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Many musical composers, both classical and modern, have used mathematics in their compositions. Research the life of one such composer. Write a one- to two-page essay discussing the role of mathematics in the composer’s life and music.

 

Resources: Gamescape Episode 4 Results PDF and Ch. 15-18 of Visualizing Environmental Science.
Complete Episode 4: “Controlling Energy Systems” of Gamescape.
Imagine that you are preparing a letter for a time capsule for your great-great grandchildren, which explains the long-term energy sustainability plan that

you developed in Episode 4 of Gamescape.
Write a 350- to 700-word letter for the time capsule using your Gamescape Episode 4 Results PDF as a resource, that includes the following points:
Briefly describe the nation’s current energy situation, reliance on oil, and renewable energy sources available. Discuss some challenges that our nation

faces with managing our energy resources and how these challenges have affected you personally.
Describe the sustainability plan you developed in Episode 4 of Gamescape. Identify two strengths and two weaknesses in this plan. How can you address these

weaknesses?
Present three ways in which you hope our nation will educate people on renewable resources and wisely managing our fossil fuel supply.
Close with one key message that you want your great-great grandchildren to understand about how our current society has managed energy sources and their

environmental effects.

 

If only I could Sleep
We can all agree that we feel our best when we get a good night’s sleep. For most adults, between
seven and eight hours of sleep a night is ideal. What are some of the efiects of sleep deprivation? What
happens to you when you are tired? What are some of the causes of sleep disturbances? What can we
do to improve the quality of our sleep? Write a short paper answering these questions. You can start
your research at the following link. Use at least one other source, and be sure to address each of the
questions in this assignment

Are You Getting Enough Sleep?
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• Sleep Debt
• Consequences of Too Little Sleep
• Dangers of Sleep Deprivation
The amount of sleep a person needs depends on many factors, including age. In general:
• Infants require about 12-15 hours a day
• Toddlers require about 11-14 hours a day.
• Pre-school children require 10-13 hours a day.
• School-age children require 9-11 hours a day.
• Teenagers need about 8.5-9.5 hours on average.
• Most adults need 7 to 9 hours a night for the best amount of sleep, although some people may need as few as 6 hours or as many as 10 hours of sleep each day.
• Women in the first 3 months of pregnancy often need several more hours of sleep than usual.
However, experts say that if you feel drowsy during the day, even during boring activities, you haven’t had enough sleep.
Sleep Debt
The amount of sleep a person needs also increases if he or she has been deprived of sleep in previous days. Getting too little sleep creates a “sleep debt,” which is much like being overdrawn at a bank. Eventually, your body will demand that the debt be repaid.
We don’t seem to adapt to getting less sleep than we need. While we may get used to a sleep-depriving schedule, our judgment, reaction time, and other functions are still impaired.
Consequences of Too Little Sleep
Too little sleep may cause:
• Memory problems
• Depression
• A weakening of your immune system, increasing your chance of becoming sick
• Increase in perception of pain
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Dangers of Sleep Deprivation
Many studies make it clear that sleep deprivation is dangerous. Sleep-deprived people who are tested by using a driving simulator or by performing a hand-eye coordination task perform as badly as or worse than those who are intoxicated.
Sleep deprivation also magnifies alcohol’s effects on the body, so a fatigued person who drinks will become much more impaired than someone who is well rested.
Driver fatigue is responsible for an estimated 83,000 motor vehicle accidents and about 850 deaths each year, according to the
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Some researchers, though, believe the numbers are actually much higher. Since drowsiness is the brain’s last step before falling asleep, driving while drowsy can — and often does — lead to disaster. Caffeine and other stimulants cannot overcome the effects of severe sleep deprivation.
The National Sleep Foundation says you are probably too drowsy to drive safely if you:
• Have trouble keeping your eyes focused
• Can’t stop yawning
• Can’t remember driving the last few miles
• Are daydreaming and have wandering thoughts
• Have trouble holding your head up
• Are drifting in and out of lanes
WebMD Medical Reference Reviewed by Melinda Ratini, DO, MS on July 30, 2016
Sources
SOURCES:
MedicineNet.com.
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.

Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper on American art before and after World War II.

include an examination of the artwork of three artists total. Select two artists who worked during the Great Depression and one Abstract Expressionist artist.

include discussion of the following in your paper:

-At least one example of art from each artist with a description of the subject and style of the work.

-An examination of the purpose of artwork created during the Great Depression. Were your examples used as tools for social reform? What other types of messaging was present in works from the 1930s?

-A description of how Abstract Expressionism emerged in post-World War II America and how it differed from the art work of the 1930s.

-A description of the style of your Abstract Expressionist artist and why he or she was interested in this style of abstraction; was there a “meaning” to their work?

The Goals:
• To practice synthesizing sophisticated information
• To hone your analytic reading and critical listening skills
• To elaborate and expand on what you’ve digested
• To improve your writing skills
The Assignment:
Choose one of the first 7 units of the course. Write an essay.
State the “thesis” of the unit as a whole as you see it. (Each unit includes 2 readings for 2 weeks, 2 lectures).
• Describe the purpose of the unit; capture the gist of it in rich and clear prose.
• You may choose to structure your analysis by discussing part 1 (i.e. Professor Koffman’s lecture and
the reading for that week), then tie it together with part 2 (the guest lecture + reading).
• Alternatively, you may choose to discuss both lectures first, then tie your interpretations/analysis to
both readings.
• Alternatively, you may choose to structure your essay around a theme or two, and bring in the
appropriate material at the right time.
• In other words, the structure of your essay is in your hands
• Consider explaining the structure of your essay to your reader.
Consider each reading in the unit:
! Infer the question that each author of the readings of the unit asks
i.e. state the problem that each reading attempts to solve / explore.
! Summarize the answer the author provided.
! Describe the evidence she/he uses to support her/his answer.
! Make sure you connect the readings directly to what you believe was the overall thesis of the unit.
Consider each lecture in the unit:
• Explain the argument(s) presented, and how they are related to the overall thesis of the unit.
• Discuss if/how the two lectures either complemented each other in terms of content and argument,
how they contradicted one another, and/or how they approached the unit question in similar or
different manners, as appropriate.
• That is, synthesize the lectures into one discussion – put them into conversation with each other.
How did they relate or not relate? (Be specific.)2 of 2
The Technical Details & Helpful Tips:
• Write 1000-1250 words, in 12-point font, double-spaced pages (4-5).
• Write as much as you need to write to answer all of the questions above…
…then carefully figure out how to express it all in under 1250.
• Editing is magic. Structuring is key
• Make sure to put your name, your student number, and your TAs name on your paper
• The assignment is worth 10% of the course grade
• Edit and re-edit your written work!
• Do not write in the “personal” voice.
• Feel free to trade editing services with a friend or classmate. I’d strongly encourage everyone (no
matter how good your writing already is) to make an appointment with a writing centre. Improving
writing is a life-long task – an extremely valuable one at that.
• Please save drafts of your work. If your TA suspect anything less than academic honesty, they will as
you to show them how you arrived at your final submission.
The Grading:
Please consult the course syllabus as a reminder about the course Late Policy, Submission Policy, for help in Support for
Your Learning, and concerning Academic Honesty. I will follow the History Department’s grading policies:
http://www.yorku.ca/uhistory/undergraduate/grading_policies.html
A+ 90-100 Exceptional
A 80-89 Excellent
B+ 75-79 Very good
B 70-74 Good
C+ 65-69 Competent
C 60-64 Fairly competent
D+ 55-59 Passing
D 50-54 Barely passing
E 40-49 Marginally failing
F 0-39 Failing
“Exceptional” assignments will:
• Be inspiring. They’ll articulate the essence of the unit as a whole, and account for how the parts contributed to
the whole.
• Make clear that you’ve devoted concentrated thinking to the unit and the assignment.
• Be grammatically perfect and composed in compelling prose.
“Excellent” assignments will:
• Hit all of the main points in the “The Assignment” section above.
• Be flawlessly written.
• Evidence clear and careful thinking.
“Very Good” grade assignments will:
• Do all of the above but without panache, precision, or superb writing.
• Evidence your critical capacity, your ability to synthesize a theme and variation materials.
“Good” grade assignments
• Do most of the things listed above, but not all.
“Competent” grade assignments will:
• Have either rich content but poor writing, or poor content with competent writing.
“Passing” grade assignments will:
• Just barely satisfy the basic requirements and goals of the assignment.
• Have poor writing and poor content, but show that you did the assignment.
“Failing” grade assignments will:
• Miss the point of the assignment altogether with poor writing.

 

Police role in the community
Topic to be researched: Many people in the society argue that Police Officers have too much authority over the rights of individuals. These individuals suggest that there should be a reduction in police in communities. Utilizing a minimum of four reliable sources (Books, journal, and Newspapers, could be in online from those sources only).
Please select only one question from below and write about it.DONOT WRITE ABOUT TWO QUESTIONS.

******* Question 1. If you think, Police power should not be reduce, why? What they are doing for the community? Are they risking their lives every day? Think about NYPD department, what they are doing? What are the powers they have? To do their jobs well, do not you think it is necessary to have powers? Give as much as supporting details you can with work citied.

******* Question 2. If you agree with the individuals, police power should be lessen, why? Are they using their powers excessively to the innocent in the community? Are most of the police officers are bad? What are your thoughts? Need to provide all the supporting details with work citied.

Please choose one question from above and discuss what the impact of this would be. Please discuss Proactive vs reactive in the paper and support all arguments with facts from reliable sources only.

*** Requirements: 4-5 pages, APA Style, 12 fonts, Double Spaced, 5-6 reliable sources.

 

 

– Size of the projects.
– Size of the market.
– Data/ Graphs showing how big the market is.
– How big is the offer in the market and examples of perfect project for a company like Sajo.
– Sajo is an 90% retail company so what are the advantages of it.
– If developers do interiors fit out for apartments already or the partner with general contractors who are specialised in interiors fit?
– Different types of contracts between client and general contractors.
– How will the be contract composed ? will it be mainly furniture ( tailored for the space) or air conditioning or flooring?
– If furniture is the biggest value in the contract can we partner with the producers?
– Can Boffi or other furniture producers like Armani home, Kenzo home can be a vehicle for us to work in the business ?
-Who are the Architects in the market who can help us?

Brief report or commentary (1500 words) on a theme from the following list. The written report must include appropriately formatted references

in Chicago style from academic sources. The focus should be on developing an argument about the topic presenting a perspective supported by

evidence, and not just description or summary.

Pick ONE technology from the list below and discuss its impacts on society AND the environment.

Nitrogen fertilizers

Refrigeration

Antibiotics

Rocketry

The steam engine

Domestication of cattle

The solar panel

Oil extraction and refining

The assembly line

Corn ethanol

Railways

Industrial steel production

Television

 

Under President Washington, Secretary of War Henry Knox had hoped to pursue a more peaceful policy with the Indians. How did U.S. policy concerning the

Indians unfold in the 1790s?

Foner, Eric. Give Me Liberty!: An American History (Volume 1). Seagull 5th Edition. W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2016. ISBN # 978-0-393-60342-2

 

BME201e Tutor-Marked Assignment

TUTOR-MARKED ASSIGNMENT
This tutor-marked assignment is worth 24% of the final mark for BME 201e Biomedical Ethics.
The cut-off date for the assignment is 06 August 2017, Sunday at 2355hrs.
Submit your solution document in the form of a single MS Word file on or before the cut-off
date shown above.
This TMA covers materials studied in Unit 1 to Unit 3 of the module. You should review these
materials in both your textbook and the unit notes before beginning the assignment. In addition,
you may find it necessary to perform additional research in order to provide better answers to
the questions.
TMA Instruction
Read the below article extracted from Wikipedia and answer the following questions related to
the article.
Takata Corporation
Takata was founded in 1933 in Shiga Prefecture, Japan, by Takezo Takada and started to
produce lifelines for parachutes, and other textiles. In the early 1950s, the company started to
research seat belts. Later they incorporated as “Takata”. In the 1960s, Takata started to sell seatbelts and built the world’s first crash test plant for testing seat-belts under real world conditions.
In the 1970s, Takata developed child restraint systems. In the 1980s, the company changed its
name to “Takata Corporation” and expanded to Korea, the United States, and later to Ireland, to
sell seat-belts. In the 1990s, Takata expanded internationally.
In 2000, Takata Corporation acquired German competitor Petri AG, forming the European
subsidiary Takata-Petri, renamed Takata AG in early 2012. Takata AG makes steering wheels
and plastic parts, not only for the automotive industry.
1995 seat belt recall
In May 1995, a recall in the United States (U.S.) affected 8,428,402 predominantly Japanese
built vehicles manufactured from 1986 to 1991 with seat belts manufactured by the Takata
Corporation of Japan. It was called at that time the “second largest recall in the 30 year history
of the Department of Transportation (DOT)”. The recall was prompted by an investigation
(PE94-052) carried out by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) on
Takata-equipped Honda vehicles, after many of their owners complained of seat belt buckles
either failing to latch, latching and releasing automatically, or releasing in accidents. It revealed
that potentially faulty Takata seat belts were not limited only to Honda vehicles, but to other
Japanese imports as well. NHTSA opened a second investigation on Takata seat belts (EA94-
036) as well as individual investigations on vehicle manufacturers using Takata seat belts to
determine the magnitude of the defect. This second investigation was only limited to the front
seat belt buckles and in particular Takata’s 52X and A7X models. It was determined that a total
of 11 manufacturers were affected by the investigation. Japanese models sold in the U.S. byBME201e Tutor-Marked Assignment

American Honda Motor Co., Isuzu Motors of America Inc., Mazda Motor of America Inc.,
Nissan North America, Daihatsu Motor Co, Mitsubishi Motor Sales of America Inc. and Subaru
of America Inc. also had affected seat belt buckles. Moreover, Chrysler, General Motors and
Ford had various car models manufactured by Japanese companies using the seat belt buckles
concerned, but sold under American names such as the Dodge Stealth and the Geo series (except
Prizm) under General Motors. Ford had vehicles such as the Probe manufactured by Mazda on
its MX-6 platform and the Festiva made by Kia in South Korea, but engineered by Mazda that
also had Takata seat belts. However, unlike Chrysler and General Motors, Ford did not admit
that their seat belts could be defective.
Initially, some of the Japanese manufacturers suspected that the seat belt failures were a result of
user abuse, rather than a design failure. However, the nine-month investigation by NHTSA
concluded that the cause of the defect was that the buckles were made of ABS plastic. Through
exposure to ultraviolet light over a period of time, the plastic became brittle and pieces fell off,
causing a jamming of the release button mechanism.
The manufacturers involved agreed to a voluntary recall, though this did not go smoothly, with
only 18% of the 8.9 million cars and trucks with the Takata belt buckle having been repaired
two years after the recall had begun. In addition, NHTSA assessed a $50,000 civil penalty
against both Honda and Takata for failing to notify the agency about the seat belt defect in a
timely manner. Honda was fined, because NHTSA believed the company knew about the hazard
at least five years before the recall, but never reported the problem to NHTSA nor offered to
conduct a voluntary recall.
Defective airbag recalls (2013–present)
Takata began making airbags in 1988 and, as of 2014, holds 20 percent of the market. In 2013,
several automakers began large recalls of vehicles due to Takata-made airbags. Reports stated
that the problems may have begun a decade before.
Honda stated they knew of more than 100 injuries and eight deaths (seven in the U.S. and one in
Malaysia) that were related to Takata airbags.
In April and May 2013, a total of 3.6 million cars were recalled due to defective Takata airbags.
All of these airbags were made at, or otherwise used inflator units manufactured by Takata’s
Monclova Plant in Coahuila, Mexico, operated by Takata’s North American/Mexican subsidiary,
TK Holdings Inc. In November 2014, BMW announced that they will move any orders from the
Mexican plant to a Takata plant in Germany.
In June 2014, Takata admitted their Mexican subsidiary had mishandled the manufacture of
explosive propellants and improperly stored chemicals used in airbags. Identifying vehicles with
defective airbags was made more difficult by the failure of TK Holdings Inc. to keep proper
quality control records. That prompted another round of recalls in June 2013.
Following this, Takata issued a statement saying, “We take this situation seriously, we will
strengthen our quality control and make a concerted effort to prevent a recurrence”.
On June 23, 2014, auto manufacturers BMW, Chrysler, Ford, Honda, Mazda, Nissan, and
Toyota announced they were recalling over three million vehicles worldwide due to Takata
Corporation-made airbags. The reason was that the airbags could rupture and send flying debrisBME201e Tutor-Marked Assignment

inside the vehicle. This was in response to a NHTSA investigation that was initiated after the
NHTSA received three injury complaints.
In a statement on June 23, 2014, Takata said they thought excessive moisture was the cause of
the defect. Haruo Otani, an official at the vehicle recall section of the Japan Ministry of Land,
Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, said that moisture and humidity could be seeping inside
inflators, destabilizing the volatile propellant inside.
In July 2014, a pregnant Malaysian woman was killed in a collision involving her 2003 Honda
City which contained the defective airbag. The woman, aged 42, died when a metal fragment
from the ruptured driver’s airbag sliced into her neck in the accident. She was driving at around
30 km/h when another vehicle hit her at a junction, according to a lawsuit filed by her father at a
Miami federal court. The baby, delivered after the mother’s death, died three days later.
On November 18, 2014, NHTSA ordered Takata to initiate a nationwide airbag recall. The
action came as 10 automakers in the U.S. recalled hundreds of thousands of cars equipped with
potentially faulty air bags manufactured by Takata.
As of May 19, 2015, Takata is now responsible for the largest auto recall in history. Takata has
already recalled 40 million vehicles across 12 vehicle brands for “Airbags that could explode
and potentially send shrapnel into the face and body of both the driver and front seat passenger”.
This recall will bring the number up to about 53 million automobiles affected. In November
2015, Takata was fined $200 Million ($70 million paid upfront) by U.S. federal regulators in
response to Takata’s admittance of fault. Toyota, Mazda and Honda have said that they will no
longer be using ammonium nitrate-based inflators.
On May 4, 2016, the NHTSA announced recall campaigns of an additional estimated 35-40
million inflators, adding to the already 28.8 million inflators previously recalled.
Question 1
(a) Discuss all possible reasons why the scandals involving the seat belt and airbag had
occur.
(30 marks)
(b) Assume that you were one of the inspectors in charge of checking the quality and
standards of the airbags and you noticed that the airbags were defective. Examine and
discuss some of the ethical issues you had to consider before deciding to report this
problem to the authorities.
(30 marks)
(c) (i) In the case of the defective airbags, explain the need for such a large scale global
recall.
(5 marks)
(ii) In addition to the recall to fix the airbags, recommend other strategies the
government can take to protect the consumers in the future.
(35 marks)
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