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E-mail messages have become the most common form of communication in businesses. Unfortunately, business people often create e-mail messages that are too informal given that those messages are as official as business letters. Learning to create proper e-mail messages is, therefore, of the utmost importance. Using the information from the Modules on E-mail Messages and on Business Letters, students should create one e-mail message to address the following scenario: You are the leader of an IT group developing a mobile app for your customers. Your group needs to meet to finalize the details of the app. Specifically, the group needs to discuss the use of QR codes versus Near Field Communication technology, the timeframe for completion and release, and the price of the app. As the leader of the group, create an e-mail inviting the other members of your group to a meeting to address the items mentioned above. Specify a time and a place for the meeting. Attach an agenda for the meeting (Do not “really” attach an agenda, but write the text of the e-mail as if you were attaching an agenda). The goal (in terms of the action required) of the meeting will be to present a two-page report to the group’s supervisor outlining how the group is handling the completion and the deployment of the app. Students should create a word document with the text of this invented e-mail message. They should include the To, From, Date, and Subject information that the e-mail system would normally generate.Â

– Grading

This assignment will be graded on content and context. If students present a text that meets all the requirements, they will earn 30 points. If students present a text free of mistakes, they will not lose points. This assignment requires the creation of an e-mail message. This message should follow the MADAM strategy presented in the Module on E-mail Messages (Lesson 3) and the Module on Letters (Lesson 3). Grammatical mistakes, punctuation mistakes, formatting mistakes, syntactical mistakes, and all other types of mistakes will be deducted from the total earned at the cost of 0.3 points per mistake, with a maximum of 3 points deducted. The presence of the proper file extension and identification header will always be verified. The absence of either will cost students 2 points. See page 4 of the Syllabus for instructions on how to do a proper file extension and a proper identification header.

Determine the crystallographic direction and plane that would have the maximum LD and PD (there are multiple, so pick one), and show the values when atomic radius is 0.145 nm and crystal structure FCC ———————— I just need the answer for that question correctly a 100% and the attachment file have its example to solve it correct

. Discuss why financial markets are important to a healthy economy and how they contribute to economic growth.

2. Assume that you recently graduated with a degree in finance and have just reported to work as an investment adviser at the brokerage firm of Smyth Barry & Co. Your first assignment is to explain the nature of the U.S. financial markets to Michelle Varga, a professional tennis player who recently came to the United States from Mexico. Varga is a highly ranked tennis player who expects to invest substantial amounts of money through Smyth Barry. She is very bright; therefore, she would like to understand in general terms what will happen to her money. After your consultation with Michelle, she asks to discuss these two scenarios with you:

a. While in the waiting room of your office, she overheard an analyst on a financial TV network say that a particular medical research company just received FDA approval for one of its products. On the basis of this “hot” information, Michelle wants to buy many shares of that company’s stock. Assuming the stock market is highly efficient, what advice would you give her?

b. She has read a number of newspaper articles about a huge IPO being carried out by a leading technology company. She wants to get as many shares in the IPO as possible and would even be willing to buy the shares in the open market immediately after the issue. What advice do you have for her?

Blog Assignment The actual assignment is given on pages 20 through 22 in your lecture notes book as well as here. https://vimeo.com/84472549 How to create your blog as well as 3 different ways to create the posts for the blog assignment. Part 1 of the assignment asks you to 1) create a blog and 2) write blog posts about certain material listed in the assignment description. You submit the web address (URL) of your blog to your lab instructor using this form: Blog URL Registration Form. To obtain your social networking blog URL: 1) log into your blogger.com account, and 2) click the View blog button for your blog. The URL of your blog will appear in the address bar of your web browser. The URL of your blog should look something like this: http://xyz.blogspot.com/ where xyz will be different for your URL and the http:// and .blogspot.com/ will be the same for everyone’s URL. Due Date for Part 1: Submit this part of the assignment by Tuesday, October 13, 2015.

You will complete an exegesis of a passage from the New Testament (employing methods of interpretation and perspectives, such as literary and historical context, literary form, and structure). Exegesis means to expound upon a text, to unpack a text of its many meanings. Elements of various types of criticism will be employed to further develop your ability to interpret the Bible. The paper should be 2000-3000 words in length and follow MLA style.

Select one of the following passages as the basis for your exegesis:
ï‚· Matthew 6:9-13 (My Selection) ï‚· Matthew 17:1-13  ï‚· Luke 9:18-36

Follow the outline below and answer the questions in each section using recommended sources. Keep the outline headings below as the subheadings of your exegesis.

1. Literary Criticism a. Context: What follows and precedes your passage? Are your pages affected by this context? b. Form criticism: What is the literary form of your passage? Are there other places in the Bible (or related text) where this form is used and which help to interpret this passage? c. Structure: Do you detect any particular structural pattern (e.g., parallelism within your assigned book of the Bible)? Describe the parts of your passage. d. Redaction criticism: Has your passage come through an editorial process? What changes have been made? Explain why certain changes have been made. e. Key words: What are the theologically important words in the passage? Do these words evoke any other parts of the Bible? Are these words used in a new way by the author of this passage? What do these words mean?

2. Theological Analysis

a. What does this passage say about the relationship with God?

b. What questions might this passage have addressed in the community for which it was originally written?

[Some of the ideas above are adopted from A Guide to Biblical Exegesis by G. Landes and W. Wink (unpublished.)]

You should document your exegesis carefully. Be sure to use some material from the bibliography in the course Doc Sharing area for your exegesis, especially the biblical reference books. Below are some hints for successfully completing the paper:
1. Look up your passage in the New Testament.

2. Consult a general commentary (such as The Jerome Biblical Commentary, The New Jerome Biblical Commentary, or The Collegeville Bible Commentary).

3. Consult specific commentaries (see the course bibliography in Doc Sharing, e.g., Harrington’s Matthew’s Gospel, Fitzmyer’s The Gospel According to Luke).

4. Conduct a periodical search (through EBSCO) of your passage, limiting search to full-text, peerreviewed journals.

Use the checklist below to ensure that you are following the format properly:

1. Are all ideas documented (including page numbers)?

2. Are all quotations documented (including page numbers)?

3. Is there a works cited page?

4. Do the notes and bibliography include sources recommended by the syllabus?

5. Does the format include the headings from the syllabus?

6. Does each sentence make sense?

7. Does the “form” section clearly name a literary form?

8. Does the redaction section contrast the assigned passage with Mark’s version (except for infancy narrative and Lord’s Prayer)?

9. Does the key word section include more than one key word?

10. Does the key word section refer to Old Testament material?

The final paper is due by the conclusion of Module 7 and is worth 25% of the course grade.

With about 12 sentences, answer the following questions: based on Voices of Freedom 31 (Common Sense) and the Declaration of Independence (appendix of textbook), discuss how Paine uses language (words and phrases) in a way that “ordinary readers (less educated) can understand” (100). How has Paine’s document influenced Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence?

You will complete an exegesis of a passage from the New Testament (employing methods of interpretation and perspectives, such as literary and historical context, literary form, and structure). Exegesis means to expound upon a text, to unpack a text of its many meanings. Elements of various types of criticism will be employed to further develop your ability to interpret the Bible. The paper should be 2000-3000 words in length and follow MLA style.

Select one of the following passages as the basis for your exegesis:
ï‚· Matthew 6:9-13 (My Selection) ï‚· Matthew 17:1-13  ï‚· Luke 9:18-36

Follow the outline below and answer the questions in each section using recommended sources. Keep the outline headings below as the subheadings of your exegesis.

1. Literary Criticism a. Context: What follows and precedes your passage? Are your pages affected by this context? b. Form criticism: What is the literary form of your passage? Are there other places in the Bible (or related text) where this form is used and which help to interpret this passage? c. Structure: Do you detect any particular structural pattern (e.g., parallelism within your assigned book of the Bible)? Describe the parts of your passage. d. Redaction criticism: Has your passage come through an editorial process? What changes have been made? Explain why certain changes have been made. e. Key words: What are the theologically important words in the passage? Do these words evoke any other parts of the Bible? Are these words used in a new way by the author of this passage? What do these words mean?

2. Theological Analysis

a. What does this passage say about the relationship with God?

b. What questions might this passage have addressed in the community for which it was originally written?

[Some of the ideas above are adopted from A Guide to Biblical Exegesis by G. Landes and W. Wink (unpublished.)]

You should document your exegesis carefully. Be sure to use some material from the bibliography in the course Doc Sharing area for your exegesis, especially the biblical reference books. Below are some hints for successfully completing the paper:
1. Look up your passage in the New Testament.

2. Consult a general commentary (such as The Jerome Biblical Commentary, The New Jerome Biblical Commentary, or The Collegeville Bible Commentary).

3. Consult specific commentaries (see the course bibliography in Doc Sharing, e.g., Harrington’s Matthew’s Gospel, Fitzmyer’s The Gospel According to Luke).

4. Conduct a periodical search (through EBSCO) of your passage, limiting search to full-text, peerreviewed journals.

Use the checklist below to ensure that you are following the format properly:

1. Are all ideas documented (including page numbers)?

2. Are all quotations documented (including page numbers)?

3. Is there a works cited page?

4. Do the notes and bibliography include sources recommended by the syllabus?

5. Does the format include the headings from the syllabus?

6. Does each sentence make sense?

7. Does the “form” section clearly name a literary form?

8. Does the redaction section contrast the assigned passage with Mark’s version (except for infancy narrative and Lord’s Prayer)?

9. Does the key word section include more than one key word?

10. Does the key word section refer to Old Testament material?

The final paper is due by the conclusion of Module 7 and is worth 25% of the course grade.

Description:
Sparse matrices are matrices populated primarily with zeros (lecture 11). When storing and manipulating sparse matrices on a computer, it is beneficial and often necessary to use specialized algorithms and data structures that take advantage of the sparse structure of the matrix. You are required to implement the sparseMatrix data structure described as follows. Your sparseMatrix should consist of an array of chains (see figure below). Each chain holds the non-zero elements of the corresponding row in the matrix. These non-zero elements can be of type boolean or integer. All of the elements of a sparseMatrix must be of the same type, i.e. a sparseMatrix cannot contain both integers and booleans. Thus, your sparseMatrix class must be templated.

For your sparseMatrix data structure, you must implement a constructor, destructor, print, read, and mask methods. You may also implement any helper function(s) at your own discretion.
– The read function receives input from standard input (stdin) and creates a sparse matrix by assigning values to the internal structures of the matrix.
– The print function prints out the elements of the matrix, in the format shown in the example below.
– The sparseMatrix method mask(b,c), has an implicit third operand. The operand is this (the object invoking the method). The mask(b,c) method stores the result of masking this and b into the sparseMatrix c.
– Masking a matrix is defined as follows:
c(i,j) = a(i,j) if b(i,j) is true, and
c(i,j) =0 otherwise,
where b is a boolean sparse matrix, and a and b are integer sparse matrices.
– You need to explicitly instantiate two matrices with type int, and one matrix with type boolean. Your main matrix and result matrix will contain integers. Your mask matrix will contain booleans.
– You may assume that all matrices will have the same dimensions.

– Note: As you read in matrix b, you will read integer values from the input, but store boolean values into b. As you read in matrix a, you will read (and store) integer values.

Sample test:
int main()
{
sparseMatrix<int>* a = new sparseMatrix<int>();
sparseMatrix<bool>* b = new sparseMatrix<bool>();
sparseMatrix<int>* c = new sparseMatrix<int>();
cout << “Reading Matrix A” << endl;
a->read();
cout << “Matrix A:” << endl;
a->print();
cout << “Reading Matrix B” << endl;
b->read();
cout << “Matrix B, the boolean mask matrix:” << endl;
b->print();
// Masking
a->mask(*b,*c);
cout << “Matrix C, result:” << endl;
c->print();
return 0;
}

Sample input and output (user input is shown in RED):
Reading Matrix A
Enter number of rows, columns
3 4
Enter number of terms in row 1
1
Enter element’s column, and value of each term in row 1
1 111
Enter number of terms in row 2
2
Enter element’s column, and value of each term in row 2
2 222 3 233
Enter number of terms in row 3
0

Matrix A:
rows = 3 columns = 4
row 1[ col:1 val= 111]
row 2[ col:2 val= 222, col:3 val= 233]
row 3[]

Reading Matrix B
Enter number of rows, columns
3 4
Enter number of terms in row 1
1
Enter element’s column, and value of each term in row 1
1 1
Enter number of terms in row 2
1
Enter element’s column, and value of each term in row 2
3 1
Enter number of terms in row 3
0

Matrix B, the boolean mask matrix:
rows = 3 columns = 4
row 1[ col:1 val= 1]
row 2[ col:3 val= 1]
row 3[]

Matrix C, result:
rows = 3 columns = 4
row 1[ col:1 val= 111]
row 2[ col:3 val= 233]
row 3[]

r this thread, you must find a Youtube video that relates to one or more of the selected authors assigned for this module. Post the link to the video you’ve chosen and discuss its relevance to the assigned reading for this module. In what way does the video inform you about these authors and/or this period in African American literary history? How helpful was the video to you? What can one learn from the video that would supplement the reading material? Be specific and avoid short answers.

Realism, Naturalism, and Modernism (p. 93-107); Richard Wright (p. 119-132); Margaret Walker (p. 318-323); Gwendolyn Brooks (p. 324-343)

Corporate Entrepreneurship & Sustainability
Corporate entrepreneurship and sustainability focuses on the involvement of the society in the business process to create shared value. It is a good competitive strategy for the businesses today to ensure competitive advantage as well as major return on investment.
1.Miles, M. P., Munilla, L. S., & Darroch, J. (2009). Sustainable corporate entrepreneurship. International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, 5(1), 65-76.
The paper analyses how sustainability can be integrated into a system involving corporate entrepreneurship. Over the previous years, the topic on corporate entrepreneurship has been looked at from one perspective. It is viewed as a process that boosts the company’s growth rate by coming up with new products, generating ideas ,processes , markets and strategic decisions. Recently though the cost of operation has increased and managers have started to focus on sustainability and corporate social responsibility. Managers who engage in practicing sustainability practices have seen a formidable change by providing a stimulus that for corporate entrepreneurship that may result in the creation, discovery, assessment, and creation of entrepreneurial opportunities, a very good reputation and eventually get a competitive edge in the market. Sustainability is the best progressive tool that managers can use in order to work together with the community. Shareholders are specifically advocating for the method pushing the management to agree to take the method and use it.
2.Dess, G. G., & Lumpkin, G. T. (2005). The role of entrepreneurial orientation in stimulating effective corporate entrepreneurship. The Academy of Management Executive, 19(1), 147-156.
The article examines a research that was done to establish the relationship between the firm’s orientation towards entrepreneurship and how it performs on a large scale. It is noted by the authors of that a firm that picks up the strategy of corporate entrepreneurship are able to grow by exploring new venture opportunities and they constantly renew their strategies. They are sustainable advantages that were observed for the firms that choose to follow the corporate entrepreneurship strategy like above average return on investments and other sustainable advantages. The article outlines and discusses the major aspects of corporate entrepreneurship they include: autonomy, innovativeness, being proactive, competitiveness, being aggressive, and taking risks. They identify areas within which managers can take future advantage and explore the new areas. They also further discuss the implications that mangers have from implementing these strategies in their corporations. The main thing from the discussion of the article is that entrepreneurial orientation is the best strategy for managers to follow in order to ensure that there is sustainable growth in the organization.
3.Morrish, S. C., Miles, M. P., & Polonsky, M. J. (2011). An exploratory study of sustainability as a stimulus for corporate entrepreneurship. Corporate social responsibility and environmental management, 18(3), 162-171.
The paper discusses on a study carried out in New Zealand publicly traded firms. It examines how the firms are using sustainability as a stimulus to advance corporate entrepreneurship. The researchers had some several findings about the firms that were investigated. The firms did not incorporate sustainability in their mission statements. They did not recognize the process in any of their products. Their processes were entirely based on the manual concept and did not integrate sustainability. The strategies and business model innovative initiative did not allow room for sustainability. The companies that were found to incorporate sustainability they did so but under varying, digress ,it was not a fully implemented in the firms. The firms in New Zealand do not seem to recognize sustainability as a stimulus that can lead to corporate growth. They are a reflection of other firms worldwide that have not adopted the concept fully in their production process. It remains an alien process in many firms around the world not only New Zealand .
4.Weidinger, C., Fischler, F., & Schmidpeter, R. (2014). Sustainable entrepreneurship: Business success through sustainability. Heidelberg: Springer.
The book discusses the sustainable entrepreneurship as business strategy that involves increase the total value of a business by including the social aspect. As noted, most managers do not regard the contribution of the society towards the success of their organizations. However, the book shows how the concept of sustainability is a unique strategy that most business will have to adopt for future success. The book pinpoints the advantages that accrue from using sustainable entrepreneurship in the business. The book acts as a motivator for encouraging the businesses, which have not undertaken sustainable entrepreneurship to do start practicing the strategy. Sustainable entrepreneurship contributes to solving some of the major challenges facing the world like climate change, political and economic uncertainty, and ensuring successful businesses. It provides a detailed framework of sustainable entrepreneurship. How it should look like, and its major key drivers. It is a detailed book and the authors have critically discussed the issue of social responsibility of businesses.
5. Atiq, M., & Karatas-Ozkan, M. (2013). Sustainable corporate entrepreneurship from a strategic corporate social responsibility perspective: Current research and future opportunities. The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, 14(1), 5-14.
The paper explores the process of sustainable entrepreneurship from the realm light of strategic corporate social responsibility. It has a very interesting approach as it draws from the entrepreneurship studies that focus on opportunity creation and enforcement. The authors of the come up with a conceptual framework for sustainable entrepreneurship that combines an entrepreneurial approach with sustainability. The suggestion of the authors is that sustainability should form part of the firm’s business operations and sustainable business operations should be driven by an entrepreneurial approach in order to create a shared value that is value for both the community and the business. The creation of shared value is the major outcome of sustainable corporate entrepreneurship. It is the main reason behind the success of major businesses that have recognized a community is part of a business. The framework proposed will ensure that the business reap from using the process of suistanability. It is a key strategy to survive in the business world today.