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Discuss what you learned from this essay: about writing, argument, yourself as a writer, etc. What process steps would you use for another assignment? For what types of assignment, and why? What would you rethink, and why?

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Post Script Questions:

This is informal writing, but it must be submitted with your essay.

  1. Explain at least three ways that you served your audience. Be specific. For example, don’t say that you “used appropriate language”; instead, discuss specific language choices that you made.
  2. What “sources” (formal or informal) did you consult to go beyond your own experience and opinion and to understand possible reader objections? What impact did these “sources” have on your opinions and essay?
  3. What’s your argument/thesis (just in case it’s not clear)?
  4. Discuss what you learned from this essay: about writing, argument, yourself as a writer, etc.
  5. What process steps would you use for another assignment? For what types of assignment, and why? What would you rethink, and why?
  6. What do you like best about your essay?
  7. What concerns do you have about your essay? What do you want me to pay special attention to or comment on?
  8. Anything else?

Why might univariate factor tests not be sufficient to determine the factors in a fundamental model? Write the homework in a word file and attach the code.

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R programming –finance

1. Based on Lab3a exercises, select three most significant factors from single variable regressions, and run a regression of returns on these three variables. Discuss the joint significance of these variables.

 

2. Based on Lab3b exercises, one can study the regression output and determine the significance of each factor. The following questions might help you in analyzing the regression output:

  • (a) Is marketcap significant? Can you explain the sign of the coefficient?
  • (b) Is price2cashflow significant? Can you explain the sign of the coefficient?
  • (c) Is price2earnings significant? Can you explain the sign of the coefficient?
  • (d) Is momentum significant? Can you explain the sign of the coefficient?

 

3. From the Lab3b data set, one can include a few additional factor exposures. For example, one might decide to include price2dividend instead of price2earnings, or roe instead of price2cashflow.

Estimate the fundamental factor model with log size, momentum, log price-to-book ratio based on fixed effects model with a. time fixed effects and b. time and firm fixed effects. Compare the estimates with the one we obtained above.

Note: # required library for running the function of felm() to fit a linear model with multiple group fixed effects

  • install.packages(“lfe”)
  • library(lfe)

 

4. Why might univariate factor tests not be sufficient to determine the factors in a fundamental model? Write the homework in a word file and attach the code.

Provide an example of an invasive species found in the biome/ecosystem. What are some of the negative impacts this invasive species has on the ecosystem? What is being done to mitigate impacts?

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BIO-220 Environmental science

Pick a biome and ecosystem and create a 500-700 word essay addressing the following:

  1. Refer to the infographic provided and chose a biome to describe with an example ecosystem.
  2. Provide one example of a keystone species found in the biome/ecosystem. Why is this keystone species important to the biome/ecosystem? What defines it as a keystone species?
  3. Provide an example of an invasive species found in the biome/ecosystem. What are some of the negative impacts this invasive species has on the ecosystem? What is being done to mitigate impacts?
  4. Provide one example of an endangered species found in the biome/ecosystem. Briefly discuss the causes of the decline in the species and what is being done to help.

Refer to the “Biomes and Ecosystems” infographic located in the topic Resources. Also include at least 3 academic sources and make sure all sources are cited in your essay.

Should age or need be the basis for entitlement? What the future for Social Security? is retirement obsolete?

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Health & Medical Question

Reading Response Paper you be reflecting on and providing your intellectual (and emotionally necessary) response to one of this week’s controversies:

  1.  Should age or need be the basis for entitlement?
  2. What the future for Social Security?
  3.  is retirement obsolete?
  4.  Aging Boomers: Boom or Bust?.
  5.  The new aging marketplace: Hope or Hype?

Use at least 4 scholarly sources.

Make a statement about how mind altering substances can be negative. Make a positive statement which contrast this with its relevance for academic study from a historical point of view.

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HUM150 Mind Altering Substances in Ancient World

The point of this essay will be to highlight some of the negative aspects of psychotropics and then contrast that with their historical and future importance of study. In other words, make a statement about how mind altering substances can be negative (example: sugar and tobacco). Then make a positive statement which contrast (however) this with its relevance for academic study from a historical point of view (Shamans used psychotropic for healing). Lastly, argue (Thesis) for its importance for future research in mental disorders. (If you think they are not important for future study, you can also argue this.)

If the interest rate was 8%, how much would you have been prepared to bid for the prize? Explain your reasoning.

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Lottery Prize Discussion Question – CLO 1

Several years ago, the Wall Street Journal reported that the winner of the Massachusetts State Lottery prize had the misfortune of being both bankrupt and in prison for fraud. The balance of the prize was $9,420,713, to be paid in 19 equal annual installments (there were 20 installments, but the winner had already received the first payment). The bankruptcy court judge ruled that the prize should be sold off to the highest bidder and the proceeds were to be paid to the creditors.

  • If the interest rate was 8%, how much would you have been prepared to bid for the prize? Explain your reasoning.
  • Enhance Reinsurance Company was reported to have offered $4.2 million. Find the return that the company was looking for

Respond to the prompt with a thesis that presents a defensible interpretation. Select and use evidence to support your line of reasoning. Explain how the evidence supports your line of reasoning.

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“Shaving” by Richard Blanco

Question 1

In Richard Blanco’s poem “Shaving,” published in 1998, the speaker writes about the act of shaving.

Read the poem carefully. Then, in a well-written essay, analyze how Blanco uses literary elements and techniques to develop the speaker’s complex associations with the ritual of shaving. In your response you should do the following:

• Respond to the prompt with a thesis that presents a defensible interpretation.

• Select and use evidence to support your line of reasoning.

• Explain how the evidence supports your line of reasoning.

• Use appropriate grammar and punctuation in communicating your argument.

List three concrete revisions that you made and explain how you made them. What problem did you fix with each of these revisions? Issues may be unity, cohesion, rhetorical appeals, content, or any other areas on which you received constructive feedback.

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English Question

ASSIGNMENT: Review the in-text comments and summary feedback you received on your Touchstone 3.2 draft to enhance your writing. You will then submit a revision of your Touchstone 3.2 draft that reflects the evaluator’s feedback, making all necessary changes to the idea development, organization, style, and conventions. Make sure to include a copy of your Touchstone 3.2 draft below the reflection questions for this unit.

As this assignment builds on Touchstone 3.2: Draft an Argumentative Research Essay, that Touchstone must be graded before you can submit your final research essay.

Reflection Questions

DIRECTIONS: Below your assignment, include answers to all of the following reflection questions.

  1. How much time did you spend revising your draft? What revision strategies did you use, and which worked best for you? (2-3 sentences)
  2. List three concrete revisions that you made and explain how you made them. What problem did you fix with each of these revisions? Issues may be unity, cohesion, rhetorical appeals, content, or any other areas on which you received constructive feedback. (4-5 sentences)
  3. What did you learn about your writing process or yourself as a writer? How has your understanding of the research process changed as a result of taking this course? (2-3 sentences)

Identify philosophical questions and concepts that were addressed in the film and support your assertions with direct examples. Reflect on how the film’s approach to these questions relates to the ones we covered throughout the course.

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Final reflection – Blade Runner (1982)

Identify philosophical questions and concepts that were addressed in the film and support your assertions with direct examples.

Reflect on how the film’s approach to these questions relates to the ones we covered throughout the course.

Philosophers allowed are: Plato, Immanuel Kant, siddhartha buddha, Nelson Mandela, Daniel Dennett. From this list, use Dennet and at least 2 other philosophers

Use this textbook and at least 4 other scholarly sources. I will add 12 more hours to the order once it is picked up.

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How effective is the advisement process for undecided students? Do students that enroll with declared majors have an easier time with advisement? How does an advisor help a student that does not have a declared major?

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Assignment 1: Chapter I: Introduction Section: Research Problem

The Introduction Section of the research paper sets up the problem that the research study attempts to explore. This is often achieved by referencing resources in the field to help the writer establish a gap between what is ideal and what is reality within the research topic, before briefly addressing what the researcher’s study will aim to do to attempt to better understand the topic and bridge that gap. Using the sample provided as a guide, construct a properly formatted Introduction Section for your research study. Be sure to include the following:

  • Purpose of the Study
  • Summary of Prior Literature
  • Definition of Key Terms
  • Research Questions

50 points

Research Questions:

  • The primary research question that will guide the analysis in this study include:
  • How effective is the advisement process for undecided students?
    • Do students that enroll with declared majors have an easier time with advisement?
    • How does an advisor help a student that does not have a declared major?