How does the context of your historical event help tell the story of what was happening at the time? How might this historical event connect or lead to your current event?
How does the context of your historical event help tell the story of what was happening at the time?
Building Context to Address Questions: In this part of the project, you will examine the historical context related to your historical event. The context will be like snapshots that capture what was happening in history that affected the development of your current event.
- Describe the context of your historical event that influenced your current event.
- How does the context of your historical event help tell the story of what was happening at the time? How might this historical event connect or lead to your current event?
- Describe a historical figure or group’s participation in your historical event.
- This person or people must have directly participated in the event you identified as it was happening, not after it.
- Use specific details from your primary and secondary sources to demonstrate how the person or people participated in the event.
- Explain the historical figure or group’s motivation to participate in your historical event.
- Consider why the person or people were motivated to get involved in the event.
How might your own perspectives and opinions impact the topic you chose and how you may approach studying it?
How might your own perspectives and opinions impact the topic you chose and how you may approach studying it?
Climate Change; The Chernobyl accident
Directions
Read these directions and the rubric criteria and reach out to your instructor if you have any questions before you begin working on this project. Many of the steps below will require you to reference and utilize the work you have done in previous modules of this course. You may use the provided template to complete this project or choose not to use the template and submit a Word document instead.
Part 1: Creating a Research Question: The quality of research often depends on the quality of the question driving it. It is important to understand how personal opinions, perspectives, and historical sources all play a part in developing and examining a research question. Complete the following steps to discuss how you developed a strong research question about your chosen historical event.
- Describe how your assumptions, beliefs, and values influenced your choice of topic.
- How might your own perspectives and opinions impact the topic you chose and how you may approach studying it?
- Discuss the significance of your historical research question in relation to your current event.
- State your historical research question and explain the connection between your current event and your question.
- Explain how you used sources to finalize your research question.
- Identify the specific primary and secondary sources you used.
- Discuss how evidence in these primary and secondary sources strengthened or challenged the focus of your question.
How does the article relate to course readings? Describe relevant history, theories or laws
How does the article relate to course readings? Describe relevant history, theories or laws
Choose an article (newspaper, magazine, industry journal-use different references for each article) that corresponds with each of the management functions (planning, leading, organizing and controlling). Locate a news newspaper, magazine, or trade journal article (written within the last five years) on the control function. Answer each question as listed in assignment guidelines:
MGT 301 Article Analysis Worksheet
Newspaper/Electronic Source: _
Name of article: Date:
1. Provide a summary of the article (one – two paragraphs)
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________2. How does the article relate to course readings? Describe relevant history, theories or laws.3. Comprehensiveness of InformationA. The 5 “W’s” and “H”1. Who?2. What?3. When?4. Where? _5. Why?6. How? _B. Of all the 5 “W’s” and “H”, star the one you think is the most important. Why?C. What is its impact? How many people were affected by it?D. Who are the sources in the article itself? (Examples: journalist, lawyer, doctor, neighbor, police officer, forensics expert)4. Personal ReactionWhat do you think of this article? (Discuss in at least five complete sentences)
What strategy would most effectively support the changes involved? How would you lead the change process?
What strategy would most effectively support the changes involved? How would you lead the change process?
Once the need for change has been identified and planning begins to enact it, educational and community leaders must apply strategies for successful implementation. As Fullan (2016) notes, proposed change is often made more complicated than it needs to be, and the most effective approach requires that, among other factors, strategies should be focused, memorable, and actionable. Consider the scenario you developed for this module’s Discussion 1. What strategy would most effectively support the changes involved? How would you lead the change process?
Explain the differences between a plain vanilla swap position and a Eurodollar strip
Explain the differences between a plain vanilla swap position and a Eurodollar strip
MODULE 6 GROUP HOMEWORK
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1. Explain the differences between a plain vanilla swap position and a Eurodollar strip.
Plain Vanilla swap is traded in an OTC market while the Eurodollar strip is considered a derivative instrument.
Plain vanilla swap is typically a floating rate note and is swapped for a fixed interest rate swap. Eurodollar strip is protective against a changing interest rate scenario
2. What is the dealer’s bid and ask quotes on a five-year swap with a quoted 60/70 swap spread over a T-note with a yield of 6.5%?
Yield on T-note Bid = 6.50% + 0.6% = 7.10%
Yield on T-note Ask = 6.50% +0.7% = 7.20%
Hence, Bid and quotes on a 5-year swap is 7.10% / 7.20%
3. The Star Chemical Company wants to finance one of its production plants by borrowing $150 million for five years. Based on its moderate credit ratings, Star can borrow five-year funds at a 10.5% fixed rate or at a floating rate equal to LIBOR + 75 bp. Given the choice of financing, Star prefers the fixed-rate loan. The Moon Development Company is also looking for five-year funding to finance its proposed $150 million office park development. Given its high credit rating, Moon can borrow the funds for 5 years at a fixed rate of 9.5% or at a floating rate equal to the LIBOR + 25 bp. Given the choice, Moon prefers a variable-rate loan.
Explain how one would select the optimal methodology based on needs, advantages and disadvantages
Explain how one would select the optimal methodology based on needs, advantages and disadvantages
Each member of an organization is held accountable for managing risks. Therefore, it is essentials to establish the context for a risk framework and risk process. Using your company from SWEET 1, establish a risk management framework using industry standards for compliance. Part 1 Create a Risk Management Framework. Part 2 In 500–750 words, discuss various risk assessment models, methodologies, and processes that can be used to perform a risk assessment of a particular system. Make sure to: Describe how risk relates to a system security policy. Describe various risk analysis methodologies. Considering your framework from Part 1, explain why it is important to evaluate and categorize risk a) with respect to technology; b) with respect to individuals, and c) in the enterprise. Compare the advantages and disadvantages of various risk assessment methodologies. Explain how one would select the optimal methodology based on needs, advantages and disadvantages.
How should a risk management framework and process be communicated to an organization’s stakeholders?
How should a risk management framework and process be communicated to an organization’s stakeholders? What best practices would you recommend?
What must be considered in a mitigation plan? Can outsourcing be used for risk transference? Explain.
What must be considered in a mitigation plan? Can outsourcing be used for risk transference?
Once the InfoSec team in an organization identifies its risks and evaluates the values of its information assets, the team will have to decide whether the current level of risks are acceptable or not. What are some of the factors that make this decision challenging? Justify your rationale. QUESTION 8 ========== Once the InfoSec team has identified assets with an unacceptable level of risk, the team must choose one of the five basic strategies to treat the risks for those assets. Review all five strategies and discuss the following: What conditions must be met to ensure that risk acceptance has been used properly? What must be considered in a mitigation plan? Can outsourcing be used for risk transference? Explain.
Explain why risk identification, through a listing of assets and their vulnerabilities, is so important to the risk management process
Explain why risk identification, through a listing of assets and their vulnerabilities, is so important to the risk management process
Research each one of the following standards for implementing Risk Management Models: NIST SP 800-39, NIST SP 800-37, ISO 27005:2011, and ISO 27005:2011. Recommend a model for organizations that do not have a risk management program in place. Explain why risk identification, through a listing of assets and their vulnerabilities, is so important to the risk management process.
How do tattoos violate (or confirm) certain formal or informal norms?
1. How do tattoos violate (or confirm) certain formal or informal norms?
2. What are some possible consequences for these transgressions?
3. How can concepts like cultural relativism and ethnocentrism be applied to certain styles of tattoos?
4. Do you think that tattoos are more subcultural or countercultural?
5. Have cultural views of tattooing changed over time? How so? Why do you think this?
