Schmeckt Gut has several production facilities in Industria with different production capacities. In
District B we are producing both of our energy bars: The Schmeckt Gut Energy Bar and Schmeckt Gut
2.0. The table below summarises our production capacity:
Table 1 – District D production capacity
Schmeckt Gut Energy Bar Schmeckt Gut 2.0
30,000 0
28,000 1,000
24,000 2,000
18,000 3,000
10,000 4,000
0 5,000
1. Using the above figures and Microsoft Excel, map out the Production Possibilities Frontier
(PPF) for the production of the Schmeckt Gut Energy Bar and Schmeckt Gut 2.0.
Hint A: If you are unsure how to use Microsoft Excel, review the Module 1 Learning
Activities and try to replicate the examples.
Hint B: If you are unsure how to create the PPF with the help of Microsoft Excel, do a
quick google search.
2. In your own words, while making use of the graph that you have created in part 1, explain
what the PPF is.
3. District D usually has a demand of 3,000 Schmeckt Gut 2.0 and 18,000 Schmeckt Gut Energy
Bars. Suddenly we receive notice that the demand has increased to 4,000 Schmeckt Gut 2.0
and 20,000 Schmeckt Gut Energy Bars.
a. Discuss and explain at least three possibilities how we could meet that demand.
Hint: Make appropriate assumptions.
b. For each solution that you have identified and discussed above, explain whether or
not your solution is sustainable.

Problem B:
At a local market in Industria, the following demand and supply information are given:
Demand for energy bars: ! = 800 − 2′(
Supply for energy bars: ! = 200 + 1’+
1. What are the market equilibrium price and quantity?
2. If the subsequent price increases by $1, how does demand and supply change? Explain with
the help of the concepts of the law of demand and supply.

Article 1 ” The Great Recession Unemployment and Unemployment” By the economic policy institute

Why American Job Growth is so Lousy?

Is The US economy finally heating up?

After viewing the videos, Reading The Articles, and completing your own research you will write a 2-4 page paper. Please use 1 inch margins and double space. Be sure to have a work cited page with at least 3 of your own resources. Use MLA formatting and be sure to include a work cited page. Please be sure to develop a well written thesis statement for your essay and support it with research that you have done using both the topic questions and supporting documentation from your research.

“The U.S. Expands its Reach, 1890s to the 1920s”
Analysis of one primary source from Schaller’s ch. 19 and one major film theme from our film
“To Conquer or Redeem: Manifest Destiny,” Acts I and III
You’ve read all of your required readings from Schaller, American Horizons, chapter 19-20, our
primary sources at the end of chapter, and are our articles listed on our syllabus:
Your primary sources- read all and focus your analysis on one of the following:
*19.1 Visual Document: Mary Elizabeth Lamb, “Awake United States” Sheet Music and
Lyrics (1898)
*19.2 Andrew Carnegie, Excerpt, “Distant Possessions” (1898) and Albert Beveridge,
Excerpt, “The March of the Flag” (1898)
*19.3 Visual Document: Untitled Clifford Berryman Cartoon (on Philippines) (1899)
*19.4 Richmond Planet and Wisconsin Weekly Advocate, Excerpts from Letters from
African American Soldiers in the Philippines” (1899; 1900)
*“The Roosevelt Corollary,” 1904 (primary source in Canvas)
*“The Platt Amendment,”1901 (primary source in Canvas)
These are very important required readings (in addition to our text) that provide important historical
context and are important for your analysis of your primary sources and film:
*Contreras, U.S. Policy Toward Latin America Since the end of the Nineteenth Century, pp. 1-21 (in
Canvas),
*Contreras, The Monroe Doctrine, up to p. 4 (in Canvas)
*Schaller’s “Global Passages” pp. 760-761: “Fordlandia: Small Town America in the Amazon”
You’ve also seen and taken notes on your very important films in Canvas, these also provide
important historical context:
Now, for your two-part discussion board essay: after having carefully read all of the primary sources,
choose ONE primary source from those listed above as well as ONE major theme from film “To
Conquer or Redeem: Manifest Destiny,” Acts I and III to analyze. You will be placing the primary
source and the film into historical context, addressing the following questions about each primary
source as well as discussing the importance of each primary source, as well as making connections to
the rest of our readings and films on this topic. (each part of the essay is just as important and equally
weighted)
Essay directions, Part I (Deep analysis of a primary source):
Write a well-developed and well-supported essay in which you analyze the importance of that
primary source you chose (you’re carefully reading all of them and focusing your analysis on those
listed above), and discuss the multiple ways that that document is important for the study of the
United States and its relationship to the world during the latter part of the 19th century and the
first decades of the 20th century.
First, provide us the historical context necessary to understand our primary sourcesituate
it historically, telling us what is going on in the United States and abroad at the time the
document is written. (Use our Schaller chapters, our articles and our films). Show that you’re making
connections to our readings and the films that you’re viewing and taking notes on. Providing historical
context is absolutely essential to this essay.
Next, tell us all about that primary source and everything that document tells us about
that historic moment it deals with. Show complexity (including the political cartoons)
History 109 Professor Contreras
Page 2 of 3
*Address all of the questions in the “Working with Sources” section in our text following
each document. What are some of the strengths of this document? What are some limitations?
What assumptions does it make? Does it have biases and/or peddle in stereotypes, for example?
If so, explain that.
Lastly, discuss all of the ways that that primary source is important for our
understanding of the United States and its relationship to the world during the latter part of the
19th century and the early part of the 20th century (up to the 1920s).
[About three well developed paragraphs with specific examples for this part of the essay]

Calculating Inventory
Finlon Upholstery Inc. uses a job-order costing system to accumulate manufacturing costs. The company’s work-in-process on December 31, 2001, consisted of one job (no. 2077), which was carried on the year-end balance sheet at $156,800. There was no finished-goods inventory on this date.
Finlon applies manufacturing overhead to production on the basis of direct-labor cost. (The budgeted direct-labor cost is the company’s practical capacity, in terms of direct-labor hours multiplied by the budgeted direct-labor rate.) Budgeted totals for 2002 for direct labor and manufacturing overhead are $4,200,000 and $5,460,000, respectively. Actual results for the year are as follows:
Actual Results
Direct Materials Used $5,600,000.00
Direct Labor $4,350,000.00
Indirect Material Used $65,000.00
Indirect Labor $2,860,000.00
Factory Depreciation $1,740,000.00
Factory Insurance $59,000.00
Factory Utilities $830,000.00
Selling and Administrative Expenses $2,160,000.00
Total $17,664,000.00
Job no. 2077 was completed in January 2002, and there was no work in process at year-end. All jobs produced during 2002 were sold with the exception of Job no. 2143, which contained direct-material costs of $156,000 and direct-labor charges of $85,000. The company charges any under- or over-applied overhead to the cost of goods sold category.
Using the above information, do the following:
• Calculate the company’s predetermined overhead application rate.
• Calculate the additions to the work-in-process inventory account for the direct material used, direct labor, and manufacturing overhead.
• Calculate the finished-goods inventory for the 12/31/02 balance sheet.
• Calculate the over-applied or under-applied overhead at year-end.
• Explain if it is appropriate to include selling and administrative expenses in the cost of goods sold category.
Perform your calculations in an Excel spreadsheet and copy the calculations into a Word document.
Write a 1-page paper in Word format. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.

Respond to the following three short essay questions. Each answer should be at least two pages plus references (approximately 750-1,000 words based on detailed outside research, your responses are to be in your own words with no copying except for minimal quotes that must be properly cited in APA format (APUS Library). It should be your own thoughts and opinions that demonstrate your understanding of the topics and the course materials.

If you have any questions or concerns about the assignment, please contact me.

What are 4 published resources (strategies, International Codes, etc) available to the port FSO in assessing domestic and international risks associated with terrorism and other criminal activity threats posed to port maritime operations? Provide critical analysis of each…strengths, weaknesses areas that need further development,
What is the role of MTSA 2002 required Area Maritime Security Committee or AMSC. Why is this organization critical to the secure operation of a port? Be specific. Area there areas within the security regime that committee members can work more closely?
Define and give examples of maritime Cyber terrorism. How does it threaten port security operations now and in the future? Be specific.

Technical Requirements:

Length: Minimum of 2 pages for each question, double spaced, 1″ margins, 12 pitch type in Times New Roman font

Citations/References: You must use the APA style for this assignment. A minimum of 10 outside references required.

Objective:

To demonstrate an intimate, critical understanding of argument as well as to argue a specific issue through the mouthpieces of others, with your “mouthpiece” (point of view) being predominant.

Writing Assignment:

You will host a dinner party and invite 2 guest who hold contrary views on a current topic. Think carefully about what the “argument” at dinner will be. Choose guests that will make the dinner’s discourse interesting, lively, and—most importantly—thought–provoking. The choices are limitless . . . Be clever! Be creative!

Using quote and analysis of those quotes present both guests opposing point of view, but ultimately, the host has the “winning” point of view. You should persuade your “guests,” but also your readers of your research paper.

Requirements:

*YOU are the host; thus, the essay must be written in first person. You can “color” who you are but keep it close to reality. Maybe a projection of yourself in ten years (a nurse, a politician, a professor, a biologist, etc.)

*Set up the context of the dinner party. Where is it happening? Why are these “people” all there? Are they all invited? What will you serve?

*Think critically about the menu, music, and surroundings. Do these play a role in regard to the argument? There should be symbolic reasons for these choices.

Other Requirements:

**Very important** The lengthier part of the “essay” needs to deal with a specific issue, theme, or concept that can be argued using logic and credible scholarly research/evidence. In regard to specifics, you can choose, for example, water pollution in Los Angeles, NOT pollution in general; to stop the war in Syria, not war in general, etc- so be SPECIFIC and narrow in your focus

Length of argument: MORE SPECIFICALLY around 60% approximately of your paper’s length needs to be argument, counter-arguments, and rebuttals.  The “I” narrator should represent your real feelings and your point of view should ultimately be the winning argument for the argument portion of your essay to be successful.

The readers of your “dinner party” essay should be clear of the host’s perspective as well as be influenced by that perspective (by the end). By page three or so of the essay, the focus of the argument needs to be clear.

*There needs to be quotes from each of the original works as well as ample research. Use parenthetical citations. That’s how I will distinguish between research and new, made up dialogue.

Creative License and Limitations:

*Cannot change the character’s personality

*Need to stay within the page limitations 4-5 pages

*Need to use proper grammar.

*Use language appropriate for the character. You can use slang and colloquialisms ONLY when using dialogue. The prose portion needs to be very formal. Think about the rhetoric behind your choices—don’t write anything “just because”; KNOW why you’re using a certain image, symbol, allusion, or word choice.

*Use COLORFUL, sensory, unique language and descriptions. Invent fresh similes and metaphors. Play with language. Have fun. Be creative.

* Should be complete with a Works Cited page at the end.

*This “party”—if prepared with savvy critical thinking—should allow you to be creative while expressing a particular view on an issue that you may be passionate about.

Required Sources:

1. Two Scholarly sources (peer-reviewed academic journals, and/or credible books—or e-books—from “real publishers).
2. Two Open (newspapers, magazines, videos, YouTube, TED Talks, blogs. But do review quality).
3. All guests need to use some of their original quotes and cite all original texts.

Have fun and look forward to reading them!

Do you think Concept Attainment can be (or needs to be) differentiated for both advanced and struggling learners? What might differentiation and scaffolding look like in this model of teaching?
Create a list of labeled examples for a Phase One lesson in a course you teach, have taught, or would like to teach following the Concept Attainment Model. Use a concept that you would use in your classroom. (Please mention what grade and subject you teach/taught/would like to teach in your response so all of us can glean new ideas for our teaching repertoires.)Do you think Concept Attainment can be (or needs to be) differentiated for both advanced and struggling learners? What might differentiation and scaffolding look like in this model of teaching?

1. Explain how (i) media availability, (ii) Product characteristics, and (iii) consumer evaluation of promotional messages impact global advertising and promotional decisions in global marketing.
2. Explain the benefits and challenges in using Trade Shows and Trade Missions in global marketing programs.
3. What are the market situations that require the use of following pricing approaches in global marketing?
   1. Skimming
   2. Penetration
   3. Dual pricing
   4. Cost-plus method
   5. Marginal cost method
   6. Pass-through
   7. absorption