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What type of listening was needed in this situation? Appreciative, Empathic, Comprehensive, and/or Critical? (You could have more than one answer here.). b) How did you come to this answer?

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Discussion 12: Listening

Direction

  1. Think about a time when you were asked to listen to a friend, a coworker, a lecture, a sermon, etc. Briefly explain the context of the situation.
  2. a) What type of listening was needed in this situation? Appreciative, Empathic, Comprehensive, and/or Critical? (You could have more than one answer here.). b) How did you come to this answer?
  3. a) What personal listening style were you using in the situation outlined above? People—Oriented, Action—Oriented, Content—Oriented, and/or Time—Oriented.     b) Do you find yourself using one style more often than others? Which one? c) What do you think that says about you as a listener?

Class, post your response below (A minimum of 200 words).

 Overview

 What is listening? What purposes does listening serve? 

  • Listening is an active process of receiving, understanding, remembering, evaluating, and responding to communications.
  • Listening enables you (1) to learn, to acquire information; (2) to relate, to help form and maintain relationships; (3) to influence, to have an effect on the attitudes and behaviors of others; (4) to play, to enjoy oneself; and (5) to help, to assist others.

What are your listening options? 

  • Empathic-objective listening refers to the extent to which you focus on feeling what the speaker is feeling.
  • Nonjudgmental-critical listening refers to the extent to which you accept and support the speaker.
  • Surface-depth listening refers to the extent to which you focus on the obvious surface meanings.
  • Active-inactive listening refers to the extent to which you reflect back on what you think the speaker means in content and feeling.

How is listening influenced by culture and gender? 

  • Members of different cultures vary on a number of communication dimensions that influence listening: speech and language, nonverbal behavioral differences, and preferences for direct and indirect styles of communication.
  • Men and women may listen differently; generally, women give more specific listening cues to show they’re listening than do men.

Write a 5 paragraph essay explaining why lady Macbeth is crazy, include quotes and page numbers from the play to back up your reasoning.

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Macbeth

Write a 5 paragraph essay explaining why lady Macbeth is crazy, include quotes and page numbers from the play to back up your reasoning.

How do these sources contribute to support your speech? How does the support you chose create audience connection with your topic?

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Person of Interest Speech Outline Template (Mother Teresa of Calcuta)

Fill in the Blank

Part A:

  1. INTRODUCTION
  1. Indicate the Attention Getter:
  2. Your Credibility: (What is your interest/experience with this topic? Why should we listen to you?
  3. Audience Relevance: (Why should your audience care about this topic?)
  4. Preview Main Points:

Transition: (Indicate the sentence you could use to connect your introduction to your 1st main point.)

  1. SPEECH BODY
  2. 1st Main Point:
  3. Supporting Material
  4. Supporting Material
  5. Supporting Material

(You may have more or less support based on your information.)

Transition: (Indicate the sentence you could use to connect your 1st main point to your 2nd main point.)

  1. 2nd Main Point
  2. Supporting Material
  3. Supporting Material
  4. Supporting Material

(You may have more or less support based on your information.)

Transition: (Indicate the sentence you could use to connect your 2nd main point to your 3rd main point.)

  1. 3rd Main Point
  2. Supporting Material
  3. Supporting Material
  4. Supporting Material

(You may have more or less support based on your information.)

Transition: (Indicate the sentence you could use to connect your 3rd main point to your conclusion.)

  • CONCLUSION
  1. Summarize Your Main Points:
  2. Memorable Final Statement:

Part B

You should also discuss:

  • The sources you chose to use and how you evaluated their credibility.
  • How do these sources contribute to support your speech?
  • How does the support you chose create audience connection with your topic?
  • You should cite the sources at the end in APA format. 3 valid research sources.

Which system controls secretion by the adrenal medulla – the sympathetic or the parasympathetic?  What two hormones are released by the adrenal medulla?

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The Autonomic Nervous System

Objective:  c09ob25 – Define the purpose of the autonomic nervous system. (1)

  1. Define Autonomic Nervous System:
  2. What are the primary targets of the ANS?
  3. What is meant by autonomic (involuntary)?

Objective:  c09ob26 – State the pathway of the visceral reflex. (1)  (E book 9.5b Neural Pathways)

  1. In autonomic pathways, the signal must travel across     neurons to get to the target cell.
  2. One neuron will pass through a      to meet the other neuron.
  3. Effectors are:    muscle,      muscle, and some glands

Objective:  c08ob02 – State the two autonomic nervous system subdivisions.  (E book 9.5c Subdivisions)

Name the two divisions of the ANS.

Objective:  c09ob28 – State which Autonomic Nervous System is called the “fight or flight system” and explain why.(2)

Objective: c09ob29 – State which Autonomic Nervous System is called the “rest and repose” or “housekeeping” system and explain why. (2)

Objective:  c09ob27 –  Compare the sympathetic and parasympathetic in terms of: (2)

  • function (see above)
  • which controls the adrenal medulla
  • cholinergic vs. adrenergic(E book 9.5d)
  • the neurotransmitters they release (E book 9.5d)
  • their functions in controlling heart rate, breathing rate, and digestion (Table 9.3)

ANS maintains homeostasis of the viscera (organs).  The heart is dual innervated.  That means both the sympathetic and parasympathetic innervate the heart.  They are antagonistic meaning one slows the heart rate and decreases the force of contraction and the other speeds up the heart rate and increases the force of contraction.

  • Sympathetic reflexes – what neurotransmitter is used on the effector, the heart?
Effector

Preganglionic                             Postganglionic

 

  • Parasympathetic reflexes – what neurotransmitter is used on the effector, the heart?
Effector

Preganglionic                         Postganglionic

 

Cholinergic – means the postganglionic neuron releases acetylcholine.  Which system is cholinergic – the sympathetic or the parasympathetic?

Adrenergic – means the postganglionic neuron releases norepinephrine.  Which system is cholinergic – the sympathetic or the parasympathetic?

Which system controls secretion by the adrenal medulla – the sympathetic or the parasympathetic?  What two hormones are released by the adrenal medulla?

Using Table 9.3 Fill in the following:  E book 9.5e

  Sympathetic Parasympathetic
Effect on heart

 

 Increases heart rate and force of contraction  
Effect on breathing rate (air flow)

 

    
Effect on bronchioles

 

    
Effect on digestion (look at gastric motility)

 

   Increases digestion rate

 

Higher Level Regulation of ANS

  • Emotions, Depression, and Anxiety can all affect the ANS. In the E book what are the four functions that may be affected?

In the healthcare field, it is very important to understand that emotions affect our body. An individual under stress can exhibit many symptoms that are stress related.  If you are stressed what signs and symptoms may you exhibit?

 

If you had $50,000 to invest in the stock market, how would you go about reducing your risk exposure? Ex. How many different stocks of what types?

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Part One:

Companies A and B are direct competitors in their market. Each has just announced year-end results as follows:

COMPANY A:
Value of company assets: $120,500,000
Total of company liabilities: $60,500,000
Net Income: $10,600,000
Common Stock Dividends: $2,500,000
Preferred Stock Dividends: $4,000,000
Number of common shares outstanding: 1,000,000

Current Stock Price: $100.00 per share

COMPANY B:
Value of company assets: $1,000,000
Total of company liabilities: $0
Net Income: $75,000
Common Stock Dividends: $25,000
Preferred Stock Dividends: None
Number of common shares outstanding: 100,000

Current Stock Price: $10.00 per share

First, make the following calculations:

A. Book value per share.
B. Earnings per share.
C. Dividend yield.

D. Price/Earnings Ratio.
E. Market-to-book ratio.

Assume that both companies are in the same business and compete directly with each other. BASED ON YOUR FINANCIAL ANALYSIS OF THIS VERY LIMITED INFORMATION, IN WHICH COMPANY WOULD YOU PREFER TO INVEST?

EXPLAIN. Think critically, as if you were investing your own, hard-earned money. Be sure to address how each of the calculations (A-E) affects your analysis. Also, explain how the sheer size difference (asset amount) and relative amounts of debt (financial risk) affect your decision.

Part Two:

Response should be at least 1 – 2 complete paragraphs including in-depth content that demonstrates knowledge of the subject matter. Be sure to use correct grammar and spelling.

• If you had $50,000 to invest in the stock market, how would you go about reducing your risk exposure? Ex. How many different stocks of what types?

• Explain.

What is science? More specifically, what makes something science? How is science distinguished from non-science or pseudoscience?

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Nature of science

What is science? More specifically, what makes something science? How is science distinguished from non-science or pseudoscience?

These questions have been the source of debate for many centuries, even millennia. Two thousand years ago, natural philosophers disputed the very nature of matter. Was matter continuous, infinite, and divisible as claimed by Plato, Aristotle, and their contemporaries? Or was matter discontinuous, finite, and indivisible, so that a certain smallest, most fundamental unit could be attained, as claimed by Leucippus, Democritus, and few others. Over 2000 years ago, Leucippus coined a term for this fundamental and smallest unit of matter – atomos, yet these ideas were largely ignored for millennia.

As listed in our text, the main steps of the process are: Observation, Hypothesis, Experiments, and coming to a Conclusion whether your hypothesis has been verified or disprovem.

The idea of the scientific method requires that claims are:

Falsifiable (refutable – able to be disproved) and Repeatable.
These are often the criteria used to help distinguish science from pseudoscience. The falsifiable nature of science dictates that the claim must be able to be disproved. We also note that science is a process of discovery, and part of that process of discovery requires the recognition of patterns (repeatability).

Note that in science, evidence may strongly suggest that a claim is true, but it does not explicitly prove it.

An example of a falsifiable claim is that the moon is made out of cheese. As silly as the claim is, we could gather a sample of the moon and – if it is not cheese – we have disproved the claim. Thus, the claim is scientific because it may be disproved through collection of evidence (data). Furthermore, the moon could be sampled repeatedly and we would still arrive at the same conclusion – the moon is not made out of cheese. A non-scientific claim cannot be disproved regardless of the evidence collected. For example, if I claim that a cubic meter of cheese exists on the moon, I have made a non-falsifiable claim because the claim cannot be readily refuted. It would be nearly impossible to sample every cubic meter of the moon, and thus the claim is not scientific.

Throughout this course you will be applying the scientific method in your laboratory work, and just as important as the above concepts, will be practicing lab safety techniques. Our Lab 1: Laboratory Safety goes over the very important lab safety procedures that you will want to adhere to throughout this course. In Lab 1 you will learn about many safety rules including: wearing the appropriate clothing, preventing contamination of your samples, wearing safety gear and handling chemicals appropriately, etc…

Instructions
Make sure to come up with a unique short Subject heading that describes your post and then you can return and reply to your post with your summary. Within your summary please construct a well-thought out response that addresses each of the following questions.

What makes one statement or claim science? Along these lines, how do you distinguish a scientific claim from a non-scientific claim, or pseudoscience?
Construct a claim that you consider scientific and indicate how the claim meets the criteria for science – that it is falsifiable and repeatable. Challenge your peers to either agree or disagree with the scientific nature of your claim.

After reading through Lab 1, pick a safety rule that was covered and write a few sentences explaining how you will apply that rule in your lab work.
Be sure to state any references you used along with proper citations.

Identify the key ways that your company’s Code of Conduct has changed since last year. Examine the manner in which your company’s Supplier Code of Conduct helps the organization operate as a socially responsible organization.

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Challenges in the Business Environment

Create a 3–5-minute (approximately 6–8 slides) PowerPoint presentation that evaluates how well the company embodies its issue-related values. Your presentation should contain detailed speaker’s notes that flesh out and support main points, ideas, or conclusions and have supporting citations.

Summarize your chosen company’s Supplier Responsibility information.
In your own words, explain how each aspect of your Supplier Code of Conduct is committed to ethical business practices and social responsibility.
Discuss your company’s stance on each of the following areas:
Empowering Workers.
Labor and Human Rights.
Health and Safety.
The Environment.
Accountability.

Identify the key ways that your company’s Code of Conduct has changed since last year.
Examine the manner in which your company’s Supplier Code of Conduct helps the organization operate as a socially responsible organization.

In this week’s discussion, you consider assembling a team to write a supplier code of conduct. Recommend the stakeholders roles (4–5) needed on the team and how each supports the project.

Based on the attached Chapter 7-Government Influence on Trade, and the World Trade Organization (WTO) Summary Report on the US-China trade dispute on Poultry, discuss your opinions on how both the US and Chinese governments influence international trade in the context of the disputes in the attached WTO Summary Report.

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US-China Poultry Dispute: Government Influence on International Trade

Based on the attached Chapter 7-Government Influence on Trade, and the World Trade Organization (WTO) Summary Report on the US-China trade dispute on Poultry, discuss your opinions on how both the US and Chinese governments influence international trade in the context of the disputes in the attached WTO Summary Report.

Provided are some various spiritual perspectives on the environment (below), but you may choose a spiritual perspective (s) from your belief system for your reflection.

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Social equity

Review the quotes below along with the folder on Social Determinants of Health (SDOH), and consider the issues of justice and environmental equity. For your reflection, choose one or two of the resources to focus on. Reflect on spirituality, poverty, and environmental health equity – what lessons have you learned in this course on how these perspectives and issues are related? How will you contribute to environmental health equity in your future professional activities?

Provided are some various spiritual perspectives on the environment (below), but you may choose a spiritual perspective (s) from your belief system for your reflection.
Requirement: Length 1 page; References APA style;

Christian Biblical perspective: Psalms 24, 1-2
“The earth is the LORD’s and all it holds, the world and those who dwell in it.
For he founded it on the seas, established it over the rivers.”

Environmental Health: an Islamic perspective
World Health Organization, Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean. (‎1997)‎. Environmental health: an Islamic perspective. http://www.who.int/iris/handle/10665/119577

Catholicism: (Pope Francis, On Care for Our Common Home [Laudato Si…], nos. 49, 91). May 24, 2015)
“Concern for the environment thus needs to be joined to a sincere love for our fellow human beings and an unwavering commitment to resolving the problems of society.”

Ten Jewish teachings on the environment: http://www.greenfaith.org/files/Ten%20Jewish%20Teachings%20on%20the%20Environment.pdf

Buddhism: His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet
“Thus we share a sense of universal responsibility for both mankind and nature.
Many of the earth’s habitats, animals, plants, insects and even microorganisms that we know as rare my not be known at all by future generations. We have the capability and the responsibility. We must act before it is too late.”
Excerpt from My Tibet by H.H. the Fourteenth Dalai lama: Thames and Hudson Ltd., London, 1990 (p 79-80).
https://www.dalailama.com/messages/environment/universal-responsibility

Unitarian Universalist Association: Climate and Environmental Justice; https://www.uua.org/environment