Author: chris

To what extent does market structure explain the financial performance of your company?

1. Identify the market structure (perfect competition, monopolistic competition, oligopoly, or monopoly) that best characterizes the company you are evaluating. 2. Include information on the type of market structure you select, such as number of firms in the industry, product homogeneity, barriers to entry, use of advertising, and so forth. 3. Answer the following questions with respect to the industry: o How does the industry structure affect the strategies used by the company you are evaluating? o To what extent does market structure explain the financial performance of your company? For example, is it able to earn higher-than-average profits because of barriers to entry? Is it able to use advertising or product differentiation to maintain its profits above those of competitors? 4. Collect data for the past three to five years on two company-specific variables, such as profits, sales, or earnings per share, that are indicative of company performance. Present the data in a table or graph you create yourself. Do not copy and paste data from other websites, but use the available data to create your own table or graph.

Discuss and describe classic Freudian theory as well as Post-Freudian psychodynamic views.

Each of your answers should be at least two to three comprehensive paragraphs in length and completely address the question for full credit (don’t worry about double spacing). Use your text for the exam but please do not copy sentences straight from the book, rather, put information into your own words. Copying directly from the text will result in a lower grade. You do not need to cite where your information is coming from as I expect you to use your textbook to answer exam questions. Do not use other sources to answer exam questions, this is meant to be an exam based directly on the text. You have unlimited access to the exam, which means you can enter and exit the exam as much as needed. Also, this exam is not timed. Question three asks for a case example, this means I want you to generate a fictional account of someone who meets criteria for PTSD. Include in your answer what led to the diagnosis and how the symptoms are being experienced by your fictional person. Here is questions. 1. Please discuss possible causes of abnormal behavior. 2. Create a case formulation/example for an individual who has PTSD. 3. Discuss and describe classic Freudian theory as well as Post-Freudian psychodynamic views. 4. Describe and differentiate between the following disorders: schizoaffective disorder, schizophreniform disorder, and schizophrenia. 5. Please discuss depressive and bipolar disorders using a biopsychosocial perspective. 6. How would you describe Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder to someone just learning about it in order to make sure they had a comprehensive understanding of the disorder? 7. What is the difference between delirium and dementia?

Would Marx have appreciated the irony of his image being deployed on a card to get Germans deeper in debt?

Germans found 52% believed the free-market economy was “unsuitable” and 43% said they wanted socialism back. Karl Marx may be dead and buried in Highgate cemetery, but he’s alive and well among credit-hungry Germans. Would Marx have appreciated the irony of his image being deployed on a card to get Germans deeper in debt? You’d think. Later this week in London, several thousand people will attend Marxism 2012, a five-day festival organised by the Socialist Workers’ Party. It’s an annual event, but what strikes organiser Joseph Choonara is how, in recent years, many more of its attendees are young. “The revival of interest in Marxism, especially for young people comes because it provides tools for analysing capitalism, and especially capitalist crises such as the one we’re in now,” Choonara says.