Research topic "freedom of expression" First Amendment in the USA. Also rights at others countries are given, particularly North Korea.

Discuss freedom of expression AND comparing freedom of expression in the United States to freedom of expression in North Korea.

Describe the responsible party model, explain why it advocates believe it would make for a more democratic governement in the United States. Do you agree? Why? what do you think are the strenghts and weaknessess of this model. Explain.

Grant funding has been a major source of money for non-profit groups in the United States. Based on the readings, what were the 2-3 or the most significant reasons a grant request fails?

Please list references.

give several (at least two, though three or four might be better) reasons why countries in a particular region might be more likely to trade with other countries in that same region and briefly explain why. You could consider the country pairs of Germany and France, the united states and Canada, China and Thailand, and United arabs Emirates and Saudi arabia as example ( Though you don’t have to use them, and you could other as example)

Reno, Inc., is considering a project to establish a plant for producing and selling consumer goods
in an under developed country. Assume that the host country’s economy is very dependent on
oil prices, the local currency of the country is very volatile, governance standards are quite
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compromised with a high pedigree of unfair practices and the sovereign or country risk is
considered to be high. It is known that the host country’s economic conditions are un-related to
U.S. economy and the global economy other than material changes that relate and/or emanate
in external environment due to oil price changes.
Required:
a) Should the required rate of return (and therefore the risk premium) on the project be
higher or lower than that of other alternative projects in the i) United States; ii) any
other G-7 country; iii) Pakistan? Explain with cogent reasons.
b) Assume that the required rate of return is 20% in the first year of operations and
increases by 2% every year for 5-years. Based on financial projections and estimated
cash flows, return on equity (ROE) is expected to be in the ball park of 18% in Year-1,
whereas moving forward in Year-2 through Year-5 it is expected to remain in range of
30% per annum. Based on these numbers, would you recommend that Reno should
move ahead with this new investment? Why or why not? Explain with cogent reasons.

1.) You work for the public relations department of the Social Security Administration. In an effort to design better advertising campaigns, your department decides to conduct a survey to find out the opinions people in the United States have about the Social Security system. One of the questions asked and the results of each response and the respondents’ age are shown in the table (provided in the Table 1 below1 ). Your department believes that at most 40% of people in the United States think the Social Security system will have money available to provide the benefits they expect for their retirements. Also, your department believes that the mean age of people in the Unit States who would say yes to this question is 60 years or older. As a research analyst for the department, you must work with the data and determine if these claims can be supported or rejected.

2.) Test the claim that at most 40% of people in the United States think the Social security system will have money available to provide the benefits they expect for their retirements. Use Level of Significance α = 0.10. Write a paragraph that interprets the test’s decision. Does the decision support your department’s claim? Testing a Mean: Sampling Distribution Test the claim that the mean age of people in the United States who would say yes to the survey question shown in Table 1 is 60 years or older. Use Level of Significance α = 0.10 and assume that the population is normally distributed. Write a paragraph that interprets the test’s decision. Is there enough evidence to reject your department’s claim?

3.) What is your conclusion? On the basis of your analysis of the responses to this survey question, what would you tell your department?

Table 1:

Survey Adapted from Newsweek

Age Response

83 Yes

51 Yes

37 No

58 No

49 No

79 Yes

27 Yes

69 Yes

27 No

66 No

59 Yes

35 Yes

44 Yes

47 No

46 No

29 Yes

25 No

76 No

30 No

31 Yes

72 Yes

40 No

66 No

61 Yes

47 No

30 Yes

47 No

71 No

50 Yes

64 No

76 Yes

18 No

Perth Corporation has two operating divisions, a casino and a hotel. The two divisions meet the requirements for segment disclosures. Before transactions between the two divisions are considered, revenues and costs are as follows:

The casino and the hotel have a joint marketing arrangement by which the hotel gives coupons redeemable at casino slot machines and the casino gives discount coupons good for stays at the hotel. The value of the coupons for the slot machines redeemed during the past year totaled $5,000,000. The discount coupons redeemed at the hotel totaled $1,000,000. As of the end of the year, all coupons for the current year expired.

Required:

What are the operating profits for each division considering the effects of the costs arising from the joint marketing agreement? (Enter your answers in thousands.)

Operating Profits

casino

hotel

Comparing occupancy for two hotels

Sunrise Suites and Nationwide Inns operate competing hotel chains across the region. Hotel capacity information for both hotels is as follows:

Information on the number of guests for each hotel and the average length of visit for June were as follows:

a. Determine the guest nights for each hotel in June. Guest Nights Sunrise Suites: Nationwide Inns:

b. Determine the room nights for each hotel in June. Room Nights Sunrise Suites: Nationwide Inns:

c. Determine the occupancy rate of each hotel in June. Occupancy Rate Sunrise Suites % Nationwide Inns

We have provided you the Hotel database to be used with SQLite DBMS. You should use this database in SQLite to extract the necessary information as per the following query requirements.

The sqlite script is based on the following relational schema:

•Hotel (hotelNo, hotelName, city)

• Room (roomNo, hotelNo, type, price)

• Booking (hotelNo, guestNo, dateFrom, dateTo, roomNo)

•Guest (guestNo, guestName, guestAddress)

Note the following details of the hotel database;

•Hotel contains hotel details and hotelNo is the primary key;

•Room contains room details for each hotel and (roomNo, hotelNo) forms the primary key;

•Booking contains details of bookings and (hotelNo,guestNo,dateFrom) forms the primary key;

•Guest contains guest details and guestNo is the primary key.

Write an SQLite script for querying data.

•List hotelNo, type and price of each double or deluxe room with a price more than $99.

•List hotelNo who have more than 2 double rooms.

•List number of different guests who visited Ridge Hotel.

•What is the total income from bookings for the Grosvenor Hotel? .

•List all the guests who have stayed in a hotel.

Task 3 [3 marks]

Perform the following tasks.

•Write commands to insert rows in each of the Hotel database tables .

•Write a command to delete the row you inserted in the table Guest .

•Write a command to update the price of all rooms by 10% (1 mark).