Iman Ahmad 11/08/08
Prof. Arenstein
English 1000C-133- 70891
ROC 3
Part 1:
For roc 3 I have found two new sources that are beneficial towards my next essay. One source talks about how Wal-Mart improved is healthcare options for its employees. This article is golden for the next assignment because in essay 2 I talked about how Wal-Mart’s healthcare options were inadequate and too expensive. This article arises many questions that I must answer. This article helps explain about improvement of healthcare options. Ideas that arise are also prevalent. What are the ideas that the employees have? What do the employees choose? This article is helpful because it challenges what I said about the healthcare system Wal-Mart provides. Now I can learn more and incorporate more information and use it to even further explaining and analyzing my object text.
The other article is a scholarly article which is progresses the assignment. This scholarly article talks about many aspects about Wal-Mart and doesn’t focus on just one topic like the other article I found. This article will be very useful to the assignment because it give me more insight about Wal-Mart and its affect about the world and my object text. Some questions do arise as do many ideas. Some truths about Wal-Mart are presented and stated. Many facts that can bring great strength to next essay are also presented. One question that arises is about Wal-Mart and its employers and the international expansion of the corporation. I believe more can be written with strong information for the upcoming assignment.
Part 2:Reverse outline
· Topic of the article is Wal-Mart improves its health insurance options. But corporation still insures less than half its U.S employees.
· The inquiry question? What are some new options Wal-Mart proposed?
· Thesis is: The company, according to data available for the first time, is offering better coverage to a greater number of workers. Wal-Mart, the nation’s largest private employer, provides insurance to 100,000 more workers than it did just three years ago.
· Some major pieces of supporting and complicating evidence: it still insures fewer than half its 1.4 million employees in the United States. Now, the chain is even considering weight-loss clinics in its 4,000 stores and is toying with the idea of selling health insurance, hoping to finally bring coverage within reach of most Americans. In the fall of 2005, Wal-Mart made its first stab at responding to its critics, introducing a health plan with premiums as low as $11 a month. A family can pay as little as $250 a year in premiums if it is willing to have a $4,000 deductible and be responsible for as much as $10,000 in medical bills, roughly the same plan that cost them $1,500 a few years ago. There is also a lot more but I will save some information.
Reverse outline scholarly:
· The topics of the articles are trouble on the home front, home truths, extended international family and family values. By home it means Wal-Mart as does family. These two words are just substitutes for the word Wal-Mart.
· The inquiry question: What are some of the realities of Wal-Mart as a factor in each community?
· The Thesis: The strongest opposition to Wal-Mart in the US, however, comes not from retailing opponents but from activists.
· Some major pieces of supporting and complicating evidence: The strongest opposition to Wal-Mart in the US, however, comes not from retailing opponents but from activists. In 2004, 1.2 million people were employed by Wal-Mart in the US, and 1.5 million worldwide. Wal-Mart have responded by promoting the messages of “good works” and “good jobs” to counter these perceptions. In Canada, Mexico and the UK success has been swift. In countries such as Brazil, continental European countries, China and Japan conditions have been more difficult. There is also a lot more information however I am storing it and will use it when the time is right.
Part 3:
Article one (non-scholarly) explains Wal-Mart’s improvements for its employees about health insurance options. The thesis of the article basically states that for the first time Wal-Mart is offering better coverage to its employees. More options are also in play. The most significant premise of the article is the information about the new options of healthcare. Also what the employees think and the statistics and the prices of the new systems. The evidence is all there because prices are being showed from years ago to the current year. We can clearly see the changes if the healthcare options are beneficial or not. The article also brings light to if the employees are accepting this new proposition.
The scholarly article has a whole array of subjects presented throughout the read. Many topics about Wal-Mart are presented and information is given out. The thesis of this scholarly article is: The strongest opposition to Wal-Mart in the US, however, comes not from retailing opponents but from activists. However I do believe there is more than one thesis in this article because there is more than one topic. The most significant premise of the article is hard to determine. There are many important premises throughout the article. One is the activist that oppose Wal-Mart. Some other are: the international expansion of the corporation, employees, its suppliers, and its values as big business, and its effect towards America’s communities.
Part 4:
Two new interesting, yet informative sources have risen for me to grasp. I have searched far and long, but finally two sources have fulfilled my requirements and the assignment’s. Before I found these two sources, I used other sources and compared the similarities and difference between them. But now I must see the relationship between the two new discoveries I found using the internet. After reading each of the sources, the relationship between the two is strong. As I finish reading each source, I found working with the two sources to be similar and durable.
Foremost I will look at the relationship between these two sources. The first source that I will use in my next essay will be an online article I found. This article’s main topic is Wal-Mart improving its employee’s health insurance options. I opposed this subject and brought out the negatives of this topic in essay two. This article explains how Wal-Mart improved its healthcare options and made them more affordable for its workers. However this article states that the corporation still insures less than half its employees. There are many facts and information on this subject throughout the article. Prices for the health care systems are prevalent throughout the article. Employees’ views about this subject are also mentioned.
The next article I scowled up was a scholarly article on Wal-Mart. This article talks about many subjects about Wal-Mart but it does build a relationship with my first article. My first article complements this scholarly article. This article talks about some troubles Wal-Mart faces. The troubles tie into my first article because; the healthcare options are troubles that employees face. And in the scholarly article employees are written about heavily. Other topics the scholarly article talks about international relations to Wal-Mart, which is the growth outside the U.S. The scholarly article is filled with helpful information that will guide me throughout the next assignment.
Overall the relationship is quite well. These two article share a couple of similarities and the differences are obvious. The non-scholarly article really complements the scholarly article by going more in depth on one of the subjects the scholarly article writes about. Quality information can be acquired from both these articles. After reading each article I can work with both articles nicely. I can easily dig up information and incorporate the info into the essay.
Works Cited:
“Wal-Mart’s Family Firm.” Strategic Direction Vol. 22 (2006) 9-12 http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/ViewContentServlet?Filename=Published/EmeraldFullTextArticle/Articles/0560220203.html
Barbaro, Michael and Abelson, Reed “Wal-Mart Improves Employee Health Insurance Options.”
New York Times Nov. 13, 2007. http://www.reclaimdemocracy.org/walmart/2007/improves_health_plans.ph
