Category: Applied Sciences

Final Assignment

For your final, you will select an album, a film, or theatrical performance to analyze from the approved list that follows.  This task is similar to the midterm.  However, these are larger works, and your analysis will necessarily be more in-depth.  Like the midterm, this analysis should be your own, unique thoughts and ideas.  Please do not use outside source material for your assignment. 

Your task is to create an informative and visually attractive PowerPoint presentation.  Your PowerPoint is due by Saturday at noon on week 8.  You should post your PowerPoint to the final forum link in Moodle link on our week 8 page.  Your PowerPoint should include the following:

Slide 1:  Include your name and the discipline youre going to focus on (music, theater, cinema).

Slide 2:  Identify the artist, show a clip or visual representation of your selection, and discuss why you find the work inspiring.  Why did you choose it? 

Slide 3:  Give your reader information about the work.  What is it? 

• If its music, is it an album, a symphony, an opera?  What is its form and genreclassical, jazz, fusion, rock, rap? 
• If its a theatrical work, is it a play, a musical, or improv?
• If its cinema, what is its genrenarrative, documentary or absolute?  Is there a more specific sub-genre you can identify?

Slide 4 and 5:  Each of these endeavors has a creative director.  In these slides, you will discuss the choices that those creative directors made.  What are the elements you notice in the work?  What are the moving pieces? How is it put together? 

• If its music, is the piece instrumental, vocal, or a combination?  What instruments are employed?  What is the timber and tone of the piece?  What do you notice about beat, tempo, melody, harmony, texture, and dynamics? 
• If its a theatrical work, what do you notice about theater type, scene, set design, costuming, and lighting?  Are there discernable acts?  How does the plot unfold?  Can you identify the plot elements of complication, reversal, climax, and denouement. 
• It its a film, what do you notice about the mise-en-scene?  What do you notice about the types of shots the director employs?  What do you notice about the editing and the kinds of cuts he/she uses?  Do you see anything interesting or important with lighting? 

Slide 6 and 7: In these slides, discuss how the work stimulates the senses.  In the context of a larger work, like these, this is how all of the individual elements come together to create a whole experience. 

• If its music, how does the composition flow?  How does one song transition to the next?  Does an upbeat tempo lead to a more somber offering?  What is the effect of this juxtaposition?  Is there a message to the album, opera, or symphony?  What is that message?  What does the artist/composer want you to know or understand?  How can you tell?  What aspects of the composition contribute to this idea?
• If its a theatrical work, how does one act move to the next?  Is the production theatrical in nature or realistic and life like?  Does the actors do a good job revealing each characters motivations?  What do you notice about the mood in the work?  Can you identify a place where the mood changes in the work?  What causes this change?  It is lighting, or dialogue, or staging?  What message do you think the playwright wanted to send?  How can you tell?  What aspects of the production contribute to this idea?
• If its a film, consider the story.  How does the story unfold?  Consider the camera work and the different editing decisions.  What message do you think the director wants to send this film?  How do you know?  What shots contribute to this message?  What images help send this message?  How does editing convey this idea?  What do you notice about lighting or sound that helps send this message?

Slide 8: What is the overall experience of the work?  How does it make you feel?  Rate the work on a scale of 1 to 5 stars, five stars being the best.  What aspect did you find enjoyable?  What aspects were less so?  Would you recommend it to a friend?

Remember, this is a final assignment, so its heavily weighted.  Please devote an appropriate amount of time and effort to this task.  You will be graded on the content of each slide, the imagery on your slides, and the conventions of your text.  Please refer to the rubric for more detail. 

You MUST choose from this list.  If you want to analyze a different work, you MUST ask for approval from your professor no later than Week 6.

Musical Albums:

The Beatles                        The White Album (1968) 

Pink Floyd                           Dark Side of the Moon (1973)

Bob Marley                         Legend (1984)

Madonna                            Like a Virgin (1984)

Public Enemy                      It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (1988)         

Pearl Jam                           Ten (1991)

Nirvana                               Nevermind (1991)

Cranberries                         No Need to Argue (1994)

The Notorious BIG               Life After Death (1997)

Radiohead                           OK Computer (1997)

Beyonce                             Lemonade (2016)

Justin Timberlake                Man of the Woods (2018)

Symphony:

Tchaikovsky                        Swan Lake

Vivaldi                                Four Seasons

Opera:

Mozart                                 The Magic Flute (1791)

Mozart                                 The Marriage of Figaro (1786)

Johann Strauss II                  Die fledermaus (1874)

Movies:

Psycho (1960)   

The Shawshank Redemption (1994)  

Pulp Fiction (1994)

Fargo (1996)

Gladiator (2000)  

Moulin Rouge! (2001)  

Collateral (2004)  

The Prizewinner of Defiance, Ohio (2005)

Carol (2015)

La La Land (2016)

The Shape of Water (2017)

Get Out (2017)  

Theatre:

Rent  

Death of a Salesman

West Side Story

Fences

Cabaret  

Due 1/8  8 p.m EST

Be on time, Original work

400 words not including title & ref page min 3 APA

 

You may use several types of variables during your statistical analysis. Some of those variables can only be collected as categorical variables, such as gender and race, as they require fixed responses. Others, however, can be collected as either continuous or categorical variables based on the researchers preferences. For example, one researcher may record age as a continuous variable in years or months, whereas another may record age as categorical variables such as <40, 4065, >65. Age categories can vary from one study to another. Depending on the researchers preference, you have to decide either in the data collection stage or during the analysis how age should be used.

For this weeks Discussion, select two categorical variables from the data sets to answer the Discussion questions. Consider why the researchers may have chosen to make them categorical variables and decide if you would have made the same classification.

Post a brief description of the two categorical variables you selected from the database. Then, explain why you believe the variables were created as categorical variables instead of continuous variables. Finally, explain if you believe this is a correct classification for this study and why. Support your response with  current literature.

 

You have been selected as the Team Lead for your department. Management has asked you for a report on the following topics. Research each topic and summarize in an executive summary. Cite your sources in an appendix on the last page of your document.

Make sure that your research has information from at least 2 sources other than your textbook.

• The role of managers and technology
• Ways to improve healthcare outcomes and reduce cost through new technology
• Deficiencies in clinical use of technology
• Technology and medical errors
• Concentration on profit margins

Below are general types of ANOVA designs we will be reading about in this module. The differences in methodology are based on experimental design:

1. One-Way Between-Subjects or Within-Subjects Design
2. Two-Way Between-Subjects Factorial Design

We discussed the pros and cons of one-way between-subjects ANOVA and one-way within-subjects ANOVA in Module 6. Use some of those facts discussed in that last discussion and debate the advantages and disadvantages of one-way ANOVA designs vs two-way factorial ANOVA designs with your classmates. Summarize the advantages and disadvantages of each from a statistical and practical perspective, and provide a real-world example of an experiment and design for the two-way factorial ANOVA.

Use your real-world example to explain in detail, how the example you provided fits the design selected for that example (two-way between-subjects factorial design). Make sure to discuss your:

• Experimental design
• Sample size
• Number of variables
• Number of levels for each variable
• Possible interactions between variable

 

You have been selected as the Team Lead for your department. Management has asked you for a report on the following topics. Research each topic and summarize in an executive summary. Cite your sources in an appendix on the last page of your document.

Make sure that your research has information from at least 2 sources other than your textbook.

• 1.The role of managers and technology
• 2.Ways to improve healthcare outcomes and reduce cost through new technology
• 3.Deficiencies in clinical use of technology
• 4.Technology and medical errors
• 5.Concentration on profit margins

Your appendix should be APA formatted and your work should be free from grammatical errors.

 

Module 01 Written Assignment – Company Analysis

Scoring Rubric:

Criteria

Weight

Each topic is addressed-45

Additional research has been performed-45

APA formatting and free of grammatical errors-10

Total

100

To begin, review your work in the course, including your final healthcare marketing and communication plan, and prepare a 3- to 4-slide presentation that addresses the following:

1. Summarize the key ideas from your final healthcare marketing and communication plan.
2. Select what you feel are the best elements from the plan and briefly discuss them. Also discuss any challenges you encountered as you developed your plan.
3. Discuss the ethical considerations you included as you executed the plan.

Note: You may use PowerPoint or a comparable program to complete your presentation. For assistance, refer to the PowerPoint tutorials. After clicking the link, log in using your SNHU credentials, click the Search icon in the top navigation, and search for PowerPoint. View the tutorials for the version you are using.

Use the Speaker Notes to elaborate on your responses, and upload your presentation to this discussion.

Attached is the final healthcare marketing and communication plan for reference.

Complete ignoring the fact that when runescape players appreciate their time so highly they will clearly be annoyed since they spent irl money/bonds, that someone was able to achieve exactly the same thing half the time as them. Runescape players putting a high value on their time could just as easily be used as a reason for why they should not market”time savers”. It leaves me scratching my mind if they give these kinds of statements, I’ve accepted it and I have been maxed to the better part of 10 years although I don’t really care about mtx anymore.

As somebody who doesn’t buy secrets, I’m not especially bothered by the whole”individuals are accomplishing the same thing in Xpercent of the time” element of it. The way I’ve always seen it, my accomplishments are my very own. I live in my lane, provided what other men and women do is not affecting me, they could remain in theirs for all I care.It’s the admission that there’s monetary value in minimizing the amount of time spent playing runescape that bothers me. It screwed up to pay a company for the privilege of not playing. Particularly since, if it’s suggesting that runescape is overly grindy for contemporary tastes, they could actually fix that rather than charging the nose out for a solution to this “issue”.

It affects the econemy and as a result you and every other runescape player also. If a runescape participant requires half the amount of resources to get the same quantity of exp subsequently the money making process you’d has only become half as valuable.That’s accurate for Artisan skills, but by precisely the same logic Gathering skills are equally valuable because runescape players only have to assemble half of these to advance, meaning there’s less of these on the industry. Therefore, strictly in concept (though perhaps not in training ), it must balance out.

Your achievements are your ONLY if you’re a loner with no sense of competitiveness, a solo runescape player that only plays runescape to unlock content, treating it as a gameplay that is linear. This is many aspects of this MMO have died. People used to hold competitions, there was clan cups for skilling, pvp and pvm involving clans and large groups competing with each other. Most runescape players have been immortalized simply because of their amazing feats and accomplishments that were for all to see on the hiscores. Of course that means nothing but it was rather popular and also a motive to play runescape for a whole lot of runescape players, a lot more than the runescape playerbase.

 

Assess the causes and consequences of historical events on the U.S. healthcare system.

Scenario

You are the Director of Education in your healthcare organization. Your organization is a teaching hospital, and you are responsible for presenting information to new employees and volunteers during their orientation, many of whom are recent graduates of healthcare programs. This presentation is used to give them a better understanding of why the healthcare system is the way it is today, including a summary of historical events that have shaped the U.S. healthcare system, so that they understand the causes and consequences of these events.

Instructions

Create a timeline for the historical events that have shaped the U.S. healthcare system in the past century. Once the timeline has been developed, create a PowerPoint presentation using the record audio feature to add Voiceover narration.

The timeline information should include:

• A minimum of 20 events with a minimum of a three sentence description for each event.
• Descriptions should list at least one cause as to why the event took place and at least one consequence it had on the U.S. healthcare delivery system.

The voiceover PowerPoint presentation should:

• Include the timeline information for the historical events that have shaped the U.S. healthcare system in the past century.
• Describe the events in detail included in the timeline to your audience of new employees and volunteers who are graduates of healthcare programs (e.g., nurses, medical assisting, health information management, medical school residency, etc.).
• Explain the cause(s) and consequences of each of the events outlined in your timeline.
• Have a minimum of 20 slides (not including title and APA reference slides).
• Be at least 10 minutes long.
• Be visually appealing and engaging to the suggested audience.

Resources

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Explain how each of the three sociological paradigms views gender.  Provide an example for each.

What is the difference between Medicaid and Medicare?  How do you think they help (or hurt) existing health disparities?  What are your thoughts on universal healthcare?

What is disengagement theory?  In what tradition is it written?  Provide two examples of disengagement theory.

Part Two- Due 1/8/2020 Please refer back to the capstone project paper for topic as this will be reflected back. This is a continuation. This assignment comprises two sections: a preliminary literature review and an action item checklist.  Preliminary Literature Review:

1. Contains a minimum of 10 scholarly, peer-reviewed research articles.
2. Each article needs to be thoroughly summarized. The summary must describe the relevance of the article, and how the research findings support the action you are proposing in your capstone project.
3. Each article summary needs to include a research design and methods section.
4. The capstone project requires a comprehensive literature review that includes a minimum of 25 articles; 10 article summaries will be written in HCA-620 and can be applied in HCA-699.

Action Item Checklist:The Action Item Checklist should include specific future steps required to complete your capstone project as well as expected completion dates.Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.This assignment uses a grading rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.