In each of the following situations, identify one or more ways that cultural differences may be leading to miscommunication.

1. Alan is a U.S. sales representative in South America. He makes appointments and is careful to be on time. But the person he’s calling on is frequently late. To save time, Alan tries to get right to business. But his hosts want to talk about sightseeing and his family. Even worse, his appointments are interrupted constantly, not only by business phone calls but also by long conversations with other people and even the customers’ children who come into the office. Alan’s first progress report is very negative. He hasn’t yet made a sale. Perhaps South America just isn’t the right place to sell his company’s products.

2. To help her company establish a presence in Asia, Susan wants to hire a local interpreter who can advise her on business customs. Kana Tomari has superb qualifications on paper. But when Susan tries to probe about her experience, Kana just says, “I will do my best. I will try very hard.” She never gives details about any of the previous positions she’s held. Susan begins to wonder if the re?sume? is inflated.

3. Stan wants to negotiate a joint venture with an Asian company. He asks Tung-Sen Lee if the people have enough discretionary income to afford his product. Mr. Lee is silent for a time, and then says, “Your product is good. People in the West must like it.” Stan smiles, pleased that Mr. Lee recognizes the quality of his product, and he gives Mr. Lee a contract to sign. Weeks later, Stan still hasn’t heard anything. If Asians are going to be so non-responsive, he wonders if he really should try to do business with them.

4. Elspeth is very proud of her participatory management style. On assignment in India, she is careful not to give orders but to ask for suggestions. But people rarely suggest anything. Even a formal suggestion system doesn’t work. And to make matters worse, she doesn’t sense the respect and camaraderie of the plant she man- aged in the United States. Perhaps, she decides gloomily, people in India just aren’t ready for a woman boss.

Explain how Master Data Services (MDS) and Active Directory (AD) are utilized to secure data for an organization. Discuss whether or not MDS can be used without AD or if it is a prerequisite for MDS.

Task 1: Getting familiar with Unix commands

Questions:

1. How do you remove a directory and all of its contents, including any subdirectories and files, without using rmdir repeatedly?         [5 Points]
2. Go to your home directory (i.e. /home/) and enter the following command: ls -ali
   Explain the output. You need to clearly what each column specifies, what are the values in each column means. Also explain how it is different from: ls -li    [5 Points]
3. How will you copy directory (not an empty directory) from one location to another? [5 Points]
4. Consider a file which consist of:
   
   12
   21
   113
   54
   213
   4
   23
   
   How do you sort the numbers in ascending order? [5 Points]
5. Consider the contents of 3 files as:

1. You need to sort all the fruits from the 3 files in descending order and save the content in the file4. All these operations have to be done in a single line.                                           [5 Points]
2. You need to sort all the fruits from the 3 files in descending order, sort them and then save all the occurrences of the word “Apple” along with their index in file4. All these operations have to be done in a single line.                                           [5 Points]

The contents of file4 for case(a) and (b) are as follows:

Linux Fundamentals part 4 final

Below are questions related to the command line use of Linux.  You can use the videos, man pages, and notes to answer these questions. 

Remember that Linux is CASE SENSITIVE.  Rm and rm are NOT the same command.  I will count off totally for a question if you do not take this into account.

For each command give me the ENTIRE COMMAND SEQUENCE.  If I ask you  'What command would I use to move the file one.txt to the parent directory and rename it to two.txt?", the answer is NOT 'mv'. That is only part of the command. I want the entire command sequence.

16. Find all files under ~ whose content contain the keyword taco OR Taco OR taCo OR tacO. NOT all variations in case for 'taco', but just the variations listed meaning a keyword of tAco, tACO, tACo, etc, will not produce a result.

17. Find all files under the current directory which ends in '.txt' (just the .txt not the single quotes) and use -exec to create a listing of each files inode number. Since we're using -exec, this means we will call another command to produce the inode based on the results found. What command do we use to make listings? Now you just need to find how to make it produce an inode result. To the man page!

18. What command would I run to update the database of file names used by the locate command?

19. Find all files under the /var directory with a size less than 1 kilobyte. Use -exec and an appropriate command to copy those files to ~/Documents/FallFun/sep.

20. Find all files under the ~ directory that are named 'Picard' ignoring case.

1.

a) Why did Latin America fall behind the US and Canada in economic development?

b) What evidence is provided by Engerman and Sokoloff thesis

c) According to Coatsworth, why is income inequality the wrong reason for explaining lack of growth in Latin America?

d) According to Coatsworth, what how was land distributed in Latin America?

e) What alternative explanation does Coatsworth give for Latin America’s falling behind in economic development?

2. a) When did Cuba increase the number of slaves brought to the country?

b) What was the main industry employing slaves in Cuba? Why did this industry expand from 1780 to 1850?

c) According to Fraginals, Klein and Engerma, why were 56% of slaves born in African in the sampled plantations (1856-1863)?

d) When did Cuba abolish Slavery? Why was Cuba one of the last countries in Latin America to abolish slavery?

3. a) What is the formula for terms of trade?

b) How did the Spanish restrict trade to and from Latin America?

c) How did trade restrictions affect the terms of trade in Latin America?

d) When did Spain stop restrictions of trade in Latin America?

Deluxe River Cruises operates a fleet of river vessels. The fleet has two types of

vessels: A type A vessel has 60 deluxe cabins and 160 standard cabins, whereas a type B vessel has 80 deluxe

cabins and 120 standard cabins. Under a charter agreement with the Odyssey Travel Agency, Deluxe River

Cruise sis to provide Odyssey with a minimum of 360 deluxe and 680 standard cabins for their 15-day cruise

in May. It costs $44000 to operate a type A vessel and $54000 to operate a type B vessel for that period.

A) How many of each type of vessel should be used to keep the operating costs to a minimum?

B) Find the range of values that the cost of operating a type A vessel can assume without changing the

optimal solution.

C) Find the range of values that the requirement for deluxe cabins can assume.

D) Find the shadow price for the requirement for deluxe cabins.

-please answer this written out. Do not use excel I cannot access it. i need to know how to do it on paper-

Deluxe River Cruises operates a fleet of river vessels. The fleet has two types of vessels: A type A vessel has 60 deluxe cabins and 160 standard cabins, whereas a type B vessel has 80 deluxe cabins and 120 standard cabins. Under a charter agreement with the Odyssey Travel Agency, Deluxe River Cruise sis to provide Odyssey with a minimum of 360 deluxe and 680 standard cabins for their 15-day cruise in May. It costs $44000 to operate a type A vessel and $54000 to operate a type B vessel for that period. ii.) Find the range of values that the cost of operating a type A vessel can assume without changing the optimal solution. iii.) Find the range of values that the requirement for deluxe cabins can assume. iv.) Find the shadow price for the requirement for deluxe cabins.

Deluxe River Cruises operates a fleet of river vessels. The fleet has two types of

vessels: A type A vessel has 60 deluxe cabins and 160 standard cabins, whereas a type B vessel has 80 deluxe

cabins and 120 standard cabins. Under a charter agreement with the Odyssey Travel Agency, Deluxe River

Cruise sis to provide Odyssey with a minimum of 360 deluxe and 680 standard cabins for their 15-day cruise

in May. It costs $44000 to operate a type A vessel and $54000 to operate a type B vessel for that period.

i.) How many of each type of vessel should be used to keep the operating costs to a minimum?

ii.) Find the range of values that the cost of operating a type A vessel can assume without changing the

optimal solution.

iii.) Find the range of values that the requirement for deluxe cabins can assume.

iv.) Find the shadow price for the requirement for deluxe cabins.

9-4

On October 29, 2016, Lobo Co. began operations by purchasing razors for resale. Lobo uses the perpetual inventory method. The razors have a 90-day warranty that requires the company to replace any nonworking razor. When a razor is returned, the company discards it and mails a new one from Merchandise Inventory to the customer. The company's cost per new razor is $14 and its retail selling price is $90 in both 2016 and 2017. The manufacturer has advised the company to expect warranty costs to equal 9% of dollar sales. The following transactions and events occurred.

2016

2017

1.1 Prepare journal entries to record above transactions and adjustments for 2016.
  

• 1Record the sales revenue of 50 razors for $4,500 cash.

• 2Record the cost of goods sold for 50 razors.

• 3Record the estimated warranty expense at 9% of November sales.

• 4Record the replacement of 10 razors that were returned under the warranty.

• 5Record the sales revenue of 150 razors for $13,500 cash.

• 6Record the cost of goods sold for 150 razors.

• 7Record the replacement of 20 razors that were returned under the warranty.

• 8Record the estimated warranty expense at 9% of December sales.

• 1Record the sales revenue of 100 razors for $9,000 cash.

• 2Record the cost of goods sold for 100 razors.

• 3Record the replacement of 25 razors that were returned under the warranty.

• 4Record the adjusting entry for warranty expense for the month of January 2017.