Homework Set #3 Submission

Homework Set #3

Directions: Answer the following questions in 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.

MINI CASE

Suppose you decide (as did Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg) to start a company. Your product is a software platform that integrates a wide range of media devices, including laptop computers, desktop computers, digital video recorders, and cell phones. Your initial client base is the student body at your university. Once you have established your company and set up procedures for operating it, you plan to expand to other colleges in the area and eventually to go nationwide. At some point, hopefully sooner rather than later, you plan to go public with an IPO and then to buy a yacht and take off for the South Pacific to indulge in your passion for underwater photography. With these plans in mind, you need to answer for yourself, and potential investors, the following questions:

1. What is an agency relationship? When you first begin operations, assuming you are the only employee and only your money is invested in the business, would any agency conflicts exist? Explain your answer.
2. Suppose your company raises funds from outside lenders. What type of agency costs might occur? How might lenders mitigate the agency costs?
3. What is corporate governance? List five corporate governance provisions that are internal to a firm and are under its control.
4. Briefly describe the use of stock options in a compensation plan. What are some potential problems with stock options as a form of compensation?
5. Briefly explain how regulatory agencies and legal systems affect corporate governance.

Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic/organization of the paper, and language and writing skills.

1) Poetry: List 5 images or metaphors that our poets use to address issues of family separation and/or death. Try to include both Bradstreet and Taylor (and please label).

2) Prose: Choose one of these –

• Mather: List 5 points given in Cotton Mather’s account that were used in court to establish Martha Carrier’s guilt for witchcraft.
• Edwards: List 5 vivid images (or similes or metaphors) that Johathan Edwards uses to establish what he believes to be God’s anger towards sinners.

• Do not use quotes from the text without quotation marks.
• Do not use a quote without explaining what the quote means in your own words.
• Be sure to address the specific questions asked.

Bring these lists to class. They will serve as the basis for a freewrite at the beginning of class and also for group discussions of the excerpts.

Next

part 1

Select a theatre review from either of the websites below:

The New York Times — Arts — Theatre section: http://www.nytimes.com/pages/theater/index.html

OR

Theatre’s Leiter Side blog: http://slleiter.blogspot.com/

Write a 350 word essay critiquing the review. Does the reviewer answer the three questions in your textbook: what is being attempted? have the intentions been achieved? and was the attempt worthwhile? Did they follow appropriate guidelines from the Critical Review Guidelines posted in the Course Information folder? Lastly, copy and paste the link so I can read the review.

part 2

For your Blog this week, you should discuss what you learned while navigating through www.USConstitution.net. Is this a good resource to underscore your knowledge of the structure of the United States government? Why or why not? Be as specific as you can within your Blog. Go to the Individual Blog button to post your Blog. (around 300 word)

Select and read two articles from the Enhanced Synthesis Paper Resources list located in the Course Materials for this topic.

Locate the Synthesis Paper you completed in Topic 5. Using the feedback provided by your instructor and information from the two additional articles you selected, write an Enhanced Synthesis Paper with Reflection. Include the following in your paper:

1. A Reflection (250-300 words) that discusses your revision process and how you incorporated your instructor’s feedback into the revised version. Similar to the format of an abstract, this section will receive its own page following the title page and preceding the Introduction.
2. An introduction that includes a brief description of each article and its purpose, identifies the three themes that emerged from your reading, describes how they will be discussed in the paper, and presents a clear thesis statement.
3. Support for your identified themes with evidence from each article. Provide analysis of these findings to strengthen your narrative.
4. A discussion of the conclusions that can be drawn when the articles are taken together as a single entity. What is the overall message of the group of articles?

i need a summary of a page and a half

i will provide the books

Karen Armstrong, Islam: A Short History (New York: The Modern Library, 2000), pp. 141-156. ï‚· Stephen F. Dale, The Muslim Empires of the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 247-287 (chapter 8). (Reading Posted to Blackboard) ï‚· James Gelvin, The Modern Middle East: A History, 4th edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), pp. 69-139. ï‚· Submit your fourth reading summary to Blackboard by Wednesday, February 26 (this includes a summary of Armstrong, pp. 141-156, Dale, pp. 247-287, and Gevlin, pp. 69-139)