1. What criticisms have been levied against NBA Executive Director,
Michele Roberts, at the outset of her tenure? Are they justifiable?
Please reflect in context of the sex/gender and leadership stereotypes
in the sports industry, as demonstrated throughout this module, and the
reasons women have historically been excluded from upper management
positions in sport.

2. Do you believe Roberts’ race and/or gender
was a major factor for the players in electing her to the position, as
opposed to the other qualified candidates? In other words, did Roberts
benefit from “positive discrimination”? Please consider in light of the
overwhelming representation of African Americans and people of color
who took part in the historic vote.

3. Val Ackerman,
Commissioner of the Big East, has been in her role for a number of
years, how do you believe Ackerman has “led”? And, in your opinion,
supported by the resources studied throughout this course on prejudice,
race, sex/gender stereotypes– can she really succeed with the
philosophy and strategies at the highest level of Intercollegiate
athletics?

4. What are the pros and cons of the NBA or Big East
developing a substantive marketing campaign around Roberts/Ackerman
specifically to women or men?

5. Do you believe Roberts’ or
Ackerman’s success and/or failure will affect other female executives,
such as Kim Ng, or others, who have similar leadership aspirations and
roles? If so, then why or why not?

read the following topic listed below,Nestlé holds a 99-year lease for the land that the Sanctuary Spring sits on. While lease-holders are generally understood to be able to make full use of their land, when public resources are involved, they are limited to “reasonable uses.” Review the case study and formulate an argument either supporting or challenging this distinction. Support your reasoning by addressing key ways in which benefits and burdens are being distributed between Nestlé and the community in this case.read the titled topic below

Battling over bottled water: WATER IS THE LIFEBLOOD OF THE EARTH, but by 2025, according to the U.N., two-thirds of the world’s population could face chronic shortages of water. In fact, some countries are already importing huge supertankers of freshwater from other countries. But one place that’s definitely not short of water is the state of Michigan, which has 11,000 lakes and is surrounded by Lakes Michigan, Huron, Superior, and Erie. So it came as a surprise to some that the Nestlé company’s new Ice Mountain bottled-water plant in Mecosta County, Michigan, dredged up so much controversy when it began pumping water from a local spring.⁸⁰

Nestlé’s willingness to invest $100 million to build a new 410,000-square-foot bottling plant in Mecosta reflects the fact that bottled water is big business, with annual sales of $6 billion (up 35 percent since 1997). Many county residents, in fact, are thrilled about Nestlé’s being there. The Ice Mountain plant employs about a hundred people at $12 to $23 per hour, significantly more than many local jobs pay. And the company shells out hundreds of thousands of dollars in local taxes. Township supervisor Maxine McClellan says, “This is probably the best project we’ve ever brought into Mecosta County.” She adds that she wants “a diversified economy where our kids don’t have to move away to find jobs.”

The problem, as some local residents see it, is that Nestlé has also built a 12-mile stainless steel pipeline from the plant to Sanctuary Spring, which sits on an 850-acre private deer-hunting ranch and is part of the headwaters of the Little Muskegon River, which flows into the Muskegon and then into Lake Michigan. The company started pumping 130 gallons of water every minute from the spring, with plans to increase that to 400 gallons per minute, or about 262 million gallons a year. But whose water is Nestlé pumping? That’s the question being asked by Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation (MCWC), a local Mecosta group that has filed suit contesting Nestlé’s right to the spring’s waters. Although the company has a ninety-nine-year lease on the land, MCWC contends that the water itself is a public resource. As Jim Olson, MCWC’s lawyer, explains it, under the doctrine of “reasonable use” the owners of a stream can use its water for drinking, boating, swimming, or anything else “as long as it’s in connection with their land.” But, he argues, “this does not include the right to transport water to some distant land for [some other] use. We’re arguing that the same is true with groundwater— you can’t sever it from the estate.”

Michigan State Senator Ken Sikkema, who chaired a task force on Michigan water issues, rejects that argument: “A farmer pumps water out of the ground, waters potatoes, and sends the potatoes to Illinois—there’s no real difference. The water in those potatoes is gone.” This reasoning hasn’t assuaged the fears of three American Indian tribes who have joined the fray. Citing an 1836 treaty that protects their fishing and hunting rights in the Great Lakes region, they have brought a federal lawsuit against Nestlé and the state of Michigan to stop what they see as a massive water grab. “Our fear,” says a spokesperson for the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, “is that the export could significantly and permanently damage the fishery.”

However, David K. Ladd, head of the Office of Great Lakes, argues that bottled water is a special case. Legally, he contends, it’s a “food,” regulated by the Food and Drug Administration. “There’s no difference between Perrier bottling water, Gerber making baby food, or Miller brewing beer. When you incorporate water from the basin into a product, it’s no longer water per se.” And Brendan O’Rourke, an Ice Mountain plant manager, adds that the 262 million gallons it wants to pump are less than 1 percent of the annual recharge rate of the local watershed, equivalent to just 14 minutes of evaporation from the surface of Lake Michigan.

For their part, scientists opposed to the project argue that Nestlé’s pumping has already lowered the local water table and that northern pike are having trouble spawning in a stream fed by Sanctuary Spring. Jim Olson argues that the Ice Mountain plant should reduce its water consumption to 100 gallons per minute or less, not increase it to 400 gallons. “Every gallon removed is needed for the stream to sustain itself,” he states. “The right to withdraw groundwater does not include the right to diminish … existing or future uses.”

To the surprise of many, Michigan state court judge Lawrence Root bought that argument and upheld the MCWC’s lawsuit. Ruling that the environment is at risk no matter how much water Nestlé draws out, he ordered the pumps turned off. Two years later, an appellate court reversed Judge Root’s decision, and MCWC and Nestlé subsequently entered an agreement limiting Nestlé’s withdrawals from Sanctuary Spring to 250 gallons per minute—although there has been some legal skirmishing between the two antagonists since then. In the meantime, however, the political tide has turned against Nestlé. Small towns in Maine and California have opposed its building new bottled water plants in their jurisdictions; Congress has held hearings into the diversion of groundwater by bottled water companies and other businesses; and Michigan has passed legislation that, among other things, makes it virtually impossible for operations such as the Ice Mountain plant to remove more than 100,000 gallons of groundwater per day.

Functional requirements tell us what jobs or tasks the system will perform. Nonfunctional requirements are more flexible. They pertain to the performance, reliability, and maintenance issues of the system. Both sets of requirements are considered system requirements.

Consider a system that could function as a Cloud solution. In order for that system to work as needed, several functional and nonfunctional requirements will be required. Write a 2-3 page paper detailing at least 3 functional requirements and three nonfunctional requirements required for the Cloud solution. Describe what they will do and why are they essential to the system?

Your paper must use proper APA formatting and must contain citations and references to all materials you access to help you with this paper.

Sections of the Research Essay

Introduction and Literature Review

This section should provide an overview of the identity politics you chose to focus on in your research. For example, if you focus on race, you may want to describe some current issues in the US (Ferguson, Detroit, mass-incarceration) or use narrative to open your paper. Or a combination of both.

Then you must explain what your sources say about the issue. This is the place to flex your synthesis muscles! What conversations are happening? What do other researchers say about it? How do different people approach the problem? What do they have in common, and where do they diverge?

For more on how to write a literature review, visit the Excelsior OWL. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Methods

Your methods section will explain how you came to this particular research interest, how you went about conducting research, who you interviewed and why, and how you put all the information together. This section can contain direct language from your research proposal, and it needs to do a good job establishing your rhetorical position. This section goes a long way in establishing trust with your readers as you will explain your personal relationship with the topic while demonstrating your fair-minded approach.

For more on how to do this section and the general structure of APA organization, go to this part of the Excelsior OWL (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..

Results

The Results section explains what you found out from your research. This should be the longest part of your essay, so draw out each point carefully. Think about connections between your reference texts and your interview. Think about how your interview illustrates broader cultural phenomenon in your reference texts.

Discussion

This section concludes your research essay. Remember that a conclusion should never shut down the conversation by procuring a “right” answer or “winning” side. Nor should it regurgitate what you wrote about in previous sections. Rather, this section describes the implications of your research findings, as well as provide suggestions for future research. In other words, offer insight as to what your research could be used for, and explain how researchers writing after you might provide insight using a slightly different lens. And finally, use this section to reflect on your results. What do you think merits further study? What was surprising about your research findings? What, if anything, wasn’t? Weave these kinds of questions into the entire Discussion section as you talk about implications and suggest future lines of inquiry.

References

The References section should include everything that informed your work. Make sure to use APA formatting and organization correctly. This means you must adhere to guidelines like alphabetizing sources and using the correct format for titles, sections, citations, to name a few.

Appendix

The Appendix must include anything relevant to your essay that doesn’t have a place in the actual essay. This includes things like your interview transcription. You can also use footnotes, but you don’t have to.

Requirements:

• 8-10 pages (2000+ words)
• APA Formatting
• You can include media, graphs, images, etc., as long as your word count does not fall below 2000 words. The appendix, which will contain at least a transcription of your interview, should NOT be included in the word count.
• You must turn in this paper in a Word Document and be very precise about formatting.
• You must engage ideas from at least 6 outside sources in addition to your interview. Your interview is your primary source and, as you are writing an ethnographic study, the interview will be the main focus of your analysis.

The following are two samples about the final research.