Discuss and debate the role of global businesses in your home and foreign countries. Is the sole purpose of a business to provide a return for their stockholders (“the business of business is business”) or do businesses have a broader social, environmental, and financial purpose (“doing well by doing good”)?

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Global Business Perspectives

Discuss and debate the role of global businesses in your home and foreign countries. Is the sole purpose of a business to provide a return for their stockholders (“the business of business is business”) or do businesses have a broader social, environmental, and financial purpose (“doing well by doing good”)?

Print text or e-book: Global Business, 4th (2015). Peng, Mike W. Mason, OH: South-Western Cengage Learning.

Emerging Diseases in Your Community

This week, we will look into our own communities and discuss emerging diseases.

Look into health data for your community (Baltimore, Maryland). You can look at statistics from your local health department or websites such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Find a disease that is emerging in your community and discuss. Please make sure it is different than your research paper disease. Give the rates and the duration of the increase of this disease. What population does this disease affect most? Discuss what you think can be done to prevent further increase in this disease.

Initial responses should be no less than 200 words in length not including your reference(s) and supported by at least two references (aside from the textbook)

Nutrition from Adulthood to the Elderly Years, Alcohol, and Nutrition for Exercise

In this forum, we will explore topics related to this week’s lesson. Our nutrient needs change as we age and this week you learned about nutrition during the adult years; the phase of the lifecycle in which we spend the most years.

Alcohol is nutrient poor, calorie-rich beverage many people drink. The CDC reports that more than 3/4ths of Americans have consumed at least one alcoholic beverage sometime in their life.

Initial Post: For your initial forum post, pick one of the following topics.

Topic 1: Compare and contrast the healthy benefits of drinking alcohol with the negative effects. Are there any benefits?

Your initial forum must be at least 250 words you need to state your thesis and support it with evidence and at least one outside, reputable reference. Your textbook is not an outside reference.

Summary & Review

What are your final thoughts regarding all the works we have read? What questions are you left with? Where will you go from here? What have you learned? What will you take away from this course?

Milton’s “Paradise Lost

John Bunyan’s “The Pilgrim’s Progress”

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