Analyze the way in which Dark City illustrates the main themes found in Plato’s Allegory of the Cave by demonstrating the ways in which the various themes from Plato’s philosophy are present within the film.

Read the “Theory to Practice” section at the end of Ch. 6 of the text.

Answer Questions 1 through 6 based on the scenario in the “Theory to Practice” section, and complete the following in your response:

• At the end of the scenario, BTT states that it is not interested in distributing Chou’s new strategy game, Strat. Assuming BTT and Chou have a contract, and BTT has breached the contract by not distributing the game, discuss what remedies might or might not apply.
• Explain your answers and refer to Section 7-6 in Ch. 7 for support.

Submit your answers.

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Theory to Practice

Big Time Toymaker (BTT) develops, manufactures, and distributes board games and other toys to the United States, Mexico, and Canada. Chou is the inventor of a new strategy game he named Strat. BTT was interested in distributing Strat and entered into an agreement with Chou whereby BTT paid him $25,000 in exchange for exclusive negotiation rights for a 90-day period. The exclusive negotiation agreement stipulated that no distribution contract existed unless it was in writing. Just three days before the expiration of the 90-day period, the parties reached an oral distribution agreement at a meeting. Chou offered to draft the contract that would memorialize their agreement. Before Chou drafted the agreement, a BTT manager sent Chou an e-mail with the subject line “Strat Deal” that repeated the key terms of the distribution agreement including price, time frames, and obligations of both parties. Although the e-mail never used the word contract, it stated that all of the terms had been agreed upon. Chou believed that this e-mail was meant to replace the earlier notion that he should draft a contract, and one month passed. BTT then sent Chou a fax requesting that he send a draft for a distribution agreement contract. Despite the fact that Chou did so immediately after receiving the BTT fax, several more months passed without response from BTT. BTT had a change in management and informed Chou they were not interested in distributing Strat.

1. At what point, if ever, did the parties have a contract?
2. What facts may weigh in favor of or against Chou in terms of the parties’ objective intent to contract?
3. Does the fact that the parties were communicating by e-mail have any impact on your analysis in Questions 1 and 2 (above)?
4. What role does the statute of frauds play in this contract?
5. Could BTT avoid this contract under the doctrine of mistake? Explain. Would either party have any other defenses that would allow the contract to be avoided?
6. Assuming, arguendo, that this e-mail does constitute an agreement, what consideration supports this agreement?

Contrast sources and uses of cash referencing using at least two examples of assets and liabilities (four total). Provide examples of how cash is used or provided depending on whether it is categorized as an asset or liability.

Differentiate between the different users of financial information, their needs and sources of information organization.

Tribke Enterprises collected the following data from its financial reports for 2012:

Stock price                                               $18.37

Inventory balance                                    $300,000

Expenses (excluding COGS)                   $1,120,000

Shares outstanding                                  290,000

Average issue price of shares                 $5.00

Gross margin %                                       40%

Interest rate                                              8%

TIE ratio                                                    8

Inventory turnover                                    12 x

Current ratio                                             1.5

Quick ratio                                                .75

Fixed asset turnover                                1.5

Complete the following abbreviated financial statements, and calculate per share ratios indicated. (Hint: Start by subtracting the formula for the quick ratio from that for the current ratio and equating that to the numerical difference.)

Set up an income statement that includes revenue, COGS, GM, EBIT, EBT, and EAT. Set up a balance sheet that includes Current assets, Fixed assets, Total assets, current liabilities, long-term debt, Equity (paid in capital*, and retained earnings), total equity, and total liabilities & equity.

*Paid-in capital = Common Stock + Paid-in Excess

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.

– Henry For

When Henry Ford began revolutionizing the automobile industry with assembly line production of affordable cars for the public, the status quo for most people around the world was still transport by horse. You can just imagine the questions Henry Ford might have asked as he looked around at the status quo of the time. Perhaps he asked “What if I could mass produce a type of transportation that everyone could afford?” Ford’s innovations in business process allowed him to create a series of radical changes which would help to create what we recognize today as a modern lifestyle. Ford identified and challenged the initial resistance to changing the status quo that he faced.

Is there a status quo in your work life that you think could be changed? In this Discussion, you will cultivate some of the important skills needed to challenge the existing state of affairs in your work life. Start by looking around your current workplace or envision the workplace at an organization with which you are familiar and start thinking, “What if?”

Post by Day 3 the following:

• Ten questions that challenge the status quo at your current workplace, or one with which you are familiar. Be sure to place this list at the beginning of your Discussion post.
• Then, select one question for further analysis and provide a rationale as to why this question is important, why it poses a barrier to innovation, and why it challenges the status quo of the organization. Finally, select one of the five discovery skills from Dyer, et al. (2009), https://services.hbsp.harvard.edu/services/proxy/content/20331266/20331395/246c1fd2ba1c8b324a7d7c2afdf6ffe4 and provide a rationale for why this discovery skill would enable you or the organization to drive innovation and overcome creativity barriers and the status quo that prompted your question in the first place.

Scenario: The RN is caring for a group of patients with two individuals who present a challenge in developing a therapeutic relationship. One is a 15-year-old male who experienced a head injury after being thrown from the back of an all-terrain vehicle (ATV). The patient was placed on a ventilator. On the third day of hospitalization he begins to be more responsive, opening his eyes on request and following the movement of people in the room. The other patient is an elderly woman who does not speak English as her primary language. She had just received a diagnosis where she will need to make serious decisions about her care. Her adult son wants to be her interpreter. There are some very personal questions the RN will need to ask and is uncertain about the son’s involvement.

• Describe how the RN establishes a caring, therapeutic relationship with these patients.
• Can the RN approach these situations in the same manner as with patients who are awake, alert, and speak the same language?
• What strategies may the RN use to provide culturally sensitive nursing care that reflects the patient/family health- illness beliefs and healthcare practices?
• Discuss how the RN knows when therapeutic relationships are established (i.e., what evaluation criteria are met).

Along the way in this module you will need to gather a minimum of ten (10) scholarly research articles you plan on using for your final research paper. APA-formatted literature reviews always include a references page. The references page cites every article you have mentioned in your literature review. To view a sample references page, view the sample APA paper in Doc Sharing, visit the www.apastyle.org Web site to view other sample papers, and consult your textbooks.

Part I

Include a title page in APA format with your submission.

Part II

Based on the feedback you received from your peers and your instructor on your research/focal question and your search of the literature, finalize your research question, and submit it on page 1 of your submission.

Part III

Select at least ten (10) scholarly research articles related to your chosen focal/research question. These should be articles that you intend to review, critique, or include in some other way when writing your literature review/final paper.

Create a draft of an APA-formatted references page, including each of the research articles you have selected.

Note the following important points:

• The references must be in alphabetical order.
• References should be double-spaced.
• Hanging indents must be used. (The first line of the reference is flushed left to the margin while all subsequent lines of a single reference are indented five spaces from the left-hand margin.

At the beginning of this course, you developed a graphic representation of the strategic-planning process. How has your understanding of this process grown? For this Application Assignment, you will integrate ideas and perspectives presented throughout this course as you expand upon your initial graphic.

Prepare for this Application Assignment as follows:

• What insights have you gained about the strategic planning process throughout this course? Consider the following questions:

• • What new insights about the internal and external factors that influence strategic planning have you gained?
  • What are the key elements of strategy formulation?
  • How do organizations translate their strategic objectives into operational realities?
  • What factors contribute to successful implementation or create barriers that need to be addressed?
  • Why it is important for marketing to be aligned with strategic planning?
  • Why is it important to have the monitoring and evaluation criteria in mind throughout the strategic planning process?
  • How has your awareness of the relationships and connections among various aspects of strategic planning grown?

• What insights gained throughout this course that a health care manger should incorporate in their career.
• Revisit the graphic representation of the strategic-planning process you created for the Week 1 Application. How would you revise your assessment of the strategic-planning cycle in light of what you have learned throughout this course?What recommendations do you now have for creating a strategic-planning process that is flexible yet sets the long-term direction for an organization?

Then write a 2- to 3-page paperthat addresses the following:

• Create a graphic representation of the strategic-planning process in a health care organization. (This may be a revised version of your Week 1 Application Assignment.)
• Describe in writing any elements of the strategic-planning process that you are not able to capture in your graphic representation.
• Describe how your view of the strategic-planning process has grown, including one or more key insights that will guide your future work in health care organizations.

Goals:
1. To gain hands-on experience with fork(), exec(), and wait() system calls.
2. To master the basics of multi-process application development.
3. To appreciate the performance and fault-tolerance bene_ts of multi-process applications.
4. To implement a multi-process downloader application.
Overview
File downloaders are programs used for downloading _les from the Internet. In this assignment
you will implement two different types of multi-process downloaders (i.e., _le downloaders that
comprise multiple processes):
1. a serial _le downloader which downloads _les one by one.
2. a parallel _le downloader which dowloads multiple _les in parallel.
You will then compare the performance of the two types of downloaders.
Both downloaders will use the Linux wget program in order to perform the actual downloading.
The usage of the wget is simple: wget <FILE URL>. For example, running from command line
the following command:
wget http://releases.ubuntu.com/15.04/ubuntu-15.04-desktop-amd64.iso
will download the Ubuntu Linux iso image to the current directory. Before proceeding with the
assignment, you may want to take a moment to experiment with the wget command.
In your program, the parent process shall _rst read the _le, urls.txt, containing the URLs of
the _les to be downloaded. urls.txt shall have the following format:
<URL1>
<URL2>
.
.
.
For example:
http://releases.ubuntu.com/15.04/ubuntu-15.04-desktop-amd64.iso
http://releases.ubuntu.com/14.10/ubuntu-14.10-server-i386.iso
Next, the parent process shall fork the child processes. Each created child process shall use the
execlp() system call to replace its executable image with that of the wget program. The two
types downloaders are described in detail below.
The two downloaders shall be implemented as separate programs. The serial downloader
program shall be called serial.c (or .cpp extension if you use C++). The parallel downloader
program shall be called parallel.c (or .cpp extension if you use C++).
Serial Downloader
The serial downloader shall download _les one by one. After the parent process has read and
parsed the urls.txt _le, it shall proceed as follows:
1. The parent process forks o_ a child process.
2. The child uses execlp(“/usr/bin/wget”, “wget”, <URL STRING1>, NULL) system call
in order to replace its program with wget program that will download the _rst _le in
urls.txt (i.e. the _le at URL <URL STRING1>).
3. The parent executes a wait() system call until the child exits.
4. The parent forks o_ another child process which downloads the next _le speci_ed in
urls.txt.
5. Repeat the above steps until all _les are downloaded.
Parallel Downloader
1. The parent forks o_ n children, where n is the number of URLs in urls.txt.
2. Each child executes execlp(“/usr/bin/wget”, “wget”, <URL STRING>, NULL) system
call where each <URL STRING> is a distinct URL in urls.txt.
3. The parent calls wait() (n times in a row) and waits for all children to terminate.
4. The parent exits.
Please note:
_ While the parallel downloader executes, the outputs from di_erent children may intermin-
gle. This is acceptable.
_ fork.c _le posted on Titanium provides an example of using fork(), execlp(), and
wait() system calls. Please feel free to modify it in order to complete the above tasks.
_ Please make sure to error-check all system calls. This is very important in practice and can
also save you hours of debugging frustration. fork(), execlp(), and wait() will return -1
on error. Hence, you need to always check their return values and terminate your program
if the return value is -1. For example:
p i d t pid = f o r k ( )
i f ( pid < 0)
f
pe r r o r (” f o r k ” ) ;
e x i t (􀀀1);
g
The perror() function above will print out fork followed by the explanation of the error.
Performance Comparison
Use the time program to measure the execution time for the two downloaders. For example:
time ./serial
real 0m10.009s
user 0m0.008s
sys 0m0.000s
The column titled real gives the execution time in seconds. Please get the execution times for
both downloaders using the following urls.txt _le:
http://releases.ubuntu.com/15.04/ubuntu-15.04-desktop-amd64.iso
http://releases.ubuntu.com/14.10/ubuntu-14.10-server-i386.iso
Your execution times should be submitted along with your code (see the section titled “Submis-
sion Guidelines”.
In your submission, please include the answers to the following questions (you may need to do
some research):
1. In the output of time, what is the di_erence between real, user, and sys times?
2. Which is longer: user time or sys time? Use your knoweldge to explain why.
3. When downloading the _les above, which downloader _nishes faster? Why do you think
that is?
4. Repeat the experiment for 10 _les (any reasonably large-sized _les, e.g., 100 MB, will do).
Is the downloader in the previous question still faster? If not so, why do you think that
is?
Technical Details
The program shall be ran using the following command line:
./multi-search <FILE NAME> <KEY> <NUMBER OF PROCESSES>
Where <FILE NAME> is the name of the _le containing the strings, <NUMBER OF PROCESSES> is
the number of child processes, and <KEY> is the string to search for. For example, ./multi-search
strings.txt abcd 10 tells the program to split the task of searching for string abcd in _le
string.txt amongst 10 child processes.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
_ This assignment MUST be completed using C or C++ on Linux.
_ Please hand in your source code electronically
_ You must make sure that the code compiles and runs correctly.
_ Write a README _le (text _le, do not submit a .doc _le) which contains
Your name and email address.
The programming language you used (i.e. C or C++).
How to execute your program.
The execution times for both downloaders.
The answers to all questions above.
Whether you implemented the extra credit.
Anything special about your submission that we should take note of.
_ Place all your _les under one directory with a unique name (such as p1-[userid] for
assignment 1, e.g. p1-m1).
_ Tar the contents of this directory using the following command. tar cvf [directory name].tar
[directory name] E.g. tar -cvf p1-m1.tar p1-m1/

In a two- to three-page paper (excluding the title and reference pages), explain the purpose of an income statement and how it reflects the firm’s financial status. Include important points that an analyst would use in assessing the financial condition of the company. Also, analyze Ford Motor Company’s income statement from its 2012 Annual Report.

Your paper must be formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center, and it must include citations and references for the text and at least two scholarly sources from the Ashford University Library

I hope you can assist! 😉

Thanks,

Dee1997

So I did so bad in this exam and the teacher gave us a chance to fix it. Basically what you need to do is see the wrong answers I chose, and then write why I chose this wrong answer, and then write the correct answer (the correct answers are already give