Solving Global Problems 1.What do you think is the largest global problem? Do you think it can be solved? How, or why not? 2.Work with your group mates to come up with a list of the top 5 global problems. Can these problems be solved locally, or do they demand the cooperation of most nations to solve them? 3.What do you think it would take to cause countries to cooperate in solving a large global problem (for instance, the U.S. and Iran, or Israel and Iraq)? 4.Are you a person who usually thinks about these issues, or do you avoid thinking about them because they depress you (or because you believe there is no solution)? 5.If you’re committed to solving one of the big problems you’ve discussed with your group mates, how do you think you can encourage people to seriously commit to working toward solutions? 6.Your generation is often stereotyped as apathetic, more interested in your iPhones or Friday night parties than in working toward global solutions to difficult problems. Is this stereotype at all true, or do people have the wrong idea about your generation? 7.What are some small ways that anyone can help to solve big problems—or do big problems require big solutions (and small efforts don’t help very much)? Sheet1BUSN460 Individual Financial Analysis ProjectStudent Name:Instructions:Go to the CanGo intranet found in the Report Guide tab under Course HomeUse the financial statements from the most recent year to fill in the table below.You may find some formulae calling for an average, e.g., average inventory, average receivables. Because we only have the Balance sheet for one year, you can only use the one year number not an average.Assume interest expense is $0.00Be careful of the Debt equity ratio. The review covers debt asset ratio as an example of how to calculate ratios and that is different from debt equity ratio,and that is different from the debt equity ratio so think about how you calculate the debt equity ratio using the debt asset ratio as an example.Be sure to cite your referencesGreen boxes to be filled in by instructorRatioFormula (express the ratio in words)Detailed calculation (actual numbers from financial statements used for the calculation)Final number (final result of the detailed calculation)Explanation of why ratio is importantEarned points (up to 3 points per "box"/cell)Instructor feedbackExample: Term A/Term B (Term A divided by Term B)1000/2000.50This is the explanation of the role of this ratio and why it is important3Efficiency Ratio: Receivables TurnoverGrade for above0.0Efficiency Ratio: Inventory TurnoverGrade for above0.0Financial Leverage Ratio: Debt/Equity RatioGrade for above0.0Liquidity Ratio: Current RatioGrade for above0.0Liquidity Ratio: Quick RatioGrade for above0.0Liquidity: Working CapitalGrade for above0.0Profitability Ratio: Return on AssetsGrade for above0.0Profitability Ratio: Return on SalesGrade for above0.0Total Earned Points0.0 Women's issues around the world How well are women paid compa.

1. Solving Global Problems
1.What do you think is the largest global problem? Do you think
it can be solved? How, or why not?
2.Work with your group mates to come up with a list of the top
5 global problems. Can these problems be solved locally, or do
they demand the cooperation of most nations to solve them?
3.What do you think it would take to cause countries to
cooperate in solving a large global problem (for instance, the
U.S. and Iran, or Israel and Iraq)?
4.Are you a person who usually thinks about these issues, or do
you avoid thinking about them because they depress you (or
because you believe there is no solution)?
5.If you’re committed to solving one of the big problems you’ve
discussed with your group mates, how do you think you can
encourage people to seriously commit to working toward
solutions?
6.Your generation is often stereotyped as apathetic, more
interested in your iPhones or Friday night parties than in
working toward global solutions to difficult problems. Is this
stereotype at all true, or do people have the wrong idea about
your generation?
7.What are some small ways that anyone can help to solve big
problems—or do big problems require big solutions (and small
efforts don’t help very much)?
Sheet1BUSN460 Individual Financial Analysis ProjectStudent
Name:Instructions:Go to the CanGo intranet found in the Report
Guide tab under Course HomeUse the financial statements from
the most recent year to fill in the table below.You may find
some formulae calling for an average, e.g., average inventory,
average receivables. Because we only have the Balance sheet
for one year, you can only use the one year number not an
average.Assume interest expense is $0.00Be careful of the Debt

2. equity ratio. The review covers debt asset ratio as an example of
how to calculate ratios and that is different from debt equity
ratio,and that is different from the debt equity ratio so think
about how you calculate the debt equity ratio using the debt
asset ratio as an example.Be sure to cite your referencesGreen
boxes to be filled in by instructorRatioFormula (express the
ratio in words)Detailed calculation (actual numbers from
financial statements used for the calculation)Final number (final
result of the detailed calculation)Explanation of why ratio is
importantEarned points (up to 3 points per "box"/cell)Instructor
feedbackExample: Term A/Term B (Term A divided by Term
B)1000/2000.50This is the explanation of the role of this ratio
and why it is important3Efficiency Ratio: Receivables
TurnoverGrade for above0.0Efficiency Ratio: Inventory
TurnoverGrade for above0.0Financial Leverage Ratio:
Debt/Equity RatioGrade for above0.0Liquidity Ratio: Current
RatioGrade for above0.0Liquidity Ratio: Quick RatioGrade for
above0.0Liquidity: Working CapitalGrade for
above0.0Profitability Ratio: Return on AssetsGrade for
above0.0Profitability Ratio: Return on SalesGrade for
above0.0Total Earned Points0.0
Women's issues around the world
How well are women paid compared to men in your country?
Are there any professions from which women are prohibited in
your country?
Are there many single women/mothers in your country? How
difficult is it for them to provide for their children? Does your
country ask for the non-custodial parent (if s/he makes more
money than the custodial parent) to pay child support to the
parent who is actually raising the children?
Does your country have any "social safety nets" for women in
poverty?
Does your country have laws against birth control, abortion, or
that control family size?
Is your country particularly vulnerable to climate change?

3. (example, rising seas engulfing existing shorelines, certain
crops decreasing because of weather). How will this affect
women and any poor families?
Does your country have a high or low drop-out rate of students
from school? Do students drop out just to "hang out," or are
they dropping out to help make a living for their families?
Are there stereotypes of women in the media in your country?
Can women be newscasters? Are there many women in
journalism? Are women considered to be credible writers for the
news?
What about divorce? Is it common? Is property split, or does the
husband keep it all? Who gets custody of the children, usually?
Do most women work outside of the home? Does your country
have a good day care system? Are stay-at-home mothers
respected? Are working mothers respected? Do you expect your
wife to work?
What’s religion; what’s cultural practice?
1.If you’re from the U.S., you should be able to answer this:
was the U.S. government founded on Christianity? What is your
opinion of the separation of church and state?
2.If you’re from a country that is some kind of theocracy (the
government is founded on a particular religion), explain how
religious beliefs are part of your country’s laws.
3.If you’re a Muslim student, are you able to explain something
about Shariah law to other students? Keep in mind that most
other students know very little about this school of law, and any
information you have at all will be helpful. You do not have to
be a law expert!
4.Do you think U.S. culture reflects the result of the separation
of church and state? Is that good, bad, or do you have no
opinion? (an example of separation of church and state is that
students do not pray in public school)
5.U.S. law allows for legal abortion (Roe vs. Wade). Do you
think there would be no abortions performed if it were illegal in
the U.S.? Do you think the law has caused more promiscuity? If

4. you are from a country where abortion is illegal, do you think
no abortions are performed? What cultural values cause some
women to choose abortion over having a child?
6.Is the death penalty legal in your country?
7.In the U.S., you will often find people who believe abortion
should remain legal and who also believe the death penalty
should be banned. You will also find people who believe
abortion should be made illegal and the death penalty should
remain. How do you explain these differences?
8.Can you think of a situation where one should follow the
“laws of God” rather than the “laws of man?”
9.Is how people in your culture dress influenced by religion, or
by common practice of what’s popular among people?
10.Does facial hair on men have any special meaning in your
culture?
Cultural Relativism
1.Can you explain and discuss what cultural relativism is? (The
reading discusses Boas, Benedict, and the later Kluckhohn and
their ideas of cultural relativism.)
2.Is it important to have an attitude of cultural relativism when
studying other cultures?
3.If you study and appreciate another culture, do you have to
accept all its values? (reflect on Rosaldo’s anecdote about
Ilongot head hunting).
4.Kluckhohn, in his earlier work, insisted there are universal
ethical values. Do you agree with him? If you do, what do you
think are universal values? (example, “do not kill.”)
5.Does your country have the death penalty for certain crimes?
Do you agree with the death penalty?
6.Does your country have legal abortion? How does the death
penalty differ from abortion (or does it)?
7.Is it legal in your country for private citizens to own guns?
For what purpose? Do you think that guns make a country safer

5. or not?
Do you think all humans have the capacity for violence, or is
this learned cultural behavior?
Some of the topics may be uncomfortable for group members to
discuss—always be sure that your fellow students are
comfortable with a topic before you begin discussing it!D
1.Tattoos: Do you have any? If you do, what is their
significance? If you do not, why not?
2.Do you have body piercings? Why or why not?
3.What is your opinion of organ donation? Is this a practice that
is encouraged by your culture?
4.What is your opinion of assisted reproductive technologies
(i.e., in vitro fertilization, artificial insemination, surrogate
birth mothers, egg donation)? In in vitro fertilization, often
there are frozen embryos “left over” after a couple have already
had the child(ren) they desire—what should happen to those
embryos? Should they be destroyed? Used for research?
Donated to a childless couple?
5.What is your opinion of human cloning?
6.Sometimes a child is born with indeterminate exterior sexual
organs (a former term for them was “hermaphrodite,” meaning a
combination of male and female). What is your opinion about
surgery which would be done to assign a sex to the child—to
remove parts from one sex in order to emphasize parts of the
other sex?
7.What is your opinion of plastic surgery to repair bodily
defects (i.e., after someone has been badly burned, or is born
with a cleft palate, for instance)? Is that opinion different from
your opinion about plastic surgery done to improve one’s
appearance (i.e., “nose jobs,” for instance)?
8.Are you from a culture where people have bariatric surgery?
Liposuction? Do you know anyone who has had one or both of
these procedures?

6. 9.Are you from a culture where people routinely dye their hair?
Do older people in your culture dye their hair?
Sweatshop/Child Labor
1. Did reading the two assigned articles change your mind, or
confirm your opinion of sweat shops? Do you think sweat shops
located in another country to produce American goods are a bad
thing?
2. Are you from a country whose corporations contract labor
outside the country to produce goods? Or are you from a
country that produces goods for the U.S. or another major world
economy?
3. Do you think sweat shops rob Americans of jobs?
4. Would you pay more for products currently produced in
offshore sweat shops if their production was moved to American
factories with the labor done by Americans? (If you are from
another major world economy, apply this same question to your
country.)
5. Is child labor bad?
6. Did you have to work as a child?
7. Do you think we should follow the rule “buy local?”
8. Do you think the products of any country dominate the world
market now?
9. What products can you name that come from your country,
and what products are imported? (you can answer this no matter
where you’re from)
10. How can we resolve disagreements about the necessity and
fairness of sweatshops that may or may not employ children?
Globalization
Do you believe that globalization is a bad thing, or do you agree
with the authors of the assigned reading?

7. Do you come from a culture that borrows many ideas and
customs from around the world?
3. Does your language import many words from other
languages?
4. What is your opinion about McDonald’s, Wal Mart,
Disneyland, and other large corporations or purveyors of
American culture spreading over so much of the world?
5. Do you think countries should protect themselves against
“cultural pollution” from other countries?
6. What are some things from other cultures that you are glad
your country has imported (either products or customs or ways
of thinking)?
7. Do you come from a country that strongly stresses
“intellectual property rights?” (If you’re reviewing these
questions ahead of time, look up this term if you don’t
understand it.) Does the concept of people owning their own
ideas make sense to you?
8. Do you come from a country where the government highly
regulates business and trade?
9. Do you think an individual’s preferences (to smoke, to not
wear seat belts, to ride a motorcycle without a helmet) are most
important, or do you think society’s interests are more
important?
10. Do you think the interests of all countries should be take
precedence over the interests of one country? (think of the
reference to the U.S. banning the import of shrimp caught with
nets that endanger sea turtles, and the international outrage at
this U.S.-enacted law that actually broke a world trade treaty.)
All the Varieties of English
You may not have time to cover all topics; do your best!
If you’re American, what part of the country are you from?
Does your area have an accent that is distinctive? Are there any
stereotypes associated with your dialect?
If you’re a second-language speaker of English, how did you
learn English? When did you begin to study English? Do you

8. think your country has a good method of teaching English?
If you speak more than one language, do you feel that you have
a different personality in each language that you speak?
Describe what you mean to your mono-lingual group mates, if
there are any.
If you’re American, do you use a lot of slang? What are some of
your favorite slang expressions? Why do you think so many
Americans use slang?
If you’re from another country, does your native language have
a lot of slang? Do you want to learn American slang while
you’re here?
If you’re from another country, is learning vernacular (common,
conversational) English and learning about our culture
important to you, or are you more focused on learning the
subjects in your major?
Do you think it’s bad to invent new words? Do you remember
the section about Buffy the Vampire Slayer on the PBS website
you were asked to read? Try to discuss this in your small group.
This would also make a fun reflective journal response.
Why do you think white (or some Black!) Americans both
deride (speak badly about) Black English and others
love/imitate it? Do you think different groups or kinds of people
have different opinions about it? If you are a Black student, you
might wish to enlighten your group mates about the different
ways Black people speak.
If you’re American, are you from an area where a lot of Spanish
is spoken? Do you think that Spanish will someday be the
U.S.’s unofficial second language?
If you’re American Indian, are there distinctive ways that you
speak? Can you explain to your group mates about the different
slangs or accents among Native tribes?