reflections racial discrimination

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 Reflections on Racial Discrimination ALL WORK MUST BE COMPLETELY ORIGINAL AS IT GOES THROUGH A TURNITIN PROGRAM. PAPER MUST ALSO BE APA AND HAVE NO LESS THEN 4 SOURCES 

Franklin hears about people being discriminated against at the workplace and in society but rarely experiences it first hand. Cortez, on the other hand, speaks English poorly and is often subject to derogatory comments from peers and coworkers.

Reflect on your experience with racial discrimination.

Identify examples of racial discrimination and provide examples you have personally witnessed or heard about firsthand from the following three realms:

  • family
  • work place
  • community

Write a brief summary that includes the following:

  • Describe a racial incident pertaining to each realm in detail. Explain why you believe this is racial discrimination.
  • Explain how this situation could have been handled to avoid discrimination against those belonging to another race.

write decimal number values these binary numbers writing them expanded form first note subsc

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Write the decimal number values of these binary numbers by writing them in expanded form first. [Note: the subscript 2 indicates a binary, or base 2, number.] (a) [101]2 (b) [1011]2 (c) [111112 (d) [10011112 lei [10111112 (f) [100100112

prepare report see below using numerical methods descriptive statistics presented module lea

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  1. Descriptive statistics (5-number summary, mean, mode, range, and standard deviation) for each of the four variables along with an explanation of what the descriptive statistics tell us about the motion picture industry.
  2. What motion pictures, if any, should be considered high-performance outliers in each of the four variables? If there are any outliers in any category, please list them and state for which category they are an outlier. Describe which method you used to determine if there were or not.
  3. Descriptive statistics (correlation coefficient) showing the relationship between total gross sales and each of the other three variables. Please provide an explanation of the relationships
Rank Movie Title Opening Gross Total Gross Theaters Weeks
1 Avatar 77,025,481 749,766,139 3,461 34
2 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen 108,966,307 402,111,870 4,293 16
3 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 77,835,727 301,959,197 4,455 22
4 The Twilight Saga: New Moon 142,839,137 296,623,634 4,124 19
5 Up 68,108,790 293,004,164 3,886 23
6 The Hangover 44,979,319 277,322,503 3,545 28
7 Star Trek 75,204,289 257,730,019 4,053 21
8 The Blind Side 34,119,372 255,959,475 3,407 28
9 Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel 48,875,415 219,614,612 3,747 21
10 Sherlock Holmes 62,304,277 209,028,679 3,626 18
11 Monsters Vs. Aliens 59,321,095 198,351,526 4,136 22
12 Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs 41,690,382 196,573,705 4,102 21
13 X-Men Origins: Wolverine 85,058,003 179,883,157 4,102 22
14 Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian 54,173,286 177,243,721 4,101 23
15 2012 65,237,614 166,112,167 3,444 15
16 The Proposal 33,627,598 163,958,031 3,158 20
17 Fast and Furious 70,950,500 155,064,265 3,674 13
18 G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra 54,713,046 150,201,498 4,007 13
19 Paul Blart: Mall Cop 31,832,636 146,336,178 3,206 18
20 Taken 24,717,037 145,000,989 3,184 22
21 A Christmas Carol (2009) 30,051,075 137,855,863 3,683 13
22 Angels & Demons 46,204,168 133,375,846 3,527 11
23 Terminator Salvation 42,558,390 125,322,469 3,602 16
24 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 30,304,648 124,870,275 3,119 19
25 Inglourious Basterds 38,054,676 120,540,719 3,358 17
26 G-Force 31,706,934 119,436,770 3,697 19
27 District 9 37,354,308 115,646,235 3,180 11
28 It’s Complicated 22,100,820 112,735,375 2,955 14
29 Couples Retreat 34,286,740 109,204,945 3,074 17
30 Paranormal Activity 77,873 107,918,810 2,712 17
31 Watchmen 55,214,334 107,509,799 3,611 12
32 The Princess and the Frog 786,190 104,400,899 3,475 18
33 Public Enemies 25,271,675 97,104,620 3,336 9
34 Julie & Julia 20,027,956 94,125,426 2,528 16
35 He’s Just Not That Into You 27,785,487 93,953,653 3,175 19
36 Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes to Jail 41,030,947 90,508,336 2,203 9
37 The Ugly Truth 27,605,576 88,915,214 2,975 10
38 Up in the Air 1,181,450 83,823,381 2,218 18
39 Knowing 24,604,751 79,957,634 3,337 16
40 Hannah Montana The Movie 32,324,487 79,576,189 3,231 17
41 Where the Wild Things Are 32,695,407 77,233,467 3,735 17
42 Zombieland 24,733,155 75,590,286 3,171 10
43 Coraline 16,849,640 75,286,229 2,320 21
44 Law Abiding Citizen 21,039,502 73,357,727 2,890 16
45 Hotel for Dogs 17,012,212 73,034,460 3,271 19
46 Michael Jackson’s This Is It 23,234,394 72,091,016 3,481 5
47 I Love You, Man 17,810,270 71,440,011 2,829 11
48 Obsessed 28,612,730 68,261,644 2,634 7
49 Race to Witch Mountain 24,402,214 67,172,594 3,268 17
50 The Final Destination 27,408,309 66,477,700 3,121 13
51 The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 23,373,102 65,452,312 3,077 10
52 Friday the 13th (2009) 40,570,365 65,002,019 3,105 10
53 17 Again 23,722,310 64,167,069 3,255 16
54 The Time Traveler’s Wife 18,623,171 63,414,846 2,988 16
55 Bruno 30,619,130 60,054,530 2,759 6
56 Bride Wars 21,058,173 58,715,510 3,228 17
57 The Haunting in Connecticut 23,004,765 55,389,516 2,732 7
58 Ghosts of Girlfriends Past 15,411,434 55,250,026 3,175 14
59 Funny People 22,657,780 51,855,045 3,008 7
60 Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All By Myself 23,446,785 51,733,921 2,255 7
61 My Bloody Valentine 3-D 21,241,456 51,545,952 2,534 8
62 Old Dogs 16,894,511 49,492,060 3,425 18
63 Land of the Lost 18,837,350 49,438,370 3,534 9
64 My Sister’s Keeper 12,442,212 49,200,230 2,606 15
65 Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire 1,872,458 47,566,524 1,003 19
66 Underworld: Rise of the Lycans 20,828,511 45,802,315 2,942 5
67 Confessions of a Shopaholic 15,066,360 44,277,350 2,534 15
68 The Lovely Bones 116,616 44,114,232 2,638 14
69 Year One 19,610,304 43,337,279 3,024 8
70 The Unborn (2009) 19,810,585 42,670,410 2,359 8
71 Planet 51 12,286,129 42,194,060 3,035 16
72 Drag Me to Hell 15,825,480 42,100,625 2,510 10
73 Orphan 12,871,483 41,596,251 2,750 11
74 Duplicity 13,965,110 40,572,825 2,579 10
75 Crazy Heart 82,664 39,464,306 1,361 24
76 Surrogates 14,902,692 38,577,772 2,992 10
77 Ninja Assassin 13,316,158 38,122,883 2,503 11
78 Invictus 8,611,147 37,491,364 2,170 15
79 State of Play 14,071,280 37,017,955 2,807 9
80 Notorious (2009) 20,497,596 36,843,682 1,641 11
81 The Pink Panther 2 11,588,150 35,922,978 3,245 6
82 All About Steve 11,241,214 33,862,903 2,265 14
83 Halloween II (2009) 16,349,565 33,392,973 3,088 13
84 The Informant! 10,464,314 33,316,821 2,505 13
85 The Last House on the Left (2009) 14,118,685 32,752,215 2,402 9
86 The Men Who Stare at Goats 12,706,654 32,428,195 2,453 13
87 (500) Days of Summer 834,501 32,391,374 1,048 18
88 Under the Sea 3D 661,185 32,195,875 108 246
89 Earth (2009) 8,825,760 32,011,576 1,804 14
90 Push 10,079,109 31,811,527 2,313 14
91 9 10,740,446 31,749,894 2,060 12
92 The Soloist 9,716,458 31,720,158 2,090 11
93 Toy Story / Toy Story 2 (3D) 12,491,789 30,702,446 1,752 5
94 Did You Hear About the Morgans? 6,616,571 29,580,087 2,718 5
95 The Stepfather (2009) 11,581,586 29,062,561 2,734 5
96 The Uninvited 10,325,824 28,596,818 2,344 9
97 Brothers 9,527,848 28,544,157 2,088 7
98 Saw VI 14,118,444 27,693,292 3,036 5
99 Dance Flick 10,643,536 25,662,155 2,459 9
100 The Fourth Kind 12,231,160 25,486,040 2,530 9

history 108 essay 4

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Read the attached to this week 4 “Meat Packing.PDF” file and respond to the following questions:

Essay Topic for week 4:What was Sinclair’s purpose to write “The Jungle”? Can you describe how the sausage was made based on Sinclair’s investigation? What was the public opinion reaction and whom did they immediately found guilty of allegations in Chicago’s meatpacking plants? What was the Meat Industry response to “The Jungle”? Baby food? How were women portrayed in Meat Trust sponsored publications? According to the article which nation in the world was the cleanest and the most morally just? Can you research and answer why?

The format for this and rest of discussions:

Essay narrative comprised of at least five paragraphs: an introduction (containing your strong arguments), three paragraphs or more (detailed analysis of your arguments with examples, in-depth coverage, and research), and conclusion. MLA is a must. Essays not formatted in MLA style will be marked down automatically 10 points; grammar, style, and lack of proofreading (spell check) will mark essays further 15 points; poor execution, brevity, and lack of evidence in your findings/arguments may fail your attempt in this exercise. If you short cite your sources in the text (e.g. (Smith 89)) please provide works cited full citation list beneath your essay. Post by 11:59 pm on Saturday. Once your essay is written, MLA (APA or Chicago) formatted and checked for errors please upload it. This will be done weekly. An example of MLA paper. Late emailed work will not be accepted for grading. Make sure to upload your essay ahead of the deadline in order to remedy any last-minute mishaps.

learning plan 3 research paper research question or thesis statement

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Assignments

LP3.1 Assignment: Forming Your Research Question or Thesis Statement

Once you’ve received approval for your research topic from your professor, you must decide what question you’ll try to answer, or what argument you’ll try to prove in the course of presenting your research. IT is also time to begin to research your topic and develop your reference list.

You must develop a research question or thesis that can be addressed effectively in a 5-page paper. This video from ProQuest Research Companion, “Thesis Statements as Debatable Claims,” gives more information about thesis statements (and the questions they answer).

As you develop your thesis statement or research question, consider:

  • Do you have a “burning question” about this topic? What is it?
  • Do you already have a strong opinion about this topic? Do you want to “take a stand”?

What to Submit for this Assignment
For this assignment, choose one of these purposes and expand on it in more detail in 5-7 sentences. If you have a question, describe it and speculate about how you will answer it. If you have a strong opinion, state clearly what it is, and why you believe it to be true.

Below your paragraph, include 2-3 credible sources that you are considering including in your paper. Cite them in APA style. (For more information on finding credible sources, watch this.)

This assignment is worth 40 points and will be graded according to the scoring guide below:

Scoring Guide (40 Points)
Rating Scale
20-19 Work meets or exceeds criterion at a high level of competence.
18-16 Work reflects an understanding of criterion with minor misunderstandings/misconceptions.
15-14 Criterion partially met, but one or more important concepts/skills are missing or flawed.
13-12 Work reflects an attempt to meet criterion, but significant misunderstandings/misconceptions are apparent.
11-0 Criterion not met or work is absent.
Criteria
1. Student expanded on one of two purposes answering a question or making an argument in 5-7 sentences.
2. Student submitted a list of 2 – 3 credible sources her paper may include.

Money and the Prices in the Long Run and Open Economies, assignment help

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The organization’s strategic plan you wrote about in Week 2 calls for an aggressive growth plan, requiring investment in facilities and equipment, growth in productivity, and labor over the next five years. It is your responsibility to determine how the U.S economy during this five year period will impact such an aggressive growth plan. To do so, you should:

Develop a 2,100-word economic outlook forecast that includes the following:

Analyze the history of changes in GDP, savings, investment, real interest rates, and unemployment and compare to forecast for the next five years.

Discuss how government policies can influence economic growth.

Analyze how monetary policy could influence the long-run behavior of price levels, inflation rates, costs, and other real or nominal variables.

Describe how trade deficits or surpluses can influence the growth of productivity and GDP.

Discuss the importance of the market for loanable funds and the market for foreign-currency exchange to the achievement of the strategic plan.

Recommend, based on your above findings, whether the strategic plan can be achieved and provide support.

auditing questions 1

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1. Intentionally reporting product sales in the financial statements for the period prior to when

they actually occurred is a violation of which generally accepted accounting principle?

a. Periodicity

b. Matching

c. Historical cost

d. Revenue recognition

 

2. Walden Industries is being sued by a former employee for wrongful termination. It is

probable that the company will lose the case and be ordered to pay the plaintiff a significant

sum of money. If Walden fails to report this information somewhere in its financial

statements, it is violating the GAAP concept of:

a. Materiality

b. Full disclosure

c. Matching

d. Cost-benefit

 

3. A company’s financial statements are the responsibility of:

a. The independent auditors

b. The shareholders

c. The accounting department

d. Management

 

4. Under Sarbanes-Oxley, chief executive officers and chief financial officers are required to

personally certify annual and quarterly SEC filings. Which of the following is an item that

they must certify in their reports?

a. They have disclosed to the audit committee any material control weakness.

b. The financial statements were prepared in conformity with GAAP.

c. The company’s internal controls have prevented or detected all material instances of

fraud during the last year.

d. All of the above

 

5. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act placed restrictions on the types of services that public accounting

firms are allowed to perform for audit clients. Which of the following services are public

audit firms now expressly prohibited from performing for their audit clients?

a. Quarterly review services

b. Tax services

c. Bookkeeping services

d. All of the above

 

6. Under Sarbanes-Oxley, pubic accounting firms must rotate the lead partner or the partner

reviewing the audit every year.

a. True

b. False

 

7. Staff Accounting Bulletin Topic 13, “Revenue Recognition,” indicates that revenue is

considered realized or realizable and earned when four criteria are met. Which of the

following is one of these criteria?

a. Collectibility is reasonably assured.

b. Goods have been scheduled to be delivered or services have been scheduled to be

rendered within the current fiscal period.

c. The seller has located alternate buyers.

d. All of the above are criteria for revenue recognition.

 

8. An unusual growth in the number of days’ sales in receivables can be a red flag for which of

the following financial statement fraud schemes?

a. Timing differences

b. Fictitious revenues

c. Improper asset valuation

d. All of the above

 

9. An organization that seeks to fraudulently minimize its net income due to tax considerations

may do so by:

a. Recording fictitious revenues

b. Omitting existing liabilities

c. Expensing capitalized expenditures

d. Underestimating warranty repairs expense

 

10. An inability to generate cash flows from operations while reporting earnings and earnings

growth is a red flag for which of the following financial statement fraud schemes?

a. Improper asset valuation

b. Fictitious revenues

c. Concealed liabilities and expenses

d. All of the above

 

11. GAAP strictly prohibits companies from engaging in all related-party transactions because,

without an arm’s-length business negotiation process, the company may suffer economic

harm and ultimately injure unsuspecting shareholders.

a. True

b. False

 

12. Which of the following is a common target for improper asset valuation schemes?

a. Accounts receivable

b. Business combinations

c. Inventory valuation

d. All of the above

 

13. In the vertical analysis of an income statement, _____________ is assigned 100 percent, with

all other items expressed as a percentage thereof.

a. Gross sales

b. Net sales

c. Net income

d. Gross margin

 

14. The technique for analyzing the percentage change in individual financial statement items

from one accounting period to the next is known as:

a. Ratio analysis

b. Vertical analysis

c. Horizontal analysis

d. Correlation analysis

 

15. Sally Lauren is the external auditor for Modus Industries, a public company that

manufactures disk drives. As she analyzes the numbers, she finds that the quick ratio, which

has typically remained consistent, increased from 1.7 to 2.3 over the previous year. What

type of financial statement fraud scheme could be occurring?

a. Inflated inventory

b. Omitted expenses

c. Fictitious accounts receivable

d. None of the above

leadership and trust

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1)How can leaders create a climate of trust and facilitate relationships among people in a work team? 2)What can a leader do to show others he/she is trustworthy?

3)What can a leader do to demonstrate he/she trusts others? Use and cite scholarly articles as necessary to support your answer.

Compare and contrast the medical and psychological/sociological/behavioral models, assignment help

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There are 2 general models to consider when discussing treatment of offenders. First is the medical model, which focuses on psychological evaluation and creating a treatment plan that corresponds with the evaluation.

The second model is known as the psycho/social/behavioral model. This model uses several methods, including a risk assessment and a thorough treatment prescription process. The psycho/social/behavioral model looks at all aspects of the offender’s life.

Compare and contrast the medical and psychological/sociological/behavioral models.

research the 2 models of correctional treatment.

    • What are the advantages and disadvantages of the medical model? Explain.
    • What are the advantages and disadvantages of the psycho/social/behavioral model? Explain.
    • How are these 2 models similar?
    • Based on what you have found, which model do you believe is the most appropriate for assessing special-needs offenders?
  • Compile your responses into a PowerPoint presentation of 7–10 slides.
    • Be sure to include speaker notes for each slide.
Powerpoint 7 to 10 slides with speaker notes for each slide for this assignment.

9/11 Terrorist, law assignment help

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in 400 words with in text citations and low ov score

    • What do think were the terrorists’ goals in carrying out the 9/11 attacks? Explain.
    • Based on your own experiences, did the terrorists succeed at achieving their goals? Why or why not?
  • Do you think that the goals of historical terrorist organizations were any different from those of the terrorist organizations of today? Why or why not?
  • How do you think terrorist organizations have evolved throughout history? Explain.