Author: chris

In late 2008, the United Stated entered a severe recession – by some measures, the most severe recession since the 1930s. In response to the recession, Congress passed and the Obama Administration signed into law the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The act’s total cost was $787 billion dollars – $500 billion dollars in increased government spending and $287 billion dollars in decreased taxes.

Write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which you:
Discuss the expected impact the increased levels of government spending would have on output / GDP, unemployment and inflation in both the short and long run, using the model of aggregate supply, and aggregate demand.
Compare the impact on GDP, output, and inflation caused by increased spending versus decreased taxes in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
Discuss at least two (2) issues and risks to the economy of the increased budget deficit associated with the increased levels of government spending and decreased taxation contained in the act.
Include three (3) external peer-reviewed sources to support your position.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
Explain the components of aggregate expenditure as elements in developing a theory of aggregate demand.
Evaluate the relationships between the concepts and models related to aggregate supply and demand, explaining their ability to function in the short term and the long term..
Use technology and information resources to research issues in macroeconomics.
Write clearly and concisely about macroeconomics using proper writing mechanics.

Birches by Robert Frost

literature review for motivation of outsourcing – benefits, risks and factors

Thorough & descriptive title (explains the ideas and relationships in the paper)
Physiology
Describe properly functioning body tissues and structures
Pathophysiology
Describe how the disease or condition you have selected deviates from normal physiology.
Identify the cause or known contributing factors of the disease.
Symptomatology
Describe symptoms associated with disease exhibited by patients
Diagnosis
Describe how the disease/condition is diagnosed
Epidemiology
What group (age, health, gender, etc.) does this disease or condition affect?
Why?
Treatment
Describe recommended treatments recommended for patients.
How does each treatment option influence physiology?
Prognosis
Describe expected outcomes for treated patients.
What happens if the patient does not seek treatment?

1. All the readings for week 6 examine women whose work stood outside the male canon of anthropology. Carefully examine how each of these readings poses a challenge to assertions that women’s writing was atheoretical, subjective, and non-experimental. You will want to suggest whether their work was theoretical or not, how they addressed positivist-oriented ethnographic authority, and to what degree they may have provided experimental works, considering strategies such as blurred genres, multivocality, and the politics of representation.

2. Elsie Clews Parsons, Ella Deloria, and Zora Neale Hurston are representative of women who, although all trained in Boasian anthropology, in different ways challenged the anthropological canon. Analyze their respective positions in terms of class, race, gender, and ethnicity and how their respective subaltern positions were instrumental in challenging ethnographic authority. Include in your discussion Visweswaran’s assertion that “Analysis of positioning is key to understanding how feminist ethnographers theorize.” You will also want to examine differences among them in regard to their inside/outsider locations among those they studied.

3. Testimonial literature also stands outside the anthropological canon. Some acclaim Testimonio for giving discursive voice to marginalized and oppressed peoples. Others challenge its authenticity. The Rigoberta Menchu – David Stoll controversy illustrates this struggle for interpretive power.
A) Analyze this controversy in the context of the “Culture Wars” described by Pratt and explain, how it may or may not reflect resistance to the decolonization of knowledge in anthropology.

B) Based on Saporta’s essay, that views testimonio’s “remembering the dead” as restitutive and Jones’ “Un-writing the ‘Authentic’ Subaltern,” Develop an argument, explaining how you would respond to the challenge that testimonio establishes a master/puppet relation that commodifies the “authentic subaltern” as an object of seduction

Introduction – outsourcing, Literature review – motivations for outsourcing, risks, benefits and factors for decision for outsourcing

personal literacy narrative (studying English)

Should the drinking age be lowered to 18 in the US?

In business, we often need a solid, clear and thoughtful overview about ‘what is known’ about a specific topic. If this topic has been researched by others, then the most common form used to create this overview is called a ‘literature review’. A ‘literature review’ is a detailed look at published research (literature) on a specific topic; in this course, your literature review needs to be on a specific management skill, tool, technique or approach. For example, you may review the literature on a specific ‘creative problem solving’ approach, or a specific ‘active listening technique’ or suite of negotiation tactics.

In the literature review you should analyze and synthesize the findings of 4 – 8 peer reviewed scholarly research sources based on a topic of your choice related to management skills. Your literature review topic should be narrow in focus. The literature review should synthesize the findings of your sources based around a guiding concept, thesis or research statement/question.

The literature review should be 6 – 8 pages, double spacing, using 4 – 8 solid academic sources and APA referencing format. You will be graded on the quality of your research, the quality of your writing including grammar and spelling, and your ability to effectively synthesize and analyze the research into a coherent literature review that suggests areas where further research may be required.

Further information and advice about literature reviews can be acquired from the Academic Skills Centre or from many online information sources. We will have a speaker from Academic Skills Centre in class before Reading Break to talk about the literature review form. You are also welcome to research online; there are many good sources describing the organization, structure, purpose and format of a literature review.

Critique of Two Articles from the Suggested Readings (20%): Each student is required to submit a 3-4 pages of two written critical analysis on one of the assigned readings on February 23rd and March 15th. Each paper carries 10% for a total of 20%. Late submission will attract a penalty of one mark every day after the due date.

•    Benhard, J. K., Landolt, P., & Goldring, L. (2008). Transnationalizing families: Canadian immigration policy and the spatial fragmentation of care giving among Latin American newcomers. International Migration, 47(2), 3-31