Film: The Forgetting (Netflix DVD, online at PBS Alzheimer’s disease will have a huge public-health impact as baby-boomers age.  There is much research the causes and prevention of this disease.  It difficult to diagnose and difficult to predict. Based on the bestselling book by David Shenk, The Forgetting is the […]

Environment elements 1.    Using information from the video and Wikipedia, discuss the general environment elements that are affecting the companies in the industry and how these forces might affect the companies in the industry in the future.  What opportunities and threats do you perceive? 2.    Please conduct a five forces […]

Wal-Mart Stores: Every Day Low Prices in China 1. What are the sources of Wal – Mart’s cost advantage  in the U.S. 2. Do those sources of cost advantage enable Wal – Mart to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage in the U.S.? 3. Do those sources of cost advantage enable […]

Question: Locke claims (contra Descartes) that empiricists can demonstrate the independent existence of the material world by means of two main ideas/theories: (a) the distinction between primary and secondary properties of objects, and (b) the causal theory of perception. Explain why Berkeley maintains that if empiricists take these ideas seriously, […]