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Please summary this article and give personal response. Zalan, K. (2016, December 26). Learning to Think like an Astronaut.

In “Duet for Bear and Dog,” Sybil Rosen examines the trade-offs that have occurred as humans have created modern, “civilized” societies. Do you believe Rosen thinks that the price of civilization is too high? Compose an essay that defends your stance, referencing specific parts of the play that support your claims. Your thesis needs to make a claim about the piece of literature itself. You should assume that your audience is familiar with the piece, so you will not include a summary. Your goal is to enrich the understanding of your audience in regard to the piece of literature you choose to explore. You do not need to create a Works Cited entry for the poem or story you are exploring. To be clear, outside sources are not required, and the primary support for your thesis should come from the piece of literature itself.

Readings for Section B: Friedman, T. L. (2017). “Chapter Two: What the Hell Happened in 2007” in Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist’s Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations . Picador/Farrar Straus and Giroux.ActionsHarari, Y. (2018). “Chapter Four: Equality” in 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. New York: Random House.Actions 10. The World is Flat was published in 2005. Once Tom Friedman finished the book he thought he would be able to return to the business of being a journalist, comfortable with the ‘framework’ that he had established. Then 2007 happened and challenged his thinking. How does he explain how the year 2007 altered his “view of how the Machine worked” in his chapter “What the Hell Happened in 2007”?[I encourage you to consult a number of sources when developing your answer. For instance, Tom Friedman’s MIT Compton Lecture (Links to an external site.) [Fall 2018] and his discussion with Yuval Harari “How To Understand Our Times” (Links to an external site.) might be of utility, not just as substance for this and the following questions, but also as useful prompts to consider your own thinking on various ‘questions of our day’).] 11) Friedman draws attention to the following graph (Astro Teller graph) in his chapter “What the Hell Happened in 2007”. 11. Please explain what “we are here” actually means in this graph and using both the writings of Friedman and Harari please outline several risks of being in this position on the graph (Please be thorough with your explanation). 12. Citing Teller, Friedman argues that we are all going to need to learn the “bicycle trick”. What does he mean by this metaphor?

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Following the reading of the articles provided the discussion board, answer the following questions: 3a. Describe in your own words the three main capabilities that are supported by the blockchain implementation 3b. Explain in your own words the Blockchain Level transaction models, benefits, and challenges related to security and privacy. 3c. Review the security and privacy Requirements of online transactions, list the seven types and outline how can blockchain transactions become vulnerable to various types of attacks (i.e. tampering, denial-of-service (DDoS), double-spending, majority consensus, and pseudonymity) 3d. Select two types of techniques and describe how they can be leveraged to enhance the security and privacy of existing and future blockchain systems 3e. Select two of the UN sustainable development goals and express how Blockchain technology will enable realizing these goals. * Provide academic or industry source to support your answers. *** Respond to one classmate, provide a substantial comment, and remember to address classmates by their first name.

It is me again. This time, i need some help to write an About Me page (i have previous written three examples differently, so you can have some content when writing it). This is an English course, where the grades will be given based on English Hooks, Branding, Tone, Voice (e.g. when you write the course you studied, you need to also include something like what is the purpose you pick that course). Anyway i will list down the requirements below, and attach a copy of my About Me so you can use the content. Oh yah, i need this before 21 February, please help me out, i just need around 200-220 words. Title: Create an action-packed About page Requirement 1. Tell your story in about 200 words. You can either revise one of your draft, or write a new “about me” story. 2. Feel free to add quotes about yourself from a family member or friends if you wished. 3. This is an About Page, but also “My story” 4. At this point, you’re probably thinking about how your personal description can be made more visually engaging as an About page on your site. 5. At the end of the day, this About Me story will be posted on a website. 6. Grade will be based both on (a) how well you revise your written description and (b) whether your visual layout is attractive and a good match for your story. Writing Goal: Turn your personal description into a capsule story for your About page. In this story of your life, convey only the most relevant details and (perhaps) a few fun quirks and twists. Design Goal: We’ve asked you to add a photo of yourself, but consider adding other images as well. Also, think about other ways to make the layout attractive: subheadings, pullquotes, or highlighed text blocks. Hint: If you add an interview quote from a friend or family member, that’s a good chance to try out a different text format.

Prepare a 1000-word document in current APA format with a minimum of five refereed journal articles (references) on how a specific not-for-profit sector organization of your choice can boost its operational effectiveness (don’t use the organization in the case study). The assignment will be marked on the level of depth and criticality, as well as how many additional references you have considered that are from academic resources. The paper needs to have a title page, an abstract, an introduction, challenges and barriers, discussions, recommendations, a conclusion, and at least seven references. Please use current APA format for this assignment.

Overview There are many types of auctions, each with strengths and weaknesses at uncovering the real price or value of an item. Auctions are widely used in finance, e-commerce, and e-games. They are also widely used to generate revenue for not-for-profit organizations. The following video describes auctions as price discovery mechanisms: The Ideal Auction(https://www(dot)youtube(dot)com/watch?v=4kWuxfVbIaU) Use the video on auctions and at least three academic or high-quality business publications (see acceptable types below) to compare and contrast English auctions and Dutch auctions, and sealed-bid first-price auctions and Vickery auctions. Acceptable Types of Publications A high-quality, professional business publication is one that is primarily directed at reporting or analyzing the workings of the business. Examples are the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and Reuters. Avoid general news publications such as USA Today, the Washington Post, and the New York Times. Please do not rely on Wikipedia, Investopedia, or similar websites as references Instructions Address the following questions in 3-5 pages: 1.) Compare and contrast how each of the following uncovers value: English and Dutch auctions. Sealed-bid first-price auctions and Vickery auctions. 2. Compare and contrast surge pricing and congestion pricing. Give an example of each currently in use. 3. Identify three examples of auctions used in finance, e-commerce, and/or e-games. Explain the following in-depth: *The need for an auction to uncover value in the product or service. *How the type of auction used to uncover the value of the product or service is better at uncovering value than other types of auctions. 4.) What are the advantages or disadvantages of auctions as revenue generators for not-for-profit organizations? 5.) Suggest ways in which a for-profit company, such as the company for which you work or a company for which you aspire to work, can use auctions or dynamic pricing to better uncover value and increase revenue.

1.A useful initial step in analyzing any movie is to distinguish an individual scene’s content from its form. Try to first identify a scene’s subject matter: What is this scene about? What happens? Once you have established that content, you should consider how that content was expressed. What was the mood of the scene? What do you understand about each character’s state of mind? How did you perceive and interpret each moment? Did that understanding shift at any point? Once you know what happened and how you felt about it, search the scene for those formal elements that influenced your interpretation and experience. The combination and interplay of multiple formal elements that you seek is the cinematic language that movies employ to communicate with the viewer.（20points） 2.Do any narrative or visual patterns recur a sufficient number of times to suggest a structural element in themselves? If so, what are these patterns? Do they help you determine the meaning of the film? （20points） 3.Do you notice anything particular about the movie’s presentation of cinematic space—what you see on the screen? Lots of landscapes or close-ups? Moving or static camera? （10points） 4.Does the director manipulate our experience of time? Is this condensing, slowing, speeding, repeating, or reordering of time simply practical (as in removing insignificant events), or is it expressive? If it is expressive, just what does it express? （20points） 5.Does the director’s use of lighting help to create meaning? If so, how? （10points） 6.Do you identify with the camera lens? What does the director compel you to see? What is left to your imagination? What does the director leave out altogether? In the end, besides showing you the action, how does the director’s use of the camera help to create the movie’s meaning? （20points）

A few ideas for winning : ) ❏ Remember to make a copy of this document. Then change the part that has my name to the college you are in and the semester and year to your name and first initial. ❏ You will turn in this whole document online, not just the answers. I also need the questions : ) ❏ There is no quiz for this section ❏ Read the lecture note carefully in order to answer the questions. Avoid skimming because it makes it more difficult to answer the questions. ❏ If troubled there is a video. ❏ Answer the questions and turn-in. Help video: Video Paul Andersen. Diploid vs. Haploid Cells. Bozeman Science Now, if we shift from the idea that any trait is inherited by a species in a family lineage, AKA Mendel’s first law, the principle law of segregation, we can begin to see some of the other complexity in the basic inheritance model. In this section we will review the idea of genes as opposed to taits. Think of traits as the whole cake and the genes as the precise instructions for how to use, make, and acquire the ingredients for the cake. The cake has traits for certain; the frosting, the decorations, the filling, the bread or cake layers, and the decorations. However, how to get what is needed and how to use it are not easily observed as are the traits. The key concept we are using here is Mendel’s second law of independent assortment. Meaning, we are making the assumption based on previous work that traits are inherited from the parents. Next, we are trying to show how the instructions for a trait exist in independent packs. The independent gene usually works in combination with other genes. To add to complexity genes can be expressed or not. Meaning , a gene may be present but not show, this is referred to as dominance and recessive. As we have learned that cells contain DNA which activates things by using RNA, both are ractive and function to produce and build proteins which do things. The details for production are in the genes. How the genes show are the traits. Simply stated cells contain DNA which uses RNA to build proteins and the information on how to do that are stored in genes as segments of the DNA. The things built are known as traits. Gametes Now, as we continue the exploration of inheritance we have established that cells are micro-machines which store all the things needed for production and function. In this lesson we are demonstrating Mendel’s second law of independent assortment. Hence, we use the cell. There is a special kind of cell, a sex cell, referred to as a gamete, which is either a sperm or an ovum. A sex cell gets one of the of alleles from each parent. An allele is a gene for something but is a variant form. For example, is a gene for sex type is variant because it has a combination of X for male and Y for female. The offspring inherit the genes either xxs and or y from the parents. Consequently the genetic structure for offspring can vary. The X and Y are alleles. It is at times complex to understand genetics but for this course we will explore a few of the ideas. For example, an allele can be viewed with the ABo blood groups. That is, for humans we have three basic and understated alleles for blood; A , B, and o. We have genetic types for blood which are similar but… what is not similar is the specific cell type. They are similar for blood, but not because of what type. They are similar because of the function but not type. Those parts of the gene which code for the type are alleles. There is an added complexity sometimes and rarely, one allele is truly dominant over another. In the expression of genes for humans in the ABo blood groups A and B are codominant. Meaning they coexist on more or less equal standing. However, o type is not dominant and is referred to as recessive. That is, type o is passive to A or B and will not change the blood to type o. This is not too complex so far. However, the truth be told it is far more complex such as when considering the ideas of Rh factors, what parts of a cell or gene are dominant and which are recessive become a more complex puzzle to build. That is, basic Mendelian models for inheritance may not be adequate for resolving more complex issues but it is a start. There are reasons that more complex models need to be considered two are pleiotropy and polygenetics. Meaning that with pleiotropy, one gene can be used as a tool for many effects. Another iswith, polygenetics which uses more than one gene or for any one of many effects. It is not simple to start at the more complex and more accurate models.Therefore, it is useful to start with a two part model (refer to img.Gamete Selection 1 and 2) then to move onto more complex ones (refer to img.Gamete Selection 3) for example a much more complex 3 sets in two part model (refer to img.Gamete Selection 4). However, it is important to note the simple steps are not able to present the complexity of the human genome. Starting with some simple ideas, the genotypes for blood are different from the blood groups. For humans simply and usually blood groups are referred to as A, B, and o. However, the groups are actually made of two alleles for the blood cell. The alleles for A, B, or o types can combine in a two part system. A mother or a father must have at least two alleles but may have the alleles in combination. For example in an ABo blood group, a parent with type A has either genotype from below as a genotype. Both are simply named type A blood group. 1.AA (homozygous dominant) same 2.Ao (heterozygous) different 3.AB (codominant) both show Blood also has other genotypes for example; if one parent has genotype AA blood and the other parent has genotype BB blood then the offspring will get one A from parent one and one B from parent two resulting in type AB blood (codominant) (refer to table1). This shows Mendel’s first law, the principle law of segregation. However, a parent could be A for the blood group but their genotype could be Ao. This complicates the issue because now there are two sex cell options for blood grenotypes from that parent who has Ao alleles for A blood group, not just A but also an allelle for o. Consequently, when we combine parent one with Ao with parent two BB the outcome is less clear because each parent passes on half of their genotype. In the case of parent two it is simply a B because there are no other choices. However, for parent one it is either A or o. Therefore the offspring of the two parents could inherit A, B or o because they are options. Meaning the offspring could be AB (codominant) or Bo (heterozygous). This shows Mendel’s second law of independent assortment that the traits exist in packets which can be transferred to offspring independently. This can be shown in a handy tool known as a Punnett Square (refer to table 1 and table 2). It is used by placing one of the parent’s(p1)genotype in the first column and other parent’s (p2) on the top row. Then using the intersections to predict the genotypic outcome of the offspring. Table 1: Mendel’s principle law of segregation The only outcome is AB which came from the parents Table 2: Mendel’s law of independent assortment Because the alleles for blood A and o are unique, they can be inherited independently. This is true of all alleles. We know that trait alleles have at least two parts for simplified Mendalian genetics. That allows some easy applications. We do not have to use A, B, or o to represent any trait. We can use Aa, Bb, Cc, etc. because uppercase represents dominant and lower case represents recessive. Some prefer to use a letter as an allele which represents the idea for example, T for tall, t for small, etc… All these ideas form together to show the principle law of segregation from Gregor Mendel, that all traits an offspring has comes directly from their parents. Also we show the principle law of independence that; traits can exist as separate from other traits and be passed down to offspring. That being said, offspring get the genetic information from their parents and the parents pass part of the DNA to offspring separate from the whole DNA. A parent passed on part of the DNA through creating sex cells which have half the DNA required for a life. The sex cell is a gamete and comes as either a sperm or an ovum. The process of creating a sex cell is meiosis. When a sex cell is created in meiosis, the parent’s whole cell more or less divides in two cleaving a sex cell with half of the alleles from the parent. Therefore, if only one trait were to be examined (img.Gamete Selection 1) the result in the haploid daughter cells, would be in each of the two sex cells there would be half of the parent DNA; in this case review a parent with Aa (heterozygous) in img.Gamete Selection 1. The parent has a two part sequence which codes for a trait. The trait will express according to the patterns and to the effectiveness of the gene to express itself over others and the frequency with which that gene is expressed and the relationship of the affect and ecology of the individual. A trait does not simply show up, usually. There are many things which contribute to the expression. A person is put together, genetically like a complex machine. In this example we see nuts and bolts which need both parts to be useful (img.Gamete Selection 1). That is, a parent has two parts in connection that are useful but they can only pass one to the offspring meaning half. The other half will come from the other parent. When a sex cell is made there are many complex steps which have been covered already in Cells and DNA section you may also recall the added complexity of crossing-over and mixing of the DNA resulting in many unique sex cells from a single person. Therefore, there are many possibilities for the offspring from a parent because the system assures diversity. In the following drawings the process and result is simplified, in order to be direct and correct about the process of half the genes, passed onto offspring, by way of meiosis, and intercourse. The outcome is potentially limitless and diversity is assured by the process of life and procreation. img.Gamete Selection 1 Given: The parent cell has two parts. One is an A representing a dominant trait. There other is “a” which is a recessive one. The parent cell Aa is (heterozygous) meaning different. img.Gamete Selection 2 Given: The parent cell has two parts. One is a B representing a dominant trait. There other is “b” which is a recessive one. The parent cell Bb is (heterozygous) meaning different. img.Gamete Selection 3 Given: Parent 1starts with a cell which has two more parts. The cell from p1 parent cell Aa is (heterozygous) meaning different. P1(parent 1) has an A representing a dominant trait. There other is “a” which is a recessive one. P1 starts with a cell which has two more parts. The cell from p2 parent cell Bb is (heterozygous) meaning different.The parent cell Bb is (heterozygous) meaning different. P1 has a B representing a dominant trait. There other is “b” which is a recessive one. One is a B representing a dominant trait. There other is “b” which is a recessive one. Noted in the below gamete P1 is far more complex than for 1 trait. Gamete selection is from one parent. In that, a parent only has the One set of DNA. That DNA is divided into two parts or chromatids. Each chromatid has information but can carry different codes for the same thing such as for blood, or height etc. However, traits are simply controlled by one genetic pairing and there are many more genes. The information for genes is coded in 20,000-25,000 genes which work with others genes creating nearly limitless possibilities. Tracking these traits is complex See below if we change from 2 sets of two part traits (refer to img.Gamete Selection 3) to 3 sets of two part traits (refer to img.Gamete Selection 4). Then imagine what 25,000 genes may look like. img.Gamete Selection 4 Answer the following questions. Use the above document only to answer the questions. You can type in the answers if you have made a copy and renamed this document as your own. 1. Is a bubble diagram the same as factoring but using a picture (refer to img.Gamete Selection 1) ? two parts. Yes or no and why? (1 pt) 2. What is in the 2 part code/genotype for sex cell 1 and sex cell 2 (refer to img.Gamete Selection 2)? (1 pt) 3. What is in the 1 part code for sex cell 3 and the 1 part code for sex cell 4 refer to img.Gamete Selection 2)? (1 pt) 4. If P1 has traits of Aa and Bb then what are the outcomes for the codes for the sex cells, list them there are four ( refer to img.Gamete Selection 3). (1 pt) 5. Why are pleiotropy and polygenic potentially issues for Mendalian models? (1 pt) 6. Referring to the drawings in img.Gamete Selection 4; how is the branch matrix (tree) simpler to identify the parts and outcomes compared to drop-down (bubbles) or the modified FOIL method? (1 pt) 7. What ways are there to show math processes other than linear expressions or linear equations seen in this section on gametes? There are 5 choices list 3. (3 pt) 8. Would it be helpful to know/learn other ways to do math rather than only equations? (1 pt)