QUESTION ONE

Choose one of your favorite products. Analyze the company’s marketing strategies, referring to the eleven-point checklist. To what extent did their strategy contribute to your purchasing the product? Discuss ways in which you might improve the strategy without resorting to fallacies or misleading advertising. Upload an image of your product so your peers can see it too.

Favorite product is monster energy drinks 

250 words

QUESTION TWO

Politicians have adopted many modern marketing strategies with advertising, polling, telemarketing, and demographic targeting. Identify specific examples of marketing strategies used in recent political campaign. Looking back at the section on “Critical Thinking and Democracy” in Chapter 1, discuss ways in which marketing in politics might violate the democratic process.

250 words

QUESTION THREE

In preparing for this discussion, take some time to view this week’s required videos again. Next, read the following quotes from Nersesian (2016):

Climate change is the mantra of those who blame carbon dioxide buildup in the atmosphere as a sole source of problems that at times include volcanic eruptions and earthquakes. Climate change has been part of Earth’s repertoire for as long as it has existed. There may be other contributors to climate change besides anthropomorphic gases. Perhaps it is time to acknowledge the ultimate unpredictability of climate rather than bet all the chips on a seemingly predictable, but often wrong, oversimplified, deterministic, single variable climate model. Ironically, this book, in looking at fossil fuels as a finite resource and what might be left in a century, concludes along with the global alarmists that reducing carbon dioxide fuels is a desirable course of action—but motivations are far different. (p. 495)

Climate change is continual with warming and cooling cycles, and within these cycles weather patterns change significantly. Treating climate change strictly as a twentieth and twenty-first-century phenomenon that started with burning fossil fuels is absurd. (p. 506)

Carbon dioxide rising simultaneously with temperature is not a persuasive argument that carbon dioxide is a cause of global warming. To the degree that carbon dioxide lags temperature, then the inference is that carbon dioxide does not cause global warming, but is a consequence of higher temperatures. The mechanism that would cause carbon dioxide to lag a rise in temperatures would be warming oceans giving up some of their carbon dioxide content. Methane seemed to follow temperatures better than carbon dioxide throughout … [the most recent] 160,000-year climate history. (p. 511)

Simply put, Nersesian (2016) claims that climate change is not a product of mankind’s use of fossil fuels.

Use the LibraryLinks to an external site. and any evidence presented by Nersesian (2016) to either validate or refute his claim. Remember to take into account the credibility of your sources (including Nersesian). Post a thread that is no less than 350 words and no more than 500 words (not including the References list), stating and defending your conclusion. Title your thread either “I Agree with Nersesian” or “I Disagree with Nersesian.” Whichever position you present, you must fully commit. For purposes of the initial thread, there is NO middle ground!

Make sure to support your work using reputable sources.