Month: July 2017

Literature essay will be on the two Russian stories by the Russian and world literature classic Leo Tolstoy, “After the Ball” and “How Much Land Does a Man Need?” You will reflect on the two stories, trying to reconstruct Tolstoy’s world outlook. What was he trying to say in his stories? What views did he have? Is it possible to say? Is there any connection between the stories? To do well on this assignment, you will have to do research on historic background of the stories — it will help a lot. However, in your essay you will discuss your own thoughts, as outlined earlier. Please don’t reproduce historical facts from Wikipedia. The purpose of your research is to help you think about the stories and understand them better. 3-5 pages.

1. Describe the importance of Tribal sovereignty (self-governance) and how can Cherokee Youth impact the Nation and why? 2. In 10 years time, what would you like to see changed in the Cherokee Nation and why? would you be involved in initiating that move? Each essay should be 1 to 2 typed pages.

This is about Auditing and Accounting. ******************************* Explain the following 1. common stock ****************** 2. preferred stock ******************* 3. proxy ******************* 4. Shareholder rights ************************* 5. Dividends Characteristics ****************************** 6. Dealers and brokers ***************************** 7. Stock exchanges ***************************** 8) What are internal controls and why are they so important? ***************************** 9) How can an auditor tell if there are not enough internal controls, too many internal controls, or the right amount of internal controls. ***************************** 10) You are an auditor and a client who is starting a new business comes to you for advice on the kinds of internal controls that should be established. Select a business area and provide a clear overview of necessary kinds of internal controls that are necessary. ************************** Your answers must be presented in APA style. 0 plagiarism please

800 – 1000 words. Problem solution essay. In 12 hours

for ur final essay, please write a critical essay addressing ONE of the questions below. You are welcome to create your own question, but do write to me before you begin to ensure that I have approved your chosen question. Remember that your ANSWER to the question will form your THESIS, and that you must DEFINE the terms of your thesis in your essay as well as provide THREE DIFFERENT MEANS OF PROOF TO SUPPORT YOUR THESIS. Your essay should consider the question from Personal, Practical and Universal directions. You can do this by employing the SEXI method as well as by simply considering personal, practical and universal avenues into your topic before you start writing. Do make sure you incorporate these into your essay at some point. Also think about how you may use rhetoric throughout your essay to make your position more convincing wherever possible 🙂 All of these elements combined together will work to make a stronger essay. You should also note that you will be marked on your correct use of grammar as well as your ability to employ MLA guidelines in the essay, citations and Works Cited page. THIRD ESSAY ASSIGNMENT ANSWER ONE OF THE FOLLOWING CRITICAL QUESTIONS: 1. Should English be the world’s International language? 2. Can changing your language change the way you experience your world? 3. Are Chinese Mothers Superior? 4. What is Intelligence? 5. Does Santa Claus exist? 6. Is lying sometimes okay? 7. Does “gender” exist in reality or only in language? 8. Does “race” exist in reality or only in language? FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS: Please note that your essay must adhere to the following instructions: Essay must be in MLA style. Essay must make use of at least ONE critical secondary source (either a reputable article from online, such as from an online news source, or a critical book or journal). This source must be correctly cited in your Works Cited page at the end of the essay. Essay must be at least 2000 -2500 words. Generally: Please follow MLA guidelines. I am attaching them again to this email so you all know precisely what this means. If you have questions, don’t hesitate to ask 🙂 Simply put: Make sure you have used Times New Roman font, size 12, and make sure you have the appropriate header on the first page (top left) and your last name and page number on the top right of every page. See the template attached for more information. Also, please do refer to your professors by the title “Dr” or “Prof” just out of respect..at least on the formal submission of your paper, if not in person 😉 Submit and attach a separate Works Cited page which cites any secondary sources you may have used. If you have cited from the poem, you should also cite this on the Works Cited page, even if it’s just a website. When quoting, always provide the significance of the quote. The quote does not stand alone as an explanation of itself. Your job is to provide the interpretation of its relevance to your thesis. DO use quotes to back up what you are saying! Remember the SEXI method. The “Importance” part is the most relevant in helping you develop and prove your thesis. Spend the most time on “Importance”. Make sure your thesis is argumentative – something that can be disputed and is opinion-based. Don’t be afraid of having an opinion. Make sure your thesis is broad enough that it can account for all the nuances and subtleties inherent in a text. Remember to balance the personal, practical and universal in your essay. The SEXI method forces you to do this. Structure your essay so that your intro has a Hook, a Thesis, and THREE ways in which you can prove your thesis. These three signposts should form the content of your body paragraphs. Your essay should account for and contend with all the different possible interpretations that are mentioned in lecture – to show that you are contending with the greatest interpretive queries that surround your chosen poem. Stay in the present tense. Even if an author is long dead, we treat literature as a living thing: “Dickens writes..” “Shakespeare alludes to…” “Faulkner suggests…” etc. This is true of living authors and those no longer with us. This is true of all works of literature. When first referring to an author, refer to their entire name (William Shakespeare). Thereafter, you may refer to the author by last name only (Shakespeare). NEVER refer to an author by their first name! (He’s not William or Bill. He’s Shakespeare! 🙂 When using secondary criticism, try to use someone with whom you DISAGREE rather than relying on a so-called expert to make your case for you. You should use the articles I give you in class to read, but you also need to source ONE of your OWN articles from online or the library. A strong essay is typically contentious and not unwilling to make bold claims and assertions that still account for all sorts of other interpretations in its wake. Account for what others have to say, but still come to your own conclusions.

Argumentative Essay Topics and Instructions: How much of a person’s character is shaped by gender, social group or ethnicity, in which he or she lives? In your essay, you are going to write about this matter from a personal point of view, and you can choose between the following: gender, social groups or ethnicity. Many of the main characters in The Help are social outsiders; for example, Skeeter is considered something of a misfit for being more interested in writing than boys. She is also unique in the way she crosses social barriers, when spending time with and getting to know the black house maids. However, in other places and times such behavior would be considered normal. With this in mind, write your text in relation to both your own situation and views, and the situation of characters in The Help. Title: How I was affected by my upbringing in terms of gender/social group/ethnicity (IMPORTANT! CHOOSE ONE OF THESE) Word limit: 300-500 words. Structure: 5-paragraph essay (See The English Handbook)

(TWO DIFFERENT ASSIGNMENTS) 1- This Physical Education Coursework is about to identify the stressor in the six dimensions of wellness. Identify the top stressor in your life for each of the six dimensions of wellness. (Emotional, Environmental, Intellectual, Physical, Spiritual, Social) For each stressor, do the following three things. 1. State which dimension of wellness is this stressor affecting. 2. Identify the type of stressor (Real / Imagined) and (Eustress / Distress) 3. List how you react to the stressor. (i.e. cry, develop rash, crave sweets, etc.) 4. Develop a plan of action to reduce this stressor from your life 2- The next assignment is about “Stress Management and Spirituality.” Is there a connection between stress management and spirituality? Can one identify their stress, manage it and connect with their own spirituality? Is it important for your health? How will you create a balance in our fast-paced society? Describe and recommend three strategies that help keep that balance. Recommend one website to the class that supports your strategies.

Ethics in public health coursework *report on potential issues (ethical, political, legal, and/or economic) concerning the use of QALY’s as a measure of evidence in public health practice and delivery (with respect to Medical Marijuana). Your report should explore real life situations whenever possible, and include discussion regarding ethical theories/principles- such as social justice and equity. *QALY however, is NOT to be confused with simply adding years to one’s life expectancy, and comes with its own controversies. For example, some claim that a QALY approach can lead to unjust social distribution, as it is calculated based-upon the capacity to benefit, rather than actual need. For instance, two populations with similar cancer rates may be competing for federal funding to implement a health promotion project that has been proven to lower cancer incidence. One population also has a high rate of disability, while the other does not. The QALY approach in this case would favor the healthier population, as they would have the best potential for an increased “quality” of life. Therefore, a question of social justice and equity may be raised. ** I have attached below a SAMPLE work on what the paper should be like **a PDF file with some explanation of what QALY’S are ** Some sources (websites) that may be helpful in writing this paper. You may use Sources of your choosing *** please note that if the topic of medical marijuana can not be used to support QALYs you may pick a different topic( not the same topic from the sample paper) http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/01/05/marijuana-much-more-than-you-wanted-to-know/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23072659 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC317370/ http://www.celforpharma.com/insight/do-you-know-what-qaly-and-how-calculate-it

The question that you will be able to prepare ahead of time is worth approximately 30% of the final exam and is one of the following two questions: 1. Pieces of music are often unified by repeated rhythmic patterns. For the following pieces, compare the repeated rhythmic patterns and the ways in which these repeated rhythmic patterns are used: Shango Maru-Bihag 2. Iterative and recursive form are ways in which musicians design pieces of music (cf., e.g., the material for Chapter 14 in the course kit, pp. 164-66 in the hardcopy version). Show how iteration and recursion are used in two of the following pieces: Spring Symphony no. 39 Schwiphti Note that you should answer either question 1 OR question 2. The first sentence of your answer should be exactly the same as the first sentence of the question you choose: ‘Pieces of music … rhythmic patterns.’ OR ‘Iteration and recursion … pieces of music.’ The second sentence of your answer should specify the pieces you are discussing and whether you will focus on similarities and/or differences between the pieces. E.g., an answer to question 1 might have as its second sentence: ‘In Shango and Maru-Bihag, the repeated rhythmic patterns are similar and/or different, and/however the ways in which these repeated rhythms are used are similar and/or different.’ Your second paragraph should elaborate on the second sentence of the first paragraph by specifying the particular similarities and/or differences that you have chosen to emphasize. Your third paragraph should return to the main idea of the second sentence of your first paragraph and summarize the main points of your second paragraph. E.g., for question 1: ‘In summary, the repeated rhythmic patterns of Shango and Maru-Bihag are similar and/or different as follows: …. Moreover, the ways in which repeated rhythmic patterns are used in Shango and Maru-Bihag differ and/or are similar as follows: ….’ Note that in the third paragraph you should not merely repeat all that you have said in the second paragraph. Instead, you should emphasize the most general points you have made in the second paragraph. Because you will be writing your answer in an exam, you should try to be as concise as possible in your answer. Although you will have about an hour for the essay question, you should aim for an answer that requires no more than 300 words.

Title:
Investment Analysis of 5 firms out of the FTSE100 Listed Firms.
Objective:
To understand the key concepts, approaches, evidence and modelsof modern financial theory and practice.
Data:
You will draw the necessary data for this coursework from databases such as Yahoo Finance, FAME, and Thomson Reuters Datastream.
There are five firms from the FTSE100 index components – Aviva PLC, BAE Systems PLC, Unilever PLC, Worldpay Group PLC, Astrazeneca PLC. Download adjusted monthly closing stock prices for each one of your five firms over the most recent period of five years (your price series should be from June 2012 to June 2017 so that you can then obtain 60 monthly return observations in total for each stock). Also, download adjusted monthly closing price levels for the iShares Core FTSE 100 UCITS ETF(ISF) as a proxy for the UK market portfolio over the same 5-year period (you can find its information via Yahoo here).
In order to determine the risk-free rate, download the 3-month UK Treasury Bills monthly rates: open the Bank of England website, then select Statistics, Interest and Exchange Rates Data, Wholesale interest and discount rates, Treasury Bills (3 month) Sterling, End month – IUMAJNB – Monthly.
Description:
A wealthy Asian investor is considering the strategic decision of investing in a portfolio of five FTSE100 firms. This investor is diversified in terms of exposure to different sectors in the Asia region, but not diversified in terms of international geographical exposure.
You are employed by a leading financial institution and have been asked to advise this client. You will prepare an investment report in Microsoft Word for her containing all your work, results and arguments. All the relevant tables and figures should be contained and discussed in the main body of the report, not in some appendix. The report, which includes all of the following five sections, should not exceed 4,000 words in total apart from references and appendices.
Section 1. At the end of February 2017, there were 882 ETFs listed on the London Stock Exchange alone. While most ETFs are passive products built to track indices, the number of actively managed ETFs has grown to 173 in the US at the end of 2016. In the age of ETF, your client would like you to discuss the investment opportunities in exchange-traded funds (ETF) in terms of its advantages and disadvantages comparing with traditional passive and active mutual funds. Do not perform your own empirical analysis and testing but use the international and the UK empirical evidence and relevant theories from the literature and the news articles.
Relevant Reading: Lecture 1.(25 marks)
Section 2. Use your sample data to form the following four portfolios: equal-weighted portfolio (EWP);market-value-weighted portfolio (VWP);global minimum-variance portfolio (GMVP);and optimal risky portfolio (P). According to the five stocks and risk-free rate, build and draw the optimalcapital allocation line, the minimum-variance frontier and the efficient frontier in a graph (type: scatter with smooth lines) of expected returns against standard deviations.Further, mark the positions ofthefive stocks and four portfolios in that graph. Explain and discuss your results.
Table: Four portfolios’ weights, returns, standard deviations, and Sharpe ratios.
Figure:One graph includes the optimal capital allocation line,the minimum-variance frontier,the efficient frontier, the five stocks and four portfolios.
Relevant Reading:Lectures 2 & 5 and Labs 2 to 5& 7.(25 marks)
Section 3. Determine the proportion of the overall optimal complete portfolio (C) in the UK financial market that should be held in the optimal risky portfolio (P) of the five stocks along with the proportion that should be held in the risk-free asset. Assume that your client has the same coefficient of risk aversion as yours and that you should determine this by using the Charles Schwab Investor Profile Questionnaire. Transform the questionnaire risk tolerance scores “X” (0 to 40) into risk aversion index“A” (2 to 4) by using the following transformation: A=4 – X/20. Thus, a risk tolerance score of 30 becomes a risk aversion index of 2.5 (=4 –30/20). Finally, draw a graph (type: scatter with smooth lines) to illustrate the relevant indifference curve, capital allocation line, optimal risky portfolio (P), and optimal complete portfolio (C).Explain and discuss your results.
Table: Portfolio C’s weights, returns, and standard deviations.
Figure: One graph includes indifference curve, capital allocation line, optimal risky portfolio (P), and optimal complete portfolio (C).
Relevant Reading: Lecture 3 and Lab 4. (15 marks)
Section 4. On the basis of the single-factor market model CAPM, estimate the beta coefficients for each one of the chosen five stocks. You are free to use whatever method you prefer in estimating the market model parameters (e.g. scatterplot trendline, intercept and slope functions, or regression analysis). Discuss if the beta values you have estimated are sensible given the industry nature of the business activities of each firm. Finally, discuss the relationship depicted in a scatterplot (type: scatter) between expected returns (use theaverage annualised returns here)and beta coefficients for the five stocks.
Table: Alpha & beta coefficients, and expected returns for the five stocks.
Figure: One scatterplot of expected returns against beta coefficients for the five stocks.
Relevant Reading: Lectures 6 & 8 and Lab 6. (15 marks)
Section 5. Evaluate in absolute and relative terms the investment performance of each one of the four portfolios that created in Section 2 (EWP, VWP, GMVP and P) with the FTSE 100benchmark (the iShares Core FTSE 100 UCITS ETF)over the five-year sample period:
(i) Compare the performance of the four portfolios in terms of return, standard deviation, beta, Sharpe ratio, Treynor measure, Jensen’s alpha, information ratio, and M2 measure.All metric components (e.g., average return and standard deviation) should be annualised as appropriate.
(ii) Which portfolio would be the best for your client to invest in? Which portfolio do you consider the worst choice to your client? Justify and explain your recommendations.
(iii) Compare the best and worst portfolios to your client graphically by using wealth indices.
Table: Performance statistics for the four portfolios with the FTSE 100 benchmark.
Figure: Wealth indices (i.e. cumulative return) for the best and worst portfolios to your client.
Relevant Reading: Lecture 7 and Labs 2 & 7.(20 marks)
Coursework Excel File
• You should submit the relevant excel file electronically
• The calculations and data analysis should be performed using Microsoft Excel in a single workbook with multiple worksheets.
• The excel file should contain the data used along with the relevant analysis, results, and section titles.
• Failure to submit this file will cost your marks and may mean that you fail the coursework.