Prejudice discrimination

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Prejudice is a complex mix of mental perceptions, associated emotions, and attitudes toward members of another group that often results in social distance and manifests in overt acts of discrimination. An important first step in addressing the roots of prejudice and discrimination is to trace the historical sources and the psychological reinforcements.

In this Assignment, you will explore historical examples of sexual and gender prejudice and discrimination, drawing on how prejudice is perpetuated across generations and analyzing the implications of persistent prejudice and gender inequality in society.

Prejudice is a complex mix of mental perceptions,

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Prejudice is a complex mix of mental perceptions, associated emotions, and attitudes toward members of another group that often results in social distance and manifests in overt acts of discrimination. An important first step in addressing the roots of prejudice and discrimination is to trace the historical sources and the psychological reinforcements.

In this Assignment, you will explore historical examples of sexual and gender prejudice and discrimination, drawing on how prejudice is perpetuated across generations and analyzing the implications of persistent prejudice and gender inequality in society.

 The task is to answer the following question, in which the correct answer is option D. Then I have to argue why Varicocele is the correct answer. The question is :

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The task is to answer the following question, in which the correct answer is option D. Then I have to argue why Varicocele is the correct answer. The question is :

A 23-year-old healthy man has been unable to father a child. He and his wife have a workup for infertility. His wife’s reproductive function is normal. On physical examination both his testes are palpable in the scrotum and the testes and scrotum are normal in size, with no masses palpable. However, the spermatic cord on the left has the feel of a ‘bag of worms’. Laboratory studies show oligospermia. Which of the following conditions is this man most likely to have? Explain your answer.

A Hydrocele

B Testicular torsion

C Spermatocele

D Varicocele

E Seminoma

The homework must have 200 words and 2 references

Understanding Nursing Research. 

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Post a total of 3 substantive responses over 2 separate days for full participation. This includes your initial post and 2 replies to classmates or your faculty member.

Due Thursday

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

Review Figure 1-3, on p. 60 in Understanding Nursing Research. 

  • Why is it important to employ the highest level of available research evidence in clinical decision-making?
  • On what do you rely in the absence of evidence?

Due Monday

Post 2 replies to classmates or your faculty member. Be constructive and professional.

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knowledge worker

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The term “knowledge worker” was first coined by management consultant and author Peter Drucker in his book, The Landmarks of Tomorrow (1959). Drucker defined knowledge workers as high-level workers who apply theoretical and analytical knowledge, acquired through formal training, to develop products and services. Does this sound familiar?

Nurses are very much knowledge workers. What has changed since Drucker’s time are the ways that knowledge can be acquired. The volume of data that can now be generated and the tools used to access this data have evolved significantly in recent years and helped healthcare professionals (among many others) to assume the role of knowledge worker in new and powerful ways.

In this Assignment, you will consider the evolving role of the nurse leader and how this evolution has led nurse leaders to assume the role of knowledge worker. You will prepare a PowerPoint presentation with an infographic (graphic that visually represents information, data, or knowledge. Infographics are intended to present information quickly and clearly.) to educate others on the role of nurse as knowledge worker.

Reference: Drucker, P. (1959). The landmarks of tomorrow. New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers.

 

To Prepare:

  • Review the concepts of informatics as presented in the Resources.
  • Reflect on the role of a nurse leader as a knowledge worker.
  • Consider how knowledge may be informed by data that is collected/accessed.

The Assignment:

  • Explain the concept of a knowledge worker.
  • Define and explain nursing informatics and highlight the role of a nurse leader as a knowledge worker.
  • Include one slide that visually represents the role of a nurse leader as knowledge worker.
  • Your PowerPoint should Include the hypothetical scenario you originally shared in the Discussion Forum. Include your examination of the data that you could use, how the data might be accessed/collected, and what knowledge might be derived from that data. Be sure to incorporate feedback received from your colleagues’ responses.

How can our understanding of perception help us become more effective communicators?

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Perception

How can our understanding of perception help us become more effective communicators?

Our understanding of perception helps us determine how different people perceive the same message (Watts & Lombardo, 2022). Looking at different people’s perspective you will be able to keep the person interests in mind during a conversation so your opinion will not impact on how you see the person or treat the person. This could also help you not judge a book by it’s cover. Perception could help you understand the world around you and not just your world you are living in.  According to McLean (2018), there are many factors that affect the influence a message has on others like style of speech, word choice, and tone.

Example

Think of a time when you interacted with someone from a different culture. Using the communication model, how did your conversation evolve? Was there a miscommunication?

There was a time when I had a interacted with a classmate in middle school. She was bilingual but was Spanish and had a different culture than mines. We were having a conversation on how our house holds were ran and how we eat at home. In my household my parents were strict and since I lived in the country I did not have many friends around the proximity of our land to just go to their house. In her household they have multiple family members around so she would not have to worry about being lonely playing at home. I could remember her saying “Wow that must be miserable I could not imagine living like that not having anyone to play with after a long day at school.” The choice of words and her tone could have been a little more understanding of my situation and that is where I think the miscommunication was placed. With me taking what and how she said it the wrong way I got mad but she noticed my reaction and kind of gave me space for the rest of the day. The next day we rekindled and became mutual.

Change

What could you have done differently?

I believe I could have explained what happened in the situation that angered me. I could have also explained to her that my parents were very strict because of maybe something happening in their childhood. Also explained how I literally stay miles away from other people and their kids goes by their family after school. I could have also told her that is why I typically try to engage in after school activities so I would not be lonely at home.

References

McLean, S. (2018). Exploring Interpersonal Communication. Boston, MA: FlatWorld.

Watts, T., & Lombardo, J. (2022, June 15). What is Perception in Communication? Study.com| Take Online Courses. Earn College Credit. Research Schools, Degrees & Careers. Retrieved March 7, 2023, from https://study.com/learn/lesson/perception-role-influences-communication.htmlLinks to an external site.

Uber Pays the Price

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Uber Pays the Price

In March 2009, Uber revolutionized the taxi industry and the way people commute. With the simple mission “to bring transportation—for everyone, everywhere,” today Uber has reached a valuation of around $70 billion and claimed a market share high of almost 90% in 2015. However, in June 2017 Uber experienced a series of bad press regarding an alleged culture of sexual harassment, which is what most experts believe caused their market share to fall to 75%.

In February of 2017 a former software engineer, Susan Fowler, wrote a lengthy post on her website regarding her experience of being harassed by a manager who was not disciplined by human resources for his behavior. In her post, Fowler wrote that Uber’s HR department and members of upper management told her that because it was the man’s first offense, they would only give him a warning. During her meeting with HR about the incident, Fowler was also advised that she should transfer to another department within the organization. According to Fowler, she was ultimately left no choice but to transfer to another department, despite having specific expertise in the department in which she had originally been working.

As her time at the company went on, she began meeting other women who worked for the company who relayed their own stories of harassment. To her surprise, many of the women reported being harassed by the same person who had harassed her. As she noted in her blog, “It became obvious that both HR and management had been lying about this being his ‘first offense.’” Fowler also reported a number of other instances that she identified as sexist and inappropriate within the organization and claims that she was disciplined severely for continuing to speak out. Fowler eventually left Uber after about two years of working for the company, noting that during her time at Uber the percentage of women working there had dropped to 6% of the workforce, down from 25% when she first started.

Following the fallout from Fowler’s lengthy description of the workplace on her website, Uber’s chief executive Travis Kalanick publicly condemned the behavior described by Fowler, calling it “abhorrent and against everything Uber stands for and believes in.” But later in March, Uber board member Arianna Huffington claimed that she believed “sexual harassment was not a systemic problem at the company.” Amid pressure from bad media attention and the company’s falling market share, Uber made some changes after an independent investigation resulted in 215 complaints. As a result, 20 employees were fired for reasons ranging from sexual harassment to bullying to retaliation to discrimination, and Kalanick announced that he would hire a chief operating officer to help manage the company. In an effort to provide the leadership team with more diversity, two senior female executives were hired to fill the positions of chief brand officer and senior vice president for leadership and strategy.

Would this trend have changed if workers were classified as employees verses independent contractors?  In 2018, California’s Supreme Court ruled that workers performing tasks within a company’s regular business must be treated as employees. Laws were updated in 2019; however, “California voters carried … a ballot measure that allows gig economy companies to continue treating drivers as independent contractors… [with] a concession to labor advocates, the initiative offers a wage floor and limited benefits to drivers” (Conger, 2020).  We’ll see if that changes anything.

Case Study Questions: (edited from original text)

  1. Based on Taylor Cox and Stacy Blake’s business case for diversity, what are some positive outcomes that may result in changes to Uber’s leadership team?
  2. Under what form of federal legislation was Fowler protected?
  3. What strategies should have been put in place to help prevent sexual harassment incidents like this from happening in the first place?
  4. Do you believe that diversity and harassment improve when workers are legally classified as employees or independent contractors as this new gig-economy grows?

Guidelines:

This assignment is considered a complete Business Case Study.  Therefore, your report should be written as a formal business report of your analysis.

  • This report should be between 2-4 pages (not including title page and references).
  • Internal references (e.g. textbook, readings, lectures, etc.) and External references (e.g. other published works) should be used to add credibility to your statements.
  • To be professional, always write in a formal style (e.g. using impersonal nouns such as “the team”, “the analysis” and “this project”, while avoiding personal pronouns such as I, we, you, he, she, and they)
  • As this is a real-time analysis, write in the present tense to describe your findings and recommended actions (except when describing past events).
  • Current APA format is required, including title page and reference page
    • Use Headings and Sub-headings as appropriate
    • Exception:  DO NOT include an Abstract or Table of Contents for this short report
    • DO NOT cite your own information (personal or corporate), which is everything provided in the Case Study (if details or data are provided)
    • NU Library resource for APA guidance: https://nu.libguides.com/citations/APA

Sources:

Uber (2017). Corporate Website. https://www.uber.com/newsroom/company-info/

Fowler, S. (2017, Feb 19). Reflecting On One Very, Very Strange Year At Uber. https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2017/2/19/reflecting-on-one-very-strange-year-at-uber

Lien, T. (2017, Jun 6). Uber fires 20 workers after harassment investigation. Los Angeles Times. http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-tn-uber-sexual-harassment-20170606-story.html

della Cava, M. (2017, June 13). Uber has lost market share to Lyft during crisis. USA Today. https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2017/06/13/uber-market-share-customer-image-hit-string-scandals/102795024/

Conger, K. (2020, Nov 4). Uber and Lyft Drivers in California Will Remain Contractors, The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/04/technology/california-uber-lyft-prop-22.html

Assignment: Project 1: Neuroscience’s Most Famous Patient

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Assignment: Project 1: Neuroscience’s Most Famous Patient

 

How are the brain, behavior, and personality connected? Students are to apply what they have learned in Chapter 2 of the textbook, in order to demonstrate their knowledge of the brain regions and their function, utilizing critical thinking and creativity, along with effective communication skills, by developing a PowerPoint presentation about Phineas Gage and his famous brain injury.

For the project, students are to research the brain injury sustained by Phineas Gage to gain a thorough understanding of the nature and consequences of the trauma to the brain. Then they are to create a PowerPoint presentation discussing:

  • Gage’s accident and resulting injury
  • His life before and after the injury
  • An alternate location where the same 1 inch steel rod could have passed entirely through the skull and every section that rod would have impacted
  • How this would have led to a different outcome for Gage, detailing the possible consequences.

 

The PowerPoint should include details of his actual injury and discuss the changes which it caused in his both behavior and life in general. Students must be sure to discuss the neuro-anatomy of the accident, not just the events. That is to say, it is not sufficient to state how the accident came about and where the injury occurred, there also needs to be a discussion of the parts of the brain involved, their function, and how this function is related to the resulting changes in Gage’s life. You should also address how the injury functionally impacted his life both in social and work settings.

 

This should be the same format for discussing the alternate injury as well. The alternate trajectory should be, non-fatal and must be similar to the actual injury (a 1 inch steel rod that passed entirelythrough the brain). The student is to discuss the alternate trajectory, the regions of the brain affected, and the resulting behavioral and lifestyle-related changes expected. Be sure to look at all the regions that would be impacted in the alternate path passing entirely through the brain.

 

Guidelines:

1. The presentation should be no less than ten slides long, excluding references and a title slide, for a total of at least 12 slides.

2. Pictures and illustrations should be included, where needed, and should enhance the content, rather than simply being decorative.

3. The presentation should indicate a strong understanding of neuro-anatomy and the functions of the brain.

4. The presentation should follow APA formatting guidelines, including using a scholarly/formal tone and grammar/spelling conventions. (For powerpoint presentations, this primarily includes properly formatted references and a title slide with all the necessary information you would include in an APA 7th edition Student Paper title page). The slides can be formatted with bullet points or paragraphs. Font should be readable and visually appealing, as well as consistent from slide-to-slide.

5. The presentation should include in-text citations for all factual information from peer-reviewed sources (e.g., academic journals, textbooks) and include a reference page providing information for the cited material. Please note: websites are not acceptable sources for this assignment.

 

Grading:

This presentation is worth a total of 100 points as one of the 2 projects outlined in the syllabus. Please see the rubric attached above in the “view rubric” box for specific grading criteria.

Looking back from 1877

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This is the topic for the essay. Looking back from 1877, examine the: revolutionary changes in human rights and black political participation (1860-77), the change in the role of the West from before the Civil War 1820 to 1877, and two examples of the renewed conflicts in the West.

Here is the direction:
Read and follow them carefully. (1) You will type the essay and send it to me as Word Documents via CANVAS Assignments “Submit Assignment”. I prefer your essay as a Word Doc, but you can also send it as a Google Doc. It should open. (2) Use size 12 font (easy to read like Times Roman), double space, and one-inch margins (top, bottom and sides). No cover sheet. On the top of the document must type your name, HIST 102, class time (3) The essay should be between 5 pages to 6 pages in length depending on the subject. You will be giving examples and explaining, not just mentioning names. I will accept essays that are reasonably longer, like 6 or 7 pages. But a long essay does not mean that it will be an “A” or even “C” grade. What matters most is what you are explaining and how you are explaining it. (4) Introduction, body paragraphs, and conclusion. (5) You should use your spellchecker. Use correct capitalization. I will not grade your style and punctuation on these essays. But I must be able to understand you. Try to be very clear and specific in your explanations. When writing any Spanish or French words, do not worry about accents or special symbols. (6) I want you to use detailed examples even if you feel that you are writing too much or getting wordy. I would rather read more than less. Focus on explaining information. Break it down. Write in organized coherent paragraphs. Remember to give detailed examples after you mention something. Ask yourself whether you should continue explaining with a “, such as,…” or “; for example,…”. If you mention a law, explain it. If you mention an invention, name the inventor and what the invention or development was used for. And be sure to answer the prompt. Do not invent your own question. (7) Use your book, my handouts, and the notes that you took down from my PowerPointed/video lectures. Do not use on-line or any other sources. Also, you do not have to use citations, like for a research paper. Do not include parenthetical references and a works cited page (MLA style). These are not research papers. They are explanatory do-at-home essays.