discussion In the first part of your initial post, you will need to introduce the Abercrombie & Fitch lawsuit. In this introduction, you will also need to (1) articulate the freedoms that companies in the United States enjoy given our relatively-free market system and (2) present the Title VII regulations concerning employment discrimination. These will provide the setting for you to be able to examine how the nation’s laws affect the hiring practices of Abercrombie & Fitch and other companies whose hiring policy includes a particular aesthetic for employees. In the second part of your initial post, present your analysis of this case in a way that identifies which entities (Abercrombie & Fitch as a corporation, the economic system in the USA, the regulatory control of the state, or all of these) have a role in the problem that led to the lawsuit under examination. In your analysis, you must assess the positive or negative effects of the interplay between business activity and one of the following: the free-market system, advertising, hiring regulations, or corporate social responsibility. Your focus must be an ethical analysis of this interplay. Be sure to clearly identify the ethical theory that you are applying in your analysis, and to support your analysis by reliable and/or scholarly sources. Revise: Read the feedback provided by your professor to your initial post, either directly to you or to your fellow students. Use this as an opportunity to learn from your professor, especially with regard to the best ways to apply the course material and your research to your analysis. On the basis of what you have learned in this process, post an improved revision of your initial post that applies the additional knowledge that you have gained. Remember that your grade depends on the quality of your initial and revised responses, not just on the submission of an attempt at improvement. It is thus to your advantage to post the best initial post you can and then to also improve that best effort as much as you can through revision. Requirements for Your Initial Post: Your initial post should be at least 350 words in length and have citations and references in APA notation. It should address the prompt in its entirety. This means that you should not split your response to the prompt in multiple posts. Your examination should be both thorough and succinct. This is a combination that demands time and thought, so give yourself sufficient time to draft and revise. Please be advised that until you post, you will not see what your fellow students are posting. Once you submit your post, you will be able to view the posts from your other classmates. You can then proceed to reply to at least two different threads based on the required material for this discussion. Your list of references for your initial post should include not only the video and the other required material for this discussion, as well as the Instructor Guidance and any other announcements.

1. discussion
In the first part of your initial post, you will need to introduce
the Abercrombie & Fitch lawsuit. In this introduction, you will
also need to (1) articulate the freedoms that companies in the
United States enjoy given our relatively-free market system and
(2) present the Title VII regulations concerning employment
discrimination. These will provide the setting for you to be able
to examine how the nation’s laws affect the hiring practices of
Abercrombie & Fitch and other companies whose hiring policy
includes a particular aesthetic for employees.
In the second part of your initial post, present your analysis of
this case in a way that identifies which entities (Abercrombie &
Fitch as a corporation, the economic system in the USA, the
regulatory control of the state, or all of these) have a role in the
problem that led to the lawsuit under examination. In your
analysis, you must assess the positive or negative effects of the
interplay between business activity and one of the following:
the free-market system, advertising, hiring regulations, or
corporate social responsibility. Your focus must be an ethical
analysis of this interplay. Be sure to clearly identify the ethical
theory that you are applying in your analysis, and to support
your analysis by reliable and/or scholarly sources.
Revise:
Read the feedback provided by your professor to your initial
post, either directly to you or to your fellow students. Use this
as an opportunity to learn from your professor, especially with
regard to the best ways to apply the course material and your
research to your analysis. On the basis of what you have learned
in this process, post an improved revision of your initial post
that applies the additional knowledge that you have gained.
Remember that your grade depends on the quality of your initial
and revised responses, not just on the submission of an attempt
at improvement. It is thus to your advantage to post the best
initial post you can and then to also improve that best effort as

2. much as you can through revision.
Requirements for Your Initial Post:
Your initial post should be
at least 350 words
in length and have citations and references in APA notation. It
should address the prompt in its entirety. This means that you
should not split your response to the prompt in multiple posts.
Your examination should be both thorough and succinct. This is
a combination that demands time and thought, so give yourself
sufficient time to draft and revise.
Please be advised that until you post, you will not see what your
fellow students are posting. Once you submit your post, you
will be able to view the posts from your other classmates. You
can then proceed to reply to at least two different threads based
on the required material for this discussion.
Your list of references for your initial post should include not
only the video and the other required material for this
discussion, as well as the Instructor Guidance and any other
announcements presented to you by your professor. Use all of
the material presented to you in the course and by your
professor, in addition to any other sources that you consulted to
inform yourself about this case (but not Wikipedia or similar
sources).
Your initial post for this discussion should be submitted
no later than the end of Thursday (11:59 pm, U.S. Mountain
time)
.
Requirements for Replies to Other Threads:
At least two of the four posts required should be in the form of
replies to fellow classmates in threads other than your own.
Each of your replies should be at least
200 words

3. , and informed by the course material. As such, the replies must
have citations and references in APA notation. Your list of
references for each reply should include all of the course
material that has informed your reply, in addition to any
research that you have obtained on your own.
Your replies should focus on the specific examination presented
by your fellow student and these should include an examination
of whether or not the characteristics of the ethical theory and/or
economic system were identified well, and whether or not their
application and analysis was also carried out successfully.
Providing such an examination is not an attack on your fellow
student but an attempt to work together with your fellow student
toward the better understanding of the ethical theories
employed, as well as their application.
Requirements for
Revising
Your Initial Post:
Submit a revision of your initial post by either replying to your
own post, or to the feedback provided to you by your professor.
There is no minimum word requirement for your revised initial
post. But you should always explain the reasons for revising
your post so that it is clear what you are doing. If you are
revising only a few words, or an ethical theory, you should
avoid submiting a post with vague language.As it has been
pointed out in each of the past weeks, it is important to
recognize that no one can read your mind so you need to
provide the setting for your revision (Why? What prompted it?
What course material informed you?), and it is important to
write in clear language and complete sentences.
Your revised initial post is your chance to correct any
oversights or errors in your initial post, or show your improved
understanding of the material and its applications to the case at
hand. You may, for example, come to the realization that
another ethical theory is better than the one that you initially

4. chose. Accordingly, your revision should indicate that you
chose another ethical theory and an explanation why you find
the replacement more suitable. You may also find the need to
revise any relevant portions of your analysis. Or, you might
have realized that your conclusion did not take into account
important factors necessary for your evaluation of the situation.
You should maximize the improvement of your initial post by
employing your professor’s feedback as a guide. Keep in mind
that you may not always receive direct feedback from your
professor. But your professor will have submitted feedback in
the discussion to other posts. Read your professor’s feedback
whether it is addressed to you directly or to other fellow
students. This will give you much to think about and apply to
your own post.
If your professor or a fellow classmate responds to your revised
initial post, and on this basis, you find good reason to submit
yet another revision, then by all means do so. The more you
improve your initial post, the more you will benefit both in
terms of your learning and most likely your grade.
Carefully review the
Discussion Forum Grading Rubric
for the criteria that will be used to evaluate this Discussion
Thread.
final
In the Week Three Assignment, you engaged in a case analysis
of a current business problem using some of the components of
an argumentative essay. In this written assignment, you will
write a complete argumentative essay as described in Sections
9.1 and 9.2 of
With Good Reason: A Guide to Critical Thinking
(Foster, Hardy, & Zúñiga y Postigo, 2015). This essay will
include a revised and polished version of your Week Three
Assignment, an objection to your thesis, a rebuttal, and

5. concluding remarks. In order to benefit the most, you should
start working on your Final Project from the time you receive
your Week Three Assignment back with comments from your
professor.
Your assignment should include the following:
A revision of your Week Three Case Analysis Assignment
. Your revision should represent a substantial edit of your work
that fully incorporates feedback from your professor and goes
well beyond correcting any grammatical or APA errors.
The strongest possible objection to your thesis
. After the final paragraph of your Week Three Case Analysis
Assignment, start a new paragraph that introduces the strongest
possible objection to your thesis. The considerations for this are
detailed in Section 9.2 of
With Good Reason: A Guide to Critical Thinking
(Hardy, Foster, & Zúñiga y Postigo, 2015). Make sure to
employ the appropriate language to introduce the objection,
such as “some may object to my thesis as follows” or
“according to [so and so] the thesis presented here fails to
account for X” [whatever he or she finds problematic]. You can
find other language to do this, of course, but the key point here
is to make sure that you indicate that someone else is speaking
when presenting this objection.
It is also important to remember that you do research to
discover good objections and not merely objections that are
weak and thus easily rebutted. Look for peer-reviewed journal
articles in the Ashford University Library, full-text articles in
Google Scholar, or articles in the Stanford Encyclopedia of
Philosophy. Present the opposing position fairly and in detail.
This may take more than one paragraph.
A rebuttal
. This is a refutation of the objection that you have just
presented. Start this in a new paragraph following the objection
paragraph(s). Once again, follow the indications of Section 9.2
of
With Good Reason: A Guide to Critical Thinking

6. (Hardy, Foster, & Zúñiga y Postigo, 2015). You may point out
an error in the objection. Or you may show that, while it is an
important objection, it does not apply squarely to your
argument, or does not account for facts that make it irrelevant.
Above all, make sure to maintain philosophical decorum in your
rebuttal. Toward this end, you should apply the principles of
charity and of accuracy, first introduced in the Week One
course material. See “Confronting Disagreement” in Section 9.4
of
With Good Reason: A Guide to Critical Thinking
(Hardy, Foster, & Zúñiga y Postigo, 2015).
Closing remarks
. End your argumentative essay with a paragraph of closing
remarks. Provide some reflections of what you have attempted
to achieve by means of your essay. You could, for example,
explain how your essay sheds light on the broader controversy
that it addresses. Or you could point out how your essay
addresses a frequently ignored point or the unpopular side in the
controversy. You could also reflect on the related matters in the
broader controversy that would be useful to examine by others.
Do not merely summarize what you have done in the body of
your essay, and do not add new information here that would
support or contradict your essay since the body of your essay
should have addressed all the relevant points. See “Closing
Your Essay” in Section 9.2 of
With Good Reason: A Guide to Critical Thinking
(Hardy, Foster, & Zúñiga y Postigo (2015).
Requirements for your Assignment
:
Your assignment should be
between 1500 to 1700 words
in length, excluding the cover and references pages.
Your examination should be both thorough and succinct. This is
a combination that demands time and thought, so give yourself
sufficient time to draft and revise.
Your assignment should include citations, as well as a list of

7. references. Both must be in APA form.
Your references should include
at least four peer-reviewed articles in addition to those that you
will be carrying over from our Week Three Case Analysis
Assignment.
These references should be drawn from the Ashford University
Library, Google Scholar, or the Stanford Encyclopedia of
Philosophy.
Your assignment should be submitted
no later than the end of Monday (midnight, U.S. Mountain time)
.
Carefully review the
Grading Rubric
for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.