Chapter 12 in Critical thinking: Tools for taking charge of your learning and your life (3rd ed.). King, G., Pan, J., & Roberts, M. E. (2017). How the Chinese government fabricates social media posts for strategic distraction, not engaged argument. The American Political Science Review, 111(3), 484-501.

Klausen, J. (2015). Tweeting the Jihad: Social media networks of Western foreign fighters in Syria and Iraq. Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 38(1), 1-22. Retrieved from http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1057610X.2014.974948?scroll=top&needAccess=true

Murphy, D. M., & White, J. F. (2007). Propaganda: Can a word decide a war? Parameters, 37(3), 15.

Directions: The required readings this week include historical and contemporary examples of media bias and propaganda from a range of times, cultures, and countries (the United States, China, Iraq, Rwanda, etc.). Using these required readings, address the following prompts and questions: Compare and contrast the propaganda and bias emerging from jihadist fighters (Klausen, 2015) and the Chinese state (King, Pan, & Roberts, 2017). What similarities do you detect? Differences? How can propaganda and bias be used to further different aims? Describe two historical examples of propaganda from Murphy and White (2007) that show how governments use propaganda and the media to achieve their ends? What suggestions do Murphy and White (2007) offer in terms of how the U.S. government should use information? What criticisms or critiques do you have of their approach?

Complete the following tasks. In each exercise, represent your answer only in DBDL. Do not use diagrams a this point. Submit either a text file or a Word document with your work. Make sure you follow chapter 6's DBDL notation

(****** Just to clarify: this is the first question on Page 220. It says to 'produce the following reports', but what you are asked to do is use DBDL notation to create 5 tables: Guide, Trip, Customer, Reservation and TripGuides
Make sure to list the FK where they belong ******)

1. Design a database to produce the following reports. Do not use any surrogate keys in your design.
   • For each guide, list the guide number, guide last name, guide first name, address, city, state, postal code, telephone number, and date hired.
   • For each trip, list the trip ID number, the trip name, the location from which the trip starts, the state in which the trip originates, the trip distance, the maximum group size, the type of trip (hiking, biking, or paddling), the season in which the trip occurs, and the guide number, first name, and last name of each guide. A guide may lead many trips and a trip may be led by many differen't guides.
   • For each customer, list the customer number, customer last name, customer first name, address, city, state, postal code, and telephone number.
   • For each reservation, list the trip ID number, the trip date, the number of persons included in the reservation, the price of the trip per person, the total of any additional fees per person, and the customer number, first name, and last name of the customer who made the reservation.

QUESTION 1

1. True or False: In the last half of the 19th century, at least 25% of the immigrants each year were German. In 2015, about 14.2% of Americans traced their ancestors to Germany, more than any other country.

   True

   False

QUESTION 3

1. "________________" is the process in which formerly distinct and separate groups come to share a common culture and merge socially.

   	a.	Assimilation
   	b.	Pluralism
   	c.	Stereotyping
   	d.	Immigration
   	e.	None of the above.

QUESTION 4

1. "__________________________" are immigrants who intend to return to their country of origin.

   	a.	Ethclass
   	b.	Peasants
   	c.	Proletariat
   	d.	Sojourners
   	e.	None of the above.

QUESTION 5

1. Upon immigrating to the United States, Mario wrote to his relatives back in his small village in Italy. Upon hearing from Mario, several of his relatives joined him in his new home in the United States. Mario helped these relatives to find jobs, a place to live, and adjust to life in America. In turn, these new arrivals would send word back to the village. As more people from the village learned about America from Mario and others, they would immigrate and move to the same neighborhood. Businesses would be started, churches founded, and organizations formed as the old language was spoken and old ways observed.

   This process is an example of how “___________________     __________________” worked.

   	a.	Chain immigration
   	b.	Ethnic succession
   	c.	Geographical distribution
   	d.	Symbolic ethnicity
   	e.	None of the above.

QUESTION 6

1. Anti-Semitism is prejudice or ideological racism directed specifically toward "____________".

   	a.	Catholics
   	b.	Italians
   	c.	Protestants
   	d.	Jews
   	e.	None of the above.

Assignment Topic:

How should an organization treat its employees during a pandemic? – Discuss from both organization and employees’ perspectives.
In our discussion forums, we have discussed employees are the most valuable assets of an organization, even though they are not listed in the Balance Sheet. Without employees, an organization is nothing.

Here, I use the word “organization” instead of “company/firm” because I do not want to limit your thinking on certain well-structured companies/firms (e.g. listed firms), it can be any organizations, no matter big or small, private or listed, profit-oriented or public benefit organizations.

REQUIRED:

1. Explain the main reasons why employees are valuable assets, and why the organization should treat them well. [You could look for journal articles on what benefits employees can bring for the organization, and the Social Responsibilities of an organization towards employees.]

2. Describe what employees expect from the organization and why. [You could get some hints from why people decide (not) to change jobs or resign.]

3. Discuss how the pandemic affects the above two points. Compare what the organization can do and what employees need during a pandemic. [You could read news and organizations’ disclosures; you could discuss the experience from your family, friends, or someone your know.]

4. Provide your suggestions on how to help employees (including those who lost jobs) in Fiji go through the difficult time. [You could talk about anything that you think is helpful, no matter whether or not it is available in Fiji.]

Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company hired you as Marketing Manager of Saudi Arabian Region and you have to answer the below question from your own words:

a. Environmental Analysis

(Conduct an environmental analysis that looks at and comments on Saudi Arabia and your network of business contacts, competitors and customers.)

b. Target Market Analysis

(Identify the target market, describing how the company will meet the needs of the consumer better than the competition does).

c. SWOT Analysis

Conduct a SWOT analysis for Apple company based on your research.

Strengths: List the strengths of the business approach;

Weaknesses: Describe the areas of weakness in the company's operations;

Opportunities: Examine factors that may improve the business's chances of success;

Threats: List the external threats to the business' success.

d. Marketing Mix (4 P's ) Analysis

Describe each of the 4Ps of your chosen company.

Product or Service

Identify the product or service by what it is, who will buy it, how much they will pay for it and how much it will cost for the company to produce it, why a consumer demand exists for your product, and where the product sits in comparison to similar products/services now available.

Place

Identify the location of the business, why it is located there (strategic, competitive, economic objectives), the expected methods of distribution, and timing objectives.

Promotion

Describe the type of promotional methods that will be used. Identify techniques such as word of mouth, personal selling, direct marketing, sales promotion etc. television, radio, social media and newspaper ads.

Price

The prices of the products or services that reflects the overall company strategy. Should be competitive as well as a reflection of the quality, costs and profit margin.

Complete the following questions. In addition to answering the items below, you must submit an analysis of the assignment. Analyze the specific outcomes and write an analysis directed toward the team at Coco Inc. describing what the numbers mean and how they relate to the business. Submit journal entries in an Excel file and written segments in an MS Word document. For written answers, please make sure your responses are well-written, formatted per CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. and have proper citations, where applicable.

Assume that the following facts pertain to a non-cancelable lease agreement between Coco Inc. and Bubs Corp, a Lessee.

The lessee assumes responsibility for all executory costs, which are expected to amount to $4,000 per year. The asset will revert to the lessor at the end of the lease term. The lessee uses the straight-line depreciation method for all equipment.

1. Using the spreadsheet Lease Amort Schedule, prepare an amortization schedule that would be suitable for the lessee for the lease term.
2. Using the spreadsheet Journal Entries, prepare the journal entries for the lessee for 2018 and 2019 to record the lease agreement and all expenses related to the lease. Assume the Lessee’s annual accounting period ends on December 31 and that reversing entries are used when appropriate.
3. Prepare journal entries for the lessor of the transaction.

Write a JAVA program that reads in a string from standard input and determines the following:

- How many vowels are in the string (FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS PROGRAM 'Y' is NOT considered a vowel)?

- How many upper case characters are in the string?

- How many digits are in the string?

- How many white space characters are in the string?

- Modify the program to indicate which vowel occurs the most. In the case of a tie, only output the vowel which comes first alphabetically. NOTE: if there are no vowels then output "no vowels"

Example input :

This String has vowels and 12345 digits.

Example output:

vowels = 8

upper = 2

digits = 5

whitespace = 6

vowel i occurs the most = 4

- Modify the program to output a list of all consecutively repeated characters. That is any character that repeats consecutively in the string.

Example input:

Some people raise raccoons for their pelts. A raccoon's home is called a nook. The person who cleans and tidies up the raccoonnooks is called the raccoonnookkeeper. Real word!

Example output:

vowels = 59

upper = 4

digits = 0

whitespace = 28

vowel o occurs the most = 21

repeated characters: c o c o l o c o n o l c o n o k e

NOTE: if there are no repeating characters then output "no repeating characters"

NOTE: by characters I mean ALPHABETIC characters, A - Z; not digits, not whitespace, not punctuation

Here's an example of what your output should look like for the A version if the input has NONE of the characters you are looking for.

vowels = 0

upper = 0

digits = 0

whitespace = 0

no vowels

no repeating characters

1. (8%) Write a C/C++ program that takes an input (array) from 1 to n (say n = 50) and displays the string representations of those numbers with following conditions

If the current number is divisible by 2, then print CSU

If the current number is divisible by 5, then print SB

If the current number is divisible by both 2 and 5, then print CSUSB

If the number is neither divisible by 2 nor 5, then print the number

Example: 1 CSU 3 CSU SB CSU 7 CSU 9 CSUSB 11 CSU 13 CSU SB CSU 17 CSU 19 CSUSB …

1. (4%) Implement a synchronized multithreaded version of CSUSB with four threads. The same instance of CSUSB (array of 1 to 50) will be passed to four different threads:

• Thread 1 should call csu() to check if divisible by 2 then print CSU.
• Thread 2 should call sb() to check if divisible by 5 then print SB.
• Thread 3 should call csusb() to check if divisible by 2 and 5 then output CSUSB.
• Thread 4 should call number() which should only print the numbers.

• Submit your code for both parts as separate files (C, Java or CPP) and submit your reasoning on your results (MS word document) that should include brief descriptions of both parts. For multithreaded part, please include your reasoning on the code portion where synchronization is implemented and why. For help, please refer to the lectures and codes where we implemented Dining philosophers, and readers and writers problems using semaphores and pthread_cond_wait variables. You are given the choice between semaphores and pthread conditional wait variables whichever seems easier or convenient to you.