Does this global dimension of jeans point to the continuation or waning of US-led Western hegemony with respect to contemporary processes of globalization?

Description Please note that this project has two deliverables – a 12 page research paper and a 12 slide ppt deck 8 to 10 sources need to be used (all material attached) and appropriately cited Please let me know if you need more information Jeans, and its constituent materials and modes of production (e.g. cotton, indigo, systems of weaving, technologies), have been an integral part of process of globalization, both past and present. The ascendance of jeans–their use and ubiquity–index the emergence of capitalist-driven global systems in which the ‘West,’ and the US in particular, figure as hegemonic powers. For this assignment, you will each develop an independent research project examining a global dimension of jeans (consumption) and address the following issues – 1. how this helps you to analyze the US’s role and relative significance in relation to contemporary global processes. 2. Does this global dimension of jeans point to the continuation or waning of US-led Western hegemony with respect to contemporary processes of globalization? 3. Are other geopolitical configurations of globalization are developing? If so, what alternative visions and forms of global relations are developing, and what forms of political-economic and socio-cultural understandings and relations underpin them? 4. What actors are at the forefront of these alternative global forms? Who benefits and who will be at a disadvantage? Final Paper & Presentation General Information: For this assignment you will be responsible for the following: 1. A 15 minute in-class infographic/ visualizing data project presentation (PPT including one infographic and relevant pictures) that will involve a peer-review component taking place Your presentation should outline the argument of your paper and the materials you will be using to support your argument. It should also have 2 questions at the end which encourages the audience to think about the topic more deeply. There will be a 5-minute Q&A period following each presentation where the presenter should pose questions for the class to consider as a whole. 2. A 10-12-page final paper Written Assignment Specifications: -double spaced -12 pt. font -Times New Roman -1 inch margins all around -Use the MLA citation method and this method must be used consistently throughout the paper

Discuss the underlying portfolio theory, determine the efficient frontier, optimal risky portfolio and capital market line.

Assessment Information This assignment is designed to assess learning outcomes: 1. Apply fundamental analysis to determine the advantages of diversification. 2. Work out an optimal portfolio 3. Evaluate the performance of a portfolio. This assignment is an individual assignment. This assignment requires you to write a report dealing with the following task You are required to build your own portfolio using at least six shares identified from FTSE250 constituents. You are required to use monthly data over the last five years(for example from January 2017 to December 2021) using databases such as Quandl.com, Bloomberg, Yahoo Finance or Google Finance to create your portfolio (indicate the database you are using). There is a list of companies attached. Make sure you have at least 60 observations of Discrete or Logarithmic returns for every selected company. The list of potential assets is provided in a separate spreadsheet. Assignment Brief Page 2 of 4 1) Outline in the report the choice of companies you have made in creating these portfolios – provide an explanation and/or justification about why you have chosen the five or more companies for your portfolio construction. 2) Discuss the underlying portfolio theory, determine the efficient frontier, optimal risky portfolio and capital market line. Draw the efficient frontier and the capital allocation line. For the risk-free rate, you can use an average measure of the UK short-term Bond Yield over the same period corresponding with your sample. The data on bond yield is available in https://uk.investing.com/rates-bonds/uk-2-year-bond-yield-historical-data  You are required to submit both your Word report and Excel calculations.  We will only mark your report, but the submission of both files is mandatory. 3) In relation to the concept and theory of portfolio diversification, calculate the relevant performance evaluation measures and interpret your findings. Provide recommendations based on the academic literature about effective strategies to use for the enhancement of risk-return performance of your portfolio. Criteria for Assessment The marking criteria are indicative to the elements that one might wish to address in your report. 1. Selection of assets & portfolio allocation must be clearly stated. (10%) 2. Modern portfolio theory and relevant concepts should be applied, discussed and explained. (15%) 3. Stocks and portfolio statistics. Calculations and formula. (30%) 4. Interpretation of findings and recommendations. (35%) 5. Conclusion, Presentation and Reference. (10%) Marks will be given for clear explanations of each step and element of your decisions in your report. Justification for each assumption and decision is encouraged. The calculations, code orspreadsheet could be appended to the back of the document. This does not count in the word count. You should look to demonstrate your understanding of the concept of portfolio construction, risk and associated concepts along with the limitations of such an approach.

What target market can be perceived by current messaging for the product/service? 

Purpose

The purpose of this assignment is to apply segmentation and targeting techniques to potential new subsets for a marketing campaign. This connects to course learning outcomes of constructing market segments of target customers for a product or service.

Assignment Task Overview

For this assignment, you will assume the role of a marketing analyst. Your consulting firm has been hired to help with a campaign effort for the client company of your selected product/service. You will communicate your results in a professional memorandum.

There are three steps to this assignment. Review all three steps before you begin.

Step 1: Refer to the product/service you chose for your Value Proposition Assignment.  

• The product/service you chose for the Value Proposition Assignment in Week 2 will be the subject of this assignment.
• Review any feedback you received on your Value Proposition memo. You will be writing a longer, more detailed memo about the same product/service for this assignment.
• Follow the specific instructions outlined in Steps 2 and 3 below.

Step 2: Respond to each of the following questions as they relate to your product/service. Note the research and references requirement.  

• Your market segmentation memo will have three major sections.
• Respond to all the questions in each section.
• Your memo also must meet the research and references requirement in Step 3.

1. Market Segment Analysis  
2. Determine and describe the current primary segment. The client has an interesting question. What target market can be perceived by current messaging for the product/service? Visit the public website for your company’s product/service. Based on the information available and any other publicly available information, infer the primary target market based on the messaging you find.
3. Describe the primary segment you believe your company is targeting for this product/service. Focus only on this product/service (e.g., for Disney+, focus on just the streaming service, not the parks or other Disney offerings).
4. Describe the primary segment in terms of the behavioral, demographic, and psychographic characteristics for the segment. Give this segment an appropriate name. See, Segmenting and Targeting Markets and Customersin Learning Resources.

• Classify the primary segment according to one of the VALS types discussed in the Segmenting and Targeting Markets and CustomersLearning Resource.

1. New Market Segments  
2. Construct new segments. Your client company is interested in diversifying and building its target customer base for this product/service in the US market. Who is currently being underserved or overlooked? Who could be better served by being addressed directly?
3. Construct and describe two new potential segments or subsegments for your company to target for this product/service for the US market. Describe each new segment in terms of its behavioral, demographic, and psychographic characteristics. Give each segment an appropriate name. Follow steps 1-4 of the process described in the Selecting Target MarketsLearning Resource. Begin by identifying the customer need for this product/service. Then, break the market down into subgroups. Develop profiles of target segments. Do some secondary research on your two segments. Note: You will not need to develop a full research plan or conduct primary research for this assignment.
4. Of the two potential segments or subsegments you have created, which of the two has greater market potential for your company to target? Why?

• Classify your new segment or subsegment according to one of the VALS types discussed in the Segmenting and Targeting Markets and CustomersLearning Resource.

III. Recommendation  

1. Present the best new segment or subsegment. What is the new segment or subsegment you recommend your company target for its product/service?
2. Create a simple customer persona to present your new segment and illustrate that segment in a table with the following fields and information relevant to the product/service: [segment name] [representative photo] [demographic] [background] [needs] [goals] [challenges] [perceptions] [motivations] [VALS type] See customer persona example here: 3 Examples of a Customer Persona – Simplicable
3. Any product changes needed by this segment or subsegment? Are any product/service changes required to serve the segment you have identified? If so, what are they?

• How attractive/valuable is this segment or subsegment? Based on your research, is the segment you have identified attractive enough to justify an extended marketing campaign for your company? Or, should the campaign be one of more limited duration? Why?

Step 3: Format your submission to comply with these requirements.  

Communicate your case analysis results in a Microsoft Word document formatted as a professional memorandum. Your memo will be longer than a typical one-page memo.

• Here is a sample professional memo: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/subject_specific_writing/professional_technical_writing/memos/sample_memo.html
• Here is a tutorial on writing a professional memo: memo (umgc.edu)

Address your memo to Vice President of Marketing Tiffany Morrow. Assume Ms. Morrow is your boss at a fictional consulting firm called “Destiny Marketing.” The memo is from you, and your role is a marketing analyst at Destiny Marketing. This memo is regarding the company, which is your client, and the client’s product/service. Your memo will communicate to Ms. Morrow your analysis. All questions in Step 2 must be included in your memo. A memo does not have a cover page.

Research and References Requirement 

• All statements of fact within the memo must be supported by a credible source, and that source must be cited using APA in-text citations. See, Is My Source Credible?
• Include a list of your sources in APA format. The reference list is required and should appear at the end of the memo in the space where attachments are normally found. [insert source for APA reference list format here.

make a proposal for your city government about improvements in programs/facilities for the elderly to promote physical fitness.

Description A tremendous amount of research that points to the importance of exercise for successful aging is available today. This project allows you to see if this message is getting out to the public. For this project, investigate the physical fitness programs available for elderly people in your community. Call or visit the websites of any senior centers in your area to find out what programs are available. You can also research local gyms to see if any special programs are available for elderly people. Then, interview four people, one in each of the following age groups: twenties, forties, sixties, and over-seventies; then ask them the following questions: How often do you exercise? What types of exercise do you regularly engage in? 3/30/2022 Writers Hub – Freelance Writing https://www.writershub.org/writer/orders/849968#instructions 2/2 Do you typically exercise alone or with other people? How long have you been regularly exercising? How long do you plan to regularly exercise in the future? Why do you exercise? After completing the interviews, compare and contrast the answers given by people in the different age groups. Write a report summarizing your findings and indicating how well the message about the benefits of exercise for successful aging has been received in your community. Finally, make a proposal for your city government about improvements in programs/facilities for the elderly to promote physical fitness. Make sure to conduct a literature review to see what strategies work best.

What are the key actions you will implement to relieve employee stress and improve job satisfaction?

Assessment 3: Implementation plan

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Overview

Length: 2000 words (+/-10%)

Using the same organisation as you did in Assessment 2, you will now assume the role of a senior manager within the organisation. In this assessment, five months after the CEO provided their key recommendations, 50 percent of tenured consultants had resigned, in addition, 60 percent of new recruits resigned within their first year of working at the organisation. The organisation is no longer an attractive place to work at.

The CEO has approached you as the senior manager who is best placed to address employees’ workplace emotions, attitudes and stress. For this assessment, you will need to refer back to the simple, complex and wicked problems that you identified in Assessment 2.

You are now tasked with developing trusting relationships with followers because your organisation has become less stable and predictable.

This assessment supports unit learning outcomes 4 and 5.

Task

1. Referring back to Assessment 2, explain how the simple, complex and wicked problems are affecting employee’s emotions, attitudes and subsequent behaviours. (500 words)
2. Make an argument for the immediate changes should you make to improve staff engagement and motivation in your organisation? (500 words)
3. Articulate how you will create strong bonds of trust to replace bureaucratic rules in defining expectations and relationships. (500 words)
4. What are the key actions you will implement to relieve employee stress and improve job satisfaction? Create a timeline with actions to implement at the 6, 12 and 18 month marks to prevent similar problems from arising in the future. (500 words)

In no more than 1000 words, please explain your views concerning the effectiveness of ASIC as a corporate regulator and enforcer of the Corporations Act 2001.

QUESTION 1

The Hayne Royal Commission was critical of the role of industry regulators, ASIC and APRA. In the Commission’s Final Report (https://financialservices.royalcommission.gov.au/Pages/reports.aspx), Hayne argued that ASIC’s enforcement culture needed to change.

In no more than 1000 words, please explain your views concerning the effectiveness of ASIC as a corporate regulator and enforcer of the Corporations Act 2001. Your answer should carefully consider the enforcement methods available to ASIC under the Act and may take into consideration additional resources, especially relevant legal academic journal articles and case law. (20 marks).

QUESTION 2

Lew is the managing director and major shareholder of Fruitiest Fruit Ltd. (FF) a company that sources and sells gourmet preserved fruits. During his recent holidays, Lew attended a food festival where he met up with other food producers and manufacturers, including Alice. Alice has a range of orchards and specialises in growing cherries and blueberries. She approached Lew and asked him if he would help her market her new line of frozen cherries and berries. Lew told her that FF would not be interested as they had shown only vague interest in diversifying into frozen fruits in the past. However, Lew suggested that he and Alice form a private company and nominate themselves as directors, and Alice agrees. They set up a company called Beny Good Berries Pty. Ltd. (BGB) and have considerable success.

Ten months later, at a Board meeting of FF, Lew proposes that FF enter into a long term contract with BGB, marketing their products. Lew convinces the board that diversifying into frozen foods would be good for FF, and the Board voted in agreement. Sales progress well. Lew never disclosed that he is a shareholder or director at BGB.

Later the Board of FF is surprised to discover that Lew is the majority shareholder and a director of BGB and they think they should take some action against Lew, but they are notsure what to do and what they could achieve.

Using relevant legislation and case examples to support your arguments, discuss whether or not the board of FF has any reason to take legal action against Lew and if they are likely to be successful if they do. (20 marks).

What is ‘hot tubbing’

1. [5 marks] Consider Bushfire Survivors for Climate Action Inc v Environmental Protection Authority [2021] NSWLEC 92

Outline the:

1. Relevant facts
2. Issue(s)
3. Relevant Finding(s)
4. Decision
5. Relevance to planning law in NSW.

2. [5 marks] Consider Peabody Pastoral Holdings Pty Ltd v Mid-Western Regional Council [2013] NSWLEC 86

Outline the:

1. Relevant facts
2. Issue(s)
3. Decision
4. Relevance to planning law in NSW

3. [5 marks] Consider Queanbeyan City Council v ACTEW Corporation Ltd [2011] HCA 40

Outline the:

1. Relevant facts
2. Issue(s)
3. Decision
4. What the numerous interventions indicate.

4. 4. [10 marks] The Hickman Principle
5. With regard to the Hickman Principle or Hickman Approach (Hickman):

• What is the common law origin of this?
• What are the key elements?

[5 marks]

1. b) What relevance does Hickman have to local government and planning law in Australia?

Identify as examples at least two statutory references

[5 marks]

5. [15 marks] Consider:

• Alison Ziller, The New South Wales Joint Expert Report Policy – reflections of an SIA practitioner (2016) 21 LGLJ 149
• ABC Radio National, Law Report, Hot tubbing, 5 May 2009,

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/lawreport/hot-tubbing/3137260#transcript

1. Outline what is a ‘doorstop SIA’

Students need to identify:

• The statutory basis for ‘SIA’
• The reason for the use of ‘doorstop’

[1.5 marks]

1. What is a ‘JERP’

[1.5 marks]

1. What is ‘hot tubbing’

[2.0 marks]

1. d) Critically evaluate the use of JERPS and hot tubbing in assisting the NSWLEC to resolve planning disputes

Students need to identify:

• how and when in the legal process the above procedures come into play
• the advantages and disadvantages of these procedures

[10 marks]

Design, analyse and report a qualitative research project and illustrate its relevance to an area of individual differences.

On successful completion of this assessment and this module, you will have demonstrated your ability to:

1. Design, analyse and report a qualitative research project and illustrate its relevance to an area of individual differences.

2. Outline a future career plan and evaluate the skills developed during their psychological studies in relation to this plan.

Key dates and details

Description of Assessment

For this assessment, you will need to reflect on your degree experience so far and reflect on your skills in terms of strengths, weaknesses and opportunities and consider how these link to your career route/goal.

Content and detailed guidance

Your reflective essay is designed to address your personal development across your degree programme. Within this summary you will explore the requirements of your planned career route or how you will make use of your degree in your current role. You will also reflect on the skills you have developed during your time on the programme and evaluate what skills you may need to develop to progress in your degree or career route.

For this essay, you may find it useful to identify a job/further education, that you would be interested in progressing to within psychology; or you could also focus on your current role and how your degree impacts this, to guide your reflection. We recommend that you consider your strengths, weaknesses and opportunities to analyse your academic skills in psychology and how they apply to your progression or current role. It is recommended that you include the following in your reflective essay:

• up to two strengths
• up to two weaknesses
• up to two opportunities

Unlike your other assessments, you can write in first person in your essay where appropriate. You should also aim to use wider literature to support your reflection, for example, this may include referring to relevant professional body documents or skill-based literature.

To help you with this assessment, you are encouraged to speak to your personal tutor about your skill development and career plans. You may also speak with your module tutor about your skill development. We would recommend speaking to other students about their plans and reflecting on these in light of your own goals.

Write a 2000-word essay in which you discuss and critically evaluate an appropriate research methodology and method[s] to investigate the topic of “consumer behaviour and incentives to encourage the use of reusable containers” for Starbucks.

Description

Write a 2000-word essay in which you discuss and critically evaluate an appropriate research methodology and method[s] to investigate the topic of “consumer behaviour and incentives to encourage the use of reusable containers” for Starbucks.

What is a Jihadist network?

Instructions

In this assignment, you will write an essay that examines the rise of one of the Jihadist networks to include: ISIS, Boko Haram, and Al Qaeda. You will research that group’s background, recruitment tactics, and targets. Additionally, you will reflect on one recent attack from the past 5 years from your selected group  Answer the following questions in your essay.

• What is a Jihadist network?
• Where does your selected group primarily operate? (Cite specific geographic locations such as country, region, and/or province.)
• What are the psychological and primary motivators for your selected group?
• What are the psychological and primary motivators for your selected group, and what sociological impacts exist?
• What are the organization’s targets? How are they chosen?
• What has the United Nations (UN) done to counter the terrorist organization? Are these efforts effective?

Your completed essay should be a minimum of two pages in length, not counting the title and reference pages. You are required to use at least one outside source. All sources used, including the textbook, must be cited and referenced according to APA 7th edition guidelines.