Day: March 13, 2018

Select a current event within the last six months about the European Union (EU)

Select a current event within the last six months about the European Union (EU) that deals with either a positive or negative aspect of this organization.

You will have a Current Event assignment this week. Your review of the Current Event should be submitted as a Word document attached to the Current Event assignment tool. Your total write-up and explanation should be approximately 300 words. Each current event posting should include the following:

1. Provide the reference where you obtained the current event article, the author, and the published date using APA style.
2. Give a brief review of the article as it was written by the author.
3. Give your creative ideas on how this current event ties into the material we are covering in class this module. See the syllabus for the assignment due date.

The following are requirements for the article:

• Be a scholarly article and come from reliable sources.
• Be related to EU.
• Write at least 300 words in this assignment.
• Have published date within last six months.

Describe your academic and career goals in a later

Indicate how your past achievements challenges/hardships, or family influences are related to these goals. Explain how a scholarship can help you meet your goals. Upload a word document or PDF (Max limit: 2 pages, double-spaced). let me know if you need more inforamtion.

 Video Analysis

Watch the video and analyze the company. Your analysis should include: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgA5oI9GqZ0&t=210s

• Introduction – Provide a brief introduction of the company and it’s products/services.

• Vision, Mission and SWOT – Briefly discuss company’s vision and mission and how closely it has followed its vision and mission. Also talk about the company’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.

Order vs Liberty

Read "Oder vs Liberty" by Larry Gragg and in an essay answer the following questions
1. What circumstances led the Federalists to pass the Alien and Sedition Acts?

2. Whom were the Acts aimed at and why?

3. What was the approach of Jefferson and Madison in their opposition to the Acts?

4. Did these Acts ultimately work in the Federalist's favor?

5. Do you think the government could pass a sedition act today? Explain.

federal tax research

The report must be prepared in tax memo format, 3 pages, Times New Roman, font 12, double-spaced. • The tax memo should include the following five sections: (1) facts, (2) issue, (3) authorities, (4) conclusion, and (5) analysis
Research Module #2
Scenario.
Tony and Stella resided in Utah at the time their petition was filed. Before 2006 they had a job with a business in his locality. Sometime in 2005 he learned that his employer planned to move the business to Costa Rica. In anticipation of that event Tony sought to find another source of income and decided that he would become a professional gambler. Stella also worked, and Tony thought that another source of income would allow her to stay home with their child. Before Tony’s decision to become a professional gambler, they had been casual gamblers but they did not wager large amounts. Sometime during 2005 they began to invest heavily in gambling (mainly playing slot machines). They were born in Vietnam, and their religious and cultural beliefs were derived from their Vietnamese background. They believed in Feng Shui. Because of this belief and other religious and cultural beliefs, they expected that certain days were “lucky days” or days on which their chances of successful gambling increased. They were cognizant that slot machine odds favored the casinos but expected to overcome those odds by attempting to gamble on their “lucky days”. In addition, they would watch other slot machine players; and if they had excessive losses, they believed that taking over machines of losing players provided more opportunity. That was their plan for making a profit. Initially, their Feng Shui/cultural approach resulted in success. Accordingly, they increased the amounts wagered in 2005 and continued doing so through 2006 and part of 2007. In early 2007 they realized that they were about $200,000 in debt and that their attempt to make a profit had failed. they had withdrawn money from their retirement funds and borrowed against various assets to finance their attempt to make a profit from gambling. During 2006 they were employed in West Jordan, Utah, and traveled approximately 130 miles to Nevada to pursue gambling. During 2006 they traveled 130 miles each way to Nevada casinos on Friday afternoons and gambled for long hours, sleeping only a few hours per night. They did this every weekend and on legal holidays when they were off work. Tony and Stella, because of their “lucky day” beliefs, generally limited their slot machine playing to one of the two individuals—the one with the more favorable “lucky day” indicators. During 2006 they reported combined winnings of $852,230. That included $586,038 of winnings that the casinos reported to the IRS on Forms W-2G, Certain Gambling Winnings (winnings in excess of $1,200), and $266,192 of winnings that were not reflected on Forms W-2G (winnings in amounts less than $1,200). Of the $586,038, Tony’s Forms W-2G reflected $500,490 and Stella’s Forms W-2G reflected $85,548. For 2006 their losses exceeded their gains by approximately $200,000. 2 On the 2006 return Tony claimed that he was a professional gambler (gambled for profit). He reported his 2006 gambling winnings and losses on a Schedule C, Profit or Loss From Business, but did not claim a loss in excess of winnings for the year.

Assignment 4: Asset Resource Management

Task 1. Select a imaging modality and create business plan for the purchase of that capital equipment by conducting an evaluation in collaboration with organization stakeholders (Physicians, Finance, Materials Management, etc.) to provide optimal technology.

Knowledge:
1. Modality appropriateness (why this, why now)
2. evaluate: Price, service, and value-added negotiation techniques
3. Investigate what type of Contract would be needed to purchase that equipment
4. present a executive summary and business plan for the purchase of that equipment that could be used to present to the decision makers at your institution

Evaluate:
5. Equipment safety (radiation, ergonomics, general)
6. Different types of equipment and their capabilities
7. Service and maintenance programs

Skills needed:
1. Interpreting equipment specifications
2. Communicating and attaining (developing) consensus with stakeholders
3. Applying radiation and general safety requirements (regulatory issues)
4. Negotiating contracts

Task 2. Manage projects effectively by empowering appropriate employee teams to implement projects that support strategic plans. Using the equipment you selected from task #1 about develop a team that would be needed to provide the needed input and support for the purchase of that equipment. Explain and justify each person who would need to be on that team and why you would need to include them. Also include what each person's role would be for the completion of the project.

Do research on the following:
1. Project management principles
2. Staff capabilities
3. Time management principles

Skills needed to complete this assessment:
1. Reading and interpreting financial reports
2. Collaborating with interdepartmental organization stakeholders
3. Communicating orally and through written documents
4. Applying project management principles
5. Organizing project teams
6. Managing project teams
7. Monitoring project teams and their results

How do the text Doll’s house and Pretty Women explore the theme of gender?

The topic is communicated accurately and effectively.
Descriptor
• Identification and explanation of the research topic is effectively communicated; the purpose and focus of the research is clear and appropriate.
The research question is clearly stated and focused.
• The research question is clear and addresses an issue of research that is
appropriately connected to the discussion in the essay.
Methodology of the research is complete.
• An appropriate range of relevant source(s) and/or method(s) have been applied
in relation to the topic and research question.
• There is evidence of effective and informed selection of sources and/or
methods.

Knowledge and understanding is excellent.
• The selection of source materials is clearly relevant and appropriate to the
research question.
• Knowledge of the topic/discipline(s)/issue is clear and coherent and sources are
used effectively and with understanding.
Use of terminology and concepts is good.
• The use of subject-specific terminology and concepts is accurate and consistent,
demonstrating effective knowledge and understanding.

The research is excellent.
• The research is appropriate to the research question and its application is
consistently relevant.
Analysis is excellent.
• The research is analysed effectively and clearly focused on the research
question; the inclusion of less relevant research does not significantly detract
from the quality of the overall analysis.
• Conclusions to individual points of analysis are effectively supported by the
evidence.
Discussion/evaluation is excellent.
• An effective and focused reasoned argument is developed from the research
with a conclusion reflective of the evidence presented.
This reasoned argument is well structured and coherent; any minor inconsistencies do not hinder the strength of the overall argument or the final or summative conclusion.
• The research has been critically evaluated.
Presentation is good.
• The structure of the essay clearly is appropriate in terms of the expected
conventions for the topic, the argument and subject in which the essay is
registered.
• Layout considerations are present and applied correctly.
• The structure and layout support the reading, understanding and evaluation of
the extended essay.
Engagement is excellent.
• Reflections on decision-making and planning are evaluative and include
reference to the student’s capacity to consider actions and ideas in response to
setbacks experienced in the research process.
• These reflections communicate a high degree of intellectual and personal
engagement with the research focus and process of research, demonstrating authenticity, intellectual initiative and/or creative approach in the student voice.

Financial Mathematics and Business Statistics: Individual Coursework

Instructions

This coursework tests your basic financial mathematics and statistical modelling skills, using spreadsheet software (Excel – formulae, financial maths, graphical features, Data Analysis and Solver tools) as well as your awareness of the reality of how financial products work. Your answers are to be presented in an essay/report format, for which you will use a word processor. In writing your report, please:

·         state and explain all assumptions, on which your answers are based;

·         clearly indicate your answer/recommendations;

·         no evidence of use of excel will result in a fail mark for this element of the coursework component of your mark;

·         support any answers with the appropriate calculations to arrive at the answer;

·         include selected screens of formulae underlying computed values. Failure to demonstrate you have created appropriate formulations on excel will be severely penalised. Despite the fact that you will be submitting the Excel file as well, your report is a stand-alone document, meaning a reader should not be required to look at the Excel file to understand your analysis, findings and recommendations;

·         please note that adequate usage of the excel calculations in the report is important. This means that the key data/findings needs to be included in the report and appropriate referencing needs to be done, i.e. the relevant cell/table/range in the relevant tab of the excel file mentioned at the point of the report when it should be consulted.

 

 

 

 

Question 2:                                                                                                                 (25%)

 

Kyle Dier is looking to buy his first home and through savings and a gift from his parents he has managed to raise £120,000. Kyle has identified two possible properties, a one bedroom flat in the centre of town that costs £350,000 and a three-bedroom house outside of town that costs £500,000 and he's decided to ask for your help identifying the best mortgage offers he can choose.

 

Required:

 

a)      Identify (and clearly indicate them in your submission) a minimum of three lenders Kyle could borrow the money from and discuss the mortgage alternatives available and the respective terms and applicable interest rates;

b)      For the most favourable rate for each type of mortgage (interest only and repayment), calculate the monthly payment Kyle would need to make for each of the properties he's looking to possibly buy if he chooses to take out a 20-year mortgage;

c)      Kyle believes it is highly likely that he will receive £75,000 in two years' time and if he does, he will use the money to make a partial payment of the mortgage. For both options in b) and considering the payments he will have done by then as well as the one-off partial payment, calculate the monthly payments for the remaining 18 years of the mortgage.

d)     Make a recommendation on the property Kyle should buy purely on financial terms and identify what other factors should be taken in consideration when making the final decision.

 

 

 Smoke Signals, 1998; Directed by Chris Eyre

1. Develop a thesis statement pertaining to the assigned film text and whether or not it, the film, in your view has the power to transform one’s political sensibilities. Your argument should express your point of view regarding the politics of difference, political sensibilities, and political transformation(s) as related to the film. 
2. Develop three (3) topic sentences that articulate the major ideas that will comprise the body of your essay. Remember that your topic sentences should clearly state the argument or point to be made in the respective paragraphs and must map back to your thesis statement. 
3. Identify three (3) scenes from the film that support your thesis statement. Briefly explain your choices of scenes and how the scenes specifically support your thesis statement. Also, provide the exact time the scenes begin and end within the film text. 
4. Lastly, fully develop your introductory paragraph. Remember that the best possible thesis will answer some specific question about the text. In this case a question related to the film’s power to transform political sensibilities regarding difference.

Discussion Question Chapter 11 DM SOC

Ch 11: Gender
Is there still a need for the feminist movement in the United States? Use examples to support your answer. Do you consider yourself a feminist? Why or why not?