Objective: Explore counter balance, using manmade or natural materials.
Counter Balance: A force or influence equally counteracting another.
Criteria:
1. Construct a counter balance sculpture made from natural or manmade materials
2. Photograph the sculpture from multiple perspectives
3. Include a short description, in the comments section
Integrated Marketing Communications
BP has worked for many years to change their image in consumers’ eyes due to the disastrous oil spill in 2010. The company recently started an advertising campaign showcasing their efforts to improve in their industry and to show accountability.
http://www.ispot.tv/ad/7LYI/bp-commitment-to-the-gulf
This is a basic site about the general campaign, but there are even newer commercials being aired. Keep your eye out for them.
Sea World has had to work on their image as well because many animal activists have attacked the company for their treatment of the animals. Sea World has recently launched a television campaign to address their animals. The commercials also come at a time when their attendance has noticeably dropped.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-16/seaworld-debuts-ad-campaign-to-reverse-two-year-attendance-drop
1. Do you believe the campaigns can change consumers’ images of the companies? (Address both companies separately.) Do you believe consumer can forgive and forget? Your answer should be based on your opinion with marketing terminology and support learned in this class.
3. Explore the concept of “savagery” in this text. Who and what constituted savagery in this story? What does it mean to be civilized? How could Conrad’s perceptions of “savagery” be considered racist (as considered by Chinua Achebe)? (write 150 words)
4. Regarding the women in the text, compare the description of Kurtz’s “Intended” with the description of his African mistress. What role does each woman serve in the narrative? Consider their symbolic meanings
1. State the research question
2. Identify and define the variables
Define at least one dependent and several independent variables. For each variable provide a title, categories (if applicable) operationalized definitions, and determine if the variable (as you have defined it) is nominal, ordinal, or interval-ratio.
3. Discuss the research design you would propose to use for the program evaluation
Note the strengths and weakness of the design
4. Discuss any sampling techniques you may use in the evaluation
5. What methods would you use in the evaluation
6. What are you proposed timelines for your data collection
7. Address any issues related to reliability and validity (both internal and external)
8. Address the number of people you’ll need for the evaluation process, any supplies or equipment you may need, and how much money (rough estimates) it may cost to conduct the evaluation
1. You encounter an automobile accident on a deserted highway. The victim is a woman who is conscious is still in the vehicle. She is breathing rapidly, looks pale and appears drowsy. Her skin is cold and moist. As you leave to call 9-1-1 you notice smoke coming from under the hood and smell a strong odor of gasoline. What would you do?
2. You enter your home and find a relative lying in pain at the bottom of the stairway. The victim is conscious, but unable to move his legs. What would you do?
3. You are walking along a busy city street when you encounter a man who has been found unconscious. A crowd has gathered, but no one seems to be doing anything. . What would you do?
4. You are at home late one evening and a friend calls. She is very upset about a recent breakup and sounds very distressed. You enter her apartment and find her distraught and begin to speak with her. She then talks about ending her life and now enters the kitchen and pulls out a large knife. What would you do?
5. You enter a supply room at work where chemicals are stored. You encounter two workers who are lying on the floor and appear to be unconscious. You notice two large barrels of ammonia that are open and some of the product on the floor. What would you do?
6. At work, you are called to assist a co-worker who has been injured in a 6-foot fall from a ladder. As you arrive, you notice the victim sitting on the ground, writhing in pain and having trouble breathing as he clutches his arm to his ribs. What would you do?
7. You witness a bicyclist being struck by a car. The bicyclist is thrown from the bicycle, striking her head. The driver of the car gets out to help. As you approach, you observe the cyclist lying on her side, in pain and unable to move. She is also bleeding in multiple locations What would you do?
8. You are at a party at a family member’s house. One of your elderly relatives tells you that he has been feeling ill and has just vomited. He is now clutching his chest and is in pain. Suddenly, he collapses to the floor. What would you do?
The disadvantages of colleges having high tuition fees for students
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I need you to proof read and fix the essay from the comments listed in the attached file
1. What is a constant interest coverage policy and how does it impact the levered value of a project?
2. Why should issuance costs and mispricing costs be included in the assessment of the project’s value? How do you include them?
3. Why is it important to calculate the value of the interest tax shield if a firm adjusts its debt annually to a target level?
4. For what reasons would a firm use a financial model in projecting future cash flows from an investment, and what are the primary factors to consider when making the cash flow estimates?
5. In what situations should the WACC and the APV be used? How do personal taxes affect the use of these two methods? Use examples when explaining your answer.
6. Explain the use of IRR and cash multiples as alternative valuation metrics, and discuss the drawbacks of those methods. In your answer, include how sensitivity analysis affects the evaluation process.
1. What are agency costs, and how are agency costs of financial distress different from agency benefits of leverage? Explain their impact on calculating the value of a firm with financial distress.
2. When securities are fairly priced, why would the original shareholders of a firm pay the present value of bankruptcy and financial distress costs?
3. What are the dividend payment process and the open-market repurchase process? In your answer, be sure to explain the effects they have in a perfect world.
4. What are the benefits and drawbacks of accumulating cash balances rather than paying dividends and what effects do dividend policy have on this type of decision?
5. What impact does asymmetric information have on the optimal level of leverage? In your answer, be sure to describe the implications of adverse selection and the lemons principle for equity issuance, as well as the empirical implications.
6 Compare and contrast mature profitable firms with stable cash flows with firms with higher risk (dependencies on economy) with unstable cash flows. What risks do they take in regards to leverage use, tax shields, and trading information between managers and investors?
Compare (similarities and differences) status offender and juvenile delinquent categories of juvenile offenders.
Explain how categorizing influences the juvenile justice system’s response to juvenile offenders. Be specific and use examples to support your explanation.
Explain at least one insight you had or conclusion you drew about categorizing juvenile offenders as a result of completing this assignment.
The implicit and explicit nature of film
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The purpose and direct goal of this film analysis paper is to produce an original analysis of a film, genre, or cultural aspect of narrative film. In essence, my paper should examine what the film(s) is about and why it has taken the form that it has. Now, the analysis I have chosen is the implicit and explicit nature or three films: Inception, all of the X-men movies, and Aliens. I have a thesis statement already as well as an introduction. From some basic research of me analyzing these three films, Aliens seems to be a metaphor for the Vietnam War. X-Men is all about gay rights. Inception seems to be about movie-making itself. I have my thesis and introduction already written if you’d like to see that.