Exam essay !!!!!!

Time is 9 AM EST on Oct 10th to 9 AM on Oct 11th. 24 hours to finish

There will be 2 essays and the first essay should less than 650 words and the second essay should less than 800 words

!!! Here is an example of the past essays. You need to use the examples in the note as examples to support the essay.

ESSAY QUESTION #1: Pick A or B and write up to 650 words. Support your arguments and conclusions with relevant law, values, and cases.

 A.) How does the law of copyright in the United States seek to balance free expression with the property right embodied in copyright ownership – that is the balance between owning some works and the right to create new works or new expression, the right to comment, and the right to speak freely on matters of public importance? — OR B.) What is the actual malice standard in the law of defamation and how does it balance various competing interests under the First Amendment and in defamation law in the United States? Does it strike the right balance? Should it be changed? Why or why not? If yes, how? 

ESSAY QUESTION #2: You may remember a few of these characters from the last test. They are back. Blanca Dumbshell and her very wealthy, politically connected fourth husband, Jared Bagmanov, recently moved to Florida, purchasing a palatial waterfront estate on Star Island in the City of Miami Beach. Blanca is the daughter of Adolph J. Duckface, the now-deceased leader of the Nazi-American Party Against Leftist Maniacs (NAPALM for short). Duckface made his fortune producing and selling vast quantities of pornographic videos on the Internet. He also ran and frequented brothels of this is false and Blanca has demanded that Hillary take down those comments or face litigation. Hillary and Blanca’s war of Internet words heated up recently when Blanca posted pictures and videos of Hillary, who has gained two hundred or more pounds and has not seen a gym in years. Hillary is shown sunbathing nude in Hillary’s backyard with her girlfriend and partner (who can be heard talking about a strip poker game) and also alone on a public, clothing-optional beach. The photographs and videos appear to have been taken either by a drone or with a telephoto lens. On Blanca’s most recent radio and cable talk show, she showed and described the videos and photos and several callers discussed how these photographs and videos show that Hillary is still in the closet, that her partner is probably a criminal and sadist, and that Hillary is not fit to eat at any McDonald’s. Blanca now uses one of the photos framed by Golden Arches in an ad for her diet. Hillary responded by posting a pornographic video she said was made by Blanca while Blanca was in high school and under the Candy Stump pseudonym as well as 10 minutes of a more recent pornographic video featuring Blanca, Felania Duckface, and a Michelle Obama lookalike. Hillary labeled Blanca the “deranged daughter of a Nazi murderer and pedophile.” This recent video is owned by Either Extreme Videos in Chatsworth, California. Hillary has overdubbed the sound and added subtitles showing the three of them talking about how they are duping the followers of the McDonald’s diet and making millions off these idiots. Blanca responded by posting a short JIBJAB-like cartoon showing Hillary raping teenagers, slitting their throats, and drinking their blood while wearing a Burger King Crown and eating a Burger King Whopper with extra cheese. Everyone is upset and hiring lawyers to threaten and file legal action. By everyone, I mean everyone, from Blanca to Hillary and the unnamed girlfriend to McDonald’s and Burger King to Don’s Dough, Felania, and even the real Michelle Obama. For example, Hillary has demanded time to reply to the allegations under the Fairness Doctrine and Equal time rule. The FCC is looking into the entire matter. Extreme Videos wants to sue for the use of its videotape. Several want to sue Google, Cheatcast, and WQQQ. There are more than a few criminal prosecutors looking at various postings. Even the estate of Duckface wants to sue. The only people not suing are Bagmanov and Felania who are blissfully engaged in a drug-fueled extra-marital affair and living happily in Mar-a-Lago, Florida. With reference to the topics, we have covered since the first test, identify the relevant issues and law and apply the law to the facts and issues. 

Explain your conclusions. Cite and explain relevant cases. You may write up to 800 words.

2 discussion boards (250 words each discussion)

***6.1 Discussion Board***

Introduction
In but a few short pages, Kate Chopin gives us the story of an abandoned woman, taken in by an older couple, raised as their own, married to a man of great wealth, bearing a child, and once again being tossed aside – this time with a child. 

The twice-abandoned Desiree finds solace in Madame Valmonde both times. Madame Valmonde shows Desiree uncompromised love both as a child and as an adult with her own child. It is Armand who is cold and callous, casting Desiree out because their child shows signs of being multi-racial.

A few questions arise about the way in which Kate Chopin is using race as a symbol in “Desiree’s Baby.”

Initial Post Instructions
How does the reaction to race symbolize Chopin’s assessment of the fragility of love and understanding between men and women? (Consider both Armand and Madame Valmonde’s reactions.) 

Is Chopin using the child’s multi-racial features to reveal a secret Armand is desperate to keep or do we automatically assume Desiree is multi-racial simply because she was abandoned as a child?

***6.2 Discussion Board***

Introduction
In Greek tragedies, there was always a chorus who served as the population of a given city, a group of soldiers, a collection of servants – a mass of people who had a relevant relationship to the story at hand. This collection of characters was usually of a like mindset or bandied questions among themselves. The chorus often spoke to the audience directly, warning of what was to come and assessing the injustice taking place around them. 

Initial Post Instructions
Analyze the extent to which Zora Neale Hurston is using ‘the men’ from town as a Greek chorus in “Sweat.” Are they accomplishing the various goals laid out above, or are they serving another purpose as well? 

The story contains an interesting collection of violence. To what extent do you hold Delia responsible for Syke’s death? Do you consider her a murderer?

This assessment is a written submission exam

Students are required to develop a Social Media Plan for launching or developing a brand in Spain

Feel free to work with one of the brands suggested or to work with a brand of your choice.

Brands suggested: Patagonia, Glovo, Adidas, Kerastase, Biomanan, Beyond meat, Gutbio, Smart, Heineken, Supradyn,

Include in your research the most relevant communication examples (video links, infographics, pictures, visuals) of the most relevant actions in the network platforms).

Develop the following points:

• –  Define Social media goals, aligned with the marketing plan and the business goals
• –  Competitive analyses
• –  Audit your brand Social Media presence
• –  Analyze the audience – Define your target persona
• –  Social Media Campaign
  o Define your Social media key priorities – Define specific SMART goals and strategies
  o Social media mix – Network channel (platforms) selection to reach the Target Audience – define specific goals per network o Define metrics per action/network
  o Define relevant content (key messages aligned with your objective, strategy and mission).
  o Create an activity calendar
  o Budget
  The report should be in word document format and must be uploaded to a Turnitin folder created on the course Moodle platform.

Formalities:

o Word: Word count: 1500-2000 words.(include your research and your findings)
o Cover, Table of Contents, References and Appendix are excluded of the total word count. o Font: Arial, size 11
o Text alignment: Justified
o The in-text References and the Bibliography have to be in Harvard’s citation style.

Requesting 200 words response to the following post using at least three substantive peer-reviewed scholarly journal articles (different than in the below post) to provide those substantive replies.   You may utilize only the main article as a reference.   

Key Term and Interest Reasoning

 Upon completing the reading for Chapter Five, Financial Markets and Monetary Systems in Cross Border Commerce, the subsection explaining the International Monetary Fund was appealing after learning the institution was implemented due to the Brenton Woods Agreement and was created to help preserve the global monetary system. (Satterlee, 2018). I wish to further understand how the International Monetary Fund operates and whether it is a significant factor in helping developing nations achieve better economies. Hopefully, during this research, I will also explain how the International Monetary Fund receives capital and whether the organization makes decisions independently or is influenced by the funding contributors. 

Explanation of the Key Term

 The International Monetary Fund was one of the outcomes of the Bretton Woods Agreement following World War II. Which was initially intended to promote international trade help develop an exchange system to achieve this goal. The role of the International Monetary Fund is more of a supervisory role when dealing with the exchange rates between member countries. It uses its position also to influence member countries to place national currency into other countries by having the convertibility rates free to do so (Satterlee, 2018).

              Simply the International Monetary Fund was intended to be the organization to create organization and uniformity in the global monetary system. Other roles of the International Monetary Fund are providing capital loans to specific developing nations (Satterlee, 2018). The main objective was to increase the standard of living among its citizens, boosting the market and increasing the global economy overall. Generally, with the implementation of the International Monetary Fund, the interests of the undeveloped nations have now become the priorities for developed countries that wish to continue to reap the benefits of a prosperous global economy (Satterlee, 2018).

Why Do Countries Request Assistance from International Monetary Fund? An Empirical Analysis

            In this article, researchers wished to understand why specific countries seek assistance from the International Monetary Fund and whether these loans and programs offered are helpful to boost the economy in these countries. The International Monetary Fund was constructed to be an independent internal organization that could provide financial assistance to member countries if needed and creates stability and economic growth globally, which is accomplished by its 190 member countries (Siddique et al., 2021). Generally, many of the countries that choose an IMF lending program have poor macroeconomic conditions and poor fiscal management resulting in large amounts of debt (Siddique et al., 2021).

            When member countries experience domestic or global crises, the IMF is responsible for intervening and providing financial support and offering various lending plans to the member countries (Siddique et al., 2021). There are currently 50 countries connected with lending programs from the IMF, and hundreds of billions of dollars being allocated to these member countries to ensure success, which may be a positive for some. Still, critics of the IMF feel that the institution is not transparent enough and that these lending programs are not meeting the intended goals of successfully improving these developing economies (Siddique et al., 2021).

            Lastly, the researchers recognized that the IMF is a financial assistance organization that can help countries experiencing economic vulnerabilities. The IMF’s temporary support can address current deficits or debts owed by administering policy plans to grow the economy. Still, the country has to stay diligent if they want to become prosperous (Siddique et al., 2021). Typically, countries that are considered middle-income countries are positively affected by the IMF’s influence within the first year and continue to grow in the following three years.

            For the lower-income countries impact from the IMF is insignificant until year three of participation, which can be harmful to those counties because they are already experiencing a poor economy and possibly poor political leadership (Siddique et al., 2021). Therefore, it seems as though the IMF can be better perceived as a tool that analyzes certain economic factors and provides a plan to help these countries succeed. However, it is ultimately up to the nations and their leaders to implement these plans to become prosperous and develop a strong economy.

Discussion

            The International Monetary Fund has been an organization focused on increasing the prosperity of the global economy overall. In general, the concept of helping member nations regardless of whether they are a world leader, or a developing nation is good. Countries that can help these developing nations are being charitable but are ultimately helping their economy in the future. Once these countries become stable, they can continue to increase imports and exports with other countries, leading to expanding global economies.

           Recently with the increase of world interest rates and the emergence of frequent economic crises has provided the IMF with a significant role on the global stage. The capital flows between countries are typically more positive during economic prosperity. For the IMF regulating the exchange rates and balancing funding are aspects that can continue these positive flows (Wilczyński, 2011). Countries that have developed a relationship with the United States are more likely to obtain IMF support. The United States has a large quota share between the member nations of the IMF. Therefore, its economic impact and influence globally have also been shown to influence IMF decisions (Mody & Saravia, 2013).

           Regarding developing nations, those countries with low foreign direct investment and poor credibility are generally overlooked by the IMF. However, those with a seemingly better economic foundation and rule and policies in place are more likely to receive funding (Arabaci & Ecer, 2014). Some researchers have discovered that countries that sign an agreement with the IMF typically experience lower foreign direct investment opportunities due to the strict guidelines the IMF places on the counties to receive funding (Arabaci & Ecer, 2014).

           In recent years, the IMF has attempted to increase focus on funding to raise living conditions and improve the social impact the IMF has globally. Even though the United States has some influence with the IMF, many of the other member countries have not exhibited the same interest in increasing funding for social issues (Reinold, 2016). Which over time has hurt the overall image of the IMF, but over time the organization has been increasingly more transparent and more receptive to criticism. Hopefully, the organization can help countries improve living conditions along with strengthening the overall economy effectively in the future.

                                                                          References 

Arabaci, M. C., & Ecer, S. (2014). The international monetary fund (IMF) and the catalytic effect: Do IMF agreements improve access of emerging economies to international financial markets? The World Economy, 37(11), 1575–1588. https://doi.org/10.1111/twec.12145 

Mody, A., & Saravia, D. (2013). The response speed of the international monetary fund. International Finance, 16(2), 189–211. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2362.2013.12031.x 

Reinold, T. (2016). The path of least resistance: Mainstreaming “Social Issues” in the international monetary fund. Global Society, 31(3), 392–416. https://doi.org/10.1080/13600826.2016.1203764 

Satterlee, B. C. (2018). Cross Border Commerce (3rd ed.). Synergistics International Inc.

Siddique, I., Hayat, M. A., Naeem, M. Z., Ejaz, A., Spulbar, C., Birau, R., & Calugaru, T. (2021). Why do countries request assistance from international monetary fund? An empirical analysis. Journal of Risk and Financial Management, 14(3), 98. https://doi.org/10.3390/jrfm14030098 

Wilczyński, R. (2011). Global financial governance: A perspective from the international monetary fund. Contemporary Economics, 5(1), 4. https://doi.org/10.5709/ce.1897-9254.1