System Behavior Analysis

Prompt: Look through recent news coverage. You can use newspapers, online news, television news, blogs such as Huffington Post, and so on. You can find systems operating almost anywhere you look. Use at least two different situations/media stories. For each media story, summarize the story and characterize the system involved. Then identify which of the following behaviors are represented in the system and describe how they are represented:

Nonlinear systems  Nonexistent boundaries  Limits to growth  Ubiquitous delays  Bounded rationality  Causality (versus correlation)

Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:

 Summarize at least two media stories involving systems.  Describe a system involved in each media story.  Identify behaviors represented in each system.  Describe how those behaviors are affecting each system.

Guidelines for Submission: Your system behavior analysis should be submitted as a 2 page Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, one-inch margins, and all sources cited in APA format.