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Find a peer reviewed article pertaining to blockchain and finance that is not one of the required readings for this course. Write a critical review of the article that is at least 3 pages long (content). Be sure to provide in-text citations when you paraphrase or directly quote from the article. Also include a reference page with an APA style citation of the article. Follow the writing requirements for this course when preparing the paper. Use the following format for the paper:

1.  Introduction, including the purpose of your paper and a preview of your paper. Be sure to also provide the article’s title and author(s)’ name(s) in the introduction of your paper. 

2. Discuss the purpose and problem the article is addressing.

3. Elaborate on the content of the article.

4. Discuss the findings and conclusion(s) drawn by the article’s author.

5. Discuss the author’s point of view and assumptions. Indicate whether unsubstantiated assumptions were made and whether there is bias that exists in the article.

6. Discuss the significance of the article. Why it is important? On what do you base your assertions?

7. Conclude your paper. Summarize the important aspects of the review.

8. References

Your paper should include 8 centered and bolded headings that correspond to each of the required sections (Introduction, Article’s Purpose and Problem, Content, Article’s Findings and Conclusions, Point of View and Assumptions, Significance, Conclusion, References).

You will also prepare a presentation of this Critical Review during the residency. The presentation should last about 10 minutes and Power Point is required. The presentation rubric provided under the Content Tab in the Getting Started folder will be used to grade the presentation. Follow the same format as the paper for the presentation. Power point is required and the presentation should last 10 minutes. The presentation is worth 50 points and the paper is worth 100 points.

Writing Requirements for all Written Work:

• References must be cited within your paper in APA format. Your reference page and in-text citations must match 100%. Papers without in-text citations will earn failing grades.
• Always include a cover page and reference page with all submissions (even initial discussion posts) 
• Provide the exact web link on the reference page citations for all online sources – do not provide just the home page, but the exact link – I check all sources
• No abbreviations, no contractions – write formally
• Write in the third person formal voice (no first or second person pronouns)
• Write more than the minimum requirement of the word count assigned
• As always, the word count is only for the body of the paper – the cover page, reference page, and / or Appendix (if included) do not count towards the word count for the paper 
• Indent the first line of each new paragraph five spaces
• Refer to the example APA paper in the getting started folder under the content tab if you need an example. Also, a Power Point is provided under the information tab that addresses APA format.
• Use double-spacing / zero point line spacing, a running header, page numbers, and left justify the margins.

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Competency

Analyze and interpret perceptual elements of visual media communication to identify effective visual messages.

Scenario

You have been hired by a large law enforcement agency to analyze the images used on advertising billboards in both urban and suburban regions. The billboards visually display a new campaign message to improve neighborhood safety.

During your analysis, you find that the images used on billboards in the urban areas are exactly the same as the images used in the suburban areas. Both images show parents happily talking with law enforcement officers while children run over green lawns having a fun balloon fight. You decide that these images are not sending proper perceptual messages. You decide to create a visual analysis video for the law enforcement agency to share with the administration

For the video visual analysis, you realize you will need to find two new images that are quite different from one another. One image will be used on the urban billboard, and the other image will be used on the suburban billboard. In your video presentation, you will compare and contrast how each image utilizes the following:

1. Compare and contrast the visual elements of cultural familiarity. Explain why it is important to use culturally familiar visuals that are quite different in the urban and suburban billboard images. Include specific visuals in your visual analysis.
2. Identify specific visual examples of the following cognitive elements: memories, experiences, and expectation. Compare and contrast how urban and suburban viewers may be affected differently by those specific cognitive visual elements.
3. Explain the difference between urban and suburban viewers’ emotionally engagement with each of the billboard images.
4. Identify visual semiotic codes in both images: metonymic, analogical, displaced, and condensed. Discuss the importance of using these codes. Include specific visuals in each part of your visual analysis.

 As you outline your ideas for the video, you decide to record your verbal analysis while analyzing the two visuals in less than seven minutes for added clarity. 

Outline and discuss specific use cases to discover and enumerate information that could be used for potential exploitation. Some examples of information that you are gathering from Haverbrook Investment Group’s systems are usernames, machine names, shares, and services from a system. Identify any software, applications, or scripts that will be needed and provide a description of how this software will be used to gather information about Haverbrook’s systems.

As you are developing the Scanning Plan, keep these questions in mind:

• How would you detect active systems?
• How would you determine the best attack vector you wish to exploit?
• How would you prioritize different targets of opportunity?
• What tools would you be using for scanning and enumeration of systems and vulnerabilities?

Be sure to identify any needed software and provide a description of how it will be used to gather information about the systems.

1. Discuss the challenges of private security in terms of licensing, regulating, hiring, and training. 
2. Identify and discuss the four basic steps in a risk management program.  What is risk analysis or risk assessment? Provide examples in your discussion. 
3. Name and explain three issues that corporations may be held civilly liable for regarding security matters. 
4. Identify and discuss some of the changes in security brought about as a result of the 9/11 terrorist attacks against the United States. 
5. Describe how cruise ships have responded to security-related issues since 9/11. 

• Turn in the Paper to SMARTHINKING.com before submitting your final paper.
• Turn in a final paper and the paper with the SMARTHINKING.com tutor comments.
• Complete the project in APA format
• Paper should include at least 3 references
• Paper should be a minimum of 4 pages in length

Operations Security – 

IT Security Policy Implementation and Enforcement

• What type of support services should be available when an incident occurs?
• Are the same or different support services available when an incident impacts the operational performance of an organization?
• Discuss various ways to use support services when an incident occurs.

 Why is it important for business strategy to drive organizational strategy and IS strategy? What might happen if the business strategy was not the driver? 

As a junior congress person you have been asked to help promote a bill to allow casino gambling in your state. There is much opposition to this bill. Using the steps of  distributive bargaining as per the readings and research, discuss the pros and cons which might arise toward the passing or defeating of this bill. 

* Note this question is based on “Distributive Bargaining” not “Gambling”. Introduce the topic of “Distributive Bargaining” respond with research from journal articles.

Please use APA throughout. 

1 response with 300 words and 1 response with 150 words each. All with references(don’t include references towards total words count)

Just like you did in assignment 2.1, you will create a 1-2 page single-spaced Analysis of Research abstract published scholarly articles related to your mock dissertation topic/research question.  However, this time you need to review a different methodology than you previously did (i.e. if you reviewed a quantitative article in 2.1, you will do a qualitative one in 2.2 and vice versa). 

Brevity and being concise are important as this analysis is intended to be a brief summation of the research.

Each abstract must therefore consist of the following in this order:

1. Bibliographic Citation – use the correctly formatted APA style citation for the work as the title of your abstract, displaying the full citation in bold font.

2. Author Qualifications – name and qualification of each author conducting the research

3. Research Concern – one paragraph summary of the reason for the overall research topic

4. Research Purpose Statement AND Research Questions or Hypotheses – specific focus of the research

5. Precedent Literature – key literature used in proposing the needed research (not the full bibliography or reference list)

6. Research Methodology – description of the population, sample, and data gathering techniques used in the research

7. Instrumentation – description of the tools used to gather data (surveys, tests,interviews, etc.)

8. Findings – summation of what the research discovered and the types of analysis that were used to describe the findings (tables, figures, and statistical measures)

Additional information on writing scholarly abstracts can be found via this link

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