OVERVIEW: 

Everyone wants a product or experience that is “high quality,” but stop and consider what that really means. For instance, if someone is in the market for a new car, a high-quality car might denote one that can go from zero to 60 miles per hour in just a few seconds. To someone else (perhaps a new parent), a high-quality car might be one with a great safety rating. Yet still to another, a high-quality car might be the most comfortable, most prestigious, the best on gas mileage, or one that rates favorably on any number of attributes or combination of attributes. When thinking about the different types of automobiles described here, also consider that what might be high-quality to one person might not be viewed as such to another.

Indeed, the definition of the term “quality” is subjective. Note that the American Society for Quality, one of the preeminent organizations that deals with quality management, even lists two definitions for the term in its glossary. Although quality can be subjective, one thing is for certain: every customer wants a quality product or service, and therefore every business wants to deliver that quality. If quality is simply the ability to satisfy needs and/or not be rife with deficiencies, then it is difficult to imagine any product or service that does not need to have quality. Thus, regardless of how one wishes to view quality, it is apparent that operations managers must thoroughly understand how to produce high-quality products or services. 

ASSIGNMENT:

1. Define quality in your own words. Considering your definition and the materials you reviewed this module, why is quality so important to an organization? 
2. Find an example of a company that has experienced a quality problem and describe the situation and its ramifications. Was the problem ever fixed? 

Understanding Diversity and Respect in our Culture

Inside the Mind of White America

After viewing your chosen video, write a paper that includes a summary of the presentation and a reflection and analysis of what you learned in understanding diversity and respect in our culture.

This paper should be 2–3 pages in length (not counting the title page and reference page) in APA format (including double-spaced and written in paragraph form).

The first part of the paper should address:

• How the presentation you watched addressed diversity issues in today’s society. What are the issues and how are they pertinent to today’s culture?

The second half of the paper should address:

• What did you learn from the presentation you watched? Were the presenters skilled at critical thinking of human relationships in today’s society?
• What questions would you want to ask this presenter (if you could) to help you identify and offer a vision of this issue?
• How does the information presented provide an understanding of cultural differences and foster respect for diverse groups in our society today?

In recent times, HD-DVD and Blu-ray were competing technology formats for creating and watching movies on DVDs. Neither was compatible with the other. Eventually, Blu-ray won the competition. Use the Internet to research the competition between the two (2) technology formats, and determine the key reasons why Blu-ray prevailed.

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

1. Provide a brief overview of the organizations that have developed and promoted each format. 
2. Examine the benefits and drawbacks of each format for users. Determine whether you agree or disagree that Blu-ray was the superior choice technologically over HD-DVD. Provide a rationale for your response.
3. Examine the processing hardware requirements for both the HD-DVD and Blu-ray. Compare and contrast the similarities and differences of each.
4. 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; citations and 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 assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Summarize CPU data types and common data structures.
• Discuss common input / output technologies.
• Summarize the different types of data storage technology.
• Develop an enterprise architecture plan to address and solve a proposed business ethical problem.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in enterprise architecture.
• Write clearly and concisely about Advanced Computer Architecture topics using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.

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; citations and 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 assignment page length.

Student clearly demonstrates an understanding of concepts of the assigned topic(s) by posting his/her response in a primary thread in the Discussion forum.  Student’s primary response to the discussion topic/question(s) is comprehensive and persuasive,
§ Student’s primary response provides a comprehensive analysis of relevant facts, major points are stated clearly; supported by specific details and examples (minimum word-count requirement 150-200 per question/topic), 

§ Student’s analysis is supported by industry standards, authorities, citations, references, and provisions, 

§ Student provides substantive comments and analysis to other student’s posting(s) (2 additional posts in each week), 

§ In the response post, student addresses the class member(s) by his/her name,

§ No syntax error (spelling/grammar/punctuation) present,
§ Contractions (don’t, can’t, haven’t etc.) are avoided, 

§ First and second person singular number (I, me, you or your) are avoided,  

§ Each part of the discussion question is entered (in bold) right above the student’s response to each part of the question.  In other words, student answered each part SEPARATELY (in a single post) with the question printed in bold above each response, 

§ Relevant academic resources (in addition to textbook) from credible sources, such as peer-reviewed academic journals, periodicals, magazines, books from reputable publishers, reports and speeches from creditable sources (Government, universities etc.), are present and formatted in accordance with APA standard 6th ed.  

Selin & Wolfgang present five victim typologies. Choose a current news article from either a newspaper or magazine. Define each of the victim typologies and discuss how the article illustrates those. Discuss the differences between criminology and victimology and explain how the chosen article illustrates one of these fields of study.

This Assignment should be 1000 words or more in length (3–4 pages).