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What foods provided most of the sodium for the day? How could sodium have been decreased if your daily intake was above the recommendation of <2400 mg? Was saturated fat <10% of total calories? If not, why?

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Lab 5 Fast Food

Spring 2023

In this lab, you will utilize the free online program MYPLATE.  Your estimated calorie needs will be calculated using this program, which you will then use to complete Lab 5.

This lab utilizes a free online government program designed to help all follow a healthier diet and way of life.  This information is then used in the lab to help you plan a day of eating out at fast food/fast casual restaurants and stay within your recommended percentages of total calories for fat, carbohydrates, protein as well as sodium.

INSTRUCTIONS:

  1. Visit gov and click on Start Quiz.
  2. Begin the quiz and answer all questions.
  3. Once the quiz is completed, you will receive results where you can see your intake of each food group and how you rate.
  4. Next visit gov/myplate-plan – click on START under Get Your MyPlate Plan.
  5. After the input of basic health data, you will receive your recommended calorie level. Click on your estimated calorie level to get a full plan.  Click on DOWNLOAD your MyPlate plan.
  6. The first page with your estimated calorie needs and food plan is all that is needed for the lab and will be loaded with the lab in Canvas. Save both as a PDF then load.
  7. You will use all of the information (recommended calorie level and food group info) to complete Lab 5.

REMINDER of items to load:

  • lab worksheet
  • first page of your results as noted in #6 above.

Use the recommended calories and other info from MyPlate to complete the following:

Synopsis:

You have a busy day ahead and will be away from home for all three meals.  You will have to rely on fast food/fast casual restaurants for all meals but would like to eat as healthy as possible.  What would be the best choices for breakfast, lunch, and dinner???

Instructions:

Use nutrition facts/nutrient data for selected fast food/fast casual restaurants to plan all three meals.  Examples might be Chick Fil A, Panera, Whataburger, Chilis, Panda Express or any other fast food/fast casual type of restaurant. You will need to choose wisely to stay within or as close to the recommended amounts for fat, saturated fat, sodium, carbohydrates, and protein. You will calculate estimated needs below.   All work must be shown for full credit!

ALSO – regardless if you normally do not eat three meals a day, this lab requires you to include three meals.

Calculate estimated needs of nutrients according to the following recommendations using the recommended calories for YOU from MyPlate. Answers to be shown in table below under ESTIMATED NEEDS.

  Recommended Estimated Needs (calories)
Fat

 

 30% of total calories

(30% x YOUR estimated calories)

  
Saturated Fat

 

 <10% of total calories

(10% x YOUR estimated calories)

  
Sodium

 

 <2400 mg

(not calculated; recommendation for all)

              <2400 mg
Carbohydrates

 

 50% of total calories

(50% x YOUR estimated calories)

  
Protein

 

 20% of total calories

(20% x YOUR estimated calories)

  

Example:  1500 calories x 30% for fat calories, 1500 calories x 10% for saturated fat calories, 1500 calories x 50% for carb calories, 1500 calories x 20% for protein calories.

 

You will use nutrition facts from fast food or fast casual restaurants to complete the table for ONE DAY of meals/snacks.  All restaurants have information online.  Google it (or use your favorite search engine)!  You DO NOT need to fill in all lines in the table, but they are provided for your use if needed.  You are expected to record data for three meals, but only for one day!

Food Item

 

 Calories Total Fat (grams) Saturated Fat (grams) Sodium

(milligrams)

 Carbs

(grams)

 Protein

(grams)
BREAKFAST            
Name of Restaurant:            
Foods:            
             
             
             
             
             
             
             
LUNCH            
Name of Restaurant:            
Foods:            
             
             
             
             
             
             
             
             
DINNER            
Name of Restaurant:            
Foods:            
             
             
             
             
             
             
             
             
Totals            

Add up each column and show totals for each.  These totals will be used to complete the next page of calculations.  MUST SHOW TOTALS ABOVE!

Calculate percentage of total calories for fat, saturated fat, carbohydrates, and protein using the totals (from your day of meals) from the table on page 3.   Show all work!

 

  1. Total Fat

Equation:  total grams fat x __9__calories/gm = total fat calories

total fat calories ÷ total calories x 100 = % of fat calories

 

 

  1. Saturated Fat

Equation:   total grams saturated fat x __9__calories/gm = saturated fat calories

saturated fat calories ÷ total calories x 100 = % of saturated fat calories

 

  1. Carbohydrates

Equation:     total grams carbohydrate x _4___calories/gm = carb calories

carb calories ÷ total calories x 100 = % of carb calories

 

  1. Protein

Equation:     total grams protein x _4___calories/gm = protein calories

protein calories ÷ total calories x 100 = % of protein calories

 

  1. How did you do? (Use the % from calculations on page 4.)
  Your Totals

(% from page 4)

 Recommended Above/Below Recommendations
Total Fat as % of Calories   30% of calories  
Sat. Fat as % of Calories   <10% of calories  
Sodium (from page 2 totals)   <2400 mg  
Carbs as % of Calories   50% of calories  
Protein as % of Calories   20% of calories  
  1. What foods provided most of the sodium for the day?
  2. How could sodium have been decreased if your daily intake was above the recommendation of <2400 mg?
  3. Was saturated fat <10% of total calories? If not, why??? (List the foods high in fat.)
  4. How could the amount of fat be decreased in the daily total? What food choices could have been changed to meet the recommendations? (If you met recommendations, then note that here.)
  5. Did you meet your recommendation for fruits and vegetables according to MyPlate? If not, how could you improve when eating out?
  6. Was the majority of your protein needs met with animal proteins or from plants? How could you incorporate more plant proteins into your daily diet?
  7. After completing this lab, do you think fast food can fit into a healthy lifestyle? Is it possible to meet your estimated calorie needs and make healthy choices at the same time? Explain why or why not!
  8. What did this lab teach you about eating meals away from home?

What proportion of our orders are same day? Are same day orders always the same customers? Are they individual or corporate? Regionally specific or postal code specific?

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Recommendation Report

About Office Solutions

1. Natalie oversees Sales and Marketing. Includes online advertising, direct sales to corporate accounts, emails, customer relationship management etc.

2. Office Solutions is a low–cost leader, online only, pay for Google ad, cookie–based search on FB, etc. no physical mailings, 2 emails a month to customers. Some cold calls to corporations

3. Natalie is head of sales and marketing – logistics, inventory, and vendor management are run by others.

4. Goals:

  • Increase overall sales by 20% this year
  • Increase profits by 10% this year. (What product categories, subcategories, regions, segments have highest profits, year over year trends)
  • Most of our customers are individual consumers. Increase corporate accounts by 50% over the next 3 years.

5. Some ideas Natalie has for the future that students could consider for their projects.

  • Create a loyalty program for most valuable consumers
  • Looking to test market a new line of high–end furniture that includes traditional and standing desks, tables, and bookcases (regional analysis strong sales of furniture, total cost per sale)
  • What to know more about what sells and where. Are our discount strategies working?
  • Several new art vendors have approached us: two framed art companies one offering prints and one offering original art and one offering 3D art. (Which vendor, what region/ segment to test market)
  • We sell a lot of office supplies to our consumer accounts. Some of those are small orders. Understanding the types of products frequently bought together would help us better target our promotions and sales and improve cross–selling.
  • We’d like to drop underperforming products or even subcategories, but we still want to provide all the products requested by top 50% most frequent and profitable accounts.
  • We charge a premium handling charge for same day shipping. What proportion of our orders are same day? Are same day orders always the same customers? Are they individual or corporate? Regionally specific or postal code specific?
  • We’d like to better tailor our marketing efforts and focus on those subcategories, or even individual products, with the highest profit.

List taxable persons according to Article (2) of the income tax law. Explain how the tax base is calculated according to Article (6) of the income tax law. What is Withholding tax and its rates according to Article (68) of the income tax?

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 Income tax law

Assignment Question(s):(15.0 Marks)

(Three Questions Each Question Carries five Marks)

  • List taxable persons according to Article (2) of the income tax law.
  • Explain how the tax base is calculated according to Article (6) of the income tax law.
  • What is Withholding tax and its rates according to Article (68) of the income tax?

Describe your concept of diversity, and what experiences have you had that inform your thoughts.

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What diversity means to me

WRITING PROMPT:
Describe your concept of diversity, and what experiences have you had that inform your thoughts.

Select the role you wish as a client and take turns switching roles. After the conversation, document the interactions using the form provided and following the guidelines instructions for each column.

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Course Competency

Describe the foundations of mental health nursing.

Transferable Skill

Communication: Displaying capability in writing, reading, and oral communication; understanding of non-verbal language.

Instructions

It will be carried out with two students working together. This is a “role play exercise,” in which one student is the student nurse, and the other will role play as a client In this assignment the nursing student will be demonstrating the therapeutic nurse-client relationship and analyzing the therapeutic and nontherapeutic techniques used. You will take turns in the roles.

This is not about always having therapeutic responses. It is about learning from practice and review. It is expected that you will think of other ways to respond or interact with the client that may be more therapeutic after the interaction is terminated. After the conversation is over, you will complete in IPR form.

The client roles are:

Mr. hones is a 69-year-old retired engineer. He was admitted to the in-patient psychiatric unit the previous day. His daughter had called the police when he locked himself in his bathroom and refused to come out. She thought he was suicidal. He was brought to the hospital by the police and was admitted on involuntary status. He has been reticent since admission but told his daughter he had no reason to live since his wife died.

  • Diagnosis: Major Depressive Disorder
  • Nursing Diagnosis: Risk for suicide.

Mrs. Alvarez is a 34-year-old female who has lived in this country for the past 10 yrs. She is a stay at home mom with three small children. Her husband works two jobs to support the family. Lately, she has been extremely anxious and fears that her children will become ill or injured. This seems to be an unrealistic concern, but she has been unable to sleep well and has lost 15 lbs. in the past month. She is a voluntary admission and states she knows she needs help.

  • Diagnosis: Generalized Anxiety Disorder
  • Nursing Diagnosis: Ineffective coping

You will select the role you wish as a client and take turns switching roles. After the conversation, you will document the interactions using the form provided and following the guidelines instructions for each column.

Develop a model for the total profits (Revenues minus Costs) and represent it on an Excel spreadsheet. Consider demands as units sold. Create columns for price, demand, revenue, costs, and profits. Use a table and a graph with $ on the y-axis and Demand on the x-axis to find the price at which profit is maximized.

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Individual Lab 8

Instructions

  1. Build the model for profit model for gaming mouse in R.
  2. Answer questions 1-16 to the Rmd model.

Model

A manufacturer of wireless gaming mouse is preparing to set the price on a new model. Demand (D) is thought to depend on the price (P) and is represented by the model:

D = 2500 – 3P

The accounting department estimates that the total costs (C) can be represented by

C = 6000 + 4D

Develop a model for the total profits (Revenues minus Costs) and represent it on an Excel spreadsheet. Consider demands as units sold. Create columns for price, demand, revenue, costs, and profits. Use a table and a graph with $ on the y-axis and Demand on the x-axis to find the price at which profit is maximized.

 

Questions to Answer

  1. When the price for the gaming mouse is set to $100, what is the corresponding prediction for demand?
  2. When the price for the gaming mouse is set to $100, what is the corresponding projected revenue?
  3. When the price for the gaming mouse is set to $100, what are the corresponding costs?
  4. When the price for the gaming mouse is set to $100, what are the corresponding projected profits?
  5. Build a column in Excel for Price and consider price in $10 increments from $50 to $600. (This means your column should have $50, $60, $70, $80, etc. all the way to $600.) At what price for the gaming mouse is projected demand minimized?
  6. At what price for the gaming mouse is projected demand maximized?
  7. At what price for the gaming mouse is projected profit maximized?
  8. At what price for the gaming mouse is projected revenue maximized?
  9. True/False: Costs are projected to increase as the price for gaming mouse goes up.
  10. True/False: The lower the price for the gaming mouse, the higher the projected demands.

Additional Questions to Include in Rmd file

  1. Graph Profits on your chart; include the series using a line or scatterplot.
  2. Graph Revenues on your chart; include the series using a line or scatterplot. 13. Graph Costs on your chart; include the series using a line or scatterplot.
  3. Include an x-axis label on your chart.
  4. Include a y-axis label on your chart.
  5. Include a title on your chart.

What is your stand and how does the data support you? Write a new argument related to your chosen issue question and use data to help support you.

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Paper 4: What is your stand and how does the data support you?

Prompt: Write a new argument related to your chosen issue question and use data to help support you.

Objectives

  • Construct a 5-6 page researched argument to the issue question you have chosen.
  • You can use the working claim from Paper 3, but you cannot do the same argument as any previous paper.
  • Use 5 college appropriate source (does include the data set) to support your argument.
  • The paper will mainly be supported by 4 sources. 3 sources must support your argument, and the fourth will be related to your rebuttal. You should start with the sources from the Paper 3 Annotated Bibliography; however, you can change them out or add additional sources.
  • Find data from a college appropriate source that will be used as evidence to support a reason or your rebuttal. Present the data as a graph and discuss the data in the paper. This counts as your fifth required source.
  • Effectively support a focused claimed with audience appropriate reasons and detailed evidence.
  • Use ethos and pathos to support your argument.
  • Include a one paragraph rebuttal that fairly refutes some opposition to your argument. This includes evidence to support your refutation.
  • Properly format and document the argument in APA style.

Directions

  • Using your research, including your data, decide on a viable claim.
  • Make sure to have a group of related reasons and develop them using evidence from your sources. Make sure at least four sources are used, as well as a separate source for your data set.
  • Choose evidence to support every reason. At least one of these must be an analysis of your data set.
  • Create a graph that illustrates the point you wish to make with the evidence. Format and document the graph using APA style.
  • Make sure to have a group of related reasons and develop them using evidence from your sources. Make sure at least four sources are used, as well as a separate source for your data set.
  • Find an opposing view to some part of your argument. Construct a focused rebuttal that fairly argues against the opposition’s view using evidence from college appropriate sources.
  • Make sure the paper is formatted and documented using APA style. . If you use any of the sources from your Annotated Bibliography, only use the bibliography; do not include any annotations.

How would you define “art”? What makes something a work of art? What are the characteristics of a work of art according to you, not according to the textbook, a dictionary, or a website?

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HUMN 1101 Research Paper Assignment

3-5 pages/750-1250 words (not including Works Cited page) Times New Roman, 12-point font, 1-inch margins 2 documented sources and a Works Cited page Citation and documentation style: MLA format

How would you define “art”? What makes something a work of art? What are the characteristics of a work of art according to you, not according to the textbook, a dictionary, or a website?

In this essay, discuss your own personal definition of the word “art” and the characteristics of what you consider to be great art. Be sure to include specific artists/artistic periods that you feel exemplify your definition, as well as specific examples of the artist’s work or work from that historical period. You may choose artists/artistic periods from the ones we’ve covered in class and ones from elsewhere in the textbook. You may even use current artists and musicians as examples as well.

After reflecting on your research and your own observations, in a 1-2 page paper, discuss your thoughts. Which theory do you find more credible? Explain your opinion using examples and findings from your research.

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Language Development

In chapter 6 of your textbook we learn about language development during the first two years.

• According to the nativist perspective, infants are born with special language systems which enable them to easily acquire language, through a language acquisition device (LAD). Studies of the Wild Boy of Aveyron support the idea that we must learn language during a critical period of our development. Learning theorists, however, believe that children learn language from the stimuli they are exposed to in their environment.

• Conduct your own research on these 2 perspectives. After reflecting on your research and your own observations, in a 1-2 page paper, discuss your thoughts. Which theory do you find more credible? Explain your opinion using examples and findings from your research.

Read the poem. Read it quickly at first; then read it slowly several times. Try to hear the poem aloud in your head or find a place to read it aloud. Write down the first two things you think about after reading the poem.

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Poetry Explication Notes

Directions: Use the following handout from The Language of Literature for a guide on “How to Read a Poem (And Then Write About It).” Follow each step as you complete your explication.

Step 1: Forget what the poem may mean, is supposed to mean, or what it may be about.

Step 2: Look at the title. Jot down three things it suggests to you. Give literal (concrete) meanings as well as figurative (abstract) things coming to mind.

Step 3: Read the poem. Read it quickly at first; then read it slowly several times. Try to hear the poem aloud in your head or find a place to read it aloud. Write down the first two things you think about after reading the poem.

Step 4: Now look at the poem. How is it put together? Take notes on each of the following that apply:

  1. alliteration
  2. rhymes
  3. rhythms
  4. repetitions
  5. figures of speech: similes, metaphors, personification, symbolism, etc.

Step 5: List any features you notice about the language in the poem and take notes on the following:

  1. stops and pauses
  2. punctuation, or lack of it
  3. capital letters, or no capitals
  4. line breaks
  5. adverbs and adjectives
  6. sentences or fragments
  7. verb tense
  8. organization of stanzas

Step 6: What patterns do you see emerging from your lists? Look at the list below and write short notes about your observations:

  1. sensory details
  2. emotions
  3. images
  4. puzzling words

Step 7: Read the poem again. Form some guesses at what the poem means.

Step 8: Answer the following questions about voice and tone:

  1. Who is speaking in the poem?
  2. To whom is the poem spoken?
  3. What is the tone of the poem?

Step 9: By now, you should have some solid information about what your poem is all about. Read the poem again. Consider why the poet made the choices you identified in steps 4-7. How do you think these things contribute to the meaning? Write your response in your notes.

Step 10: If you have not already noticed, with your notes from steps 1-9, you have a great start on a written poetry explanation (or explication). It should be a multi-paragraph essay. You may want to include other observations, such as:

  1. Record a line of the poem you thought was powerful.
  2. Did you like or dislike the poem? (It is okay to be honest, as long as you justify it.)
  3. Does the poem remind you of another poem/story/event? If so, explain it.