For this assignment,

Describe the chosen research topic.

Identify three scholarly/peer-reviewed journal articles from the Ashford University Library that directly relate to the topic. Read each with the intent of understanding what it reflects about your topic.

Evaluate how each article relates to your topic.

Properly cite all articles within your paper. (For assistance see the Ashford Writing Center’s Citing Within Your Paper (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.)

Upload the full text PDFs of the articles with your paper.

The Focus Topic and References paper

Must be three to four double-spaced pages in length (not including title and reference pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.’s APA Style (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Part 1

Crimes That Harm Business Versus Crimes Committed by Business

Which do you believe presents the greatest threat to civil society: a corporation that commits crimes (e.g., murder, environmental crimes, or bribery), or persons who commit crimes that harm businesses (e.g., embezzlement, fraud, or larceny)? Defend your response, using at least one example from current events.

Part 2

Product Liability

After viewing the Chinese Imports & Food Safety (Links to an external site.) video, consider whether U.S. retailers that utilize products or raw ingredients that are imported from China and are poorly regulated should be liable in tort for injuries to consumers who are harmed by those products. Answer parts a and b of the prompt.

1. For this part of the prompt, answer one of the following points:
   • If U.S. companies should not be liable, then they could be legally exempt from tort liability. Discuss the consequences of such a policy to U.S. consumers.
   • If the U.S. companies should be liable, then those companies would not be legally exempt from tort liability. Discuss the consequences of such a policy to U.S. businesses.
2. Regardless of your response to part a, assume that U.S. retailers do have legal liability for defective products. What steps could U.S. retailers and manufacturers take when using products imported from China that would minimize their liability exposure? For example, they could warn consumers about the potential, though speculative, dangers when using products comprised of poorly regulated ingredients or components. Given your strategy, what challenges would exist for U.S. businesses that implemented your strategy?

Part 3

Regulation and the Greater Good

After viewing The Crisis of Credit Visualized (Links to an external site.) video, respond to each of the following:

• How could government regulations have prevented or mitigated the credit crisis of 2008?
• Discuss whether too much governmental regulation of business or too little governmental regulation of business presents the greater danger to:
  • the greater good
  • business

Part 4

Administrative Law and Business

Some argue that government needs to increase its regulation of business for the good of society as a whole. Others believe that the marketplace is self-regulating and that government intervention through needless regulation places an unfair, costly burden on businesses in general and on small businesses in par­ticular. What role do you believe government regulation should play to ensure ethical conduct by businesses? How do different political viewpoints potentially shape the answer to this question?

The Newsroom

In your discussion this week you have to write a short newscast. Select three (and only three) current news stories. Select the three stories that you think are the most important to our nation and society.

• Write an original headline for each story.
• Write no more than three sentences summarizing each story.
• Include the full html web address for each story.

It is very important to only write on three stories and keep your summaries under three sentences as this simulates how challenging it is to explain very complicated new stories in very restricted time and keeping the attention of viewers.

Your initial post will look something like this:

Catchy Headline #1

Summary sentence 1. This is the second sentence. And finally a third sentence.

Catchy Headline #2

Summary sentence 1. This is the second sentence. And finally a third sentence.

Catchy Headline #3

Summary sentence 1. This is the second sentence. And finally a third sentence.

For your follow up posts, question your peer’s newscasts. Why did they select the stories they did? Were there other current events that they seemed to miss? Was there any bias in how the stories were presented? Was there any bias in how those stories were summarized? Why did they include certain news stories? Why did they ignore others? You may also respond to your peer’s questions for a follow post.

View your discussion rubric.

Select one and answer thoroughly

Remember to respond to two other students.

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1. What was U.S. policy toward the Mexican Revolution and how successful was it?

2. What were the reform programs of Zapata and Villa and how did they differ?

3. What was the significance of the constitution of 1917?

4. How did the Revolution affect women and their struggle for equality?

5. What were Cárdenas’s labor and agrarian policies, and how did they both advance and limit Mexican development?

6. What role did rock n’ roll music play in Mexico’s political and cultural development during the 1960s?

PART 2

see instructions

1. Provide Title of news source

2. Provide link to news item

3. In a paragraph or two, summarize the news item you’ve selected. It is your job to make sure someone reading your summary has a good idea what the news item is about.

4. There is NO need to respond to another student

5. Read the News Instructions carefully, noting the types of news stories not allowed. If you enter a news story that is, you will receive no credit

((>>this is an example of what a student has posted<<

1. News Source is BBC News

2. link: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-latin-america-48476378/how-i-discovered-that-my-ancestors-participated-in-the-slave-trade

3.”How I discovered that my ancestors participated in the slave trade”from BBC news resource narrated by Jaime Gonzales (mundo journalist). Jaime talks about Barcelona, the place he grew up and his family resides. He had ancestors that had obtained large fortunes by the trade transportations. A question came to him after the city decided to move the statue of Antonio Lopez, who was involved in trading and slave trading, that lead Jaime to investigate whether his ancestors were involved in the slave trading of Barcelona. He traveled to Chile and as a result of that he did found out that his ancestors played a role in the slave trading. He mentions slave trading is a controversial topic to talk about, but it is important to know what happened in the past and recognize as he mentions “to try to heal the scars of the past”(Gonzales), In order to create a better world.))

The United States is in a period of major transition from an economy where mass production manufacturing industries constituted the core to a one in which industries based on information and knowledge form the core. In addition to the shift from mass production to knowledge-based enterprises, both the workforce and consumer population has also changed significantly. These changes have stimulated changes in employment laws and regulations as well as in management and human resource policies and practices.

Read:

1. Muhl, C.J. “The Employment-at-will Doctrine: Three Major Exceptions.”
2. Federal Laws Prohibiting Job Discrimination – http://www.eeoc.gov/facts/qanda.html
3. K. Reardon, “The Memo Every Woman Keeps in Her Desk. – The case study concerns a woman who believes that she and other women are being discriminated against in her company.

Forum:

1. If Liz Ames at Vision Software sends the memo she has written to her boss and is subsequently terminated would any of the exceptions to the “employment at will” doctrine apply to her case? Would she be protected under any federal law? Explain your reasoning.
2. Josie Zaroft, a 56 year-old senior software engineer at FutureApp, has informed the human resource department that in advance of scheduled gender reassignment surgery, she would like the staff to refer to her using only female pronouns. The head of HR, Susan, once dated Josie when she was known as Joe, a biological male. Susan calls Josie in for a performance review and states that Josie will not receive a previously-promised promotion because her transition will make it difficult to manage the team of older male tech workers who “just won’t understand this she-male fad.” Susan further states that Josie “must be crazy” and is too old to be “performing drag” in the office. Has Josie suffered from any “discriminatory practice” under federal law? Identify which federal laws prohibiting job discrimination might apply, and explain why.