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What role did physicians play in the messaging? Why was it important to include physicians? Does seeing this impact your view of bacon?

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Diss of becon

It’s doesn’t take long watch TV to see that many fast food restaurants attempt to lure viewers with bacon. Bacon wasn’t always so popular, and the health concerns weren’t the same as they are now. So what fueled the rise of bacon? Watch the brief video below:

http://wapo.st/28YGwWk

Use the below questions as prompts and address one or two of them in your initial post, which should be around 150 words. For full credit, you must post your own comments and reply to those of two other students.

  • What role did physicians play in the messaging?
  • Why was it important to include physicians?
  • Does seeing this impact your view of bacon?
  • Other observations.

What was d ual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) originally developed to measure? Which of the following is a side effect of supplements containing ephedrine?

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Writing Question

PART 1 ——

Question 11 pts

A high jumper may want to decrease body fat to achieve which of the following results?

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Flag question: Question 2Question 21 pts

In general, it is recommended that well-trained athletes lose no more than ____ lb of weight per week.

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Flag question: Question 3Question 31 pts

Storage fat is composed of subcutaneous fat and visceral fat.

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Flag question: Question 4Question 41 pts

The terms lean body mass and muscle mass can be used interchangeably because technically they are the same.

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Flag question: Question 5Question 51 pts

What is essential fat?

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Flag question: Question 6Question 61 pts

What was d ual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) originally developed to measure?

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Flag question: Question 7Question 71 pts

Which of the following is a side effect of supplements containing ephedrine?

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Flag question: Question 8Question 81 pts

Which of the following refers to standard error of the estimate (SEE)?

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Flag question: Question 9Question 91 pts

Which of the following refers to the total amount of skeletal muscle in the body?

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Flag question: Question 10Question 101 pts

Which weight-loss supplement should be used with caution due to some reports of liver toxicity?

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PART 2–

Post Discussion: Chapter 11 and Reply to a Classmate

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1. Watch the following videos.

 

2. From the videos above, answer the following questions:

  1. Which measurement method would you be most likely to use? Explain why. (you must pick one)
  2. Which measurement method would you be least likely to use? Explain why. (you must pick one)

Define/describe the four key functions of family. Apply and discuss the four key functions to your family of orientation (the family you grew up in) or family of procreation (your spouse and/or children), and give examples from your family to illustrate the functions.

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Sociological Perspectives on Family

Review the functionalist perspectives on family from Theoretical Perspectives of Family

Actions

  • Define/describe the four key functions of family.
  • Apply and discuss the four key functions to your family of orientation (the family you grew up in) or family of procreation (your spouse and/or children), and give examples from your family to illustrate the functions.
  • Define and/describe the Conflict theory on family and apply it to your family.
  • Finally, compare and contrast the theories and discuss which theory, functionalism or conflict theory, is better for explaining the purpose and role of family in society and why.

Write a 4 – 6 page analytical or argumentative paper – supported by research – on the topic you selected in Module 6.

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Essay #2 – The Research Essay

Instructions

For Essay #3, you are to write a 4 – 6 page analytical or argumentative paper – supported by research – on the topic you selected in Module 6. The use of outside sources is important in this essay, as your argument (or thesis) must be supported by the evidence.

Based on Theranos Case, What lessons do you take away from the case?

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Theranos: A Case Study

Based on Theranos Case, What lessons do you take away from the case?

What lessons do you take away from the case,

  1. as an investor?
  2. as an entrepreneur?
  3. as an employee of a startup?

Use evidence to clearly identify challenges throughout US history that are related to your topic. Analyze how challenges were tackled throughout US history that are related to your topic, using historical evidence.

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Touchstone 3: Creating a Slide Presentation

SCENARIO: You represent your company at a service organization dealing with one of these two issues:

  • Facing Economic Change
  • Engaging Civil Rights

Your supervisor asked you to research information related to the history of one of these issues for your organization to help new employees and volunteers understand it better. You will need to create a slide presentation that summarizes your findings and recommendations.

ASSIGNMENT: Back in Unit 2, you chose your issue and your sources and used the critical thinking process to begin to formulate an argument about your topic. Now you will refine your argument and create a slide presentation that’s due at the end of Unit 3.

PRESENTATION REQUIREMENTS: Your presentation must be 7–11 slides long, not including the title and sources slides. It must include the following slides:

  • title
  • outline
  • topic
  • evidence (4–8 slides with both text and images)
  • argument (making connections between past and present)
  • sources

If you’ve never used a presentation tool like PowerPoint or Google Slides before, don’t worry! The assignment template below will help you create slides for a basic slide presentation. Then you’ll be able to practice using the presentation technology as you put the finishing touches on your presentation. You can also refer back to the Unit 3 lessons that provide support for creating a solid slide presentation.

Before you get started, let’s look at how you’ll be building the presentation, step by step.

A. Directions

Step 1: Review Touchstone 2

Review the scenario and your work from Touchstone 2. You will need to use the research question and your primary and secondary sources, along with the critical thinking process you completed in that touchstone.

Step 2: Create Presentation Slides

Use a presentation tool like PowerPoint or Google Slides to outline and organize a presentation for new employees and volunteers to help them understand better how key historical events in U.S. History are connected to their work and impact society today.

Slide Component
Title Slide Your title slide will be the first slide and should give the viewer an idea of what your presentation will be about.
Outline Slide An outline slide lets your audience know what to expect from your presentation. This doesn’t need to be the kind of detailed or thorough outline that you might use to plan out a research report. It just needs to include the main idea that each slide will cover—it might even just be the time period covered by that slide.
Topic Slide Your topic is the same as the research question you selected in Unit 2.

Define the historical challenges you are presenting on and expand on the topic of your presentation. What questions will you answer? What historical events and approaches will you explore?
Evidence Slides
(4-8 slides with both text and images)		 Now that you’ve reviewed your outline, it’s time to add information to your evidence slides. Use simple bullet points for slide text and leave room for pictures! Use speaker notes to describe the historical challenges, approaches and strategies with supporting evidence. Also, remember to include information from your primary or secondary sources.

Add appropriate visuals that help to communicate main ideas. Use images, charts, photos, and infographics to help answer the research question. If you use infographics, make sure any text in the infographics is large enough to read. Make sure images are not blurry or too small to see.
Connection Slide Your connections slide should connect past events to current events related to your issue and research question. Think of this slide as showing lessons you’ve learned from your research. What are the takeaways? How should people in your organization apply history to the present and the future? Include historical evidence in the speaker notes to explain these lessons.

Try to think of four lessons from the past that you can connect to the present and the future.
Sources Slide Now it’s time to add the primary and secondary sources you selected from Touchstone 2 to a slide, following APA format. (Note: the sources provided to you in Touchstone 2 were already in APA format). Click here for a guideline to help you with APA formatting if you selected any outside sources. Also following APA formatting, your sources should appear in alphabetical order.

Step 3: Add Speaker Notes

Recall that your supervisor asked you to research information related to the history of one of the above issues for your organization to help new employees and volunteers understand it better. For this assignment, you are not actually giving the presentation, but rather just preparing a slide deck that summarizes your findings and recommendations.

An important step in the preparation of a speech is writing speaker notes. Use speaker notes to develop historical evidence and explain your historical challenges, strategies, and connections:

  • Use evidence to clearly identify challenges throughout US history that are related to your topic.
  • Analyze how challenges were tackled throughout US history that are related to your topic, using historical evidence.
  • Analyze the connection between historical strategies and a current issue using supporting evidence (Connections slide).

Your speaker notes will be used to evaluate your project, so make sure you write in complete sentences and pay attention to spelling and grammar. If you were giving an oral presentation, these notes wouldn’t be visible to your audience when you’re in Presenter View. But you would be able to see them, and they would guide you through your presentation.

Step 4: Add In-Text Citations

Make sure you’re citing the information from your sources using in-text citations in APA style. These citations should include the author’s last name and the year of publication for the source, for example: (Mitchell, 2014).

Step 5: Submit Presentation

Once you have completed your slides and corresponding speaker notes, it is time to submit your presentation. If you are using PowerPoint, you simply need to save your presentation and upload this file to Sophia. If you are using another slide presentation technology, download the slide deck as a Microsoft PowerPoint (.pptx) and upload this version to Sophia.

Using the skills that you learned in this class to identify how it should be investigated, was it investigated completely, and what else could have been done for the case.

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Writing Question

For your Final Examination, review the “Trial of the Century” – OJ Simpson Video (52 minutes). Using the skills that you learned in this class to identify how it should be investigated, was it investigated completely, and what else could have been done for the case. The video clearly outlines methods utilized in the early 1990’s which were problematic for prosecutors during the trail. Your paper should included an overview of the case and outcome. A breakdown of the techniques used in the investigation (bullet points). You should identify things discussed from your assigned Chapter readings throughout the semester. Utilize the assigned text book as your sole source (open book).

What did you learn about their experience and how does it relate to the themes in our course? Identify three themes from our course that the interviewee’s experiences illustrate. Understand what resources, beliefs, attitudes, or relationships shaped a person’s life, and how those were particular to their sociocultural context.

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Task – Option 2 -Interview Project exploring diversity in life course

Overview

This option involves interviewing a friend or family member who has lived in another country or culture for the entirety of at least one life stage. In your interview and subsequent write up,
you will explore how cultural differences impacted their experience of that life stage, and the way that had repercussions for future stages. You must use developmental theory and your intersectionality to unpack the way various identity characteristics and cultural frameworks have shaped their life trajectories. Please include quotes (paraphrased is ok) from your interview to
support your argument. You do NOT have to tell us the name or your relationship to the person you interviewed to protect their privacy. You may use a fake name or pseudonym for them.
Part 1: The Interview
First, select someone for the interview.
Second, create an interview guide, or a list of questions that you will use in the interview to guide the conversation towards topics that arose in our class. Strong interview questions are open ended and often are phrased not as questions but as invitations to “tell me about…” something. For example, rather than saying “Did you like your parents?” a stronger interview
question would be “Tell me about your relationship with your parents…” It may also be wise to prepare “probes” or follow up questions that get at details that may be relevant. Probes can be more pointed than your initial questions. A probe for the previous question might be “Was there ever a time when you felt your parents expected you to make choices for the good of your family rather than your own good?” You should have at least 8-10 questions.
After conducting the interview, the third step is analyzing the interview. What did you learn about their experience and how does it relate to the themes in our course? Try to identify three themes from our course that the interviewee’s experiences illustrate. Try to understand what resources, beliefs, attitudes, or relationships shaped a person’s life, and how those were particular to their sociocultural context.
Part 2: Report
After conducting and analyzing your interview, summarize what you have found. Please include concrete examples from your interview, like quotes (that can be paraphrased), to support your argument. A strong way to start your report would be to introduce the person and provide an overview of their experience living a formative period of their life in another culture and the themes that you found in their narrative. Then proceed to discuss the themes you identified in detail, drawing on examples from the interview. In the text, please include 3 citations to class material and 1 citations from outside of class material that are relevant to themes that arise in your interview (and that are academic citations from peer-reviewed journals or academic publishers in the case of books).

What is the objective of location strategy? What are some of the key success factors related to location decision? What are the factors That Affect Location Decisions?

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Operation Management Research

• Group
• Names :
• Name of company: Example: Saudi Airline

1. Company Name
• Introduction
• Location
• Production
• Main competitors

2. Forecasting
• What is forecasting?
• Why forecasting is important.
• The company in which life cycle (Introduction, Growth, maturity, Decline)
• What is the strategy/issue related to this cycle?
• What are the factors that affect the forecast/demand, explain how? (PESTEL)
• Based on the forecast, will the production/service level increase or decrease in the future? Why?

3. Aggregate Planning
• What is the objective of aggregate planning!
• What are the aggregate planning options that can be applied to the sector? What are the advantages and disadvantages and if there any comments!

4. Inventory management
• What is the objective of inventory management!
• Inventory Analysis: Classify the type of inventory in your company (ABC ANALYSIS)

5. Operation & productivity
• What is operation management!
• Why operation management!
• What is the strategic decision related to operation management! Explain it.
• How can you improve the productivity in your sector/company?

6. Operations Strategy in a Global Environment

• Why the company need to globalize.
• Which factor should the company consider before globalizing?
• What are the competitive advantages in your industry/company?
• Develop SWAA Analysis.
• Can the company outsource some of its activities to internal to external suppliers?
• What are the Potential Advantages and Disadvantages of Outsourcing?

7. Location Strategies
• What is the objective of location strategy?
• What are some of the key success factors related to location decision?
• What are the factors That Affect Location Decisions?

8. Supply–Chain Management
• What is the objective of supply chain management?
• How Corporate Strategy Impacts Supply Chain Decisions
• What are supply chain risk and related mitigation tactics

How does this session relate to the economic concepts we covered from our second exam this semester? Specifically, how did this session address any of the following: elasticity, consumer and producer surplus, externalities, costs?

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Principles of Microeconomics

Assignment: Political Economy Days

Description:
This assignment will help you synthesize the material we are learning in this course with events occurring outside our classroom (or our virtual space). Please attend or watch at least one of the Political Economy Days guest lectures. The schedule of events is included under Announcements on our Canvas page. Some of these lectures will be recorded; the information will be sent to you after the event concludes.

Instructions:
Answer the following questions for each Political Economy Days lecture you attended or viewed.

Responses for questions 2-7 should be at least several sentences.

1. Which Political Economy Days lecture(s) did you view? Please state the title of the talk and the name of the presenter.

2. In your own words, please provide a brief overview of this session’s topic.

3. After attending this session, how has it affected your understanding of the topic? Focus on if this session has challenged or reaffirmed your ideas. If this is the first time you’ve engaged in this subject, describe your reaction.

4. How does this session relate to the economic concepts we covered from our first exam this semester? Specifically, how did this session address any of the following: trade-offs, opportunity costs, marginal analysis, scientific method, demand, supply, or market equilibrium? (In some sessions the relationships may be obvious, in other sessions they may be more subtle – remember, economic principles are present in all aspects of everyday life!) In your response, be sure to properly define all economic concepts/terms you discuss in your answer. Please underline the economic term in your definition.

5. How does this session relate to the economic concepts we covered from our second exam this semester? Specifically, how did this session address any of the following: elasticity, consumer and producer surplus, externalities, costs? (In some sessions the relationships may be obvious, in other sessions they may be more subtle – remember, economic principles are present in all aspects of everyday life!) Be sure to properly define any economic concepts/terms you discuss in your answer as well.

6. How does this session relate to the economic concepts we covered from our third exam this semester? Specifically, how did this session address any of the following: competitive markets, monopolies, oligopolies, monopolistically competitive markets, labor, factors of production? (In some sessions the relationships may be obvious, in other sessions they may be more subtle – remember, economic principles are present in all aspects of everyday life!) In your response, be sure to properly define all economic concepts/terms you discuss in your answer. Please underline the economic term in your definition.

7. What additional questions do you have that were not addressed within the scope of the presentation (or the following Question and Answer session, if recorded)?