Personal Health Essay 1

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Each student will select a health behavior that they would like to change for the better in 8 weeks. These behaviors can be based on dietary, exercise, addictions, weight management etc. It should be strictly based on how to improve on a health behavior. Students should list the steps or plans to adapt to this health behavior. Topics chosen for this class should be submitted to Instructor before the end of second-week class. Every student’s topic will be subject to approval.

At least a 4-page paper (double-spaced, 15% of final grade) with at least 5 citations is expected from each student. The full score is 50 points. All term project must be submitted through the “Assignments” on Canvas. Essay-1 includes information about the progress that the student has made throughout the semester improving their selected behaviors. The student will explain the successes or challenges they had throughout during the 8-weeks. They should also include what they would have done differently

Essay Guidelines:

Final Paper: At least a 4-pages (no more than 5 pages) paper (15% of final grade) with at least 5 citations (APA format) is expected from each student. The full score is 50 points. All term project must be submitted through the “Assignments” on Canvas (only following file types are accepted: doc, pdf, docx.) All essays will be checked against Turnitin Database. The final paper includes information about the progress that the student has made throughout the semester improving their selected behavior. The beginning of the paper must reference information from the initial paper. The student will explain the successes or challenges they had throughout the semester. They should also note what they would have done differently.

Rubric:

15 points total

8 pts. – Content and insight

4 pts. – Organization

3 pts. – Following essay instructions

1 to 2 points will be deducted if grammatical issues and misspelled words make it difficult for the instructor to understand the essay

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pace university|economics 310|yarbrough spring 2019 – assignment 1

1 Negative Externality

Suppose that the private market for widgets is characterized by the following supply and inverse

demand functions:

D : P = 10−Q

S : P = Q

1. Graph these functions in the graph paper below. Locate the private market equilibrium price

and quantity.

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2. Now suppose that the EPA calculates that the marginal external cost of widget production is

characterized by: MD = $2. Graph the market with the externality and locate the the socially

e�cient equilibrium. How much dead weight loss was produced by the private market.

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3. Now suppose that the EPA revises their MEC estimate to: MD = Q. Graph the market with

the externality and locate the socially e�cient equilibrium. Compare this with the outcome

from part 2.

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2 Public Goods

Suppose that the private market demand for public-access park acres in the town of Yarbroughville

(Q) is characterized by the following two types of voters (old and young):

Dold : Q = 10−P

Dyoung : Q = 8−P

Further, assume that the marginal cost of supplying acres of public-access park is:

MC : Q = 0.25P

1. If park acres would be determined by a private market, how many acres are bought and sold?

To determine this, plot the two demand curves separately, and then sum them horizontally to

plot a market demand curve. Then �nd the private market equilibrium.

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2. Instead, assume that park acres are determined by a public vote based on willingness to pay.

How many acres of public-access park are socially e�cient? To determine this, again graph the

two demand curves separately and then sum them vertically to plot a public demand curve.

Now locate the socially e�cient equilibrium.

3. Brie�y explain why it is that the private market supplies less public-access park acres than

would be supplied if they were o�ered publicly.

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3 Cost-Bene�t Analysis

Pace University is deciding between two projects.

A) Full HVAC system overhaul, which costs $1 million and will reduce general energy cost to the

university of $300,000 per year. There are no costs beyond period 0.

B) Placing a wind farm on top of 1 Place Plaza, which costs $10 million and will reduce general

energy cost to the university of $3 million per year. There are $500 thousand per year of upkeep

cost for the windmills.

1. Assuming a discount rate of 5% and time periods as years, what is the NPV of each project

after 5 years.

2. Answer part 1 again, but assume a discount rate of 10% instead.

3. Comment on the values calculated in parts 1 and 2.

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U.S. Federal Bureaucracy And Public Policy Worksheet

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U.S. Federal Bureaucracy and Public Policy Worksheet

Review the 15 executive departments listed below, and select 5 of them:

· U.S. Department of State 

· U.S. Department of the Treasury

· U.S. Department of Defense 

· U.S. Department of Justice 

· U.S. Department of the Interior 

· U.S. Department of Agriculture 

· U.S. Department of Commerce 

· U.S. Department of Labor 

· U.S. Department of Transportation 

· U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

· U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 

· U.S. Department of Energy 

· U.S. Department of Education 

· U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs 

· U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Use the departments you selected to complete the matrix below. Consider how these agencies may affect you personally and professionally.

Major Federal Department

Sub-Departments (List at Least 3)

Identify Departments’ Functions

Sample: U.S. Department of the Interior

National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Indian Affairs

They oversee the National Parks, manage land resources and potential protected lands, and oversee Native American affairs and needs.

Part II:

Complete the following question and summaries.

1. Summarize the 5 departments you selected in a minimum of 90 words.

2. How do the 5 departments and their polices affect you personally, professionally, or both? 

The Holder Of The World Book

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FINAL ESSAY: CRITICAL ANAYSIS PAPER 2000 words due Friday, May 11 for 30% of Final Grade

Final Essay – Critical Reflection and Analysis Paper:  You must write and submit one 2000 wordcritical research paper. Please print your essay double-spaced, without gaps between paragraphs, in 12 point font size in a common font style such as Times New Roman. This paper must argue a thesis, must incorporate secondary research and must be documented in the MLA Style (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. with a complete and correctly formatted Works Cited page.

Final Essay Prompt:

In “Telling Twice-Told Tales All Over Again: Literary and Historical Subversion in Bharati Mukherjee’s The Holder of the World,Preview the document” literary scholar Pallavi Rastogi claims that Bharati Mukherjee’s The Holder of the World “searches for a dialectic of intercultural negotiation through which mainstream American society is dramatically altered as much as it alters its own immigrant population” (269). This thesis sentence shows that Rastogi believes in the equivalence of the “dialectic of intercultural negotiation” in the novel: American society is as dramatically altered by immigrants as immigrants are altered by American society. 

Take ONE thesis sentence from a different paragraph after the above quotation in Rastogi’s article and explore its full meaning using the following sources:

The rest of the paragraph in Pallavi Rastogi’s article “Telling Twice-Told Tales All Over Again” where your selected thesis sentence comes from.

The rest of Pallavi Rastogi’s article “Telling Twice-Told Tales All Over Again: Literary and Historical Subversion in Bharati Mukherjee’s The Holder of the World.“

Bharati Mukherjee’s novel The Holder of the World (1993).

Works Cited

Rastogi, Pallavi. “Telling Twice-Told Tales All Over Again: Literary and Historical Subversion in Bharati Mukherjee’s The Holder of the World.” Form and Transformation in Asian American Literature, edited by Zhou Xiaojing and Samina Najmi,  U of Washington P, 2005, pp. 268-284.

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Take ONE thesis sentence from a different paragraph after the above quotation in Rastogi’s article and explore its full meaning using the following sources:

The rest of the paragraph in Pallavi Rastogi’s article “Telling Twice-Told Tales All Over Again” where your selected thesis sentence comes from.

The rest of Pallavi Rastogi’s article “Telling Twice-Told Tales All Over Again: Literary and Historical Subversion in Bharati Mukherjee’s The Holder of the World.“

Bharati Mukherjee’s novel The Holder of the World (1993).

Works Cited

Rastogi, Pallavi. “Telling Twice-Told Tales All Over Again: Literary and Historical Subversion in Bharati Mukherjee’s The Holder of the World.” Form and Transformation in Asian American Literature, edited by Zhou Xiaojing and Samina Najmi,  U of Washington P, 2005, pp. 268-284.

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