After you have taken the quiz on your beliefs, post a few comments about the results. What was surprising about them? Did you discover anything new about your viewpoint? Were there any traditions listed for you that were unfamiliar?
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A character analysis is a specific type of formalist discussion that focuses on characters, while still incorporating other formalist elements into the investigation. For this paper, the focus will be on characters.
You are a marriage counselor. Your job is to advise couples who are either looking to get married or are already married and are running into trouble. You have recently met with two people who want to get married but are unsure if they will make a good match. After meeting with them, you need to write a report on whether the couple should get married or not, providing various reasons based on what you know about the two people.
While we are looking at three plays in this unit, this paper will focus on A Doll’s House and The Glass Menagerie. The characters you choose for this assignment are up to you. Choose two from the following: Nora Helmer, Torvald Helmer, Mrs. Linde, Nils Krogstad, Dr. Rank (assume he didn’t die or is not terminally ill), Tom Wingfield, Amanda Wingfield, Laura Wingfield, Jim O’Connor (assume he is not engaged to Betty). As this is 2014, don’t feel like you have to choose a man and a woman. Which characters you choose as the couple that comes to see you is your choice.
Essay Requirements:
• There are two goals of the essay:
• To analyze the drama using drama formalist elements. DO NOT summarize (meaning to retell) the play in your papers. You must analyze using the formalist elements (primarily character formalist element, but include others).
• Research is NOT required for this paper, however, if you do choose to use outside sources, you must use academic resources. Sparknotes, CliffsNotes, GradeSaver or any study guides, nor Wikipedia or free essay websites cannot be used as research for the papers in this class. You are encouraged to use Artemis.
• The audience for the paper is an academic audience. Academic audiences expect very few (if any) sentence level errors and a professional, formal tone.
• Essays must follow MLA format, both in appearance (Times New Roman 12 point font, double spacing, first page heading, pagination, etc.) and citation (works cited AND in-text citation). Refreshers on MLA format are in Week 2 of the Blackboard and Chapter 3 in your textbook.
• The minimum length of the essay is 4 pages. Essays may exceed the minimum; however, do not go over ten pages. Essays shorter than 4 pages or over 10 pages will be penalized one grade (ten points). The works cited does NOT count towards page count.
• 7. The minimum amount of sources required for this essay is one (your textbook). Students are encouraged to use more than this, but one is the minimum.
As the company prepares to meet demand and capacity requirements for its planned future growth, you have been asked to review the current forecasting strategy and help implement a new strategic plan for forecasting demand. The new forecasting plan ties directly to the overall strategic planning methodology established by the company. The company historically has used a time series method. The forecasting methods under consideration are the following:
•Qualitative: human judgment, usually best used when little data is available
•Simulation: the use of computer models or judgment to imitate customer behavior
•Causal: used when there is a direct tie between demand and an environmental factor, such as cold weather
•Time series: the use of historical data to predict future needs
Using course materials and other research, complete the following:
•Identify which forecasting technique or multiple techniques should be used in the future for the company’s strategy. Are there other techniques available that are not listed above?
•Explain the technique you identify, and give an example of how it is used in the manufacturing, retail, and health care industries.
•Detail if 1 of the 4 techniques listed above should NOT be used and why.
•Evaluate the significance of forecasting error for the technique or techniques you have selected. What is the impact of error on your chosen technique?
TREATIES & OTHER INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS
1. Major Agreements
• International Organization of Securities Commissions’ Multilateral Memorandum of Understanding Concerning Consultation and Cooperation and the Exchange of Information (May 2002) (“MMOU”). Signatories to the MMOU (who are securities regulatory agencies from 27 countries) agree to provide information related to bank and brokerage records, records identifying the beneficial owners of non-natural persons, and other critical information; to permit use of that information in enforcement and regulatory matters; and to otherwise keep that information confidential. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has signed the MMOU.
• Convention on Insider Trading, opened for signature Apr. 20, 1989, entered into force Oct. 1, 1991, Council of Europe. The Convention “is intended to create mutual assistance by exchanges of information between Contracting Parties, to enable supervision of securities markets to be carried out effectively and to establish whether persons carrying out certain financial transactions on the stock markets are or are not insiders.” (Quote from the introduction to the Explanatory Report.) The United States is not a signatory of the Convention on Insider Trading.
• Convention on the Law Applicable to Certain Rights in Respect of Securities Held with an Intermediary (“Hague Securities Convention”), opened for signature Dec. 13, 2002. The purpose of the Convention is to reduce uncertainty about the law applicable to cross-border securities transactions where securities are held by an intermediary.
FOREIGN LAWS & REGULATORS
1. Foreign Regulators
Countries other than the U.S. have their own agencies, similar to the SEC, that administer securities laws. Below are links to the web sites of selected foreign securities regulators:
• Australian Securities & Investments Commission
• Canadian Securities Administrators
• European Union:
o Committee of European Securities Regulators
o Internal Market and Services Directorate General:
• Germany: Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht
• Japan: Financial Services Agency
• Mexico: Comision Nacional Bancaria y de Valores
• United Kingdom: Financial Services Authority
• International Organization of Securities Commissions
2. Foreign Laws
• International Capital Markets and Securities Regulation securities laws from countries in Asia, Europe, and North America, as well as Israel and South Africa. It also provides selected primary materials in English from those countries and from selected South American countries.
• CCH Business and Finance Internet Research NetWork
• Provides securities laws of 37 selected foreign countries, including Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, and Italy.
• European Regulation of Company and Securities Law
• European Securities Regulation
• International Dimensions of U.S. Securities Law
• International Finance: Law and Regulation
ECON545: Project 2—Macroeconomic Analysis
The Macroeconomic Paper tests your ability to apply economic principles to a business decision considering the impact of macroeconomic variables. Select situation B Complete the paper on the selected situation as specified below. The completed paper is a professional report and is due in Week 6 (260 Points). See the grading rubric at the end of this document. Be sure to use the DeVry library to find data, and avoid questionable sources, such as Wikipedia.
Each of the scenarios has a list of Macroeconomic areas you are to address, with sources, in your answer. Briefly you are to research and show how these apply to your scenario: GDP growth rate (20 points), the business cycle (30 points), fiscal policy and level of unemployment (50 points), monetary policy and interest rates (50 points), international trade (40 points), and demographics (20 points).
Situation B
Your neighbor Cindy wants to start a contracting business for installing solar panels. She has heard of the cost savings that households and businesses can make each year by installing solar panels on their roofs. Cindy has also heard of government incentives for installing solar panels. Being concerned about the environment and wishing to reduce pollution, Cindy thinks installing solar panels also serves a good social purpose. But she does not want to risk her life savings on a venture that might not succeed or become profitable enough. After hearing from you about taking this course in business economics, she decides to ask you for advice.
At first you are hesitant to give investment advice. Then you read the piece “Postal Service Considering Cutting 120,000 Jobs” on page 668 of the textbook. You realize there are more pieces to the decision than Cindy is considering. You decide to research the economy in terms of GDP growth rate, interest rates, level of unemployment, the business cycle, fiscal policy, monetary policy, international trade, and demographics. You want to provide Cindy with the most informed advice possible.
P.668
AN INSIDE LOOK Will Pink Slips Be in the Mail for Postal Workers?
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Postal Service Considers Cutting 120,000 Jobs
The financially strapped U.S. Postal Service is considering cutting as many as 120,000 jobs.
Facing a second year of losses totaling $8 billion or more, the agency also wants to pull its workers out of the retirement and health benefits plans covering federal workers and set up its own benefit systems.
Congressional approval would be needed for either step, and both could be expected to face severe opposition from postal unions which have contracts that ban layoffs.
a The post office has cut 110,000 jobs over the last four years and is currently engaged in eliminating 7,500 administrative staff.
But the loss of mail to the Internet and the decline in advertising caused by the recession have rocked the agency.
Postal officials have said they will be unable to make a $5.5 billion payment to cover future employee health care costs due Sept. 30. It is the only federal agency required to make such a payment but, because of the complex way government finances are counted, eliminating it would make the federal budget deficit appear $5.5 billion larger.
I will be unable to make that payment at the end of September because it will have reached its borrowing limit and simply won’t have the cash to do so, the agency said earlier.
In that event, Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe said, “Our intent is to continue to deliver the mail, pay our employees and pay our suppliers.”b Postal officials have sought congressional assistance repeatedly over the last few years, including requests to be allowed to end Saturday mail delivery, and several bills have been proposed, but none has been acted
In addition the post office recently said it is considering closing 3,653 post offices, stations and other facilities, about one-10th of its offices around the country, in an effort to save money. Offices under consideration for closing are largely rural with little traffic.
And in June the post office suspended contributions to its employees’ pension fund, which it said was overfunded.
c In its 2010 annual report the post office reported a loss of more than $8 billion on revenues of $67 billion and expenses of $75 billion.
And even while total mail volume fell from 202 billion items to 170 billion from 2008 to 2010 the number of places the agency has to deliver mail increased by 1.7 million as Americans built new homes, offices and businesses.
The latest cutback plans were first reported by The Washington Post, which said a notice to employees informing them of its proposals stated: “Financial crisis calls for significant actions; we will be insolvent next month due to significant declines in mail volume and retiree health benefit pre-funding costs imposed by Congress.”
Source: “Postal Service considers cutting 120,000 jobs,” by Randolph E. Schmid from the Associated Press, August 11, 2011. Copyright © 2011 by the Associated Press. Reproduced with permission of the YGS Group.
Macroeconomic Paper as a Professional Report
Your paper should be organized into five parts as listed below.
1. Title Page: Name, class, and date
2. Introduction to situation but do NOT copy the scenario. Briefly summarize the situation and identify the macroeconomic issue(s) to be decided from the perspective of the organization.
3. Business Cycles, Unemployment, Inflation, International – Comparative Advantage, Exchange Rates, Trade, Etc., Monetary Policy and Interest Rates, and Fiscal Policy and Unemployment Identify the variables that are critical in addressing the issue(s). Gather and present the relevant data on the variables by searching the DeVry Online Library. Ask a librarian for help if needed. Use in-text citation to report the source(s) of the data. Graphs may be included here.
4. Recommendations and Economic Justification
Formulate and present your recommendations for addressing the issue(s) based on the relevant data and economic principles identified above. Justify your recommendations in terms of the economic impact on those affected.
5. References
List the full references for at least five sources alphabetically in APA format.
Grading Rubric
Section Points earned Points Description
Paper Presentation
10 Good format, citations, lack of spelling errors, etc.; correct Title page and Reference page
Relevant Data:
GDP, Business Cycle, International, Monetary Policy, Fiscal Policy, Demographics
210
GDP (20 points)
Business Cycles, Unemployment, Inflation (30 points)
International (40 points)
Monetary Policy and interest rates (50 points)
Fiscal Policy and unemployment (50 points)
Demographics (20 points)
Recommendations 40
What are your recommendations explained by your analysis?
Total 260
The Assignment should reflect the points in the attached document related to the video assigned
The Role of Technology in Education: Andrew Essex at TEDxSudeste
Microeconomics Assignment:
What do you think about the below? Use your knowledge of the material learned in this course to analyze this case from an economic angle. Your written work should be one page long and single spaced.
This case study consists of two articles and cover 1 chapter from the book.
Source 1: Article-
China slaps duties on U.S.-made autos
By Chris Isidore @CNNMoney December 14, 2011: 2:16 PM ET
The Cadillac CTS on the Great Wall of China. While GM is the No. 1 automaker in China, exports from the U.S., such as this CTS, are less than 1% of its sales there.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — China slapped duties on U.S.-made cars Wednesday, an action that could imperil billions in sales by Detroit automakers but which will leave most of their sales in the country unaffected.
The Commerce Ministry of China announced the duties on U.S.-made sedans and SUVs, raising the cost of those vehicles to Chinese buyers by between 2% and 21.5%. The new tariffs start Thursday and will last for 2 years.
The ministry cited “anti-dumping and anti-subsidy regulations” as the reason for the action.
But the action comes amid rising trade tensions between the United States and China, the world’s two largest economies who have become key trading partners as well.
The U.S. Trade Representative’s office, the Obama administration’s advocate in trade disputes, issued a statement that it was “very disappointed in this action by China today.” It said it would consult with Congress and U.S. automakers about how best to respond.
China shifts gears from inflation to growth
The move by Beijing’s government came two days after the Trade Representative issued a report to Congress that criticized what it said was China’s “industrial policies that rely on trade-distorting government actions to promote or protect China’s state-owned enterprises and domestic industries.”
The action also came ahead of a meeting of the World Trade Organization’s dispute settlement body on Monday at which the Obama administration intends to challenge Chinese limits on chickens imported from the United States.
General Motors (GM, Fortune 500), along with its Chinese joint venture partners, is the leading automaker in China, and the market has become crucially important to the company. Through November, GM sold 2.4 million vehicles in China, up 8% from a year earlier, and 4% ahead of its U.S. sales in the same period. Its revenue in China came to $22.9 billion in the first three quarters of the year.
But GM said that its U.S. exports into China represent less than 0.5% of its overall Chinese sales.
“To better serve our customers by providing vehicles tailored for Chinese buyers and to make them more affordable, GM generally builds where we sell,” said a statement from the company Wednesday. It said the company is working with its Chinese partners and the authorities to understand the full implication of the duties and seek a solution.
Ford Motor (F, Fortune 500) said that none of the 470,152 cars it sold in China so far this year came from U.S. plants. Chinese sales figures for privately held Chrysler Group were not immediately available.
While U.S. imports are a fraction of overall auto sales, the growing middle class has made China the world’s largest market for auto sales and created some significant export opportunities.
U.S. vehicle exports to China were worth $4.2 billion in the first 10 months of this year, according to the Census Bureau, making it the third largest market for U.S. vehicle exports behind only Canada and Germany. Those exports are up 50% from the same period of last year, and exports have been growing at roughly that annual rate since 2004.
But experts in the field said they don’t expect the import duties and lost sales to be a significant blow to the U.S. automakers, since most of their sales there won’t be affected. They say it’s likely a move by the Chinese to try to block the U.S. from filing any additional sanctions against its own exports here.
They’re basically saying if the U.S. tries to put tariffs on imported goods from China, they’ll retaliate,” said Rebecca Lindland, director of research at IHS Automotive.
Peter Morici, economics professor at the University of Maryland and a vocal critic of U.S. trade policies, said the move is part of a trend of China becoming even more protectionist as it focuses more on growth rather than fighting inflation.
He pointed to the recent decline in the value of the Chinese yuan versus the dollar, which raises the price of U.S. goods there and lowers the price of Chinese exports. Earlier this year, after pressure from developed economies, China allowed the yuan to rise in value.
“They see a recession coming and they’re getting tough on American imports,” he said. “We can expect more of it.”
And he said even if the U.S. auto exports to China are small compared to the sales there, the United States should take action to oppose it.
“There’s a reason we export so little — they let so little in,” he said. “This is what we should be selling there to balance the trade.”
He said this is also part of the effort by China to force U.S. companies doing business there to turn over more of their technology to their Chinese partners.
“They’re showing GM that Beijing is more powerful in their lives than Washington,” he said.
Shares of GM and Ford were both off 2% in midday trading.
First Published: December 14, 2011: 2:10 PM ET
Source 2: Article-
U.S. vs. China: The trade battles
By Chris Isidore @CNNMoney March 13, 2012: 4:03 PM ET
China’s limits on exports of rare earths minerals Tuesday became the latest trade dispute between China and the United States.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — China and the United States are the world’s largest economies and, by some measures, each other’s most important trading partners. But it’s a rocky marriage.
A dispute over rare earth minerals came into the spotlight Tuesday, as President Obama announced that the United States, Japan and Western European countries would file a trade complaint against China.
But it’s only the latest in a series of pending trade disputes between the United States and China that experts say won’t be resolved any time soon. Any one of the disputes could damage the economies of both countries as well as the relationship between them.
Here’s a rundown of the most important trade disputes.
Rare earths
The United States and other Western economies charge that China is putting unfair restrictions on the exports of rare earths, elements crucial to the making of numerous high-tech products, to give its own manufacturers an edge. Rare earths are also critical to national defense — used in products from tanks and ships to radar systems and night vision goggles — as well as green-energy products such as wind turbines and batteries for electric vehicles.
Rare earth suit is as much about national security as it is business
China produces about 97% of all rare earths, although one U.S. company, Molycorp (MCP), is starting production in the United States. But even when Molycorp reaches full production later this year, it will be producing only a small fraction of the output from China.
“We want our companies building those products right here in America,” said Obama on Tuesday. “But to do that, American manufacturers need to have access to rare earth materials — which China supplies.” He said China’s rare earth restrictions go against the World Trade Organization rules that China has agreed to.
China denies the charges, saying its rules are defensible on grounds of environmental and economic sustainability, and suggests there would be consequences if the United States presses the case.
“Past experiences have shown that policymakers in Washington should treat such issues with more prudence, because maintaining sound China-U.S. trade relations is in the fundamental interests of both sides,” said China’s state news agency Xinhua in a commentary Tuesday.
Currency valuation
Nothing gets more attention from U.S. politicians and other critics of China’s trade policies than the value of the yuan, also known as the renminbi.
China is accused of manipulating currency markets to keep the yuan undervalued, thus making goods produced in China cheaper and more competitive on the world market. Critics say this is a major reason for the record $295.5 billion trade gap with China last year.
After years of having the yuan basically pegged to the value of the dollar, China allowed the yuan to start to rise in June 2010. But critics argue the increase has been slower than is justified, up only about 8% since then. Critics charge it is still undervalued by more than 20%.
In October, the Senate passed a bill that would have allowed steep penalties, known as tariffs, on goods from countries that manipulate their currencies, widely seen as being aimed at China.
But despite earlier support for similar measures, the bill did not get a vote in the House
Other trade disputes
Beyond the currency and rare earths issues, there are numerous additional trade disputes between the United States and China. In November, the Commerce Department announced it was investigating charges that Chinese solar cell manufacturers are illegally “dumping” their products on the American market at excessively cheap prices.
The United States is also fighting tariffs China has on U.S. chicken exports.
President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address that he would set up a “Trade Enforcement Unit” to investigate unfair trade practices — specifically in countries like China.
A coalition of union and trade activists joined together in January to urge action against Chinese auto parts exports in order to avoid overwhelming an industry that produces more jobs than the automakers themselves.
China has also complained about some U.S. policies, such as government subsidies of the auto industry. It used that government support as justification for imposing new tariffs on U.S.-made vehicles.
But the restrictions are unlikely to have much impact on U.S. automakers, such as General Motors (GM, Fortune 500), which is No. 1 in Chinese sales, since virtually all the cars sold in China are built there as well. Less than 1% of GM’s Chinese sales are from vehicles built in the United States.
Intellectual property and technology
A few years ago, intellectual property disputes with China were typically over movie or software piracy. While that remains an issue, it only scratches the surface of the bigger dispute today: China’s “indigenous innovation” rules.
U.S. manufacturers who have been eager to set up operations in China to produce goods for that market say the rules unfairly require them to transfer their technology to their Chinese partners.
And while U.S. businesses in a wide variety of industry sectors, from autos to technology to financial services, are unusually vocal in complaining about this set of Chinese rules, they haven’t been challenged at the WTO.
“To me, that’s actually the biggest issue, more even than currency valuation,” said David Joy, chief market strategist for Ameriprise Financial. “Being forced to give up technology for access to the market is essentially blackmail.”
First Published: March 13, 2012: 3:42 PM ET
Source 3: Book- Foundation of Microeconomics Seventh Edition Robin Bade Michael Parkin. This case study covers the following chapter: Global Markets in Action.
Write a brief statement expressing your motivation or desire to become a physician assistant. Keep your statement general as the same essay will be sent to all schools you will apply to. Even if you only plan to apply to one program, do NOT make your essays school specific as you may decide to apply to additional programs at a later date, and once you submit your application your essay can NOT be edited or changed.
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Review the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report: “The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health,” focusing on the following sections: Transforming Practice, Transforming Education, and Transforming Leadership.
Write a paper of 750-1,000 words about the impact on nursing of the 2010 IOM report on the Future of Nursing. In your paper, include:
The impact of the IOM report on nursing education.
The impact of the IOM report on nursing practice, particularly in primary care, and how you would change your practice to meet the goals of the IOM report.
The impact of the IOM report on the nurse’s role as a leader.
Cite a minimum of three references.
Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
This assignment uses a rubric. Students should review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the criteria and expectations for successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. Refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.
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this coursework has to have a calculations for the investment which you have to attach it in the appendix (a full calculations which you have to include it in the appendix and you have to put the numbers in the coursework and you mention the figures in the coursework) <br>
and also include tables and excluding executive summary