Due Week 8 and worth 200 points

The Project Paper focuses on a suggested topic related to art, architecture, history, music, or literature. The project will reflect your views and interpretation of the topic. This project is designed to help you stretch your mind and your abilities to be the creative, innovative, and critical thinker you already are!

Choose one (1) of the topics from the list of topic choices below. Read the topic carefully. Write a three to four (3-4) page paper (750-1,000 words) that responds to each of the items described in the topic.

For the topic you choose:

1. Support your ideas with specific, illustrative examples. If there are questions or points associated with your chosen topic, be sure to answer all of the listed questions and address all of the items in that topic. If your topic asks you to do several things related to the topic, be sure to do each of the things listed.
2. While some of the topics tend to lend themselves toward particular writing genres, you are not restricted to the specific format suggested for the individual topic. For example, you may do an “interview,” a “proposal,” a “letter,” a “short story,” a “blog,” an “essay,” an “article,” or any other written genre for almost any of the topics. The project is intended to be fun as well as informative, so feel free to be creative with the delivery of your information.
3. Use at least three (3) good quality academic sources, with one (1) source being the class text.

   Note: Wikipediaand other similar Websites do not qualify as academic resources. You are highly encouraged to use the Resource Center tab at the top of your Blackboard page.

Note:  Your instructor may require you to submit your topic choice for approval before the end of Week 5.

Topic choices (pick 1):

• Office Art Memo. Memorandum. Your boss, who knows you have been taking a humanities class since he pays for your tuition reimbursement, has tasked you with managing the art budget for your company, expecting you to choose various pieces of art for the new corporate offices.  (Note: Replicas of the works are acceptable since they are more cost-efficient and you are working on a budget.)  Include the following:

1. Identify three (3) examples of 19th century Impressionist painting or sculpture and three (3) Post-Impressionist works. Explain how the six (6) pieces of art fall into these two (2) styles.
2. In a memo, describe the appearance of your six (6) choices to your CEO so he or she will know what the art looks like and where it would be placed in the corporate offices.
3. Explain why each piece is considered to be historically significant.
4. Explain how each piece “fits” your company’s overall (or desired) corporate image. Keep in mind that a piece of art is supposed to “say” something about the owner, so describe what would these pieces of art say about your company.

• New Composition. Speech. Your uncle’s birthday is in two (2) months, and everyone knows that he loves almost all kinds of music. As a birthday gift for him, you want to have a special piece of music composed in his honor which will be played at a family birthday celebration. Write a speech that you will make to the composer’s agent. Include the following:

1. Narrow your choices down to three (3) composers you’ve studied in this course. Choose one (1) of the composers and explain why you want him to write the “birthday present” music.
2. Explain why the other two (2) composers were ultimately not selected.
3. Specifically identify the musical elements in the composer’s style that you would like to be included in the new music written for your uncle.
4. Describe what sort of emotion is generated by listening to the works of your selected composer; in other words, what do you want your uncle to “feel” as he hears the music, and why is this composer so perfect for this composition?

• Harlem Renaissance Poets.Essay & Poem. Choose two (2) poems by different authors from the Harlem Renaissance. Write an essay that:

1. Describes each author’s role and importance within the Harlem Renaissance.
2. Identify the elements in each of their poems in which you see evidence of the “double-consciousness” being expressed by each author.
3. Fully describe at least two (2) primary themes you see in the poetry written during this time period, referring to specific lines in each of the poems.
4. Write your own poem that expresses these identified themes of the Harlem Renaissance.

• Women’s Roles Then & Now.Script. Script a conversation between two (2) notable women from the 18th and / or 19th century on the roles women should play in society. Within the dialogue, include:

1. Biographical information for each woman.
2. The historical status for women in general during the time period in which each woman lived.
3. What opinions each of the women might have on the role the women should play in society during their lifetimes.
4. What each of the women might think about women’s current roles.

• Other topic choice recommended and approvedby the professor and supported by the grading rubric.

The Project Paper will be graded on:

• The level to which the instructions were followed.
• The extent to which all four (4) parts in the topic were addressed.
• The adequacy of information, examples, and details which support the general claim or main  idea.
• The clarity and relevance of the explanations and descriptions.
• Adherence to standard rules of grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.
• The inclusion of four (4) required references (two [2] additional sources besides your textbook) documented using APA style.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; references must follow APA Style format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions specific to the selected topic. (Note:Students can find APA style materials located in the Additional Resources section of their Student Center within their course shell for reference)
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Explain how key social, cultural, and artistic contributions contribute to historical changes.
• Explain the importance of situating a society’s cultural and artistic expressions within a historical context.
• Examine the influences of intellectual, religious, political, and socio-economic forces on social, cultural, and artistic expressions.
• Identify major historical developments in world cultures from the Renaissance to the contemporary period.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in the study of world cultures.
• Write clearly and concisely about world cultures using proper writing mechanics.

Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic/organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using the following rubric found here.

Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using the following rubric.

 

Points: 200	Assignment 2: Project Paper
Criteria	Unacceptable Below 60% F	Meets Minimum Expectations 60-69% D	Fair 70-79% C	Proficient 80-89% B	Exemplary 90-100% A
1. Follow topic instructions within the individual topic selected. Weight: 20%	Did not submit or incompletely followed topic instructions within the individual topic selected.	Insufficiently followed topic instructions within the individual topic selected.	Partially followed topic instructions within the individual topic selected.	Satisfactorily followed topic instructions within the individual topic selected.	Thoroughly followed topic instructions within the individual topic selected.
2. Address each of the four (4) points in the chosen topic. Weight: 25%	Did not submit or incompletely addressed each of the four (4) points in the chosen topic.	Insufficiently addressed each of the four (4) points in the chosen topic.	Partially addressed each of the four (4) points in the chosen topic.	Satisfactorily addressed each of the four (4) points in the chosen topic.	Thoroughly addressed each of the four (4) points in the chosen topic.
3. Provide sufficient information, examples, and details to support the general claim or main idea. Weight: 30%	Did not submit or incompletely provided sufficient information, examples, and details to support the general claim or main idea.	Insufficiently provided sufficient information, examples, and details to support the general claim or main idea.	Partially provided sufficient information, examples, and details to support the general claim or main idea.	Satisfactorily provided sufficient information, examples, and details to support the general claim or main idea.	Thoroughly provided sufficient information, examples, and details to support the general claim or main idea.
4. 3 references minimum – number and quality Weight: 5%	No references provided	Does not meet the required number of references; all references poor quality choices.	Does not meet the required number of references; some references poor quality choices.	Meets number of required references; all references high quality choices.	Exceeds number of required references; all references high quality choices.
5. Clarity, writing mechanics, referencing, and APA formatting requirements, including a reference list and matching in-text citations. Weight: 20%	More than 8 errors present	7-8 errors present	5-6 errors present	3-4 errors present	0-2 errors present

You will need the appropriate constructors. In addition, you may also implement other methods that may be useful for the assignment (where possible define code in just one place).

 

Part II:

 

Write a program to thoroughly test all of the methods of your LinkedItemList class.  Once you are confident is it working correctly, proceed to part III.

 

Part III:

 

On the tomcat drive in cosc310 you will find an eclipse project called assmt2.  On importing this project you will find a program CompanyReport which is similar to the Company and Bank projects.  That is they use arrays for 1 to N relationships between business objects.  Make the following modifications to CompanyReport to use ItemList and LinkedItemList.

 

1)     Change the Company class to use LinkedItemList for your list of departments (instead of using an array).   Define the type of the departments variable to be a ItemList.  You will need to modify for loop accordingly.

 

2)     Change Department to use LinkedItemList for the list of employees (instead of an array).  Define the employees variable as a ItemList of Employees.

 

3)     Remove the method getEmployee(int index) from Department.  Instead add an ItemIterator getEmployees() method.  It just calls the iterator method on the employees variable and returns its ItemIterator.  Modify Department where needed to use getEmployees to iterate over the list of employees.

 

 

Additional Requirements:

1. Place ItemList and LinkedItemList into package edu.iup.cosc310.util
2. Provide a fast implementation for appendItem(), e.g., does not need to walk the list to get to the end.
3. Provide a fast implementation for getNoItems(), e.g., does not need to walk the list to count the number of items.

 

Deliverables:

 

4. A zip file named lastname2.zip containing all source files and class files.  For example, if your name is John Smith, the file name should be smith2.zip.
5. Printout of all source files (need only the sources you wrote or changed).
6. Printout of the output from your test program and CompanyReport program.

 

 

All papers must be submitted as a single packet and stapled in the upper left corner.

– Because of the stiffer felony penalties imposed for possession with the intent to sell versus mere possession, many states forbid prosecutors from assuming that there is intent to sell based on the defendant’s mere possession of a controlled substance.

 

If a suspected drug dealer is arrested with nine baggies of marijuana in his possession, a marijuana pipe, a bag of marijuana seeds, but only $20 in cash on his person, what are the chances that he could be charged with possession with the intent to sell?

 

Explain and defend your answer.

 

#3 – Review the bill below passed in California. The bill contains a  “revenge porn” crime.The bill also adds other public morality crimes.

 

a.  Identify and list with citation to the bill the crimes added to California law by the bill.

 

b. Do you think the new crimes (especially the “revenge porn” law) are required in today’s society and can you see any constitutional problems with them?

 

/content/enforced/158243-001415-01-2162-OL1-6381/CASenateBill255.pdf

 

 

 

#2 – Because of the stiffer felony penalties imposed for possession with the intent to sell versus mere possession, many states forbid prosecutors from assuming that there is intent to sell based on the defendant’s mere possession of a controlled substance.

 

If a suspected drug dealer is arrested with nine baggies of marijuana in his possession, a marijuana pipe, a bag of marijuana seeds, but only $20 in cash on his person, what are the chances that he could be charged with possession with the intent to sell?

 

Explain and defend your answer.

 

#3 – Review the bill below passed in California. The bill contains a  “revenge porn” crime.The bill also adds other public morality crimes.

 

a.  Identify and list with citation to the bill the crimes added to California law by the bill.

 

b. Do you think the new crimes (especially the “revenge porn” law) are required in today’s society and can you see any constitutional problems with them?

 

/content/enforced/158243-001415-01-2162-OL1-6381/CASenateBill255.pdf

 

Self  Defense

 

You are a police detective investigating a homicide case in which the defendant shot and killed a man who had broken into her apartment and threatened to rape her. He was eight inches taller and 60 pounds heavier than she was, and she stated that she feared for her life.

 

a)  In such a case, is lethal force justified for self-defense? Why or why not?

 

b) What other factors would you consider in a case such as this?

 

Be sure to use legal authority and rules in your answers.

 

Insanity Defense

 

A local business owner has been arrested for the nonfatal shooting of a competitor, who he said taunted him and destroyed his business reputation. The defendant is from a culture in which people who commit social wrongs make public apologies; in some cases, they commit suicide to show remorse. The defendant stated that his competitor slandered him to vendors and to customers. In addition, he refused to apologize when confronted, and only laughed at the defendant. The defendant said that he was “out of his mind” with rage when he pulled the trigger.

 

a) Can the defendant use any affirmative defenses? Why or why not?

 

b) Should the defendant be charged with any crime? Why or why not? What crime?

 

Be sure to use legal authority and rules in your answers.

 

PERJURY

 

A prosecutor charged Hosea with committing perjury when he denied giving Steve $1,000 on February 2, 2001. In fact, Hosea gave Steve $1,000 on February 3, 2001.

 

Answer the following questions:

 

a. Has Hosea committed perjury? Should Hosea’s statement be considered truthful or false?

 

b. Does it make a difference what day the money was given?

 

c. Should Hosea be required to voluntarily give the correct date?

 

 

 

1) Some have argued that sex offenders seem to be punished more

severely than they should be. For example, upon release from prison,

they may be put on a sex offender list that can be seen by anybody in

the community.  Those convicted of murder, burglary, or assault are not

put on a list. When these latter perpetrators complete their

sentences, their punishment ends. By putting sexual predators on sex

offender lists, aren’t we actually extending their sentences? Couldn’t

it be argued that they are being punished more severely?

2) Are there other crimes for which we should post a list that anybody

in the community could log on to?  For example, it has been contended

that those who have been convicted of drunk driving should be on a

list.  The argument is that since drunk drivers have a high rate of

re-offending, the public should be forewarned by placing drunk drivers

on such lists.

3) What are the drawbacks of placing ex-convicts on lists?  How might

this actually prevent an ex-convict from becoming a contributing member

To learn how to analyse spectrum of a digital signal using DFT method

2. To learn how to program the DFT algorithm in C
3. To learn how to perform I/O operations using interrupt method and program/implement them using the evaluation toolkit
4. To evaluate the real-time performance such as sampling rate, interrupt latency, response time and computer loading.

2         Overview

Real time digital signal processing requires high computational performance and fast real time response. Physical signals are to be sampled before being processed by computers or microprocessors.  Issues such as sampling rate and analogue to digital conversion shall be considered in the first place.

In real time applications, input/output operations such as sampling signals or displaying signals are generally time-consuming so that such tasks shall be implemented in the interrupt service routine(ISR). Discrete Fourier Transformation (DFT) will be used for signal spectral analysis and will be coded and implemented in the real-time signal processing systems. The spectrum of the sampled signal will be displayed in external equipment or visual signal viewer.

 

Real time system performances especially interrupt latency, response time, and computer loading will be evaluated for this digital signal processing application.

 

Additional information about the project, and how it is suppose to be done:

1. Tutor must be able to identify how to display the graphical output of the done DFT.
2. In this project, basically we will use a digital signal sampling and processing as an embedded application.

There will be tasks such as reading the signal, displaying the signal in a scope, processing the data such as filtering and/or FFT, displaying the spectral, etc. The critical design issues include deciding what to be placed in the main process and what to be placed at interrupted mode, be it in regular basis or an as-needed basis.

The system will be built on a microcontroller which supports ARM Cortex-M3 and interrupts mode exceptions.

 

 

A must read for any expert or computer science expert:

A need to deliver”

1. You need to provide me with all the 4 objectives answers, only choose to help me do if you can provide solutions for my 4 objectives and outcomes. If you unable to provide, please do not try helping.

e assignment below is based on the information from the paper written on Ricos Product Mfg. in Week 3. See attachments for information needed.

 

Week 4

Use the same business problem/opportunity and research variable you wrote about in Week 3.

Remember: Do not actually collect any data; think hypothetically.

Write a 700- to 1,050-word summary in which you:

• Identify the types of descriptive statistics that might be best for summarizing the data, if you were to collect a sample.
• Apply the types of inferential statistics that might be best for analyzing the data, if you were to collect a sample.
• Analyze the role probability or trend analysis might play in helping address the business problem.
• Analyze the role that linear regression for trend analysis might play in helping address the business problem.
• Analyze the role that a time series might play in helping address the business problem.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines using the template at righ

Airvalue Airways is a regional carrier whose strategy is to expand gradually as they can identify routes that offer an attractive return on the investment necessary to support successful coverage of the route.  As part of this expansion, the company is planning to buy a new plane in the upcoming fiscal year. The purchasing department has narrowed the choice down to two models.  One is the A220 which is manufactured in Europe.  The other plane is the G435 which is built in the United States.  The two aircraft have similar profiles. However, the locally-built G435 is significantly more expensive to purchase.

The A220 has an expected life of 5 years, will cost $90 million and its use will produce net operating cash inflows of $30 million per year. The G435 has a life of 10 years, will cost $128 million, and its use will produce net operating cash inflows of $25 million per year.  Airvalue plans to serve the route for 10 years. When they need to purchase a new A220 at the end of five years, the cost will be $115 million net after allowing for salvage value of the used plane.  Net operating cash inflows will remain at $30 million throughout the second five years.  At the end of 10 years, salvage value of the G435 and of the second A220 are expected to be about the same at approximately $500,000 each.

As the company’s CFO you are to provide the financial analysis that will be considered by the strategic planning executive committee during evaluation of this expansion alternative.  Your plan is to use a capital budgeting approach to the analysis in order to best assure that the decision will result in maximization of wealth for the company’s stockholders.  You also want to convert the entire committee to the concept that capital budgeting should be used as the main tool for the financial analysis of capital expenditure alternatives.

The company uses the historical difference in returns between the S&P 500 and the Treasury bond rates of 7% as their estimated market risk premium.   The current yield to maturity on a 10-year Treasury bond is 6.2%.  Airvalue Airways’ common-stock equity beta is estimated as 1.40.

Airvalue’s capital structure is 58% common stock, 32% preferred stock and 10% long-term debt.  An 8.8% after tax cost of debt has been determined and the cost of preferred stock is 12%.

Your task is to:

1. Describe for other members of the strategic planning committee the role that capital budgeting should play in corporate strategic management.
2. Explain why the NPV and IRR capital budgeting tools are superior to the accounting rate of return and simple payback techniques for determining the attractiveness of capital investment opportunities.
3. Use the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) to identify the cost of common stock.
4. Calculate the weighted average cost of capital (WACC) for the firm’s existing capital structure.
5. Calculate the net present value (NPV) for each plane model using the company’s WACC as the hurdle rate.
6. Recommend which plane should be purchased and justify your recommendation.
7. Discuss the need to manage implementation of the project so that the higher returns can be realized.  Include the strategic management keys to protecting the project from competitive forces that would erode the earning power of the project and jeopardize realization of the projected rate of return on the investment.

To complete this assignment, you must submit a 6-8 page paper that addresses the seven elements of the task as listed above and exhibits your calculations of the cost of common stock, the weighted average cost of capital, and the NPV for each plane along with an explanation of the calculations.

The paper must be submitted as a Word document and it must follow APA style guidelines.

Airvalue Airways is a regional carrier whose strategy is to expand gradually as they can identify routes that offer an attractive return on the investment necessary to support successful coverage of the route.  As part of this expansion, the company is planning to buy a new plane in the upcoming fiscal year. The purchasing department has narrowed the choice down to two models.  One is the A220 which is manufactured in Europe.  The other plane is the G435 which is built in the United States.  The two aircraft have similar profiles. However, the locally-built G435 is significantly more expensive to purchase.

The A220 has an expected life of 5 years, will cost $90 million and its use will produce net operating cash inflows of $30 million per year. The G435 has a life of 10 years, will cost $128 million, and its use will produce net operating cash inflows of $25 million per year.  Airvalue plans to serve the route for 10 years. When they need to purchase a new A220 at the end of five years, the cost will be $115 million net after allowing for salvage value of the used plane.  Net operating cash inflows will remain at $30 million throughout the second five years.  At the end of 10 years, salvage value of the G435 and of the second A220 are expected to be about the same at approximately $500,000 each.

As the company’s CFO you are to provide the financial analysis that will be considered by the strategic planning executive committee during evaluation of this expansion alternative.  Your plan is to use a capital budgeting approach to the analysis in order to best assure that the decision will result in maximization of wealth for the company’s stockholders.  You also want to convert the entire committee to the concept that capital budgeting should be used as the main tool for the financial analysis of capital expenditure alternatives.

The company uses the historical difference in returns between the S&P 500 and the Treasury bond rates of 7% as their estimated market risk premium.   The current yield to maturity on a 10-year Treasury bond is 6.2%.  Airvalue Airways’ common-stock equity beta is estimated as 1.40.

Airvalue’s capital structure is 58% common stock, 32% preferred stock and 10% long-term debt.  An 8.8% after tax cost of debt has been determined and the cost of preferred stock is 12%.

Your task is to:

1. Describe for other members of the strategic planning committee the role that capital budgeting should play in corporate strategic management.
2. Explain why the NPV and IRR capital budgeting tools are superior to the accounting rate of return and simple payback techniques for determining the attractiveness of capital investment opportunities.
3. Use the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) to identify the cost of common stock.
4. Calculate the weighted average cost of capital (WACC) for the firm’s existing capital structure.
5. Calculate the net present value (NPV) for each plane model using the company’s WACC as the hurdle rate.
6. Recommend which plane should be purchased and justify your recommendation.
7. Discuss the need to manage implementation of the project so that the higher returns can be realized.  Include the strategic management keys to protecting the project from competitive forces that would erode the earning power of the project and jeopardize realization of the projected rate of return on the investment.

To complete this assignment, you must submit a 6-8 page paper that addresses the seven elements of the task as listed above and exhibits your calculations of the cost of common stock, the weighted average cost of capital, and the NPV for each plane along with an explanation of the calculations.

The paper must be submitted as a Word document and it must follow APA style guidelines.

The purpose of this lab is to learn to use Multisim to analyze noise in op-amp circuits. Students will capture screenshots of the noise spectral density curves which will provide a visual relationship of the output noise voltage versus frequency.

1. Read the document on configuring a noise analysis in Multisim. Week 7 – Configuring Noise Analysis in Multisim.pdf
2. Following the instructions in pdf, construct the inverting Op-Amp circuit shown in figure 1.
3. Run the simulation to measure the gain of the Op-Amp and record the values of R1 and R2 and the measured gain in the table below. (Use 5% tolerance for R1 and R2)

Voltage gain (Av)	R1 (5% tolerance)	R2 (5% tolerance)	Measured Voltage gain (Av)
1	1KΩ
5	1KΩ
10	1KΩ
12	1KΩ

4. For the gain of 5 in the table above, run the noise analysis to obtain the results for noise voltage for R1 and R2. (Note: You need to run this noise analysis for the circuit with the gain of 5 only)
5. Plot the noise spectrum density curve across frequency range of 100 Hz to 1 GHz. (Note: If your Multisim version does not support this option then try to download the trial version of Multisim Power Pro edition from NI website).
6. Answer the following questions:
   1. Does the measured gain values match the given values? If not, explain why they are different?
   2. From the noise spectral density curve, explain the effect of increasing the frequency on the noise voltage.
   3. Is the voltage gain of the Op-Amp dependent on frequency? Please explain.
7. Create a new word document called “Lab7_StudentID.docx” with your GID substituted into the file name.
8. Verify all calculations from analysis and measurements from simulations. Save the results along

Use the same business problem/opportunity and research variable you wrote about in Week 3.

Remember: Do not actually collect any data; think hypothetically.

Write a 700- to 1,050-word summary in which you:

• Identify the types of descriptive statistics that might be best for summarizing the data, if you were to collect a sample.
• Apply the types of inferential statistics that might be best for analyzing the data, if you were to collect a sample.
• Analyze the role probability or trend analysis might play in helping address the business problem.
• Analyze the role that linear regression for trend analysis might play in helping address the business problem.
• Analyze the role that a time series might play in helping address the business problem.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines using the template at right.

the last decade we have seen many emerging businesses. Great examples for success stories are Apple, Google, Facebook, and many more. These are all products and businesses that have come into a market and seized their moment. They entered/ created a market, segmented it correctly and caught the customer’s attention with a superior value preposition.

This year’s CES trade show in Las Vegas showcased many new tech products.

The trend goes towards wearable and connective home technologies.

Please choose one of the products below:

Virtual Reality Devices

Smart home/ home appliances

You will complete a paper on the chosen product giving the reader more insight on the product. Questions that have to be answered in your paper are:

1. What is the company selling?

Discuss this in terms of the core benefits, actual products, & augmented products.

2. What is the market for the product?
3. What segment is the product targeting?
4. What segment, targeting and positioning recommendation would you make?
5. Is the product a fad or here to stay? Discuss.
6. What could help the company avoid a premature decline of this product?

Please make sure to reference your sources and use the APA format 4 pages minimum