What is cancel culture? Why is Kanye West being canceled? In your opinion, is this cancellation justified? Is canceling an effective strategy for creating safe public discourse?

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DISCUSSION ESSAY

Instructions

After reading the articles about cancel culture and Kanye West respond to the following in argument form. You are writing a mini argumentative essay (3-4 paragraphs in total). The questions below are to help you start thinking. You are not required to answer all of them.

Cancel Culture •

  • What is cancel culture? Why is Kanye West being canceled?
  • In your opinion, is this cancellation justified?
  • Is canceling an effective strategy for creating safe public discourse?

Be sure to:

  • Take a clear stance
  • Support your opinion with o examples from the article
  • Your own experiences (anecdotes/examples)
  • Other things you have read

• Note your post should be 3-4 paragraphs long.

Review two Workshop presentations for a job-specific position and create a cover letter and resume for the position.

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DISCUSSION ESSAY

Review two Workshop presentations for a job-specific position and create a cover letter and resume for the position. Watch two workshops and apply these steps to my resume and cover letter.

Find an open position on a job search site (Indeed.com, Monster.com, etc.) Choose a different job than the position that you wrote a cover letter for last week, and update your cover letter to apply for it. Update your resume from week 4 for the position also. Pay attention to the key words and skills that the company is looking for. Save your job-specific cover letter and resume as one document, and submit them in the drop box. Paste the URL of the job advertisement in the text box. Due Sunday by 11:59pm.

What is sample mean value of heavy users? What is the p-value for testing the null hypothesis (mean comparison of ‘deathpen’ between heavy users and light users)? What is mean difference between heavy and light?

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Analysis Assignment #3

• Use EXCEL for this Assignment.
• Two people for Assignment 3.
• Assignments are due at the beginning of class on the due date.
• Credit for late assignments will be reduced by 20% for each day that they are late.
• A hard copy of each assignment is requested, unbound, corner–stapled.

Name 1:________________
Name 2:________________

Use LifeStyle.sav data (under “Assignment 3” folder in the Canvas) for this assignment.
The sample data (named by “LifeStyle” in the BlackBoard) you will use is survey data from a questionnaire collected in 1998 by Prof. Putnam at Harvard. It contains information on internet usage, political sensitive topics, and demographics.
Suppose you are the marketing manager of your favorite political party and management asks you to investigate whether the party should redirect their PR and discussion of sensitive topics to the internet.

(Total 7 points + Bonus 1 point).
0.5+1.2+1.5+1.2+1.8+0.6+1.2=8

1. Build the frequency table with variable ‘gender‘ and ’emplmerg’ and find answers for the following questions (total 0.5 points).
(a) How many respondents make annual income between $70,000 – $89,999? (0.2 point)
(b) What percentage of the sample makes annual income less than $20,000? (0.3 point)?

2. Confidence Interval. (total 1.2 points)
(a) What is the mean age? Is it a population mean or sample mean? (0.3 point)
(b) What is the 95% confidence interval for the sample mean for Age? (0.3 point)

(c)What is your interpretation? (0.3 point)
(d) What is the 99% confidence interval for the sample mean for Age? (0.3 point)

3. Mean Comparison: Suppose null hypothesis that heavy and light internet users (let “heavy users”: 12 or more times a year vs. “light users” = less than 12 time a year in this problem) have the same opinion regarding the favor of death penalty? Note, please assume unequal variance between two samples (total 1.5 points)
(a) What is sample mean value of heavy users? (0.3 point)
(b) What is the p–value for testing the null hypothesis (mean comparison of ‘deathpen’ between heavy users and light users)? (0.3 point).
(c) Reject the Null hypothesis or not? Note, use 5% as critical value for your hypothesis testing. (0.3 point)
(d) What is your interpretation based on the test result of (c)? (0.3 point)
(e) What is mean difference between heavy and light? (0.3 point)

4. ANOVA: Suppose null hypothesis that there are the same opinions regarding the favor of death penalty regardless of employment status (Total: 1.2 Points).
(a) What are the sample mean of ‘retired’ group? (0.3 point)
(b) What is the p–value for ANOVA testing? (0.3 point)
(c) What is your statistical decision (e.g., Reject or Fail to reject)? For your hypothesis testing, use 5% as critical value. (0.3 point)

(d) What is your interpretation based on the test result of (c)? (0.3 point)

5. CrossTab [Run Crosstabs in Excel]: Please use CrossTab Analysis. Let’s examine whether Liberal (“Generally speaking, would you consider yourself to be…”) is independent of Employment Status of Respondent. (total 1.8 points)
a) (0.3 point) What is the observed count number for the cell of “Generally agree yourself to be liberal” and “Retired” in the Cross tab table [Do NOT report two frequency numbers separately]?
b) Do the hypothesis testing by checking Chi–square statistics. What is the null hypothesis? (0.3 point)
c) What is the expected value for the cell of “Generally agree yourself to be liberal” and “Retired” in the CrossTab table? (0.3 point)
d) What is χ2 test statistics value? (0.3 point)
e) What is your statistical decision (e.g., Reject or Fail to reject)? For your hypothesis testing, use 5% as critical value. (0.3 point)
f) What is your interpretation of your statistical decision? (0.3 point)

6. Correlation (Use Bivariate correlation): (total 0.6 point)
a) What is correlation between the question “I am in favor of the death penalty” and “respondent’s age”? (0.3 point)
b) Let’s examine the hypothesis testing for the correlation. What is your null hypothesis? (0.3 point)

7. Regression: Construct and analyze a simple regression model with a dependent variable of “I don’t have a clue what the internet is and what it can do for me” and independent variable of “Respondents Age”. (1.2 point)
a) What is R–square value? What is your interpretation of the R–square (one sentence)? (0.3 point)
b) What is the estimated coefficient of independent variable of “Respondents Age“? Is it significant by using α = 0.05? (0.3 point)
c) Based on Coefficients table, please build the estimated simple regression line equation (0.3 point)
d) Predict the scale value of “I don’t have a clue what the internet is and what it can do for me” with the age of “70“ based on your estimated regression model (0.3 point).

Discuss your experiences of the course, your beginnings, and where you are now. Consider your interaction in discussions. Should health care workers be required to take a course in Ethics? Why or why not?

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CASE STUDY

Introduction

In this session, you have been considering moral-ethical dilemmas you yourself faced or that you know of that you either resolved or failed to resolve, but hopefully learned from. You may never have given much thought to ethical theory nor what ethical premises/paradigms you have unconsciously held.

You will be focusing on this case for this assignment:

Jane Doe is a nursing student at University X. Jane is in week eight of a course entitled: “Introduction to Ethics”.

For the week one discussion, Jane copied work done by her friend John Doe in the same class two months ago (with a different professor). John told Jane it was okay to use his work as John’s professor never checked any work in the class using Turnitin.com. John claimed to have earned an A on the work also.

In week two, Jane went to StudentPapering.com and paid ten dollars for a week two essay done by a student (not John Doe) who took the same course four months ago. StudentPapering promises that all its archived work is of excellent quality and cannot be detected as copied. Jane then uploaded an exact copy of the work for the week two assignment.

In week three, Jane paid a worker at PaperingStudent.com ten dollars to write for Jane a brand new essay after Jane shared with the worker the essay assignment instructions.

In week four, Jane relied on her knowledge of Esperanto. She felt pressed for time and found an article by a professor from Esperanto on the week four topic. She translated Esperanto into English using Moogle Translate, and the translated text served as her week four paper.

In week five, Jane was running late again. Jane purposely uploaded a blank paper hoping that she would later claim it was an innocent mistake and not be assessed a late penalty. In a previous course on History, she had done the same (with an earlier paper from the History class rather than simply a blank) and had not seen any late penalty assessed.

In week six, Jane took work she did in a nursing course from a year ago and submitted that for her discussion posting in her current class. She simply copied and pasted the work she had labored intensively on a year ago (even though University X forbids this practice as ‘self-plagiarism’). Jane was confident her Nursing instructor never checked that work using Turnitin.com or another method.

In week seven, Jane copied and pasted work found on website.com for the paper. Jane did not use any quotation marks or other documentation to show the text was not by Jane.

Since Jane’s Ethics professor did not check papers and posting for any issues by using Turnitin.com or another method, the professor graded all of Jane’s work unaware of Jane’s actions throughout the weeks of the class. Jane feels her actions are morally justified both because her economic situation requires her to work too much to devote time to school (although other students are well-off enough to have such time) and her religion forbids cheating, but Jane ignores her religion’s teachings.

Instructions

Now that you have had an opportunity to explore ethics formally, create a reflective assessment of your learning experience and the collaborations you engaged in throughout this session. You will submit both of the following:

  • A written reflection
  • An oral presentation using a PowerPoint narrated slide show.

For the written reflection, address Jane Doe’s and respond to the following:

  • Articulate again your moral theory from week eight discussion (You can revise it if you wish). What two ethical theories best apply to it? Why those two?
  • Apply to Jane Doe’s case your personal moral philosophy as developed in week eight discussion and now. Use it to determine if what Jane Doe did was ethical or unethical per your own moral philosophy.
  • Consider if some of these examples are more grave instances of ethical transgressions than others. Explain.
  • Propose a course of social action and a solution by using the ethics of egoism, utilitarianism, the “veil of ignorance” method, deontological principles, and/or a theory of justice to deal with students like Jane. Consider social values such as those concerning ways of life while appraising the interests of diverse populations (for instance, those of differing religions and economic status).

For the oral presentation, briefly summarize your feelings about taking a course in Ethics and explore your process of transformation in this course.

  • Discuss your experiences of the course, your beginnings, and where you are now. Consider your interaction in discussions.
  • Should health care workers be required to take a course in Ethics? Why or why not?

What is the main issue being discussed? Who are the main personalities mentioned in the article? How does the issue affect the people of the country mentioned in the article? Does the issue have any connection with United States interests? What do you think could be the best solution to resolve this problem?

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NACLA report on American Review

Jennifer A. Cárcamo, “Poets and Prophets of Resistance: Intellectuals and the Origins of El Salvador’s Civil War,” NACLA Report on the Americas website (August 6, 2020).

In terms of the content of each report. First, you should devote the first half of the report to a summary of the main points in the article that you selected. To help you to address this issue, consider some of these questions: What is the main issue being discussed? (i.e. immigration, elections, education, environment, women’s issues, crime, etc.) Who are the main personalities mentioned in the article? (i.e. El Salvador president Nayib Bukele, President Biden, Secretary of State Blinken, former President Trump, etc.) How does the issue affect the people of the country mentioned in the article? Does the issue have any connection with United States interests? What do you think could be the best solution to resolve this problem?

And for the second point of discussion, analyze the article that you selected and present your point of view on the story. For example, how do you feel about the story? How did this article contribute to your understanding about modern Latin America? And what do you think about the author’s perspective on the article? How does this topic relate to contemporary political, economic or cultural themes in the United States today?

Submit a summary each for Ross and Williams (2021), Michael et al. (2021), plus one summary on Bethard and Digangi (2020) and Stull et al. (2020).

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Social Science Question

Submit a summary each for Ross and Williams (2021), Michael et al. (2021), plus one summary on Bethard and Digangi (2020) and Stull et al. (2020). Each summary should start with the article title and end with at least one question or discussion point. These do not count toward the word limit. The main content of a summary should include the key points or arguments of the article (not simply a list of headings or sections). Construct your sentences carefully to make your summary informative and comprehensive. Use your own sentences and NEVER just tweak the publish abstracts. Each summary should be between 120 and 150 words (single spaced). Put both summaries on one Word document.

Does the history of Japanese Americans and Chinese American contain any lessons for other minority groups? Have these groups found a pathway to “success” that could be followed Native American Indians, or African Americans or the Latinx community? Why or why not?

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Write a small report

Read and answer the following questions

Chapter 9 Asian Americans

Another example of group diversity is the Asian American community that is made up of numerous groups, cultures, languages, and history in the U.S. These groups have a variety of faiths from Buddhism to Confucianism, Islam, Hinduism, and Christianity. Cultural traits “tend to stress group membership, kinship relations, sensitivity to the opinions and judgement of others,” This is different from our American cultural traits and values. Like many world cultures, “traditional Asian cultures are male dominated, and women were consigned to subordinate roles.” (our textbook). All these traits would change to some degree through assimilation like the third and fourth generation for a group like the Japanese Americans. Asian cultures stress the importance of maintaining respect, good opinions, avoid shame, and public humiliation, and uphold honor. Asians believe in Anglo conformity and hard work, while retaining their culture (pluralism). Chinese women are faithful and serve their husband and eldest son. Women under Confucianism had four virtues: chastity, obedience, shyness, and pleasing demeanor, and skills in domestic duties. There are other experiences that the Chinese and Japanese experience in labor and labor unions, they are part of the U.S. labor history from 1849 to the present. They would experience policies like the “Alien Act.” Quota Act 1917, Gentlemen Agreement Act, the 1924 immigration act, and many others. Like many chapters, Asian American SES will be discussed in the last part of the chapter. Don’t forget to study the “model minority” arguments.

Chapter 10 New Immigrants

Chapter 10 profiles the new immigrants using a variety of factors based on: country of origin-developed (rich) or underdevelopment (poor), are they from a rural area or urban areas? Language conflict? Class background? skilled or unskilled? education? profession? Religion? Reasons for leaving their country?Do they experience prejudice and discrimination? This week’s report questions cover all the issues that the lecture covered. We want to find out what the new immigrant experience are like. When you have time, or for another class, find out all the categories that people get their immigration designation categories-DACA, refugees status, Visa category-daily workers, student visa’s, visitor visa, and many others.

Select one of the following questions. Be sure to include your name, question number, and date. Your report should be 1 1/2 pages in length.

1. Asian Americans are widely thought of as being successful in the U.S. How accurate is this portrait of the “Model minority?” What would be your finding in comparing what is good or bad about the model minority?

2. Does the history of Japanese Americans and Chinese American contain any lessons for other minority groups? Have these groups found a pathway to “success” that could be followed Native American Indians, or African Americans or the Latinx community? Why or why not?

3. Describe the cultural characteristics of Asian American groups and explain how these characteristics shaped relations with the larger U.S. society?

4. What gender differences characterizes Asian American groups? What are some of the important ways in which the experiences of women and men vary? How do you think young Asian American women are changing, or not, their status in American society?

5. In the beginning of chapter 10, “how will the new wave of immigrants transform the United States? What do these new immigrants contribute to the United States? What does you chapter say about undocumented immigrants, do they cost the U.S. money to have them here, what does the chapter say? What can you say about their approach to assimilation?

6. Describe the differences and similarities of the Dominicans, Salvadorans, and Colombians in terms of education, income, language, and poverty? In your opinion, how are Central Americans looked upon in the U.S. today? (Separation of children)

7. Discuss what is meant by push/pull? How does this work in our economic cycle’s? I’m looking for your overall opinions on this question. Do you think a border wall will stop this push/pull cycle?

Compare and contrast your initial posting with those of your peers. How are they similar or how are they different? What information can you add that would help support the responses of your peers? Ask your peers a question for clarification about their post. What most interests you about their responses?

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MSW521 WEEK 15 Discussion

Instructions

It is anticipated that the initial discussion post should be in the range of 250-300 words. Response posts to peers have no minimum word requirement but must demonstrate topic knowledge and scholarly engagement with peers. Substantive content is imperative for all posts. All discussion prompt elements for the topic must be addressed. Please proofread your response carefully for grammar and spelling. Do not upload any attachments unless specified in the instructions. All posts should be supported by a minimum of one scholarly resource, ideally within the last 5 years. Journals and websites must be cited appropriately. Citations and references must adhere to APA format.

Classroom Participation

Students are expected to address the initial discussion question by Wednesday of each week. Participation in the discussion forum requires a minimum of three (3) substantive postings (this includes your initial post and posting to two peers) on three (3) different days. Substantive means that you add something new to the discussion supported with citation(s) and reference(s), you are not just agreeing. This is also a time to ask questions or offer information surrounding the topic addressed by your peers. Personal experience is appropriate for a substantive discussion, however should be correlated to the literature.

All discussion boards will be evaluated utilizing rubric criterion inclusive of content, analysis, collaboration, writing and APA. If you fail to post an initial discussion or initial discussion is late, you will not receive points for content and analysis, you may however post to your peers for partial credit following the guidelines above.

Initial Response

Instructions:

Talk with your field instructor and explore agency crisis plan.

  • What is the role of the social worker as crisis responder?

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.

Your initial response is due by Wednesday at 11:59 pm CT.

Estimated time to complete: 2 hours

Peer Response

Instructions:

Please read and respond to at least two of your peers’ initial postings. You may want to consider the following questions in your responses to your peers:

  • Compare and contrast your initial posting with those of your peers.
  • How are they similar or how are they different?
  • What information can you add that would help support the responses of your peers?
  • Ask your peers a question for clarification about their post. What most interests you about their responses?

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.

Show the results of inserting the keys 8, 25, 20, 4, 18, 6, 3, 30, 7, 10, 40, 33, 42, 38, 2, 5, 53, 47, 32, 41, 1 in order into an empty B-tree with minimum degree 2. Draw only the configurations of the tree just before some node must split, and also draw the final configuration.

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CP5602 Assignment

Due by 30/04/2023
Aim: This assignment is designed to help you improve your critical thinking and problem solving skills. It also helps you to be prepared for the final examination (i.e., strongly recommended to do this assignment).

Requirements, Method of Submission, and Marking Criteria:
• Include your name on the first page.
• Answer all questions in a single document. Each question should begin on a new page.
• Providing an answer without explanation in which how did you achieve it, is not acceptable. Show all your work (Partial mark applies).
• If you use pen–and–paper you may submit a scan of your worksheet.
• Upload your solution to the Assignment Box, located in the subject’s site.

1. Consider recurrence T (n) = T (n/2) + n.
(a) Use the recursion tree to give tight Big–Oh asymptotic bound for this recurrence.    [1 mark]
(b) Use the substitution method to support your computed bound in item (a).    [1 mark]

2. Use the master method to give tight asymptotic bounds for the following recurrences (if the master method cannot be applied give your argument):
(a) T (n) = 8T (n/2) + n3.     [1 mark]
(b) T (n) = 8T (n/2) + n2 lg n.  [1 mark]

3. Let A = (21, 16, 49, 32, 22, 5, 6, 21, 60) be an array associated with a complete binary tree (i.e. 21 is the root, with 16 as its left child and 49 as its right child, and so forth).
(a) Using Figure 6.3 as a model, illustrate the operation of BUILD–MAX–HEAP on the array.     [1 mark]
(b) Using Figure 6.4 as a model, illustrate the operation of HEAPSORT on the resulting heap of item (a).     [1 mark]

4. Using Figure 7.1 as a model (i.e., choosing the last element as pivot), illustrate the operation of PARTITION (used in Quick–sort algorithm) on the array A(3, 5, 19, 15, 12, 18, 17, 24, 23, 21, 6, 7). [1 mark]

5. Consider inserting the keys 20, 0, 21, 10, 3, 33, 25, 29,42 into a hash table of length m = 11 using open addressing with the auxiliary hash function ht(k) = k. Illustrate the result of inserting these keys up to the point that algorithm fails.
(a) using linear probing,               [1 mark]
(b) using quadratic probing with c1 = 1 and c2 = 3, and             [1 mark]
(c) using double hashing with h1(k) = k and h2(k) = 1 + (k mod (m − 1)).  [1 mark]


6. Find an optimal parenthesization of a matrix–chain product whose sequence of dimensions is (5,8, 7, 9, 20). That is: matrix dimension——
A2 8 × 7
A3 7 × 9
A4 9 × 20
[1 mark]

7. Consider the m–table of Figure 1 that is generated from matrix chain multiplication of A1×· · ·×A6. Discuss that the first cut on multiplications of A1 ×· · ·×A6. cannot be 3. That is, in the associated s–table, the value in s[1, 6] cannot be 3. Conclude that (((A1 × A2) × A3) × ((A4 × A5) × A6)) cannot be a correct parenthesization for efficient solution to this matrix chain multiplication. Figure 1: m–table.      [1 mark]

8. Determine an LCS (Longest Common Subsequence) of sequences X = (A, L, G, O, L) and Y = (G, O, A, L).        [1 mark]

9. What is an optimal Huffman code for the following set of frequencies? a:1, b:2, c:4, d:7, e:9, f:10, g:13, h:18, i:25.         [1 marks]

10. Show the results of inserting the keys 8, 25, 20, 4, 18, 6, 3, 30, 7, 10, 40, 33, 42, 38, 2, 5, 53, 47, 32, 41, 1 in order into an empty B–tree with minimum degree 2. Draw only the configurations of the tree just before some node must split, and also draw the final configuration.      [2 marks]

11. Consider a directed graph G in Figure 2. Using vertex p as the source, and assuming that all nodes are required to be discovered in alphabetic order; Figure 2: Directed graph G.
(a) Show the d and π values that result from running breadth–first search on graph G,    [1 mark]
(b) Show how depth–first search (DFS) works on the graph G.    [1 mark]
(d) Determine the strongly connected components of graph G (use DFS on the transpose graph of G).    [1 mark]

12. Find all integers x that have remainders 4, 5, 6 when divided by 11, 12, 13 respectively.     [1 mark]

Evaluate the model with the testing data, report the accuracy; compute and print the predicted decision for every input of the testing data (approved or denied) alongside with the real labels.

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Implement a Neural Network using Pytorch

Credit Card Approval. On one of the first lectures, a credit card approval record with multiple predictors was used as an example to show the usefulness of learning from data. Here you will have the chance to create your own Neural Network based on CC data.csv. The data contains 15 predictors, and one response (approved or denied). You’ll randomly split your data into training and testing with a 80/20 ratio.

(a) Implement a Neural Network using Pytorch with the following specifications:
ˆ Input layer: Number of neurons as number of inputs (15).
ˆ Second layer: fully connected layer with N neurons.
ˆ Set the number of neurons for the second layer N , and the number of epochs, to obtain an accuracy of at least 80% in the training data.

(b) Evaluate the model with the testing data, report the accuracy; compute and print the predicted decision for every input of the testing data (approved or denied) alongside with the real labels.