Elevator Speech #1

Objective: To think about and synthesize your anthropological learning these past years, and to articulate how and why this training is significant and useful to a wider public.
Outcome: A two-minute, example or story-driven and well articulated "elevator speech" or "elevator pitch" that can be used in a variety of contexts.

An "elevator speech" is a short "pitch" that can be given immediately when a situation warrants.  In this case, it is an introduction to yourself and your interests in an anthropologically relevant way.  You will gear the speech to particular audiences at different times, but the bulk of it will remain the same most likely.  (for example I have a different one for film festivals than I have for academics).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDpe9StfGTA&feature=emb_title

Post a draft of your elevator speech by clicking "reply" below.  Write it short enough so that it would take no more than 2 - 3 m

Discussion
1. Before you answer the questions in this Discussion Forum, read the publication "This Dynamic Earth".



2.  Choose any 3 of the 8 topics/questions below and answer the related questions in the appropriate thread of this Discussion. Each well-thought relevant answer to the question, consisting of a substantive paragraph is worth up to 5 points for a total of 15 points for this assignment. The late policy is 10 % per calendar day. The due date is in the calendar in the global navigation bar.

Q.1  Distribution of Volcanoes: Why most volcanoes in the world (95%) are located along mid-oceanic ridges or found in chains parallel to trenches?

Q.2: Sea-floor topography: Why are trenches bordering chains of volcanoes and island arcs? What happens at trenches? How do oceanic ridges form?

Q. 3 Ocean floor age: Why the ocean floor is progressively older as you move away from the oceanic ridge? Why there is no ocean floor on Earth older tha

write a one paragraph summary on it. Your job is to determine the main points of the article, briefly paraphrase and/or summarize them (NO quotations!), and construct a well-written paragraph that includes an effective topic sentence, a body, and a concluding sentence. Although most marks will be for summarizing and paraphrasing ability, writing skills and formatting are always part of an English assignment, so edit and proofread your work!

From Week 3 to Week 10

Week 5, 2/1                 Pinku Eiga

Film
                             
Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41, Ito Shunya (1972) CW [reserves]

Reading
                       
Sexing Up Post-War Japanese Cinema: Looking at the 1960s/1970s Pinky Violence Films, Laura Treglia (2018)
   
Bad Girls of Japan, Introduction, Laura Miller and Jan Bardsley (2005) [reserves]


In your groups, I would like you to:

1. Respond to the question posed at the end of Tuesdays lecture

2. Ask at least one question that you have about the topics or ideas addressed in the lecture, a
    a scene from the film, or the reading

3. Respond to at least one question in the discussion.

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A manufacturer delivers a new tractor to Farmer Ted on the first day of the harvest season. But the tractor will not start. It takes two weeks for the right parts to be delivered and installed. The repair bill comes to $1,000. During the two weeks, some acres of Farmer Teds crops die. He argues in court that his lost profit on those two acres is $60,000. The jury awards the full $1,000 for the tractor repairs, and $60,000 for the lost crops. Identify the two types of awards. Is it fair that Farmer Ted received 60 times the value of the repair bill for his lost crops?

review the financials of plug power inc. in Yahoo! Finance and the SEC EDGAR database in the Filings & Forms (Links to an external site.) page. You can access the financials by going to the Yahoo! Finance website, typing in the stock symbol of your organization, and then clicking on the Financials tab. After you have read, you will continue analyzing the financial health of the company. In other words, using the ratios provided by Robinson, Henry, Pirie, and Broihahn (2015), you will continue building a comprehensive financial statement analysis of your company.

In your paper,

Calculate the following ratios:
Debt-to-assets ratio
Debt-to-capital ratio
Debt-to-equity ratio
Financial leverage ratio
Interest coverage ratio
Fixed charge coverage ratio
Evaluate the companys solvency, based on the ratios calculated above.
Recommend three areas that the company could improve in order to strengthen its financial position, based on the ratios calculated

Read Olaudah Equiano, pp. 524-566 in the textbook uploaded below.
Choose a quote from Equiano's narrative (it HAS to be from the selection in the textbook) and discuss how that quote contributes to the development of Equiano's character or a theme throughout the narrative.  Please include the quote at the beginning of the paper.

You do not need to include in-text citations and a reference list but you should make it clear
where the information is coming from. This should be done in narrative style - for example, In
Ch.11 of the textbook, the context of X is discussed in reference to Y

Evolution, Religion, and Intelligent Design

Many people mistakenly believe that a belief in evolution precludes a belief in God or intelligent design; in other words, some people falsely think that one must be an atheist or agnostic to believe in evolution and the Big Bang. The Catholic Church is one example of a religious institution that has long held the view that evolution and the Big Bang explain how we got here. Read the below article from the Catholic Herald, and then answer the following questions: Why do you think so many people are mistaken about the ability to believe in God as well as evolution and the Big Bang? Do you find anything problematic about combining religious and scientific explanations of the universe? Explain.

NB: In this discussion, students often misuse the word theory, saying things such as the Big Bang/evolution are just theories. But to say this is a misuse of the word 'theory' as it applies to scientific theory. 

Please choose one of topics on macroeconomy below for you to analyze (please write atleast 3 pages of macroeconomy analysis --No references or research needed for this paper, although you are encouraged to scan the news outlets; the outcomes should be based entirely on your own critical thinking perspectives. Please write your thesis at the end of the first paragraph and underline your thesis statement)
1. Economic growth & business cycles
2. The equilibrium income model with taxes & foreign trade

Then, in the next page please read two cases (see file attached) and analyze those by providing compare or contrast. Use each paragraph to apply & compare / contrast as many of the macro-economic concepts as possible.  Explain their relevance and applicability to macroeconomy. (please write atleast 2.5 pages for this. Provide a NEW thesis statement at the end of the first paragraph and underline it)