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

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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.)
  6. A discussion of future research that you could conduct relative to these issues.

Provide an analysis of the significance of stoicism in Roman culture AND the spread of the Roman Empire?

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 Choose three of the following questions and write a 150-350 word response to each question (points deducted for not meeting word count requirements).  Include the question at the top of your response. Put all responses into one document – in other words don’t submit the assignment multiple times, once for each response.  Remember – you MUST put information in your own words (this includes information from your text book and online sources) or it is considered plagiarism and you will receive a score of 1 on the assignment.

 

SELECT THREE below

  1. Name at least three ways of how the Roman Coliseum reflected Roman culture. (Do not just provide a description of the Coliseum.)

2. Provide an analysis of the significance of stoicism in Roman culture AND the spread of the Roman Empire?

3. How does Roman art and architecture differ from Greek art and architecture?  Provide at least 2 examples of Roman art AND 2 examples of Greek art with an analysis of how they compare to each other.

4. On the internet, find a copy and read Juvenal Against Women.  What is he talking about?  How is this an example of the new literary form of satire?

5. Look at Trajan’s Victory Column and the statue of Marcus Aurelius.  How do these reflect the culture of the Romans?

6. Name at least TWO monumental Roman architectural works. How does monumental Roman architecture serve as propaganda for the Roman Empire?

Design Basics Used to Create Balance

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Design Basics Used to Create Balance

The Chinese have a theory that you pass through boredom into fascination and I think it’s true. I would never choose a subject for what it means to me or what I think about it. You’ve just got to choose a subject, and what you feel about it, what it means, begins to unfold if you just plain choose a subject and do it enough.
––Diane Arbus

Diane Arbus was a highly original photographer who has greatly influenced the course of contemporary photography. In her Photography: A Cultural History (2002), Mary Warner Marien writes:

Arbus turned normalcy on its head, making the ordinary bizarre and naturalizing the unusual. In her photographs of people, many of them made while she roamed the streets of New York, clothes and cosmetics are futile efforts to camouflage psychic emptiness or damage. When Arbus photographed children, she revealed them as little versions of bad-tempered, mean-spirited adults. […] On the other hand, her photographs of people at the margins of society, such as female impersonators, show them to be more virtuous for having unmasked their subjective inclinations. For Arbus, marginal people were symbols for her own psychological fragility and trauma (p. 352).

The thematic power of Arbus’s work is based on the masterful composition of her subject matter, balancing key elements within a square frame format, which is uniquely identified with her mature style.

To prepare for this Discussion:

  • Review Chapters 2 and 3 in your course text, The Photographer’s Eye.
  • Review Diane Arbus’s photograph, Child with Toy Hand Grenade, 1962.
  • Review the websites from this week’s Learning Resources for more inspiration and examples of photographs.
  • Consider the following questions regarding the Arbus photograph:
    • How does the use of a square frame impact the balance of the photograph?
    • What elements contribute to the balance of the photograph presented here? Would you say this is a balanced photograph? Explain your response.
    • Does this composition draw your eyes more to the center of the frame or more to the edges? Give evidence for your response.
    • How does the photograph demonstrate contrast, tension, rhythm, and/or depth?
    • How does the subject of the photograph relate to the background?
    • How is perspective created in the photograph?
    • Is the photograph more weighted toward information or emotion? Explain your response.
  • While considering the questions above, compare the assigned photograph with Arbus’s 1967 photograph, Identical Twins, Roselle, N.J., 1967. Explain how these photographs differ and how they are similar.

With these thoughts in mind:

Post by Day 3 a response that addresses three of the questions. Analyze how Arbus uses placement to create or disrupt a sense of balance in her composition. (Approximately 250 words).

In your post, be sure to:

  • Refer to one specific example from your course reading.

Be sure to support your ideas by connecting them to the week’s Learning Resources, or something you have read, heard, seen, or experienced.

Read a selection of your colleagues’ postings.

Respond by Day 5 to at least two of your colleagues’ postings that contain a perspective other than yours.

  • Explain how your colleagues’ perspectives can either:
    • Align with or complement your perspective.

      or

    • Contrast with or be in opposition to your perspective.

     

    Resources:

    Required Resources

    Readings
  • Freeman, M. (2013). The photographer’s eye: Graphic guide: Instantly understand composition & design for better digital photos.Burlington, MA: Focal Press.
    • Chapter 2, “Placing” (pp. 30–47)
    • Chapter 3, “Dividing” (pp. 48–61)

      In these chapters, you will learn about different aspects of color photography, including the uses of rich color, pastel hues, muted color, contrast, and accent, and the relationship between color and theme.

  • Expert Photography. (2015). Balance in composition: Everything you need to know. Retrieved from http://expertphotography.com/basic-composition-techniques-balance/
  • Garrison, T. (n.d.). Visual balance—means taking another look. Retrieved from http://www.picturecorrect.com/tips/visual-balance-in-photography/

    On this website, Garrison explains the difference between formal balance and informal balance.

  • Gumport, E. (2011). The long exposure of Francesca Woodman. The New York Review of Books. Retrieved from http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2011/jan/24/long-exposure-francesca-woodman/

    This resource focuses on the eerie quality to the black and white art of a young photographer on the 30th anniversary of her death.

  • Oppenheimer, D. (n.d.). Diane Arbus. Retrieved from http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/arbus.html

    This website provides a biography of well-known New York photographer Diane Arbus.

The following websites comprise galleries that allow you to experience the fundamental elements of photographic art.

  • Arbus, D. (1962). Child with toy hand grenade, 1962. Retrieved from http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/2001.474
  • Arbus, D. (1967). Identical twins, Roselle, New Jersey, 1967. The photography of Diane Arbus. Retrieved from http://photography-now.net/diane_arbus/index.html
  • Benjamin Krain, photojournalist. (2005). Retrieved from http://www.benjaminkrain.com/
  • Sherman, C. (1997). Cindy Sherman: The complete untitled film stills. Retrieved from http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/1997/sherman/

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What are some of the various themes and enigmas found in Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights? Name at least 3 examples of symbolism used by Bosch. What do you think of Bosch’s work?

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Choose three of the following questions and write a 150-350 word response to each question (points deducted for not meeting word count requirements).  Include the question at the top of your response. Put all responses into one document – in other words don’t submit the assignment multiple times, once for each response.  Remember – you MUST put information in your own words (this includes information from your text book and online sources) or it is considered plagiarism and you will receive a score of 1 on the assignment.

 

SELECT THREE below

1. What affect did Protestantism have on the Art AND Music of northern Europe? Give at least one specific example for BOTH art and music.

2. Look on the internet and find some words and phrases that Shakespeare added to the English language.  What are some of these words and phrases? Why would these “made-up” words and phrases from over 500 years ago be in our everyday language today?

3. Name at least 3 examples of the heightened realism presented in van Eyck’s Arnolfini portrait?  Name at least 3 examples of symbolism in the picture.

4. What are some of the various themes and enigmas found in Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights? Name at least 3 examples of symbolism used by Bosch. What do you think of Bosch’s work?

5. Name at least 3 unique features of Durer’s style?  What did he learn from Italian art?

6. What effect did the printing press have on Renaissance culture?