You will be asked to come up with two original questions based on the work of two different authors in each week’s required readings. Think about what stood out to you in the works in question—what ideas, theories, or approaches did you find to be interesting, engaging, or perhaps intriguing or challenging? Your task is then to do your best to answer each of your own questions as incisively and thoroughly as possible within a word-count range of around 350-500 words maximum (posts with fewer than 250 words will not receive any credit). The word count includes your question but not any citations. You must cite at least one source, which will be the particular essay or article from the required readings you are addressing.

Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling (entire), pp. 1-61.

Study Guide: Themes, Arguments, and Ideas in Kierkegaard's Writings (from SparkNotes).

My question is: Why is faith so amazing and rare, according to Kierkegaard and what does he mean by teleological suspension of the ethical ? or you can change the question is if you can find a better one.

Part 3

Imagine that the economy is experiencing inflation and that the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) decides to implement a contractionary monetary policy or 'tight money' to return inflation to its target level.

a) What type of open market operations (OMOs) will the RBA undertake consistent with a contractionary monetary policy approach?

b) How will the money supply be affected?

c) Explain how the three stages of transmission process from a contractionary monetary policy link a change in interest rates with a change in an economy’s equilbrium level of output.

d) Using the IS-LM curve diagram, illustrate the impact of a contractionary monetary policy. Make sure to clearly indicate the new equilibrium position including the interest rate and output level.

At the end of your answer to Part 3 state the word count for sub-part c. Your answer to Part 3 sub part c should not exceed 100 words. (Note: answers to sub-parts a and b while written should be no longer than 1 sentence each and hence are excluded from the word count requirement).

Can you give the prefences as well for the answer?

A student randomly selected 70 packets of sugar and weighed the contents of each packet, getting a mean of 3.586 g and a standard deviation of 0.074 g. Test the claim that the weights of the sugar packets have a mean equal to 3.5 g, as indicated on the label.

1.   Copy and paste the Minitab output for exercise into the document underneath the problem.   You are not also required to do these by hand, unless you want to.  

2. Write the rejection rule word for word as written here, "Reject Ho if the p-value is less than or equal to alpha."

3.   Write the actual p-value and alpha, then either "Reject Ho" or "Do not reject Ho." As an example: 0.0021 ≤ 0.05. True. Reject Ho.

4.    Write an English sentence stating the conclusion, claim, and significance level. As an example: If the claim is "Can we conclude that male business executives are taller, on the average, than the general male population at the  α  = 0.05 level?", and if we found our conclusion to be do not reject Ho, the sentence would be, "There is not enough evidence to conclude that  male business executives are taller, on the average, than the general male population at the  α  = 0.05 level."

Your software company was invited to provide a proposal for a company in Australia. You currently have the cost in US dollars and need to convert the prices to the Australian dollar. Write a 2-part program using Ruby, Java®, or Python. Part 1: Write a function to gather the following costs from the user: Travel Cost: $9,800 Hotel Cost: $3,500 Rental Car Cost: $1,600 Labor Cost: $15,500 Part 2: Write a function to convert the costs from United States dollar (USD) to Australian dollar (AUD). Note: Look up the current USD to AUD exchange rate to use in your function. Test the program 3 times by providing different costs in USD. Provide the code and take a screenshot of the output, then paste the screenshot(s) into a Microsoft® Word document. Write a half-page response in the same Microsoft® Word document to address the following: Provide a manual for the user explaining how to use the program. Explain what type of user input validations you should have. What happens if the user enters a negative number? What happens if the user puts a $ in the input?

•Modify p4.c so that the output file p4.output is created but also displayed to standard output ( the screen ). This should be done by another instance of exec().

•Implement the pipe() command to do the following:

$> grep –o else p4.c | wc –l

p4.c

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
int rc = fork();
if (rc < 0) {
    // fork failed
    fprintf(stderr, "fork failed\n");
    exit(1);
} else if (rc == 0) {
    // child: redirect standard output to a file
    close(STDOUT_FILENO);
    open("./p4.output", O_CREAT|O_WRONLY|O_TRUNC, S_IRWXU);

    // now exec "wc"...
    char *myargs[3];
    myargs[0] = strdup("wc");   // program: wc (word count)
    myargs[1] = strdup("p4.c"); // arg: file to count
    myargs[2] = NULL;           // mark end of array
    execvp(myargs[0], myargs); // runs word count
} else {
    // parent goes down this path (main)
    int rc_wait = wait(NULL);
}
return 0;
}

Starting out with Control Structures: Program challenges in C++ by Tony Gaddis

This problem was adapted from questions 9 and 10 on page 661

Write a program that keeps track of a speakers’ bureau. The program should use a structure to store the following data about a speaker:

Name, Telephone Number, Speaking Topic, Fee Required. The program should use a vector of structures. It should let the user enter data into the vector, change the contents of any element, and display all the data stored in the vector. The program should have a menu-driven user interface. Input Validation: When the data for a new speaker is entered, be sure the user enters data for all the fields. No negative amounts should be entered for a speaker’s fee.

In addition: add a function to the program that allows the user to search for a speaker on a particular topic. It should accept a key word as an argument then search the vector for a structure with that key word in the Speaking Topic field. All structures that match should be displayed. If no structure matches, a message saying so should be displayed. Hint: use the .find() string function to search the Speaking Topic field.

C++

Write a program that reads candidate names and numbers of votes in from a file. You may assume that each candidate has a single word first name and a single word last name (although you do not have to make this assumption). Your program should read the candidates and the number of votes received into one or more dynamically allocated arrays.

In order to allocate the arrays you will need to know the number of records in the file. In order to determine the number of records in the file you may include the number as metadata in the first line of the file or you may read through the file to count the lines and then reset the file pointer back to the beginning of the file to read in the data. Do not hard code the number of candidates. Do not prompt the user to enter the number of candidates. You must either count the number of candidates in the file or encode the number as metadata as the first record in the file.

The program should output each candidate’s name, the number of votes received, and the percentage of the total votes received by the candidate. Your program should also output the winner of the election. You may, but are not required to, use the example file provided.

Students will follow the hypothesis testing steps for each problem. They will compute the problem using the SPSS program. They will write the results in appropriate APA format and interpret the results. Steps of hypothesis testing will be typed out in a word document, as well as a copy and paste of the SPSS output.

For the following problems, you will:

• Do all steps of hypothesis testing
  • Populations and hypotheses
  • Write out the steps you would do to calculate t
  • Choose the t-cutoff score
  • Calculate the t-statistic using the computer program SPSS
  • Write the t-statistic using proper APA format
  • Decide whether or not you would reject the null hypothesis
• Interpret this result
• Be sure to include a copy of the SPSS output in the word document

1. Single Sample T-test

A researcher would like to study the effect of alcohol on reaction time. It is known that under regular circumstances the distribution of reaction times is normal with μ = 200. A sample of 10 subjects is obtained. Reaction time is measured for each individual after consumption of alcohol. Their reaction times were: 219, 221, 222, 222, 227, 228, 223, 230, 228, and 232. Use α = 0.05.

Assignment Steps

Note: the Social, Ethical, and Legal Implications assignment is part of the total marketing plan as outlined in the grading guide. It is not a separate paper.

Producing and marketing a product without regard to ethical, legal, and social considerations is detrimental to the overall success of any company.

Assess in a maximum of 700 words the ethical, legal, and social issues affecting your product or service in two markets: the United States and one international market. Domestic market generally means the market where the company headquarters are located. If you choose a domestic market that is not the U.S., then your other market is required to be the U.S. marketplace. This will be added to the Target Market section of your Marketing Plan.

Include the following:

Develop a process to monitor and control marketing performance. This process could be a flowchart but a flowchart is not required (flowcharts do not count towards your word count requirement).

Formulate a maximum 350-word executive summary including at a minimum the following elements to include in your marketing plan:

Required executive summary elements:

Strategic Objectives

Products or Services

Optional executive summary elements:

Resources Needed

Projected Outcomes

**PRODUCT IS COCA-COLA