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Assignment 1: Discussion—Opportunities, Risks, and Challenges of Emerging Markets How successful a company is at exploiting emerging opportunities and dealing with associated threats depends on leadership’s ability to cultivate a broad mindset among managers and their followers. From a competency point of view, failures are attributed to the fact that leaders who lack experience or … Read more

Based on what you have learned about assessment so far in the course, write a letter that you can share with the child’s parents or family members that explains the role of assessment in monitoring children’s development and learning, and gives an overview of what the Child Observation Project involves. Obtain parent/family member permission for … Read more

Define an XML DTD for CarML. You may want to revisit XML documents you defined in the previous exercise and rethink the element and attribute structure as you are defining the DTD. In the end, all your car specifications should be valid XML documents.

Let us design our own CarML language. Define XML tags for describing your car and your friends’ cars using these tags. Think about what properties should be defined as attributes and what properties are best described as elements. Make sure your documents are well-formed.

Imagine that you are asked to provide advice on implementing web services for a site. Discuss the merits and drawbacks of SOAP- and REST-based web services and for XML versus JSON as a REST data format.

  Review the article “Cultural Variation in Unrealistic Optimism”. Pay particular attention to the following sections: “Independent Versus Interdependent Construals of Self,” “Unrealistic Optimism,” and “Concluding Remarks.” (See attached) Review the article “Cultural Variations in Optimistic and Pessimistic Bias”. Focus on individualism and collectivism and the general discussion. (See attached) Think about the influence of … Read more

Write an essay in which you contrast two attitudes on a controversial subject. You may want to contrast you views with those of somone else, or contrast the way you felt about the subject in the past with the way you feel now.   Topic Choices -Gun Control -Immigration Policies -The War in Afghanistan   … Read more

If you were a state legislator, and you had the opportunity to rework the juvenile justice system, would it be to the advantage of the taxpayer and the juveniles to split the juvenile courts into two sections? For example, one section would handle status offenders, and one section would handle juvenile delinquents. Address the following in … Read more

(6c) Since September 11, 2001, the United States has been confronted with suffering from a new sense of insecurity…being susceptible to terrorist attacks in our homeland. Apply your knowledge of security measures to combat terrorism in responding to the following prompts: *   What are the three different facets of security, and which of the three … Read more

Examine the Supreme Court. Explain how its members are selected, what consideration if any is given to race, gender or ideology in the selection process, what cases the court predominantly hears,  and the difference between judicial activism and judicial restraint.