Watch the following video (just over 11 minutes) by clicking on the link below: MacNeil/Lehrer Productions (Producer). (1999). Your computer, your way: Dell and the direct sales model [Video file]. Retrieved from https://libraryresources.columbiasouthern.edu/login? auth=CAS&url=http://fod.infobase.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=2... Click here to view a transcript of the video. After viewing the video, answer questions 1 and 2, and select one question from questions 3 and 4 to answer. 1. Compare Dell's supply chain and logistics innovations with the competitive responses from competitors such as the Apple Store and others. 2. Discuss the emerging supply chain and logistics management factors shown in the video that were already negatively affecting large computer chain stores. Answer question 3 or 4 below: 3. Explain how these technology-driven factors were not enough to enable some businesses to survive the online competitive entrance into the market. 4. In what ways may market research have helped prevent these large technology businesses from failing? Each of your three responses should be at least one page in length; therefore, with an introduction and conclusion included, your essay should be at least four pages in length. In addition to the video, your essay must reference at least one article of your choice from a business-related or news website; therefore, your essay should reference at least two sources. Your essay must be in APA format. All paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying in-text citations and references. Title and reference pages do not count toward the minimum length requirement.

Assignment 1The podcast story "Ask Not for Whom the Bell Trolls, It Trolls for Thee (Links to an external site.)" extends the concept of the male gaze, surveillance, and misogyny to internet comments and commentary. If the "male gaze" is about the objectification of women in popular representations, what does this story tell us about the subjectification of women on the internet? That is, what does it tell us about popular responses to women who act as agents or subjects (have power over) the way they represent themselves?How can the following quote from the Banet-Weiser reading (from unit 2) apply?"Casting women as sex objects in media, culture, and politics has been a powerful mechanism of control, because to be objectified, as Laura Mulvey ([1975] 1989) wrote long ago, is to be transfigured into a thing to be looked at, gazed upon. However, when the gaze is returned, the status of object is disrupted, and it is harder to manage the control over a sexual subject” (Banet-Weiser 63).Assignment 2After completing/reviewing Activity 3.2, write a paragraph response that explains how “ratchet feminism” relates to Beyoncé’s music video “6 inch (Links to an external site.).” Be sure to incorporate at least one quote from the Tinsley reading "Most Bomb Pussy" and to explain what ratchet feminism is. Activity 3.2: Molly Crabapple video On pp. 90-92, Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley analyzes Beyoncé’s music video “6 inch (Links to an external site.)” in relation to sex work. Acknowledging that mainstream social assumptions about whether sex work often cast it as "unacceptable," "immoral," and not "respectable," Tinsley wants to reclaim and redefine it. She says: “every ratchet black woman is transgressive in the way ‘she defies patriarchal criteria of feminine respectability” (91).In her discussion of “video vixen” Chyna and reality tv star Joseline Hernandez, Tinsley re-reads their work – what could be described as sex work – as a “creative skill” that “conjures beauty out of negativity” (82). Nevertheless, she recognizes that they have faced stigma and even criminalization for their work: Joseline “was arrested twice for lewd and lascivious behavior” (87), for example.Watch this video, by Molly Crabapple, about the criminalization of sex work and the way it particularly impacts women of color and queer people of color: “How Police Profile and Shame Sex Workers (Links to an external site.) Reading these two texts together, we can deduce that sex workers are criminalized – in part -- because their sexuality is powerful – it is perceived as dangerous to the patriarchal social order.

The Trolley Problem is a famous hypothetical ethical dilemma often referred to as a thought experiment. This moral paradox was first posed by Phillipa Foot in 1967. Far from solving the dilemma, the trolley problem launched a wave of further investigation into the philosophical quandary it raises. And it's still being debated today. View the following YouTube videos regarding trolley dilemmas:Trolley Car Dilemma - Harvard's Michael Sandel (14:59) - In this video, Havard professor Micahel Sandel discusses the classic Trolley Dilemma and its various versions to an ethics class. As you view the video, reflect on the scenario presented to you in the module overview.The Trolley Problem and Ethics of Driver-less Cars (5:07) - While the various Trolley Dilemmas represent hypothetical (and thus somewhat unrealistic) situations, this video depicts a modern, real-world example of the application of the same kinds of dilemmas and decisions.After watching the video(s), address the following questions:How would you respond to each of the five variants of the Trolley Problem described? Be thorough and justify your reasoning. For each scenario, think about whether or not the answers to the following two questions differ: What is the right thing to do, and what would you do? In each of these cases 1-4, the result will be the death of one person and saving the lives of five people.After watching the video(s), address the following questions:How would you respond to each of the five variants of the Trolley Problem described? Be thorough and justify your reasoning. For each scenario, think about whether or not the answers to the following two questions differ: What is the right thing to do, and what would you do? In each of these cases 1-4, the result will be the death of one person and saving the lives of five people.Variants of the Trolly ProblemOriginal problem - you are the trolley driver; the decision is to pull switch or not.Fat man variant - you are an observer on a bridge; the decision is to push fat man or not.Fat man/villain variant - you are an observer on a bridge; the decision is to push fat man or not; fat man is the villain who put the five people in danger on the tracks.Loved one variant - you are the trolley driver; the decision is to pull the switch or not; the one person that would die if you pull the switch is a dear loved one of yours (parent, child, spouse, etc.)Man sleeping in his yard variant - you can divert trolley's path by colliding another trolley into it, but if you do, both will be derailed and go down a hill, and into a yard where a man is sleeping in a hammock. He would be killed.What if instead of killing one person to save five, your action would result in killing four people to save five? Would you change your behavior in any of the situations? Why or why not?Transplant variant - This version addresses some of the same core issues as the Trolley Problem but with the following scenario: A brilliant transplant surgeon has five patients, each in need of a different organ, each of whom will die without that organ. Unfortunately, there are no organs available to perform any of these five transplant operations. A healthy young traveler, just passing through the city the doctor works in, comes in for a routine checkup. In the course of doing the checkup, the doctor discovers that his organs are compatible with all five of his dying patients. Suppose that if the young man were to disappear, no one would suspect the doctor. Should the doctor to kill that tourist and provide his healthy organs to those five dying persons to save their lives? How is this the scenario the same, and how does it differ from the Trolley Problem?