ECOM 101 E-Commerce Project Assignment Assignm.docx

ECOM 101: E-Commerce
Project Assignment
Assignment Purposes:
1. Evaluate the characteristics of e-commerce.
2. Demonstrate effective use of technology for communication.
3. Evaluate the effectiveness of an e-commerce Web site.
4. Explain the security and threats in the e-commerce
environment.
5. Analyze basic concepts of consumer behavior and purchasing
decisions.
6. To apply critical thinking by the students.
Assignment Workload:
▪ This assignment is an individual assignment.
▪ The word count for this assignment must be between 2500 to
3000 words.
Assignment Objectives & Requirements:
1. To create a new E-commerce business, which is located in the
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which include
the followings:
a. Introduction about your business
b. Product and type of services

▪ What are the different types of products? [Explain]
▪ What kinds of services are provided by your online store?
[Costumer service, Exchanges
& Returns, Delivery and Payments] [Explain]
c. Mission statement (Business statement)
d. Business vision
e. Business objective
2. To explain your business E-commerce processes
a. Draw “E-Commerce Workflow Diagram” to show how your
online store process will operate?
b. Explain (in details) all the steps from the time a visit is
recorded until the final user buys a
product.
3. To apply a SWOT analysis to your business
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4. Building the E-commerce website [System design]
a. Design a simple website layout [website screenshots]

Note: You can design the layout using PowerPoint or Free
ecommerce website template
5. Student is required to explain its E-commerce [online store]
design
a. How it will look likes in terms of design and format
Describe the main elements:
▪ Home page
▪ Category pages
▪ Logo
▪ Navigation bar
▪ Secondary Navigations
▪ Add to Cart Confirmation Element
▪ Checkout
6. Student is required to explain its E-commerce system
functionality
a. Describe the following points:
▪ The product page will show all the product we have in stock
▪ The contact button will have all the company contact details
▪ Social media links Facebook, Instagram, etc.
▪ Shopping Cart
▪ User Login and Register Link
▪ Site Search
▪ Account pages (My Orders/Order History/Account Settings)
7. Determine the suitable software and hardware needed with an
explanation on why it’s needed.
a. What type of functionality needed in your website [Shopping
Cart, Credit Card Processing and

CRM]?
b. What type of hardware needed? Do you need a server or it
will be in the cloud?
8. Identifying security issues as well as how to avoid it.
a. What type of security? To whom or to what? “How to Protect
Your E-commerce Site from
Online Threats?”
b. Potential threats to your website?
c. Recommendation.
9. Categorize marketing and advertising strategy and method.
a. Demographic.
b. Marketing method.
c. Social media.
d. Local marketing.
e. Multichannel marketing.
10. Describe what are the ethics and laws within your E-
commerce Website. [ex: Privacy policy]
11. Conclude your report.
Assignment Submission:

Submission # Due Date Point covered Marks
First Submission After the exam week 1,2,3,4 & 5 10
Final Submission End of the semester 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 & 11 10
The submission method will be through blackboard.
Assignment regulation:
▪ All students are encouraged to use their own word.
▪ Student must apply any recognized Academic Referencing
Style within their reports.
▪ Student is allowed to cite 10% from the word limit (3000 word
limit means 300 words can be cited).
▪ A mark of zero will be given for any submission that includes
copying from other resource without
referencing it.
Assignment Criterion sheet:
Week 1 Assignment Checklist
This checklist can help you ensure that you have completed all
of the assignment instructions.
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Choose a specific ethical question from the list provided, or

formulate one that is sufficiently specific and focused on an
ethical issue, and place it under the PART ONE: ETHICAL
QUESTION heading at the top of the paper.
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Provide an introduction to the topic, and place it under the
PART TWO: INTRODUCTION heading.
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Formulate a statement of the position you believe is strongest,
and place it under the PART THREE: POSITION STATEMENT
heading.
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Identify and explain the strongest reason in support of the
position statement, and place it under the PART FOUR:
REASONS IN SUPPORT OF YOUR POSITION heading.
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Formulate a statement of an opposing position, and place it
under the PART FIVE: OPPOSING POSITION STATEMENT
heading.
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Identify and explain the strongest reason in support of the
opposing position statement, and place it under the PART SIX:
REASONS IN SUPPORT OF THE OPPOSING POSITION
heading.
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Include a title page and list of references.
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Proofread carefully for mechanical and grammatical errors.
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Format the assignment in APA style.
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Write at least 500 words

Running head: PROTECTING FREEDOM
1
PROTECTING FREEDOM
3
Protecting Freedom of Speech
Student Name
PHI 208: Ethics and Moral Reasoning
Prof. Phil O’Sopher
March 15, 2018
Protecting Freedom of Speech
Part 1: Ethical Question
Do we have a moral obligation to protect free speech even in
cases where that speech causes harm to others?
Part 2: Introduction
In August of 2107, the city of Charlottesville, Virginia became
the focal point of violent demonstrations that resulted in injury,
death and psychological harm. The violence was the result of
clashes between white supremacists who gathered in
Charlottesville for a planned “Unite the Right” rally to protest
the possible removal of the Confederate Statue of Robert E. Lee
(Katz, n.d.). The violence included hate speech in the form of
signs, chants and a Friday night “Hitler youth” torch rally.
These events and the reactions to them launched the issue of
free speech into the national spotlight.
Freedom of speech is one of the most fundamental rights
cherished by Americans and granted to all through our
Constitution, but ethical issues arise when the exercise of that
right results in direct harm to others. The primary ethical issue
that arises concerns the balance between protecting this
fundamental right of speech and preventing the harm associated
with hate speech. According to our textbook, ethics asks the

question of how we should live and that with “each conscious,
deliberate choice we make, we are living out an answer to this
question” (Thames, 2018. Sec. 1.1). This paper will consider
whether we have a moral obligation to choose to protect free
speech even in cases where it results in harm.
Part 3: Position Statement
Even though it can cause harm to others, freedom of speech
should be protected as an absolute right.
Part 4: Reasons in Support of Your Position
Freedom of speech should be protected as an absolute right
because it is one of the founding ideas on which our country is
based. Any attempt to limit free speech can only be based on
compelling reasons that justify taking away a fundamental right.
While the prevention of harm is a compelling reason, it does
not, by itself, provide sufficient justification for taking away a
fundamental right. In addition, a close look at the historical
origins of this right and its defense throughout our country’s
history show that it was designed to protect all speech,
including offensive or hate speech. As Benjamin Franklin said,
“Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government:
When this support is taken away, the constitution of a
free society is dissolved” (Post Editors, n.d., para. 1).
Part 5: Opposing Position Statement
Because causing harm to others is unethical and sometimes
illegal, we have a moral obligation to limit the exercise of free
speech when it is intended to or likely to cause harm to others.
Part 6: Reasons in Support of the Opposing Position
Americans have many rights granted to them by the
Constitution, but these rights are not absolute or limitless and
they carry with them a responsibility to uphold laws
(Brandenburg v. Ohio n.d.). It is perfectly legal to hate
someone, but it is illegal to act on that hate if doing so causes

harm. From an ethical standpoint, our responsibility to act in
certain ways goes beyond merely conforming to society’s laws.
Harming another person is unethical. Hate speech is intended to
cause harm and sometimes creates an incendiary environment,
as it did in Charlottesville that results in injury or death.
Therefore hate speech is unethical and we have a moral
obligation to limit free speech when it is likely to cause harm to
others.
References
Brandenburg v. Ohio. (n.d.). Oyez. Retrieved from
https://www.oyez.org/cases/1968/492
Katz, A. (n.d.). Unrest in Virginia. Time. Retrieved from
http://time.com/charlottesville-white-nationalist-rally-clashes/
Post Editors (n.d.). Great American thinkers on free speech.
Retrieved from
http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2015/01/16/history/great-
american-thinkers-free-speech.htm
Thames, B. (2018). How should one live? An introduction to
ethics and moral reasoning (3rd ed.). [Electronic version].
Retrieved from https://content.ashford.edu/
Week 1 Assignment Guidance:
The Purpose of This Paper
· This assignment, along with Assignment 2, is intended to
prepare you to write the final paper.
· This is not intended to be an essay, but an exercise.
· The 6 components of the exercise involve important skills to
practice in order to be able to write the kind of coherent, well-

composed philosophical essay that you will write in later
papers.
Specifying the Question
· Essays that address ethical issues are typically most coherent
and focused when they are oriented toward answering a specific
ethical question. The answer will be your “position” (in the
final paper we’re going to call this the “thesis”), and the main
body of the essay seeks to explain and justify how your position
represents the best answer to the question. So it’s crucial to
have a well-formulated, relevant, and focused ethical question
to start with.
· The list of suggested questions should serve as a guide if you
wish to formulate your own question. If you choose do so,
think of the controversies and debates, the difficult choices and
dilemmas, etc., that surround the topic of your choice, many but
not all of which are raised by the textbook. Consider some very
specific problem, and formulate that as a focused, concrete
question. The more narrowly-focused the question, the better
your paper will be.
· Be sure your chosen question is itself an ethical question. An
ethical question concerns what is right or wrong, what we ought
or ought not to do, what kinds of things are good or bad, honest
or dishonest, courageous or cowardly, generous or selfish, etc.
· Ethical questions should be distinguished from questions of
psychology, sociology, anthropology, biology, etc. If you are
unsure, please consult your instructor.
· Example 1: suppose you were interested in the topic of
abortion.
Overly-vague or broad questions that you would want to avoid
might include:
· Is abortion moral?
· Should a woman obtain an abortion?
· Should abortions be outlawed?
Better, more-focused questions might include:
· Should abortions be allowed in certain cases, such as when the
mother’s life is at risk or when a pregnancy is the result of rape

or incest, but not in other cases?
· Should a women have a right to an abortion if we recognize
the fetus as a person?
· Is restricting abortion rights an unjust restriction on a
woman’s right to make her own reproductive choices?
· Example 2: suppose you were interested in the topic of
criminal justice, and more specifically the topic of capital
punishment.
Overly-vague or broad questions that you would want to avoid
might include:
· Is the death penalty moral?
· Should execute people?
Better, more-focused questions might include:
· Should we execute people convicted of first-degree murder?
· Should we execute convicted murders that have mental
disabilities?
· Is it just to use capital punishment when there is the
possibility of executing innocent persons?
· Is the capital punishment system racist?
· In order to hone your thesis to something that is manageable
you will need to do research and become familiar with the topic
of interest, trying to focus on a specific sub-topic within it.
Constructing an Introduction
· Your introduction should focus on setting out the topic and
scope of the discussion in a way that clearly establishes the
what exactly you will be talking about and why it is ethically
significant, and provides any necessary context such as the
background, current state of affairs, definitions of key terms,
and so on.
· You want to try to do this in a way that is as neutral as
possible, avoids controversial assumptions, rhetorical questions,
and the like. In other words, you should try to construct an
introduction to the topic that could be an introduction to a paper
defending the opposite position from yours.
· Your reader should have a clear sense of the boundaries of the
topic, what the crucial ethical questions underlying it are, and

the procedure of the paper.
· You should avoid making specific references to the course;
write the paper as if you were writing for an audience that is
unfamiliar with the course.
Providing a Position Statement
· Aim to have a clear, concise statement of your position that
provides a clear answer to the question with which you started.
You may end up having to reformulate your opening question to
align with the position statement.
· Don’t confuse the position statement with supporting reasons.
The position statement clearly and directly answers the question
you raised. It's important to be able to distinguish the claim or
position that you want to defend from the reasons in support of
and opposed to that, which is why the assignment had you
separate the position statement from those reasons.
· After composing your position statement, reread the question
and make sure that the position statement provides a direct
answer to the question.
· The position statement shouldn't simply be a “yes” or “no” on
the question, but should be more precise formulation of a
position. For example, on the examples question on abortion
provided above, a position statement might be, “Abortions
should only be permitted when the life of the mother is
threatened by continuing the pregnancy, or when she is the
victim of rape or incest, since any other reason would unjustly
violate a fetus’s right to life.” or “A woman has a fundamental
right to determine for herself whether or not to continue a
pregnancy, no matter the circumstances.”
· The opposing position statement should be similar to your own
position statement, but from the point of view of someone that
would disagree with your position in a significant way.
· The opposing position statement need not be the direct
opposite of your position statement; it may instead focus on a
particular aspect of your position. For instance, if your position
on physician-assisted suicide is that assisted suicide should be
available for anyone with a terminal illness, the opposing

position statement could be that it should not be available for
anyone at all, but it might also be that assisted suicide should
be available for people without a terminal condition as well as
those with such a condition.
Supporting and Opposing Reasons
· Your supporting and opposing reasons should not simply
restate your position or the opposing position. Your focus
should be on drawing out those considerations and arguments in
support of that position.
· One way to approach this is to imagine yourself in friendly
conversation with someone that doesn’t necessarily agree with
your position (perhaps they disagree, or perhaps they are
undecided). When you state your position, they might ask why
you think that. They might also raise a problem with your
position, a reason to doubt that your position is the strongest
one. These are the kinds of things you will try to briefly
articulate.
· A similar approach can be taken to the opposing reasons, but
you can imagine what a reasonable person would say in defense
of your inquiry into why they might hold their view.
· Avoid providing contradictory statements for your supporting
and opposing reasons. For instance, if your position is that
capital punishment is justified and a supporting reason is that it
deters people from committing crimes, it would be contradictory
to state that capital punishment does not deter people from
committing crimes as an opposing reason. Or if your position is
that abortion is moral and you support that position by claiming
that fetuses do not have a right to life, you should avoid
opposing reasons that simply state that fetuses do have a right
to life. Focus instead on the reasons someone may believe that
fetuses do or do not have a right to life.
· Remember that we can recognize good reasons why our view
might be called into question while still believing that our view
is strongest overall. Or we might be able to appreciate worries,
dilemmas, doubts, and so on, that make the issue complex. The

ability to honestly and thoughtfully acknowledge these kinds of
reasons is a very important part of ethical reasoning, and a
crucial part of the kind of defense of a position that you will
undertake in later papers.
· The questions you can ask when trying to identify and express
reasons for and against your position might include:
· what values are at stake in this question?
· who is affected by various possible actions or policies?
· what features of individual human life are brought to bear on
this question?
· what features of social life are brought to bear on this
question?
· what common moral standards might be at risk in different
answers to this question?
· what other considerations would have to be addressed when
formulating and defending a position on this question?
SHORTENED TITLE
PHI 208: Ethics and Moral Reasoning
Prof.
Running head: SHORTENED TITLE
2
SHORTENED TITLE
Part 1: Ethical Question
Part 2: Introduction
Part 3: Position Statement

Part 4: Reasons in Support of Your Position
Part 5: Opposing Position Statement
Part 6: Reasons in Support of the Opposing Position
References

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