If the animals on the life raft are actually symbolic of parts of Pi’s personality or his emotions, what is each of the animals symbolic of?

Consider: How are animals used symbolically in different stories / cultures? What figurative language in the novel is used to describe the animals and how might it reveal potential symbolism? What benefit might it serve for the person going through a tragedy to turn to use symbolism to cope with their circumstance? Draw from the text, as well as outside research to develop a six-paragraph essay. Make sure you have planned your essay out prior to writing it.

( Take evidences in book have to quotation mark like this)

” abcd ” (Martel ***) * equal pages

Life of Pi

Microeconomics: Sketch the indifference curves and the initial allocation on an appropriate diagram. In your diagram identify the area where there is scope for a Pareto improvement and explain why this is the case.

Candidates must attempt ALL questions
Question 1

Consider a pure exchange economy with two consumption goods, X and Y, and two consumers, A and B. There are 20 units of X and 20 units of Y in the economy. The preferences of the consumers are represented by the following utility functions:

𝑈𝐴 (𝑋𝐴𝑌𝐴 ) = 𝑋𝐴 + 2𝑌𝐴

𝑈𝐵 (𝑋𝐵𝑌𝐵 ) = 3(𝑋𝐵)2 𝑌𝑩

a. Suppose that initially consumer A has 10 units of X and 10 units of Y, while consumer B has all the remaining units of the two goods. Is this allocation Pareto efficient? [7 marks]

b. Sketch the indifference curves and the initial allocation on an appropriate diagram. In your diagram identify the area where there is scope for a Pareto improvement and explain why this is the case. [8 marks]

c. Now suppose initially A has all the available units of X and B has all the units of good Y. The price of X is 1 and the price of good Y is 1 as well. Write down expressions for the budget constraints for A and B. How much X and Y will be demanded at these prices? Do these prices and quantities form a general competitive equilibrium?
[10 marks]
[25 Marks]

Question 2

Suppose the inverse demand for a good is given by P = 30 – 2Q, where Q is the total quantity supplied by all firms in the market. Suppose any firm in the market has a constant marginal cost of 14.

a. Assume the market consists of two firms that set their quantities simultaneously. Calculate the duopoly levels of production and the equilibrium price. [7 marks]

b. Now assume firm 1 chooses its production level before firm 2 does. What will be the equilibrium quantities, price and profits in this case? [10 marks]

c. Now suppose that if firm 2 wishes to enter the market then it has to pay a fixed cost of 4. If firm 1 (who again is the first mover) chooses to produce a quantity q1 = 6, what will be firm 2’s profit? What conclusions can you draw concerning firm 2’s entrance decision and firm 1’s profit? [8 marks]
[25 Marks]

Question 3
Suppose the government is considering the provision of traffic lights at three different locations, denoted 1, 2 and ach traffic light costs $600 to install. There are three individuals (A, B, and C). If a traffic light is installed all individuals will be taxed equally to pay for the costs and this information is known to the individuals. The decision whether to install each individual traffic light is taken on the basis of a majority vote; and, for each individual, if the individual’s valuation is greater than or equal to the cost to them then they would vote in favour of provision. The table below gives the value that each individual places on installing a traffic light at each of the locations:
Location Individual A Individual B Individual C
1 170 150 300
2 220 250 180
3 150 220 220

a. Explain which traffic lights will be installed, and whether the outcomes are efficient. [9 marks]

b. Explain for each of the three locations what decisions would be made using a Clark-Groves mechanism, how much each individual would pay and how much revenue would be raised towards the cost. To ease your calculations, you can use a calculator or a computing software such as Excel. [10 marks]

c. What is the main disadvantage of the yes-no majority vote system and what is the main advantage of the Clark-Groves mechanism? [6 marks]

[25 Marks]

Question 4
a. Explain both formally and intuitively, why economic theory predicts that the prices of exhaustible resources rise at the rate of interest. (15 marks)
b. What factors may prevent this from occurring in the real world? How would such factors impact price growth? (10 marks)
[25 Marks]

Assess the ideological meaning of the home through its critique within photographic and/or art practice(s)?

This lecture will help define the notion of ideology and using Louis Althusser’s text ‘On Ideology’ consider how an ideology operates particularly in relation to our notions of the family and home, and their manifestation within cultural forms. Key terms include: production – state – corporation – labour – commodity – interpellation – home – family – private – expulsion – waste – failure – expulsion – super-ego.

Assignment Type:

1 Essay of 3,000 words

* 10% allowance each way * wordcount excludes

bibliography

Profit, loss, breakeven volume calculations

Imagine you are the CEO of Fun & Games plc, a company engaged in the manufacture of children’s toys.

A report shown to you by the chief operational officer contains the data shown in Table 3.

Table 3 Cost data

The company currently sells 3000 stuffed toys each month. The marketing director has always believed that “increasing the sales price per unit by 10% will simply cause a 10% drop in demand and so it’s not worth increasing prices”.

• a. Produce a statement showing the current monthly profit or loss.

(20 marks)

• b. What is the current breakeven volume?

(5 marks)

• c. Assuming that the marketing director assumptions on price and demand are correct produce a statement showing the profit or loss if the company were to increase its sales price per unit by 10% (and so loses 10% of volume of demand). Is the marketing director correct that it makes no difference?

(15 marks)

Show all workings.

Word limits have not been set as your answers are quantitative in nature, requiring calculations but very few words. In other words, be as brief as possible in your written answers to questions a, b, c.

Discuss how you intend to construct the items, cognizant of the basic principles of item pool construction, the necessity of SMEs, the unidimensionality or multidimensionality of the construct,

For this task, complete the readings for this assignment, and then write a paper in which you complete the following:
Write an introduction that examines the construct, its conceptual definition/s, and related concepts.
Review the literature and the existing tools that measure the construct.
Provide justification for your original scale.
Discuss how you intend to construct the items, cognizant of the basic principles of item pool construction, the necessity of SMEs, the unidimensionality or multidimensionality of the construct, etc.
Write at least 20 sample items that represent the construct you are planning to measure. You may construct negatively-worded items, but indicate these in a chart or table. If the construct you choose has two or more dimensions under it, write sample items indicating which items fall under which
dimension. (See for example, the Life Position Scale that contained four dimensions I’m OK etc. at first, but after factor analysis the dimensions reduced to two—I and You.)
Argue for a specific method of running an item analysis procedure.
Argue for at least two specific methods of establishing your scale’s validity (Choose at least one method for construct validity, and another method for criterion-related validity. In criterion validation, it is not enough to simply write that you are planning to employ the method. Be sure to specify the
variable(s) you will correlate your scale with.
Length: 10-15 pages
Your assignment should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course by providing new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards.

write a critical review essay of an agreed-upon feature of sexual or gendered diversity, with a special focus on its contemporary conceptualization and measurement, its likely causal origins and substrates

Written Assignment: You will write a critical
review essay of an agreed-upon feature of
sexual or gendered diversity, with a special
focus on its contemporary conceptualization
and measurement, its likely causal origins
and substrates (e.g., genetic, physiological,
neurological, cognitive, developmental, and
cultural), and its most important psychological
consequences—for personal mental health,
romantic relationships, family life, the
workplace, broader society, and so forth (max
2,000 words, 100% of grade

Identify, research, critically summarise and apply key concepts in cognitive psychology to a range of psychological issues.

Assignment Brief – experiment chosen is exp 4, info is at bottom of this page
As part of the formal assessment for the programme you are required to submit a Cognitive Psychology research proposal and research report.
Learning Outcomes:
After completing the module you should be able to:
1. Demonstrate a critical understanding and depth of knowledge of the core areas of cognitive psychology and the ability to assess their relevance in the understanding of the contemporary world
2. Critically understand the main theoretical perspectives and debates in cognitive psychology in their contemporary contexts.
3. Identify, research, critically summarise and apply key concepts in cognitive
psychology to a range of psychological issues.
4. Assimilate data and evidence to support a reasoned argument to explain some aspect of human mental life and behaviour.
5. Collect, evaluate, and apply information from a variety of sources in order to address questions regarding cognitive psychology.
6. Communicate arguments, evidence, and statistical information through reports in an effective way that is in accordance with discipline-relevant publication guidelines.
7. Effective Communication: Communicate effectively in writing. Be IT, digitally and information literate.
Your assignment should include: a title page containing your student number, the module name, the submission deadline and a word count; a reference list in APA format; an appendix containing the raw data; an appendix containing SPSS output, and an appendix containing examples of materials if relevant. You should address all the elements of the assignment task listed below. Please note that tutors will use the assessment criteria set out
below in assessing your work.
Maximum word count: 5,000
Please note that exceeding the word count by over 10% will result in a reduction in grade by the same percentage that the word count is exceeded.
Assignment Task
For this assignment, you are required to conduct your own piece of quantitative research (an experimental study). You design your own true experiment on a topic in cognitive psychology using the cognitive psychology approach. A true experiment is one where participants can be randomly allocated to different experimental conditions. The exception to
the true experiment is only for within-subjects factors. It must be a 2×2 factorial design (i.e. have two independent variables) and one dependent variable. You should analyse the data using appropriate statistical techniques in SPSS and write a 5,000-word report using the report writing conventions of the APA.
Please follow these steps:
2. The study needs to be well supported by literature published since 2000.
3. You need to identify two independent variables and one dependent variable in order to satisfy the 2×2 factorial design. Please refer to the Research Methods module for the design (and data analysis).
4. *As 3 example reports are made available, your design cannot employ the same independent variables as in those examples. Example 1: memory of words with IV1 (distinctive vs similarity processing) and IV2 (immediate vs no recall). Example 2:
memory with IV1 (black/white vs colour) and IV2 (picture vs word). Example 3:
memory with IV1 (deep vs shallow processing) and IV2 (music vs no music). All
these six factors (IVs) are to be excluded from your own research design.
5. You can use any appropriate method for delivering the materials, PowerPoint, paper and pencil, or even experiment generator software available through the Virtual Psychology Lab, such as OpenSesame, PsyTools and SuperLab, but make sure you have the skills required to learn quickly otherwise your project will quickly become unmanageable. Please contact the IT technicians for any support that can be provided on such software.
7. To keep track of the study design, it is important to note the following while the work is in progress:
(i) Aim, rationale and hypotheses (main and interaction effects) of the study
(ii) What literature your study is based on?
(iii) Independent variable 1: Name and Levels
(iv) Independent variable 2: Name and Levels
(v) Dependent variable: Name and measurement
(vi) Instruments/Materials used for the experiment
(vii) Participant information
This important information will help you write the various sections of the report.
8. One of the learning outcomes of this module is to understand ethical issues and how they are assessed. So, once you are ready with your design (and words) and you have identified who your participants are going to be, please complete a Student Research Proposal Form which will be used to assess the ethical issues and provide ethical approval for your study. It is expected that there will be no ethical issues but you do need to complete the form to determine whether your experiment does have ethical issues and how you might deal with them.
You should not, under any circumstances, begin recruiting until you receive
ethical approval. A zero mark will be awarded for non-approved research.
9. Please submit your Student Research Proposal Form to your module tutor by the Date – done
10. You are required to supply the raw data collected (for each participant and condition) in a clear and suitable table in an appendix. Failure to do so will lead to a failed mark.
11. You are required to analyse the data in SPSS and to include SPSS print-outs
(outputs) of your analysis as an appendix. Failure to do so will lead to a failed mark.
12. The suggested word allocation of the report is
a. Abstract 150 words
b. Introduction 2,000 words
c. Method 400 words
d. Results 250 words
e. Discussion 2,200 words
This does not need to be strictly adhered to but your report should NOT exceed 5,000 words
Guidelines
You MUST underpin your analysis and evaluation of the key issues with appropriate and wide ranging academic research and ensure this is referenced using the APA system. The Additional notes:
Students are required to indicate the exact word count on the title page of the assessment.
The word count excludes the title page, tables, figures, diagrams, footnotes, reference list and appendices. Where assessment questions have been reprinted from the assessment brief these will also be excluded from the word count. ALL other printed words ARE included in the word count. See ‘Word Count Policy’ on the homepage of this module for more information.

Experiment chosen is number 4
This experiment has been designed to investigate the picture superiority effect and affective valence of words on free recall. Participants are shown positively rated and neutral items presented as either words or pictures. The positive and neutral words were relatively matched on arousal and were selected from the Affective Norms for English Words (ANEW) database (Bradley & Lang, 1999). The images were selected from a combination of PowerPoint icons and images from Pixabay.com and were chosen to be similar silhouette-style images with very little distinctiveness. The number of stimuli included was based on Ferré (2015).

Critically evaluate the concepts and theories that may be appropriate to make your new division successful from a managerial perspective.

Length 2000 words
Context
You are a senior manager of a multi-national bank which is one of the world’s most established and largest banking and financial services organisations.
In its efforts to compete with disruptive Fintech rivals such as Revolut, the bank has appointed you to set up a challenger bank which will be an autonomous division of the parent company.
The Task
The Directors have asked you to report on how the challenger bank should be set up.
In this report you need to give a comprehensive view of the strategy and operation including at least three of the topics covered in the module. You are not required to cover all the topic areas featured in the module.
Critically evaluate the concepts and theories that may be appropriate to make your new division successful from a managerial perspective. You may want to consider a variety of contemporary issues in management aspects such as leadership, change management, culture, marketing, disruptive innovation, human resource management. Your selected topics must be chosen from the module.
Structure
• Executive summary 100 words (not included in the word count).
• Evaluation of proposed strategy and operations by theme. (Including a brief introduction) 1750 words
• Conclusions and recommendations 250 words
• Appendices
• References

PLEASE NOTE:

• Your answers should demonstrate learning from the module and be appropriately referenced using Harvard system.

• Use sources recommended in the module. If you do not use sources referred to in the module YOU WILL LOSE MARKS.

what is the impact of dreaming on the dreamers life?

Writing Brief
The question that is trying to be answered is: what is the impact of dreaming on the dreamers life?
Objectives: what is the experience of vivid dreams, how do dreamers make sense of these experiences and how do dreamers make meaning and sense in the context of their lives.
The method is using a phenomenological analysis tool. Themes should be derived from the experience of what the participants are saying. For example if 3 participants express a concern and show the meaning. If 10 participants express a concern etc. Follow the uploaded articles and chapters from Jonothan smith chpter seven and nine.
Use IPA to look at the objects of concern and the meaning to the participants then write the theme. Use SEA as a two step analysis to explore existential issue that arise. Existential perspective **.

15000 word count does not include the verbatim phrases extracted from the participants text. Include at least 5000 words discussion.
Each super-ordinate theme should be a minimum of
The analysis and discussion will form separate sections
Reporting and discussing your findings
This page deals with the central part of the thesis, where you present the data that forms the basis of your investigation, shaped by the way you have thought about it. In other words, you tell your readers the story that has emerged from your findings. The form of your chapters should be consistent with this story and its components
Finding your focus
How will you decide which aspects of your findings are the most interesting and important? It is useful to remind yourself what the task of writing up research is all about:
This will involve looking at the data and forming themes that emerge. Also, aspects that relate both to literature review and new knowledge.

• the analytic story (a common framework for theses in the social sciences)
• What are the key concepts you have used in this study?
• How do your ‘findings’ shed light on these concepts and, through them, on the substantive topics you studied?
• What, therefore, has become of your original research problem and the literature regarding it?
• the mystery story
• starts from empirical examples
• develops the questions by discussing them
• gradually leads the reader to interpretations of the material and to more general implications of the results.
The big picture
The challenge for every thesis writer is to hold the detail of the data in focus without losing sight of the big picture of the research. This is why reporting data analysis is not enough; you need to:
• establish the connections between the patterns that emerge from your analysis and your research questions
• relate those connections to the existing research and theory
in order to make clear your contribution to knowledge in the field.

Present the findings

Overview (example) – The phenomenological analysis of the semi-structured interviews with eleven dreamers one male and 10 female are is presented in this chapter. The analysis led to the emergence of ____ super-ordinate themes.
Table example
Super-ordinate theme Emergent themes
1. The Struggle Coping
Emotion release
medication
2.
3.
4.
5.

Introduction to the themes: The four super-ordinate themes provide an overview of the accounts of HIVpositive gay men who feel they have experienced PTG since their diagnosis. The first theme, the Struggle, highlights participants’ account of their struggle in coping with their HIV diagnosis and taking their HIV medication. The second theme, Change in relationships, explores the men’s experience of the changes in relationships with the self and with others. It also highlights the way the men began to relate to their HIV. It considers the process of changing their perception of who they are, in light of their diagnosis, and the way they perceive other people. The third theme is Positive growth. This theme explores the different ways the men started to engage with their world, developing coping strategies while they navigate through their diagnosis. The final theme, Identity, highlights that despite experiencing PTG, the men still face challenges whilst living with HIV, in light of their struggles from the past, and with their identities as gay men.
Explanation of Sub-theme – Coping The men remembered vividly and felt the need to tell the story of their struggle to cope when receiving their HIV-positive diagnosis. There was a sense that some of the men expected their diagnosis and some of them did not; nevertheless, it was still a shock as they tried to cope with their news. What is interesting in the following extracts is the ways in which the men go into autopilot and show the importance of being able to ‘get on’ with their lives and get through their day:
(quotes used from an interview) Kristof: “I was in denial. I went to the gym and then burst out crying. I had to keep going. I just didn’t expect it to be honest.”
Marley: “I was in shock and couldn’t get my head around it. I just had to get on with it, I suppose. There have been a couple of times when I’ve been on my hands and knees thinking ‘why the fuck has this happened to me?’ but it has.
” Matteo: “I was like ‘oh fuck’ and I just felt a disappointment in myself but I had to get on with it.”
The quotes are drawn from the participants interview verbatim. Use the excel cell number to reference the location of the quote which should make this easier.
Summary of theme – In summary, this emergent theme shows how these men went into autopilot, as a way of coping with their news, whilst trying to get on with their lives. There is sense of powerlessness through a lack of personal control, as they fight their emotional reactions towards their deeply shocking news yet show high levels of resilience in their will to survive. Despite the diagnosis they still found it highly important to get through the day as ‘normally’ as possible. This way of coping can be interpreted as denial, as the men split from strong emotions in order to get on with things, until they are ready to engage with them at a later time.

Summary of super-ordinate theme – Summary of super-ordinate theme This super-ordinate theme captures the men’s experience of an HIV-positive diagnosis. They recognised that their lives would not be the same again, as they struggled to come to terms and cope with the diagnosis. Although medication is available, some men struggled with introducing and accepting the commitment and dependency of having to take it every day for the rest of their lives. This was something the men battled with, whilst also perceiving it as another milestone in the process of getting an HIV diagnosis. It is interesting to see how important it was for the men to tell their story and relive the moment they received the shocking news of their diagnosis – this is the starting point from which they had to learn how to cope and to develop PTG. This super-ordinate theme gives an overview of the struggle to cope when receiving an HIV-positive diagnosis and offers insight into what it is like for gay men to go through this experience. The next section will attempt to demonstrate the ways in which the men have developed PTG through a change in their relationships since their diagnosis. These include relationships with self; relationships with others; and relationships with HIV.
Each super-ordinate theme needs an introduction outlining its organisation.
Qualitative data is difficult to present neatly in tables and figures. It is usually expressed in words, and this results in a large quantity of written material, through which you must guide your reader.

Structure is therefore very important.

Try to make your sections and subsections reflect the themes that have emerged from your analysis of the data, and to make sure your reader knows how these themes evolved. Headings and subheadings, as well as directions to the reader, are forms of signposting you can use to make these chapters easy to navigate.

Qualitative data
The reporting of qualitative data is much less bound by convention than that of quantitative data. The data itself usually consists of words, from written documents or interview transcripts (but may include images), which have been analysed in some way, often into themes. In reporting the data, it is generally important to convey both the themes and some of the flavour of the actual words.
The data needs to be connected back through the layers of detail to the overarching research question it relates to. This can be done through the introductions to carefully-structured sections and subsections. Individual data extracts can be connected back into this structure through a process of ‘tell-show-tell’.

A cavity was made in an existing gold crown to facilitate an  endodontic procedure. The cavity was then filled with dental amalgam. After several months the amalgam appeared discoloured and corroded. What caused the problem and how could it be avoided?

Question: A cavity was made in an existing gold crown to facilitate an
endodontic procedure. The cavity was then filled with dental
amalgam. After several months the amalgam appeared discoloured and corroded. What caused the problem and how could it be avoided?

you must mention the materials which are in amalgam. the main one is mercury which can react with gold.

no intro and conclusion

no in-text referencing, just at the bottom of the text.

explain with detail as much as u can

you can use as many references that the question needs