ASSIGNMENT:

Throughout the reading materials, there are references to security as it pertains to public and private cloud models. Create a PowerPoint presentation that includes the following items for these two types of models:

Description

Network-level security issues

Host-level security issues

Application-level security issues

Compare and contrast the models to help your audience understand the differences.  The audience for your presentation will be the CFO of your organization who doesn’t have much IT or security experience. The presentation should be a minumum of 10 slides in length.  (The title slide, “Any Questions?” slide, or references slide do not count toward the minimum slide number.  Only content slides count.)  Use the Notes area of PowerPoint to explain each slide.

DISCUSSION:

Some authors make the assertion that there are no new security issues with cloud computing at a network-, host-, or application-level. They maintain that cloud computing may exacerbate existing issues, but that cloud computing does not present new security issues. Do you agree with that assertion? Explain some of the security issues with cloud computing. Use examples and references to support your answer.

I need the second half of my paper fixed I have to turn it in by tomorrow afternoon I will provide an article and the format it needs to be in and will provide the paper that was turned in PART B DID NOT PASS!!! Here are the instructions AND notes from the teacher:

B. Evaluate a primary qualitative research peer-reviewed journal article (suggested length of 3–5 pages) that has healthcare implications by doing the following:

1. Identify how the researcher addresses the five following areas of the selected journal article, using the attached “Evidence Table”:

• background or introduction

• review of the literature

• discussion of methodology

• data analysis

• researcher’s conclusion

2. Critique whether the evidence presented in each section of the journal article supports the researcher’s conclusion.

3. Explain the protection of human subjects and cultural considerations of the journal article.

4. Identify strengths and limitations of the study.

5. Describe how the evidence informs nursing practice.

C. Acknowledge sources, using APA-formatted in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.

Qualitative- and also subtypes- most often case study, others are grounded theory, phenomenology, and also descriptive subtypes. Use the readings in module 3, chapter 6, to help you understand different methodologies researchers use.  Read your article as the researchers should tell you the methods they used to research their questions. Identifying research types and subtypes is a big concept.
Data Analysis	How did the researchers analyze the data collected?  Did they explain it enough for you to evaluate for external or internal validity? What statistical testing was used?  What analysis was discussed?  For quantitative studies examples include T-Test, ANOVA, Logistic Regression, Linear Regression, Chi-Square or descriptive statistics like frequencies, prevalence, and rates or incidence.  For qualitative studies the data is interviews or focus groups and the data is coded for themes and then analyzed based on the subtype.  If it is qualitative descriptive the sample is small and the subjective responses of the participants are usually reported without coding or analyses.
Conclusion	What are the conclusions of the researchers; do they make sense to you as a clinician?

A & B 2

Based on your analysis of the five areas in the table, assess whether the evidence presented in the research report supports the conclusion.

Begin by paraphrasing the author’s conclusion in a sentence; then, discuss how each of the first four sections of the research report described in the table (1 sentence each) supports the author’s conclusion (section 5).  Approximately 5 – 7 sentences total should be enough.

Hints:

Can these researchers make the conclusions that they made? Would anything else explain their results? Are there any other plausible explanations for their conclusions? Remember, you will want to justify your answer. Give a full paragraph on why or why not the evidence in the first four areas of the research paper supported the conclusion in section 5.

B 3

Identify the ethical principles that the researcher should have addressed prior to the study.  For example, what considerations should the researchers have addressed regarding informed consent, privacy, confidentiality, etc. for the specific subjects in the studies you chose to critique.  (1 – 2 paragraphs)

B 4

The strengths and limitations refer to the study design, not to the procedures or interventions being studied in the articles.  Consider things like sample size, level of research, quality of research, sampling strategy, and study design.  Also, consider what the author has stated in the last few sections of the research report regarding strengths and limitations.  (1 – 2 paragraphs)

B 5

Please discuss how the results of the study you selected impacts nursing practice.  (1 – 2 paragraphs)

Include a reference page and in-text citations where appropriate.

You have already selected your topic from the list below in Week Three of the course to complete an annotated bibliography. These sources should inform your thinking and assist you in making a conclusion regarding the “truth” (i.e., scientific validity) of a commonly held belief. You must continue with your selected topic unless you have received permission from your instructor otherwise.  Click here for the various topic options that are available. 

• To begin, gather a minimum of five peer-reviewed, scholarly sources on the topic you selected.  Much of this was completed in the Week 3 Annotated Bibliography, but you will likely find gaps in your information as you begin to write and need to locate more material to fully inform your thinking.  Visit the Ashford Library to obtain your scholarly articles.

• As you read each article, make notes about what you have read and what it means to you, as well as how it supports your topic, in order to assist you in the process of writing. Click here for additional information on how to successfully summarize information from an article.   
• After you have read and considered these sources, write a paper in which you summarize psychological theory and research that is pertinent to this topic.  The paper should appraise the evidence contained within your articles, supporting and/or contradicting the statement you have chosen to examine.  Your task is to distinguish whether or not this commonly held belief accurately represents psychological knowledge of the topic and discuss your conclusions.
• If theory and research in psychology suggest that the statement is false (i.e., it is instead bubba or pop psychology), infer an alternative truth based on the literature.
• If the theory and research in psychology suggest that the statement is true, point out how the research supports the statement.

  These are two different stories and one poem.

Hands by Sherwood Anderson is on page 265, The man who was  almost a man  by Richard Wright on page 899 and the poem., the fingers make early flowers of is by E. E Cummings on page 638. 

PLEASE READ THE INSTRUCTION CAREFULLY.

MIDTERM
ESSAY EXAM

ENGLISH 2328

DAIGLE

PLEASE ATTACH YOUR ESSAY TO THE ASSIGNMENT DROPBOX ON THE HOME PAGE. PLEASE
ATTACH AS A WORD FILE (OR .RTF).

General Instructions: Write an essay of at least 750 words (including
quotations from the poems and short stories that you use as support) on ONE of
the numbered topics below. If you use sources in your response (even those I
have provided for you), be sure to cite them, using MLA format. Quotations from
the textbook require only a page number. You should choose different poems or
short stories than those you used in your reading responses for Volume D. The
three examples should be by different authors. 

All stories and poems must come from
Volume D of the textbook.

To prepare for the midterm, you will need to read the introduction to Volume D,
“American Literature Between the Wars: 1914-1945,” especially the
following sections: “American Versions of Modernism”  (D:
13-16)  and “Modernism Abroad and On Native Grounds”  (D:
16-18).

The midterm will require you to
apply ideas from the introduction to specific short stories (fiction) or
poems written during this time period (1914-1945). This does not include
essays (non-fiction prose).

·  You may choose short stories or poems by the writers that I
assigned for the reading responses, as long as you choose different poems or
short stories (fiction) than you chose for your reading responses.

·  Here are a few of the writers (from Volume D) I would have
included in the course if there had been more time: Amy Lowell (imagist poet),
Wallace Stevens (poet), T. S. Eliot (poet), E. E. Cummings (poet), John Dos
Passos (fiction writer), Ernest Hemingway (fiction writer), Thomas Wolfe
(fiction writer), John Steinbeck (fiction writer).

·  To help you choose, you may find it useful to read the
biographical introductions to the writers since most of these introductions
discuss the author’s work in a general way.

·  Although you may use authors that you have already responded
to, reading other authors is a good way to expand your knowledge and create
original responses. If you use some of the same authors, be sure to choose
different poems or stories. 

·All reading selections must come from Volume D. If you do
not have the textbook, please check the table of contents provided on the
syllabus.

• The paper should be in essay form with an
  introduction, body paragraphs, and a conclusion (not a collection of
  reading responses–no sub-headings).
• You should use quotations from the reading selections
  as support for your general ideas. Your examples must show that you have
  read the literature that you are discussing, not just the author’s
  biography.
• Do not use long poems or novels as examples, since I want you to discuss the reading selections
  specifically, not just a short part of a longer work. Do not use The
  Waste Land by T. S. Eliot.
• A brief overview isn’t adequate. Again, you must show
  that you read the selection (poem or story) carefully.

WRITE
ABOUT ONLY ONE OF THE FOLLOWING TOPICS. 

1. In the section called “Modernism Abroad and On Native Grounds,”
the editors say that “[m]any writers chose to identify themselves with the
American scene and to root their work in specific regions” of the country (D:
17) (1188). Discuss at least three poems or short stories (fiction) by
three different authors that chose to focus on a particular part of the United
States. In your paper, you should show how these writers combine modernism and
regionalism. You may wish to use quotations from this introductory material,
but you should also use quotations from the literature (poems or stories)
themselves. (Note: Usually the phrase “specific regions” means parts
of the U. S. away from urban literary centers–the West, Midwest, South, New
England, etc.) This section includes many examples, so you may want to
choose three of them (see D: 17).

The section called “American
Versions of Modernism” (D: 13-16) will help you choose writers to include.

2. During the 1920’s African
American writers began to make significant contributions to American
literature, especially during the Harlem Renaissance. Choose at least three
poems or fiction from this literary movement to discuss, perhaps applying
the ideas in Langston Hughes’ essay The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain (D: 348-50)  or from the discussion in the
textbook introduction. Many of the writers of the Harlem Renaissance are also
modernists, so you may wish to quote from one or more of the modernist
manifestos as well. (Note: “How It Feels to Be Colored Me” is an
essay, not a short story, so it doesn’t count as fiction, though you may use it
to illustrate an idea that does appear in fiction or poetry.)

Useful quotation from the introduction to Volume D:

The Harlem
Renaissance sparked arguments between those who wanted to claim membership in
the culture at large and those who wanted to stake out a separate artistic
domain; between those who wanted to celebrate rural African American lifeways
and those committed to urban intellectuality; between those who wanted to join
the American mainstream and those who, disgusted by American race prejudice,
aligned themselves with worldwide revolutionary movements; between those who
celebrated a “primitive” African heritage and those who rejected the
idea as a degrading stereotype. (D: 8)

See D: 7-8 for a discussion of
changes for African Americans during this time period (the Great Migration out
of the South, the gathering of artists, musicians, and writers in Harlem in the
1920s, the publication of two major journals of opinion, The Crisis and Opportunity).

3. Define modernism, using
quotations from the introduction to Volume D of The Norton Anthology of
American Literature or from
one of the Modernist Manifestos (D: 335-350).  Then, apply your
definition to at least three reading selections (poetry or fiction),
using quotations from the reading selections that reveal the work’s (poem or
story) modernist attributes. Each reading selection should be by a different
writer. Please note that the manifestos do not qualify as poetry or fiction,
though it’s fine to use them as part of your discussion of modernism. You must
still have three examples that are fiction or poetry (not non-fiction prose).

“Some writers rejoiced while
others lamented; some anticipated future utopias while others believed that
civilization had collapsed; but the period’s most influential voices believed
that old forms would not work for new times, and were inspired by the
possibility of creating something entirely new” (D: 6). (Everything
following this quotation will help you write your essay.)

This quotation seems important:
“At the heart of high modernist aesthetic lay the conviction that the
previously sustaining structures of human life, whether social, political,
religious, or artistic, had been destroyed or shown up as falsehoods, or, at
best, arbitrary and fragile human constructions” (D: 14).

4. Women writers also became more
prominent during this time, despite the fact that “to some extent, male
modernists tried to define their movement by defining women out of it”
(1082, 6th edition). In the 7th  edition, the editors assert that
“the increasing prominence[of women writers]. . . generated a backlash
from some male modernists, who asserted their own artistic seriousness by
identifying women writers with the didactic, popular writing against which they
[male writers] rebelled” (1189). Discuss at least three poems or short
stories by three different women writers, showing how their work fits into the
literary trends of the era. You may use Mina Loy’s “Feminist
Manifesto” as background material if you wish, but it isn’t a poem or
short story, so it doesn’t count as one of the three.

See D: 7 for a discussion of changes
for women.

Note: In previous semesters, several students have had to rewrite their essays
because they didn’t follow instructions regarding their choices of poetry and
fiction (short stories). I hope that you will ask questions about the assigned
topics so that I can help you before you write your essay.