Write a paper (1,500-1,750 words) that addresses the case issues, expresses your decisions regarding the case questions, and integrates instructor feedback from your Topic 2 assignment. Your response to each item below should appear as a separate section pf the paper. In your paper, include the following:

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Previously, you located and annotated resources for a segment of a multi-year integrated case study that offers you the opportunity to apply the knowledge gained in the course to a real-world situation. In this assignment, you will read the case study with its supporting information, make business decisions related to the case, and suggest research needs that result from your interaction with the case.

General Requirements:

Use the following information to ensure successful completion of the assignment:

  • Refer to “DBA-8155 Integrated Case Study” located in as an Attachment
  • Refer to the feedback provided by your instructor on your Topic 2 assignment.
  • This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
  • Doctoral learners are required to use APA style for their writing assignments. An abstract is not required.
  • This assignment requires that at least three scholarly research sources related to this topic, and at least one in-text citation from each source be included. Support for decisions should include appropriate current (within the last 3 years) or foundational, peer reviewed, and professional research.

Directions:

Review the information in “DBA-815 Integrated Case Study” located in the Course Add-Ons for this course. This includes narrative information as well as financial and supporting documentation.

Consider the questions presented in the case study, and formulate decisions based on the information and documentation in the case study. Support your decisions with appropriate current (within the last 3 years) or foundational, peer reviewed, and professional research as well as financial analysis including the instructor feedback from your Topic 2 assignment.

Write a paper (1,500-1,750 words) that addresses the case issues, expresses your decisions regarding the case questions, and integrates instructor feedback from your Topic 2 assignment. Your response to each item below should appear as a separate section pf the paper. In your paper, include the following:

  1. A summary of the current economic environment as presented in the case. (Note: Information from the case study does not require a reference note or in-text citation.)
  2. A summary of the business issue, emphasizing the economic concerns, from the case. Integrate specific feedback from your instructor regarding your summary of the organizational structure issue you presented in Module 2.
  3. A review of at least two viable potential resolutions and the supporting research and theory you presented in your Topic 2 assignment. Integrate specific feedback from your instructor regarding the proposed resolutions.
  4. A research-supported discussion of the ethical implications of each option and the extent to which these ethical implications are influenced by the mission, vision, and core values of Purple Cloud. (Reinforces C.2.2: Recognize that values and ethics are fundamental to business success and sustainability.)
  5. Your research-supported recommendation for action chosen from the potential resolutions you described and a rationale for the chosen recommendation. How does the recommended solution influence the long-term organizational health of Purple Cloud? (Reinforces C.2.3: Recommend the application of newly developed or revised theories to specific business opportunities and challenges and C. 2.5: Validate and advance business practice through the appropriate application of business theory.)

What strategy did General Grant ultimately adopt to achieve victory for the Union, and why did he do so? Why was his strategy criticized?

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You will also need to answer two discussion posts for prepared questions addressing larger historical themes. There will be at least five questions to lead the discussion. You must post responses for AT LEAST two, by the deadline in the Tentative Course Calendar. Discussion Post #2 will close on December 5, at 11:59 P.M.

Choose one of the following questions to answer. 

#1. The men who wrote the Constitution did not envision the active and continuing involvement of ordinary citizens in affairs of states. Describe the various ways in which ordinary citizens became involved in political concerns.

#2. Some women worked in mills, relishing the freedom and independence they felt away from the farm for the first time, while others developed a cult of domesticity, thinking themselves free to not have to work outside the home. Compare the meaning of freedom for these two groups of women. Think back to women’s roles in other chapters and compare the role of women during the market revolution with the “republican motherhood” role of women during the American Revolution.

#3. Compare the economic policies of the American System with those of Alexander Hamilton. What was similar? What was different? How do you think Hamilton would have rated presidents like John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson?

#4. Discuss the relationship between masters and slaves in the American South. Did masters have all the power in this relationship, or did the enslaved exert some power? Points to consider include paternalism, the size of slaveholdings, slavery and the law, forms of slave resistance, and labor organization (task and gang systems).

#5. One of the debates within the antislavery crusade was colonization of African-Americans to Africa. Explain the various arguments for and against colonization.

#6. Explain how the various parties reacted to the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Be sure to discuss why the Whig Party failed, why the Democratic Party split, and why the Republican Party unified. How did each party view slavery and define freedom?

#7. What strategy did General Grant ultimately adopt to achieve victory for the Union, and why did he do so? Why was his strategy criticized?

#8. For whites, freedom, no matter how defined, was a given, a birthright to be defended. For African-Americans, it was an open-ended process, a transformation of every aspect of their lives and of the society and culture that had sustained slavery in the first place. Defend or disprove this argument.

These discussion posts need to be a minimum of 500 words. Your grades for discussion posts will be based on your ability to answer the questions, follow directions, make positive contributions to the discussion. Remember that discussion posts are not texts or tweets. Make an assertion and back it up with historical evidence. Be sure you answer the questions being asked, and go beyond repeating and confirming what others have written to provide a positive contribution. Use proper grammar- remember, you are contributing to a college-level class. Because you are required to participate in only two, your recorded scores will be your highest two that you earn.  In other words, if you post discussion answers for more than two questions, you will still have only two scores recorded toward your grade, but those two scores will be your two highest, rather than your first two.

Demonstrate more depth and thought than simply stating that “I agree” or “You are wrong.” Guidance is provided for you in each discussion prompt. 

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For your initial post, organize your revised research questions, current thesis statement, and an outline or checklist of your plan for conducting further research on your topic into a new discussion post. In a few paragraphs, discuss what relevant sources you have identified and the process for accessing those sources.

When responding to your peers, critique their plan and offer suggestions for thinking like a historian. Does their plan suggest that they are thinking about change over time, context, causality, complexity, and contingency?

For your response posts (2), you must do the following: 

  •   Reply to at least two different classmates outside of your own initial post thread.
  •   In Module One, complete the two response posts by Sunday at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time.
  •   In Modules Two through Eight, complete the two response posts by Sunday at 11:59 p.m. of your local time zone.
  •   Demonstrate more depth and thought than simply stating that “I agree” or “You are wrong.” Guidance is provided for you in each discussion prompt. 

classmates Post #1:  

My first research question is: Nelson Mandela became a martyr for 27 years; how did this time help South Africa’s movement towards ending apartheid? My second research question is: After Nelson Mandela’s release from prison in 1990, how did the collaboration of Mandela and President R. W. Klerk aid in the dissolve of South Africa apartheid?

How did President R. W. Klerk change the outcome of South Africa in 1990’s, and lead his country to ending apartheid and freeing of Nelson Mandela?

The question that I am concentrating on is the second one. The thesis statement that I am working on is:  After Nelson Mandela’s release from prison in 1990 by President R. W. Klerk the two gentlemen successfully worked together to find a solution to end the South Africa apartheid and establish a multiracial government.  I have found many primary and secondary resources to help me in my research. These sources are helping me understand the relationship between Nelson Mandela and President Klerk.  The resources are also helping me understand the great gesture and significance of Mandela’s release and what it meant to Mr. Mandela and South Africa.

I have researched many resources using the Shapiro Library.  I have also gained knowledge researching the Nelson Mandela Foundation website https://www.nelsonmandela.org/.  While I knew a little about Nelson Mandela before my research, it has been interesting in learning about President Klerk.  He is a man who came into great power becoming the president of South Africa.  He also took a great risk in saving his country and angering his constituents by taking immediate steps to denounce apartheid. This article really focused on the leap of faith President Klerk took. “The end of apartheid was not inevitable.” Times[London, England], 12 Dec. 2013, p. 18. Infotrac Newsstand, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A352576529/STND?u=nhc_main&sid=STND&xid=d8ff7f95. Accessed 4 Apr. 2019.  I will continue to research articles and books to find out more about how these two gentlemen worked together to unite South Africa.

classmates Post #2: 

My revised research question is, how did the diminishment of the South African Apartheid laws in 1994 affect women rights in South Africa in the past 25 years? My second research question is, what effects did the diminishment of the South African Apartheid law have on children’s education after 1994 in South Africa?  These questions will help me to get to a foundation for my thesis statement. I have to decide which direction I will go with my research and what direction I want to take my research. I have decided on the second research question because I always want to understand the educational system effects on the culture and environment. The schools were segregated under the apartheid laws and many limitations were placed before them that hinder their future. Black children didn’t have the same luxuries as white children. They were faced with limited resources and few teachers. I was amazed to find out they also had to pay for their education while the white children’s education was free. This caused most of the black children to not make it passed the six grade.

My current thesis statement is, South African Apartheid ended in 1994, but the effects on the educational system for blacks remained in disrepair for a decade after apartheid ended.  The new constitution didn’t address the educational system in South Africa to make all colors and ethnicity in South Africa equal.

In the autobiography by Nelson “Long Walk to Freedom”, which is a primary source that I have been reading speaks about his life as a child and what the educational system was like during and after Apartheid. I will continue to research in the World History in Context- Gale to learn more about the South Africa Apartheid and the educational restrains that black and colored people were up against after 1994.

I will read from World History in context and “Elusive Equity: Education Reform in Post- Apartheid South Africa that was written by Edward B. Fiske and Helen F. Ladd 2004, Brookings Institution Press. I looked at the education policy in South Africa and their accounts of the progress that South Africa has made in overcoming inequity in the quality of educational opportunities.

Reference List

Mandela N. Apartheid Has No Future. Vital Speeches of the Day. 1990;56(10):295-297. https://search-ebscohost-com.ezproxy.snhu.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=khh&AN=9004020559&site=eds-live&scope=site. Accessed April 4, 2019.

Van De Walle, N. (2005, January-February). Elusive Equity: Education Reform in Post-Apartheid South Africa. Foreign Affairs, 84(1), 197. Retrieved from http://link.galegroup.com.ezproxy.snhu.edu/apps/doc/A136420829/WHIC?u=nhc_main&sid=WHIC&xid=368a17c7

Reference List

Buckwalter J. Nelson Mandela, Activist, Prisoner, President. Faces. 2006;22(6):6-9. https://search-ebscohost-com.ezproxy.snhu.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=khh&AN=19705753&site=eds-live&scope=site. Accessed April 4, 2019.

Who was Abdul Ghaffar Khan? Had you heard of him before taking this course and, if not, why was that the case? Think big picture here. Where does he fit into the larger history of the 20th century?

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Please read the assigned material for this week before tackling this forum assignment. Then, incorporate what you learn in your answers here, citing what you borrow so that other readers can quickly locate and read your sources and confirm your interpretations.

Remember, the discussions are places for you to show us what you’ve learned and that you’ve mastered the material. If you quote from the book, keep your quotation brief — a phrase or short sentence –, mark it off with quotation marks, and cite the author and page number in a parenthetical citation. Though quotations are encouraged in your answers to clinch a point, your words and analyses matter more.

Back all of your claims (points) with historical evidence — names, dates, and events. Evidence is the heart of history as it is in science and the law. Good students use it.

1. What was the global significance of the of the cold war? Identify 3 significant impacts and discuss at some length.

Please read and view the Working with Evidence section for chapter 21 in Strayer, on the “Poster Art in Mao’s China.” Examine the visual evidence — sources 12-1 to 12-4 — carefully. Seeing is as much a skill as writing or reading well and, like them, is improved with care and discipline. Then answer the following questions, drawing skillfully and effectively on the documents (evidence) to back your claims.

2. Based on these visual sources, how would you describe the kind of society that the Chinese Communist Party sought to create in China during Mao’s lifetime? Note specific things. Also, just as importantly, note what is NOT in the posters. Omissions in the historical record sometimes speak more loudly than what’s presented.

3. Based on the historical narrative of chapter 21 and especially on what happened after Mao’s death, assess the realities that lay behind the visual sources 12.1 through 12.4. To what extent do the posters accurately represent the successes of Maoist communism? What insights do these poster shed on its failures? Are posters useful at all in understanding the past?

4. Who was Abdul Ghaffar Khan? Had you heard of him before taking this course and, if not, why was that the case? Think big picture here. Where does he fit into the larger history of the 20th century?

5. How and why did the anti-colonial struggles in India and South Africa differ? How were they similar? Give two significant differences and similarities and discuss each one separately. Show us you’ve read chapter 22.

6. In the last part of chapter 22, Working with Evidence: Contending for Islam, what issue might arise in a conversation among the five authors represented here, in Sources 22.1 through 22.4? What might be the areas of agreement among the authors? On what points would they probably never agree? Please do your best on this question.