Imagine that you work for a consulting firm that offers information technology and database services. Part of its core services is to optimize and offer streamline solutions for efficiency. In this scenario, your firm has been awarded a contract to implement a new personnel system for a government agency. This government agency has requested an optimized data repository for its system which will enable the management staff to perform essential human resources (HR) duties along with the capability to produce ad hoc reporting features for various departments. They look forward to holding data that will allow them to perform HR core functions such as hiring, promotions, policy enforcement, benefits management, and training.Using this scenario, write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which you: Determine the steps in the development of an effective Entity Relationship Model (ERM) Diagram and determine the possible iterative steps / factors that one must consider in this process with consideration of the HR core functions and responsibilities of the client. Analyze the risks that can occur if any of the developmental or iterative steps of creating an ERM Diagram are not performed. Select and rank at least five (5) entities that would be required for the development of the data repositories.  Specify the components that would be required to hold time-variant data for policy enforcement and training management.  Diagram a possible 1:M solution that will hold salary history data, job history, and training history for each employee through the use of graphical tools. Note: The graphically depicted solution is not included in the required page length. Plan each step of the normalization process to ensure the 3NF level of normalization using the selected five (5) entities of the personnel database solution. Document each step of the process and justify your assumptions in the process. Diagram at least five (5) possible entities that will be required to sustain a personnel solution. The diagram should include the following: Dependency diagrams Multivalued dependencies Note: The graphically depicted solution is not included in the required page length.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; citations and 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 assignment page length.Points: 120Assignment 4: Database Modeling and Normalization CriteriaUnacceptableBelow 70% FFair70-79% CProficient80-89% BExemplary90-100% A1. Determine the steps in the development of an effective Entity Relationship Model (ERM) Diagram and determine the possible iterative steps / factors that one must consider in this process with consideration of the HR core functions and responsibilities of the client.Weight: 15%Did not submit or incompletely determined the steps in the development of an effective Entity Relationship Model (ERM) Diagram. Did not submit or incompletely determined the possible iterative steps / factors that one must consider in this process with consideration of the HR core functions and responsibilities of the client.Partially determined the steps in the development of an effective Entity Relationship Model (ERM) Diagram. Partially determined the possible iterative steps / factors that one must consider in this process with consideration of the HR core functions and responsibilities of the client.Satisfactorily determined the steps in the development of an effective Entity Relationship Model (ERM) Diagram. Satisfactorily determined the possible iterative steps / factors that one must consider in this process with consideration of the HR core functions and responsibilities of the client.Thoroughly determined the steps in the development of an effective Entity Relationship Model (ERM) Diagram. Thoroughly determined the possible iterative steps / factors that one must consider in this process with consideration of the HR core functions and responsibilities of the client.2. Analyze the risks that can occur if any of the developmental or iterative steps of creating an ERM Diagram are not performed.Weight: 10%Did not submit or incompletely analyzed the risks that can occur if any of the developmental or iterative steps of creating an ERM Diagram are not performed.Partially analyzed the risks that can occur if any of the developmental or iterative steps of creating an ERM Diagram are not performed.Satisfactorily analyzed the risks that can occur if any of the developmental or iterative steps of creating an ERM Diagram are not performed.Thoroughly analyzed the risks that can occur if any of the developmental or iterative steps of creating an ERM Diagram are not performed.3. Select and rank at least five (5) entities that would be required for the development of the data repositories. Weight: 10%Did not submit or incompletely selected and ranked at least five (5) entities that would be required for the development of the data repositories. Partially selected and ranked at least five (5) entities that would be required for the development of the data repositories. Satisfactorily selected and ranked at least five (5) entities that would be required for the development of the data repositories. Thoroughly selected and ranked at least five (5) entities that would be required for the development of the data repositories. 4. Specify the components that would be required to hold time-variant data for policy enforcement and training management. Weight: 10%Did not submit or incompletely specified the components that would be required to hold time-variant data for policy enforcement and training management. Partially specified the components that would be required to hold time-variant data for policy enforcement and training management. Satisfactorily specified the components that would be required to hold time-variant data for policy enforcement and training management. Thoroughly specified the components that would be required to hold time-variant data for policy enforcement and training management. 5. Diagram a possible 1:M solution that will hold salary history data, job history, and training history for each employee through the use of graphical tools.Weight: 15%Did not submit or incompletely diagramed a possible 1:M solution that will hold salary history, data, job history and training history for each employee through the use of graphical tools.Partially diagramed a possible 1:M solution that will hold salary history data, job history and training history, for each employee through the use of graphical tools.Satisfactorily diagramed a possible 1:M solution that will hold salary history data, job history, and training history for each employee through the use of graphical tools.Thoroughly diagramed a possible 1:M solution that will hold salary history data, job history, and training history for each employee through the use of graphical tools.6. Plan each step of the normalization process to ensure the 3NF level of normalization using the selected five (5) entities of the personnel database solution. Document each step of the process and justify your assumptions in the process.Weight: 20%Did not submit or incompletely planned each step of the normalization process to ensure the 3NF level of normalization using the selected five (5) entities of the personnel database solution. Did not submit or incompletely documented each step of the process and did not submit or incompletely justified your assumptions in the process.Partially planned each step of the normalization process to ensure the 3NF level of normalization using the selected five (5) entities of the personnel database solution. Partially documented each step of the process and partially justified your assumptions in the process.Satisfactorily planned each step of the normalization process to ensure the 3NF level of normalization using the selected five (5) entities of the personnel database solution. Satisfactorily documented each step of the process and satisfactorily justified your assumptions in the process.Thoroughly planned each step of the normalization process to ensure the 3NF level of normalization using the selected five (5) entities of the personnel database solution. Thoroughly documented each step of the process and thoroughly justified your assumptions in the process.7a. Diagram at least five (5) possible entities that will be required to sustain a personnel solution. Include the dependency diagrams in your diagram.Weight: 5%Did not submit or incompletely diagramed at least five (5) possible entities that will be required to sustain a personnel solution. Did not submit or incompletely included the dependency diagrams in your diagram.Partially diagramed at least five (5) possible entities that will be required to sustain a personnel solution. Partially included the dependency diagrams in your diagram.Satisfactorily diagramed at least five (5) possible entities that will be required to sustain a personnel solution. Satisfactorily included the dependency diagrams in your diagram.Thoroughly diagramed at least five (5) possible entities that will be required to sustain a personnel solution. Thoroughly included the dependency diagrams in your diagram.7b. Diagram at least five (5) possible entities that will be required to sustain a personnel solution. Include multivalued dependencies in your diagram.Weight: 5%Did not submit or incompletely diagramed at least five (5) possible entities that will be required to sustain a personnel solution. Did not submit or incompletely included multivalued dependencies in your diagram.Partially diagramed at least five (5) possible entities that will be required to sustain a personnel solution. Partially included multivalued dependencies in your diagram.Satisfactorily diagramed at least five (5) possible entities that will be required to sustain a personnel solution. Satisfactorily included multivalued dependencies in your diagram.Thoroughly diagramed at least five (5) possible entities that will be required to sustain a personnel solution. Thoroughly included multivalued dependencies in your diagram.8. Clarity, writing mechanics, and formatting requirementsWeight: 10%More than 6 errors present5-6 errors present3-4 errors present0-2 errors present

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‘The LORD said, ‘What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground.”(Genesis 4:10)____A Stone I diedby Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi (1207-1273) A stone I died and rose again a plant;A plant I died and rose an animal;I died an animal and was born a man.Why should I fear? What have I lost by death?____“Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist. It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going.”Stephen Hawking, The Grand Design (2010)____’I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I nor would I want to conceive of an individual that survives his physical death; let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egoism, cherish such thoughts. I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.’Albert Einstein,’The World As I See It’ (1949) ____OVERVIEW:  Approximately six million Jewish people died in the Holocaust, but the total number of people who died in the Holocaust (including Jewish people and Jehovah’s Witnesses, disabled people, gays, resistance, Roma, and others who opposed the Third Reich  in any way) is approximately 11 million (’11 Facts About the Holocaust’).  We’re going to think about these people who died–whether death silenced them forever, or if they have eternal lives, a ‘soul’–via the Socratic Method.  What is the Socratic Method, and how does it differ from the Scientific Method?The Scientific Method  is a way of thinking about entities that we can perceive through current technology, mathematics, and/or the five senses:sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell.  We use this method of thinking to think about … well, you, this class, Black Holes in the Universe–anything with a physical body that we can detect via current technology, mathematics and/or the senses.Unlike the Scientific Method, the Socratic Method is a way of thinking about entities–like the soul–that we cannot perceive through current technology, mathematics, or the five senses; it’s for entities we can only perceive via the mind.  DIRECTIONS:1.  Read my argument below in support of the soul’s existence–in Steps 1-5 of the Socratic Method.2.  Then, in a minimum of 1,000 words (4 pages) try to support or undermine my argument for the soul’s existence.  Post your work by 11:59 PM on Friday during Week 3.3.  Respond to four peers’ postings by 11:59 PM on Friday during Week 4.  Do NOT begin responding to peer evaluations on Friday–begin responding at the beginning of the week, so you can engage in a discussion.  Write a minimum of 125 words (a half-page) in each of your responses, for a total of 500 words.4.  If someone responds to your posting, respond.NOTE:   You MUST participate in this discussion as it progresses; any work or peer evaluations not completed in appropriate weeks will NOT receive points.THE SOCRATIC METHOD1. Wonder: Pose a question.One of the things that always puzzles me is how my body is so perfectly formed in a lot of ways: it heals itself, forming a scab over a wound, without my conscious bidding.  It also becomes ill (the flu, leukemia) and even grows old without my conscious bidding. Who controls my body: me or something else?2. Hypothesis:I exist independently from my body, because I cannot control it and did not create it, to my conscious knowledge; I am a ‘soul’ (for lack of a better word). My body is a vessel carrying ME, a ‘soul.’3. Testing/Elenchus: ME is not my body and vice versa; ME and my body are separate entities existing together until my body expires?A. I have no conscious control over many of the functions in my body: healing (a scab forming over a wound), sickness (the flu or leukemia), and aging.B. I have a very limited use of my body; it does not do what I want it to do many times. I do not understand completely how the body works, or have conscious complete control over it–nor do scientists (people who follow Socrates’ method of thinking for entities that can be perceived with the five senses, math and technology). C. I do NOT see my face–ever!–except in reflections. When I do not look at my face in reflections, I feel disconnected from it, as if my face is a big window that I am looking out of. My body feels like some kind of apparatus that I am operating, especially because I am dependent on reflections to see not only my face, but also other parts of my body, and to feel connected to these parts–as if they relate to ME.D. By altering the brain through injury or in some other way, ME can change: personality, abilities. Does that mean that ME (the soul) is my body; there is no separation of ME (the soul) and my body; we are one and the same: a body? Is this a good argument? No, I don’t think it undermines points A-C above.Analogy: Can the brain be like a house that may contain ME, and its state and ability to function affects me, just as a house affects ME? For example, if I live in a rundown abode in a scary, violent neighborhood, I think my personality will be affected, become dark, depressed, scared–or defiant and violent like my neighborhood? Or sad? Or … any number of things? The situation of the house will affect ME. A house in a beautiful, wooded area will have a similar affect on ME; maybe make me view life as bright and happy, and the world as full of possibilities … ?E.  Are people who are born with Down Syndrome or some other condition mentally impaired–are their ME’s mentally impaired?  Or are their ME’s affected by the situation of the body, the brain?  Reasoning from C above, I conclude that their ME’s are not mentally impaired, but are subject to the situation of the brain, which affects the mental functioning of their ME’s.4. Accept the hypothesis as provisionally true:As far as I can discern, I am a ME, existing apart from the body.  For lack of a better word, I am a ‘soul’ existing in an envelope of flesh and bone, a body.5. Act accordingly:I am composed of two parts, a body and a ME that exists apart from the body.  I have a soul.

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