Building an Access Control System

 

As a member of the Information Security team at a small college, you have been made the project manager to install an access control system (ACS) in a dormitory. The ACS will automatically unlock the dormitory doors via an electronic proximity reader and integrate with an existing security camera system.  The cameras are designed to face and rotate to record a person as they use their identification card to unlock the door.

 

Create a 3-4 page project plan for this project in which you:

1. Include a one-half page project scope statement.

1. Define five (5) major tasks, each with one to two (1-2) subtasks. Also write a brief description for each task.
2. Create a Gantt chart illustrating the project tasks (use Microsoft Project or a similar project management program).
3. Create a system diagram illustrating the equipment and connections required for this project (use Microsoft Visio or a similar software package).

 

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 student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.
• Include charts or diagrams created in Excel, Visio, MS Project, or one of their equivalents such as Open Project, Dia, and OpenOffice. The completed diagrams/charts must be imported into the Word document before the paper is submitted.

 

The specific Course Learning Outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Distinguish between non-functional and functional requirements.
• Use contemporary CASE tools in process and data modeling.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in systems analysis and development.

 

• Write clearly and concisely about Systems Analysis and Development topics using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.

In the HBS case titled “Organizational Transformation: Agency for Volunteer Service,” identify the company’s major stakeholders and discuss:

• What types of relationships did the organization have with its stakeholders?
• How did the organization integrate its stakeholders’ needs in formulating its strategies?

In the HBS case titled “Organizational Transformation: Agency for Volunteer Service,” discuss the success of the organization’s change efforts and address the following:

• Why was the organization successful in implementing the changes?
• Could such success be replicated in a country, such as the United States?

Discuss some of the advantages of growing your organization organically rather than through acquisition. What cautionary advice would you give to a colleague about pursuing a growth strategy?

 

What is Abuse?

Family violence is a simple phrase, but it encompasses a horrifying list of abusive behaviors, both physical and psychological, inflicted by one family member on another…The list is endless. There is seemingly no end to the horrors some human beings can inflict on those whom this society calls their ‘loved ones.’

The American Medical News, January 6, 1992

 

Domestic violence is any repeated attempt to control an intimate partner using physical, emotional and/or sexual tactics.

 

In 1987 Ellen Pence, a long-time domestic violence advocate with the Domestic Abuse Intervention Project in Duluth, Minnesota, published a workbook entitled In Our Best Interest: A Process For Personal and Social Change (1987) (I’ve found this an excellent resource when conducting support groups for women). In this work Pence includes a diagram that has commonly come to be known as the Power and Control Wheel. This diagram is based on the feedback of hundreds of battered women and outlines the various controlling and abusive behaviors that perpetrators use to control their partners. The “Wheel” has become the signature diagram used to explain survivors’ experiences in abusive relationships. The tactics batterers use to control their partners are without limit. While some are certainly more dangerous than others, all forms of abuse have serious short and/or long-term consequences for the victim, and for those around them.

 

In reviewing the “Wheel” please note that the tactics within the spokes of the wheel actually work to support and reinforce the physical and sexual violence occurring in the relationship. In some abusive relationships, over time, the abusing partner may decrease the amount of physical violence and rely more and more on the non-physical tactics to control the survivor. This is not true for all abusive relationships, however.

 

Links for both the Power and Control Wheel and the companion Equality Wheel are posted below.

 

For the purposes of this discussion topic please complete the following:

 

1.  Identify a movie, TV program or book in which one of the adult characters is being abused by an intimate partner.

 

2. Using the Power and Control Wheel as a guide, list the various abusive behaviors and tactics exhibited in the movie. Give examples.

 

3. Respond to the following questions:

 

a) What is the survivor’s reaction to the abuse?

 

b) Is the movie, show or book accurate in its portrayal of an abusive relationship?

 

c) What is inaccurate?

 

4. Once you have posted your comments please respond to at least 2 of your classmates’ post.

 

If you’re having problems coming up with some movies the list below may help:

 

Gaslight (an early Ingrid Bergman movie and probably the first movie to actually address emotional abuse)

What’s Love Got To Do With It? (Tina Turner’s life story)

Provoked

 

Sleeping With The Enemy

The Burning Bed

The Color Purple

Enough

Fried Green Tomatoes

 

For Colored Girls

This Boy’s Life

Not Without My Daughter

 

You may also want to refer to Lifetime TV, Dateline, 20/20 or similar TV programs.

 

 

 

Power and Control Wheel   /content/enforced/50634-013924-01-2152-OL4-7980/BEHS 453 Power & Control Wheel.pdf

 

 

 

Equality Wheel   /content/enforced/50634-013924-01-2152-OL4-7980/BEHS 453 Equality Wheel.pdf

 

 

Topic #2A: Emotional Abuse

Emotional abuse is widely misunderstood in our society. Yet, for many survivors, emotional abuse is often described as equally painful, if not more painful, than physical abuse. To be emotionally abused may raise several difficulties for the survivor trying to reach out for help. First, if a survivor tries to get help and has physical signs of abuse then s/he can show that to someone. The questions arises, however, how do you show someone that you’re being emotionally abused? The marks that emotional abuse leave scar someone’s heart and soul and that cannot not be physically shown to anyone.

 

Second, the fact that emotional abuse leaves no visible wounds frequently makes it difficult for survivors to get the help they need when they reach out to others. For many, unless there are obvious physical injuries, the disclosure of abuse raises the question “Are they really telling the truth?” Often, it may come down to “he said, she said.” Third, many people minimize the impact that emotional abuse has on survivors and discount this form of as abuse as “less dangerous” than physical or sexual abuse. The reality is that emotional abuse has serious short and long-term effects on survivors, including, but not limited to, lowered self-esteem and self-confidence, depression, and suicide.

Another important factor when addressing emotional abuse deals with the manner in which this type of abuse occurs within the abusive relationship. Many physically and sexually abusive relationships actually begin with emotional abuse and, over time and with no intervention, will escalate to include other forms of abuse. If you’re working with a survivor that is being physically and/or sexually abused, the chances are great that s/he is also being emotionally abused. The reverse is not true however. Some relationships begin with emotional abuse and will stay at that level for the duration of the relationship.

The last important point I’d like to make deals with the manner in which survivors deal with emotional abuse. Since so many people in our society don’t have a clear understanding of the complexities of emotional abuse it is frequently difficult for survivors to actually name what they are experiencing as emotional abuse. While survivors may know that their feelings have been hurt, or that they don’t like what is being said (or not said) to them, it is rare to find a survivor who clearly states “I’m being emotionally abused.” Don’t get me wrong here. Some survivors are able to do this, but in over 25 years I haven’t worked with or witnessed many that have. As so many physically abusive relationships begin with emotional abuse, the survivor may not even realize they are being abused until the abuse escalates into physical and/or sexual abuse.

For the purposes of this discussion topic, please complete the following:

 

1. Interview 3 people about emotional abuse. This is a confidential interview so please do not identify the people you interview by name, address, or personal relationship with you. You will need to do the following:

 

• Identify the person’s age and gender (this is basic demographic data that may help us better understand the responses)

 

2. Ask the following questions:

 

1. How do you define domestic violence?

2. How do you define emotional abuse?

3. Please give some examples of emotional abuse.

4. Do you think emotional abuse is as damaging as physical abuse? Why or why not?

 

NOTE:  Do NOT ask the respondents if they have experienced abuse.  Asking this question requires some very special “set up” that we are not going to be doing for this assignment.

 

3.  Once you have completed your interviews please post the results in this conference.

 

4. Also post an analysis about the respondents’ answers. Postings that do not include an analysis of the responses will lose points.  Consider at least some of the following when writing your analysis:

 

• The analysis should be more than whether or not you agree with the respondents.
• Do all of the respondents have the same or similar definitions?
• Does it appear that the respondents are focusing only on intimate partners or  are they including all family members in their discussions?
• Are the respondents thorough in their definitions of domestic violence or are they leaving anything out?
• Are the definitions/responses inclusive of all types of relationships or just marital ones?

Topic #3A: Barriers & Help Seeking

One of the most common questions the general public asks about intimate partner violence (ipv) is “Why does she stay?” Several important factors need to be mentioned in this regard. First, women do leave abusive relationships. In fact, they leave and return multiple times. (Be wary of any resource that quotes an exact or average number of times that survivors leave. The reality is that we really don’t know, other than it appears to be multiple times for many women.)

Second, when someone asks “Why doesn’t she leave?” they are making the very dangerous mistake of assuming that to leave a violent relationship will cause the violence to cease. According to the American Psychological Association Presidential Task Force on Violence and the Family (1996), “Many people still believe that the problem of battering can be solved by separation, but the risk of serious or lethal violence may actually increase after separation” (39).

 

The greatest risk for serious injury or death from violence is at the point of separation or at the time when the decision to separate is made. Data from a U.S. Department of Justice national Crime Victimization Survey indicates that among women who were victims of violent assault by an intimate partner, women reported that the offender was an ex-spouse almost half as many times as they reported that the offender was a spouse” (American Psychological Association Presidential Task Force on Violence and the Family, 1996, p. 39). The reality is that for a large number of survivors to leave a violent relationship does not make things better, rather, it makes things worse. Please see the attached handout, Examples of the Types of Violence Occuring At Separation (linked below).

A third factor to be considered in this discussion involves the very nature of the question “Why does she stay?” Very rarely do people ask, “Why does he batter?, or “Why doesn’t he leave?” Many grassroots activists and feminists believe that to ask “Why does she stay?” is actually victim blaming and fails to hold the abuser accountable for his behavior.

In Module 1, Lawrence Green and his colleagues identified three types of factors that can affect the help-seeking process by either encouraging or discouraging action:

 

• Predisposing factors – attitudes, perceptions, or beliefs that either facilitate or hinder personal motivation to act
• Enabling  factors–factors that either help by their presence or hinder by their absence like the ability to obtain necessary assistance (limited facilities, inadequate personnel, lack of funds)
• Reinforcing factors – characteristics of services or attitudes of caregivers that assist in decision-making like the feedback or attention received.

 

Linked below is the handout Barriers to Leaving which outlines numerous factors or “barriers” that should be considered when examining the difficulties in leaving an abusive relationship. This list of barriers can be combined with Green’s et. al. work to help explain the challenges that survivors face in their help-seeking process.

 

 For this purposes of this discussion topic please complete the following:

 

1. Take a look at the Lisa Steinberg/Hedda Nussbaum Case Study listed in Module 1 along with the linked handouts to this conference topic.

2. Respond to the following questions:

 

a) Explain the issues affecting the help-seeking behavior of Hedda Nussbaum, including issues in the victim and offender response system that inhibited appropriate intervention

 

b) Do you think the question “Why does she stay is victim blaming? Why or why not?

Analyze the proficiency levels of the students in Ms. Jensen’s class to place them into appropriate groups.

In a 250-word essay describe how you would group these students for in-class English language arts activities. The essay should include a rationale of placement, citing at least one source from your research to support the placement.

While APA format is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and in-text citations and references should be presented using APA documentation guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. A title page is not required.

You are not required to submit this assignment to Turnitin.

Describe the rise of mankind from the earliest hominid to the city of Jericho . at a minimum include Proconsul , genus Australopithecus , genus Homo , Leaky and the Orduvai Gorge , “Lucy,” Donald Johanson , Neanderthal Man , Cro-Magnon , Catal Huyuk and Jericho.

Identify a recent (within the last 3 years) business article that discusses a managerial accounting concept.

Review the Riordan Manufacturing Virtual Organization.

 

Write a paper of no more than 850-words that includes the following:

 

• Describe the supplier relationship and the effects on the supply chain.  As part of this consider the following:

• • Type of relationship
  • Supplier location, size of company, and financial stability
  • Metrics used to measure supplier performance (on-time delivery, defects, etc)
  • Supplier improvement strategies

• Describe how lean production principles may be used to maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of the electric fan supply chain process
• Select a business forecasting technique (qualitative or quantitative) for the electric fans and describe the forecasting process to be used at Riordan
• Create a sales forecast for electric fans using selected techniques
• Develop Aggregate Production Plan, Master Schedule, and Materials Requirement Plans for electric fans based off the sales forecast. Be sure to include the following:

• • The determination of inventory requirements of the electric fans component parts and finished goods
  • The selection of an appropriate inventory system (fixed order quantity, two bin method, etc.) to meet inventory requirements
  • APA Format

For this section, I would like you to explore three artists that you find interesting and exciting.  They can be photographers or artists who work in any other media, but I would like you to be able to apply their work to your project at hand.  Once you have chosen your three artists, write a brief reflection answering the following questions: 1) How does the artist or work appeal to you formally or conceptually?  and 2) How might you use this person’s work as inspiration for your project? As these are personal responses, I am not interested lengthy biographies or random factoids about the artists and their work.  You may provide links to their websites or images of their work to illustrate your responses.

 

Each artist a paragraph or 2 spereately.

 

For this part of the step, you simply need to go for a walk and pay attention to the art you see all around you.  You may pick a small residential neighborhood (your neighborhood!), a bustling downtown district, even a country road.  I would suggest  that you avoid specific “art walk” events with galleries as the point of the assignment is to look at art outside of these conventional contexts.  As you walk, make note of what you see and gather ideas.

 

Downtown Denver Thursday AM (Google the pics)

 

Where did you go for this walk?  Define the parameters of this walk as specifically as you can.  Give the name of the city, neighborhood, streets, etc.  When did you go?  Again be as specific as you can regarding date, time of day, etc.  What is the overall character of this location?  Things you may consider: Is it crowded/busy?  What kinds of architecture do you see?  Why do people go to this part of town?

 

As you walk, look around (up, down, etc.).  Name at least five things that you saw that were unexpected, surprising, interesting, and/or usually escape your notice on a daily basis.

 

How do the observations collected on this walk contribute to the definitions of art you formed in your first step?  How might you implement them into your project?

 

What did you notice about the people on your walk?  Did that have a particular style of clothing, grooming, walking, talking, etc.?  Did anyone stick out to you?

You will identify which components and interfaces will be included in the System Integration Project, and you will discuss the advantages and disadvantages specific to your project.

You are now progressing with laying out the framework for your systems integration project. It is important that you identify and develop requirements for all of the major components and interfaces that should be included in this project.

Assignment Guidelines

For this week’s assignment, you will be developing the requirements specification for this integration. You should use all of the tools available to you to elicit requirements (such as one-on-one interviews with all major stakeholders, surveys, artifact reviews, joint requirement specification meetings, and so forth).

• New Content
  • Requirements Specification
    • Describe the process you used to elicit the requirements.
    • List of all of the stakeholders and their roles.
    • Describe of all components and interfaces, including a schematic that depicts them (such as the various layers of integration).
    • Provide detailed and measurable functional requirements.
    • Provide detailed and measurable nonfunctional requirements.
    • List assumptions for the scope of the project.
    • Discuss the pros and cons of proceeding with the project while giving consideration to the requirements you have defined.
• Make sure that the document is in APA format