Assignment 1

Political Party Systems Presentation

This assignment requires you to create a PowerPoint presentation to explain the two-party political system used in the United States and to describe both the Democratic and Republican parties’ actions and functions during a presidential election.

You should discuss each party and its respective process to select a nominee for president, identifying each step of the process. It may be helpful to choose a particular presidential election and follow the candidates, from announcing their candidacy to their selection as the party nominee.

Your PowerPoint presentation must consist of 10 to 14 slides, not counting the title and reference slides.

Your presentation must include the items listed below.

• Include a title slide with your name, date, course, and assignment.
• List the presentation’s objective(s), a table of contents, or an introductory paragraph/slide.
• Provide information about each political party’s structure and composition.
• Include a definition of superdelegates and an example of their impact on an election.
• Include information about how media acts as a political socializing agent during an election.
• Provide information about how each party uses the media.
• Include a few bullets describing whether the two-party system remains as a fair and viable process. Be sure to include information about the positives and negatives of the two-party system.
• Provide three to four pictures, maps, or graphs that will illustrate important points in your presentation. These should be used on a slide and not put on a slide separately without explanation.

Your slides should elaborate on the points above. You may include additional information that you feel is relevant, but do not create more than 14 slides. Use your creativity, and organize the material in a logical and understandable manner.

Use APA formatting for all references used on each slide. You must use at least three outside sources, at least one of which should come from the CSU Online Library. Focus on using academic and scholarly sources.

Please refrain from utilizing the speaker notes function within PowerPoint. Cite on each slide when sources are used to support your points.

Use pictures on slides to help convey the meaning of the material being reviewed and presented in the presentation.

Assignment 2

For this homework assignment, you will develop a supporting human resource (HR) plan for an organizational strategy. In a paper of three to four pages (750-1000 words) of text, offer your ideas for a promising HR assignment, development plan, and sustainment plan to support the strategy of an organization expanding to open offices in sub-Sahara Africa. Drawing from appropriate sources, develop a scenario that provides the business of the organization, identify how much expansion is taking place, and identify the countries in which the expansion is taking place.

• A useful starting point is estimating the total number of relocating employees that can be supported in the host country.
• Will the organization need to establish a commissary (for grocery purchases), banking and currency exchange, and limited urgent-care stations?
• Should the organization set assignment lengths of one year or two with families? What does research say is the optimal time period?
• If there are families, what would be the children’s school arrangements?
• How will the employees be housed?
• Do they need an increased housing allowance, or does the organization need to procure its own compound of apartment housing?

Your homework assignment must be at least three pages in length. You are required to use at least one outside source to support your explanation. Your homework assignment response should be formatted in accordance with APA style.

Business Name:  Uptown Swirl

Answer each market description below for Uptown Swirl.

TARGET MARKET DESCRIPTION: (see attachment for additional details)

1. Demographic Description (age and income range, gender, family size, education, occupation, etc.)

Example: A likely user for X product is a male between ages 25 and 34 who earns between $25,000 and $35,000 per year and has a four-year college degree.

2. Geographic Description: area where you would like to serve, density (urban, rural), nature of location (mall, business center, etc.), climate condition.  An example of geographic description would be: Downtown Fayetteville, NC area.

3. Lifestyle Description: where do your customer shop, what they do for leisure, what kind of clothes they were, cars they drive, etc.

4. Psychographic Description: socially responsible, trendsetter, fun-seeking, etc.

5. Purchasing pattern description: how they use the product, how many times they buy, where do they buy the product, how do they pay for it

6. Buying Sensitivities Description: What factors are important to the customer before they buy (price, quality, customer service. Packaging, etc.)

Remarks:    The response must be detailed and answer the primary question and subpart of the primary question.  Write clearly, concisely, use proper grammar and writing mechanics. You must use APA format and cite (2) references.