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Discuss the financial statement presentation and disclosures associated with consolidations related to Off balance sheet transactions, Variable-Interest Entities, and Noncontrolling Interest.  In addition to discussing the disclosure requirements, also discuss what implications, both positive and negative, these disclosures may have to the reader of the financials.  You will be using both current literature and the FASB Codification System to back up your comments

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You return to your room in the residence hall next fall, and on the floor just outside the door, you find a Bonneville Cutthroat Trout, a copy of The Complete Works of Shakespeare, and one additional object. In addition to revealing the identity of third object, explain how the trout, the book, and third object got there and their significance.

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Consult pages 8-10 in A Writer’s Reference for information on prewriting techniques.  If you have been taught some other style of prewriting that works for you, however, please by all means use it!  I do not care what style of prewriting you use; I only care that you do some sort of planning of a paper before sitting down to write it.  Therefore, here are your topics to choose from for Essay #1.  This prewrite may be done via text input, or you can upload files, so if you want to take photos or make scans of a prewrite on paper, you can do so.  The prewrite is due by midnight on Wednesday, and the rough version of the essay itself will be due no later than Saturday, so please be aware of the timeframe you have to get crackin’ on this paper!

The paper itself should be about three and a half pages or so (900 words, ballpark), in proper MLA format.  You are going to be REQUIRED to integrate quotes from one or more of the readings you have done so far out of Presence of Others, so consider that as you choose which topic to write on.  Papers that do not use the readings in some significant way will lose a lot of credit, so keep that in mind, ok?  We will be bringing The Great Gatsby into our essay assignments eventually, but NOT YET!  At this point, only consider material from The Presence of Others as you craft your response.

OPTION #1: Some of the readings in the text discuss cheating, dishonesty, and integrity.  Using the ideas from and quoting from some of The Presence of Others readings you have done in previous weeks, discuss a time you or someone you know cheated or otherwise went against integrity.  Why was there this lapse in ethical judgment?  What were the results?  How did this experience affect you or the person you know?

OPTION #2: Write a paper about a person you know who might fairly be described as “a person of integrity.”  Use your portrait of this person as a way to define and/or explore the concept of integrity.  Again, make sure to make reference to and quote from essays you have read in previous weeks in The Presence of Others.

OPTION #3: Respond to the essay “An Animal’s Place.”  Does the content of the essay trouble you ethically with your food and other choices, or is the killing of animals and industrial farming simply now a necessity or even a right?  Support or argue against some of the points raised inside of this essay.

OPTION #4: Keeping in mind some of the ideas and studies inside the essays “Making of a Divorce Culture” and “The Way We Wish We Were,” discuss the effects a divorce has had on you or someone you know well.  What caused the divorce?  Was it necessary?  How did it change people’s lives?  Was the overall effect for the better or for the worse?  From the essays, do you see any of the same forces and effects discussed inside the text?

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Submit a written response to these questions:

What type of human services are provided in the United States?
How do political and economic forces shape the human services system?
What is managed care?
Describe the concept “human services worker.”

Use proper grammar, spelling and punctuation.  Your responses to the questions should be more than 1,000 words and less than 2,000 words.  And, yes, I coulnd them.  Be careful with your submissions; you’ll only be able to make one.  So, double check it before turning it in.

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Student Handout: Viewer’s Guide

“IS WAL-MART GOOD FOR AMERICA?”

You have to watch the five videos in this link

To watch the show again:  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/walmart/view/

I. Review the following terms prior to watching the documentary:
•    Outsourcing is when a business obtains services or products used in manufacturing, such as parts for a television set, from an outside (often overseas) supplier or manufacturer in order to cut costs.
•    Offshore Companies conduct most of their business outside of the country in which they are incorporated. These companies are also known as non-resident companies.
•    Push Production is when manufacturers of products decide what to produce, how much to produce and the price of the product.
•    Pull Production is when retailers determine what the manufacturer will produce, how much to produce and the price of the product.
Answer the following questions

1.    What did you notice at the Wal-Mart shareholders meeting? Do you think this is different from other shareholders’ meetings? If yes, in what ways?

2.    How is Wal-Mart able to keep track of its inventory? Why is this important? List the effects this has on producers.

3.    Trace the decline of Rubbermaid from 1994 to 2004. What factors most contributed to this decline?

4.    What is an opening price point? How does it influence sales?

5.    In 1994, President Clinton said that new trade agreements would create a market for American products in China. What happened to the United States companies after opening trade with China?

6.    Compare the situation at Five Rivers Electronics and the Thomson Plant. What caused problems and what was the result for each?

7.    What most surprised you about the film?

8.    Do you think the strategies that Wal-Mart is using are fair? Why or why not?

9.    Has the documentary influenced how or where you will shop? Explain

10.    How should Wal-Mart balance the needs for worker benefits, low prices for consumers and high profits for shareholders?
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You have to watch the five videos in this above

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include domestic violence, gender equality

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1. How did the interference of Belgium and the US impact the development of an independent Congolese state?
2. Knowing what you do about Ghana and South Africa, what broader trends of decolonization does Congo exemplify?  Where does it perhaps deviate from those patterns?
3. Why did Lumumba believe that Congo needed to stay unified instead of breaking into smaller regions?
4. How did factionalism and provincialism impede Patrice Lumumba’s endeavor to create a functioning state?

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