Respond in 75 words 1. Marketing • For this discussion, identify a famous brand that failed when it tried to penetrate a foreign market. Describe the brand, the move, and what went wrong from a cultur

Respond in 75 words

1. Marketing

• For this discussion, identify a famous brand that failed when it tried to penetrate a foreign market. Describe the brand, the move, and what went wrong from a cultural perspective. What was it about the consumers in a different culture that the company or brand overlooked?

Make recommendations for other companies to avoid the same mistakes.

• Did this course meet your expectations? What did you like best about the course? What suggestions can you offer to improve this course?

2. Business Law

• Have you ever had an opportunity to appoint an agent? A power of attorney is an agency in which a principal gives an agent the authority to perform some legal act on behalf of the principal. What should you consider in appointing an agent in a power of attorney?

• The creation of a corporation is usually more formal and technical than the creation of other forms of business organizations, and the operation of a corporation is usually more complex and regulated than other forms of business organizations. Are all of the formalities, technicalities, and regulations worth the benefits that a corporation can provide? Does it depend on the circumstances or the kind of business involved? If the usefulness of a corporation depends on circumstances or the kind of business involved, what circumstances would justify using a corporation to operate a business? What kind of business would justify a corporation?

3. Project Planning

• Imagine yourself in a job/firm that does business internationally. Your boss has determined that you will be moving out of the United States for a project assignment for a period of 1 year. Name a country that you would like to work in, and state your reasons for choosing that particular country. Do you feel that you would have difficulty adjusting to the country’s culture? Why, or why not?

• Discuss how you can apply the concepts learned in this course to your current or future career. How might the lessons you have learned positively impact your career success?

4. Business Law..Make sure response is different from #2

• Have you ever had an opportunity to appoint an agent? A power of attorney is an agency in which a principal gives an agent the authority to perform some legal act on behalf of the principal. What should you consider in appointing an agent in a power of attorney?

• The creation of a corporation is usually more formal and technical than the creation of other forms of business organizations, and the operation of a corporation is usually more complex and regulated than other forms of business organizations. Are all of the formalities, technicalities, and regulations worth the benefits that a corporation can provide? Does it depend on the circumstances or the kind of business involved? If the usefulness of a corporation depends on circumstances or the kind of business involved, what circumstances would justify using a corporation to operate a business? What kind of business would justify a corporation?

5. Computer Essentials

• Overhead projectors and transparencies were used before presentation software was developed. Most of the time, graphics were not included, making the presentation boring. PowerPoint is considered a modern-day version of the overhead projector and transparencies. Do you think PowerPoint is the best way to present in front of an audience? Why, or why not?

• Identify a task that you would need to perform in your current career or future career, and explain how you would apply the knowledge you have learned in this course to succeed at performing the task in a real-word scenario.

6. Critical Thinking

• Give an example of rhetoric, and identify the rhetorical devices or tactics used (hyperbole, mode of persuasion, like ethos). Compare and contrast rhetoric with logical argument. Do you use rhetoric? Why, or why not?

• Write down a couple of important conclusions you have come to in your life. What are the premises (reasons) for those conclusions? How has this class helped you to think about your conclusions and the reasoning behind your conclusions? How will you use what this class has taught you to think about the reasoning (behind your conclusions) as you continue to draw conclusions in the future?

7. Macroeconomics

• In the past, comparative advantages have sometimes shifted from one nation to another. What factors do you think caused these shifts? Why? Was there anything a nation could have done to prevent an advantage from shifting to another nation?

• Today we are faced with a fast-moving world. New products are being introduced to the marketplace at a rapid pace, and consumer trends seem to be changing faster. What are the most important factors that have shifted the demand for and supply of goods? Feel free to pick one or more goods to discuss in your response and use economic reasoning to support your response. Imagine that you just paid $50 for a new pair of jeans. According to the circular flow diagram, what decisions were made concerning the jeans you purchased, and who made decisions about the jeans you bought?

• Imagine that you just paid $50 for a new pair of jeans. According to the circular flow diagram, what decisions were made concerning the jeans you purchased, and who made decisions about the jeans you bought?

• Background information: A worker in the United States and a worker in China can each produce 1,000 pairs of jeans per week. A worker in the United States can produce 50 cell phones in a week, and a worker in China can produce 100 cell phones in a week. Answer the following questions based on this information.

Part A: If each country attempted to produce both jeans and cell phones, how many jeans and cell phones could each country produce? What would be the total number of jeans and cell phones produced by the two countries combined? (Show your work.)

Part B: Calculate the opportunity cost of producing jeans for each country. (Show your work.)

Part C: Calculate the opportunity cost of producing cell phones for each country. (Show your work.)

Part D: Determine how many jeans should be produced by each nation. (Show your work).

Part E: If each nation should specialize in producing jeans and cell phones, explain why; use economic terminology you have learned in this unit in your explanation.

Part F: Finally, how many total jeans and cell phones will be produced by the two nations combined after specialization?

8. Health Resources

• Discuss a specific healthcare policy with which you have had personal experience as a practitioner or patient. Give details of how it affected your life, your patient’s life, or the family of those involved. How would you recommend the policy be changed to provide better outcomes for patients?

• Share an example of a healthcare policy that you suspect originated more out of an emotional outcry from the population than a true evidence-based decision-making process. Give some basic background on how the policy came into being, and share your opinion on if it was based on the best data available at the time. What do you think could have been done differently?