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An information technology (IT) professional will need to remain current in his or her field throughout his or her career. Advancing in IT dictates the need to develop new skills and knowledge if one is to attain higher and more demanding positions. Opportunities abound in every field of IT.

One role in IT might be that of a Computer System’s Administrator. In that role, you would be required to configure, manage and troubleshoot computer systems. As a matter of fact, whether one works in an organization as an administrator or whether one just manages their own computer, understanding how to manage computer systems is important for everyone in this modern age. To get a sense of what some of these tasks might entail, complete the Lab tasks as described in the instructions for the Unit 4 Lab.

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Prepare a Word document that contains 1-2 pages of information summarizing your thoughts about the following four bullets.

• How you would like to be in a position that involves performing these types of tasks?
• What are the advantages and disadvantages of being in such a role?
• Specify activities that you liked or disliked and explain your reasons.
• Investigate other career tracks that you might have an interest (Information/Database Management, Software Development, Networking, Security and Digital Investigations) and discuss why you might be interested in you selected area.

Prepare your work in a Word document with APA style (title page, abstract, citations, and references). Use valid and scholarly resources.

Consider Frank Serpico, New York City Police Detective (Retired).

In the 1970’s, Detective Serpico “broke the ranks” and exposed police corruption in the New York City Police Department. As a result, he was shot in the face, and it is his belief that he was set up by his colleagues—officers charged with the protection of the citizenry. Do you believe the subculture is so strong that an officer who is considered to be a “rat” or a “snitch” will be ostracized? Would this officer not be afforded backup or assistance in a crisis situation? Explain your response.

Congressman Charles Rangel and Mayor Rudolph Giuliani both speak of the “blue wall of silence.”

Please describe what you think is meant by the blue wall of silence? Does it truly exist or is this just a perception? Would a police officer with very strong morals, values, and ethics fail to expose officer wrongdoing? Does the subculture constrain the officer’s individual values?

The Stages of Economic Growth

 

1. Why do traditional societies have a productive ceiling that cannot be broken?
2. What percentage of available labor in the traditional society is dedicated to food production? What does the remaining labor do?
3. What created the preconditions for take-off in Western Europe?
4. What three changes in the non-industrial sectors of the economy laid the groundwork for sustained industrialization?
5. What is a leading sector? What are some historical examples?
6. What happens to net investment during the takeoff period?
7. What social change is required for the take-off period?
8. What defines the drive to maturity stage?
9. In what three directions might a mature economy turn?
10. here are a number of interesting empirical claims in this article.We have the benefit of over fifty more years of observations. What of his claims would you be most interested in investigating further?

 

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Theory of Economic Development

1. What type of “underdeveloped” country is this theory of development concerned with?
2. The line d-f in graph 1-1 is the demand for labor in the industrial sector of the economy. What causes it to shift out to d’-f’?
3. What is the difference between redundant labor and disguised unemployment?
4. When will the rural landlords find decide to pay agricultural workers more then the traditional wage?
5. In this model TAS stands for total agricultural surplus. How is this surplus transferred from the agricultural sector to the industrial sector?
6. Why do the terms of trade move against the industrial sector?
7. 1.What is the turning point?

 

8. 1.What is the commercialization point?

 

Chapter 1 (4-5pages) Introduction: From Assignment 01 include:

1.1Your business research topic. What is your topic and what is its business significance.

1.2 A brief background/literature discussion of your topic. Provide a list of research questions for the identified business problem or opportunity.

1.3 A brief description of the research methodologies and techniques to be used for the research project. What research methodology will you use?

1.4 A description of the research process. What will be the steps in your project?

1.5 Outline describing what will be in each chapter of the report.

 

till here i finished in chapter 1 from here below(chapter 2) you have to do as following with my topic

 

Chapter 2 (8-12 pages)Literature Review: From Assignment 02 include:

2.1 Introduction to Literature Review: Start with introduction which includes a list of the topic you will do a literature review on, what your hypotheses are from these topics that you are starting out with.

2.2 Topic 1: Define your 1^st key word or phrase. Provide strengths and weaknesses from literature about the topic. Provide at least 4 references. Analyse your hypothesis about this topic and discuss your conclusion.

2.3 Topic 2. Define your 2^nd key word or phrase. Provide strengths and weaknesses from literature about the topic. Provide at least 4 references. Analyse your hypothesis about this topic and discuss your conclusion.

2.4 Topic 3: Define your 3^rd key word or phrase. Provide strengths and weaknesses from literature about the topic. Provide at least 4 references. Analyse your hypothesis about this topic and discuss your conclusion.

2.5 Topic 4: Define your 4^th word or phrase. Provide strengths and weaknesses from literature about the topic. Provide at least 4 references. Analyse your hypothesis about this topic and discuss your conclusion.

2.6 Conclusion to Literature Review

 

you have to include intext reference

harvard reference

 

Directions: Be sure to save an electronic copy of your answer before submitting it to Ashworth College for grading. Unless otherwise stated, answer in complete sentences, and be sure to use correct English, spelling, and grammar. Sources must be cited in APA format. Your response should be four (4) double‐spaced pages; refer to the “Format Requirementsʺ page for specific format requirements.

 

1. Compare and contrast the constructs of achievement and intelligence/aptitude, providing two (2) similarities and two (2) differences between them.

 

2. Describe three (3) differences between objective and projective psychological tests. Describe one (1) situation in which objective psychological testing would be more effective and one (1) situation in which projective psychological testing would be more effective.

 

3. Explain how response sets can impact behavioral assessments. Provide one (1) example using a “positive” behavior and one (1) example using a “negative” behavior.

 

 

4. Describe two (2) benefits and two (2) limitations of using standardization in vocational assessment testing. Do you support the use of standardization in vocational assessment testing? Provide one (1) supporting fact to justify your position.

If you could only learn one thing while attending UD School of Business, what would that one topic about “business” be? Please be as specific as possible with your question.

I need the actual work comleted in excel, not just answers

 

1-Pisa Pizza, a seller of frozen pizza, is considering introducing a healthier version of its pizza that will be low in cholesterol and contain no trans fats. The firm expects that sales of the new pizza will be $20 million per year. While many of these sales will be to new customers, Pisa Pizza estimates that 40% will come from customers who switch to the new, healthier pizza instead of buying the original version.

a. Assume customers will spend the same amount on either version. What level of incremental sales is associated with introducing the new pizza?

b. Suppose that 50% of the customers who will switch from Pisa Pizza’s original pizza to its healthier pizza will switch to another brand if Pisa Pizza does not introduce a healthier pizza. What level of incremental sales is associated with introducing the new pizza in this case?

 

2-Cellular Access, Inc. is a cellular telephone service provider that reported net income of $250 million for the most recent fiscal year. The firm had depreciation expenses of $100 million, capital expenditures of $200 million, and no interest expenses. Working capital increased by $10 million. Calculate the free cash flow for Cellular Access for the most recent fiscal year.

 

 

3-A bicycle manufacturer currently produces 300,000 units a year and expects output levels to remain steady in the future. It buys chains from an outside supplier at a price of $2 a chain. The plant manager believes that it would be cheaper to make these chains rather than buy them. Direct in-house production costs are estimated to be only $1.50 per chain. The necessary machinery would cost $250,000 and would be obsolete after 10 years. This investment could be depreciated to zero for tax purposes using a 10-year straight-line depreciation schedule. The plant manager estimates that the operation would require additional working capital of $50,000 but argues that this sum can be ignored since it is recoverable at the end of the 10 years. Expected proceeds from scrapping the machinery after 10 years are $20,000.

If the company pays tax at a rate of 35% and the opportunity cost of capital is 15%, what is the net present value of the decision to produce the chains in-house instead of purchasing them from the supplier?

HCI projects will gravitate on the design and testing the design of learning environments.

 

Design or improvement of a computer application to support; promote learning, identifying new means of using technology for fostering and assessing learning, and proposing new ways of integrating learning technologies with each other and into learning environments to foster and assess learning;

Enhancing understanding of how people learn and how to better foster and assess learning, especially in technology-rich learning environments that offer new opportunities for learning and through data collection and computational modeling of learners and groups of learners that can be done only in such environments.

 

Focus on Coding:

• Research of technologies supporting the learning to program
  • Bring half of page with the report
• Bring an innovative idea on ideal environment to support learning to program.

• • Express your idea in a diagram

   

  Basically, when we create a program, we always have an image in our heads of how the final product should look (at least a rough-draft).  We brainstorm, figuring out what technologies will be most useful for our application and what we intend to do, and so on.  She wants us to basically capture all the pre-processing stuff that goes into writing a program, and get all that down on paper.

Motive is the reason behind doing something. In the education circles, the reason behind teaching a student is to equip them with the necessary tools essential in a particular field one selects as one secures a job in the workforce based on their learning. The key intention is to impact students with the necessary education needed in the world today. The way in which students are taught in universities in the current settings take different forms especially when considering such factors as the way the current generation has been brought up – in the advent of advanced technologies and vindictive protectiveness. Personal rights are being established as students exercise their rights from all areas. This has disrupted the education systems especially in universities where lecturers and professors and now cautious of their language and what they teach. Students too are caught in between as they demand to set the pace within which they will be taught. This means that students now play a key role in dictating to lecturers the system to use in teaching and in some instances, the words to use and materials.
The author asserts that students getting into universities today are more “desirous of protection and more hostile towards ideological opponents….…”(Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt. 2015). This means that self-righteousness and hostility triggered by strong partisan emotions creates a moral crusade where people tend to express their allegiance to a group. He stipulates that such an assertion can indeed interfere with student’s ability to think critically. His view is that students should acknowledge other people’s views and learn how to cope with the diversity of this world. He examines the Socratic method of teaching whereby students are taught how to think and this fosters critical thinking. This encourages students to examine other people’s beliefs critically though at times it may trigger discomfort and anger in reference to way of understanding.
Students should be prepared intellectually for professional life as they are going to meet people with ideas and assumptions that they might find wrong (Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt. 2015). In a campus setting, this may be considered as hate speech as one is culpable of committing an offence against another student or lecturer. The culture being fostered at campus is that of policing speech and punishing speakers which shapes ones patterns of thoughts. For instance, in the globalized world, one is likely to find a job in another part of the continent far from where they were born. If a person’s background is based on thinking pathologically, they are unlikely to fit in that societal setting. Adapting to a different environment becomes difficult as one is inclined to thinking in a particular way far from what the masses depict. This results to anxiety and depression as one is unable to cope with the changing environment in their professional life.
In a university setting, a student easily gets back-up from other students who have a common thinking. In this way, it becomes very easy for a student to forge a common ground and together they lobby the institution to do as per their intentions. Such an environment breeds protectiveness as students have more control over the teaching systems. For instance,Jonathan Haidt cites Jeannie Suks` online article on the New Yorker about “law students asking her fellow professors at Harvard not to teach rape law—or, in one case, even use the word violate (as in “that violates the law”) lest it cause students distress” (Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt. 2015). This means that a movement has been rising in the campuses driven by the students to eliminate ideas, words, and subjects that are likely to cause discomfort.Imagine a situation where the students are dictating what they will be taught. Imagine them dictating to a lecturer not to engage into a subject that is already in the syllabus.It’s my assumption that if the current trend continues, then the students will not be equipped enough in their professional life. The education system is likely to be paralyzed as it becomes difficult to polish speech and subjects to conform to the needs of students.
As a result of globalization and advanced technology, space has shrinked as people are able to communicate and interact with people of diverse cultures and backgrounds.In a situation where other peoples values, ideas, or speech are depicted as wrong and aggressive towards an innocent victim, it’s difficult to foster an environment of mutual respect and negotiation. Understanding that we cannot be equal and that we should learn to incorporate other people’s diverse ideas should be the core areas in which universities should base their curriculum and teachings in. This is because universities attract people from different countries and backgrounds who are brought together by search for education. Just as people emanate from different backgrounds, it is difficult or nearly impossible to please every student. What one student considers good can be regarded by another student as being wrong based on various factors such as cultural elements. Emotions directly impact of actions and are twofold. This means that an emotion can necessitate an action and vice versa where an action can trigger an emotion. An action can therefore produce happiness as happiness too can effect a certain action. One’s reaction is normally dependent on the surrounding environment. An action in this case can be defined as a process or fact of doing something to achieve an aim. Personal gratification is the norm of the day in campuses irrespective of the status quo.
Distorted thinking is the key word and all stakeholders in the education system should strive to change the thinking of campus students. The key goal is to eliminate distorted thinking and foster an inclusive thinking where one is not driven by emotions. The author provides a clear guideline on how students can tame their thinking: one starts by learning the common cognitive distortions and each time one finds himself/herself in a situation that demands critical thinking, he/she names it, defines the facts of the situation, examines alternative interpretations and then settles on an interpretation that most likely conforms to those facts. Every day is filled with mixed emotions each specific and nuanced to the social and physical situations which we find ourselves in. We are capable of 4 basic emotions: happiness, sadness, surprised/afraid, and disgusted/angry. The environment fosters these emotions and this is what shapes a student’s thinking and emotional action.
The authors conclusion is that the increased “attempts to shield students from words, ideas, and people that might cause them emotional discomfort are bad for the students” (Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt. 2015). This is based on the fact that if such a trend is incepted in a student and continues to act in a similar manner even in workplace, then they are likely to be embedded in unending litigations as they push their expectations forward. Rather than putting measures aimed at protecting students against ideas, words, and subjects that deem unfit, campuses should strive to equip their students to thrive in diverse environments full of ideas, words, or culture they cannot control.
Naturally, specific emotion states are linked to action patterns that encompass philosophical components and expressed in particular bodily and facial behaviors. This means that in normal circumstances, ones emotions are directly influenced by surrounding actions and this dictates a person’s behavior. Ones emotions should be based on clear and accurate interpretation of facts and ideas and this improves mental hygiene as it frees students from repetitive irrational thoughts that they were previously engulfed in in their consciousness: they now become less depressed, angry and anxious.

It has been said that “every photograph is a self-portrait.” Reflect on this statement and what you’ve learned in this course.
In a brief 1-page essay, explain what is meant by the statement above and how you can apply your learning from this course to your future career.