Mechanics” of a Movie

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 (1) minimum 150 words; (2) references to the readings, videos, etc.;


1.  How can a director use the camera, lighting, and sound to evoke emotions in a film?  Think of a film wherein your emotions changed.  Was this the result of the cinematography?  If so, how?  Explain your response.

2.  Imagine your living space is a set for a movie in which you are starring. What would the set tell the audience about you and your life? Why? What elements would be most revealing? How do moviemakers use sets to reveal character information, and create tone and mood for the story? Recall a scene from a film you have seen recently to illustrate your point.

3.  Music and musical scores are often used to elicit an emotional response from the audience. Think of a movie in which the music affected you emotionally, such as Jaws or Sleepless in Seattle. How were you affected negatively or positively by the music?

History Final Paper. Revise Thesis to make good conclusion.

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Final Project

For your Final Project, you may write a paper or create a PowerPoint
presentation.

  • If you choose to write a paper, it must be four to five pages in length,
    plus a title page and reference list, formatted according to APA style.
  • If you choose to create a PowerPoint project, it must be 12 to 15 slides,
    plus a title slide and a reference slide, formatted according to APA style.

    • Please note that whether you choose to write a paper or create a PowerPoint
      presentation, you must properly cite your sources according to APA style.

To complete this project

  • Choose from one of the topics below and analyze its history from 1877 to the
    present.
  • Select four specific events or developments that span the years covered by
    this course, based on their impact on the topic. Two of the events must be from
    before 1945 and two events must be from after 1945. You must assess how the
    events in relationship to the topic changed over time and explain how the
    changes occurred. Please refer back to your Week Three Assignment, consider your
    instructor’s comments and make any necessary revisions.
  • Write an introduction with a thesis. Your thesis should summarize the main
    conclusions that you discovered while researching your topic and that you will
    support with a logical argument based on evidence (sources). Please refer back
    to your Week Three Assignment, consider your instructor’s comments, and make any
    necessary revisions to your thesis statement.
  • Connect each of the events or developments you have chosen back to your main
    thesis. The information presented must be organized and in chronological order.
  • You must use at least four sources in your paper other than the
    textbook, with at least two primary sources and at least two secondary sources. Please refer back
    to your Week Three Assignment, consider your instructor’s comments, and make any
    necessary revisions.

Choose one of the following topics:

  • Native Americans
  • African Americans
  • Immigrants
  • Women

For example, a student writing a paper about the topic African Americans
might choose the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Power Movement as two of their
events. In that case, the paper would provide a description of the two
movements. It would explain what each one revealed about the role of African
Americans in broader American society in, respectively, the 1920s and the late
1960s, explain how and why the roles of African Americans in the 1920s differed
from their roles in the late 1960s, and explain how events in the 1920s may have
contributed to developments in the later decade.

Writing the Final Project
The Final Project:

  1. Must include a separate title page with the following:
    1. Title of project
    2. Student’s name
    3. Course name and number
    4. Instructor’s name
    5. Date submitted
  2. Must begin with an introductory paragraph that has a succinct thesis
    statement.
  3. Must address the topic of the paper with critical thought.
  4. Must end with a conclusion that reaffirms your thesis.
  5. Must use at least four scholarly resources other than the textbook,
    including a minimum of two primary sources. Your secondary sources must come
    from the Ashford University Library.
  6. Must document all sources, including images, in APA style as outlined in the
    Ashford Writing Center.
  7. Must include a separate reference page, formatted according to APA style as
    outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

If you choose to create a PowerPoint presentation, you should use visual
elements to contribute to your explanation of the topic. PowerPoint
presentations should avoid plagiarism and have proper APA citations for all
source material either in the note section at the bottom of each slide, or on
the last slide of the show indicating sources for each slide. The final slide
must be a correctly formatted reference list containing all of your sources. You
may use non-scholarly sources for your images, but not for the text of the
presentation. Make sure to pay attention to color and style.

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I wrote an essay I need someone to look over it Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling – Paper Assignment

For your 1000 word written analysis, you will track the progress of Harry Potter as a Hero Archetype. Please follow our Hero’s Quest Outline and fill in ALL 12 story steps (as listed below). There are no “right” answers to this assignment – follow your instincts and describe what you deem important and necessary!

You will need to write specific examples of Harry’s hero quest, so keep a pen and pad handy as you read the novel. Please refer to specific scenes, characters, events, changes of consciousness and/or circumstance. Please include at least five (5) quotes with page numbers! Please use MLA style when quoting and citing!

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Assignment Overview

In this reaction and response assignment, you will respond to three questions related to a given simulation.

Deliverables

Answers to the exercise questions

Step 1 Access the simulation.

A Balancing Act

Step 2 Complete the simulation.

Click through all the screens in the simulation, making choices as you go.

Step 3 Answer three questions.

In the first scenario, you were told that you had just finished your Psych class and had gone to your job at the campus radio station. With midterms approaching and a mountain of emails awaiting your reply at the station, you were feeling overwhelmed. You were given three choices:

  • Take a mental health break.
  • Attend to work at the radio station.
  • Set a schedule for yourself.

In a separate file, address the following questions:

  • Which option did you choose, and why?
  • After having completed the simulation, would you have made a different choice in the first scenario?
  • If so, what choice would you make, and why? If not, what about your first response made it the best one?
  • Do you use a weekly schedule or a To Do list? Why or why not?

Step 4 Save and submit your assignment.

When you have completed the assignment, save a copy for yourself in an easily accessible place and submit a copy to your instructor using the dropbox.

Grading Requirements:

Please remember to submit your assignment as an attachment in the week 1 assignment dropbox.  If you have difficulty submitting your assignment, please call the help desk at 1-866-397-6656, option 6.  I also have step-by-step directions posted in Doc Sharing for you. 

Item:

Points:

1.  Format, grammar, and spelling – Make sure to write complete sentences.  This means that each sentence must end with a period, question mark, or exclamation point.  Watch your comma use. If you have too many commas in a sentence, it is probably a run on.  One way to help this is to write short sentences.

Rules for comma use: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/607/02/

https://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/commas.htm

40 points

2.  Answers to Assignment Questions – Please write a brief paragraph answering the assignment questions.  Make sure to address all of the questions.

60 points

Assignment total:

100 points



Merger, Acquisition, and International Strategies, management homework help

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Click the link above to submit your assignment.

Students, please view the “Submit a Clickable Rubric Assignment” in the Student Center.
Instructors, training on how to grade is within the Instructor Center.

Assignment 4: Merger, Acquisition, and International Strategies 
Due Week 8 and worth 300 points

Choose two (2) public corporations in an industry with which you are familiar – one (1) that has acquired another company and operates internationally and one (1) that does not have a history of mergers and acquisitions and operates solely within the U.S. Research each company on its own Website, the public filings on the Securities and Exchange Commission EDGAR database (http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml), in the University’s online databases, and any other sources you can find. The annual report will often provide insights that can help address some of these questions.

Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:

  1. For the corporation that has acquired another company, merged with another company, or been acquired by another company, evaluate the strategy that led to the merger or acquisition to determine whether or not this merger or acquisition was a wise choice. Justify your opinion.
  2. For the corporation that has not been involved in any mergers or acquisitions, identify one (1) company that would be a profitable candidate for the corporation to acquire or merge with and explain why this company would be a profitable target. 
  3. For the corporation that operates internationally, briefly evaluate its international business-level strategy and international corporate-level strategy and make recommendations for improvement. 
  4. For the corporation that does not operate internationally, propose one business-level strategy and one corporate-level strategy that you would suggest the corporation consider. Justify your proposals.
  5. Use at least three (3) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

  • Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
  • Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

  • Identify various levels and types of strategy in a firm.
  • Use technology and information resources to research issues in business administration.
  • Write clearly and concisely about business administration using proper writing mechanics.

Click here to view the grading rubric. 

Construct and report the 95% confidence intervals for the proportions of first-born boys, separately for each racial group. Health and medical homework help

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In this discussion, we will investigate confidence intervals for binomial probabilities. The discussion is in two parts.

  • Return to the data you had generated in the second part of the
    Week Two assignment. You should have total numbers of first-born boys
    and girls in your state between the years 2007 and 2012 separately by
    racial group: American Indians or Alaska Natives, Asian or Pacific
    Islanders, Black or African Americans, and Whites. For the first part of
    this discussion, construct and report the 95% confidence intervals for
    the proportions of first-born boys, separately for each racial group.
    (Use the normal approximation to the binomial distribution.) Comment on
    the confidence intervals: can you infer from the confidence intervals
    that the proportions of first-born boys differ among the racial groups?
    Explain what the widths of the confidence intervals tell you.
  • Leading up to elections, you often hear results of polls of
    voters’ preferences, with statements such as: “This poll was taken from a
    random sample of 600 potential voters, and has an accuracy exceeding
    96%.” You may want to interpret the accuracy statement in terms of
    “margin of error”, as explained in the text, Section 6-2. Remember, the
    width of a confidence interval is a measure of the precision of the
    estimate.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/9oc9reuw5dvcos0/MHA610_week3_discussion.mp4?dl=

Cause and Effect Essay

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MLA FORMAT, APROX. 1000 WORDS. You will have to determine which causes or effects you’re going to write about. For instance, if there are too many causes for you to deal with in the scope of your essay, you’ll have to decide what are the main causes, the ones you have to treat, and then suggest to your reader that there are other, relatively minor, causes outside the scope of your essay. The one caution you have to keep in mind is not to become logically simplistic when considering causes. A cause and effect paper often appears to be structured along the lines of a Process Essay, and the structure can, in fact, be similar. The difference, of course, is that a process essay explains how something works or how something came to be as it is, whereas a cause and effect essay explains why something works as it does or why it came to be what it is. http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/composition…

750 Word Paper Needed

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It has to be a 750-1,000-word essay that analyzes the rhetorical situation of a public document. This public document is the Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) website on Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) found at: http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/adhd/facts.html.Your analysis should include at least TWO scholarly sources outside of class texts.

Directions

Complete a close reading of the assigned public document. Then, write a cohesive essay that:

1.Introduces and summarizes the CDC website on ADHD.

2.Analyzes the rhetorical tools used on the site (here, you will want to incorporate ideas from your preanalysis below). For instance, your essay could analyze the CDC’s use of ethos, pathos, and logos.

3.Evaluates the site’s effectiveness (again, ideas from your preanalysis below will be helpful).

This essay is NOT simply an expository or descriptive essay or an analysis of ADHD. It is an analysis of the site and how effectively the site uses rhetorical tools to get its point across. 

Standard Cost Variance , accounting homework help

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Standard Cost Variances

Boise Recreational Supplies makes a large tent
that they sell to the U. S. Army. Following is the information relative to the
year ended December 31, 2013.  During the
year they manufactured 1,000 tents. Standard cost for each tent is as follows:
50 yards of canvas with a standard price of $5.00 per yard. It takes a worker 8
hours to cut and stitch a tent. Workers standard labor rate is $20 per hour.
Variable overhead is applied at the rate of $5.00 per direct labor hour.

During the year they purchased 60,000 yards of
canvas for $360,000. They used 55,000 yards to produce the 1,000 tents. The
laborers worked 7,000 direct labor hours and were paid $175,000.  Actual variable overhead was $49,000.

Required:

  1. Compute the
    material quantity and price variances.
  2. Compute the
    labor efficiency and rate variances.
  3. Compute the
    variable overhead spending and efficiency variances.
  4. Why do
    companies do variance analysis?
  5. To what
    general ledger accounts are the variances closed to?

Answering two questions from the book

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the questions are

  1. A) Industry is starting to take command! Describe the factors that made the U.S. an industrial society during the second half of the 19th In some ways did the industrial revolution create new forms of freedom for some workers while restricting some freedoms for others?
  2. B) Discuss the many obstacles faced by immigrants in the United States in the late nineteenth century (Chinese/Jewish/Birds of Passage). Among the immigrant groups arriving in the United States in the late 19th C . how were arrivals from China singled out for particular discrimination by Americans? Why do you think the Chinese received such unique treatment and what factors played into this (think science)?