The Substitute

Sugar Changed The World Introduction In today’s world, sugar is a common ingredient in a person’s diet. According to a Forbes study in 2012, the average American adult consumes one-hundred thirty pounds of refined sugar per year (Walton, 1). Prior to sugar, honey was used as a primary sweetener. Honey does not have a consistent flavor because bees use local flowers in making their honey. Honey’s flavor can range from sweet to bitter, depending on the flowers available in a local area. In…

First off, what is a nudge you may ask? The idea behind a nudge is to give people a set of options that are designed to push them into making a certain choice. Behavioral economists call this choice architecture. A successful nudge revolves around providing a chosen default option so that when consumers don’t choose actively, the default choice is made on their behalf. A common nudge is to reframe opt-in/out defaults for programs that involve enrollment choices. Organ-donation programs in A…

The Effects of Aspartame I. Introduction A. Topic 1) Research question: Should aspartame be allowed to remain in foods, is it worth the risk? 2) Working thesis: The risk of consuming aspartame does not outweigh the risks associated with consuming it and must be removed from. 3) Angle: Conflicting research needs to be analyzed to find why there are so many conflicting reports between respected experts in their fields. The side effects and risks that have been show in some research should cause…

Substitute teachers; they are either loved or hated. Depending on who it is, hearing that there is a substitute can arise joy for everyone in the class; other times the substitute will make you lose your will to live. Either way whenever it is heard that there is a substitute in a class everyone asks, “For what class?”; and “Who is it?”. The substitute that seems like they have no will to live anymore. This substitute often does not care what the class is doing as long as it is quite in the…

alcohol has a appropriate substitutes, minimum price could be an effective solution to reduce alcohol consumption. Substitutes are products which can replace the goods (Tribe,J 2011). When price of a good is increased, the demand of substitutes is increased. Minimum price policy makes the alcohol’s price higher, the demand of alcohol’s substitutes will be higher, whilst the demand of alcohol will going down. Concretely, professor David Nutt has developed a drug to substitute alcohol and does not…

Elasticity Paper In this paper, we will examine the elements of price elasticity. Also, we will discuss substitute and complement goods and the differences between them. Price elasticity is a concept used in economics to describe how a change in price affects a demand or supply curve; specifically, the degree of change in reaction to a price change (Heakel, 2015). Elasticity is measured by dividing the percentage of change of quantity by the percentage of change in price (Colander, 2013). The…

Today if a teenager does not seek help or advice from her parents, she is seeking it from another source- mostly like a substitute parent. Parenting is not easy today and neither was it in England during the 18th century. In Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, the theme of parenting focuses of the roles of biological parents, inadequate substitutes, and respectable substitutes. In Pride and Prejudice Mr. and Mrs. Bennet neglect their parenting duties. Mr. Bennet is an “odd mixture of quick…

The best indicator of student achievement is the quality of the teacher. Good teachers produce learning students, and there is no substitute for a good teacher. In the process of interviewing parents for this report, I discovered a few findings that reveal important points about teacher attendance. I began with interviews of parents of students within Neshoba County School District. Not surprising, the parent interviews showed that parents are not aware when teachers will be absent. In…

placed on timeout or was called out in front of the class, he would feel discouraged. One of the days that I had come into the classroom, the class had a substitute teacher for half the day. This substitute teacher was very calm and understanding and knew that this student was on a behavior contract. As soon as the day started, the substitute teacher quietly turned to the student on the…

➢ Low switching cost. Porter Five force analysis model indicates that substitutes have strong potential to negative impact Starbucks Coffee’s business Starbucks customers can easily shift to substitutes because there are many substitutes such as beverages from restaurants, bottled beverages and other good from grocery stores. As Starbucks has Partnered with several firms to extend its brand into new categories’…