Briefly define and give a specific example of: A.1. Regression analysis

PART A: Answer any 5 of the questions A.1 – A.7. Do not answer additional questions. This part is worth 15% of the exam. Answers in this part will range in length between one word to three sentences. Briefly define and give a specific example of: A.1. Regression analysis A.2. R2 A.3. Adjusted R2 A.4. t statistic A.5. dummy variable A.6. hedonic regression A.7. logarithmic transformation PART B: Answer all 3 of the questions B.1 – B.3. This part is worth 30% of the exam. will be short answer essays. Answers in this part will range in length between three to seven sentences. B.1. Explain how each of the following affects the bid-rent function/size of the city. •Increase P •Increase w •Increase k •Increase t •Increase a See Figure 1 B.2. According to Census Journey to Work data, which three counties are top destinations for commuters from Santa Clara County – not including Santa Clara County? Please list in order and list the estimated commuters based on 2011-2015 5-Year ACS Commuting Flows. B.3. Describe two kinds of scale economies. What different implications do the two kinds of scale economies have for regional economic development? PART C: Answer question C.1. This part is worth 55% of the exam. will be a longer essay. Answers in this part will range in length between five to seven paragraphs. C.1. Describe the central economic concept you addressed in your term project and what insight it gave you on the basic policy issue addressed in the reading you reported on.

Describe The Culture of Jewish, Christian, or Islamic.

Choose the one of three topics below 1.Using at least one example of Jewish, Christian, or Islamic art (you may use several if you wish), discuss the ways in which the artistic production captures the values of the faith. 2.Take a religious celebration or observance from the Jewish, Christian, or Islamic tradition and trace its development through time up to the present. In what ways has it changed and how has it remained the same? 3.How has architecture been used to reflect religious or spiritual values? Choose a structure or structures from one of the faiths we’ve discussed and explore the connections between its form and functions, and the ideas of the faith.

Discuss Technical and Social Terminology for Organizations Today.

Discuss Technical and Social Terminology for Organizations Today. textbook: Scott, W. R., Davis, G. F. (2015). Organizations and Organizing: Rational, Natural and Open Systems Perspectives. United States: Taylor & Francis.Compare and contrast the rational, natural, and open systems of organizations. The following should be addressed at a minimum:Defining characteristicsRelationship between the threeTheoretical viewpointsPersonal perspectives

What does this story have to do with Plato’s attempt to answer the question: why are good things good?

Book Two of Plato’s Republic opens with Glaucon telling Socrates a story about the “ring of Gyges.” Recount the main features of this story. Why does Glaucon tell this story? What does this story have to do with Plato’s attempt to answer the question: why are good things good? In particular, what does this story have to do with Glaucon’s division of good things into three categories: (a) things that are good in themselves but not in their consequences, (b) things that are good in their consequences but in themselves, and (c) things that are good both in themselves and in their consequences? Cite relevant portions of the text in support of your answers.

How do they handle the conflict?

Analysis of Frederick Douglass’ “Learning to Read and Write” (p. 129) and Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl” (p. 921)1. How would you compare Douglass’ “Learning to Read and Write” with Kincaid’s “Girl” in terms of content, substance, passion, and situation at stake?2. Compare and contrast the conflict or problem the two protagonists are confronted with. How do they handle the conflict? As the saying goes, where there is determination, there is no failure. Which of the two protagonists help readers better understand the theme of determination, perseverance, and purpose of firmness. Support your analysis with textual evidence.3. Analyze how the two protagonists attempt to resolve the situation in which they find themselves. Do they demonstrate enough readiness to withstand the test of time? Do they show sufficient resolve to get to where they are required by the society to be following their respective situations? Provide textual evidence to support your analysis.4. Discuss the lessons or moral you have learned from the two texts and back them up with textual evidence.5. Establish a strong connection between the themes and observations from the two texts with the real life situation in the United States today. Take cognizance of the untold challenges a certain category of individuals especially undocumented immigrants go through in their quest to gain knowledge or access to higher education in the country.

Short Essay #2: Modernity and Change

Length: 3-4 pages, double-spaced, 12 pt Times New Roman or similar font Make sure to include: Your name, creative title, an identifiable thesis statement that contains a debatable argument, page numbers, Chicago-style citations in footnotes (see Essay #1 instructions for my handout; also under Course Files) Sources: You should cite AT LEAST THREE of the course readings or other materials (images, videos, etc.), and at least ONE should be a primary source (ex: Fitrat’s debate, Bolshevik propaganda poster). You do not need: Cover page, separate bibliography Topic: Evaluate at least one way in which Eurasian Muslims, or a subset of these Muslims (e.g., women, Central Asian intellectuals, Sino-Muslims), experienced one or more of the changes sweeping Eurasia in the early twentieth century (reform currents such as jadidism, nationalism, regime change, communism) and responded. Detailed instructions: The early twentieth century brought many changes for the Muslims of Eurasia, both in the form of new ideas, such as nationalism and communism, and in the form of political change – the demise of multiethnic empires, such as the Russian Empire, Qing Empire, and Ottoman Empire, and the rise of new states, in particulary the Soviet Union, formed after the Bolshevik seizure of power in the Russian Empire in 1917, and the Republic of China, formed when the nationalist Guomindang took power from the Qing dynasty, followed by the Communists coming to power in 1949 and the formation of the PRC (though the rise of new states such as the Republic of Turkey also had meaning for Eurasian Muslims!). Muslim communities responded to these changes in a number of different ways, including rethinking Islamic modernity and negotiating attacks on Muslim customs and traditions, envisioning different forms of the “nation,” and collaborating with new regimes to try to win more autonomy for Eurasian Muslims. Some examples of appropriate approaches to the assignment: Jadidist approach to reforming Islam; how Eurasian Muslim intellectuals thought about the nation; changes brought by the Bolshevik Revolution to Soviet Muslim women. You may choose to focus on just Russia/the Soviet Union or just China, or you could write a transnational or comparative paper. Including the late-nineteenth century is fine. Remember that every good history essay takes a position, and yours should as well. A good thesis is one that your reader might argue against – but with enough evidence in the body of the essay, your reader should be convinced by the end of the essay that your interpretation/position is a good one. On sources: You may include materials from your own research if you choose. There is no maximum number of citations or sources, but three MUST be from what I sent you. Resources (I will attach non-link sources): On the jadids and women: Ross Making Muslim Women Political _ Imagining the Wartime Woman in the Russian Muslim Women’s Journal Suyumbika.pdfPreview the document Jadidist writings (primary sources): On Modernist Islam: A Sourcebook (section on Russian Empire) (Links to an external site.) On Soviet Muslim women: Edgar Bolshevism Patriarchy Nation.pdfPreview the document Kamp Debating Sharia Muslim Women’s Congress 1917.pdfPreview the document On nationalism in China: Esherick How the Qing Became China.pdfPreview the document On the Uyghurs: Brophy, “The Uyghurs: Making a Nation” (full) (Links to an external site.) Thum, “The Uyghurs in Modern China” (full) (Links to an external site.) On Chinese Muslim warlords: Familiar_Strangers_A_History_of_Muslims_in_Northwe…_—-_(5._Strategies_of_Integration_Muslims_in_New_China_).pdfPreview the document On Islam in Soviet Central Asia: Keller Islam in Soviet Central Asia.pdfPreview the document On the Ottoman and Japanese Empires, Pan-Islamism and Pan-Asianism: Aydin PanIslamism and PanAsianism.pdfPreview the document