Discuss the negativity in the lyrics of 90s grunge and industrial rock music such as "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and "Terrible Lie". Why do you think this genre was so popular in a time of relative peace and great prosperity in the United States?

Does the United States have any ethical duties to undocumented (illegal) aliens who come here to work? How can the law be fair and balance the rights of immigrants, their families, the companies that employ them, and U. S. citizens??

Indicate how each of the following transactions is entered into the US balance of payments with double-entry bookkeeping:

• A U.S. firm exports $500 of goods to an Australian retired man who pays with his bank account savings from his Australian Bank

• A U.S. economics major purchases a travel service for $200 to Italy and pays it with money from his U.S. bank account

• The U.S. government gives $100 from a US bank to Cuba to favor greater economic growth

• A U.S. resident purchases a foreign stock for $400 and pays for it by increasing bank balances in the United States

• A foreign investor purchases $300 of U.S. treasury bills and pays by drawing down his bank balances in the United States by the same amount

--> Using this information, calculate the U.S. balance of payments

Answer each of the following questions on the promise and peril of economic integration.

What will a potential shift of the economic center of gravity from the traditional G-8 countries—Canada, United States, Japan, Germany, UK, France, Italy, and Russia (currently suspended over its annexation of the Crimea)—to the BRICS countries mean?

Does it signal hope for a new wave of economic growth and new engines of regional prosperity to drive the global economy, or does it signal the fading importance of Europe and the United States?

Will the rise of the BRICS countries signal the rise of middle classes within those countries or a further expansion of inequity in income distribution?

How can governance challenges in each of the BRICS countries derail their economic growth?

Resource challenges? Demography and population? The threat of conflict?

please give full answer starting with an issue and fully explaned terms.

Ad and Bookem, an accounting firm operating nationally over a long period of years, with branch offices in all major cities and coverage of all major industrial areas in the United States, acquired the entire practice and goodwill of Sub and Div. another accounting firm operating nationally, with branch offices in all major cities. The price was to be paid in ten annual installments. The agreement contained a provision that provided that the five major partners of Sub and Div, both individually and as members of the accounting firm, were not to engage in practice anywhere in the United States for three years. (a) Is the provision enforceable? Explain. (b) Assuming the provision is enforceable, what remedies does Ad and Bookem have against any of the partners who breach the contract provision? Explain.

In 2012, the per capita consumption of soft drinks in the United States was reported to be 44 gallons. Assume that the per capita consumption of soft drinks in the USA is approximately normally distributed with a mean of 44 gallons and a standard deviation of 14 gallons.

What is the probability that someone in the United States consumed more than 70 gallons of soft drinks in 2012?

1.             0.3752
2.             0.1395
3.             0.2588
4.             0.0316

Refer back to the soft drink consumption data provided earlier. What is the probability that someone in the USA consumed between 20 and 30 gallons of soft drinks in 2012?

1.             0.1265
2.             0.3752
3.             0.0316
4.             0.1154

Refer back to the soft drink consumption data provided earlier. What is the probability that someone in the USA consumed less than 15 gallons of soft drinks in 2012?

1.             0.1265
2.             0.0192
3.             0.0543
4.             0.1395

A survey of CPAs across the United States found the average net income for sole proprietor CPAs is $114,300. Because this survey is now more than 5 years old, an accounting researcher wants to test this figure by taking a random sample of 36 sole proprietor accountants in the United States to determine whether the average net income has increased. Only 500 sole proprietorships practice in the US. The sample of 36 sole proprietor accountants had a mean of $119,000 with a standard deviation of $12,000.

Construct a 99% confidence interval for the population mean net income for sole proprietor CPAs.

Show your work! Formula(s), substitutions, answers! Please round your z or t value to 3 decimal places, and your final answers to whole numbers.

6. Monarch butterflies migrate thousands of miles every fall from Canada and the United States down to Mexico. There they go into a state of diapause for the winter months. Diapause is a period of dormancy in which no growth occurs. When monarchs emerge from this state in the spring, they head north to southern parts of the United States, where they breed. After producing offspring, this generation of butterflies dies. Over the spring and summer, several more generations come and go before the final generation that must make the journey south to Mexico in the fall. In this way, some monarchs never make the migration journey, and those that do must make it without any guidance from other monarchs.

Explain how both environmental and genetic factors must contribute to the timing and directional movement of monarchs in their migration behavior.