Benchmark – Mini Case

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BENCHMARK – MINI CASE 1
The purpose of this assignment is to analyze a
firm’s capital structure and its impact on firm performance. Within the
assignment, explain core concepts related to business risk and recommend sound
financial decisions based on analysis of a firm’s capital structure and capital
budgeting techniques.
Read the Chapter 15 Mini Case in Financial
Management: Theory and Practice. Using complete sentences and academic
vocabulary, please answer questions a and b.
Using the mini case information, write a 250
word recommendation of the financial decisions you propose for this company
based on an analysis of its capital structure and capital budgeting techniques.
Explain why you chose this recommendation.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review
the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the
expectations for successful completion. You are required to submit this
assignment to LopesWrite. Refer to the LopesWrite
Technical Support articles for assistance.
MINI CASE
Assume you have just been hired as a business manager of
PizzaPalace, a regional pizza restaurant chain. The company’s EBIT was $120
million last year and is not expected to grow. PizzaPalace is in the 25% state-plus-federal
tax bracket, the risk-free rate is 6 percent, and the market risk premium is 6
percent. The firm is currently financed with all equity, and it has 10 million
shares outstanding.
When you took your corporate finance course, your instructor
stated that most firms’ owners would be financially better off if the firms
used some debt. When you suggested this to your new boss, he encouraged you to
pursue the idea. If the company were to recapitalize, then debt would be
issued, and the funds received would be used to repurchase stock. As a first
step, assume that you obtained from the firm’s investment banker the following
estimated costs of debt for the firm at different capital structures:

QUESTIONS
a)
Using the free cash flow valuation model, show
the only avenues by which capital structure can affect value.
b)

(1)
What is business risk? What factors influence a
firm’s business risk?
(2)
What is operating leverage, and how does it
affect a firm’s business risk? Show the operating break-even point if a company
has fixed costs of $200, a sales price of $15, and variable costs of $10.
RUBRIC
Ø Question
A
Answer to question A is extremely
thorough and supported with substantial relevant details.
Ø Question
B
Answer to question B is extremely
thorough and supported with substantial relevant details.
Ø Analysis
of Firm’s Capital Structure and Impact on Performance (C5.1)
An analysis of a firm’s capital
structure and its impact on the firm’s performance is extremely thorough and
supports with substantial relevant details.
Ø Financial
Decisions (C3.1; C9.1)
Recommendations for proposed
financial decisions based on analysis of capital structure and capital budgeting
techniques are extremely thorough and include substantial supporting details
and examples.
BENCHMARK – MINI CASE 2
Integrated Waveguide Technologies (IWT) is a 6-year-old
company founded by Hunt Jackson and David Smithfield to exploit metamaterial
plasmonic technology to develop and manufacture miniature microwave frequency
directional transmitters and receivers for use in mobile Internet and
communications applications. IWT’s technology, although highly advanced, is
relatively inexpensive to implement, and its patented manufacturing techniques
require little capital as compared to many electronics fabrication ventures.
Because of the low capital requirement, Jackson and Smithfield have been able
to avoid issuing new stock and thus own all of the shares. Because of the
explosion in demand for its mobile Internet applications, IWT must now access
outside equity capital to fund its growth, and Jackson and Smithfield have
decided to take the company public. Until now, Jackson and Smithfield have paid
themselves reasonable salaries but routinely reinvested all after-tax earnings
in the firm, so dividend policy has not been an issue. However, before talking
with potential outside investors, they must decide on a dividend policy.
Your new boss at the consulting firm Flick and Associates,
which has been retained to help IWT prepare for its public offering, has asked
you to make a presentation to Jackson and Smithfield in which you review the
theory of dividend policy and discuss the following issues.

QUESTION
What do the three theories indicate regarding the actions
management should take with respect to dividend payouts?

Employee motivation for Haidilao

Write PPT slides and speech notes about the “FACT” employee motivation ONLY for Haidilao Hot Pot’s operation. It’s only a 2.5 mins presentation without the introduction of the company, JUST employee motivation (does not include the stress part).

The Effects of Social Institutions on the Family Essay

For this assignment, select one social institution from the list below:
Educational
Governmental
Religious
Community
Next, in an essay of 500-750 words, address the following:
Describe a recent problem between this institution and the family system.
Citing three to five scholarly sources, provide a solution to the problem you presented from a mental health perspective.
Lastly, summarize the relationship between the family unit and this social institution and explain why this relationship is necessary and can prove to be beneficial for the family unit.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Refer to the LopesWrite Technical Support articles for assistance.
Submit the assignment by the end of Topic 8.
Benchmark Information
This benchmark assignment assesses the following programmatic competency:
Mental Health & Wellness
6.3: Analyze the relationship between the family unit and other societal institutions.

EXERCISE- We Still Live Here

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The Wampanoag language, spoken among the indigenous people of Cape Cod in New England, had all but disappeared in the middle twentieth century. Through the persistence of local descendants of Wampanoag speakers and linguists at MIT, the Wampanoag language was revived and is experiencing a resurgence among the Wampanoag today.
Instructions: Submit your answers to the questions below as directed by your instructor.
How important is the language you speak to your identity?
There are more than 7,000 languages spoken in the world today, and, on average, one of them disappears every ten days. What does that mean for the future of language diversity? What about the future of cultural diversity?
How is the revival of a language also the revival of a culture and a way of life? What else might be gained, for all of us, whenever a language is revived?

How are people of the lgbtq community affected by discrimination in our society

Topic: How are people of the LGBTQ community affected by discrimination in our society.

Note: work cited page should include an annotated bibliography

This research paper is central to your learning and understanding and will probably be far more extensive in terms of the process of research and writing than you have experienced in other classes. Because the paper has the potential to be published in an anthology of writing, your work could become subject to a public gaze. In order to maximize the benefit of peer and professor feedback I encourage you first, to choose a research subject early and, second, you must show extreme discipline and maturity about scheduling work on your research and writing.
The projected length is 8-12 pages. Essays should all be as uniform as possible both in length and research quality. You should have at least 6-10 substantive sources in the Works Cited of your final draft, perhaps more, depending on your topic. You will, of course, consult a much higher number of works in the course of your individual research.

instructional strategies

. Teachers of ELLs use a variety of instructional strategies that facilitate multiple forms of communication in the classroom. Multiple forms of communication allow ELLs to convey ideas and demonstrate knowledge more effectively. ELLs’ content area knowledge can be more fully developed if teachers incorporate relevant reading, writing, and grammar instruction.
Focusing on the grade level you selected for “Instructional Strategies for ELLs – Part 1,” complete Part 2 of the “Instructional Strategies for ELLs” template. Identify and summarize research-based instructional strategies to address reading, writing, and grammar development with ELLs at each of the following proficiency levels: pre-emergent, emergent, basic, low intermediate, and high intermediate.
Be sure to specify the grade level of your intended students.
While APA format is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected.
This assignment uses a rubric. Review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Refer to the LopesWrite Technical Support articles for assistance.
The summary is supposed to be under the word SUMMARY.
Where it says STRATEGY, just write the name of the strategy and if it is a scaffold or model or both.
Example:
Strategy
Think Aloud-Scaffold/Model
Summary

ANALYSIS PAPER FOR HUMANITIES

Suggested Outline (Public Article or Scholarly Article)
• Introduction to the topic and its importance/relevance (250 words)
o What is the overarching argument that the author is trying to prove in this reading?
o Introduce us to any key terms that we need to know to understand the text
o Include the author’s background/perspective and how this impacts their approach to the topic.
o Include a thesis statement that previews your response or argument about this piece
• Delve deep into your favorite sub-section or sub-argument. (500 words)
o What is the argument of this section? How does it support/prove the overarching argument?
o What are 2 of the key pieces of evidence presented that support overarching argument?
• Response/Analysis (500 words)
o Use additional sources or supplemental materials to build your response
o Potential areas of disagreement with you
o Overall takeaways/discussion
Suggested Outline (Short Story or Film)
• Introduction (250 words)
o Brief overview of your text’s plot
o Author’s purpose in engaging with a social issue
o Thesis statement: your arguable, focused, sufficiently complex “take” on how the book engages with this social issue OR how you will use a particular discipline (history/philosophy/communications) to expand our understanding of this short story/movie
• Lit Review (250 words)
o Lay out the context of your social issue using 1 or 2 of your articles (depending on your choices of articles)
o Frame it explicitly as the argument made by the specific author of the article (This helps you maintain clear boundaries in the “dialogue” or conversation between your argument and the sources you are integrating)
• Close Reading 1 (250 words)
o Identify particularly compelling scenes from the story or movie that can help prove your argument about the text
o Provide more depth on the relationship between the scenes and the social issue (integrate your research)
• Close Reading 2 (250 words)
• Conclusion (250 words)
o How should we be thinking about the social issue now? How does your particular analysis of the short story/movie help us to ultimately think about the social issue?
NOTE: As you search for appropriate sources to help you with this assignment, I strongly encourage you to think about your text (short story, philosophical argument, etc.) in an interdisciplinary fashion. Adopt a historical perspective or a philosophical perspective on “The Yellow Wallpaper” (those would produce quite different arguments!). Maybe if you were interested in Jeff McMahan’s ethical/philosophical reasoning about eating animals, you could fold in a communications perspective on how food advertising works.
2500 words
Submit your final essay here. Due by the end of the semester.
The essay should be approximately 2500 words.
It MUST include MLA in-text citations for your primary text and 2 outside sources as well as an MLA Works Cited. Please consult Purdue OWL for help with both of these requirements.
Please review the attached rubric. Email me with any questions.

This is the “Module Summary and Responses” to expand into a 2500 word essay. This analysis should integrate at least 2 additional academic/professional sources and consider that text through an interdisciplinary lens.
****Please use the below to incorporate into 2500 essay. MLA, with 2 at least two academic sources. “subject” or subjectivity?***

In Chapters 3 & 4 of The Theory Toolbox, you will learn about theories about the reader as a source of meaning if notions of the author and authority are contested. How do we understand the activity of reading? How does the act of reading produce what is known as a “subject” or subjectivity? What is the relationship between the subject and the object (the text)?
MY RESPONSE BELOW.
As we understand Chapter 3 and 4, the activity of reading, is understanding and interpreting the text of the author. In other words, the reader interprets text on their own, with their own opinion. The act of reading produces what is known as subject or subjectivity; according to our text “subject’ is just another elegant word for self” (Nealon & Giroux Searls, 2012, p. 36) whereas “subject” is defined as an understanding of our identity as it applies to social law, which we must answer too.” (Nealon & Giroux Searls, 2012, p. 37) In essence, “subject” different from “self’ is an understanding, which references preexistent social circumstances and classes” (Nealon & Giroux Searls, 2012, p. 37).
Subjects or selves are a make-up of certain identifiers; “race, class, gender of ethnicity” (Nealon & Giroux Searls, 2012, p. 40). The “self” is always the pilot that is flying the aircraft, whereas “subject” is viewed as the airline passenger” (Nealon & Giroux Searls, 2012, p. 38) The “self” is in control of making things happen and “subject” reacts to how things happen” (Nealon & Giroux Searls, 2012, p. 38) If the “pilot/self” is not in full operation of the plane, and the plane loses course this would cause “self/subject” to react to their actions. For one to say they are not individually affected by their culture would not reign true.
An individual (self) remains subject to their culture by just being a part of that culture or society. Subjectivity vs objectivity, to be subjective is “relative to a person or persons own opinions”, whereas objectivity references a “fact” and is not solely dependent on a person interpretation. (Nealon & Giroux Searls, 2012). The points highlighted in these chapters are reading, the reader, the author, self, subject, subjectivity, I would say you truly can’t address one without the other.
In reflection, I would have never placed these points together nor how they go together before reading this text. I now see how they all corollate with who we are and how we interpret who we are and how who we are effects how we identify culturally. All the points I highlighted are a form of communication, reading when I read what an author has written, I allow the text to communicate to me, however as self I am in control of my interpretation of what I read. In conclusion, I hold to the fact that we are all individuals that make up our cultural, therefore we are all effected and impacted by our own opinions and culture.

WORKS CITED
Nealon, J., & Giroux Searls, S. (2012). The Theory Toolbox; Critical Concepts for the Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences. Lanham: Rowmand & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.

fiels experience b please use videos/ resources listed

Allocate at least 5 hours in the field to support this field experience.
Observe at least one grade K-12 classroom with ELLs. Focus your observations on the strategies utilized to develop reading, writing, and grammar. Discuss with your mentor teacher strategies they employ to differentiate instruction and assessment to meet the learning needs of all students.
Use any remaining field experience hours to assist the mentor teacher in providing instruction and support to the class.
Write a 250-500 word reflection regarding your observations. Your reflection should include an example of the effective use of a strategy within each of the following domains:
Reading
Writing
Grammar
How could these strategies be differentiated to accommodate ELLs at various levels of English language proficiency?
APA format is not required, but solid academic writing is expected.
This assignment uses a rubric. Review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Refer to the LopesWrite Technical Support articles for assistance.
Document the locations and hours you spend in the field on your Clinical Field Experience Verification Form.
Submit the Clinical Field Experience Verification Form to LoudCloud in the last topic. Directions for submitting can be found on the College of Education site in the Student Success Center.

As a reminder, in addition to the video library located on the Student Success Center, Youtube, TeacherTube, Teaching Channel, ASCD, Edutopia, The Teacher’s Network, Progress Center (SPED) and PBS are all great online resources that post many videos that could be watched in lieu of time in the physical placement.

Here are some alternate sites you can view for your observation hours. I hope this helps.
You can search NAEYC, COLORIN COLORADO, YOUTUBE or use keywords like ESL instruction or ESL videos to search for additional videos.
If you are teaching in a classroom on campus you can observe colleagues.
Dr. E
https://www.colorincolorado.org/videos/classroom-video








Strategic Leadership

Option #1: Strategic Leadership
You will assume the leadership style and leadership roles of a hypothetical organization leading a team for purposes of this assignment.
Next, you will reflect on what you learned from each of the self-assessments (survey 8) and (survey 9), (Northouse, 2019), and describe what you learned from them or from other course insights that could be leveraged to address leadership styles and leadership roles in organizations. Be sure to assume the perspectives of a leader in this scenario.
Your paper should be arranged into the following titled sections:
Introduction
Overview of Transformational Leadership style
Overview of Authentic Leadership style
Applicability of self-assessment if leading a team in an international setting
Summarize the key similarities and differences of your self-assessment and your classmate’s self-assessment.
Conclusion
References
Appendix for Chapter 8 Self-Assessment: Raw Results (survey 8)
Appendix for Chapter 9 Self-Assessment: Raw Results (survey 9)
Final Paper Instructions:
Include an introduction. It must provide a clear statement of your position on the topic.
Your paper must be at 8-10 pages in length, not counting the title and reference pages, which you must include.
Select five credible, peer-reviewed, scholarly sources (published within the last five years) from the CSU Global Library
(Links to an external site.)
. This should be in addition to course textbooks, required or recommended readings, or lecture material you decide to use.
Offer your conclusions regarding how best to lead a team (i.e., your informed opinion on the issues raised).
The paper shall comply with the requirements defined within CSU Global APA Guidelines
(Links to an external site.)
.
Refer to the Portfolio Project rubric for grading criteria.
The paper must demonstrate what you have learned about current issues related to experiences of strategic leadership management. Your paper is expected to have depth and offer a thoughtful analysis on the topic. The paper should be based on references to scholarly materials (rather than on introductory textbooks, popular website writings, or musings, for example) and should support your claims with evidence.
The most common mistakes in writing an essay are (a) simply summarizing the topic and not analyzing it or discussing your views and (b) failing to relate the subject to the broader context of leadership, as discussed in class and as found in the readings. Adequately including the broader contexts includes, for example, considering how your research might yield a different approach to strategic leadership management.