Writing a summary of what I got from this course on Francophone Africa presents a real challenge since I learned so much that I didn’t know before. I’ve studied French history, but mostly just up to the nineteenth century, and generally, the stories and events that took place on the European continent. I could easily tick off all the various topics, but I’ll focus instead on the things that really stood out to me. For example, I’ve always wondered why African countries experience as much turmoil as they do. But now I know that a huge reason for all the problems was caused by something as simple as the drawing of a map. The borders of each nation were arbitrarily created, without any regard for the peoples, religions, or ethnic groups that were being lumped together into one country. Taking people who, for hundreds, maybe even thousands of years haven’t gotten along and trying to force some kind of national identity upon them was a recipe for disaster. A disaster that has been playing itself out for several decades in the form of corrupt governments, civil wars, and genocide. Now when I watch the news and see what’s going on, I feel like I’ll have some actual insight into the problems, rather than just naively blaming the issue on the ignorance or backwardness of the African peoples.This brings me to my second point: Ignorant and backward people couldn’t produce the art, literature, and music that we’ve seen coming out of Africa for countless years. Only bright, talented minds could create a concept like Negritude, which served to celebrate and affirm the identity and cultural heritage of the peoples of Africa. Despite what they’d endured, these writers, artists, and intellectuals were able to take the best of what the colonizers had to offer and combine it with the best of what they were, while making it all uniquely their own and creating works that remain highly relevant today.And finally, while I was entertained by the works that I was exposed to in class, I was also educated by them. In The Money Order, all the red tape that confronts Ibrahima Dieng is played for comedic effect, but it’s also tragic to see a man come so close to being able to get ahead, only to have his efforts thwarted at every turn. And then, in the end, to lose everything. But then to see the same system that failed Dieng lead to the fall of one of its own in Xala just showed that nobody was safe in the wreck of a society left behind by the colonizers. Young men like Banda in Ville Cruelle, or Toundi in Houseboy, do their best to get ahead, while the people who are supposedly there to help them, their benevolent colonizers, do everything they can to hold them back. It’s fiction, but it represents a black mark in history, and while it’s uncomfortable to learn these types of things, it’s also necessary. There were some bright spots, though, like when Banda got the girl, or Aissatou transformed herself into an even better version of the woman she’d been. Or, in the case of The Dark Child, I found the entire story to be uplifting, though, since it was the first book we read, it left me sort of ill-prepared for what was to come.I didn’t know what to expect from this class, and it has been challenging at times, but also very rewarding. I love history, and I love to learn, and I learned a great deal from this class.

Please answer each question/part in about 4 sentences.

1. Which of the following reporting standards is higher: a . Substantial Authority versus Reasonable Basis? b. Realistic Possibility of Success versus More Likely Than Not ? Reasonable Basis versus Realistic Possibility of Success? d. Substantial authority versus More Likely Than Not?

2. Assume that the tax law does prescribe a reporting standard for a particular tax position. What thresh- old standard should a tax return preparer apply to avoid penalties?

3. Your client operates a small telemarketing company out of her home, and she has one full-time employee who assists in making phone calls to prospective cus- tomers. Her teenage daughter also enters data into the company’s electronic record- keeping system on a regular basis. Her daughter is somewhat “spoiled ,” so your client pays her 40 cash per hour to encour- age her to develop a solid work ethic and work dili- gently . Your client has told you that she wants to “be straight” with the IRS in every way. Are there any issues that you might want to challenge or research?

4. Your client owns a 3-bedroom home with a 2-car garage in a suburb of Tucson, Arizona. Although the home office rules are strict on deducting expenses , you have determined that your client satisfies these rules. Her home office occupies the spare bedroom in her home, and it comprises about 480 square feet of her 2,400 square foot home. The garage is an addi- tional 480 square feet. Your client is interested in claiming the max- imum allowable deductions for her home office. In reviewing your client’s tax return for last year, you noticed that she claimed a deduction equal to the full amount of her mortgage payment on the house. Your client did not, however, deduct any other expenses associated with her home office . She did not main- tain detailed records and was concerned that the IRS might think that she was exaggerating her other expenses if she just ” ballparked them ” without ade- quate supporting documentation .

A . Are there any issues that you want to challenge or research ?

B . Should you inform the tax return preparer who filed her return last year about these errors?

C. What other advice should you give to your client?

d . Assume that the prior- year tax return preparer is a friend of yours, but he really screwed up and should compensate your client if she incurs tax penalties and interest . Would you inform your client about her rights against your friend? Should you inform your friend about this?

5. Kupan, a famous forensic pathologist, failed to report income from the sale of his mansion on his tax return. His gain on sale exceeded $1.7 million. He also sold stock at a $400,000 gain and did not report that gain either. In a criminal prosecution against Kupan for tax fraud, Kupan blamed his accountant , Rachel , for the omission, claiming that Rachel knew that the pathologist was a “poor record -keeper .” Kupan admitted that he read the tax return prepared by Rachel and signed it. Will Kupan’s defense of shift- ing responsibility to Rachel in this criminal prosecu- tion be successful ?

Problem #1

You are the manager of Falis Bank, and you worry because the income gap currently equals – $35 million and interest rates are expected to increase by 1.5%.

a) Determine the amount of rate-sensitive assets if rate sensitive liabilities are $467 million.

b) Calculate the change in bank income ($ amount) if interest rates do increase by 1.5%.

Problem #2

Compute the minimum average duration of assets a bank needs if it wants to tolerate a duration gap not lower than – 1.5 years, assuming the average duration of liabilities is 3.3 years, assets are currently valued at $300 million, and liabilities are $280 million.

Problem #3

a. Sledja Bank started its first day of operations with $6 million in capital. $100 million in checkable deposits is received. The bank issues a $50 million in commercial loan. If required reserves are 8%, what does the bank balance sheets look like? Ignore any loan loss reserves.

b. Sledja Bank decides to invest $45 million in 30-day T-bills. What does the balance sheet look like?

c. After a week, deposits fall by $6 million. What does the balance sheet look like? Are there any problems?

d. Propose one solution to solve the problem identified in question c. What does the balance sheet look like after you implement your solution?

To get full credit, you must DRAW THE BALANCE SHEET AND FILL IN THE ASSETS AND LIABILITIES ITEMS REPORTED IN THE QUESTION

Problem #4

Consider the following balance sheet:

Examine the liquidity management practices of your bank over the last three years. Assume that the reserve requirement is 8% on all deposits.

1. How has the liquidity position (in terms of required and excess reserves) of the bank changed over time? How does the liquidity position of your bank compare to the regional banks in year 3? Explain and show your computations.
2. Would your bank have sufficient reserves if deposits increased 40% in year 3? Explain and show your computations.

Calculate the equity multiplier ratio for each year. How does the equity multiplier of your bank compare to the regional banks in year 3? Explain

Click on the “S2 Questions” worksheet. Here you will find a list of questions and a column for entering your answers. Answer these questions. Some of them are easy and some are more challenging. Some of the questions will need to be answered using the data glossary on the Kaggle page. Any changes you make to the data should be made to Working Data. When possible, your answers should use an Excel function and the Excel function should be visible in the formula bar for that cell. If you use a function (such as Sort) that would not be visible in the formula bar, please describe your steps to get the answer in the Comments cell so I can recreate those steps if I wanted. Be clear and concise in the Comments.

10. Click on the “S3 Visualization” worksheet. Answer these questions. Here you will find a description of the final data visualization exercise. You will need to calculate 9 numbers and then create a chart using those numbers. When possible, your answers should use an Excel function and the Excel function should be visible in the formula bar for that cell (Note: If you use Unique, the formula should be visible in the three cells). The final part of the exercise is to write a statement associated with the chart that states which campaign was best and why.

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we have to work on this website https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/loveall/clicks-conversion-tracki

1)Culture from an anthropological perspective and from different subfields.

a.Characteristics/properties of human culture

b.Ethnocentrism; cultural relativism

c.Agency and constraints

2)Methodologies of anthropologists and differences across subfields.

a. Participant observation, Malinowski, ethnography, excavation, dating techniques

b.What are some ethical concerns that anthropologists consider?

3)Human evolution; understanding basic differences between major groups of hominins

a.Earliest hominins, Australopithecus, genus Homo

b.What factors drove important human adaptations? (bipedalism, brain growth)

c.What role did nutrition and food play in human evolution?

4)Development of agriculture and urbanization.

a.Agriculture, foraging, food surplus, power and hierarchy

i.Domestication of plants and animals

ii. How did agriculture affect human health and political organization?

b.What characterizes the first cities/states? How did they develop?

17.2
“Once we know how to value options on a stock paying a dividend yield, we know how to
value options on stock indices and currencies.” Explain this statement.
17.3
A stock index is currently 300, the dividend yield on the index is 3% per annum, and the
risk-free interest rate is 8% per annum. What is a lower bound for the price of a sixmonth European call option on the index when the strike price is 290?
17.7
Calculate the value of an eight-month European put option on a currency with a strike
price of 0.50. The current exchange rate is 0.52, the volatility of the exchange rate is 12%,
the domestic risk-free interest rate is 4% per annum, and the foreign risk-free interest
rate is 8% per annum.
17.10
Consider a stock index currently standing at 250. The dividend yield on the index is 4%
per annum, and the risk-free rate is 6% per annum. A three-month European call option
on the index with a strike price of 245 is currently worth $10. What is the value of a
three-month put option on the index with a strike price of 245?
17.11
An index currently stands at 696 and has a volatility of 30% per annum. The risk-free
rate of interest is 7% per annum and the index provides a dividend yield of 4% per
annum. Calculate the value of a three-month European put with an exercise price of 700.
18.1
Explain the difference between a call option on yen and a call option on yen futures.
18.14
A futures price is currently 25, its volatility is 30% per annum, and the risk-free interest
rate is 10% per annum. What is the value of a nine-month European call on the futures
with a strike price of 26?
18.15
A futures price is currently 70, its volatility is 20% per annum, and the risk-free interest
rate is 6% per annum. What is the value of a five-month European put on the futures with
a strike price of 65

A data exploration report describes the results of your data exploration, including first findings or initial hypotheses, and their impact on the remainder of the project. Include the relevant measures, visualizations, and statistics in this report that are needed for all univariate and bivariate analyses.

Data Source: Tweets

Requirements:

• Using Tableau (and Excel if needed), conduct exploratory data analysis to complete the Data Exploration Report report as demonstrated in the Chapter 5 MyEducator videos and in class
• For your Tableau workbook, select the “Extract” option for the connection
• The Label: use RetweetCount as your label
• The Features:
  • Include all features in the data set EXCEPT Day, StateCode, City, and text
  • For Country, State:
    • Choose only one of these location features. No need to analyze both of them for this assignment
    • Also, just select 4 or 5 of the most common values for the ANOVA (for example, choose either the 4 or 5 most common states OR countries).
  • For Language: just select the 4 or 5 most common values for the ANOVA

Project

Get Involved! Volunteer Your Time

(20 points)

In this activity, you will choose a way to volunteer your time to improve your community, do some volunteer work, and then write about the results.

1. Choose a way to help.

Decide how you want to help your community. Think about what matters most to you. Is it helping the poor? Or maybe you want to help support an important political cause that interests you. Do you belong to a religious or ethnic group that could use help in the community?

Make a list of the groups or organizations that interest you personally:

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2. Figure out your special talent.

How can you help? Are you a talented artist? Maybe you could help print signs for a rally or paint a mural at your community center. Do you make the best pancakes in the world? Volunteer to organize a pancake breakfast at your YMCA or place of worship. Whatever it is that you’re best at, figure out a way to use that talent to help the group or organization you’re interested in.

Make a list of your particular talents and think about how you can use them in your volunteer work:

TalentPotential use

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3. Make contact.

Contact the group you intend to help and discuss your plan. Ask any questions you may have about the group’s operations, or about the process you would need to follow as a volunteer. Find out if there are certain times when you may be more needed than others, and try to make yourself available.

4. Make a difference.

Get out there and help! Now that you’ve figured out who to help and how to do it, it’s time to make it happen! Set aside some time after school or during the weekend to put your volunteer work into action. As you work, pay attention to how you interact with the organization you’re working for, the other volunteers you’re working with, and any members of the community you interact with as you work.

Make a list of the names of some of the people you meet while volunteering. Are they coworkers, bosses, or people from the community?

NameWho are they?

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Consider flag burning as an expression of free speech and post your response to the following questions.

1. Do you think flag burning should be protected as free speech under the First Amendment? Why or why not?
2. Whether you are for or against an individual’s right to burn the flag, do you think an amendment to the Constitution to prohibit flag burning would be ratified by the states? Why or why not?

.What is VIF test used for?

2.When should we use a Poisson regression?

3.When should we use mixed-effects model?

4.What estimator and statistical test should you use to test if survival curves of two groups are significantly different from each other?

5.Explain what an interaction is.

6.Explain why a test with 100% specificity might not be a perfect test (or might not even be a good test).

7.Give an example of interval-censored observation in survival analysis.

8.How many dummy variables you would need to include in the regression analysis to represent a variable with k categories?

The Dillon’s Rule versus Home Rule Debate centers around cost/ benefits surrounding the standardization that comes from the centralized control of Dillon’s Rule and the creative freedom to act independently to address needs on the local level.

In 2-3 page paper, APA 6th Edition, students will be expected to:

1. Select a problem persistent to local metropolitan areas;
2. Describe the circumstances, the actors and community interests involved (these include both public, private, and non-profit);
3. State a possible solution to the problem (either proposed or already implemented) and how it affects the various elements described in question 2;
4. Compare how your solution to the problem would work in a Home Rule and a Dillon’s Rule city? (You should have a scenario for each.)
5. Briefly explain why you think so.