Define bots and describe how they are used in accounting.
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The paper must include references formatted appropriately. You may choose any citation style.
References are not included in the count of the pages.
After reading the article Pixel Perfectopens in a new window by Lauren Collins, where do you think digital artists should draw the line when it comes to digital manipulation? Should there be a code of ethics for designer? Where do you as a designer draw the line?
After visiting some of the websites related to sustainable design practices, what small steps could you take in your daily life that align with the ethics of sustainability?
Discuss two of the Photoshop Creative Effects covered in the LinkedIn Learning tutorials that would be helpful in fine-tuning your digital artwork. Be sure to include the exact number and title of the techniques that you choose, and provide a detailed analysis of the techniques you choose.
Guidelines and Expectations
Your Discussion:
Minimum 200 words
Clear, logical and on-topic remarks
Thoughtful views with new personal insights
References from reading or Internet resources to support your comments, including images and other visual resources as necessary.
Have you seen the new Smart car? If you have, you are probably part of the buzz that has been heard recently about this new concept car that has made it to the streets. The car seats two, is available in three different models, and costs between about $12,500 and $17,000. The most significant fact about the Smart car is that it gets about forty-five miles per gallon. That fact alone has become central to Smart cars initial introduction to the driving public. Has small finally become better than large, extralarge, and supersize? The manufacturer of the Smart car is betting on it. Investigate the Smart car. Once this is done, construct a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) analysis for the Smart car. Evaluate the cars likelihood of success.
Readings:
– https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2013/10/regions-personalities
– Divided we stand (below)
watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUzalIH7D_s&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6WBiMLqkIM&feature=youtu.be
As indicated in the chapter, Product placement is also slowly but surely making its way into videogames. Advergaming brings real-world brands into the game. On the surface this seems like a natural extension of product placements that we see every day in our TV programs, movies, and online surfing adventures. Adult gamers would think it unusual if the street scenes where high-speed chases and gun battles took place didnt have billboards and signs that advertised real products. Should product placements in youth-oriented video games have stronger standards?
Assume one of two roles: (a) You are a proponent of product placements in video games, or (b) You are an opponent of product placements in video games. Develop an effective argument for your position. Remember that your argument must address the ethics of using product placements in youth-oriented games. Discuss your argument with peers. Debate the opposition.
****DO NOT DO POWERPOINT SLIDES********—Written out in paragraph form—-
At least five different credible sources of information are required for this speech. Because you will be attempting to persuade your audience, this means that your sources should be the most strongly credible possible. Weak sources will a weak case make, so be sure to choose only the most expert sources of information to strengthen your points. This means that general reference sources will not be accepted (e.g., Wikipedia, about.com, ehow.com, howstuffworks.com. dictionaries or encyclopedias in print or online, and so on), nor will secondary sources, including those that come in the form of general websites for quotes or for statistics (e.g., brainyquote.com. statistics.com), nor will YouTube sources typically, or anything else that is listed in your bibliography without a specific author/title of website.
Title/Topic of Speech: Give it a good name.
Introduction: Written out in paragraph form.
Body: Each main point, subpoint, and sub-subpoint outlined, as shown in prior class lessons and by your textbook (p.196-205) in full, complete sentences. Transitions are provided between main points and labeled.
Conclusion: Written out in paragraph form.
Bibliography: Cites a minimum of five different sources in proper Modern Language Association (MLA) or American Psychological Association (APA) format.
Analyze the change in inequality between 1980 and 2014. Suggest some explanations for any similarities and differences you observe across time and in comparison to the United States. You may want to research your chosen(CHINA) country to see if there were any changes in government policy, economic events, or other factors that may affect the income distribution.
Describe data analysis only the values for 1980 and 2014 are visible. You will be using this data as the basis for the Lorenz curves.
Analyze how the distribution has changed over time by drawing the two Lorenz curves.
With the Gini coefficients and perhaps discuss income shares of the bottom, middle, and top of the distribution.
Add a reference section if you obtain addition country information, not included in page count.
Use the excel document below for data information
Many people associate tourism with being on vacation, with paradisiacal landscapes, and just getting away from everyday life. For others, however, everyday tourism practices are intimately related to diverse expressions of violence in various forms (p.605).
1.Discuss various forms of violence intertwined in tourism. Please thoroughly read the article and list out all violent measures associated with tourism and discuss about them.
2.What do the authors mean by tourism’s spatial fetishism?
For each of the scenarios below, use at least one reference from the required readings to answer the specific question.
An organization decides that they dont want to spend the large amount of money to use a 360-degree survey from an established vendor and instead decides to develop their own survey. An employee in the human resource department is asked to create a list of 50 questions about different areas of leadership performance. Two of the senior managers look at the questions briefly and then send out the survey as part of a 360-degree process. Once the results come in, there is no rhyme or reason to the results. For example, one top performing leader in the organization gets perfect performance scores from some employees and very negative scores from other employees. Management is not sure if the results from the survey can be trusted or not.
A unit in one organization is having a lot of performance issues and senior management is not sure of the reasons for this. They dont want to fire any employees, but they do think some of the supervisors need to improve their leadership skills. The survey is sent to five employees, which includes two supervisors and three direct reports. They are told that although the survey will be anonymous, the results of each survey will be shared with all five employees; the names will be removed from each survey, and they will all be able to see the evaluation scores on each question. When senior management sees the survey results, they find that all five employees received almost perfect scores and no useful information from the surveys can be found.
A software company is concerned that they are losing market share to their competitors and that their software is not as high in quality as it used to be. In an effort to improve their competitiveness, they decide to use a 360-degree survey process to identify areas for improvement in leadership skills among their top supervisors in their software design department. After searching through a few different 360-degree instruments offered by different vendors, they find a survey that focuses on communication and teamwork skills. The process seems to go very well as supervisors who score low on communication or teamwork agree to go through training to improve these skills. One year later, the 360-degree process is repeated, and most supervisors show greatly improved communication and teamwork skills. However, the quality of the companys software does not seem to have improved at all in spite of the improvements in communication and teamwork.
Utilize span of the entire book.
Your paper will use several examples and quotes from throughout Survival in Auschwitz. Include analysis, discussion, interpretation, and quotes from throughout the book so I can tell youve read the entire work and carefully considered the whole of Levis narrative. Be a careful and considerate reader in examining all of the authors text. Write for a reader who does not know and hasn’t read the book.
Second source.
You will use one source in addition to Survival in Auschwitz to support and build on your thesis. The quotes you choose for analysis should illustrate your knowledge of Levis entire book, so it is wise to choose quotes from each area of the bookbeginning chapters, middle chapters, and end chapters. Chapter titles are in quotes. For example, Levi writes in Our Nights of his dream, still warm when he wakes. Book titles are in italics.
Quotations.
Quotes help to support your thesis and, particularly at this point, should show your ability to smoothly integrate text and your own analysis/interpretation of it. Take a representative sampling of quotes from across the book. The paper, however, is not a just summary of facts about Levi’s book. Instead, it shows an original insight (launched through your thesis and built into each essay topic below) into Levis Survival in Auschwitz and the arguments and philosophical issues it explores.
Essay prompts. Choose one.
You do not need to answer every question in a prompt. You may also combine themes, but make clear to your reader in the first paragraph what theme concerns you in Levi’s book.
1. A premise is a proposition put forth that acts as basis of argument. On what premise does Levi base his memoir? In other words, what is his overarching argument, and what exploration does he conduct in light of that argument and his experience at Auschwitz? (Note the book’s original title, If This is a Man.)
2. Discuss Levi’s compulsion to tell his stories — his dream of returning home to tell his story to others, how he writes things in the camp, the way he commits names and details to memory — in light of the human need to tell stories. You might also consider the need of the story as a means to work and to give form to traumatic experience.
3. The visceral presence of home in its absence, in memory is a major theme of the book. Home has both a literal and figurative role in this story; it is a physical place and community as well as a metaphor for return, for memory, for clinging to personhood, and for the possibility of life. Explore this theme, where and when it occurs in the text, and the reasons for its importance to Levi, and perhaps to his reading audience.
4. Why and how are (the act of) naming and (sharing) personal stories of those he meets themes throughout Levi’s work? Consider Levi as a writer-witness who not only records his own story, but the stories of the dead. Note his ethical responsibility as a writer and survivor of genocide.
5. Comment on the ways Levi utilizes his training as a chemist and a writer to utilize the metaphors of science and literature (Lager as laboratory; man and beast; the drowned and the saved–from Samuel Coleridge’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” from the Greek myth of Ulysses, from Italian writer Dante’s descent into hell in Inferno) in exploring the experience of life and death in the Lager. How does metaphor heighten and dramatize his account? How does it provide a vehicle or frame for the tenor/focus of what it means to be human even as one is dehumanized?
6. Levi employs various forms of argument that in his memoir: definition; cause/effect — conditions as foundation of cause/effect analysis; fact/reason (he labors to document & establish facts via his personal experience); morals/ethics. Remember that Levi establishes new and shocking facts about the camps as a first witness and in testimony of his experience.
7. Much of Levis account relies on a rationality provided by ethics (ethos) or moral reasoning. The use of reason and a measured tone does not exclude the use of pathos (emotion, persuasion) as a form of argumentation. Levi evokes all three argumentation appeals in this particular autobiographical work: pathos, ethos (credibility of first-person testimonial; and, logos (confronting moral dilemmas as is he is solving a proof and often writing about the Lager as if it were a laboratory itself.)
