Are humans experiencing microevolution due to natural selection? If yes, propose an example. If no, explain why not. Cite your source(s) at the end of your post.

 

2 to 3 paragraphs.

Directions:
You are to create a professional marketing presentation that includes the details of the marketing mix items below and the background information developed in your international marketing report you created in Module 3. The final presentation will address global marketing issues relevant to the selected company, its product, home country, and the U.S. market, and will evaluate alternative methods of addressing these issues. 

Entry from Home Country into U.S.

Topics in your marketing presentation will reflect the course topics, assignments, readings, and research and should include:

1. Title slide
   
2. Executive summary (approximately 1 page)
3. Background information: Include company and productinformation, your role as a consultant, direction of this industry, competitive structure/concerns, research focus, and how you are building off the first marketing report you developed.
4. Global marketing mix (Product positioning and competitive environment): Identify the product, customer solutions through product/brand decisions, the country of origin, influences, and strategic alternatives.
5. Global marketing mix(Pricing decisions, strategies and constraints): Include the price identified, customer costs, and pricing decisions; pricing strategies in the selected foreign markets; and constraints on pricing in the selected global markets.
6. Any global issues/constraints: Includelegal, political, sociocultural, technological (trends), economic, and any other constraints.
7. Promotion strategies and global marketing communication decisions: Include advertising, personal selling, public relations, and other promotional strategies.
8. Market-entry strategy (including marketing channels/global marketing mix): Includecustomer convenience, channel decisions/choices, global retailing decisions and physical distribution selection, and other market-entry strategies.
9. Physical distribution strategy (into U.S.): Include retailing and wholesaling information and other physical distribution strategies.
10. Suggestions for leading, organizing, and controlling of the global marketing efforts (into U.S.)
    
11. A compiled, final summary conclusion, including your final recommendations to your client.
    
12. A PowerPoint presentation (approximately 12 slides): Use the notes section of PowerPoint to document detailed information to convince the board of directors that your international marketing plan is the best course of action.

    In order for this assignment to be compatible with TurnItIn, you will need to save your PowerPoint presentation as an Adobe PDF file. To do this, open your presentation in Microsoft PowerPoint. Choose “Save As” from the File menu, then choose “Adobe PDF”. Before saving your file, click on the Options button and check the box next to “Convert Speaker Notes.” Now choose to save your file. Your speaker notes will be included in your PDF file that you will submit for this assignment. Submit this file along with your presentation.

    Note: If your version of Microsoft PowerPoint does not have the option to include speaker notes, you will need to submit a Microsoft Word document that contains all information from your presentation, including the speaker notes.

Use the following questions to check your work for completeness:

• What are the principal elements of the project?
• What elements, if any, are missing from the project?
• Are the conclusions or recommendations of the project supported by the information and theories presented? Explain why or why not.
• Is my presentation professional and does it address the concerns of the board of directors?

Submit your assignment to the M5: Assignment 1 Dropbox by Monday, November 14, 2016.

Assignment 1 Grading Criteria	Maximum Points
Develop an executive summary.	12
Provide background information on the company, the product, and your role.	16
Explain global marketing mix: product.	32
Explain global marketing mix: pricing.	32
Explain any global issues/constraints.	20
Analyze promotion strategies and global marketing communication decisions.	32
Analyze market entry strategy.	32
Identify needed physical distribution.	32
Incorporate suggestions for leading, organizing, and controlling of global marketing efforts.	20
Include final summary conclusion and make recommendations.	12
Organization: Introduction, transitions, and conclusion.	16
Style: Tone,  audience, and word choice.	8
Usage and Mechanics: Grammar, spelling, and sentence structure.	16
APA Elements: Attribution, paraphrasing, and quotations.	20
Total:	300

 

Is the sentence, “they seem cool enough” a complex transitive verb?

There are two parts to this written assignment. Consider each scenario and the questions that follow to complete each part.

Part I – Unemployment

Wanda works part time one hour a week baking cookies at Cookies R Us but is desperately seeking full-time work to support her 9 year old daughter Nina, who is in the 5th grade. Bobby was let go at his job as a bubble gum inspector for placing his gum under the table top at work; now he spends all his time watching game shows on TV. Jose used to be a type writer repair person for ACME Type Writer Repairs but has been out of work and unable to find work ever since ACME type writer repairs closed due to no one using typewriters. Nancy works forty hours a week feeding monkeys at the local zoo. Veronica quit her job as a drinking fountain attendant when she got her degree from clown school and has been looking for a job as a clown. Becky and Denny are whale tamers but are currently laid off and have been unable to find work because it is sunning season for whales and whales cannot be tamed each year during sunning season.

1. This week’s lecture pages describe the different types of unemployment (frictional, seasonal, structural, cyclical and full). Describe each person in the above scenario in terms of the type of unemployment they fall under.
2. In the scenario above, what is the unemployment rate and how is it calculated?

Part II – Unemployment vs. Inflation

Using an Internet resource, such as the CIA World Fact Book or Trading Economics search for the current unemployment and inflation rates for the U.S., China, Canada and the United Kingdom.

1. According to this week’s lecture, there are two types of inflation (demand pull and cost push). Which countries are experiencing a demand pull inflation? Which countries are experiencing a cost push inflation? You may need to complete additional research to determine the inflation type for each country.
2. What correlation, if any, exists between the unemployment and inflation rates of the above countries?

write 400–600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.

 

When and why was the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) enacted?How does the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) protect employees in unions?Under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), what is illegal for employers and employees to do?

 

Note: Review the Web resources for this Phase to assist you with this assignment.