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Analyze the major points of George Washington’s “Farewell Address” and consider the contemporary government along with the following questions: Were the warnings and exhortations followed in the days since Washington’s presidency? What items did Washington feel of utmost importance as he left office?

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Washington Farewell Address Assignment Instructions

Overview

For this assignment, you will analyze the major points of George Washington’s “Farewell Address” and consider the contemporary government along with the following questions: Were the warnings and exhortations followed in the days since Washington’s presidency? What items did Washington feel of utmost importance as he left office? Including differing points of view is preferred and encouraged.

Instructions

Follow the below instructions to compose your assignment:

  • Length of assignment– 2–3 pages.
    • Make sure to include a bibliography page if you use sources.
  • This assignment also includes particulars for the title page:
    • Must include a title page (not counted in total page number) that contains:
      • A title,
      • Your name,
      • Your section (ex: GOVT 200-S02),
      • Your instructor’s name, and
      • The date the assignment is due (all single-spaced in the footer of the cover page).
    • No page number is necessary for the cover page or for the first page in the body of the paper.
  • Format of assignment – APA
  • Acceptable sources – Scholarly articles published within the last five years, the Bible, online articles given as assignments, and any other pertinent source that helps the student answer the assignment prompt.

 

Note: Your assignment will be checked for originality via the Turnitin plagiarism tool. 

Identify a creator from the twentieth or twenty-first century who you think made an important contribution to art and culture in the form of cultural works that impacted society.

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Human Culture

Identify a creator from the twentieth or twenty-first century who you think made an important contribution to art and culture in the form of cultural works that impacted society.
Describe one of the cultural works they created and the medium. Mediums can include dance, literature, sculpture, visual arts, architecture, music, performance, and so forth.
What questions about human culture does this work prompt?
What big questions do you think influenced the cultural work you selected? Consider addressing how this connects with the larger human need to express.

Watch an episode of NOVA and Write about 5 things you learned, 3 things you wondered about, and how do you learn more about them.

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Summary of a Nova episode

Watch an episode of NOVA and Write about 5 things you learned, 3 things you wondered about, and how do you learn more about them.

What’s the universal theme and message of the campaign, and how is it inclusive?

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Research Paper: Integrated Media Communication Message Analysis – Dove: #DetoxYourFeed

  • https://youtu.be/sF3iRZtkyAQ

Review the attached Instructions-
The writing is a message analysis.

What’s the universal theme and message of the campaign, and how is it inclusive?

Write an essay explaining the attitudes of African American males toward mental health treatment.

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Attitudes of African American Males toward Mental Health Treatment

Write an essay explaining the attitudes of African American males toward mental health treatment.

Why is redistricting a problem for U.S. House members? Explain. Why do congressional incumbents have such a high rate of reelection? Explain the lawmaking, representation, and oversight functions of Congress.

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Congress

Write a carefully constructed essay on one of the following topics of your choice. The essay should be approximately 500 – 800 words in length, address all points of the prompt you've chosen, and be submitted in a Word or PDF format only.

Prompts for 1st Essay – SP 2023: 2305-41009 Federal Government – Chapter 11: Congress

Why is redistricting a problem for U.S. House members? Explain.

Why do congressional incumbents have such a high rate of reelection?

Explain the lawmaking, representation, and oversight functions of Congress.

Contrast the advantages incumbents have in seeking reelection with their disadvantages. Which of these advantages and disadvantages apply only to House members? Which apply only to senators?

How does the structure of Congress—for example, its two chambers and its committee system—affect its role in making policy on broad national issues, as compared with its role on narrower group-centered issues?

Compared with past times, there are now fewer conservative Democrats and fewer progressive Republicans in Congress. How has this development increased the importance of party and party leaders in Congress? How has it increased the chances of partisan deadlock on key legislative issues?

If Company offers preferred stock with a current market price of $18 per share. The preferred stock pays an annual dividend of 4% based on a par value of $100. Flotation costs for preferred stock equals $1.50 per share. The corporate tax rate is 40%. Therefore, the cost of preferred stock would be?

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Cost of capital

  1. a) The preferred stock of Triple-Play Corporation is currently priced at $21 per share, pays an annual dividend of 3.5% based on a par value of $100. Flotation costs associated with the sale of preferred stock equal $1.25 per share. The company’s marginal tax rate is 35%. Therefore, the cost of preferred stock would be

 

  1. b) If Company offers preferred stock with a current market price of $18 per share. The preferred stock pays an annual dividend of 4% based on a par value of $100. Flotation costs for preferred stock equals $1.50 per share. The corporate tax rate is 40%. Therefore, the cost of preferred stock would be?

 

  1. c) GNB Inc. is investing in a major capital budgeting project that will require funding of $16 million. The money will be raised by issuing $2 million of bonds, $4 million of preferred stock, and $10 million of new common stock. The company estimates is after-tax cost of debt to be 7%, its cost of preferred stock to be 9%, the cost of retained earnings to be 14%, and the cost of new common stock to be 17%. What is the weighted average cost of capital for this project?

 

  1. d) The LMK Company is planning a $64 million expansion. The expansion is to be financed by selling $25.6 million in new debt and $38.4 million in new common stock. The before-tax required rate of return on debt is 9 percent and the required rate of return on equity is 14 percent. If the company is in the 35 percent tax bracket, what is the firm’s cost of capital?

 

  1. e) Given the following capital structure, compute the company’s weighted average cost of capital.

 

Type of Capital Percent of Capital Structure Before-Tax Component Cost
Bonds 40% 7.5%
Preferred Stock   5% 11%
Common Stock (Internal Only) 55% 15%

 

Solve for the company’s marginal tax rate is 40%.

 

  1. f) Painter Pro has a capital structure that consists of $7 million of debt, $2 million of preferred stock, and $11 million of common equity, based upon current market values. The firm’s yield to maturity on its bonds is 7.4%, and investors require an 8% return on the firm’s preferred and a 14% return on common stock. If the tax rate is 35%, calculate the WACC

 

  1. g) Princeton Technology has the following capital structure.

 

Debt………………………………..         40%

Common equity………………         60

 

The after-tax cost of debt is 6 percent; and the cost of common equity is 13 percent.

 

  1. What is the firm’s weighted average cost of capital?
  2. An outside consultant has suggested that because debt is cheaper than equity, the firm should switch to a capital structure that is 50 percent debt and 50 percent equity. Under this new and more debt-oriented arrangement, the aftertax cost of debt is 7 percent, and the cost of common equity (in the form of retained earnings) is 15 percent. Recalculate the firm’s weighted average cost of capital.
  3. Which plan is optimal in terms of minimizing the weighted average cost of capital?

Prepare a 2,000-word essay critically evaluating the impact of a financial technology on an area of the financial industry.

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Financial technologies

Prepare a 2,000-word essay critically evaluating the impact of a financial technology on an area of the financial industry. As part of this, you will assess the potential for business and economic disruption within your chosen financial subsector resulting from technological innovation. You should address the key opportunities, practical implications and risks posed by the adoption of the new technology and give an opinion as to the degree of disruption that widespread adoption of this technology may have on your chosen subsector.
You have been provided with an initial reading list of five sources to stoke your curiosity and lay the foundation for further research (see below). To successfully complete this assignment, you will need to draw on a wider range of references through independent research.
Your writing should be in the third person and any assertions you make should be supported with evidence. The essay must be written in an appropriate style and provide evidence of an ability to engage in critical discussion and thoughtful examination of the issues raised.

Grant discusses “Calibrate Your Confidence” on page 252. The one that relates to me is “Harness the benefits of doubt”. How can this relate to you as an Emergency Manager to help build your confidence?

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Decision Making/Leadership

Short Discussion essay – Decision Making in Emergency Management

Grant discusses “Calibrate Your Confidence” on page 252.  The one that relates to me is “Harness the benefits of doubt”.  How can this relate to you as an Emergency Manager to help build your confidence? Minimum 300 words not including citations and references.  Do not exceed more than 315 words. 

Source:

Grant, A. (2021). Think again: The power of knowing what you don’t know. Penguin.

 

What is the mathematical proof for the Pythagorean Theorem? Give one detailed proof of the Pythagorean Theorem involves using the areas of squares with areas a^2, b^2, and c^2. Proof both sides equal.

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Aerospace Engineering Question

What is the mathematical proof for the Pythagorean Theorem? Give one detailed proof of the Pythagorean Theorem involves using the areas of squares with areas a^2, b^2, and c^2. Proof both sides equal.