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Discussion Questions: Discuss the pre-9/11 statutes that required government to notify Americans when it collected private information compared to the post-9/11 statutes? Discuss how the USA Patriot Act expanded wiretapping and surveillance powers and how judicial review decreased. Has information sharing, intelligence oversight, and organizational mechanisms that were put in place after the 9/11 attacks improved? What should be the scope of intelligence collection in a democratic nation?

1. Describe the role that professional health care organizations and societies play in (1) monitoring quality care, (2) disseminating preventative health care measures, and (3) the public’s health care literacy. Select one of the three areas above and discuss established or proposed standards that assist in explaining the role of professional health care organizations and societies. (250+ words and reference)
2. (Radiology, California) Access the Healthy People in Action section of the Healthy People 2020 website. Select State Plans and choose a state (or territory) which has not been selected by a classmate, and access that state’s 2020 Healthy People Plans. Summarize one area in the plan you selected that pertains to allied health care delivery in that state, such as medical sonography, respiratory therapy, radiography, speech pathology, etc. What does the state plan do well? What could be done better, and how so? (250+ words and reference)

After reading the case and the assigned reading material (please carefully read the case and review Section on identity, as well as the supplemental readings, The Role of Culture in Global Teams and The Role of Trust in Global Teams) please prepare written answers (No word/page limit) to the following questions and submit your response via Canvas before class time. We will discuss your responses to the Case in class.
Should Khan take this job? Why or why not?
How do you make sense of the team’s decline?
Can Khan turn this team’s performance around in under two years? (Please be specific)
What strategies can Khan employ to manage the team’s diversity?
If can take this job, what does he do about Lars? (Please be specific)
Note. For each question, please feel free to bring in any outside materials that you find helpful to further strength your response (include links to additional articles or videos).

THIS BELOW IS ONLY TO BE 150 WORDS(DO NOT COMBINE WITH THE OTHER DICUSSION BELOW)
Read Chet’la Sebree’s poem “At a Dinner Party for White (Wo)men” (2015), written in response to Judy Chicago’s Dinner Party. In 150 words, discuss the argument Sebree makes about Chicago’s famous piece in this poem. How does Sebree’s poem deepen our understanding of Chicago’s The Dinner Party? How does The Dinner Party exemplify what we’ve learned about Second Wave “mainstream”/Liberal feminisms? What similarities do you notice between Sebree’s poem and Lorde’s poem “Who Said It Was Simple”?
LINK FOR AT A DINNER PARTY FOR WHITE (WO)MEN:

Featured Poem: Chet’la Sebree

LINK TO WRITTEN IN RESPONSE TO JUDY CHICAGO’S DINNER:
https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/dinner_party/home
LINK TO WHO SAID IT WAS SIMPLE:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42587/who-said-it-was-simple

WRITE THIS ONE SEPERATLEY FROM ABOVE PLEASE!! THIS ONE HAS TO BE A POST WITH 300 WORDS!!
Read “Use of the word “bitch” surged after women’s suffrage” for historical context. https://www.vox.com/21365241/19th-amendment-womens-suffrage-backlash
Read Danez Smith’s essay One Word: Bitch. https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/05/09/one-word-bitch/
Watch the music video for Meredith Brooks’ song “Bitch” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ivt_N2Zcts (1997, 4mins) and this short clip of Brooks talking about the feminist meaning behind the song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMG874zeN84

Referencing at least two pieces of support from the course reading and media within this activity, answer the following questions in using the source above 300 words:
How does the history of the word “bitch” connect to Brooks’ 1997 song?
Does Brooks reclaim the word “bitch” in her song?
Is there something radical or powerful about usage of the term or does it reinforce violent language against women?

RTVF-110 Media and Culture (5 Discussion boards/2 Responses to peers per Discussion Boards)
READ ALL INSTRUCTIONS AND THE MATERIAL SHOULD BE IN FILES.

Discussion Board #1:
Full Discussion board in files.
Link: Bechdel Test —- https://bechdeltest.com

Films:
1. Titanic (Romance/Drama)

2. A Star is Born (Romance/Musical)

3. Mean Girls (Comedy/Teen)

4. Home Alone (Family/Comedy)

5. Scream (Horror)

6. The Avengers (Action/Adventure)

7. Scary Movie (Comedy)

8. The House Bunny (Comedy)

9. Easy A (Comedy)

10. The Conjuring ( Horror)

Writer, Change the films if you want!

Okay. You have a list of 10 films, which I asked for in your first check-in. Please use your list to do the Bechel and Johnson Tests.

Have you heard of the Bechdel Test? It has been around for a while. It is named after Alison Bechdel, the cartoonist and creator of the 90s comic series Dykes to Watch Out For. Although the test started off as a joke, it has become something of a cultural phenomenon.

Here is the original 90s comic featuring what would become the Bechdel Test.

(Pictures in files)

Feminist Frequency did a video explaining the Bechdel Test and used it to look at the 2011 Best Picture Oscar Nominations. The video does a good job of introducing the test and demonstrating how to apply it. So if you are confused or unclear about how to apply the tests, please watch the video. I think Anita Sarkeesian’s suggestion of a 60-second rule is useful, especially for our class, since we are an upper-division course exploring the impact of media, so please incorporate the 60-second rule.

Bechdel Test. Link: https://youtu.be/PH8JuizIXw8

Alaya Dawn Johnson (Link: http://theangryblackwoman.com/2009/09/01/the-bechdel-test-and-race-in-popular-fiction/) who is mentioned in the Feminist Frequency video adapted the Bechdel Test, which only considers gender, to focus on race. Here are the rules of the Johnson Test: 1) The film has 2 people of color in it with names; 2) Who talk to each other; 3) About something other than a white character.

If you are not familiar with the term people of color or POC it is an umbrella term used to include Native Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans, and Latinx Americans. The term has emerged over the last few decades to counter the racism in the language of previous generations, who used terms like “Colored,” “Oriental,” and “Hispanic” to refer to African Americans, Asian Americans, or Latinx Americans. I encourage you to use the term “people of color,” along with other community-identified terms when discussing different racial groups in our course because respect is important and this is an upper-division course! Acknowledging someone’s racial identity is NOT racist. What is racist is when people attach specific meanings to a person’s racial identity. For example, I am white. Acknowledging that I am white or telling your friends that your professor is white does not make you racist. You are simply stating a fact.

I do take points off when folks use dated language around race in this course, especially since I devoted an entire paragraph to explain what certain terms mean and diversity and inclusion are central to the Student Learning Objectives (SLO) for this course. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me!

Foreign & Animated Films

Some of you listed films made outside of Hollywood, which is totally fine. You can still do the Bechdel and Johnson tests on those films. Unfortunately, due to the history of European colonialism, patriarchal gender norms were imposed on cultures and societies across the globe, and those norms continue to have an impact on gender relations today. The same is true when it comes to race. A region’s racial politics and history might be very different than the United States. However, the history and legacy of colonialism can still be felt in preference for folks who are of a lighter complexion.

Anti-blackness is a global phenomenon, again connected to the history and legacy of colonialism and the unequal distribution of power and resources across the globe. While you will probably not need to adapt the Bechdel Test when doing a non-Hollywood film, you might need to consider race a little differently when doing the Johnson Test on a non-Hollywood film. Think about the different ethnic groups who make up the country your film is from and if there is a preference for actors and actresses who are of a lighter skin complexion. Also, consider indigenous groups! Are indigenous groups in the country you are considering treated differently than other ethnic groups who are migrants and/or settlers.

Resources for Going Further With Your Analysis

Here are 3 resources you can use when critically adapting the Johnson test for countries outside of the United States. Racial politics outside the US might be different. However, race still exists!

– Colorism (Link:https://youtu.be/WZsY1kYHT8A)
– Codeswitch a podcast from NPR did an excellent episode titled “Pretty Hurts” aimed at examining the legacy of colonization and imperialism on global beauty standards. (Link: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/689687288 )
– Refinery29 also did a recent video on skin bleaching in the Philippines. Refinery 29 (Link: https://youtu.be/hYTIh2cXfvM)
You can also adapt the Bechdel and Johnson Test to assess animated films since animated films typically gender their characters and use voices associated with different racial and ethnic groups. For example, Wall-E is a film with robots, but Wall-E is clearly gendered as a male in the film, and Eva is made to be female. Both characters also have what we have been conditioned to hear as Anglo-sounding accents. While Wall-E is a great film, with a wonderful environmental message, it fails both the Bechdel and Johnson Tests.

*If you are NOT interested in doing the extra mental work necessary to adapt the Bechdel & Johnson Tests for the foreign and animated films on your list, simply REPLACE the films with Hollywood live-action films!

*****INSTRUCTION: After you run your films through the Bechdel and Johnson Tests, please post your results and complete the following:

1) List your films. Explain if they pass the Bechdel or Johnson Test. Don’t forget the 60-second rule!
2) Write a 700+ word reflection (word count includes list and explanations for films) analyzing the results of the Bechdel and Johnson Tests on your list of 10 films. What patterns around race and gender did the tests reveal about your list? What points (at least 2 please) from Nancy Yuen Wang’s Reel Inequality did you see at work in the films on your list?
3) Introduce yourself and comment on at least 2 people’s lists and results. Try to find people who do not have a comment when you post.

Remember, what you learned from the Idea Channel! “There is no media without politics”. You did not create the films on your list, yet you should notice some patterns in how different groups of people are represented, or not represented, and I would like for you to reflect on the patterns you find and the kinds of unconscious messages films are sending you about gender and race. (LINK: https://youtu.be/O5UVuZmxOvE)
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I am very aware of the critiques written about the Bechdel Test. I still find introducing the test to students a useful first step in thinking about racism and sexism as structural, rather than thinking about racism or sexism as individual acts done by mean or bad people. If you are interested in reading critiques of the Bechdel Test here are a few:

1) Samantha Ellis, “Why the Bechdel Test Doesn’t (Always) Work,” Guardian, 8/20/2016.
LINK: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/womens-blog/2016/aug/20/why-the-bechdel-test-doesnt-always-work

2) Kate Erbland, “Not Every Film Has to Pass the Bechdel Test (And Some Shouldn’t Even Try),” Indiewire, 7/21/2017.
LINK: https://www.indiewire.com/2017/07/films-pass-bechdel-test-dunkirk-their-finest-1201857842/

This essay/post is not about you assessing the usefulness of the Bechdel or Johnson Tests. Instead, the goal is to apply the tests and see how your results corresponding with Nancy Wang Yuen’s more nuanced research and study of Hollywood. A Discussion Post in this course is ALWAYS about applying what you learn in the module, especially from the assigned reading and films covered in the worksheet.

*It is especially important to add in text citations APA Format*
1. Technology plays an important role in health care. Informatics and telemedicine are just two ways that technology is changing the health care delivery system. Health care has made incredible progress towards creating and expanding the use of informatics. What is the role of the health care leader in implementing and integrating informatics into the organizational culture? (250+ words and reference)
2. Refer to Chapter 9(Attached document) of the textbook and identify one potential problem in health care. Use the five-stage model for approaching problem solving by Wheatley. What is the aspect of this situation that you think is most important? What new learning did you experience? Which things get in the way of solutions? How will we work together? (250+ words and reference)

Bivariate regression analysis is an excellent tool to help you answer questions about a business. When you use bivariate analysis, you can discover whether there is a strong correlation between a dependent and an independent variable. As a business consultant, you will probably want to test a hypothesis for cause and effect when you use a scatterplot and a line of best fit, which will show you the strength of the correlation.
In this scenario, you will continue to work as a business consultant trainee with the superstore client. The superstore would like to know which key attributes have an impact on its sales revenue and the number of orders. Your vice president would like you to perform two bivariate regressions to analyze the data. Remember that the superstore is interested in whether specific trends are identified that can help grow its business through improved operations and sales. Then you will write a report for your vice president of operations in which you describe the regression models and the key attributes you chose to analyze. Additionally, you will explain why you chose to analyze those key attributes.
Prompt
Your task is to create two bivariate regressions using Excel. You will also write a short report that describes the regression model you used and why you chose to analyze your selected independent variables.
Perform two bivariate regressions on the data using the Superstore Excel Workbook to complete this step. This workbook contains your work from previous modules. Both bivariate regressions should analyze Sales with the independent variables of your choice.
Create one bivariate regression that is placed within the Bivariate_Regression_1 worksheet
Create one bivariate regression that is placed within the Bivariate_Regression_2 worksheet.
Explain the results of the bivariate regressions. For each bivariate regression performed, address the following:
Why did you choose your selected independent variable?
Explain the regression model used.
Include the key regression output values that include: R2, p value, intercept, and coefficients.
Explain the regression equation performed.
Guidelines for Submission
Superstore Excel Workbook : Submit the Excel workbook. This should include two additional worksheets: Bivariate_Regression_1 and Bivariate_Regression_2.
Short Report : Submit a Word document using double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins. This assignment should be 1 to 2 pages in length. If references are included, they should be cited in APA format. Consult the Shapiro Library APA style guide for more information on citations.

Question 1 is about using moving average and exponential smoothing methods to forecast Global Bike on-time delivery % based on historical data.

Question 2 is about using trendline and regression analysis to analyze Global overhead expenses % based on historical data.

Topic 3 DQ 1 & 2

Please use APA 7 format, references not older than 5 years old. Not introduction or conclusion need it this discussion post. Each page needs a reference.

Topic 3 DQ 1

The first page will be about a problem or issue you may be currently encountering in your volunteer experience and apply the IDEAL problem-solving model. Please check the attached document with Topic one Journal Entry title for this discussion post.

Discuss how you can work to resolve the problem using the IDEAL model. Additionally, reflect on a problem or issue that you encountered in the past. What did you learn from that experience in trying to resolve the problem or issue and how could you have applied the IDEAL problem-solving model to reach an effective resolution?

Topic 3 DQ 2

The second page will be about: Research 2 additional problem-solving strategies and describe how those strategies could benefit you as you encounter problems or issues in your everyday nursing life.

How is alcohol processed by the body? Is there a significant difference between different body types, genders, etc.? Explain.