This article discusses how advertisements can implant false memories in people. It explains that memories are not immutable, and can be influenced and reconstructed based on new information a person is exposed to, such as advertisements. The article notes that simply viewing an ad can cause people to have false memories of experiences, like remembering seeing the ad or product before it actually existed. It warns that this finding challenges common assumptions about how reliable and unchanged memories are.
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Since the instructions for the final project are standardized and provided by the department, I thought you might appreciate some pointers and key areas of focus to help you navigate this project! Use this in conjunction with your syllabus instructions, which contain detailed content instructions.
Read the syllabus instructions VERY carefully, pay attention to the requirements embedded in the sentences. In fact, I would construct each heading and subheading (YES, use APA formatted subheadings) according to the required areas listed in your instructions. Here are some formatting directions for subheadings and a rough example for organization of your project with subheadings.
APA Headings Level Formatting Guidelines:
1 Centered, Boldface, Uppercase and Lowercase
2 Left-aligned, Boldface, Uppercase and Lowercase Heading
3 Indented, boldface, lowercase heading with a period. Begin body text after the period.
4 Indented, boldface, italicized, lowercase heading with a period. Begin body text after the period.
5 Indented, italicized, lowercase heading with a period. Begin body text after the period.
Example:
1st page is the TITLE PAGE with Running head- refer to APA guidelines
See how I used proper capitalization for my running head?
Running head: GENDER TRAINING IN THE WORKPLACE
2nd page and remaining pages... The body of your project training program and report. Look up APA formatting: double space entire body, font 12-Times New Roman, 1” margins all sides. Make sure you use proper APA citations in the text (McCarty, 2016) and that those resources are listed on the reference page, including the journal and website citations that you chose.
Introduction and Identification of Problems (1st level)
Participant Name and Problem #1
(You will do this 12 times) (2nd level subheading, left justified, paragraph begins
next line after heading-double space. I will not double space the rest of this example to save space, but don’t forget to do it! Make sure you check your settings to be a true double space-nothing less and nothing more)
Training Program: Session One (8 of these)
Session One Title (2nd level)
Gender and Hostility in the Workplace
Objectives (2nd level)
The goal of this course is to
· define gender,
· define hostility,
· identify areas of hostility…(You can use bullets and or level three subheadings to list/organize).
Problem (2nd level)
State the participants problem(s) you will address with this session
Journal articles and websites
Journal. List one or more peer review (ACADEMIC) article(s) that is relevant to the issue/problem using an APA formatted reference.
Website. List one website that is relevant to the issue/problem and put into APA formatted reference.
Activity
Create and describe an activity that will promote discussion and understanding among the participants.
Activity breakdown. (3rd level subheading). Start text after period. You might want to use this 3rd level subheadin.
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This document discusses three questions related to international relations theories:
1) It asks for a reaction to applying Kant's idea of a categorical imperative to international politics and whether rational logic leads to cooperation.
2) It questions how well Doyle's argument for a Kantian internationalism holds up against realist views of perpetual state competition.
3) It asks which theory, neorealism or neoliberalism, better explains outcomes in international politics.
The document then transitions to discussing an econometrics problem set involving probability, expected value, lotteries, and using Stata software to analyze demographic data on mothers. It provides multiple questions across two sections to complete.
1. What is your reaction to Kant applying his idea of a categorialSantosConleyha
1. What is your reaction to Kant applying his idea of a categorial imperative to international politics? In other words, do you think that a rational logic leads people to cooperate, knowing that we are all better off cooperating? Or does fear/insecurity, vanity, ambition, etc. lead actors to what could be argued an illogical path to conflict?
2. How well do you think Doyle’s Liberalist argument for a Kantian Internationalism holds up against the Realist logic of security-seeking States being in a perpetual state of competition and conflict—regardless of whether they are liberal, capitalist democracies or not?
3. Between Neo-Realism and Neo-Liberalism, which theory is better able to explain outcomes in international politics? Explain your answer.
Econometrics PS 1
Due: Feb 2
Complete the entire problems in each section as required. There are two sections!
Section 1: Probability theory: Expected Value and Lotteries (ONE QUESTION TOTAL)
We discussed how the sample mean can be skewed by an extreme value. In a sample of 100 people from Texas, if a multi-millionaire oil baron is randomly chosen for the sample, the mean income in the sample would be skewed higher than the median.
The sample mean is sometimes referred to as the expected value, written E[X] for the expected value of X. In probability theory the expected value is the sum of all potential outcomes, weighted by the probability/chance of the occurrence. For example, assume you are close friends with the oil baron. You need money for school, and as your friend he will agrees to give you one of two cars he never drives, which you will immediately sell for cash. He will flip a coin to determine which one, giving you a 50/50 chance of each. Let’s say one car is worth $12,000 and the other car is worth $118,000. The expected value is written E[X] = 0.5 × $12,000 + 0.5 × $118,000 = $65,000. Notice that this is also the average of the two values.
Question 1: Consider a random lottery, where 2,250 people enter their name (only once per-person) and a machine selects one winner at random. Each player has an equal chance of selection and the winning prize is $425,000.
a. Absent any costs associated with winning or playing the lottery, what is the expected value of entering the lottery one time?
b. Assume the winner must pay a 20% tax on lottery winnings. Further, the dealer wants to charge an entry fee. Exactly 2,250 people believe in luck and will play if the expected value of the gamble is greater than or equal to zero. What is the maximum entry fee the dealer can charge? Will the dealer make a profit?
c. What is the fundamental difference between the typical Powerball or Megamillions lottery and the one we established in our example above? Use two sentences or less to explain.
Section 2:Stata Exercises (FIVE QUESTIONS TOTAL)
For this section you will download data from this site: https://www.stata.com/texts/eacsap/
Connect to the virtual Stata console here: https://vcon.lib.uh.edu/ ...
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INF 103 Week 1 DQ 2 Innovations in Hardware and Software
INF 103 Week 2 DQ 1 Copyright and Fair Use
INF 103 Week 2 DQ 2 Searching for Information
INF 103 Week 2 Assignment Using Microsoft Word What Does the Library Have to Offer
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INF 103 Week 2 DQ 2 Searching for Information
INF 103 Week 2 Assignment Using Microsoft Word What Does the Library Have to Offer
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This document provides information and discussion questions for several weeks of a statistics course (MATH 399) at DeVry University. It includes discussion questions and assignments related to topics like descriptive statistics, regression, probability, confidence intervals, and hypothesis testing. For each week, it provides the discussion question, any relevant instructions, and sometimes a short summary of the statistical concept being covered. It also includes information about completing iLabs (interactive labs) and assignments in Excel to reinforce these statistical topics.
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This document provides materials and instructions for several weekly discussions and iLabs for a DeVry University MATH 399 course. It includes discussion prompts and questions for weeks 1 through 7 on topics such as descriptive statistics, regression, probability, confidence intervals, and hypothesis testing. It also provides instructions and questions for iLabs on related statistical concepts involving Excel, probability distributions, descriptive statistics, and confidence intervals. Students are asked to perform calculations, create graphs and charts, interpret results, and answer questions demonstrating their understanding of the statistical content.
Since the instructions for the final project are standardized and .docxedgar6wallace88877
Since the instructions for the final project are standardized and provided by the department, I thought you might appreciate some pointers and key areas of focus to help you navigate this project! Use this in conjunction with your syllabus instructions, which contain detailed content instructions.
Read the syllabus instructions VERY carefully, pay attention to the requirements embedded in the sentences. In fact, I would construct each heading and subheading (YES, use APA formatted subheadings) according to the required areas listed in your instructions. Here are some formatting directions for subheadings and a rough example for organization of your project with subheadings.
APA Headings Level Formatting Guidelines:
1 Centered, Boldface, Uppercase and Lowercase
2 Left-aligned, Boldface, Uppercase and Lowercase Heading
3 Indented, boldface, lowercase heading with a period. Begin body text after the period.
4 Indented, boldface, italicized, lowercase heading with a period. Begin body text after the period.
5 Indented, italicized, lowercase heading with a period. Begin body text after the period.
Example:
1st page is the TITLE PAGE with Running head- refer to APA guidelines
See how I used proper capitalization for my running head?
Running head: GENDER TRAINING IN THE WORKPLACE
2nd page and remaining pages... The body of your project training program and report. Look up APA formatting: double space entire body, font 12-Times New Roman, 1” margins all sides. Make sure you use proper APA citations in the text (McCarty, 2016) and that those resources are listed on the reference page, including the journal and website citations that you chose.
Introduction and Identification of Problems (1st level)
Participant Name and Problem #1
(You will do this 12 times) (2nd level subheading, left justified, paragraph begins
next line after heading-double space. I will not double space the rest of this example to save space, but don’t forget to do it! Make sure you check your settings to be a true double space-nothing less and nothing more)
Training Program: Session One (8 of these)
Session One Title (2nd level)
Gender and Hostility in the Workplace
Objectives (2nd level)
The goal of this course is to
· define gender,
· define hostility,
· identify areas of hostility…(You can use bullets and or level three subheadings to list/organize).
Problem (2nd level)
State the participants problem(s) you will address with this session
Journal articles and websites
Journal. List one or more peer review (ACADEMIC) article(s) that is relevant to the issue/problem using an APA formatted reference.
Website. List one website that is relevant to the issue/problem and put into APA formatted reference.
Activity
Create and describe an activity that will promote discussion and understanding among the participants.
Activity breakdown. (3rd level subheading). Start text after period. You might want to use this 3rd level subheadin.
1. What is your reaction to Kant applying his idea of a categorialBenitoSumpter862
This document discusses three questions related to international relations theories:
1) It asks for a reaction to applying Kant's idea of a categorical imperative to international politics and whether rational logic leads to cooperation.
2) It questions how well Doyle's argument for a Kantian internationalism holds up against realist views of perpetual state competition.
3) It asks which theory, neorealism or neoliberalism, better explains outcomes in international politics.
The document then transitions to discussing an econometrics problem set involving probability, expected value, lotteries, and using Stata software to analyze demographic data on mothers. It provides multiple questions across two sections to complete.
1. What is your reaction to Kant applying his idea of a categorialSantosConleyha
1. What is your reaction to Kant applying his idea of a categorial imperative to international politics? In other words, do you think that a rational logic leads people to cooperate, knowing that we are all better off cooperating? Or does fear/insecurity, vanity, ambition, etc. lead actors to what could be argued an illogical path to conflict?
2. How well do you think Doyle’s Liberalist argument for a Kantian Internationalism holds up against the Realist logic of security-seeking States being in a perpetual state of competition and conflict—regardless of whether they are liberal, capitalist democracies or not?
3. Between Neo-Realism and Neo-Liberalism, which theory is better able to explain outcomes in international politics? Explain your answer.
Econometrics PS 1
Due: Feb 2
Complete the entire problems in each section as required. There are two sections!
Section 1: Probability theory: Expected Value and Lotteries (ONE QUESTION TOTAL)
We discussed how the sample mean can be skewed by an extreme value. In a sample of 100 people from Texas, if a multi-millionaire oil baron is randomly chosen for the sample, the mean income in the sample would be skewed higher than the median.
The sample mean is sometimes referred to as the expected value, written E[X] for the expected value of X. In probability theory the expected value is the sum of all potential outcomes, weighted by the probability/chance of the occurrence. For example, assume you are close friends with the oil baron. You need money for school, and as your friend he will agrees to give you one of two cars he never drives, which you will immediately sell for cash. He will flip a coin to determine which one, giving you a 50/50 chance of each. Let’s say one car is worth $12,000 and the other car is worth $118,000. The expected value is written E[X] = 0.5 × $12,000 + 0.5 × $118,000 = $65,000. Notice that this is also the average of the two values.
Question 1: Consider a random lottery, where 2,250 people enter their name (only once per-person) and a machine selects one winner at random. Each player has an equal chance of selection and the winning prize is $425,000.
a. Absent any costs associated with winning or playing the lottery, what is the expected value of entering the lottery one time?
b. Assume the winner must pay a 20% tax on lottery winnings. Further, the dealer wants to charge an entry fee. Exactly 2,250 people believe in luck and will play if the expected value of the gamble is greater than or equal to zero. What is the maximum entry fee the dealer can charge? Will the dealer make a profit?
c. What is the fundamental difference between the typical Powerball or Megamillions lottery and the one we established in our example above? Use two sentences or less to explain.
Section 2:Stata Exercises (FIVE QUESTIONS TOTAL)
For this section you will download data from this site: https://www.stata.com/texts/eacsap/
Connect to the virtual Stata console here: https://vcon.lib.uh.edu/ ...
For more course tutorials visit
www.newtonhelp.com
INF 103 Week 1 DQ 1 How Do You Currently Use Information Technology
INF 103 Week 1 DQ 2 Innovations in Hardware and Software
INF 103 Week 2 DQ 1 Copyright and Fair Use
INF 103 Week 2 DQ 2 Searching for Information
INF 103 Week 2 Assignment Using Microsoft Word What Does the Library Have to Offer
INF 103(ASH) Possible Is Everything/newtonhelp.comlechenau71
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INF 103 Week 1 DQ 1 How Do You Currently Use Information Technology
INF 103 Week 1 DQ 2 Innovations in Hardware and Software
INF 103 Week 2 DQ 1 Copyright and Fair Use
INF 103 Week 2 DQ 2 Searching for Information
INF 103 Week 2 Assignment Using Microsoft Word What Does the Library Have to Offer
De vry math 399 ilabs & discussions latest 2016lenasour
This document provides information and discussion questions for several weeks of a statistics course (MATH 399) at DeVry University. It includes discussion questions and assignments related to topics like descriptive statistics, regression, probability, confidence intervals, and hypothesis testing. For each week, it provides the discussion question, any relevant instructions, and sometimes a short summary of the statistical concept being covered. It also includes information about completing iLabs (interactive labs) and assignments in Excel to reinforce these statistical topics.
De vry math 399 ilabs & discussions latest 2016 novemberlenasour
This document provides materials and instructions for several weekly discussions and iLabs for a DeVry University MATH 399 course. It includes discussion prompts and questions for weeks 1 through 7 on topics such as descriptive statistics, regression, probability, confidence intervals, and hypothesis testing. It also provides instructions and questions for iLabs on related statistical concepts involving Excel, probability distributions, descriptive statistics, and confidence intervals. Students are asked to perform calculations, create graphs and charts, interpret results, and answer questions demonstrating their understanding of the statistical content.
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Psy 342 / Soc 342 – Winter, 2020
Guidance for your two mini-papers:
What difference does social psychology make?
Follow this guidance to write two mini-papers for our course. Each mini-paper counts for
10% (up to 20 points) of your course grade, so that’s 20% of the course grade
altogether.
You’ll use each paper to explore a specific social psychological concept. Each paper will
be 900 to 1000 words, single spaced, with one inch margins. Papers will be graded
using a framework:
+ is like an A (this translates to 20 points in our 200-point system)
is like a B (16 points)
- is like a C (12 points),
and so on. I’d like to assign as many and + grades as possible, and if you plan
ahead, follow this guidance, and so on I believe you can do fine work on both your mini-
papers.
In each paper you will show that you know how a given concept in social psychology is
defined, describe how it relates to other social psych ideas, give an example how it
applies in real life, and describe what impact this knowledge makes.
In addition to your name and the usual info at the top of the document, your paper will
include:
(Section 1) Use this caption:
Concept: _____________ [fill in the blank with the name of the concept]
Name an established concept or theory from our social psychology text and/or
from classroom lecture. Don’t use Wikipedia, etc., for your concept – use our
class text and/or lecture notes. You may use any chapter of the text even if we’re
not covering that chapter this quarter.
Provide the definition of the concept or theory. Use quote marks and provide
the page number for the definition by adding an in-text citation like this: (Myers &
Twenge, 13/e, page xx). If you use another recent edition of the book, that’s fine,
just cite it appropriately (11/e or 12/e). It's also okay to copy a definition directly
from your lecture notes, but I still expect you to use quote marks and tell the date
of your notes in which you wrote the definition.
(Section 2) Use this caption:
Related ideas: __________[fill in the blank by naming the 2-3 related ideas]
Using your own words, connect this concept to 2-3 related ideas from our social
psychology textbook. You’ll probably need 5-6 sentences to do this. Use more
sentences if necessary to meet your 900-1000 word target for the paper overall.
Make it easy for us to tell what the related concepts are. Besides naming them in
the caption for the section you might underline them in the paragraphs.
2
(Section 3) Use this caption:
Factual example.
In your own words, describe a factual situation in your own life, in which you saw this
concept or theory at work. You might be recalling something that happened before you
knew the concepts, and you only realize the concept applies in retrospect – that’s okay..
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This document provides instructions for three assignments related to researching scenarios, creating a spreadsheet to track expenses, and researching social media tools. The scenarios assignment involves researching topics like using social media for job searching and the connection between addiction and homelessness. The expenses assignment instructs students to create an Excel spreadsheet to track expenses over three months using formulas. The social media assignment involves choosing a social media tool to research, creating an account, and answering questions about how professionals can use it and its benefits and drawbacks.
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This assignment has two goals: 1) have students, via research, increase their understanding of impacts of information
technology on current world issues, and 2) learn to correctly use the tools and techniques within Word to format a research
paper, including use of available References and citation tools. These skills will be valuable throughout a student’s
academic career.
The paper will require a title page, NO abstract, three to five full pages of content with incorporation of a minimum of 3
external resources from credible sources and a Works Cited/References page. Wikipedia and similar general information
sites, blogs or discussion groups are not considered creditable sources for a research project. No more than 10% of the
paper may be in the form of a direct citation from an external source. Choose your topic from the list of topics that follow
these organization steps.
Paper organization
Open Word and save a blank document with the following name:
“Student’s LastNameFirstInitial Research Paper”
The paper should be organized in the following way:
1. Title page:
a. Center in the middle of the page (horizontally and vertically) the title (subject) of the paper and below that
your name
2. Body of the paper:
a. Use 12-point Arial font
b. Set the margins at 1”
c. Length – 3-5 full pages, not counting the title page or the References page.
d. Include a minimum of 3 APA-formatted citations and related References page. Every reference must be cited
at least once, and every citation have an entry in the References list. If you are not familiar with APA format,
it is recommended that you use the References feature in Word for your citations and Reference List or refer
to the "Citing and Writing" option under the Resources/Library/Get Help area in the LEO classroom. It is
important to review the final format for APA-style correctness even if generated by Word.
e. Include at least two (2) informational footnotes. Footnotes are not used to list a reference! Footnotes contain
information about the topic to which the footnote has been attached.
f. Place the references on a separate page following the body of the paper. Note: Use a hard return (CTRL
Enter) after the end of your paper body and the start of the References page.
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Include the following sections in the paper (include, in bold, the headings identified here):
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This document provides an overview of the INF 103 Entire Course, including discussion questions, assignments, and papers for each week. It covers topics such as information technology use, hardware and software innovations, copyright, searching for information, information security, computer ethics, emerging technologies, and more. Students complete weekly discussion questions and assignments involving Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. The final paper options are on collaborative technologies, ethical concerns in computing, the digital divide, open source software, mobile computing, social networks, intellectual property, or cloud computing.
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Throughout the course of your academic career, you will be asked to conduct research to support the assertions you make in papers, presentations, and projects. Sometimes getting at the material you will need is fairly straightforward, while other times the research process forces you to get a little creative in seeking out (and finding) the types of source material that will be most useful to you. This exercise will allow you to practice conducting different types of searches.
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You are writing up your weekly responses for your COM106 course and want to respond to a classmate who discusses the need to use social media in a job search. You are not familiar with this phrase.
Describe what sort of search you would conduct to help you in responding to this student and why. What search engine(s) or database(s) might you use and why? What search terms? How would you go about evaluating the credibility of the information you found?
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Professor’s name
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Date in day month year format (i.e. 16 September 2008)
Final Research Essay
The introductory paragraph identifies your topic, provides necessary background information about your topic, and states your argument—also known as your thesis sentence—about the topic. Begin your essay by identifying and discussing the topic related to the benefits or disadvantages of college that you’ve chosen to research. Transition to the viewpoints about the topic; that is, identify your side of the argument and the opposing side of the argument. The final sentence of your introduction is your thesis statement; that is, what is your argument about the topic you’ve chosen about the benefits or disadvantages of college?
In six to ten body paragraphs, you will back up your argument, present and explain your opposition (i.e. counterargument/“naysayer”), and provide a rebuttal to disprove the opposition’s viewpoints. Aim for five to ten sentences per paragraph, approximately 80 to 120 words. Each body paragraph begins with a topic sentence, paired with a transitional phrase, which states the main idea of that paragraph. These topic sentences are extensions of your thesis statement. You will then combine your ideas/points with evidence from your sources to support the paragraph’s topic sentence. Remember: Your essay must reference at least two articles from “Chapter Seventeen: Is College the Best Option?” and at least two reliable scholarly/professional sources (i.e. journal articles or web sources approved by the instructor) related to your topic. Since you are citing evidence from your sources, you must include parenthetical citations at the end of each sentence that references ideas from your sources—whether you paraphrase (i.e. put author’s ideas in your own words) or use direct quotes. If you use direct quotes, make sure you “sandwich” them, as described in “Chapter 3: As He Himself Puts It- The Art of Quoting.” Try to reference evidence from two of your sources in each body paragraph. Very important: Do not use the body paragraphs to summarize your sources. Instead, evidence from your sources simply reinforce your argument and provide you with backup to persuade your audience that your side of the issue is correct. You do not want the source material to overshadow your argument. In other words, you are using what they say to back up what you say! For more information, review “Part I: They Say” and “Part II: I Say” in the textbook. Lastly, the final one or two sentences of each body paragraph explain the connection between the cited evidence and that paragraph’s topic sentence.
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Module 1 - SLP
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY & HRM
Before you start this assignment, be sure that you are familiar with the following
laws and their amendments:
Americans with Disabilities Act (Click on the link for a brief overview.)
Title VII—specifically Religious Accommodation in this module. (Click on the link
for a brief overview.)
"Reasonable Accommodation" and "Undue Hardship" (Click on the link for a brief
overview.)
EEOC Enforcement Guidance on Reasonable Accommodation and Undue
Hardship Under the Americans with Disabilities Act (Click on the link for a brief
overview.)
There are primarily two U.S. governmental agencies responsible for enforcing
EEO laws. They are the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and
the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP). In this
assignment we will focus on the EEOC, and in Module 2 we will look at the
OFCCP.
Integrate your responses to the following as you prepare your paper:
Under law, employers must meet reasonable accommodation expectations
concerning religion and disability.
What, specifically and succinctly, are these expectations?
Who enforces these expectations?
Provide two specific private sector workplace examples of reasonable
accommodations from your readings/research (stating employers by name)
one for religion and one for disability.
Bring in at least 3 TUI library sources plus any applicable background readings to
help strengthen your discussion.
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http://topics.hrhero.com/religious-accommodation/
http://www.adl.org/assets/pdf/civil-rights/religiousfreedom/religfreeres/ReligAccommodWPlace-docx.pdf
http://www.eeoc.gov/policy/docs/accommodation.html
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Submit your paper by the module due date. The paper should be 2-3 pages, not
counting the cover and reference pages.
SLP Assignment Expectations
Demonstrate critical thinking and analysis of the relevant issues and HRM
actions, drawing on your background reading and research.
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This assignment will cover the principals of quantitative literacy, and it will also incorporate the ideas of Responding to Objection and Alternative Views as described in Chapter 6 of Writing Arguments, and Argument as Inquiry as described in Chapter 8 of Writing Arguments.
The assignment satisfies both the Quantitative Literacy and Course Project requirements, established by The Writing Program for WRC 1023. (The Course Project parameters, integrated into this assignment description, can be found on Page 47 of the Writing Program Student Handbook 2018-19.)
The Game Plan
1. Initiate research, to include a UTSA Library-hosted dataset, upon discussion of the assignment on Thursday, November 21, submit the Course Project Prep by Monday, November 25, and participate in the Computer Lab Research/Writing Session on Tuesday, November 26.
2. Participate in a peer editing session, and submit the Course Project Peer Editing Session Summary by Tuesday, December 3
3. Submit the paper (which must be at least 1250 words) as Course Project via Blackboard by Wednesday, December 4 at 11:59 p.m.
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Before writing the paper, you should collect data to support your claim (Exploring), determine which data will help your argument (Understanding), explaining the significance of the data collected (Analyzing), create an original pie chart, bar graph, or other visual representation that showcases the data (Visualizing), discuss how the data applies to the argument you’re making (Translating), and then utilize that in the argument you’re making (Expressing).
Essentials
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The function of deploying such assets is traditionally called
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(ISR). Yet the U.S. military cannot legally collect intelligence on U.S. citizens. Consequently, the action, as performed during the hurricane recovery operations described here, is known as
incident awareness and assessments
(IAA). For some, the difference between these terms is merely semantics; for many, IAA differs both symbolically and practically from ISR, if not in how information is collected, then in how it is used and the motivation behind the collection. (The Web site for IAA reference is under Web sites references below.)
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Address the following in 5–7 paragraphs:
Do you believe the distinction between ISR and IAA lies simply with terminology (and therefore there is little or no difference) or that there is a separation between the concepts? Explain and defend your answer fully. You may choose to research the topic more fully.
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List at least 2–3 costs or opposing views to its use and how IAA—or the information gathered—might be misused or abused.
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intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance
to
incident awareness and assessments
for operations conducted in the homeland was wise or frivolous (or described otherwise)? Explain and defend your answer fully.
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How does the symbolism of ISR potentially hinder homeland security professionals in performing their jobs?
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of
the
books
from
The
Odyssey
including
Book
I.
Choose
one
character
and
trace
that
character’s
traits
throughout
your
reading
assignment.
Write
a
five-‐paragraph
character
analysis-‐interesting
insights
about
the
character-‐of
the
character
of
your
choice.
Choose
from
the
books
listed
below:
Book
I:
You
MUST
read
Book
I.
Invocation
and
part
summary
–council
of
the
gods-‐
Athena
visits
Telemachos
in
Ithaka
and
urges
him
to
go
in
search
of
his
father-‐the
suitors
feast
in
the
house
of
Telemachos.
Book
VIII:
Odysseus
at
the
games
of
the
Phaiakians-‐
he
is
asked
top
tell
his
name
and
his
story.
Book
XIII:
Return
of
Odysseus
to
Ithaka-‐
hi
is
landed,
alone-‐
strange
return
of
the
Phaiakian
ship-‐Athena
comes
to
Odysseus
and
advises
him.
Book
XVI:
Telemachos
visits
Eumaios-‐Odyssues
reveals
himself
to
Telemachos-‐Penelope
and
suitors
learn
that
Telemachos
has
returned-‐
night
at
the
house
of
Eumaios.
Book
XXI:
The
test
of
the
bow-‐the
suitors
fail-‐Odysseus
succeeds.
Book
XXII:
The
killing
of
the
suitors-‐punishment
of
the
faithless
maids
and
thrall.
Book
XXIII:
Recognition
of
Odysseus
by
Penelope-‐reunion-‐Odysseus
goes
to
Laertes’
farm.
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Homelessness in America has been a problem since the settlement of the country.
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How has society’s response to that group changed over the past 300 years?
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How has it changed in your lifetime?
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What changes do you anticipate in society’s response in the next 50 years?
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What factors have influenced those changes?
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Post this assignment in the chapter conference.
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Topics of discussion can include but are not limited to:
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Or from one subsidiary to another of the same parent?
Transfer pricing methods?
What are the objectives of your JOHNSON&JOHNSONs transfer pricing practices?
What law(s) govern your JOHNSON&JOHNSONs practices?
What method is used?
The enforcement of transfer pricing regulations in the country where you JOHNSON&JOHNSON is located?
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Homeland Security efforts are ably reinforced by Homeland Defense and Defense Support of Civil Authorities (DSCA), which are missions executed by the Department of Defense (DOD), most specifically by the Combatant Command, United States Northern Command (USNORTHCOM). In supporting the nation when requested by DHS, FEMA, or other lead federal agencies, or as directed by the president or the secretary of defense, DOD provides many unique capabilities for crisis response. One specific function used most notably during the post-Hurricane Katrina period was the use of airborne assets to provide damage assessments and to gauge the extent of the sea surge at various times during the recovery.
The function of deploying such assets is traditionally called
intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance
(ISR). Yet the U.S. military cannot legally collect intelligence on U.S. citizens. Consequently, the action, as performed during the hurricane recovery operations described here, is known as
incident awareness and assessments
(IAA). For some, the difference between these terms is merely semantics; for many, IAA differs both symbolically and practically from ISR, if not in how information is collected, then in how it is used and the motivation behind the collection. (The Web site for IAA reference is under Web sites references below.)
Assignment Guidelines
Address the following in 5–7 paragraphs:
Do you believe the distinction between ISR and IAA lies simply with terminology (and therefore there is little or no difference) or that there is a separation between the concepts? Explain and defend your answer fully. You may choose to research the topic more fully.
Contemplating the ethics of using IAA in the homeland, list at least 3 benefits of its use where ethics might potentially be secondary.
List at least 2–3 costs or opposing views to its use and how IAA—or the information gathered—might be misused or abused.
What if criminal activity (like acres of tended marijuana) was observed during IAA missions intended to conduct damage assessments? How should such information be handled?
Do you believe converting the term
intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance
to
incident awareness and assessments
for operations conducted in the homeland was wise or frivolous (or described otherwise)? Explain and defend your answer fully.
What is the value of using carefully selected terminology for operations in the homeland?
How does the symbolism of IAA potentially aid homeland security professionals in performing their jobs?
How does the symbolism of ISR potentially hinder homeland security professionals in performing their jobs?
Among the Web sites listed for this unit, you will find the Air Forces North (AFNORTH) Incident Awareness and Assessment Handbook, June 2010.
Why do you think this manual on IAA is available from open-source sites?
Do you think there might be ethical considerations to publicizing the use and purposes of IAA? Name and discuss at least 1.
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Homecoming is an annual tradition in the United States. In this report you are going to provide a background information about Homecoming (for example, what is homecoming, what type of activities do people do, why it is celebrated in the U.S….) You must report your findings in an essay format (at least two long paragraphs) and cite any resources that you use.
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Homer
Assignment
II
Read
three
of
the
books
from
The
Odyssey
including
Book
I.
Choose
one
character
and
trace
that
character’s
traits
throughout
your
reading
assignment.
Write
a
five-‐paragraph
character
analysis-‐interesting
insights
about
the
character-‐of
the
character
of
your
choice.
Choose
from
the
books
listed
below:
Book
I:
You
MUST
read
Book
I.
Invocation
and
part
summary
–council
of
the
gods-‐
Athena
visits
Telemachos
in
Ithaka
and
urges
him
to
go
in
search
of
his
father-‐the
suitors
feast
in
the
house
of
Telemachos.
Book
VIII:
Odysseus
at
the
games
of
the
Phaiakians-‐
he
is
asked
top
tell
his
name
and
his
story.
Book
XIII:
Return
of
Odysseus
to
Ithaka-‐
hi
is
landed,
alone-‐
strange
return
of
the
Phaiakian
ship-‐Athena
comes
to
Odysseus
and
advises
him.
Book
XVI:
Telemachos
visits
Eumaios-‐Odyssues
reveals
himself
to
Telemachos-‐Penelope
and
suitors
learn
that
Telemachos
has
returned-‐
night
at
the
house
of
Eumaios.
Book
XXI:
The
test
of
the
bow-‐the
suitors
fail-‐Odysseus
succeeds.
Book
XXII:
The
killing
of
the
suitors-‐punishment
of
the
faithless
maids
and
thrall.
Book
XXIII:
Recognition
of
Odysseus
by
Penelope-‐reunion-‐Odysseus
goes
to
Laertes’
farm.
.
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Homelessness in America has been a problem since the settlement of the country.
How has society’s response to that population changed over time? Consider the following in your response: Cite references. Min 200 words
·
How has society’s response to that group changed over the past 300 years?
·
How has it changed in your lifetime?
·
What changes do you anticipate in society’s response in the next 50 years?
·
What factors have influenced those changes?
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Homework Assignments One page
what the functional currency for Johnson& Johnson
Research your JOHNSON&JOHNSON and report on any major issue(s) of international taxation that is (are) addressed in this chapter.
Post this assignment in the chapter conference.
Discuss how your JOHNSON&JOHNSON handles transfer pricing.
Topics of discussion can include but are not limited to:
Are transfers from a subsidiary to its parent (upstream)? From the parent to a subsidiary (downstream)?
Or from one subsidiary to another of the same parent?
Transfer pricing methods?
What are the objectives of your JOHNSON&JOHNSONs transfer pricing practices?
What law(s) govern your JOHNSON&JOHNSONs practices?
What method is used?
The enforcement of transfer pricing regulations in the country where you JOHNSON&JOHNSON is located?
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Homework Assignment: Company Research
This assignment requires you to research a company which is (
The Union Pacific Railroad
)
. You are to assume that you will be interviewing with this company for a job right after graduation. As such, you want to perform in-depth research about your company so you will be the best prepared candidate to be interviewed. Your goal is to learn as much as you can about the company including their strengths and weaknesses. Your research should include
Marketing issues due
·
Product market (major products)
·
Geographic market (where it operates –
local, regional, national, international)
·
Competitors
·
Brands
Current issues
·
Effect of current economic recession
·
Opportunities for and threats to the company based on current and projected events
·
Strengths and Weaknesses
·
Career opportunities
Financial issues
·
Trend analysis (e.g. trends in income, stock price, dividends)
·
Financial stability
Management issues
·
Core competency
·
Innovation (evidence that the company is or is not innovative)
·
Ethics and social responsibility (evidence of the company’s values and how those values have been reflected in its conduct)
·
Sustainability
Overview of the company
·
History
·
Mission
·
Vision
·
Organizational Structure
·
Primary industry(ies) in which it operates
Written Summary and Reference List
·
A five to eight page well organized executive summary of your company as well as a list of the references used. The reference list should be formatted according to APA style. Additionally, your team must provide evidence of “collaborative effort”, (Meeting Agendas, Minutes, etc.)
.
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Homework Assignment #1
Directions: Please answer each of the following questions in as detailed a manner as possible, and be sure to include all appropriate material discussed in the lectures and the assigned reading material.
1) Define what we mean by money and how it is used in the day to day functioning of the U.S. economy. Be sure to include the major components that make up what is defined as money and which of these components is used most widely to identify what money is. Also, include the major functions that money serves as a part of the overall economy and how banks act to create and maintain money.
2) Name and discuss the four major theories that address the term structure of interest rates. In your discussion, indicate the strengths and weaknesses of each of the theories and which theory or theories appear to be the most well accepted as explanations of term structure.
3) Explain the role that money plays under the Classical Macroeconomic Model. As a part of your discussion, include the impact the Quantity Theory of Money and Say’s Law have on this model and state in algebraic terms how the money supply relates to prices.
4) Compare and contrast pure discount bonds with coupon bonds and provide at least one example of such government or corporate bonds that can be bought and sold by investors. Describe the way interest rates are determined for these bonds by using the appropriate formula or formulas and explain the overall relationship between bond prices and interest rates.
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Homework Assignment 9
Due in week 10 and worth 30 points
Suppose that there are two (2) candidates (i.e., Jones and Johns) in the upcoming presidential election. Sara notes that she has discussed the presidential election candidates with 15 friends, and 10 said that they are voting for candidate Jones. Sara is therefore convinced that candidate Jones will win the election because Jones gets more than 50% of votes.
Answer the following questions in the space provided below:
Based on what you now know about statistical inference, is Sara’s conclusion a logical conclusion? Why or why not?
How many friend samples Sara should have in order to draw the conclusion with 95% confidence interval? Why?
How would you explain your conclusion to Sara without using any statistical jargon? Why?
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Homework Assignment 4 Guidelines
1. Write the paper in Microsoft Word or in a comparable program saved as a Word document.
2. The text should be in 12 point CG Times, Times Roman, or New Times Roman.
3. Single spacing is fine but skip a line between questions.
4. Use a spell checker!
5. Include the corresponding question before each answer in your document.
6. Use Chicago or Turabian style citations to inform me of exactly where you found the information to answer the questions. The citation formatting does not need to be perfect, but do your best. For citation guides please see http://hub.miracosta.edu/library/ResearchGuides/Chicago.pdf
7. The title of the assignment in the Bb Section Folder is a hyperlink that opens the Assignment Submission window. Click to open. Upload your file. Copy the text of your assignment into the Assignment Materials text box on the assignment upload page. Make sure the formatting is cool by previewing before you submit.
8. Submit the assignment before the deadline.
Part A) A Reaction to Racism in American Literature, Art, and Music In the latter part of the 19th century, "Realism" became the dominant feature in American literature and influenced the Progressive Era writers of the early 20th century. In the years immediately following World War I, a number of American authors of the realist school began to explore race relations. Dramatists such as Eugene O'Neill and Paul Green wrote plays based on African American themes. O'Neill's The Emperor Jones (1920) and All God's Chillun Got Wings (1924) were immensely popular. Green won the Pulitzer Prize for In Abraham's Bosom, a play performed by a predominately African American cast in a period when few African American artists were able to find work outside vaudeville or minstrel shows. At the same time, a number of African American writers came to prominence writing novels and poetry based on their experiences as African Americans. This literary movement, originally centered in Harlem, New York, became known as the "Harlem Renaissance" (1920s-1930s). It was the outgrowth of a number of factors including the Great Migration to northern cities and the growing anger over both overt and covert racism. Authors, musicians, and painters gathered in Harlem and in other large urban areas throughout the North and developed a distinctly African American cultural movement cognizant of the political, economic, and social issues of prejudice and discrimination that were part of the Black experience in America. Historians have described the Harlem Renaissance as a period in which the African American writer ". . . had achieved a degree and kind of articulation that make it possible for him to transform his feelings into a variety of literary forms. Despite his intense feelings of hate and hurt, he possessed sufficient restraint and objectivity to use his materials artistically, but no less effectively." (John Hope Franklin, From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans, .
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Hi
we are a group doing a research and we split up the work every one took apart and my part is to do
the Value Chain Analysis only
FOR the
company in question
(
company info you will find it in the attachment
)
so
there is no need to do introduction or anything
else just go directly to the topic and start doing the Value Chain Analysis
instruction in general
1-
12 font Double space
2-
2-3 pages maximum
3-
Add appendix
4-
Reliable sources important
I will check plagiarism just in case
Specific
my part is to do the value chain analysis only again do not write introduction or any thing just start with the analysis
please do not waste my and your time
read the attachment carefully first then start do the reaserch
if you have any regards
contact me
.
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hi
I need research paper about any topics in
Manufacturing Processes
a.
To introduce students to some of the fundamentals of materials (behavior and manufacturing properties)
b.
To give students a working knowledge of production processes of casting, forming and shaping, machining and machine tools, sheet metal, and joining processes
c.
To introduce students computer integrated manufacturing, flexible manufacturing systems and other modern technologies in manufacturing
d.
To give students common aspects of manufacturing including statistical control and life expectancy of some products.
e.
Students will design a simple artifact, present case studies or designs, and write reports
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"HMIS Standards"
Please respond to the following:
From the e-Activity, determine a key factor that has delayed the widespread implementation of electronic health records in health care organizations. Provide an example of the effects of each factor to support your rationale.
Determine two areas where HIPPA has influenced the development of HIMS standards. Justify your response.
.
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Hi
i need a paper about (Head On )German film ( Turkey part)
3 to 5 sentences each
Summary:
Time context:
Details about the film:
Thesis: explain
Characters:
Camera technique:
Light:
Music:
Situation effects:
Power struggle:
Sources: 3 academic
.
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Hi
i have new work can you do it, it's due in 6 hours
Boyd,
Gayle M.,
Jan Howard,
and
Robert A. Zucker
.
Alcohol Problems among Adolescents: Current Directions in Prevention Research.
Psychology Press
, 2013.
Lowe, Geoff
,
David R. Foxcroft,
and
David Sibley
.
Adolescent Drinking and Family Life
.
Taylor & Francis, 1993
.
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
Underage Drinking: A Major Public Health Challenge
. Apr. 2003. Web. 10 Oct. 2016.
Office of Juvenile Jus
tice and Delinquency Prevention.
Effects and Consequences of Underage Drinking
. Sept.
2012
. Web. 10 Oct. 2016.
I want you to chose any two of these sources and write two pergraph for each, total 4 pergraghs. Can you do it?
.
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"HIT Management and Implementation"
Please respond to the following:
Determine a key process in the delivery of health care services that would be more efficient and effective through the application of a specific model of HIT. Support your response.
Analyze the barriers to the implementation of HIMS in a complex adaptive system (CAS). Propose a strategy to help reduce the level of resistance from the clinical staff during a transition from CAS to HIMS innovations. Provide a rationale to support your response
"Innovationin HIMS"
Please respond to the following:
•Compare and contrast the functionality and efficiency of the complaint-push model and data-pull model within the process of health care service delivery. Recommend a strategy improving the effectiveness of each method for delivering patient care.
•Determine a significant aspect of a complex health care system that represents barriers to a more rapid diffusion of HIT. Next, suggest how these barriers can be removed or minimized. Support your rationale.
.
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History and Theory
Consider
the eras, life histories, and personalities of Freud and Rogers.
Identify
two research articles published in the last 5 years: one that investigates a psychoanalytic or Freudian construct and one that investigates a client-centered, humanistic, or Rogerian construct.
Write
a 700- to 1,050-word paper about Freud and Rogers that addresses the following:
Provide a summary of each article, highlighting the processes that contemporary psychologists use to develop the theories of Freud and Rogers.
Explain their views of human nature and their worldviews as expressed in their respective theories.
Which aspect of their theory do you think would be different if they were alive and working today?
Explain how social and cultural factors influenced the development of Freud's and Rogers' respective theories of personality.
Do
NOT
use about.com, psychology.about.com, ask.com, simplypsychology.org, AllPsych.com, SparkNotes.com, wikipedia, or other sources that are not scholarly in nature.
You
MUST
have a minimum of 2 scholarly sources as references. You may use your textbook but it does not count as one of these sources.
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Read the Case of Jim in Chapter 6
Each team member should discuss the case using the humanistic theory as a model. Then use the humanistic theory to discuss how you would use it to assess the client.
Post an initial response
to this case analysis (approximately 350 words with at least 1 scholarly source).
THE CASE OF JIM
SEMANTIC DIFFERENTIAL: PHENOMENOLOGICAL THEORY
Jim completed ratings of the concepts self, ideal self, father, and mother using the semantic differential (
Chapter 5
), a simple rating scale. Although the semantic differential is not the exact measure recommended by Rogers, its results can be related to Rogerian theory since its procedures have a phenomenological quality and assess perceptions of self and ideal self.
First, consider how Jim perceives his self. Based on the semantic differential, Jim sees himself as intelligent, friendly, sincere, kind, and basically good—as a wise person who is humane and interested in people. At the same time, other ratings suggest that he does not feel free to be expressive and uninhibited. Thus, he rates himself as reserved, introverted, inhibited, tense, moral, and conforming. There is a curious mixture of perceptions: being involved, deep, sensitive, and kind while also being competitive, selfish, and disapproving. There is also the interesting combination of perceiving himself as being good and masculine but simultaneously weak and insecure. One gets the impression of an individual who would like to believe that he is basically good and capable of.
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History of an argument: Are there too many people?
There have been several points in history at which someone has argued that we have too many people, and that this will be a problem.
Please do some research and choose at least one of these arguments to discuss in some detail in a paper of about 2-3 pages.
Who was making the argument?
Which people were identified as being too many?
Was a solution proposed, and if so, what was it?
Did the predicted overpopulation crisis come to pass, and why or why not?
How many people would be about right?
How many are too many?
Who decides?
What are the criteria for the decision?
The usual formatting and proper mechanics of good writing apply.
.
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history essays- 1000 words each essay- mla and 2 works cited. every question should be submitted in its own sheet.
1.Trace the patterns of international migration since 1970, with reference to at least two examples. How do these differ from migration patterns of a century earlier?
2.
Discuss advantages and disadvantages of globalization in contemporary world. Who has benefited and who has not? Has globalization brought the world together or driven it further apart?
.
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Historical Background of Housing Policy
Housing is one of the requirements in human life
(not true!)
. Therefore,
it
greatly influences the day to day life of citizens in a country as well as the country's economy. As a result of
its
importance, there
should be
secure policies in the state that protect citizens against exploitation and the economy of the nation
This is not a neutral statement of the evidence
(Turis, 2011).
Good
housing provided with essential social amenities means healthy lives for the citizens since
they will be enjoying all the services
. Poor housing, for instance, can result in health issues for the individuals of a given society. Crime rates are also found to be higher in places with inadequate housing and this
becomes a threat
may be a threat
to the security of the community.
The housing policy
,
??????
therefore, was formed
so as to
address the housing challenges facing the nation and its citizens (Turis, 2011).
indent
To deal with the housing problems
(what housing problems?)
the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher program
(The correct name is Section 8 of the Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. § 1437f)
was established in 1974 as the Housing Act (Turis, 2011). This housing policy enables low income earners
to pay for houses of their choice
in the private market. The state funds the program and as a result, it benefits over five million low-income families as it enables them to pay for the housing
with ease
. Provision of
the
vouchers is one of the
policies
ways
in which
the state addresses the housing problem for its citizens (Turis, 2011). Compared to other policies
such as….
, vouchers provide a wider range of shelter and they are less expensive. For the low-income earners to use the vouchers, the kind of houses they find
should not
exceed the maximum allowable rent by the vouchers and must be in line with the program policies. The program also
covers a wide variety of houses
which include single family home; this was aimed at small families. Apartments and houses in towns are also covered by the program.
This description of the HCV is not clear.
indent
The housing voucher programs is managed by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (Kotz, 2012)
.
Public Housing Agencies (PHAs) are
the ones
responsible for carrying out the local programs outlines
(Kotz, 2012)
.
The mode of operation of this program is that an individual finds a suitable house for them to live and they pay rent to the landlords. The subsidy for the rent is paid by the PHAs to the owners of the house directly, and the person receiving such voucher will have to pay the remaining amount of money to the landlord (Kotz, 2012)
.
Therefore, in this program, the kind of benefits the citizens receive is subsidies on the rent they pay to the owners. A Certain amount is paid by the PHAs on the behalf of the low-income families, which makes houses relatively cheaper for citizens to choose where they want to li.
How to Manage Your Lost Opportunities in Odoo 17 CRMCeline George
Odoo 17 CRM allows us to track why we lose sales opportunities with "Lost Reasons." This helps analyze our sales process and identify areas for improvement. Here's how to configure lost reasons in Odoo 17 CRM
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
This slide is special for master students (MIBS & MIFB) in UUM. Also useful for readers who are interested in the topic of contemporary Islamic banking.
Macroeconomics- Movie Location
This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
A workshop hosted by the South African Journal of Science aimed at postgraduate students and early career researchers with little or no experience in writing and publishing journal articles.
Main Java[All of the Base Concepts}.docxadhitya5119
This is part 1 of my Java Learning Journey. This Contains Custom methods, classes, constructors, packages, multithreading , try- catch block, finally block and more.
This presentation was provided by Steph Pollock of The American Psychological Association’s Journals Program, and Damita Snow, of The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), for the initial session of NISO's 2024 Training Series "DEIA in the Scholarly Landscape." Session One: 'Setting Expectations: a DEIA Primer,' was held June 6, 2024.
How to Fix the Import Error in the Odoo 17Celine George
An import error occurs when a program fails to import a module or library, disrupting its execution. In languages like Python, this issue arises when the specified module cannot be found or accessed, hindering the program's functionality. Resolving import errors is crucial for maintaining smooth software operation and uninterrupted development processes.
1. Measuring capacitance
Lab 8 - Measuring capacitance
Capacitors are useful circuit elements because they can store
charge. For a capacitor, there is a fundamental relationship
between the applied voltage and the amount of charge stored on
the capacitor. In this experiment you will measure the charge
on a capacitor versus the applied voltage for several values of
the applied voltage. A plot of charge vs. applied voltage should
form a straight line with a slope equal to the capacitance.
(1)
You will use this relation to measure the capacitance of
capacitors with different areas and distances between plates.
Then you will verify the relation below using these different
values.
(2)
objectives
· Determine the mathematical relationship between charge,
applied voltage, and capacitance.
· Determine the capacitance of a capacitor.
· Verify the theoretical formula
MATERIALS
Computer w/ internet access
Logger Pro or Excel
PRELIMINARY SEtup (done in lab)
Do the following in your groups, then return to class to discuss
to make sure you know how to use site:
2. 1. Go to the following website:
https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/capacitor-lab-basics
2. Open the capacitor only screen.
3. Play with the controls until you are familiar with how they
work. Make sure you can use the voltmeter to measure the
potential difference between the plates.
PROCEDURE
You will measure the capacitance for each capacitor using
the following protocol. Note that the theoretical value is given
to you at the top of the screen----your fit of your data should
agree with this value.
1. Set the distance and area to the required values.
2. Position voltmeter to measure potential difference.
3. Repeat the following until you have at least 7 points,
starting at 0 and going up in steps of 0.2 V.
a) Set the battery voltage to required value.
b) record voltage and charge in first data table.
4. When complete, use Excel or LoggerPro to plot a graph
between Q (Y axis) and V (X axis) and do linear curve fitting
and determine slope. The slope is C (Cs). Remember to use SI
units when plotting! Include all plots with fits in lab report.
5. You will repeat the above for three values of A and d. These
values will be given to you by your professor. When you
complete this task, fill out the second data table.
6. You will also calculate value of C (Cc) from equation 2.
7. Find percent error between three values of C as shown in the
table 2.
DATA TABLEs
Add rows and columns as needed:
Data Table 1
Voltage (V)
Q1 (C)
Q2 (C)
Q3 (C)
3. Same here:
Data Table 2
capacitor
A (mm2)
d (mm)
Theoretical Cth (pF)
Calculated Cc (pF)
Slope - Cs (pF)
Percent Error 1 for Cth and Cc
4. Percent Error 1 for Cth and Cs
1
2
3
ANALYSIS
1. You have already plotted the Q vs. V and determined the
slopes. This is the first part of the analysis. Put these slopes in
column 4 of data table 2.
2. For the second part of the analysis, use Eq. (2) and the
data in columns 2 and 3 in data table 2 to calculate the
capacitance for each capacitor geometry you measured. Put
these values in column 5 of data table 2.
3. You will compare the results of C in columns 4 and 5, 4 and
6 in your lab report.
6. · Bold any counterarguments. If you are handwriting, you can
circle the counterarguments.Step 3: Vocabulary words
As you read the text, you need to list and words that you do not
know here with their definitions. If you know all the words, you
need to find and define at least TWO words that you think other
students might struggle with. You should have a minimum of
TWO words with definitions listed below:
Step 4: Answering questions about the text (after you read it!)
1. Who is the audience of this article? Provide two quotes to
support your answer.
1. Do you agree, disagree, or have mixed feelings about this
article? Why or why not? Explain
“What’s a College Education Really Worth?” by Naomi
Schaefer Riley
https://www.thehour.com/opinion/article/What-s-a-college-
education-really-worth-Not-8174176.php
Did Peter Thiel pop the bubble? That was the question on the
minds of parents, taxpayers and higher education leaders late
last month when the co-founder of PayPal announced that he
was offering $100,000 to young people who would stay out of
college for two years and work instead on scientific and
technological innovations. Thiel, who has called college “the
default activity,” told USA Today that “the pernicious side
effect of the education bubble is assuming education
[guarantees] absolute good, even with steep student fees.” He
has lured 24 of the smartest kids in America and Canada to his
Silicon Valley lair with promises of money and mentorship for
their projects. Some of these young people have been working
in university labs since before adolescence. Others have
7. consulted for Microsoft, Coca-Cola and other top companies. A
couple didn’t even have to face the choice of putting off college
— one enrolled in college at age 12 and, at 19, had left his PhD
studies at Stanford to start his own company. Of course, Thiel’s
offer isn’t going to change the way most universities do
business anytime soon. These 24 kids represent the narrowest
swath of the country’s college-bound youth. (Though it’s
important to note: When we talk about America having the
greatest system of higher education in the world, these are the
kind of people we’re bragging about.)
There’s not much reason to worry that this program is going to
produce a nation of dropouts, contrary to the fears of some wags
such as James Temple, a columnist for the San Francisco
Chronicle. Temple called the premise of the fellowships “scary”
and worried about the broader message they send. However, as a
country, we are still creeping along toward President Obama’s
dream of universal higher education. Obama sees this not only
as a way for all individuals to have the opportunity to reach
their full potential but also as a key to the nation’s ability to
compete in the global marketplace.
But Thiel put a dollar figure on somethi ng that certain young
people may already have suspected was true. A friend of mine
whose son, a budding Internet entrepreneur, just graduated from
Yale told me about a conversation that her son reported having
with another somewhat successful start-up founder. The latter
had dropped out of Harvard Law School to launch his business,
and he advised my friend’s son to drop out of Yale — venture
capitalists would know that he was serious if he was willing to
give up that Ivy League diploma. My friend was a little
horrified, having already dropped somewhere around $200,000
on her son’s education, but it does raise the question: For a
smart kid from an upper-middle-class family who went to one of
the top high schools in the country, and who already has a
business going, what does a college diploma mean?
8. Colleges have long been engaged in an odd deal with students
and their parents. Paying for a college education — or taking on
a huge amount of debt to finance an education — is a
transaction in which most of the buyers and most of the sellers
have fundamentally different understandings of the product.
Think about it this way: Suppose I start a print newspaper
tomorrow. I might think I’m selling excellent journalism, while
my “readers” are actually using my product to line their
birdcages. It might work out fine for a while. But the imbalance
in this transaction would make it difficult to talk in general
terms about improving the product or whether the product is
worth what I’m charging. I might think I should improve my
grammar and hire more reporters. My customers might want me
to make the paper thicker.
In the college transaction, most parents think they’re buying
their kids a credential, a better job and a ticket, economically
speaking at least, to the American dream. Most college
professors and administrators (the good ones, anyway) see their
role as producing liberally educated, well-rounded individuals
with an appreciation for certain kinds of knowledge. If they get
a job after graduation, well, that’s nice, too.
The students, for the most part, are not quite sure where they fit
into this bargain. Some will get caught up in what they learn
and decide to go on to further education. But most will see
college as an opportunity to have fun and then come out the
other end of the pipeline with the stamp of approval they need
to make a decent salary after graduation.
So does Thiel’s offer suggest that a university diploma might be
most useful lining a birdcage? Yes and no. He has certainly
undermined the worth of a credential. But it is universities
themselves that have undermined the worth of the education. It
9. is to their detriment that they have done so, certainly, but it is
to the detriment of students as well.
In the recent movie “The Social Network,” Mark Zuckerberg is
shown devoting endless hours in his room to computer
programming. He goes to a few parties, but mostly he is
engaged in his new business venture, “the Facebook.” How is
this possible, one might wonder? Was he flunking out of his
classes? No. Thanks to the wonders of grade inflation and the
lack of a serious core curriculum, it is possible to get through
Harvard and a number of other high-price universities acing
your computer science classes and devoting very little effort to
anything else.
Colleges and universities have allowed their value to slip by
letting students call this an undergraduate education. There is
no compelling understanding among students of why they are
there. Studying is not how they spend even the bulk of their
waking hours, and their classes seem random at best. They may
spend Monday in “19th Century Women’s Literature,” Tuesday
in “Animal Behavior” and Wednesday in “Eastern Philosophy,”
but these courses may bear little relation to any they took the
previous semester or any they will take the next. A 2010 report
called “What Will They Learn?,” published by the American
Council of Trustees and Alumni, an organization that
emphasizes traditional education, surveyed the curricula of
more than 700 colleges. About 4 percent require students to take
a basic economics class. A little more than a quarter of the
public institutions and only 5 percent of the private colleges and
universities require a single broad survey course in American
history or government. And only 61 percent of colleges and
universities require students to take a college-level mathematics
class.
General education requirements are no longer general at all.
They are absurdly specific. At Cornell, you can fill your
10. literature and arts requirement with “Global Martial Arts Film
and Literature.” And at Northwestern, the math requirement can
be fulfilled with “Slavonic Linguistics.” It’s little wonder that
smart students think their time is better spent coding. So yes,
Zuckerberg was wasting his parents’ money and his own time.
Why pay to be at Harvard if that’s what you’re going to do?
Why not take a class on Dostoyevsky or the history of
Christianity or astronomy or ancient history? You are
surrounded by some of the most learned people in the world,
and you are holed up in your dorm room typing code. (One
could place some blame on the students, but it’s hard to fault
people for not knowing what they don’t know.) Surely Thiel has
the right idea when it comes to the Zuckerbergs of the world.
And colleges have only themselves to blame if they lose some
of these very smart young people to his fellowships.
Beyond the top tier, there are also gaping holes in higher
education. Executives at U.S. companies routinely complain
about the lack of reading, writing and math skills in the recent
graduates they hire. Maybe they too will get tired of using
higher education as a credentialing system. Maybe it will be
easier to recruit if they don’t have to be concerned about the
overwhelming student debt of their new employees.
Employers may decide that there are better ways to get high
school students ready for careers. What if they returned to the
idea of apprenticeship, not just for shoemakers and plumbers
but for white-collar jobs? College as a sorting process for talent
or a way to babysit 18-year-olds is not very efficient for anyone
involved. Would students rather show their SAT scores to
companies and then apply for training positions where they can
learn the skills they need to be successful? Maybe the
companies could throw in some liberal arts courses along the
way. At least they would pick the most important ones and
require that students put in some serious effort. Even a 40-hour
workweek would be a step up from what many students are
12. destabilized memory primarily through memory retrieval.
ii) Delusion: impression upheld despite it being challenged by
reality
Step 4: Answering questions about the text (after you read it!)
1. Who is the audience, and how do you know? Provide at least
two quotes that support your answer.
· The relevant audience in this context tends to be the general
public, who are exposed to ads often. The following quotes
emphasize this.
i) “… Although we like to think of our memories as being
immutable impressions, somehow separate from the act of
remembering them, they aren’t...”
ii) “…This idea, simple as it seems, requires us to completely
re-imagine our assumptions about memory…." (Lehrer, 2011)
2. What is your response to this article? What have knowledge
or understanding have you gained after reading it?
· This article critically provides a sensitive concept
comprehensively. It has excellently expressed how commercial
advertisements can trick someone into loving a product that
perhaps they have no solid reason for the same.
“Ads Implant False Memories” by Jonah Lehrer
https://www.wired.com/2011/05/ads-implant-false-memories/
“My episodic memory stinks. All my birthday parties are a blur
of cake and presents. I’m notorious within my family for
confusing the events of my own childhood with those of my
siblings. I’m like the anti-Proust. And yet, I have this one
cinematic memory from high-school. I’m sitting at a Friday
night football game (which, somewhat mysteriously, has come
to resemble the Texas set of Friday Night Lights), watching the
13. North Hollywood Huskies lose yet another game. I’m up in the
last row of the bleachers (ordinary bench seats at the sports
ground) with a bunch of friends, laughing, gossiping, dishing on
AP tests. You know, the usual banter of freaks and geeks. But
here is the crucial detail: In my autobiographical memory, we
are all drinking from those slender glass bottles of Coca-Cola
(the vintage kind), enjoying our swigs of sugary caffeine.
Although I can’t remember much else about the night, I can
vividly remember those sodas: the feel of the drink, the tang of
the cola, the constant need to suppress burps. Comment by
Karishma Lama: The narrator explains their cinematic memory
since their high-school era about the impact that Coca-Cola
drink has on their lives.
It’s an admittedly odd detail for an otherwise logo free scene, as
if Coke had paid for product placement in my brain. What
makes it even more puzzling is that I know it didn’t happen,
that there is no way we could have been drinking soda from
glass bottles. Why not? Because the school banned glass
containers. Unless I was willing to brazenly break the rules —
and I was way too nerdy for that — I would have almost
certainly been guzzling Coke from a big white styrofoam
container, purchased for a dollar from the concession stand. It’s
a less romantic image, for sure. Comment by Karishma
Lama: The narrator regards it as a strange experience as if Coke
had an agreement with them after realizing that the experience
didn’t actually happen.
So where did this sentimental scene starring soda come from?
My guess is a Coca-Cola ad, one of those lavishly produced
clips in which the entire town is at the big football game and
everyone is clean cut, good looking and holding a tasty Coke
product. (You can find these stirring clips on YouTube.) The
soda maker has long focused on such ads, in which the
marketing message is less about the virtues of the product (who
cares if Coke tastes better than Pepsi?) and more about
14. associating the drink with a set of intensely pleasurable
memories. Comment by Karishma Lama: The narrator connects
their experience to the Coca-Cola ad whereby the marketing
message tends to primarily focus on the virtues of the product.
A new study, published in The Journal of Consumer Research,
helps explain both the success of this marketing strategy and my
flawed nostalgia for Coke. It turns out that vivid commercials
are incredibly good at tricking the hippocampus (a center of
long-term memory in the brain) into believing that the scene we
just watched on television actually happened. And it happened
to us. The experiment went like this: 100 undergraduates were
introduced to a new popcorn product called “Orville
Redenbacher’s Gourmet Fresh Microwave Popcorn.” (No such
product exists, but that’s the point.) Then, the students were
randomly assigned to various advertisement conditions. Some
subjects viewed low-imagery text ads, which described the
delicious taste of this new snack food. Others watched a high-
imagery commercial, in which they watched all sorts of happy
people enjoying this popcorn in their living room. After viewing
the ads, the students were then assigned to one of two rooms. In
one room, they were given an unrelated survey. In the other
room, however, they were given a sample of this fictional new
popcorn to taste. (A different Orville Redenbacher popcorn was
actually used.) Comment by Karishma Lama: A new study
explains the relevance of the marketing strategy used by Coke
and how it has the potential to trick the hippocampus.
One week later, all the subjects were quizzed about their
memory of the product. Here’s where things get disturbing:
While students who saw the low-imagery ad were extremely
unlikely to report having tried the popcorn, those who watched
the slick commercial were just as likely to have said they tried
the popcorn as those who actually did. Furthermore, their
ratings of the product were as favorable as those who sampled
the salty, buttery treat. Most troubling, perhaps, is that these
15. subjects were extremely confident in these made-up memories.
The delusion felt true. They didn’t like the popcorn because
they’d seen a good ad. They liked the popcorn because it was
delicious. Comment by Karishma Lama: The study indicated
that exposure to slick commercial advertisement about a product
tend to have similar feedback as those who had practically
interacted with the product.
The scientists refer to this as the “false experience effect,”
since the ads are slyly (in a cunning or manipulative manner)
weaving fictional experiences into our very real lives. “Viewing
the vivid advertisement created a false memory of eating the
popcorn, despite the fact that eating the non-existent product
would have been impossible,” write Priyali Rajagopal and
Nicole Montgomery, the lead authors on the paper. “As a result,
consumers need to be vigilant while processing high-imagery
advertisements.” At first glance, this experimental observation
seems incongruous (out of place). How could a stupid
commercial trick me into believing that I loved a product I’d
never actually tasted? Or that I drank Coke out of glass bottles?
Comment by Karishma Lama: This paragraph explores the
concept of “false experience effect” whereby the narrator
emphasizes to consumers to be vigilant while processing high-
imagery advertisements.
The answer returns us to a troubling recent theory known as
memory reconsolidation. In essence, reconsolidation is rooted in
the fact that every time we recall a memory we also remake it,
subtly tweaking the neuronal details.Although we like to think
of our memories as being immutable impressions, somehow
separate from the act of remembering them, they aren’t. A
memory is only as real as the last time you remembered it.
What’s disturbing, of course, is that we can’t help but borrow
many of our memories from elsewhere, so that the ad we
watched on television becomes our own, part of that personal
narrative we repeat and retell. Comment by Karishma Lama: We
16. borrow many of our memories from elsewhere, so that the ad we
watched on television becomes our own, part of that personal
narrative we retell and repeat.
This idea, simple as it seems, requires us to completely re-
imagine our assumptions about memory. It reveals memory as a
ceaseless process, not a repository of inert information. The
recall is altered in the absence of the original stimulus,
becoming less about what we actually remember and more about
what we'd like to remember. It's the difference between a
"Save" and the "Save As" function. Our memories are a “Save
As”: They are files that get rewritten every time we remember
them, which is why the more we remember something, the less
accurate the memory becomes. And so that pretty picture of
popcorn becomes a taste we definitely remember, and that
alluring soda commercial becomes a scene from my own life.
We steal our stories from everywhere. Marketers, it turns out,
are just really good at giving us stories we want to steal.”
Comment by Karishma Lama: We are designed to steal
stories from everywhere whereby marketers tends to be good
sources to do so.
Posted in the Science section on Wired.com on May 25, 2011.
Reference
Lehrer, J. (2011, May 25). Ads Implant False Memories.
https://www.wired.com/2011/05/ads-implant-false-memories/
Instructions:
For this assignment, you will annotate an article. Please read
the instructions and follow each step carefully. There are three
steps. Turn on Track Changes under the Review tab in Word
before you begin. Be sure your Track Changes shows All
Markup not just a Simple Markup.Step 1: Predict and preview
After reading the title and glancing over the text and author’s
biography (below), what do you think the text will be about?
17. What do you understand about the text from the title? What do
you know already about this topic? What questions do you have
about the text? Enter your response to the preview here:Step 2:
Read, summarize, and annotate
As you read the article, use the Track Changes function to
annotate the text.
1. Double click the last word of a paragraph, and then click the
New Comment button under the Review tab to add a comment
box. Type your one sentence summary (paraphrase) of the
paragraph in the box. Summarize every paragraph in the essay.
Group short paragraphs of the same topic together for
summarizing.
1. What words do you not understand? Define them directly in
the text next to the word. Only put the definition for the word in
its exact context (not all the definitions).
1. Annotate the text. Use the functions in Microsoft Word to
highlight sections or words and underline sentences or sections
that are important, just like you would if you were annotating a
hard copy of the essay. Use the following key to annotate your
text:
· Highlight the main ideas of paragraphs, including the thesis
· Underline supporting details or interesting quotes/facts/ideas
· Bold any counterarguments. If you are handwriting, you can
circle the counterarguments.Step 3: Vocabulary words
As you read the text, you need to list and words that you do not
know here with their definitions. If you know all the words, you
need to find and define at least TWO words that you think other
students might struggle with. You should have a minimum of
TWO words with definitions listed below:
Step 4: Answering questions about the text (after you read it!)
1. Who is the audience of this article? Provide two quotes to
support your answer.
18. 1. Do you agree, disagree, or have mixed feelings about this
article? Why or why not? Explain
“What’s a College Education Really Worth?” by Naomi
Schaefer Riley
https://www.thehour.com/opinion/article/What-s-a-college-
education-really-worth-Not-8174176.php
Did Peter Thiel pop the bubble? That was the question on the
minds of parents, taxpayers and higher education leaders late
last month when the co-founder of PayPal announced that he
was offering $100,000 to young people who would stay out of
college for two years and work instead on scientific and
technological innovations. Thiel, who has called college “the
default activity,” told USA Today that “the pernicious side
effect of the education bubble is assuming education
[guarantees] absolute good, even with steep student fees.” He
has lured 24 of the smartest kids in America and Canada to his
Silicon Valley lair with promises of money and mentorship for
their projects. Some of these young people have been working
in university labs since before adolescence. Others have
consulted for Microsoft, Coca-Cola and other top companies. A
couple didn’t even have to face the choice of putting off college
— one enrolled in college at age 12 and, at 19, had left his PhD
studies at Stanford to start his own company. Of course, Thiel’s
offer isn’t going to change the way most universities do
business anytime soon. These 24 kids represent the narrowest
swath of the country’s college-bound youth. (Though it’s
important to note: When we talk about America having the
greatest system of higher education in the world, these are the
kind of people we’re bragging about.)
There’s not much reason to worry that this program is going to
produce a nation of dropouts, contrary to the fears of some wags
19. such as James Temple, a columnist for the San Francisco
Chronicle. Temple called the premise of the fellowships “scary”
and worried about the broader message they send. However, as a
country, we are still creeping along toward President Obama’s
dream of universal higher education. Obama sees this not only
as a way for all individuals to have the opportunity to reach
their full potential but also as a key to the nation’s ability to
compete in the global marketplace.
But Thiel put a dollar figure on something that certain young
people may already have suspected was true. A friend of mine
whose son, a budding Internet entrepreneur, just graduated from
Yale told me about a conversation that her son reported having
with another somewhat successful start-up founder. The latter
had dropped out of Harvard Law School to launch his business,
and he advised my friend’s son to drop out of Yale — venture
capitalists would know that he was serious if he was willing to
give up that Ivy League diploma. My friend was a little
horrified, having already dropped somewhere around $200,000
on her son’s education, but it does raise the question: For a
smart kid from an upper-middle-class family who went to one of
the top high schools in the country, and who already has a
business going, what does a college diploma mean?
Colleges have long been engaged in an odd deal with students
and their parents. Paying for a college education — or taking on
a huge amount of debt to finance an education — is a
transaction in which most of the buyers and most of the seller s
have fundamentally different understandings of the product.
Think about it this way: Suppose I start a print newspaper
tomorrow. I might think I’m selling excellent journalism, while
my “readers” are actually using my product to line their
birdcages. It might work out fine for a while. But the imbalance
in this transaction would make it difficult to talk in general
terms about improving the product or whether the product is
20. worth what I’m charging. I might think I should improve my
grammar and hire more reporters. My customers might want me
to make the paper thicker.
In the college transaction, most parents think they’re buying
their kids a credential, a better job and a ticket, economically
speaking at least, to the American dream. Most college
professors and administrators (the good ones, anyway) see their
role as producing liberally educated, well-rounded individuals
with an appreciation for certain kinds of knowledge. If they get
a job after graduation, well, that’s nice, too.
The students, for the most part, are not quite sure where they fit
into this bargain. Some will get caught up in what they learn
and decide to go on to further education. But most will see
college as an opportunity to have fun and then come out the
other end of the pipeline with the stamp of approval they need
to make a decent salary after graduation.
So does Thiel’s offer suggest that a university diploma might be
most useful lining a birdcage? Yes and no. He has certainly
undermined the worth of a credential. But it is universities
themselves that have undermined the worth of the education. It
is to their detriment that they have done so, certainly, but it is
to the detriment of students as well.
In the recent movie “The Social Network,” Mark Zuckerberg is
shown devoting endless hours in his room to computer
programming. He goes to a few parties, but mostly he is
engaged in his new business venture, “the Facebook.” How is
this possible, one might wonder? Was he flunking out of his
classes? No. Thanks to the wonders of grade inflation and the
lack of a serious core curriculum, it is possible to get through
Harvard and a number of other high-price universities acing
your computer science classes and devoting very little effort to
anything else.
21. Colleges and universities have allowed their value to slip by
letting students call this an undergraduate education. There is
no compelling understanding among students of why they are
there. Studying is not how they spend even the bulk of their
waking hours, and their classes seem random at best. They may
spend Monday in “19th Century Women’s Literature,” Tuesday
in “Animal Behavior” and Wednesday in “Eastern Philosophy,”
but these courses may bear little relation to any they took the
previous semester or any they will take the next. A 2010 report
called “What Will They Learn?,” published by the American
Council of Trustees and Alumni, an organization that
emphasizes traditional education, surveyed the curricula of
more than 700 colleges. About 4 percent require students to take
a basic economics class. A little more than a quarter of the
public institutions and only 5 percent of the private colleges and
universities require a single broad survey course in American
history or government. And only 61 percent of colleges and
universities require students to take a college-level mathematics
class.
General education requirements are no longer general at all.
They are absurdly specific. At Cornell, you can fill your
literature and arts requirement with “Global Martial Arts Film
and Literature.” And at Northwestern, the math requirement can
be fulfilled with “Slavonic Linguistics.” It’s little wonder that
smart students think their time is better spent coding. So yes,
Zuckerberg was wasting his parents’ money and his own time.
Why pay to be at Harvard if that’s what you’re going to do?
Why not take a class on Dostoyevsky or the history of
Christianity or astronomy or ancient history? You are
surrounded by some of the most learned people in the world,
and you are holed up in your dorm room typing code. (One
could place some blame on the students, but it’s hard to fault
people for not knowing what they don’t know.) Surely Thiel has
the right idea when it comes to the Zuckerbergs of the world.