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Construct a personal narrative about an experience that you have had where social support made a difference. Because social support is such an important Health Communication concept, explore this idea a bit further.

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Health Communication

Construct a personal narrative about an experience that you have had where social support made a difference. Because social support is such an important Health Communication concept, explore this idea a bit further. In addition to using your course readings, find 2 outside peer-reviewed journal articles from the following sources:

  • The Journal of Health Communication
  • Health Communication

You should be able to relate, either personally or vicariously through a friend or family member, to these articles. Using the readings as a foundation, construct a 3-page personal narrativet hat covers the following information:

  • the health issue that you faced
  • if you provided or received social support
  • what kind of support?
  • how did the support help or hurt the health situation?
  • how do the course readings and the additional articles help you make sense of both the story and Health Communication even more?
  • You should be prepared to cite your additional sources both within text and in a References section, using APA 7th edition.

Explain if the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s effectively changed the nation. What effect would the Civil Rights Acts have across the continent on minority groups?

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The Civil Rights Movement

Using the Internet, locate and read Martin Luther King Jr’s “I Have a Dream” speech given in Washington D.C., August 1963. Copy and paste the following keywords into your Google search bar: “I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr.” Feel free also to locate and incorporate additional scholarly sources to respond to this case study, including information on the Civil Rights Movement.

Construct the case study by responding to the following prompts:

  • Explain if the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s effectively changed the nation.
  • What effect would the Civil Rights Acts have across the continent on minority groups?
  • Do you think that the tactics and strategies that civil rights activists used in the 1960s would apply to today’s racial and ethnic conflicts? Why or why not?
  • Do the ideas of the 1960s still have relevance today? If so how? If not, why not?
  • Analyze how the Civil Rights Movement would impact diversity in America today

Provide a reflection of at least 500 words (or 2 pages double spaced) of how the knowledge, skills, or theories of this course have been applied, or could be applied, in a practical manner to your current work environment.

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Computer Science Question

It is a priority that students are provided with strong educational programs and courses that allow them to be servant-leaders in their disciplines and communities, linking research with practice and knowledge with ethical decision-making. This assignment is a written assignment where you will demonstrate how this course research has connected and put into practice within your own career.

Assignment:
Provide a reflection of at least 500 words (or 2 pages double spaced) of how the knowledge, skills, or theories of this course have been applied, or could be applied, in a practical manner to your current work environment. If you are not currently working, share times when you have or could observe these theories and knowledge could be applied to an employment opportunity in your field of study.

Requirements:

  • Provide a 500 word (or 2 pages double spaced) minimum reflection.
  • Use of proper APA formatting and citations. If supporting evidence from outside resources is used those must be properly cited.
  • Share a personal connection that identifies specific knowledge and theories from this course.
  • Demonstrate a connection to your current work environment. If you are not employed, demonstrate a connection to your desired work environment.

You should not provide an overview of the assignments assigned in the course. The assignment asks that you reflect how the knowledge and skills obtained through meeting course objectives were applied or could be applied in the workplace.

Explore the data and note the responses and the variables included in the survey. Prepare and clean the data, if necessary, and summarize any relevant findings in an effective visualization.

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Case Study Part VII: Telling the Story

Step 1: Download the Case Study Part VII Survey dataset.

Step 2: Explore the Survey Data

USB decided to survey their customers, and the survey results are included in the dataset provided.

  1. Explore the data and note the responses and the variables included in the survey. Prepare and clean the data, if necessary, and summarize any relevant findings in an effective visualization.
  2. Use an online visualization tool (such as Tableau, Qlik, or Google Data Studio at http://datastudio.google.com/) to create at least two visualizations that tell a story about the data. (Note that the tools listed are free or have free trial periods.)

Step 3: Case Study Report  

Taking information that you have previously prepared for the case study in other modules, create a powerful report (using storytelling) to the organization explaining the value of using data analysis and the risks of not using it. The report should explain the data that you have analyzed throughout the course case study. Support the report with visualizations.

 

 

Recognize the benefit of viewing system components when managing quality. Explain how parts of the health services delivery system are interconnected.

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VISUALIZING SYSTEM RELATIONSHIPS

Learning Objectives
After completing this chapter, you should be able to
• Recognize the benefit of viewing system components when managing quality,
• Explain how parts of the health services delivery system are interconnected,
• Contrast four different models for illustrating system relationships, and
• Describe the management implications of different system relationship models.

Select ONE of the secondary sources from your Annotated Bibliography #1 list. You should review the source again, very carefully, to clearly determine (1) the main point of the source, (2) some of the major issues raised in it, and (3) how the source relates to your research plan.

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Critical Reading Response #1

Due Date: February 24, 2023, by 11:59pm

Critical Reading Responses
For this assignment, you are to select ONE of the secondary sources from your Annotated Bibliography #1 list. You should review the source again, very carefully, to clearly determine (1) the main point of the source, (2) some of the major issues raised in it, and (3) how the source relates to your research plan.

Each response should be about 300 words (one paragraph, one page, typed, double spaced). These responses should be a critical exploration of the source.

The reading response should ask critical questions—and explore possible answers—about the issues involved in the source. Responses should display careful thinking, beyond just surface details like summary or description. For these Critical Responses, you should consider that your objective is to demonstrate how the researched source supports your main idea for your project. Responses that explore a single issue or a couple of issues in “depth” will receive better grades than those that raise several issues, but only superficially. I am asking for a close reading in these responses; I am asking you to suggest how the source fits into the framework of one or two of the various issues raised in your thesis. Overall, the objective of these responses is to provide you with an avenue to build and demonstrate your critical thinking on your research topic.

The objective of these responses is to:
1. Provide an examination of how the secondary source considered for this exercise fits into your overall plan for the research project. You should provide an ample discussion of the source and apply it to your thesis to show how it will allow you to accomplish your stated goal in the thesis. Note: Do not merely summarize the source. Instead, you should discuss how it connects to your thesis.

2. Help you be more selective about the sources you choose for use in your research project. With a clear understanding of your plan (thesis statement), you will better gage the impact the secondary source will have on you supporting/arguing the thesis.

3. Help you to critically reflect on the thesis of the project. The secondary source should allow you to further demonstrate effective critical thinking on the subject.

4. Employ MLA citation (you must cite the course using correct and current MLA format). Note: Please provide your bibliographic citation at the top of the page. You should present your Revised Topic, Revised Thesis, and Source Citation at the top of the page.

5. Demonstrate effective use of Paraphrase and Summary techniques. Although quotes are allowed, you should consider using paraphrase and summary more as these methods encourage the interpretation and comprehension of the readings.

Identify three factors described by Dr. Berwick that are the most difficult for healthcare organizations to overcome and explain why. For the three factors you select, describe actions that managers can take to eliminate or minimize the factor so it no longer inhibits operations improvement.

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Applying Quality Management in Health

Instructions: Read the following article:

Berwick, D. 2003. “Improvement, Trust, and the Healthcare Workforce.” Quality & Safety in Health Care 12 (supplement 1): i2–i6. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC176576/pdf/v012p000i2.pdf.

In this article, Dr. Berwick describes several historical and present-day “below the waterline” factors that inhibit healthcare quality improvement. For example, he observes that improvement is limited when the workforce is not encouraged to actively participate in reinventing the system.

• Identify three factors described by Dr. Berwick that are the most difficult for healthcare organizations to overcome and explain why.
• For the three factors you select, describe actions that managers can take to eliminate or minimize the factor so it no longer inhibits operations improvement.

How can you invest without losing a lot of money, time and success insurance?

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Marketing question

How can you invest without losing a lot of money, time and success insurance?

Discuss the role of popular culture in communicating harmful or incorrect stereotypes or biases. Using the concepts, terminology, and ideas within Units 1-7, recommendations for how people can identify and correct views that are incorrect or harmful.

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The Business of Pop Culture

Instructions

ANALYZE: ARTIFACT OF POPULAR CULTURE

EVALUATION TITLE: THE BUSINESS OF POP CULTURE

We have seen throughout this course how popular culture influences our attitudes, both positively and negatively. In this final paper, you will examine an artifact in pop culture to determine its message and effect.

For this assignment, select an artifact that, in your opinion, unfairly creates a negative bias or promotes a negative stereotype about one population of society. The pop culture artifact can be a media source (song, movie, television program), a product or other tangible associated with pop culture. Provide a link to this artifact (or an image). Explain why you have selected this artifact, and why you feel that this creates a negative bias. Describe how you would re-design or re-write the script of this artifact to change the way others would view this population.

In your paper:

  • Provide a specific link to pop culture artifact used for this paper or an image of the artifact.
  • Discuss the artifact in depth. Explain the stereotypes or biases that you see being perpetuated in the artifact.
  • Discuss the role of popular culture in communicating harmful or incorrect stereotypes or biases. Using the concepts, terminology, and ideas within Units 1-7, recommendations for how people can identify and correct views that are incorrect or harmful.
  • Re-design or re-write this artifact to change the way others could view this population without the negative bias. Be sure to support this revised artifact with factual examples of the culture.

Specifications:

Submit a 1200-1500 word essay Times New Roman Size 12 Font Double-Spaced APA Format Excluding the Title and Reference Pages addressing the questions above.

In your essay:

  • Be sure to structure your essay with an introduction paragraph that includes a thesis statement, well-organized supporting paragraphs, and a conclusion that reiterates the main points of your argument.
  • Your argument should be supported by reputable research cited in APA format both in the body of the paper and in your references section.

Helpful Resources:

Write a minimum of 500-word paper discussing how you would use an AI and/or Machine Learning approach while developing the usability of an interactive system with the high-quality user experiences focusing on usability goals and measures, what lead to your usability motivations and how you achieved the overall goal of enhancing study learning outcomes for your HCI project.

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Computer Science Question

Project overview

Classrooms around the world have not changed much in decades, but novel interactive technologies create new opportunities for re-imagining these educational spaces. In this project, we will explore how AI and machine learning can make inferences about student’s progress and adapt interfaces to tailor the learning experience to each student. Through this work, we aim to enhance learning outcomes by making studying more effective, scalable, and personalized.

In this project, you are asked to do the following:

STEP ONE: Select one of the following areas of study:

  • Using facial thermal imaging to estimate which parts of a lecture students find difficult
  • Enabling seamless reflective reading through voice interaction and eye tracking
  • Quantifying the complexity of a video lecture using machine learning techniques

STEP TWO: Use PowerPoint (MS Suite Products or suitable Tool) to design (draw) your HCI Interface. The goal of this project is to show how you would achieve thoughtful planning, sensitivity to user needs, and devotion to requirements analysis. Please show in your design how you would incorporate quality features e.g., usability, universality, and usefulness using an AI and/or Machine Learning approach.

STEP THREE: Write a minimum of 500-word paper discussing how you would use an AI and/or Machine Learning approach while developing the usability of an interactive system with the high-quality user experiences focusing on usability goals and measures, what lead to your usability motivations and how you achieved the overall goal of enhancing study learning outcomes for your HCI project.