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How did this module go for you, overall? Think about the readings, the required writing, time-management, etc. Did you have any difficulties in this module? What stood out in this module that was most interesting or helpful for you?

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Medical writing reflection

Purpose

After each major assignment, you are asked to reflect on your work in the Module. This reflection helps me to understand your thinking with the assignment and your learning and development in this course.

Instructions

Thinking about the work you’ve done in this Module, write a reflection that answers the following questions:

  1. How did this module go for you, overall? Think about the readings, the required writing, time-management, etc. Did you have any difficulties in this module? What stood out in this module that was most interesting or helpful for you?
  2. How would you evaluate the difficulty of responding to the assignment prompt?
  3. What do you see as the strongest parts of your project? Please be specific.
  4. What areas do you think you can improve in your project?
  5. How was your peer review experience?

Speak specifically about the work you’ve done in this Module, rather than generally. You can also draw from feedback you’ve received – from me and others. Your response to each question should be at least a few sentences. Keep in mind that you are earning points based on how effectively you respond to each question. Don’t rush your responses.

Develop a marketing plan that focuses on your unique selling point, target audience, and channels to reach them effectively. Utilize social media platforms, online advertising, and traditional marketing techniques to promote your business.

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How to create a business in the field of tourism

  1. Conduct market research: Before starting a tourism business, it is essential to conduct thorough market research to gain an understanding of the target audience, industry trends, competition, and demand for your services.
  2. Determine your niche: Once you have conducted market research, it’s essential to identify a unique selling point that sets your tourism business apart from competitors. Determine a specific niche that you want to focus on, such as adventure tourism, heritage tourism, eco-tourism, cultural tourism, culinary tourism, etc.
  3. Write a business plan: Develop a comprehensive business plan that outlines your business strategy, financials, marketing plan, and operational procedures. This will help secure funding, investors, and give you a clear direction of your business goals.
  4. Choose a location: Determine the geographical location where you want to operate your tourism business. You can decide to start a tourism business in a popular tourist destination, an emerging destination, or even a new attraction.
  5. Establish partnerships and alliances: Tourism businesses often depend on partnerships and alliances with other businesses such as hotels, restaurants, tour operators, or guide services. Building relationships with these businesses can amplify the reach of your business and increase your revenue.
  6. Acquire necessary licenses and regulations: Ensure that you have all the necessary licenses and permits required to operate your tourism business. Research the legal and regulatory requirements for opening a tourism business in your area and comply with all regulations.
  7. Develop a marketing strategy: Develop a marketing plan that focuses on your unique selling point, target audience, and channels to reach them effectively. Utilize social media platforms, online advertising, and traditional marketing techniques to promote your business.
  8. Launch your business: After conducting thorough research, writing a business plan, securing necessary funding, and laying out your marketing strategy, it’s time to launch your tourism business. Continuously monitor and measure your business’s performance to identify areas for improvement and growth.

Set a criterion for a decision. Collect sample data and compute an F statistic. Make a statistical decision. Draw a conclusion and interpret results.

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ANOVA Google Sheets Homework

Suppose we are interested in studying the effect of different types of fertilizer on the yield of wheat crops. We have collected data from four different farms, each using a different type of fertilizer. The yield in tons per acre for each farm is shown below:

  • Farm 1: 2.5, 3.1, 3.5, 3.8, 4.2
  • Farm 2: 2.1, 2.5, 2.9, 3.2, 3.7
  • Farm 3: 2.8, 3.2, 3.6, 3.9, 4.1
  • Farm 4: 2.3, 2.7, 3.0, 3.3, 3.8

To analyze this data using One-Way ANOVA, we would treat the type of fertilizer (i.e., the four different farms) as the categorical independent variable and the yield as the dependent variable. Use One-Way ANOVA in google sheets to find whether there is a significant difference in crop yield between the four farms.

Turn in a Word document answering the following:

Step 1: State hypotheses

Step 2: Set a criterion for a decision.

Step 3: Collect sample data and compute an F statistic.

Step 4: Make a statistical decision.

Step 5: Draw a conclusion and interpret results.

What age group is your story directed towards? Is the language the author uses and concepts the author tries to teach reflective of children’s language and logical skills in the target age group? How do you know this?

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Humanities Question

Assess media sources directed at children. Either a children’s show or other forms of media. Focus on how children are portrayed, how children’s issues are addressed, or how the media is designed to appeal to or influence children. If there is a teaching component, think about if it is an effective method for teaching.

Must Cover all following questions.

  1. What is the topic of the media?
  2. What is the show/story about? Did you find the media engaging for children?
  3. Many children’s media attempt to convey a message, lesson, or feeling to the child. What is the media trying to say or get across to the reader?

2. General information about the media source

  1. What age group is your story directed towards?
  2. Is the language the author uses and concepts the author tries to teach reflective of children’s language and logical skills in the target age group? How do you know this?
  3. What is the time and place in which this story takes place?
  4. Is “place” important for conveying the story?
  5. If there action takes place in a fictional location, is a fictional location necessary to engage the reader or teach the lesson?

3. Your opinions

  1. Can you relate a theory to parts of the story?
  2. Why did you choose this media source?
  3. Why might these media be appealing to children?
  4. Are there elements of the message or media that would make this a wrong choice for children int he target age group?
  5. How might parents or teachers use this media in interacting with children? Is this merely a show.story to be ready aloud to children (or for them to read themselves)? OR are there activities adults could do with children before or after reading or viewing the media to increase children’s interest or learning?

Think about how the types of situations mentioned in the “Policy Violations Examples” found in the “University Policy Handbook” might arise during your academic career. How could these situations relate to the concept of academic integrity?

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Policy Violations Examples

Think about how the types of situations mentioned in the “Policy Violations Examples” found in the “University Policy Handbook” might arise during your academic career. How could these situations relate to the concept of academic integrity?

  • https://www.studypool.com/questions/download?id=2830776&path=uploads/questions/564670/20230501185359university_policy_handbook_spring_2023_v6.pdf&fileDownloadName=attachment_1

Make a table of services and assets and rate the impact of climate change on each, which indicates the level of urgency and prioritizes investments. Find the partners for your municipality. Do they belong to ICLEI? Who do they get money from for climate issues? Do they need new partners?

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City Assessment

1. Check out your municipal website. Explore beyond the initial pages. Dig into the planning information. Is there a climate report somewhere you can download? Information on extreme weather and emergencies for citizens? Gather all that you can including news reports. Check out the local CBC reporting or CityNews. If you know of a climate emergency in the past couple of years that affected your municipality, do some research on it.

Record what you find. Summarize it in 2 paragraphs

2. Call a planner. Yes, find someone, anyone who can answer your questions. Make contact. Collect stories. Ask questions. Locals are a font of information. Don’t ignore the possibility of learning lots. Find who in the municipality does the planning and reach out. If there are no planners you can find aim high. . . right up to the mayor’s office or the CAO or anyone else in the administration. Be polite. Identify yourself as a student. Ask when you could meet with them for a call or a video call. Make sure you are prepared with your questions. Listen. Thank them.

Who is your contact in the city? What position do they hold? If you have already made contact, what did you learn?

3. One of the problems with planning is the inability to measure progress. How will we know when we get there? Goals should involve action and measures of the results. FCM (Federation of Canadian Municipalities) provides a number of tools to municipalities to measure their progress on climate adaptation goals.

FCM climate and sustainability

Review these videos

Climate resilience and asset management

Note the emphasis on knowing the numbers in order to manage well. Of planning for climate impacts now. When renewing infrastructure climate impacts for the future must be built into the planning. Think about service delivery of all the many services a city does for residents. How will climate change impact that?

You can go further into asset management with these resources

Asset management learning

Think through the services and assets in your municipality. What will be impacted by the extreme weather and climate impacts specifically. Don’t try to come up with numbers here. You don’t have them unless you examine the budget or speak with someone. Instead, the point is to think through the totality of impact and the requirement for wholistic thinking. What does the muncipality do? What services are provided? What infrastructure exists? How will it be impacted? You might want to color code your table from small impact to large and urgent impacts.

Make a list or a table with services and assets and the ways they will be affected by climate extremes.

While you will submit the table for Monday, consider it a work in progress as you will update it as you go along.

4. The main issue in asset planning is the culture among those who set policies for the municipality. Are they committed to dealing with reality? Planning that puts off major changes until 2050 or somewhere down the line, demonstrate a lack of commitment. They merely hope it will be someone else’s problem. They don’t want to have to worry about it. Unfortunately, the pace of change is increasing requiring that many of us reassess our own engagement in transformation. Leadership counts. Is there a way to assess municipal leadership?

FCM is teamed with ICLEI for a program that walks cities through the how to on setting up a climate plan. The plan should include milestones and when those actions are to be completed and by whom. Is your city using a program like this or this one in particular?

PCP program

Research and make a list on your municipality and the programs they partner with or belong to. Or if you cannot find any info on that, note it.

Who are they connected with? Are they using the tools available?

5. Now gather your information together and assess your city on the MCIP Climate Adaptation Maturity Scale. As an outsider looking in, what do you see? How far along are they? Are there indications they are speeding things up, moving along, achieving their goals?

MCIP Climate Adaptation Maturity Scale

Complete the Maturity analysis scale for your city.

Here is a summary of the tasks

  1. Summary of general research on your municipality.
  2. Make a contact within the municipality.
  3. Make a table of services and assets and rate the impact of climate change on each, which indicates the level of urgency and prioritizes investments.
  4. Find the partners for your municipality. Do they belong to ICLEI? Who do they get money from for climate issues? Do they need new partners?
  5. Complete the maturity analysis scale for your municipality.

Discuss why the leader needs to be studied and the “leader’s main idea(s).” Also, explain why the topic or philosophical theme of the leader is essential or grabs your attention based on crisis leadership and the learning organization.

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Leadership

https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/leadership-bi…

Pick one book about one leader from the link above and write a one-page answer about why choose the book and the leader and the question below

  1. Discuss the book’s premise and why you selected it based on its “premise.”
  2. Discuss why the leader needs to be studied and the “leader’s main idea(s).” Also, explain why the topic or philosophical theme of the leader is essential or grabs your attention based on crisis leadership and the learning organization.
  3. Explain why you believe you can apply the examples of your selected leader to your “real-world” experience. “What is the book’s value for your study of leadership?”

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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8.1 Asian Americans

Asian-Americans have recently been targets of violence and other racist attacks for the perceived role of China in the Covid Pandemic. These attacks are nothing new spanning attacks against Near East, Middle East, and Far East Asian people in military conflicts over the last 100 years. They include the Gold Rush and building of the Transcontinental Railway era, World War II (Japanese internment camps) and the Korean War conflict, the Vietnam War, the Persian Gulf War, wars in Iraq and Iran.

RESPONSES: (15 points) You will submit three paragraphs; one for each topic; the 1st topic requires a longer response than 2 &3.

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.

Listen to this Podcast:

https://www.npr.org/2021/03/19/979336512/for-asian-american-women-misogyny-and-racism-are-inseparable-sociologist-says

Links to an external site.

2) Women of color and Feminists (4 pts)

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/09/12/221469077/feminism-and-race-just-who-counts-as-a-woman-of-color

Links to an external site.

3) Asian Americans in the Covid World (4 pts)

https://www.pbs.org/articles/violence-against-asian-americans/

Links to an external site.

Create a micro-viewable chart of total trips for the system by hour of each day over January 2015. Create an animated and visualized view with hourly departures during the month in New York area.

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Data Analytics Practice With Tableau

(I) Getting Tableau Program; Download/Upload Real Business Data
a) Open the website of the real business that we are working with at: http://www.citibikenyc.com/system-data
b) View and make a note for the default system data properties the website provided
c) Download the needed data of 201501-citibike-tripdata.csv from Canvas-Assignment–Data Analytics Exercise with Tableau to a preferred folder at your local computer
d) Open Landing Page: https://sbus-vdi.montclair.edu ; select: SBUS_Lab – Go through Chrome- User Authentication with your MSU-NetID, then, Tableau app should be available
e) Upload the needed data from your local computer to Document folder at the Virtual desktop (Follow the guided directions attached below)
f) Verify if the data now can be found at the Document folder from the Virtual Lab computer
g) From Start menu, type Tableau, then you are ready to run the program

(II) Analyze the following 6 questions with Tableau worksheets respectively:
1. Create a Calculated Field named ‘Males-Females’ as a new dimension on your worksheet. (Noted: you need to filter ‘Null’ when use Gender to measure the following steps)
2. Show trips taken by males versus females during the month as a horizontal-bar table.
3. Show total hours and minutes traveled by males versus females during the month as a stacked-bar table. Customize with your preferred colors for male and female
4. Create a micro-viewable chart of total trips for the system by hour of each day over January 2015.
5. Create an animated and visualized view with hourly departures during the month in New York area. It now reflects any number of departures from each station at each time point.
6. Based on the results of Question-4 or Question-5, with open resources, analyze the reasons why there were low biking activities on Jan. 27 th, 2015?

What kind of educational environment is most conducive to student learning? What type of instructor characteristics and behaviors are conducive to student learning?

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Leadership Influence on Student Motivation

The presentation needed the writer to Look for central themes that emerge from the transcripts and group them into common categories. Work the data, organize it, synthesize it, search for patterns, break it into manageable units, and decide what is important. You should be able to develop at least 3 or 4 categories as themes emerge from the data. Some themes may emerge early on.

Hint: Leadership influence on student motivation can be negative as well as positive.

The assigned transcripts include 20 student interviews (Transcripts #1-20) and 4 instructor interviews (Transcripts #21-24).

Research Question.

The central research question is: How does education leadership motivate students to put forth the required study, practice, or rehearsal required to learn effectively?

Based on the findings of the literature review, this central question is broken down into 3 topical sub-question areas:

  1. ) What kind of educational environment is most conducive to student learning?
  2. ) What type of instructor characteristics and behaviors are conducive to student learning?
  3. ) How does the perceived “power type” of a leader influence student desire to learn? (“Power type” is based on French and Raven’s five power types).

The transcripts are made up of standardized, open-ended questions, with each topical area containing several specific questions.

Assignment.

Choose one topical sub-question area (e.g. environment, instructor characteristics and behaviors, or perceived “power type,”) and study only that particular area in each transcript. (This means that you will be reading approximately 1/3 of each transcript).