Functional Programming

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  1. Your software company was invited to provide a proposal for a company in Australia. You currently have the cost in US dollars and need to convert the prices to the Australian dollar. 
    Write a 2-part program using Ruby, Java, or Python. 
    Part 1: Write a function to gather the following costs from the user:
    • Travel Cost: $9,800
    • Hotel Cost: $3,500
    • Rental Car Cost: $1,600
    • Labor Cost: $15,500 
    • Part 2: Write a function to convert the costs from United States dollar (USD) to Australian dollar (AUD). Note: Look up the current USD to AUD exchange rate to use in your function. 
      Test the program 3 times by providing different costs in USD.
      Provide the code and take a screenshot of the output, then paste the screenshot(s) into a Microsoft Word document. 
      Write a half-page response in the same Microsoft Word document to address the following:
    • Provide a manual for the user explaining how to use the program.
    • Explain what type of user input validations you should have. What happens if the user enters a negative number? What happens if the user puts a $ in the input? 
    • Review the readings for this week from Ruby on Rails Tutorial or the Pluralsight videos if you have additional questions on deploying Ruby applications. 

womens studies

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Please limit the length of your contributions to a couple of paragraphs
it would be great if you could stay away from difficult words and phrases and keep everything simple since english is not my first language.
no references needed.

discussion # 1:

a.  What are the central arguments raised in the below readings?

b.  How do you find these readings? Do you like or dislike them, and why?
(Lorber, Judith. The Variety of Feminisms and their Contributions to Gender Equality. Bis, (1997): 7-43
Mukhopadhyay, M. (2016). Mainstreaming gender or streaming gender away: feminists marooned in the development business. In The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Development (pp. 77-91). Palgrave Macmillan, London. )

discussion # 2

a.  What are the central arguments raised in the below readings?

b.  How do you find these readings? Do you like or dislike them, and why?

(Beoku-Betts, Josephine, Contested Representations: Western Perceptions of African Women in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries.  In Andrea Cornwall. Readings in Gender in Africa. Indiana University Press.
Lewis Desiree, African Gender Research and Post-coloniality, In Signe Anfred (ed.), African Gender Scholarship: Concepts, Methodologies & Paradigms, CODESRIA Gender Series 1.)

Ground rules for the discussion:

1.Please use this discussion forum as an opportunity to learn more about the varied, complex and difficult issues. Students are required  to engage in a threaded discussion and do the followings:
2.Summarized the central arguments raised in each of the above readings,
3.Assess the reading’s strengths and weaknesses.
4.Devote a paragraph to each of the readings
6.Feel free to share personal stories and feelings; I do recognize that some of the themes addressed in this class could provoke some strong reactions/ emotions for some of you.
8.Please limit the length of your contributions to a couple of paragraphs in order to avoid speeches so that all students have an opportunity to participate.

Globalization Prospective Paper

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Write a minimum of a two-page paper answering the following questions:

  1. What are the basic tenets of the flat-world perspective?
  2. Why does Ghemawat disagree with the flat-world perspective?
  3. What are the four components of the CAGE analytical framework?

Requirements for all papers:

  1. All papers must be grammatically correct utilizing APA guidelines, 6th edition.
  2. Writing word-for-word out of any book is plagiarism and will not be accepted for credit. Using another students work is plagiarism and will not be accepted for credit.
  3. Students will need more than just the text to write these papers. Please refer to the list of references and the Baker College library. At least one scholarly resource is required, in addition to our text, to support your papers.
  4. Each paper shall include a cover page, reference page, running head, introduction, body and conclusion.

slippery slope

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Is there a slippery slope between process-oriented DSS which gathers the observable facts versus pattern recognition DSS used for predictive-oriented analysis? Put differently, is it ethical to presuppose a persons normative (usual) habits determine what that person will do in the future? Discuss the benefits and risks of process analysis versus predictive analysis.