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Gross Domestic Product, Unemployment/Inflation, and Interest Rate Fluctuations
The chosen period is from 1990 to 2000. you will research three sections of your final project as they relate to the 10-year historical period that you chose in Module One: gross domestic product, unemployment/inflation, and interest rate fluctuations. This should include a brief overview of the 10-year period between 1950 and today that you chose for this presentation.
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and Growth Show a graph of real GDP growth rates for each year of your decade and highlight significant changes in growth rates, such as dips or negative growth (recession) or booms (economic expansion) Real GDP data can be found here at FRED, the research database of the St. Louis Federal Reserve – adjust the data to your 10 year period and use these numbers to calculate the growth rate Here is a video to introduce you to using the FRED site Choose two or three of the most relevant events from this time period that impacted the U.S. economy.
Apply specific models developed throughout the course to demonstrate how these events influenced national output during this time period. You can use the GDP formula to explain how an event impacted GDP growth. For instance, if there was large increase in military spending because of a war, we would expect to see an increase in GDP. Be sure the connections you make are supported by the data you present.
Analyze unemployment and inflation data as to their relation to output and growth, using macroeconomic principles and models to explain their effect.
Show graphs of both annual inflation rates and annual unemployment rates throughout your decade. Find data on inflation rates: Consumer Price Index Producer Price Index Find data on unemployment here Explain how inflation and unemployment are calculated for the data presented.
Discuss how changes in both are related to changes in GDP growth Apply specific models developed throughout the course to demonstrate how the previously selected events influenced both unemployment and inflation during this time period.
Discuss how the events impacted both economic indicators.
For the final draft, look to include our AD-AS model to illustrate how events led the changes observed in both.
Analyze interest rate fluctuations throughout this time period and their effects on other aspects of the economy.
Show graph of interest rates during your time period – there are different rate to choose from, like the Federal Funds Rate, the 3-Month Treasury Rate or the Bank Prime Loan Rate which will each give a sense of the level of interest rates and the trend throughout the decade.
Then discuss the following: How would these fluctuations affect/be affected by inflation? Would investments and foreign trade rates increase or decrease?
How would the GDP of the American economy be affected?
To answer the above questions, consider the relationship between interest rates and GDP
Healthcare Technology: Local, National, and Global Considerations
ntegrates evidence to support your discussion from: OR online lessons, AND *at least two outside scholarly source. ***Sources are credited.*
Imagine that you are a public health nurse, and you and your colleagues have determined that the threat of a deadly new strain of influenza indicates a need for a mass inoculation program in your community. What public health data would have been used to determine the need for such a program? Where would you locate public health data? What data will be collected to determine the success of such a program? How might you communicate this to other communities or internationally?
(CO 1,2,4,5, 6,7,8)
Animal and society
Margo DeMello , Animal and society ( Columbia university Press, 2012) chapter 15
1 . This is only a very brief summary of some of the religious connotations of different animals. Pick one example from anywhere in the chapter and ask a question about it’s meaning or how it fits into that culture’s tradition
Marina Belozerskaya, The Medici Giraffe (Little, Brown, and Co., 2006) Chapter 6
- This chapter really has it all: shipwrecks, scurvy, Australian wildlife being terribly cared for, the rise and fall of the Napoleonic Empire. It’s a lot! But focus on the people and the animals. Both Josephine Bonaparte and Nicolas Baudin seem like dedicated caring individuals put in no-win situations, but still trying to do their best. Which parts of their stories jump out at you the most?
Marina Belozerskaya, The Medici Giraffe (Little, Brown, and Co., 2006) Chapter 5
- This chapter is a marked departure from the last few. While Philadelphios, Pompey, Lorenzo Medici, and Hernan Cortes were all striving for power and political dominance of some sort, Rudolf II was born into about as much as it was possible for any man in Europe to have. Belozerskaya probably assumes her readers have some knowledge of Rudolf, the late sixteenth century, and the Holy Roman Empire, so she sort of sells short how UNBELIEVABLY IMPORTANT and powerful Rudolf and his family, the Hapsburgs, were at the time.
Between his own role as ruler of the HRE, King of Croatia, Hungary, and Bohemia, and Archduke of Austria, and his uncle Philip II’s powers (and later his cousin Philip III’s) as King of Spain, Portugal, Naples, and Sicily, Duke of Milan, and Lord of the Netherlands, these two men were the figurehead leaders of almost all of Europe except for England, France, Poland, and Scandinavia. All of this while the aftermath of the Protestant Reformation was tearing nations apart with civil strife and violence.
And despite all of that, Rudolf really did devote most of his interest to the natural sciences! He’s a fascinating individual and I’m looking forward to seeing how you react to all this short description of his life and his relationship with animals and the idea of animals.
Margo DeMello , Animal and society ( Columbia university Press, 2012)
Chapter 13
- Your assignment is to pick out DeMello’s thesis statement for this chapter, then provide at least one example that she uses to support it.You might not all agree on what her thesis statement is – it’s somewhat ambiguous – but this is a good way to try to find her point of view. Use specific quotes with page numbers, and keep in mind that her thesis might not be clearly stated in a single sentence. Feel free to paraphrase as well if you need to restate it.
Once you’ve responded to your assigned chapter, visit the threads for the other two chapters and reply to one of your classmates in each with a different example that either backs up their proposed thesis statement or suggests an alternative.
Respond to Chapter 13
- Mark Kurlansky,Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World (Penguin, 1998) Cod – chapter 1-10
Respond to atleast one question .
1) What does fishing mean to the modern people living in Newfoundland?
2) How was the historical experience of fishing different for the Norse and Basque?
3) How did the commercial fishing industry develop over the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and what was its impact on the “discovery” of North America?
4) What is the importance of different types of cod (and other seafood) being more profitable in some places than others?
5) How has competition over fishing impacted international relationships, right up into the twentieth century?
Margo DeMello , Animal and society ( Columbia university Press, 2012)
Chapter 18 DeMello – the Moral status of animals
6 . Pick one of the main philosophical approaches that DeMello traces in this chapter and explain how it applies to a different case that we have read about. Remember that each of us has our own moral approach to these questions and we even frequently contradict ourselves! So don’t cast your argument in terms of judgment, but in terms of how to understand our attitudes towards wild animals, food animals, lab animals, companion animals, or some other category using examples from any of our readings.
Possible approaches include utilitarianism, virtue ethics, ethical humanism, and phenomenology.
Margo DeMello , Animal and society ( Columbia university Press, 2012) ChAPTER 17 – BEHAVIOR AND ETHIOLOGY
- Pick one of the main philosophical approaches that DeMello traces in this chapter and explain how it applies to a different case that we have read about. Remember that each of us has our own moral approach to these questions and we even frequently contradict ourselves! So don’t cast your argument in terms of judgment, but in terms of how to understand our attitudes towards wild animals, food animals, lab animals, companion animals, or some other category using examples from any of our readings.
Possible approaches include utilitarianism, virtue ethics, ethical humanism, and phenomenology.
8 . Peter Laufer, Forbidden Creatures (Lyons Press, 2010) – PRIMATE PROBLEMS
Whether macaques are smuggled from Asia or chimpanzees are bred for research or entertainment, great apes and smaller monkeys can destroy a home or cause a commotion, even while their “owners” might consider them part of the family. What does Laufer have to say about the ways in which people interact with and identify with primates? What can and should be done about those who disregard exotic animal laws or take advantage of loopholes in them?
- Peter Laufer,Forbidden Creatures (Lyons Press, 2010) LAUFER
Depending on who you ask and how you count, there are probably anywhere from 5,000 to 20,000 lions, tigers, cougars, cheetahs, leopards, servals, and other big cats in captivity across the United States. Laufer raises a number of questions ranging from animal welfare, to black market traditional medicine trafficking, to public safety related to how and why people are keeping these animals. What do you think of the authors arguments about the keeping of these cats and what can and should be done about it? Is it, again, a question of the charismatic apex predator dominating the conversation, when we know that feral house cats also live difficult and often short lives while causing problems for native wildlife?