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Explain the Iconoclastic Controversy. How did it lead to a break between the East and West?
Why did African kingdoms decline? What were the factors that led to such?
Compare/contrast manorialism and feudalism.
What factors allowed the first crusade to be successful?
How did the Fujiwara clan promote peace and prosperity?
According to Shingon Buddhism, what are the 3 Mysteries and how do we attain them?

Have to read pp. 3-173 (ch. 1- 5) of the book “Mann, Charles C. 1491 : New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus. 2nd ed”. Will provide the link to read the book. Have to write a summary of the reading along with some other requirements that are show in the files below. This is a History class and not an English class, so don’t worry about analyzing too much of what the author does; just simply summarize what happens in each chapter. Regarding what’s hapenning in the story of the book feel free to think of criticisms , implications, analogies, etc. Your voice should come out; so feel free to use words like “I”. The exact requirements will be shown in the files below as well. DON’T use any outside sources; again just simply summarize what happens in the book along with your own analysis of the story. Will tip more money the higher grade I get compared to the last papers.

In the Individual Project, you will study the following organizational design problem. Your task is to assess the problem and recommend an organizational design structure for the company described. You will also provide a recommendation for how the design will be sustained. To assist you in the analysis and recommendation, you will answer the questions below in your group discussions.
Problem
A 60-year-old engineer and his 45-year-old wife founded a software company, ABC Software Corporation, four years ago and are its sole owners and managers. Because of their use of a unique software design, the corporation quickly obtained a highly profitable market niche. The wife’s charm and diplomacy helped build a customer loyalty that is seldom found in the industry, causing the company to grow to $80 plus million in sales and 300 employees. The company has one major multinational customer. ABC Software Corporation is located in the United States in a large metropolitan area. It grew organically, and its informal structure is a haphazard maze of interlocking personal relationships based on friendships and loyalty to the company’s two owners. The employees are all very bright, self-taught, and technically savvy. Only one employee besides the engineer and the accountant has a college degree.
The two owners have hired your team to help them determine what kind of organizational design they need to put in place and what kind of training their employees need to function in the new design.
The first thing you will do is work with your team to discuss and answer the following four groups of questions.
Preliminary Questions for the Design Team
Answer the following preliminary questions with your team before proceeding further:
What do you need to know before beginning the redesign process?
How will you go about determining the needs of the individuals in the organization?
What are the critical needs that the new organization must address?
What do you see as the major problems facing your task as organizational designers?
What are the organizational problems that the redesign must address and solve?
How should your team organize for accomplishing this task?
How will your team work together to accomplish the redesign?
What have you learned by answering these questions?
Diagnostic Questions for the Design Team
Answer the following diagnostic questions with your team before proceeding further:
What do you believe is the general business environment that the ABC Corporation is operating in?
What is the company’s task environment?
What do you believe the company’s strategy is (if it has one), and what do you believe the strategy might be?
If you cannot determine or articulate a company strategy, then what do you believe the strategy should be?
Given what you know about the situation, what are the ABC Corporation’s technology, structure, measurement, and human resource systems?
From what you know, what is the organizational culture likely to be?
What have you learned by answering these questions?
Design Questions for the Team
Answer the following design questions with your team before proceeding further:
What are the critical design principles that need to be addressed?
What are the advantages, disadvantages, and contingencies that any design being considered must address?
Which of the formal designs (e.g., functional, divisional, network, matrix, process, or customer-centric) would obviously be inappropriate and why?
How would the current informal design affect any design the team proposes?
What have you learned by answering these questions?
Redesign Questions for the Team
Answer the following redesign questions with your team before proceeding further:
What is the most appropriate design?
Why did you select this as the most appropriate design?
What are the advantages, disadvantages, and contingencies of the redesign selected?
What organizational problems or issues will the design supposedly solve?
What unintended consequences might occur because of the new design?

You can choose to write a 6-page analysis paper regarding a significant
interpersonal relationship event that you endured. In this paper, you are to analyze
the interpersonal communicative aspect of that event. Your paper must incorporate
terms from chapters 1,2,3,4,5, 6, 7, 8, and 9. Make sure to explain your
understanding of the terms and how they relate to the event. Provide examples to
support your understanding of the terms used in your paper by using scenarios
from the event. The introduction of your paper should include a short story that
gives a summary of the event, while the body of your paper should include specific
scenarios that occur in event.
In addition, your paper must include the following:
• In-text references of the time of when the scenario in the event occurred (e.g.
2hours past midnight, September 13, 2019, on Christmas day, on new year
day, right before Christmas eve, and so on …).
• Your paper’s text must be written in Times New Roman, 12 fonts, must be
double spaced, and must have a 1-inch margin in all four corners of each
page.
• Your paper must include an introduction, body, and conclusion.
Grading Criteria (Total: 30 Poin

Assignment
In this assignment, you will define and calculate the remaining six major cost elements of a business, when given the total costs and the quantity produced, as well as use the computed costs to determine a minimum cost output level for that business. In addition, you will also clearly explain how the average total cost of a new output level is affected by its share of fixed costs and variable costs.
Questions
When ONLY total costs (TC) are known, explain how to calculate each of the following:
Fixed Costs (FC)
Variable Costs (VC)
Average Variable Costs (AVC)
Average Total Costs (ATC)
Average Fixed Costs (AFC)
Marginal Costs (MC)
Table 1 shows the hourly production and total cost estimates for a new manufacturing firm wishing to enter the smartphone market. Fill in the blank cells in columns a., b., c., d., and e. on the table by computing the appropriate values.
Table 1
Smart cell phones produced in an hour
Total Cost (TC)
Variable Costs (VC)
(2 points)
a.
Average Variable Costs (AVC)
(2 points)
b.
Average Total Costs (ATC)
(2 points)
c.
Average Fixed Cost (AFC)
(2 points)
d.
Marginal Cost (MC)
(3 points)
e.
0
$3,200
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
15
$3,525
30
$3,875
45
$4,250
60
$4,650
75
$5,075
90
$5,525
105
$6,725
120
$8,210
135
$9,950
Based on your calculations in completing the table in Question 2, what is this manufacturer’s minimum cost output level? Explain your answer.
According to textbook page 334, when one additional unit is produced, two factors directly impact the change in average total costs, the Spreading effect and the Diminishing Returns effect. In the following two situations, explain how the factors of the Spreading effect and the Diminishing Returns effect cause the average total cost to be different.
Production of the 10th gizmo resulted in an average total cost (ATC) of $20, but production of the 11th gizmo resulted in an average total cost of $22.
Production of the 10th gizmo resulted in an average total cost (ATC) of $20, but production of the 11th gizmo resulted in an average total cost of $18.

please do following tasks

– do Sociology of Identity Discussion Forum

you should follow the instrucions, answer the all questions and rubric each one. once you done it, you should do 3
comments to classmate posts. it should be positive and relate to the post that they posted each one.

-do academic Honesty and peer feedback first.

i will give you the one of the stduent writing that you need to evaluate it. you should use the template to write it.

for part 1 academic honesty: write 100-150 words ( 3 reasons why students plagiarize )

for part 2: peer review, 3 sentences comment for strengths of the draft you’re eveluating and 3 sentences for the
weakness

it is very important to follow the instruction and rubric each one.

paradigms Exam
This will take you at the very least, the absolute minimum, two double spaced pages, but you may write up to four. Please submit your answer in Word or as a PDF.
Part One (60 points):
Consider the following scenario from three points of view: Buddhist, Ideal American, and the Nazi Sacred Bloodline. Be sure to consider and comment on each of the characters regarding what each should be most concerned with, what each should do in the scenario, and what ideas or texts support these actions. Remember, you are not giving your own point of view but thinking from the two paradigms.
You are a high-ranking government agent who has received messages that a Mexican drug cartel group is holding hostages from your country and threatening to start killing them, one per day until you release several of their members that have been convicted of both major drug dealing and mass murder. You have not been able to discover where the cartel is holding these hostages, and time is running out. A high-ranking member of the cartel is in your custody awaiting trial for the same offenses, and when you question him about it, he is smug, as if he knows something but won’t say. His wife and children happen to be in the country receiving treatment at a hospital for a chronic, life-threatening condition. You have complete authority regarding what to do next.
Part Two (40 points):
Consider the following scenario from two points of view: Traditional Shinto and a Feminist point of view. Be sure to consider each of the characters’ actions and evaluate them as if you yourself held the paradigm and what ideas or texts support these actions. Remember, you are not giving your own point of view but thinking from the two paradigms.
Demeter and Persephone
Zeus, King of all the Gods, had three sisters: Hera, Queen of the Gods, was also his wife and the Goddess of Marriage; Hestia was the Goddess of Home and Hearth and Demeter was Goddess of the Harvest, responsible for the crops and for feeding the people.
Demeter was loved by all humans for her gift of soil and gentle, mild weather to grow their crops. They worshipped her for her caring and kindness. She was very much a ‘hands on’ and ‘happy to help’ sort of Goddess. Persephone was Demeter’s only child. Like her mother, she was kind and caring, with a happy nature and the most dazzling smile. She was the sort of person who spread light and happiness wherever she went and so, naturally, she was loved by everyone but most especially by her mother.
Hades, mighty ruler of the Underworld, had spied her on one of his trips to the world above. He was dazzled by her beauty, her elegance and her charm. He decided that he must have her as his wife. Knowing that Demeter would never agree to her daughter living with him in his gloomy world of the dead, he decided to visit his brother, Zeus, to discuss the matter. Surprisingly, the great god Zeus agreed to Hades’ plan, to abduct the young woman and take her to his realm. He rode his chariot to the upper world and kidnapped her. At first, Persephone cried and cried, until she had no more tears left to weep. She refused all offers of food, for she had heard the legend that those who eat in the Underworld can never return. So she determined not to let a morsel of food pass her lips.
In revenge on Zeus, Demeter withdrew all of her fertility power from the earth, so the earth turned dry and barren, and people began to die. Finally, Zeus agreed to allow Persephone to come back to the living world. But Hades made Persephone feel sorry for him because of his loneliness in the underworld. Before Hermes could come and get her, Hades held a pomegranate in his hand and said, “Persephone, my love, I am so worried that you will fade away if you do not eat. Look at this sweet fruit, taste just a little for pities’ sake.” Looking deep into his eyes, the girl carefully reached out her hand and took the luscious fruit to her lips. Deliberately, she swallowed a few seeds, just six.
That is why Persephone can only come back to the living world six months out of the year and the rest of the time she keeps Hades company in the underworld for the other six months.
Rubric for the Paradigms Writing Assignment:
I’ll grade each of your responses on the basis of three elements:
20%: Have you made each of the paradigms completely clear? Have you defined the elements that you are applying?
40%: Have you applied the paradigms completely clearly—have you explained completely what a person holding each paradigm would do or how a person holding the paradigm would comment on the actions of the characters?
40%: Have you covered all the characters in the scenarios and supported your answer with references to parts of the paradigm to explain why they would do or think what you say they would?

After studying Chapter 1, calculate and report here your own ecological footprint using online calculators, such as http://www.ecologyfund.com/ecology/res_bestfoot.html and http://www.footprintcalculator.org

– Do you notice any differences between the two calculators?

– Which variable would you propose for inclusion in the calculation?

– As you think about limiting factors, explain what a range of tolerance is. Provide an example by searching outside the textbook.

Overview
For your week 5 reflection, we are going to think about how children develop and understanding of racial identity and of racism in our society.
First:
Do the Choose Your Own Adventure reading. Read at least 2 articles from the following list:
Belli (2020)
(Links to an external site.)
It’s Never to Early to Talk With Children About Race(https://news.yale.edu/2020/06/15/its-never-too-early-talk-children-about-race)
Sullivan & Wilton (2020)
(Links to an external site.)
Children Notice Race Several Years Before Adults Want to Talk About It(https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2020/08/children-notice-race)
Enright (2019)
Download Enright (2019)
Strength of Soul(https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1520075/files/84689287/download?verifier=US43KbF2mx5f1F0KnLZPhQ8qSLmn5joijJ1uxhHx&wrap=1)
PBS Kids (2020)
(Links to an external site.)
How to Talk Honestly With Children About Racism(https://www.pbs.org/parents/thrive/how-to-talk-honestly-with-children-about-racism)
Cole & Verwayne (2018)
(Links to an external site.)
Becoming Upended: Teaching and Learning about Race and Racism With Young Children and Their Families(https://www.naeyc.org/resources/pubs/yc/may2018/teaching-learning-race-and-racism)
Flanagan & Hindley (2017)
Download Flanagan & Hindley (2017)
Let’s Talk: Teaching Race in the Classroom
An article of your choice that discusses young children’s understanding of racial identity and racism(https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1520075/files/84689134/download?verifier=ldE49AkftvspVf0TGp4dxQfVCdtJliF5j5aG3L0X&wrap=1)
Second:
Respond to the following questions:
What mirrors and windows did you experience while reading the articles about children’s understanding of race and racism?
Mirrors = Things that resonate with your own experience, you relate, you can see yourself
Windows = Things that are different from your experience, things you learned from experiencing a new perspective
Based on the reading, what do you think caregivers can do to help children develop a constructive understanding of racism?
Your response should:
Describe your own understanding/experiences with respect to mirrors/windows and what caregivers can do.
Use quotes from the reading as evidence to support your thinking.
Unpack the quotes in your own words (don’t just throw in a quote, say what it means to you in your own words).

Background: American Local news coverage/newspapers are declining. The local government is worse off when local news suffers. Inadequate local news has been linked to more corruption, less competitive elections, weaker municipal finances, and a prevalence of party-line politicians who don’t bring benefits back to their districts. In the 20th century, America has a range of regional and local newspapers. However, local newspapers in the United States have been steadily declining in recent years, with circulation numbers down approximately 27% from 2003 to 2014 (Pew Research Center (2017).
Your work: Using the theory or theoretical frameworks we used in class (The Hypodermic Needle Model) or that you identify on your own, analyze why this problem is occurring. You need to discuss how this theory and its terms/concepts give us a more systematic understanding of the problem or its root causes. Be as specific, thorough, and thoughtful as possible. In this section, you must cite at least one academic article to back up your claims. You will be graded on the quality of your arguments and writing as well as on how effectively you met the requirements of the section outlined above. – 2 pages