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  • Computer Essentials

    ITC 1301 COMPUTER ESSENTIALS UNIT III SCHOLARLY ACTIVITY This assignment measures your mastery of (ULOs 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2). In Units I, II, and III, you learned about the history of computers, application and system software, blockchain, cryptocurrency, computer ethics, and explored two Microsoft Office applications, Word and Excel. In this assignment you will demonstrate what you have learned in these three units. This assignment will have five parts. Using Microsoft Word, address the prompts in each part of the assignment. Label each section as Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5. Part 1 Title: Lab Response Discuss one feature of MS Word and one feature of MS Excel that you found challenging within the lab and why. Examples are WordArt, inserting shapes, adding borders, cell styles, etc. This response should be at least one paragraph in length. Part 2 Title: History of Computers Identify and discuss a key milestone in the history of computers that interests you and why. This section should be at least one paragraph. Part 3 Title: System Software vs. Application Software In your words, explain the difference between application software and system software as if to another coworker who has limited technical knowledge. Use examples to support your rationalization. This section should be at least two paragraphs. Part 4 Title: Blockchain and Cryptocurrency In a minimum of one paragraph each: Conduct some research on the internet and discuss one underlying technology of cryptocurrencies like blockchain, cryptography, distributed ledger technology (DLT), or peer-to-peer networking. Conduct some research on the internet and discuss how blockchain is revolutionizing an industry of your choice, such as finance and banking, supply chain management, energy, healthcare, education, and others. Part 5 Title: Data Security In a minimum of one paragraph: Conduct research on the internet about copyrights and intellectual property. In your words explain what is meant by copyright and intellectual property. Use examples to support your ideas. Then, discuss if you think it is ethical to use software or intellectual property without paying for it? Why, or why not? All five parts of your paper should be submitted in one Microsoft Word document. The total length for this assignment should be at least two pages in length, not counting the title or reference pages. Please use headings and labels to identify the different parts and sections of the assignment. Adhere to APA Style when constructing this assignment, including in-text citations and references for all sources that are used. You are required to use at least two outside sources for this assignment, one of which may be the textbook. Please note that no abstract is needed.

  • Negative

    Pick an industry or product that you are interested that may have negative externalities. This could be anything that may pose a negative cost on third parties. For example, this could could be data centers producing AI chips and their associated pollution or cigarette smoking and second-hand smoke exposure.

    1) Briefly summarize the industry/product you selected and why there is a negative externality (what is happening that imposes an additional cost on third parties?).

    2) In your own opinion, what would be an impactful policy option to address your negative externality?

    Im choosing alcohol

  • Culture Self-Identity and Politics

    The assigned article Beyond “Culture”: Space, Identity, and the Politics of Difference by Indian postcolonial scholar Akhil Gupta and American critical anthropologist James Ferguson critiques how Anthropologys use of culture has failed to fully explain the politics of cultural differences and their production. Challenging the notion of culture as a fixed, geographically bounded phenomenonsuch as in Geertzs workthey argue that the concept of culture itself shapes imaginaries of space and belonging, a perspective also supported by Soekefeld. In Modules 1 and 2, we debunked the idea that culture alone determines identity within a specific locality. While focusing on the individual is one way to theorize culture, Gupta and Ferguson push us to examine how hierarchies of race, class, and gender are constructed and legitimized through cultural narratives. For instance, Trumps previous and current rhetoric on immigrationframing it as a threat to the purity of American cultureillustrates how ideas around culture (which often correlates with nationhood in political rhetoric) can be deployed to justify exclusion and assert superiority. For this modules assignment, please address the following: Define the cultural critique approach in Anthropology. Explain the following quote using a cultural critique lens: For if one begins with the premise that spaces have always been hierarchically interconnected, instead of naturally disconnected, that cultural and social change becomes not a matter of cultural contact and articulation but one of rethinking differences through connection (Gupta & Ferguson 1992: 8). Briefly explain how Foucault theorizes power.

  • Business Question

    Assignment Instructions

    Case Study

    Review Chapter 2 and then read the scenario below.

    Scenario

    Suzan has worked for Organization ABC for one year. During her 30-day review, Suzan received amazing scores from her supervisor. During her 60-day review, Suzans performance was deemed as acceptable, but her ability to communicate with her colleagues was lacking. During Suzans 90-day review, Suzans supervisor, at the time, expressed that her performance needed serious improvements. Unfortunately, Suzans supervisor noted the following:

    1. Suzan did not provide her colleagues with messages from customers and vendors.
    2. Suzans phone skills were ineffective, especially when interacting with customers.
    3. Suzans temper was a concern and she often raised her voice when she became frustrated.

    You have been hired to replace Suzans previous supervisor. Between Suzans 90-day review and presently (her annual review), you have noticed that Suzans performance still is a problem. Before her departure from the organization, Suzans past supervisor stated, Suzan is nice; however, she is a horrible communicator. I cannot work with her, as she is such a challenge to deal with Good luck, as Suzan is one of the worst employees of Organization ABC.

    During your first week in your new role as supervisor, you met with Suzan to understand more about her performance. She stated, I am a hard worker; however, I only was told what I was doing wrong. I am willing to learn. Can you help me become the best employee for Organization ABC? I want to succeed in this role.

    As a supervisor, you know that you have various responsibilities. One of your responsibilities is to address performance deficiencies. Although Suzan was provided with a job description, which included detailed information about the critical nature of communication in her role, she needs additional support.

    Examine pages 79 and 80 in your textbook. Then, create a plan, specific to Suzans needs, detailing how you will utilize the following to ensure improved performance:

    1. Observation and documentation
    2. Updates
    3. Feedback
    4. Resources
    5. Reinforcement

    For example, when thinking about observation and documentation, what might you do to keep track of Suzans performance? Why? When thinking about updates, how will you keep Suzan updated? Explain and justify your rationale for each of the five components and why you made the recommendations that you provided.

    Your well-written paper should meet the following requirements:

    • Be 4-6 pages in length, which does not include the title and reference pages, which are never a part of the content minimum requirements.
    • Use Saudi Electronic University academic writing standards and APA style guidelines.
    • Support your submission with course material concepts, principles and theories from the textbook and at least two scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles.
    • Review the grading rubric to see how you will be graded for this assignment.

    Requirements: read the Instructions

  • Policy Selection and Background

    Assignment Description

    Government policy impacts social justice problems. Some policies may create social justice problems just as they attempt to correct them. To successfully address social justice problems, social workers must have the knowledge and skills to locate, access, analyze, and interpret public policy.

    Based on your analysis of the social justice problem in the Week 2 assignment, select a current enacted policy that is presently a law to analyze using relevant local, state, or federal policy resources. Your analysis must also address the problem that affects your chosen diverse cultural group (for example, based on race, religion, disabilities, gender orientation, socioeconomic status, or access to services). This will be the policy you analyze for not only this assignment, but the Weeks 6 and 9 assignments as well. Be sure to incorporate constructs that have been covered in this course into your analysis. You will compile all of the assignments you complete throughout the course in Week 9, so as you receive feedback for each assignment, revise your work as necessary.

    If you need additional support for conducting your research, it may be useful to consult the following:

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    By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following CSWE EPAS competencies and general practices:

    • CSWE EPAS Competency 5: Engage in policy practice.
    • C5.GP.A: Use social justice, anti-racist, and anti-oppressive lenses to assess how social welfare policies affect the delivery of and access to social services.
    • Related assignment criteria:
    1. Describe the purpose of a currently enacted policy that addresses the social justice problem for a chosen population, using scholarly literature for support.
    2. Describe how the policy connects to the chosen social justice problem, using scholarly literature for support.
    3. Describe the historical issues and context that led to the creation of the social problem and policy development, including details about voting outcomes and legislative leaders, using scholarly literature for support.
    4. Describe the programs and services provided through the policy, using scholarly literature for support.
    5. Describe the impact of the historical influences on the implementation of the policy, using scholarly literature for support.

    Assignment Instructions

    To complete this assignment, select a local, state, or federal policy that targets the form of oppression and discrimination you described in Week 2 (for example, the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), Veterans Millennium Healthcare Act, Affordable Care Act (ACA), Adoption and Safe Families Act, Medicare, Medicaid, Temporary Aid to Needy Families Act, Social Security Act, or a relevant state or local policy, such as state or local affordable housing policies or health and safety policies related to COVID-19).

    Then, complete the following:

    • Describe the purpose of a currently enacted policy that addresses the social justice problem for a chosen population, using scholarly literature for support.
    • Remember, this policy must be enactedin other words, it must be passed legislation.
    • Describe the programs and services provided through the policy, using scholarly literature for support.
    • What are examples of the programs and services that are being offered as a result of your chosen policy?
    • Who is the target population for these programs and services?
    • Describe how the policy connects to the chosen social justice problem, using scholarly literature for support.
    • Connect the policy to the social justice problem you selected by giving a brief description of the problem. Is it a new problem, something that has recently arisen, or an old problem that has never been resolved?
    • Describe the historical issues and context that led to the creation of the social problem and policy development.
    • Include information about the voting outcomes for the policy and the legislative leaders who influenced the policy historically and in the present.
    • Include the impact these historical features have had on the policy’s implementation.

    Guidelines

    • Use scholarly, peer-reviewed literature to support your claims.
    • Review the Policy Selection and Background rubric for information on how your work will be graded.
    • Remember that your instructor will be providing feedback on your assignments. Use that feedback to improve the content of your final assignment submission in Week 9, Policy Analysis and Recommendations.

    Additional Requirements

    The assignment you submit is expected to meet the following requirements:

    • Written communication: Written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.
    • APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to current APA style and formatting standards.
    • Cited resources: A minimum of five scholarly sources. Most literature cited should be current, with publication dates within the past five years.
    • Length of paper: 46 typed, double-spaced pages.
    • Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.
    • Due date: Assignment must be submitted to your instructor in the courseroom no later than Sunday, 11:59 p.m. CST, this week.

    Competencies Measured

    By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and rubric criteria:

    • Competency 1: Use social justice, anti-racist, and anti-oppressive lenses to assess how social welfare policies affect the delivery of and access to social services. (C5.GP.A)
    • Describe the purpose of a currently enacted policy that addresses the social justice problem for a chosen population, using scholarly literature for support. (C5.GP.A)
    • Describe the programs and services provided through the policy, using scholarly literature for support. (C5.GP.A)
    • Describe how the policy connects to the chosen social justice problem, using scholarly literature for support. (C5.GP.A)
    • Describe the historical issues and context that led to the creation of the social problem and policy development, including details about voting outcomes and legislative leaders, using scholarly literature for support. (C5.GP.A)
    • Describe the impact of the historical influences on the implementation of the policy, using scholarly literature for support. (C5.GP.A)
    • Competency 3: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for members of the social work profession.
    • Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for members of the social work profession.

  • Introduction Melware Types and discussion

    In these videos, you will learn about malware types, how they can spread, and the history of ransomware and malware. You will learn about worms and how they use botnets to spread across the net and infect machines. Patch Tuesday will be discussed and explained. The impact of viruses and how they can impact a company will be discussed.

    The takeaways from this lesson will be:

    1. Understanding what is a virus and how it spreads.
    2. Understanding what is worm and how it uses peer-to-peer to spread.
    3. Understanding what patch Tuesday is and why it is important to use care when patching.
    4. Understanding the history of ransomware and malware.
    5. Exploring major cyber attacks
    6. Understanding what can be done to help prevent cyberattacks.

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    Cyber Attacks

    Discussion – Introduction to Viruses and Malware

    Objective

    This week’s discussion will engage us in a conversation about some major cyberattacks that had a huge impact for its time. You will answer the questions below to get started. Please provide thoughtful answers and any personal feedback you may have on this topic.

    • In May 2017, WannaCry took control of computers and demanded digital ransom
    • In September 2016, Mirai launched some of the most powerful and disruptive DDoS attacks
    • In June 2019, a ransomware attack dubbed, “Triple Threat”, crippled computer systems in two Florida Cities

    Important Dates

    This discussion has two dates to remember to complete it successfully. Your initial post should be completed by Thursday at 11:59 pm ET and your response post should be completed by Monday at 11:59 pm ET.

    Instructions

    Use these questions to get started with your initial discussion board post. Also, please refer back to these when building your peer response post.

    1. Who was behind the WannaCry attack?
    2. What did the WannaCry cyberattack do?
    3. What was Mirai?
    4. What exactly did the Mirai attack do?
    5. What was the “Triple Threat” and why was it given that name?
    6. What has been done to prevent these from happening again?

    Initial post

    Your initial discussion board post should be posted by Thursday at 11:59 pm ET of this week. Your initial post should fully answer the questions above and incorporate research through online references.

    The initial post must also be substantiative and contain at least one (1) reliable online references. These references must be clickable and navigate to active pages. Please intersperse these references within your post and put the link behind the word or phrase to which it refers.

    Response Posts

    You should write a minimum of one (1) reply posts to a peer by Monday at 11:59 pm ET of this week. The response should address the thoughts and ideas presented by your peer and build upon their ideas by presenting more information.

    The peer response will be at least one paragraph long consisting of at least four sentences. Remember that references must be clickable and navigate to active pages.

  • UNIT III ASSIGNMENT

    For the assignment, select a project from the following list.

    • Office relocation
    • Enterprise resource planning (or other large-scale information system)
    • Automated car wash with multiple self-serve vacuum stations
    • Warehouse shopping center
    • County courthouse building
    • Other: Subject to approval by instructor. Note that the project must be sufficiently stakeholder-intensive to support creation of the assigned plans.

    Part 1: Project Selection, Stakeholder Identification, and Stakeholder Analysis

    For the chosen project, identify, analyze, and rank by importance the project stakeholders into a stakeholder identification and analysis plan. Use the following areas as a guide to your plan. Please note, you are only completing Parts 1 through 3 for the Unit III Assignment.

    1. Introduction
    2. Stakeholder Identification and Analysis
    3. Resource Management Plan and RACI (Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, and Informed) Chart
    4. Communication Plan/Stakeholder Management Plan
    5. Resource Acquisition Plan
    6. Team Development Plan

    Part 1 (the project idea, project scope, stakeholder identification, and analysis of each stakeholder) should be at least two pages in length.

    Part 2: Resource Management Plan and RACI Chart

    For the project selected above, create a simple resource management plan. Include an introduction, and consider the following questions:

    1. Who will I need to plan and execute this project?
    2. From where (and how) will I acquire these people?
    3. What does the project need in terms of (a) materials, (b) equipment, (c) funding, and (d) tools and supplies?
    4. From where (and how) will I acquire these resources?
    5. What basic approach will be taken regarding teambuilding, team development, and team motivation?

    Refer also to Figure 2.1 of the textbook for guidance in what to include in the plan. Finally, create a RACI (responsible, accountable, consulted, and informed) chart for your project following the example of Table 2.1 of the textbook.

    As a guide to depth, your resource management plan should be at least two pages in length. Your RACI chart may be created either as a table in Word and included at the end of the document or submitted as a separate Excel file.

  • Race Perspectives

    Instructions

    Race is a powerful and contentious topic in today’s society. Anthropologists have taken great care to address issues of race and ethnicity throughout history, however other anthropologists help racist ideas and resolved to develop a science of race. For this journal kindly Access the website and explore Race is not Genetic and Lived Experiences.

    Be sure to read Chapter 2 Race and review the following video:

    Then answer the following questions:

    • How does anthropology, as a discipline, define race?
    • Explain why it is difficult to use biological characteristics to categorize people into races.
    • Reflect on how the racial perception of other nationalities can impact your everyday life.

    Other resources of interest:

    AAA Statement on Race. 1998. American Anthropologist 100 (3): 712-13. .

    Democracy Now! 2023. Inside the Smithsonians Racial Brain Collection & the Eugenics Project Behind It.

    Please be sure to cite your resources using

    Extra material is in attachments

    Attached Files (PDF/DOCX): Race_and_Ethnicity.pdf, Anthropological concepts ANT 101.pdf, AAA Statement on Race.pdf

    Note: Content extraction from these files is restricted, please review them manually.

  • EPI short answer

    Question 1.

    An epidemiologic study was conducted among workers at a new pesticide manufacturing plant in

    Michigan. The purpose of the study was to see if routine exposure to pesticide residue increased the risk of acute respiratory infection (ARI). All 500 workers in the plant participated in the study during a full year of follow-up and all were free from ARI at the start of the study.

    Pesticide levels were monitored daily in two sections of the plant, one in which pesticides were

    stored and handled on a high-volume basis and one in which non-pesticide operations took place.

    425 plant workers were assigned to the high-volume pesticide location and the remaining workers

    were assigned to the non-pesticide location. All workers underwent monthly health exams in which they were tested for ARI. At the conclusion of the study, 85 participants had been diagnosed with at least one ARI. 68 of these were among the workers assigned to the high-volume pesticide location and 17 among the remaining workers.

    a) In two sentences, is this an example of a prospective cohort study or a retrospective cohort study? How do you know?

    e) Do you believe that selection bias played a role in these study findings? Explain why or why not. 1-3 sentences.

    Question 2. (20 points, 10 points each)

    a. Describe an example of a retrospective cohort study. Make sure to denote the exposure and outcome and how information is collected. (3-5 sentences)

    b. Using the example from 2a. Explain at least one source of bias for this study and a challenge you perceive in conducting this study. (3-5 sentences)

  • PS564ALTASSIGNMENT

    Directions for submitting the Seminar Option 2 assignment:

    While viewing the PowerPoint of this weeks Seminar, create a summary document. Do not copy Seminar slides, as this would be considered plagiarism. You should be able to view the PowerPoint and make notes at the same time so that you capture the following items:

    • Describe the main points from the Seminar PowerPoint.
    • Include sub-topics from the PowerPoint
    • Include answers to any review quiz questions and discussion prompts
    • Include the seminar exit ticket: one new/valuable thing learned and what questions you still have.

    You may write the assignment in a bulleted list format or paragraph format. APA style is not required. Remember to review the grading rubric so that you include all of the required elements.