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Choose one of the films (see the uploaded file), focus on the beliefs of the characters at the beginning of the; how their beliefs are challenged; and how the characters beliefs change by the end of the film.

Write a character analysis concentrating on the character(s), not the plotline by answering the following questions:

1. Describe the specific assumptions or beliefs the characters have in the beginning of the film and how their beliefs change by the end of the film. Why do they hold these assumptions/beliefs?

2. What do they learn about other people or about the world that challenges their long held beliefs? Describe an incident (or series of incidents) that causes a revelation to the character(s).

3. How do the goals or desires of the characters change by the end of the film?

4. Describe a learning/reflective concept that best represents the development of a major character (see uploaded files). Apply at least one reflective/learning concept to a specific situation.

5. In the film, with which character did you most identify (in terms of how his/her attitude or assumptions changed)?
Comments from Support Team:

Choose one of the films (see the uploaded file), focus on the beliefs of the characters at the beginning of the; how their beliefs are challenged; and how the characters beliefs change by the end of the film.

Write a character analysis concentrating on the character(s), not the plotline by answering the following questions:

1. Describe the specific assumptions or beliefs the characters have in the beginning of the film and how their beliefs change by the end of the film. Why do they hold these assumptions/beliefs?

2. What do they learn about other people or about the world that challenges their long held beliefs? Describe an incident that causes a revelation to the character(s).

3. How do the goals or desires of the characters change by the end of the film?

4. Describe a learning/reflective concept that best represents the development of a major character (see uploaded files). Apply at least one reflective/learning concept to a specific situation.

5. In the film, with which character did you most identify (in terms of how his/her attitude or assumptions changed)?
Comments from Support Team:

Choose one of the films (see the uploaded file), focus on the beliefs of the characters at the beginning of the; how their beliefs are challenged; and how the characters beliefs change by the end of the film.

Write a character analysis concentrating on the character(s), not the plotline by answering the following questions:

1. Describe the specific assumptions or beliefs the characters have in the beginning of the film and how their beliefs change by the end of the film. Why do they hold these assumptions/beliefs?

2. What do they learn about other people or about the world that challenges their long held beliefs? Describe an incident (or series of incidents) that causes a revelation to the character(s).

3. How do the goals or desires of the characters change by the end of the film?

4. Describe a learning/reflective concept that best represents the development of a major character (see uploaded files). Apply at least one reflective/learning concept to a specific situation.

5. In the film, with which character did you most identify (in terms of how his/her attitude or assumptions changed)?

Choose one of the films (see the uploaded file), focus on the beliefs of the characters at the beginning of the; how their beliefs are challenged; and how the characters beliefs change by the end of the film.

Write a character analysis concentrating on the character(s), not the plotline by answering the following questions:

1. Describe the specific assumptions or beliefs the characters have in the beginning of the film and how their beliefs change by the end of the film. Why do they hold these assumptions/beliefs?

2. What do they learn about other people or about the world that challenges their long held beliefs? Describe an incident (or series of incidents) that causes a revelation to the character(s).

3. How do the goals or desires of the characters change by the end of the film?

4. Describe a learning/reflective concept that best represents the development of a major character (see uploaded files). Apply at least one reflective/learning concept to a specific situation.

5. In the film, with which character did you most identify (in terms of how his/her attitude or assumptions changed)?

One of the central questions posed by scholars of the way digital technology is transforming the political process is whether digital technology has mobilized people to be become more engaged in the political process, thus equalizing more unequal patterns of political engagement and participation or if it has served to reinforce existing inequalities in political participation. Discuss the two perspectives, any conceptual or methodological issues about measuring the concepts, and what the evidence we have discussed in this course tells us about the answer to this question. Does digital technology mobilize or reinforce?

There is a 2000-word limit to this answer (you do not need to write 2000 words: if you can get the job done in fewer words, that is great). I would suggest you write your answer in another format and then copy and paste it into the form below. You do not need to provide full citations of reading, but acknowledging them by name would be advisable.

Vaccari, Christian. 2015, Digital Politics In Western Democracies. Baltimore: John Hopkins, University Press

Please include the book if you have it on reserve with one of your writers, if not that is ok to.

One of the central questions posed by scholars of the way digital technology is transforming the political process is whether digital technology has mobilized people to be become more engaged in the political process, thus equalizing more unequal patterns of political engagement and participation or if it has served to reinforce existing inequalities in political participation. Discuss the two perspectives, any conceptual or methodological issues about measuring the concepts, and what the evidence we have discussed in this course tells us about the answer to this question. Does digital technology mobilize or reinforce?

There is a 2000-word limit to this answer (you do not need to write 2000 words: if you can get the job done in fewer words, that is great). I would suggest you write your answer in another format and then copy and paste it into the form below. You do not need to provide full citations of reading, but acknowledging them by name would be advisable.

Vaccari, Christian. 2015, Digital Politics In Western Democracies. Baltimore: John Hopkins, University Press

Please include the book if you have it o

Assignment 3: Ethics and Social Responsibility in Business Assignment

In this Assignment you will read the Cengage® Case Study: “Barclays Bank: Banking on Ethics” and then respond to the checklist items in a critical essay based on the scenario below.

Assignment Scenario: As a new marketing associate with Barclays Bank, you are tasked with writing a critical essay summarizing what transpired during the investigation conducted by the United States Department of Justice into the abuse of the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) interest rate regulated by the British Banker’s Administration.

This essay, if chosen by your new employer, will be the report presented to the Board of Directors.

Write a 2–3 page, (not including a title and references page), double-spaced, critical essay responding to the checklist items.

For assistance with your Assignment, please use your textbook and library research resources.

The instructions for you to execute this task are as follows:

Directions for completing this Assignment:

1. Read the “Barclays Bank: Banking on Ethics” case study: Click Here

2. Learn how to write a critical essay: See Below

3. Use APA format and citation style, provide a title page and 2 references, and do not forget to use in-text citations with their accompanying references so as to avoid plagiarism.

4. In your critical essay that includes your thesis, arguments, support, and conclusion, respond to the following:

Checklist: ● Describe the level of ethical development the executives at Barclays demonstrated when manipulating the LIBOR interest rates.

● Did Barclays Bank neglect social responsibility? What could they have done to be more socially responsible?

● What actions regarding Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) could Barclays have engaged in after the scandal broke to set things right and ensure that such an event would not happen again?

● Describe what level of morality would have been demonstrated if executives at Barclays asked themselves, “Even though manipulating the LIBOR will increase company profits, is it the right thing to do in the long run

● Explain the importance of ethics and social responsibility in marketing as a result of your case study analysis.

On February 28, 2012, the United States Department of Justice announced a criminal investigation into abuse of the LIBOR, an important interest rate regulated by the British Bankers’ Administration. Four months later, London based Barclays Bank was fined more than $440 million by United States and English financial regulatory agencies for knowingly manipulating the LIBOR to its own advantage. The political and economic uproar that followed the exposure of Barclays’ actions led to several resignations (including that of Barclays’ CEO Bob Diamond) and further criminal investigations. Former governor of New York Eliot Spitzer called the incident “the mega-scandal of mega scandals,” while journalist Robert Scheer christened it “the crime of the century.” The LIBOR, short for “London Interbank Offered Rate,” is the interest rate banks pay when they borrow money from each other. To calculate this rate, up to 20 influential British banks report their own proposed bank-to-bank lending rates. The highest and lowest rates are trimmed off, and the remaining rates are averaged, creating the LIBOR. A low LIBOR often points to financial stability, while a high LIBOR indicates that banks lack confidence in each other’s economic health. What Barclays was fined for was proposing artificially low bank-to-bank rates to make itself appear more stable than it actually was. However, further investigations indicated that Barclays colluded with other banks—and perhaps even the British government—to impact the LIBOR itself. An unnaturally low LIBOR would suggest greater economic stability than actually existed, misleading investors and loan-seekers in a potentially volatile market, and thus creating profit for the banks involved in the collusion. The rate manipulation carried out by Barclays affects not only London banks and business executives, but also small businesses and individuals—perhaps even you yourself. Because it has historically been considered trustworthy and economically accurate, the LIBOR is used all around the world as an interest rate and financial instrument benchmark. Everything from currency values (including the United States dollar) to multimillion-dollar corporate debts to home mortgages to individual student loans depend on the LIBOR. While it may not seem like it, each of these is a product that is marketed and sold. As loans and exchanges of varying types are banks’ primary sources of profit, banks compete to exchange these products within a market. At the consumer level, consider how many car and credit card commercials you have seen advertising a low interest rate. Hundreds of trillions of dollars worth of these financial products have been sold based on the LIBOR—a rate that may not in fact accurately reflect the world’s shaky economic standing. Journalists and economic analysts have been quick to reject the ethicality of Barclays’ actions. As information about the LIBOR scandal broke, TIME contributor Christopher Matthews wrote, “[Barclays’ alleged collusion] speaks to the moral compass, or total lack thereof, of the world’s financial professionals…the public and the government no longer trust the industry to set its own standards for acceptable behavior.” In a piece for The Nation, Robert Scheer said, “The modern-day robber barons pillage with a destructive abandon totally unfettered by law or conscience and on a scale that is almost impossible to comprehend.” Dennis Kelleher, president of nonprofit financial watchdog organization Better Markets, Inc. was perhaps most condemnatory of all: “What we probably need is to wipe out this entire generation of so-called banking leaders who apparently have no ethics or integrity.” While the total sum of the LIBOR scandal’s consequences are yet to be seen, Barclays’ actions may go down in history as a monumental failure in business ethics and corporate social responsibility. Sources: Christopher Matthews, “LIBOR Scandal: The Crime of the Century?,” TIME, July 9, 2012, http:// business.time.com/2012/07/09/libor-scandal-the-crime-of-the-century (Accessed July 10, 2012); Danny Guttridge, “Understanding the LIBOR Scandal,” Kapitall Blog, July 9, 2012, http://wire.kapitall.com /investment-idea/understanding-the-libor-scandal (Accessed July 10, 2012); “’The Mob Learned from Wall Street’: Eliot Spitzer on the ‘Cartel-style Corruption’ behind Libor Scam,” Current, July 3, 2012, http://current .com/shows/viewpoint/videos/the-mob-learned-from-wall-street-eliot-spitzer-on-the-cartel-style -corruption-behind-libor-scam (Accessed July 10, 2012). B
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Assignment 3: Ethics and Social Responsibility in Business Assignment

In this Assignment you will read the Cengage® Case Study: “Barclays Bank: Banking on Ethics” and then respond to the checklist items in a critical essay based on the scenario below.

Assignment Scenario: As a new marketing associate with Barclays Bank, you are tasked with writing a critical essay summarizing what transpired during the investigation conducted by the United States Department of Justice into the abuse of the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) interest rate regulated by the British Banker’s Administration.

This essay, if chosen by your new employer, will be the report presented to the Board of Directors.

Write a 2–3 page, (not including a title and references page), double-spaced, critical essay responding to the checklist items.

For assistance with your Assignment, please use your textbook and library research resources.

The instructions for you to execute this task are as follows:

Directions for completing this Assignment:

1. Read the “Barclays Bank: Banking on Ethics” case study: Click Here

2. Learn how to write a critical essay: See Below

3. Use APA format and citation style, provide a title page and 2 references, and do not forget to use in-text citations with their accompanying references so as to avoid plagiarism.

4. In your critical essay that includes your thesis, arguments, support, and conclusion, respond to the following:

Checklist: ● Describe the level of ethical development the executives at Barclays demonstrated when manipulating the LIBOR interest rates.

● Did Barclays Bank neglect social responsibility? What could they have done to be more socially responsible?

● What actions regarding Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) could Barclays have engaged in after the scandal broke to set things right and ensure that such an event would not happen again?

● Describe what level of morality would have been demonstrated if executives at Barclays asked themselves, “Even though manipulating the LIBOR will increase company profits, is it the right thing to do in the long run

● Explain the importance of ethics and social responsibility in marketing as a result of your case study analysis.

On February 28, 2012, the United States Department of Justice announced a criminal investigation into abuse of the LIBOR, an important interest rate regulated by the British Bankers’ Administration. Four months later, London based Barclays Bank was fined more than $440 million by United States and English financial regulatory agencies for knowingly manipulating the LIBOR to its own advantage. The political and economic uproar that followed the exposure of Barclays’ actions led to several resignations (including that of Barclays’ CEO Bob Diamond) and further criminal investigations. Former governor of New York Eliot Spitzer called the incident “the mega-scandal of mega scandals,” while journalist Robert Scheer christened it “the crime of the century.” The LIBOR, short for “London Interbank Offered Rate,” is the interest rate banks pay when they borrow money from each other. To calculate this rate, up to 20 influential British banks report their own proposed bank-to-bank lending rates. The highest and lowest rates are trimmed off, and the remaining rates are averaged, creating the LIBOR. A low LIBOR often points to financial stability, while a high LIBOR indicates that banks lack confidence in each other’s economic health. What Barclays was fined for was proposing artificially low bank-to-bank rates to make itself appear more stable than it actually was. However, further investigations indicated that Barclays colluded with other banks—and perhaps even the British government—to impact the LIBOR itself. An unnaturally low LIBOR would suggest greater economic stability than actually existed, misleading investors and loan-seekers in a potentially volatile market, and thus creating profit for the banks involved in the collusion. The rate manipulation carried out by Barclays affects not only London banks and business executives, but also small businesses and individuals—perhaps even you yourself. Because it has historically been considered trustworthy and economically accurate, the LIBOR is used all around the world as an interest rate and financial instrument benchmark. Everything from currency values (including the United States dollar) to multimillion-dollar corporate debts to home mortgages to individual student loans depend on the LIBOR. While it may not seem like it, each of these is a product that is marketed and sold. As loans and exchanges of varying types are banks’ primary sources of profit, banks compete to exchange these products within a market. At the consumer level, consider how many car and credit card commercials you have seen advertising a low interest rate. Hundreds of trillions of dollars worth of these financial products have been sold based on the LIBOR—a rate that may not in fact accurately reflect the world’s shaky economic standing. Journalists and economic analysts have been quick to reject the ethicality of Barclays’ actions. As information about the LIBOR scandal broke, TIME contributor Christopher Matthews wrote, “[Barclays’ alleged collusion] speaks to the moral compass, or total lack thereof, of the world’s financial professionals…the public and the government no longer trust the industry to set its own standards for acceptable behavior.” In a piece for The Nation, Robert Scheer said, “The modern-day robber barons pillage with a destructive abandon totally unfettered by law or conscience and on a scale that is almost impossible to comprehend.” Dennis Kelleher, president of nonprofit financial watchdog organization Better Markets, Inc. was perhaps most condemnatory of all: “What we probably need is to wipe out this entire generation of so-called banking leaders who apparently have no ethics or integrity.” While the total sum of the LIBOR scandal’s consequences are yet to be seen, Barclays’ actions may go down in history as a monumental failure in business ethics and corporate social responsibility. Sources: Christopher Matthews, “LIBOR Scandal: The Crime of the Century?,” TIME, July 9, 2012, http:// business.time.com/2012/07/09/libor-scandal-the-crime-of-the-century (Accessed July 10, 2012); Danny Guttridge, “Understanding the LIBOR Scandal,” Kapitall Blog, July 9, 2012, http://wire.kapitall.com /investment-idea/understanding-the-libor-scandal (Accessed July 10, 2012); “’The Mob Learned from Wall Street’: Eliot Spitzer on the ‘Cartel-style Corruption’ behind Libor Scam,” Current, July 3, 2012, http://current .com/shows/viewpoint/videos/the-mob-learned-from-wall-street-eliot-spitzer-on-the-cartel-style -corruption-behind-libor-scam (Accessed July 10, 2012). B
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Evaluate the deployment cost savings realized by Cisco, and determine if it was significant.
Analyze how the solution deployed by Cisco improved:
employee productivity
satisfaction
retention
Discuss how Cisco was able to achieve VPN scalability to support thousands of users.
When thousands of employees telecommute and work in virtual offices, there are benefits to the environment. Discuss the environmental impact of the Cisco telecommuting and virtual offices solution.
Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

Define proper security controls within the User Domain to mitigate risks and threats caused by human behavior.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in access control.
Write clearly and concisely about topics related to Security Access & Control Strategies using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.

Remote Access

Go to Cisco’s Website and read, “How Cisco IT Provides Remote Access for Small Offices and Teleworkers”, located at http://bit.ly/MkvlbA. According to the study, an IDC forecast from December 2007, expected the global mobile worker population to increase from 758.6 million in 2006 to more than 1.0 billion in 2011. Cisco had a significant number of telecommuting employees and faced three challenges: provide network access features that cannot be supported on a software VPN client, automate and simplify router provisioning and updates, and enable a scalable VPN solution to support up to 30,000 workers.

Write a four to five (4-5) page paper in which you:

Evaluate the deployment cost savings realized by Cisco, and determine if it was significant.
Analyze how the solution deployed by Cisco improved:
employee productivity
satisfaction
retention
Discuss how Cisco was able to achieve VPN scalability to support thousands of users.
When thousands of employees telecommute and work in virtual offices, there are benefits to the environment. Discuss the environmental impact of the Cisco telecommuting and virtual offices solution.
Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

Define proper security controls within the User Domain to mitigate risks and threats caused by human behavior.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in access control.
Write clearly and concisely about topics related to Security Access & Control Strategies using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.