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Can choose any linguistic communities but NOT Chinese. And it has to be existed in Southern California(Los Angeles County, Orange County, San Diego County, etc), USA.

English Final exam

Select THREE of the following questions and answer them as they relate to the story you selected for your research paper. Do your best to devote at least ONE paragraphs per answer.

Story: “Hands” by Sherwood Anderson

You may refer, if necessary, to your text, class notes, and handouts.

“Different fictional worlds make different demands on the reader’s imagination. What is most important to the reader’s enjoyment of the tale is the emotional truth conveyed by the characters . . .” (p. 1088). Explain what and how emotional truth(s) are conveyed through the central character in your story.

Setting must have a “dramatic use. It must be shown, or at least felt, to affect character or plot” (1089). Explain the dramatic use of setting in your story.

“A literary symbol can be anything in a story’s setting, plot, or characterization that suggests an abstract meaning to the reader in addition to its literal significance.” (1095) Which symbols does your author use in the story you selected and to what effect does the author use them?

Identify the point of view from which your story is narrated (First-person? Third-person omniscient? Third-person limited omniscient? Objective?). Then propose some reasons that the author may have chosen this perspective (instead of another) from which to narrate his story.

Within the plot structure of a story the exposition performs several essential functions as does the resolution. Explain the purposes of the exposition and resolution in your story.

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Note: The Application Assignment is due by Day 3, prior to the Discussion.

Determining which court has jurisdictional authority over a case, claim, dispute, or a particular party is not simple. Courts are complex institutions granted either limited or sometimes sweeping powers. Identifying and selecting the proper court for the resolution of a specific case is critical. Choosing the wrong court can result in immediate dismissal of the case.

In any claim of jurisdiction, a court lays out its power to entertain a legal dispute. Jurisdiction is essentially grounded in two rules with many nuances—over the person (in personam) and over the subject matter (in rem).

In personam jurisdiction is usually based on residency, the place of dispute, or the place where the act occurred.
In rem jurisdiction is associated with the subject; for example, a tax court has jurisdiction over taxes and a criminal court has jurisdiction over a crime.

Court jurisdiction can be further broken down into a host of other categories, including the right to hear appeals, conduct bench or jury trials, or cover and consider specialized questions such as maritime or international issues.

Finally, court jurisdiction also can be largely geographic. For example, state courts exert primary jurisdiction over matters that do not pertain to questions of federal law involving the Constitution. They primarily tend to local matters within a state”s borders, such as divorce cases.

Federal courts have broader jurisdictional authority; parties, problems, issues, or disputes that involve questions of federal law involving the Constitution, administrative action by federal agencies or federal statute, and laws concerning bankruptcies.

To prepare for this assignment:

Review Chapter 4 of your Course Text, Law and Justice: An Introduction to the American Legal System. Pay attention to the layout of the various courts, depending on jurisdiction and specific judicial powers.
Review the article “Understanding the Federal Courts.” Focus on the federal courts’ jurisdictional authority. Reflect on the types of cases with which a federal court might be associated.
Review the website, “State Courts—by Jurisdiction.” Pay particular attention to your state court”s model.
Review the “Introduction,” “General,” and “The Hearing” sections in the article “Frequently Asked Questions About the Federal Sector Hearing Process.” Pay particular attention to how the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), a government agency, adjudicates disputes at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Consider the following cases, and think about which court in your state would be best for each case. As you make your decision, consider how government agencies adjudicate cases and disputes.

Case #1
You have been locked in various stages of litigation over the last five years with a company. The value of your case exceeds $1 million in damages. You have already been to court-ordered conciliation efforts and have received a judicial decision that rejects your argument at the trial court level. The date of the judge’s decision is less than five days old. Both you and your counsel conclude that there is extraordinary merit in your case and that the judge has incorrectly decided. Which other courts might entertain your case?

Case #2
You are involved in a car crash with a resident from another state. The nonresident immediately seeks counsel concerning his particular rights in this case and questions which court would entertain his cause of action. His counsel notes, “Only a federal court can now entertain this case. That is the nature of diversity jurisdiction.” Think about whether this conclusion is correct.

Case #3
You are a Social Security recipient and have been denied a benefit under a determination of the Social Security Administration. The counsel for the Social Security Administration, in response to a letter of inquiry, notes, “Any appeal of our determination must be directly taken to the state court of the appellant’s residency, and once that disposition occurs, the claimant must file with the circuit court of appeals for that jurisdiction.” Reflect on the accuracy of the counsel’s claims. If they are inaccurate, reflect on the steps that may be more appropriate in the appeal.

The assignment (1–2 pages):

Respond to each of the three cases. Make sure to provide examples to support your answers. Also, briefly describe which court in your state would entertain each case, when appropriate, and explain why.
Explain how government agencies adjudicate cases and disputes.

Support your Application Assignment with specific references to all resources used in its preparation. You are asked to provide a reference list only for those resources not included in the Learning Resources for this course.

Submit your assignment by Day 3.
Readings

Course Text: Abadinsky, H. (2014). Law, courts and justice in america. (7thed.). Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, Inc.
Chapter 4, “The Structure and Administration of the Courts”
Chapter 12, ” Alternative Justice”

Note: The following article can be found in the Walden University Library databases.

Article: Wiltgen, T. S. (2009). Access to justice through mediation. HawaiiBar Journal, 13, 22.
Use the LexisNexis Academic database, select the Legal tab, and search using the article’s title.
Article: U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. (n.d.). Frequently asked questions about the federal sector hearing process. Retrieved December 21, 2009, from https://www.eeoc.gov/federal/fed_employees/faq_hearing.cfm
“Introduction”
“General”
“The Hearing”
Article: Office of Judges Programs Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. (2003). Understanding the federal courts. Retrieved from https://www.uscourts.gov/educational-resources/get-informed/federal-court-basics.aspx

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Discussion 1: Estimator Variables and Eyewitness Identification

The Innocence Project is an organization that attempts to reform the criminal justice system by exonerating wrongly convicted individuals by conducting DNA testing. According to the Innocence Project, more than 75% of overturned convictions involve mistaken eyewitness identifications (Innocence Project, 2011). An extensive body of literature supports the organization’s claim that eyewitness testimony is often unreliable. Nevertheless, a confident eyewitness can have a profound impact on a jury.

Factors related to the crime scene that can affect the accuracy of eyewitness identification are referred to as estimator variables. Some examples of estimator variables include the degree of visibility at the crime scene, the proximity of an eyewitness to an assailant, and the presence or use of a weapon. Other estimator variables that might impact accuracy include a witness’ state of mind and race. When the race of the perpetrator and the eyewitness are different, the likelihood of misidentification increases (Innocence Project, 2011). With many possible estimator variables that might impact eyewitness identification, forensic psychology professionals must be able to identify these variables and consider how they might influence the reliability of an eyewitness testimony.

Reference:
Innocence Project (2011). Eyewitness Misidentification. Retrieved from: https://www.innocenceproject.org/understand/Eyewitness-Misidentification.php

To prepare for this Discussion:

Review Chapter 7 in your course text, Forensic and Legal Psychology. Focus on examples of estimator variables, and consider how they might influence reliability of eyewitness identification.
Review the Wells & Olson article, Eyewitness Identification. Focus on current findings in the literature regarding estimator variables and their influence on eyewitness testimony.
Review the media piece, “Witness Reliability.” The media player will automatically appear at the top of the Week 2 Resources page. Once the player loads, press the play button. While watching, consider estimator variables that might influence the reliability of the eyewitnesses such as age, race, proximity to assailant(s), lighting, presence of weapon, and so forth.
Think about who might be the most reliable eyewitness and who might be the least reliable eyewitness based on estimator variables.

With these thoughts in mind:

Post by Day 3 your choice of the most reliable and least reliable eyewitnesses, and explain why with reference to estimator variables. Be specific, and justify your response with at least one reference to a peer-reviewed article from the Walden Library and at least one reference to the Learning Resources. Be sure to cite references in APA format.

Be sure to support your postings and responses with specific references to the current literature and the Learning Resources.

Read a selection of your colleagues’ postings.

Respond by Day 5 to postings from at least two of your fellow group members in the following way:

Challenge a colleague’s posting, and support a different perspective.

Return to this Discussion in a few days to read the responses to your initial posting. Note what you have learned and/or any insights you have gained as a result of the comments your colleagues made.

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Discussion 2: Children as Eyewitnesses

In the mid-1980s, the U.S. news media reported on a number of disturbing cases in which allegations of child sexual abuse had been made against well-respected community members. One of the most famous cases involved the McMartin family, owners of a preschool in California. The investigation began when a mother reported to the police that her son had been abused by Ray McMartin, a male teacher at the school.

Throughout the course of the investigation, the police conducted several hundred interviews of children along with their parents, all current and former clients of the preschool. Allegations ranged from inappropriate touching of children to children being forced to engage in oral and anal sex. Even more bizarre were claims made by some young “victims” that they were sexually attacked in secret tunnels underneath the school. Equally startling were allegations that the McMartins mutilated animals and forced the youngsters to touch their corpses. At the end of the criminal investigation, the police arrested four family members and three teachers (PBS Online, 1998).

Even for a trained professional, eliciting accurate details from an adult eyewitness badly shaken by the ordeal of witnessing a crime can be a formidable task. For example, the use of a weapon can unnerve an adult witness to such an extent that the likelihood that he or she can accurately recall details of an assailant’s features decreases significantly. Now imagine the daunting task faced by a detective assigned to interview a six-year-old alleging the heinous crime of child sexual abuse. Costanzo and Kraus (2015) cite research that found that memories of children are “negatively impacted by a stress-inducing interview style” (p. 144). This finding calls into question the reliability and accuracy of information elicited from a child during an interview dealing with such a delicate subject. Moreover, other researchers found children are particularly vulnerable to suggestibility when responding to interview questions posed by an adult.

Reference:
PBS Online (1998). Innocence lost the plea. Retrieved from: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/innocence/etc/other.html

To prepare for this Discussion:

Review Chapter 7 in your course text, Forensic and Legal Psychology. Focus on children as eyewitnesses, and consider the reliability of eyewitness testimony from children.
Review Chapter 11 in your course text, Forensic and Legal Psychology. Focus on the particular problems faced by interviewers questioning children regarding sexual abuse.
Review the articles, “Forensic Interviewing Aids: Do Props Help Children Answer Questions About Touching?” and “Wailing Babies in Her Wake.” Focus on issues related to the accuracy of eyewitness testimony from children.
Consider the degree to which children can provide reliable eyewitness testimony.

With these thoughts in mind:

Post by Day 4 your position on the degree to which children can provide reliable eyewitness testimony. Justify your response with at least one reference to a peer-reviewed article from the Walden Library and at least one reference to the Learning Resources. Be sure to cite references in APA format.

Read a selection of your colleagues’ postings.

Respond by Day 6 to postings from at least two of your fellow group members in one or more of the following ways:

Share an insight from having read your colleague’s posting.
Offer and support an opinion.
Make a suggestion.
Expand on your colleague’s posting.

Return to this Discussion in a few days to read the responses to your initial posting. Note what you have learned and/or any insights you have gained as a result of the comments your colleagues made.

Readings

Costanzo, M., & Krauss, D. (2015). Forensic and legal psychology: Psychological science applied to the law (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Worth Publishers.
Chapter 7, “Eyewitness Identification and Testimony”
Chapter 11, “Interviewing Children and Memories of Sexual Abuse”
Goodman, G. S. (2005). Wailing babies in her wake. American Psychologist, 60(8), 872–881.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
Poole, D. A., Bruck, M., & Pipe, M. (2011). Forensic interviewing aids: Do props help children answer questions about touching? Current Directions in Psychological Science, 20(1), 11–15.
Wells, G. & Olson, E. (2003). Eyewitness testimony. Annual Review of Psychology, 54(1), 277–295.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

Media

Laureate Education (Producer). (2012). Witness reliability [Video file]. Retrieved from https://class.waldenu.edu

I have been asked to take over from a colleague. I am required to take over 3 of her clients, they all require urgent assistance. one is unable to leave home as she has suspected influenza, one has a broken leg and the other has advanced dementia and is agoraphobic.
I am available between the hours of 10.30am and 2pm, I determine it will take between 10 & 15 minutes to travel to each appointment and another 10 minutes to load and unload respiratory equipment.
Explain how I would prepare for each visit, attend at the agreed times, establish relationships, undertake any necessary actions and follow up with the clients. Ensure I refer to strategies to deal with the possibility that clients might feel concerned about having a new person visiting them, and list methods I could use to ensure my own health and safety and manage contingencies.

Does the volatility in the price of futures have impact on the spot prices? (using futures/spot prices of wheat, sugar, palm oil, rice and soya bean)

Risk Takers: Uses and Abuses of Financial Derivatives (2nd Edition) by John Marthinsen
Summarize what you learned by reading this book and connect it to the course, which is Investment Strategies and Speculative Markets.

You are required to produce a report (2400 words) which evidences your experience associated with the module learning outcomes identified above. This should be specific to the following areas:
(i) Demonstration of knowledge regarding experimental techniques
(ii) Ability to collect / generate and interpret data
(iii) A comprehensive understanding of typical test equipment
(iv) A comprehensive analysis of aerodynamic loads and their effects on chassis loading (v) Use analytical techniques to solve engineering problems,

You should evidence these outcomes by answering ALL the following questions posed. You should aim to be reflective in describing the work carried out, to the extent that you make some judgments of your breadth and depth of understanding in these areas, and expand to areas such as ‘future developments’ as informed by your literature review.

Restructuring Charges – Background Information
To facilitate analysis, income statements prescribed by U.S. GAAP generally separate income into recurring and non-recurring components and companies are valued according to the changes in and sustainability of earnings with greater weight given to income that is expected to persist. One of these non-recurring components that has been the subject of attention is special items with the most common type being restructuring charges. Using a sample of firms from the Compustat Annual Industrial files Fairfield et al. (2009) document that the percentage of firms reporting income decreasing special items has steadily increased during the 1984 to 2003 period from 12% to over 45%.
Restructuring charges are reported as a component of income from continuing operations and generally associated with significant retrenchment strategies which decrease income and take the form of employee severance packages, asset write-offs, contract (operating) lease buy-outs, etc. Enacted in 2003, SFAS 146 (FASB 2003) provides guidance on the reporting and disclosure of these costs. In general, companies are required to estimate and report (expense) all prospective restructuring costs along with a corresponding liability in the year of implementation. Actual costs are written off against the liability in the year costs are realized. Since costs are aggregated and reported in the year of commitment, restructuring charges are typically significant. For example, in their most recent quarter (2nd quarter, 2013), IBM reported a 1 billion dollar restructuring charge which reduced quarterly earnings per share to $2.91, down 13% from a year ago. The charge involves a targeted reduction in the company’s workforce
In light of the purported transitory nature of restructuring costs, their value relevance relative to other recurring expenses should be less and prior studies document that when valuing companies, analysts assign lower weights to these costs (Bradshaw and Sloan 2002). Extant research provides evidence that these charges have become a significant earnings management tool as managers move prior and / or future period recurring operating expenses into the current restructuring commitment period and report them as transitory thereby increasing future and / or past earnings. In a recent comprehensive academic study, Cain et al. (2013) use a methodology that separates special items into low and high quality and document that one third of special items are actually recurring and low-quality special items predict restatements. The separate reporting of transitory items is currently under consideration by the joint FASB/IFRS financial statement project. Currently, GAAP requires special items to be reported as a component of income from continuing operations while IFRS does not separate unusual or infrequent (special) items from operating expenses.
For many students, there may be an assumption that bottom line net income unequivocally depicts the financial performance of the firm when in fact net income may be better perceived as a construct whose magnitude is derived largely from accruals estimates made by managers across a wide spectrum of operating activities. While these estimates are intended to foster a more credible and timely earnings measure, their inherent uncertainty along with the discretion accorded managers who may have incentives to distort these estimates can have an adverse impact on earnings quality. In light of their increasing use the consideration of restructuring charges from both a financial reporting and valuation perspective is an important topic for accounting and finance students.
Restructuring Charges – Facts (Human Resources Plus)
The following case requires analysis from both an accounting and financial statement analysis perspective. Using information from FASB as provided in its Accounting Standards Codification and supporting literature, student’s record journal entries for costs associated with a service firm’s restructuring initiative. Then using alternative scenarios pertaining to the quality of these charges, students are required to analyze their valuation impact.
HRP (Human Resources Plus) is a publicly held employee leasing firm that services small to mid-size companies. Due to increasing competition, HRP has continued to lose market share in its northeast region. Based on a recent 2012 analysis of its operations, HRP management has announced it will cease operations in the northeast and close its sole office there in 2013. HRP’s fiscal year ends on December 31. The company leases the land and building on which the northeast headquarters office is located. The term of the lease is 10 years with 7 years remaining. Annual lease payments are $100,000 and payable each year on January 1. The lease contract includes an early termination provision that stipulates in the event of early termination, the lessee shall pay the lessor an amount equal to an additional two year’s rent over and above any amount paid for the current year. HRP will terminate its lease on July 1 of 2013. As a result of the closure, HRP announces on December 1, 2012, that effective March 1, 2013 it will terminate 200 employees and provide a one-time severance payout of $15,000 per employee. The severance payments will occur within two weeks after termination. To provide as much flexibility as possible to their current employees, there is no requirement that the affected employees remain with HRP until the termination date. In other words, employees will receive their severance payments whether or not they remain during the December to March period.
HRP has 5,000,000 shares of common outstanding. Diluted earnings per share before restructuring charges for 2012 are $1.00 and are expected to continue forever (an annuity in perpetuity). HRP does not pay a dividend. Other than the above restructuring charges all other expenses may be characterized as normal and reoccurring.
Case Two: Restructuring Charges – Requirements
Accounting
Based on the information provided in this case and using the information provided in The FASB Accounting Standards Codification and including SFAS 146, please provide the appropriate summary journal entries and note disclosure for the implementation year (2012) and the following year (2013) when HRP’s charges are realized. Using information from the FASB Accounting Standards Codification, please include your rationale for reporting to both the appropriate accounts and their amounts.
Financial Statement Analysis
What effect will the restructuring costs have on HRP’s 2012, current and quick ratios. What effect will it have on ROA?
Using a the discounted value of the company’s earnings and assuming a cost of capital (discount rate) of 10%, what is your end of year 2012 estimate of the value of the company today under each of the following valuation methods (since this analysis assumes that the firm will continue as a going concern for the foreseeable future you may ignore the effect of book value on your estimate):
(1). The 2012 restructuring charge is treated as a one time (non-recurring) expense;
(2). The restructuring charge is ignored;
(3). Twenty percent of the employee severance packages would have occurred without the restructuring initiative and are in fact recurring operating expenses.
Please provide a written explanation for the differences in value.

 

HIST
U.S. History Since 1865
Alternate Exam
Fall 2015

One of the problems involved in teaching a survey history course is that so much must be covered, which means that little can be addressed in depth. Different historical subjects interest students in different ways, and to different degrees. I am also aware that the lecture and reading schedules did not coincide. Still, there were reading materials that were assigned that went beyond my lectures, and they bring our course almost up to the present.
All this considered, I would like you to examine your notes and your textbooks and choose three topics we covered that you found particularly interesting and informative. You may choose any subjects we have covered during the semester, so you have more freedom to choose. I would like you to tell me in some detail what you learned about these subjects, and why you found them interesting. If there is a topic you had studied previously, but there were differences in how it was presented in this class, that would be interesting for me as well. Please rely ONLY on your notes and your textbook.

the three topic are :
1- Woodrow Wilson And the Great War.
2-THEDORE ROOSEVELT
3-Spanish Vs American war 1898 and ” yellow journalism”

# use the book :Roark, James L., Michael P. Johnson, Patricia Cline Cohen, Sarah Stage, and Susan M. Hartmann. The American Promise: A History of the United States, Sixth Edition. (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2015). as only source please.