You have been asked to design an amusement park with a “frontier” theme.

Discussion 6
 
 
Write a 200-word response to the following discussion activity.  Use specific references and direct quotes from our readings this week to illustrate and support your view/s. 

 You have been asked to design an amusement park with a “frontier” theme. While your goal is to make the park fun, engaging, and accessible to children and families, you are also concerned that your representation of the “frontier” be accurate. How will you interpret the idea of the frontier? What will you call your park? How will you portray the history of American expansion and westward migration? What activities and exhibits will you provide for visitors to the park? Attach a brief paragraph to your post in which you summarize how the frontier video (posted in the Week 6 Modules folder) and a critical study of Cooper’s romantic fictions have influenced the choices you decide upon for your park. 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Frontier Video-
 
https://www.learner.org/series/american-passages-a-literary-survey/masculine-heroes/?jwsource=cl
 
 
 
 
 
 
Cooper’s romantic fictions
 
Reading the works of Fenimore Cooper was a rite of passage for young American boys until the middle of the twentieth century. In fact, his adventure tales featuring Hawkeye (Natty Bumppo, the old hunter in the excerpts we’re reading) did much to shape not only the popular conception of the eastern woods in the French and Indian War and the Revolution but also popular ideas of what Indians were like and how to tell a “Noble SavageLinks to an external site.” (mostly Delewares and Mohegans in Cooper’s tales) from the skulking, villainous Hurons. Although Cooper features prominent Native American characters and describes tribal customs in detail in his most famous novels, he was not personally familiar with Native American culture. In fact, even though many of his American readers took him to be an expert, Cooper’s knowledge of Indian culture came largely from books, legends, and stereotypes. Think about how the Indians are portrayed in the excerpt from The Last of the Mohicans and the way he creates two separate versions of Native American character, celebrating “noble savages” like Uncas and Chingachgook while portraying other Native Americans as ferocious, barbarous, and inhumane.
In The Pioneers Natty is an old man, a living relic of an older way of life; in The Last of the Mohicans, which is set almost a half century earlier, Natty is in his prime. Essentially, then, the series is elegiac: it celebrates a fading past of romantic exploits and unspoiled wilderness.  Settings in works of fiction are often invented to symbolize or encapsulate the conflicts that will be developed in the story. How does Cooper describe the frontier community of Templeton in The Pioneers? How does the town function as a contact point between “civilization” and the wilderness? What kinds of hardships do the townspeople face? What is their vision of “progress”?
On the other hand, The Pioneers can be read as an early moment in American environmental literature. The flood of pigeons slaughtered with cannons and so thick that they blot out the sky, for example, are indeed the passenger pigeonsLinks to an external site. that were driven to extinction in the opening decades of the 20th century.  In both excerpts from The Pioneers, Cooper describes the way “settlement” and “civilization” exploit and disrupt the natural abundance of the wilderness. While the Judge tends to view this process as “improvement,” Natty condemns it as destructive and wasteful. What is Cooper’s position on the environmental impact of European-American settlement? In what respects does he seem to side with the Judge’s position, and in what respects does he seem to side with Natty? How does The Pioneers raise environmental issues that still concern us today? How do contemporary debates about issues such as logging old-growth forests, salmon fishing, and drilling for oil in the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge grow out of some of the same controversies raised in The Pioneers?
Natty Bumppo has been described as the “first American hero” in U.S. national literature. What qualities make Natty heroic? How does he deal with the tensions between “wilderness” and “civilization” that structure life in and around Templeton? How does he deal with his existence on the border between Native American and Euro-American culture? 
In her article “I Have Been, and Ever Shall Be, Your Friend’: Star Trek, The Deerslayer and the American Romance,” critic April Selley argues that the male-male bonding between Natty and his Native American sidekick Chingachgook laid the groundwork for later American heroes and their ethnic sidekicks (Journal of Popular Culture 20.1 [Summer 1986]: 89-104). These ethnic sidekicks, Selley argues, tend to be more effeminate, and thus enhance the masculinity of the European-American hero. Two famous examples of European-American heroes and ethnic sidekicks are the Lone Ranger and Tonto, and Captain Kirk and Spock. Do you agree with Selley’s reading of Cooper’s characters? Can you think of other examples that fit this model?
How do the selections from “Native Americans: Removal and Resistance” present a view of Native Americans different from Fenimore Cooper’s depiction of “noble savages”? With regard to Native Americans, many American 19th century authors like Cooper preferred to elegize over the Last Mohican or the vanished glories rather than engage with the indigenous peoples who were still very much on the scene. 
 
 
 
 
 
https://www.learner.org/series/american-passages-a-literary-survey/masculine-heroes/?jwsource=cl
 
 

When you convert 5 mil Euros into USD next month, are you “buying” or “selling” Euros? To lock the future exchange rate in this case, should you “long” or “short” Euro FX futures today? Explain.

FIN 5545 Project: 
 
Learning Objective: Apply Currency Futures to Hedge Exchange Rate Risk 
Due date: 12/3/2023 (end of week 7) 
 
This project is related to the following Course Learning Objectives and Module Learning Objectives:
 
CLO2. Describe the nature of financial derivative contracts. 
CLO3. Manage market/currency/interest rate/credit risks using derivatives. 
 
MO-1.2: Define futures contracts and analyze its role in financial market (CO2)
MO-1.4: Explain how futures contracts are traded (CO2)
MO-1.5: Apply index futures to hedge against stock market volatility (CO3)
 
Directions:

If you need help or need clarification, ask in Teams. I’ll help you solve but will not confirm whether your answer is correct or not. For example, you can ask “how do I calculate the daily futures gains?” and I’ll provide formulas and point you to the right direction. But if you ask “Here’s my excel. Is my answer correct?”, I won’t confirm it because it’s unfair to other students. 
You must start from a fresh new blank Excel file. Do NOT share your Excel or copy other’s Excel. If I find 2 students submitting almost identical files, I’ll give F to both students. 
I am aware the solutions for previous projects are available online. I changed the questions for this semester. If you submit a project answering old questions, you will get an F. 
Submit 1 Excel file with all your answers/tables/plots (preferably in 1 tab). You can submit multiple times to Canvas. Only the last submission will be graded. If you prefer to write up answers in MS Word, upload 2 files (Word and Excel) in 1 submission. Do not submit separately, as I only grade the last submission. 

The sample period for this project is from 10/23/2023 to 11/24/2023 (5 weeks). You will need to collect real-time financial data starting from 10/23/2023.
On 10/23/2023, your company receives 5 million Euros for selling products in Germany. Currently, the EUR/USD exchange rate is 1.0614. So if you convert this 5 mil Euros to USD today, it will be worth $5,306,875. You are extremely happy with the current exchange rate and would take this US dollar value. However, if you convert now, you may have to pay tax today. 
Instead, you decide to convert Euros to USD at the end of next month and delay paying the tax. However, this delayed conversion comes with a risk. Since EUR/USD exchange rate fluctuates every day, the US dollar value of your Euros next month will no longer be the same dollar amount today. This risk is called currency risk, aka foreign exchange rate (FOREX) risk. 
The objective of this project is to design/execute a strategy today such that the USD value stays close to $5.3 mil throughout the whole sample period. The financial instrument for this project is Euro FX futures contract expiring in Dec 2023 (ticker: E6Z23 or /6EZ23). 
10 Questions (each is worth 1 point, consider each as a rubric):
1. When you convert 5 mil Euros into USD next month, are you “buying” or “selling” Euros? To lock the future exchange rate in this case, should you “long” or “short” Euro FX futures today? Explain.
2.  What is the contract size (aka. contract unit) of 1 Euro FX futures contract? Is the British Pound futures contract size the same as Euro FX futures? How many Euro FX futures contracts do you need to long/short today? 
(Hint: Go to https://www.cmegroup.com (official futures exchange) and locate the Euro FX futures. Check “Contract Specs” tab.)
The rest of this project will confirm whether your actions taken on 10/23/2023 (=answers to Q1/Q2) are indeed the correct hedging strategy at the end. If you don’t find sufficient evidence of lowering risk in Q3-Q10, it’s likely that your answers to Q1/Q2 are incorrect so revise your answers and solve them again, as necessary. 
3. For every trading day (skip holiday/weekends) during the sample period, collect the EUR/USD exchange rate (from either Bloomberg, Google, Yahoo, Fed, etc) and the Euro FX futures price (from CME or other sites). 

While in the later adulthood age, social problems such as substance abuse, crime and elder abuse may be encountered. What experiences has someone that you know in this age group had? What has the impact been upon them? What laws or policy changes may address these issues?

While in the later adulthood age, social problems such as substance abuse, crime and elder abuse may be encountered. What experiences has someone that you know in this age group had? What has the impact been upon them? What laws or policy changes may address these issues? 

The Office of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion partners with all of us—all facets of NOVA—to protect and strengthen the power of a community that embraces different ideas, identities, values, beliefs, intersectionalities, ages, abilities, and perspectives. Why?

NOVA’s Commitment to Seeing and Celebrating You
Come as you are. | Become who you want to be. | That is our promise.
The Office of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion is committed to advancing inclusive excellence. NOVA prioritizes the well-being and success of all NOVA students, faculty, staff, and community members.
The Office of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion partners with all of us—all facets of NOVA—to protect and strengthen the power of a community that embraces different ideas, identities, values, beliefs, intersectionalities, ages, abilities, and perspectives.
Why? Advancing equity aligns with the College’s Mission and Strategic Plan, but even better, a safe, inclusive and accepting college community really is a springboard to opportunity. It just is.
 

Describe how you would solicit feedback from the audience on the improvement plan and the in-service. Explain how you might integrate this feedback for future improvements.

As a practicing professional, you are likely to present educational in-services or training to staff pertaining to quality improvement (QI) measures of safety improvement interventions. Such in-services and training sessions should be presented in a creative and innovative manner to hold the audience’s attention and promote knowledge acquisition and skill application that changes practice for the better. The teaching sessions may include a presentation, audience participation via simulation or other interactive strategy, audiovisual media, and participant learning evaluation.The use of in-services and/or training sessions has positive implications for nursing practice by increasing staff confidence when providing care to specific patient populations. It also allows for a safe and nonthreatening environment where staff nurses can practice their skills prior to a real patient event. Participation in learning sessions fosters a team approach, collaboration, patient safety, and greater patient satisfaction rates in the health care environment (Patel & Wright, 2018).As you prepare to complete the assessment, consider the impact of in-service training on patient outcomes as well as practice outcomes for staff nurses. Be sure to support your thoughts on the effectiveness of educating and training staff to increase the quality of care provided to patients by examining the literature and established best practices.You are encouraged to explore the AONE Nurse Executive Competencies Review activity before you develop the Improvement Plan In-Service Presentation. This activity will help you review your understanding of the AONE Nurse Executive Competencies—especially those related to competencies relevant to developing an effective training session and presentation. This is for your own practice and self-assessment, and demonstrates your engagement in the course.For this assessment, build on the safety quality Patient Identification Errors in Healthcare and create an agenda and PowerPoint of an educational in-service session that would help a specific staff audience learn, provide feedback, and understand their roles and practice new skills related to the safety improvement plan you created.The final deliverable for this assessment will be a PowerPoint presentation with detailed presenter’s notes representing the material you would deliver at an in-service session to raise awareness of your chosen safety improvement initiative focusing on a specific patient safety issue and to explain the need for such an initiative. Additionally, you must educate the audience as to their role and importance to the success of the initiative. This includes providing examples and practice opportunities to test out new ideas or practices related to the safety improvement initiative.Be sure that your presentation addresses the following, which corresponds to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. Please study the scoring guide carefully so you understand what is needed for a distinguished score.

Describe the purpose and goals of an in-service session focusing on a specific patient safety issue.
Explain the need for and process to improve safety outcomes related to a specific patient safety issue.
Explain to the audience their role and importance of making the improvement plan successful.
Create resources or activities to encourage skill development and process understanding related to a safety improvement initiative.
Communicate with nurses in a respectful and informative way that clearly presents expectations and solicits feedback on communication strategies for future improvement.

There are various ways to structure an in-service session; below is just one example:

Part 1: Agenda and Outcomes.

Explain to your audience what they are going to learn or do, and what they are expected to take away.

Part 2: Safety Improvement Plan.

Give an overview of the current problem focusing on a specific patient safety issue, the proposed plan, and what the improvement plan is trying to address.
Explain why it is important for the organization to address the current situation.

Part 3: Audience’s Role and Importance.

Discuss how the staff audience will be expected to help implement and drive the improvement plan.
Explain why they are critical to the success of the improvement plan focusing on a specific patient safety issue.
Describe how their work could benefit from embracing their role in the plan.

Part 4: New Process and Skills Practice.

Explain new processes or skills.
Develop an activity that allows the staff audience to practice and ask questions about these new processes and skills.
In the notes section of your PowerPoint, brainstorm potential responses to likely questions or concerns.

Part 5: Soliciting Feedback.

Describe how you would solicit feedback from the audience on the improvement plan and the in-service.
Explain how you might integrate this feedback for future improvements.

Note: Presentation length: There is no required length; use just enough slides to address all the necessary elements. Remember to use short, concise bullet points on the slides and expand on your points in the presenter’s notes. If you use 2 or 3 slides to address each of the parts in the above example, your presentation would be at least 10 slides and no more than 15 slides (not including the title, conclusion, or references slides).

Speaker notes: Speaker notes (located under each slide) should reflect what you would actually say if you were delivering the presentation to an audience. This presentation does NOT require audio or a transcript. Another presenter would be able to use the presentation by following the speaker’s notes.
APA format: Use APA formatting for in-text citations. Include an APA-formatted reference slide at the end of your presentation.
Number of references: Cite a minimum of 3 sources of scholarly or professional evidence to support your assertions. Resources should be no more than 5 years old.

Scenario Exercise: Your company Acme Logistics has recently been experiencing some thefts of equipment during the business day. All employees have been asked about the thefts and no one is claiming that they are responsible. Your facilities has three doors that are not locked during business hours and currently have no identification standards set for admittance. You have been tasked with resolving this issue technologically. Using a mixture of Biometric devices, surveillance systems with advanced tracking for biometric tags such as gait analysis, and other items or technology you deem necessary, you must capture these individuals and stop the thefts. You need to produce a plan on how you are going to tackle this situation. You should submit a proposal with the following items: 1) What is the situational breakdown? 2) What is the technology you will use to secure access to authorized individuals at the three public doors? 3) What is the technology you will use to capture the individuals in the act of stealing items?

 
Instructions
Scenario Exercise:
Your company Acme Logistics has recently been experiencing some thefts of equipment during the business day. All employees have been asked about the thefts and no one is claiming that they are responsible. Your facilities has three doors that are not locked during business hours and currently have no identification standards set for admittance.
You have been tasked with resolving this issue technologically. Using a mixture of Biometric devices, surveillance systems with advanced tracking for biometric tags such as gait analysis, and other items or technology you deem necessary, you must capture these individuals and stop the thefts. You need to produce a plan on how you are going to tackle this situation. You should submit a proposal with the following items:
1) What is the situational breakdown?
2) What is the technology you will use to secure access to authorized individuals at the three public doors?
3) What is the technology you will use to capture the individuals in the act of stealing items?
4) What is the anticipated cost to the company?
5) What is the anticipated roll out time frame?
6) Are there any legal issues we must be concerned about?
Please answer these questions as a business proposal for your boss to review and approve. It is anticipated that the assignment will be between 4-6 pages long, and writing quality (APA) will be enforced, do include a list of references and sources, if necessary.

describe: your experience in the course, your understanding of cultural competence; social justice issues of concern; and the ways in which this course has shaped your understanding of social work practice.

 describe: your experience in the course, your understanding of cultural competence; social justice issues of concern; and the ways in which this course has shaped your understanding of social work practice.
 include written text, video clip(s), pictures, printouts and/or drawings that display your passion, and interest in social work.(Youth*)

1. Who am I?
Additional clarifying details: describe and reflect on your own cultural identities and intersectionality (factors : your race – black, class – middle, ethnicity – haitian american, gender – F,  sexual orientation – Heterosexual,  age – 29, spirituality – free).
 2. Social justice issue of concern and/or current event in society?
Additional clarifying details: think about social justice issues of concern and/or current event in society that pulls your attention. Consider applying information from assigned readings, videos, course assignments, and your own understanding of prejudice, power and privilege.
3. What is cultural competence in social work practice?
Additional clarifying details: provide your explanation / understanding of cultural competence, including your learning amassed to date through this course, and what cultural competence means as it pertains to social work practice.
4. How you will use this class experience in social work practice?
Additional clarifying details: describe how you will use this class experience when working with clients and colleagues in social work practice.

As you review the assigned students’ samples posted to this discussion thread and consider aspects that seemed effective, discuss your own research topic and your searching experience journey thus far.   What aspects seem particularly effective?Are your initial sources providing the information needed? ?Discuss specific elements of the research process that seem frustrating (or exciting) as you work through putting it all together.

As you review the assigned students’ samples posted to this discussion thread and consider aspects that seemed effective, discuss your own research topic and your searching experience journey thus far.  
What aspects seem particularly effective?Are your initial sources providing the information needed? ?Discuss specific elements of the research process that seem frustrating (or exciting) as you work through putting it all together. 

On a local, state, and federal level, programs and services are available for those in later adulthood. What supports are available in your local community for individuals 65 years of age and above? Do you see any gaps in services? Given we are now living longer, do you believe the current array of resources is adequate to meet the growing need of those in this age group?

On a local, state, and federal level, programs and services are available for those in later adulthood. What supports are available in your local community for individuals 65 years of age and above? Do you see any gaps in services? Given we are now living longer, do you believe the current array of resources is adequate to meet the growing need of those in this age group? 

  Hypercholesterolemia (high cholesterol levels in the blood) is associated with various cardiovascular diseases such as atherosclerosis, stroke, and myocardial infarction. Research how hypercholesterolemia develops, as well as its complications. A common treatment for hypercholesterolemia is a class of drugs called statins. In your post, address the following questions: Are statins the best course of treatment for hypercholesterolemia in adults? Why or why not? Should they be prescribed to adults with hypercholesterolemia with no evidence of heart disease? Should teenagers be prescribed statins if they are diagnosed with hypercholesterolemia? Why or why not? Is there a better solution for these situations?

 
Hypercholesterolemia (high cholesterol levels in the blood) is associated with various cardiovascular diseases such as atherosclerosis, stroke, and myocardial infarction. Research how hypercholesterolemia develops, as well as its complications.
A common treatment for hypercholesterolemia is a class of drugs called statins. In your post, address the following questions:

Are statins the best course of treatment for hypercholesterolemia in adults? Why or why not?
Should they be prescribed to adults with hypercholesterolemia with no evidence of heart disease?
Should teenagers be prescribed statins if they are diagnosed with hypercholesterolemia? Why or why not?
Is there a better solution for these situations?

Be sure to support your positions with APA formatted in-text citations and references from a credible resource.
 
After reviewing and studying this module’s content, answer the following questions. Be sure to complete all lab activities and attend/watch all live lectures before completing this assignment. All of your answers should be written in your own words, using full sentences, correct terminology, and proper spelling and grammar.

Explain the anatomical concepts associated with the vascular system. Summarize this module’s key points in 5-6 sentences.
Explain the physiological concepts associated with the vascular system. Summarize this module’s key points in 5-6 sentences.
How will you apply the concepts you have learned about the heart in real life and in your future career?
Which topic within this module has been the most valuable to your learning experience and why?
Which topic(s) within this module did you struggle to understand and why?