Category: Essays

Alternative production opportunities.

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A firm incurs implicit costs when it uses capital, inventories or owner’s resources. In other words, implicit cost is the opportunity cost associated with a firm’s use of resources that it owns. Therefore the firm has to calculate the total cost of producing tractors and threshers. Besides this, the opportunity cost of producing tractors and threshers must be taken into account. Opportunity cost of producing a commodity (say X) is the amount of the next best alternative that is forgone to produce one additional unit of X. If the opportunity cost of producing thresher is higher, he will produce more tractors as compared to threshers.

Suppose that if the firm benefits from producing a different commodity other than tractors and threshers, then it is always profitable for the firm to produce that third commodity. What will be the alternative production opportunity costs?

Reading and Short Questions

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This homwork requires matertial, I will send by mail.

1. PELOPONNESIAN WAR

Two Grecian city-states clashed during the Peloponnesian War.

a. Identify the two city-states.

b. What and where is ‘Peloponnesus’?

c. Which of the two city-states is actually located in/on Peloponnesus?

c. Note the oddity. The ‘greatest action…in Hellenic history’ (the Peloponnesian War) did not take place in the place for which the war was named! Who were the victors (winners) AND who were the vanquished (losers) AND where did this momentous [zero sum] battle take place, according to Thucydides?

2. ATHENS

According to Bernstein, Athens was ‘driven’ to empire by geographical/geological circumstances.

a. You have learned that products could be transported by land or by sea between China and Rome.

How was trade conducted between the Greek city-states AND why?

b. You have also learned that many of the products traded were highly valued, luxury goods; but the trade patterns of the Greek city-states were driven by necessity. What was the commodity most sought after by Athens (and the other city-states) AND why did they have to import that commodity rather than produce it themselves?

c. What were the three sources of Athens’ imports of this vital ‘bulk’ or staple or essential good? (recall map in book)

d. Athens’ dependence on trade is evident in its arrangement at Piraeus.

What was Piraeus AND what structure did Athens build there AND why?

e. As a result of its dependence on one of these foreign sources, Athens and its rivals clashed over a “strait”—a route to the Pontus region.

What was the Pontus region AND

through what three ‘straits’ must ships traverse to reach that destination from the Aegean? (just cite the names of three waterways (conduits) from the Aegean to this region).

How does Greenberg apply the modern concept of sustainability to California — specifically, its legacy, its illusions, its prominent sectors? What does she term “market-driven sustainability” and what alternative approaches does she propose? What principles can you distill from her research?

read the book and answer the questions

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Divided Kingdom And Exile

Read pp,65-67,CTT

Read 1 kings 1-3, 4:9-6, 8-13, 17-19, 21; 2Kings 2, 4-5; Isaiah 1, 6-7, 9-11, 42:1-4, 49:1-6, 50:4-9, 52:13-53:112

Beginning with his father’s ( King David’s) death, discuss the life of King Solomon, What are some of hi positive and nagative qualities? Support your answer with references to the biblical text, What are the long-term effects of Solomon’s reign for the people of Israel, and what actions of Solomon bring this about?

Write a two- three paragraph review on how does the article relates to the photos which i gave in attachments and your views on it.

The African -American experience

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the African-American experience in colonial times. Appreciating that each region of North America was different, slave conditions were different as well. Here is where your knowledge of history will perhaps save you from the worst curse of slavery if suddenly you were forced back in time to become a slave in colonial America.

PARAGRAPH #1: Suppose by some extraordinary trick of fate you were transformed into a slave in North America for three years. But suppose also you could choose where to live and what kinds of jobs you would be enslaved to do for 3 years. Where would you live and what job would you do, if you had to pick the place and the conditions where you would suffer the LEAST? Give at least 3 reasons why you would choose this kind of slave to be.

PARAGRAPH #2: Suppose by some extraordinary trick of fate you were transformed into a slave in North America for three years but this time all you could do is make sure you are NOT transformed into a slave in one certain region and with certain jobs. Where would you LEAST like to be a slave and what jobs would you consider that most terrible that slaves were forced to do? Give at least 3 reasons why you would choose NOT to be this kind of slave living in this region

Habits and social behavior

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Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper analyzing the formation of habits using behavioral and social/cognitive approaches. Your paper should cover the following areas:

Analyze one of your habits. How did you develop this habit? Were there role models for this habit? Which people influenced the adoption of this habit?
Why do you continue it? Has there been a time when you have attempted to break this habit?
Use the behavioral personality theory to explain why you have this habit.
Describe components of social/cognitive theory that explain why the habit formed.
Develop a plan that applies operant conditioning to change this habit.
Between the behavioral and social/cognitive theories, which one do you find best explains your personality?

Include an introduction and conclusion in your paper.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines

This week we are going to examine what happens in a market when the government intervenes in the market and introduces price controls. In particular we are going to examine what happens when the minimum wage is increased.

A minimum wage is a Price Floor. When a price floor is imposed on a market the price can be higher than the price floor, but not lower than the price floor.

In the labor market, the price is the wage rate. Thus, a minimum wage above the equilibrium wage increases workers wages, but it also decreases the quantity demanded of labor. In particular, it reduces the quantity demanded of unskilled and low skilled labor, especially youth labor.

Assignment Summary:

1) View the two videos above and videos 1, 2 and 7 under the YouTube Videos link for the week. You may also wish to view the other videos for a deeper understanding of price controls.

2) Read Chapter 6 in your textbook in careful detail. Pay close attention to the graphs in Figures 1 – 5. Focus on Figure 5 in particular. (The chapter and the figures are the same in both the 6th and the 7th editions of text book). You may also wish to review the CBO Report on employment and income impacts of an increased minimum wage.

3) Based on the videos, the readings and any additional research you decide to do (remember to cite and reference all your sources) what you do think will be the market impact(s) of the proposed increase in the federal minimum wage to $10 per hour?

a) Will the proposed increase help workers? And if so which part(s) of the labor market will be helped.

b) Which part(s) of the labor market will hurt by the proposed increase? How will they be hurt?

c) What will happen to the prices of goods and services produced with minimum wage labor?

4) What is your conclusion? Is this proposal a good idea or not? Explain why.

5) Post your views to the discussion board and refer to at least two different concepts from this week’s Chapters. Your illustration of concepts MUST include an explanation why you think they are relevant to the week’s topic using specific information from the articles, videos and other research that you have done

What we have learned so far in this course is that students come to us from diverse backgrounds and have their own unique learning needs. We have also learned that the systems of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are grounded in differentiated instructional practices to form the basis of quality curriculum.

As noted in Week Two, you participate in your school’s Professional Learning Community (PLC) as developing experts in implementing differentiated instruction. For this assignment, you will create the content for a blog (not actually creating the blog at this time) that identifies differentiated assessment and teaching strategies. These strategies can be used to assess student mastery of the new Common Core State Standards while providing engaging and rigorous classroom instruction.

For the purpose of this assignment, you will be using a Word document (two to three pages) to create a prospective blog that can be designed online at another time.

Within your blog, you must:

Describe (in general) the standards for mathematics.
Describe (in general) the standards for English language arts.
Summarize the Common Core State Standards initiative including their purpose (i.e., the expectations of the CCSS) and academic impact.
Discuss how differentiated instruction is an essential strategy for the CCSS.
Explain five or more differentiated strategies, tools, or activities that will support teachers’ implementation of the CCSS for mathematics.
Explain five or more differentiated strategies, tools, or activities that will support teachers’ implementation of the CCSS for English language arts.

Use your course text and at least two scholarly articles from the Ashford University Library or Google Scholar to support your research. Your paper will be formatted according to APA guidelines including title and reference pages

Would like a 100% original essay A+ WORK on the following,

In a 500-word essay, choose one of the following ratification documents, and provide a brief overview of the paper’s message and the author’s intent in writing it. If you were living during this time, what would your response be to the paper’s message? What is the correlation between the paper’s message and current events?

Choose one from the following:

1. Antifederalist Papers # 1 2. Antifederalist Papers # 9 3. Antifederalist Papers # 37 4. Antifederalist Papers # 84 5. Federalist Papers # 1 6. Federalist Papers # 10 7. Federalist Papers # 37 8. Federalist Papers # 68 9. Federalist Papers # 69 10. Federalist Papers # 84

Be sure to include all sources used, including the textbooks, in APA style on a separate references page