Path 2 -2

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Discussion Prompt 1

Review the following case study and discuss the questions that follow. 

EO is an 8-year-old girl with a history of asthma and allergy to bee stings. She has been brought to the clinic complaining of a throat infection. Her health care provider prescribes a course of penicillin to manage her current infection and cautions her parents to watch her closely for a reaction.

  1. What type of reaction is the health care provider concerned about, and why?
  2. Explain the role of IgE and mast cells in type I hypersensitivity reactions. Why might EO react adversely to the antibiotic with the first use?
  3. What would you tell EOs parents to look for when they are assessing for a reaction?

Investment Risk Management

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Risk management negligence within the financial services industry contributed to one of the most significant economic crisis in the recent history of the U.S. During this time, Lehman Brothers, a global financial services company, filed for bankruptcy protection. This created the largest bankruptcy ever within the financial services industry. In order to complete this assignment, you will need to search the Internet and Strayer databases for information related to Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, the financial risk factors that contributed to the failure, and managements responsibility for the failure.

Write a five to six (5-6) page paper in which you:

  1. Based on the information you research related to Lehman Brothers, assess the factors that contributed to the financial failure of the firm, indicating how management failed to manage the risk related to each factor. Make a recommendation for how firms should manage these types of risks in the future. Provide support for your recommendation. 
  2. High-risk investments such as mortgage-backed securities, had a significant impact on the valuation of investments held with Lehman Brothers, yet many financial institutions continue to use these investments today. Assess the sufficiency of risk management techniques used by financial institutions today, indicating whether or not you believe the risk is appropriately managed to avoid a subsequent financial crisis. Provide support for your position. 
  3. Evaluate managements role within a financial investment firm for establishing proper risk management procedures for high-risk investments and the appropriate level of accountability for portfolio performance. Determine the consequences that should be enacted when Financial Firm Management fails to perform their fiduciary obligation to investors, indicating how these consequences should be implemented. Provide support for your response. 
  4. Given the recent debt crisis within the EURO zone of Europe, analyze the impact to the performance of foreign markets and recommend a strategy for financial firms to minimize investment risk in these markets. Provide support for your recommendation. 
  5. Evaluate the role of the Federal government, if any, related to the regulation of investments by financial institutions including the scope of the role, the authority and enforcement capability within the regulatory agency, the benefits, and consequences of regulation. Predict how the regulatory environment may change over the next five (5) years. Provide support for your prediction. 
  6. Use at least five (5) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

  • This course requires use of new . The format is different than other Strayer University courses. Please take a moment to review the SWS documentation for details.
  • Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow SWS or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions. 
  • Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the students name, the professors name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length. 

 The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

  • Explain commonly practiced risk management techniques. 
  • Use technology and information resources to research issues in financial risk analysis. 
  • Write clearly and concisely about financial risk analysis using proper writing mechanics.

Click to view the grading rubric.

Team Dynamics Journal

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Introduction:
You might be called upon to lead a Team at some point in your career. For this reason, it could be useful to reflect on the strengths and weaknesses of Teamwork in a pressure situation as well as developing awareness of various leadership dynamics that emerge in Teamwork.

Your Objective:
Your task is to develop an ongoing Journal in Blackboard in the Journal Tab that describes and discusses the leadership and team dynamics that you observe whilst functioning in your team.

Your Outcomes:
A comprehensive Journal of at least 2000 words, including any learnings from the course and any additional research, that interactively describes:
    Your sense of your own personal leadership capacity and role within the team.
    Your sense of the leadership capacity of the other team members.
    Your evaluation of your team leader and team members at various stages throughout the course.
    A reflection on any conflicts that arose, the causes of the conflict, and the way in which you, your leader (ship) and your team handled the conflict.
    A discussion around how the team might function better.
    A discussion around the positive and negative aspects of the leadership approach of the team leader. If you are the team leader discuss how you feel your leadership impacted the rest of the team as well as describing the leadership approach that you used to support the relationships and goal of the team.
    A discussion around:
o    Did we develop a Team Charter?
o    Did we use the Team Charter?
o    Did we develop a Team Vision Statement?
o    Did the Team Vision Statement help us or hinder us?

America’s (small) new trand: taking a gap year

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1) good critical reading and thinking that reflects a clear understanding of the text and how to apply it.
2) An interesting introduction that catches the reader’s attention, provides background, and expresses an interesting thesis that reveals a clear purpose
3) Clear summary that accurately captures the key points of the article or chapter.
(remember to include signal phrases and page numbers)
4) Well-developed