...knowledge sharing and engagement.To prevent confusion and ensure we are all on the same page: 1.Cut & paste the question in your response! 2. In the subject line identify the name of the person you're addressing (i.e., Hi Class...Response to Jill...Response to John) 3. DO NOT define the terms or regurgitate the book material. Use your own words to apply real life experience to your examples. 4. Pls note, it is your direct responsibility to thoroughly read the chapter material. DAY ONE:Post #1: Select ONE question and answer it. Identify the question # in the subject line.No two people can share the same question.Post #2: Respond to a fellow classmate with depth and example. DAY TWO:Respond to TWO classmates on their selected question with depth and example. DAY THREE:Respond to TWO classmates on their selected question with depth and example. Acceptable:Posting on a Friday to a fellow classmate(s) only. Not Acceptable:Answering a topic question on a Friday for the first time.Zero credit given. Not Acceptable:Answering a topic question for the first time and responding to fellow classmates on a Saturday.Zero credit given. TWO SEPARATE POSTS PER DAY FOR THREE DAYS ONLY. MINIMUM SIX PER WEEK REQUIRED. PROPER WAY TO CITE A SOURCE:Keep this APA writing style structure in mind when citing electronic sources here in the discussion area and in your papers. Providing only a link is incorrect and not graduate skill level....
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...knowledge sharing and engagement.To prevent confusion and ensure we are all on the same page: 1.Cut & paste the question in your response! 2. In the subject line identify the name of the person you're addressing (i.e., Hi Class...Response to Jill...Response to John) 3. DO NOT define the terms or regurgitate the book material. Use your own words to apply real life experience to your examples. 4. Pls note, it is your direct responsibility to thoroughly read the chapter material. DAY ONE:Post #1: Select ONE question and answer it. Identify the question # in the subject line.No two people can share the same question.Post #2: Respond to a fellow classmate with depth and example. DAY TWO:Respond to TWO classmates on their selected question with depth and example. DAY THREE:Respond to TWO classmates on their selected question with depth and example. Acceptable:Posting on a Friday to a fellow classmate(s) only. Not Acceptable:Answering a topic question on a Friday for the first time.Zero credit given. Not Acceptable:Answering a topic question for the first time and responding to fellow classmates on a Saturday.Zero credit given. TWO SEPARATE POSTS PER DAY FOR THREE DAYS ONLY. MINIMUM SIX PER WEEK REQUIRED. PROPER WAY TO CITE A SOURCE:Keep this APA writing style structure in mind when citing electronic sources here in the discussion area and in your papers. Providing only a link is incorrect and not graduate skill level....
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...• Current Obligations 2 • Potential Returns 2 • Stability in Scheduling 2 New-Found Notoriety 3 • The Return of The Big Man 3 • Steady Earnings 3 • The Home Front 3 Crunch Time 4 • Priorities 4 References 5 Figures • Who You Are……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………... 1 • Brock’s Monumental Return to WWE 2 • UFC 146 Fight Card 3 • Company Logo 4 Seeking the Best Results Mr. Lesnar, you are in quite the interesting stage in your life! Your current 1-year contract with World Wrestling Entertainment is coming to an end in April, & your former employer, the Ultimate Fighting Championships, is in need of a new leader. However, as it stands you aren’t in good standing with your former employer. The easy road would be to re-sign the current contract you are in with World Wresting Entertainment; but you’ve never been one to take the easy road. In addition, according to your own words prior to your UFC title defense, “Brock Lesnar is not a professional wrestler, Brock Lesnar is not a football player, Brock Lesnar is not an entertainer, Brock Lesnar is the UFC World Heavyweight Champion.” You spoke of it with such certainty and conviction! This is the industry you need to re-enter. While although you have mentioned the injuries your body has taken, I suggest you take a different route this time as a UFC Wrestling School Owner. Lining Them Up I’m going to take you on a brief journey Brock, through your career up until know and show you how...
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...a bystander. Even a person who doesn’t make a huge difference in this world can live a less stressful life by being self-reliant. The opposite of this is someone who conforms to everyone else’s behaviors and doesn’t have a strong opinion or impact of this or her own. In order to live a successful life one needs to be self-reliant. Along with these self-reliance a person will also live with inner peace and happiness, trusting his or her self.of self-reliance. Emerson makes some very good points about non-conformity and the negatives that can come with it. In Emerson’s “Self-Reliance” essay, he believes that self-reliance is the unbreakable trust in one’s own intuitions. He states this when he says, “To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men,—that is genius” (3). He believes that if a person believes that his or her belief is true for everyone, then that person is self-reliant, and in his eyes, that makes this person a genius. Emerson also believes that it can be hard to be self-reliant because of today’s world and the harsh society that it harbors. An example of this is when he says, “For non-conformity the world whips you with its displeasure” (6). His belief is that if someone has strong trust in his or her own intuition, which is known as self-reliance, then they will not conform to something. Now in return a person might feel displeasure from society’s reaction. However at least that person can be happy that...
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...$8,000 was equally spent between them on clothing, transportation, and recreation. The remaining $11,000 was invested in tax-exempt securities. Janet Baker paid $1,000 for her mother’s dental work and $1,200 premium on her father’s own life insurance policy. Janet’s father, Calvin, incurred medical expenses that he paid for himself. Darin is the Bakers’ 18-year-old son who is not a student. Darin earned $14,000 from his pool-cleaning business. The cash earned is placed in a savings account. Andrea is the Bakers’ 19-year-old daughter who does not work or go to school. During the year, Andrea purchased a Camaro for $21,000 with her own funds. Morgan is the Bakers’ 23-year-old daughter who obtained a student loan of $20,000 and used the full amount to pay her college tuition at a local university. The Bakers’ fair rental value of their residence, including utilities, is $14,000, while their total food expense for the household is $10,500. Issues Do Calvin and Florence qualify for a dependency exemption as qualifying relatives by meeting the gross income test and the support tests? Are non-taxable funds to be included in determination of support cost of Carters? Did Bakers furnish more than half of the support of Carters? Does $1,200 payment of life insurance premium qualify for inclusion in computation of support? Do Bakers’ children qualify for a dependency exemption as qualifying children by...
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...Financial Planning Project: • Project is worth 15 points, or 15% of your grade • Due via email or Blackboard by 12/9 at 11:55pm • Report format must be Microsoft Word document, with .doc • Late submissions will lose .5 points per day late • Report should be 3 to 5 pages, no longer than that please You have a hypothetical $1 million portfolio of your own which you will use as the basis to create a financial plan for your future. Using the information contained in Chapter 14 of the textbook, Managing Portfolios: The Practice, you will use the Nine-Step Investment Process to create your own personal investment plan. Details of the Nine-Step Investment Process are found beginning on p. 14.3, and they include the following: The Nine-Step Investment Process 1. Develop an understanding of the client’s goals (your goals) 2. Identify a target rate of return 3. Agree on a time horizon 4. Determine the client’s tolerance for and capacity for risk 5. Define the asset classes 6. Determine an appropriate asset allocation 7. Create the IPS 8. Select the investments themselves 9. Monitor and adjust as needed Instead of planning for a client, you are planning for yourself and your own personal goals, assuming you have just received $1 million today. In doing so, you should consider your own investment horizon and specific life situation, as well as the current condition of the global markets. Your report must contain a narrative section for each of the 9 steps of the...
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...ENC1102 Spring 2014 — Class Schedule |Tuesday, January 14th | |Introduction to the course, syllabus, schedule, materials, and peers. | | | | | |Thursday, January 16th | |In class we’ll read the poem, “My Papa’s Waltz” by Roethke (274), practice textual analysis, and work on an | | | |outline. | | | |Homework: Pg. 276, questions 14-16, and “making an argument” 4; | | | |Read the poem, “Those Winter Sundays” by Hayden (13) and answer | | | |questions 1-6. | | | | | |Tuesday, January 21st | |In class we’ll re-read the poem, “Those Winter Sundays” by Hayden, look at an earlier...
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...Tax Planning for salaried employees DON'T PAY MORE IN ORDER TO SAVE YOUR TAXES. Expert view for tax saving ........................................................................................................................................................ book I About this n India, most salaried people want to increase their personal savings and yearn to achieve financial freedom. But do they REALLY want to save money or are they too busy? Most people are not motivated enough to learn how they can maximize their savings by efficient budgeting of their personal finances. They are unaware of ways to save tax through tax-efficient investment options available in the market. Often, people do not make timely investments and end up paying huge amount of taxes at the end of the year. To make matters worse, lack of updated and timely information makes tax filing a dreaded chore. Salaried people often falsely believe that they do not need any financial planning as their income and expenses are regular. They presume that their savings automatically accumulate in the bank and do not require any intervention to maximize financial gains. But we believe that with some serious effort and knowledge, salaried people can save huge amounts of money and increase their annual income by investing their hard-earned money in tax-efficient schemes. Does tax planning make you nervous? Tax planning is an integral part of personal financial planning. The amount of scattered and incomprehensible...
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...wrote, “Do you value life? Then waste not time, for that is the stuff of which life is made.” The value of anything that you obtain or accomplish can be determined by how much of your time, or your life, that you spent to acquire it. The amount of yourself that you use up in achieving the goals that are important to you is a critical factor to consider, even before you begin. Only by discovering your innate strengths and developing and exploiting them to their highest degree can you utilize yourself to get the greatest amount of satisfaction and enjoyment from everything you do. Deciding what you want to do, what you can do well, and what can give you the highest rewards for your efforts is the starting point in getting the best out of yourself. Strategic Planning When we do strategic planning for corporations, we begin with the premise that the whole purpose of the exercise is to reorganize and reallocate people and resources to increase the rate of return on equity, or capital invested in the business. Invariably, this is done by emphasizing some areas and deemphasizing others, by allocating more resources to areas with higher potential return and by taking resources away from those areas that represent lower potential returns. By developing or promoting newer and better products and services and by discontinuing those products and services that are less profitable, the company and all the people in it can channel their resources to maximize their returns. © Brian Tracy. All...
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...2 to 6 Players l OBJECT: Collect money and LIFE Tiles, and have the highest dollar amount at the end of the game. Attach the game parts to the gameboard as shown on the Assembly Sheet. All players spin the wheel. Highest spinner takes the first turn. Play then continues clockwise. LIFE TILES WHAT YOU D A TURN Each LIFE Tile carries a secret message: a special achievement, and a dollar amount which counts toward your total cash value at the end of the game. On your turn, spin the wheel. (If the spinner arm stops between numbers, spin again.) Then move your car the number of spaces on the spinner. Carefully remove the LIFE Tiles from the cardboard sheet. Place the LIFE Tiles LIFE-side-up near the gameboard and mix them up. Draw 4 tiles and, without looking at the message on the back, stack them LIFE-side-up at Millionaire Estates. The remaining tiles form the draw pile. Always move your car forward, in the direction of the arrows. (Just as in real life, you can’ go back in time!) If you t land on an occupied space, move ahead to the next open space. Follow the space directions. This ends your turn. CARDS Your first turn is an exception. See GETTING STARTED. Separate the cards into 4 decks: Career Cards, Salary Cards, House Deeds and Stocks. Place each deck facedown near the gameboard. GETTING STARTED On your first turn, decide either to start a career, or to start college. INSURANCE POLICIES & BANK LOANS College offers more career and salary options, but it takes time-and...
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...her project proposal to the Budgeting Committee for evaluation. The Vice-president’s objective for proposing the project was based on potential to strengthen the Company’s division of production and drive future growth. Emily Harris has to produce a compelling project to avoid the committee from declining the proposal. Basis of Assessment There are two projects between which the company can choose from or drop the proposals in their entirety. The methods of project evaluation would be based on discounting cash flows analysis and thereafter determining the Net Present Value (NPV) of each of the proposed project with Internal Rate of Return (IRR), Profitability Index and Payback Period. If the project has a positive NPV, it would suggests the project is generating more cash than is required to service the debt and provide the appropriate returns; thus, the higher NPV, the better it is for the company. The project proposal with the positive and highest NPV, IRR and profitability index along with the shortest payback period would be acceptable for investment. New Heritage Doll Company managed to produce a capital budgeting structure in order to evaluate the revenue generated in the Doll industry. It is clearly evident that a segment of the Doll industry generates income progressively with an increasing rate of 4.6%. Cash flows forecast is used to capture the incremental effect of a proposed project in order to acknowledge the breakeven point and...
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...Abduction By Shelagh Delaney What do you do if you are a successful career woman with all the money you need and your dream is fulfilled, but one thing is missing: Family. There is only one problem. You are sterile, so what do you do? You abduct your own little brother. You spoil the child and make sure he has what he needs, but is that all it takes to raise a child? What about the childes independence and making a family of his own? How do you cope with the fact that your little brother turns out to be an alcoholic? This is what the protagonist of the short story Abduction is faced with. The short story Abduction takes place in London. An omniscient 3rd person narrator introduces us to the protagonist Ann, who was born and raised in the suburb Manchester. Ann is a well-educated woman, who studied medicine and is specialized in paediatrics. The suburb is not good enough for Ann; she wants the rich eventful life in London. “There is only one place worth living. London.” (p. 1, l. 25). A job opportunity in London occurs, and she moves to Kensington to start a new life as a successful career woman, just the way she wants it. She lives in a high-class society with cultural values. After her settlement she returns to Manchester, with the purpose of abducting her younger brother. Ann takes care of her brother almost as if she is his mother. She nurses him, gives him allowance and finds him a well-paid job. All in all she makes sure he has everything almost by spoiling...
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...Odysseus and Dante Dawn Anderson September 24, 2013 World Literature Professor O’Neil South University Online Abstract The travels of Odysseus and Dante are plagued with many trials and tribulations. Odysseus is trying to return home to his wife Penelope, but Odysseus has angered the God and they make it extremely difficult for him to achieve his goals. Dante and Virgil travel through the circles of hell in order for Dante to search for his humanity. The plot of these two stories are evident when comparing the epic characteristics, epic conventions, and comparing the different religious backgrounds of the time period in which these novels were written. Both the Odyssey by Homer and Dante’s Inferno were written to reveal culture and tradition of life and values that each epic portrays. In the Odyssey by Homer the main character Odysseus is a man struggling with multiple obstacles while trying to return home after twenty years fighting in the Trojan War. In the Inferno, Dante is on a journey between good and evil, with references to heaven and hell. The Gods or angels are used in both books by helping Odysseus and Dante to grow in faith and attain their own potential dream. Odysseus faces challenges on his journey home are plagued by the wrath of the Gods. Dante is challenged by going through hell in search of his humanity. Throughout the Odyssey by Homer Odysseus must face obstacles and struggle to be able to overcome these obstacles by using his mind and...
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...Why study abroad? 10 reasons why you should study in a foreign country Have you considered studying abroad, but are not sure whether it's worth your time? If you ask anybody who has studied abroad, he or she will most certainly tell you that it is a life-changing experience and one of the most rewarding things he or she has ever done. Perhaps you're not certain what benefits you can reap from an extended stay in a foreign country. Here are 10 very excellent reasons why you should take the plunge: 1. Study abroad is the optimal way to learn a language. There is no better and more effective way to learn a language than to be immersed in a culture that speaks the language you are learning. You're surrounded by the language on a daily basis and are seeing and hearing it in the proper cultural context. Language learning happens most quickly under these circumstances. [Read why you should learn a language.] 2. Study abroad provides the opportunity to travel. Weekends and academic breaks allow you to venture out and explore your surroundings - both your immediate and more distant surroundings. Since studying abroad often puts you on a completely different continent, you are much closer to places you might otherwise not have had the opportunity to visit. Some more structured study abroad programs even have field trips planned in or around the curriculum. 3. Study abroad allows you get to know another culture first-hand. Cultural differences are more than just differences in language...
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...about motivation in the workplace. Overall, the article promotes how leaders can create motivational fit for employees. It describes how to promote a way for workers to advance in their current work and shows them whether they are excellent at what they do or not. MAIN IDEAS IN THIS ARTICLE 1. “Know What Really Motivates You” focuses on how to get employee going and how to find what motivates them. From this article, at least three areas of experience should be developed. The first area engages how to manage your professional goal. The second area consists of how to create a motivational fit. And the third area demonstrates how to choose a role model. 2. Managing your professional growth is through first identifying your personality type. This could be done with a tool named the “Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.” However, this tool is not accurate to the fact because it doesn’t predict your performance and even if it does, it wouldn’t tell you how to improve your performance. Promotion focus or prevention focus in the other hand can be accurate at predicting performance and how to improve it. 3. Creating a motivational fit is a way to help employees achieve their professional growth which in turn increases performance and job satisfaction. It also helps creating challenges for employees and help to attain specific goals. However, when this motivational fit is not in line with the employees’ goals, it tend to be less valuable and the employees end up not benefiting from...
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