough discussion on the strategic factors including SWOT and the mission and objectives. Research is thorough and well-documented.	100	10	10
Strategic Alternatives and Strategies	Did not sufficiently discuss strategic alternatives and recommended strategies.	Provided a clear discussion on strategic alternatives and recommended strategies.	Provided a thorough discussion on strategic alternatives and recommended strategies. Research is thorough and well-documented.	100	20	20
Implementation, Evaluation and Control	Did not sufficiently discuss implementation, evaluation or control.	Provided a clear discussion on implementation, evaluation or control. Some financial analysis is included.	Provided a thorough discussion on implementation, evaluation or control. A detailed financial analysis is included. Research is thorough and well-documented.	100	10	10
Provided research to support arguments	No evidence of research. Significant instances of missing citations. More than 20% unoriginal content. Use of non-credible sources. Did not use at least two sources from the University library.	Most of the essay is supported by research. Used at least seven credible sources.	All arguments supported by research. All research is correctly documented with in-text citations and a reference page.	100	10	10
Mechanics	Frequent grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors. Use of first and second person, instead of third person	Minor grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors.	Technically flawless, mechanically and grammatically correct.	100	10	10
Final Score					100	100

Weekly Essay #4, word count 650

Social Change

Objective
Society changes, often slowly and in seemingly unpredictable ways. Sociologists have as part of their discipline, the charge of understanding how and why society changes. This essay will help students think through how changes in the nature world affect changes in human societies.

Description
In Superstorm Sandy, sociologist Diane Bates suggests that natural disasters are only in part natural. The social world and its organization are deeply connected to and impacted by such disasters. Read this article in the New York Times about Hurricane Harvey and its effects on Houston: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/11/11/cli…

After you have read the article, please watch this Democracy Now! interview (below) about the complex politics of race, class, and the environmental with sociologist Robert Bullard – known as the ‘father of the environmental justice movement.’

https://www.democracynow.org/2017/9/7/invisible_ho…

Write an essay analyzing Hurricane Harvey and its impacts (as portrayed by the Bates article and Bullard interview. You do not need to do additional readings to complete this essay. Simply apply what you have learned from a sociological perspective.

What ideas or concepts presented by Bates and Bullard might be useful in understanding the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey? Are there concepts from other readings in the class that might be helpful in this analysis as well?

What opportunities exist for overcoming environmental injustice and building a more sustainable and equitable society?

Note: You may need to interpret the questions above loosely as you write your essay. Do not hesitate to put your own mark on this essay and expand in ways that you feel important in building your analysis and argument(s).

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