Author: chris

Modules 4.1 and 4.2
4.1
Human problem solving covers a wide range of time scales. Present a real-world situation in which the decision-making is time-constrained. Would it best be solved using a heuristic or algorithmic problem-solving method? Why? Would the Zeigarnik effect lead one to creatively develop more efficient approaches to learning? Why or why not?

4.2

The cognitive and affective aspects of creativity may be its most important components. Which of these aspects is likely to have the greater effect on the other? Why?

Task 1 will be assessed through a written essay of 2000 words that takes the form of an analysis of a conversation that took place within the practice setting making use of Hartley’s (1993) model of communication and reflection.

We want you to use Hartley’s (1999) model of Interpersonal Communication to analyse an example of a conversation in which you took part. The conversation needs to have been between a minimum of three people, and it must be professional in context.

Your work should be presented as an essay of 2000 words analysing a conversation which should include:

•A breakdown of the different sections of the conversation;
•A description of how beliefs and values affect the conversation;
•Use of literature from the course;
•Connection between theory and practice
•Learning achieved from completing the exercise

Your work needs to focus on the following:

•The Social Context – the setting, surroundings, environment, time and place and the effect these had on the conversation. (What effect did these have on me, and what effect did I observe them having on others?)
•Social Identity – how we see ourselves (how would I describe myself in the conversation and how would I describe others?)
•Social Perception – how we see others. (How did I see the other people involved in the conversation and how did I think they saw each other?)
•Codes – the way we communicate ◦Verbal – Language
◦Intonation – pitch and stress
◦Paralinguistic – vocal sounds
◦Kinetics – body and facial movements, non-verbal communication

•(How would I describe mine and how would I describe others?)

This assignment should be written in the third person

Assignments should be word-processed, not hand written and referenced using the standard format.

Always make back-up copies of your work and keep them in different places.

Hand back dates for assignments are three working weeks following submission.

Remember good written communication is about structuring your work so that your main content clearly signposted and developed and the reader is guided logically from one section/subsection to the next.

Proofread and edit your work before handing it in, checked against the learning outcomes, assessment criteria, grading criteria/rubrics and this guidance, as well as checking against the Referencing, spelling, grammar and punctuation guidance on Study Hub.

Your work must be word processed, double spaced and page numbered. You must also include a word count.

As with ALL your written assignments, you must use the Harvard system of referencing to cite your sources in the body of your paper. Your work should include at least ten different academic sources, one of which should be a journal article.

Essay should include the following conversation:

The following conversation is between a parent P, a teacher T and a child C.
The meeting was held in the evening after school at 5:30pm. P and C were there 15 minutes before. P told the receptionist why they were there and asked her, the way to the classroom. P had a chance to see C’s handwriting books, activities, art work and projects that had been done in class. A few minutes later T came out and warmly welcomed P and C and asked whether P had seen C’s work which had been left outside on the table. P replied that she had. P commented that C had put great effort into her projects and art work but her handwriting needed to improve.
T replied that C’s hand writing was much better than others in the class. I don’t have any concerns regarding C’s progress she is doing really well. I am working on mental maths these days in class. We are preparing them for the next level they will have to solve lots of questions in a certain amount of time.
P replied when she came to C’s numeracy workshop she noticed C was very slow at this. P said even when C does her numeracy homework, she takes a long time. P asked T what she could do to help her improve. T suggested giving C 10 or 15 minutes to do her homework. T then said that this method was used in the class. P thanked T for this and her time.

Introduction- 250 words
Analysis (including conversation)-1500 words
Conclusion-250 words

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Note: Your Discussion post should be in the SOAP (Subjective, Objective, Assessment, and Plan) note format, rather than the traditional narrative style Discussion posting format. Remember that not all comprehensive SOAP data are included in every patient case.<br>
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To prepare:<br>
Review the Skin Conditions document provided in this week’s Learning Resources, and select two conditions to closely examine for this Discussion.<br>
Consider the abnormal physical characteristics you observe in the graphics you selected. How would you describe the characteristics using clinical terminologies?<br>
Explore different conditions that could be the cause of the skin abnormalities in the graphics you selected.<br>
Consider which of the conditions is most likely to be the correct diagnosis, and why.<br>
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Post a description of the two graphics you selected (identify each graphic by number). Use clinical terminologies to explain the physical characteristics featured in each graphic. Formulate a differential diagnosis of three to five possible conditions for each. Determine which is most likely to be the correct diagnosis, and explain your reasoning.

For the coursework, you need to read the paper “UK Economic Policy and the Global Financial Crisis: Paradigm Lost?”
Apply the knowledge you’ve obtained from the course, and try to answer the following questions:
1. What is Hall’s model? (10 marks)
2. What are the main ideas behind monetarism? (10 marks)
3. What are the main ideas behind the New-Keynesian approach? (13 marks)
4. What was the main goal of monetary policy before the crisis? (10 marks)
5. What are its new goals after the crisis? Why? (13 marks)
6. How have the new goals been implemented? (10 marks)
7. What is the main problem with financial regulation (or banking policy)? (10 marks)
8. What would it be the main ingredient(s) of the new paradigm according to the authors? (10 marks)
9. Contemplating the current developments after the paper’s written. What is your own interpretation on the current monetary paradigm? (14 marks)

Here is my essay question
“For a substantive problem/issue of your choice, relevant to a contemporary city or cities (such as housing supply/cost; transport infrastructure/congestion; environmental quality etc.), explore the contribution of relevant urban systems to this issue/problem and critically evaluate any solutions, being aware of interactions within and between the urban systems that may be important.” You may wish to use case study examples to illustrate your argument

Attatched file is a game and its documentation that was developed by one of your writers, which failed to recieve a passing grade or fulfil the requirements I set for it. This game needs to be developed further. The game is a 2D Shooter in which a space ship is the main character. The point of the game is for the ship to destroy oncoming asteroids via lasers it can shoot. For every asteroid destroyed points are added to the player. If an asteroid collides with the ship, it loses a portion of it’s health. There is(or should be added) a second weapon – guided missiles, which should “guide” themselves to the nearest asteroid a pathfinding algorithm needs to be added(or amended if it exists in the code) to do that. In addition, one of the following enhancements has to be added: 1)Steering Behaviour; 2) Simple Physics; 4) Control of animation and sound. All enhancements must be justified and described(if not described already. ARCHITECTURAL ENHANCEMENT: a) Description and justification of the proposed enhancement b) Detailed design of the components enhanced to implement the game mechanics, end their relationships (e.g. through UML class diagrams, reporting relationships like inheritance, interface implementation and composition). c) Detailed design of the interactions between the enhanced components (e.g. through UML sequence diagrams) –FEATURE ENHANCEMENT: a) Description and justification of the proposed feature enhacement. b) Detailed design of the components enhanced to implement the game mechanics, end their relationships (e.g. through UML class diagrams, reporting relationships like inheritance, interface implementation and composition). c) Detailed design of the interactions between the enhanced components (e.g. through UML sequence diagrams) You should ensure that your product showcases a concrete gameplay scenario which is fully playable and demonstrates core gameplay elements. It is possible to use up to two internet sources as reference. In the documentation you will find a more detailed description+achitecture of the game. Feel free to amend whatever you need. Just remember the program must be runnable on windows 7, all software that is needed to run the game – listed, and the source code + source files.
P.S. The listed software required to run the file as suggested by the previous writer: XNA Framework; Visio Studio 2010

All files + documentation: https://www.4shared.com/zip/g-9M2VPKce/Game_Project.html

Beyond ethnography, do anthropologists have any need for theory? Discuss using at least two theoretical approaches discussed in the lectures and backing up your discussion with reference to relevant ethnographic examples.

The exercise requires you to include three things

• A general commentary on anthropology theory
• A critical account of the relationship between theory and ethnography
• A comparison of how this relationship features drawing on readings and ideas about at least two theoretical approaches discussed in the lectures and illustrated with relevant contemporary ethnographies
I need him to write about two types of phenomenology in anthropology and give appropriate recent ethnographic case studies

Part I (50%; 25 questions; 2 points each): Multiple-choice questions will be based on terms that were provided in your textbook, according to the assigned readings.

Chapter 9: “State and Church in the High Middle Ages, 1000-1300” (pages 240-273)

Terms: Domesday Book, primogeniture, Holy Roman Empire, Reconquista, Magna Carta, simony, Pope Gregory VII (pontificate 1073-1085), Waldensians, Albigensians, canon law, Innocent III (pontificate 1198-1216), Saint Francis of Assisi, Hildegard of Bingen, friars, Cistercians, Dominicans, Franciscans, Poor Clares, indulgences, Saladin (Salah al-Dihn)

Chapter 10: “Life in Villages and Cities of the High Middle Ages, 1000-1300” (pages 274-309)

Terms: serfs, manor, open-field system, sacraments, merchant guild, craft guild, Hanseatic League, Francesco Datini, usury, sumptuary laws, Peter Abelard (1079-1142), Saint Thomas Aquinas (1226-1274), Romanesque, Gothic

Chapter 11: “The Late Middle Ages, 1300-1450” (pages 310-341)

Terms: flagellants, Joan of Arc, Great Schism, William of Occam, Marsiglio of Padua, conciliarists, John Wyclif, Jan Hus, Meister Eckhart, confraternities, Jacquerie, Statute of Kilkenny, Divine Comedy, Canterbury Tales

Video: “Al-Andalus History of Islam in Spain” [on YouTube]

Isabella, Moors, Alhambra Palace (Granada), madrasas, Toledo, Granada, Ferdinand, inquisition

Part II: Long answer essays (50 points; 25 points each): Two of these questions will be on the midterm. Students are expected to respond to both of the questions. Please write thoughtful responses that reflect careful thinking beforehand and include specific examples.

What were the causes, course, and consequences of the Crusades?

What were some of the most important similarities and differences between village and city life in medieval Europe?

How did natural and manmade disasters combine to make the fourteenth century a time of social and economic upheaval?

Race and Biology in Japan
Final Paper Outline
Option 1

Cross-Cultural Racial Classifications Research Project.Select and research a racial classification system in another country. Explain and analyze the racial and ethnic breakdowns. What kind of relationship do these designations have to genetics? How do they differ with American classification systems? Which parts of the system do you see as contradictory, limiting, expansive?

Topic: Japan’s Homogeny VS. Being Hafu: The Repercussions of Skin Tone and Society

Outline

Opening statement:

Each year in Japan over 20,0000 half-Japanese babies are born. Japan has been a small Country with a long history of nationalistic pride. Lately there has been reports of snap judgements that label any person who looks bi-racial as the ultimate Other in their homeland.

Details/Points of Essay:

I will discuss all points that I plan to discuss, which include,
1) identify the immigration law
2) next I will note what effects being the Other has on a young child, and
3) finally I will discuss the long standing bias against mixed race people born within Japan.) Focusing on connecting these social issues directly to biology and GENETICS throughout the essay is a must and not only in one place within the essay. Also, discuss how Japanese mixed race category is a huge social challenge and confrontation to local ideas about purity of heritage and biology.

Paragraph 1:
Next I will identify the names given to the Other in Japan, beginning with Hafu and all of its connotations and identify more offensive terms to denote the Other. I will next discuss Japan’s immigration law and compare it with the laws of other Countries.???(maybe)

Paragraph 2:
I will note the effects of being labelled Hafu- The Mixed Race of Japan has on a young person whose main drive is to fit in.

Paragraph 3:
Next I will go into the new media and how Japan is coping with Miss Japan being Hafu and the backlash that Miss Japan is facing. I will also discuss how Hafu are being pushed into society and being used in fashion campaigns as well as discuss how the fashion campaigns within Japan have always sought after the (typical “all american” other.?)

Paragraph 4:
I will then discuss Journalist Roxana Saberi’s experience being of an Iranian father and Japanese mother and how she was treated as a Hafu 10 years after leaving for College. Finally I will assess the Korean-Japanese long-lingering problem of citizenship and theories on why so many Korean-Japanese nationals are marginalized and seek subversive jobs and outlooks in this society.

Paragraph 5
What kind of relationship do these designations have to genetics? Which parts of the system do I see as contradictory, limiting, expansive?

Closing Statements:
Discuss what the possible outcomes will be with the brink of change. Is there light at the end of the misconceptions on diversity? Does their immigration policy exclude for race-based reasons or other financial concerns? Do they converge? Finally with the growing awareness and usage of Hafu people in ad campaigns, is there more opportunities arising beyond these feats? Assess the current socioeconomic status within the Country….

Bibliography:

1)https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/biracial-miss-universe-japan-faces-backlash
2)https://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/9/9/hafu-in-japan-mixed-race.html
3)HAFU The Film https://hafufilm.com/en Being mixed race in Japan
4) Chung, E. (2010). Immigration and citizenship in Japan. New York: Cambridge University Press.
5) “Part II: The Internationalization and Institutionalization of Racial Anthropology in the Nineteenth Century,” (pages 193 – 353)

6) HINT: For background, refer to “Part II: The Internationalization and Institutionalization of Racial Anthropology in the Nineteenth Century,” (pages 193 – 353) in your textbook, The Invention of Race: Scientific and Popular Representations for ideas.

The completion of this assignment requires you to demonstrate the ability to:

Apply consistently in-depth knowledge and reference relevant global business management theory. Generate a variety of ways of tackling a selected problem and identify options that have a chance of success in different organisational, geographical and economical entities.

Identify quantitative and qualitative “information gaps”, and the relevant sources needed to fill such lacunae. Prepare and use IT to aid efficient searching, evaluation and selection of information, exploring alternative lines of enquiry where appropriate. Present information effectively, including evidence to support your conclusions.

Identify and critically assess in a comprehensive fashion the current strengths and weaknesses of the international organisation(s) relative to its global environment. Evaluate and synthesise information from different sources, theories and principles, and communicate relevant information effectively, and with accuracy.

Critically analyse the effectiveness of your strategy, including factors that had an impact on the outcomes, and identify ways to take the organisation forward, and ways of further developing problem solving skills

Format for submission

The word limit is3,500 (+/-10%)
All work should be word processed using either Times New Roman or Ariel font, with line spacing of 1½ and justified.
A Reference listmust be attached at the end of the report.
A minimum of 10peer reviewed academic sources is required.

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