Author: chris

Philosophy and Ethics for Computing and Information Science
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Attached you will find a document with 4 topics and a description. Choose one and within that topic produce a small research question which will be answered in the paper. The paper should have a clear structure: an introduction, the statement of your research question, the answer, a conclusion, a literature list. The literature list is a crucial part of the assignment! It shows that you are able to place your paper in a broader context.

Instructions on How Paper Need To Look:
• All papers must be double spaced and typed in a standard 12p font (Times New Roman).
• Margins should not be larger than one-inch on the top, bottom, and sides of the page.
• Type in the upper left (or right) hand corner of your paper: your name, your instructor’s name, the class and section number (ENGL 1150-51), the name of the assignment, and the draft (first draft, second draft, third and final draft, etc.).
• The center heading of your paper must be a title other than the name of the assignment (for example, something like “A Narrator’s Blindness in Raymond Carver’s ‘Cathedral’” not “First Reading Response Paper”).
• Italicize the titles of books, research journals, magazines, newspapers, and plays. Use “Quotation marks” around titles of articles, blogs, short stories, published essays, and poems.
• Your writing must utilize MLA style citation when referencing outside resources. If you use words that are not your own, be sure to put quotes around them and to credit the original author. This is an essential step in avoiding penalties for plagiarism. Every draft must follow MLA formatting standards.
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Terrance Hayes’ “Mr. T—” (499)
1. While reading, what lines of satire or sarcasm stood out to you the most?
2. When reading the poem, did you get the sense that it was making fun of Mr. T and do you feel this is how white americans saw african americans back in the 1980’s?
Elizabeth Bishop’s “Exchanging Hats” (498-499)
1. With the transgender community gaining a lot media attention recently, what aspects of this poem written in 1956 can we take away and apply to societal views today?
E. E. Cummings’ “[next to of course god america i]” (496-497)
2. What impact do you think E.E. Cummings is trying to create by writing this poem like a dramatic monologue? Why does he choose to make it a narrative poem in the last line?
Robert Frost’s “Home Burial” (493-496)
1. What do you think led Amy’s husband to behave the way he did? Was he right in his own way or wrong in another way?
2. How does the mood from the beginning of the poet differ from the end of it?

Case Study 2: Public Key Infrastructure
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Suppose you are the Information Security Director at a small software company. The organization currently utilizes a Microsoft Server 2012 Active Directory domain administered by your information security team. Mostly software developers and a relatively small number of administrative personnel comprise the remainder of the organization. You have convinced business unit leaders that it would be in the best interest of the company to use a public key infrastructure (PKI) in order to provide a framework that fosters confidentiality, integrity, authentication, and nonrepudiation. Email clients, virtual private network (VPN) products, Web server components, and domain controllers would utilize digital certificates issued by the certificate authority (CA). Additionally, the company would use digital certificates to sign software developed by the company in order to demonstrate software authenticity to the customer.

1.Analyze the fundamentals of PKI, and determine the primary ways in which its features and functions could benefit your organization and its information security department.

2.Propose one (1) way in which the PKI could assist in the process of signing the company’s software, and explain the main reason why a customer could then believe that software to be authentic.

3.Compare and contrast public and in-house CAs. Include the positive and negative characteristics of each type of certificate authority, and provide a sound recommendation of and a justification for which you would consider implementing within your organization. Explain your rationale.

4.Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment (no more than 2-3 years old)

As an intern software developer for a retail bank, you have been tasked with developing use cases to support the ATM service.

-Describe (in a one to two (1-2) page narrative) a use case, complete with typical and alternate courses, that documents the event of a bank customer withdrawing money from an ATM.

-Illustrate the use case using Visio or a similar product.

-Describe (in a one to two (1-2) page narrative) a use case dependency for making an account deposit. Illustrate this use case with Visio or a similar product.

-Describe (in a one to two (1-2) page narrative) a use case dependency for making an account transfer. Illustrate this use case with Visio or a similar product.

-Identify and explain at least one (1) ethical issue that the use case exposes in connection with the development or use of the ATM system.

Shakespeare’s As You Like It examination
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As You Like It
How does the Forest of Arden in As You Like It function conceptually, structurally, and in terms of character relationships? That is, what are the essential differences between the pastoral world of the Forest of Arden and the world of the Court, and how are they navigated by the characters? (Review Arden as an “erotic space.”)

Two pages in length. Because of space limitations, you should avoid using quotations that take up more than three lines or so (such brief quotations will be part of your text).

You do not need to give titles for your responses or provide a Works Cited page. Mention any secondary sources internally in the text of your response and cite parenthetically.

Formatting instructions:
Quotations from Shakespeare’s plays and other sources should be cited parenthetically (i.e., internally). Important: All quotations must be introduced grammatically and given appropriate context.
Note: Quotations from Shakespeare’s plays are cited by act, scene, and line number(s)—not page numbers. Important: The citation for the quotation from a paper on Richard III given above—“1.3.334-36”—is correct; “I.iii.334-36” would be incorrect.
Each response should be in the form of a well-reasoned argument that makes specific use of the primary text as well as meaningful use of relevant secondary sources.

Literary Textual Analysis of Roald Dahl’s The Witches: Significance of the boy’s transformation into a mouse
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The paper will be on the significance of the boy’s transformation into a mouse. I have attached the paper requirements, a pdf copy of The Witches by Roald Dahl, and three documents containing suggestions for writing a literary textual analysis. Please consult all of the documents before starting.

Final Research Project
The Final Research Project will present research relating the responsibilities of a critical thinker to contemporary society. In this assignment, you will do the following:
• Research Stem Cell Treatments.
• Define the problem.
• Propose a possible solution for the problem.
• Create an argument that supports your thesis position. You should take on the perspective of a critically thinking researcher. The argument must present a thesis statement and evidence to support the thesis statement.
• Evaluate the ethical outcomes that result from the position you take on the issue and explain how those outcomes would influence society and culture.
• Interpret statistical data from at least two peer-reviewed scholarly sources.
• Evaluate evidence using the following standards: validity, reliability, and bias related to the chosen topic and accurately identify strengths and weaknesses.
Research and Define the Problem
You must take on the perspective of Health Care Administration and explain in your paper what that perspective is and how it informs your view of the topic. The topics listed above are far too broad to write about in 10–12 pages. Instead, you must choose a narrowly defined thesis and approach it from the perspective of your field.
Example: If you are an economics major, and you are interested in immigration reform, you should approach a very specific aspect of immigration reform through the lens of economic theory and practice. A specific thesis question would not be, “How does illegal immigration influence the U.S. economy?” One could write thousands of pages on such a topic. Instead, a better question would be, “How do illegal immigrant hotel workers in Chicago impact the economy of Northern Illinois?” You would then want to do the research and determine the positive and negative impacts they have, ultimately trying to conclude how illegal immigration in this area should be approached ethically.
How to Hone Your Thesis: It is important that you start your research early in this course. Try to find the most important contemporary questions and theories in your field of study and then align the most important questions with a very specific aspect of the general topics above. For example, if you are a psychology major, you might want to start thinking within the realm of healthcare reform or aspects of mental health and criminality in the prison system.
Your Argument
You must present a complete argument, including a major claim with at least five points of evidence, information, or data that will prove the claim.
• The thesis statement must be
o A clear, simple declarative sentence as the first or last sentence in the opening paragraph of the essay.
o Of such a nature that it can be substantiated, corroborated, verified, and proved through appeal to primary or secondary academic research source materials.
• The introductory paragraph must
o Present the thesis statement, an explanation for the importance of the topic, and its relation to the student’s field of study.
• Beliefs, opinions, and personal opinions must not be introduced at any point in the essay.
• All beliefs and opinions should be supported with academic evidence. Sweeping generalizations with no supporting academic evidence do not reflect adequate critical thinking skills.
• Do not include rhetorical questions in your essays. All the questions that are pertinent to your project need to be answered in your essay and your answers again need to be supported with evidence from peer-reviewed journal articles and academically published books.
Attributes of Good Critical Thinking in Papers
• Your paper should include academic sources that explain multiple sides of the issue.
• The evidence that you use should come from high-level researchers engaged in your field of study.
• Your interpretations of the evidence should be objective and state the conclusions and theses presented in the evidence clearly and fairly.
• Your paper should place the various forms of evidence in relation to one another and demonstrate why one form or perspective is stronger than the other positions that one could take on the issue.
• Your paper should point out the limitations of current evidence and attempt to indicate areas for future research.
Ethical Outcomes of the Position You Take
After you have defined the problem and created an argument about how one ought to respond to the issue, you need to explain the ethical outcomes of the position you have taken. This should again be in relation to the field of study in which you are working. There might be different ethical outcomes that result from your analysis. For example, going back to the example issue above, from an economic standpoint, illegal immigrants might contribute positively to the economy of Northern Illinois in a specific number of ways. Thus, an economist who believes that positive impact to the economy is the greatest good would say that one should promote the use of illegal immigrants. However, because these workers are often paid less than others and eliminate jobs that could be done by residents of Chicago, there could be other negative ethical outcomes that would outweigh the positive impacts to the economy. It is your goal to draw out the ethical implications of your thesis and explain the underlying rationale that is the foundation for your claim that one action is better than another.
• Critical thinkers are those who can outline the positive and negative ethical impacts of their positions. In addition, they are able to provide a rationale for why they believe a specific position is the right position, even when it leads to negative outcomes.
• Critical thinkers are also able to be honest and objective about the limitations and gray areas that pertain to their theses.
Quotations:
There must be no more than 15% quoted content in the body of your essay. All quoted material must bear quotation marks and a full quotation citation.
Source Documents:
• There must be 10 or more source documents used, cited, and referenced.
• Multimedia sources (such as videos) may be used, but no more than two such sources may be used. If multimedia sources are used, then they must be authored and distributed by credible sources, such as universities, law schools, medical schools, or professors, and they must contain citations or references that lead to primary source documents that can be accessed through the Ashford University Library.
• Where print documents are used for source materials, those must be peer-reviewed, scholarly journal articles, and academically published books. Popular media sources (e.g., newspapers, magazines, television and radio shows, etc.) may not be used. Materials from advocacy groups (e.g., Greenpeace, Human Rights Campaign, National Organization for Women, etc.) may not be used.
• Two of the peer-reviewed scholarly sources used must include statistical evidence, which must be accurately interpreted.
• Sites such as ProCon.org and Wikipedia should not be used.
• Religious texts are neither peer-reviewed nor scholarly and so may not be used in any way.
Summary Conclusion:
You must have a summary conclusion as the last paragraph(s) of the project, presenting the major point of the essay and the evidence supporting that point.
Word Count:
The content body of the project must be 3,300 words or more. The word count does not include anything in the title page, running header, or reference list. It is expected that you meet all logistical requirements of this paper.
Reference List:
• The list of references must include only those source documents that are cited within the body of the project.
• The project must fully comply with APA formatting standards and requirements as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center: title page, running header with page numbers, font face and size, line spacing, citations, and reference page(s).
Carefully review the Grading Rubric for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.

Corporal Punishment of Children (Spanking)
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Word Count slated on the first page. I would like to find any statistics, on the effect of children into adulthood that received spanking and did not receive spanking. Also, to add a note from my personal experience, that I received spankings as well, and now have a successful career in the military for the past 15 years.

This paper is for my Modernity in Literature class. And the professor assigned my to write about Modernity’s History of Slaughterhouse Five reading that I did in class. *Slaughterhouse Five reading is being attached in “Additional materials” in PDF form*
*This paper needs to be 3-pages, and do not need the work cited*—but you still have to put which page number correspond to the text that you analyze.

In this paper, I have to make an argument about how Slaughterhouse Five’s imagines history. The question is that: What model of history does that work imply, advance, interrogate, or imagine, and why? Then attend to historical context to inform my argument.

The other instructions from the professor about the technical tips will be:
1. Write clearly & simply, without trying to “sound smart.” If the ideas are smart, you can write clearly without trying to inflate your prose (or use elevated diction).
2. Choose your words & verbs carefully.
3. Have a clear thesis statement.
4. Use clear topic sentences for paragraphs.
5. Transition at the level of argument not simply rhetorical device (Ex. Another point is….don’t do that).
6. Economize the writing.
7. Use correct punctuation.
8. Minimize your use of the delayed sentence: (Ex. One of the most interesting things about the poem is…., Another important point to notice about the poem is…. Please don’t do this).
9. Diversify your sentence structure & your word choice.
10. Shift from writer-centered writing to reader-centered writing.

This paper is for my History class – American in the Global Context. This paper needs to be 6 pages long, including the work cited (please put all of the works cited even it is until page 7).

This paper is about writing the Bibliography of Neil Armstrong. The instructions to write this paper are that it has to have:
1. Introduction: Briefly explain who the subject is or was, and make a claim about how he or she tells us something about “America in the Global Context.” I already did the introduction part, but I need the writer to rewrite it again. *I attached the introduction part in “additional materials.”*
2. Background: Where he or she came from, how he or she was brought up and educated, whether there were any formative experiences, and so on.
3. Impact: Describe the subject’s major contributions, whether it be in a specific field of endeavor, a community or country, an outstanding moment, etc.
4. Evaluation: Describe any controversies surrounding this individual, or any faults they had, and provide your own assessment of the issue.
*I have the other sources/references attachments about this paper in the “Additional materials” as well. They are 13 New York Times PDF forms and two websites sources attachments.