· Unit 4 Citizen Rights
INTRODUCTION
In George Orwell's Animal Farm, the assertion that "all animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others" signals the breakdown of any semblance of a fair society. We have probably all experienced it: a situation where someone who was better connected, more influential, or in a position of power could advance far beyond the position or actions of the common person. On a typical day, this happens in travel, restaurant seating, the selection of a church pew, and the line at the grocery store.
It should not, however, happen in our public services. As citizens, we all have rights, and we all have the same rights. That is the beauty of the United States's democratic government structure, and perhaps one of the most cherished aspects of it. Economic and social diversity aside, when we interact with the government, we expect to receive the same treatment, whether we are a Rockefeller or a plumber. The reality is that this balance of citizen rights is difficult to achieve, because in many cases, those wielding power and influence attempt to trump equity.
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Inherent in the concept of citizenship is the exchange wherein citizens give allegiance to a nation and receive protection offered by that nation. Citizens therefore have certain privileges in the eyes of the nation, such as the right to vote, to pay taxes, and to refuse certain actions, such as reciting the Pledge of Allegiance because it refers to God. There are benefits and entitlements that the citizen can demand from the government. These rights are balanced by responsibilities, such as upholding the law, participating in government, and engaging in the same privileges previously mentioned.
In this unit, issues of the middle class, the welfare state, and what constitutes citizenship will be examined based on the concept of citizen rights.
Reference
Orwell, G. (1945). Animal Farm. New York, NY: Harcourt Brace & Company.
SANDRA CISNEROS
Woman Hollering Creek
The day Don Serafín gave Juan Pedro Martínez Sánchez permission to take CleófilasEnriquetaDeLeón Hernández as his bride, across her father’s threshold, over several miles of dirt road and several miles of paved, over one border and beyond to a town en el otrolado—on the other side—already did he divine the morning his daughter would raise her hand over her eyes, look south, and dream of returning to the chores that never ended, six good-for-nothing brothers, and one old man’s complaints.
He had said, after all, in the hubbub of parting: I am your father, I will never abandon you. He had said that, hadn’t he, when he hugged and then let her go. But at the moment Cleófilas was busy looking for Chela, her maid of honor, to fulfill their bouquet conspiracy. She would not remember her father’s parting words until later. I am your father, I will never abandon you.
Only now as a mother did she remember. Now, when she and Juan Pedrito sat by the creek’s edge..
This is the inspiring tale of a humble Salvadoran campesino who rose from his precarious status as an illegal immigrant in the United States to realize the American Dream and became a millionaire. It is the story of a man who left his small village barefoot, his pockets empty, with only a single change of clothing and a suitcase full of dreams, who reached the pinnacle of success in the world´s greatest economic power.
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Have you thought about the unpredictability of life? How it can all change in an instant? Black Love Diary is a short fiction on how fragile our existence is and the pains that come with losing a loved one.
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Review the Strategy Questions for Organizing Your Argument Essay in Chapter 5, and then write a 1000- word response to the primary question of Chapter Activity #4 at the end of Chapter 8: How do family traditions and cultural legacies contribute to and/or inhibit an individual’s self-identity?
Chapter 5
Strategy Questions for Organizing Your Argument Essay
1. Do you have a lead-in to “hook” your reader? (an example, anecdote, scenario, startling statistic, or provocative question)
2. How much background is required to properly acquaint readers with your issue?
3. Will your claim be placed early (introduction) or delayed (conclusion) in your paper?
4. What is your supporting evidence?
5. Have you located authoritative (expert) sources that add credibility to your argument?
6. Have you considered addressing opposing viewpoints?
7. Are you willing to make some concessions (compromises) toward opposing sides?
8. What type of tone (serious, comical, sarcastic, inquisitive) best relates your message to reach your audience?
9. Once written, have you maintained a third person voice? (No “I” or “you” statements)
10. How will you conclude in a meaningful way? (Call your readers to take action, explain why the topic has global importance, or offer a common ground compromise that benefits all sides?)
Chapter activity #4
How do family traditions and cultural legacies contribute to and/or inhibit an individual’s self-identity? What do you know about your family history? How is this history shared, and how is it valued among individual family members? Beyond its literal meaning, what are the broader implications of the cliché “keeping the family name alive”? Or has this cliché outlived its validity? A number of readings in this chapter address an aspect of family tradition/cultural heritage and individual identity and fulfillment—for example, Walker’s “Everyday Use” (page 385); Rich’s “Delta” (page 412); Kelley’s “The People in Me” (page 424). Drawing on evidence from several readings and your own experience and observations, write a claim of value argument about an aspect of family heritage and individual identity.
Everyday Use (1973)
Alice Walker
for your grandmama
I will wait for her in the yard that Maggie and I made so clean and wavy yesterday afternoon. A yard like this is more comfortable than most people know. It is not just a yard. It is like an extended living room. When the hard clay is swept clean as a floor and the fine sand around the edges lined with tiny, irregular grooves, anyone can come and sit and look up into the elm tree and wait for the breezes that never come inside the house.
Maggie will be nervous until after her sister goes: she will stand hopelessly in corners, homely and ashamed of the burn scars down her arms and legs, eyeing her sister with a mixture of envy and awe. She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one hand, that “no” is a word the world never learned to say to her.
You’ve no doubt seen those TV sh ...
This is the inspiring tale of a humble Salvadoran campesino who rose from his precarious status as an illegal immigrant in the United States to realize the American Dream and became a millionaire. It is the story of a man who left his small village barefoot, his pockets empty, with only a single change of clothing and a suitcase full of dreams, who reached the pinnacle of success in the world´s greatest economic power.
Visítanos: http://www.elsalvadorebooks.com
Have you thought about the unpredictability of life? How it can all change in an instant? Black Love Diary is a short fiction on how fragile our existence is and the pains that come with losing a loved one.
Review the Strategy Questions for Organizing Your Argument Essay.docxronak56
Review the Strategy Questions for Organizing Your Argument Essay in Chapter 5, and then write a 1000- word response to the primary question of Chapter Activity #4 at the end of Chapter 8: How do family traditions and cultural legacies contribute to and/or inhibit an individual’s self-identity?
Chapter 5
Strategy Questions for Organizing Your Argument Essay
1. Do you have a lead-in to “hook” your reader? (an example, anecdote, scenario, startling statistic, or provocative question)
2. How much background is required to properly acquaint readers with your issue?
3. Will your claim be placed early (introduction) or delayed (conclusion) in your paper?
4. What is your supporting evidence?
5. Have you located authoritative (expert) sources that add credibility to your argument?
6. Have you considered addressing opposing viewpoints?
7. Are you willing to make some concessions (compromises) toward opposing sides?
8. What type of tone (serious, comical, sarcastic, inquisitive) best relates your message to reach your audience?
9. Once written, have you maintained a third person voice? (No “I” or “you” statements)
10. How will you conclude in a meaningful way? (Call your readers to take action, explain why the topic has global importance, or offer a common ground compromise that benefits all sides?)
Chapter activity #4
How do family traditions and cultural legacies contribute to and/or inhibit an individual’s self-identity? What do you know about your family history? How is this history shared, and how is it valued among individual family members? Beyond its literal meaning, what are the broader implications of the cliché “keeping the family name alive”? Or has this cliché outlived its validity? A number of readings in this chapter address an aspect of family tradition/cultural heritage and individual identity and fulfillment—for example, Walker’s “Everyday Use” (page 385); Rich’s “Delta” (page 412); Kelley’s “The People in Me” (page 424). Drawing on evidence from several readings and your own experience and observations, write a claim of value argument about an aspect of family heritage and individual identity.
Everyday Use (1973)
Alice Walker
for your grandmama
I will wait for her in the yard that Maggie and I made so clean and wavy yesterday afternoon. A yard like this is more comfortable than most people know. It is not just a yard. It is like an extended living room. When the hard clay is swept clean as a floor and the fine sand around the edges lined with tiny, irregular grooves, anyone can come and sit and look up into the elm tree and wait for the breezes that never come inside the house.
Maggie will be nervous until after her sister goes: she will stand hopelessly in corners, homely and ashamed of the burn scars down her arms and legs, eyeing her sister with a mixture of envy and awe. She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one hand, that “no” is a word the world never learned to say to her.
You’ve no doubt seen those TV sh ...
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Alice Walker
Alice Walker was born in 1944 in Eatonton, Georgia, where her parents eked out a living as sharecroppers and dairy farmers; her mother also worked as a domestic. Walker attended Spelman College in Atlanta, and in 1965, she finished her undergraduate work at Sarah Lawrence College near New York City. She then became active in the welfare rights movement in New York and in the voter registration movement in Georgia. Later she taught writing and literature in Mississippi, at Jackson State College and Tougaloo College, and at Wellesley College, the University of Massachusetts, and Yale University.
Walker has written essays, poetry, and fiction. Her best-known novel, The Color Purple (1982), won a Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. She has said that her chief concern is “exploring the oppressions, the insanities, the loyalties, and the triumphs of black women.”
Everyday Use
For your grandmama
I will wait for her in the yard that Maggie and I made so clean and wavy yesterday afternoon. A yard like this is more comfortable than most people know. It is not just a yard. It is like an extended living room. When the hard clay is swept clean as a floor and the fine sand around the edges lined with tiny, irregular grooves, anyone can come and sit and look up into the elm tree and wait for the breezes that never come inside the house.
Maggie will be nervous until after her sister goes: she will stand hopelessly in corners homely and ashamed of the burn scars down her arms and legs, eyeing her sister with a mixture of envy and awe. She thinks her sister had held life always in the palm of one hand, that “no” is a word the world never learned to say to her.
You’ve no doubt seen those TV shows where the child who has “made it” is confronted, as a surprise, by her own mother and father, tottering in weakly from backstage. (A pleasant surprise, of course: What would they do if parent and child came on the show only to curse out and insult each other?) On TV mother and child embrace and smile into each other’s faces. Sometimes the mother and father weep, the child wraps them in her arms and leans across the table to tell how she would not have made it without their help. I have seen these programs.
Sometimes I dream a dream in which Dee and I are suddenly brought together on a TV program of this sort. Out of a dark and soft-seated limousine I am ushered into a bright room filled with many people. There I meet a smiling, gray, sporty man like Johnny Carson1 who shakes my hand and tells me what a fine girl I have. Then we are on the stage and Dee is embracing me with tears in her eyes. She pins on my dress a large orchid, even though she has told me once that she thinks orchids are tacky flowers.
1 Johnny Carson (1925–2005), U.S. television personality and comedian.
5In real life I am a large, big-boned woman with rough, man-working hands. In the winter I wear flannel nightgowns to bed and overalls during the day. I can kill and clean a ho.
What readers are saying about Dr. mOe Anderson's latest novel, Sinphony:
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A man comes to his old house on his father's annual ceremony.A yearly ritual.He has a younger brother and there are a few issues between them. His mother is more like a partial member than a witness.Continue reading the first segment of this interesting tale.
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· Must be a foreign film with subtitles
· Provide you with a glimpse of what life is like in another culture
· The process of watching this movie or TV show should provide you with a unique cultural experience.
· Watch the movie or TV show that you selected, and use your reactions as part of your response to the following topic:
· Define ethnocentrism. Discuss how ethnocentrism affects individuals and societies.
Write a paper of 2–3 pages addressing the following:
· Provide a comprehensive overview of the concept of ethnocentrism.
· Use your cultural experience of watching the selected movie or TV show to discuss the effect of ethnocentrism on individuals and societies.
· Use any personal experiences that you may have had visiting different countries around the world as part of this paper; however, do not let your personal experiences with other cultures be the focal point of this paper.
· The focal point of the paper is your cultural experience watching the selected movie or TV show and your comprehensive overview of the concept of ethnocentrism.
· Please note that this paper is not intended to be a summary of the movie or TV show.
· This paper is not a book review or overview of the movie or TV show you selected.
· Focus on the cultural observations that you are able to make based on this experience and your discussion of the concept of ethnocentrism.
Please submit your assignment.
The following rubric will be used for grading:
Grading Rubric
Submission addresses content requirements
30%
Evidenced critical thinking and connection to real-world and assignment scenario applicability
40%
Justified ideas and responses by using appropriate examples and references from texts, Web sites, and other references or personal experience
20%
Adherence to assignment deadlines, length requirement, correct spelling and proper grammar, and properly formatted per APA style
10%
For assistance with your assignment, please use your text, Web resources, and all course materials. Please refer to the following multimedia course material(s):
· Unit 2: Social Interaction (Watch It)
· Unit 2: Social Interaction and Group Functioning
· Unit 2: Social Interaction (Answer It)
· Unit 2: Concepts in Sociology
· Unit 2: Social Groups and Organizations
Instructions
You and your teammates are working for a company as members of their management team.
Write a 1,300- to 1,500-word management plan that includes the following:
•Discuss the best methods that the management team can use to problem solve areas under consideration.
•Discuss how judgment is included in these processes.
•Provide an example in your plan.
Sources should include the course text and at least 1 peer-reviewed journal article.
Papers should adhere to APA style.
Problem Solving and Judgment
Everyday we’re faced with making a decision or decisions, some are life changing, and others may be derived from a policy or procedure that has little or no input from the individual that requires a judgment t.
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· Identify the stakeholders and how they were affected by Heene's actions?
· 2. What stage of moral reasoning is exhibited by Richard Heene's actions? Do you believe the punishment fit the crime? Why or why not?
· 3. Explain how the cognitive-developmental approach influences one's ability to make ethical judgments.
4. How do you assess at what stage of moral development in Kohlberg's model you reason at in making decisions? Are you satisfied with that stage? Do you believe there are factors or forces preventing you from reasoning at a higher level? If so, what are they?
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posted by DONALD DENNIS
Aug 19, 2014, 8:31 AM
Financial statements are crucial documents with details of what the company earns, how they earn, as well as what and how the company spends its money.
The income statement shows figures of profitability of that given company over a period of time. The statements usually include detailed sections of revenue, gains in addition to their expenses and losses. If revenue and gains are greater than expenses and losses, the income statement will show a profit for the company
The balance sheet provides information about the company's financial situation over a period of time. This information is used to make certain business decisions for future projects, plans or general business operations. The balance sheet includes more information than that of the income statement. This information included the company's assets, liabilities, in addition to the stockholders' equity (their investment). The assets should always equal liabilities, plus the stockholders investment(s).
· Comment on Aug 19, 2014, 6:52 PM
Re: WEEK ONE - DISCUSSION QUESTION # 2
posted by Linda Moore
Aug 19, 2014, 6:52 PM
Good! The income statement tells us what we've earned, our sales and expenses, and in the balance sheet we see our assets and liabilities, and owner's equity. The equity will also increase if we have net income and other investments from our owners. Our income statement tells us a lot especially when we compare months over time - we can see trends of expenses and revenues; and analyze what has changed.
Class: Any questions?
· Comment on Aug 20, 2014, 9:13 AM
2 Other Statements
posted by DONALD DENNIS
Aug 20, 2014, 9:13 AM
Other than the income and balance sheets, there are two other documents that are just as important. More about these will be mentioned in this week and class.
Owners equity statement - This shows and explains changes in the retained earnings. Retained earnings are on the balance sheet and will change due to incomes or dividends.
Cash flow statement - A company could be successful, yet lack cash to pay its bills. This will show sources of cash and where cash is being used.
· Comment on Aug 20, 2014, 11:36 AM
Re: 2 Other Statements
posted by Mark Pollack
Aug 20, 2014, 11:36 AM
Donald,
You bring up a great point about the cash flow statement. I was a small business owner in a retail strip center. I cant tell you how many conversations I had with fellow business owners that were struggling to pay there bills; however they showed a profit. The company used the money in various ways other than appropriately such as product that did not sell, decorations, "write-offs" for their home. I do believe that many small businesses fail because they are underfunded and do not use simple accounting principles to determine its health.
Mark
· Comment on Aug 21, 2014, 10:09 AM
Re: 2 Other Statements
posted by DONALD DENNIS
Aug 21, 2014, 10:09 AM
I curre.
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· Week 3 Assignment
Government and Not-For-Profit Accounting
Value of Donated Assets
Which is the proper value to be assigned to certain donated assets? (This is a question for which answers cannot be found in either GASB pronouncements or the text), research is necessary.
A city’s road maintenance department received “donations” of two type of assets:
1. From the county in which the city is located it received earthmoving equipment. The equipment had cost the county $800,000 when it was acquired five years earlier. Accounted for in a county proprietary fund, its book value, net of accumulated depreciation at the time of donation, was $500,000. Its fair market value was $530,000.
2. From the city’s own utility fund (a proprietary fund) it received motor vehicles that had cost the city $400,000 when acquired three years earlier. At the time of transfer, the vehicles were recorded on the utility’s books at $180,000, net of accumulated depreciation. Their fair market value was #225,000.
Write a 1000 word, APA you answer style paper where the following:
1. At what value should the city record in its government-wide financial statements for: (1) the earth-moving equipment, and (2) the motor vehicles?
1. Briefly justify your response, commenting on any apparent inconsistencies in the values assigned to each of the two types of assets.
1. Comment on the significance of the resultant book values for decisions or assessments to be made by statement users.
Myth Clash Paper #1
Zheng Hui
The present paper will discuss how different ancient poets describe the myths. It will compare and Contrast the two versions of the myth of the Cyclops Polyphemus in the Archaic Greek poet Homer’s Odyssey (EH 298-314) and in the Hellenistic poet Theocritus' poem (Idyll 11) (ACM 399-401). It will also elaborate how Roman poet Ovid combine elements from each of these earlier poets’ versions to make his own version of the myth in his poem, the Metamorphoses (OM 374-381). In general, the paper will discuss and analyze the differences and similarities among several versions from different aspects including characters, features, techniques and others.
According to ancient Greek myth, there were three separate tribes of the mythical, one eyed giants known as Cyclops, or Cyclopes. One of them is the Ouranian Cyclopes, who was the offspring of Gaea and Ouranos. Besides, there is also another Cyclops called the mason-Cyclopes, who represents workers in Hephaestus’s forge. The third one is the shepherd-like Cyclopes, who was neighbors of the island-dwelling Polyphemus, who was a son of Poseidon (Weinstock, 2013). Based on the description of the Cyclopes in the ancient Greek myth, one feature that is present in all these Cyclopes is that they had one unique anatomy. In addition, they all had a single round eye in the middle of their foreheads. In fact, the eye, according to the Greek poet Hesiod, is the source of their name.
In Greek, Cyclops means “circle-eye.” These giants .
· Week 10 Assignment 2 Submission
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Assignment 2: Critical Thinking
Topic: "People have become overly dependent on technology"
Your paper should present a reasoned, convincing argument for a position on a selected topic.
Write a four to six (4-6) page paper in which you:
1. Follow the five (5) steps of persuasion: establishing credibility, acknowledging the audience’s position, constructing a rationale, transplanting root elements, and asking for a response.
2. Clearly define your position and supporting evidence.
3. Include all the necessary “evidence” for the reader to reach the expected conclusion in each argument in the paper (whether the overriding argument or one contained in an individual paragraph)
4. Ensure that each argument in the paper (whether the overriding argument or one contained in an individual paragraph) is valid and free from both formal and informal fallacies.
5. Include at least four (4) references (sources). At least one (1) of your sources must be obtained from the collection of databases accessible from the Learning Resources Center Web page.
The paper should follow guidelines for clear and effectively organized writing:
• The paper is well-organized, and every explanation is both complete and easy to understand.
• Include an introductory paragraph and concluding paragraph for the paper.
• Main ideas should be addressed in body paragraphs with a topic sentence and supporting sentences.
• Adhere to standard rules of English grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.
• The paper should be checked for spelling and grammatical errors.
Your assignment must:
• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
• Create written work utilizing the concepts of critical thinking.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in critical thinking skills and informal logic.
• Write clearly and concisely about issues in critical thinking using proper writing mechanics.
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· Write in paragraph format (no lists, bullets, or numbers).
· Do not re-write the question(s) from the assignment list.
· Ensure that you have a minimum of three (3) paragraphs.
· Each paragraph should be six (6) to eight (8) sentences each.
· Include at least one in-text citation per paragraph that corresponds to the References.
· You need to use and cite at least two (2) references for each submitted assignment, including DBs.
Remember we are in a college-level course. As such, you need to clearly and thoroughly answer every question asked in each project. This will rarely be accomplished with one or two sentences. In addition to providing a basic answer for each question, a quality response will explain:
a. “How” you arrived at your answer(s)
b. “What” facts and sources you reviewed and considered
c.“Why” your response is the best one from all the alternatives
SPE 352N Module 3 Lecture Instructional Strategies for Teaching Students With MR
When thinking about how to instruct students with mental retardation, educators must consider the fact that instructional organization and effective instructional delivery are the keys to success. Instruction is not just done in some sort of haphazard, discovery-learning manner without any particular goals in mind; rather, teachers should be thinking about their students' particular disability and their associated learning characteristics from start to finish.
Three Assumptions To Guide Instructional Delivery
Assumptions in science have to do with laying out ground rules or basic agreements about how something is to be interpreted, discussed, or studied by interested parties; it is much like setting the rules for playing a game. Similarly, teachers need basic assumptions to govern the science and practice of teaching. The first assumption teachers should come to agreement about is that due to the unique learning characteristics of students with mental retardation, instructional procedures that work well for typically developing students may not work as well with this population (Taylor, Richards, & Brady, 2005). The learning characteristics of students with mental retardation will ultimately affect what actual skills will be learned and what educational goals can realistically be attained. So while typically developing students will benefit from the global general education curriculum, the educational goals and specific skills students with mental retardation will focus on will depend heavily on the decisions of an individualized education plan (IEP) team as they consider the unique educational needs and monitor instructional progress over time (Miner & Bates, 1997).
The second assumption teachers of students with mental retardation should adhere to is that instructional progress can only be obtained if that instruction is direct and explicit. The idea that typically developing students do not need precise instruction to make academic gains is losing ground in America because s.
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· WEEK 1: Databases and SecurityLesson
· Databases and Security
Databases are in just about everything we use today. When you are performing any task, think to yourself, Does this involve a database in some way?
As a daily process, communication occurs between people by many mediums, but there is no other medium more utilized than the large internetwork of computer systems we know as the Internet. When we look at some of the transactions that are performed on a daily basis, it is highly likely that there is a database involved. For example, if you open a web page to www.google.com and type a keyword in the textbox to search for, this process starts a series of searches through multiple databases. Another example is when searching for a book in the APUS library, this search is conducted using a database of books known as a catalog. so databases play an integral part in our daily lives; they store millions of pieces of data and more is collected each day (Basta, 2012).
In recent years, we find that technology has expanded to the reaches of utilities and production environments. Many of the utilities we come to rely on so heavily, such as gas, oil and electric, have been tied into the networks we use today. This interconnection allows for many new innovations in keeping everything in working order, but at the same time it also presents some very real threats to security. In reality, an intruder could take down an entire electrical grid which would remove power to millions of customers. An article in CIO Insight gives a great perspective on this and other issues in security where databases play such an important role (CIOInsight, 2011).
With the importance of securing the database infrastructure, we need to look at a multilayered approach to security. As can be seen in many security programs, multiple layers allow for strong security because it adds another roadblock that an intruder has to bypass to get to these systems. This same approach leads us to begin with the foundation of security; the CIA Triad. It all begins with the most basic approach, computer security and moves forward from that point on. Below is a detailed description of the components of the CIA Triad from (Basta, 2012):
· Confidentiality: For a system to provide confidentiality, it needs to do two things: ensure that information maintains its privacy by limiting authorized access to resources; block unauthorized access to resources.
· Integrity: This refers to the efforts taken through policy, procedure, and design in order to create and maintain reliable, consistent, and complete information and systems.
· Availability: This refers to the efforts taken through policy, procedures, and design to maintain the accessibility of resources on a network or within a database. These resources include, but are not limited to, data, applications, other databases, computers, servers, applications, files, drives, shares, and network access.
Database Structure, Models and Management
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· Unit: Interface-User Interaction
· Assignment Objectives: Employ appropriate tools and methods for simple, functional, and effective interfaces.
· Deliverable Length: Screenshot or functional application, and a Word document of 1-2 pages
Building on your initial user interface (UI) design mock-up of the organization’s program UI, the interface now needs to present more information to the user. Complete the following for this assignment:
· The interface should present information visually with icons or graphics and text regarding critical issues related to the system, such as the following:
· New orders
· Change in employee status
· Updated pictures
· New products or services offered
· You must add at least 5 critical issue UI design items to your interface. Remember to ensure that these are easily understood by users.
· Submit a screenshot in Word or another functional application.
· Describe the items that you added to your interface design. Be specific with your descriptions, and identify the particular design features along with an explanation of why they are added in the way that they were.
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· The Victims’ Rights Movement
Write a 2 page paper. Address the following in your paper:
· Explain how has the victims’ rights movement has affected the criminal justice system and the rights of offenders?
Include a title page and 3-5 references. Only one reference may be from the internet (not Wikipedia).
Paper 2
· Victim Selection
Write a 2 page paper. Address the following in your paper:
· Is the victim selection process different between team serial killers and those who work alone?
· Discuss any differences and or similarities as it relates to motives, methods, and offender history.
· Support your argument. Be sure to cite your resource(s), use APA style formatting.
Include a title page and 3-5 references. Only one reference may be from the internet (not Wikipedia
Paper 3
· Credit Card Crime
In a two to three page paper, please discuss the following: Assume a person accidentally picks up a credit card that is not theirs and uses the card in several instances.
Can the person be charged with multiple violations of a state statute that makes it a crime to "knowingly obtain, possess, use, or transfer a means of identification or financial information of another?" Why or why not? See State vs. Leyda, 138 P.3d 610 (Wash. 2006).
Make sure you format your paper and cite all sources used in this paper appropriately according to APA style guidelines.
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How does internal environmental analysis help health care organizations sustain competitive advantage? As a health care leader, what are some of the key aspects that you will assess in conducting your own internal environmental analysis?
Question 2
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BIOGRAPHY: CLARENCE L. EDER (January 2015)
Clarence Eder is a retired United States Air Force officer and is currently working as Principal Acquisition
Associate and Senior Systems Engineer for Quantech Services, Inc. in El Segundo, California. He leads a team
of systems engineers and acquisition professionals in the development of strategies and documents to start the
new Air Force Weather Systems Follow-On (WSF) program. Clarence has over 18 years of acquisitions,
engineering, and operational experience in space, intelligence, missile defense, and aircraft programs.
Clarence was raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. He graduated with a Mechanical Engineering degree from the
University of Hawaii and was commissioned into the Air Force in 1996. As a second lieutenant, he was
assigned to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. He worked to improve Air Force flying training
systems, and then became a project manager to improve T-37 aircraft engines and A-10 aircraft engines.
In 1999, he was assigned to Space and Missiles Systems Center in Los Angeles, California. He worked as an
Acquisition Support manager to implement Department of Defense (DoD) processes and policies to major space
programs. As a captain, he became a Mission Integration Manager for launch vehicles. He led teams to
integrate Global Positioning System (GPS), weather, and intelligence satellites into the newly acquired $18.8B
Air Force rockets. He also worked Ground systems integration issues.
In 2003, he was assigned to the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) in Reston, Virginia to be Chief
of Tactical Imagery Dissemination. He led a team to develop, test, and deploy a $17M imagery system. He
trained Navy Seals and Special Forces deployed worldwide to use the system. As a major, he became a
Contacting Officer Technical Representative (COTR) for the $2B Geoscout program, NG.
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etc/shadow file
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What file and file-field are read by the finger command?
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Passwd file, it reads user id info like user name phone number and so on
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[None]
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gecos field
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When a parent process dies, what happens to any child processes that are still running?
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They Child Processes keep running
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It canceles all the Processes that the user
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shutdown
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1- Single Point of failure if compromised
2-The security model is not strong enough for a network
3-High security environments enforce rules that cannot be implemented with traditional UNIX
4- Since some rules are implemented in command code, modification requires rewrite and recompilation
5- Minimal support for auditing
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[None]
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Write a BASH command that would force the OS into single-user mode.
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Root should run the init command to change the run level using the letter s or the number 1 for example
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[None]
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telinit 1
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Explain when it would be necessary to use the non-rewinding interface file of any backup device.
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To implement permanent changes to the backup device
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[None]
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Only if multiple dumps were being made to the same tape drive. Failure to use the non-rewind would cause successive dumps to overwrite each other.
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What BASH shell command can send any signal level to a running process?
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Kill Command
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[None]
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[None Given]
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Which two inter-process signals cannot be caught or blocked?
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Kill process
Stop Process
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[None]
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[None Given]
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What BASH shell utility allows you to monitor CPU and memory usage?
Selected Answer:
Network Monitoring: Netstat, nethogs, iptraf, iftop
Disk I/O: iotop
CPU/ memory: top, Ps, htop, atop
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[None]
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[None Given]
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.sh
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[None]
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directory
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When psychologists discuss fear, anger, sadness, joy, surprise, disgust, and contempt, they are usually describing the:
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primary emotions
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Studies on sex differences in emotion have found that men are more likely to ruminate about _____________ thoughts whereas women are more likely to ruminate about ____________.
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anger; depression
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Positive emotions evoke more electrical activity in the __________, and negative emotions evoke more activity in the __________.
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c.
left hemisphere; right hemisphere
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What limbic structure is a center for fear responses?
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amygdala
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Imagine that you have just discovered a space craft that landed in a remote field near your home. Fortunately, the aliens aboard the space craft share your language, but they do not know anything about how to interact appropriately within the cultural norms of North America. Using your knowledge of emotions and emotional expression, create a list of 5 important points to remember when expressing emotion in this culture.
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Smiling Frequently is ok
Dont kiss other male friends if male (european countries)
shake hands before hugging
Arms length of space between people, it can be seen as hostile or uncomfortable otherwise
Public displays of affection are often more acceptable then in other cultures
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Cindy used to study with her friend Amanda but found that she had to quit studying with her because Amanda was always so hyper and anxious before taking tests. Cindy often felt anxious after the study sessions and was worried that this might have a negative influence on her test performance. Cindy was probably experiencing:
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c.
catharsis.
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Social and cultural rules that regulate when, how, and where a person may express emotions are referred to as:
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c.
display rules
· Question 8
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Why are polygraph tests considered invalid or unreliable?
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d.
There is no pattern of physical arousal that is specific to lying and distinct from other types of arousal
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This term is the process by which the facial muscles send messages to the brain about the basic emotion being expressed.
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c.
facial feedback
· Question 10
5 out of 5 points
___________, or how we explain events or behavior, affect our emotional responses.
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a.
Attributions
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In one study, infants were put on a modified version of a visual cliff that is only moderately frightening because the cliff did not dr.
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under a valid union-shop agreement, demanding the discharge of an employee who fails to pay union dues
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In recent years,
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all of the above
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The first U.S. President ever to grant official recognition to federal government employees to bargain collectively was President
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Nixon
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Recent media campaign ads by the Automobile Workers have contained the message
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"America works best when we say, 'Union, Yes!' "
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Most of the local union's time is devoted to
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negotiating labor agreements.
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Most members of the National Education Association
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support right-to-work laws
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About 85 percent of the UAW's spending goes to
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strike funds.
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As compared to the Teachers, many of the building trades are much
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less active in research efforts.
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In 1970, an unprecedented federal sector eight-day strile was carried on by the employees of the
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State Department
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The American Federation of Labor was originally entitled the
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Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions
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Under Taft-Hartley, if management or labor wishes to terminate or modify an existing labor contract, it must give a
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thrity-day notice to the other party.
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At present, the unionized percentage of all United States workers is approximately
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33.4
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In 1993, the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union merged with the
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Service Employees International Union.
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By 1917 some thrity states had introduced
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antitrust laws for unions.
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Investigation of union misconduct under the Landrum-Griffin is the responsibility of the
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Senate Subcommittee on Ethics.
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COPE is a part of the
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Furriers.
· Question 17
0 out of 2 points
When it has found that employees have been unlawfully discharged for union activities, the NLRB has most frequently required
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automatic union certification.
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2 out of 2 points
Employ.
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Running head: AUDITING INFORMATION SYSTEMS PROCESS Auditing information systems process Student’s Name University Affiliation Auditing information systems 2process Information systems are the livelihood of any huge business. As in past years, computer systems do not simply record transactions of business, but essentially drive the main business procedures of the enterprise. In such a situation, superior management and business managers do have worries concerning information systems. Auditing is a methodical process by which a proficient, independent person impartially obtains and assesses evidence concerning assertions about a financial entity or occasion for the reason of outlining an outlook about and reporting on the extent to which the contention matches to an acknowledged set of standards. Auditing of information systems is the administration controls assessment inside the communications of Information Technology. The obtained proof valuation is used to decide if systems of information are defensive assets, maintenance reliability of data, and also if they are efficiently operating in order to attain organization’s goals or objectives (Hoelzer, 2009). Auditing of Information Systems has become an essential part of business organization in both large and small business environments. This paper examines the preliminary points for carrying out and Information system audit and some of the, techniques, tools, guidelines and standards that can be employed to build, manage, and examine the review function. The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) qualifications is recognized worldwide as a standard of accomplishment for those who assess, monitor, control and audit the information technology of an organization and business systems. Information Systems experts with a concern in information systems security, control and audit. At least five years of specialized information systems security, auditing and control work practice is necessary for certification. An audit contract should be present to evidently state the responsibility of the management, 2objectives for, and designation of authority to Information .
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· Strengths Public Recognition of Organization
Overall Positive Perception of Organization
Established Integrity and Longevity of the Organizations
Continued success in saving lives and always willing to lend a helping hand
Weaknesses
Lack of Congruency of public and internal views
Commitment to service to the public overlooks the work environment of the employees that make these endeavors possible daily
Opportunities
Disaster relief is always a turning point for anyone’s perception of the organization especially when it hits close to home
Threats
Possibility of not being able to help someone due to lack in financial or physical resources
Understanding that it’s impossible to please everyone, there could be some bad experiences that are communicated to many tarnishing the positive perception of the brand
Strengths with Opportunities
Increasing amount of volunteers and assistance of employees on a continual basis in order to secure definite support in the face of a disaster
Weaknesses with Threats
Increase and expand awareness of employees concerns through surveys and group discussions in order to increase the morale of the organization.
Strengths with Threats
With understanding the necessity of all aspects of the organization needing to be congruent, implementing and ensuring that public and employees all hold the same values to be true simultaneously through continued efforts of the organization increasing the involvement of the employees in minor decision making abilities in order to feel as if the organization is less of a dictatorship and slightly reflective of a democracy
Weaknesses with Opportunities
Increasing awareness of the severity of a need for this organization in the country due to the lack of ability by the country alone
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Financial statements are crucial documents with details of what the company earns, how they earn, as well as what and how the company spends its money.
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Good! The income statement tells us what we've earned, our sales and expenses, and in the balance sheet we see our assets and liabilities, and owner's equity. The equity will also increase if we have net income and other investments from our owners. Our income statement tells us a lot especially when we compare months over time - we can see trends of expenses and revenues; and analyze what has changed.
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2 Other Statements
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Other than the income and balance sheets, there are two other documents that are just as important. More about these will be mentioned in this week and class.
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· Each paragraph should be six (6) to eight (8) sentences each.
· Include at least one in-text citation per paragraph that corresponds to the References.
· You need to use and cite at least two (2) references for each submitted assignment, including DBs.
Remember we are in a college-level course. As such, you need to clearly and thoroughly answer every question asked in each project. This will rarely be accomplished with one or two sentences. In addition to providing a basic answer for each question, a quality response will explain:
a. “How” you arrived at your answer(s)
b. “What” facts and sources you reviewed and considered
c.“Why” your response is the best one from all the alternatives
SPE 352N Module 3 Lecture Instructional Strategies for Teaching Students With MR
When thinking about how to instruct students with mental retardation, educators must consider the fact that instructional organization and effective instructional delivery are the keys to success. Instruction is not just done in some sort of haphazard, discovery-learning manner without any particular goals in mind; rather, teachers should be thinking about their students' particular disability and their associated learning characteristics from start to finish.
Three Assumptions To Guide Instructional Delivery
Assumptions in science have to do with laying out ground rules or basic agreements about how something is to be interpreted, discussed, or studied by interested parties; it is much like setting the rules for playing a game. Similarly, teachers need basic assumptions to govern the science and practice of teaching. The first assumption teachers should come to agreement about is that due to the unique learning characteristics of students with mental retardation, instructional procedures that work well for typically developing students may not work as well with this population (Taylor, Richards, & Brady, 2005). The learning characteristics of students with mental retardation will ultimately affect what actual skills will be learned and what educational goals can realistically be attained. So while typically developing students will benefit from the global general education curriculum, the educational goals and specific skills students with mental retardation will focus on will depend heavily on the decisions of an individualized education plan (IEP) team as they consider the unique educational needs and monitor instructional progress over time (Miner & Bates, 1997).
The second assumption teachers of students with mental retardation should adhere to is that instructional progress can only be obtained if that instruction is direct and explicit. The idea that typically developing students do not need precise instruction to make academic gains is losing ground in America because s.
· WEEK 1 Databases and SecurityLesson· Databases and Security.docxLynellBull52
· WEEK 1: Databases and SecurityLesson
· Databases and Security
Databases are in just about everything we use today. When you are performing any task, think to yourself, Does this involve a database in some way?
As a daily process, communication occurs between people by many mediums, but there is no other medium more utilized than the large internetwork of computer systems we know as the Internet. When we look at some of the transactions that are performed on a daily basis, it is highly likely that there is a database involved. For example, if you open a web page to www.google.com and type a keyword in the textbox to search for, this process starts a series of searches through multiple databases. Another example is when searching for a book in the APUS library, this search is conducted using a database of books known as a catalog. so databases play an integral part in our daily lives; they store millions of pieces of data and more is collected each day (Basta, 2012).
In recent years, we find that technology has expanded to the reaches of utilities and production environments. Many of the utilities we come to rely on so heavily, such as gas, oil and electric, have been tied into the networks we use today. This interconnection allows for many new innovations in keeping everything in working order, but at the same time it also presents some very real threats to security. In reality, an intruder could take down an entire electrical grid which would remove power to millions of customers. An article in CIO Insight gives a great perspective on this and other issues in security where databases play such an important role (CIOInsight, 2011).
With the importance of securing the database infrastructure, we need to look at a multilayered approach to security. As can be seen in many security programs, multiple layers allow for strong security because it adds another roadblock that an intruder has to bypass to get to these systems. This same approach leads us to begin with the foundation of security; the CIA Triad. It all begins with the most basic approach, computer security and moves forward from that point on. Below is a detailed description of the components of the CIA Triad from (Basta, 2012):
· Confidentiality: For a system to provide confidentiality, it needs to do two things: ensure that information maintains its privacy by limiting authorized access to resources; block unauthorized access to resources.
· Integrity: This refers to the efforts taken through policy, procedure, and design in order to create and maintain reliable, consistent, and complete information and systems.
· Availability: This refers to the efforts taken through policy, procedures, and design to maintain the accessibility of resources on a network or within a database. These resources include, but are not limited to, data, applications, other databases, computers, servers, applications, files, drives, shares, and network access.
Database Structure, Models and Management
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· Unit: Interface-User Interaction
· Assignment Objectives: Employ appropriate tools and methods for simple, functional, and effective interfaces.
· Deliverable Length: Screenshot or functional application, and a Word document of 1-2 pages
Building on your initial user interface (UI) design mock-up of the organization’s program UI, the interface now needs to present more information to the user. Complete the following for this assignment:
· The interface should present information visually with icons or graphics and text regarding critical issues related to the system, such as the following:
· New orders
· Change in employee status
· Updated pictures
· New products or services offered
· You must add at least 5 critical issue UI design items to your interface. Remember to ensure that these are easily understood by users.
· Submit a screenshot in Word or another functional application.
· Describe the items that you added to your interface design. Be specific with your descriptions, and identify the particular design features along with an explanation of why they are added in the way that they were.
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· The Victims’ Rights Movement
Write a 2 page paper. Address the following in your paper:
· Explain how has the victims’ rights movement has affected the criminal justice system and the rights of offenders?
Include a title page and 3-5 references. Only one reference may be from the internet (not Wikipedia).
Paper 2
· Victim Selection
Write a 2 page paper. Address the following in your paper:
· Is the victim selection process different between team serial killers and those who work alone?
· Discuss any differences and or similarities as it relates to motives, methods, and offender history.
· Support your argument. Be sure to cite your resource(s), use APA style formatting.
Include a title page and 3-5 references. Only one reference may be from the internet (not Wikipedia
Paper 3
· Credit Card Crime
In a two to three page paper, please discuss the following: Assume a person accidentally picks up a credit card that is not theirs and uses the card in several instances.
Can the person be charged with multiple violations of a state statute that makes it a crime to "knowingly obtain, possess, use, or transfer a means of identification or financial information of another?" Why or why not? See State vs. Leyda, 138 P.3d 610 (Wash. 2006).
Make sure you format your paper and cite all sources used in this paper appropriately according to APA style guidelines.
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How does internal environmental analysis help health care organizations sustain competitive advantage? As a health care leader, what are some of the key aspects that you will assess in conducting your own internal environmental analysis?
Question 2
· How does the “value chain” relate to health care organizations? What is the role of the value chain in the strategic planning process?
Question 3
· How can the value chain be used to identify organizational strengths and weaknesses in health care organizations?
· Question 4
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Read the Perspective 4-3–LEAN Six Sigma on page 140 in your textbook Discuss the Ottawa Ankle Rules as an example of Six Sigma utilization. How was Six Sigma beneficial in this case example? Think about your own health care organization or one which you hope to lead. How might Six Sigma be utilized in your own facility, as our colleagues in Ottawa did a few years ago?
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BIOGRAPHY: CLARENCE L. EDER (January 2015)
Clarence Eder is a retired United States Air Force officer and is currently working as Principal Acquisition
Associate and Senior Systems Engineer for Quantech Services, Inc. in El Segundo, California. He leads a team
of systems engineers and acquisition professionals in the development of strategies and documents to start the
new Air Force Weather Systems Follow-On (WSF) program. Clarence has over 18 years of acquisitions,
engineering, and operational experience in space, intelligence, missile defense, and aircraft programs.
Clarence was raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. He graduated with a Mechanical Engineering degree from the
University of Hawaii and was commissioned into the Air Force in 1996. As a second lieutenant, he was
assigned to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. He worked to improve Air Force flying training
systems, and then became a project manager to improve T-37 aircraft engines and A-10 aircraft engines.
In 1999, he was assigned to Space and Missiles Systems Center in Los Angeles, California. He worked as an
Acquisition Support manager to implement Department of Defense (DoD) processes and policies to major space
programs. As a captain, he became a Mission Integration Manager for launch vehicles. He led teams to
integrate Global Positioning System (GPS), weather, and intelligence satellites into the newly acquired $18.8B
Air Force rockets. He also worked Ground systems integration issues.
In 2003, he was assigned to the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) in Reston, Virginia to be Chief
of Tactical Imagery Dissemination. He led a team to develop, test, and deploy a $17M imagery system. He
trained Navy Seals and Special Forces deployed worldwide to use the system. As a major, he became a
Contacting Officer Technical Representative (COTR) for the $2B Geoscout program, NG.
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· Question 1Question 19
2 out of 2 points
What file in the etc/ directory contains user’s hashed password?
Selected Answer:
etc/shadow file
Correct Answer:
[None]
Response Feedback:
[None Given]
· Question 20
1 out of 2 points
What file and file-field are read by the finger command?
Selected Answer:
Passwd file, it reads user id info like user name phone number and so on
Correct Answer:
[None]
Response Feedback:
gecos field
· Question 21
0 out of 2 points
When a parent process dies, what happens to any child processes that are still running?
Selected Answer:
They Child Processes keep running
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[None]
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process becomes child of init
· Question 22
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What is the effect of the command: $ killall root (Where root is the root account of the system)
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It canceles all the Processes that the user
Correct Answer:
[None]
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shutdown
· Question 23
2 out of 2 points
List 4 shortcomings of root accounts.
Selected Answer:
1- Single Point of failure if compromised
2-The security model is not strong enough for a network
3-High security environments enforce rules that cannot be implemented with traditional UNIX
4- Since some rules are implemented in command code, modification requires rewrite and recompilation
5- Minimal support for auditing
Correct Answer:
[None]
Response Feedback:
[None Given]
· Question 24
1 out of 2 points
Write a BASH command that would force the OS into single-user mode.
Selected Answer:
Root should run the init command to change the run level using the letter s or the number 1 for example
Correct Answer:
[None]
Response Feedback:
telinit 1
· Question 25
0 out of 2 points
Explain when it would be necessary to use the non-rewinding interface file of any backup device.
Selected Answer:
To implement permanent changes to the backup device
Correct Answer:
[None]
Response Feedback:
Only if multiple dumps were being made to the same tape drive. Failure to use the non-rewind would cause successive dumps to overwrite each other.
· Question 26
2 out of 2 points
What BASH shell command can send any signal level to a running process?
Selected Answer:
Kill Command
Correct Answer:
[None]
Response Feedback:
[None Given]
· Question 27
2 out of 2 points
Which two inter-process signals cannot be caught or blocked?
Selected Answer:
Kill process
Stop Process
Correct Answer:
[None]
Response Feedback:
[None Given]
· Question 28
2 out of 2 points
What BASH shell utility allows you to monitor CPU and memory usage?
Selected Answer:
Network Monitoring: Netstat, nethogs, iptraf, iftop
Disk I/O: iotop
CPU/ memory: top, Ps, htop, atop
Correct Answer:
[None]
Response Feedback:
[None Given]
· Question 29
0 out of 2 points
In the file permission listing drwxr-xr-x, what is the file type?
Selected Answer:
.sh
Correct Answer:
[None]
Response Feedback:
directory
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· Question 1
5 out of 5 points
When psychologists discuss fear, anger, sadness, joy, surprise, disgust, and contempt, they are usually describing the:
Answer
Selected Answer:
b.
primary emotions
· Question 2
5 out of 5 points
Studies on sex differences in emotion have found that men are more likely to ruminate about _____________ thoughts whereas women are more likely to ruminate about ____________.
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Selected Answer:
a.
anger; depression
· Question 3
5 out of 5 points
Positive emotions evoke more electrical activity in the __________, and negative emotions evoke more activity in the __________.
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Selected Answer:
c.
left hemisphere; right hemisphere
· Question 4
5 out of 5 points
What limbic structure is a center for fear responses?
Answer
Selected Answer:
b.
amygdala
· Question 5
5 out of 5 points
Imagine that you have just discovered a space craft that landed in a remote field near your home. Fortunately, the aliens aboard the space craft share your language, but they do not know anything about how to interact appropriately within the cultural norms of North America. Using your knowledge of emotions and emotional expression, create a list of 5 important points to remember when expressing emotion in this culture.
Answer
Selected Answer:
Smiling Frequently is ok
Dont kiss other male friends if male (european countries)
shake hands before hugging
Arms length of space between people, it can be seen as hostile or uncomfortable otherwise
Public displays of affection are often more acceptable then in other cultures
· Question 6
0 out of 5 points
Cindy used to study with her friend Amanda but found that she had to quit studying with her because Amanda was always so hyper and anxious before taking tests. Cindy often felt anxious after the study sessions and was worried that this might have a negative influence on her test performance. Cindy was probably experiencing:
Answer
Selected Answer:
c.
catharsis.
· Question 7
5 out of 5 points
Social and cultural rules that regulate when, how, and where a person may express emotions are referred to as:
Answer
Selected Answer:
c.
display rules
· Question 8
5 out of 5 points
Why are polygraph tests considered invalid or unreliable?
Answer
Selected Answer:
d.
There is no pattern of physical arousal that is specific to lying and distinct from other types of arousal
· Question 9
5 out of 5 points
This term is the process by which the facial muscles send messages to the brain about the basic emotion being expressed.
Answer
Selected Answer:
c.
facial feedback
· Question 10
5 out of 5 points
___________, or how we explain events or behavior, affect our emotional responses.
Answer
Selected Answer:
a.
Attributions
· Question 11
0 out of 5 points
In one study, infants were put on a modified version of a visual cliff that is only moderately frightening because the cliff did not dr.
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Which of the following is not considered a union unfair labor practice?
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under a valid union-shop agreement, demanding the discharge of an employee who fails to pay union dues
· Question 2
2 out of 2 points
In recent years,
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Selected Answer:
all of the above
· Question 3
0 out of 2 points
The first U.S. President ever to grant official recognition to federal government employees to bargain collectively was President
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Selected Answer:
Nixon
· Question 4
0 out of 2 points
Recent media campaign ads by the Automobile Workers have contained the message
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Selected Answer:
"America works best when we say, 'Union, Yes!' "
· Question 5
0 out of 2 points
Most of the local union's time is devoted to
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Selected Answer:
negotiating labor agreements.
· Question 6
0 out of 2 points
Most members of the National Education Association
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Selected Answer:
support right-to-work laws
· Question 7
0 out of 2 points
About 85 percent of the UAW's spending goes to
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Selected Answer:
strike funds.
· Question 8
0 out of 2 points
As compared to the Teachers, many of the building trades are much
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Selected Answer:
less active in research efforts.
· Question 9
0 out of 2 points
In 1970, an unprecedented federal sector eight-day strile was carried on by the employees of the
Answer
Selected Answer:
State Department
· Question 10
2 out of 2 points
The American Federation of Labor was originally entitled the
Answer
Selected Answer:
Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions
· Question 11
0 out of 2 points
Under Taft-Hartley, if management or labor wishes to terminate or modify an existing labor contract, it must give a
Answer
Selected Answer:
thrity-day notice to the other party.
· Question 12
0 out of 2 points
At present, the unionized percentage of all United States workers is approximately
Answer
Selected Answer:
33.4
· Question 13
0 out of 2 points
In 1993, the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union merged with the
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Selected Answer:
Service Employees International Union.
· Question 14
0 out of 2 points
By 1917 some thrity states had introduced
Answer
Selected Answer:
antitrust laws for unions.
· Question 15
0 out of 2 points
Investigation of union misconduct under the Landrum-Griffin is the responsibility of the
Answer
Selected Answer:
Senate Subcommittee on Ethics.
· Question 16
0 out of 2 points
COPE is a part of the
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Selected Answer:
Furriers.
· Question 17
0 out of 2 points
When it has found that employees have been unlawfully discharged for union activities, the NLRB has most frequently required
Answer
Selected Answer:
automatic union certification.
· Question 18
2 out of 2 points
Employ.
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Running head: AUDITING INFORMATION SYSTEMS PROCESS Auditing information systems process Student’s Name University Affiliation Auditing information systems 2process Information systems are the livelihood of any huge business. As in past years, computer systems do not simply record transactions of business, but essentially drive the main business procedures of the enterprise. In such a situation, superior management and business managers do have worries concerning information systems. Auditing is a methodical process by which a proficient, independent person impartially obtains and assesses evidence concerning assertions about a financial entity or occasion for the reason of outlining an outlook about and reporting on the extent to which the contention matches to an acknowledged set of standards. Auditing of information systems is the administration controls assessment inside the communications of Information Technology. The obtained proof valuation is used to decide if systems of information are defensive assets, maintenance reliability of data, and also if they are efficiently operating in order to attain organization’s goals or objectives (Hoelzer, 2009). Auditing of Information Systems has become an essential part of business organization in both large and small business environments. This paper examines the preliminary points for carrying out and Information system audit and some of the, techniques, tools, guidelines and standards that can be employed to build, manage, and examine the review function. The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) qualifications is recognized worldwide as a standard of accomplishment for those who assess, monitor, control and audit the information technology of an organization and business systems. Information Systems experts with a concern in information systems security, control and audit. At least five years of specialized information systems security, auditing and control work practice is necessary for certification. An audit contract should be present to evidently state the responsibility of the management, 2objectives for, and designation of authority to Information .
· Strengths Public Recognition of OrganizationOverall Positive P.docxLynellBull52
· Strengths Public Recognition of Organization
Overall Positive Perception of Organization
Established Integrity and Longevity of the Organizations
Continued success in saving lives and always willing to lend a helping hand
Weaknesses
Lack of Congruency of public and internal views
Commitment to service to the public overlooks the work environment of the employees that make these endeavors possible daily
Opportunities
Disaster relief is always a turning point for anyone’s perception of the organization especially when it hits close to home
Threats
Possibility of not being able to help someone due to lack in financial or physical resources
Understanding that it’s impossible to please everyone, there could be some bad experiences that are communicated to many tarnishing the positive perception of the brand
Strengths with Opportunities
Increasing amount of volunteers and assistance of employees on a continual basis in order to secure definite support in the face of a disaster
Weaknesses with Threats
Increase and expand awareness of employees concerns through surveys and group discussions in order to increase the morale of the organization.
Strengths with Threats
With understanding the necessity of all aspects of the organization needing to be congruent, implementing and ensuring that public and employees all hold the same values to be true simultaneously through continued efforts of the organization increasing the involvement of the employees in minor decision making abilities in order to feel as if the organization is less of a dictatorship and slightly reflective of a democracy
Weaknesses with Opportunities
Increasing awareness of the severity of a need for this organization in the country due to the lack of ability by the country alone
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· Part I Key Case SummaryThis case discusses the Union Carbid.docxLynellBull52
· Part I: Key
Case Summary
This case discusses the Union Carbide gas leak that occurred in Bhopal, India in 1984. Over five thousand people were killed and hundreds of thousands were injured after water inadvertently mixed with methyl isocyanate (MIC) causing the release of a deadly gas. The plant in Bhopal was a pesticide production facility that served the increasing demand of India’s thriving farming industry. However, uncontrolled zoning allowed the plant to be built within close proximity to a densely populated region. While the plant was initially profitable, market changes negatively impacted revenue forcing budget cuts that led to the decay of maintenance and safety practices. There are several theories as to why the incident occurred such as a disgruntled employee’s maliciousness or an accidental contamination. Over several years, Union Carbide paid out hundreds of millions of dollars to the survivors and ultimately ceased to exist, while the community continues to struggle with the aftermath of the disaster.
Main Critical Issues (the list):
· India’s officials adopted careless zoning practices and allowed the construction of the plant near dense population.
· The proper safety procedures were not followed and the equipment was not being properly utilized as designed. UCIL managers placed a higher weight on cost cutting than on safety, resulting in the reduction of maintenance and safety practices.
· Union Carbide Corp. did not require frequent reporting from its subsidiary in India (UCIL), which allowed malpractices and unsafe systems in the Bhopal plant to go unnoticed.
· Union Carbide Corporation and UCIL had an ethical obligation to warn the surrounding community of potential dangers of living close to the pesticide plant
· If the case, the disgruntled employees action to sabotage the plant to take vengeance
· Employees and supervisors in the Bhopal plant did not follow numerous policies and routines that could have prevented the tragedy (e.g. acting upon the alarming increase in the tank pressure, instead of postponing it to after the tea break).
· The residents were not informed of what actions to take in the event of a toxic leak or accident.
· The employees did not use the emergency buses to evacuate surrounding residents.
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Part II: Key
Stakeholders:
The following are the stakeholders in the case: The Union Carbide’s Corporation Stockholders, The Bhopal’s population, The Indian Government, The Bombay Stock Exchange, The Union Carbide’s workers from de Indian subsidiary “UCIL”. The workers from Union Carbide headquarter in Connecticut, The Board of Directors of Union Carbide Headquarter, and The Board of Directors from Union Carbide’s Indian subsidiary. The American and Indian lawyers. UCIL’s Executives. Carbides’ Scientifics. Indian Scientists and engineers. Indian Court Systems. Insurance company. Indian Public. Corrupts Physicians. Corrupts Court Officials. Bhopal Congress. Chemical Industry. Dow Chemical. The Activis.
· Perceptual process is a process through manager receive organize.docxLynellBull52
· Perceptual process is a process through manager receive organize and interpret information. According to this case, after Andrea decided quit this job, Sam chose Grant for the manager position from three candidates, even he is not very suitable for this position, because Sam strongly believes the manager have to be a full time based on previous customer experience(He believed that you can’t be a part time manager and that his customers would think Vibe was not a serious company if he appointed a part time manager for marketing and public relations-Sam Nguyen) Moreover Sam thought Grant could Increase himself-awareness to achieve demonstrate good relationship with customer.
· Job satisfaction is a collection of positive or negative felling that an individual holds toward their job. In this case, Andrea is a good example of having a negative felling of her job. ( Sam’s only criticism of her was that she seemed to live to work). Because Sam does not care about the employee satisfaction, Andrea can not get more spiritual benefit even get good salary. People may have different level of the job satisfaction. In this case, Andrea work long hours, she may feel very stressful, she is happy with cognitive job satisfaction, but not with the affective job satisfaction.
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i. Part A: This Is a set of 20 multiple choice questions, worth 1 mark each. You may tear off the
answer sheet at the back of the examination paper. Write your student number on the answer
sheet. Circle the appropriate letter for each question.
li. Part B: This comprises three questions worth 10 marks each. Answer all questions.
III. Part C: Answer ONE of the two questions In Part C. It Is worth 20 marks.
2. This examination is worth 70 marks, being 70% of the marks for the course.
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This Part of the examination consists of twenty (20) multiple choice questions, each worth
one (1) marlc. The suggested time for completion is fifty minutes; that is, two minutes and
thirty seconds for each question. Be very careftal not to spend too much time on this section.
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· Performance Critique Assignment
· During the first month of class, you are required to attend a theatrical production and to respond to it in the form of a performance critique (due February 29). A performance critique is a short essay in which you describe and offer your perspective on the specific choices that were made in a production. For this particular assignment, you are asked to develop an argument about how the production choices reflected (or failed to clearly reflect) the play’s central message.
· This piece of writing is uniquely tied to your own experience as a spectator in the theatre. Your critique should engage with the production as performance. This is different from doing a simple literary analysis of the main themes in the play. You should explore how these ideas are communicated through specific scenic choices – acting, directing, design, use of space, etc. – and make an argument about how these choices contributed to the production as a whole. Did they further the audience’s understanding of the message it was trying to convey? Did they make sense within the world they were trying to create? Was the text more alive because of them?
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· *If there is a director’s note in the program, this will be particularly useful in ascertaining what the director’s intentions were or why he/she chose to stage this play in particular.
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· A Performance Critique Looks Like:
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· Format: 4 pages, 12-point font, double-spaced, 1” margins. Consulting other sources is not recommended (and you should definitely NOT consult other reviews of the performance), but if there is a secondary source that you feel provides important supporting information for your argument, you may use it if you include proper MLA citation.
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· Ticket: Staple your ticket stub to the back page of your paper.
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· Description: Give the audience a sense of the play. Include information about the name of the production, location, notable cast members, etc. Also include a very brief description of the main action, and/or the driving character relationships, and/or the genre (period piece, musical, etc.). When describing the action of the play, use the present tense.
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· Argument: You should move far beyond saying simply whether you liked or disliked the play. Be sure to develop a clear thesis about what you think the production company was attempting to accomplish and whether they were successful.
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· Specific Examples: Remember to provide specific examples to back up your argument. Your critique should help readers "visualize" the play. Provide relevant and evocative details. You will likely want to address several of the following elements: Acting (were the characters believable? Were they supposed to be?), Directing (Did there seem to be a unifying concept behind the production? How was that concept realized? Did the different elements of the production fit together?), Costume/Set/Lighting/Sound Design (H.
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· Please read the following article excerpt, and view the video clips below. Listen carefully in order to understand as much of the Spanish as you can, using the images and contextual clues to help you get a sense of the gist of the video content.
· Next, write a 200-word response in English to the issues raised. Make sure to address the following questions:
1. What is syncretism and how does it differ from the concept of the melting pot?
2. How is Latin America’s (specifically Brazil and Cuba) experience with racial and cultural mixture different from that of the U.S.?
3. Can you give a couple of examples of syncretism in your own culture or in the U.S.?
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SYNCRETISM AND ITS SYNONYMS: REFLECTIONS ON CULTURAL MIXTURE by CHARLES STEWART
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The subject matter of anthropology has gradually changed over the last twenty years. Nowadays ethnographers rarely search for a stable or original form of cultures; they are usually more concerned with revealing how local communities respond to historical change and global influences. The burgeoning literature on transnational flows of ideas, global institutions, and cultural mixture reflects this shift of attention. This increased awareness of cultural penetration has, furthermore, been instrumental in the critique of earlier conceptions of “culture” that cast it as too stable: bounded, and homogeneous to be useful in a world characterized by migrations (voluntary or forced), cheap travel, international marketing, and telecommunications… In this body of literature the word syncretism has begun to reappear alongside such related concepts as hybridization and creolization as a means of portraying the dynamics of global social developments.
My purpose in considering the history of syncretism up to the present is not to enforce a standard usage conformed to the domain of religion; nor is it my goal to promote syncretism to a position of primus inter pares in the company of all other terms for mixture. I see my approach instead as an attempt to illustrate historically that syncretism has an objectionable but nevertheless instructive past…
Current Discussions of Mixture
Cultures, if we still wish to retain this term (and I do), are porous; they are open to intermixture with other, different cultures and they are subject to historical change precisely on account of these influences. This has no doubt always been the case…
Cultural borrowing and interpenetration are today seen as part of the very nature of cultures… To phrase it more accurately, syncretism describes the process by which cultures constitute themselves at any given point in time. Today's hybridization will simply give way to tomorrow's hybridization, the form of which will be dictated by historical-political events and contingencies… As [Edward] Said expresses it: all cultures are involved in one another, none is simple and pure, all.
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Discussion Topic #1: The Internal Rate of Return
The internal rate of return is a concept that is often addressed when looking into financial management. Osborne, 2011 defined the internal rate of return as the discount rate that sets the NPV back to zero. The concept is primarily used in capital budgeting to compare the profitability of investments. The higher the internal rate of return that is found then in theory the more profitable an investment the company should be. There are other factors that go into deciding if something is a good investment but the internal rate of return sets a strong indicator. As the paper further points out there are pros and cons that are associated with using the internal rate of return when deciding financial decisions.
The internal rate of returns as many positive aspects that go along with it. These strengths are the building blocks of what makes it an attractive option for financial managers. Anthes, 2003 described that is serves as a rate that can be a benchmark for investment decision-making. It is typically the favored method that is used and as a result is fairly universal across most financial managers. Another strength is that it can be applied to many aspects of business and life. For example it can be used to calculate profitable degree offerings for a school all the way down to a business purchase to serve as a point of reference that there will be a strong return. A final strength falls in the usage of the internal rate of return. The IRR is a rate quantity. This is verses options such as the net present value, which indicated the monetary value of a potential investment. The internal rate of return allows a company that is looking into investing to see the efficiency of the company and the quality and yield of the product they are producing. This is a better indicator of the type of investment that a business is about to make. As a final point though the formula can be a bit tricky to understand the overall results are much simpler to interpret than other financial formulas. This makes internal rate of return more user friendly when explaining the findings to committee members that do not have training in financial management, which is often the case when investment decisions are being made.
Even though there are strengths to using the internal rate of return there are also various weaknesses as referenced by Gitman, 2006. The primary weakness is that internal rate of return should only be used in deciding if a single pr.
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1. · Unit 4 Citizen Rights
INTRODUCTION
In George Orwell's Animal Farm, the assertion that "all animals
are equal but some animals are more equal than others" signals
the breakdown of any semblance of a fair society. We have
probably all experienced it: a situation where someone who was
better connected, more influential, or in a position of power
could advance far beyond the position or actions of the common
person. On a typical day, this happens in travel, restaurant
seating, the selection of a church pew, and the line at the
grocery store.
It should not, however, happen in our public services. As
citizens, we all have rights, and we all have the same rights.
That is the beauty of the United States's democratic government
structure, and perhaps one of the most cherished aspects of it.
Economic and social diversity aside, when we interact with the
government, we expect to receive the same treatment, whether
we are a Rockefeller or a plumber. The reality is that this
balance of citizen rights is difficult to achieve, because in many
cases, those wielding power and influence attempt to trump
equity.
TOGGLE DRAWERHIDE FULL INTRODUCTION
Inherent in the concept of citizenship is the exchange wherein
citizens give allegiance to a nation and receive protection
offered by that nation. Citizens therefore have certain privileges
in the eyes of the nation, such as the right to vote, to pay taxes,
and to refuse certain actions, such as reciting the Pledge of
Allegiance because it refers to God. There are benefits and
entitlements that the citizen can demand from the government.
These rights are balanced by responsibilities, such as upholding
the law, participating in government, and engaging in the same
2. privileges previously mentioned.
In this unit, issues of the middle class, the welfare state, and
what constitutes citizenship will be examined based on the
concept of citizen rights.
Reference
Orwell, G. (1945). Animal Farm. New York, NY: Harcourt
Brace & Company.
SANDRA CISNEROS
Woman Hollering Creek
The day Don Serafín gave Juan Pedro Martínez Sánchez
permission to take CleófilasEnriquetaDeLeón Hernández as his
bride, across her father’s threshold, over several miles of dirt
road and several miles of paved, over one border and beyond to
a town en el otrolado—on the other side—already did he divine
the morning his daughter would raise her hand over her eyes,
look south, and dream of returning to the chores that never
ended, six good-for-nothing brothers, and one old man’s
complaints.
He had said, after all, in the hubbub of parting: I am your
father, I will never abandon you. He had said that, hadn’t he,
when he hugged and then let her go. But at the moment
Cleófilas was busy looking for Chela, her maid of honor, to
fulfill their bouquet conspiracy. She would not remember her
father’s parting words until later. I am your father, I will never
abandon you.
Only now as a mother did she remember. Now, when she and
Juan Pedrito sat by the creek’s edge. How when a man and a
woman love each other, sometimes that love sours. But a
parent’s love for a child, a child’s for its parents, is another
thing entirely.
This is what Cleófilas thought evenings when Juan Pedro did
3. not come home, and she lay on her side of the bed listening to
the hollow roar of the interstate, a distant dog barking, the
pecan trees rustling like ladies in stiff petticoats—shh-shh-shh,
shh-shh-shh—soothing her to sleep.
In the town where she grew up, there isn’t very much to do
except accompany the aunts and godmothers to the house of one
or the other to play cards. Or walk to the cinema to see this
week’s film again, speckled and with one hair quivering
annoyingly on the screen. Or to the center of town to order a
milk shake that will appear in a day and a half as a pimple on
her backside. Or to the girlfriend’s house to watch the latest
telenovela episode and try to copy the way the women comb
their hair, wear their makeup.
But what Cleófilas has been waiting for, has been whispering
and sighing and giggling for, has been anticipating since she
was old enough to lean against the window displays of gauze
and butterflies and lace, is passion. Not the kind on the cover of
the ¡Alarma!magazines, mind you, where the lover is
photographed with the bloody fork she used to salvage her good
name. But passion in its purest crystalline essence. The kind the
books and songs and telenovelas describe when one finds,
finally, the great love of one’s life, and does whatever one can,
must do, at whatever the cost.
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Tú o Nadie. “You or No One.” The title of the current favorite
telenovela. The beautiful Lucía Méndez having to put up with
all kinds of hardships of the heart, separation and betrayal, and
loving, always loving no matter what, because that is the most
important thing, and did you see Lucía Méndez on the Bayer
aspirin commercials—wasn’t she lovely? Does she dye her hair
do you think? Cleófilas is going to go to the farmacía and buy a
hair rinse; her girlfriend Chela will apply it—it’s not that
difficult at all.
Because you didn’t watch last night’s episode when Lucía
confessed she loved him more than anyone in her life. In her
4. life! And she sings the song “You or No One” in the beginning
and end of the show. Tú o Nadie. Somehow one ought to live
one’s life like that, don’t you think? You or no one. Because to
suffer for love is good. The pain all sweet somehow. In the end.
Seguín. She had liked the sound of it. Far away and lovely. Not
like Monclova. Coahuia. Ugly.
Seguín, Tejas. A nice sterling ring to it. The tinkle of money.
She would get to wear outfits like the women on the tele, like
Lucía Méndez. And have a lovely house, and wouldn’t Chela be
jealous.
And yes, they will drive all the way to Laredo to get her
wedding dress. That’s what they say. Because Juan Pedro wants
to get married right away, without a long engagement since he
can’t take off too much time from work. He has a very
important position in Seguin with, with . . . a beer company, I
think. Or was it tires? Yes, he has to be back. So they will get
married in the spring when he can take off work, and then they
will drive off in his new pickup—did you see it?—to their new
home in Seguin. Well, not exactly new, but they’re going to
repaint the house. You know newlyweds. New paint and new
furniture. Why not? He can afford it. And later on add maybe a
room or two for the children. May they be blessed with many.
Well, you’ll see. Cleófilas has always been so good with her
sewing machine. A little rrrr, rrrr, rrrr of the machine and ¡zas!
Miracles. She’s always been so clever, that girl. Poor thing.
And without even a mama to advise her on things like her
wedding night. Well, may God help her. What with a father with
a head like a burro, and those six clumsy brothers. Well, what
do you think! Yes, I’m going to the wedding. Of course! The
dress I want to wear just needs to be altered a teensy bit to
bring it up to date. See, I saw a new style last night that I
thought would suit me. Did you watch last night’s episode of
The Rich Also Cry? Well, did you notice the dress the mother
was wearing?
La Gritona. Such a funny name for such a lovely arroyo. But
5. that’s what they called the creek that ran behind the house.
Though no one could say whether the woman had hollered from
anger or pain. The natives only knew the arroyo one crossed on
the way to San Antonio, and then once again on the way back,
was called Woman Hollering, a name no one from these parts
questioned, little less understood. Pues, allá de losindios,
quiénsabe—who knows, the townspeople shrugged, because it
was of no concern to their lives how this trickle of water
received its curious name.
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“What do you want to know for?” Trini the laundromat
attendant asked in the same gruff Spanish she always used
whenever she gave Cleófilas change or yelled at her for
something. First for putting too much soap in the machines.
Later, for sitting on a washer. And still later, after Juan Pedrito
was born, for not understanding that in this country you cannot
let your baby walk around with no diaper and his pee-pee
hanging out, it wasn’t nice, ¿entiendes? Pues.
How could Cleófilas explain to a woman like this why the name
Woman Hollering fascinated her. Well, there was no sense
talking to Trini.
On the other hand there were the neighbor ladies, one on either
side of the house they rented near the arroyo. The woman
soledad on the left, the woman Dolores on the right.
The neighbor lady Soledad liked to call herself a widow, though
how she came to be one was a mystery. Her husband had either
died, or run away with an icehouse floozie, or simply gone out
for cigarettes one afternoon and never came back. It was hard to
say which since Soledad, as a rule, didn’t mention him.
In the other house lived la señora Dolores, kind and very sweet,
but her house smelled too much of incense and candles from the
altars that burned continuously in memory of two sons who had
died in the last war and one husband who had died shortly after
from grief. The neighbor lady Dolores divided her time between
the memory of these men and her garden, famous for its
6. sunflowers—so tall they had to be supported with broom
handles and old boards; red red cockscombs, fringed and
bleeding a thick menstrual color; and, especially, roses whose
sad scent reminded Cleófilas of the dead. Each Sunday la señora
Dolores clipped the most beautiful of these flowers and
arranged them on three modest headstones at the Seguin
cemetery.
The neighbor ladies, Soledad, Dolores, they might’ve known
once the name of the arroyo before it turned English but they
did not know now. They were too busy remembering the men
who had left through either choice or circumstance and would
never come back.
Pain or rage, Cleófilas wondered when she drove over the
bridge the first time as a newlywed and Juan Pedro had pointed
it out. La Gritona, he had said, and she had laughed. Such a
funny name for a creek so pretty and full of happily ever after.
The first time she had been so surprised she didn’t cry out or try
to defend herself. She had always said she would strike back if
a man, any man, were to strike her.
But when the moment came, and he slapped her once, and then
again, and again, until the lip split and bled an orchid of blood,
she didn’t fight back, she didn’t break into tears, she didn’t run
away as she imagined she might when she saw such things in
the telenovelas.
In her own home her parents had never raised a hand to each
other or to their children. Although she admitted she may have
been brought up a little leniently as an only daughter—la
consentida, the princess—there were some things she would
never tolerate. Ever.
Instead, when it happened the first time, when they were barely
man and wife, she had been so stunned, it left her speechless,
motionless, numb. She had done nothing but reach up to the
heat on her mouth and stare at the blood on her hand as if even
then she didn’t understand.
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7. She could think of nothing to say, said nothing. Just stroked the
dark curls of the man who wept and would weep like a child, his
tears of repentance and shame, this time and each.
The men at the ice house. From what she can tell, from the
times during her first year when still a newlywed she is invited
and accompanies her husband, sits mute beside their
conversation, waits and sips a beer until it grows warm, twists a
paper napkin into a knot, then another into a fan, one into a
rose, nods her head, smiles, yawns, politely grins, laughs at the
appropriate moments, leans against her husband’s sleeve, tugs
at his elbow, and finally becomes good at predicting where the
talk will lead, from this Cleófilas concludes each is nightly
trying to find the truth lying at the bottom of the bottle like a
gold doubloon on the sea floor.
They want to tell each other what they want to tell themselves.
But what is bumping like a helium balloon at the ceiling of the
brain never finds its way out. It bubbles and rises, it gurgles in
the throat, it rolls across the surface of the tongue, and erupts
from the lips—a belch.
If they are lucky, there are tears at the end of the long night. At
any given moment, the fists try to speak. They are dogs chasing
their own tails before lying down to sleep, trying to find a way,
a route, an out, and—finally—get some peace.
In the morning sometimes before he opens his eyes. Or after
they have finished loving. Or at times when he is simply across
from her at the table putting pieces of food into his mouth and
chewing. Cleófilas thinks, This is the man I have waited my
whole life for.
Not that he isn’t a good man. She has to remind herself why she
loves him when she changes the baby’s Pampers, or when she
mops the bathroom floor, or tries to make the curtains for the
doorways without doors, or whiten the linen. Or wonder a little
when he kicks the refrigerator and says he hates this shitty
house and is going out where he won’t be bothered with the
baby’s howling and her suspicious questions, and her requests
8. to fix this and this and this because if she had any brains in her
head she’d realize he’s been up before the rooster earning his
living to pay for the food in her belly and the roof over her head
and would have to wake up again early the next day so why
can’t you just leave me in peace, woman.
He is not very tall, no, and he doesn’t look like the men on the
telenovelas. His face still scarred from acne. And he has a bit of
a belly from all the beer he drinks. Well, he’s always been
husky.
This man who farts and belches and snores as well as laughs and
kisses and holds her. Somehow this husband whose whiskers she
finds each morning in the sink, whose shoes she must air each
evening on the porch, this husband who cuts his fingernails in
public, laughs loudly, curses like a man, and demands each
course of dinner be served on a separate plate like at his
mother’s, as soon as he gets home, on time or late, and who
doesn’t care at all for music or telenovelas or romance or roses
or the moon floating pearly over the arroyo, or through the
bedroom window for that matter, shut the blinds and go back to
sleep, this man, this father, this rival, this keeper, this lord, this
master, this husband till kingdom come.
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A doubt. Slender as a hair. A washed cup set back on the shelf
wrong-side-up. Her lipstick, and body talc, and hairbrush all
arranged in the bathroom a different way.
No. Her imagination. The house the same as always. Nothing.
Coming home from the hospital with her new son, her husband.
Something comforting in discovering her house slippers beneath
the bed, the faded housecoat where she left it on the bathroom
hook. Her pillow. Their bed.
Sweet sweet homecoming. Sweet as the scent of face powder in
the air, jasmine, sticky liquor.
Smudged fingerprint on the door. Crushed cigarette in a glass.
Wrinkle in the brain crumpling to a crease.
Sometimes she thinks of her father’s house. But how could she
9. go back there? What a disgrace. What would the neighbors say?
Coming home like that with one baby on her hip and one in the
oven. Where’s your husband?
The town of gossips. The town of dust and despair. Which she
has traded for this town of gossips. This town of dust, despair.
Houses farther apart perhaps, though no more privacy because
of it. No leafy zócalo in the center of the town, though the
murmur of talk is clear enough all the same. No huddled
whispering on the church steps each Sunday. Because here the
whispering begins at sunset at the ice house instead.
This town with its silly pride for a bronze pecan the size of a
baby carriage in front of the city hall. TV repair shop,
drugstore, hardware, dry cleaner’s, chiropractor’s, liquor store,
bail bonds, empty storefront, and nothing, nothing, nothing of
interest. Nothing one could walk to, at any rate. Because the
towns here are built so that you have to depend on husbands. Or
you stay home. Or you drive. If you’re rich enough to own,
allowed to drive, your own car.
There is no place to go. Unless one counts the neighbor ladies.
Soledad on one side, Dolores on the other. Or the creek.
Don’t go out there after dark, mi’jita. Stay near the house. No
esbueno para la salud. Mala suerte. Bad luck. Mal aire. You’ll
get sick and the baby too. You’ll catch a fright wandering about
in the dark, and then you’ll see how right we were.
The stream sometimes only a muddy puddle in the summer,
though now in the springtime, because of the rains, a good-size
alive thing, a thing with a voice all its own, all day and all night
calling in its high, silver voice. Is it La Llorona, the weeping
woman? La Llorona, who drowned her own children. Perhaps La
Llorona is the one they named the creek after, she thinks,
remembering all the stories she learned as a child.
La Llorona calling to her. She is sure of it. Cleófilas sets the
baby’s Donald Duck blanket on the grass. Listens. The day sky
turning to night. The baby pulling up fistfuls of grass and
laughing. La Llorona. Wonders if something as quiet as this
drives a woman to the darkness under the trees.
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What she needs is . . . and made a gesture as if to yank a
woman’s buttocks to his groin. Maximiliano, the foul-smelling
fool from across the road, said this and set the men laughing,
but Cleófilas just muttered. Grosera, and went on washing
dishes.
She knew he said it not because it was true, but more because it
was he who needed to sleep with a woman, instead of drinking
each night at the ice house and stumbling home alone.
Maximiliano who was said to have killed his wife in an ice-
house brawl when she came at him with a mop. I had to shoot,
he had said—she was armed.
Their laughter outside the kitchen window. Her husband’s, his
friends’. Manolo, Beto, Efraín, el Perico. Maximiliano.
Was Cleófilas just exaggerating as her husband always said? It
seemed the newspapers were full of such stories. This woman
found on the side of the interstate. This one pushed from a
moving car. This one’s cadaver, this one unconscious, this one
beaten blue. Her ex-husband, her husband, her lover, her father,
her brother, her uncle, her friend, her co-worker. Always. The
same grisly news in the pages of the dailies. She dunked a glass
under the soapy water for a moment—shivered.
He had thrown a book. Hers. From across the room. A hot welt
across the cheek. She could forgive that. But what stung more
was the fact it was her book, a love story by CorínTellado, what
she loved most now that she lived in the U.S., without a
television set, without the telenovelas.
Except now and again when her husband was away and she
could manage it, the few episodes glimpsed at the neighbor lady
Soledad’s house because Dolores didn’t care for that sort of
thing, though Soledad was often kind enough to retell what had
happened on what episode of Maríe de Nadie, the poor
Argentine country girl who had the ill fortune of falling in love
11. with the beautiful son of the Arrocha family, the very family
she worked for, whose roof she slept under and whose floors she
vacuumed, while in that same house, with the dust brooms and
floor cleaners as witnesses, the square-jawed Juan Carlos
Arrocha had uttered words of love, I love you, María, listen to
me, mi querida, but it was she who had to say No, no, we are
not of the same class, and remind him it was not his place nor
hers to fall in love, while all the while her heart was breaking,
can you imagine.
Cleófilas thought her life would have to be like that, like a
telenovela, only now the episodes got sadder and sadder. And
there were no commercials in between for comic relief. And no
happy ending in sight. She thought this when she sat with the
baby out by the creek behind the house. Cleófilas de . . . ? But
somehow she would have to change her name to Topazio, or
Yesenia, Cristal, Adriana, Stefania, Andrea, something more
poetic than Cleófilas. Everything happened to women with
names like jewels. But what happened to a Cleófilas? Nothing.
But a crack in the face.
Because the doctor has said so. She has to go. To make sure the
new baby is all right, so there won’t be any problems when he’s
born, and the appointment card says next Tuesday. Could he
please take her. And that’s all.
No, she won’t mention it. She promises. If the doctor asks she
can say she fell down the front steps or slipped when she was
out in the backyard, slipped out back, she could tell him that.
She has to go back next Tuesday, Juan Pedro, please, for the
new baby. For their child.
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She could write to her father and ask maybe for money, just a
loan, for the new baby’s medical expenses. Well then if he’d
rather she didn’t. All right, she won’t. Please don’t anymore.
Please don’t. She knows it’s difficult saving money with all the
bills they have, but how else are they going to get out of debt
with the truck payments? And after the rent and the food and
12. the electricity and the gas and the water and the who-knows-
what, well, there’s hardly anything left. But please, at least for
the doctor visit. She won’t ask for anything else. She has to.
Why is she so anxious? Because.
Because she is going to make sure the baby is not turned around
backward this time to split her down the center. Yes. Next
Tuesday at five-thirty. I’ll have Juan Pedrito dressed and ready.
But those are the only shoes he has. I’ll polish them, and we’ll
be ready. As soon as you come from work. We won’t make you
ashamed.
Felice? It’s me, Graciela.
No, I can’t talk louder. I’m at work.
Look, I need kind of a favor. There’s a patient, lady here who’s
got a problem.
Well, wait a minute. Are you listening to me or what?
I can’t talk real loud ’cause her husband’s in the next room.
Well, would you just listen?
I was going to do this sonogram on her—she’s pregnant,
right?—and she just starts crying on me. Híjole, Felice! This
poor lady’s got black-and-blue marks all over. I’m not kidding.
From her husband. Who else? Another one of those brides from
across the border. And her family’s all in Mexico.
Shit. You think they’re going to help her? Give me a break.
This lady doesn’t even speak English. She hasn’t been allowed
to call home or write or nothing. That’s why I’m calling you.
She needs a ride.
Not to Mexico, you goof. Just to the Greyhound. In San Anto.
No, just a ride. She’s got her own money. All you’d have to do
is drop her off in San Antonio on your way home. Come on,
Felice. Please? If we don’t help her, who will? I’d drive her
myself, but she needs to be on that bus before her husband gets
home from work. What do you say?
I don’t know. Wait.
Right away, tomorrow even.
Well, if tomorrow’s no good for you . . .
13. It’s a date, Felice. Thursday. At the Cash N Carry off I-10.
Noon. She’ll be ready.
Oh, and her name’s Cleófilas.
I don’t know. One of those Mexican saints, I guess. A martyr or
something.
Cleófilas. C-L-E-O-F-I-L-A-S. Cle. O. Fi. Las. Write it down.
Thanks, Felice. When her kid’s born she’ll have to name her
after us, right?
Yeah, you got it. A regular soap opera sometimes. Quévida,
comadre, Bueno bye.
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All morning that flutter of half-fear, half-doubt. At any moment
Juan Pedro might appear in the doorway. On the street. At the
Cash N Carry. Like in the dreams she dreamed.
There was that to think about, yes, until the woman in the
pickup drove up. Then there wasn’t time to think about anything
but the pickup pointed toward San Antonio. Put your bags in the
back and get in.
But when they drove across the arroyo, the driver opened her
mouth and let out a yell as loud as any mariachi. Which startled
not only Cleófilas, but Juan Pedrito as well.
Pues, look how cute. I scared you two, right? Sorry. Should’ve
warned you. Every time I cross that bridge I do that. Because of
the name, you know. Woman Hollering. Pues, I holler. She said
this in a Spanish pocked with English and laughed. Did you ever
notice, Felice continued, how nothing around here is named
after a woman? Really. Unless she’s the Virgin. I guess you’re
only famous if you’re a virgin. She was laughing again.
That’s why I like the name of that arroyo. Makes you want to
holler like Tarzan, right?
Everything about this woman, this Felice, amazed Cleófilas.
The fact that she drove a pickup. A pickup, mind you, but when
Cleófilas asked if it was her husband’s, she said she didn’t have
a husband. The pickup was hers. She herself had chosen it. She
15. The Middle Class
Resources
· Discussion Participation Scoring Guide.
· Global Issue Resources | Transcript.
The United States has a robust and vocal middle class, but this
is not the case in all countries. In some places, few people live
between the socioeconomic extremes of wealth and poverty.
Unit 4 Discussion Question 2
Explain the role of the middle class in society and any universal
public values that became evident in your analysis of the middle
class. Is a robust middle class necessary? Is it healthy? What
are its prospects in the future global society? In answering these
questions, reference the peer-reviewed sources you found in this
unit's study. You can also refer to examples drawn from the
primary source material you encountered in the Global Issue
Resources interactive.
Due date on August 3, 2015 @ 3:00pm
16. The Welfare State
It could be argued that the concept of citizen rights has become
extended over the years to incorporate a sense of entitlement
that sometimes runs counter to the self-sufficiency upon which
the United States was founded. The theoretical foundation for
this concept overlaps with the welfare state and exclusionism in
modern society.
Discussion Question 1:
Using the resources you located in this unit's study, explain the
terms citizen rights, welfare state, and exclusionism. How do
the definitions in the sources you located compare to the
definitions found in your text? Analyze the differences and
similarities. Use this analysis to inform an explanation of your
own views on whether or not a welfare state is appropriate and
whether or not it can add public value in today's diverse society.
Due date is August 4, 2015 @ 3:00pm
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