Give a brief synopsis for each of the three topics. And then respond to how you feel about each topic. Have you seen or heard of these topics in your own experience?

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Writing questions

Give a brief synopsis for each of the three topics. And then respond to how you feel about each topic. Have you seen or heard of these topics in your own experience?

1) Asian women and misogyny (7 pts) have been dealt a complex and difficult role in the United States. First are the earliest immigrants from times like the Gold Rush to 20th century US Military presence in their countries. This has continued influencing stereotypical behaviors today.
https://time.com/5952819/history-anti-asian-racism-misogyny/ You can read this article by scrolling past and ignoring the subscription ads.
Listen to this Podcast:
https://www.npr.org/2021/03/19/979336512/for-asian-american-women-misogyny-and-racism-are-inseparable-sociologist-says

2) Women of color and Feminists (4 pts)
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/09/12/2 21469077/feminism-and-race-just-who-counts-as-a-woman-of-color

3) Asian Americans in the Covid World (4 pts)
https://www.pbs.org/articles/violence-against-asian-americans/

Analyze the situation described in this New York Times article from the Kantian and utilitarian ethical frameworks.

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The ethics of surrogate motherhood (Kantian and utilitarian ethical frameworks)

Analyze the situation described in this New York Times article from the Kantian and utilitarian ethical frameworks. You don’t have to explore both, but you do have to state which approach you’re taking and then apply that approach. This is the link to the new york times article. https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/10/world/asia/10su… 1 paragraph will be enough.

Using three of the following four examples, discuss when and how followers of the Buddha would benefit from having stronger leadership and when and how they would benefit from a more “hands-off” approach.

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Discuss when Followers of the Buddha benefit from strong leadership and hands-off approach.

We have seen diverse examples of both the problems and potentials of leadership within the Buddhist tradition. On the one hand, strong structures of Buddhist leadership have led to problems such as sex scandals within the sangha, the imposition of patriarchal systems of authority, and even political instability in the case of Tibet. On the other hand, the lack of a central leader for all forms of Buddhism sometimes makes it difficult to determine which practices can truly benefit adherents of the religion or even outsiders to Buddhism.

Using three of the following four examples, discuss when and how followers of the Buddha would benefit from having stronger leadership and when and how they would benefit from a more “hands-off” approach: a) the tree consecration movement in Thailand; b) the practice of Chan/Zen Buddhism; c) abortion rituals in Japan; and d) the Western-based “mindfulness” movement.

  • Reading: “Ordination of a Tree”
  • Reading: “The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch”
  • Reading: “Memorializing one’s Mizuko”
  • Reading: “The Mindfulness Conspiracy”

How might they utilize machine learning to create advanced analytics and business intelligence? Summarize your findings in one(1) to two(2) pages.

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Group Assignment 6 – Business Intelligence & AI

Part One – Based on your organization’s business model, what business analytics might help your organization? What analytics might assist them in Digital Transformation?  Brainstorm 6-8 ideas.

Focus on unique opportunities for their business model/industry/product base. Avoid listing generic reports (e.g., Personal File listing, Income Statement, etc.).  This is not a research questions, use your imagination and insights from what you’ve learned. For high scores, be creative – think outside the box!  Summarize your findings in at least two(2) pages.

For each analytic you propose:

  • Provide an explanation of the analytic
  • List some of the important data necessary for the analytic

Part Two – How might they utilize machine learning to create advanced analytics and business intelligence? Summarize your findings in one(1) to two(2) pages.

Write an essay explaining the role of counseling in ensuring organizational stress and conflict management. Does a healthy work-life balance improve employee performance?

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Conflict Management 2

Write an essay explaining the role of counseling in ensuring organizational stress and conflict management. Does a healthy work-life balance improve employee performance?

What were the most compelling topics learned in this course? How did participating in discussions help your understanding of the subject matter? Is anything still unclear that could be clarified?

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Unit 5 discussion question

Review and reflect on the knowledge you have gained from this course. Based on your review and reflection, write at least 600–1,000 words on the following:

  • What were the most compelling topics learned in this course?
  • How did participating in discussions help your understanding of the subject matter? Is anything still unclear that could be clarified?
  • What approaches could have yielded additional valuable information?

Write a 5-7 page research paper addressing an issue related to Communication and Christianity.

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Writing Question

Students will write a 5-7 page research paper addressing an issue related to Communication and Christianity. This essay will take a phenomenon related to modern Christian discourse and analyze it using communication theory. Students have wide latitude when it comes to what topics they select, but a list of example topics is available below.

Requirements:
Students should cite at least five (5) sources in this paper.
The paper and citations should be in APA style.
The paper will be graded based on strength of analysis, grammar and style.
The text of the essay should be in Times New Roman, 12 point font, double-spaced, with one inch margins.

General guidelines:
Students are free to arrange the paper however they chose, but all papers should achieve three main tasks. First, what is the issue the students selected? This issue should be explained in thorough detail. All persons, ideas, and arguments presented in the essay should be treated thoughtfully and carefully. Second, how can communication theory shape the way we view this issue? Finally, what broader implications can we draw from this issue to shape the way we communicate about religion on other issues.
Although the essay requires a minimum of five sources, students should substantiate all of their claims throughout the essay. Every argument made in the essay should be well-supported. Poorly devised or unsubstantiated arguments will affect the assessment of the essay even if the  minimum number of sources have been cited.

Possible topics:
Students are free to discuss whichever topic they would like, but below is a list of issues that can help students select a topic.

This list is far from exhaustive.

  • “Thoughts and prayers” Professions of faith by athletes
  • School prayer Stem cell research
  • Abstinence-only sex education Gun control
  • Marriage equality Capital punishment
  • Religious boycotts of particular business Religious literacy in public school curriculum
  • The “war on Christmas” Intelligent design in science classes
  • Christian films Religious expression and the first amendment
  • Christian music “Religious freedom legislation”
  • Religious evangelism on Social Media Skeptic Communities and Atheist Rhetoric
  • Sacred-Profane DichotomyAnti-religious protest movements
  • Censorship Religious Economic Rhetoric

Explain the entire process and include flowcharts and distribution models. Include the key factors that are important and how they will impact operations. What challenges do you expect to encounter and how will you deal with them?

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Writing Question

The paper requires students to prepare a research paper that explains the logistics and supply chain you would recommend for the following business: “An electronic manufacturing company needs anew logistics model to be used in the manufacture of a computer that the company is planning to build in China. The metal chassis, small hardware items (fasteners, rivets, cables, labels etc.) and external plastics are locally sourced from supplies in Shenzhen, China. The power supplies are built in Haiti. The keyboards and mice are sourced in Monterrey, Mexico and the hard drives and other peripherals are made in Seoul, Korea. The printed circuit boards are built by an outsource partner in Jakarta, Indonesia. The finished product will be sold in US and western European markets. Design the logistics and supply structure that will be used to support the entire operation. Explain the types of transportation used to move the materials and the finished product. Be sure to consider the high rate change in high technology industries.” New products will be introduced twice per year and old products retired. Explain the entire process and include flowcharts and distribution models. Include the key factors that are important and how they will impact operations. What challenges do you expect to encounter and how will you deal with them?

Write a researched recommendations report to a business audience.

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Transportation and Logistics challenges REPORT

For the formal report, you will write a researched recommendations report to a business audience. This is an individual assignment of which a complete, final draft is due at the end of the term. The formal report is broken down into several smaller assignments that will help you build up to the larger final draft of the formal report.

You will be required to complete the various steps of the business writing process (outlined below) to develop a single-spaced, 7-9 page final report. Your final report draft must include both primary and secondary research (details on the difference between the two will be covered). Reports must have at least a few secondary sources and at least 1 primary source.

Your objective for the final draft is to produce a recommendations report that would be helpful to key decision makers within a specific company.

The report may include three (3) graphics (images, charts, tables, graphs, etc.). Each graphic can be no larger than one-half page. Graphics will count toward the total page limit, but they must add value to your report in someway.Purpose

The major assignment for this course is an 7-9 page formal report. You can review the complete formal report assignment description here, as a reminder for where we are in the overall writing process. This assignment asks you to use the writing skills you’ve practiced in this class to develop a professional business report.

After watching these two performances, leave a comment on which one you found more engaging or interesting. Why? What about this performance was interesting/engaging?

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New Sounds, New Boundaries

As we have talked about before, jazz tends to follow some semi-predictable patterns. Things often revolve around four-bar phrases, we tend to hear the melody up front followed by a series of improvisations based upon its form (with each band member taking turns). Then, at the end, we usually hear the original melody again, almost exactly like we did at the beginning. These patterns are pretty deep in the DNA of a typical jazz performance.

However, we have now arrived at a point in history where a lot of these conventions are being thrown aside, or at least stretched in significant ways. Free Jazz through almost all of this out in exchange for a semi-free-for-all approach. Some of jazz’s later developments, like its various “fusions” with rock and funk, reigned in some of Free Jazz’s excesses this regard, but some of that style’s “looseness” and unpredictability became a central feature of Fusion.

Take a look at this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h56USliw3eo

Links to an external site.

This is the Fusion band Weather Report playing the song “Barbary Coast.” Weather Report was one of Fusion’s most prominent bands. (Not coincidentally, it contains a few high-profile alumni from Miles Davis’s fusion bands.) Notice how the roles between soloist and accompanist are blurred. Notice how the usual “roles” are a little trickier to pin down. Also, the presence of some new instruments and sounds.

Now, have a look at this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgntkGc5iBo

Links to an external site.

This is the Jaco Pastorius band playing “The Chicken.” (You might recognize the bass player in this one as the same guy from Weather Report. This is Jaco Pastorius, one of the people who played bass in Weather Report and a very innovative bassist (and musician in general).) The lines around each “section” are not quite as blurry, here. But, there are still some new instruments/sounds.

After watching these two performances, leave a comment on which one you found more engaging or interesting. Why? What about this performance was interesting/engaging?