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1. Name the federal agency charged with enforcement of employment discrimination.

2.Name the California agency charged with enforcement of employment discrimination.

3.What is disparate-impact discrimination?

4.What is disparate-treatment discrimination?

5.What is the difference between disparate-impact discrimination v. disparate -treatment discrimination?

6.Name the laws and the people that they protect (See EEOC presentation).

7. What are some of the defenses to alleged acts of discrimination.

Word Scramble

Use the definitions to unscramble the terms relating to the nervous system.

Solve this word problem using step by step procedure: The math department at a local university has customarily advised students to purchase Calculator A. The manufacturer has recently released a new model, Calculator B, which is reputed to be more user-friendly. The faculty decided to determine if there is a difference in the time required to perform a certain common statistical calculation. Twelve students chosen at random are given drills with both calculators so that they are familiar with the operation of each type. Then the time they take to complete the test calculation on each device is measured in seconds (which calculator they are to use first is determined by some random procedure to control for any additional learning during the first calculations). To be clear, each student worked through a particular type of statistics problem with one calculator and then did a similar problem on the other calculator. For each student, the amount of time in seconds that they spent on the problem with each calculator was recorded. Is Calculator B likely to be a more effective device than Calculator A?

b) Please use step by step guidelines so I can follow in this excel problem: In the sheet entitled “Part 2 Question 7”, you will find the death rate (per 1,000 resident population) for random samples of counties in Alaska and Texas. Is the average death rate among Alaska counties likely to be lower than that among Texas counties?

Read, and write a 1-page reaction on a single topic 400 WORD or more WITH YOUR opinion about the topic -Which you choose and whether you support or reject the idea you should use this word : I will discuss the ....... because I believe it is ......... > I also agree or desagree with the book that ......

Finding Growth and Profitability in Bookselling: Barnes & Noble and Amazon

Barnes & Noble and Amazon were the bookselling industry’s leading companies. Yet Barnes & Noble’s revenues were declining by 10 percent per year, and in the second quarter of 2015, Amazon had lost more than $0.4 billion dollars (see Exhibit 11.1). The bookselling industry was experiencing vast technological change with the introduction of e-books and tablets, and Barnes & Noble and Amazon had to figure out what to do next.

Data source: Quarterly financial reports Exhibit 11.1 Financial Performance of Major Booksellers, 2nd Quarter 2015 Barnes & Noble and the Superstore Leonard Riggio, Barnes & Noble’s founder, believed shopping was a recreational activity. Relying on the philosophy that people bought books based on emotion, he transformed bookselling into a giant industry.1 Too poor to attend college full time, Riggio had worked during the day as a clerk in the New York University bookstore. In 1965, he created a campus bookstore of his own. During the next six years, he established four other bookstores on campuses in New York City. In 1971, Riggio bought Barnes & Noble, then an unprofitable New York textbook seller, and in 1974 he opened a Barnes & Noble annex in Manhattan where he aggressively marketed low-priced books that had been returned to publishers. By 1986 he owned 142 college bookstores and 37 Barnes & Noble’s stores. When he bought B. Dalton from Dayton-Hudson, Barnes & Noble became the largest U.S. bookseller. Barnes & Noble’s main competitor had been Borders, an Ann Arbor, Michigan, chain.2 At the time, Walden Books was a part of Borders. Kmart had bought Walden in 1984. In the late 1980s, B. Dalton and Walden owned more than 600 mall-based stores. Borders pioneered the concept of the bookstore as a superstore. Barnes & Noble was an aggressive follower. The son of a professional boxer, Riggio learned from his father to be quicker on his feet and more nimble than his opponents. 203

Barnes & Noble acted more quickly than Borders and expanded more rapidly than Borders. The superstores had a special atmosphere. They were meant to serve as gathering places for people. They tried to get people to linger with comfortable seating, coffee to drink, and late-night hours. Some stores were decked out like small or full-scale libraries. Most had comfortable chairs and writing tables. They hosted readings by famous authors and other events. They played pleasant jazz and classical music in the background. The stores made an effort to build a sense of community. Advertisements featured pictures of literary greats like Hemingway and Virginia Woolf. Barnes & Noble, in particular, tried to create a literary climate. It paid a great deal of attention to décor, layout, furniture, display, signage, and selection of books. The special atmosphere meant that customers spent time browsing, and of course, the more time they spent browsing, the more they bought. Customers bought twice as much merchandise at a superstore as at a mall-based store. Barnes & Noble chose about 50,000 titles to display at each superstore. Local managers adapted the rest of their selections to local tastes. The result was that the typical store offered about 175,000 titles packed into 30,000 square feet. The competition between Barnes & Noble and Borders was fierce. They were in a race to see which would expand most rapidly. Both feared that Walmart and massmarket retailers would take away their business. Kmart spun off Walden in 1995 because it could not keep up. In that year, Barnes & Noble and Borders captured about one-quarter of the U.S. market for books, with Barnes & Noble having a market share of about 15 percent and Borders having a market share of about 10 percent.3 The focus of both companies was on aggressive expansion. The number of superstores in the United States kept growing. It jumped to nearly 800 in the mid1990s. Many independent bookstores could not keep up and folded. Barnes & Noble and Borders were focused on the competition between them and their commitment to continued expansion. When Amazon.com began operations in 1995, neither company paid much attention.4 Barnes & Noble’s goal was to expand at a pace of about 100 new stores per year. Yet by 1997, the estimate was that there were several hundred online booksellers operating on the Web and that, by 1998, they already had captured 2 percent of the adult book market.5

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Amazon and Internet Commerce Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, was a summa laude graduate of Princeton in 1986 with a degree in computer science.6 He had worked for a telecom start-up and a hedge fund. Seeking to begin a business of his own, he examined 20 possibilities for Internet commerce before settling on bookselling. He understood the opportunities in books to be high because the industry was very fragmented and because Internet selling offered many advantages over conventional book stores, including enabling larger selection, greater inventory turnover, higher sales per square foot, and higher sales per operating employee. Bezos moved from New York City and started his business in Seattle, Washington, to take advantage of the software talent and proximity to Ingram’s large bookstore and electronics wholesale warehouse in Oregon. Before building its own warehouse complex, Amazon relied on Ingram. There also happened to be no state taxes on retail purchases in the state of Washington, which made Internet sales more competitive with retail. To begin operations, Amazon had to innovate. It had to pioneer in the development of software for Internet shopping. It created the look and feel of an Internet shopping site that now has become common. It provided information about the books it sold, posted author interviews, offered free book reviews, and gave links to other sites and features. Amazon spent vast sums of money on research and development (R&D), in 1999 obtaining a patent for its oneclick technology, which allowed customers to order from its site with a simple click of the mouse instead of going through several steps. In contrast to a physical store, which had fixed times when it opened and closed, Internet shopping could take place at any time of the day. The venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byer invested $8 million dollars in Amazon to help it get started, and the business grew rapidly. In less than a year, Amazon had nearly $1 million in sales. Repeat customers provided more than 50 percent of its business, and the average transaction was greater than $50. Technical and business books made up a high percentage of the early orders. The company went public in 1997, and its market capitalization rose to $560 million on the first day. Bezos suddenly was a multimillionaire because he owned 42 percent of the stock. Investors continued to have confidence in Amazon’s business model year after year, although Amazon did not report that it was profitable, and it was not clear when it would be. The company stayed afloat by means of the positive cash flow it generated. Customers paid Amazon with credit cards; Amazon collected the sale price within a few days from the credit card company, but it was weeks before it paid its suppliers. Barnes & Noble launched its own book-selling website in the spring of 1997.7 The website featured personalized book recommendations and deep discounts every bit as good as Amazon’s on most items. Barnes & Noble used its brand name to capture leadership in the general interest and fiction categories. Because of its

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warehouses and greater experience in shipping books, it tried to beat Amazon’s delivery times. It built new warehouses, in Atlanta and Reno, which it added to its existing warehouse in New Jersey to ensure prompt distribution. It also built its own version of the one-click technology, which it called “express lane” ordering. However, the company was not able to seamlessly integrate brick-and-mortar operations with the Internet, which permitted Amazon to make the claim that it, not Barnes & Noble, was “earth’s biggest bookstore.”8 Since 1970, Barnes & Noble’s slogan had been that it was the “world’s biggest bookstore.” Barnes & Noble sued, arguing that Amazon was not a bookstore at all, but a book broker. Amazon, in turn, counter-sued, and it sought an injunction against Barnes & Noble for stealing its one-click technology. In 1999, Barnes & Noble had an IPO, which spun off BarnesAndNoble.com, its online business, as a separate company. Bertelsmann, a German mass media corporation, owned 36 percent of the new company, Barnes & Noble owned 36 percent, and 36 percent of the shares were sold to the public. One month before the spin-off, Amazon took a number of aggressive steps to counter any success that BarnesAndNoble.com might have by adding 1.5 million more titles to those it already listed, introducing a personalized book recommendation service, and starting to sell bestsellers at a 50-percent discount. The 50-percent discount was especially galling to BarnesAndNoble.com, which was forced to match the discount and thus sell books at cost. Amazon’s aggressive moves had their desired effect. The stock of BarnesAndNoble.com climbed just 27 percent on the first day of the IPO, a huge disappointment in an era when stocks routinely doubled or tripled the initial asking price. Amazon was beating BarnesAndNoble.com on the most important Internet criterion: “eyeballs.”9 It had 8.4 million registered Internet customers compared to BarnesAndNoble.com’s 1.7 million, and its Internet market share was 75 percent whereas BarnesAndNoble.com’s was 15 percent. Barnes & Noble made an offer to buy Amazon’s Oregon supplier, Ingram’s Book Group in 1998, only to be rebuffed because of antitrust scrutiny

Post a 225- to 300-word (3- to 4-paragraph) explanation of the impact of unethical behaviors and business practices on an organization. In your explanation, address the following:

• Do you agree with the statement that ethics are more important than legality in an organization? Why or why not?
• How might unethical—but legal—business behaviors or practices affect an organization? What about behaviors or business practices that are both unethical and illegal?
  • Provide two examples of unethical business behavior or business practices—one legal, one illegal. These examples should be from the news, from social media, or from personal experiences.
  • For each example, include the potential impact of the behavior/business practice on an organization. Consider the impact on individual employees, on relationships within teams and with leaders, as well as on the success of the business.

Write a 400-750-word analysis of the types of persuasive appeals used in the advertisement or message. Are faulty logical appeals being employed? How do you know? Be sure to provide a valid URL for the message as part of your Reference(s) page.

Include the following in your analysis:

* A description of the content of the message

* A description of the persuasive techniques being employed

* An evaluation of the message's call to action and whether or not it effectively motivates the viewer or listener to act upon the message

Perform a sentiment analysis of a big text file in python

Extract each word from the file, transform the words to lower case, and remove special characters from the words using code similar to the following line:w=w.replace(':','').replace('?','').replace(',','').replace('.','').replace('"','').replace('!','').replace('(','').replace(')','').replace('\'','').replace('\\','').replace('/','')

Utilize the lists of positive words, found in positive.txt to perform a sentiment analysis on the file (count how many positive words there are in a file)

positive.txt

crisp
crisper
cure
cure-all
cushy
cute
cuteness
danke
danken
daring
...

file.txt

...has a new campaign song. \nNot sure why they chose this one but, wow!\xf0\x9f\x98\x82 \xf0\x9f\xa4\xb7\xe2\x80\x8d\xe2\x99\x82\xef\xb8\x8f \xf0\x9f\xa4\xaf\n\nHey @JoeBob you may want to replac\xe2\x80\xa6\n'b"RT @EdZipperer: .@AriFlish is 100% correct about the debate....

Integrating Word and Excel:

1. Of the files, you submitted to complete the required assignments, which linking or embedding exercise did you find most useful? Explain why.
2. Explain how you could utilize object linking and embedding concepts in your work environment.
   
3. Explain how you could utilize object linking and embedding with files you have created for your personal use.

Word to Digit Programming challenge description:

Given a string representation of a set of numbers, print the digit representation of the numbers.

Input: Your program should read lines from standard input. Each line contains a list of word representations of numbers separated by a semicolon. There are up to 20 numbers in one line. The numbers are "zero" through "nine".

Output: Print the sequence of digits. Test 1 Input zero;two;five;seven;eight;four Expected Test 1 output 025784 Test 2 Input three;seven;eight;nine;two Expected Output 37892

PLEASE USE JAVA:

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;

public class Main {
/**
* Iterate through each line of input.
*/
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
InputStreamReader reader = new InputStreamReader(System.in, StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(reader);
String line;
while ((line = in.readLine()) != null) {

///CODE GOES HERE

System.out.println(line);
}
}
}

This assignment will require you to write a 300-word APA style essay paper with references on the topic of Net-Neutrality

The paper should focus specifically on the following:

What is Net-Neutrality and your position on the subject - for or against and why?

How does Net-Neutrality impact digital forensics?

Should Internet Service Providers (ISP's) be liable for computer crimes committed on their networks?

Does Net-Neutrality support freedom of speech - if yes or no, why?