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In 250 to 300 words discuss the architectural components in your diagram in detail. Justify the choices that you made regarding standards and architectural configuration. What is the role of cloud computing, if any, in your architecture?

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Review the reading Rapidly Deployable IoT Architecture with Data Security: Implementation and Experimental Evaluation article. This readings will assist you in developing your own architecture diagram for the consumer and prescribing provider mobile applications to be used to support the new THS Care 2U organizational brand. Your architecture diagram refers to the THS case.

For this discussion forum, you will be using Microsoft PowerPoint to develop your mobile computing platform architecture diagram. The architecture diagram is intended to summarize your proposed IT platform for the THS chief information officer (CIO). It should include all the various IT system architecture elements needed to support the launch and sustained maintenance of these mobile applications.
In this discussion forum
• Develop a plan for data-based and web server locations.
• Develop a network topography.
• Develop a model for connectivity of mobile users.
• Articulate the Internet standard to be used for web development.

In your initial discussion post, attach your single PowerPoint slide artifact with your architecture diagram. In 250 to 300 words discuss the architectural components in your diagram in detail. Justify the choices that you made regarding standards and architectural configuration. What is the role of cloud computing, if any, in your architecture? What are the potential risk points for data and network security in your architecture?

Evaluate your own view of late life by responding to question 1 from the prompt below: Reflect on this prompt in light of the theories you have selected. Discuss how your response could be written from the perspective of an older adult. Specifically, consider how your perspective might change.

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The final writing assignment for this class asks you to discuss an outside reading in light of the theories we have discussed in class. The general assignment prompt is below:

Many theories in the field of adulthood describe shifting priorities, shifting energy investments, and changing perspectives.

  • According to Socioemotional Selectivity Theory, age-related motivational shifts in emotion processing bring about a “positivity bias”.
  • With Post-formal thought, adults tend to think in more practical and relativistic terms compared with adolescents. Although adolescents may be able to use abstract reasoning when they approach a situation and consider possibilities, after midlife, adults become better at integrating hypotheticals with practical reasoning about what is likely to occur.
  • According to Selective Optimization with Compensation adaptive aging relates to being able to reappraise goals and compensate for losses without straying from longstanding personal values.

For this essay, you will present two theories from the adulthood literature as a lens to evaluate an essay as well as consider your own changing perspective. This essay will have three parts:

In your own words, describe two of the theories presented in the text of in class describing the basic tenets of the theories and evidence of their validity.

  1. Analyze the essay you selected using the theories you selected as a guide.

Using the theories you selected as a guide, identify segments and sentiments from the passage you selected that illustrate elements of those theories. Focus on how the passage describes “successful adjustment”.

  1. Evaluate your own view of late life by responding to question 1 from the prompt below: Reflect on this prompt in light of the theories you have selected. Discuss how your response could be written from the perspective of an older adult. Specifically, consider how your perspective might change. Use the theories to support your discussion.

 

  1. Coming from your current perspective, what do you want to be doing when you’re 80?

Write a paragraph describing your thoughts and feelings about your late life.

 

This discussion should include:
— How would you want to look?
— Where would you be living?
— Would you be working at all or completely retired?
— With whom would you be spending your time?

Imagine that you are running for a state office and you have to prepare a position paper for a debate on controversial issues in the news. Introduce your position using a thesis statement in the first paragraph, including a quote, question, or statistic from your reliable sources and an overview of the main points you will cover.

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Imagine that you are running for a state office and you have to prepare a position paper for a debate on controversial issues in the news. [Select one (1) of the topics addressed in Weeks 5-9 of this class.]  Remember that you are addressing a significant segment of your state’s population and you want to be elected to public office, so your topic will have to have a broad appeal, such as public trust and the media, the loss of privacy, safeguarding the First Amendment, online harassment, and the dangers of privatizing public information, among other topics from those chapters.

You will want your position paper to demonstrate critical thinking, sound logic, valid claims, personal passion, and credible support that is cited correctly because the paper will be provided to the news media before the debate and will be scrutinized by the media and reported on regarding these criteria.

Write a two to three (2) page (500 min) paper in which you:

  1. Introduce your position using a thesis statement in the first paragraph, including a quote, question, or statistic from your reliable sources and an overview of the main points you will cover. (It’s important to grab the audience’s interest and inform the audience of what the main and support points are.)
  2. Provide two or three (2-3) major points to support your thesis statement. (Put each major point in a separate paragraph.)
  3. Provide one (1) paragraph in which you identify and answer an expected argument against your view.
  4. Organize arguments and support your claims effectively.

Demonstrate personal passion for your position and critical thinking with persuasive language, sound logic, valid claims, and credible support for the claims

Identify the company, describe the nature of its industry, and describe its domestic environment (home country). Summarize the company’s industry; how long it has been in business; and the attribute for which it is the least admired as a “worst” company.

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Starting with this assignment and going forward, you will research the “worst” company that your instructor approved for you in Assignment 1 and write an essay in APA format that covers the following.

HINT: The “worst” company that my instructor approved for me is Facebook and I discussed how they are unsuccessful in the following categories (e.g., employment, customer service, product issues, fraud, consumer issues, violations of law).

Assignment Instructions:

1-Identify the company, describe the nature of its industry, and describe its domestic environment (home country). (For example: U.S. Air operates in the airline industry. Its home country and domestic environment is the United States.)

2-Summarize the company’s industry; how long it has been in business; and the attribute for which it is the least admired as a “worst” company.

NOTE:  Items 1 and 2 should be covered in no more than a paragraph or two at most. The remaining paper should address the following:

3-Investigate and explain the domestic government regulations associated with your chosen company’s industry. (For example, for U.S. Air, you would investigate government regulations for the airline industry.) You will need to engage in research for this as specifically relates to your chosen company.

4-How do these domestic government regulations affect your chosen company in its domestic environment? What are the barriers for business that are raised by these regulations?

5-Identify a business theorist and briefly describe this theorist’s business theory.

6-What should the business do to overcome these barriers? In addressing this question incorporate the business theorist you have identified. (NOTE: It is not sufficient to state nothing can be done or that the company is already doing what it can do. You must provide some critical and creative thought.)

Choose one of the listed project management software packages that you would like to research further: Primavera, MS Project, Smartsheet, WorkZone. How do you believe your experience would be similar if you used dedicated project management software versus a Microsoft Office product (or similar product such as OpenOffice)?

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Throughout this course, you used Microsoft Office products in a project management application. However, many project management software options are available. To complete this journal, choose one of the listed project management software packages that you would like to research further. Primavera MS Project Smartsheet WorkZone How do you believe your experience would be similar if you used dedicated project management software versus a Microsoft Office product (or similar product such as OpenOffice)? How would it be different? Which do you think you would prefer?”

What social dilemmas faced by African Americans in the 1960s might have inspired Toni Cade Bambara to write “The Lesson”?

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Choose from the following short stories:

The Lottery, Shirley Jackson

A Rose for Emily, William Faulkner

The Dead, James Joyce

The Veldt, Ray Bradbury

Hills Like White Elephants, Ernest Hemingway

The Cask of Amontillado or The Tell-Tale Heart, Edgar Allen Poe

Or, any poem we have discussed in class or read for class. 

Below are some examples.  I do not require you to choose one of these topics.  They are just here to give you an idea of the type of approaches that will work for this essay.

 

  1.   Philosophical analysis: How do the stories by Jean Paul Sartre and Albert Camus reflect the philosophy of existentialism?
  2.   Socio/cultural analysis:  What opinion about marriage and gender roles does Hemingway advance in “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber”?
  3.  Historical analysis:: What social dilemmas faced by African Americans in the 1960s might have inspired Toni Cade Bambara to write “The Lesson”?
  4.  Biographical analysis:  What events in Salman Rushdie’s life might have influenced the events in “At the Auction of the Ruby Slippers”?
  5. Psychological analysis:  How is John Cheever’s “The Swimmer” a metaphor for the psychology of addiction?

Describe in detail what a successful supply chain looks like for the business you introduced. If you chose a service organization, do your research – there is still a supply chain! Why is it successful/unsuccessful?

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Part 1: Submit a Word document that contains a cover page, a table of contents, and a reference page that includes most of the sources you will use for writing this paper. Hint – you will need to do research based on the instructions and that is how you will know what sources to use and what your table of contents will contain. Part 1 is due in Week 8 on Sunday.

Part 2: Submit a Word document that presents all your answers/analysis/recommendations for
the topic of this assignment. See detailed instructions below. This assignment is due in Week 9 on Sunday.

For this week’s assignment please follow the following guidelines:

Assignment:
In week 1, you were asked to complete a chart outlining the functions of an organization you are
familiar with or have worked for. You can use the assignment from week 1, introduce the organization,
and provide the chart (250 words minimum plus chart). Make sure you adjust your week 1 assignment
to any feedback from your instructor.
Depending on the industry of your chosen organization, describe in detail how location strategy and
human resources affect the success/failure of the organization. Be specific and use sources! (350 words
minimum).
Describe in detail what a successful supply chain looks like for the business you introduced. If you chose
a service organization, do your research – there is still a supply chain! Why is it successful/unsuccessful?
What do you recommend should be done differently/what works well? Be specific! (300 words
minimum).
Many companies are investigating how an ERP System can help increase efficiencies and profits.
Companies are presented with a number of options which they need to consider when deciding on an
ERP System. Describe the ERP system of your chosen company; if they do not have one, what would you
suggest they do? Use the comparative assessment you completed in week 6 as a guideline (300 words
minimum).
Lastly, describe how Project Management techniques can help in Operations Management. How should
Project Management be used in the organization you chose? What would it look like and what would be
the benefit? (350 words minimum).

For this assignment, write your own version of a personal statement. In it, explain why you should be admitted—why you have the skills and personality that will make you a successful student in the program and professional in the field.

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A distinctive feature of the this course is that, most quarters, every single person in the class will eventually have to produce a personal statement, or a “statement of purpose” (the terms are often used interchangeably, although the latter normally refers to a research-focused degree, like a Ph.D.). Most of you are working on one right now. As health students, the majority of the class will write personal statements for one of the major application services, like AMCAS or AADSAS. Some of you are following a different path, and it may require a different tone, or different content, in the personal statement. A distinctive advantage of this course is that we can bend the assignment to fit what you need for your real-world application.

For this assignment, write your own version of a personal statement. Try to make it as realistic as possible; our goal is to come up with a document that you can actually use, as a draft at the very least, when you apply to a program. In it, explain why you should be admitted—why you have the skills and personality that will make you a successful student in the program and professional in the field. In some cases, the personal statement will provide committees with information on which they may ask you to elaborate in a personal interview; in some cases it will replace the interview. In either case, it can be an important evaluative tool for a committee that is attempting to make decisions in what is often a ridiculously competitive environment.

A number of general rules will apply to every personal statement. Clear, concise prose is always vital. Admissions committees always have stacks of personal statements to read, so make every word count. You want to distinguish yourself from that stack of similar applicants, but also convey the appropriate tone.

Further, admissions committees are interested in a concrete account of what you will bring to their school. Part of your personal statement will probably include something about your motivations for wanting to enter the field, but the school will not be looking just for expressions of sincere interest or lifelong dreams. It is best to avoid declaring simply that you have always dreamed of working in medicine—that is not a compelling reason to admit you. Consider instead how you can link your enthusiasm to more concrete assets.

Do you think that our modern laws do enough to address protections & support for organized labor and collective bargaining relative to other first-world countries?

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Why do you think the timing of labor legislation in America (beginning w/ the Railway Labor Act & National Labor Relations Act, & working forward) was as it was? What was happening in our country during these times economically, geo-politically, etc. that

Do you think that our modern laws do enough to address protections & support for organized labor and collective bargaining relative to other first-world countries?

Examine and provide me with three examples of where the Security Council and the ICJ have lived up to each of their described mandates in accordance with international law

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Under the United Nations Charter, the functions and powers of the Security Council

are: to maintain international peace and security in accordance with the principles

and purposes of the United Nations; to investigate any dispute or situation which

might lead to international friction.

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) is the principal judicial organ of the United

Nations (UN). The Court’s role is to settle, in accordance with international law, legal

disputes submitted to it by States and to give advisory opinions on legal questions

referred to it by authorised United Nations organs and specialized agencies.

Examine and provide me with three examples of where the Security Council

and the ICJ have lived up to each of their described mandates in accordance with

international law.

You will be required to do the following:

  • Provide an introduction in which you introduce the Security Council (SC) and the

International Court of Justice (ICJ) and their role within the United Nations

organisation.

  • Provide six positive/effective specific examples from the past or from the current time

of where the SC and ICJ (three examples for the SC and three for the ICJ) have

been effective in their perceived functions and powers. Find examples that clearly

demonstrate how the SC and ICJ have helped to create or maintain international

peace, harmony and security.

  • Summarise your arguments in a conclusion to show to what degree you think that the

Security Council and the ICJ meet their prescribed mandates.