Reference no: EM131050244
Answer one of the following questions, including the lettered questions, in Detail. The answer cannot be less than eight pages. All quotes must be explained. Sources other than DiFazio's Ordinary Poverty or Bradley's Gender, can not be used. Tests cannot be emailed.
1. In DiFazio's Ordinary Poverty: A Little Food and Cold Storage (ch.s 1,2) explain the following:
a. Explain the vocabulary shift in terms of poverty.
b. Explain the Conservative position.
c. Explain the Liberal position.
d. Explain the importance of the labor question as a critique of the two positions.
e. Compare and Contrast the Ethnographic accounts with the biographical accounts of poverty. How does this relate to the nature of social reality? Who do you agree with?
2. In Harriet Bradley, Gender, explain the following:
a. What is gender? Define and explain this dense and complex concept.
b. Explain the relations of class and gender and how they impact on growing up a boy and a girl?
c. Explain the relations of gender and modernity.
d. Locate yourself in terms of post-modernity and gender.
|
What are the cost and schedule variances
: what are the cost and schedule variances? What are the three indexes, the ETC, and the EAC? Use the proportionality rule.
|
|
Minimum expected annual return for share
: She has decided to invest in shares 1,2 and 3 with 25% in share 1, 50% in share 2 and 25% in share 3. If shares 1 and 2 have expected returns of 9% and 10% per year, then what is the minimum expected annual return for share 3 that will enable mega..
|
|
Relevant asset positions and any arbitrage profits
: If the prevailing bank bill rate is 6 per cent per annum and the dividend rate d = 4 per cent per annum, does this represent an arbitrage opportunity? Use a table show the relevant asset positions and any arbitrage profits.
|
|
Sick on monday follows a poisson distribution
: The number of employees who call in sick on Monday follows a Poisson distribution with a mean value of 3.6. What is the probability that no more than three employees will call in sick next Monday?
|
|
Explain the relations of gender and modernity
: Compare and Contrast the Ethnographic accounts with the biographical accounts of poverty. How does this relate to the nature of social reality? Who do you agree with?
|
|
Straight-line capital cost allowance is used throughout
: A company is evaluating two different irrigation system options. An underground automatic irrigation system will cost $9.2 million to install and $80,000 pre-tax annually to operate. It will not have to be replaced for 20 years. The firm leases its l..
|
|
Financing sections of the statement of cash flows
: Discuss the activity in the operating, investing, and financing sections of the statement of cash flows and include specific examples of activity in each section.
|
|
Maximum expected return
: What is the maximum expected return you can achieve on your portfolio?
|