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The using of social media in the classroom in high schools.Discuss.

Should the U.S. Convert to a Zero Personal Income Tax?

Aesthetics of Culture  Cultural Compare and Contrast Writing Assignment.

 

Assignment 1: Database Consultant Services
Xpress Mart is a large convenience store chain, headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA, serving approximately 7.1 million customers a year throughout the North East. The company headquarters houses over 800 employees.
Xpress Mart has recently purchased Dales Outlet stores, and is currently experiencing a seven percent (7%) annual growth. The market plan is to expand its operations by entering into the Midwest, and to eventually become a National chain. The database is growing at a rate of eight and one-half percent (8.5%) per year and will exceed the current hard drive space. The main server is overloaded, resulting in poor performance and long delays.
The company currently has a 4-terabyte Online Transaction Processing (OLTP), database that tracks over four (4) billion transactions each year and pulls the information daily from each store regionally.

Since Xpress Mart is experiencing performance issues, and soon will have issues with capacity, it has decided to upgrade the SQL server to 2012, hiring you as a database consultant.

Write a four to six (4-6) page paper in which you:

1. Assess the physical storage requirements and summarize the initial steps you should take before beginning capacity planning and the upgrade.
2. Outline the foreseeable issues that Xpress Mart may encounter while upgrading from SQL 2008 to SQL 2012.
3. Identify whether the growth of the database or the growth of the business is going to influence your design. Justify your response.
4. Using Visio or a similar drawing program, outline the proposed changes that will accommodate the capacity changes to the database. Note: The graphically depicted solution is not included in the required page length.
5. Recommend a solution for how the company should maintain and monitor the database to ensure proper performance is maintained.
6. Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the students name, the professors name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Create an MSSQL database solution to solve a proposed business problem.
• Describe and design physical storage requirements.
• Demonstrate the ability to design and plan the hardware and software infrastructure for database environment.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in the MSSQL environment.
• Write clearly and concisely about advanced database administration topics using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.

Jim and Laura Buyer visit the local car dealership because they are interested in buying a new car. The car they currently have is aging and is starting to have mechanical problems. Jim and Laura would share the new car, and use it to go back and forth to work and school. Before going to the dealership, Jim and Laura decide that they can only afford $400.00 a month in car payments.

Once at the car dealership, Jim and Laura meet Stan Salesman. Stan shows them several vehicles and Jim and Laura test-drive several of the cars. Jim and Laura particularly like the blue 4-door sedan. Therefore, they agree to give Stan Salesman a $100.00 deposit to hold the car for a day. Stan Salesman does not give them the receipt but guarantees that the $100.00 is refundable. No documents were signed.

The next day, Stan Salesman calls Jim and Laura to ask them when they would like to take delivery of the car. Jim and Laura, on the way home from the dealership, decided that they were not going to buy the car because they did not want to spend that money each month. Therefore, Jim and Laura tell Stan salesman that they have decided not to buy the car and request their $100.00 deposit back.

Stan insists that the $100.00 was a deposit on the car and was meant to be part of the contract to buy the car. Stan is very persistent and insistent that Jim and Laura have contracted to buy the car; therefore, the $100.00 will be applied to the purchase price of the car. Jim and Laura are shocked and angry as not only do they not want to spend the money, but now feel as though they are being duped by Stan Salesman.

Jim and Laura have an appointment to see a lawyer in a few days, but know you are a student taking a business law class and come to you for advice. They are very frazzled, and understandably upset that they may have just purchased a car. Since you have been taking business law, you have read and understand the elements of a contract and the defenses to a contract. Therefore, although you are not a lawyer, you provide some basic advice from what you’ve learned in your business law class.

In three to five (3-5) pages, advise Jim and Laura based on the above facts as presented, the material provided in the text, and material covered in the lecture. In your paper, be sure to address the following:

Define the elements of a legal contract using examples from the scenario where applicable.
Decide whether or not there was a contract for the purchase of the automobile.
Identify the facts from the scenario which support your decision on whether or not a contract exists for the purchase of the automobile.
Use at least two (2) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as quality academic resources.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
Typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
Include a reference page. Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.

Create a 1,750- to 2,100-word self-analysis of your attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors in a social context.

Describe in detail the way you think and act with respect to the topics of this course.

Include appropriate examples to illustrate your understanding of the concepts presented in the course.

Address the following in your self-analysis answers:

• Self-concept
  • Define yourself by completing the following sentence: “I am .” Include three of your most defining characteristics and a brief explanation of each.
  • Are you independent or interdependent? What evidence supports your answer?
  • What role does self-serving bias play in your self-concept?
  • Do you have an internal or external locus of control? How does your locus of control contribute to your self-concept?
• Attitudes and feelings
  • How does confirmation bias influence your perception of yourself and the people around you?
  • What experiences have you had with beliefs generating their own confirmation?
  • In what ways have your behaviors influenced your attitudes?
• Gender roles
  • The text suggests several ways genetics influence gender identity, such as level of independence, social dominance, aggression, sexuality. How is your gender identity influenced by genetics? In what ways has your gender identity been shaped by the environment in which you were raised? What evidence do you have to support your answers?
• Social influence
  • To what degree do you feel that you conform? What examples provide evidence of your willingness or unwillingness to conform?
  • How does authority influence your obedience? Support your answer with relevant examples.
  • How has the foot-in-the-door technique persuaded you to do something?
  • How have you persuaded others using the foot-in-the-door technique?
  • How do you change when in the presence of others? Provide examples to support your answers.
• Group dynamics
  • What experiences have you had with social loafing? Do you foresee similar experiences happening again in the future? Why or why not?
  • To what degree do you become deindividuated in the presence of others? Use examples to support your answer.
• Relationships
  • What factors cause you to be attracted to someone?
  • What do you do to help sustain your relationships?
  • What do you do to resolve conflict? Provide examples to demonstrate your answer.

Case Application 3-B: TEAM FUN!

 

            Tony, the new director of human resources, and Edna, the compensation and benefits manager, are hanging employment legislation posters in RETREAT, the TEAM FUN! employee cafeteria. Edna offers, “I remember some woman who applied for a job to advertise men’s baseball gear and sued when she didn’t get the job.  The EEOC said she had no case. A couple of years ago, we moved Fred from fitness demos to stock management because he couldn’t do the treadmill or lift the big weights anymore. There was talk about an age discrimination case because he was 57, but that never went anywhere.”

Tony asks, “Do you realize that all of the warehouse workers are male and all the RETREAT workers are female?”

Edna replies, “What’s your point?” Tony waves his hand at the EEOC information they have displayed. Edna shrugs, “This is the best job I ever had. If you ask anyone else who works here, they will say the same thing.”

 

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Review the “Case Application 3-B: TEAM FUN! Worksheet”.

Prepare a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper answering the following: (only 400 words my part)

• What is the probable defense for the baseball gear job (BFOQ, 4/5ths rule, glass ceiling)? Explain.
• Why didn’t Fred’s age discrimination case go anywhere?
• Is TEAM FUN! Open to discrimination charges in other areas?( Discrimination possibility in areas)
• What should be done to protect TEAM FUN! From discrimination charges?

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

 

Learning Team Assignment: Equal Employment Opportunity Act and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

 

Purpose of Assignment

 

The Learning Team assignment provides insight into the Equal Employment Opportunity Act (EEOA) and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The commission is charged with enforcing the EEOA.  The Learning Team provides the process of filing a claim enabling a deeper understanding of the law and the commission.

 

Resources Required

 

“Case Application 3-B: TEAM FUN! Worksheet”

 

Interpersonal Relationships Project

 

 

There are six well defined stages in interpersonal relationships, including:

 

Contact:  the initial stage of the relationship that includes a perceptual stage where the individuals simply become aware of each other, and an interactional stage that includes the exchange of basic information and where each individual decides if a relationship is worth pursuing.

 

Involvement:  increased contact which allows the individuals to learn more about each other, a sense of being connected begins to develop and the individuals begin to spend more time together doing things that suggest an intensification of the relationship.

 

Intimacy:  Each individual feels a sense of commitment to the other and some type of defined relationship, usually divided into two stages—the interpersonal commitment which is a private commitment and the social bonding which is more public.  Both individuals identify individually as part of a unit or pair, and the public also identifies them as such. 

 

Deterioration:  the weakening of the bonds of intimacy due to dissatisfaction that ultimately leads to withdrawal from contact, decreasing self-disclosure and increased deception.  This stage may or may not include arguing and quarreling.

 

Repair:  one or both individuals make attempts to analyze what is wrong and try to find ways to solve the problems by changing own behaviors or changing the expectations of the other’s behaviors.  The goal of this stage is a return to the intimacy stage.  This stage may be skipped.

 

 

Dissolution:  completely severing the bonds that held the relationship together in the intimacy stage.

 

Watch the 2006 movie “The Break-up.”  Watch for signs and examples of the six stages of a relationship.  Keep in mind that the initial stages may be represented in incidents from the past that are being remembered or retold by the characters. 

 

Write a short, 1 1/2 to 2 page, double spaced essay addressing all six of the stages of interpersonal relationships.

 

 

Remember that although the above components are being demonstrated and studied with a romantic relationship in this particular move, the same processes occur in other types of relationships (friendships, work relationships, etc.) as well.

The American population is changing and these changes will impact the marketing strategies of all companies.

Using the readings for this module, the University online library resources, and the Internet, complete the following:

• Describe how household patterns in the United States are anticipated to change over the next few years.
• Examine the impact of such changes on the demand for different goods.

Next, consider the organization that you work in or an organization you have worked in before. Identify how the changing demographics will impact your organization and what they can do to successfully manage these changes.

 

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  Write an essay examining the effects of the rise of the polis in Greece at the beginning of the Archaic Period (750-500 BC).  The so-called ‘8th-century revolution’ fundamentally changed the nature of Greek society.  Discuss the changes which took place during this period, and, in particular, the different ways in which the two poleis about which we have the most information, Athens and Sparta, shaped their governments and societies in order to deal with the problems that were created by these changes.  Finally, consider how the choices they made shaped the outbreak and course of the two major major wars of the Classical Period (500-323 BC), the Persian and Peloponnesian Wars.

  Note:

  3 paragraphs :

  try to answer three questions..

  1st paragraph : talk about  what is 8th century revelution and what happens?

  -problems in details for example(polis , growth population ) and how thats created problems ,polis, economics

  2nd paragraph : how do Athens and Sparta solve these problems (for example : SPARTA militrise their societies.

  Athens

  (how they change their societies .

  What did they do to fix problems

   

  3rd paragraph :  Results

  how did they use the system to resolve these problems( how did they become powerful )

  -Sparta: Militry

  -Athens : democrasy , Aggresion .

  -political solutions