From the list below, supply the words needed to complete the paragraph. Some words will not be used. argot, toilsome, despondent, protocol, augment, redress, privation. Vedant endured _____ as a child living in the slums of Mumbai, making pennies a day through the _____ job of sorting through bits of recyclable trash. Losing his mother and older brother to disease had left Vedant _____ , even among his friends, because his losses left him feeling that the proper _____ for survival would be to avoid getting close to anyone, lest they go away like his family. Fortunately, Vedant was able to escape his poverty as a teenager and later, as a married man of modest success, look back and _____ his dire philosophy of life, having learned to seek the comforts of friendship.

Parallelism, or parallel structure, is the repetition of words or phrases that have the same grammatical structure. For example, lines 5-7 of the excerpt you read from "Philosophy and Spiritual Discipline" illustrate a parallel arrangement of words in each line. How does the poet use parallelism throughout the rest of the excerpt?

Neurology is, in part, the study of the brain's functions to determine how the brain controls the human nervous system. Phrenology is the study of the shape of a person's skull to determine that person's personality. Both neurology and phrenology are based on evidence that specific areas of the brain control specific functions. Which is a science? Which is a pseudoscience? Explain.

Identify the fallacies of relevance committed by the following arguments, giving a brief explanation for your answer. If no fallacy is committed, write “no fallacy.” Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophy is not worth the paper it’s printed on. Nietzsche was an immoral reprobate who went completely insane from syphilis before he died.

Patrica Eklund, controller in the division of social services for the state, recognizes the importance of the budgetary process for planning, control, and motivational purposes. She believes that a properly implemented participative budgetary process for planning purposes and an evaluation procedure will motivate the managers to improve productivity within their particular departments. Based upon this philosophy, Eklund has implemented the following budgetary procedures.

• An appropriation target figure is given to each department manager. This amount is the maximum funding that each department can expect to receive in the next year.

• Department managers develop their individual budgets within the following spending constraints as directed by the controller's staff.

• Expenditure requests cannot exceed the appropriation target.

• All fixed expenditures should be included in the budget. Fixed expenditures would include such items as contracts and salaries at current levels.

• All government projects directed by higher authority should be included in the budget in their entirety.

• The controller's staff consolidates the budget requests from the various departments into a master budget submission for the entire division.

• Upon final budget approval by the legislature, the controller's staff allocates the appropriation to the various departments on instructions from the division manager. However, a specified percentage of each department's appropriation is held back in anticipation of potential budget cuts and special funding needs. The amount and use of this contingency fund is left to the discretion of the division manager.

• Each department is allowed to adjust its budget when necessary to operate within the reduced appropriation level. However, as stated in the original directive, specific projects authorized by higher authority must remain intact.

• The final budget is used as the basis of control. Excessive expenditures by account for each department are highlighted on a monthly basis. Department managers are expected to account for all expenditures over budget. Fiscal responsibility is an important factor in the overall performance evaluation of department managers.

Eklund believes her policy of allowing the department managers to participate in the budgetary process and then holding them accountable for their performance is essential, especially during times of limited resources. She further believes that the department managers will be positively motivated to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of their departments because they have provided input into the initial budgetary process and are required to justify any unfavorable performances.

$1.$ Describe several operational and behavioral benefits that are generally attributed to a participative budgetary process.

$2.$ Identify at least four deficiencies in Patricia Eklund's participative policy for planning and performance evaluation purposes. For each deficiency identified, recommend how it can be corrected.

Foot B, Inc., is a small manufacturer of professional football equipment. The company has two divisions: the Pad Division and the Helmet Division. Data for the month of June are as follows:

Jacques, the company's chief financial officer since June 1 of the current year, wants to close the unprofitable Pad Division. He believes that doing so will benefit Foot B and benefit him, given that his end-of-year bonus is to be based on the company's overall operating income. In a recent interview, Jacques summarized his business philosophy as follows: "A company is only as strong as its least profitable segment. As long as I'm at the financial helm, only the strongest shall survive at Foot B."

b. After learning about Jacques's business philosophy, the Pad Division's director of marketing made the following statement: "Jacques may understand numbers, but he doesn't understand the complementary relationship between pads and helmets, nor the seasonal nature of our business." What did the director of marketing mean by this statement? How might such information influence Jacques's assessment of the company's Pad Division?

Flint Fabricators Inc. machines metal parts for the automotive industry. Under the traditional manufacturing approach, the parts are machined through two processes: milling and finishing. Parts are produced in batch sizes of 45 parts. A part requires 6 minutes in milling and 8 minutes in finishing. The move time between the two operations for a complete batch is 5 minutes.

Under the just-in-time philosophy, the part is produced in a cell that includes both the milling and finishing operations. The operating time is unchanged; however, the batch size is reduced to 4 parts and the move time is eliminated.

Determine the value-added, non-value-added, and total lead times, and the value-added ratio under the traditional and just-in-time manufacturing methods. Round whole percentages to one decimal place.

Translate each argument into symbolic form. Then determine whether the argument is valid or invalid. "I do know that this pencil exists; but I could not know this if Hume 's principles were true. Therefore , Hume 's principles, one or both of them, are false." - G. E. Moore, Some Main Problems of Philosophy.

Don Sampson begins a meeting with his financial advisor by outlining his investment philosophy as shown below:

Select the statement from the table above that best illustrates each of the following behavloral finance concepts. Justify your selection.

i. Mental accounting.

ii. Overconfidence (illusion of control).

iii. Reference dependence (framing).

Create medical terms common to diagnostic procedures in neurology. Given the definition, complete the medical term it is defining using word elements related to diagnostic terms in neurology. Fill in the blanks. LO 9.15, 9.C

The use of high-fequency sound waves to view blood flow. Doppler ultra/____________ /o/graphy

What should a group do when it is a target of violence or economic exploitation by another group? Write an essay proposing and developing a solution, based on your interpretation of "If We Must Die" and "A Black Man Talks of Reaping" and your personal philosophy or your knowledge of current events.

In the following paragraph, some hyphens are missing and others are used incorrectly. Cross out the words(s) that involve an error in hyphenation and write the correction above it.

Example: Do you consider Martin Ochoa a $\cancel{self made}$ self-made man?

Of course, the school administration did not always agree completely with his philosophy.

The following description of the classic "Linda problem" appeared in the New Yorker: "In this experiment, subjects are told, 'Linda is thirty-one years old, single, outspoken, and very bright. She majored in philosophy. As a student, she was deeply concerned with issues of discrimination and social justice and also participated in antinuclear demonstrations.' They are then asked to rank the probability of several possible descriptions of Linda today. Two of them are 'bank teller' and 'bank teller and active in the feminist movement." Many people rank the second event as more likely. Explain why this violates basic concepts of probability. Source: New Yorker.

FlyWiz, Inc., is a small manufacturer of professional fishing equipment. The company has two divisions: the Rod Division and the Reel Division. Data for the month of January are shown on the following page.

Nick Fulbright, the company's chief financial officer since January 1 of the current year, wants to close the unprofitable Rod Division. He believes that doing so will benefit Fly Wiz and benefit him, given that his end-of-year bonus is to be based on the company's overall operating income. In a recent interview, Fulbright summarized his business philosophy as follows: "A company is only as strong as its least profitable segment. As long as I'm at the financial helm, only the strongest shall survive at FlyWiz."

b. After learning about Fulbright's business philosophy, the Rod Division's director of marketing made the following statement: "Nick Fulbright may understand numbers, but he doesn't understand the complementary relationship between rods and reels, nor the seasonal nature of our business." What did the director of marketing mean by this statement? How might such information influence Fulbright's assessment of the company's Rod Division?