Write a research paper on the concepts to investigate a specific barrier to equal opportunity involving race and/or ethnicity, and to critically assess efforts made to overcome this barrier.
To explain (with reasons) how decisions made by some of the characters & corporations in The Quiz Show illustrate particular moral theories and principles with emphasis on the dominant moral orientation of the individuals. To explain briefly an ethical dilemma, which arose in your life, or in your viewpoints about an issue. Identify the underlying and possibly conflicting moral principles.
Write a research paper on how streaming changed the music industry and how it making CD, vinyls and stuff go out of business. Like how people rarely buy albums anymore and how they just stream music instead.
Angela’s Story: A Case Study on the Reproductive System
You are a columnist for a popular website that deals with women’s health issues. Visitors to the site can submit their stories and questions through an “Ask the Expert” link on the site. In this scenario, a 26-year-old woman has posted her story and some questions regarding reproductive health.
My name is Angela. I am a 26-year-old married woman with no children. My husband, Doug, and I have been trying to get pregnant for over two years now and my doctor has suggested that I consider fertility drug treatments. The irony of our situation is that I have been taking a birth control pill for five years to prevent getting pregnant, and now my doctor suggests that I take another drug to help me get pregnant.
When I went off birth control, about a year ago, my menstrual cycle became very irregular. I had been taking a birth control drug called Ortho Tri-Cyclen. To be perfectly honest, I don’t understand how it works because my periods were more regular when I was on the pill than when I went off of it. My doctor told me that the pill works because it tricks your body into thinking that it is pregnant. That just confused me even more.
When I looked back on my decision to take birth control pills, I realized that I did not really understand how they work. I just do not want to make that mistake again. Before I consider taking any more drugs, I want to understand more about how they work. The drug we’re looking into is called Clomid. I asked my doctor a bunch of questions, but I still feel confused. I looked up some stuff online when I got home. Here is some information that I learned from a website about how Ortho Tri-Cyclen works:
Estrogen and progestin work in combination to suppress the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal (HPG) axis. This suppression leads to a decrease in the release of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) from the hypothalamus and luteinizing hormone (LH) and follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) from the anterior pituitary. The maturation of the dominant follicle is inhibited under the decreasing levels of FSH and LH. Hormonal contraceptive use also leads to an increase in the viscosity of the cervical mucus, which inhibits sperm penetration and movement through the cervical canal.
I am hoping that you would be able to help me understand how these drugs actually work.
Short Answer Questions:
1. In my research, I found that the levels of “gonadotropins” in the body are critical to understanding how the drugs Clomid and Ortho Tri-Cyclen work. What are gonadotropins? What role do they play infertility?
2. Some of the references talk about how “negative feedback” is involved in understanding how these drugs work. Can you explain what is meant by negative feedback?
3. My doctor told me that birth control pills contain small amounts of estrogen and progesterone, and these hormones prevent me from ovulating. I don’t understand how giving me these hormones in a pill would prevent me from ovulating. I assume that it has something to do with the levels of the gonadotropins that I asked about earlier. Can you explain this to me?
4. In the information about Ortho Tri-Cyclen, it mentions that the hormones in the pill make cervical mucus thicker and stickier. Does this happen during my natural cycle? How are estrogen and progesterone involved in this process?
5. My doctor also explained that birth control pills “trick the body into thinking it is pregnant.” She explained that women do not normally ovulate when they are pregnant. Can you explain to me why a pregnant woman does not ovulate? How is this related to how the birth control pill works?
6. My doctor explained that Clomid works by “tricking the brain into thinking that estrogen levels in the body are low.” She explained that this is what leads to the extra stimulation of the ovaries to encourage eggs to be released. One of the references for Clomid said this happens because there is less negative feedback. Can you explain to me how this “trick” and the decreased negative feedback are related? Why would these factors lead to the stimulation of the ovaries?
7. My doctor told me that if I take Clomid, I would be taking it on days five through nine of my normal menstrual cycle. She explained that this is when it will have the greatest chance of stimulating the ovaries. What is going on during this part of the menstrual cycle that makes it the best time to take this drug?
Read the case study about AT&T Wireless and answer questions based on the case study and class lecture and readings.
Submit your answers in a single document (Word documents only).
Your answers must be in paragraph form, and NOT BULLETS, points shall be subtracted for composition issues.
Questions:
1. Would you classify the CRM upgrade project at AT&T Wireless as an integration project? Why? 2. Which layers of the organization were being integrated? Explain with examples.
3. What were the key business drivers for AT&T Wireless to embark on CRM upgrade project? Why were they critical?
4. Explain the changes that AT&T Wireless was trying to achieve within and outside of the Siebel upgrade project on the following three fronts. Refer to the class discussions on the alignment among strategy, structure, and culture (Weeks 10-13). Analyze and classify the problems faced by AT&T wireless through this perspective.
5. What were the key technological challenges? Explain each of them by relating them to integration concepts learnt in the course.
6. Refer to Lesson 13 readings on risk management and managing/salvaging troubled projects. How was the AT&T project managed from risk management perspective, especially when signs of trouble began to appear? What should they have done differently?
Campaign Problem
1. What is causing the problem? (Causes) Hint: While some of the problems may be practical in
nature also try to identify ones that result of communication and can link to course concepts.
I also expect you to provide outside research to establish the existence of this problem.
2. What are the effects of the problem? (Effects)
Targeted Group
1.Who is at risk? /Who has the means to donate? (At-risk population/target audience)
2. How susceptible are at-risk groups to the health-care threat? /How susceptible is the
target audience to responding to this issue? (Susceptibility)
3. What are the barriers for the at-risk group not protecting itself? / What are the barriers for
the target audience not to respond? (Barriers to Personal Efficacy)
Underlying Campaign Problem
1. What have previous campaigns done?
2. Why have they not been successful? Hint: Your explanation should be based in their failure
to properly use or apply communication theory.
Questions to Consider to Help Your Campaign Overcome These Problems
1. What behavior is recommended to avert the health-care threat? /What behavior is
recommended to get the public to respond?
2. Is the recommended response easy and practical?
3. Do the targeted groups vary in their confidence or ability to enact the recommended
response?
4. What skills must the targeted groups possess to enact the recommended response?
5. How are do you plan to persuade them? Please be specific in your explanation of the
messages you will create. This is one of the most important steps in the campaign.
6. Do your message connect clearly to course concepts and theories? HINT: The biggest factor
in your grade will be how well you can apply communication theory to your campaign. It
needs to be very clear that all of your decisions and ideas were based off of communication
theories and concepts.
7. Why might your campaign work?
Explore specific organization responses to the coronavirus pandemic in the USA and abroad.and choose one organization.
Discuss how professional nursing organizations support the field of nursing and how they advocate for nursing practice. Explain the value professional nursing organizations have in advocacy and activism related to patient care.
Write an essay on Marriage and Family Relations.
Case: “Bad to the Bone” – Synthes pp. 211-213
After reading the case and using the knowledge gained in the chapters, you must analytically address the questions at the end of the case on page 213: Q11, Q12, and Q13.
What information did you glean about the culture at Synthes?
How do you think the culture might be related to the behavior of the company’s
employees?
Johnson & Johnson, a company with a reputation for ethics and social responsibility acquired Synthes.
From an ethical culture perspective, what would you recommend if you were going to try to combine these companies, especially if you wanted to change the ethical culture at Synthes?
Do you think that jail time for the executives was appropriate in this case?
