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Essay Instructions: You should base your responses to the following questions on the insight found in the 10K SEC filing of Helen of Troy Limited and the following websites.

•U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission http://www.sec.gov.

•Yahoo! Finance http://finance.yahoo.com.

•Hoovers http://www.hoovers.com.

The 10K Form is the Annual Report filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission of a company whose shares trade publicly on U.S. stock exchanges. 10K Forms offer a discussion of risk factors that might potentially affect a company’s bottom line and hence bring about change.

Please answer the following questions:

•Hoovers.com offers descriptions of competitive landscapes for many industries on its website in the section entitled industry overviews. Please cite and describe in your own words the competitive landscape of this industry using this information source.

•Using the 10K filings for the most recent year and for 2000, please examine the risk factors for your company and two of its competitors. For each company, please identify three risks that have remained the same, three risks that were present in 2000 but not in the most recent filing, and three risks that are present in the most recent year but not in 2000.

•Using the 10K filings For all three companies, please identify three risks that were common in 2000 and three risks that are common in the most recent filing.

Please cite your sources in the text and please reference them at the end of your assignment. Please end your write-up with one paragraph that summarizes what you think is the importance of this assignment.

Essay Instructions: What is Dissoi Logoi and how does it help us to make sense of Gorgias? Encomium of Helen?


Although I have asked you one question, in order to answer this question adequately you will need to consider some of the broader themes we have discussed in class. For instance:
- What does it mean that Gorgias was a sophist?
- What is sophistic rhetoric?
- What is Dissoi Logoi and what is its connection to sophistic rhetoric?
- Who was Helen of Troy?
- What is an encomium?
- How does Gorgias? text follow (or not follow) the rules of an encomium?
- Why does Gorgias choose to write about Helen?

This list of questions certainly is NOT exhaustive. However, you should make sure to consider them as you outline your paper. Your paper MUST HAVE A CLEAR THESIS STATEMENT and a TITLE.

You must include a Works Cited page in MLA format.
You must include a word count (the word count will not affect your grade for this first paper, but I would like for you to include it.)


Anonymous. ?Dissoi Logoi.? An Introduction to Classical Rhetoric: Essential Readings. Ed. James D. Williams. West Sussex, U.K.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. 54. Print.

Gorgias. ?The Encomium of Helen.? An Introduction to Classical Rhetoric: Essential Readings. Ed. James D. Williams. West Sussex, U.K.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. 64-66. Print.

Essay Instructions: Company Name: Helen of Troy

Times New Roman 12 Point Font APA Style

No References needed, need to obtain information using state side resources - I need to be able to review or find them on line.

Instructions: Write my part of marketing plan on Helen of Troy

-Marketing Plan Objectives for year 2009 or 2010 2 pages, do not go under 2 pages on this part.

- Differentiation and Positioning for year 2009 or 2010 2 pages, do not go under 2 pages on this part.

Total of 4 pages

Essay Instructions: The aim of this assignment is to offer learners an example of how the competitive environment can serve as a catalyst for change and how companies signal their understanding of these challenges.

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Along with suggesting important frameworks and ideas associated with change management, this course also seeks to offer learners a tool kit of important online information sources along with the knowledge to use these sites to undertake practical research. In this assignment, you are pointed to three sources of information that will enable you to understand the competitive dynamics of an industry. Hoovers.com, in its industry overview section offers clearly written descriptions of the make-up of many competitive landscapes. Yahoo!Finance offers detailed financial information for the industry along with the identities and profiles of companies operating in an industry. Corporate Annual Reports or 10K documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission offer detailed assessments of the risks of operating in specific industries. Knowledge of these three important sources of information enables students to quickly understand what is going on in an industry from the point of view of investors and participants.

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You should base your responses to the following questions on the insight found in the 10K SEC filing of Helen of Troy Limited and the following websites.
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U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission http://www.sec.gov.
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Yahoo! Finance http://finance.yahoo.com.
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Hoovers http://www.hoovers.com.

The 10K Form is the Annual Report filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission of a company whose shares trade publicly on U.S. stock exchanges. 10K Forms offer a discussion of risk factors that might potentially affect a company’s bottom line and hence bring about change.

Please answer the following questions:

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Hoovers.com offers descriptions of competitive landscapes for many industries on its website in the section entitled industry overviews. Please cite and describe in your own words the competitive landscape of this industry using this information source.
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Using the 10K filings for the most recent year and for 2000, please examine the risk factors for your company and two of its competitors. For each company, please identify three risks that have remained the same, three risks that were present in 2000 but not in the most recent filing, and three risks that are present in the most recent year but not in 2000.
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Using the 10K filings For all three companies, please identify three risks that were common in 2000 and three risks that are common in the most recent filing.

Please limit your response to this assignment to three single spaced, typed pages. Please cite your sources in the text and please reference them at the end of your assignment. Please end your write-up with one paragraph that summarizes what you think is the importance of this assignment.