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Music and Emotion Essay

Each Discussion should be at least 550 words.

Mix it Up Discussion 1

Advertising is everywhere. Americans have become so accustom to seeing ads that they barely pay attention to them anymore. So much advertisement appears every day and so much technology is used to push ads into people’s consciousness that ads are simply part of the social expectation. Every moment of every day someone is trying to sell something, shape and opinion, or create a desire in others through the use of advertising. In the days of radio and TV, ads spoke to us and got lodged in our heads. Today digital advertising comes at us visually from the moment we turn on our electronic devices, as we walk down the street, or ride a bus. Yet, most people feel that advertisements today fail to attain the emotional impact they once had, most believe they just ignore advertisements.

Not so fast, we can easily recall the most memorable marketing slogans of our youth — “Just do it,” “Got milk,” “Where’s the beef?” “Mikey likes it,” “I’d like to buy the world a Coke,”— “Good advertising makes food taste better, it makes cars run better,” says George Lois, a one-time art director for Esquire magazine who later catapulted MTV, ESPN and Tommy Hilfiger from nobodies to world influencers. Advertising changes everything. Ads create desire.

Art & Copy provides a fascinating look at an industry built around selling not just products, but emotions, ideas and lifestyles.

After watching Art and Copy, and reading chapters 2 and 3 in Grazian, develop an answer to one of the following questions. Make sure that you address both the reading and the film in your answer; the idea is to connect the theory you read with the documentary–the social practice–you see). Please try to answer different questions so that all questions get covered and we have an exciting dialog with lots of ideas to discuss. After answering your question please engage in a dialog with at least two other students around their posted answers. (Do not repeat what someone else says — your post must be unique. If you are posting later in the discussion you are responsible for making sure you are not repeating what someone has already said).

How does contemporary popular culture and advertising help us reflect on the human condition, please address this question from both the Structural Functionalist and the Conflict Theory perspectives?
Explain the concept of cultural hegemony and show how advertising and other forms of popular culture help create a cultural hegemony either in the U.S. or abroad.
Provide an example of a cultural object that seems to be saturated with meaning and one that seem to be meaningless. How could both be part of the same culture?

Discussion 2:

After reading the chapters in The Culture Code choose one of the discussion prompts on which to write.

Describe and discuss how social contexts affect Cultural Unconscious and its five guiding principles for Love, Seduction, and Sex. (provide your own example not one from the reading).
Describe and discuss how social factors shape the Codes for Beauty and Fat in American society (provide your own example not one from the reading).
Explain how being part of an interpretive community facilitates the development of culture codes (provide your own example not one from the reading)?

If you wish to present a popular culture item for analysis you may use the attachment function. Have fun with this question as you stretch your Sociological Imagination.

Dicussion 3

Thinking ahead to the Final Course Paper

Here students should discuss possible paper topics for the final course paper (please see assignment in week 4). In addition to a topic, you must choose a popular culture object that you are captivated by, obsessed with, or otherwise intrigued by. It can be a music genre, a toy, gossip magazines, romance novels, blogging, a celebrity past or present, a fashion, a film, a TV sit-com or drama, reality TV, a video game, home shopping, mall or outlet shopping, a sports team, a phenomenon like Bum Fights, etc… (please refer back to Grazian, chapter 1). The goal of the paper is to demonstrate what you have learned from the study of culture and socialization by interpreting a piece of popular culture. Key to this paper is that you have a popular culture object to analyze (please see week 1 reading–journal articles). What popular culture object might you be interested in studying? Students can often help one another by asking pertinent and probing questions, suggesting sources, or adding ideas in the project formation stage. The academic enterprise is a collaborative one so help work with one another.

PM ASSESS V

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Question 1

It is said that job expansion has both a vertical component and a horizontal component. Explain, with reference to such terms as job enrichment, job rotation, and job enlargement.

Your response should be at least 200 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

Question 2

What is a servicescape? How is it related to the retail layout problem? What are the three elements of servicescape for dealing with these human issues?

Your response should be at least 200 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

Question 3

Assembly line balancing has just been used to solve a product layout problem. Two solutions look especially attractive to the plant managers. Both solutions make the same output per day, and both have the same number of workstations. The managers were going to break the tie by looking at line efficiency, but discovered that both lines had the same efficiency as well. Should they have been surprised at this? Explain.

Your response should be at least 200 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

Question 4

Explain in detail how a load-distance model helps solve problems in process layout.

Your response should be at least 200 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

Course Textbook

Heizer, J., & Render, B. (2013). Operations management: Sustainability and supply chain management (11th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Market Research, and the Mortgage Markets

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Part One: Market Research

Required:

You have observed that the NYSE has been extremely volatile over the last month. Select any 30 day period in the last year and plot the behavior of the NYSE over that period on a graph, using Microsoft Excel. Address the following questions and cite your sources using APA format:

What were the highs and lows for your selected 30-day Period? What is the projected long term trend based on this period? Justify your answers.

What factors/events influenced market behavior over this 30-day period?

How have these factors/events influenced market behavior for interest rates? Explain and justify your answers.

How have these same factors/events affected the money markets? The bond markets? The mortgage markets? Explain and justify your answers.

Has the Fed reacted with policies that are in response to these factors/events over the 30-day period? Explain the purpose of these policies, and justify your responses.

Part Two: The Mortgage Markets

Scenario:

You have been offered a house that is available for sale at a price of $320,000, and financing with a minimum down payment of 20% and an annual fixed interest rate of 5.5%, for 20 years. Your personal credit rating is not excellent, but considered good.

Required:

Research the current market for mortgage interest rates being offered in your area, and also those for two other areas across the country. Zillow andBankrate are two sites offering mortgage rates, but you can use another site of your choice. Cite any sources using APA format.

Answer the following questions, and provide a rationale for your responses:

How do the mortgage interest rates being offered in your area compare to rates being offered in other areas across the country?

What factors cause the differences in mortgage rates across the country?

What factors cause the differences offered to individuals in the same market?

What are the trends for interest rates in your area?

Scenarios:

If you were the lender on the mortgage in the above-noted scenario, would you want to hold or sell this mortgage? What factors would you consider when deciding to hold or sell the mortgage? Explain and justify your responses.

Assume you accept the conditions of the loan and purchase the home with the described financing. Using a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, construct an amortization schedule showing the amount of each payment that goes to interest and the amount that is applied to the loan balance.

How much of the third payment goes to interest, and how much is applied to the principal balance?

You would like to pay off the loan on the day the 100th payment is due. What is the payoff, assuming no penalties?

Deliverables:

By Tuesday, October 27, 2015, submit your answers to the questions in Part One, using a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, to the W3: Assignment 2 Dropbox. Use good form, cite your sources, and show all your calculations and conclusions.

Name your document SU_ ECO3007_W3_A2_Part1_LastName_FirstInitial

By Tuesday, October 27, 2015, submit your responses to the questions in Part Two, using a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, to the W3: Assignment 2 Dropbox. Use good form, cite all sources using APA format, and show all your calculations and conclusions.

Critical Thinking and Ethics

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** PAPER MUST BE ORIGINAL! NO PLAGIARISM! **

Write a 2-3 page explanation of the relationship between critical thinking and ethics.

Explain why the principles and rules of critical thinking are necessary for proper ethical reasoning.
If everyone followed the rules and guidelines of logic, would there be a need for ethical decision making? Why or why not?
MUST have a conclusion
USE References

Use examples from the scenarios provided in your readings this week to support your answer.

Manias, N., Monroe, D., & Till, J. E. (2013). Ethics applied. (7th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Custom Publishing.

Project description
Section 1: Business Requirements Document
Write a four to six (4-6) page original business requirements document for the project plan using the template provided here. Note: The template (attached in supplerment) can also be found in the Student Center of the online course shell.
Describe the project needs, including the following:
1.Describe the scope and analyze how to control the scope.
2.Speculate and give justifications for how to control scope.
3.Identify possible risks, constraints, and assumptions.
4.Describe the needed integration with other systems and infrastructure. Note: Database and Data Warehousing, Cloud Technology and Virtualization, and Network Infrastructure and Security.
5.Assess the human capital that may be needed to complete the project, ensuring that necessary skill sets are identified.
6.Speculate on possible outsourcing or offshoring needs that may be required to accomplish project.
7.Define relevant terms that will be used throughout the project.
8.Include cost projections for staffing, infrastructure, and other resources.
9.Use at least two (2) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
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 students name, the professors name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length
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Template attached.

It is a very short study case and you will just have to answer one question.

BMW Case

From page 550-552

Link: (please tell me if you can open the link)

https://books.google.com/books?id=aSQFAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA550&lpg=PA550&dq=bmw+dream+factory+and+culture+with+more+than+73&source=bl&ots=rmD0bc9s49&sig=z2NYzubfWS6wjSyaq9WqJIbp8vM&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAGoVChMIoaqk-97gyAIVxSceCh35nQij#v=onepage&q&f=false

Answer the following question:

What model of leadership is illustrated at BMW? How does this impact BMW’s Culture?

Note: Attached is a document with the Chapter Summary where you can have a guide to answer the question. Feel free to look up over the internet for any additional information. If you need more information rather than the chapter summary feel free to contact me and I’ll send you photos of the Chapter.

Discussion questions. Need 3-4 sentences for each response.

QUESTION ONE

e-Activity– Use the Internet to find a business for sale in your community. Uncover as much as you can about the business in question. Be prepared to discuss

From the e-Activity, discuss the best possible method for determining the value of the business you selected. Explain your rationale.
Create a strategy for negotiating the purchase of the business you selected in the e-Activity.
QUESTION TWO

Develop an idea for a new business and conduct a feasibility analysis. Please be as creative as you like in the development of your idea (but as careful as you can be in your analysis of that idea).
Analyze the steps involved in crafting a wining business plan and make at least one recommendation for improving the process. Explain your rationale for making the recommendation you did.

Assignment

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The Week’s Slide contribution will consist of at least a one to three page document, double spaced with headers consisting of the slide’s separate questions with a discussion that answers each of the questions:

You may choose any company that interests you. The company that you choose will be the same one used for each of the Five Slides and during your Practicum.

What the Competition Has Been Up To

What has each competitor done in the past year to change the playing field?

Has anyone introduced game-changing new products, new technologies, or a new distribution channel?

Are there any new entrants, and what have they been up to in the past year?

Case Study 2: Public Key Infrastructure

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Case Study 2: Public Key Infrastructure

Due Week 6 and worth 60 points

Suppose you are the Information Security Director at a small software company. The organization currently utilizes a Microsoft Server 2012 Active Directory domain administered by your information security team. Mostly software developers and a relatively small number of administrative personnel comprise the remainder of the organization. You have convinced business unit leaders that it would be in the best interest of the company to use a public key infrastructure (PKI) in order to provide a framework that fosters confidentiality, integrity, authentication, and nonrepudiation. Email clients, virtual private network (VPN) products, Web server components, and domain controllers would utilize digital certificates issued by the certificate authority (CA). Additionally, the company would use digital certificates to sign software developed by the company in order to demonstrate software authenticity to the customer.

Write a two to three (2-3) page paper in which you:

Analyze the fundamentals of PKI, and determine the primary ways in which its features and functions could benefit your organization and its information security department.
Propose one (1) way in which the PKI could assist in the process of signing the company’s software, and explain the main reason why a customer could then believe that software to be authentic.
Compare and contrast public and in-house CAs. Include the positive and negative characteristics of each type of certificate authority, and provide a sound recommendation of and a justification for which you would consider implementing within your organization. Explain your rationale.
Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment (no more than 2-3 years old) from material outside the textbook. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

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:

Explain how businesses apply cryptography in maintaining information security.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in information systems security.
Write clearly and concisely about network security topics using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.