post has three assignments
Through analysis of one or two films, analyse one of the key themes in the course in relationship to Chinese language cinema in its historical, social, and/or industrial contexts.
The key themes of the course will be: Globalising the cinema of small nations: Tai Wan and Hong Kong or if you can find any related themes in the readings
Please use the movie Dumplings as one of the one or two films, which is a 2004 Hong Kong horror film, directed by Fruit Chan
2: Learning Portfolio, Personal and Professional Development
2500 words learning portfolio, 500 words seminar activity sheet in appendix and 5 paper doll in appendix. Please read the additional files before start writing, all materials are in the files, including the topic, checklist, lectures slides and seminar activities. And Please read all the lectures slides and seminar activities, to think and write about the activities , what do you learn from the course. Also need to fill up the reflection sheet and paper doll for each lecture and put it in the appendix in the end of essay.
in the Appendix, the reflection sheet for each lecture must be compete and need to have 5 reflection sheets in total, you can check the activities in the additional files, check out what the activities are and do the reflection sheet.
The 1st one is “Elements of effective self-management in the workplace” & Title of the activity is ” Self-assessment questionnaires”
2nd: Topic of the Lecture: Individual strategies and techniques for self-development. Title of the activity: Diagnostic survey for motivating others.
3rd: Topic of the Lecture: Elements of effective interpersonal relationships in the workplace. Title of the activity : Communicating supportively assessment.
4th: Topic of the Lecture: Qualities of personal leadership approaches and their impacts on others. Title of the activity: Leadership self-assessment quiz 1
5th: Topic of the Lecture: Engaging with others in the work place. Title of the activity: Personal and professional development module
3: Mathematics for Business
QUESTION 1
Refer to the document World of Numbers.docx.
(a) Answer the following questions about the article “Viva la evolution”.
(i) The article states that the ENIAC cost US$6,000,000 and that your smart phone costs 17,000
times less. According to this, how much does “your smart phone cost”? Show your working. [You may ignore inflation.]
(ii) “… technological change … seems to accelerate as time goes on. So, while the development of
‘computing’ in the 19th and early 20th centuries was ‘methodical’, in the 21st century it’s ‘exponential’. Read on and prepare to amazed …”.
What does the author mean when he says “the development … it’s ‘exponential’”? Explain.
(iii) “…boasted 5 megabytes (MB) of storage and cost a cool $3,500. … in today’s money … it
equates to $700,000 per gigabyte (GB) or $700 million per terabyte (TB)!”.
Are these calculations accurate? Explain. (Adjustment has already been made for inflation.)
(b) There are many types of graph that we commonly encounter. Examples include time series,
deterministic relationships of the form y = f(x) [eg, taxi fare vs km travelled], scatterplots, frequency
distributions [histograms, bar(column) charts, frequency polygons], etc.
Look at the graph in the article “Bolt by the Numbers”. Is it a
time series? Explain your answer.
deterministic relationship? Explain your answer.
scatterplot? Explain your answer.
frequency distribution? Explain your answer.
none of the above? Explain your answer.
QUESTION 2
For all parts of this question, show your working.
(a) A recipe calls for heating a quantity of water in a 600 watt microwave oven for 2.5 minutes. To achieve
the same heating result, for how long should the water be heated in a 1,000 watt microwave oven?
(b) Amy Schumer’s 1000 per cent pay rise for Trainwreck follow-up
“Amy Schumer is … being paid 10 times more for her next movie than for her first feature Trainwreck. That film grossed U$138.3 million worldwide but Schumer, … earned only U$300,000. The new feature project, … will net Schumer … U$5 million, a pay rise of more than 1,000 per cent.”
(i) “… a pay rise of more than 1,000 per cent.” Is this statement correct?
(ii) To 1 decimal place, what is the correct percentage?
(c) Two popular local wines are Wright’s White and Fred’s Red.
Wright’s White is sold in a 750 ml bottle and has an ABV of 9.5%.
Fred’s Red is sold in a 1 litre bottle and has an ABV of 12.85%.
Alcohol by volume (ABV): number of millilitres of alcohol present in 100 millilitres of the wine.
What is the percentage difference in ABV for the two wines?
(ii) Which bottle contains more alcohol? By what percentage (to 2 decimal places)?
QUESTION 3
(a) One person reported a distance as 3,486.72 metres (x); another reported it as 3.48672 kilometres (y).
(i) How many decimal places does x have? How many does y have?
(ii) Which value is reported with more significant figures: x or y? Justify your answer.
(iii) Which value is more accurate: x or y? Justify your answer.
(b) Packaged with your HP 10bII+ Financial Calculator (and located also in the “Calculator” section on
Moodle) is a
Quick Start Guide booklet (QSG)
User’s Guide (UG).
When you refer to items in these guides, quote the page numbers at the bottom of the relevant page.
eg, in the QSG, p36 is indicated at the bottom of the page by . [Disregard which appears at the top of the screen.]
In answering the following questions, quote any relevant text and/or page numbers.
(i) In the Quick Start Guide, what information is provided about the number of decimal places
displayed on the calculator? Is this information accurate?
(ii) In the User’s Guide p41-3, what information is provided about the number of decimal places
displayed on the calculator? Is this information accurate?
(iii) What is the maximum number of decimal places that can be displayed on the calculator?
(iv) What is the maximum number of digits that can be displayed on the calculator?
QUESTION 4
ChemiCon manufactures industrial chemicals at its Altona factory (A) and its Berwick factory (B). Recently, the quality control department has been studying one the products – Organosol – looking at the relationship between the thickness of the liquid and the level of contaminants it contains. Test results are available from the last 80 batches (40 from each factory).
Organosol.xlsx contains the following variables.
Factory Factory A or factory B.
Thickness The thickness of the Organosol (in micro Pa).
{If you put this variable into groups (bins), use 0 up to but not including 25,
25 up to but not including 50, etc.}
Contaminants The level of contaminants in the Organosol (in ppm: parts per million).
Provide appropriate graphs and/or tables and/or calculations and/or explanations to inform ChemiCon what this set of data reveals about the level of contaminants (loc) in Organosol.
QUESTION 5
(a) (i) Solve for x: log_a??(3x-2)?-log_a?(4-x)=log_a?2
(ii) What constraints (if any) are there on the value of a in (i)?
(b) For b ? (0, 8), does (logb x)/(logb y) give the same answer no matter what is the value of b?
Show your working.
(c) Simplify the expression: (a^x v(a^x ))/(3a^(1-x) )
(d) The number of ants living in a tree stump t weeks after it was invaded by a rival colony is collated in
the spreadsheet Ants.xlsx.
(i) A myrmecologist described the growth in the size of the colony as ‘exponential’. Do you agree?
If you don’t agree, suggest a different description for the growth. Justify your answer.
(ii) On the basis of the data in Ants.xlsx, estimate the number of ants in the tree stump 30 weeks
after it was invaded. Explain how you obtain your answer.
QUESTION 6
For three food items, the 1985 and 2005 prices (in current $) and quantities consumed by a typical consumer are shown in Food Items.xlsx.
With 1985 as the base year, calculate an index for 2005 that
(i) uses the Laspeyres method.
(ii) uses the Paasche method.
(iii) measures, in current (ie, nominal) dollar terms, change in the typical consumer’s budget.
The 3 methods in (a) all represent an attempt to measure price changes for this group of items from 1985 to 2005.
(i) Briefly explain what information is conveyed by the value you obtained for the Laspeyres
index in (a)(i).
(ii) Choose any one of the methods in (a) and state one disadvantage of using it in practice.
(iii) Choose any one of the methods in (a) and state one advantage of using it in practice.
“If inflation averages 2.5% per annum, after 15 years 31% of the real value of each dollar will be lost
and, after 28 years, 50% will be lost.” p1045, Australian Financial Planning Handbook 2015-16
(i) Are these calculations accurate? Show your working.
(ii) If inflation averages x% per annum, after 28 years 75% of the real value of each dollar will be
lost. Calculate x. Show your working.
For this problem, you MUST use Excel’s Solver. Explain how you did so. (You may use screen shots.)
QUESTION 7
TB4 p99 #6(a)&(b) together, (c).
You may use the ‘$’ sign instead of ‘£’.
Part (d) has been added below.
(d) (i) Calculate the point elasticity of demand at Q = 35.
(ii) Interpret the value you calculated in (d)(i).
(iii) Is your interpretation in (d)(ii) just an interpretation of the slope of a linear function, or is it
something different? Explain your answer.
(iv) Look at the sign of your value in (d)(i) for the point elasticity of demand. Is it the same sign as
you would expect for price elasticity of demand? Explain why(not).
Excel Tips
If you need help with Excel,
use Excel’s Help/Microsoft Excel Help menu item.
see the “EXCEL” section on the Moodle site for some Help files.
To display the formulas which underlie your spreadsheet calculations
While pressing the Ctrl key, press the key. (You may now need to widen some columns of the spreadsheet in order to fully display the revealed formulas.)
Copy this “formula display” to your Word document.
While pressing the Ctrl key, press the key in order to return to the usual display.
To alter the page margins, in order to optimise the use of a page before printing it
Click on the Office Button and select Print/Print Preview/Preview/ShowMargins. Then, click on and drag the margins.
To print in “Landscape” view, rather than in “Portrait” view
Click on Page Layout (at the top of the screen)/Orientation/Landscape.
To print the gridlines which border the spreadsheet cells
Select Click on Page Layout (at the top of the screen) /Sheet Options/Gridlines/Print
To print the Row (“1”, “2”, “3”, etc) and Column (“A”, “B”, “C”, etc) headings
Before printing, select Click on Page Layout (at the top of the screen) /Sheet Options/Headings/Print
To Copy part of your spreadsheet, eg to Paste it into a Word document
Select the desired cells in Excel.
Click on the Copy command.
Go to the Word document and select the triangle under the Paste command and select
Paste Special/Picture(Enhanced Metafile).
An alternative to the procedures above is to use Windows’ “Snipping Tool” when your spreadsheet is displayed. This captures an image of the desired part of your screen, which may then be Pasted into a Word document. Use Word’s “Crop” tool to reduce the Pasted image to your desired selection.
“Snipping Tool” is available via START button/Programs/Accessories for Windows version 7 and beyond.
If you are unable to make Excel display the row and column headings clearly on your printout, then you MUST write them on by hand.
Word Tips
To capture a screen image & “Paste” it into Word
To capture the image (any image, eg, an Excel page, an internet page, a photo, etc) currently displayed on your screen, use Windows’ “Snipping Tool”.
Then, go to the desired location in your Word document. Hold the Ctrl key and press the letter “V”.
“Snipping Tool” is available via START button/Programs/Accessories for Windows version 7 and beyond.
To copy a table or graph from Excel & “Paste” it as an image into Word
Select, then “Copy” the table or graph in Excel.
Go to the desired location in your Word document. From the top of the screen, select “Paste”, “Paste Special”, then “Picture (Enhanced Metafile”).
To trim (“Crop”) an image in Word
Select View/Toolbars/Picture and click on the “Crop” icon:
Apply the “Crop” icon to the image.
To arrange graphs and pictures within a “Word” document
Graphs (eg, from Excel) and pictures can be more manageable if you insert a table into Word and place your graphs and pictures (and text) into cells of the table.
Compare Identify characteristics or qualities that resemble each other. Emphasise similarities and also mention differences where appropriate. For example, the comparison of fundamental and technical analysis; you should define what is meant by each concept before undertaking the comparison.
Contrast Stress the dissimilarities and differences of things, events, problems or qualities.
Criticise
(critically appraise) Express your judgement about the merit or truth of the factors or views mentioned. Draw conclusions, discussing their limitations and good points. eg, “critically appraise …”
Define State concise, clear and authoritative meanings. Give the limits of the definition, but omit detailed explanations. Show how the item defined differs from items in other classes.
Describe Recount, characterise, outline or relate in sequence. Emphasise the most important points. You are not required to explain or interpret.
Diagram A drawing, chart, plan or graph. Diagrams should be labelled and there should be an accompanying explanation.
Discuss Examine, analyse carefully, and give reasons for and against. Be complete, and give details.
Enumerate Provide an itemised list, which may often be expressed in point form.
Evaluate You are required to appraise in order to make a judgement. This means you should carefully appraise the problems, referring to advantages, limitations, costs and benefits as appropriate.
Explain Clarify, interpret and elaborate on the material presented. Give reasons for differences of opinion or results, and try to analyse causes. Your focus is on the how and why of a particular issue. [It is not sufficient to merely state a result.]
Illustrate Use a concrete example, diagram or figure to explain or clarify a problem.
Justify Prove or give reasons for conclusions or decisions.
Outline Organise a description under main points and subordinate points. Omit minor details. Stress the arrangement or classification of things.
Review Examine a subject critically, analysing and commenting on the important statements.
State Present the main points in brief, clear sequence, usually omitting details or examples.
Summarise Give the main points or facts in condensed form. Use a chronological or systematic format.
