Author: chris

In Module 1, Assignment 3, you identified your goals and assessed their reality. Now it’s time to create an action plan to help you successfully achieve your goals. Think of a minimum of three intermediate goals to serve as milestones on the way to reaching each of your goals. Then, for each intermediate goal, identify at least two action items (changes that you can make) to help you achieve them.

Example:
Tom just received his yearly performance review. His manager mentioned that he consistently seems put off in meetings, and others feel that he has a bad attitude—he is not a team player. Tom is completely surprised because he enjoys his job, but he is more of an introvert than his coworkers are and does not express his emotions outwardly. As he reflects, he can recall many personal situations in which people have misunderstood his intentions or motives. He realizes that he needs to work on his nonverbal communication so that others will better understand him and stop seeing him as a person with a bad attitude or who is not a team player.

Tom develops his professional goal, identifies intermediate goals that will bring him closer to achieving his main goal, and includes the actions he must take to make it happen:

• Professional Goal: Work on nonverbal communication so my words match my nonverbal cues.
  • Intermediate Goal 1: Take a course on interpersonal effectiveness.
    • Action Item 1: Review the course catalog to learn about the available courses about interpersonal effectiveness.
    • Action Item 2: Speak to academic advisor about when I can enroll.
  • Intermediate Goal 2: Practice conversations with myself—either talking to myself in the mirror or video recording conversations so I can see what others are seeing.
    • Learn to use the video record function my smart phone by asking a tech-savvy friend.
    • Action Item 2: Set aside ten minutes three times a week to practice using a positive tone of voice and facial expression when I speak.
  • Intermediate Goal 3: In each team meeting, remember to smile and offer positive feedback.
    • Action Item 1: At the very next team meeting, draw a smiley face on the top of my notebook to remind me to smile and make eye contact during the meeting.
    • Action Item 2: Plan to say one brief supportive statement to each co-worker as they present their weekly reports.

Each of these intermediate goals, along with their action items, will help Tom get one step closer to his overall professional goal—to improve his nonverbal communication.

You will create a similar  action plan for your personal, academic, and professional goals. For each of your goals, come up with a minimum of three intermediate goals, Then, describe at least two action items for each intermediate goal. Each step should lead you toward achieving your goal. You can use this worksheet as a template for the assignment. This is your action plan.

Save your assignment as LastnameFirstinitial_M3_A2 and submit it to the M3: Assignment 2 Dropbox by Week 3, Day 6.

Short Essay Review Questions #17 p. 540 – In two or three paragraphs (minimum of 200 words), explain why the head of the business management function of an electronic commerce initiative should be an employee of the company implementing the project, even if most of the work is outsourced.  Review literature related to e-business then support your responses with scholarly sources, such as your textbook or library database articles by clicking on the link to business and management resources http://researchguides.fsw.edu/content.php?pid=63051 (Links to an external site.).  Be sure to apply APA standards, cite your in-text sources within your response, and include your references.  Do not use quotations in your paper.

Programming: Instruction encoding:

Write C code to encode the MIPS-like (these are not strictly MIPS instructions by format)

instructions below to 32 bit machine code (binary) stored in an integer.

Hint: It is suggested that you investigate the use of bitwise operations. Also use the MIPS

 

instruction set pages at the end of the text to see bit layouts and instructions

Suggested approach: write a C function with this signature:

unsigned int instrToInt(char* inst, char* args)

which takes the instruction string (e.g. ‘add’) for argument 1, and the rest of the instruction line (e.g. ‘

$0,$1,$2’) as argument 2, then encodes the instruction as the 32 bit integer (see the examples below for

the syntax of the instruction line as it would appear in a MIPS-like input assembly file)

Instruction	Meaning	Example
add	Add the contents of the rs and rt registers, and store the result in the rd register. opcode: 0, funct: 32	add $0,$1,$2
sub	Subtract the contents of the rt register from the rs register, and store the result in the rd register. opcode: 0, funct: 34	sub $0,$1,$2
lw	Add the immediate field to the contents of the rs register.The result is used as an address in data memory whose contents are written to the rt register. opcode: 35	lw $0,4($1)
sw	The contents of the rt register are stored in data memory at the address computed by adding the contents of the rs register to the immediate field. opcode: 43	sw $0,4($1)
beq	If the contents of the rs and rt registers are equal, then the next instruction to be executed is indicated by the immediate field. Otherwise, continue executing instructions	beq $0,$1,4

 

	sequentially. opcode: 4
mov	A pseudoinstruction to mov the contents of rd to rs You may want to review the MIPS ISA in the text and see how you might implement this with existing instructions.	mov $1, $2
and	Set register rd with the value of the logical and of rs and rt	and $3,$1,$2
not	A pseudoinstruction to negate the contents of rd. The contents of rd should have all bits flipped	not $1

 

 

1. Read the module for Week 4.

 

2. Go to the Assignments, Tests & Surveys area and complete the Rhetorical Strategies Quiz for Week 4.

 

3. Read Hacker section W5.

 

4. Go to the textbook companion website, complete the exercises W5-5 and W5-7; then go to the “Assignments, Tests & Surveys” area of Etudes to upload screenshots of your results.

 

5. Use your strategies for critical reading to read the attached essays, “Me Talk Pretty One Day” by David Sedaris and “How It Feels to Be Colored Me” by Zora Neale Hurston.

 

6. Go to  the “Assignments, Tests & Surveys” area and complete the Week 4 reading quiz on Sedaris & Hurston.

 

Online class

Homework

Complete Case Study #2:

Site Name: The World Travel & Tourism Council
URL: www.wttc.org

Background Information: The World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) is the forum for global business leaders, comprising the presidents, chairs, and CEOs of 100 of the world’s foremost companies. It is the only body representing the private sector in all parts of the travel and tourism industry worldwide. WTTC’s mission is to raise awareness of the full economic impact of the world’s largest generator of wealth and jobs: travel and tourism. Governments are encouraged to unlock the industry’s potential by adopting the council’s policy framework for sustainable tourism development.

Exercises: Visit the WTTC website, and thoroughly answer the following questions:

Question #1: What is the WTTC’s blueprint for new tourism? What are the three strategic priorities included in the blueprint?
Question #2: The WTTC produces an annual review of travel & tourism every year for its readers. Find the most recent edition and offer a one to two page synopsis of the WTTC predictions for global travel and tourism. Please highlight the key world regions that are expecting major changes.

Your submitted paper should be 3 to 5 pages in length. APA source citations are required (in-text and on a separate reference page).

English 112 Paper One: Poetry Explication
Jeremiah Donovan
For this paper, I am asking you to write an explication of any poem in Chapter 6 of your book (pp. 184-209) that we will NOT read together as a class. That means you can write on one of these poems: “Burning Dreams on the Sun,” “Much Madness is Divinest Sense,” “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” “Trying to Sleep,” “Hard Rock Returns to Prison,” “Outcast,” “In Response to Executive Order 9066,” “Wild Geese,” “The Lost Romans,” “Lost Sister,” “Mexicans Begin Jogging,” or “I Saw a Louisiana Live-Oak Growing.”
A formal explication of the type I am asking you to write should do these things:
Include an introduction of the type we have discussed (of the poem, not “poetry” or “the world”).
Use as many “perfect paragraphs” and as much transitioning as are necessary to do these things:
Summarize the poem’s central argument or primary meaning (What are we, the audience, supposed to “get”?)
Identify any literary devices that are used to establish the theme or meaning of the poem (such as metaphor, simile, alliteration, hyperbole, symbolism, allusion, etc.)
Take the reader of your paper step-by-step through any parts or sections of the poem that you identify as evidence
Use a conclusion of the type we have discussed.

In essence, then, I am asking you to use the paragraph structures we have discussed to build an interpretation and presentation of the main arguments of a poem. Poets write to express distinct messages; I am asking you to write about those messages and show how the poets are “speaking” those messages in verse.
On a technical note, these papers should adhere to the formatting rules as outlined on the syllabus and should be 2-3 pages long. Remember that I also ask that you include a descriptive title for your paper. Finally, remember, too, that I am always available to help in any way I can, so please visit me in office hours or email me if I can assist during the process!

We were given a continent and we need to fulfill the prompt. we need to do research and find the place name ID, physical features identification, location, place, region, movement and human environment interaction. then place this info on a poster board

Question One

A dietician in a hospital is to arrange a special diet for an injured athlete composing of two basic nutrients. The diet is to include 400 units of calcium and 780 units of iron. Two food sources are available. Each pound of food A contains 2 units of calcium and 5 units of iron; each pound of food B contains 6 units of calcium and 5 units of iron. How many pounds of each food source should be used to exactly meet the dietary requirement?
[3 mark]

Assume food B is no longer available, but a newly introduced food source, food C contains 3 units of calcium and 7 units of iron. Why would the grouping of food A and food C produce an inappropriate solution?
[3 mark]
Solve by Gauss Jordan elimination and state the final solution.

 

[4 mark]

Question Two

Matrix inverses can provide a simple and effective procedure for encoding and decoding messages. The numbers 1 – 26 have been assigned to letters of the alphabet as shown below. Additionally, the number 0 has been assigned to a blank to provide space between words.

Blank A B C D E F G H I J K L M
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26

The following encoding matrix has been used to encode a message:

Let B represent a (2 x 5) matrix containing the original message. The coded message is therefore derived by multiplying A and B, i.e. coded message = AB. The coded message is as follows:

Multiply the coded message by the inverse of the encoding matrix to find the original message.

[4 mark]
What is the original (decoded) message?
[2 marks]

Due to a breach in security, QA headquarters has tasked you to create a new encoding matrix A. They require you to use a determinant of and the final inverse to be:

Calculate the new encoding matrix A.

[2 marks]
What are the consequences to QA headquarters if the new encoding matrix is found to have a determinant of ? What will you recommend?
[2 marks]

Question Three

Suppose an economy has two industries (agriculture and energy). These two industries depend on each other. Production of a dollar’s worth of agriculture requires an input of $0.60 from the agriculture sector and $0.30 from the energy sector. Production of a dollar’s worth of energy requires an input of $0.20 from the agriculture sector and $0.60 from the energy sector. Find the output of each sector that is needed to satisfy a final demand of $157 million for agriculture and $534 million for energy.

Let x represent the total output from agriculture
y represent the total output from energy

Write two equations to represent the internal and external demands for agriculture (x) and energy (y):

[1 mark]
Find the technology matrix, M:

[1 mark]

Your technology matrix should have elements between 0 and 1. Explain why it is not possible to have elements in this matrix that are negative or greater than 1.
[2 marks]

Provide the proof that X = (I – M)-1D

[3 marks]

How much agriculture and energy does the economy need to produce in order to satisfy both internal and external demand?
[3 marks]
Formula Sheet
Final production – input output analysis: X = (I – M)-1D