Engaging Communication Technologies of the 1950s

Purpose
In this assignment, you’ll recreate some of the experiences of a person who was involved with communication technologies in the 1950s. (Involved with covers a lot of territory, as you’ll see from the examples below.) You have considerable choice in terms of your topic and the form your project takes.
This assignment has several goals. It’s designed to make concrete people’s engagement with technology: What did people a half century ago do with media technologies? And what did they think about them? Thus, you’ll be looking at technologies from a specific perspective. Also, you should get some sense of how people’s experiences then are the same as, or different than, people’s experiences today. The assignment should also sharpen your skills in digging out information from a variety of sources, especially primary sources. And the assignment is structured so that you can use your imagination to immerse yourself in an historical moment.
Examples
The following examples suggest a range of possibilities. Remember, though, that these are examples; you are free to use them, modify them, or come up with your own. Imagine that
You’re a suburban teenager in the 1950s: What communication media do you use to share personal information with your friends (other than by talking)?
You’re a reporter for a TV station in Seattle (or New York, or a small town): What media technologies affect the way you work?
You manage a small office in Chicago: What office technologies do you use to prepare messages and communicate with clients or customers?
You’re president of NBC television’s entertainment division: What technologies affect your programming?
You’re a candidate for U.S. Senate: What media technologies do you use for your campaign?
You’re a twenty-something professional beginning a career in New York City: What media technologies provide entertainment for your after-work fun?
You work in a New York City advertising agency (like Mad Men): How are changes in media technology affecting your work?
You’re one of two telephone operators in a small Oregon town: What was your workday like?
You’re a reporter for the New York Times covering Asia: What technologies affect the way you write and transmit stories back to the States?
You’re a motion picture producer in Hollywood: What technologies affect the latest film you’re producing?
You’re a budding rock ‘n’ roll singer: What technologies affect your performances and recordings?
You’re an activist in the PTA (or a child psychologist) who’s concerned about the effects of TV on children: What evidence is there about the consequences of children’s exposure to television? What proposals would you make to protect children?
You’re the head of research for a TV network: What evidence is there, and what arguments would you make, to prevent government from regulating television because of its possible effects on children?
Dimensions of Your Topic
The examples above, and the ones you develop, all have multiple dimensions related to media technology in the 1950s. Your project does not have to explore every imaginable dimension, but it should address more than one. The scope of your project should expand with the size of your group if you’re not working alone.
Some dimensions that you might consider as you develop your topic:
People’s use of a technology varies by geography (urban/rural, East/West), income, race, language, age, and more. Consider these variables as you select a person’s perspective–the vantage point from which you view the technology–and your topic.
Technologies—and everything else—changed during the 1950s. So you might note what changed in this time period with your technologies.
Rules govern technologies. And rules come in different kinds. Some rules have the force of law behind them (e.g., government regulation of technologies). Others are industrial or business rules. Still others involve professional conventions or social rules—what’s appropriate behavior?
People have expectations of technologies.
Significantly, almost no technology works alone and many are systems with different components. All the examples above (and your project) involve two or more technologies. Although you might focus on one technology or technological system, you should also consider complementary and competing technologies.
What You’ll Produce
You’ll produce a paper, a web site, or PowerPoint report—you choose. Your project should briefly describe the type of person—location, general age, etc.—from whose vantage point you’re examining the technologies. One paragraph is enough. Your report should then briefly sketch the state of the relevant technologies in the 1950s (maybe noting major changes during the decade). After that, you have a lot of choices, but the basic goal is to recreate the experience of a person engaging with the technologies: their purposes, advantages and disadvantages, costs, rules, content, and anything else that’s relevant.
What You’ll Produce
You’ll produce a paper, a web site, or PowerPoint report—you choose. Your project should briefly describe the type of person—location, general age, etc.—from whose vantage point you’re examining the technologies. One paragraph is enough. Your report should then briefly sketch the state of the relevant technologies in the 1950s (maybe noting major changes during the decade). After that, you have a lot of choices, but the basic goal is to recreate the experience of a person engaging with the technologies: their purposes, advantages and disadvantages, costs, rules, content, and anything else that’s relevant.
Deliverables”
“Deliverables” is the term businesses use in dealing with consultants and others to indicate precisely what should be produced and submitted. The following guidelines should help you understand exactly what you should be producing for this project.
Paper—roughly 6-8 double-spaced pages per person, including notes or references. Any note or reference style is fine as long as you are consistent.
PowerPoint or Website—Incorporate visuals along with about 1500 words of text per person. For a PowerPoint project, you can include, and count toward the 1500 words, script or text that doesn’t appear on the slides but, instead, is added to the notes function of PPT or accompanies your PPT as a separate script. You should use some form of notes or references to document your sources. You don’t need to use a lot of production bells and whistles for your PPT or web site, but do take advantage of their visual capabilities.
Evaluation
I’ll use the following criteria in evaluating your project:
Difficulty. I’ll keep in mind the relative difficulty of the task you set for yourself. That is, if you tackle a difficult topic, I won’t apply the other criteria as stringently.
Thoroughness. Do you examine enough relevant dimensions of a person’s engagement with the technologies?
Incisiveness and originality of observations. How original and acute are your observations, especially those about the role of communication technologies in people’s lives? What can you tell us about the technology and its social context?
Variety of sources. Do you use a good variety of sources or just easy-to-find materials? Do you have good primary sources?
Quality of writing and presentation. Although this is not a traditional term paper, the writing is important. This includes organization, clarity of expression, spelling, and grammar. If you present your findings on a web site or as a PowerPoint, the evaluation will focus largely on the textual content but you should adhere to basic principles of good PPT/web design.

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Analyse Douglas House by Richard Meie

Analyse Douglas House by Richard Meier
-detail on the aesthetics of the building.
-Look at symmetry and asymmetry,
-research the setting of the building, does it fit into it’s surroundings?
-Try to find what other architects influenced this architect, where did he get his Inspiration?
-How functional are the spaces?
-Why did he choose the materials he did?
-What makes this building different from others?
-Space and shapes.
-You also want to look at lighting, landscaping
-Provide images of the buildings, to clear the analysis.
-Add floor plans and explain it.
The sources should be mostly books, interview, magazines, documentaries, and only trusted website.
I need an in-text citation for each and every paragraph, with the author name, page number and paragraph number. This is the evidence of the work written in the the research paper.

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Auditing SUMMARIZE ASSIGNMENT

Background
Cynthia Cooper was a typical accounting student as an undergraduate at Mississippi State University in the USA. Growing up in a family with a modest income, she attended the local high school and worked part-time as a waitress. After graduation, she went on to complete a Masters in Accounting at the University of Alabama and became a chartered public accountant.
Like most, Cynthia never thought she would face the challenge of her lifetime before reaching the age of 40. However, a few short weeks in May and June of 2002 changed her life forever. The case summarises how she unravelled a $3.8 billion fraud that ultimately grew to over $11 billion and sent one of the USA’s largest and most visible companies to its knees in bankruptcy.
Working for WorldCom
Cynthia joined the company that eventually became Worldcom after returning from Alabama to her hometown of Clinton, Mississippi in the early 1990s. WorldCom started as a small, closely held company in the early 1980s. Bernie Ebbers moved the headquarters to Clinton, Mississippi because it was the college town of his alma mater, Mississippi College. By 1997 the company had emerged within the telecom industry and caught the eye of many on Wall Street when it launched a bid to acquire the much larger and better know company MCI.
Cynthia enjoyed the rising status of WorldCom’s growth in the business community. She was promoted to Vice President of internal audit in 1999, leading the internal audit function in what became the 25th largest company in the US. WorldCom’s stock price continued to rise through 2000, and she and her colleagues dreamed of retiring early and starting their own businesses.
Establishing internal audit’s role in the company wasn’t easy. WorldCom’s CEO, Bernie Ebbers, was forceful in his dislike for the term “internal controls” and allegedly banned the use of the term in his presence. At one point, Cynthia called a meeting with her boss, WorldCom CFO Scott Sullivan, Bernie Ebbers and a few others to help them see how an internal audit department could help the company’s bottom line. Despite being almost 30 minutes late to the meeting, Ebbers was the last person to leave the meeting. At that point, internal audit’s focus on efficiency of operations became its primary focus, leaving the financial audit-related tasks in the hands of the external auditor, Arthur Anderson, LLP. Cynthia, as Vice President of Internal Audit, would report to the CFO, Scott Sullivan.
While WorldCom’s growth skyrocketed throughout the 1990s, the telecom market was saturated by 2001 and WorldCom’s earnings began to fall. WorldCom executives began to feel enormous pressure to maintain their fantastic record of financial performance.
Unravelling of a Fraud
According to press reports, Cynthia and her internal audit team didn’t know about any unusual accounting manipulations until March 2002. It wasn’t until a worried executive in a division of WorldCom told Cynthia about the handling of certain expenses in his division. At that point, Cynthia learned that the corporate office accounting team had taken $400 million out of the division’s reserve account to boost WorldCom’s consolidated income.
As Cynthia and her team pursued the matter with WorldCom’s CFO, Scott Sullivan, she immediately felt tremendous resistance and pressure. In fact, Sullivan informed Cynthia that there was no problem and that the internal audit shouldn’t be focused on the issue. She received a similar reaction when she approached the external auditors at Arthur Andersen, who told Cynthia there was no problem at all with the accounting treatment.
Fortunately, Cynthia did not let the intimidation of her boss or the opposition of a major international accounting firm dampen her concerns about getting to the truth. In fact, Sullivan’s harsh reaction only increased her scepticism surrounding the matter. She and others within the internal audit team began to secretly work on the project late at night. At one point, they began making back-up copies of their files in response to fears that if their investigation was revealed, files might be destroyed.
Within two months, Cynthia and her team had unravelled the key aspects of the fraud. They discovered that the company had erroneously capitalized billions of dollars of network lease expenses as assets on WorldCom’s books. The creative accounting treatment allowed the company to report a profit of $2.4 billion instead of a $662 million loss.
In some ways, the fraud was quite simple. The corporate accounting team led by Sullivan had merely transferred normal operating lease expenses to the balance sheet as an asset. The expenses were for normal fees WorldCom paid to local telephone companies for use of their networks and were not capital outlays.
On June 11, 2002 Scott Sullivan summoned Cynthia to his office demanding to know what was going on with her investigation. At that meeting, Sullivan asked Cynthia to delay her audit investigation until later in the year. Cynthia stood her ground and told him at that meeting that the investigation would continue. Imagine the pressure Cynthia felt as she faced her boss, believing that he was covering up the large accounting fraud.
Cynthia decided to go over Sullivan’s head, which was a huge gamble for her. She would not only be risking her career, but she would also personally suffer following any devaluation of her investment in WorldCom stock. Furthermore, it was likely that she would experience rejection from others for upsetting a good thing. In any event, on the very next day, June 12, 2002, Cynthia contacted Max Bobbit, chairman of WorldCom’s audit committee. Feeling enormous pressure from the encounter, Cynthia cleaned the personal items from her desk in anticipation of the backlash she might face.
At first, Cynthia was disappointed to see the audit committee chairman delay taking action based on her report. However, he soon passed her report along to the company’s newly appointed external auditors, KPMG LLP. WorldCom had replaced its former auditor, Arthur Andersen, due to Andersen’s quick demise following the firm’s guilty verdict in the Enron scandal. This occurred about the same time as Cynthia and her team were investigating the WorldCom fraud.
Later that week, Max Bobbit and the KPMG lead partner, Farrell Malone went to Mississippi to meet Cynthia face to face. Over the next several days, Cynthia and the KPMG partner began interviewing several people in the corporate office, including Scott Sullivan. Bobbitt presented information to the audit committee at a June 20, 2002 meeting. Scott Sullivan was instructed to attend along with Cynthia Cooper and key members of her internal audit team to discuss the matter. Scott Sullivan, at that meeting, made every attempt to justify the accounting treatment. Despite his reasoning, KPMG tactfully offered the firm’s view that the treatment did not meet generally accepted accounting principles.
The audit committee instructed Sullivan to document his position in writing, which he did in a three page memo, four days later. The main theme of his argument was that WorldCom was justified in classifying the lease expenses as assets. The expenses, he argued, related to payments for network capacity that would be used in future years as business demand increased and new customers were added to the WorldCom network. In essence, he argued that the company needed to spend money on additional network capacity to entice new customers to come on board.
Most experts, including the audit committee, did not accept Sullivan’s justification. No other company in the industry took a similar approach. Instead they expensed network lease costs as they were incurred. Later that day, the audit committee informed Sullivan and the WorldCom controller, David Myers, that they would be terminated if they didn’t resign before the board meeting the next day. Myers resigned, but Sullivan refused and was fired. By August 2002, Sullivan had been indicted by a grand jury.
The After

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project management DB 3-1

Although this product is being targeted at the home consumer, the sales department thinks there is great potential in the commercial market, and it should be pursued. You brought this issue to the project sponsor who, in turn, brought it to executive management. Management decided that this opportunity should be investigated as part of your project. It would like to see an opportunity assessment completed that defines the new markets, potential revenues, high-level sales and marketing strategy, and a 5-year financial business case with initial expenses clearly defined. They have agreed to provide additional resources (people, funding, and time) to create this new deliverable. You need to tell them how many people you will need to complete this deliverable within the next 6 weeks. You can assume that the people will be allocated to work on this deliverable a maximum of 20 hours per week.
Create a schedule focused on the creation of this new scope item. The schedule should include the following:
A list of tasks that will need to be completed
Dependencies between tasks
Total estimated effort to complete each task
Resource assignments
Start and end dates
The schedule should contain between 25 and 60 tasks/subtasks. Use Microsoft Project, Excel, Word, or any other appropriate tool to document your schedule. You will also need to define the team members you will need. For each team member you will need, create a bulleted list of skills/expertise he or she must have to complete his or her assigned

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Power point presentation on ‘Degree of Variability in Therapeutics across Australian Oncology Ambulatory Sites’.

I require PhD power point presentation on the following topic ‘Degree of Variability in Therapeutics across Australian Oncology Ambulatory Sites’. I have uploaded the proposal with references.
If 1 page = 2 slides then I would like 6 pages= 12 slides with notes in each slide of what I’m going to say. I have attached an example of what I need and also I need lots of schematic diagrams to put my point across. Thanks

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RISK MANAGEMENT 3PL In Saudi Arabia (THIRD-PARTY LOGISTICS PROVIDER in KSA )

hello.. introduction ..
ive been working on my dissertation since long time with an other writer on the order number 937338 he did good job but now he wanted to leave and im still not finishing my dissertation + the deadline is next week ,
now i will upload for you the work done by the other writer which need to be completed and the instructions need to be followed one by one from the tutor.
this work is made on a logistics company could TLC TAKHZEEN LOGISTICS COMPANY here in Saudi Arabia i work on now and i did some paper studies before i will also upload these papers to help you continue the work +
(KSA Chilled Frozen Foods Report_Sep 2013) this is a full study made by an English company about this business in Saudi Arabia where you can find all the information needed like ( market , risk , competition ,size and all other related BTW TAKHZEEN WAS LISTED IN THIS STUDY.
here is the latest email from tutor where it is suggested to use Rao and Goldsby framework which is uploaded also.
Dear Almuthana,
I have just read your draft, which is improved. A further improvement would consist in aligning your LR exactly on the 4 sections described in my email below.
Per my email of 27 January, I am now expecting the empirical part of your dissertation that describes the methodology and presents the results of your own data collection. The structure of the interview should reflect the structure of the LR – for example, using the Rao and Goldsby, 2009 framework.
Has your manager agreed to answer your interview questions? As discussed, this is an essential part of your dissertation, without which I cannot give you a pass grade.
You now need to hurry as the deadline for holding your oral defense is Friday 14 March.
any furthermore information im ready to provide ,, but i suggest since we dont have much time that we keep in touch step by step and i can ask the totur for each step if this is the right thing she want or not..

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Should parents censor textbooks and other literature for children in schools?

1. included background to set context for my topic
2. use at least 10 printed sources
3. the introductory paragraph contains a hook, example and focusing sentences, and thesis statement
4. the body paragraphs have strong topic sentences and include material that supports and explains the thesis statement
5. include a concluding paragraph that refocused the reader, reward the thesis statement, and left the reader with something to think about.

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Enlightenment

Read up on frederick the great of Prussia and Holy roman emperor joseph II , you can use Wikipedia for this, List 5 significant laws or reforms for each that had great impact on society and caused these rulers to be considered benevolent or enlightened despots , give a brief reaction comment.

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