Please be impartial or avoid liberal views, it does not sit well with this class or professor

Discussion Questions: What are the challenges of balancing protection of U.S. diplomatic missions with the needs of U.S. public diplomacy? Also, discuss the Department of State’s initiative on foreign aid and how it influences international relationships.

Instructions: Fully utilize the materials that have been provided to you in order to support your response. Your initial post should be at least 500 words. Please respond to at least two other students. Responses should be a minimum of 250 words and include direct questions. You may challenge, support or supplement another student’s answer using the terms, concepts and theories from the required readings. Also, do not be afraid to respectfully disagree where you feel appropriate; as this should be part of your analysis process at this academic level.

Forum posts are graded on timeliness, relevance, knowledge of the weekly readings, and the quality of original ideas. While proper Turabian is not required, attribution to

Specifically, you will focus on the ways in which Nike applied
leadership thinking and strategy to address global perceptions as a
response to the criticism the company faced during the 1980s and 1990s.

For example,

as noted on page 4 of the case study attached, Nike has a strong commitment to innovation, but at the same time, the company also believes in sustainable development.One might consider this emphasis on innovation

and sustainability to be a major driving force in terms of Nike’s overall views and goals.

Yet in the early 1990s, the company faced heavy criticism for its use of contracted factories in which working conditions were less than adequate.This critical response led to changes in the use of these factories as a response by the leadership team. The result was a change in policy and an improvement in conditions.

From this short example, you can sense the cycle in which CSR often develops. First, a company has a stated or inferred core value (sustainability); next, the company is faced with a critical event (in this case, criticism by consumers and the media); then, the company responds with a new policy or action changes in the use of oversea factories); and as a result, there are ramifications (increase in sales, etc.).

Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed in your paper.

• Describe Nike’s views and goals as related to CSR.
• Explain the evolution of Nike’s views and goals over time.

• Identify critical events that occurred over Nike’s History.
• Explain how the critical events affected Nike’s CSR policy.

• Describe how Nike Leadership responded to each critical event.
• Explain how the response was motivated by Nike’s views and goals.

• Identify the ramifications of Nike’s response.
• Explain how Nike acted in a proactive fashion (internally and externally in the creation of its new CSR policy.

Guidelines for Submission: Your “goals, events, and response” report must be 7- 8 pages in length and must be written in APA format. Use double spacing 12 -point Times New Roman font and one – inch margins.

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write 100-150 words on the following questions:

1. What do you think of the various provisions in the Health Ordinances of Pistoria, Italy document? Do they make sense to some/any degree? (even if you know with our modern conception of science and medicine that they are wrongheaded – try to “think like a historian” which means at least attempting to put ourselves into the minds’ of the people we are studying)

2. What might explain reacting to the Black Death by blaming Jews and accusing them of purposely poisoning wells to spread it? (again, try to think what they might have been thinking)

3. What do you think about Agiment’s confession?

4. What are your thoughts about the events depicted in the “About the Great Plague” account of the Black Death and the reactions of some Europeans to its outbreak?

Choose an industry you have not yet written about in this course, and one publicly traded corporation within that industry. Research the company on its own Website, the public filings on the Securities and Exchange Commission EDGAR database (http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml), in the University’s online databases, and any other sources you can find. The annual report will often provide insights that can help address some of these questions.

Write an eight to ten (8-10) page paper in which you:

1. Choose the two (2) segments of the general environment that would rank highest in their influence on the corporation you chose. Assess how these segments affect the corporation you chose and the industry in which it operates.
2. Considering the five (5) forces of competition, choose the two (2) that you estimate are the most significant for the corporation you chose. Evaluate how well the company has addressed these two (2) forces in the recent past.
3. With the same two (2) forces in mind, predict what the company might do to improve its ability to address these forces in the near future.
4. Assess the external threats affecting this corporation and the opportunities available to the corporation. Give your opinions on how the corporation should deal with the most serious threat and the greatest opportunity. Justify your answer.
5. Give your opinion on the corporation’s greatest strengths and most significant weaknesses.  Choose the strategy or tactic the corporation should select to take maximum advantage of its strengths, and the strategy or tactic the corporation should select to fix its most significant weakness. Justify your choices.
6. Determine the company’s resources, capabilities, and core competencies.
7. Analyze the company’s value chain to determine where they can create value using the resources, capabilities, and core competencies discussed above.
8. Use at least three (3) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as academic resources.

This week, your readings center on the amazing developmental changes of infants and toddlers. For your Application Assignment, you will again use the Child Development Chart to organize important factual information with regard to children of this age group. While you develop your chart, keep in mind that the age ranges stipulated do not constitute absolute limits. Nothing magical happens in terms of development on the exact day of a child’s first birthday or second birthday. And that is because, as you know, different developmental events happen at different times in children’s lives-some earlier, some later. Remember then that looking at development within the margins of ages is simply a tool to help focus your study and understanding of child development, and the chart you are creating is an effective reference of essential developments in children’s lives across domains. This type of perspective is useful as long as you remain acutely aware of individual variations.

In preparation for this assignment, review all the Required Resources for this week. Then download the following documents to complete your assignment: