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Q1: Wireshark is one of the most widely-used network protocol analyzer. It lets you see what’s happening on your network at a microscopic level and is the preferred standard across many commercial and non-profit enterprises, government agencies, and educational institutions. GlassWire is a free network monitor & security tool with a built-in firewall. Review the features of these two products and explain how you could benefit from using either of these network management tools.

https://www.glasswire.com/

https://www.wireshark.org/

Q2: Wireshark and GlassWire, two free network monitor & security tools. Compare and contrast these two tools. explaining the benefits and features of each, then decide which of these two choices you would prefer to use if you were the Network Manager. Explain why you made your decision

Describe the elements of the AIDS crisis, include information on the discovery of the disease and the LGBT community’s reaction to the crisis. What groups of people, besides the gay male community, were most affected by the disease? Why was funding hard to come by? What was the impact on the LGBTQ community and how did it change their culture? What is the current state of the AIDS crisis?

Purpose:  This extra credit assignment (receive up to 7 points) is designed for students to apply their understanding of social stratification. The assignment is designed for students to view social stratification from a different perspective, to use information from the course material, and apply this information in analyzing the movie In Time.

Task:

• Students will need to view the following film (click on title):  In Time. If you are not able to access the film, please use the following link:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9DgUkYNyPA&t=5251s
• Students will need to respond to the following questions:

1. Explain how time is used to determine which social class a person belongs—provide examples from the film to illustrate this.
2. How are those who have a lot of time able to maintain their social class at the expense of those who do not have a lot a time?
3. Explain what the different zones that Will passes through signify.
4. We have discussed life chances and opportunities throughout the course.  Provide examples from the movie which indicate the differences in life chances and opportunities between Will and Sylvia’s characters.
5. Choose one of the following theories: functionalism or conflict theory and provide a brief explanation as to how the theory would analyze this film.
6. One thing that has been mentioned in the movie is the idea of “survival of the fittest” which justifies why certain groups of people have a lot of time and certain groups of people do not have a lot of time.  Do you think “survival of the fittest” is a true statement as to why some people have more time compared to others?  If so, explain.  If not, explain.
7. Which aspect of the movie did you find most interesting and why?

Explain the value of philosophy.
You are required to respond to the assignment question posted above with no less than 100 words and  make at least two comments on the responses posted by you classmates with a minimum of 50 words. Make sure you design your response with your own words. Your responses to your classmates must be of substance; not just “I agree” or “Good Post.” The purpose of the responses is to convert the discussion forum into a quality academic environment through which you improve your knowledge and understanding. Read and review all assigned course materials and chapters before you start working on your assignments.

Please respond to at least one of the following questions. After you have made your own initial post, please also respond to at least one post by a classmate before the end of Tuesday. Please cite specific pages from Milkis to support your analysis (direct quotes are also welcome).

1. According to Milkis, what was Roosevelt’s motive in his attempt to transform the institution of the presidency and reorganize the executive branch?  Why does Milkis see this as a Third New Deal?

2. How successful was Roosevelt in this attempted transformation? What was the longer-term impact of this effort?

3. How did Roosevelt connect his efforts to specific traditions in American political culture? Why was it important to frame the New Deal as an updated kind of liberal Americanism? (You can also draw on the speech from Roosevelt here.)

4. How would you relate the analysis provided by Milkis to the Skocpol & Finegold argument?

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Note: Hacker and Pierson spend some time early in their article discussing methodology and related questions. You might find it easier to jump ahead to p. 287 (p. 11 of the PDF) and read their more concrete discussion, and then go back to the earlier part of the article.

Please respond to at least one of the following questions. After you have made your own initial post, please also respond to at least one post by a classmate before the end of Thursday. Please cite specific pages from Hacker and Pierson to support your analysis (direct quotes are also welcome).

1. How do Hacker and Pierson understand the nature of business power in U.S. politics? Why do they think this power can fluctuate?

2. If business interests were powerful and opposed to social welfare policies, what happened in the 1930s to make these policies possible (in particular Social Security)?  Why did this kind of policy shift have to happen nationally instead of emerging by different states enacting such reforms?

3. How does the piece by Hacker and Pierson offer a challenge to the focus on state capacity and government actors put forward by Skocpol and Finegold (what Hacker and Pierson call “institutionalist” approaches)? Is it possible to combine these perspectives?

4. Does the possibility that business interests were politically weak in the 1930s mean they had no impact on New Deal policies?  Was the New Deal about a shift in class politics with mobilized workers gaining more influence? Are there reasons the political power of business might have a resurgence after the 1930s?

Your commentaries should meet three goals: 1) give a summary of the key point(s) made in the course reading you are writing about based on your understanding; 2) provide some examples of the evidence used in the reading (possibly including direct quotes) to show how the author supports the key point(s); 3) devote at least two concluding paragraphs to connecting this reading to another class reading (this can be a reading from earlier in the quarter, or another reading assigned on the same date in cases where I have assigned more than one reading).

Part 1: Identify the key point or points in the reading. What is the main argument or key insight you see emerging from this reading? Can you give a quote from the text that supports your understanding of the reading?

Part 2: Identify at least two pieces of “evidence” that the author uses to support the main argument or key point of the reading. In the readings for this class, evidence will often be in the form of specific historical examples that support the larger claim. You should discuss some details from these examples to show how the author makes the point (again, direct quotes are fine, but you should also put some of this into your own words).

For instance, if a reading makes the argument that the declining political power of business interests was an important reason that the New Deal welfare state emerged, the author may then go on to support this point by showing how business interests tried to oppose Social Security, and yet it still passed despite this business opposition.

Also be sensitive to nuance in the author’s analysis, and try to point this out in your commentary. For example, perhaps the author argues that Social Security passed despite business opposition, but then goes on to acknowledge that business interests were able to modify Social Security afterwards in ways that suited their needs (so some business power was still relevant to what happened in the New Deal, even if not dominant).

Part 3: Conclude your commentary by thinking about what this reading adds to other readings in this class. This can include making some comparison with the other reading assigned on that same date in cases where I assign two readings. For example, perhaps you are writing on a reading that describes the positive accomplishments of the New Deal in relation to African Americans, and you want to consider how this fits with the other reading from that day that highlights how the New Deal actually perpetuated racial inequality. Or maybe the specific topic discussed by the reading fleshes out and supports an insight from an earlier reading, and you want to make note of that connection and explore its significance.

1. Students will need to view the following film (click on title):  Poor Kids  If you are not able to access the film, please use the following link: https://www.pbs.org/video/poor-kids-update-o0msfd/
2. Students will need to respond to the following questions:
   1. Explain the term Economic Restructuring.
   2. What were some of the consequences of the economic restructuring on these families?  Make sure to use specific examples from the film.
   3. Applying the sociological imagination to this film—Poor Kids:
      1. Explain a personal trouble and provide an example from the film illustrating the personal trouble;
      2. Explain a public issue of this film and provide an example from the film illustrating the public issue.
   4. Using your sociological imagination explain how living in poverty can determine persons’ life chances (make sure to explain the term life chances in your own words) Your responses need to be as specific as possible.
   5. How does this film connect to the chapter on social stratification? — your response needs to include relevant sociological concepts from chapter on social stratification, relevant specific examples from the film, and clear explanation of the connections.  Please make sure to bold the sociological concepts you use from the chapter.
   6. Why do you think this film was shot using children’s perspectives about poverty?
   7. Explain what types of structural changes are needed in order to change the lives of families/children living in poverty.

Select someone in a leadership position at your organization or at a local company where you might seek employment. This individual could be a director, manager, supervisor, or CEO of the organization.

Write a  profile of the individual that you interviewed for your company’s newsletter, and include the following:

• Identify the individual and their position within the company, and briefly describe the organization.
• Interpret the individual’s leadership style based on the Five-Factor personality model, and offer one or more examples of the management and leadership roles of this individual.
• Explain one incident where this individual had to solve a difficult problem or situation because things did not go as planned.
• Describe the lessons that she/he learned from being able to problem solve, even when what she/he had been taught did not work.