Ashford 3: – Week 2 – Assignment

 

Senior Project Summary
 

Write a Senior Project Summary paper on the selected topic from Week One. In your paper include the following:  Title Page  Anticipated title (this may change for the completed       project)  Your name  Course name and number  Instructor’s name  Date submitted  Introduction: Provide a description of your selected      topic (i.e., health care trend) and a thesis statement. Identify the      organization that you have chosen to address, including why the issue of      your selected topic is important to the health care administrators in your      organization, and to the health care industry in general. This should be      about one-third of a page.  Scope of the Senior Project: This section should      summarize the content topics and sub-topics related to the health care      trend that will be addressed in the Senior Project.  Discussion: This section should be a constructive and      analytical overview of what was found in the scholarly and professional      literature. Make sure to discuss the pros/cons or strengths/weaknesses of      the stakeholder group impacted (e.g., patient, provider, third-party      payer, administrator, legislator, etc.) as applicable. In developing this      section, it is important to demonstrate your understanding of the topic      and the interventions and influences. This should be about one page.  Conclusion:  Provide a summary of the main effects      of the contemporary health care trend on costs, quality, and access to      services as it impacts various stakeholder groups.  Reference Page 

 The Senior Project Summary should be two- to- three pages (excluding title and reference pages) in APA format as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
 

Carefully review the Grading Rubric for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.

  

Ashford 5: – Week 4 – Discussion 1

 

Your initial discussion thread is due on Day 3 (Thursday) and you have until Day 7 (Monday) to respond to your classmates. Your grade will reflect both the quality of your initial post and the depth of your responses. Reference the Discussion Forum Grading Rubric for guidance on how your discussion will be evaluated.

 

     

Gender   Development

 Gender roles are the combination of attitudes, behaviors, and personality characteristics that a culture considers appropriate for an individual’s anatomical sex.  Psychologists have proposed a number of theories to explain gender typing (LeFrancois, 2012).   
 

For this discussion, you will choose and analyze two of the four scenarios in the videos below, and explain how each scenario relates to the theories that explain gender typing. Boy Meets Girl

  Free to Be, You and Me – Ladies First

  Free to Be You and Me – Princess Atalantis

  Free to Be You and Me – William Wants a Doll 

 What do you think influenced the children in each video?  Next, explain how your own gender identity may have been influenced by gender stereotypes.  Finally, what are some strategies you can use in an early childhood educational setting to avoid gender stereotyping?
 

Guided Response:  Review several of your classmates’ posts.  Respond to at least two of your classmates by providing additional ways that teachers or caregivers can minimize stereotypical differences in the classroom.  Compare your classmates’ analyses of the videos to your own, and point out any differences or similarities that you find.

requirements are in the attached file. But here they are:

Problem 1:

Sorting algorithm comparison

In this problem you are asked to:

Implement in Java the Quicksort algorithm for arrays of integers.

Implement in Java the Hybrid Quicksort algorithm for arrays of integers, a variant of Quicksort that depends on an additional parameter k. The algorithm works as follows:

– if the size of the portion of the array to be sorted is greater than k, it recursively calls the Hybrid Quicksort method with the same k;

– if the size of the portion of the array to be sorted is less than or equals to k, it sorts that portion by using the Insertion Sort algorithm.

Empirically compare these two sorting algorithms for different values of k (k = {10,

20, 50, 100,…..}) and different array sizes n (n = {20, 100, 1000, 10000). Find out for which values of k and for which array sizes Hybrid Quicksort outperforms the standard Quicksort.

Problem 2:

You have learnt about heaps as a data structure that allows one to retrieve the maximum in a set of numbers in constant time. Moreover, a heap can be maintained in logarithmic time if we insert a new element and it eventually finds it place in the heap. Your task will be to realize priority queues using heaps in arrays.

Priority Queue is an extension of queue with following properties.

1.Every item has a priority associated with it.

2.An element with high priority is dequeued before an element with low priority.

3.If two elements have the same priority, they are served according to their order in the queue

.4.Here value of the element itself can be considered as its priority, greater the number,higher is the priority.

Implement priority queues as instances of the class:

public class PriorityQueue{

int maxSize;

int currentSize;

int[] queue;

public PriorityQueue(int maxSize){

this.maxSize = maxSize;

queue = new int[maxSize];

currentSize = 0;

}

}

An instance of this class can hold a heap of up to maxSize integers. Initially, the heap has size 0, which means that none of the elements of the array queue is considered to be a heap element.

You are now asked to implement the following methods for this class:

1.boolean empty(), which returns true iff the heap is empty;

2. boolean full(), which returns true iff the number of integers in the heap is equal to maxSize;

3. int extractMax(), which returns the maximum element of the heap, deletes it from the heap, and reorganizes the array so that it is a heap of the remaining elements; after this operation the currentSize of the priority queue is one less than it was before; clearly, the operation can only be applied if the priority queue is not empty, otherwise, an exception has to be raised;

4. void insert(int n), which inserts a number n and reorganizes the array so that it is a heap of the new, larger set of elements; after this operation the currentSize of the priority queue is one greater than it was before; clearly, the operation can only be applied if the priority queue is not full, otherwise, an exception has to be raised.

5. void printHeap(), which prints the heap. This method can be implemented as you wish as long as you mention how one should read the ordering of elements from printed Heap.

Description:

As you come to the close of your study of World Religions, it has hopefully become evident to you that religions will continue to have a place on the world stage and influence in the lives of many around the globe. In an ever-changing world environment that seems to get smaller every day, nations are discovering along the way that it is harder and harder to stay isolated from one another.

In our study of World Religions, if there is one thing that that stands out above the rest, it is the notion that our world faces numerous global issues that demand attention and solutions for the betterment of all of the world. Could it be, given the historical nature of World Religions, that working together instead of in conflict with one another, that the world’s major religions could provide real-life, world-changing solutions that would pave the way for the betterment of humankind across the world? That is not to say it would be easy, but the benefits could be enormous for providing solutions to the Global Issues we face today.

It is with that thought in mind that for your Week 7 Presentation: My Favorite World World Religion, you are being asked to develop a multi-media presentation representing what has become for you over this course, My Favorite World Religion. The purpose of this assignment is NOT for you to discuss your own religion, but for you to demonstrate effective research skills in the development of a multi-media presentation that will highlight the study of a religion you’ve come to understand this term and to give you an opportunity to dig more deeply into that religion and expand upon its place on the world’s stage of religions.

You will need to include the following in your presentation:

• A brief Introduction of your favorite religion and the reasons why you have selected to research it.
• Provide a brief historical study and background information about your religion that will include:
  • The founder of the religion
  • The date of the religion
  • The geographical location and the role geography plays in the religion
  • Provide current demographical information about your religion
• Detail and discuss the major components of this religion’s belief system.
  • The nature of a god or supreme being
  • Identify and define major rituals
  • Discuss views of the afterlife
  • Detail any worship practices and places of worship or no places
• Detail and discuss the contemporary application of the religion in the world today
  • Highlight mission and services they provide to local communities
  • Highlight how this religion may be working with other religions to address world issues
  • What are those issues and how are they addressing them?
• Project the future of your favorite religion
  • For the growth of it in the United States
  • For the growth of it on the world’s stage
• Conclusion
  • Summarize your findings
  • Re-iterate why it is your favorite religion
• Include MLA citations and a Works Cited Page to identify your resources. Use in-text citations directly on your slide to identify your resources and avoid plagiarism
• Review the Grading Rubric in advance so that you will have a good idea of the expectations for the presentation.

PRESENTATION FORMATS:

• Your presentation can be in the form of any of the following formats of your choosing.
• Your presentation should not exceed 15 slides including your Title and Works Cited pages.
• You will want to maximize your creativity and demonstration of the use of technology and the software