Do you believe most Americans benefit from sweatshop labor? Why or why not? Consider the price of goods, jobs that are lost or created by imports, and the competition on manufacturers to have better, cheaper products.
You will conduct an in-depth, 1-hour interview with an individual or married couple from your selected cultural group in order to develop an understanding of the cultural factors that helped shape that individual’s or couple’s cultural identity. A variety of issues may be explored in the interview. The knowledge you gained from both parts of the Cultural Immersion Project as well as your sense of the person/couple you interview will guide you in how personal you can get with your questions. Cultural groups and individuals vary on how private they are. Use their feedback regarding what areas you can probe. If the person is very open, go deeper. If not, respect that cultural boundary and ask yourself why that boundary is there. Issues that you may wish to explore during the interview include, but are not limited to, the following: • Early childhood experiences and parental values; • Earliest memories of recognizing membership in a culturally different group; • The role of religion/spirituality; • Immigration experiences; • Similarities/differences between couples’ interactions in the U.S. to couples’ interactions in the individual’s culture; • School experiences as a member of a cultural minority; • Experiences with subtle racism or discrimination; • Experiences with overt racism or discrimination; • Ways the person/couple chose his/her/their career(s) or made career choices; • The experience of being culturally different; • Attitudes regarding the majority culture; • Extent of desire to assimilate majority cultural attitudes, values, and lifestyles; • Feelings of oppression; • Feelings of anger toward majority culture; • From the person’s/couple’s own cultural background, any potential racist attitudes toward or stereotyping of individuals from other particular cultures; and/or • Strengths identified from the person’s/couple’s cultural background that help him/her/them cope with living in the U.S.
If Theranos had an auditor, what are three audit or accounting issues that they may have found? If Theranos’s 2018 failed share issue had been required to have an audit on the existing company, do you think that would have led to an improved outcome for financial markets? Why or why not?
There is a plethora of data available regarding the Covid-19 pandemic. What reports/dashboards related to this do you find useful? What makes it a good report or dashboard from your point of view? What sources have you found to not be so good? For those that are not so good why do you find them to be less helpful? Note: You can cite reports/dashboards that are directly related to tracking the Covid-19 cases OR reports/dashboards that are related to the impact (e.g. unemployment claims etc).
Focus your interest in pressure systems to investigate how drought in a specific Latin America country is related to high pressure systems. Then you can write a specific research question like: What has been the role of regional high pressure systems in Honduras’ prolonged drought? What is the influence of global climate change?
