Rhinoceros Play

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ESSAY QUESTION

Consider the following passage from the play Rhinoceros:
JEAN: Instead of squandering all your spare money on drink, isnt it better to buy a ticket for an interesting play? Do you know anything about the avant-garde theatre theres so much to talk about? Have you seen Ionescos plays?

BERENGER: Unfortunately, no. Ive only heard people talk about them. JEAN: Theres one playing now. Take advantage of it.

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QUESTION: Explain the significance of this dialogue to the play as a whole and to life and society in general (as you yourself experience them.) Make sure to keep your eye on the passage as you consider your response.

How to Use Social Media to Promote Reputation

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How to Use Social Media to Promote Reputation

Read the article, “Reputation Warfare” by Leslie Gaines-Ross posted on SuCourse and look at those six tactics she lays out in it, and think about automobile, hotels and banks.
For each of these three sectors,
1)    Which of these tactics work the best to manage and better defend your reputation in the world of social media, which tactic do you think is the most helpful or useful immediately to your business? And how might you apply it?
2)    What do you think would be the opportunity, and how would you pursue that?
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You can justify your arguments by providing real life examples.

Timmco case study

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Timmco Case Study

Timmco, Inc. is a publicly traded corporation located in Denton, Texas that makes and sells high pressure industrial spraying equipment used in all sorts of commercial liquid spraying applications. It prides itself on top quality and promotes its products as 100% made in the USA.

Sales have been declining recently due to competition from lower priced competitors and Timmco is looking for ways to reduce costs. One option under consideration is to find a new source for the high-pressure valves used in its products. These valves are complicated mechanisms that operate under very high internal pressure. If the valve was to burst, it would spray pieces of metal in all directions and pose a significant hazard to anyone standing nearby including the operator of the equipment. Timmco currently has a contract to purchase 1,000 valves a year at $2,500 per valve from Blagg Industries, a small privately owned business located in Boone, North Carolina. The contract has been in place for three years and has two more years to run.

Blagg Industries has a dozen employees. Timmco is its primary customer. If Blagg Industries loses Timmcos business, it will have to lay off employees and might even go out of business.

Timmco is considering outsourcing the valves from Sanco, an overseas supplier in the country of Slawrovia, instead of buying valves from Blagg Industries. The Sanco valves only cost $1,000 each, but are known to be of lower quality than the Blagg Industries valves and are more likely to burst. Sanco can supply these valves at such low cost because they pay their workers, including children, less than the equivalent of $5 per day and work them long hours in hot, dangerous conditions.

Slawrovia is a poor country, but it has a large government bureaucracy and there is a lot of red tape involved in getting approval to export manufactured goods to other countries. In fact, it might take more than a year for Sanco and Timmco to obtain the necessary approvals for Sanco to export the valves to Timmco. Fortunately, the CEO of Sanco is related to the Slawrovia Minister of Commerce and has told Timmco that the necessary approvals can be obtained in less than a week if Timmco makes a $20,000 gift to the Slawrovia Minister of Commerce.

In addition to finding a new, low cost valve supplier, Timmco plans to increase sales by running a new marketing campaign that focuses on their commitment to American made quality. The tagline will be Made in the USA by Americans, for Americans.

You are a high-level executive at Timmco. Analyze the legal and ethical issues presented by the Timmco scenario. Your legal and ethical analysis should include breach of contract and remedies, negligent torts, product liability, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and deceptive advertising and should incorporate a discussion and application of one or more of the ethical theories from Chapter 4 of the course textbook Business law: The Ethical, Global, and E-Commerce Environment.

Your legal and ethical analysis should,

Analyze breach of contract and remedies
Analyze negligent torts
Analyze product liability
Analyze the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
Analyze deceptive advertising
Incorporate a discussion and application of one or more of the ethical theories from Chapter 4 of the course textbook Business Law: The Ethical, Global, and E-Commerce Environment.

Benchmark Assignment: Emergency Operations Plan

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Communities create Emergency Operations Plans for the purpose of protecting the community during the response and recovery efforts of a disaster. Once an Emergency Operations Plan is implemented, stakeholders unite to assess damage and respond accordingly. They must consider details of the disaster and damage generated by the disaster to determine immediate needs or threats.
Possible factors to consider are:

What happened?
Has the federal government officially declared it a disaster?
Have people been affected?
Has property been affected?
What equipment or support do first responders require?

This assignment evaluates the community needs to fully recover from a disaster. Continue using the disaster you used from Topic 1. The initial step in recovering from a disaster is damage assessment. This includes both people and property. At the completion of an assessment, the emergency managers have a better idea of required response efforts and additional assistance needs to reestablish the community. Focus your attention on the critical services and infrastructures in the community that require attention in order to rebuild and prepare for normal function. This consists of residential homes, businesses, and government buildings.

Critical Infrastructures

Identify all the infrastructures in the community affected by the disaster. Prioritize these by most critical to the recovery of the community. Use the Critical Infrastructure Assessment matrix to organize the information essential to this assignment. You must use this template or create your own visual representation of the infrastructure damage. Identify three major services or infrastructures damaged by the disaster. Determine the extent of damage, the recovery efforts by the emergency responders to repair the services or structures, and any challenges the community developed during the recovery efforts of the identified services or structures.

Sheltering

Sheltering is the relocation of residents during and after a disaster hits a community. The purpose of sheltering is to find a safe place for residents and responders to live; whether short-term or long-term, until the community is deemed safe again. Evaluate the community associated with the disaster you have researched. Was an evacuation required for residents in the community? What areas or structures were used to shelter people affected by the disaster? Was there one central sheltering location for all people affected, or did the community utilize multiple sheltering options?

Community Assessment

– In a summary (1,250-1,500 words), discuss the assessment of the community during response and recovery efforts. Determine infrastructures affected and sheltering options provided during response efforts. Your summary must include the following:

– Briefly describe the critical infrastructures and services affected by the disaster. What role did these structures have in the community prior to the disaster?
– What recovery efforts were required to reestablish the infrastructures and services in the aftermath of the disaster? What challenges occurred in rebuilding the communities operations and damaged structures?
– Did the community require evacuation or sheltering during the response and recovery efforts? How prepared was the community to shelter residents and responders of the community?

What sheltering types were used during recovery? Were they effective in maintaining a safe environment for all members affected?

Discuss the community’s effectiveness in applying an all hazards approach to dealing with the disaster during each phase of emergency management. Discuss additional strategies that could have been employed to better address the disaster.