Visit the websites of three Middle Eastern companies like Al Baik, Almarai, and Emirates Airlines or any others of your choosing. Identify information on the companies’ supply chain management activities.
Address the following requirements:

Identify your selected companies in no more than three paragraphs.
In the remaining pages, break down information you find on purchasing issues, supplier issues, logistics, information systems, quality, and customer service to compare and contrast the supply chains of your selected companies.
In your final one or two paragraphs, suggest improvements for each company based on your comparison to the other two.

After reading the “Argument” chapter on pages 184-199, “Proposals” chapter on pages 208-226, and “Using Argumentative Strategies” chapter on pages 401-415, apply your knowledge to create a proposal and convince me to fund it. 
Pretend I (Dr. E) am the head of a grants committee that has $1 million dollars to donate to a worthy cause.  (I don’t really have the money.  This is a pretend scenario, so don’t ask for any real money!)  Pick a cause and draft a proposal to convince me to give the money to you.  Make sure you appeal to reason, authority, and emotion (from “Using Argumentative Strategies”) to craft your argument.   

Individually you will conduct a critical review of your learning in the course, preparing a critique responding to a series of reflective questions, based on the course content. The reflective assessment will take the form of 4-5 short essay questions (approx. 500 – 1,000 words per question). Certain questions will ask you to: explain, describe, analyse, evaluate, justify and/or reflect on…. the key learning content or your skills acquired and applied across the semester. The reflective questions will derive from the three critical strategy areas studied during the semester: Advertising Strategy and Planning; Creative Strategy; and Media Strategy.

Referring to at least three of the works we have read in class so far (Weeks 1-4) discuss the role of art as it relates to social change in America. This is a broad question and students have the freedom to take it where they want. However, references to literary works and social change must be specific and supported. Minimum of 2 double-spaced pages. Submit the journal on an MS Word file attachment. The journal is graded on accuracy, presentation, analysis, and detail. The journal should reflect your knowledge of the writers and their themes along with a detailed analysis. Do not summarize the content of what you read. Instead, analyze and discuss.

The documents linked below are speeches by Winston Churchill, George C. Marshall, and Andrei Vyshinsky. As you read them, try to see what each person’s position was within their respective government, and how this position might have influenced what they said and how they said it. Be aware that these sources, as well as the textbook, have their own biases. 
The short paper prompt is as follows:
Do these historical figures see the Cold War as a defensive or offensive conflict?
Sources
Iron Curtain Speech (Links to an external site.)
The “Marshall Plan” Speech (Links to an external site.)
The U.N. General Assembly Speech (Links to an external site.)