Should physician-assisted suicide be permitted (made legal) in the United States? Present a clear argument for or against. In your answer, you must justify your position from a bioethical standpoint (meaning that you must use bioethical principles and explain how they apply). In your answer, you must also explain which bioethical principles are being diminished and which ones are being promoted in your argument.

16) For planning purposes, insurance companies must try to predict the number of hurricanes that will hit the eastern coast of the United States in any given year. If this area is hit with an average of 6 hurricanes per year, find the probability that in a given year…

a) …fewer than 3 hurricanes will hit this area.

b) …between 6 and 8 hurricanes (inclusive) will hit this area.

c) What is the standard deviation of this distribution?

Suppose the following table shows the forecast for the number of people (in thousands) who have two or more jobs in the United States.

Date Jobs Forecast

May 2013 6,798 6,158

June 2013 6,346 6,529

July 2013 6,843 6,701

August 2013 6,651 6,779

Calculate the RMSE (root mean squared error). Take all calculations and the final answer to three decimal places.

How does the process of socialization influence our values and beliefs regarding sex/gender, sexuality, race and/or ethnicity, and aging? Which of these areas do you think deserve the most attention in terms of organizational, political, and economic disparities in the United States today and why? How does prejudice and discrimination based on sex/gender, sexuality, race and/or ethnicity, and aging affect workplace communication and diversity in the workplace?

Can you identify the characteristics of a monopolistic competitive market structure? What is an example of a real-life monopolistic competitive market structure? Can you explain how a monopolistic competitive market structure determines its price and level of output? Please explain. Why do you suppose a monopolistic competitive market structure is one out of two predominant market structures in the United States? Please explain.

In the United States we have markets for hospital care, skilled nursing care,home care, and nursing home (long term care) that are interdependent with regard to both demand and supply. In your initial post, address the following:

How does this compare to other nations?

What services are and are not covered in other nations?

What changes could be implemented within the current system to improve efficiencies and distribution in both markets?

Draw and carefully describe a graph that utilizes the Aggregate Demand/Aggregate Supply model that would illustrate the current state of the aggregate economy in the United States as of July 2020. The Aggregate Demand/Aggregate Supply Model is first introduced in Chapter 11 (Links to an external site.) of your text and is further explicated in Chapters 12 and 13. Make sure that you explain your graph in your own words.

Incorporate the concepts of game theory to international trade and tariffs. Set up two payoff matrices. Set up the first payoff matrix such that the outcome will be harmful to both countries. Set up the second payoff matrix such that the outcome will be beneficial to the United States. From your perspective as a consumer, evaluate the two matrices using current actions by each country to see which most likely benefits domestic consumers.

(1) If the interest rate in Japan is greater than the interest rate in the United States, other things held constant, according to interest rate parity, will the Japanese Yen appreciate or depreciate against US dollar?

(2) If Mexico experiences a hyperinflation (very high inflation) relative to the US, other things held constant, according to the parity condition, will the Mexican Peso appreciate or depreciate against US dollar?