Discuss non-monetary benefits open trade has contributed to the world since the end of WWII. Provide at least 2 examples. Why do you think these are important? • How have changes to US trade and tariff policies affected US trade with other nations? Consider recent (less than 2 years old) credible news sources to support your response.
Category: economics
Interest Rates vs Inflation Rates
What is the relation between Interest Rates and Inflation Rates?
Create an infographic From your perspective what is the relation between Interest Rates (controlled by the Federal Reserve) and the Inflation Rate?
Trends in women’s employment.
The US Department of Labor Women’s Bureau shows current trends in women’s employment. Despite research that shows a persistent wage gap for women and people of color even when studies compare women and men with the same background and qualifications (that is, they are not comparing men who have always worked full time with women of the same age who may have taken time off to raise children), there is a popular conception that most of the wage gap can be explained through personal choices. While the wage gap shrinks when adjustments are made for differences in choices, it does not disappear.
You can read more about this distinction here: Racial, gender wage gaps persist in U.S. despite some progress and Why Women Must Ask (The Right Way): Negotiation Advice From Stanford’s Margaret A. Neale.
The question raised by Sociology is, when is a choice truly a choice, and when is it not? What are all of the elements that lead to a wage gap, and which of them are entirely within an individual’s control?
To explore this question as it pertains to gender and work, design a fictional family and trace the working lives of its adult members.
Your family should have two adults of working age, though they do not have to live in the same household, may be different genders or the same gender, and do not necessarily have to be spouses or ex-spouses (you could have a multi-generational household, for example). You can decide if your household includes children or other relatives. The only hard and fast rule is that this household needs two adults of working age.
Explain which factors sociological research suggest will impact their earning potential (use this week’s reading for information). Think intersectionally as well as in terms of gender alone.
Describe the choices each has made (you are making this part up) that has further impacted earning and career success (positively or negatively). Are those choices typical or atypical for the gender of each adult?
What has the actual impact of those choices been on the trajectory of their working lives and earning potential (you will be making this part up, obviously)?
What can Sociology tell us about the factors that led them to the decisions they made? What are some of the societal forces that may have guided those decisions? Why is it hard to resist those forces? What would we need to make sure that everyone has the chance to choose the shape of her or his working life freely?
Economic transitions
As the need for major economic transitions within Appalachia, especially the coalfields, becomes more widely accepted, questions
about how to define and theorize the past in order to overcome its legacies and organize toward brighter futures become more urgent. Does “internal colony” adequately clarify the context and aims of the struggle in the area? Should ridding the region of outsider ownership and control by a central organizing goal for macro social work intervention?
A widening economic gap
Is there a widening economic gap nationwide and in Appalachia? With the reduction of funding for programs specifically for those living at or below the poverty line, will the Appalachian region experience challenges differently than other regions?
Concurrency Control
There are times when a database is accessed by many users across the enterprise. Transaction logs can help maintain concurrency in a multiuser platform.
Describe at least two business scenarios where “commit” and “rollback” would be required.
Describe how these functions would be essential for business continuity and concurrency control.
Identify how these functions would enable an organization to recover from a database corruption event.
The focus on equality
The focus on equality:
In Finland, all students have access to high-quality education regardless of their background. This is accomplished by investing heavily in education, creating a highly decentralized system that grants considerable authority to local authorities, and placing a premium on the professional development of educators (durbanzanrik, 2012). Educators in the United States should take a page out of Finland’s book by making it a priority to provide all pupils, regardless of race, income, or where they live, with a first-rate education.
• The emphasis on play-based learning:
Finnish children get a lot of recess time at school. This is due to the fact that it is generally agreed that play is crucial to the educational process (durbanzanrik, 2012). Children’s play is essential for their healthy mental, social, and emotional growth. Teachers in the United States might take a page from Finland’s book and make their classrooms more like playgrounds.
• The use of formative assessment:
Gathering data on students’ progress in order to offer them useful feedback and guidance is the goal of formative assessment. In contrast, learning is measured during a unit or course through formative assessment. Teachers in Finland rely heavily on formative assessment to monitor student growth and offer targeted interventions (durbanzanrik, 2012). The Finnish model of implementing formative assessment efficiently in the classroom is one that American teachers may learn from.
Challenges
There are two major challenges to bringing Finland’s excellent educational techniques to the United States. The first challenge is there is the issue of cultural disparities between the two nations. When compared to the United States, Finland’s egalitarian culture and little emphasis on competition are clear advantages. As a result, it may be necessary to make adjustments before directly importing Finnish techniques to conform with the cultural context of the US. Secondly, there is the difficulty of the United States’ education system’s extreme decentralization. In Finland, the national government plays a central role in education policy, while in the United States, states are given considerable autonomy in this area. State education agencies, guidelines, and funding structures vary from one another. Due to the necessity for coordination and cooperation among numerous state-level authorities, the adoption of standard reforms in the US education system becomes challenging. To overcome these obstacles, we would need to take cultural considerations and the decentralized nature of the US school system into account.
Defining the needs of a vulnerable population
Post a total of 3 substantive responses over 2 separate days for full participation. This includes your initial post and 2 replies to classmates or your faculty member.
Defining the needs of a vulnerable population is key to providing the best care.
Research 3 rural populations in your state.
Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:
What was most surprising to you about the demographics and social determinants of health (SDOH) in your selected locations? Why was it surprising?
Using the definition of underserved in which, “Underserved relates to limited access to services that are accessible, acceptable, and affordable, including healthcare” (CDC, 2022), what services were limited, difficult to access, unacceptable, or unaffordable to the patient population?
What relationships do you see between the SDOH and people who are medically and/or socially underserved in your selected locations?
Banned billionaires
What would happen if we banned billionaires? iscuss the topic and write an essay less than 2000 words.
Should Oversight pursue a partnership with Global Credit and/or Banking Worldwide
Should Oversight pursue a partnership with Global Credit and/or Banking Worldwide? In making this decision, please specify the terms and conditions of a channel partnership, including price, exclusivity (or not), support, and the roles and responsibilities of Oversights and a channel partner. Which of these terms would you view as “must haves” if you were Patrick Taylor, and which would you view as “nice to have”?
In your view, what should be the goal(s) of a channel partnership at this stage of the venture? Please indicate how GC or BW does or does not help Oversight to achieve those goals.
What is Oversight selling? What is the customer buying? What are the implications of the buying and selling process for evaluating potential channel partners?
What can we learn about successful and unsuccessful channel partnerships form Oversight’s previous experience with Enterprise Software Giant and Concur? What are the implications for a potential partnership with GC or BW?
Consider the pivot Oversight made in its product line from the customized CCM offering to the IOD product line. What changed in the venture and what are the implications?