You are required to establish your own E-Commerce business. Please try to find a business that is very suitable for online thru the Internet. Your proposal must include a cover page showing your E-Commerce company name and the website address along with your name. Please see the posted sample E-Commerce assignment. Submit your proposal thru the Blackboard submission link. To receive full credit, you must keep in mind that your proposal must be well organized, logical, accurate, and specific. Your proposal MUST include the following guidelines:  Company name (i.e., Amazon, Inc., Ebay, Inc, esystems21, Inc…)  Company Internet address (URL) by your free website builder such as www.wix.com: your free website builder will provide a free Internet address.  Industry analysis using 5 Competitive Forces Model (see chap 1 for detail or Google it!): please make sure that your industry analysis is accurate and thorough  Company’s mission  Business description a) What will you be selling? Products, Services, or Both? b) Is it Business to Business, Business to Consumer, or both? c) Where will you be located, and why? Will locate the business on a major Internet backbone such as San Jose or other big cities? – if not – please explain why. d) What will be your primary source of revenue? – If the site sells products and services, the revenue stream is observable and is considered “straightforward.” If the revenue is produced in another manner, the revenue stream must be clearly presented. It is assumed the website is a “pro-profit” entity. e) How will you attain distribution? f) How can you make sure that your company exists? If no one knows your website exists, your company can be out of business sooner or later. g) What will be your competitive advantage? – cost leadership, differentiation, focus, or something else

Description 1. Choose one invention or product which has changed human everyday life, wellbeing, and/or health. This can be one of the inventions you chose for the formative assessment. Develop a research question that investigates a specific aspect of this invention. In order to do so keep the key concept (time, place and space), related concepts (causality; innovation and revolution), global context (identities and relationships), and the statement of inquiry in mind (see all of these below). Thinking about the concepts of history also helps in developing questions and structuring your answers: change, continuity, causation, consequence, significance, perspectives. 2. Create a 5-minutes-long presentation which answers your research question. Like an essay, there should be the following parts: – an introduction (five Ws of your invention: Who, What, When Where, and Why; the explanation and justification of why your research question is important and relevant) – three points which answer your question structure them like a PEEL – Point Evidence Explanation Link – paragraph as evidence for each point you should use historical facts (specific events and dates), and primary (statistics, data, images, newspapers, diaries, letters, government papers etc.) and secondary (historians’ opinions and interpretations; quotes) sources you must refer to: how does the invention improve people’s lives; how is the invention produced, distributed, and how easily available is it; how is the invention advertised to convince people it is needed and useful; how have governments regulated the invention with laws, patents etc. Find evidence for them a conclusion which summarises your evidence and where you give an overall answer to your research question – a bibliography in a recognisable format (MLA) Remember that your keynotes should be clear, aesthetically pleasing, and easy to follow while also listening to you speaking (i.e. don’t use too many images or graphs per slide; don’t use too much text but only put important keywords on your slides, the rest can go in your presenter notes). UPLOAD the presentation including your speaker notes as pdf (these can be two separate documents). —- The following resources are attached: – How to Write a Research Question – Evaluating Information Sources – Footnote MLA format – PEEL method —- Statement of Inquiry: “Innovation in medicine and technology affect, and improve, human health. These developments are mirrored first and foremost in our household and daily lives where material possessions and physical wellbeing have become increasingly important.” Key Concept: Time, place and space The intrinsically-linked concept of time, space and place refers to the absolute or relative position of people, objects and ideas. ‘Time, place and space’ focuses on how we construct and use our understanding of location (“where” and “when”). Related Concepts: Innovation and revolution; Perspective Global Context: Identities and Relationships Who am I? Who are we? Students will explore identity; beliefs and values; personal, physical, mental, social and spiritual health; human relationships including families, friends, communities and cultures; what it means to be human.

InstructionsStudents will prepare an essay (1100 words, +/- 100 words, excluding Title and Reference pages).Choose a topic from the list below:Argue why Josef Pieper conception of leisure is the best one in modernity, or instead why it might be a limited conception in comparison to another theory of leisure.Argue why a life is better with leisure today, and why for the classical Greeks, an absence of leisure meant an absence of a happy life.Argue why John Dewey and modern liberal thinkers did not agree with Aristotle’s ideas on education or on leisure generally.Argue how modern psychological conceptions of happiness and the classical idea of happiness in Aristotle differ.What was the “Greek Leisure Ideal” and how would it manifest today according to Sebastian De Grazia? What happened to it?Argue why the liberal arts are so important in education and leisure, and explain its Greek origin and how that is received today.You must choose from this list, but it can be modified slightly if you have an idea you wish to pursue. The main requirement is that you must contrast at least one ancient thinker and one modern one.The paper must be well researched and contain a minimum of 6 sound academic sources.Textbook or course readings may be used, but do not count in this totalAt least 3 of the new sources should be peer reviewed sourcesThe paper must be free of spelling and grammatic errors, and written and organized according to APA style.