For this assignment, you will use the active listening response in a real conversation and write a summary of how active listening techniques affected the conversation. This assignment will provide real-world practice on one of the most important skills covered in this course.

Desrption:
For this assignment, you will use the active listening response in a real conversation and write a summary of how active listening techniques affected the conversation. This assignment will provide real-world practice on one of the most important skills covered in this course.

Objectives:

Explore the five stages of listening and explain how individuals can increase listening accuracy at each stage.
Analyze the four barriers to effective listening and how to overcome them.
Instructions:

Review the basics of the active listening response in the textbook and in the learning activities assigned for this module.
Use the active listening response in a real conversation.
Write a three to five page summary of how active listening techniques affected the conversation. How was this conversation different than others youve had with this individual? How will this exercise affect your communication behavior in the future?
Assignment Submission:

The use of outside resources is strongly recommended, and all papers must be cited and written in current APA format.
When you have completed the assignment, select the Submit Assignment button at the top of these instructions and choose a format for submitting your assignment.
Rubric

Financial Markets

1. Explain the nature of potential risks in international transactions and critically discuss how international traders might manage such risks via forward foreign exchange markets.

2. Distinguish between the spot and the forward foreign exchange rates and examines the nature of the relationship between these two rates.

Peer review

Answer the following questions for the short two essays attached

1. What is the thesis? Does it indicate that the paper will do an analysis? Revise it accordingly.
2. How is the paper organized? Does the author describe the text to give the reader context? Does he/she explain the rhetorical situation, appeals to ethos, pathos, and ethos, and give examples?
3. Identify any topic sentences and transitions that need development.
4. Does the paper merely summarize? Or does it go deeper? Offer suggestions for how the essay might provide a more in-depth analysis.
5. What areas does the conclusion identify for further study/research/investigation?

Financial Management

Homework Set #4: Chapters 9, 10, & 11
Due Week 8 and worth 100 points

Directions: Answer the following questions on a separate document. Explain how you reached the answer or show your work if a mathematical calculation is needed, or both. Submit your assignment using the assignment link above.

A. Bad Boys, Inc. is evaluating its cost of capital. Under consultation, Bad Boys, Inc. expects to issue new debt at par with a coupon rate of 8% and to issue new preferred stock with a $2.50 per share dividend at $25 a share. The common stock of Bad Boys, Inc. is currently selling for $20.00 a share. Bad Boys, Inc. expects to pay a dividend of $1.50 per share next year. An equity analyst foresees a growth in dividends at a rate of 5% per year. Bad Boys, Inc. marginal tax rate is 35%. If Bad Boys, Inc. raises capital using 45% debt, 5% preferred stock, and 50% common stock, what is Bad Boys cost of capital?

B. If Bad Boys, Inc. raises capital using 30% debt, 5% preferred stock, and 65% common stock, what is Bad Boys cost of capital?

C. On page 457, your textbook details the term Cannibalization. In your own words, identify two corporations that have dealt with cannibalization and what steps were taken to overcome the cannibalization. Please provide any citations and references. Please be articulate in your responses.

explain How were you able to determine if the research was academically grounded?

This is a literature review paper. That is, you are writing a paper that summarizes and comments on selected research on the topic you have chosen. Use 12-point Times New Roman Font, 1-inch margins and double spacing. Citations should be cited in American Sociological Association style (ASA). Select 3 to 4 peer-reviewed articles on research and analyze it by commenting on its: 1) theoretical underpinnings, 2) methodology, 3) research design, 4) data collection technique, and 5) analyses. How were you able to determine if the research was academically grounded? Note the strengths and weaknesses of each study.Provide a summary of what the research tells us about the topic. What doesnt it tell us? What are some of the methodological weaknesses that may need to be overcome in future research? What does future research need to do to help us better understand the topic?

discuss global climate change.

Many of you have asked for one last extra credit, so here it is!

The Science March just happened last weekend, and even though the media isnt covering it well, it was very successful! One of the main topics to come up in speeches heard around the world was the topic of global climate change. Well be talking about this in the last block of this class.

For the extra credit, I would like you to first find 3 statements by climate change deniers that try to show that climate change is not happening, or that it is not caused by humans. Write these down.

Secondly, go to https://grist.org/series/skeptics/ (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. and find the scientific truth about the statements.

Last, please provide me with your best explanation as to why people are confused about global climate change (who is to blame?).

discuss 100 years war on European society and politics

I want you to discuss the origin and impact of the 100 years war on European society and politics.
I will upload a powerpoint that includes information about the topic to use. As well as I want you to use Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, Vol. 1. 4th Edition which my professor recommended to use.
Make sure you write the essay in a very simple language dont use advanced words.