Category: Anthropolgy

Pricing strategy varies significantly across different market structures

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Pricing strategy varies significantly across different market structures. The pricing guidelines in a monopoly market are relatively straightforward. Since the company is the only producer offering the product, it can mark-up the price as far as the customer can bear. The pricing strategies for a producer operating in a perfect competition structure are also fairly intuitive. They are price takers, and hence price is set at the marginal cost of the product. This is due to the fact that there are many firms offering nearly identical products. However, there is optimal pricing for the market structures offering differentiated products with many competitors (oligopoly) or a few producers (monopolistic competition). These are much more complex and involved. It has been stated that differentiation in products that creates differences in customer valuation is the most prevalent type of competition. In such markets pricing strategies may include the three C’s of cost, competition, and customer.

Develop a response detailing an analysis of market structures and relating pricing strategies that are suitable for each of these structures. Furthermore, include a real world example of pricing strategy for a specific company by identifying its market structure.

Cover page with a running head
Abstract
1. Perfect Competition
1.1. Description
1.2. Pricing Strategies
2. Monopolistic competition
2.1. Description
2.2. Pricing Strategies
3. Oligopoly
3.1. Description
3.2. Pricing Strategies
4. Monopoly
4.1. Description
4.2. Pricing Strategies
5. Case Study
6. Conclusion

 

Unbowed: One Woman’s Story

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Please discuss Wangari Maathai’s Book “Unbowed: One Woman’s Story” in your group.

Then prepare slides that address the following three themes:
Causes of Environmental Degradation
Maathai, as a biologist with an agricultural family background, saw that deforestation led to less water, decreasing soil productivity, and a devastated local ecosystem. She also saw this problem as rooted in the history of colonialism and the disruption of traditional practices and ideas.
What did Maathai interpret as the causes of this environmental degradation? Do you think she is correct?
Explain your answer by referring to at least one of the “approaches” chapters (chs. 2-8) in the Environmental and Society book. Also refer to ideas in the “Principles of Ecology” section.
Rural Women & The Green Belt Movement
Maathai’s Green Belt Movement was regarded as successful, as evidenced by the Nobel Peace Prize that she received in recognition of her work. She attributes the basis of her movement’s success to her focus on rural women. Why did this focus allow for such a success? Do you think there were other factors?
Refer to at least one specific initiative and analyze it based on concepts from at least least two of the “approaches” chapters (chs. 2-8) in the Environmental and Society book.
You can answer this question in any way you want, but here are a few questions you can think about: What do the protest movements she led to protect forests and watersheds tell us about the link between environmental concerns and democracy? What is the link between authoritarian regimes, education, and gender inequality?
Folktale and Maathai’s Narrative Style
In the appendix of the book, Maathai includes the folktale of “Konyeki and His Father” (297-303). What are the performative significance of her including a story that is, in her memoir, narrated by her aunt?
In your explanation, refer to concepts in Basso’s Wisdom Sits in Places.
You can answer the question above in any way you want, but here are a few questions you can think about as you formulate your answer: What are the parallels of the folktale with the Maathai’s own biography? Why do you think she included the story in full as an appendix, even though she gives us a summary?

 

 

 

Bilingual

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You are a pharmacy student applying for a scholarship. Describe your proficiency in another language (French), other than English, and how being bilingual has helped influence your decision to pursue a career in pharmacy and/or impacted your experience throughout pharmacy school. Provide at least one example when you were able to use this skill to make a positive impact during an experience with a patient

 

 

Structural Integrity of Mid- and High-Rise Wooden Structures

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1)Performed literature review of the design and analysis of mid- and high-rise wood building subjected to extreme loading conditions including
earthquake(SAP2000), wind, and
fire.
2)Developed a state-of-the-art finite element model to capture the effect of earthquake and fire on the structural integrity of wood buildings.
3)Analyzed the data and recommended new guidelines for the design of wood buildings
when subjected to multi-hazard, specifically, fire following earthquakes

Revocation

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Define the following terms:

1. Contract
2. Offer
3. Offeror
4. Offeree
5. Intent
6. Revocation
7. Rejection
8. Termination of offer
9. Acceptance
10. Consideration
11. Defenses to formation
12. Statute of Frauds
13. Conditions
14. Express condition
15. Breach
16. Damages
17. Remedies

 

Producing an effective message encompasses efficient planning and organization

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Producing an effective message encompasses efficient planning and organization and models influential communication. In this task, you will create an effective message by proposing a policy for an organization or community. You will then create a professional, influential, narrated digital multimedia message of your proposed change. For your proposal and presentation, you may select a topic from the list provided or you may use a policy based on your own personal or professional interests.

 

A. Write your presentation plan by doing the following:

1. Describe the audience (organization, community, etc.) you wish to target with your proposed policy and why it should be of concern to your chosen audience.

2. Describe the problem to be solved by the proposed policy.

3. Discuss your proposed policy and how it will affect the chosen audience.

 

B. Present your proposed policy from part A by doing the following:

1. Create a narrated multimedia presentation that meets the following criteria:

• between 2 and 7 minutes in length

• appropriate for the selected audience

• describes the problem to be solved

• proposes the change

• integrates the following principles of multimedia design:

– effective organization

– effective opening and closing

– appropriate choice and placement of relevant visuals

– effective use of vocalics (i.e., pitch, tone, inflection, volume)

The Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

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Please read attachment for full instructions. The novel is the only reference to use.
Objective: Demonstrate the ability to use different ideological perspectives and analyses on the same figure and evaluate this figure through these perspectives.
What does this mean? Show me you can see the world through completely different lenses by analyzing one character several different ways.

The Parable of the Sower is a novel that explores concepts of social Darwinism, dystopia, corruption, greed, corporatism, faith, and survival. It is a novel that presents a chilling look at what happens when the society that we have come to rely upon turns against us. The story lets us look at what happens when society and faith fail, but also how they can be reborn again. This is a novel that actively resists being easily categorized, and each major character can be analyzed in a variety of ways.