Daoism or Shinto

You may choose one topic. You may choose one topic from Daoism or Shinto. You must use your own words to state what information is found. You must give your opinion about the topic. It must be 200 words max. The textbook is called Living Religions, Tenth Edition

Summarize the Problem of Evil. How does Aquinas respond to it in this reading? Do you find his response com- pelling? Why or why not?

Summarize the Problem of Evil. How does Aquinas respond to it in this reading? Do you find his response com- pelling? Why or why not?

How does Aquinas define a “self-evident” truth? Does Aquinas conclude that God’s existence is self-evidently true? Why or why not?

How does Aquinas define a “self-evident” truth? Does Aquinas conclude that God’s existence is self-evidently true? Why or why not?

How did you attract/address your audience?

How did you attract/address your audience?

Why?

When?

 

• List everything your target audience will enjoy

• Who is your target audience

 

Make sure you are answering the question on the board

 

You will need to develop notes and from these create a script

 

Upload the script to your blog and your sound cloud/ voice recording

 

Remember this is for your coursework

 

• In that time you must discuss

List all the pleasures your target audience can take from your opening sequence:

• Guns

• Girl

• Money

• Violence

• Power

• Action

We casted our female character because of her specific look

• Young girl

• Brown hair

1. What genre have you made?

   1. Crime action thriller

2. Could this be a subgenre

   1. yes

3. Which other films might be influential?

   1. Heat

   2. The town

   3. The dark knight rises

   4. Takers

(You will be doing a post of this as well)

Where have you set your thriller? Car park in one location. ENGLAND

Why did you choose this location?

• It made the most sense and looked the best for a group of robbers.

• Industrial

• Simple

• Mean

• Bad

 

Will your audience respond to it? If so why?

• Familiarize themselves with the location

• Ground the reality

 

NARRATIVE

 

What is your plot line?

How would this attract your audience?

How would that address what they are expecting as an audience?

Characters

What kind of characters are they?

• Villainess

• Anti heroes. Not your typical heroes

• Role reverser on the ruthless female character

Will your audience like them or not?

 

Narrative devices

Have you used any?

Plot twist?

• BURNS ALL THE MONEY

• SHE IS ACTUALLY A WOMAN

• SHE KILLS THE MEN

Suspense?

Sudden reveal?

The sudden gender reveal after she kills the two men

MEDIA REPRESENTATION

 

Which social groups are you appealing to and how?  Our film appeals to both men and women.

• Gender

• Race

(Think about your profiles you created, how and why are you targeting them?)

Music

Do you have any music?

• We have background music.

NO: Why not?

What will this do for your audience?

• It will bring out tension in the movie

• It creates a feeling for the audience.

 

YES:  What kind and why?

• We used a non-diegetic fast paced song that makes the film feel faster and more powerful.

What will your audience enjoy?

 

EDITING/ FILM STYLE

What editing techniques did you use? Why will this attract your audience?

• Pace

• Transitions

• Length off shots

• Effects

Is there a style you have created for your film?

 

a research about culture in Jordan

a research about culture in Jordan

Closing the Digital Divide: Internet Subsidies in Public Schools

You are in a brainstorming session at WidgeCorp, where no idea is too outrageous. You are discussing penetration in the school lunch market. Ideas around school lunch subsidies, Internet subsidies, and Internet target marketing are being discussed. As the end of the meeting, the group asks you to prove or disprove some assumptions by looking at correlations.

First, acquaint yourself with the Internet subsidy issue by reading the article Closing the Digital Divide: Internet Subsidies in Public Schools by Austan D. Goolsbee and Jonathan Guryan.

Next, download the file Sample Data. Based on the findings as reported in this article, prepare a chart similar to the one in the downloaded file to indicate if the correlation between Variables A and B were found to be positive, negative, or minimal.

In your own words, explain what it means if the correlation of 2 variables is positive, negative, or minimal (close to 0), and give an example of each.

Reference

Goolsbee, A. D., & Guryan, J. (2003). Closing the digital divide: Internet subsidies in public schools. Capital Ideas, 5(1). Retrieved from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business Web site: http://www.chicagobooth.edu/capideas/summer03/digitaldivide.html

Read the most dangerous game by Richard Connell analize and explain how many 3 fiction elements are working to support enhance and develop a major theme in the story

Read the most dangerous game by Richard Connell analize and explain how many 3 fiction elements are working to support enhance and develop a major theme in the story

Porsche and its Drive

Read What’s Driving Porsche? and History of Porsche AG – FundingUniverse. From the perspective of an executive with the firm, prepare a strategic plan to grow the business over the next three years.

Your strategic plan must be future-oriented and must:

• Describe Porsche’s history and its 4Ps (Product, Price, Place, and Promotion).
• Explain the current situation of the organization in the market (industry, market, and general environment analysis).
• Assess the financial performance and condition of the organization.
• Conduct a SWOT analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) to determine areas that offer opportunities for change.
• Choose three or four areas from your SWOT analysis and explain why the areas you have chosen are essential to your strategic plan.
• Describe your recommended organizational structure.
• Explain your plan to measure the success of your strategic plan.

Your paper must be 10 to 12 pages in length (excluding the title and reference pages) and be formatted according to APA style guidelines as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. In addition to the text, you must use at least five scholarly sources. Remember to incorporate information that you have learned from this course as well as your personal experience

Porsche and It Drive

Read What’s Driving Porsche? and History of Porsche AG – FundingUniverse and describe the company’s history, products, and major competitors in a paragraph or two. Assess the financial performance and condition of the organization. Then, conduct a SWOT analysis detailing the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats that may affect the organization. Finally, assess the quality of the decisions made by the company and provide recommendations for improvement. (NOTE: This will become part of your Final Case Study).

Your paper must be five to six pages in length (excluding the title and reference pages), incorporate at least two scholarly sources from the Ashford University Library (other than the case and textbook), and be formatted according to APA style guidelines as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center

specialized business intelligence (BI) software

For this assignment, you will need to become familiar with specialized business intelligence (BI) software, then download the software. Complete the following steps to begin:

• Step 1: Watch an instructional video on the BI software.
• Step 2: Download the BI software. After you select the link, look for the orange icon in the middle portion of your screen to begin the download.

Consider the following scenario:

The National Sales meeting is approaching. Each regional sales manager has to do a short presentation for the marketing department that highlights how the consumers in their territory are different from those in the total United States. You are still working with the local regional sales manager. Complete the following:

• Click here to download the reports for the United States. This file contains reports generated from a marketing organization’s Web site. The Web site provides free demographical services where one can choose from a variety of criteria and generate reports based on the U.S. Census data. This particular file contains 4 reports: General Summary, Census Trend 1980 to 2000 Summary, Occupation and Employment Summary, and Income Summary based on the entire United States.
• Click here to download the reports for zip code 60614. This particular file contains 4 reports: General Summary, Census Trend 1980 to 2000 Summary, Occupation and Employment Summary, and Income Summary based on the U.S. zip code 60614.
• Using all 4 demographic reports (General Summary, Census Trend 1980 to 2000 Summary, Occupation and Employment Summary, and Income Summary) for the United States and zip code 60614, prepare a 1-page memo explaining how your territory differs from the national profile. Feel free to note anything that you found surprising in this data.
• Use the business intelligence software to depict information from these reports.
• Prepare a presentation of 5–6 slides of your major findings. You may group a category of data from the Total United States and zip code 60614, and create a graph to show how they differ. The presentation should have at least one graph and a headline that summarizes a key takeaway from the graph. The last page should contain at least 3 questions that you would want answered based on what you’ve seen in this comparison.

Your presentation should include 5–6 slides in PowerPoint, plus title and reference slides with speaker notes (200–250 words per slide).

For assistance with the usage of Tableau for analysis and reporting, review and use the following instructions. This should be helpful if you are having problems with the software usage or with problems with the data:

Instructions to Create Bar Graph in Tableau

1. Open the assignment CTU instructions.
2. Download Business Intelligence Software.
3. Create your Tableau Public Account.
4. Click the download link for the zip code (60614) file (file will open in Excel).
5. Click the download link for the US file (file will open in Excel).
6. The following are some options:
   1. Create separate demographical worksheets. For example: Education Attainment File  – Worksheet (include both Zip Code and U.S. data); Household Income (include Zip Code and U.S. data)
      • See a sample of the file available with column headings and extraneous blanks.

Household Income	Chicago					U.S.
	1980	1990	1980 to 1990	2000	1990 to 2000	1980
Median Household Income	18,438	41,227	1.236	69,311	0.681	16,902
Average household Income	24,245	67,607	1.788	114,615	0.695	20,382
Per Capita Income	13,564	38,518	1.84	63,791	0.656	7,321

 

• See a sample of the file available with column headings and extraneous blanks.

2000 Educational Attainment	U.S.	Chicago
College: Associates Degree	6.3%	1.9%
College: Bachelor’s Degree	15.5%	44.2%
College: Graduate Degree	8.9%	34.0%
College: Some College, no Degree	21.1%	8.7%
School: 9th to 11th grade, no diploma	12.1%	3.2%
School: Grade K-9	6.1%	2.0%
School: High School Graduate	28.6%	5.6%

 

2. Create a file with data organized without extraneous rows and columns but including headings.
3. The idea is to clean up the file before usage. Separating files and worksheets may be the best way to make this happen
4. Note in the real situation, when using BI software, you will want to ensure your data are clean and you have similar data in your files.
7. Save the file(s) on your computer.
8. Open Tableau. Then do a File > Open > Open your saved file.
9. At the bottom of the screen on the left, click on the little box next to Sheet 1 (looks like a bar graph with a plus in the top left corner).
10. Under Measures (on left), you should see Chicago and U.S. Click on U.S. and pull it into rows at the top of the screen. Then click on Chicago and pull it over into rows.
11. Under Dimensions on the left, you should see Household Income. Click on Household Income and pull it into column.
12. Now in the second column from the left, you should see measures.
13. In the top right corner, you should see a “show me” box illustrating ways you can view the data based on the values you have chosen. To do side-by-side comparisons, put your cursor over the rightmost picture on the third line with the side-by-side blue and orange bars. Click on it. Your graph should appear on the page. You can play around with how you want to portray your data.
14. To save in Tableau Public, click File > Save to Tableau Public as… > give the file a descriptive name. You will be asked to log into Tableau Public using your e-mail and password.
15. When your graph is saved in public, at the bottom right, there is a download button. Decide how you will save the file. (You can create an image and name the .png file. It will be saved in tableau public.)
16. After the file is saved, open the .png file, and edit or copy the graph.
17. Open your PowerPoint file, then paste (special) it on the slide. You can adjust the size.
18. Repeat the same in Tableau opening of any other prepped and cleaned file.

Note: Measure values are your number fields; measure names are the descriptors.

Please submit your assignment.

For more information on creating PowerPoint Presentations, please visit the Microsoft Office Applications Lab.

References

Pak, A. (2013, August 12). Tableau Public – Overview and Applications [Video file]. Retrieved fromhttp://youtu.be/PnkMiHocqRw

Summary reports. (n.d.). Retrieved March 3, 2006, from the Free Demographics Service on the American Marketing Association Web site: http:/www.marketingpower.com/content753.php

Tableau Public. (n.d.). Retrieved November 11, 2014 from http://www.tableausoftware.com/public/