This document summarizes an article about celebrity bodies and the influence of Hollywood on body image. It discusses how many celebrities promote an unrealistic thin ideal through crash diets and extreme exercise routines. Some celebrities like Kate Winslet and Mischa Barton have spoken out against this unhealthy aesthetic. The document also notes that while some teenagers seek to emulate extremely thin celebrities, most Americans are actually overweight or obese. It argues that Hollywood celebrities have little direct influence on the public's health behaviors and body sizes.
The document discusses how teenage girls are increasingly influenced by celebrity culture and the sexualized images portrayed in media. It focuses on the MTV reality show The Hills, which depicts an aspirational lifestyle of wealth, beauty, and status. The show is argued to cultivate consumerism and distorted perceptions of reality among its young female audience, promoting the idea that attaining celebrity levels of beauty, fashion, and wealth will lead to happiness. Researchers have found that heavy television viewers tend to share perceptions cultivated by what they watch frequently.
The document discusses how teenage girls are increasingly influenced by celebrity culture and the sexualized images portrayed in media. It focuses on the MTV reality show The Hills, which depicts an aspirational lifestyle of wealth, beauty, and status. The show is argued to cultivate consumerism and distorted perceptions of reality among its young female audience, promoting the idea that attaining celebrity levels of beauty, fashion, and wealth will lead to happiness. Researchers have found that heavy television viewers tend to share perceptions cultivated by what they watch frequently.
Victoria's Secret faced criticism for an advertising campaign featuring impossibly thin models. A petition against the campaign garnered over 27,000 signatures arguing it promoted unhealthy body standards. In response, Victoria's Secret changed their slogan to "a body for every body" and began featuring a more diverse range of models. However, critics argue the underlying issues around representing unrealistic body ideals were not fully addressed.
A 19-year-old girl named Nisreen Mansour al Forgani admits to executing 11 suspected rebel prisoners on orders from Colonel Gaddafi in the days before Tripoli fell. She claims she was forced to carry out the killings under duress and was also sexually abused by senior military figures. Nisreen is now shackled to a hospital bed awaiting an uncertain fate, as rebels are angry about her confessed crimes but doctors believe she acted under coercion.
Medical Ethics Essay. Medical Ethics Essay QuestionsMorgan Daniels
This essay discusses three major problems with the American education system today: lack of funding, overemphasis on standardized testing, and outdated teaching methods. It argues that underfunding has led to large class sizes and outdated materials. An overreliance on standardized tests has caused schools to narrow their focus only on test subjects at the expense of arts, critical thinking skills. Traditional lecture-based teaching is not engaging modern students accustomed to technology.
The American education system faces several significant challenges. One major problem is a lack of adequate funding for public schools. Underfunding has led to large class sizes, outdated textbooks and materials, and cuts to programs like arts and
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The document discusses the concept of courtly love in Don Quixote and Don Cervantes. It compares and contrasts the portrayal of courtly love in Dante's Inferno and Purgatory versus Cervantes' work. Specifically, it analyzes the idealization of the lady, the inaccessibility of the lady, and the hero's journey to reach his lady. Overall, the document argues that Dante's version is a more convincing portrayal of courtly love, as his character Dante emerges transformed through the process of trying to reach his beloved Beatrice.
Bull fighting was banned in Catalonia in 2011. Bull fighting involves a matador fighting a bull in an arena. Supporters argue it is a cultural tradition and important economically, while opponents argue it is inhumane and promotes cruelty. Banning bull fighting could negatively impact the economy and cultural identity for some, while supporters of the ban argue it reduces animal cruelty and moves society in a more modern direction. There are reasonable perspectives on both sides of the issue.
Bull fighting was banned in Catalonia in 2011. Bull fighting involves a matador fighting a bull in an arena. Supporters argue it is an art form and cultural tradition, while opponents argue it is cruel and should be banned. Banning bull fighting could negatively impact the economy and those whose livelihoods depend on it, but could also prevent animal cruelty and the risks matadors face in the ring. There is no consensus on whether bull fighting should continue or be banned elsewhere in Spain.
The document discusses how teenage girls are increasingly influenced by celebrity culture and the sexualized images portrayed in media. It focuses on the MTV reality show The Hills, which depicts an aspirational lifestyle of wealth, beauty, and status. The show is argued to cultivate consumerism and distorted perceptions of reality among its young female audience, promoting the idea that attaining celebrity levels of beauty, fashion, and wealth will lead to happiness. Researchers have found that heavy television viewers tend to share perceptions cultivated by what they watch frequently.
The document discusses how teenage girls are increasingly influenced by celebrity culture and the sexualized images portrayed in media. It focuses on the MTV reality show The Hills, which depicts an aspirational lifestyle of wealth, beauty, and status. The show is argued to cultivate consumerism and distorted perceptions of reality among its young female audience, promoting the idea that attaining celebrity levels of beauty, fashion, and wealth will lead to happiness. Researchers have found that heavy television viewers tend to share perceptions cultivated by what they watch frequently.
Victoria's Secret faced criticism for an advertising campaign featuring impossibly thin models. A petition against the campaign garnered over 27,000 signatures arguing it promoted unhealthy body standards. In response, Victoria's Secret changed their slogan to "a body for every body" and began featuring a more diverse range of models. However, critics argue the underlying issues around representing unrealistic body ideals were not fully addressed.
A 19-year-old girl named Nisreen Mansour al Forgani admits to executing 11 suspected rebel prisoners on orders from Colonel Gaddafi in the days before Tripoli fell. She claims she was forced to carry out the killings under duress and was also sexually abused by senior military figures. Nisreen is now shackled to a hospital bed awaiting an uncertain fate, as rebels are angry about her confessed crimes but doctors believe she acted under coercion.
Medical Ethics Essay. Medical Ethics Essay QuestionsMorgan Daniels
This essay discusses three major problems with the American education system today: lack of funding, overemphasis on standardized testing, and outdated teaching methods. It argues that underfunding has led to large class sizes and outdated materials. An overreliance on standardized tests has caused schools to narrow their focus only on test subjects at the expense of arts, critical thinking skills. Traditional lecture-based teaching is not engaging modern students accustomed to technology.
The American education system faces several significant challenges. One major problem is a lack of adequate funding for public schools. Underfunding has led to large class sizes, outdated textbooks and materials, and cuts to programs like arts and
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The document discusses the concept of courtly love in Don Quixote and Don Cervantes. It compares and contrasts the portrayal of courtly love in Dante's Inferno and Purgatory versus Cervantes' work. Specifically, it analyzes the idealization of the lady, the inaccessibility of the lady, and the hero's journey to reach his lady. Overall, the document argues that Dante's version is a more convincing portrayal of courtly love, as his character Dante emerges transformed through the process of trying to reach his beloved Beatrice.
Bull fighting was banned in Catalonia in 2011. Bull fighting involves a matador fighting a bull in an arena. Supporters argue it is a cultural tradition and important economically, while opponents argue it is inhumane and promotes cruelty. Banning bull fighting could negatively impact the economy and cultural identity for some, while supporters of the ban argue it reduces animal cruelty and moves society in a more modern direction. There are reasonable perspectives on both sides of the issue.
Bull fighting was banned in Catalonia in 2011. Bull fighting involves a matador fighting a bull in an arena. Supporters argue it is an art form and cultural tradition, while opponents argue it is cruel and should be banned. Banning bull fighting could negatively impact the economy and those whose livelihoods depend on it, but could also prevent animal cruelty and the risks matadors face in the ring. There is no consensus on whether bull fighting should continue or be banned elsewhere in Spain.
The document discusses how the fashion industry promotes extremely thin body images that negatively impact young girls' self-esteem and mental health by encouraging unhealthy dieting and potentially leading to eating disorders. It notes that as early as age 9, girls feel pressure to emulate thin fashion models. While some actresses and organizations are now promoting positive body image, the fashion industry continues to predominantly feature underweight models. The author relates their own experience with developing anorexia nervosa from attempting to achieve an ideal ballerina body type after being influenced by media images. Overall, the document argues the fashion industry should be more responsible for the mental health consequences of the body images it promotes.
What will future generations condemn us forBy Kwame Anthony App.docxalanfhall8953
What will future generations condemn us for?
By Kwame Anthony Appiah
Sunday, September 26, 2010; B01
Once, pretty much everywhere, beating your wife and children was regarded as
a father's duty, homosexuality was a hanging offense, and waterboarding was
approved -- in fact, invented -- by the Catholic Church. Through the middle of
the 19th century, the United States and other nations in the Americas condoned
plantation slavery. Many of our grandparents were born in states where women
were forbidden to vote. And well into the 20th century, lynch mobs in this
country stripped, tortured, hanged and burned human beings at picnics.
Looking back at such horrors, it is easy to ask: What were people thinking?
Yet, the chances are that our own descendants will ask the same question, with
the same incomprehension, about some of our practices today.
Is there a way to guess which ones? After all, not every disputed institution or
practice is destined to be discredited. And it can be hard to distinguish in real
time between movements, such as abolition, that will come to represent moral
common sense and those, such as prohibition, that will come to seem quaint or
misguided. Recall the book-burners of Boston's old Watch and Ward Society or
the organizations for the suppression of vice, with their crusades against claret,
contraceptives and sexually candid novels.
Still, a look at the past suggests three signs that a particular practice is destined
for future condemnation.
First, people have already heard the arguments against the practice. The case
against slavery didn't emerge in a blinding moment of moral clarity, for
instance; it had been around for centuries.
Second, defenders of the custom tend not to offer moral counterarguments but
instead invoke tradition, human nature or necessity. (As in, "We've always had
slaves, and how could we grow cotton without them?")
And third, supporters engage in what one might call strategic ignorance,
avoiding truths that might force them to face the evils in which they're
complicit. Those who ate the sugar or wore the cotton that the slaves grew
simply didn't think about what made those goods possible. That's why
abolitionists sought to direct attention toward the conditions of the Middle
Passage, through detailed illustrations of slave ships and horrifying stories of
the suffering below decks.
With these signs in mind, here are four contenders for future moral
condemnation.
Our prison system
We already know that the massive waste of life in our prisons is morally
troubling; those who defend the conditions of incarceration usually do so in
non-moral terms (citing costs or the administrative difficulty of reforms); and
we're inclined to avert our eyes from the details. Check, check and check.
Roughly 1 percent of adults in this country are incarcerated. We have 4 percent
of the world's population but 25 percent of its prisoners. No other nation has as
large a proportion of its population in prison; even China's rate i.
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Concert Setting
Date of Concert:
March 3, 2020
Place of Concert:
Shea Center for Performing Arts-William Paterson University
Name of group(s) performing:
Brian McCarthy Nonet
– “The Better Angels of our Nature”
Briefly describe the concert setting (hall, performers’ dress).
Auditorium held up to possibly 500 people, maybe about 50 people attended
Group wore Black and Dark Gray Suits
Were concert programs provided? _
X
_ yes ___ no. If yes, attach a copy.
Were program notes provided? _
X
_ yes ___ no.
Were there any spoken remarks about the concert? ___ yes _
X
_ no.
Could you follow the order of the concert? _
X
_ yes ___ no.
Were there any aspects of concert conventions that surprise you? _______________N/A
Concert Music
Which genres of music were performed (such as symphony or sonata)? Jazz inspired music
Did you read about any of the works performed? _x_ yes ___ no.
If yes, where? _
X
_
program notes ___textbook ___ outside reading
Were any of the works programmatic (with literary or pictorial associations)? __ yes __x_ no.
What historical eras were represented on the program?
___ pre-1600 ___Baroque _
X
_ Classical __ Romantic __x_ 20th century
Choose two works from the program. Name the composer, the work, and the movement (if applicable), and compare the works in the following outline.
FIRST WORK
Composer: ___
McCarthy
______
Title: ___
Shiloh
_____
Movement
or Section: ___
unsure
Melody: ___
low to high beat no melody no one in band sings
Rhythm/
Meter: ___
triple
____________
Texture: ___
homophonic
______
Tempo:
Andantino (slightly faster than adequate)
Dynamics: ___
soft at opening piano and saxophone,
____
__
slow and steady, picks up beat, slows back then, feel the sadness
Instruments: Saxophones, trumpet, piano, bass, drums
Mood: __
sad, soft, quiet
_________
Other: ___________________
SECOND WORK
Composer: ___
McCarthy
______
Title: __
Battle Cry of Freedom
Movement
or Section: unsure
Melody: low due to bass – then other instruments chime in beat picks up faster
Rhythm/
Meter: ___
duple
____________
Texture: ___
homophonic
______
Tempo: starts Grave (slow and solemn) picks up Allegreto (moderately fast)
Dynamics: __pianissimo (soft)
Instruments: Saxophones, trumpet, piano, bass, drums
Mood: __
relaxed, uplifting
_________
Other: ___________________
What was your overall reaction to the concert?
__ enjoyed it a lot
_x__ enjoyed it somewhat
___ did not enjoy it much
___ did not enjoy it at all
What did you like about it? I enjoyed some of the music, my favorite was Brian McCarthy’s piece “Shiloh” it was sad but, you could actually feel the sadness as if you almost experienced what was transpiring in the civil war era
What did you not like about it? Overall, I like it but, there were cert.
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What are the attributes of the learning organization and how does it align (or support) the complex adaptive healthcare system? What leadership styles are inherent in learning organizations that may not be totally supported in a traditional organizational culture?
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The document discusses the inhumane conditions factory farmed chickens are subjected to from birth. It describes chickens being born coated in animal waste, barely able to stand or flap their wings due to selective breeding for meat that has caused leg deformities. The chickens have also been heavily dosed with antibiotics and growth hormones, radically changing their appearance from just 40-50 years ago.
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Be sure to read the reading assignment in your text first!
Read the following chapters from the textbook,
Gardner’s Art through the Ages: The Western Perspective, Volume II
:
Modernism in Europe and America, 1900 to 1945
Modernism and Postmodernism in Europe and America, 1945 to 1980
Contemporary Art Worldwide
By the due date assigned
, respond to the assigned discussion questions and submit your responses to the appropriate
Discussion Area
. Start reviewing and responding to your classmates as early in the week as possible.
Question 1: The Painting of Modern Life
The late nineteenth century is often cited as a critical point in the development of a “modern” art. Impressionists and Post-Impressionists turned to the contemporary world as primary subject matter, and depicted elements of that world using an innovative style.
Carefully examine the following paintings:
Monet,
Rouen Cathedral: The Portal (In Sun)
, 1894, (Fig. 28-4, page 853, or
Khan Academy
) (Impressionist)
Manet,
Bar at the Folies-Bergère
, 1881-82 (Fig. 28-8, page 857, or
Khan Academy
) (Pre-Impressionist/Realist)
Seurat,
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
, c. 1884-86 (Fig. 28-18, page 863, or
Khan Academy
) (Post-Impressionist)
In 3 well-developed paragraphs, address the following questions:
How is the subject of each painting representative of Impressionism or Post-Impressionism? Which style is your artwork? (See above). Define that style. What are the characteristics of that style? What do the Impressionists paint?
How are the style and visual characteristics of each painting representative of Impressionism or Post-Impressionism? Be sure to discuss specific elements such as brushwork/application of paint, use of color and light, and composition, in your response.
Describe the specific ways that each painting shows tension between its inherent two-dimensionality and any illusion of three-dimensionality created by the artist. Do the Impressionists and Post-Impressionist care about the illusion of space in their paintings? What elements are they foregoing that artists use to depict realistic space--what about linear perspective? Light? etc. How does each artist handle the illusion of dimension in their painting?
Question 2: Modern And Contemporary Art
Modern and Contemporary Art may seem alien to many people— seemingly without content, message, or purpose. But it can be argued that Modern and Contemporary (Contemporary = OUR time period) Art visually reflect the complex and abstract ideas that we experience every day. Although not for everyone, art of the 20th and 21st centuries is often a key part of the collection in many art museums. As you consider the wide range of modern and contemporary art types that we studied this week, think of yourself actually visiting a modern art museum. In 2 well-developed paragraphs discuss:
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Be sure to write complete sentences, double space, set one-inch margins, and use Times Roman 12-point font. Aim for about one-and-a half to two pages for each of your answers.
1. Russia made substantial economic, social, and political progress between 1861 and 1914. Why, then, did the tsarist government collapse so suddenly in February/March* 1917 and be replaced by a Provisional (temporary) Government? Why were the Bolsheviks (soon to call themselves Communists) under Lenin able to overthrow the Provisional Government in October/November of that year, and why did they win the subsequent Russian Civil War (1918-1921)? What kind of leader was Stalin, and how did he change Lenin’s policies?
*Remember: the Russian used the old Julian calendar until February 1918, when the Communists adopted the Gregorian calendar. The Julian calendar was thirteen days behind the Gregorian calendar in the 20th century.
2. What is imperialism? Explain four reasons for the unprecedented European expansion into Africa and Asia during the period 1870-1914. What effects did imperialism have, first, for Europeans and second, for native populations in Africa and Asia? How did people in China and India eventually respond to European imperialism?
3. Discuss the causes of the Great War (World War I) and the reasons for the Allies’ victory. Was any one nation more responsible than others for the war? Why was France so determined to punish Germany after the war? Was the punishment just?
4. What circumstances were conducive to the rise of dictatorships and the decline of democracies between 1918 and 1939, particularly in Italy and Germany? What made German Nazism and Italian Fascism such aggressive ideologies?
5. Various writers have suggested that the twentieth century’s World Wars in their European contexts were in fact civil wars between competing ideologies, one representing progressive ideas and values that originated in the Enlightenment, and the other, the antithesis of progressive ideas and values. Discuss.
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BC Chemistry 162 Laboratory Manual Experiment 6 Vapor Press.docxrosemaryralphs52525
BC Chemistry 162 Laboratory Manual
Experiment 6: Vapor Pressure of Liquids
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Experiment 6: Vapor Pressure of Liquids
Background
Liquids contain molecules that have different kinetic energies (due to different velocities). Some of the
faster liquid molecules have enough kinetic energy to vaporize. At the same time, some of the slower
vapor molecules condense into liquid. In an open container, the rate of vaporization will be greater than
the rate of condensation—hence, the liquid will eventually evaporate. In a sealed flask, however, there
will be a point in which equilibrium is reached between the rate of vaporization and the rate of
condensation. To the eye, it seems that the liquid doesn’t change at equilibrium. But at the microscopic
level a vapor molecule enters the liquid phase for every liquid molecule that enters the gas phase.
The total pressure in the sealed flask is due to the vaporized liquid plus air molecules present in the flask:
Ptotal = Pvapor + Pair (1)
In this experiment, you will investigate the relationship between
the vapor pressure of a liquid and its temperature. Pressure and
temperature data will be collected using a gas pressure sensor and
a temperature probe (Figure 1). Vapor pressures will be
determined by subtracting atmospheric pressure from the total
pressure.
The flask will be placed in water baths of different temperatures to
determine the effect of temperature on vapor pressure. You will
measure the vapor pressure of methanol and ethanol and
determine the enthalpy (heat) of vaporization for each liquid.
Objectives
In this experiment, you will
Investigate the relationship between the vapor pressure of a liquid and its temperature.
Compare the vapor pressure of two different liquids at the same temperature.
Use pressure‐temperature data and the Clausius‐Clapeyron equation to determine the heat of
vaporization for each liquid.
Caution!
The alcohols used in this experiment are flammable and poisonous. Avoid inhaling their vapors. Avoid
contacting them with your skin or clothing. Be sure there are no open flames in the lab during this
experiment. Notify your teacher immediately if an accident occurs.
Procedure
1. Wear goggles! You will work in pairs for this lab, but you may share water baths with your table.
2. Prepare four water baths: 20 to 25°C (use room temperature water), 30 to 35°C, 40 to 45°C, and 50 to
55°C. You should also have some hot water on a hot plate on reserve.
3. Obtain a temperature probe and gas pressure sensor. The sensor comes with a
rubber‐stopper assembly (Figure 2). The stopper has three holes, one of which
is closed. Make sure your tubing and valve are not inserted in the closed hole.
Insert the rubber‐stopper assembly into a 125 mL Erlenmeyer flask.
Important: Twist the stopper into the neck of the flask to ensure a tight
fit.
Figure 1
Figure 2
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BCO127 Applied Management Statistics Task brief
BCO127 Applied Management Statistics
Assignment: The assignment is worth 40% of your marks for this subject.
Deadline and submission: Your assignment must be submitted via Turnitin on Moodle before 23:59 on Sunday 10th May 2020.
Word count: Your work is individual and should be uploaded in Moodle using Turnitin. Avoid any “copy-paste” practice to prevent possible problems of plagiarism.
Title: Built on the acquired theoretical and practical knowledge of the second part of the semester you are required to solve the following problems:
You must provide an explanation of your results in all your answers.
1) (15%) For Applied Management Statistics class you want to know how college students feel
about the transportation system in Barcelona.
a) What is the population in this study?
b) What type of sample would you use and why?
2) (25%) A manager of an e-commerce company would like to determine average delivery time of the products. A sample of 25 customers is taken. The average delivery time in the sample was four days with a standard deviation of 1.2 days. Suppose the delivery times are normally distributed.
a) Provide a 95 % confidence interval for the mean delivery time.
b) The manager claims that the average delivery time of their products does not exceed 3 days. Write the null and alternative hypothesis regarding to the claim of the manager.
c) Test the manager’s claim at 95 % confidence level.
d) Write the conclusion of your result
3) (15%) For an effective parental skill study, a researcher asked: How many hours do your kids watch the television during a typical week in Barcelona? The mean of 100 Kids (ages 6-11) spend about 28 hours a week in front of the TV. Suppose the study follows a normal distribution with standard deviation 5.
a) Estimate the mean of all kids (ages 6-11) in Barcelona, using 99% confidence interval. (show all the calculations)
b) Write the conclusion of your result
4) (25%) A regression analysis has been conducted between the annual income (in 1000 euros) and the work experience (in years) of people with 0.05 significance level. The results are summarized below.
a) Define the independent and dependent variables. What can you say about the correlation between them.
BCO127 Applied Management Statistics Task brief
b) Interpret R Square.
c) Write the regression model and interpret the coefficients.
d) Estimate the average annual income of a person who has 15 years of work experience.
Summary
Table 1.
Regression Statistics
Multiple R
0,93
R Square
0,86
Adjusted R Square
0,82
Standard Error
2,11
Observations
6
Table 2.
df
SS
MS
F
Significance F
Regression
1
107,603
107,603
24,276
0,008
Residual
4
17,730
4,432
Total
5
125,333
Table 3.
Coefficients
Standard Error
t stat
p value
Lower 95%
Upper 95%
Intercept
17,351
3,160
5,491
0,005
8,577
26,12.
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BCOM - Carr
Crisis Communication Project
Carr
The Scenario:
In 2008, during the midst of a huge financial crisis, Chrysler CEO Bob Nardelli announced that the company would have to lay off up to 25% of the company’s work force. If you do some research online, you’ll find the terrible press and publicity that the company received regarding how they handled the situation.
For this project, you will imagine that you are a part of the crisis communications team at Chrysler. Your team has been charged with all communications related to the layoffs.
You must develop a coordinated company response to the crisis in twoparts:
1. First, you must review, revise and improve the actual letter that Nardelli sent to Chrysler’s employees (following the guidelines in the textbook for delivering bad news). You can find the letter by clicking on the link below:
(https://www.autoblog.com/2008/10/24/bob-nardelli-to-employees-we-want-a-25-cut-of-white-collar-job/)
Nardelli gave you very specific instructions for the revisions to the employee letter:
a. Use the indirect approach for the letter. He wants to open the letter with a better buffer and transition into the bad news.
b. Make the entire letter more audience-centered/”you-centered.”
c. Respond with more specific information in the letter to some of the potential questions and
concerns the employees might have.
d. Improve the tone to seem more positive and hopeful and less formal and distant.
2. Next, you must also create a brief, one-page memo to the Chrysler Board of Directors regarding the company’s layoffs.
Nardelli gave you very specific instructions regarding the Board memo:
a. Use the direct approach in the Board memo.
b. Use a very professional and formal tone in the Board memo.
c. Communicate clearly and concisely to instill the Board’s confidence in his leadership and ability to manage the crisis.
d. Use bullet points to lay out a specific plan, timeline and path forward for the company.
Remember that each of these messages needs to be adapted to a specific audience, and they should NOT be identical.
MAXIMUM POINTS
GRADING CRITERIA
20
Organization & design
· Appropriate design/format
· Information is relevant and in logical order
· Use of white space
· Use of font style and size
· overall attractiveness of document
20
Coherence & clarity
· appropriate level of specificity
· Clear transitions throughout the document
· Clarity of content in message
· Conciseness
20
Paragraphs & sentences
· appropriate length
· void of spelling, grammar and typographical errors
20
Style of document
· Appropriate tone
· Appropriate Word choice
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· Each message is adapted to specific audience needs
· fulfills purpose of assignment
· overall effectiveness of messages
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Battleground Medical Center is requiring that all Departments participate in the creation of a Coronavirus Preparedness Plan.
a. Your Role: Release of Information (ROI) Manager
b. Your Task: Create a plan to address social distancing for the HIM frontline of ROI.
c. Your Task: Provide an update of recent changes in HIPAA regulations in response to Covid-19. Use various online and media sources such as daily Illinois Department of Public Health’s daily briefs, incorporate statistical data for the State of Illinois and reference any new code sets.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/icd/ICD-10-CM-Official-Coding-Gudance-Interim-Advice-coronavirus-feb-20-2020.pdf
APA format please include references
1-2 pages
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Basic concept and system disorder assignment.
This a research which is not in a form of essay but templates detailing all the areas that need to be worked on. Cite source in APA format. Four pages including title page and reference.
An example: Basic concept is mobility and system disorder will be fractured hip.
Renal failure basic concept and systems disorder.
1.Complete the three areas of the basic concept template describing this concept in detail.
Under basic concept talk about the related content (delegation, levels of prevention, advanced directives) underlying principles and nursing intervention (who, when, how why).
Complete an analysis reviewing how the selected concept and systems disorder is related.
2.Complete all areas of the systems disorder template.
Talk about alterations in health (diagnosis), Pathophysiology relating to the patient, health promotion and disease prevention.
Assessment: risk factors, expected findings, lab test, safety consideration and diagnostic procedures.
Patient centered care: nursing care, medication, patient education, complications, therapeutic procedures, interprofessional care.
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Based upon your research from this topic, propose a set of security guidelines for your corporation.
Ensure that you cover all aspects of security, including physical access, logon access, appropriate usage, malware prevention/detection, auditing, and systems updates and patching. Policy templates are available from SANS.org.
Submit a 500- to 750-word document including bullet/numbered lists as appropriate to the instructor.
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BASIC SAMPLE COVER LETTER
Your Street Address BLOCK SYLE-Your City, State Zip all sections
left-aligned
Date
Name of Recipient
Title
Company
NOTE: formal business letters should have margins of
at least one inch around the entire page. These
reduced-size examples do not necessarily illustrate
that practice. Address
Dear Name of Recipient:
I N I T I A L P A RA G R A P H : State the reason for the letter, the specific position or type of work for which you are applying,
and indicate from which resource (i.e., Career Services Center, news media, friend, employment service) you learned of the
opening. Some examples include:
I am writing to express my interest in the position of _______________.
Your advertisement in the ____________ for a ______________seems to perfectly match my background and
experience.
I am writing to you at the recommendation of ____________________.
In response to your job posting for a __________ on your company’s website, I have attached my resume for your
consideration.
If you are seeking a talented, motivated salesperson for your outside sales team, I believe my skills and background
are a good match for your organization.
S E C O N D P AR A G R A P H : Indicate why you are interested in the position, the company, its products or services.
Demonstrate that you have researched the organization by stating something about their mission, latest products, business
ventures, etc. State clearly what you can do for the employer. If you are a recent graduate, explain how your academic
background makes you a well-qualified candidate. If you have some practical work experience, point out your specific
achievements or unique qualifications. Try not to repeat the same information the reader will find in your resume. Refer the
reader to the enclosed resume or application form which summarizes your qualifications, training and experience. Sell yourself!
Convey enthusiasm! Some examples include:
My qualifications for the position include . . .
I believe my background in . . .
I have experience/education in the field of . . .
T H I R D P A RA G R A P H : In the closing paragraph, indicate your desire for a personal interview and your flexibility as to the
time and place. Repeat your telephone number in the letter and offer any assistance to help in a speedy response. Finally,
close your letter with a statement or question which will encourage a response. For example, state that you will be in the
city where the company is located on a certain date and would like to set up an interview.
Some examples include:
I look forward to discussing my qualifications with you further in person . . .
Should you be interested in my qualifications . . .
The sample cover letters inc.
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Basic Bookkeeping – Level 1
F I N A L E X A M
V4.0 CU07-08-FEB07
PRACTICAL EXAM ANSWER SHEETS
No. of Pages to this Answer Sheet Section:
Name:
Student Number:
Location:
Date:
Total available marks from Practical Exam Questions: 60
The Online Exam is made up of 50 multiple choice and/or True or False questions.
Each question is worth 2 marks. Of the 50 questions, 30 are directly related to the
information you will enter on the Answer Sheets during the Practical portion of the
Final Exam.
Use the following Journals, Ledgers, and Trial Balance sheets for all your entries. Pay
close attention to the highlighted/shaded areas throughout the Answer Sheets because
the Online Exam contains questions related specifically to these highlighted/shaded
areas. All Answer Sheets must be completed prior to beginning the Online Exam.
Follow the instructions in the Final Exam, and remember to check your work carefully.
Basic Bookkeeping – Level 1
A
nsw
er Sheets-2
XY Consumer Products
SALES JOURNAL SJ01
Date Cust. Acc Rec Sales PST GST Pay. General Ledger
2003 Customer No. Dr. Cr. Cr. Cr. Acc. #
1020 4000 2075 2081
Dr. Cr.
TOTAL
Exam
Answ
er Sheets
A
nsw
er Sheets-3
XY Consumer Products
PURCHASES JOURNAL PJ01
Date
Vendor Acc Pay Purchases GST ITC
Travel
& Ent.
Office
Supplies
General Ledger
2003 Vendor No. Cr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Acc. # Dr. Cr.
2010 5000 2080 6050 6060
TOTAL
Basic Bookkeeping – Level 1
A
nsw
er Sheets-4
XY Consumer Products
CASH DISBURSEMENTS JOURNAL CD01
Date
Bank A/P Purchases Purchase Discounts
GST
Receiv.
GST
Payable
General
Ledger
2003 Cr. Dr. Dr. Cr. Dr. Cr.
Vendor Name /
Description
Check
No.
Vendor
No.
1010 2010 5000 5020 2080 2081
Acc.
#
Dr. Cr.
TOTAL
Exam
Answ
er Sheets
A
nsw
er Sheets-5
XY Consumer Products
CASH RECEIPTS JOURNAL CR01
Date
Bank A/R Sales PST Payable
GST
Receiv.
GST
Payable
Sales
Discounts
General
Ledger
2003 Dr. Cr. Cr. Cr. Dr. Cr. Dr. Dr. Cr.
Customer Name /
Description of Receipt
Cust.
No.
1010 1020 4000 2075 2080 2081 4020
Acc.
#
TOTAL
Basic Bookkeeping – Level 1
A
nsw
er Sheets-6
XY Consumer Products
PAYROLL JOURNAL PRJ01
Gross Pay Deductions Net Pay
Salaries and Wages
Fed.
Inc. Tax
Prov.
Inc. Tax CPP EI
Health
Care Total
Payroll
Clearing
Dr. Cr. Cr. Cr. Cr. Cr. Cr. Date
2003 Employee Name
Ee.
# 6010 2060 2063 2055 2050 2068 2085
TOTAL
Exam Answer Sheets Answers Sheets-7
XY Consumer Products
PAYROLL LEDGER
Employee: Phil Arnett Address: 26 Baker St. East
EmpNo.
: A001
Phone: (519) 667-3467 London, ON Cl.Code: 6
Start Date: 01/04/95 N6A 4U6 Perio.
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auto- attendant
800 words
INTRO:
Business phone systems
Auto- Attendant also known as IVR (interactive voice response)
Understanding auto- attendant to help benefit your business
Add Statistic
SECTION 1: What is Auto- Attendant
Auto- attendant is also known as digital receptionist (link)
Auto- attendant or automated attendant a term commonly used in telephony to describe a voice menu system, which allows callers to be transferred to an extension without going through a telephone operator or receptionist.
Essentially auto- attendant answers incoming calls and redirects to appropriate extensions
SECTION 2: How Auto-Attendant Benefits your Business
Auto- Attendant features: incoming call answer and greeting messages, call transfer and routing option prompts, general business information announcements, automated company directory lookup of users, system menu- repeat, exit, operator prompts.
The necessity of auto- attendant for any business with incoming calls
The best practices regarding auto-attendant: charting out the entire call flow, using professional voice talents, stage inbound callers to departments with on hold messaging features.
Discuss costs
CONCLUSION:
Content about product and call to action
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d) Estimate the average annual income of a person who has 15 years of work experience.
Summary
Table 1.
Regression Statistics
Multiple R
0,93
R Square
0,86
Adjusted R Square
0,82
Standard Error
2,11
Observations
6
Table 2.
df
SS
MS
F
Significance F
Regression
1
107,603
107,603
24,276
0,008
Residual
4
17,730
4,432
Total
5
125,333
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Coefficients
Standard Error
t stat
p value
Lower 95%
Upper 95%
Intercept
17,351
3,160
5,491
0,005
8,577
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Under basic concept talk about the related content (delegation, levels of prevention, advanced directives) underlying principles and nursing intervention (who, when, how why).
Complete an analysis reviewing how the selected concept and systems disorder is related.
2.Complete all areas of the systems disorder template.
Talk about alterations in health (diagnosis), Pathophysiology relating to the patient, health promotion and disease prevention.
Assessment: risk factors, expected findings, lab test, safety consideration and diagnostic procedures.
Patient centered care: nursing care, medication, patient education, complications, therapeutic procedures, interprofessional care.
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Ensure that you cover all aspects of security, including physical access, logon access, appropriate usage, malware prevention/detection, auditing, and systems updates and patching. Policy templates are available from SANS.org.
Submit a 500- to 750-word document including bullet/numbered lists as appropriate to the instructor.
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BASIC SAMPLE COVER LETTER
Your Street Address BLOCK SYLE-Your City, State Zip all sections
left-aligned
Date
Name of Recipient
Title
Company
NOTE: formal business letters should have margins of
at least one inch around the entire page. These
reduced-size examples do not necessarily illustrate
that practice. Address
Dear Name of Recipient:
I N I T I A L P A RA G R A P H : State the reason for the letter, the specific position or type of work for which you are applying,
and indicate from which resource (i.e., Career Services Center, news media, friend, employment service) you learned of the
opening. Some examples include:
I am writing to express my interest in the position of _______________.
Your advertisement in the ____________ for a ______________seems to perfectly match my background and
experience.
I am writing to you at the recommendation of ____________________.
In response to your job posting for a __________ on your company’s website, I have attached my resume for your
consideration.
If you are seeking a talented, motivated salesperson for your outside sales team, I believe my skills and background
are a good match for your organization.
S E C O N D P AR A G R A P H : Indicate why you are interested in the position, the company, its products or services.
Demonstrate that you have researched the organization by stating something about their mission, latest products, business
ventures, etc. State clearly what you can do for the employer. If you are a recent graduate, explain how your academic
background makes you a well-qualified candidate. If you have some practical work experience, point out your specific
achievements or unique qualifications. Try not to repeat the same information the reader will find in your resume. Refer the
reader to the enclosed resume or application form which summarizes your qualifications, training and experience. Sell yourself!
Convey enthusiasm! Some examples include:
My qualifications for the position include . . .
I believe my background in . . .
I have experience/education in the field of . . .
T H I R D P A RA G R A P H : In the closing paragraph, indicate your desire for a personal interview and your flexibility as to the
time and place. Repeat your telephone number in the letter and offer any assistance to help in a speedy response. Finally,
close your letter with a statement or question which will encourage a response. For example, state that you will be in the
city where the company is located on a certain date and would like to set up an interview.
Some examples include:
I look forward to discussing my qualifications with you further in person . . .
Should you be interested in my qualifications . . .
The sample cover letters inc.
Basic Bookkeeping – Level 1 F I N A L E X A M V4.0 CU07.docxrosemaryralphs52525
Basic Bookkeeping – Level 1
F I N A L E X A M
V4.0 CU07-08-FEB07
PRACTICAL EXAM ANSWER SHEETS
No. of Pages to this Answer Sheet Section:
Name:
Student Number:
Location:
Date:
Total available marks from Practical Exam Questions: 60
The Online Exam is made up of 50 multiple choice and/or True or False questions.
Each question is worth 2 marks. Of the 50 questions, 30 are directly related to the
information you will enter on the Answer Sheets during the Practical portion of the
Final Exam.
Use the following Journals, Ledgers, and Trial Balance sheets for all your entries. Pay
close attention to the highlighted/shaded areas throughout the Answer Sheets because
the Online Exam contains questions related specifically to these highlighted/shaded
areas. All Answer Sheets must be completed prior to beginning the Online Exam.
Follow the instructions in the Final Exam, and remember to check your work carefully.
Basic Bookkeeping – Level 1
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XY Consumer Products
SALES JOURNAL SJ01
Date Cust. Acc Rec Sales PST GST Pay. General Ledger
2003 Customer No. Dr. Cr. Cr. Cr. Acc. #
1020 4000 2075 2081
Dr. Cr.
TOTAL
Exam
Answ
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XY Consumer Products
PURCHASES JOURNAL PJ01
Date
Vendor Acc Pay Purchases GST ITC
Travel
& Ent.
Office
Supplies
General Ledger
2003 Vendor No. Cr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Acc. # Dr. Cr.
2010 5000 2080 6050 6060
TOTAL
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XY Consumer Products
CASH DISBURSEMENTS JOURNAL CD01
Date
Bank A/P Purchases Purchase Discounts
GST
Receiv.
GST
Payable
General
Ledger
2003 Cr. Dr. Dr. Cr. Dr. Cr.
Vendor Name /
Description
Check
No.
Vendor
No.
1010 2010 5000 5020 2080 2081
Acc.
#
Dr. Cr.
TOTAL
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CASH RECEIPTS JOURNAL CR01
Date
Bank A/R Sales PST Payable
GST
Receiv.
GST
Payable
Sales
Discounts
General
Ledger
2003 Dr. Cr. Cr. Cr. Dr. Cr. Dr. Dr. Cr.
Customer Name /
Description of Receipt
Cust.
No.
1010 1020 4000 2075 2080 2081 4020
Acc.
#
TOTAL
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XY Consumer Products
PAYROLL JOURNAL PRJ01
Gross Pay Deductions Net Pay
Salaries and Wages
Fed.
Inc. Tax
Prov.
Inc. Tax CPP EI
Health
Care Total
Payroll
Clearing
Dr. Cr. Cr. Cr. Cr. Cr. Cr. Date
2003 Employee Name
Ee.
# 6010 2060 2063 2055 2050 2068 2085
TOTAL
Exam Answer Sheets Answers Sheets-7
XY Consumer Products
PAYROLL LEDGER
Employee: Phil Arnett Address: 26 Baker St. East
EmpNo.
: A001
Phone: (519) 667-3467 London, ON Cl.Code: 6
Start Date: 01/04/95 N6A 4U6 Perio.
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Basically, answer any and all case questions you like. Format preference is Arial 10 font, 1.5 spacing. There's no need to repeat the case questions; just answer them.
Try to fill up one complete page with your analysis (target a word count of 500 or more). Sometimes the case will be too short and you will not be able to do this easily. Still, try to write all you can.
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auto- attendant 800 wordsINTRO Business phone system.docxrosemaryralphs52525
auto- attendant
800 words
INTRO:
Business phone systems
Auto- Attendant also known as IVR (interactive voice response)
Understanding auto- attendant to help benefit your business
Add Statistic
SECTION 1: What is Auto- Attendant
Auto- attendant is also known as digital receptionist (link)
Auto- attendant or automated attendant a term commonly used in telephony to describe a voice menu system, which allows callers to be transferred to an extension without going through a telephone operator or receptionist.
Essentially auto- attendant answers incoming calls and redirects to appropriate extensions
SECTION 2: How Auto-Attendant Benefits your Business
Auto- Attendant features: incoming call answer and greeting messages, call transfer and routing option prompts, general business information announcements, automated company directory lookup of users, system menu- repeat, exit, operator prompts.
The necessity of auto- attendant for any business with incoming calls
The best practices regarding auto-attendant: charting out the entire call flow, using professional voice talents, stage inbound callers to departments with on hold messaging features.
Discuss costs
CONCLUSION:
Content about product and call to action
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Based on your research, what is negligent security300 Word Discus.docxrosemaryralphs52525
Negligent security refers to the failure of a private security company or organization to use reasonable care to protect individuals from foreseeable harm. This can include a lack of proper training, screening, or supervision of security officers that results in harm to others. Security companies can be found liable for negligence if injuries are caused by inadequate security practices, such as an improperly trained officer conducting an unlawful search or arrest. While security companies argue that extensive training is too costly, failure to provide proper training can result in costly civil lawsuits if negligence is found. Adequate screening of employees during the hiring process is also important to avoid negligent hiring claims.
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Securing IoT Devices: What are the Challenges?Security practitioners suggest that key IoT security steps include:
1) Make people aware that there is a threat to security;2) Design a technical solution to reduce security vulnerabilities;3) Align the legal and regulatory frameworks; and4) Develop a workforce with the skills to handle IoT security.
Final Assignment - Project Plan (Deliverables):
Address each of the FOUR IoT security steps listed above in terms of IoT devices.
Explain in detail, in a step-by-step guide, how to make people more aware of the problems associated with the use of IoT devices.
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Attached Files:
IT Governance at University of the Southeast
University of the Southeast 25 was (and still is) one of the largest universities in the United States. It had been growing rapidly; that growth was spurred, in part, by information technology. The university embraced lecture capture technologies that allowed lectures to be streamed to students in a classroom, in dorm rooms, on the grass near the main campus central fountain, and at a variety of other places of the students’ choosing whenever they chose to watch. This made it possible to have sections of classes with over 1,000 students without having to build physical classrooms with enough seats to accommodate each person enrolled. It also made it possible to offer classes that were streamed to students at remote campuses. Each student was charged a technology fee (i.e., $5.16 for undergraduates and $13.85 for graduates per credit hour each semester), which was administered by the Information Technologies and Resources (IT&R) Office to help fund the costs of providing IT to students and faculty.IT&R was responsible for providing computer services, technologies, and telecommunications across the campus (Computer Services and Technology), helping faculty with their instructional delivery and multimedia support (Office of Instructional Resources), helping faculty develop and deliver Web‐based and lecture capture courses (Center for Distributed Learning), and the library. The IT&R Office developed IT‐related policies with very little input from the faculty and was responsible for deciding and implementing decisions concerning IT architecture and infrastructure. IT&R worked with the university president and other top administrators in making IT investment decisions. IT&R staff also worked with the various colleges, administrative offices, and an advisory board in making decisions about applications that needed to be developed. However, faculty were not consulted at all when the lecture capture system was selected. As was often the case at large universities, many decision rights on a wide range of issues had been allocated to the colleges.
The College of Business Administration had its own server and Technology Support Department (TSD). A recent survey of faculty and staff in the college indicated a high level of satisfaction with the TSD but far less satisfaction with the services provided by the university‐level IT&R. Some college respondents indicated their displeasure about IT&R’ s support of the technology for the lecture capture courses, help desk, and classroom technologies. The problems with the technology support for lecture capture software were particularly troublesome. The software would not authenticate students who had paid to enroll in some lecture capture courses, making it impossible for them to download the lectures even though they were registered in the course. Further, some university‐affiliated housing did not have adequate network bandwidth to allow students .
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Walmart Business+ and Spark Good for Nonprofits.pdfTechSoup
"Learn about all the ways Walmart supports nonprofit organizations.
You will hear from Liz Willett, the Head of Nonprofits, and hear about what Walmart is doing to help nonprofits, including Walmart Business and Spark Good. Walmart Business+ is a new offer for nonprofits that offers discounts and also streamlines nonprofits order and expense tracking, saving time and money.
The webinar may also give some examples on how nonprofits can best leverage Walmart Business+.
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LAND USE LAND COVER AND NDVI OF MIRZAPUR DISTRICT, UPRAHUL
This Dissertation explores the particular circumstances of Mirzapur, a region located in the
core of India. Mirzapur, with its varied terrains and abundant biodiversity, offers an optimal
environment for investigating the changes in vegetation cover dynamics. Our study utilizes
advanced technologies such as GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and Remote sensing to
analyze the transformations that have taken place over the course of a decade.
The complex relationship between human activities and the environment has been the focus
of extensive research and worry. As the global community grapples with swift urbanization,
population expansion, and economic progress, the effects on natural ecosystems are becoming
more evident. A crucial element of this impact is the alteration of vegetation cover, which plays a
significant role in maintaining the ecological equilibrium of our planet.Land serves as the foundation for all human activities and provides the necessary materials for
these activities. As the most crucial natural resource, its utilization by humans results in different
'Land uses,' which are determined by both human activities and the physical characteristics of the
land.
The utilization of land is impacted by human needs and environmental factors. In countries
like India, rapid population growth and the emphasis on extensive resource exploitation can lead
to significant land degradation, adversely affecting the region's land cover.
Therefore, human intervention has significantly influenced land use patterns over many
centuries, evolving its structure over time and space. In the present era, these changes have
accelerated due to factors such as agriculture and urbanization. Information regarding land use and
cover is essential for various planning and management tasks related to the Earth's surface,
providing crucial environmental data for scientific, resource management, policy purposes, and
diverse human activities.
Accurate understanding of land use and cover is imperative for the development planning
of any area. Consequently, a wide range of professionals, including earth system scientists, land
and water managers, and urban planners, are interested in obtaining data on land use and cover
changes, conversion trends, and other related patterns. The spatial dimensions of land use and
cover support policymakers and scientists in making well-informed decisions, as alterations in
these patterns indicate shifts in economic and social conditions. Monitoring such changes with the
help of Advanced technologies like Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems is
crucial for coordinated efforts across different administrative levels. Advanced technologies like
Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems
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Changes in vegetation cover refer to variations in the distribution, composition, and overall
structure of plant communities across different temporal and spatial scales. These changes can
occur natural.
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1. AUTHOR:
DANIEL HARRIS
TITLE:
Celebrity Bodies
SOURCE:
Southwest Review 93 no1 135-44 2008
COPYRIGHT:
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Just months after the fatal heart attacks of two Uruguayan
fashion models, one of whom collapsed within seconds after
stepping off the runway, having eaten nothing but lettuce leaves
in the months preceding her death, Titanic star Kate Winslet
announced that she is suing Giazia magazine for slander. The
British tabloid accused her of undergoing a crash diet at a fat
farm in Santa Monica, a claim that the 5' 8", 119-130-pound
actress categorically denies, and with good reason, since she is
by most estimates, despite her well-founded reputation of
having one of the healthier appetites in Hollywood, already
between fifteen to twenty pounds underweight. She is famous
for banning fashion magazines from her house lest her seven-
year-old daughter fall prey to their anorexic aesthetic, a
sentiment with which her countryman, the 5'9", 120-pound
Mischa Barton, herself anywhere from twenty to forty pounds
underweight, heartily agrees, stating that "the unhealthy look
should be abandoned" and "it's wrong to try to stifle womanly
curves." The rail-thin actress has, however, done a remarkable
job in quelling her own and is considered by some to look
sickly and malnourished, a charge she dismisses, summing up
2. her philosophy of dieting in the reassuring assertion that "I
don't not eat anything." Others are more candid. Kate Bosworth
was recently spotted at an expensive Hollywood restaurant
openly dining on cigarettes, bottled water, and -- the main
course -- a wedge of iceberg lettuce, a repast as frugal as former
model Cleo Glyde's green grape diet: three for breakfast, two
for snacks, and six for binges. The typical American woman is
5'4", weighs r40 pounds, and wears a size T4; the typical
fashion model is seven inches taller, twenty-three pounds
lighter, and twelve to fourteen sizes smaller. In an msn photo
essay about the fluctuating weights of Hollywood actors, an
alarming shot of "Men in Black" star Lara Flynn Boyle is
captioned with the snide but accurate comment "the jewelry she
was wearing weighed more than she did,"
while a sickly photo of Selma Blair shows the "Legally Blonde"
star looking "so slim she could seek cover behind the nearest
swizzle stick." Teri Hatcher continues to flaunt the gams of a
sub-Saharan famine victim while Calista Flockhart shocked the
nation at the 1998 Emmys by wearing a backless gown that
turned her spindly frame into a ghoulish anatomy lesson,, an
annotated diagram of frail scapulae and jutting vertebrae. Few
men are aroused by these stylishly accessorized carcasses, but
their lack of sex appeal is what makes the new Hollywood
aesthetic unique. It has been almost entirely detached from the
biological function of beauty, that of attracting males. It is a
man-made aesthetic, or, rather, a woman-made aesthetic, since
the desire of men for voluptuous childbearing hips and
pendulous breasts seems all but irrelevant to its look. Feminists
have long complained that the so-called "beauty myth" consists
entirely of male lust, of men looking at women as potential sex
objects, subservient to their selfish demands. In fact, however,
Hollywood is about women looking at women, not as sex
objects, as a means for fulfilling the species's genetic mission,
but as clothes hangers, as display mannequins for product lines.
Men and their needs are entirely beside the point, which is why
3. the aesthetic is so sterile, so sexless, because it has freed the
female body from male desire, liberated it from its biological
status as an organ of sex, which has given way to the
commercial view of it as a wearer of commodities, a pretty face
stuck on a stick. In many respects, the recent marriage of
anorexia and glamour represents the final dehumanization of
women who were once reduced to their bodies, objectified as
tools for propagation, but have now been deprived of their
corporeality altogether. A vision of the female body dictated by
male desire would be far healthier and more attractive than one
dictated by the imperatives of the closet, by
manufacturerswhoseprimaryconcernisshowingofftheirgoodstobe
steffect. How much influence does this aesthetic have on the
general public? Such well-known personalities as the withered
Nicole Richie or the cadaverous Victoria "Posh" Beckham,
a.k.a. "Skeletal Spice," are often cited as the chief culprits
behind the epidemic of eating disorders among the young but
the fact remains that, while as many as one hundred thousand
teenage girls suffer from excessive dieting, two out of three
Americans are overweight and an estimated sixty million, or 20
percent of the population, are obese. Are Hollywood and the
fashion world responsible for our ever-increasing girth or is the
effect of our obsession with what many have dubbed "the rich
and famished" as open to debate as the influence of television
violence and the Xbox on
actual crime statistics? Does Lindsay Lohan's waspish waistline
make us skip meals and induce vomiting just as Mortal Kombat
presumably makes us pick up assault rifles and open fire? How
direct is the impact of Hollywood on our bodies, as direct as the
Daily Minor recently suggested when it ran a photograph of an
emaciated Keira Knightley next to the headhne "If Pictures Like
This One of Keira Carried a Health Warning, My Darling
Daughter Might Have Lived"? If many adolescents seek
"thinspiration" from such desiccated waifs as Jessica Alba, who
has admitted to being on a diet since age twelve, or Elisa
4. Donovan, who dwindled to a mere 90 pounds after eating
nothing but coffee, water, and toast for two years, the majority
of Americans seem to be following the lead of reformed
foodaholic Tom Arnold who, until he began taking the diet aid
Xenical, regularly splurged on McDonald's and then hid his
half-dozen Big Macs and Quarter Pounders from his equally
gluttonous wife Roseanne, not out of shame, but because he
didn't want to share. What is dangerous about the influence of
popular culture on our state of physical health is not how
slavishly we imitate the stars, attempting to acquire Hilary
Swank's lats, Jennifer Lopez's glutes, and Beyoncé's quads, but
how little they affect us at all, how they have turned us into
quiescent spectators who worship an unattainable ideal so
remote from our daily affairs that its exemplars seem to belong
to another species. Celebrities are like athletes, a class of
surrogates who live vigorous, aerobic lives while we develop
diabetes and arteriosclerosis on our sofas. Hollywood didn't
create fat, anxious Americans; fat, anxious Americans created
Hollywood, a vision of humanity that bears little resemblance to
the typical dissipated physique, sagging from too many
processed foods and sedentary hours watching lithe beauties
cavort in haute couture. Fantasy worlds, like those inhabited by
celebrities, are never fashioned in the image of the dreamer.
The dreamer imagines an existence as unlike his own as
possible and is content to admire this world from afar, not as a
possible destination but as a wonderland all the more enticing
the more unapproachable and exclusionary. Our fantasies
engender a paralyzing awe that instills in us despair, a sense of
hopelessness about maintaining our bodies, about achieving the
buff perfection of stars spoon-fed by studio dieticians who force
them to nibble on rice cakes and celery sticks and submit to
grueling regimens of Pilates and kickboxing. In fact, we would
almost certainly be healthier if we did imitate Hollywood, if we
did work out and diet as compulsively as they do, if, like
supermodel Dayle Haddon, we performed leg lifts while
washing the dishes, side bends while standing in line at
5. Starbucks, and thigh resistance exercises in the
elevatorsoffour-starhotels. We blame pop culture for turning us
into diet-crazed bulimics but how can celebrities be "role
models." however derelict, when almost no one seems to imitate
them, when we get fatter even as they get skinnier, exercise less
even as they train like triathletes? Granted, we are preoccupied
with celebrities, follow the evolution of their hair styles, take
tours past the gates of their estates, make wild surmises about
their sexual preferences, but obsession does not necessarily, or
even usually, entail imitation. This does not keep us, however,
from penalizing them with an unjust double standard, insisting
that, in the name of public hygiene, they maintain scrupulously
healthy diets, drink abstemiously, engage in unerringly faithful
relations with their spouses, and indignantly turn down film
roles in which they are asked to participate in such iniquitous
activities as smoking. Never before have we demanded that
popular culture be as virtuous as we have in the last forty years,
that our stars, in the mistaken belief that they manufacture the
moral templates of our lives, beat their breasts in remorse and
enroll in rehab every time they fail a breathalyzer test, stumble
on the red carpet, or light a cigarette in public. The anti-tobacco
Web site Smokingsides.com provides exhaustive documentation
of celebrated nicotine abusers; in its lengthy dossier on Nicole
Kidman, for example, it cites no less than seventy-eight
instances in which the actress was observed puffing away in full
view of her fans, in particular at the infamous press conference
at Cannes in 2003 in which, in an image broadcast around the
world, she bummed a cigarette from a fellow actor, a faux pas
that provoked such a vicious international backlash that an
Australian senator threatened to slap parental advisories on
films that depicted nicotine consumption favorably. We
ourselves smoke like chimneys, drink like fish, swear like
troopers, and copulate like rabbits, but those in Hollywood are
expected to behave with unglamorous rectitude lest their
misconduct deprave their malleable fans. We have moralized
6. popular culture into one long tedious sermon, created a parallel
universe far more chaste, more decorous, more modest and
seemly than the one in which most of us
live.
In the distant past, actors and artists occupied a seedy if
alluring demimonde, a realm of license and nonconformity that
flourished on the fringes of respectable society. Far from being
role models, they were black sheep, bohemians high on cocaine
and drunk on absinthe. Now, by contrast, we expect them to be
the
pillars of our society, moral leaders who scold us for the errors
of our ways, elder statesmen we draft into the roles of goodwill
ambassadors for the United Nations, environmentalists, and
spokesmen for such causes as gingivitis, erectile dysfunction,
and irritable bowel syndrome. A paucity of conventional heroes
has led to the invention of an implausible new set of mentors --
a nascar mom, like race car driver Shawna Robinson, who feels
that, behind the wheel of her souped-up Chevrolet Monte Carlo,
she is able "to reach a lot of people," or even a golfer, such as
Tiger Woods, whom Rolemodel.net singles out as an
inspirational figure, a champion who triumphed over racial
prejudice on the links and transformed his sport from a senile
pastime for retirees in madras pants into "a vehicle... to
influence people." Celebrities are rapidly filling the roles that
priests, politicians, and wealthy philanthropists once served,
perhaps because, as the church is rocked by molestation
scandals and the government seems less and less capable of
addressing the difficulties of our times, we are transferring
moral authority to the only public servants that remain: pop
singers, Hollywood stars, and the casts ofourfavoritesitcoms.
We admire them and yet at the same time distrust them. We are
always ill at ease with beautiful people who, through no special
effort of their own, get better jobs, more friends, and sexier
lovers, but it is seldom that we encounter them in groups as
7. large as we do on the idyllic Wisteria Lane in "Desperate
Housewives," a latter- day Peyton Place in which the entire cast
-- gardeners, pharmacists, plumbers, cable repairmen -- is
gorgeous. Beautiful people in real life are scattered randomly
throughout the population and it is statistically impossible that
they should ever constitute more than a tiny, un threatening
minority. And yet with the international dissemination of
American popular culture, they have triumphed over the
statistical odds and done something they could never have done
before the twentieth century: they have overcome their
geographic dispersal, gravitated together, and emerged as a
power elite, a physical aristocracy whose seat of government is
one major vs. city where they migrate at the invitation of
directors, producers, talent scouts, and casting agents who scour
the globe in search of the perfect photogenic face. For the first
time in history, our daily lives are filled with images of a real
live ubermensch, a master race that flaunts the unfair privileges
accorded to those whose talents are often little more than cheek
bones and good genes. There have always been aristocracies,
privileged classes whose social prestige derived from their
material wealth or pedigree, but there has never been a
Brahmin caste whose sole justification for power was its
physical appeal. This unelected coalition of the sexually
charismatic may not, like an actual government, regulate our
daily affairs in any literal sense, but it does exercise autocratic
authority over our imaginations, making us capitulate
psychologically if not politically.
We seek to contain the influence of this new master race, to
alleviate the sense of belittlement we experience from living in
the shadow of its inconceivable affluence and glamour. Western
culture affords us many ways of denigrating the beautiful,
branding them stupid, egotistic, lonely, and unhappy, and our
constant, self-abasing surveillance of their every move, our
prurient eavesdropping on their private lives, from their sex
tapes to the messages they leave on each other's answering
8. machines, may itself be a method of diminishing their
psychological power. Much as Louis XIV used Versailles as a
glittering cage to imprison restive nobles, so we have
surrounded our idols with an impregnable phalanx of flashbulbs,
herding them together in Hollywood, forcing them to live in a
kind of internment camp, albeit one with all of the amenities of
a spa. The paparazzi, in turn, have become our watch dogs who
never let them out of our sight, staking out their gyms, grocery
stores, and nightclubs where they are forced to submit to our
mean-spirited and yet, at the same time, obsequious espionage.
We think of fame as a form of homage, the adulation we lavish
on the gifted, but it may contain a large measure of resentment
and vengefulness as well. Living in the limelight, exposed to
the scrutiny of anonymous multitudes, may be a method of
punishment, a concerted campaign of ostracism, a
discriminatory act that forces celebrities to live apart from us,
immured in a gulag of tanning salons, acupuncture clinics, and
trendy boutiques. Obviously, we are barred from entering their
world, but so in many waysaretheyfromours. Beauty is not
democratic. It is unjust, distributed inequitably according to the
luck of the draw. Our obsession with Hollywood celebrates this
injustice, the irrationality with which fortune bestows its gifts.
People cannot simply crash the gates and appropriate the
privileges of the genetically blessed, creating faces different
from "the one [they] rode in on," as one blogger said of Nicole
Kidman's suspiciously chiseled chin. When someone attempts to
gain illegal entrance into the pantheon of the chosen few,
manipulating Mother Nature through plastic surgery, we are
both outraged and amused, angered that the inequalities we at
once
adore and fear are in fact phantasmal; and, at the same time,
relieved that beauty is really just a con game, something we can
control after all, an illusion fabricated through liposuction,
collagen injections, and breast augmentations. Actors who
submit to the knife are like athletes who inject steroids, fakes
9. who should be disqualified from the race, interlopers who buy
their way into the public's heart, who purchase their looks from
any of the sixty-eight plastic surgeons in Beverly Hills, a
number that translates into one surgeon for every 497
residentsandcomparesastonishinglywiththecity'sthirty-
sixpediatricians. We are therefore thrilled when what Joan
Rivers calls her "Simoniz-ing," Dolly Parton her "fender work,"
and Demi Moore her "furniture" rearrangement goes hideously
awry, as in the case of Tara Reid's left breast, which, mangled
and misshapen, popped out of her dress at P-Diddy's thirty-fifth
birthday party ("instead of a circle," Reid said of this scarred
and lopsided protuberance, "it turned out to be a large square");
Sharon Osborne's tummy tuck, which chopped off so much loose
skin as a result of her gastric bypass that they had to create a
new belly button; or Stevie Nick's silicone implants, which
caused such pain that, after their removal, she stored them in
her freezer to remind herself of "the agony." "Scalpel slaves" --
or "polysurgical patients," as they are known to industry
insiders -- are the butt of scathing Internet mockery: Mary Tyler
Moore, whom doctors have now placed on "an unofficial plastic
surgery blacklist" and whose mouth has been stretched like taffy
into a perpetual grin; model Alicia Douvall who, after her
silicone implants ruptured, installed valves to pump saline
solution in and out so she can vary the size of her breasts as the
occasion warrants; or, the poster child of sloppy work, Michael
Jackson, who may have had as many as thirty to forty
rhinoplasties, including one that grafted cartilage from his ear
to keep his nose from sinking back into his nasal cavity, leaving
a gaping chasm in the middle of his face. If we are to believe in
the beauty elite, to worship its exclusivity, its insuperable
remoteness, we must be convinced that our idols acquired their
physical assets the old-fashioned way, from Mom and Dad, not
from Robert Rey, m.d., a.k.a. "Dr. 90210," perhaps the most
famous plastic surgeon in the world. Our admiration of
celebrities is much like our belief in God, and when our faith is
tested by clear evidence of inauthenticity, by imposters who
10. achieve illegal access to the inner sanctum through procedures
we are increasingly able to spot, having become, as one reporter
called it, "surgically literate," we are furious and vindictive.
We mutiny against such swindlers in our gossip columns
and Internet bulletin
boards where we laugh hysterically when Britney Spears checks
into a hospital for knee surgery and emerges several days later,
according to many reports, two cup sizes larger or when
Hollywood is stricken with crippling shortages of Botox just
before the Academy Awards, which one Beverly Hills surgeon
refers to as "taxseason."
Our relationship with celebrities is so pathological in part
because they are an absent presence in our lives: while they are
physically absent and rarely seen in person, we are nonetheless
nearer to their bodies, through close-ups, nude scenes, and
simulated sex, than we are to anyone outside of our immediate
families. We rarely examine even our lovers as meticulously as
the website TMZ.com did in a recent exposé entitled "Heinous
Extremities," an unsparing collection of photographs of
celebrities' gnarly hands and stunted feet, appalling shots of
Iman's twisted toes spilling painfully out of her stilettos and
Jenna Jameson's arthritic claws clutching a soft drink can. In
"Basic Instinct," Sharon Stone uncrosses her legs during a
notorious police interrogation scene and gives us a clear shot of
her pantyless crotch, bringing us closer to her genitalia than
many men venture to those of their wives and girlfriends. The
psychological mechanism of our obsession with celebrities lies
in this deceptive intimacy, in the paradox that they are both
present and absent, within reach and hidden behind wrought-
iron gates, flashing their crotches at us in our living rooms and
cowering behind ballistic-grade steel doors and closed-circuit
surveillance systems. The camera is a tease, simulating an
intimacy we do not have, a familiarity that incites us to narrow
the physical distance that divides us from the stars, to eliminate
the mediation of the lens, and press ourselves against them,
11. flesh to flesh. Those who stalk celebrities, like the woman who
left cookies in David Letterman's foyer and camped out on his
tennis courts, or the man who slashed his wrists outside of the
ABC studios where Andrea Evans was filming an episode of
"One Life to Live," are really just our ambassadors, envoys we
send to do our investigative work for us, berserk enthusiasts
whose actions are psychotic manifestations of a very normal
impulse to ascertain the physical reality of bodies
weknowalmostaswellasourown,ifonlysecondhand. Not only do
celebrities occupy a different space than their fans, they occupy
a different, nonconsecutive time. They do not change as we do,
gradually, imperceptibly. They exist only in photographs and
films, outside of the passage of time, the chronology of their
bodies scrambled by random encounters with images from
various periods in their lives, one from the zenith of their
careers, proudly cradling their Oscars, another decades later,
unemployed has-beens, as in the notorious pair of photographs
that many newspapers published side by side when Greta Garbo
died in 1990 -- on the left, the young starlet in her twenties,
untouchably beautiful; on the right, an aged crone with straggly
white hair hobbling out of a health clinic just weeks before her
death at the age of eighty-four. The descent of celebrities into
infirmity, obesity, or even the terminal stages of an illness is
telescoped by the very medium that at once celebrates their
youth and beauty and, over time, renders them grotesque.
Unlike the bodies of our friends and family, whom we see every
day and who therefore do not age in any measurable way, stars
seem to change in fits and starts. One minute, 5'4", 120- pound
Janet Jackson has a six-pack and buns of steel, and the next
she's 180 pounds wearing sweatpants and a baseball cap, a
wardrobe malfunction far more troubling than that which
occurred during so-called "Titgate" at the2004SuperBowl.
Similarly, a famous photograph of her brother shows him when
he is ten years old, sporting a huge Afro and an infectious
smile, while his mug shot, taken some thirty-five years later
12. after his arrest for child molestation, features the unforgettable
image of a bleached mask, a macabre caricature of Caucasian
features, a heartbreaking disavowal of his own blackness.
Reruns and dvds fast-forward the careers of the stars, allowing
us to see them starting out fresh, exhilarated by their success,
and then, with one flick of the remote control, sinking into the
decrepitude of old age. We are shocked by the essay film and
photography inadvertently write on physical dissolution, by the
way they document the remorseless changes, the ebbing vitality,
that celebrities take such unavailing pains to arrest. Art is long,
life short, but in the case of Hollywood celebrities, art -- their
careers, their beauty -- is short and life long -- for most, too
long.
SPT 333 Milestone Two Guidelines and Rubric
Overview: For this milestone, due in Module Five, you will
submit a 2- to 3-page paper in which you first consider your
own and others’ biases as you review
various perspectives on the sport industry-related issue you
have chosen to examine for your final project. You will then
briefly outline a solutions approach for
addressing the issue you have analyzed and then propose a
possible framework for driving change with regard to your
issue.
Prompt: In the debates you participated in in Modules Two and
Four, as well as in your Module Two journal task, you have
been exploring your own perspective
and reflecting on any biases you may have. This has prepared
you to consider the cultural or social expectation s that may
have influenced this bias and whether
13. or not the bias has been influenced by any sort of political or
social movement or even a specific regulation.
Review the various perspectives related to your chosen issue
from sport industry professionals or sociologists, and identify
any biases that exist surrounding this
topic. Further, consider a possible solution to the issue . How
might you best drive change with regard to the issue? What
would the framework look like? In your
final project, you will address leadership styles that you feel
best help you reach this solution.
Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:
Balanced Review:
iases that may be
influencing your interpretation of the issue ?
manner. What other arguments are being made about the issue ?
t
for potential biases. How did you recognize these biases?
Solution
s Approach:
propose to address the issue?
14. relevant solutions applied in the sport industry or other related
field.
Proposed Conceptual Framework for Driving Change:
into a conceptual plan for driving change regarding your chosen
issue? (In other words, how
do you see yourself driving change regarding this issue, and
how will your analysis of the issue and your recommendations
help you?)
your future career to assist you in driving change in a particular
area of your chosen
issue?
Be sure to apply any instructor feedback you receive on this
submission to your final project, the personal plan of action.
15. Rubric
Guidelines for Submission: Milestone Two should be 2 to 3
pages, double-spaced, using 12-point Times New Roman font,
one-inch margins, and the latest
edition of the APA manual for formatting and citations.
Please note that the grading rubric for this milestone submission
is not identical to that of the final project. The Final Project
Rubric will include an additional
“Exemplary” category that provides guidance as to how you can
go above and beyond “Proficient” in your final submission.
Critical Elements Proficient (100%) Needs Improvement (75%)
Not Evident (0%) Value
Balanced Review:
Personal Biases
Refl ects openl y on pers onal bi as es
16. i n the i nterpretati on of the i s s ue
that may be preventi ng an
objecti ve anal ys is
Refl ects on pers onal bi as es but not
i n connecti on wi th how bi as es may
be preventi ng an objecti ve anal ys is
Does not refl ect on pers onal bi as es 13
Balanced Review:
Viewpoints
Expl ai ns other vi ewpoi nts on the
i s s ue i n a bal anced, l ogi cal manner
Expl ai ns other vi ewpoi nts on the
i s s ue but i s i l logi cal or openl y
bi as ed or i ncons i derate of the
other vi ewpoi nts
17. Does not expl ai n other vi ewpoi nts
on the i s s ue
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Balanced Review:
Viewpoint Biases
Cri ti call y analyzes an oppos i ng
vi ewpoi nt for potenti al bi as es ,
expl ai ni ng how the bi as es were
i denti fi ed
Anal yzes an oppos i ng vi ewpoi nt for
potenti al bi as es but l acks
expl anati on of how bi as es were
i denti fi ed
Does not anal yze an oppos i ng
vi ewpoi nt for potenti al bi as es
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