...A symbolic interaction theorist may interpret the Tuohy family as a representation of love. Love is something that Michael has never had in his life. His father is not in his life and his mother is a drug addict. Leigh Anne and Michael developed a mother-son relationship that was a great influence on his interpretation of the Tuohy family. It is entirely new for him to have people that genuinely care for his well-being and success. On another note, a symbolic interaction theorist may also see a representation of the intimidating men in his old neighborhood as his old life. Michael has never lived in a home until the Tuohy family took him in as a part of their own. Before that drastic change, Michael lived on the streets making it day to day like the men in the ghetto neighborhood. He did not have love and protection in his old life while he was impoverished. As mentioned earlier in the text, Michael was tested to have 98 percentile for protective instincts. When he applied this to the football field, he was able to protect the...
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...Mascot Name Changes Assignment 1) a) In the article by King and Springwood (2000), “Fighting Spirits: The Racial Politics of Sports Mascots”, the authors go into detail about how “whiteness” (at Ole Miss) and “redness” (at Florida State) have been used to create a controversial symbol of power that has produced a racial discrepancy between opposing races taking offense to the mascot used by both schools. In the case of Florida State University, the school has developed a mascot (Chief Osceola) that portrays the American Indian as an aggressive savage. “When Osceola leads the FSU football players onto the field, he signifies armed resistance, bravery, and savagery, and his appearance builds on the prevailing understandings of Indianness that construct Native Americans as aggressive, hostile, and even violent” (King and Springwood [2000], p. 285). This portrayal of savagery is at the heart of the arguments by native Indians to remove their names from colleges using their image as a motivational and war-like incentive. I have never viewed the mascots of colleges as being an offensive form of racial disparity, but this article made me view this issue from the other side and opened my eyes as to why groups of people may be offended by how their name is being represented to the public. For example, I grew up an avid sports fan, but history never really caught my interest. Therefore, my view of the American Indian is distorted from the reality of their true image because...
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...different cultures, and you will participate in considerations, online forums, and written and verbal conversations on the subjects discussed. Rules & Procedures Attendance: Students are required to attend all classes. If students miss class, 1. They must first submit the EduChina Student Leave Request Form to the teacher at least two weeks in advance. 2. Students are required to complete all assignments missed upon return. 3. The teacher will decide the due date for these assignments. 4. Excessive absences and missing assignments will result in a failing grade for the course. Behaviour: Student behaviours show be positive in class at all time, 1. Student cannot be disrespectful towards to teacher. 2. Student cannot be disrespectful toward fellow classmates. 3. No bullying. 4. No foul languages in class at all time. 5. No speaking Chinese in class at all time. Cheating/Plagiarism: Copying other people’s work is not tolerated in this class. 1. Any instances of copying will result in a failing grade for the assignment. 2. All students who sign this syllabus are agreeing to this code of academic honesty. Late Assignments: All work is required to be submitted on time. 1. Late assignments will only be accepted based on approved absences or sudden illness. 2. This is up to the teacher’s discretion....
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...DIFFERENT TYPES OF BUSINESS INFORMATION UNIT 4: BUSINESS COMMUNCIATION TASK ONE: (P1, M1& D1 INTRODUCTION: In this assignment task I’ve been asked to research on different types of information used in the HarperCollins, in this task I’ve been asked to report back to management on the range of information used in decision making. VERBAL COMMUNICATION: This is face to face communication or is via the telephone or could be an –in-store annoy announcement. For example this could be speaking to a customer about stock available in store, this is also the sharing of important information between individuals by speech. Individuals working within business need to effectively use verbal communication that employs readily understood spoken words as well as ensuring that enunciation, stress and tone of voice with which the words are expressed is appropriate. Face to face communication is the best way to communicate. There is less scope for misunderstanding and it allows for verbal and non-verbal messages, however with the constraints of time and budgets in business it is not always possible or practical to meet in person. Telephone conversation are also useful ways to communicate, but it important always to use a combined of methods. Sources:http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/verbal-communication.html: Business level 3 book. Sources of verbal communication: verbal communication at Collins Harper will comes from staffs, customers, agencies, colleagues or other...
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...Using separate methods of designing and making activities in quantity-production of jewelleries as a case, this paper will show how Computer Aided Designs (CAD) can be applied for designing jewelleries with complex shapes. Using separate methods of designing and making activities in quantity-production of jewelleries as a case, this paper will show how Computer Aided Designs (CAD) can be applied for designing jewelleries with complex shapes. Ng Jian Long (U095062A) Ng Jian Long (U095062A) Term Paper Assignment (CAD) Application of CAD for designing parts with complex shapes Term Paper Assignment (CAD) Application of CAD for designing parts with complex shapes ME3261/ME3261E Term Paper Assignment (CAD) Requirements: * Covering page: Title, Name, and Student Card Number. * The write-up should start with an introduction and end with a conclusion. References used in the body of the write-up should also be listed. * Source of materials: The specific case study concerns a reported application, such as from a magazine, a journal or the web sites – it is not expected to be a case study done by you. * Length limit: No more than 8 pages in the main body of the report (from introduction to reference section). Additional materials, if any, can be put in the Appendix. * Font size limit: No less than 10. * Spacing limit: 1.5 spaces should be used. * Submission deadline: October 30, 2012. Please upload the .PDF or MS-Word file to the ME3261 IVLE...
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...cgal@fiu.edu Course Description And Purpose A one semester introduction to the basic notions of calculus. Specific topics include: differential calculus using polynomial, exponential and logarithmic functions, and their application to optimization; integral calculus with area and probability applications. Please enter the course description and purpose. Course Objectives Students will develop an understanding of advanced algebraic techniques and procedures and enhance their logical reasoning skills including both inductive and deductive logic. They will gain a better understanding of the techniques of problem solving including clearly defining the problem, using a systematic approach and using symbolic representation to solve practical, real world problems. After finishing the course: o The student should have a good understanding of the concept of a function and its graph, in particular a polynomial, rational, exponential and logarithmic functions will be emphasized. o The student should be able to solve a system of linear and nonlinear equations by substitution and using Cramer’s Rule, if applicable. o The student should be able to recognize and graph a conic, recognize arithmetic and geometric sequences and compute the sum of the first n-terms of such sequences, use proficiently mathematical induction to prove mathematical statements and use the Binomial Theorem to expand a power of a binomial. Learning...
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...Photo Essay: Worth 70 points (Photo Essay 60/Presentation 10) Due April 10, 15, and 17, 2013 Students will be randomly assigned. Getting Started: The majority of your assignments have focused on your writing ability and expressing ideas linguistically. Visual imagery is also a powerful technique for thinking about and reflecting upon the social world. The purpose of this assignment is to encourage you to think about the social world in a different way, more visually than linguistically. For this project, you will select a series of photos that can be meaningfully organized around the central theme of inequality. You are to draw ideas about inequality from the chapters on social class, race/ethnicity, and gender in your text, Our Social World Condensed 2nd (Ballantine and Roberts 2012). Be creative and experimental. The only restriction is that the images must not be illegal and if you are taking the photos in private settings, you must obtain written permission from your subject(s). I have posted a Permission Form in Course Content/Photo Essay on Angel for you to use if you are using personal pictures. The photos may be obtained in various ways. You may shoot photographs specifically for this project or have a friend do so. You may obtain photos through published sources (e.g., books, magazines). You can also search websites for photos. Photos may also be obtained from a stock art archive on the internet. If you choose the latter, one of the best places to start...
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...School of Engineering, IT and Allied Health Sciences (SOEITAHS) Diploma in Information Technology Principles of Information Technology (IT105N) Credit Hours : 4 Class Contact : 5 Hours (3 Hours Lecture + 2 Hour Tutorial/Practical) Independent Self-Learning : 160 Hours Prerequisite : Not Available Consultation Hours : Every Wednesday (02:00pm-5:00pm) (Subject to pre-arrangement only) COURSE OBJECTIVE This course is a comprehensive introduction to the realm of Principles of Information Technology. This is an introductory module to the current and evolving technologies in today’s computer systems. It introduces information technology concepts and principles. This module explains major components of information systems and demonstrates applications of information systems in business. Students are provided with sophisticated knowledge and necessary skills of information technology. Principles of Information Technology is a course that will provide students with computer skills necessary to be successful in “real world” personal and business situations. Students will use Microsoft Office to learn word processing, desktop publishing, presentation software, spreadsheets, and databases. COURSE OUTCOMES On completion of the course, students will be able to: 1. Demonstrate an understanding of basic information technology concepts and principles 2. Describe major components of information systems 3. Discuss business applications of...
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...I decided to increase my GPA from 2.5 to 3.0 by the end of this fall 2013 semester. I currently take 4 classes, in which I will come up with a plan to achieve my goal to have a 3.0 by the end of the semester. When students earn a below average grade on examinations or a report card, it does not necessarily mean that they did not study hard enough. There are many intelligent children who do not perform well in school, not because they cannot comprehend classroom lessons, but because of external factors that affect their academic success. Many factors have been identified to influence academic performance whether positively or negatively. One of these factors that the researcher’s identified is the living situation of college students. The living situations that a college student experience are varied due to the diversity of housing options and environments available. Some of the aspects of college student living environments may act as stress factors in students’ lives. The stress related to living situations that college students’ experience has several sources including relationships with roommates, the condition of the rooms, apartments, or houses that students inhabit, the neighborhood, area on campus, and general living environment. These sources of stress undoubtedly have an impact on the student’s academic performance. Academic performance is the evidence how well a student meets standards set out by local government and the institution itself. The extent of student’s...
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...Sarawak Campus Assignment Cover Sheet for Undergraduate Programs (for individual and group assignments) This cover sheet is to be attached to all assignments, both hard copy and electronic format. ASSIGNMENT DETAILS | Unit Code | ORG30002 | Unit Title | Leadership in Context | Tute/Lab Group | Group A | Lecturer/Tutor Name | Professor D. P. Dash | Assignment Title | #2 Group AssignmentMartin Luther King Jr. - I Have A Dream | Due Date | Week 8 | Date Received | | DECLARATION | To be completed if this is an individual assignment: I declare that this assignment is my individual work. I have not worked collaboratively nor have I copied from any other student’s work or from any other source except where due acknowledgment is made explicitly in the text, nor has any part been written for me by another person. | Student ID | Student Name | Student Signature | Student 1 | | | | To be completed if this is a group assignment: We declare that this is a group assignment and that no part of this submission has been copied from any other student's work or from any other source except where due acknowledgment is made explicitly in the text, nor has any part been written for us by another person. | Student ID | Student Name | Student Signature | Student 1 | 4240138 | Danushka Nirmal De Silva | | Student 2 | 4235150 | Ngu Ing Sung | | Student 3 | 4237293 | Dashilla Ladaey | | Student 4 | 4237323 | Ahmad Akmal Afiq | | Student 5 | 100070566...
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...TCP/IP & OSI MODELS. ASSIGNMENT NO 1st M.NOMAN ARSHAD BSIT-F13-LC-08 MISS SUBEEN UNIVERSITY OF SARGODHA A comparison of Network Models TCP/IP & OSI . There are two network models that describe how networks 'work'. The OSI Model, the older model, was designed for the OSI protocol stack. While different organizations were battling over standards, Vint Cerf and Bob Khan worked out the TCP/IP software from which the TCP/IP Model was co-designed. The diagram below shows how the two networking models compare, and how the logical and physical networking protocols relate to the layers in each of the two models. - There are seven layers in the OSI Model, only four in the TCP/IP model. This is because TCP/IP assumes that applications will take care of everything beyond the Transport layer. The TCP/IP model also squashes the OSI's Physical and Data Link layers together into the Network Access Layer. Internet Protocol really doesn't (and shouldn't) care about the hardware underneath, so long as the computer can run the network device and send IP packets over the connection. The TCP/IP Network Model. The TCP/IP network model has four basic layers: Network interface (layer 1): Deals with all physical components of network connectivity between the network and the IP protocol Internet (layer 2): Contains all functionality that manages the movement of data between two network devices over a routed network Host-to-host (layer 3): Manages the flow of traffic between...
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...Spring 2016 Stony Brook University Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature College of Arts and Sciences HUS 254 Latin America Today Tues, Thurs 10:00-11:20, Humanities 1003 This course satisfies the DEC category J This course satisfies the SBC category GLO, HCA Course Instructor: Joseph M. Pierce Section: 01 Office Hours: Tuesday & Thursday 1:00-2:00 PM, or by appointment Instructor contact information: Melville Library N3013, joseph.pierce@stonybrook.edu COURSE DESCRIPTION An introduction to a continental perspective of 20th-century Latin American culture. Latin America's political, historical, and cultural developments of this century are studied. Latin America | Today This course proposes to study the events of today by tracing the social, political and economic structures of the past. On the one hand, the region under study is comprised of a dramatic variety of cultures, geographies and politics. On the other, it shares a history of colonization from “discovery” to independence to modernity based on its particular geographic and historical location. In order to interrogate this conjunction, we will pay special attention to the social groups that are often marginalized from the pages of “the official history”: Indigenous communities, Afro-Latin organizations, gay, lesbian, and trans activism, immigrant groups. We will pay special attention the discourses of belonging and identification that mark their relationships with the region, as well as the...
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...Autonomous Work Groups The dynamics of a workforce is ever changing with management, diversity, and the collaboration between management and employees. With all the changes it is important that employees and management, as well, remain motivated. Therefore there must be a workflow design that works well for both management and employees. It must create an alliance, collaboration, a line of trust, decision making, and create a sense of empowerment. Autonomous work groups offer this and so much more. There are pros and cons about autonomous work groups and why they work and do not work, but it is a work design that many companies are beginning to consider based upon research. The Effectiveness of Autonomous Work Groups Autonomous work groups, also known as self-managing work teams, are a team of employees granted autonomy or independence over the work they do within an organization (Kokemuller, 2014). This autonomy includes independent decision-making related to a specific work function, project or job and independent freedom to assign individual members specific tasks within the group (Kokemuller, 2014). An autonomous work group (AWG) can hire, fire, and make the necessary decisions for their department. An AWG replaces the role of having a boss and usually someone is elected to stand as leader to help facilitate within the group. What makes AWG effective groups are that they are able to work together toward a common task or project goal. They typically come up with broader...
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...non-human forms. This is because people are unable to accept that it is possible for another person to act in such a ruthless way. 4 Black Medea and Post Modernism Black Medea written by Wesley Enoch is a Post Structural (miss reading) adaptation of Medea which uses Australian Aboriginal culture as it form. A main feature of the piece is that the gods are retained and held in the same regard as the original piece. Cypris (Aphrodite) is replaced by the vengeful ancestral spirits of Central Australia. Since the ancestral spirits are also the land, they have a literal potency that can resonate with an array of audience. What Enoch managed to do was create an almost parallel story of Medea in a completely new context. This is because the major issues of both Medea and Aboriginal culture are presented. Enoch has stated that ‘…you go thinking this story is about all black women... it goes against everything that seems right. It's one person's story, but somehow it's about everyone... Post Structuralism allows for the truths of a performance to be presented because the essential setting and intention remains similar, but this is not the case with Post Modernism. Post Modernism focuses on the recognition that 'reality' is itself a construction, a representation. Human subjectivity makes-sense of its world, imposes upon it a meaningful design using those conceptual tools culture provides. Due to the fact that the pieces become meaningless so too does the intended subjects of the...
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...necessity in the nature of employees. So it is not surprising if this habit continues to fall. (Loren Murcia, January 2015) Many causes of absenteeism are legitimate—personal illness or family issues, for example—but absenteeism can also be traced to factors such as a poor school environment or teachers who lack commitment to their work. The prevalence of unexcused absences from school exceeds that of major childhood behaviour disorders and is a key risk factor for violence, injury, substance use, psychiatric disorders, and economic deprivation. Contextual risk factors include homelessness and poverty, school violence and victimization, school climate and connectedness, and family variables. (Jean Folger, 2007) While employers expect workers to miss a certain number of...
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