Day: December 4, 2019

Reference articles below; answer/cite questions below 150 words.

 

The history of trade agreements shows the shifts over time between Globalism and Nationalism. Where do you think we are heading in the next few years? Do you think this is a positive or negative? Why?  NOTE: Be specific and ensure that you incorporate from both assigned readings and external research. Always cite your work. 

 

Reference articles

 

Farah, P. D., & Cima, E. (2010). China’s Participation in the World Trade Organization: Trade in Goods, Services, Intellectual Property Rights and Transparency Issues. In A. Lopez-Tarruella Martinez, El Comercio Con China: Oportunidades Empresariales, Incertidumbres Juridicas (pp. 83-121). Valencia: Tirant le Blanch. Retrieved from https://ssrn.com/abstract=1527992.

 

Kissoon, R., & McLarney, C. (2018). Progress in Securing Openness of Crossborder Trade in Services. Journal of International Business Research, 17:1.   https://www.abacademies.org/articles/Progress-in-securing-openness-of-crossborder-trade-in-services-%201544-0230-17-1-110.pdf

 

Rao, D. N. (2007). Analysing risks of foreign direct investment in emerging economies: A case-study of Saudi Arabia. SSRN. Retrieved from https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=955264 

 

Question 1   

What are the key types of stock typically issued by publicly traded organizations? If you were to invest $10,000 of your own funds, which type would you choose, why? Your response should be in your own words.

 Question 2 

Identify and explain the key elements that impact the time value of money. Your response should be in your own words.

Question 3
 

Outline the key elements of the Efficient Markey Theory and identify which, if any, you feel most accurately depicts how our market behaves. Your response should be in your own words.

Question 4 

Identify two key liquidity ratios, explain how they are calculated, and discuss what each ratio can tell about an organization s performance. Your response should be in your own words.

Question 5 

Explain the three types of premiums and the role they play bond rates. Your response should be in your own words. 

Question 6 

What role does the time value of money play in determining the issue price of a bond? Your response should be in your own words. 

Question 7 

What  are junk bonds and would you recommend investing in them? Defend your answer. Your response should be in your own words. 

Question 8 

What is trend analysis and what information can it tell you about an organization that looking at the $$ s on the financial statements alone cannot provide? Your response should be in your own words.

Question 9

 Identify one liquidity, one solvency, and one profitability ratio, explain how they are calculated, and discuss what each ratio can tell about an organization s performance. Your response should be in your own words.

Question 10

What are the key arguments of those who feel the Efficient Market Theory is invalid? Your response should be in your own words.

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 word.

Every family needs to buy groceries. Imagine you have a budget of $150 and need to feed a family of four for 7 days. Create a grocery list that details the items and quantities you will need to purchase to meet these demands. Use that grocery list to estimate your family’s weekly grocery bill. How did your results from the Show What You Know diagnostic reflect an understanding, or lack of understanding, about estimation? How has your understanding changed this week?

 

Meghan post

For my study, I am conducting research on the idea that English language learner educators struggle to find creative ways to encourage language learning, as well as, meet the grade level Common Core standards.My research synthesis began with patiently identifying sources that were applicable to my topic of study, and taking time to identify the reliability of each of those sources. 

    As I continued conducting my research synthesis, I found that I was trying too hard to find articles that agreed with my problem statement. I wasn’t researching and identifying varying viewpoints on the problem, and I was coming up short with research because of this. The goal is to synthesize findings from multiple viewpoints, sources, and research studies; in order to conduct a thoroughly developed literature review. As  Gall, Gall, and Borg (2015) mentioned , “educators should combine research-based generalizations, research from related areas, and their own professional judgment based on firsthand experience to develop specific practices and make adjustments as necessary.” (p.75)

     After reading this and going back and re-reading information on good literature reviews, I was able to adjust my thinking and begin to better identify studies of practice that not only perceived my topic of study as a real problem in the field of education, but also studies where the researchers posed perspectives that contrasted. Through the reading of these comparative and contradictory research studies, I was better able to see my research problem from different viewpoint, and begin to build a basis for my literature review. 

 

Jessica post

Despite the prevalence of zero-tolerance policies over the last few decades, research continues to show that they may not be effective. When middle school teachers were encouraged to adopt positive approaches toward discipline, which emphasize trust-building and empathy, teacher-student relationships improved—and suspensions dropped by half.

There is increasing concern about rising discipline citations in K–12 schooling and a lack of means to reduce them. Predominant theories characterize this problem as the result of punitive discipline policies (e.g., zero-tolerance policies), teachers’ lack of interpersonal skills, or students’ lack of self-control or social–emotional skills. By contrast, the present research examined teachers’ mindsets about discipline. A brief intervention aimed at encouraging an empathic mindset about discipline halved student suspension rates over an academic year. This intervention, an online exercise, can be delivered at near-zero marginal cost to large samples of teachers and students. These findings could mark a paradigm shift in society’s understanding of the origins of and remedies for discipline problems.

 

Cynthia post

The problem of practice that I researched was whether English language learners (ELLs) are being misplaced into special education. The first two articles that I read, Eligibility for special education in elementary school: The role of diverse language experiences by Yamasaki and Luk (2018) and Disentangling language differences from disability: A case study of district-preservice collaboration by Brown and Ault (2015) agree that this a problem. As I continued to research most of the research agree that this a problem and one that will continue as the number of ELLs in schools continues to grow. The research showed patterns that exist with this problem and two stood out. One was the assessments being used to place students and the other teacher’s education. Out of these patterns rose two solutions. The first is to use multiple assessments not just standardized tests to determine if a student has a learning disability (Farnsworth, 2018). The second was that professional development for teachers needs to increased especially in how to tell the difference between true disabilities and language acquisition difficulties  (Umansky et al., 2017). By increasing professional education and using better assessments will allow students to get the services they need to be successful.

 Correctional Policy Issues      

In Chapter 12 of The Public Policy of Crime and Criminal Justice, Marion and Oliver (2012) address numerous issues surrounding corrections such as the role of private prisons as a way to reduce prison overcrowding. To frame this discussion, you should consider the following questions:

• What should we do about prison overcrowding?
• What role will prisons play in the future?
• Will the focus be punishment or treatment?
• Does the state have a responsibility to train inmates with employment skills?
• Should we allow inmate labor (prison industries) as a for-profit industry?

Initial Post: You will select a corrections policy issue addressed in one of your texts. Examine the issues surrounding the corrections policy issue, and determine the effects of the policy on the other components of the criminal justice system. Support your claims with examples from the required materials and/or other scholarly sources, and properly cite your references with both in-text and APA citation at the end of your post.

Guided Response: Review your peers’ posts, and substantively respond to at least two of your peers. In your evaluation of your classmates’ posts, do you agree or disagree with their examination of the key considerations for the criminal justice policy and the effects of the policy on the other elements of the criminal justice system? How would you revise the policy to make it more effective? What impact will these adjustments make on social justice in America? Respond to at least one Instructor Response in the discussion. Support your position with scholarly references.

Use the Internet to research design flaws in cellular networks that affect performance or security and find alternative designs that can improve capabilities. You can include anything in the cellular networks or smartphone industry. Then write a paper in current APA format that lists at least three of these flaws with your proposed alternatives and discuss why your alternatives provide a better design. Don’t be afraid to think outside of the box. 

Upgrading the sagging U.S. infrastructure. The American Society of Civil Engineers gives our aging infrastructure a D+ grade and estimates that $3.6 trillion dollars must be invested by 2020 to bring our roads, bridges, water, electrical and sewage systems to proper safe working order. However, there are some that say we can’t afford to fix everything. Let the private sector handle it. (see http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/americas-aging-infrastructure-what-to-fix-and-who-will-pay/)

As we have discussed in class Engineers must abide by a Code of Ethics, and specifically Industrial Engineers follow the Code of Ethics by NSPE. In your groups, you are to consider both of these huge projects to the country and you need to do the following:

1. Research the true state of our aging infrastructure and discuss how ASCE came up with it’s grade. You should include what has been done to date since ASCE published it’s report.

 

  

Requirements:

· Individual accountability and responsibility: Each team member researches the case assigned on their own prior to the first team meeting. The team member is required to come to the team meeting with a written document with a basic information about the case and the source of the information. A minimum of 5 sources should be brought to the first team meeting about the assignment. 

 

 

  

Research information– 

A key to successful research is to use reliable, high-quality information sources. While high quality information can be found on the open Web, it can be hard to pick out from the vast amounts of unreliable and unsourced material that also exist there. Using the library is the best way to ensure you are using the best research sources.  

use reference from the textbook !!!!

Write which prompt you are writing about at the top of your paper 

Make sure to do everything laid out in the grading rubric, including at least 2 quotes from the textbook or in class discussions. 

Islam Prompts(For those who wrote the last paper on Christianity):

 

Write a paper in which you do more research on two of the following topics/figures we discussed in class. Tell me more information about each, put the 2 topics in conversation with each other, formulate a thesis or analytical claim:

Ibn Sina (called Avicenna in Europe)

Rabi’a al-Adawiyah (Sufi, woman mystic)

Rumi (Sufi, male poet & mystic)

Israeli-Palestinian conflict 

Nation of Islam 

Which modern (post-1700 CE) Islamic political leader, philosopher, artist, or theologian can you argue will have the greatest effect on Islam’s future?

 Compare one person that is shared by Islam and Judaism. Show points of similarity and difference using the holy texts and the textbook. How might these similarities and differences serve as sources of unity or tension in Muslim-Jewish relations?

 

 https://www.mybicc.org/ 

 https://www.google.com/search?q=Bridgeport+Islamic+Community+Center+mosque&rlz=1C1CHBD_zh-CNUS846US846&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiY4ZShlJvmAhUHVN8KHVzoDeUQ_AUoA3oECA4QBQ&biw=1920&bih=969 

Discuss the experience of visiting the Bridgeport Islamic Community Center mosque: describe the space, how was it different or the same as what you expected? Think about the significance of religious architecture and decoration (ex: furniture, balcony, images (or their absence), calligraphy, etc.). 

For this prompt you will also need to discuss the building’s earlier life as a Christian Church and do some research on the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul (which was built as Eastern Orthodoxy Christianity, then became a mosque and is now a museum. How do buildings take on new roles, have new lives? 

 

Do more research on one or two of the Indigenous Religions discussed in the textbook. Include information about their geographical location, religious beliefs, notable figures (historical and/or religious), architecture, art, and contact with other groups/nations. What lessons can this religion teach us today? 

Extra Credit (5 possible points on this paper): What is something that you think about/understand differently now than from the beginning of the semester? Write the answer in 3-5 sentences as its own paragraph at the end of the paper.

Based on IP 7, provide a short summary of the Kali Tool you have researched. Share with other students, how it’s used, implemented and measures to protect your network against illicit use of it. The main post must be a minimum of 200 words.

Responses to Other Students: Respond to at least 2 of your fellow classmates with at least a 100-word reply about their Primary Task Response regarding items you found to be compelling and enlightening. To help you with your discussion, please consider the following questions:

• What did you learn from your classmate’s posting? 
• What additional questions do you have after reading the posting? 
• What clarification do you need regarding the posting? 
• What differences or similarities do you see between your posting and other classmates’ postings?