Day: April 26, 2018

Resources: Gamescape Episode 4 and Ch. 15-18 of Visualizing Environmental Science.

Complete Episode 4: “Controlling Energy Systems” of Gamescape.

Imagine that you are preparing a 350- to 700-word letter for a time capsule for your great-great grandchildren, which explains the long-term energy sustainability plan that you developed in Episode 4 of Gamescape.

Include the following points:

• Briefly describe the nation’s current energy situation, reliance on oil, and renewable energy sources available. Discuss some challenges that our nation faces with managing our energy resources and how these challenges have affected you personally.
• Describe the sustainability plan you developed in Episode 4 of Gamescape. Identify two strengths and two weaknesses in this plan. How can you address these weaknesses?
• Present three ways in which you hope our nation will educate people on renewable resources and wisely managing our fossil fuel supply.
• Close with one key message that you want your great-great grandchildren to understand about how our current society has managed energy sources and their environmental effects.

Write a 700 to 1,050 word paper in the first person perspective of a U.S. Senator during the Reconstruction period. Include the following in your paper: Assume the role of a Radical Republican Senator and argue the Radical Republican position of Reconstruction. For the Radical Republicans: What were the challenges of Reconstruction? What caused the failure of Reconstruction? Assume the role of a moderate Republican and argue the moderate Republican position of Reconstruction. For the moderate Republicans: What were the challenges of Reconstruction? What caused the failure of Reconstruction? Conclude your paper by explaining what positive changes occurred during the Reconstruction period, even though Reconstruction was considered a failure. Format your paper according to APA standards.of a U.S. Senator during the Reconstruction period. Include the following in your paper: Assume the role of a Radical Republican Senator and argue the Radical Republican position of Reconstruction. For the Radical Republicans: What were the challenges of Reconstruction? What caused the failure of Reconstruction? Assume the role of a moderate Republican and argue the moderate Republican position of Reconstruction. For the moderate Republicans: What were the challenges of Reconstruction? What caused the failure of Reconstruction? Conclude your paper by explaining what positive changes occurred during the Reconstruction period, even though Reconstruction was considered a failure. Format your paper according to APA standards.

Marriott (1997) explains, “The discussion of land-use and development impacts are often combined with community effects, relocations, travel patterns, and economic effects under an umbrella term of socioeconomic impacts” (p. 61). Choose one of these socioeconomic factors, which are found in Chapters 5 through 9, and address the following three topics in detail:

1. Discuss the importance of evaluating the chosen factor, including the consequences that might result from failure to consider the chosen socioeconomic impact on the community.
2. Describe any difficulties that might be present when determining the cumulative impacts.
3. Provide and discuss an example of how the socioeconomic factor chosen has affected your community due to a project within your local area.

Your paper should include an introduction with a developed thesis statement to set up the paper as well as a concluding paragraph that sums up your discussion. Additionally, your assignment must be two to four double-spaced pages in length (excluding the title and reference pages) and formatted according to APA style

ATTACHED ARE THE CHAPTERS NEEDED TO DO THIS ASIGNMENT. iT MUST BE USED AS ONE OF YOUR RESOURCES ALSO ATTACHED AT THE END OF THE CHAPTERS IS HOW THE PAPER SHOULD BE WRITTEN.

You have been hired as a consultant by your town’s emergency management coordinator to help develop emergency action plans. One of the reasons you were selected is your expertise in using the General Behavior Model (GEBMO) to assess risks. Your first task is to assess the hazardous material risks at a local gas station. The station has one 30,000-gallon underground storage tank compartmentalized to hold 10,000 gallons each of the three gasoline grades, and there is one additional 10,000-gallon tank for diesel fuel. The station has four pumps, and each one can deliver all four products. Also on site is a 2,500 sq. ft. concrete block building used for the cashier and retail sales of service station and convenience store items. The station is located at a busy intersection near the center of town. It is adjacent to several other local businesses that do a brisk business during the day. Across the street from the station is a large housing development with an elementary school. Behind the station is a city park with playgrounds, baseball fields, and a large wooded area. Use the GEBMO framework to assess the risks related to the fuels in the underground tanks. Consider physical, chemical, and natural hazards that may contribute to the risks.

This paper is about fracking technique in oil and gas industry.  I expect a concise definition of a Life-Cycle Assessment (LCA) on fracking technic employed in oil and gas industry, its goals and scope.

 

You can provide a figure illustrating the whole process. Then, you have to use the examples of one fracking site in Texas and one in the UK. Perform an inventory analysis using figures available in official documents, policy documents, scientific literature, and stakeholders’ websites. If data is missing, realize estimations by explaining how you came up with these numbers (i.e. calculus, statistical estimations, extraction of info from sources, etc.). Adapt the different stages of LCA to both specific sites. Add maps and graphs to make support your statements.

 

Interpret your estimations or provided numbers.To what extent LCAs allow the quantification of GHG emissions? How can you criticize the application of LCAs in real life?

 

Compare your results for Texas and UK and conclude. What is different? Similar? What is the most appropriate way to perform an LCA? “

Select one of the products described in the eco-audit case study in Chapter 8 of your textbook (e.g., cups, grocery bags, electric kettle). Using the data in the textbook from the eco-audit, additional data from Chapter 15 (as necessary), and any additional resources that you find helpful, prepare a pollution prevention audit for the product that you have selected. Base your P2 audit on the steps shown in the Unit III Lesson.

You do not need to use all of the P2 audit steps shown in the Unit III Lesson, but use at least three major steps from each phase (a major step being Step 5 rather than Step 5.1). Since you will not be using all of the steps shown in the Unit Lesson, you may re-number them if you wish so that your audit proceeds sequentially without skipping numbers. Your audit should include an introductory paragraph explaining both the purpose of a P2 audit and the reasons for including the steps that you have selected. Your case study must be at least two full pages in length. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations. All references and citations used must be in APA style. The introduction should be formatted in paragraph form, and the steps can be formatted as a list.

You have just graduated from Keiser University�s MBA program and have secured a position as a fund manager for a well known investment banking house. You have been given $300 million to manage/invest. The fund is a pension/retirement fund so its perspective is long term with moderate risk of loss of capital and a required return of 9% per annum. In order to reduce the investment risk you are instructed to make 12 investments of $25 million dollars each. Your first assignment is to determine if the fund you are managing should invest $25 million dollars in the stock of the company you have selected for your first analysis/investment decision. Your decision to invest or not invest will be supported by the research paper and a 12 to15 minute presentation to the Executive Committee of the Fund (your hardnosed capitalist classmates)

1. Business Strategy Analysis: Develop an understanding of the business and

A financial team has been properly selected and charged to proceed with its analysis of EEV’s financial statements. In the course of its evaluation, it will be assessing the firm’s operating performance, benchmarking its competitors, and looking at the industry using financial ratios as its source of measurement.

The income statement measures the firm’s profitability over a period of time: 1 month, 1 quarter, or 1 year. The statement focuses on the operations of the firm and explains what was produced and sold. In essence, it summarizes revenues generated and the results.

Tony understands that managing profitability involves overseeing 3 interrelated factors: volume, cost, and price. He has given you the job of conducting an in-depth analysis of EEV’s operating performance. You will analyze the following factors:

• Sales volume, cost, and price of each specific product
• Each product’s contribution to sales in terms of profit
• The relationship between sales and supportive employment

• Create an annual expense budget for your needs in your first year of retirement using today’s dollars. For example, you may have no mortgage payment due in retirement. Note that if you retire prior to being eligible for Medicare (age 65 under current law), you will also need to budget for medical insurance. There are sources online available to help you find an estimate of this. Recognize that this figure could vary widely based on your future health.
• Note that it is not necessary to establish a budget that varies from month to month. The focus of this assignment is your annual needs rather than your expected monthly cash flows.
• Using your estimate of expenses in today’s dollars, the number of years before retirement and a rate of inflation assumption of 2.1%, report how much money you expect to spend in your each year of retirement in future dollars. Remember to continue to adjust for inflation to account for the impact of inflation during retirement.

Suppose a homeowner has an existing mortgage loan with these terms: Remaining balance of $150,000, interest rate of 8 percent, and remaining term of 10 years (monthly payments). This loan can be replaced by a loan at an interest rate of 6 percent, at a cost of 8 percent of the outstanding loan amount. Should the homeowner refinance? What difference would it make if the homeowner expects to be in the home for only five more years rather than ten?

You have just signed a contract to purchase your dream house. The price is $120,000 and you have applied for a $100,000, 30-year, 5.5 percent loan. Annual property taxes are expected to be $2,000. Hazard insurance will cost $400 per year. Your car payment is $400, with 36 months left. Your monthly gross income is $5,000. Calculate:

1. The monthly payment of principal and interest (PI).
2. One-twelfth of annual property tax payments and hazard insurance payments.
3. Monthly PITI (principal, interest, taxes, and insurance).
4. The housing expense (front-end) ratio.
5. The total obligations (back-end) ratio.