Intervention/Innovation Method

Your Method Paper needs to contain the following items:

1. Explanation of intervention  (one to two pages)
   • Provide an overview of your intervention (two to three sentences)
   • Include a brief discussion of your literature review
   • Explain why you think students will benefit from the intervention
2. Intervention plan (one to two pages)
   • State in chronological order how you will implement your intervention
   • Give a hypothetical, yet practical timeframe for these steps
3. Ethical considerations (one page)
   • Explain how this intervention fits within your philosophy of
     teaching (from EDU 623).  How does it relate to your social principles
     as a teacher?
   • Explain how research leads you to believe what you’re doing
     is appropriate for students and will not harm them.  How you are taking
     measure to protect students and yield unbiased results?
4. Data collection procedures (one page)
   • Update your triangulation matrix from Week Three, Discussion
     1. Add a column that will include how and when you will collect your
     data. This timeline will of course, be hypothetical and approximate. 

For example:

The Open Offer

Jimmy, an art dealer and merchant, is running out of funds. Luckily, he owns a priceless Van Gogh painting. He writes his friend Tommy. The letter says “Tommy you remember that Van Gogh painting you were interested in buying? I will offer it to you for $500,000. I will give you one month to accept this offer.” Jimmy signs the letter. Tommy receives the letter, and he is very excited. He writes back two weeks later saying that he accepts, and Tommy encloses a check for $500,000. Unfortunately, Jimmy received a better offer for the painting, and Jimmy accepts that one.

Is there a breach of contract?

If so, what remedies may Tommy get?

The requirements below must be met for your paper to be accepted and graded:

Write between 500 – 750 words (approximately 2 – 3 pages) using Microsoft Word.

Attempt APA style, see example below.

Use font size 12 and 1” margins.

Include cover page and reference page.

At least 60% of your paper must be original content/writing.

No more than 40% of your content/information may come from references.

Use at least two references from outside the course material, preferably from EBSCOhost.Text book, lectures, and other materials in the course may be used, but are not counted toward the two reference requirement.

MODULE 4 INSTRUCTIONS

Please read and answers questions. Also please be sure to add a reference page.

An Interview with Howard Schultz, CEO of STARBUCKS

Overseeing more than 16,000 stores worldwide, creating a new coffee lingo, Schultz indicates that there are over 70,000 different ways to order a Starbuck’s coffee which makes up the Starbucks experience. Now, seen as a symbol of grande indulgence, Starbuck’s is struggling. The company has announced the closing of 600 underperforming stores in the U.S. and the need to cut more than 1,000 jobs. Schultz admits that Starbucks may have grown too big too fast given today’s economy and a business plan was not in place for the severity of the economic downturn. Schultz recognizes that such a recession has created more discretionary coffee decision making purchases. Dunkin Donuts, with its expansion, is providing some strong competition by offering an upgraded coffee experience at a lesser consumer cost. When asked if he would bring the Starbuck’s prices down, Schultz maintains that Starbuck’s will not cut corners but will reduce waste to save the company more than $400 million and continue to sell more than a cup of coffee. He says, post 911, that Starbuck’s traffic increased because of the need for a sense of community and that they don’t want to do anything to fracture the community experience. He also plans to continue to provide health insurance to all employees including part-time. When asked if Starbucks can keep its mission statement in this economy, he says he is optimistic and realistic and offers would be entrepreneurs this advice: Opportunities can be and have been created during tough economic times. Starbucks was created by believing in big dreams so dream big and dream bigger.

Also check out http://www.starbucks.com/

1. Describe Starbuck’s business-level strategy.
2. How would you describe the market segment(s) that Starbuck’s serves?
3. Using the five forces model of competition, how should Starbuck’s plan to position itself in these economic times?

HYUNDAI

Hyundai’s strategy is to sell more cars for less than the competition. With the rest of the auto industry in free fall being off 21% from the previous year, Hyundai’s U.S. sales had increased 8%. Michael Brown, Vice President of Atlantic Hyundai’s parent company, a dealership network, indicates that Hyundai has the hot hand with an aim to dominate the marketplace. John Kraftchick, President and CEO of Hyundai Motor American, is interviewed saying that Hyundai’s chairman initiated the move to achieve the highest level of quality in the industry in 5 years. With a quantum leap in quality, Hyundai has new models that are, now, well-equipped, fuel efficient, and stylish. James Bell, analyst for the auto industry’s Kelly Blue Book, reflects upon the first 1986 Hyundai to enter the marketplace. He concludes that Hyundai retrenched and came back stronger by curing their reliability and durability concerns with longer warranties and a blitz of ads that gained consumer public attention. The Toyota downfall is an advantage for Hyundai but Hyundai, too, experienced its own recalls. The Vice President for Hyundai Motor America concludes with their concerns that Hyundai may experience the Toyota woes but it has been a wakeup call. John Kraftchick provides a sneak peek of the newest Hyundai flagship automobile that will compete with the BMW 7 Series, Mercedes Benz S Class, Lexus LS, and those cars that cost $70,000 to over $100,000 dollars. He concurs that Hyundai stands for something different rather than price. While Hyundai remains reactive, they are concerned about vehicles from India, Vietnam, China and other upstarts just like Hyundai once was.

Also check out http://www.hyundaiusa.com/ and http://worldwide.hyundai.com/

1. Describe Hyundai’s competitive behavior.
2. What kind of competitive dynamics might you expect from Hyundai and other automakers?
3. Is Hyundai involved in multimarket competition? Why or why not?

Question: From the list of primary sources below select two sources that you feel offer compelling examples of how a particular aspect of social identity (for ex. Gender, caste, social class, religious identity or national/imperial identity) changed during the colonial period (1757-1947). Use the two sources you select to compare and contrast the historical changes you identity. Answer the following prompt—What kind of historical change in identity do the two sources represent? How does each author use their work to connect to their target audience?

Clive’s speech https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1772cl…

Edmund Burke’s speech https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1783Bu…

Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan’s The Causes of the Indian Revolt

Tarabai Shinde’s “A Comparison of Men and Women,”

Ramabai Ranade’s Memoirs of Our Life Together

M. K. Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj

Instructions: Formulate a clear analytical thesis that responds to the question posed above. Make sure you have sufficient evidence from the primary sources you select to back up your argument and begin my explaining WHAT form of social identity your paper will explore and specifies the types of historical changes it will examine. You may use secondary sources to contextualize your claims, but the bulk of your citations should be for primary sources. Try to use only class texts to do this assignment.

Format

Papers will be short 5 page papers, double spaced, one inch margins. You may use parenthetical citation in these shorter papers: for example (Sarkar 24).

Make sure that these short papers are analytical and express your own views, rather than summarizing the original text, or offer weak personal reactions not backed up by evidence from the text. In other words, I am asking for an informed analysis of the readings, not descriptive summaries or emotional reactions. Even if you agree 100% with an author, you need to explain why that argument is well-structured, or convincing, or provide the historical/social context for it. In the case of primary documents make sure that you contextualize that document historically.