1.) Has social media changed how you interact with businesses? If so, how?
2.) If you were the CIO of a company, how might you use social media to help achieve competitive advantage?
REMEMBER: Your initial post should be approximately three paragraphs (150 words per paragraph) of content.
You are part of a team selected by the Chief Information Officer (CIO) to perform a security audit for one of the companies explored in this course:
Vampire Legends (Wk 1)
Cruisin’ Fusion (Wks 2–3)
Devil’s Canyon (Wks 4–5)
Create a 10- to 12-slide presentation (not including the title and reference slides) that shows the results of your security audit based on the following audit process:
Potential Risk to be Reviewed: Describe the risk.
Example: Viruses and malware can negatively impact the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of organizational data.
Regulation and Compliance Issues: Analyze how regulations and compliance issues could impact the organization.
Provide a detailed analysis of regulations and compliance issues, beyond the simple explanation in score point two.
Regulation and Compliance Resources and Tools: Analyze what resources and/or tools are available to address regulations and compliance issues.
Describe the control objective and the specific controls you will evaluate to determine potential risk is mitigated. Please note that typically, there will be more than one control that should be reviewed for a potential risk.
Example: Determine whether anti-virus software is in use.
Example: Determine whether virus signatures are periodically updated.
Example: Determine whether periodic virus scans are performed.
Provide a detailed analysis of the resources and/or tools available, beyond the simple explanation in score point two.
IT Security – Processes and Methods: Differentiate between the various processes and methods involved in management of IT security resources.
Review the various options available to address those processes and methods previously explained, and which ones might be feasible.
IT Security – Measures: Analyze the various security measures that could be taken within the organization.
Demonstrate a detailed understanding of what the alternatives are to approach security, how much security is needed, different methods to employ, etc.
Describe the criteria/measures that you will use to evaluate the adequacy of each area/review step that you review (i.e., what criteria will you use to perform your evaluation/how will you determine that the risk has been mitigated to an acceptable level).
Example: 100% of servers and PCs have virus software installed.
Example: 100% of the virus software installed is set to automatically update, including virus signatures.
Example: 100% of the virus software installed is set to automatically perform a scan at least weekly.
Include a 1/2- to 1-page executive summary to support your presentation. Include appropriate references.
Introduction to Film Studies
Sequence Analysis paper prompt
via the assignment section on Canvas.
Format: typed, double-spaced, 12 pt. font, with correct margins (1 in), docx file (PDF, Pages, or
Google Doc link will not be accepted).
This assignment has two parts, a descriptive one and an analytic one. Please submit them as one file.
Part I. Description
Pick one of the following four clips. Then, isolate what you take to be one cohesive and
meaningful segment:
1. Rear Window
https://vimeo.com/330638322 (password: midterm1)
2. In the Mood for Love
https://vimeo.com/792971422 (password: midterm2)
3. Billy Elliot
https://vimeo.com/792420261 (password: midterm3)
4. Man with a Movie Camera
https://vimeo.com/330682883 (password: midterm4)
As you watch (and repeatedly re-watch) your chosen segment, you should take note of as much
information as you can about its formal elements. This includes elements of the mise-en-scene
(i.e., sets, costumes and make-up, lighting, performance and staging); elements of the
cinematography (i.e., photographic qualities including tonality, speed of motion, varieties of
perspective, framing including aspect ratio and all aspects of camera placement, mobile framing,
on/off-screen spaces, shot duration/long take); devices of editing; elements of music/sound
(mainly, diegetic or non-diegetic—you do not need to use other technical vocabulary of
music/sound since we have not covered this unit yet).
You can use the shot-by-shot analysis form below (available on Canvas too) to document your
observation. There is no page limit for this part. The length of your form depends on your chosen
segment and the thoroughness of your engagement with it.
Part II. Analysis
After you have finished the descriptive part of the assignment, write an essay of 1200 words (+/-
10% acceptable, reference included) that proposes a reading of how one or two stylistic elements
function in your chosen segment. Discuss how your chosen stylistic elements are deployed 1) to
engage the viewers’ attention and to shape their understanding of the immediate action; and 2) to
engage the film’s larger thematic, ideological, socio-political, and/or philosophical concerns. Your
analysis should aim to propose an original reading of the film; it should marshal your segment’s
formal features as evidence to support your interpretation. Put another way: you are asked to
mobilize your formal analysis to say something illuminating about your chosen segment and about
the film as a whole.
As you make your argument, you should include a discussion of at least one assigned reading
we’ve covered so far. You are welcome to use additional material sourced from your own research but only in addition to the assigned reading. The reference to the text should be used to help you
make sense of the significance of the formal experimentations on display in your chosen segment.
Please make sure that your citations and bibliographies are formatted correctly according to the
Chicago Manual of Style. Adopt the notes and bibliography system:
https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-1.html
Don’t forget to title your essay.
Grading Criteria
• 85 and above: outstanding, publishable material.
• 75 and 84: excellent audiovisual analysis supported by accurate descriptive language; well-
grounded argument with high stakes and refreshing insights.
• 65-74: very good audiovisual analysis with no or a few mistakes in descriptive language;
valuable argument with sufficient stakes.
• 50-64: good audiovisual analysis with some mistakes in descriptive language; sufficient
argument but with low stakes.
• 49 and below: inaccurate audiovisual analysis with several mistakes in descriptive language;
insufficient or no argument; lacking in originality.
Ostensible failure to adhere to the standards of the Chicago Style (such as improper formatting of
the title of a film or an article/chapter or a book; inaccurate citation of the references; incorrect use
of footnotes; incomplete bibliography) will result in a deduction of 10 points from the final grade of
your paper.
*Under no circumstance will plagiarism be tolerated.
** Typo, grammatical error, punctuation error, among other writing mistakes will significantly hurt
your grade. Please proofread.
Reading list
Bordwell and Thompson, “The Significance of Film Form,” 50-71.
Workshop on the conventions of film writing and Chicago Style citation format (note-only
system + notes and bibliography system).
R. Barton Palmer, “The Metafictional Hitchcock: The Experience of Viewing and the
Viewing of Experience in Rear Window and Psycho.”
Bordwell and Thompson, “The Relation of Shot to Shot: Editing,” 216-262
Sergei Eisenstein, “The Cinematographic Principle and the Ideogram.”
Sergei Eisenstein, “Montage of Film Attractions.”
Bordwell and Thompson, “The Shot: Mise-en-scène,” 112-158
Bordwell and Thompson, “The Shot: Cinematography,” 159-215
** Typo, grammatical error, punctuation error, among other writing mistakes will significantly hurt
your grade. Please proofread.
Reading list
Bordwell and Thompson, “The Significance of Film Form,” 50-71.
Workshop on the conventions of film writing and Chicago Style citation format (note-only
system + notes and bibliography system).
R. Barton Palmer, “The Metafictional Hitchcock: The Experience of Viewing and the
Viewing of Experience in Rear Window and Psycho.”
Bordwell and Thompson, “The Relation of Shot to Shot: Editing,” 216-262
Sergei Eisenstein, “The Cinematographic Principle and the Ideogram.”
Sergei Eisenstein, “Montage of Film Attractions.”
Bordwell and Thompson, “The Shot: Mise-en-scène,” 112-158
Bordwell and Thompson, “The Shot: Cinematography,” 159-215
Please read the case and answer the questions at the end. Please respond to two of your peers. Do you agree or disagree?
Friendly Financial Works is a fictional provider that sells accounting, payroll, and financial services to small businesses. The company uses an integrated software platform to help small businesses better manage their financial assets. Based on the assumption that small business owners often lack the expertise and time to manage financial assets effectively, Friendly Financial seeks to provide a relatively inexpensive “one-stop solution” for financial planning and control.
Friendly Financial’s business model calls for providing services at the lowest cost rather than giving customized service to each client. To be successful, Friendly Financial needs to lower its costs by continually increasing the number of small businesses that use its services. The success of Friendly Financial thus depends largely on its sales force.
The sales force is divided into geographic territories, with a territory manager having exclusive responsibility for all sales activity within a specific area. Territories are organized into sales districts. The average number of territories in each district is 20. Each district is led by a district sales manager who oversees all personnel activities, such as hiring and training, in the territories within his or her district.
Territory managers are paid on a commission basis. They generate most of their sales by cold calling on potential businesses. A typical day consists of 10 to 15 unannounced visits to small businesses. The territory manager seeks an appointment with the owner or manager of each firm he or she visits. When an appointment is granted, the territory manager makes a presentation and tries to develop a contract between the small business and Friendly Financial. As with most unannounced sales calls, a large majority of visits end without a contract to provide services.
A major concern for Friendly Financial Works is identifying and keeping enough territory managers. The turnover rate is approximately 200 percent each year. This means that a district sales manager must usually hire about 40 new employees in a given year. In most cases, when a job vacancy occurs, the district sales manager travels to the sales territory to begin recruiting. The district sales manager places an advertisement in the local newspaper and includes a telephone number for potential recruits to call. The manager then spends three to four days at a local hotel answering phone inquiries and conducting interviews. The territory manager position is usually offered to the best available candidate on the final day that the district sales manager is in the territory.
District sales managers pride themselves on being able to land the sales representatives they like best. Many district sales managers boast that they can sell anything to anybody, and this is how they approach employee recruiting activities. Because they are talented sales representatives, district sales managers generally do a great job of touting the benefits of the position.
Questions:
What aspects of the recruiting process increase the likelihood that territory managers will leave once they have been hired?
Should Friendly Financial use other methods to recruit territory managers? Which methods?
Is the recruiting process at Friendly Financial efficient? What are some things that might be done to reduce recruiting costs?
For the selected reading, identify ONE possible audience that the author is considering and then list three quotations from the piece that support your assertion. DO NOT use the term “general audience,” or one similar, to identify the audience. Who–SPECIFICALLY–might the author have in mind when writing the piece? Finally, explain how the three quotations show us that the author is addressing the audience that you identified. This analysis should be 7-10 sentences. You may want to format your work in the following manner, but this is only a suggestion:
Author Name
Audience
Quotation One
Quotation Two
Quotation Three
Why do the examples support the assertion of the audience?
Please submit the summary and the audience analysis in the same Word file.
Standard deviation is a reliable (and commonly used) measure of variation. Standard deviation
essentially describes the average distance that each data value is away from the mean.
Computing standard deviation by hand can be complicated so you are asked to use Excel to
calculate it for this project. You will also calculate the Range Rule of Thumb (RROT). The
RROT is based on the insight that the range is often approximately four times as large as the
standard deviation. This insight enables you to quickly estimate the standard deviation of a data
set quickly. Lastly, you will calculate the percentage error of each data set. Percent error is the
difference between estimated value (RROT) and the actual value (standard deviation) in
comparison to the actual value and is expressed as a percentage.
INSTRUCTIONS
This assignment will be completed in two parts: Data Sets and Summary. After completing the
computations for the Data Sets, you will summarize what you have learned by answering the
questions after the data sets. See both sections below to find more informationStandard deviation is a reliable (and commonly used) measure of variation. Standard deviation
essentially describes the average distance that each data value is away from the mean.
Computing standard deviation by hand can be complicated so you are asked to use Excel to
calculate it for this project. You will also calculate the Range Rule of Thumb (RROT). The
RROT is based on the insight that the range is often approximately four times as large as the
standard deviation. This insight enables you to quickly estimate the standard deviation of a data
set quickly. Lastly, you will calculate the percentage error of each data set. Percent error is the
difference between estimated value (RROT) and the actual value (standard deviation) in
comparison to the actual value and is expressed as a percentage.
****See attachment for assignment instructions and question*****
Week 6 Discussion Questions:
Please share your practice question in PICOT format first, then respond to the weekly questions.
Provide your response in 150 words or less.
(For those completing the Integrative Review, please answer these questions as if you had been able to implement the DNP practice change project or plan to in the future).
fyi im completing a integrative review
1.Analyze and appraise journals most appropriate for publishing your DNP practice change project outcomes.
2. Investigate professional nursing conferences that align with the primary focus of your DNP practice change project and list the abstract requirements and provide a timeline for submission of an abstract.
PICOT
Women with postpartum hemorrhage and acute blood loss anemia, Implementing the Improving Healthcare Response to Obstetric Hemorrhage toolkit compared medications to current medication practice, impact the rate of blood loss and mortality in 8 weeks?
This week we will discuss important issues in the LGBTQ community. Write a 5-page paper. Make sure you include the cover page and reference pages. You can include two additional sources for this assignment. This week we will discuss important issues in the LGBTQ community. Write a 5-page paper. Make sure you include the cover page and reference pages. You can include two additional sources for this assignment.
Include footnotes (don’t count as words)
Engage critically weighing different arguments but more importantly give your ideas and opinions engage critically weighing different arguments but more importantly give your ideas and opinions engage critically weighing different arguments but more importantly give your ideas and opinions
The material attached at the bottom is the course material, but add more and different sources + examples relating also to judicial review of those powers and whether codifying these powers would be an advantage or not to held the executive accountable.
Reminder: Before submitting, please be sure that you 1) reviewed the rubric, 2) ensured the content is your own, 3) cited correctly, and 4) verified that NO QUOTES are contained in the document (per course policy) — Exception: sample items used in the measurement section of your methodology can be quoted with proper citation.