How My Big Fat Greek Wedding can be viewed in relationship to dating and marrying different cultures, acculturation, and gender roles

How My Big Fat Greek Wedding can be viewed in relationship to dating and marrying different cultures, acculturation, and gender roles

How do you think class, race, age, and sexuality came into play during the conception and performance of the act? 

Instructions

Part Four of Applied Final Project, Playing with Gender: Understanding Our Gendered Selves:
“Understanding My Playing-with-Gender Act” (20% of course grade; due end of Week 7) Five (5) pages (1200-1500 words)
All parts of this project should be formatted in APA style (follow for both essay and citation styles): https://libguides.umgc.edu/c.php?g=1003870

Purpose: Act Analysis
In this part of the assignment, you will perform, describe, and analyze your act. After you perform your act, compose a 5-page (1200-1500 words) task specifying your experiences. The first section (one-third to one-half of your paper) should describe your act and your responses to it, and the second section should analyze your act in terms of the scholarship on gender:

Section One (minimum 500 words):
Describe your act:
What did you do?
Where did you do it?
How did you prepare for it?
What responses did you get while performing your act?
How did you feel while performing your act?
What would you do differently if you had to perform this same act again? Would you perform the act in the same location and at same time? Would you change your appearance during the act? Would you do anything else differently?
Please refer directly to the required reading on Participant Observation (Mack et al., 2005) in this section of the paper (Mack et al., 2005) (PLEASE see attached for document):
Mack et al. (2005).  “Module Two: Participant Observation,” from Qualitative Research Methods: A Data Collector’s Field Guide, Family Health International. Read Module 2, pages 13-27. Retrieved from https://www.fhi360.org/sites/default/files/media/documents/Qualitative%20Research%20Methods%20-%20A%20Data%20Collector’s%20Field%20Guide.pdf

Section Two: (minimum 700 words): 
(Please see attached for document listing the sources)

Referring directly to at least three academic sources for support (these may be pulled from the sources you identified and discussed in your Annotated Bibliography for Part 3 and/or the readings for this class), consider the potential impact of your act. Here are some questions to consider (you do not have to answer all of these questions; they are provided to help you to think about ways your act may have impact on society):
Can you explain the range of reactions to your act? Did those reactions reflect any of the sociological scholarship found in the course readings or in your research? Did any of the reactions challenge that research?
How do you think class, race, age, and sexuality came into play during the conception and performance of the act? 
Was performing this act an act of feminism? Why? and, if so, what type(s) of feminism? 
Was your act an act of activism? That is, could it help to create social change? If so, how?

Please see attached for Project 1, 2 & 3 for information and assistance. 

What strategies are applied in the company?

You need to pick any company and analyse its strategy regarding the market structure it operates in.

1) What strategies are applied in the company?

2) Is the company driven with the Profit maximisation, Revenue maximisation, or Sales (Market Share) maximisation?

3) Is this company approach compatible with the theoretic ideas on the success in such a market structure? (compare the basic theoretic suggestions for the company performance with the actual chosen direction; here, you need to compare the normative vs. positive approaches)

What is your opinion on the loss of revenue from the OnceCare ACO contract?

We have noted that the actual production of the budgetary documents is not likely to be a responsibility of the nurse executive. The complexity of the entire budgetary process, informed by strategic planning, actualized in an ever-changing environment, and under pressure from an endless list of stakeholders, must be a collaborative process. Consider again, the skills of the nurse leader (week 4).

Evaluate an existing budget for a U.S. hospital.

Include the following aspects in the assignment:

• Download the PDF: FY2019 BUDGET PRESENTATION BRATTLEBORO MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
• Determine if the proper team has created the budget (Slide 2)
• Analyze Slide 3 to determine the thoroughness of risks and needs-based upon the AONE Guiding Principles
  • What is your opinion on the loss of revenue from the OnceCare ACO contract?
• Slides 7,8, and 9 are essentially a SWOT.
  •  What is missing?
  • What would you add?
• Slide 12 includes PI/QI initiatives.
  • Analyze the choices.
• Slides 13-16 include the actual budget.
  •  Analyze the Variance % column.
  • Explain what the red means.
• Identify the three most impactful issues on slide 17.
  • How do you feel about the funding provided for the needs of Healthcare Reform Investments?
  • Were you surprised to see three slides of Healthcare Reform Investments and the willingness to provide funding for those needs?
  • Reflect on the summary provided in Sustainability and Profitability – what information is included that leads to the conclusion? What other information should be included?
•  At all times proper grammar, sentence structure, spelling, and citation of any references used are required.

NOTE-WRITE A 3 PAGE WRITEUP.

Talk about 5 major obstacles to gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered (GLBT) people in obtaining adequate health care. 

Talk about 5 major obstacles to gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered (GLBT) people in obtaining adequate health care. 

Please be thorough with your response and be sure to back up all information with reputable sources

What can Google leadership learn from their leaked memo on anti-diversity?

What does diversity mean?

What can Google leadership learn from their leaked memo on anti-diversity?

Which elements should be in place for people to feel included and appreciated at work?

From your reading which barriers prevent people from open to differences in others?

What was your key learning from this paper?

Avoid using quotes from the articles. Explain the concepts in your own words and use proper citations and references. Use personal voice e.g. I agree, I feel, I believe, etc. and real-life examples from your experience.

800-1000 words

Explain your role and describe how the committee will work together and achieve effective interprofessional collaboration. 

1. Briefly outline the project goals and highlight 2–3 of the initial priorities to be addressed by the group. Also, explain why they are important.
2. Explain the composition of the team and why you chose them. Note that you will not know the exact individuals yet, but assume we will recruit the people with the desired qualities and characteristics you outline in the presentation. Consider the following: 
   • Include a group of professionals you believe can help define the problem and ultimately make recommendations on how to address it.
   • Make sure each member is either trained in, sensitive to, or has experience with the concept of workplace diversity.
   • Give some thought to having some members from outside the organization.
   • Provide member profiles: their diversity, qualifications, experience, internal versus external, and so forth.
3. Explain your role and describe how the committee will work together and achieve effective interprofessional collaboration. 
   • Describe how the group will communicate. How and when they will meet.
   • Describe how ideas will be shared and decisions made.
   • Describe roles, group function, and structure.
4. Describe the basic characteristics of a diverse workplace.
5. Provide a convincing argument regarding the benefits of a diverse workforce using support from current research.
6. Thanks,
   Lynnette
   Instructions
   For this assessment:

• Create a 6–8 slide PowerPoint presentation in response to the content defined in the above scenario.
• Create an audio recording (5–7 minutes) of the PowerPoint presentation using Kaltura or similar software.
• Note: If you require the use of assistive technology or alternative communication methods to participate in this activity, please contact DisabilityServices@Capella.edu to request accommodations.
  Presentation Guidelines
  Your assessment should also meet the following requirements:
• Length: 6–8 PowerPoint slides (not including title slide) that would accompany a 5–7 minute oral presentation.
• Notes: Prepare detailed speaker’s notes describing items on each slide so that the viewer can accurately interpret the deeper meanings and intentions that would have been conveyed orally. Support your claims, arguments, and conclusions with credible evidence from 2–3 current, scholarly or professional sources.
• Visuals: Create visuals that are easily read and interpreted. Use colors, fonts, and formatting and other design principles that make the information clear and generally add to the aesthetic of the presentation.
• Please refer to the scoring guide for details on how your assessment will be evaluated.

Discuss three different motivational theories and compare and contrast them.

Here is a list of the most popular motivational theories;

Maslow- Hierarchy of needs

Adams- Equity theory

Weiner- Attribution theory

Alder- ERG theory

Seligman- Happiness

McClelland – Achievement theory

Skinner- Reinforcement theory

Vroom- Expectancy theory

Hertzberg- Two Factor theory

Existential motivation

Discuss three different motivational theories and compare and contrast them. What are the benefits and drawbacks of each one? Which motivational theory do you think is the best for enabling internal motivation and why? Reflect on your experience. Avoid using quotes from the articles. Explain the concepts in your own words and use proper citations and references. Use personal voice e.g. I agree, I feel, I believe, etc. This paper should have at least 3 references and include one journal article.

Determine how we know that this is a myth. Explain why this myth is so difficult to abandon.

• Imagine asking 100 strangers to describe a criminal.
• Predict whether those descriptions would be likely to focus on street criminals, or the variety of topics covered in the Crimes of the Powerful
• Evaluate how society defines crime.
  • Do not provide a definition – instead, explain how the definition is reached.
• Present a clear statement about a particular crime, something we know to be absolutely true.
  • Illustrate how we know that this is an accurate statement.
• Present an example of a widely-held myth or misconception about crime and society.
  • Determine how we know that this is a myth. Explain why this myth is so difficult to abandon.
• Must utilize academic voice.

• Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.
• Must use at least two scholarly sources in addition to the course text.
  • The Scholarly, Peer-Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources Links to an external site.table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.

What is the most frequent stock price return range you observe for each company?

Main task

The aim of this assignment is to elaborate a report describing stock market price evolution of two publicly traded companies. Prepare a business report that will answer the assessment questions and that should be supported with all the necessary analysis (plots, tables etc.). Please follow the order of questions and provide a clear answer to each of them, attach an excel file with all the calculations conducted. Please notice that the excel file alone will not be evaluated as the assessment should be elaborated using the standard business report format.

The aim of this assignment is to elaborate a report describing stock market price evolution of two publicly traded companies.

Choose two well-known companies listed on the New York stock exchange (or any other stock exchange).

Find the data for its daily stock price for the period of at least 5 last years (you need to use the same time span for both companies). I recommend using the finance.yahoo.com web-page that allow to download a data for publicly traded companies for free. (please see belowhow to download data from finance.yahoo.com). You can also use Google Finance and spreadsheet in Google to download the data as well.

You will need to convert stock prices into returns as than the analysis for two companies will make sense – the easiest way to calculate the daily return is to take:

(closing price of day t – closing price of day (t-1) the previous day) / closing price of day (t-1) the previous day

Example – from the table at the end of the document: JP Morgan closing price on 30/10/2020 was $96.77 and the closing price on 29/10/2020 was $97.17 therefore the daily return on that day was:

(96.77 – 97.17) / 97.17 = -0.00412 or -0.41%

Compute all the return in % terms. In such way you will generate the time series of daily returns for these two companies. Please check if the data span is of the same length (important!).

Now please prepare a business report that should be supported with all the necessary analysis (plots, tables etc.). The excel file must be submitted as well however will not be graded independently as all the solutions and comments must be presented in the business report.

The Business report should be a professional document that contains the following points/answers to the questions:
Company description and price evolution (30 points):

1. Describe briefly both companies – industry, product, market position (20 points)
2. Present the graph of both the daily price evolution and daily returns – comment on the price changes and the daily returns. Do you observe any extreme changes? What would be an explanation for them (please support any facts that can support your answer) (10 points)

Statistical analysis (70 points):

Please prepare the measures of the central tendency, dispersion and association of variables and based on this answer the following questions:

3. What is the mean stock price return for both companies? What is the meaning of the number you have obtained? Please compare the results obtained for both companies (10 points)
4. What is the median stock price return for both companies? What is the meaning of the number you have obtained? Please compare the results obtained for both companies (10 points)

5. Construct a frequency distribution of your choice (the intervals should be chosen by you for showing the distribution of the data in the best way) and percent frequency distribution of the stock price return for the indicated period for both companies. Evaluate the results and compare. (10 points)

6. What is the most frequent stock price return range you observe for each company? Evaluate the results and compare (10 points)
7. What is the variance and the standard deviation of the stock price returns for the indicated period for both companies? Evaluate the results and compare. What can we say about the volatility of the stock price returns for these two companies (10 points).

8. Please think about the relationship between the stock prices (or stock price returns) of both companies. Would you expect the correlation between these two companies to be positive / negative? Strong or weak? Please calculate the correlation coefficient. What is the meaning of the results you have obtained? Is that what you have expected? (10 points).
9. If you should take a decision about the investment in any of these two companies what would be your decision? Justify your answer (10 points).

Please remember to support your analysis with all the necessary graphs.

Appendix

In finance.yahoo.com select a company and click on ‘Historical Data’. You can customize the time period and then click on ‘Download’.

1. Other details:

-Additional file format for additional deliverables: Excel spreadscheet (.xlsx).

-Font size 12

-Double-spaced

-Number of words: there is no a minimum required
-All refencing and citations require Harvard referencing style.