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Assume that you are an information technology (IT) consultant at an organization that creates high-resolution graphics and videos for an advertising company. Your organization wants to replace its old computers with new, improved ones. Your manager assigns you the task of studying the latest Intel and AMD processors and making a recommendation that is feasible and suits the organization’s requirements.

Using the Internet and ITT Tech Virtual Library, gather information on the following:

The latest Intel and AMD processors available
Characteristics of these processors

Based on the information collected by you, answer the following questions:

Which processor would you recommend for high-resolution graphics and video? Why?
If a 1 GHz processor is replaced by a 2 GHz processor, do all programs execute twice as fast?

Participation Requirements:

Reply to your classmates with at least two responses. When responding to the discussion assessment, do the following:

Provide complete, well-thought-out responses.
Ask questions, share experiences, challenge ideas, and help your peers expand their responses.
You must discuss your recommendations on the basis of the following two points:
The relationship between CPU clock speed and the power consumed by the processor

Reasons for choosing Intel processors over AMD or vice

Use the Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration website and find the area on Registered Apprenticeship. Explore the Employers section. Based on the information found here, create an apprenticeship proposal for a position in the company you work for or wish to work for. In your apprenticeship, make sure to include specific skills the apprentice will be learning, the modeling and practice techniques that will be used, and the feedback process that will be incorporated (both informal and formal). Explain how many hours per week the apprentice will work, and how long the entire apprenticeship should take. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of your apprenticeship program.

Use Microsoft Word to create your proposal. The proposal should be between two to three pages in length, and all sources used need to be cited according to APA format. At least two page

Sources must be cited in APA format. Your response should be four (4) double-spaced pages

What is traditional utilitarianism? With traditional utilitarianism, how do you determine what the moral thing to do on any particular occasion might be? Include mention of the four (4) considerations to determine what the moral thing to do on any particular occasion might be.

Why is utilitarianism attractive to many? Discuss three (3) reasons.

What is the ecological ethic?

How does utilitarianism support the ecological ethic

Explain what total cost of ownership means to you. Illustrate in practical terms how decisions made in the planning and execution of a project can impact the cost of maintaining the product.

Software or computerized tools such as Microsoft Project, Excel, and other simulation or statistical tools are often used to assist with cost estimating. These computerized tools simplify and automate the use of different cost estimate techniques and also facilitate faster calculation.

2.) List and differentiate common estimating techniques. Analyze each one to determine how to select and use one that is most appropriate for your project. Discuss the available computerized tools that will help you in the application of the different estimating techniques

Compare and Contrast: Religious and Spiritual Systems of BeliefCompare and Contrast: Religious and Spiritual Systems of Belief

This question is fairly open ended in order to shed light into an important methodology in cultural anthropology: comparative methods. Choose one system of belief (organized religion or spiritual system) that you are not familiar with and compare it to your own system(s) of belief. What are the similarities you notice between the two? What are the differences? Be specific.

Finally, provide a link to a short video of an appropriate ceremony or event from the system of belief you researched or your own that you think the class would find interesting.

Keep in mind that systems of belief do not have to be organized religions, but they usually contain components like episodic material, ethical components, values, concern for the existence of supernatural entities, an agreed-upon system of symbols, etc.

Use one of the six commonly noted world religions if you need help starting your comparison: Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Confucianism, and Judaism

This question is fairly open ended in order to shed light into an important methodology in cultural anthropology: comparative methods. Choose one system of belief (organized religion or spiritual system) that you are not familiar with and compare it to your own system(s) of belief. What are the similarities you notice between the two? What are the differences? Be specific.

Finally, provide a link to a short video of an appropriate ceremony or event from the system of belief you researched or your own that you think the class would find interesting.

Keep in mind that systems of belief do not have to be organized religions, but they usually contain components like episodic material, ethical components, values, concern for the existence of supernatural entities, an agreed-upon system of symbols, etc.

Use one of the six commonly noted world religions if you need help starting your comparison: Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Confucianism, and Judaism

English essay

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Describe what you hope to gain from this course. What are your personal goals (please describe skills and practices, not the grade you want), and how do your goals differ from official goals (those from the university or the instructor)? Explain your thinking

Social Media Discussion Question

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DUE SATURDAY JANUARY 16

Companies around the globe are using social media to connect with their customers.

Consider an online social media network, such as Facebook or LinkedIn, and respond to the following:

For targeting new customers, examine the advantages and disadvantages of using these social networks compared to search engine advertising.
Provide specific examples of products that lend themselves more to social networks than to search engine advertising.
Discuss how this avenue of marketing might be effective in the success of a new product associated with existing brands.

Write your initial response in 300–500 words. Your response should be thorough and address all components of the discussion question in detail, include citations of all sources, where needed, according to the APA Style, and demonstrate accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuatio

Moral ReasoningThe following is a true story – and it made national headlines several years ago. A Houston Texans football…

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Moral Reasoning

The following is a true story – and it made national headlines several years ago. A Houston Texans football player and his wife got the call from a hospital in Dallas that his wife’s mother (the football player’s mother in law) was dying and only had a few minutes left to live. They hopped in the car and sped toward the hospital around midnight. Not many cars were on the road. As they were approaching the hospital, they ran a couple of red lights to get them there faster. A police officer saw this, and pulled them over as they were pulling into the hospital. The couple seeing the lights called ahead to the hospital to have a nurse meet them to substantiate their story that their mother was dying and only had a few minutes left.

When the couple jumped out of their car, the police officer drew his gun and told them to get back into the car. He walked over to them and they explained the situation. The police officer said he did not care, and they drove recklessly and broke the law. The nurse substantiated the claim, and the doctor came out as well and substantiated the claim. The police officer called for back-up and told everyone to stay in their car. He gave the football player a ticket. After the process, they ran inside but it was too late and the mother had died.

From your lectures and readings this week, please answer the following:

What type of moral reasoning was the police officer using (from Kohlberg’s stages of moral reasoning–preconventional, conventional, or postconventional)?

What type of moral reasoning was the football player using (from Kohlberg’s stages of moral reasoning–preconventional, conventional, or postconventional)?

What would you have done in this situation in both the roles of the police officer and of the football player?

Was the police officer in the right to hold them and do his job as a police officer to enforce the laws, despite a mitigating circumstance?

Discuss the moral and ethical ramifications of the decisions.

This assignment should be a minimum of 500 words long and directly integrate the readings and vocabulary from the readings at least once in your assignment

 

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Identify a company, product, service, or ‘big idea’ that came to market during the recent economic downturn.
Discuss some of the reasons why this company’s launch was successful (or possibly unsuccessful) in the current US economy

Review understanding and the ability to use arrays.

Part 1 Use pseudo code to describe your add, remove, find, and display options.

Part 2 Answer the following questions

1. What are the inefficiencies associated with using an unordered array if duplicates are not allowed?

2. What are the advantages of using an ordered array?

3. When would using an unordered array be preferred over using an ordered array?

4. Define Big-Oh notation. Explain how z and c in the definition relate to the evaluation of algorithm efficiency.

5. Why does computer science often describe algorithms in terms of lg instead of ln?

6. How do you convert ln(x) to lg(x)?

7. Give an example of algorithm with Big-Oh values of: N2, N lg N, 1, and N.

8. Why is Big-Oh 2N represent an algorithm called intractable?
9. How much slower would a linear search be on 1024 items than 16 items?

10. How much slower would a binary search be on 1024 items than on 16 items?

Part 3 Implement the program.

Instructions

1. For all our labs, use the Eclipse IDE. On your own computer, you will need to install MinGW. You will also need to download and install the C development toolkit (CDT). There are many tutorials on the Web to step you through this process. Eclipse is a popular IDE for C development; it includes a good interactive debugger and project control

2. Write a C program that will maintain a list of employees using either ordered or unordered arrays. Each employee in the list should store an identifier number (integer), a name (String – char array), and a salary (Double). Allow operations to add, remove, display single, display list, reset the list, create a initial list with randomly populated items, help, and exit.

3. You can choose either an unordered list or an ordered list for your implementation. If you choose an unordered list, sort it before display. For an ordered list, use a binary search instead of a linear search.

4. You don’t need to implement a GUI for this project. Just create a menu of selections as listed below