IVC Experience as A Mexican Immigrant in US Cultural Perspective Interview

Description

Interview a person who identifies him/herself as coming from a different cultural, religious, ethnic, racial or class background than you. Base your interview questions on that person’s educational and personal experiences while growing up. Then write a 2-3 page typed, double-spaced report with a brief discussion of the different group you interacted with. A thorough discussion of how the person differs from you (for instance, the values, beliefs, communication behaviors, assumptions, etc.). A brief description of your experience and a discussion of what you have learned from the interview.  Make sure to also answer the following questions:

  1. How did the background and/or identity of my interview subject play a part in his/her educational experience?
  2. How did the background and/or identity of my interview subject play a part in his/her personal experience growing up to be who they are today?
  3. What information did you learn about the individual that surprised me the most?

When choosing your subject, remember that the object of this assignment is to discuss difference between individuals. The point here is to understand how a person’s identity played a part in his or her education and personal experience growing up. 

THE INTERVIEW: Issues of culture, religion, ethnicity, race, and class contribute to the multiple experiences that individuals encounter while attending school and while growing up. During your interview, try to identify the ways in which your interview subject has had educational experiences that were different from your own because of his/her background or identity. For example, you may interview a student who identifies themselves as coming from the working class, and who was tracked into lower tracked classes. Or you may interview a person who identifies as a member of a certain religion or denomination, or who comes from a different racial or ethnic background than you. Questions which focus on how this student experienced school and what their childhood was like should be the key elements of the interview. You may also need to gather information that helps support why you consider this person to be different than you. Remember that the central objective of this exercise is to identify difference and to understand how that difference affects one’s schooling and childhood. 

NSU Adaptive reuse Optometry Clinic Paper

Description

Place yourself in the role of Strategy Officer for a soon-to-be-established optometry clinic based in the city of your choice. This entity will be named Cambridge Optometry and it will offer the usual and customary array of services provided by optometry practices. The owner/optometrist of the forthcoming solo practice desires operational efficiency and also takes opportunities where possible to make environmentally-responsible decisions. Having learned of adaptive reuse, he enlists you to search the city seeking abandoned and available commercial buildings which might be able to be converted into an optometry clinic through adaptive reuse. Your mission is to identify three potential adaptive reuse candidates in your area, identifying their physical address, describing them in detail, and ranking their potential to be converted successfully. The candidates must be actual commercial properties which currently are for sale, so best to consult commercial real estate websites and conduct good old-fashioned, boots-on-the-ground investigations to identify prospects. Feel free to supply links in your text to real estate listings, if available, or other resources to identify your selected candidates.

Your paper must be well referenced, with at least three (3) of the references being from scholarly academic journals.

  • Introduction (In this section, supply a brief introduction, helping the reader grasp the intent of the forthcoming work.)
  • Background
    • City Profile (In this section, supply a brief overview of the city of focus, noting its name, population, demographic characteristics, and any other helpful background information.)
    • Competitive Landscape (In this section, describe the state of competition in the marketplace by identifying key providers of vision services, painting a detailed picture of the given environment.)
  • Adaptive Reuse Candidates
    • Candidate 1 (In this section, supply a detailed profile of your first adaptive reuse candidate.)
    • Candidate 2 (In this section, supply a detailed profile of your second adaptive reuse candidate.)
    • Candidate 3 (In this section, supply a detailed profile of your third adaptive reuse candidate.)
  • Conclusions (In this section, summarize your candidate rankings, noting your recommended choice, and draw your report to a conclusion.)
  • References (In this section, supply a list of references conforming with the instructions listed elsewhere in this communication.)

IFSM 300 UMGC Organizational Process Discussion

Description

For this discussion, you will practice analyzing processes to identify functional requirements for a system to improve a process.

Some students may still have difficulty identifying processes; be sure to refer to the Week 3 readings that describe various processes and review the Week 3 discussion. Keep in mind that a process is a set of specified steps to accomplish a task.

This week’s discussion topic focuses on functional requirements that need to be clearly written so that the people who are developing the system or evaluating a system for use can discern whether the functional requirements are met or not.

The functional requirements statement:

  • Is a complete sentence, with a subject (system) and predicate (intended result, action, or condition)
  • Identifies only one requirement; does not include the words “and,” “also,” “with,” and “or.”
  • For functional requirements, state what tasks the system will support or perform
  • Includes a measure or metric that can be used to determine whether the functional requirement is met (time or quantity), where appropriate
  • Is stated in positive terms and uses “must” (not “may” or “should”); e.g., “the system must XXXX” not “the system must not xxx”
  • Avoids the use of terms that cannot be defined and measured, such as “approximately,” “robust,” “user friendly,” etc.
  • Must be testable; that is, there must be some way to test the system to determine whether the requirement is met

1. Drawing from your own experience, select a process used at your place of work or in your interaction with an organization that you would like to see improved. Explain why you picked that process.

2. Imagine that a system is to be implemented (or an existing system improved) to make that process better and write five (5) functional requirements for the system to perform. Each requirement is one sentence in length and addresses one thing the system must do. Here we are interested in functional requirements – the activities the system must perform to support the identified process. Use the information above to create your functional requirements statements.

Example of a process is Marketing Process. You can use this or another example.

Park University Oil Crisis Article Review

Description

Select two news stories on a current topic from two different countries, preferably with different political beliefs (Examples–Russia and Great Britain; Mexico and the US). You can find these stories in the Nexis database in the library. Write an approximately three page, double-spaced analysis of the articles using discourse analysis principles identified in the class.

Things to consider: how does the language likely influence beliefs and interactions? How do beliefs of the writers shape the language used in the articles?

Here is a sample of the organizational structure of a paper:
A. Introduction: What, Why, How …

  1. Briefly describe the topic/ media artifacts.
  2. Explain why the particular topic is significant to your reader.
  3. Tell your audience how you will provide evidence or demonstrate an analysis of the media artifact—preview the points of the paper.

B. Body of evidence: Describe the media artifact and explain what the audience should notice.

  1. Provide a brief, denotative description of what the articles are about.
  2. Develop the analysis. You should have a section of the paper for each article.
  3. Begin the analysis by identifying the loaded/strong/value laden language in the first article. Then give examples of at least quotes that show the concept—for example, if you are finding immigrants described as animals, you’ll need two different quotes that use animal terms. You should identify three to six different characterizations.
  4. Move on to the next article. Write several paragraphs about it, following the instructions in B3.
  5. Contrast the language used in each article by providing a summary of the overall effect of the language in each article. Then discuss the ideology wrapped up in each article, the social relations and power present in each article, the interests perpetuated in the text, and the kind of world each example creates
  6. Discuss the implications for readers –how would each article affect audience perspectives?

C. Conclusion: State how your analysis provides new insight about the media subject:

  1. Remind the audience why the media is important (as stated in your introduction).
  2. Review your points
  3. Finally, explain how your analysis provides new insight, reveals assumptions, or unintended meanings represented by the selected articles.

DeVry University New York Communication Essay

Description

An important part of any change project is how the change is communicated to the organization, to the change agents, to the line workers, to the customers, and to the public. Along with media relations issues, communicating change (especially in a publicly traded company) can involve multiple legal and regulatory aspects as well as personnel and management concerns. Perhaps the single most difficult piece of handling Kotter’s “establish a sense of urgency” is that too many inexperienced or immature change agents read this to mean “panic the troops.” Never do this.

This project piece will have three parts.

PART 1: (GRID) The main part of this project component will ask you to pick one of the company’s change plans and develop a communication plan for the company. This plan should be submitted by using a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet and setting out the stakeholders, the timeline of the communication plan, the method/form of communication, the rationale for why you chose this method of communication, the purpose of the communication, and identifying who will do the communicating. HRM587CommPlanGridforWeek7.xlsx Download HRM587CommPlanGridforWeek7.xlsx

PART 2: (HYPOTHETICAL) As the Change Manager, select one of the communication pieces (text or oral) that you would have used that is listed in your communication plan, and write the communication in a Microsoft Word document. Be sure to review the chapter 7 information and the examples of communication plans and types for more assistance on this section of the project. If you use any form of communication from templates you find online or in a textbook, be sure to cite your source.

PART 3: (FACT) Locate and attach the ORIGINAL press/media release of the crisis/event/situation/problem/issue of your course project company. (OPINION-BASED) Write a 1-2 page paper analyzing any media, news, or other communications that explained the change going on in the organization. Explain in your paper how the company handled communicating the change to its stakeholders.

YSJU Health Disparities Research

Description

A literature review is a descriptive summary of research on a topic that has previously been studied. The purpose of a literature review is to inform readers of the significant knowledge and ideas that have been established on a topic. Its purpose is to compare, contrast and/or connect findings that were identified when reviewing researchers’ work. Oftentimes, literature reviews are written to ground a study in a particular context of what is known about a subject in order to establish a foundation for the topic (or question) being researched.

The purpose of this assignment is to facilitate your abilities to research a topic of study so you can learn to (1) identify and formulate an inquiry question that defines what you’d like to learn, (2) apply your knowledge on reading research that you’ve learned in class, (3) analyze information found in educational journal articles, and (4) synthesize new knowledge into a written small-scale literature review.

Assignment Description:

For this assignment you are asked to complete a small-scale literature review on an educational topic of your choice. You are asked to locate at least 5 psychological journal articles on your topic and write a 4 -5 page literature review on the articles you’ve selected.

Steps to complete your small-scale literature review:

  1. Choose an psychological topic that you are interested in studying.
  2. Formulate an inquiry question that specifically describes what would like to know about your educational topic.
  3. Go to the library to search for and locate journals that include your topic’s information.
  4. Find articles, read the abstracts and skim the articles to determine if they correspond well to your topic AND inquiry question.
  5. Select at least 5 journal articles and photocopy them for your project.
  6. Read your articles and begin to sort and classify them according to their findings.
  7. Organize your articles by sorting and classifying their findings in a meaningful way, always considering your original topic and inquiry question.
  8. Write an outline for your small-scale literature review. Hand this in during class.
  9. Write your review.

UMGC How Can Virtual Learning Affect Higher Education Discussion

Description

THE RESEARCH QUESTION FOR MY ASSIGNMENT IS: How can virtual learning affect higher education?

STEP 2:   What specific points does the article make that will assist you in writing a paper that addresses your research question?  [Please write at least two complete sentences.]

STEP 3: Using the general evaluation criteria described in Week 3, explain how the article you selected meets the qualities that are important in the Evaluate stage of information literacy. The qualities to consider include quality, accuracy, relevance, bias, reputation of the author(s), and credibility of the information resources.  You may not be able to comment on each quality, but please share your overall assessment of the value of the article using the criteria described in Week 3.   [Please write 2 – 3 complete sentences for your selected article.]  

STEP 4:  Point to an example in your article in which the author(s) do one of the following:

refer to another work to give legitimacy to their own point;

refer to another work to build upon the ideas of others; or

refer to another work to challenge its argument.

Explain in two sentences how this reference to another’s work contributes to your confidence in the value of the article and helps you to form your own ideas about the facts.  

STEP 5: In this final step, demonstrate your ability to capture the essence of your chosen article and how it illuminates important points about your topic. 

For your final requirement, write a three-paragraph essay that is structured like this:

In the first paragraph, introduce your topic and your research question. Briefly summarize the main point of the article. 

In the second paragraph, describe how the article informed your research.  

In the third paragraph, state what you’d still want to learn. Explain how you might alter your search strategy to get to the information you are missing.  Provide a conclusion about your progress.  

UAGC Health Safety and Nutrition Community Night Paper

Description

Your director reminds you that your Lead Teacher had volunteered to run the Health, Safety, and Nutrition Community Night in two weeks, and now that responsibility falls on you! She has a nutritionist scheduled to come in and address your chosen age group. The nutritionist has a presentation prepared and she is willing to answer questions after the presentation.

You will need to create two different fun activities that can be used to teach the community how to enforce health and safety measures at home. This community night will also serve as professional development for the staff. Your director has asked for everything to be submitted in the next week so she can help you plan and gather materials. She has also told you that you will have access to as many teachers as you need (for extra support), but you will need to conduct an initial meeting to brief them on the night. This will be a fabulous opportunity for you to impress her!

Using the Health, Safety, and Nutrition Community Night template Download Health, Safety, and Nutrition Community Night template, complete the following:

In your paper,

Describe your chosen age group.

Explain your goals for the evening.

Prepare an agenda for the initial meeting you will hold prior to the event.

Discuss the parent volunteers you will need for this event.

List all the materials you will need.

Describe a nutritious snack to be served at the event.

Plan two activities (one health and one safety) for the event.

Create five open-ended questions to ask the nutritionist.

Develop a detailed schedule of the evening in 15 minute increments.

  • Discuss resources to give the attendees regarding health, safety, and nutrition.
  • Discuss an extension activity that attendees can teach/play at home.
  • Create 3-5 questions for the attendees to evaluate the evening.
  • Design a plan to involve the attendees with clean up.

Grossmont College Tropical Cyclone Oceanography Report

Description

1. Each Group chooses one famous hurricane: Galveston 1900, Andrew 1992,
Typhoon Tip 1979, Katrina 2005, Typhoon Haiyan 2013, or Patricia 2015.
2. Do some research together and discuss with your group.
3. Prepare a short report (2 – 3 pages) about a famous hurricane. We will talk
about the hurricanes in class. You choose the program to use: for example
Word, Power Point, or other program
4. Turn this in as your Lab Report.
? Your Report should include these details: photos of the storm (hurricane)
(3 pts), category of the storm (1 pt), maximum wind speed (1 pt), lowest
pressure at the center of the storm (1 pt), diagram or description of the
path the hurricane took (2 pts), description of storm damage and impact on
people (3 pts), other interesting details (3 pts), sources used (2 pts).
? Grading: Included all storm details (16 pts), report is well organized (4 pts).
? Note: It doesn’t have to be fancy! Just organize the information about the
hurricane on a few pages in a clear format. You may use sentences or bullet
points for the text.

IT 650 Southern New Hampshire University Database Design Worksheet

Description

You have completed the designs for the apartment management database. You reviewed it and all the business rules with the owners, and they are eager to proceed. Now you need to take your design and translate it into an actual database. Once you have done that, you know that you will need to enter data to test the database, to make sure it does, in fact, store all the required data.

To Do

  • Review your diagram for the database, making sure that the design is complete and normalized.
  • Create the database in SQL Server.
  • Create the tables in the new database, selecting appropriate data types for the columns, setting a primary key for each table, and setting allow nulls as appropriate.
  • Create a database diagram and create the relationships among tables.
  • Add some sample data to each table.
  • Documentation: Make a data dictionary that lists each table, all the columns for that table, and the data types for each column.

Part II

Wild Wood Apartments

Now that the basic database is in place, the Wild Wood Apartments managers are eager to see the database in action and see if it meets all their needs and requirements. It is time to look at the business rules and test them with some SQL. Look at the business rules you developed previously and design some SQL queries to test them. Documentation: Set up a test plan. List the rule, the SQL you wrote, and the results. Also note whether the database passes or fails the test. Your queries should include the following:

  • Two or three simple SELECTs with various WHERE criteria.
  • Two or three queries using aggregate functions.
  • At least two queries that use joins.
  • Two or three INSERT statements.
  • One or two UPDATEs and/or a DELETE.