WEEK 1 HOMEWORK (based on your week 1 assignment)

Please answer the following questions in complete sentences.

Identify and define at least 5 fallacies about racism.

What areas of life does racism affect?

Define the two types of racism (institutional and interpersonal).

What is symbolic violence when it comes to race?

At one time Jews dominated basketball; now it is a game almost exclusively for African Americans. The text authors identify at least two reasons why both of these groups came to dominate the game? What are those reasons?

Which group of people erected the original section of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C.?

List at least 5 examples of how whiteness surrounds us though it often goes unnamed.

Define the phrase “white privilege.” Give at least 3 examples.

Who wrote, “Color is not a human or personal reality; it is a political reality.”

Why do the authors argue that race is a symbolic category?

What is the difference between race and ethnicity?

Briefly describe the case of Abdullah Dolla.

Has race always remained a fixed category in the U.S. or is it more fluid?

Who is Tim Wise?

He argues that before 1600 there was no such thing as the white race. What happened to change this?

What were indentured servants? Where did they come from?

According to Wise, what was the U.S. Civil War fought over?

Name a few of the “carrots” slave owners threw out to poor whites.

How did slavery undermine white working class job?

What did Chalmette, Louisiana do after Hurricane Katrina to keep the town white?

Determine what the main idea is and re-organize the message to develop that idea clearly and logically. Be sure that each stage of the email presents each item of information in the order that makes the most sense, so that the reader can easily follow its logic.

To: Joshua Turck

From: Sable Johnson

Subject: Internship program

We do want a strong internship program that can provide us with superior, well-trained personel; however, the program must meet government regulations.

Your inquiry about the status of our interns caused my staff and me to look into this matter more carefully. Our attorney told us that all interns must be considered employees and paid at least the minimum wage. We leanred that college students are legitimate only if they are recieving real training. Interns are not legitimate if they do any of the following: 1. If they displace a regular employee. 2. If they complete a client's work for which we bill the client. 3.If they are promised full-time jobs at the end of training.

I appreciate your bringing this to my attention. I would like to arrange for you to meet with the vice-president and me to analyze this fall's internship program and consider changes.

Having every single intern sign a contract saying that they are willing to accept college credit in place of wages does not provide legal protection. An intern must do more than busy work.

After eviewing our complete program, changes must be made. We believe that future interns must have a structured training program. Let's meet to discuss!

Sable Johnson, Director

Human Resources

QUESTION 41

Philip Zimbardo devised a simulated prison and randomly assigned college students to serve as prisoners or guards. This experiment best illustrated the impact of

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QUESTION 42

The interaction of genetic predispositions, mental processes, and cultural circumstances is most clearly emphasized by

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QUESTION 43

Gina and Tina are identical twins. Gina has experienced a series of traumas and has been diagnosed with schizophrenia. Tina is demonstrating no symptoms of schizophrenia. Because schizophrenia tends to run in families, the difference between the twins can be explained through

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QUESTION 44

The DSM-5 is most likely to be criticized for

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QUESTION 45

The incidence of serious psychological disorders has been 2.5 times higher among

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QUESTION 46

People with ________ are constantly tense and anxious, and their anxiety is pervasive. They feel anxious about a wide range of life circumstances, sometimes with little or no apparent justification.

The human resources manager of DataCom, Inc., wants to examine the relationship between annual salaries (Y) and the number of years employees have worked at DataCom (X). These data have been collected for a sample of employees and are given above.

1. Draw a normal probability plot of residuals by finding out the Z-score of the residuals. Use Excel. Plot Z-score at Y – axis and residuals at X – axis. Do the residuals seem normally distributed? Explain.

Using the scientific method, design your own simple psychological research study and describe it. In your description, please identify:

1. What is your theory? What is your hypothesis?  Make sure your theory/hypothesis relates to psychology and involves human participants.

2. What kind of sample will you use? Why? How will you recruit them?

3. Which research design you’ll be using to test your hypothesis (experimental or correlational)? Why did you choose this design?

4. How you will split your participants into groups (if you are conducting an experiment)?

5. What are your independent and dependent variables?

6. How you will measure or manipulate your independent and/or dependent variables? What research methods might you use to measure any variables you intend to measure (e.g., observation,surveys/questionnaires, archival research)?

7. What will you do to make your study as generalizable as possible?

8. How you will minimize bias (e.g. observer bias and experimenter bias)?

9. How you will determine whether your hypothesis is supported or rejected?

10. What are the strengths and weaknesses of your study? Specifically what are the strengths & weaknesses of the research design and research methods you chose (from questions 3 & 6 above)?

Please note: If one of the above questions/concepts is not relevant to your study, the there is not need to include it (e.g., if you are using survey methods, there is no need to discuss observer bias).

Formatting Your Assignment: There are 10 questions listed above (labeled 1 - 10). Make sure you label each question as it is labeled above. For example - for question 3, label it as "3)", "3.", "Question 3" or something similar.

In the past few decades, a fourth industrial revolution has emerged, known as I.R.4.0. I.R.4.0 optimizes the computerization of I.R.3.0, where computers are connected and communicate with one another to ultimately make decisions without human involvement using autonomous systems fuelled by data and machine learning. A combination of cyber-physical systems, the Internet of Things (IoT), access to real-time data, the introduction of cyber-physical systems, and the Internet of Systems make I.R.4.0 possible and the smart factory becomes a reality. I.R.4.0 connects physical with digital and allows for better collaboration and access across departments, partners, vendors, products, and people. As a result of the support of smart machines that keep getting smarter as they get access to more data, the factories will become more efficient, productive, and less wasteful. I.R.4.0 empowers business owners to better control and understand every aspect of their operation and allows them to leverage instant data to boost productivity, improve processes, and drive growth.
I.R.4.0 had been adopted successfully in various industries especially in the manufacturing industry. However, it is rarely adopted in the water industry to date. As a new generation of civil engineers, it is important to know and understand where to adopt IR.4.0 in Civil Engineering especially in the water industry. Besides, it is also important to know the impact and challenges faced in the water industry, and how does I.R.4.0 helps to solve the problems that we are facing in the water industry nowadays.

This is a question on the “Application of I.R.4.0 in Water Industry”.

Write about,

1) Impact, advantage, and disadvantage of adopting I.R. 4.0 in the water industry
2) How does I.R.4.0 help to solve the problems in the water industry

For this assignment you will need to understand the concepts of the: Project charter, stakeholder analysis and communication planning, scope planning, schedule management and uncertainties in project schedules.

Your company had received a tender to support a French film crew in the town of Sojwe in Botswana.

 You will need to collect and deliver the crew from and to the King Shaka International airport.

 The film crew will bring their own filming equipment.

 The film crew consists of 15 members.

 They will be onsite at the location for 2 weeks.

 You will have two weeks to do the planning and traveling.

 The support team needs to be at the identified location for the deployment.

 The deployment need to be self-sustainable for 2 weeks.

1. Project Charter [20] marks

You need to develop a project charter for the above-mentioned project. The project charter needs to include the following:

 The typical elements of a project charter.

 The project concept.

 The initiation of the project.

2. Stakeholder Analysis and Communication Planning [20] marks

 Develop the project management plan

 Develop a communications plan

 Identify possible communication technologies for the project

3. Scope Planning [25]

 Define the scope for the project.

 Determine the human resources needed for the project.

 Assign responsibility.

Itinerary,

WBS, Responsibility Matrix, and scope included and excluded from the project, identify risks and manage quality

4.Schedule Management [25] marks

 Plan schedule management

 Define activities

 Sequence activities

 Estimate activity resources

 Estimate activity durations

 Develop schedule

 Control schedule

5. Uncertainties in Project Schedules [10] marks

 From the activities which you had identified in your project schedule, develop a PERT TIME ESTIMATE schedule for the activities.

Question 1. Estimating the time of a victim’s death during homicide investigations is a complex problem that cannot be solved by analysising simple equations or functions of one variable. However, many mathematical texts examine time of death estimation based around analysis of Newton’s Law of Cooling. Such analysis is based on implicit simplifying assumptions that: the only dependent variable of interest in determining the time of death is the victim’s body temperature, T(t); the victim’s baseline body temperature when alive, T0, is known; and the air temperature of the victim’s surroundings, Ts, is constant. Here we will examine such a problem.
(a) Assume that immediately following death, a victim’s body begins to cool from a standard healthy body temperature of 37◦ Celsius. Further, assume that experimental work has determined that the rate constant in Newton’s Law of Cooling for a human body is approximately k = 0.1947 when time t is measured in hours. Determine a function derived from Newton’s Law of Cooling, T(t), that models the temperature of a victim’s body t hours after death, assuming that the temperature of the body’s surroundings is a constant 15.5◦ Celsius.

(b) If the temperature of the victim’s body is now 22.2◦, how long ago was their time of death?

(c) If the victim’s body temperature at death had instead been 36.3◦ Celsius (within the range of normal body temperatures for a healthy adult), what time of death would be estimated via a Newton’s Law of Cooling model? By what duration does this estimate differ to the time that you determined in part (b)?

(d) In reality, how might the modelling assumptions made to address this problem be violated?

Repl.it

Python

Ch 07 #5: Rock, Paper, Scissors Modification

Programming Exercise 11 in Chapter 6 asked you to design a program that plays the Rock, Paper, Scissors game. In the program, the user enters one of the three strings - “rock”, “paper”, or “scissors” - at the keyboard. Add input validation (with a case-insensitive comparison) to make sure the user enters one of those strings only.

I demonstrated the implementation of the program here: https://repl.it/@profeldridge/week06assignment06part2of2#main.py

Using the repl.it link above, modify the program to implement a new function called “get_user_input_validated()” that performs input validation (with a case-insensitive comparison) to make sure the user enters one of those strings only.

Requirements

You must use the given function prototypes. You can add more functions if you like.

def get_user_input_validated()

Resources

• Use the same logic and text that you used for the flowchart

• The Python Survival Guide shows how to make a string lowercase: https://lrccd.instructure.com/courses/102062/discussion_topics/1168996

Example Runs:

Please enter your choice (rock/paper/scissors):

rocks

Sorry - that selection is not valid. Please enter the text 'rock', 'paper', or 'scissors'

peppers

Sorry - that selection is not valid. Please enter the text 'rock', 'paper', or 'scissors'

ROCK

Human: [ rock ] vs. Computer: [ paper ]

Sorry! You lost

Deliverables

1. Source Code File: Name your file main.py and submit to Canvas.

Be sure to follow a Python Style Guide:

• Recommended (v2.0) https://lrccd.instructure.com/courses/102062/modules/items/5357574

Original (v1.0) https://lrccd.instructure.com/courses/102062/pages/python-code-style-guide?module_item_id=5176726

Research and create a business plan/business model for a new HR Consulting Firm to operate out of Florida, with an expansionist vision (Nation and Worldwide)

One Power point presentation

One Word document with your business plan – target for a 5-year plan

One blog and a Mini website that will include the components of your HR consulting firm

Include the comparisons on market averages, meaning: What is the competition out there? How will your HR consulting firm compete against the products that these type of firms offer? Be creative when choosing your Company’s NAME ( Names are Meaningful and Important, they define character, purpose, vision and one’s existence)

See Below the top HR consulting firms in the world, you can add as you research, I am giving you a base sample:

·      Mercer.

·      Towers Watson.

·      Aon Hewitt.

·      Hay Group.

·      Deloitte Consulting LLP.

·      Oliver Wyman.

·      McKinsey & Company.

Accenture.

List how many consulting companies are powerful in Florida, mainly in South Florida,

Which firms will your company compete against, and how?  List the areas of competition

How will you do Marketing and Public Relations, Budget, Set up timeline etc.

How will you Create a network strategy becoming a worldwide Human Resource leader/player, talk about globalization?

Develop this Business Plan, by approaching a strategy that Incorporates Management Principles learned in class, to further your vision… Be creative… focus on Leadership and Motivation. How will these themes enhance your services for future clients? Concentrate your areas of research alongside HR guidelines.