Compare and Contrast the Artists

1. Caravaggio
2. Vermeer

Description: Introduce the painters, art style, summarize their significance, include some examples of their art, and find differences/similarities in their careers/art.

The Baroque Style

The Baroque style brought new levels of naturalism and emotionalism to Western art. It featured dynamic contrasts of light and dark, an expanded sense of space, and the theatrical staging of the subject matter.

Caravaggio and Gentileschi explored a variety of illusionistic techniques to draw the spectator into the space and action of the pictorial representation.

Bernini challenged sculptural tradition by combining illusionism, naturalism, and implied movement. He brought a flamboyant style to the city of Rome, both in his fountain sculptures and in his designs for Italian Baroque churches.

Italy’s Catholic churches became ornate settings for the performance of ritual. Bernini’s The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa and Pozzo’s ceiling for the church of Sant’Ignazio achieved new heights of illusionistic theatricality.

Textbook: Fiero, Gloria K. The Humanistic Tradition. Vol. 2. 7th ed. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2015. Print.

General Requirements:

• See the Humanities Writing Rubric in the Syllabus
• 4-6 paragraphs (~ 700-1000 words)
• Include images
• Three or more different references (our textbook can be used as one of the references)
• Word document/MLA format

Assignment Content

1. Southwest Airlines is a well-known company featured in our textbook. Over the next 4 weeks, you will take on the fictional role of intern at Southwest Airlines Human Resources. You will utilize the textbook and other professional resources to complete your assessments.

   Your first week on the job is filled with learning the ins and outs of Human Resources and the industry. Your manager told you that one of your projects is to assist with a new HR strategy for the company. This strategy is broken down into 3 parts that you will work on throughout the course. They are:

   1. Examining current practices
   2. Talent recruitment and selection
   3. Strategy recommendation
   4. Your first task is to examine Southwest’s current HR practices, as reported in public sources. Complete the HR Design Decisions chart with your review and rationale of the elements listed below to decide where Southwest Airlines’ HR practices fall. Support the analysis with evidence from sources on the web.
   • Employees as expenses vs. employees as assets
   • Compensation below market, above market, or competitive
   • Spontaneous training and development or planned training and development
   • Specific job descriptions or general job descriptions
   • External or internal recruitment, or both
   • Limited socialization of new employees or extensive socialization
   • Collective bargaining or individual bargaining

In Weeks 1-4, you were provided with the foundation for implementing data structures using pseudo code.

This week, you will finish the tasks and paper, including the incorporation of appropriate feedback that has been previously received. You will also complete some additional steps, outlined below.

Part 1 Tasks (Objectives from Weeks 1–4):

Review and revise your final paper, which should include the following content:

• Section 1: Lists, Stacks, and Queues
• Section 2: Hashing, Heaps and Trees
• Section 3: Sorting Algorithms
• Section 4: Searching 

Part 2 Tasks (Objective(s) from Week 5): Finalize Your Key Assignment

In addition, include pseudo code for a routine that will prompt the user for a number. You will then calculate the factorial of that number, using recursion.

Week 5 Deliverables:

The following sections should be completed, including the collaboration of each section IP. Feedback received from the instructor and peers should be incorporated into the final paper.

• Title Page
• Table of Contents
• Abstract
• Project Outline/Project Background 
  • Section 1: Lists, Stacks, and Queues
  • Section 2: Hashing, Heaps and Trees
  • Section 3: Sorting Algorithms
  • Section 4: Searching
  • Section 5: Recursion 
• Conclusion
• References
• New Content 
  • Create a pseudo code routine that will ask the user for a number, and then using recursion, generate the factorial of that number.
  • Create fully documented pseudo code to prompt for a number and generate the factorial, including error and bound checking.
  • Create a test plan to show how the program runs and can be executed.
  • Name the document “IT265__Final.doc.”

The next structure you will investigate is the Hash table and its methods implemented in pseudo code when linked lists are used to handle collisions. 

The task this week is to complete the pseudo code for the following hash table operations: 

1. Insert
2. Remove 

Assume Hashtable is a simple array of size 8, with indices 0..7. Numeric keys are mapped by a Hashfunction that gives the mod(8,n) value for any key “n” yielding the Hashtable index for that key (0..7). A Hashtable entry is null unless a key exists with that index as its hashed index; if so, the Hashtable entry points to the first node of a linked list of keys with that hash index. The last node on this linked list has a null reference for the next referenced node. Assume the occurrence of a linked list node is represented by the object “Node” and its “Data” and “NextRef” attributes.

Week 2 Deliverables:

• 1 pseudo code implementation of each Hash table operation: Insert and Remove
• Fully documented pseudo code.
• Add the completed pseudo code and the output to the Key Assignment template Section 2: Hashing, Heaps and Trees.
• Name the document “IT265__IP2.doc.” 

Sort algorithms have many trade-offs, in-fact even the sorted output sequences might differ. 

Part 1: Your tasks for this assignment are the following:

1. Identify at least five (5) algorithm differences that might be considered when choosing a sort algorithm. 
2. Offer examples of related sorts with the discussion of each difference considered. 

Part 2: Rationalize:

You have formed a hypothesis that Big O analysis is not appropriate for comparing different sort algorithms, but rather for comparing the performance of a given sort algorithm as the number of sort keys change. (Hint: consider locality differences among sorts).

Week 3 Deliverables:

• 5 fully documented differences among sorting algorithms.
• Support the differences with Sort algorithms that exemplify the related characteristics.
• Generate a summary of Sort differences.
• Include the Big O critique.
• Name the document “IT265__IP3.doc.”

Key Assignment Draft: Include session changes

The first two Individual Projects used linked lists for stacks, queues, and hashing implementations. With this task, searching performance with linked lists will be addressed. 

Part 1: Your tasks for this assignment are the following:

1. Discuss the use of a binary tree when searching for keys in an array.
2. Discuss the use of a binary tree when searching for keys in a linked list. 

Part 2: Complete the following program:

1. Describe a linked list structure to support binary searching.
2. Create pseudo code to describe a binary search with this linked list variation. 

Week 4 Deliverables:

• Summary of binary search with an array.
• Summary of binary search with a linked list.
• 1 fully documented pseudo code implementation of a linked list useful for binary searches. 

Part 3: Key Assignment Draft: 

Once you have completed this section, submit the pseudocode and summary of binary searches from all of the following in your Key Assignment template:

• Section 1: Lists, Stacks, and Queues
• Section 2: Heaps and Trees
• Section 3: Sorting Algorithms
• Section 4: Searching 

Name the document “IT265_yourname_IP4.doc.”

Key Assignment

In Weeks 1-4, you were provided with the foundation for implementing data structures using pseudo code.

This week, you will finish the tasks and paper, including the incorporation of appropriate feedback that has been previously received. You will also complete some additional steps, outlined below.

Part 1 Tasks (Objectives from Weeks 1–4):

Review and revise your final paper, which should include the following content:

• Section 1: Lists, Stacks, and Queues
• Section 2: Hashing, Heaps and Trees
• Section 3: Sorting Algorithms
• Section 4: Searching 

Part 2 Tasks (Objective(s) from Week 5): Finalize Your Key Assignment

In addition, include pseudo code for a routine that will prompt the user for a number. You will then calculate the factorial of that number, using recursion.

Week 5 Deliverables:

The following sections should be completed, including the collaboration of each section IP. Feedback received from the instructor and peers should be incorporated into the final paper.

• Title Page
• Table of Contents
• Abstract
• Project Outline/Project Background 
  • Section 1: Lists, Stacks, and Queues
  • Section 2: Hashing, Heaps and Trees
  • Section 3: Sorting Algorithms
  • Section 4: Searching
  • Section 5: Recursion 
• Conclusion
• References
• New Content 
  • Create a pseudo code routine that will ask the user for a number, and then using recursion, generate the factorial of that number.
  • Create fully documented pseudo code to prompt for a number and generate the factorial, including error and bound checking.
  • Create a test plan to show how the program runs and can be executed.
  • Name the document “IT265__Final.doc.”

Given the increase in heterogeneity among families in early childhood settings and the closeness with which families need to work together, this week has focused on the thoughtful implementation of communication strategies that help foster respectful and supportive relationships. In the Discussion this week, you are exploring possible barriers and challenges related to communicating with families. Perhaps you have gained insights into your own biases or hesitancies that may impede your work with families and children

Your textbook lists 8 categories of families who, of course share similarities, but also have their own differences – both strengths and challenges. Which of these categories of families do you know the least? What strengths and challenges might these families have that would help you work with them and their children? As you strive to do anti-bias work and help children understand and respect each other’s families, what do you need to know?

To begin, choose three types of families from the list below to be the focus of your exploration. You may want to learn more about families of children with whom you work or anticipate working with, families with whom you anticipate feeling uncomfortable, and/or families with whom you have not had contact. Again, as you choose, keep in mind that your role as an early childhood professional who does anti-bias work involves you in teaching the children with whom you work to respect and understand all kinds of families without over-generalizing or stereotyping.

8 Types of Family Groupings

• Single-parent families
• Blended and extended families
• Adoptive families
• One or more family members incarcerated
• Foster families
• Military families
• Transnational Families
• Gay/Lesbian-headed families

For each type of family you have selected, complete the following:

• Consider the various resources that you might draw on to develop a deeper understanding about the specific challenges faced by this type of family including stereotypes/misconceptions held by society in general or at individual levels. Conduct a brief investigation by looking for local and/or national organizations, support groups, publications, and online resources that might be available to expand awareness about this kind of family. Take note of the resources that you feel would be particularly helpful to teachers committed to anti-bias work and effective early childhood practice. For each resource, indicate whether it would be helpful to early childhood professionals, families, or both. Justify your ideas.
• Based on the textbook reading for this week and your additional resources, summarize your insights.
• List at least three key strategies that might be used to help adults and/or children understand each other’s families with more respect.

For this assignment, write an essay in which you address all of the components listed above for each of the three family types you selected.

At the conclusion of your essay, summarize your findings as detailed above, including a reflective section that responds to the following questions:

• What insights have you gained this week with regard to specific categories of families that foster your anti-bias work with adults and children?
• What misconceptions or assumptions of yours, if any, were dispelled?
• What resources did you find to be invaluable?
• What qualities and skills do you already possess that might help you to positively support and communicate with every child’s unique family?

Assignment length: approximately 3 pages