Jazz Assignment

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Length for Part 2: 500-word minimum (2 pages, double-spaced, 12-point font, 1-inch margins)

Listen to Louis Armstrong and His Hot Seven perform “Wild Man Blues”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xO3k-S_pqK4

Part 1:  Make a song outline using time markers to indicate the beginning of each new section. Use the song outlines I have provided on blackboard as a model. In your outline, use time markers to indicate the start of each new section and solo.

Part 2: Write an interpretive analysis of the music, using the musical terminology we have been using to explain what you hear. Use time markers to indicate what you’re hearing in the music. You will be graded not on whether all your observations are correct, but on how specific you are. Some things you can address:

  • What stylistic elements of New Orleans-style jazz do you hear in this song?
  • Describe the cornet solo by Louis Armstrong and/or the clarinet solo by Johnny Dodds using musical terminology.
  • How do the band members musically interact with each other?
  • What stylistic elements of African American music do you hear in this song?

Wooden on Leadership

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Wooden on Leadership 

Due Week 9 and worth 200 points

In the current business world, team projects are commonplace. This assignment will use John Wooden’s Pyramid of Success, its different facets, how it relates to project management leadership, and how it is fulfilled in different circumstances. Visit http://www.CoachJohnWooden.com to retrieve the information.

Write an eight to ten (8-10) page paper in which you:

  1. Describe the extent to which John Wooden’s Pyramid of Success fits today’s business environment after reflecting on your own organization or one that you have observed. Provide three (3) examples to support the response.
  2. Typify your leadership style and provide three (3) examples of how your own temperament, motivation pattern, thinking styles, character, expectations, and leadership philosophy relate to or contrast with themes discussed in John Wooden’s Pyramid of Success.
  3. Analyze John Wooden’s Pyramid of Success and identify the aspects with which you agree and disagree. Provide a rationale for each aspect.
  4. Create a new Pyramid of Success model based on your analysis of John Wooden’s Pyramid of Success and provide a rationale for each aspect or step of this new model.
  5. Using either the coaching philosophy of John Wooden’s Pyramid of Success or your own newly designed Pyramid of Success model, develop a step-by-step strategy that self-directed project team members may use to adapt to any project-related crisis.
  6. Use at least four (4) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar websites do not qualify as quality resources.

Application Of Clinical Psychology Paper

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Assignment 3: Part C: Your Marketing Plan

Due Week 9 and worth 280 points

For this assignment, you will conclude your marketing plan by developing your hypothetical company’s pricing and distribution strategies, and integrated marketing communications plan.

Note: You should create and / or make all necessary assumptions needed for the completion of this assignment.

Instructions

Create the third part of your marketing plan:

  1. Describe or list the feedback you received on Part B of Your Marketing Plan. Explain how you will use the feedback to improve your plan.
  2. Develop the company’s pricing and distribution strategy.
  3. Develop the integrated marketing communications plan most relevant for your product / service and audience. Develop your message strategy. Develop your media strategy.
  4. Develop your public relations, sales promotion, and personal selling plan most relevant for your product / service and audience.
  5. Develop your online and direct marketing plan most relevant for your product / service and audience.
  6. Develop your social responsibility/cause related marketing plan most relevant for your product / service and audience.
  7. Use at least three academic resources that address sustainability and monitoring of effective marketing plans and determine the applicability for your hypothetical company. These resources should be industry specific and relate to your chosen product / service.
    Note: Wikipedia and other websites do not qualify as academic resources.

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.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

2.   Evaluate marketing strategies used to create/communicate customer value.

d.   Analyze integrated marketing communications and its relationship to advertising strategy.

3.   Create an effective marketing plan.

a.   Develop recommendations based on market analysis and strategy.

c.   Develop dynamic strategies for competing.

d.   Develop branding strategies for new products or services.

e.   Develop pricing strategies and distribution channels for products or services.

f.    Develop a fully integrated marketing communications plan for products or services.

What is a syllogism?

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Due: Tuesday March 26th at 11:00pm

As an introduction to the importance of logic in our society, we would like you to watch the short documentary The Joy of Logic staring Professor Dave Cliff. The film is 1 hour long and freely available online (see links below).  After watching the film, you are to submit written response to ten of the following twelve questions. To qualify for the extra credit, your responses should be based on this documentary and not personal opinions, or what you have found on google (or other search engines). Each question is worth 10 points and only 10 questions (out of 12) will be graded. Make sure you submit answers to 10 questions only, otherwise we grade the first 10.

https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/15698775

 

Question 1:

Referring to the story of three logicians in a bar, rewrite the story in your own words, and explain clearly why the first two logicians in the bar say “I don’t know,” while the third one says “yes.”

 

Question 2:

What is a syllogism? How many valid syllogisms did Aristotle find? What do we call the syllogisms that are not valid? Give an example of each type of syllogism that was used in the video. (One valid and one invalid)

 

Question 3:

How does the book Alice in Wonderland relate to field of logic?

 

Question 4:

What did George Boole consider the real purpose of logic? What are Boolean operators? What is the Calculus of Reasoning? What did Boole do that was transformative in logic?

 

Question 5:

What applications of logic are discussed in this video? Give 3-4 examples.

 

Question6:

In your own words describe the meaning of “paradox.” Explain one of the examples of a logical paradox and clearly describe why it is a paradox.

 

Question 7:

What was Frege’s contribution to logic? What did he add to the study of logic that revolutionized the power of logic? What contradiction did Russell pointed out in his letter to Frege (Russell’s paradox)?

 

Question 8:

What was the Vienna Circle? What was their original main goal (or initial first step)? Why and when did they have some shout “M”?

 

Question 9:

What is the name of the contradiction that Gdel had discovered in Russell’s Principia? Describe the contradiction in one short sentence.

 

Question 10:

What is the universal machine? Who created it?

 

Question 11:

Based on the information in this video, can computers develop human-like intelligence?

 

Question 12:

What is one surprising thing you learned about logic or computation from watching this film?