you will submit a selection of stocks totaling $100,000.

1.You may select as few as 4, or as many as 6 investments.

2.Because we will be tracking the change in the Value of the Investments, it will be your advantage to complete your selection as soon as possible.

3.Create a spreadsheet. For each selection, list the stock name, the stock symbol, the stock price earnings ratio, the Beta, the number of shares you want to purchase, share value the day of your purchase, and total investment.

4.Any balance that you choose not to invest is in cash and is Money Market, assuming a 5.5% (annual) return.

5.Note – You can trade once. Once you have made your selections, you should consider carefully the costs of trading. You will be subject to a fee of $125 for making the trade. The loss you have sustained must also be considered. You can now reinvest only the amount of the stock at the time of the trade, minus the fee.

INSTRUCTIONS:

1.Set up a spreadsheet with the information indicated in #3 above.

2.Your spreadsheet should have an additional series of columns (or rows) so you

can enter the price of your stock each week. Put in the stock price each Monday.

3.Your spreadsheet should be able to calculate the value of your portfolio after you have

updated the stock prices weekly.

4.In the beginning of the 8^th week, submit your spreadsheet and a recap indicating

the ending portfolio value and the percent return, annualized. Be sure to submit the

spreadsheet that shows the portfolio value for each week.

5.You will be submitting a Final Report. Here are the Final Report Guidelines:

There are to be three analytical and discussion areas of the report:

Financial Analysis of the Company

Market Performance of the Investment (stock, bond, money market fund)

Diversification (Risk and Return) of the Portfolio

The Financial Analysis of the Company will include:

1. A brief description of the business that the company is in, including the size of

the company—you may copy/paste the pertinent information into your report—

graphs, etc., company information—but it must be commented on and analyzed

by you.

2. The CEO with his or her strengths (if you know them)

3. The financial condition of the company: ratios, profitability, etc.

Include Graphs.

4.Future plans of the company that you feel are relevant.

Market Performance of the Investment:

5.Explain the particular investment qualifications such as the Beta, EPS, Dividend

policy, etc.

6.How did your investment perform? What was the return? Include your final

spreadsheet in this Section.

7.What do you predict for its future performance? Would you reinvest in it?

Submit your spreadsheet and recap on your portfolio.
Submit your Final Report following instructions for the Final Term Project – Portfolio Project.

Congratulations! You have made it to fifth week! Time to start thinking in a more complex way about how our experiences are shaped. Each of us is impacted differently based on a whole array of factors. These factors include but are not limited to our:

• Intersectional identities (age, race, gender, sexuality, ability, class, etc.)
• Personalities, preferences, and idiosyncrasies
• Habits and rituals
• Personal, family, and social structures, experiences, and histories
• Demographic makeup/descriptors
• Geographical, regional, national, affiliations and experiences

These listed here and many more factors make us who we are and enable us to understand our every changing individual and cultural worlds. Of course, an individual does not exist separate from their environment. Understanding and analyzing the self (often referred to as autoethnography) means thinking critically about the role of the self in larger cultural structures.

This EA is designed to help you think through intersectionality and intersectional and metaphorical analysis in preparation for your final essay. Hopefully this type of analysis will additionally serve you well in life and in your college career as you move through more COMS and humanities courses.

Consider the following course materials as you do the activity and as you compose your EA Report, which is worth 50pts per essay:

Course Materials:

• All readings available in the module for the week!
• All videos available in the module for the week!
• Short video describing metaphors and metaphorical thinking/analysis

• The art of the metaphor – Jane Hirshfield (Links to an external site.)

Engagement Activity:

Intersectional Metaphor: Taking inspiration from the course materials for the week, you will explore an original metaphor that explains your own intersectional identity and experience. What metaphor poetically, creatively, or critically explores your own particular mesh of identities? What will help you and others to understand your individual makeup and experience? Once you have come up with an appropriate metaphor, you will explore that metaphor to unearth ideas around the bullet points in the first section of this assignment. You will write your EA Report based on the activity.

Follow these steps:

1. After doing all of the assigned reading, think of a metaphor that aptly explains intersectionality as you view it operating in your own life. Come up with an original metaphor. For example, Kimberle Crenshaw uses a street intersection as a metaphor in her discussion in the video you watched to describe Black Women’s experiences. As another example, I once had a student explain his mixed-race experience is a class performance using a hyphen (-) as a metaphor).
2. By hand, write down or draw your metaphor in the center of a piece of paper.
3. As a brainstorming session, word associate, draw, write, freewrite, highlight, outline etc. what comes to mind that helps you understand your own intersectional experience through this metaphor. If you have never completed a brainstorming exercise before, it looks kind of like this:
4. Present your brainstorming sheet to someone. If you live alone, zoom or facetime someone. Explain your metaphor and show your brainstorming sheet to whoever you speak with. Write down any feedback they give you.
5. In your EA Report, following the DIET formula, include your experience of 1-4 above and include an embedded photograph of your brainstorming sheet. Paste the image/photo into the word file before uploading it to the appropriate EA 5 Report assignment tab on canvas.

What do I do when I complete the creative portion of my EA assignment?

• Take a picture of your brainstorming sheet
• Embed the picture into your EA Report at the end of your report. Do not forget your works cited page should still come after this image.
• For your written report this time around, please make the connections to the readings and videos very clear. Continue using the DIET formula to guide your essay, but also include the metaphorical analysis of your own experience (steps 1-4 above). You can do this wherever you feel appropriate in your essay, and do not forget to include what message you are attempting to convey through your usage of the metaphor you have selected.

Remember, EA reports should be the result of concentrated application of course materials to a specific activity. The report simply illustrates that you understand how and why this activity is important to your growing knowledge of Performance, Language and Cultural Studies.

*I will be deducting 5pts from essays with no correctly formatted MLA Works Cited page. You DO NOT have to complete a video on VT for your EA this week.

Below is all the webiste/videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXJ4Dbdm1ks&feature=youtu.be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akOe5-UsQ2o&feature=youtu.be

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/07/17/332380449/how-turbans-helped-some-blacks-go-incognito-in-the-jim-crow-era

I need outline 1 page. I will upload the book for you

Write an essay focused on Raymond Carver’s short story collection, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. What is a central theme you see working throughout the stories in the book? Explain how that theme is present through the elements of Character, Setting, Point of View and Imagery. Draw from at least four stories from the collection.

– Remember that the elements of a short story include the following: Plot, Character, Setting, Point of View, Imagery, Language, and Theme. – One strategy for determining a theme is to look at the stories that drew a strong response from you; not necessarily the ones that you liked, though that’s fine, but also the ones you found confusing or strange or that resonated with you. – When drawing up a theme for Carver’s stories, avoid overly broad and vague statements like “The stories are about love” or “The stories are about the problems of adultery.” A theme should be a specific claim about a topic the stories present. – Draw from the stories themselves for specific textual support, namely quotes. you are critically analyzing the work and need to support any claims, observations, and interpretations you make with concrete evidence from the stories. – Avoid summaries of the stories; assume your reader is already familiar with the stories themselves, so what you are responsible for it explaining and supporting your argument about Carver’s collection

One of the most important concepts in clinical practice and group work is confidentiality. All members of the group sign an informed consent form in order to address the rules and parameters of the group sessions. The rules regarding confidentiality are stated in one section of the form. Although every member must sign this agreement, ensuring that all information shared in the group remains confidential can be difficult. As the group leader, the clinical social worker is responsible for developing strategies so that all members feel safe to share.

For this Discussion, review the “Working With Groups: Latino Patients Living With HIV/AIDS” case study.

By Day 3

Post strategies you might prefer to use to ensure confidentiality in a treatment group for individuals living with HIV/AIDS. Describe how informed consent addresses confidentiality in a group setting. How does confidentiality in a group differ from confidentiality in individual counseling? Also, discuss how you would address a breach of confidentiality in the group.