For this week’s Assignment, you will create an Annotated Bibliography to evaluate the brain research involving language development. You can use the Unit_2_Annotated_Bibliography_Template.docx template in Course Documents to complete this Assignment. If you need additional information on writing an Annotated Bibliography, visit the KU Writing Center.

Your Annotated Bibliography will evaluate three articles.

For the first article, you will use the Early Language Acquisition article by Dr. Kuhl. In addition to the summary, this paragraph will contain an evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of this research. Finally, provide a comprehensive description of the research and the significance of the data.

Kuhl, P. K. (2004). Early language acquisition: cracking the speech code. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 5(11), 831 –843.

You will need to look for two additional articles that discuss the research on the brain and language development. It should not be another article from Dr. Kuhl’s work. However, in both articles, you will need to summarize the sources and provide an evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of the research discussed in both articles. You should provide a comprehensive description of the research and significance of the data from each article.

Assignment Guidelines

Before submitting your Annotated Bibliography for a grade, you will want to double check the Unit 2 rubric in the Syllabus and make sure that you have the following:

Each essay should include:

• A title page with identifying information
• The body of the essay (3 complete paragraphs)
• A reference page
• Use standard margins: 1″ on all sides
• Use standard 12-point font size, Times New Roman or Arial
• Use standard double-spacing
• Use left-aligned text, do not right-justify

Your essay should follow the conventions of APA style. You must demonstrate college-level communication through the composition of original materials in Standard American English.

Purpose of Assignment

The Week 4 individual assignment is the second part of a three part strategic management plan for the company selected by the student in Week 3. The purpose of the assignment is for students to establish long-term goals and objectives; indicate, specify and discuss strategies; and investigate, consider and describe specific business strategies including vertical integration and strategic alliances, to achieve competitive advantage in the industry. The student also generates an appropriate organizational chart in alignment with the stated strategies.

Weeks 3, 4, and 5 Individual Assignments are integrated to generate a Strategic Management Plan. This is Part 2 of the three part Strategic Management Plan.

Assignment Steps

Write a 1,050-word report on the company you selected in Week 3, following up on the Individual Assignment of Week 3 (Environmental Scanning), and address the following:

• Establish Long-term Goals and Objectives
  • Strategy Formulation.
  • Indicate the markets that the company will pursue.
  • Specify the unique value the company will offer in the selected markets.
  • Discuss the resources and capabilities that are required.
  • Analyze how the company will capture value and sustain competitive advantage over time.

• Business Management Strategy
  • Consider Cost and Differentiation Advantages.
  • Describe the Corporate Strategy.
  • Investigate Vertical Integration.
  • Describe Strategic Alliances.
  • Detail the Company Competitive Advantage.
  • Generate an Organizational Chart of the company you selected.

Cite at least 3 scholarly references.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

Attached is the first part of this assignment.

The purpose of this assignment is to think about the speech as a whole. Write a paper (A)
describing, (B) analyzing and (C) evaluating a speech. Each analysis paper should be
written in essay format. Papers should be a minimum of 2-3 Pages (APA Format, Double
Spaced, Times New Roman 12-point Font, 1-inch margins). You will be graded on
content and how well you understand the course material, reasoning and how well you
synthesize material, as well as grammar and mechanics.

Items to address in each Analysis Paper:

• In the introductory paragraph briefly explain who is speaking and why.
• In the body of the speech include:
  • – Describe the context of the event; an explanation of the speeches historical
    background; an explanation of the primary and secondary audiences of the
    speech; and an explanation of the structure of the speech.
    § What information is used? Facts? Opinions? Inferences? Is the
    information adequate to meet the needs of the audience?
  • – Analyze at least three strategies used by the speaker to meet the needs of
    the audience at the event (audience analysis).
    § Who is the audience, what are the goals of the speaker and how
    does he or she seek to achieve them? Are their multiple audiences?
    Why is the particular audience important to the speaker?
  • – Evaluate the success of the event; what the purpose of the speech was; if
    the speakers’ purpose was achieved and how do you know if it was
    achieved.
    § How is language and emotion used to reach the audience? Is the
    speaker successful in establishing the appropriate tone?
• In the conclusion discuss what you took away from the speech. How did the
  speaker impact you? What did you take away from the speech?

Socrates compared Athenians to a dazed, sluggish horse that could possibly be awakened by the persistent biting of an (annoying!) fly. This idea of Socrates as a transformative “philosophical gadfly” inspired many who have read about Socrates’s life and death.

Your formal (APA) writing assignment this week is to write a 600-900 word essay that answers each of the following questions:

1. Did Socrates’s philosophical lifestyle have the potential to “wake up” Athenians in a way that could have been useful to that society?
2. Does the importance of being awoken in that way justify the extreme manner that Socrates chose to live and die?
3. Do you agree that (to use a famous phrase from the eighteenth century Prussian philosopher Immanuel Kant), awakening an individual–or an entire society–from “dogmatic slumbers” is a constructive and useful role of raising probing philosophical questions? Is there a significant opportunity for philosophers or others to play this kind of constructive role in our own society?

Please ensure that your essay addresses each component of the assigned questions and that your answer is well-organized, uses excellent, college-level prose, and makes judicious use of textual evidence.

This is the textbook we are using for this class:  Stewart, D., Blocker, G. H., & Petrik, J. (2012). Fundamentals of philosophy. (8th ed. ed.). New York: Pearson. ISBN: 9780205242993

For full credit, write one paragraph response to each of the ten questions.

based on the movie provided below

1. Achbar and Simpson (the directors) present many different metaphors from various perspectives to describe corporations, including: “bad apples”; “sports teams”; “families”; “eagles”; “sharks”; “doom machines”; “high priests” etc. What metaphor or metaphors do you think are most apt?

2. Achbar and Simpson explain how the 14th amendment led to corporations being declared “persons” under the law. In what ways are corporations like “people,” and in what ways are they not like people? Do you agree with the concept of corporations being “people” in the eyes of the law?

3. The film defines “externalities,” and examines several types throughout the film. What is an “externality,” and what are some of the examples the directors give? Explain how they function as externalities, and who “pays” so that other companies can profit?

4. Around 21 minutes into the fi lm, a CEO gives a justification for corporations going into developing countries and paying low labor costs. To paraphrase, the justification is that these people have nothing to offer but their low cost labor, and companies “he lp” them by employing them. Then, “when they are nice and healthy and fat, and their wages rise,” corporations can move on to the next impoverished community to enrich them. Companies like Nike are viewed as “Godsends” according to this CEO.

Evaluate the strength of this justification.

5. The directors provide an example of a liz Clairborne shirt that costs consumers $174 for which the company paid a worker .76 cents to make. Explore the rhetorical purpose of this example. What are the directors trying to demonstrate, and do they do so effectively?

6. The directors present an argument that if corporations are “people” they are most like “psychopaths.” How do they support this assertion? Is this metaphor effective?

7. Exp lain the rhetorical purpose of the 2 college students who paid for their college education by being “walking billboards.” What were the filmmakers trying to argue by way of their example? Did they make an effective argument?

8. The filmmakers focus on how corporations rely on advertising and branding to be successful. They claim that corporations “create wants” and produce a culture of “fashionable consumption” by which people mainly ask themselves, “how many created wants can I satisfy?” To what extent to you believe this is true? To what extent do you feel that your life is preoccupied by questions of “what to consume next”?

9. The film raises the question of whether or not manipulative advertising techniques–what marketers call “communication techniques”– esp to children are “ethical”–how did they answer this question, and do you agree with their assertion?

10. The film asks, rhetorically, “who will defend the public’s right to know if most of the corporate media is corporate owned”? How do they answer this question?

***Answer these questions based on this movie below

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHrhqtY2khc