Our world has changed in many areas of the economy since the end of February. It has been many, many years since the United States has seen the shortages and surpluses that we have experienced recently. For your discussion forum this week, pick one of those areas where there has been a shortage, or a surplus. Explain how the changes in equilibrium were affected by demand and/or supply shifts. What happened to prices of that product? Has it changed anything about the way consumers shop or manufacturers produce that product?

• People have a tendency to categorize others into hierarchies. What do you all think has been the source of racial hierarchies in the United States? Do these hierarchies have any validity? Why or why not?

• As you are learning, race is not the simple product of biology (such as the physical features that someone possess), but is actually the result of the ways that society defines how these outward features acts as signs, carrying culturally constructed meanings. Do you agree with this view that race is a cultural construction? Why or why not? Give an example to support your opinion.

Write a 1,500-word paper on the following:

1.Describe the current health care environment in the United States from both the health care administrator and the patient perspective.

2.What are some recent changes in legislation and how does this change influence the way that an administrator would operate within the health care system?

3.What are current trends emerging in health care? Using the current trends, speculate on future of health care risk management from both the perspective of the health care administrator and patient.

Considering Purchasing Power Parity and the Law of One Price:

a. Assume that the current price of a Big Mac in the United States today is $2.75. Assume also that the current price of a Big Mac in Malaysia is 6.5000 ringgits and that the current USDMYR exchange rate is 3.0250 ringgits per $. What is the implied PPP of the USD?

b. Using the assumptions above, what is the under (-) / over (+) valuation of Malaysian ringgits versus the U.S. dollar in percentage terms?

c. What are the long-term implications associated with your answer to part b.?

Sarah Tynan's image of a hen harrier taking a Range Rover as its prey is clearly a piece of wishful thinking--or, as Jeremy Deller called the exhibition in which it served as the focal point, English Magic. What is "magical" about it? Are you sympathetic with Deller's point of view? In the United States, wolves are protected by the Endangered Species Act, but wolves often come into conflict with ranchers who claim that they kill their livestock. If you could imagine reimaging Tynan's hen harrier as a wolf, what would it have in its jaws?

Question 1

It is often easier to see manifestations of women’s oppression in cultures other than our own, since they don’t seem “natural” to us. However, as we have seen in class, for every issue we have located in “other cultures” we can find an analogous manifestation in the culture(s) of the United States that reveals a shared rootedness in patriarchal society. Offer and explain U.S. analogues to three of the following: stark division of gender roles, son preference, child marriage, and control of women’s sexuality.

Essay Topic: Impact of Coronavirus

Please discuss the recent pandemic COVID-19, aka the coronavirus. First give intel on the whole pandemic, explaining the root of the virus and how it got its way into the US, based on the updated news. Then talk about the various factors of the pandemic including the effects of it nationwide, especially the United States. Then organize the concerns into categories of food, economy, politics, race, and inequality. Explain each topic under the current pandemic.

• Use citations and references for the essay. Use APA 6th format

Forward versus Money Market Hedge on Receivables. Assume the following information:

180‑day U.S. interest rate = 0.08

180‑day British interest rate = 0.10

180‑day forward rate of British pound = $1.42

Spot rate of British pound = $1.48

Assume that Banc Corp. from the United States will receive 421,000 pounds in 180 days. How much more (or less) would the firm receive in 180 days if it uses a forward hedge instead of a money market hedge?

Current U.S. military doctrine recognizes four categories of power available to a nation: diplomatic, informational, military, and economic. Upon examination, it is apparent that only a nation/state can wield these elements of power; they would be beyond the reach of weaker powers or organizations. How then, can these lesser entities influence the powerful? Five “underdog” strategies are outlined as alternative sources of power for the weak. If you are trying to influence the national policy of the United States, which of these five strategies do you feel would be the most effective? Why?

A firm uses skilled labor, unskilled labor, and capital, and is initially in equilibrium. Suppose that the wage paid to unskilled labor falls, and that unskilled labor is a substitute in production with both skilled labor and capital. Depict in separate graphs of (a) capital and unskilled labor and (b) capital and skilled labor how the original equilibrium choices change in response to the decline in wages paid to unskilled workers. What are the expected impacts on the wage and employment level for each group of worker, and why? How does this factor into the growth of inequality in recent decades in the United States?