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Article: “Nation’s Parents Fear that if Kids Miss Enough School They Will Turn Out like Betsy Devos”
Story on Social Media: This is a true story which happened on 9-11-01. James Crane worked on the 101st of Tower 1 of the World Trade Center. He is blind so he has a golden retriever named Daisy. After the plane hit 20 stories below, James knew that he was doomed, so he let Daisy go out as an act of love. About 30 minutes later, Daisy comes back along with James’ boss, who Daisy just happened to pick up on floor 112. On her first run of the building, she leads James, James’ boss, and about 300 more people out of the doomed building. “She led us right to the people, before she got injured,” the fireman explained. Her final run saved another 273 lives. She suffered acute smoke inhalation, severe burns on all four paws, and a broken leg, but she saved 967 lives.
Story and Image on Social Media: Seattle Seahawks Player burned an American Flag with his team to protest the “do not kneel” rule with the NFL.
Story on social media that a baker was making toilet paper cakes during the COVID-19 pandemic.

How many beats would this triplet figure get? 1 -3- 4 5 3 01 2 Give the string and fret for this note. Example: a note on the third string, second fret would be indicated as 32. Do not use commas, spaces, dashes etc. Your answer will consist of 2-3 numbers. Which frets would you use to play these notes on the 6th string? 4 11, 12, 16, 14 8, 11, 15, 14 10, 12, 16, 115 10, 12, 15, 14 9, 12, 15, 13 Indicate the string and fret for this note. Example: a note on the third string, second fret would be indicated as 32. Do not use commas, spaces, dashes etc. Your answer will consist of only 2 numbers. In 6/4 time a quarter note tied to a half note would ring for how many beats? 2 3 4 5 Indicate the string and fret for this note. Example: a note on the third string, second fret would be indicated as 32. Do not use commas, spaces, dashes etc. Your answer will consist of only 2 numbers.

The following sentence has an error related to adjective clauses. Correct the sentence by rewriting it. Fall is a season where leaves turn colour and fall to the ground. Question 14 Rewrite the following sentence to make it more concise by changing the full adjective clause to a REDUCED adjective clause. Flat finish interior paint that is labelled with less than 50 grams of VOCs per litre is generally considered an eco-friendly choice. The following sentence has an error related to adjective clauses. Correct the sentence by rewriting it. Some companies, such as IKEA and Home Depot have point-of-sale equipment use the perpetual inventory system. Use the editor to format your answer Question 12 The following sentence has an error related to adjective clauses. Correct the sentence by rewriting it. ESOL 120 is a compulsory course which students learn about technical writing skills. The following sentence has an error related to adjective clauses. Correct the sentence by rewriting it. A resistor is a device when voltage is applied that limits the flow of electrical current. Use the editor to format your answer Question 10 The following sentence has an error related to adjective clauses. Correct the sentence by rewriting it. The student recreation center is the place which students like to go to work out. The following sentence has an error related to adjective clauses. Correct the sentence by rewriting it. The bank statement contained many errors was rectified on Friday. Question 8 The following sentence has an error related to adjective clauses. Correct the sentence by rewriting it. The student in ESOL 120 who’s score is above 80% will get a bonus of 2%. Rewrite the following 2 sentences as 1 sentence by using an adjective clause to combine them: The man lives in Montreal. You met him yesterday. Question 6 The following sentence has an error related to adjective clauses. Correct the sentence by rewriting it. All applicants must submit a resume and cover letter who are interested in the accountant position. Rewrite the following 2 sentences as 1 sentence by using an adjective clause to combine them: After ESOL 120, students need to enroll in ESOL 220 . It is required in order to obtain a diploma. Question 4 Rewrite the following 2 sentences as 1 sentence by using an adjective clause to combine them: The periodic system is used by businesses. These businesses sell inexpensive goods.

Consider the character of Jocasta. Is she a “flat” character-a generalized queen figure-or an individual with distinctive traits or personality? Point to speeches or details in the play to back up your opinion.

Aztec Home Schooling WRITING Parts of Speech In the following sentences there is one singular noun that should be plural. Which is the correct plural noun? 14) Our watch don’t show the same time. A) times B) watches 15) Why are all the school bus yellow? A) schools B) busses 16) Six protest were arrested after the riot. A) protesters B) protests 17) How many picture did you take on your trip? A) pictures B) trips 18) Our soccer team had eight wins and five loss. A) losses B) teams 19) All the student in the school wear uniforms. A) schools B) students 20) We put two of our best glass on the table. A) tables B) glasses Fragments & Run-On Sentences 21) Pick which group of words below is a fragment: A) After the store. B) After the store don’t run around. C) Don’t run around. 22) Pick which group of words below is a run-on sentence: A) Don’t run around. B) After the store. C) After the store don’t run around. 23) Pick which group of words below is a correctly written sentence: A) After the store. B) Don’t run around. C) After the store don’t run around.

4. Create a ladder logic diagram that will display you and your lab partner’s last names in Morse code. Note that both students’ last names in the team should be displayed. That is if you the press green pushbutton G_PB) one team members name is loaded and displayed, and if you press the red pushbutton (R_PB) the other team members name is loaded and displayed. Morse code rules are displayed below. Set the speed to 0.2 second per step. Make sure to also have a Reset pushbutton. Use the Morse Code Rules listed below to create the Morse code for your last names. DE ? B …. G H 1* •. • • L M O ? three space R S one spece T SOS w Q O V … Z .. Numerals dot dot dot dash dash dash dot dot dot 4 5 …. …. 3… 8 9 Punctuation and Other Signs Period Comma Interrogation Colon Semicolon Quotation Marks .. SOS Start Wait End of Message Understand Error 1:1:1: ||..|../… one space two spaces three spaces Sos Pattern Morse Code System 1. Dash() is three times as long as dot (1) 2. One space between dots and dashes 3. Two spaces between letters 4. Three spaces between words 5. Four spaces between sentences Morse Code Rules Assign Addresses for the Input and Output (1/0) ports. (5 pts.)

Escribe dos posibles respuestas para cada una de las preguntas, mostrando las dos posiciones posibles del pronombre de objeto directo. ¡OJO! A veces un acento escrito es necesario. MODELO iHola, amigal Ya son las 4.00 de la tarde. ¿Estás preparando la fiesta? Si, la estoy preparando estoy preparándola 1. ¿Estás barriendo el piso? Si, 2. ¿Estás arreglando el balcón? Si, 3. ¿Estás haciendo la sangria? Si. 4. EEstás pidiendo la pizza? Si. 5. ¿Estás limpiando las ventanas? Si,

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Sentence 2: For nontraditional students, that is students not coming straight from high school, the experience may seem especially frightening.
What correction should be made to this sentence?
(1) ?insert a comma after is
(2) ?change the spelling of straight to strait
(3) ?remove the comma after high school
(4) ?change the spelling of experience to experiance
(5) ?change may seem to seemed
Sentence 3: These nontraditional students probably could use some advice about what not to expect from college classes.
Which of the following is the best way to write the underlined portion of this sentence? If you think the original is the best way, choose option (1).
(1) ?probably
(2) ?probabley
(3) ?probaley
(4) ?probaly
(5) ?prabably

THE ENRON SCANDAL Enron shocked the world from being “America’s most innovative company” to America’s biggest corporate bankruptcy at this time. At its peak, Enron was America’s seventh largest corporation. Enron gave the illusion that it was a steady company with good revenue but that was not the case, a large part of Enron’s profits were made of paper. This was made possible by masterfully designed accounting and morally questionable acts by traders and executives. Deep debt and surfacing information about hiding losses gave the company’s big problems and in the late 2001 Enron declared bankruptcy under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code. Kenneth Lay was one of the key spokesmen when it came to deregulation of the energy market, much because of his personal connection to the Bush family. In the early 1990’s the United States congress approved a legislation that deregulated the sale of natural gas. Not long before this Lay was one of the initiators that made it possible to sell electricity on the free market. This major deregulation in the energy market gave Enron the opportunity to sell their energy at higher prices, which equivalently lead to greater revenue. This was the start of Enron’s Journey from an energy company to a trading company. The focus went from energy markets to finding new ways of earning money. Large investments were made around the world to expand its business and open itself for new markets. Enron was named America’s most innovative company six years in a row by Fortune’s Most Admired Companies survey. This made the company attractive for top graduates out of the best universities across America, which gave the company more competence and a big urge to strive forward. The strive forward was the same as the aim to increase the stock price. Enron employees were partly paid in stocks so increasing the stock price became a main interest. In 1990, Jeffery Skilling joined Enron Corporation and in 1997, he was appointed as the company’s Chief Executive Officer. Skilling demanded to change Enron’s accounting system from a straightforward kind of accounting where Enron had listed actual revenue and costs of supplying and selling gas to the mark-to-market accounting system. The mark-to-market method requires estimations of future incomes when a long-term contract is signed. These estimations were based on the future net value of the cash flow, costs related to the contract were often hard to predict. This means that the estimated income from projects were included. In Enron’s accounting even though the money was not yet received and if there were any changes such as additional income or loss it would show up in subsequent periods. Investors were given misleading information because of the deviation in the estimations. Enron was the first non-financial company to use the mark-to-market method. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission gave Enron their approval to use the method on January 30, 1992. Special purpose entities are legal entities that are created only to carry out a specific or temporary task. The purposes are to handle assets either by funding or by risk management. A sponsor creates the entities but the funding comes from investors. The financial reporting has many rules about if the entity is separated from the sponsor. In Enron’s case the special purpose entities were not only used to dodge the traditional accounting conventions but also so they could hide debts. The entities made it possible for Enron to underestimate, hide its debts and overestimate its equity. Enron was by 1992 the largest seller of natural gas in North America, their earnings before interest and taxes was $122 million. To grow further, Enron followed a differentiation strategy that were based on that the company owned and operated a variety of assets, pipelines, broadband services, paper plants, water plants and electricity plants. Enron did not only make on its assets, it also traded actively with contracts of the products and services it provided, making further revenue. This made Enron a favorite among investors and between 1990 and end of 1998 Enron’s stock price increased 311%. The increase didn’t stop there, 1999 it increased 56% and 2000 it increased an additional 87%. The index for the market the same two years was +20% and -10%. Enron’s stock price was 83.13 dollars and its market value was just above 60 billion dollars the 31 December of 2000. The Commodity Futures Modernization Act Of 2000, which ensured the deregulation of over-the-counter derivatives, helped Enron with their derivatives business. One example was during the California electricity crisis (2000-2001) where they manipulated the California energy market and sent electricity prices surging by at least a factor of eight. During that time, the of natural gas was trading as much as $60 per thousand cubic feet in California (which was previously selling for about $3 per thousand cubic feet). This kind of manipulation increased Enron’s stock price and revenues. But this not so clever manipulation of Enron made itself a political target and accelerated the ruins of their finances. The use of mark-to-market accounting later backfired. The company’s aggressive accounting had corrupted Enron’s books and had allowed the company to be far too optimistic in its assumptions about the future profits. Cash is a necessity for any company to run and Enron mostly had paper revenue, so by the middle of 2001, they made to the conclusion that the cash crisis had struck them. In Enron, bonuses and incentives in form of cash or stock options came in bundles, only if you were good enough and if you were considered one of the moneymakers. This mentality made Enron a very competitive work place. Everyone was in a hurry to close deals (good or bad) because right after a closed deal, they got their bonuses regardless of the result of the deal. This became a problem since there were a lot of projects being made but no follow-ups. No one wanted to be responsible of a done deal, they just wanted to close it and get their bonus. Performance review committee was also a factor why employees in Enron were so aggressive. It created a culture within Enron that replaced cooperation with competition. The committee gave ratings from 1 to 5, 1 being the highest and in Enron, the 1 mark meant that you will get a good sum of bonus. If you were in the lowest 5 to 6 percent of this rankings, that meant that you are not good enough to stay in Enron and you had to pack your things because you will lose your job anytime soon. In order to hide loses and fabricate earnings, Andrew Fastow created multiple Special Purpose Entities (SPEs). Some SPE’s are Chewco, UM1, UM2 and Raptor. When news about the debt hiding surfaced, Enron’s stock began to fall and several SPEs began to collapse as a result of the drop of Enron’s stock price. For an SPE to be legal, they have to satisfy 3 requirements: (1) at least 3% of the equity had to come from outside investors (i.e. not-Enron), (2) the entity could not be controlled by Enron, and (3) Enron was not liable for any loans or other liabilities. Therefore, they had to be disclosed in Enron’s financial statements depressing earnings and Enron employees (i.e. LIM was run by Andy Fastow while ChewCo was run by Kopper). Enron was housed by bright and talented employees and everyone thinks they are so smart or Jeffery Skilling was the one responsible in implementing mark-to-market accounting in Enron. Under his management, Enron launched Enron Online, which is an internet based service where contracts on energy commodities could be traded with Enron. In the end, Enron could not cover the capital costs of their transactions, which is also one of the reasons that sent the company to bankruptcy. Andrew Fastow was the Chief Financial Officer of Enron, who was the mastermind of the Special Purpose Entities like UM1, M2, etc. in Enron. He made the complicated financial structures so that Enron could hide their losses and debts. Rebecca Mark was the head of the failed businesses of Enron, which were Enron International and Azurix. Some of the projects were the $3 billion power plant in Dabhol, India and the expensive acquisition of Wessex Water. She also used the Enron Jet with her trips around the world. One executive even mentioned that whenever Mark attends a meeting, it costs the company at least $60,000 (that would cover just her transportation). Of course, who could forget the contribution of the Chairman and CEO of Enron, Kenneth Lay, regarding Enron’s bankruptcy. Aside from staying away from the business because he was too busy socializing, he and his family misused the company assets. At one point, they were all using the company jets for personal travels. He was also involved in conspiracy and fraud in the company in order to hide its downfall. The bankruptcy affected at least the 21,000 Enron employees. During the four years before the declaration of bankruptcy where shareholders lost $74 billion, approximately $40-45 billion could be traced back to fraud. 20,000 former employees won a suit against Enron in May 2004 worth $85 million. This was the compensation for nearly $2 billion in pension funds that were lost. Not everything is about money, a lot of people lost their steady income, their security to feed their families and many people’s futures were shattered due to the loss of pension. VE PAST QUESTIONS Sarbanes-Oxley Act is a US federal law that came after the Enron scandal. The Act contains a set of standards that regulate public company boards, management and public accounting firms. Some of the main regulations is that all companies must have a majority of independent directors, nominating and compensation committee has to have independent directors also the audit committee should consist of members that are financially educated and one of the members have to been an expert. On January, 14, 2004, Andy Fastow and his wife Lea both pleaded guilty and got a highly unusual package deal. Andy was sentenced 10 years without parole in exchange of testifying against Lay, Skilling and other former Enron executives. Prosecutors were so impressed with his performance that his final sentence was shortened to 6 years. The jury in the Lay and Skilling trial returned its verdict on May 25, 2006, Lay was convicted to all 6 charges he faced (securities and wire fraud) and subject to a maximum of 45 years in prison. Forty-one days later, Ken Lay died in Aspen because of heart attack; that is even before his sentence was scheduled. On the other hand, Skilling was

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