Book Review: A fully complete and well thought out book report is worth 100 points. Book
reports should be 3-5 pages long. You may only choose one of the following books. If you turn
in a report on a book not on this list, it will not be graded. If you plagiarize, you will lose points
from this assignment. Of course, you must use standard font, font size, and spacing. In the book
report, you should address several items: 1) the author’s thesis, 2) a summary of the book, 3)
your own reactions to the book and 4) how you think the book fits in with the class.

art 1 Instructions – Two (2) Pages
1. Select an industry and describe the goods and/or services this industry produces. Pick an industry from the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) list. (Attention Writer: My chosen industry is “Information” and the good/service is data and communication, software as a service (SAAS). See definition in this link: https://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/sssd/naics/naicsrch?code=51&search=2017%20NAICS%20Search)
2. Identify this industry’s market structure and at least two or more market characteristics that support this market structure. (Attention Writer: Please incorporate the definition and characteristics on the link above when addressing this section.)
3. Describe any notable microeconomic relationships, market outcomes, and/or trends in this industry. Include a graph, chart, or table containing related data. (Attention Writer: Please incorporate Microeconomic relationships and market outcomes of data/information technology when addressing this section.)
4. How might government impact this industry’s market prices, output, and/or market structure? (Attention Writer: Please incorporate Government intervention through price controls, industry regulations, and antitrust enforcement when addressing this section.)
5. Attention Writer: The brief/report should include a minimum of one (1) references/citations in the text above.

Part 2 Instructions – Two (2) Pages
1. Assess the Information industry’s relative size and growth rate in the economy.
2. Identify at least one newsworthy macroeconomic indicator or policy that is important for the industry to monitor, e.g., GDP, unemployment, inflation rates, interest rates, trade policy, government taxation and spending decisions, and/or FED decisions. (Attention Writer: It would be awesome if you could incorporate the recent GDPR impacts to information when addressing this section.)
3. Explain why this macroeconomic indicator or policy is important and how it may impact the Information industry.
4. Describe a recent trend in the macroeconomic indicator or policy. Include a graph, chart, or table that illustrates the observed trend. (Attention Writer: After incorporating GDPR, please use information on GDPR within the graph of chart in this section.)
5. Conclude with a forecast for the industry based on whether the trend identified in number 4 above is expected to continue. Provide support for your conclusion.
6. Attention Writer: The brief/report should include a minimum of two (2) references/citations in the text.
7. Attention Writer: Attached is a template.
8. Attention Writer: Reference Page is needed as well.

After reviewing the power point presentations on Questioning, please develop an interview plan on the following:

A non-commissioned officer (NCO) that is part of a training team has just returned from Country X, a former Eastern Bloc country that is known for their surveillance of US visitors. You are tasked with interviewing the NCO about his trip for possible CI information. The NCO is not suspected of being a threat, but he may have been elicited, surveilled, etc.

Develop an interview plan. Include pre-interview preparations, interview outline, etc. Please note: Do not state what you are going to do, develop an actual interview plan from beginning preparation to debrief.

Format: Your Interview Plan requires a Title page, and if used, citations, and a References listing/Bibliography. If you use citations and References, please use the Chicago/Turabian format (http://www.apus.edu/Online-Library/tutorials/chicago.htm) — Also see the Turabian Quick Guide in the Resources. This submission may be submitted as an outline.

Counselling Scenario 1
• Value: 15% of final grade
• Length: 3-4 double-spaced pages, APA style

Instructions:
Consider the following counselling scenario:
You are a new therapist in private practice with a client named Sally who has been deemed to be a “mature minor” during her previous visit. In discussing the issue which brought her to counselling, Sally discloses that there is considerable violence within her home. She further mentions that her father generally takes out his anger on her younger brother who is 14 years old. She describes that her brother is often physically bruised as a consequence, but that her father plans to move out of the family home in upcoming weeks. She expects that this will bring an end to the conflict between her father and other family members, and she does not want to potentially escalate the violence by having any outside agencies involved. You have only met with this client once before, and you have not discussed any of the limits of confidentiality with her.
Making reference to ethical principles, standards of practice, relevant practice guidelines and legislation specific to the province or territory in which you intend to practice, choose an ethical decision-making model and please describe how you would manage this disclosure and resolve the dilemma.
use subheadings to organize each step of the ethical decision-making process.

select 2 distinctly different typeface examples from the world around you. This can be from signage, advertising or other forms of communications. Write a one-page analysis that compares and contrasts the two typefaces and how effective they are at communicating traits, ideas, and tone. Include images.

You have to also upload for me a picture or the page of a magazine or something which you will describe for this assignment

Must read to do this assignment!http://www.colormatters.com (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Color Preferences Determined
By Experience (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2010/10/04/3028677.htm

The Psychology of Color in Marketing and
Branding (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

(Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/233843

John Hospers (in Meaning and Truth in the Arts (University of North Carolina Press, 1946) p.76) wrote:
No word has meaning … in itself; it has no meaning until it is given meaning by someone; lacking this, it is simply a row of marks on paper or uttered sounds. Most of the words in our language have been given meanings long ago, and this meaning has been agreed upon by the users of our language, so that the words have come by convention to stand for the things they now stand for, and all we have to do is learn them. Many words have several meanings … and are called ambiguous words–in these cases we learn their multiple meanings; this is true of the word “meaning” along with thousands of other words. This word has a meaning when applied in such situations as “meaning of a word,” “meaning of his behavior,” etc. But just as words do not always have the same meaning in different contexts (as we have just seen in. the case of the word “meaning” itself), there are contexts in which it has no meaning until it is given a meaning for that context. Thus, as we now use the word “on,” the statement “The glass is on the table” has meaning but “The glass is on the universe” does not; the word “on” has been given meaning only within a certain physical context, and when it is not applied within that context it becomes simply a sound or mark on paper. The same is true for the word “meaning.” It has a definite meaning … in the ordinary situations referred to above, but when applied to a situation such as “What does this piece of music mean? it does not, since the word “meaning” has been given no meaning in that context.
What is the conclusion of Hospers’ argument here? Carefully formulate his argument for this conclusion.
Here are some guidelines:
The argument should be carefully and completely laid out.
Premises and conclusion should be clearly identified. (See “Identifying and Formulating Arguments”)
Any common valid argument forms should be clearly identified.
The paper should include clarification of positions, distinctions, premises, and arguments.
Note that I am not asking for a summary of the passage. I am asking for a formulation of the argument.

Step 1: Conduct research on the following three ice cream
companies; Magnum Ice Cream, Hagen Dazs, and Ben and
Jerry’s.
Analyze the ALREADY COMPLETED Marketing Mix
Worksheet in Full.
Step 2: Analysis – Four (4) pages of narrative content
Use the information provided in the Marketing Mix Worksheet
to completed the Analysis Paper.
All citations/references must only come from the 3 websites for the 3 ice cream
companies and the following online book, “Introduction to Business” which is
located at https://courses.lumenlearning.com/wmopen-introbusiness/
An example of the proper reference citation for the Introduction to Business
online book is:
Lumen Candela (n.d.). Global Environment: Global Trade Forces, Introduction to
Business. Retrieved from https://courses.lumenlearning.com/wmopenintrobusiness/chapter/global-trade-forces/
Lumen Candela = Author (will not change for Introduction to Business online book)
(n.d.) = Date (will not change for Introduction to Business online book)
Global Environment = Chapter (will fluctuate depending on which Chapter information is
being cited from)
Global T
Introduction – Approximately ½ Page
Provide the proper name of the three companies and briefly describe the products you
reviewed along with any relevant history about these products/brands.
The Four Ps of Marketing – Approximately 3 Pages
Describe the key marketing strategies of the selected companies. The evaluation
must be based on what is observed on the three websites about how the Four Ps
(explained below) are applied to the products. Be specific in discussing design,
promotional activities and other information provided on each website.
When evaluating each company describe each of The Four Ps (Product, Placement,
Pricing, and Promotion) of Marketing for each of the three ice cream companies;
Magnum Ice Cream, Hagen Dazs, and Ben and Jerry’s.
THE FOUR (4) Ps of MARKETING ARE:
• PRODUCT: Describe the want or need the product addresses.
• PLACEMENT: Describe the physical location of the product among its closest
competitors (a quick picture of the shelf would tell a good story!), and describe
what this placement says about the marketing strategy.
• PRICING: Describe the pricing strategy. A good description would include
observations about the closest competitive product and its relative pricing.
• PROMOTION: Describe how the product is being promoted. Include any obvious
physical/in-store promotions seen on the shelf, as well as flyers, coupons, social
media, online advertising, etc.
Identify and discuss the target market each company is trying to reach.
Conclusion – Approximately ½ Page
In this section, draw conclusions about the proven or possible success of the
products for the three companies (Magnum Ice Cream, Hagen Dasz, and Ben and
Jerry’s) based on the strengths and weaknesses of each website. Using the
strengths and weaknesses of each website, explain how each company uses the The
Four (4) Ps of Marketing to ensure the success of its product.
How to Set Up the Paper
Create a Microsoft Word document that is double-spaced. Use 12-point Times New
Roman font. The narrative of the paper must be four (4) pages long.
Requirements to Follow
• Use the attached rubric while completing the project to ensure all
requirements are met
• Third person writing is required. Third person means that there are no words
such as “I, me, my, we, or us” (first person writing), nor is there use of “you or
your” (second person writing).
• Contractions are not used in business writing, so do not use them.
• For all other source material used in the analysis, you will not use direct
quotation marks but will instead paraphrase. Meaning the ideas of an author or
article must be put into your own words rather than lifting directly from a source
document. DO NOT not use more than four consecutive words from a source
document, as doing so would require direct quotation marks. This requirement
includes facts from the case scenario. Changing words from a passage does
not exclude the passage from having quotation marks.
• Use in-text citations and provide a reference list that contains the
reference associated with each in-text citation.
Again, an example of the proper citation for the Introduction to Business
online book located at https://courses.lumenlearning.com/wmopenintrobusiness/
is:
Lumen Candela (n.d.). Global Environment: Global Trade Forces,
Introduction to Business. Retrieved from
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/wmopen-introbusiness/chapter/globaltrade-forces/
Global Environment = Chapter Global Trade Forces = Section w/in the
Chapter.
• DO NOT use any other sources except the “Introduction to Business” online
book and the three ice cream company websites in completing this project.

Using the below Concepts to be used in writing the assignment:
– Kotter and Change Management (incl. Kotter Eight Steps)
– The 4 primary business practices as per HBR article by Nohira et al.
– The 4 I’s model of non-market environment
– Mckinsey’s 7S model

Here is the assignment description:

The purpose of the formal coursework is to give students the opportunity to apply their learning from the course to a new example, and to think in a critical and comparative way about the case material presented in the course.
For this course you are required to submit ONE individual assignment (weighted at 100%). The word limit is 4,000 words, including tables, figures, and diagrams, and excluding appendices, footnotes, and references..
Examine the challenges faced by Capita PLC. The firm faces a challenging future; its share price dropped by roughly 90% between mid-2015 and April 2018; it has recently hired turnaround specialist Jon Lewis to transform the organization.
• Outline the reasons which have led to Capita’s situation, drawing on relevant academic theory. (35% of mark)
• Evaluate the efforts made thus far (up to the end of May 2018) to achieve a turnaround. You can make reference to developments after this date, but you should concentrate your analysis on the story up to the date specified. You should use ideas from the course to illuminate your analysis. (30% of mark)
• What further actions could be taken to transform the firm? Again, take the position as if you were making your proposals at the end of May 2018 (note your proposed actions would concern a period after this date: e.g. you might make proposals for actions to be taken over the following two years). If your proposals include selling or breaking up the firm, your discussion should include actions that should be taken subsequently by the purchaser(s). (35% of mark)

This week’s readings explore the dynamics of power and how race and socioeconomic class can affect these dynamics.
-Choose one work and analyze how it portrays race and/or socioeconomic class affecting the dynamics of power.
(Please do not summarize the text but simply point out and highlight quotes throughout the text that emphasize how race and socioeconomic class can affect these dynamics)

A Worn Path
by Eudora Welty
from The Collected Works of Eudora Welty
It was December—a bright frozen day in the early morning. Far out in the country there was an
old Negro woman with her head tied red rag, coming along a path through the pinewoods. Her
name was Phoenix Jackson. She was very old and small and she walked slowly in the dark pine
shadows, moving a little from side to side in her steps, with the balanced heaviness and lightness
of a pendulum in a grand-father clock. She carried a thin, small cane made from an umbrella, and
with this she kept tapping the frozen earth in front of her. This made a grave and persistent noise
in the still air, that seemed meditative like the chirping of a solitary little bird.
She wore a dark striped dress reaching down to her shoe tops, and an equally long apron of
bleached sugar sacks, with a full pocket: all neat and tidy, but every time she took a step she
might have fallen over her shoelaces, which dragged from her unlaced shoes. She looked straight
ahead. Her eyes were blue with age. Her skin had a pattern all its own of numberless branching
wrinkles and as though a whole little tree stood in the middle of her forehead, but a golden color
ran underneath, and the two knobs of her cheeks were illumined by a yellow burning under the
dark. Under the red rag her hair came down on her neck in the frailest of ringlets, still black, and
with an odor like copper.
Now and then there was a quivering in the thicket. Old Phoenix said, “Out of my way, all you
foxes, owls, beetles, jack rabbits, coons and wild animals!. . . Keep out from under these feet,
little bob-whites…. Keep the big wild hogs out of my path. Don’t let none of those come running
my direction. I got a long way.” Under her small black-freckled hand her cane, limber as a buggy
whip, would switch at the brush as if to rouse up any hiding things.
On she went. The woods were deep and still. The sun made the pine needles almost too bright to
look at, up where the wind rocked. The cones dropped as light as feathers. Down in the hollow
was the mourning dove—it was not too late for him.
The path ran up a hill. “Seem like there is chains about my feet, time I get this far,” she said, in
the voice of argument old people keep to use with themselves. “Something always take a hold of
me on this hill— pleads I should stay.”
After she got to the top she turned and gave a full, severe look behind her where she had come.
“Up through pines,” she said at length. “Now down through oaks.”
Her eyes opened their widest, and she started down gently. But before she got to the bottom of
the hill a bush caught her dress.
Her fingers were busy and intent, but her skirts were full and long, so that before she could pull
them free in one place they were caught in another. It was not possible to allow the dress to tear.
“I in the thorny bush,” she said. “Thorns, you doing your appointed work. Never want to let folks
pass, no sir. Old eyes thought you was a pretty little green bush.”
Finally, trembling all over, she stood free, and after a moment dared to stoop for her cane.
“Sun so high!” she cried, leaning back and looking, while the thick tears went over her eyes.
“The time getting all gone here.”
At the foot of this hill was a place where a log was laid across the creek.
“Now comes the trial,” said Phoenix.
Putting her right foot out, she mounted the log and shut her eyes. Lifting her skirt, leveling her
cane fiercely before her, like a festival figure in some parade, she began to march across. Then
she opened her eyes and she was safe on the other side.
“I wasn’t as old as I thought,” she said.
But she sat down to rest. She spread her skirts on the bank around her and folded her hands over
her knees. Up above her was a tree in a pearly cloud of mistletoe. She did not dare to close her
eyes, and when a little boy brought her a plate with a slice of marble-cake on it she spoke to him.
“That would be acceptable,” she said. But when she went to take it there was just her own hand
in the air.
So she left that tree, and had to go through a barbed-wire fence. There she had to creep and
crawl, spreading her knees and stretching her fingers like a baby trying to climb the steps. But
she talked loudly to herself: she could not let her dress be torn now, so late in the day, and she
could not pay for having her arm or her leg sawed off if she got caught fast where she was.
At last she was safe through the fence and risen up out in the clearing. Big dead trees, like black
men with one arm, were standing in the purple stalks of the withered cotton field. There sat a
buzzard.
“Who you watching?”
In the furrow she made her way along.
“Glad this not the season for bulls,” she said, looking sideways, “and the good Lord made his
snakes to curl up and sleep in the winter. A pleasure I don’t see no two-headed snake coming
around that tree, where it come once. It took a while to get by him, back in the summer.”
She passed through the old cotton and went into a field of dead corn. It whispered and shook and
was taller than her head. “Through the maze now,” she said, for there was no path.
Then there was something tall, black, and skinny there, moving before her.
At first she took it for a man. It could have been a man dancing in the field. But she stood still
and listened, and it did not make a sound. It was as silent as a ghost.
“Ghost,” she said sharply, “who be you the ghost of? For I have heard of nary death close by.”
But there was no answer–only the ragged dancing in the wind.
She shut her eyes, reached out her hand, and touched a sleeve. She found a coat and inside that
an emptiness, cold as ice.
“You scarecrow,” she said. Her face lighted. “I ought to be shut up for good,” she said with
laughter. “My senses is gone. I too old. I the oldest people I ever know. Dance, old scarecrow,”
she said, “while I dancing with you.”
She kicked her foot over the furrow, and with mouth drawn down, shook her head once or twice
in a little strutting way. Some husks blew down and whirled in streamers about her skirts.
Then she went on, parting her way from side to side with the cane, through the whispering field.
At last she came to the end, to a wagon track where the silver grass blew between the red ruts.
The quail were walking around like pullets, seeming all dainty and unseen.
“Walk pretty,” she said. “This the easy place. This the easy going.”
She followed the track, swaying through the quiet bare fields, through the little strings of trees
silver in their dead leaves, past cabins silver from weather, with the doors and windows boarded
shut, all like old women under a spell sitting there. “I walking in their sleep,” she said, nodding
her head vigorously.
In a ravine she went where a spring was silently flowing through a hollow log. Old Phoenix bent
and drank. “Sweet-gum makes the water sweet,” she said, and drank more. “Nobody know who
made this well, for it was here when I was born.”
The track crossed a swampy part where the moss hung as white as lace from every limb. “Sleep
on, alligators, and blow your bubbles.” Then the track went into the road.
Deep, deep the road went down between the high green-colored banks. Overhead the live-oaks
met, and it was as dark as a cave.
A black dog with a lolling tongue came up out of the weeds by the ditch. She was meditating,
and not ready, and when he came at her she only hit him a little with her cane. Over she went in
the ditch, like a little puff of milkweed.
Down there, her senses drifted away. A dream visited her, and she reached her hand up, but
nothing reached down and gave her a pull. So she lay there and presently went to talking. “Old
woman,” she said to herself, “that black dog come up out of the weeds to stall you off, and now
there he sitting on his fine tail, smiling at you.”
A white man finally came along and found her—a hunter, a young man, with his dog on a chain.
“Well, Granny!” he laughed. “What are you doing there?”
“Lying on my back like a June-bug waiting to be fumed over, mister,” she said, reaching up her
hand.
He lifted her up, gave her a swing in the air, and set her down. “Anything broken, Granny?”
“No sir, them old dead weeds is springy enough,” said Phoenix, when she had got her breath. “I
thank you for your trouble.”
“Where do you live, Granny?” he asked, while the two dogs were growling at each other.
“Away back yonder, sir, behind the ridge. You can’t even see it from here.”
“On your way home?”
“No sir, I going to town.”
“Why, that’s too far! That’s as far as I walk when I come out myself, and I get something for my
trouble.” He patted the stuffed bag he carried, and there hung down a little closed claw. It was
one of the bob-whites, with its beak hooked bitterly to show it was dead. “Now you go on home,
Granny!”
“I bound to go to town, mister,” said Phoenix. “The time come around.”
He gave another laugh, filling the whole landscape. “I know you old colored people! Wouldn’t
miss going to town to see Santa Claus!”
But something held old Phoenix very still. The deep lines in her face went into a fierce and
different radiation. Without warning, she had seen with her own eyes a flashing nickel fall out of
the man’s pocket onto the ground.
“How old are you, Granny?” he was saying.
“There is no telling, mister,” she said, “no telling.”
Then she gave a little cry and clapped her hands and said, “Git on away from here, dog! Look!
Look at that dog!” She laughed as if in admiration. “He ain’t scared of nobody. He a big black
dog.” She whispered, “Sic him!”
“Watch me get rid of that cur,” said the man. “Sic him, Pete! Sic him!”
Phoenix heard the dogs fighting, and heard the man running and throwing sticks. She even heard
a gunshot. But she was slowly bending forward by that time, further and further forward, the lids
stretched down over her eyes, as if she were doing this in her sleep. Her chin was lowered almost
to her knees. The yellow palm of her hand came out from the fold of her apron. Her fingers slid
down and along the ground under the piece of money with the grace and care they would have in
lifting an egg from under a setting hen. Then she slowly straightened up, she stood erect, and the
nickel was in her apron pocket. A bird flew by. Her lips moved. “God watching me the whole
time. I come to stealing.”
The man came back, and his own dog panted about them. “Well, I scared him off that time,” he
said, and then he laughed and lifted his gun and pointed it at Phoenix.
She stood straight and faced him.
“Doesn’t the gun scare you?” he said, still pointing it.
“No, sir, I seen plenty go off closer by, in my day, and for less than what I done,” she said,
holding utterly still.
He smiled, and shouldered the gun. “Well, Granny,” he said, “you must be a hundred years old,
and scared of nothing. I’d give you a dime if I had any money with me. But you take my advice
and stay home, and nothing will happen to you.”
“I bound to go on my way, mister,” said Phoenix. She inclined her head in the red rag. Then they
went in different directions, but she could hear the gun shooting again and again over the hill.
She walked on. The shadows hung from the oak trees to the road like curtains. Then she smelled
wood-smoke, and smelled the river, and she saw a steeple and the cabins on their steep steps.
Dozens of little black children whirled around her. There ahead was Natchez shining. Bells were
ringing. She walked on.
In the paved city it was Christmas time. There were red and green electric lights strung and
crisscrossed everywhere, and all turned on in the daytime. Old Phoenix would have been lost if
she had not distrusted her eyesight and depended on her feet to know where to take her.
She paused quietly on the sidewalk where people were passing by. A lady came along in the
crowd, carrying an armful of red-, green- and silver-wrapped presents; she gave off perfume like
the red roses in hot summer, and Phoenix stopped her.
“Please, missy, will you lace up my shoe?” She held up her foot.
“What do you want, Grandma?”
“See my shoe,” said Phoenix. “Do all right for out in the country, but wouldn’t look right to go in
a big building.” “Stand still then, Grandma,” said the lady. She put her packages down on the
sidewalk beside her and laced and tied both shoes tightly.
“Can’t lace ’em with a cane,” said Phoenix. “Thank you, missy. I doesn’t mind asking a nice lady
to tie up my shoe, when I gets out on the street.”
Moving slowly and from side to side, she went into the big building, and into a tower of steps,
where she walked up and around and around until her feet knew to stop.
She entered a door, and there she saw nailed up on the wall the document that had been stamped
with the gold seal and framed in the gold frame, which matched the dream that was hung up in
her head.
“Here I be,” she said. There was a fixed and ceremonial stiffness over her body.
“A charity case, I suppose,” said an attendant who sat at the desk before her.
But Phoenix only looked above her head. There was sweat on her face, the wrinkles in her skin
shone like a bright net.
“Speak up, Grandma,” the woman said. “What’s your name? We must have your history, you
know. Have you been here before? What seems to be the trouble with you?”
Old Phoenix only gave a twitch to her face as if a fly were bothering her.
“Are you deaf?” cried the attendant.
But then the nurse came in.
“Oh, that’s just old Aunt Phoenix,” she said. “She doesn’t come for herself—she has a little
grandson. She makes these trips just as regular as clockwork. She lives away back off the Old
Natchez Trace.” She bent down. “Well, Aunt Phoenix, why don’t you just take a seat? We won’t
keep you standing after your long trip.” She pointed.
The old woman sat down, bolt upright in the chair.
“Now, how is the boy?” asked the nurse.
Old Phoenix did not speak.
“I said, how is the boy?”
But Phoenix only waited and stared straight ahead, her face very solemn and withdrawn into
rigidity.
“Is his throat any better?” asked the nurse. “Aunt Phoenix, don’t you hear me? Is your grandson’s
throat any better since the last time you came for the medicine?”
With her hands on her knees, the old woman waited, silent, erect and motionless, just as if she
were in armor.
“You mustn’t take up our time this way, Aunt Phoenix,” the nurse said. “Tell us quickly about
your grandson, and get it over. He isn’t dead, is he?’
At last there came a flicker and then a flame of comprehension across her face, and she spoke.
“My grandson. It was my memory had left me. There I sat and forgot why I made my long trip.”
“Forgot?” The nurse frowned. “After you came so far?”
Then Phoenix was like an old woman begging a dignified forgiveness for waking up frightened
in the night. “I never did go to school, I was too old at the Surrender,” she said in a soft voice.
“I’m an old woman without an education. It was my memory fail me. My little grandson, he is
just the same, and I forgot it in the coming.”
“Throat never heals, does it?” said the nurse, speaking in a loud, sure voice to old Phoenix. By
now she had a card with something written on it, a little list. “Yes. Swallowed lye. When was
it?—January—two, three years ago—”
Phoenix spoke unasked now. “No, missy, he not dead, he just the same. Every little while his
throat begin to close up again, and he not able to swallow. He not get his breath. He not able to
help himself. So the time come around, and I go on another trip for the soothing medicine.”
“All right. The doctor said as long as you came to get it, you could have it,” said the nurse. “But
it’s an obstinate case.”
“My little grandson, he sit up there in the house all wrapped up, waiting by himself,” Phoenix
went on. “We is the only two left in the world. He suffer and it don’t seem to put him back at all.
He got a sweet look. He going to last. He wear a little patch quilt and peep out holding his mouth
open like a little bird. I remembers so plain now. I not going to forget him again, no, the whole
enduring time. I could tell him from all the others in creation.”
“All right.” The nurse was trying to hush her now. She brought her a bottle of medicine.
“Charity,” she said, making a check mark in a book.
Old Phoenix held the bottle close to her eyes, and then carefully put it into her pocket.
“I thank you,” she said.
“It’s Christmas time, Grandma,” said the attendant. “Could I give you a few pennies out of my
purse?”
“Five pennies is a nickel,” said Phoenix stiffly.
“Here’s a nickel,” said the attendant.
Phoenix rose carefully and held out her hand. She received the nickel and then fished the other
nickel out of her pocket and laid it beside the new one. She stared at her palm closely, with her
head on one side.
Then she gave a tap with her cane on the floor.
“This is what come to me to do,” she said. “I going to the store and buy my child a little windmill
they sells, made out of paper. He going to find it hard to believe there such a thing in the world.
I’ll march myself back where he waiting, holding it straight up in this hand.”
She lifted her free hand, gave a little nod, turned around, and walked out of the doctor’s office.
Then her slow step began on the stairs, going down.

you have been hired as an IT expert by a small firm to set up an office for 20 staff members, half of whom will work with desktop computers and the remaining with laptop computers using wireless networks. The office will use one networked laser printer, accessible from both the desktop and laptop computers. The desktop computers will use a wired network, while the laptop computers will employ wireless network to print and access the Internet.

In Module 2, you will complete Phase 1 of the assignment:

Statement of the Problem or Need: Based on your review of the IT system, write a description of the purpose/need/rationale for the IT project at the business office. What problem(s) are you planning to solve at the business office?
Project Deliverables: Write a description of the necessary hardware components and software to set up computer systems for the business office. Phase 1 of the Portfolio Project is due in Module 2.
Last week you started making a list of computer hardware (desktop and laptop computers), peripherals, and network components (wired and wireless) with specifications required to set up theproposed business office. Include the following as part of the project deliverables for submission in Module 2:

Type of power supply
Type of motherboard
Type of CPU and memory
Types of storage and capacities
Types of network interface cards (wired and wireless)
Types and specifications for printers and scanners
Types of expansion cards (if needed) for expanding ports
Types of monitors (CRT, LCD) and specifications
Specifications for laptop computers
Any other required hardware component(s) of the items.
Select the most appropriate computer client operating system (COS) with reasons for its selection. Include the following (at minimum) as part of the project deliverables:

Type of Windows operating system
32-bit or 64-bit version
Video and printers support
Network and sharing features
Windows help and support
Any other relevant features of the selected COS.
Your Module 2 Portfolio Project Milestone should meet the following requirements:

Two to three pages in length, not including cover and reference pages.
Cite a minimum of three sources, two of which should be academic peer-reviewed scholarly sources to support your responses