This is a student essay with paragraphs that have been placed out of order. Rearrange the paragraphs into an order that seems logical to you.

A

At a young age, I knew I had to get a good grip on the English language, both on paper and verbally. My parents had it rough trying to find work and getting through school. I saw them struggle so much trying to communicate to the world. English, through my eyes, became this elite world I so badly wanted to be a part of. I was excited to finally understand the language fluently and I was proud to be able to compose summaries and essays throughout grade school. In high school though, I encountered a series of new frustrations with English grammar. Some teachers were lenient but for the most part a lot of my teachers had zero tolerance for grammatical errors. It was incredibly frustrating when I would receive a graded paper back with a less than deserving grade and annoying annotations. This was the result of me not placing appropriate apostrophes or mistakenly used their in place of there. I always wanted to ask my teachers why they couldn’t cut me some slack. If I was a competent student and you knew my intentions, why must I settle for that grade when you were able to follow along and understand me in the assignment?

B

I am a first-generation college student. My parents are refugees from Cambodia and they came to the U.S. when they were about 10 or 11 years old. Our native language is Khmer. In our language, subjunctives do not exist. It was something that was really hard to acclimate to when I started to learn English. Though I was born here, I always spoke my language at home and did not pick up English until I was around 6 years old. In my language there is only what is and what is not. Any kind of wishful thinking or possible outcomes just don’t exist. I struggled learning English but eventually got through it. I was about 9 years old when I finally was able to kick my accent. Boy was I relieved that the teasing was finally going to stop. I felt confident. I felt like I had mastered my second language. But I was wrong. I’m going to share with you my reflection on the subject of the English language, through my experiences.

C

I have learned to embrace all of my grammatical mistakes. I even started to humor my occasional broken English. It is inevitable and I take a lesson from it every time. At the end of the day, what’s important is that we are able to produce a proper paper, right? An articulate paper despite having all these different avenues we can use to communicate English. In a TED Talk titled, “3 Ways to Speak English,” Jamila Lyiscott speaks out poetically about the several ways she speaks English in her community. She talks about the challenges of speaking several completely different styles of English between her friends, her parents and in a classroom setting. A line from her speech that really resonated with me was when she said, “I know I had to borrow your language because mine was stolen, but you can’t expect me to speak ‘your’ history wholly while mine was broken.” How beautiful and powerful is that? As a first-generation student, I really want to make my family proud. Hearing Jamila’s TED Talk gave me a sense of confidence and reassurance in some way. She is letting us know that it is ok to switch things up with your vocabulary. It’s ok to dab in and out of the social norms of English to make sense of the message that you are trying to relay to people on a day to day basis. Just so long as you know the rules and you know when it’s ok to break them. That’s what will set you apart, and that is what will make you articulate.

D

I felt incredibly defeated and thought no way is this fair. Throughout school we’d often get assigned into group projects where we needed to combine all of our research and opinions into a summary. I remember correcting my classmate’s grammar and calling them out for a misspelled word. Where this comma or that apostrophe should or should not go, what needs to be capitalized. I remember coming home and boasting to my mom about these scenarios and one day she said to me, “If you were able to understand what your friends in class are trying to describe, why are you having to tell them that they are wrong?” And in that exact moment, I came to realize that I was a huge hypocrite. Why didn’t I choose to be a little more patient and try to comprehend my classmates? It was then that I realized, it doesn’t matter how we speak or if English was your second language. On paper, there are rules to live up to that everyone should follow because it really is for our own good. A couple weeks ago in class, we read an article called “Opinion Piece on Grammatical Correctness” by Ursula K. Le Guin (33). There was a piece from the reading where she says, “How we talk is important to us all, and we’re all shamed when told in public that we don’t talk correctly. Shame can paralyze our minds.”

E

Her article took me right down memory lane and I started to recall my own journey through the strange world of the English language. From when I was a child, to an adolescent, to an adult. I started to see that there are actually different ways I had to use English. So many ways we had to change things up to make sense of something in whatever social setting we were in.

For school, for work, for our family and for our friends. We even use an entirely different vocabulary for each. To be honest, I was so caught up in learning English, I forgot how to read and write in my own native language. I was no longer able to truly proclaim myself as being bilingual. I became choppy in my first language and started speaking it horribly. So, I enrolled in a Khmer class to freshen up and re learned everything. In the process of that, I came across all these wonderful students from all walks of life. Some were like me and some were learning for the first time. The interactions we had showed me the versatility of language and how we personalize it to communicate and make sense to each other. We must grow and elevate ourselves into your fullest potential. Even if you have to get through the process by speaking a little broken English. Progress is progress no matter what stage you’re in.

Your firm designs, manufactures, and markets children’s toys for sale in the U.S. Almost 90% of your production is done in China. During the 1990s, U.S. relations with China improved. Even though there were many disagreements between the two countries, the United States granted normal trade status to China and supported China’s membership in the WTO in 2001. Your firm invested heavily in China during that time. You have developed close ties to Chinese suppliers and have come to depend greatly on inexpensive Chinese labor and the lower costs of doing business there. You are now concerned about increasing political tension between China and the United States over a variety of issues: China’s s treatment of the Tibetan people, reports about the use of prison labor to manufacture goods for export, China’s population policies, and differences over relations with communist North Korea. The United States has also accused China of corporate and industrial espionage in the United States to obtain scientific, industrial, and trade secrets, and of hacking into corporate and government computer networks. There are also disagreements over China’s censorship of Internet search providers, and over the protection of U.S. intellectual property rights in China. The United States is also concerned with China’s tax policies, which are said to discriminate against imported goods, and also with China’s state subsidies to domestic industry. The U.S. accuses China of currency manipulations of the yuan, making Chinese goods unfairly cheap in foreign markets and imports into China artificially expensive. Most worrisome is the potential for conflict over Taiwan, with which the United States has had a mutual defense pact for 60 years. China claims Taiwan under its “One China” reunification policy, while accusing the United States of fostering “independence” there. Despite the issues, both countries recognize their deep economic reliance on each other. With that background, consider the following:

Although both mainland China and Taiwan are “Chinese,” doing business in Taiwan differs greatly from doing business in China. Investigate and describe that difference. How do business opportunities differ on the mainland versus the island?

1. Using ERP software, one can cut down on data duplication by keeping all your information within _______ cohesive system.

   		multiple
   		silo
   		one
   		departmental

1 points   

QUESTION 2

1. Epicor ERP’s strengths include the amount of data it can store and analyze, as well as the automation it can provide when it comes to __________.

   		customers
   		vendors
   		supply chain management
   		production

1 points   

QUESTION 3

1. Modern ERP practices began in the 1990s due to the rise of computer software being integrated with daily business____________.

   		requirements
   		costs
   		operations
   		expenditures

1 points   

QUESTION 4

1. This is any ERP software which is deployed directly on your in-site devices.

   		Open Source ERP
   		On-premise ERP
   		Cloud-based ERP
   		Hybrid ERP

1 points   

QUESTION 5

1. Odoo is a(n) _________ ERP and CRM used by over 4 million users worldwide.

   		simple
   		open-source
   		limited
   		closed

1 points   

QUESTION 6

1. ERP communication tools organize scanned documents, files, emails, texts, and phone call recordings.

   True

   False

1 points   

QUESTION 7

1. Microsoft is been a leader in the ERP software market for many years through its ________ product offerings.

   		Iron Mountain
   		Great Plains
   		Solomon
   		Dynamics

1 points   

QUESTION 8

1. With SAP HANA, one doesn’t need to take the time to load data from your transactional database into your reporting database, or even build traditional tuning structures to enable that reporting.

   True

   False

1 points   

QUESTION 9

1. Benefits of ERP Software include all except:

   		Low implementation costs
   		Streamlined workflows and processes
   		Visibility into workflows
   		Better financial planning and decision making

1 points   

QUESTION 10

1. It is important to use an industry-specific ERP solution because:

   		a general ERP system will weigh you down with unnecessary features
   		a specialized ERP system will weigh you down with unnecessary features
   		an industry-specific ERP system will cost less
   		a general ERP system will cost more

1 points   

George is interested in how the average sale price of homes in Albemarle County is related to (1) the size of a home in square feet and (2) whether a home is new or not new.   To incorporate the new/not new categorical variable into his regression model, he creates a dummy variable = 1 if a home is new and 0 if it is not new. He estimates two models, one without interaction, and one that includes an interaction term equal to New X Size. The following tables show his results.

Model 1 (without interaction):

Model 2 (with interaction):

1. Interpret the coefficients in Model 2. Should George be worried because the coefficient for “New” is no longer statistically significant in Model 2, although it was significant in Model 1? Explain.

Use the following information to answer the next three questions.

Transactions between New Zealand and the rest of the world in 2018 are shown below.

1. New Zealand companies bought NZ$40 million worth of steel from US companies.
2. New Zealand's central bank sold NZ$25 million of treasury bonds to foreign investors.
3. New Zealand investors received NZ$2 million in interest payments from foreign investments.
4. New Zealand citizens purchased NZ$11 million worth of computers produced in Japan.
5. Americans spent NZ$20 million touring New Zealand.
6. JKL (New Zealand firm) purchased NZ$4 million in stock issued by a Brazilian firm.
7. The New Zealand central bank sold NZ$8 million worth of US dollars.

Find the capital account balance in terms of millions of New Zealand dollars.

Find the balance of trade in terms of millions of New Zealand dollars. Do not use currency symbols or words when entering your response.

Find the current account balance in terms of millions of New Zealand dollars.