Read the article entitled, Email etiquette: Tips for professional email (LINK BELOW), then write a paper about your thoughts on this article. In your paper, be sure to also address the following:

• Argue for or against the article’s tips on email etiquette being helpful.
• Criticize at least one of the article’s tips on email etiquette.
• Explain how one or more of the article’s tips on email etiquette will be adapted into your computer-mediated communication.

Please make sure to reference the article and at least one other article in your paper. This can be your textbook, one of the recommended articles, or another article that you have located.

The paper must be two pages in length (excluding title and reference pages) and formatted according to APA style. Cite your resources in text and on the reference page. For information regarding APA samples and tutorials,

http://careerplanning.about.com/od/communication/a/email_etiquette.htm

• Assignment 1: Not All Companies Are Viewed as Equal

  Due Week 4 and worth 175 points

  In the land of free trade, the public does not view all industries as equal. Do you believe that is ethical? Do you believe that some industries are unfairly targeted? Should it be consumers’ choice to partake in products that are not healthy for them, or do those companies have an ethical obligation to protect people? In this assignment, you will choose one (1) industry to write about. Possible industries to research could be tobacco, soda, alcohol, casinos, or candy companies, just to name a few.

  Write a one and a half to two (1½ – 2) page paper in which you:

  1. Become an advocate for either the consumer or the industry. Prepare an argument explaining the major reasons why you support either the consumer or the industry.
  2. Explain the role capitalism plays in corporate decision making.
  3. Discuss if you believe it is possible for a company to cater to both its best interest and that of the consumer conjointly or if one always has to prevail. Justify your response.
  4. Use at least two (2) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as academic resources.
  5. Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
     1. Typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
     2. Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, your name, your professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
     3. Include a reference page. Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.

  The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

  • Determine the considerations for and process of ethical business decision making to balance corporate and social responsibilities, and address moral, economic, and legal concerns.
  • Analyze selected business situations using the predominant ethical theories, such as utilitarian, Kantian, and virtue ethics to guide ethical business decision making.
  • Use technology and information resources to research issues in business ethics.
  • Write clearly and concisely about business ethics using proper writing mechanics.

  Click here to view the grading rubric.

   

Assignment is due on saturday January 30th at 12pm eastern time.

APA Format

Option #1: Paper

Select one of the following ethical issues in healthcare from the following choices:

• Gender selection in human embryos
• Stem cell transplants
• Foregoing curative medical treatment due to religious beliefs
• Futility of care
• Abortion after six months.

Select Internet sources to conduct research on your chosen topic. Based on your research, provide the history of the issue from a legal, ethical, and moral perspective. In your paper address the following questions:

1. Do the consequences of actions always direct what is morally required?
2. What should happen when two principles come into conflict? For example, should patient autonomy be considered more important than beneficence? Defend your position.
3. Are moral and ethically rules always binding, or are they only guidelines to be assessed in each case? Defend your position.

Your paper should meet the following requirements:

• Be ten to twelve pages in length, not including the cover or reference pages.
• Be formatted in APA
• Provide support for your statements with in-text citations from a minimum of eight scholarly references – four of these references must be from outside sources and four may be from course readings, lectures, and textbooks.
• Utilize headings to organize the content in your work.

“Shakespeare” Please respond to the following, using sources under the Explore heading as the basis of your response:

• Discuss your reaction to the character of Hamlet in the two (2) soliloquies from the text. Consider the extent to which you sympathize with him and / or think he is self-absorbed. Explain the manner in which the literary form of soliloquy shapes your view of Hamlet.
• Identify one (1) or two (2) lines (except “To be, or not to be”) that you find interesting or favor, and explain your choice.
• Pretend you are a modern leader or celebrity facing personal crisis, such as Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Mandela, Hillary Clinton, Bill Gates, Beyoncé, or some other; write a few lines of soliloquy, thinking aloud in front of the audience. (No need to sound Shakespearean).

APA Style Length: 3-4 pages (body of paper) 

You are a financial analyst for the CMC Corporation. This corporation predicts changes in the economy, such as interest rates, retail trends, and unemployment. Your job is to educate incoming analyst on the terminology, definitions, and uses of interest rate theories, yield curves, and predictions. In your next training session, you will cover major theories that have been developed to explain resulting yield curves and the term structure of interest rates. Prepare a training guide with the following:

1. Define and compare the following theories: expectations theory, liquidity theory, market segmentation theory, and preferred habitat hypothesis theory.
2. In 2–3 pages, explain how each of the above theories explain changes in the economy.
3. Provide examples for each, and be sure to use and properly cite scholarly sources.