Maasai Mara National Park Stay

 
The Maasai Mara National Park is mostly surrounded and inhabited by the Maasai community. The community has high regards to African cultural practices like dressing, singing, and jumping. The park is known for the yearly world beast migration. The scene of world beast migrating and being attacked by other carnivorous animals like crocodiles is spectacular to watch.
Living with the Maasai community, I had to adapt dressing in the African wear of oversize clothing, staying in their thatched houses, singing, jumping and dancing to Maasai songs, and eating local foods prepared. Fitting in the community life, required open-mindedness, mingling with the locals, and taking time to learn from the community elders. The biggest daily challenges involved learning the Maasai language dialect, which was a bit difficult on my part. The language barrier in the place threatened my stay among the Maasai. Due to the place being in remote and inhabited by forest and savannah grasslands, my economic status like accessing cash points was limited. Physically, my movements were restricted as I did not know the place well, which I had to hire a local tour guide throughout my stay. Luckily, with time, I was able to adapt to the new dressing style, new eating habits and dancing to traditional songs, which now became part of my daily lifestyle.
Part II
My stay in the park had come to an end, and I had to return back to my home in the US. The Maasai Mara national park is situated in Kenya. I faced several issues transitioning from the Maasai community culture to the US culture. I had to now start dressing according to my culture, changing my eating habits, and changing my behaviors to conform to the US culture. Making the transition smoother, I had to balance the new Maasai culture I learned with my US culture, and find a middle ground. Some of the cultures I had to teach myself to unlearn to cope with my normal culture.
Upon my return to the US, I received reverse culture shock, which affected me psychologically. The mockery I received from my fellow US friends and relatives left me devastated. I happened to carry some of my Maasai dressing attires, which in the US were despised. In case I wore the Maasai clothes, my US community would glare at me funnily and make fun of me. Mitigating the shock, first, I had to educate my US people on how the Maasai community is rich of good culture. Lastly, I had to ignore some of them to avoid confrontations.
QUESTION
This is a 2 part assignment. Each part requires 2 citations and they cannot cross reference each other.
Part 1: Financial Management (350 words minimum)
If you won the lottery and had the choice of a lump-sum payoff or an annuity payoff, what factors would you consider besides the implied interest rate (indifference interest rate) in selecting the payoff style? Provide a quantitative example to illustrate your choice.
Part 2: Marketing (250 words minimum)
Answer two of the three forum questions, listed below, for this week. .
1. How do the product-dominant and service-dominant approaches to marketing differ?
2. What are the four types of consumer offerings? How do they differ from one another?
3. Identify two consumer products sold in a grocery store or by a mass merchandiser such as Walmart. Explain the strategies used to introduce each of the products or which strategy you feel will be most successful. Ch. 6 & 7