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CASE STUDY – Amazon v. New York Times

In 2015, the New York Times ran a negative story about Amazon’s workplace conditions. To combat this negative coverage, Jay Carney, a former White House press secretary and Amazon’s senior vice president for corporate affairs, criticized the New York Times story and its source on Medium.com. sources from this story included anonymous sources that did not reveal their true identities because of a nondisclosure agreement with Amazon.

A major source for this story, a former Amazon employee, Bo Olsen, gave an interview with the New York Times criticizing Amazon’s workplace. In his response, Carney revealed that Olsen was under investigation for fraud during his time at Amazon. Olsen actually admitted he had attempted to defraud vendors and resigned his position because of that. This case study illustrates corporations’ willingness to use communication tactics, as opposed to legal ones, to combat negative publicity. The case study of Amazon v. NYT presents an example of the tensions between defamation and privacy laws and demonstrates how corporations use social media platforms to combat negative press attention.

For your assignment I want you suppose you work as the social media manager for the restaurant chain Best Burger. One day while scanning posts about your company, you see that someone on Twitter posted three very negative comments about Best Burger. The comments were as follows:

Tweet 1: Best Burger is the WORST restaurant EVER!!! #nevereathere

Tweet 2: Best Burger’s food tastes like cardboard. It isn’t even real food

Tweet 3: Best Burger is not worth the price. They use dog food to make their hamburgers.

Assuming that Best Burger thinks its hamburgers are great and that the do not use dog food to make them, are any of these comments subject to defamation laws? Why or why not? Write a two-page paper regarding your answer. Word count: 500-700 words

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1.Reflect on the following questions:

Define Burglary, Theft, and Robbery as described in ILCS and the various types of theft and elements of each.

Give a relevant example of each and explain how the punishment differs between the three.

How are each of the offenses investigated?

2. Reflect on the following questions:

What constitutes a Robbery?

Identify the various types and Classifications off Robbery

Your Task: By now, you have defined and narrowed your particular research question, located strong sources on your issue, developed a solid academic argument on the issue. Your purpose for this multimodal assignment is to first research a specific public audience and genre for your project. Thereafter, you will develop a project that engages this public audience by presenting your issue in a way that highlights its importance, your stance on the issue, and the action that you want your audience to take on the issue.

You will need to think through the following elements of your rhetorical situation:

1. An Audience that has the potential to take the action you deem necessary on your issue.
2. A Purpose or specific action that you would like to see taken on your issue.
3. A compelling Context for your issue that will enable readers to understand the social importance of your argument.
4. Rhetorical Strategies that will move your audience to take up your call for action.
5. A Genre of writing (multi-modal) that will fulfill your purpose and move your specific audience.

Multi-Modal: Multi-modal genres are genres that blend text, images, and elements of visual design to persuade readers. The choice of Genre is up to you, and you will locate potential genres through your research into groups who are advocating or arguing about your issue. There are many examples of these genres, and we will be looking at several in class. A very short and incomplete set of examples would include: Power Point Slidecasts, Prezi, Basic Websites or a Video along with an informational flyer.

Basic Genre Requirements:

• You must utilize a genre that blends images, visual design, and text, or a multi-modal genre.
• You must have a minimum of 900 words of text in addition to your visual images.
• You must cite all of the images that you utilize from web sources.
• You must utilize a minimum of four sources to support your argument.
• You may use multiple genres to fulfill these requirements, such as a visual presentation that is followed by a flyer or informative poster.

Argumentation: To persuade your audience, you will need an argumentative thesis that takes a clear stance or position on the issue and defends and supports this thesis throughout your project. Your job is to advance your audience’s understanding of the issue, move them to action, and/or change their attitude about how they should approach or understand the issue. Different genres will have different ways of communicating their thesis, so you will want to analyze samples of the genres you choose very carefully. Despite differences in genre, however, your audience will require good reasons to support your argument and that will read your argument with a critical but engaged perspective.

Locating Images for Your Project: While it is possible to pull images from the web and copy and paste them into your project, doing so violates copyright law. You could, of course, write for permission to use the image, but this takes far too much time.

Most of these images are available for you to use in your projects, but you still need to cite them. We will go over creative commons licensing and citation in class.

Visual Design: As we will learn in class, there are several elements to effective visual design, and I will be asking you to focus on the most important of these as you develop your Public Argument.

Your Public Argument will need to possess a strong degree of:

• Visual Function: A clear purpose for the text and design elements in your project. Each element will need to be “functional” rather than ornamental.
• Visual Impact: visual images work with the text to create a persuasive overall effect, one that engages the viewer/reader and moves them to consider the argument.
• Visual Coherence: clear and coherent connections between the visual elements of the text are connected by color, framing, font, shape, etc.
• Visual Organization: visuals and text are arranged in a way that makes them easy for viewers/readers to comprehend.

Developing a Successful Argument: The location of your thesis, the shape of your paragraphs, and other elements of your essay will vary based upon the genre that you choose and the audience you are trying to persuade.

There are still a few rules of thumb that apply.

Introductory Elements: Whether a Presentation or Website, the key is to engage your audience and show them your issue’s importance. Both the visual and textual elements of your project will need to “hook” your reader and provide necessary background. Your audience may not know the context of your issue or how the debate has taken place and the different positions on the issue. In addition, you will want to develop your purpose by pointing your audience to the action that you want them to take.

Thesis: While the location of the thesis will vary in different genres, you will want to develop a thesis that clearly maps out your claim about the issue, supports this claim with reason(s) and evidence. Your claim, reason, and evidence will need to be appropriate to your audience and genre. In addition, you will want to lead up to your thesis in a way that shows how your claim connects to the context or ongoing discussion of the issue.

Body: The body of your project—where you place and introduce key ideas—will also depend upon the genre or medium you use. One way to think of yourself here is as if you were a lawyer marshalling evidence for their case. Each major idea that you present will need to be stated and introduced clearly and specifically, with visual elements to support it as needed. In addition, you will need to draw heavily on your research for Illustrations that support each argument you present. The key here is to translate this research into language that is appropriate for your audience. You will also want to cite all of your sources, including the images that you utilize.

Rebuttal Arguments: In addition to the elements above, you will need to develop one or two significant rebuttal arguments to your position. This means that you will want to locate a one or two positions that are most likely to disagree with your own and explain to your readers why these arguments do not refute your position, or why they should still accept your argument despite these rebuttals.

Conclusion: The conclusions to Public Arguments are crucial, as they are often the place where the author spells out the implications of their arguments. This means that the author connects the argument to the world of the reader, informing them of the applications of the arguments for their own lives or perspectives. I encourage you to trace out the action that you would like to see your audience take on the issue here. Help your readers understand how they should act on the information that you give them and how the effects of their action or inaction might impact the issue.

After doing a proper research on whole foods and how they work. Please answer the 4 questions: each question one paragraph. feel free to bring in any outside materials that you find helpful to further the discussion as well (you MUST include links to additional articles or videos). Read the questions before your research.

Competitive Analysis
Competitive advantages can be built on a variety of factors, but those that are sustainable are typically built on some distinctive competence possessed by a firm and which are difficult for others to copy, or some first-mover advantage that cannot again be replicated. Among the issues we will discuss are the multiple sources of sustainable advantages — those that are highly tangible and those that are less so — and the risks inherent in entering business that may not offer the same advantages.
Case: Whole Foods
1. What are ‘natural foods’? Is ‘natural foods’ a good business definition? What opportunities do natural foods offer producers, distributors, retailers?
2. What is Whole Food’s Strategy? How has it adapted over time?
3. What challenges does Whole Foods face in 2006?
4. What would you advise CEO John Mackey to do to sustain Whole Foods’ lead?