The Psychology of Writing”

 

 

 

 

 

Now that you have learned a little about the internal and external factors that influence how you compose your thoughts, write an essay in which you describe your own writing process.

 

 

 

Tell of a specific writing assignment, one that might have been related to your career or your personal or academic life. Describe what the assignment was and explain how you moved through the planning to the reviewing process.

 

 

 

 

The paper should be about 300 words long—longer if necessary.

 

 

 

 

 

Please type—double spaced—to allow room for comments.

 

 

 

 

 

A Writer’s Repertoire, with 1999 MLA guidelines, by Gwendolyn Gong and Sam Dragga (New York: Longman, 1995). This is the reference book ch 2 and 8.

Part One: Company Analysis

The following is a summary of performance data of FedEx over a three-year period:

(in millions)	Year 1	Year 2	Year 3
Sales	34,734	39,304	42,680
Cost of Goods Sold	33,550	37,852	40,648
Net Income	1,184	1,452	2,032
Assets	25,654	27,385	29,903
Total Debt	11,695	10,498	13,926
Equity	15,654	15,220	14,727
Operating Cash Flow	1,998	2,378	3,186
Investment Cash Flow	-2,781	-3,419	-4,049
Financing Cash Flow	-692	-287	-244

Required:

Given the information in the table above, calculate the following:

• Profit margin on sales
• Return on assets
• Return on equity
• Total debt to total assets
• Total asset turnover

Explain and evaluate your results as they pertain to profitability, debt, and asset turnover for the company over a three-year period.

Part Two: Issues and Interests of Investors and Other Stakeholders; Analysis of Company Performance

Required:

1. Identify two items or issues that cannot be derived from the financial statements of the two companies that you selected for your research. Explain why these items or issues would be of concern to investors and other stakeholders. In your rationale, address the specific interests of the different users of financial statements.
2. Compare and contrast the two companies in terms of how well or how poorly they are performing in the areas of profit, debt, and asset turnover. Use appropriate ratios in your analysis. Indicate strategies for possible improvement in each area.

Submit Answers in 2 separate Excel spreadsheets showing all calculations and conclusions

Research, analyze and defend why it is essential for an organization to have a positive corporate culture. In addition, discuss ways that an organization can improve a negative culture.

5 Page Paper APA Format

1 Cover

3 Body

1 Ref (3)

Chemistry lab report (Determination of Density)

TOPIC/ The Truth About Caffeine

3 pages,give some statistics of negative effects of caffeine

 

the guides to follow:

topic:

Specific Purpose:to inform ….

Introduction:(discovering +history)

Body:

I like here to give some general info about caffeine and explain the negetive effects.

conclusion:

Imagine you work for a company that has recently merged with an overseas company. Write a brief introduction to your company as well as the company that was purchased. Then develop an eight to ten (8-10) point checklist detailing what steps you would take as the HR manager to help unify the culture of both companies.

 

Create two (2) company introductions and develop an eight to ten (8-10) point checklist in which you:

 

1.      Give a succinct overview of your fictitious company.

 

2.      Give a succinct overview of the fictitious company merged with.

 

3.      Develop an eight to ten (8-10) point checklist of steps you would take to unify company culture.

 

4.      Explain your rationale for choosing each of the steps in your checklist.

 

5.      Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:

 

a. Typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.

 

b. Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, your name, your professor’s name, the course title, and the date.

1. In the binomial probability distribution, p stands for the

 

A. probability of success in any given trial.

 

B. probability of failure in any given trial.

 

C. number of trials.

 

D. number of successes.

 

2. Consider an experiment that results in a positive outcome with probability 0.38 and a negative outcome with probability 0.62. Create a new experiment consisting of repeating the original experiment 3 times. Assume each repetition is independent of the others. What is the probability of three successes?

 

A. 0.762

 

B. 0.055

 

C. 1.14

 

D. 0.238

 

3. Which of the following is a discrete random variable?

 

A. The number of three-point shots completed in a college basketball game

 

B. The average daily consumption of water in a household

 

C. The time required to drive from Dallas to Denver

 

D. The weight of football players in the NFL

 

4. The area under the normal curve extending to the right from the midpoint to z is 0.17. Using the standard normal table on the textbook’s back end sheet, identify the relevant z value.

 

A. 0.4554

 

B. 0.44

 

C. 0.0675

 

D. –0.0675

 

5. The Burger Bin fast-food restaurant sells a mean of 24 burgers an hour and its burger sales are normally distributed. The standard deviation is 6. What is the probability that the Burger Bin will sell 12 to 18 burgers in an hour?

 

A. 0.136

 

B. 0.239

 

C. 0.342

 

D. 0.475

 

6. Let event A = rolling a 1 on a die, and let event B = rolling an even number on a die. Which of the following is correct concerning these two events?

 

A. Events A and B are mutually exclusive.

 

B. On a Venn diagram, event B would contain event A.

 

C. On a Venn diagram, event A would overlap event B.

 

D. Events A and B are exhaustive.

 

7. A continuous probability distribution represents a random variable

 

A. that has a definite probability for the occurrence of a given integer.

 

B. having an infinite number of outcomes that may assume any number of values within an interval.

 

C. having outcomes that occur in counting numbers.

 

D. that’s best described in a histogram.

 

8. A basketball team at a university is composed of ten players. The team is made up of players who play the position of either guard, forward, or center. Four of the ten are guards, four are forwards, and two are centers. The numbers that the players wear on their shirts are 1, 2, 3, and 4 for the guards; 5, 6, 7, and 8 for the forwards; and 9 and 10 for the centers. The starting five are numbered 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9. Let a player be selected at random from the ten. The events are defined as follows:

 

Let A be the event that the player selected has a number from 1 to 8.

 

Let B be the event that the player selected is a guard.

 

Let C be the event that the player selected is a forward.

 

Let D be the event that the player selected is a starter.

 

Let E be the event that the player selected is a center.

 

Calculate P(C).

 

A. 0.40

 

B. 0.80

 

C. 0.50

 

D. 0.20

 

9. An apartment complex has two activating devices in each fire detector. One is smoke-activated and has a probability of .98 of sounding an alarm when it should. The second is a heat-sensitive activator and has a probability of .95 of operating when it should. Each activator operates independently of the other. Presume a fire starts near a detector. What is the probability that both activating devices will work properly?

 

A. 0.931

 

B. 0.049

 

C. 0.9895

 

D. 0.965

 

10. Which of the following is correct concerning the Poisson distribution?

 

A. Each event being studied must be statistically dependent on the previous event.

 

B. The mean is usually smaller than the variance.

 

C. The mean is usually larger than the variance.

 

D. The event being studied is restricted to a given span of time, space, or distance.

 

11. If the probability that an event will happen is 0.3, what is the probability of the event’s complement?

 

A. 0.1

 

B. 0.3

 

C. 1.0

 

D. 0.7

 

12. The probability of an offender having a speeding ticket is 35%, having a parking ticket is 44%, having both is 12%. What is the probability of an offender having either a speeding ticket or a parking ticket or both?

 

A. 91%

 

B. 79%

 

C. 55%

 

D. 67%

 

 

 

Protestant     Catholic                                 Jewish        Other
Democrat	0.35	0.10	0.03	0.02
Republican	0.27	0.09	0.02	0.01
Independent	0.05	0.03	0.02	0.01

 

 

 

13. The table above gives the probabilities of combinations of religion and political parties in a city in the United States. What is the probability that a randomly selected person will be a Protestant and at the same time be a Democrat or a Republican?

 

A. 0.62

 

B. 0.89

 

C. 0.35

 

D. 0.67

 

14. A breeder records probabilities for two variables in a population of animals using the two-way table given here. Given that an animal is brown-haired, what is the probability that it’s short-haired?

 

Brown-haired    Blond
Short-haired	0.06	0.23
Shaggy	0.51	0.20

 

 

 

A. 0.0306

 

B. 0.222

 

C. 0.06

 

D. 0.105

 

15. If event A and event B are mutually exclusive, P(A or B) =

 

A. P(A) + P(B) – P(A and B).

 

B. P(A) + P(B).

 

C. P(A) – P(B).

 

D. P(A + B).

 

16. Approximately how much of the total area under the normal curve will be in the interval spanning 2 standard deviations on either side of the mean?

 

A. 50%

 

B. 68.3%

 

C. 99.7%

 

D. 95.5%

 

17. Find the z-score that determines that the area to the right of z is 0.8264.

 

A. 1.36

 

B. 0.94

 

C. –1.36

 

D. –0.94

 

18. For each car entering the drive-through of a fast-food restaurant, x = the number of occupants. In this study, x is a

 

A. discrete random variable.

 

B. dependent event.

 

C. joint probability.

 

D. continuous quantitative variable.

 

19. From an ordinary deck of 52 playing cards, one is selected at random. What is the probability that the selected card is either an ace, a queen, or a three?

 

A. 0.25

 

B. 0.0769

 

C. 0.3

 

D. 0.2308

 

20. A credit card company decides to study the frequency with which its cardholders charge for items from a certain chain of retail stores. The data values collected in the study appear to be normally distributed with a mean of 25 charged purchases and a standard deviation of 2 charged purchases. Out of the total number of cardholders, about how many would you expect are charging 27 or more purchases in this study?

 

A. 94.8%

 

B. 15.9%

 

C. 47.8%

 

D. 68.3%

where do you find yourself on the procedural vs substantive views of democracy?  In terms of racial equality, should the government advocate a more procedurally equal situation (as the court suggested in both cases) or is substantive equality a reason for less equal procedures (as the opinions advocate)?

Submit a summary of assigned chapters on “Leadership Qualities, Characteristics of Followers, and Situational Factors”.

Must follow APA 6th Edition guidelines.

Critically analyze and reflect what was learned this week through the assigned chapter

By:

1. Identify 2 or 3 key concepts, theories or models and describe how they can be applied to your organization.
2. The culture of organizations is changing, and there is a decline in the level of “trust” employees have in leadership. Explain why and support your position with examples.