Are the contemporary American families in “crisis” or are they simply changing?
the topic: Are the contemporary American families in “crisis” or are they simply changing? The purpose of this assignment is to examine how families are portrayed in the media and to compare these images to the theories and findings considered in our course material. For this assignment, you will conduct a content analysis of a number of TV programs or movies. A “content analysis” uses popular materials as data and interprets the patterns observed in the data to discover its social meaning. For this assignment, you will analyze popular materials to make an argument or present a point of view about the issue of family “crisis” and change.Our study of the family will look for both explicit and implicit assumptions about central issues regarding family life (e.g. marriage, divorce, parenting, living on welfare, teen pregnancy, family violence, child care, same sex relationships, etc.). Your paper will analyze the views about family life that are embedded in these popular materials and the implications of these views. To do this assignment, imagine what you would be able to say about contemporary families if you only knew what you observed for this assignment. Analyze these images of families in light of our course readings, lectures and discussions. When selecting what you will observe, make sure that there is content related to families. You should observe at least ONE of the following:10 TV programs (1/2 or 1 hour shows; “reality” or fictional shows)or 5 moviesPlease document all of your sources, including dates and times and titles. You do not need to submit your notes. What you are looking for:Family structure: what kind of family is portrayed? In what way is it portrayed? Are there assumptions about the “correct” family structure?Roles: what roles do different family members play (e.g. gender roles, roles for children and parents, etc.)? What are the assumptions about the roles people will play? Is there any conflict in these roles?Problems and Issues: what are the central problems and issues facing these families? Are there conflicts or tensions? What is the basis of the conflict or tension? Does the conflict get resolved? If so, how?Imagery: how is the content presented (e.g. tone, style of words, sound, location, etc.)? What do we feel about families after the observation?Perspective: What is the perspective being assumed? What message is being made about families today? What rhetoric do you observe about American families? What purpose does rhetoric about family life serve? Interpretations:Your paper should be organized according to the subheadings listed above. Don’t forget an introduction and conclusion that ties your ideas together, a thesis that makes a particular argument about what you found, and appropriate transitions between sections of your paper. Think about the following questions: what did you discover about the images of family that are projected today (including family structure, roles, problems and issues, imagery and perspective)? Based on your analysis, would you say that American families are in “crisis” or are they changing in ways that do not indicate a “crisis?” If you were an alien who didn’t know anything about American family life and these images were all you had to consider, what would you conclude about American families today? Your main task is to document the patterns that you observe and to discuss the implications of these patterns. Be sure that you give specific examples from your observations to illustrate the kinds of patterns you saw. Finally, how would the authors of our readings critique the images of family that you observe? Interpret your results in light of our course readings. What would our authors say if they had done this study themselves? (It would be best if you integrated this into your paper rather than making this a separate section.) In other words, refer back to your readings and/or lectures as you conduct your analysis of the patterns that you see in the films or TV shows. Organizing Your Paper:In your presentation of your research results, you should organize your paper with the following subheadings: family structure, roles, problems and issues, imagery and perspective. In each section, describe your overall findings and then give some examples from what you watched. Also, be sure that you refer to our course materials. You also need to draw some conclusions about the implications of your findings for how we think about family crisis and change.Do not just summarize the plot of the films or TV shows. Provide only enough information to illustrate your examples. This is NOT a book-report style of paper. This assignment asks you to develop your analysis and interpretations of those sources of data. Your data are the TV shows or films. Provide a summary of your results, give specific examples, and explain what implications we can draw from what you found. Don’t provide a plot summary—just give enough details to illustrate your argument with examples.Thus, when writing your papers, do NOT summarize the show episode by episode or provide summaries of every show or film you watched. In each section, you will give some **overall** findings with regard to ALL of the shows. Then you will give some examples. You do not need to give an example of each show or episode in each section. That would be too long. You need to pick some examples that illustrate your points. Do this with each theme assigned. Make sure that you say something in each of those sections about how this fits into your ideas about family crisis vs. change. In other words, what are the implications of what you observed for how we think about family structure, roles, etc.? Do NOT provide lengthy summaries of all of the shows or episodes. You are doing an analysis, not a book report. As you analyze your popular materials, be sure that you make references to some of the readings we have completed in class.Start your paper with an introductory paragraph that makes an argument or has a thesis regarding what you observed with regard to family crisis or change overall. It might be best to write this after you have written the rest of the paper. Make sure you have a conclusion that ties it all together and reflects on what this all means for the debate about family crisis or change. Please document your sources of information—include a list of what you analyzed and include all relevant information (dates, times, titles, etc.)Suggested Length: 6-7 page
Identify and discuss disaster types
1. Identify and discuss disaster types.2. Explain the disaster planning process and nursing participation.3. Work on the following case studies;A. Case Study # 1As a county health department nurse, your supervisor has informed you that the local Emergency Management Team is issuing a warning of impending disaster as an F3 tornado is expected to hit your large, metropolitan city within the hour. a. Which emergency measures would you expect to have already been in place?b. What are your potential activities during each phase of the emergency management response?B. Case Study # 2A plane crashed while landing on the runway during a snowstorm. The plane was not able to stop in time and slipped off the end of the runway onto a busy interstate highway. Public health nurses were expected to respond to this disaster as well as many first responders. (Learning Objectives: 1, 2, 5)a. What are the responsibilities of public health nurses in disaster management?b. Public health nurses have been requested to use the START model to assess the cars involved in the plane crash on the highway. What is the START MODEL, and how are numbers assigned to the individuals?c. The houses in a two-mile radius around the airport have been requested to evacuate the area because airplane fuel is leaking into the river located directly next to the airport. What guidelines should be considered for individuals requested to evacuate?d. When the public health nurses were color coding for prehospital triage, what do red and black color codes mean? APA format word document (in-text citations needed).A minimum of 3 evidence-based references no older than 5 years must be used. A minimum of 800 words not to exceed 1,000 are required without counting the first and last page.
Discuss the results and comment on if you think the cookie business should take on this special order of cookies for a wedding
Now that your cookie business is well underway, you are going to use the knowledge that you have gained in this course to evaluate the financial information for the company. You will be creating a series of reports and analyzing the results using the templates provided to guide you through the project. The learning objectives of this project are as follows:Using the Unit VII Final Project Template , prepare a four- to five-page written report (including spreadsheets) with at least three scholarly sources. Your report will provide the following information:Part 1: Based on the data presented in the Unit VII Spreadsheet Template in Excel (CM Breakeven tab):Complete your calculations by filling in the highlighted cells, and embed a copy of the completed spreadsheet into this report. Discuss the results based on your calculations as far as which type of cookie you think is the most profitable, which has the highest CM, etc.Part 2: Based on the data presented in the Unit VII Spreadsheet Template in Excel (Full Variable tab), complete the calculations listed below.Complete your calculations by filling in the highlighted cells, and embed a copy of the completed spreadsheet into this report. Discuss the results, and comment on which method you think is more helpful to managers and why.Part 3: Based on the data presented in the Unit VII Spreadsheet Template in Excel (Special Order tab), calculate the net increase or decrease in profit if they take the special order. Complete your calculations by filling in the highlighted cells, and embed a copy of the completed spreadsheet into this report. Discuss the results and comment on if you think the cookie business should take on this special order of cookies for a wedding. Business has been slow the last few months, and the offer is less than the usual selling price for the cookies. As part of your discussion, include both quantitative (based on the numbers) and qualitative (not based on numbers) factors that would go into the decision to take on the special order.Part 4: Based on the data presented in the Unit VII Spreadsheet Template in Excel (IRR tab), calculate the internal rate of return (IRR) for the new equipment purchase. Complete your calculations by filling in the highlighted cells, and embed a copy of the completed spreadsheet into this report. Note: the PV Annuity table is provided for you. Discuss if you think the cookie business should accept or reject the purchase of the new equipment and why. Additional information has come to your attention regarding the equipment purchase. One of the partner’s brother owns the company that sells the equipment and insists the equipment is needed. Discuss any ethical concerns you see with this type of transaction.Part 5: Based on the data presented in the Unit VII Spreadsheet Template in Excel (Cash Budget tab), calculate the cash receipts for the first quarter of this year. Complete your calculations by filling in the highlighted cells, and embed a copy of the completed spreadsheet into this report. Discuss your observations about the way cash is collected if the company needs $150,000 per month for expenses.Part 6: Based on the data presented in the Unit VII Spreadsheet Template in Excel (Variances tab), complete the following calculations.Complete your calculations by filling in the highlighted cells, and embed a copy of the completed spreadsheet into this report. Discuss your observations about the variances and ways to plan to improve any of the variances.Summarize the key observations that you have made about the cookie business based on the calculations you have performed, and present any future recommendations. Be sure to use APA formatting throughout, and reach out to the Writing Center or the Library for assistance with research, writing, and formatting. Include at least two resources from the CSU Online Library in your report.
Implement an associative memory neural network
a. Implement an associative memory neural network. b. Train the associative memory neural network on the pristine images given(use black and white) Add varying levels of white zero-mean Gaussian noise to the training imagery and attempt to do a recall. Comment on your results.c. Now train on the data set given varying levels of noise power on the training data. Similarly do a recall using the same noisy versions of the imagery used in part b. Comment on your results.
What steps can the company take to increase the likelihood that its hotline reporting system remains in compliance?
A large American multinational corporation wants to establish a telephone and email hotline for employees to report wrongdoing within the company. The company has offices in the European Union and wants to ensure that it avoids violations of E.U. data protection laws. What steps can the company take to increase the likelihood that its hotline reporting system remains in compliance?
Analyze trends you identified in your observations/content analysis. What is a possible sociological/theoretical explanation for the trends you observed?
The purpose of this exercise if for you to observe one social setting or social artifact to begin to detect patterns in human behavior – observance of norms and potentially behaviors that deviate from the norm. This week’s exercise includes two parts. First, without any prep work, you will need to go to one public place (or conduct content analysis with your social artifact) and observe the people/artifact for 25 minutes. Social Setting: Note people’s behavior, their demeanor, their reactions/interactions to/with each other. Social artifact: from second to second (for TV), or page to page (for print), Note themes, sounds (i.. music), texture of page (i.e. ads in magazine), etc. Second, you will develop a research design with research problem, hypothesis and operational definitions for variables; then you will conduct another 25 minutes of observations. WRITING REQUIREMENTS: The essay should be 4.6 pages. APA formatting should be used throughout (cover page, running header, major heading, subheadings, in-text citations, and reference page, 1″ margins, 12 point fonts, Times New Roman). Any time you paraphrase or directly quote a source, in-text citations should be used. A full APA-formatted reference should be included at the end of the assignment. Academically, no more that 20% of the essay should be quoted. At least 80% should be in your own words. Within the 4-6-page essay, you will include the following subheadings: Observation DescriptionTrends, Social Concepts, and TheoriesResearch Problem/Question(s)HypothesisVariables identified and operationalizedAnalysisCompared Inductive to Deductive ApproachReflection Disclaimer Originality of attachments will be verified by Turnitin. Both you and your instructor will receive the results. Part 1 1) Choose whether or not you will be conducting non-participant observation in a social setting, or content analysis of a social artifact a. Social setting: this should be a public place such as a park, mall, restaurant, etc. b. Social artifact: this may be ads in a particular magazine; one television show, a time-block of commercials, etc. 2) For your inductive approach, you will simply choose a time and location/artifact for where you are going to conduct your observations 3) a. Social Setting: Go to the specified location and proceed with your observations. i. You must be a keen social observer; a ‘peeping Tom’ in the sociological sense. Take handwritten (recommended) and/or mental notes of: details about your chosen location (time of day, lighting, furniture, plants, sounds, temperature, smell, vibe/energy, etc) the people around you, not only their behavior but general information about their sociodemographic characteristics (age, race/ethnicity, gender, SES, etc); your thoughts and feelings while making observations Social Artifact: At a specified time (i.e. when a particular show is), carefully observe your social artifact i. Content analysis provides a sustained, systematic way to observe and measure the portrayal of that reality, as opposed to the quick, impressionistic way that we normally read consume media. Take handwritten notes of: Details about the setting in the images you see (lighting, furniture, background, vibe/energy portrayed); if audio-visual (note sounds such as pitch of voice, music, etc) Note details about the people portrayed, not only their behavior but general information about their sociodemographic characteristics (age, race/ethnicity, gender, SES, sexuality); 4) When you have returned from you observation, type up your notes. Review your notes for patterns in behavior, socio-demographic characteristics, etc. 5) Write-up your observations using ‘thick description’ of the location (i.e. building you were in (what is the architecture like), descriptions of people there (in terms of socio-demographic characteristics: age, race/ethnicity, gender, socio-economic status), sounds, smells, temperature, time of day and week, etc); 6) Analyze trends you identified in your observations/content analysis. What is a possible sociological/theoretical explanation for the trends you observed? This is best done by using peer-reviewed sources (journal articles no more than five years old) to provide credibility to your analyses. Include at least one. Part 2 7) Based on your initial observations and written analyses, develop a specific research problem/question to be further investigated (i.e. the variation in behavior of males versus females when entering a store with a glass store front) 8) Identify the key variables you are going to be investigating, and develop an operational definition for each of them (this should include at least two variables, but not more than four). Your operational definitions will help to provide parameters for how record variations in your observations. 9) Write a hypothesis for what you expect to observe in your second round of observations. 10) Repeat observations/content analysis a. Social Setting – this should be done at the same social setting at approximately the same time of day (if you can do this one week later on the same day, it would be great!) b. Social Artifact – this should be done at the same time (if commercial block), or with the same show, or with a different issue of the same magazine , etc. 11) When you have returned from you observation, type up your notes. Review your notes for patterns in behavior, socio-demographic characteristics, etc. and how they corresponded with your expectations/hypothesis 12) Describe observations using ‘thick description’ of the location (i.e. building you were in (what is the architecture like), descriptions of people there (in terms of socio-demographic characteristics: age, race/ethnicity, gender, socio-economic status), sounds, smells, temperature, time of day and week, etc); 13) Analyze your observations in terms of how they supported/did not support your hypothesis. 14) What is a possible sociological/theoretical explanation for the trends you observed? This is best done by using peer reviewed sources (journal articles no more than five years old) to provide credibility to your analyses. Include at least one. 15) Discuss the differences between your inductive observations and your deductive observations. How did the way you were observing change? How did what you observed change? 16) Briefly describe your thoughts/feelings in the two steps. Did you prefer one approach to the other? Why/why not?
How have human activities changed the landscape and how has this affected native species?
Describe the major land biome where you live. How have human activities changed the landscape and how has this affected native species? Include specific examples.
write about a team building exercise that incorporates one of the topics in the text book.
Write 2 pages: Read this 2 topics : Topic #1 Thinking and deciding strategically. Topic#2 Mastering the 12 essential skills. write one page for each topic . need a short summery 1 line for each. Write about : Activity name, skills that are going to be addressed, why chosen, all materials need for activity, cost of activity, physical location, space needs, anticipated outcome, equipment needs for activity. write about a team building exercise that incorporates one of the topics in the text book.
How do these experiences align with best practices in implementing change?
Information Management and Technology 1
Implementing Change
The discussion assignment provides a forum for discussing relevant topics for this week on the basis of the course competencies covered. For this assignment, make sure you post your initial response to the Discussion Area by the due date assigned. To support your work, use your course and text readings and also use the South University Online Library. As in all assignments, cite your sources in your work and provide references for the citations in APA format. Start reviewing and responding to the postings of your classmates as early in the week as possible. Respond to at least two of your classmates’ initial postings. Participate in the discussion by asking a question, providing a statement of clarification, providing a point of view with a rationale, challenging an aspect of the discussion, or indicating a relationship between two or more lines of reasoning in the discussion. Cite sources in your responses to other classmates. Complete your participation for this assignment by the end of the week.
Tasks
Post a response to one of the two discussion topics below, using information from the lectures, reading assignments, library resources, and Internet resources. All responses should be posted to the Discussion Area.
Topic 1: Change in our work and personal lives is often a stress inducing event. The goal of the change agent should be to mitigate stress as much as possible. Share your experience with change, good or bad, and if it was “good” experience, what made it good? And if “bad” what made it bad? How do these experiences align with best practices in implementing change?
Explain why this contract is governed by common law or the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC).
Assignment
Elements of a Contract
Suppose that the Fabulous Hotel hires you as head chef under a two-year employment contract. After two years, another hotel wants to hire you. However, in the original employment contract you signed with the Fabulous Hotel, the following paragraph appears: “The below-signed agrees not to work as a chef for another hotel in the same metropolitan area for a period of two years after leaving our employ.” Describe and analyze the five elements of a contract that must exist for this agreement to be enforceable. Explain why this contract is governed by common law or the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC).Examine at least two circumstances in which this non-compete agreement would be unenforceable. Submit a four- to five-page paper (not including title and reference pages). Your paper must be formatted according to APA style as outlined in the approved APA style guide and must cite three scholarly sources in addition to the textbook Carefully review the Grading Rubric (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.
