. Define a structure that contains the following four members: (1) a character member that holds the row used for the torpedo’s position on the board –

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For this homework assignment, you will edit your Homework 6 to add functionality to play a simplified version of the classic game of Battleship on the screen/console. You shall organize your program into three files:

• prgm.h will hold #includes, #defines, templates of any structure types, and a list of function prototypes.

• main.c will hold the local #include file as well as the main()function for the program.

• func.c will hold the local #include file as well all other functions (except main(), of course) used in the program.

2. Define a structure that contains the following four members: (1) a character member that holds the row used for the torpedo’s position on the board – note that this character may be a single character in the range ‘A’ – ‘J’; (2) an integer member that holds the column used for the torpedo’s position on the board –note that this integer has a range 1 – 10; (3) an integer member that keeps track of the number of hits on the aircraft carrier – note that an aircraft carrier is sunk

after 5 hits; and (4) an integer member that keeps track of the number of hits on

the battleship – note that a battleship is sunk after 4 hits.

3. Update the function to display the game board by adding another parameter used to indicate whether or not to “reveal” the solution with ship positions visible or to display the current, active board. In displaying the board, you will display an ‘X’ for each position where a torpedo shot hit either ship and ‘O’ for each position where a torpedo shot missed a ship. If the “reveal” is not set, you will display a blank space for any position that is open (i.e., no ship is assigned, nor has a torpedo shot been fired) or contains a ship. If the “reveal” is set, you will still display a blank space for any position that is open, but will you display a ‘B’ for each position containing a battleship that has not been hit and an ‘A’ for each position containing an aircraft carrier that has not been hit. You will call this function to display the updated board after every torpedo shot fired by the user. During the game, “reveal” will not be set. However, after the game is won or lost, you will call this function with “reveal” set to display the board.

4. Add a value-returning function to check the status of the shot fired by the user, given the two-dimensional array for the board passed by reference and a pointer to a variable of the structure defined above. This function is called by main()and checks the status of the user-fired torpedo (i.e., hit, miss, duplicate shot,etc.) and updates the board as a result of the shot fired. This function will also update the number of hits on either ship if either an aircraft carrier or battleship was hit and display a message to the screen/console if a particular ship was sunk. And finally, this function will return a value to indicate whether or not the game is won (i.e., both ships are sunk) or lost (i.e., at least one position on at least one ship has not been shot).

5. Inside main(), you will add a loop to play the game until either the game is won (i.e., both ships are sunk) or the user has fired all of his/her allocated torpedo shots without sinking both ships. For each turn, the user will enter a position (e.g., B7) corresponding to the position on the board where the torpedo will be fired. If the user enters an invalid coordinate position, you will indicate that the torpedo cannot be fired at that location and re-prompt the user to enter the coordinates again (without incrementing the number of shots fired). You may assume that the user enters the position correctly as [char][int], though one of both may not be within the valid range defined. You will parse this input and store it in the structure variable that is passed to the function to check the status of the shot fired by the user. Following each turn, you shall display an updated version of the board. If the user has sunk both ships, you will indicate that the user has sunk both ships and how many shots were fired to accomplish this task. If the user was unable to sink both ships in the allocated number of shots, you are to indicate that the user was not able to sink both ships and then display the final updated board with “reveal” set so that the position(s) of the ships are shown.

Your functions should receive as arguments only the minimally needed ones of the appropriate type, and should a value of the appropriate type whenever a return value is needed.

What did you need to address in terms of your supervisor’s concerns, and how were these different from your coworker’s concerns?

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You have just received two emails, one from your boss or supervisor and one from a coworker. The two emails address the same situation. A minor problem has occurred that you may be responsible for creating. Your boss/supervisor has asked you for a resolution to the problem. Your coworker, who has been affected by this problem, is angry with you and has written an inflammatory email accusing you of creating this problem on purpose.

  1. Using word, write an email as a reply to both of the emails that you have received. You should attempt to resolve the problem as efficiently as possible. Since your email will be received both by a supervisor and a coworker, consider all aspects of your communication including the formality of the language you use, grammar, and all aspects of formal communication. Your goal is to solve the problem and maintain your professionalism at the same time.
  2. On the same document, analyze the conflict that has happened. What was the cause of the conflict? How did you attempt to resolve the conflict? What did you need to address in terms of your supervisor’s concerns, and how were these different from your coworker’s concerns? Do you think your supervisor and coworker handled the conflict well in their emails to you? How effective are these emails?

Create a diagram of the DSL and Cable Modem connections to your ISP, cable organization, and telecom to your home router using Visio or its open source alternative software.

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Week 8 – Assignment 4: Services in Your AreaDue Week 8 and worth 80 points

Research DSL and cable modem services available closest to your community. You may use neighboring communities or regions if your community does not have access to DSL or cable modem services. Researched material must be focused on the technical aspects of DSL and cable modem services. Marketed documents, white papers, or other advertisements may not be used for the completion of this assignment.

Write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which you:

  1. Identify the DSL and cable modem services referenced in this assignment and the region(s) in which they operate.
  • Create a diagram of the DSL and Cable Modem connections to your ISP, cable organization, and telecom to your home router using Visio or its open source alternative software. Note: The graphically depicted solution is not included in the required page length.
  1. Compare and evaluate the speeds of DSL and cable modem that you researched.
  2. Compare and evaluate the cost of DSL and cable modem that you researched.
  3. Compare and evaluate the reliability of DSL and cable modem that you researched.
  4. Recommend DSL or cable modem based on the previous comparison and evaluation of services available closest to your region. Explain your recommendation.
  5. Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality 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; 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 page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

  • Compare and contrast among local area and wide area network technologies and architectures.
  • Use technology and information resources to research issues in communication networks.
  • Write clearly and concisely about communication networks using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.

Describe what might be different about your message if you speak with your supervisor in person rather than send an e-mail. Use the concepts you learned about both verbal and nonverbal messages as you write your answer (300-word minimum).

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Persuasive Messages

Scenario: Your supervisor disagrees with your suggestion that employees should be allowed to create online profiles in LinkedIn. You believe that communicating with others on LinkedIn will give employees an opportunity to meet their peers and will also provide potential leads and business partners. However, your supervisor believes that other companies will get an opportunity to review her employees’ qualifications and might make them employment offers that they would accept. You believe you can persuade your supervisor to accept your perspective and are deciding whether to send an e-mail or to speak with her in person.

Complete the following tasks:

  1. Create an e-mail to your supervisor explaining your perspective on the matter of LinkedIn profiles. Use the information you have learned about presenting both verbal and nonverbal messages as you write the e-mail.
  2. Describe what might be different about your message if you speak with your supervisor in person rather than send an e-mail. Use the concepts you learned about both verbal and nonverbal messages as you write your answer (300-word minimum).
  3. Compare your two messages, and explain which medium might be more persuasive.

Requirements: Combine all three steps into one document, but separate all three steps into three pages. You can do this by inserting a page break after each step. This assignment does not require a title page or a reference page. All three sections together should total at least 900 words.

Examine how a specific relationship in your workplace with a coworker or boss is perceived by you based on the range of interpretations available to you (these are physiology, culture and social roles, etc.).

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In Chapter 2 of the textbook, we learn how we as individuals are malleable, depending on the creation of various self-concepts influenced by “particularized others” and “generalized others.” This fractiousness of the self also forms perceptions of others in interpersonal communication. Our perceptions of others is similarly fractious and discursive because we perceive based on our interpretations of the counterparty’s physiology, culture, and social roles, which also include socioeconomic status and “race,” and different kinds of cognitive complexities discussed at length in Chapter 3 of the textbook.

  • Examine how a specific relationship in your workplace with a coworker or boss is perceived by you based on the range of interpretations available to you (these are physiology, culture and social roles, etc.).
  • Based on your experience of perception of this counterparty, is there anything you can do differently in order to improve your relationship? In order to answer this last question, you need to refer to the various guidelines for improving perception and communication beginning on page 91 of the textbook.

Requirements:

  • Refer to the Critical Thinking Rubric in the Module 2 Folder for more information on expectations for this assignment.
  • Your written paper should be four to five pages in length, not counting the title and reference pages, which you must include.
  • You need to cite at least two sources for this assignment, outside of the textbook. These should be scholarly or peer-reviewed resources. The CSU-Global Library is a great place to find resources.
  • Your paper must be formatted according to CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA Requirements.
  • If you need assistance with your writing style, start with the links under the Research Help and Writing Help tabs on the CSU-Global Library’s homepage.

omprehend what you need, get what you pay for, and ensure it covers all that you need, or you don’t purchase [it].

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Even though not every person will require expensive long-term care, financial planners suggest that everybody should consider deciding for the likelihood, since long-term care is costly and can rapidly deplete a lifetime of savings.

By planning, parents are less inclined to use up their financial resources by paying for long-term care. Rather, they might have the capacity to save their assets and income for users other than long-term care, including preserving the quality of life for a remaining spouse/partner, passing on a legacy to family, and supporting favorite causes through their estate.

Personal savings

I will advise my folks to self-insure for long-term care. They can save and invest throughout their lives, then use their accumulated wealth to pay for long-term care.

Life Insurance

On the off chance that your folks own universal life insurance policies, they should check to see if the policies include options allowing them to access their life insurance benefits while they are living.

Individuals do plan for the risk of loss and commonly have set money aside or bought insurance or prepared written documents to cover the unexpected. Without proper

planning, the need for long-term care can result in the single greatest crisis in an elderly person’s life. This lack of planning will always have an adverse effect on the older person’s family. It usually results in great sacrifice or financial cost on the part of the spouse or children. Or for those with no immediate family, long-term care can be a burden to extended family members.

Watch out for money related scams

Money related mishandle of the elderly has, unfortunately, turn into a development industry amid the country’s intense financial circumstances. Ensure your folks are shielded from making hurried, poor and costly money related choices.

It has the following benefits.

  1. Protect reserve funds and resources for family and companions;
  2. Help keep up one’s budgetary freedom from family and companions, frequently dispensing with the need to obtain cash for long haul mind costs.
  3. Diminish family and companions of providing care assignments, as paying for proficient care turns into a reasonable alternative.
  4. Enable a friend or family member to pick where he gets mind. If Medicaid pays for mind, a nursing home is the main choice. Individuals can outline their LTCI arrangement relying upon where they need to get mind: in a nursing home, in the group, at home, or in a helped living office.
  5. Extend the scope of services a loved one gets, including mind from going by attendants, home wellbeing assistants and neighborly guests’ programs; home-conveyed dinners and errand administrations; and time in grown-up childcare focuses and rest administrations for parental figures.

The advantages a friend or family member gets from this arrangement additionally relies upon the sort of plan she buys. Teach yourself so you can settle on a decent educated choice. Comprehend what you need, get what you pay for, and ensure it covers all that you need, or you don’t purchase [it].

Pratt, J. (2016). Long-Term Care: Managing Across the Continuum (4th ed., pp. 21-23). ​Burlington, Ma: Jones and Bartlett.

Submit a three-page report explaining the reasons for these variances from your original project management plan and the proposed steps on how you are going to control the cost and schedule to achieve the contract threshold of $500,000 to be delivered in two years.

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Scenario: You are the project manager responsible for a new building construction in northern Virginia. The building is worth $500,000 and will have five bedrooms, a kitchen, landscaping, and a two-car garage to be completed in two years. This was agreed upon in a firm fixed contract. During the execution (construction) of the building, you realize that the cost of materials have gone up by 10%, and your schedule is behind by 90 days due to delays from county inspections and permit processes. You also notice that if you continue with the current cost rate and schedule rate that the total cost to complete this house would be $600,000 and delivered three months late.

Submit a three-page report explaining the reasons for these variances from your original project management plan and the proposed steps on how you are going to control the cost and schedule to achieve the contract threshold of $500,000 to be delivered in two years. Your plan must include the following:

*Address identifications of impacted activities with their cost and schedule attributes, remembering to account for contingencies.

*Address explanations of the roles your project management team will play during the execution of your project management plan and how they will help you to control the issues that are arising during the project.

*At the end of your essay, add a separate section entitled, “Reflections on My Learning.” In this stand-alone section, summarize what you have learned in doing the research, reading the textbook, and reading the written lessons in regard to project management and how it impacted your decisions in this essay.

Include at least one additional source to support your ideas, thoughts, and theories. Use APA format to document your sources in-text and in your “References” list at the end of the essay.

Based on the understanding of the case, write a report in which you need to include the followings: A.    Explain the problem faced by Aaron’s unit (Introduction part).

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Case 1

Aaron likes supervising the Frontline Service Unit. This unit is responsible for updating customer accounts and files as well as for providing information to customers and other employees. Typically, the customer representatives in the unit he supervises answer questions about the services offered, provide information about the customer’s account and modify the files so that they are up-to-date and correct. This unit was formed only recently, to handle the increasing volume of direct customer calls more efficiently by using the newly installed on-line customer information system.

Unfortunately, the planning for the new unit was not done well. The on-line computer system was purchased and installed before the actual operations people were brought in. As a result, Aaron was given the responsibility for getting the unit up and running within one week. He had to make some quick personnel selections and take care of a lot of administrative details within a short period of time.

Now, three weeks after receiving the assignment, Aaron feels quite a sense of accomplishment. He has been lucky that things have worked as well as they have. In fact, the only thing Aaron is concerned with now is how his reps handle customers over the phone.

Aaron knows that good telephone etiquette is essential to the successful accomplishment of his unit’s mission, yet his reps use many different styles in answering the phone and do not follow basic rules set by the unit. For example, the reps commonly neglect to put customers on hold while they search for information. When asking questions, they do not explain the reason for inquiry; they do not verify information; and, at times, they may react defensively when they don’t know the answers. These are the major – but not the only things they do wrong.

Aaron knows that he must train them in the techniques of proper phone etiquette. There is no available training program to which he can send his personnel. Therefore, he must provide the training and coaching to the reps while they are on the job.

As part of his responsibility, Aaron needs to think of a training program to train his reps in his unit.

Based on the understanding of the case, write a report in which you need to include the followings:

A.    Explain the problem faced by Aaron’s unit (Introduction part).

B.     Prepare a training plan for Aaron. The training plan should be using an appropriate training model learned in the module and also each step/phase/stage should be clearly explained and recommendations should base on the problems identified in the case.

Discuss the basic and relevant background of your topic. You must conclude with the thesis statement that you will be attempting to support/refute in the rest of the paper. 

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The Paper Itself!

Layout: The paper must be word-processed and must use headings such as in this guide. Failure to use headings for sections and failure to organize material under those headings will result in loss of marks   1. Introduction: Not more than 750 words. In the introduction, you should provide the necessary background on your chosen topic. Discuss the basic and relevant background of your topic. You must conclude with the thesis statement that you will be attempting to support/refute in the rest of the paper.

2. What does the ‘science or data’ say that supports your thesis? In this section, you will examine the literature and use scientific and/or geographic knowledge and principles that will support your thesis. In order to do this, you will need to find and discuss five original peer-reviewed research papers published in scientific journals. You will need to report the data that supports your thesis statement and discuss how each of these papers supports your thesis statement (approximately 1500 words).

3. What does the same ‘science or data’ say that refutes your thesis? In this section, you will examine the same five papers that you used to support your thesis and discuss and interpret their findings such that they refute, disprove or throw into doubt your original thesis statement (approximately 1500 words).

4. Conclusions: Summarize your findings in 500 words or less. Restate your original thesis statement give a final interpretation about its veracity based on what you have written throughout the paper. Length of the paper should be about 4,000 words, not including references, tables and figures. You are encouraged to use figures and tables that will assist in supporting your two arguments. Make sure they are clear, neat and have a proper legend, attribution, and fully informative caption.

5. References: All facts and data must be referenced by author and date (see below). The references should be typed on a separate page(s) and include the following: Authors. Date of article. Full title of article or book. Journal title in full, Volume number; Page numbers (Year of publication for books). References to books should include the editors’ names (if any) as well as the chapter authors (if any), publisher, place (city, state, country) and date of publication. This should be done consistently. You should have no need for footnotes.

Respond to the assigned questions using the lessons and vocabulary found in the reading. Support your answers with examples and research

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Respond to the assigned questions using the lessons and vocabulary found in the reading. Support your answers with examples and research. Your responses should clarify your understanding of the topic. They should be your own, original, and free from plagiarism. Follow the APA format for writing style, spelling and grammar, and citation of sources.

Start reviewing and responding to the postings of your classmates as early in the week as possible. Respond to at least two of your classmates. Participate in the discussion by analyzing each response for completeness and accuracy and by suggesting specific additions or clarifications for improving the discussion question response.

1. The high rates of malpractice suits raise the question, “Should healthcare professionals not be allowed to make any mistakes?” Consider the following case. In your estimation, is failing to pursue further testing simply a mistake? Consider this from the point of view of the risk manager and of the patient’s spouse.

A 38-year-old female was admitted to the emergency room of Goodcare Hospital with symptoms that suggested a gastrointestinal problem. The attending physician performed all the routine tests, and the results were normal. During the time the patient was in the ER, she had uncontrolled diarrhea and grew weaker. The medication given did not help. The patient died, and the autopsy revealed that she was suffering from giardiasis, an intestinal parasitic infection. This infection is not detected by routine parasitic testing. If detected, the infection can be effectively treated with antibiotics. In this case, if the patient had been correctly diagnosed, she would likely have recovered quickly and lived. The attending physician was sued for negligence for failing to diagnose the infection. A jury awarded the woman’s husband $725,000.