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YOU HAVE TWO PAPER TOPIC CHOICE

S Background for paper topic one: In reading 10.2, George Brenkert analyses a challenging and timely social issue to argue that our current doctrine of strict product liability is inadequate. The issue is harm caused by guns being used in ways that were not intended by the manufacturers (namely to kill or harm innocent people). Here are three facts that make strict product liability rules inadequate in the case of gun deaths, according to Brenkert: 1) The product is not defective 2) It does what it was designed to do 3) It seems unreasonable to blame the harm on any direct negligence on the part of the manufacturers Brenkert outlines a new kind of product liability, which he calls “Social products liability”, to argue that gun makers share some of the moral responsibility or burden for harm caused by guns. Guns are just the product Brenkert examines to justify a theory he feels should apply to a broad group of products. Brenkert is not a lawyer, and he is not sketching out a legal doctrine, but a MORAL one. Nonetheless, were society to adopt his proposal, laws regarding product liability would have to change or expand. Paper topic One Brenkert presents four conditions which he feels are individually necessary and collectively sufficient to assign partial responsibility to gun manufacturers for the unintended harm caused by guns. Pick one or two of these conditions and explore in depth Brenkert’s reasoning behind including them in determining “social product liability.” In your analysis, raise at least one potential complication or objection to the condition(s) you are examining in Brenkert’s argument. Conclude your essay by giving at least one substantial paragraph of your own critique of his overall proposal for expanding our notion of liability to include “social products liability”.

Background for paper topic two: Playgrounds across America have undergone a massive change in the last several decades in response to lawsuits and liability challenges regarding old fashioned playground equipment deemed hazardous. On the surface, this seems like a success story of liability laws leading to the creation of safer products. But what has been lost in the trade-off? Are there some situations or behaviors (in this case, risk-taking behavior by children) we should tolerate, even encourage, as a society, because they lead to other benefits? Can product safety standards come at the expense of other social goods? Paper topic two Base your paper on a discussion of some of the arguments against making playgrounds ever safer, as raised by Hanna Rosin’s article, “The Overprotected Kid” (available online here (Links to an external site.). Also available for download in the files folder of our course). There are a number of directions you could take this, and I am giving you free reign to decide. Reading the article will generate a lot of ideas. Since your paper is only 3-4 pages, do not attempt to cover to much ground. I will reward depth over breadth. Whatever way you choose to approach this topic, you must relate it to the discussion of product liability in your textbook.

You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course. A. Create a business strategy in report format by doing the following:

1. Create an executive summary that includes the following points: • the vision, mission, and value statement of the business • the execution of a strategy • the financial evaluation of the strategy • a conclusion or summary of the business strategy

2. Discuss the vision, mission, and values statement completed in task 2, part A1.

3. Justify the analytical tools used in developing your strategy.

4. Include the detailed SWOT analysis from task 1. 5. Discuss your plan for maintaining competitive advantage. 6. Discuss the implications of competing in international markets. 7. Discuss a diversification strategy that should be considered in your business strategy. 8. Discuss at least one ethical consideration of your strategy. 9. Discuss your planned execution of the strategy. 10. Discuss how you would use ROI (return on investments) and cost-benefit analysis as part of your business strategy. 11. Create a conclusion for your business strategy. B. When you use sources, include all in-text citations and references in APA format.  

Mini-Case 9-2 (Chapter 9)

Exxon Mobil ( XOM) is one of the half- dozen major oil companies in the world. The firm has four primary operating divisions ( upstream, downstream, chemical, and global services) as well as a number of operating companies that it has acquired over the years.

A recent major acquisition was XTO Energy, which was acquired in 2009 for $ 41 billion. The XTO acquisition gave Exxon Mobil a significant presence in the development of domestic unconventional natural gas resources, including the development of shale gas formations, which was booming at the time. Assume that you have just been hired to be an analyst working for ExxonMobil’s chief financial officer.

Your first assignment was to look into the proper cost of capital for use in making corporate investments across the company’s many business units.

a. Would you recommend that Exxon Mobil use a single company- wide cost of capital for analyzing capital expenditures in all its business units? Why or why not? b. If you were to evaluate divisional costs of capital, how would you go about estimating these costs of capital for Exxon Mobil? Discuss how you would approach the problem in terms of how you would evaluate the weights to use for various sources of capital as well as how you would estimate the costs of individual sources of capital for each division.

Business processes and requirements

Produce Role Activity Diagrams for the given scenario. You should produce two distinct models, one of the current (as-is) process, as described, and one to illustrate your suggested revised process (which will incorporate an IT system). Produce Volere templates, UML Use Case diagrams and SysML Requirements diagrams for the given scenario Business briefing document Produce a professional business document briefing the business owner on

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CHAPTER 4 RESULTS & DISCUSSION (2300): INSTRUCTIONS: The results section presents what you found in terms of the raw data, whether from questionnaires, interviews, samples analysed, etc. If the data are extensive, then the results may justify a separate chapter. Where they are not, it is often preferable to combine the results and their analysis in one chapter. Remember that results are raw data only and need to be processed by analysis (e.g. statistical) in order to be interpreted as meaningful information. To aid understanding, it is important that comments accompany figures, graphs and tables. It is not appropriate to discuss or speculate about the findings in this section. Make sure that you do not report analytical procedures that you do not understand! The discussion section puts forward the issues which arise from the detailed findings. These should be compared or contrasted to the general findings or comments from previous work and issues which you looked at in your introduction. The sub-headings in this section may closely follow the themes used to organise the review of the literature. The discussion section will also include some comment on the limitations of the study, e.g., sample size, how representative the sample was, the time period, etc. You should also provide general evaluation of the work, e.g., are there areas which you would tackle differently with hindsight? What are the most surprising findings? CHAPTER 5: CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS (700 WORDS) INSTRUCTIONS: It is important to return to the hypotheses or aims and demonstrate to what extent these have now been addressed. All the various threads of the report should be clearly brought together, but nothing new should be introduced. Leading on from the Conclusions, you will often feel the necessity to make Recommendations. As with Results and Analysis, this section may be combined with Conclusions in one chapter. Recommendations may cover issues such as improved approaches to carrying out the study, further research or steps that could be taken to address problems and issues identified by the study. All recommendations should follow on from the evidence that has been presented in the Report.