From student: MB Inspirational piece: Paul Gauguin, Mahana no atua (Day of the God) 1894. This piece reminds me of the Intensive Care Unit that I work on, the intensivist would be the Green "god" in the center. and the women working to please him are the nurses. In the world of nursing, we are the advocates to the patients. It is us our duty to be the eyes and ears for our patients. Nurses are constantly asking for orders and medications, of course, these things need doctors orders. Doctors are only around during rounding and the rest of the night they are in the sleep room, the nurse is allowed to call when necessary.  Therefore, I see the Green guy in the center as the god someone who has extensive education in medicine, and the nurses are the hard-working women trying to care for the sick by the water. Nurses work very hard, we are the bread and butter to medicine, however, doctors seem to always get all the credit. Notice how the man in the center seems to be like he is floating in luxury while everyone around them is working diligently.  Reference: Sayre, H. M. (2013). Discovering the humanities (2nd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. Pg. 465 Feedback from Instructor: Class, A big point of critique in this work of Gauguin's in mentioning that it is unrealistic.  He was a European, traveling during the late colonial era and as such, had an outsider's (some would say even fetishistic) view of the indigenous population. According to Thomas, "Gauguin also developed his own romanticized version of Tahitian spiritual culture. He hand-carved wooden idols, which he Westernized using polished shells as halos and parrotfish teeth for menacing mouths. In paintings such as "In Olden Times," he depicted local girls dancing around a gigantic idol, one several times larger than Tahitians would have had in reality. In 1893, he returned to France for two years with 66 canvases and his "ultrabarbaric" sculptures, as he put it, which the French neither appreciated nor bought."  Considering the perspective and ethnographic baggage that often accompany western attitudes and depictions of culture, can you see this in Mahana no atua?  What about other cultural works today, are there any examples you can share?  reference: Thomas, Dana, "Tropical Feast", Newsweek (Pacific Edition), 01637061, 10/20/2003 (Pacific Edition), Vol. 142, Issue 16 PLEASE Respond to My TWO Peer's Post, Below IN RELATION TO THESE QUESTIONS PLEASE RESPOND IN A DISCUSSION FORM 1. What goals drive a quantitative research design?  2. Compare and contrast quantitative survey and experimental designs for research.  3. Further describe the challenges of quantitative research design. 1ST PEER IS NATACHA In researching my interest area I find myself gearing towards a more quantitative research design. In fact, based on my research questions, the goal is use statistical analysis to examine a correlation between my variables. As a result, I have the choice to either do descripti ...

1. From student: MB
Inspirational piece: Paul Gauguin, Mahana no atua (Day of the
God) 1894.
This piece reminds me of the Intensive Care Unit that I work
on, the intensivist would be the Green "god" in the center. and
the women working to please him are the nurses. In the world of
nursing, we are the advocates to the patients. It is us our duty to
be the eyes and ears for our patients. Nurses are constantly
asking for orders and medications, of course, these things need
doctors orders. Doctors are only around during rounding and the
rest of the night they are in the sleep room, the nurse is allowed
to call when necessary. Therefore, I see the Green guy in the
center as the god someone who has extensive education in
medicine, and the nurses are the hard-working women trying to
care for the sick by the water. Nurses work very hard, we are
the bread and butter to medicine, however, doctors seem to
always get all the credit. Notice how the man in the center
seems to be like he is floating in luxury while everyone around
them is working diligently.
Reference:
Sayre, H. M. (2013). Discovering the humanities (2nd ed.).
Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. Pg. 465
Feedback from Instructor:
Class,
A big point of critique in this work of Gauguin's in mentioning
that it is unrealistic. He was a European, traveling during the
late colonial era and as such, had an outsider's (some would say
even fetishistic) view of the indigenous population.
According to Thomas, "Gauguin also developed his own
romanticized version of Tahitian spiritual culture. He hand-
carved wooden idols, which he Westernized using polished
shells as halos and parrotfish teeth for menacing mouths. In

2. paintings such as "In Olden Times," he depicted local girls
dancing around a gigantic idol, one several times larger than
Tahitians would have had in reality. In 1893, he returned to
France for two years with 66 canvases and his "ultrabarbaric"
sculptures, as he put it, which the French neither appreciated
nor bought."
Considering the perspective and ethnographic baggage that
often accompany western attitudes and depictions of culture,
can you see this in Mahana no atua? What about other cultural
works today, are there any examples you can share?
reference: Thomas, Dana, "Tropical Feast", Newsweek (Pacific
Edition), 01637061, 10/20/2003 (Pacific Edition), Vol. 142,
Issue 16
PLEASE Respond to My TWO Peer's Post, Below IN
RELATION TO THESE QUESTIONS
PLEASE RESPOND IN A DISCUSSION FORM
1. What goals drive a quantitative research design?
2. Compare and contrast quantitative survey and experimental
designs for research.
3. Further describe the challenges of quantitative research
design.
1ST PEER IS NATACHA
In researching my interest area I find myself gearing towards a
more quantitative research design. In fact, based on my research
questions, the goal is use statistical analysis to examine a
correlation between my variables. As a result, I have the choice
to either do descriptive or experimental research. Descriptive
research establishes associations between variables and would
best be employed with surveys. Experimental research
establishes causality and is often paired with the experimental

3. method (Ramos & Carvalho, 2011). Additionally, “in
quantitative studies, investigators use research questions and
hypotheses to shape and specifically focus the purpose of the
study” (Creswell, 2009). Therefore, quantitative surveys and
experimental methods can be used to test hypotheses as well as
to come up with findings. Since they are both extremely
important in data gathering, what are the main difference?
Based on our readings, conducting surveys involves using
questionnaires and/or interviews to gather information. This
includes dealing with primary data whereas an experimentation
approach gathers data from the result of the experimental
treatment and frequently includes dealing with secondary data
(Mandell, 2008). Additionally, sample sizes are usually smaller
for experiments and could be more costly as well as use more
tools compared to surveys. In fact, surveys can easily be less
expensive and use less resources to reach a larger number of
people. Depending on the field of study the researcher may use
surveys for a behavioral or social field whereas it may be better
to use the experimental method for scientific research.
Furthermore, experimental research uses casual analysis as
opposed to correlational analysis from surveys used in
descriptive research (Creswell, 2009). Manipulations are not
possible when using surveys and can assess a wider range of
topics while the experimental method involves manipulations
but covers a more specific topic.
The challenges of quantitative research design include the lack
of detail, especially when using structured questionnaire with
close ended questions. This lack of detail can also lead to
missing variables by overlooking other possible variables in
order to have relevant findings. According to Chetty (2016),
other possible limitations of quantitative research are “improper
representation of the target population, lack of resources for
data collection, and inability to control the environment as well
as expensive, time consuming, and requirement of extra
resources to analyse the results.” In fact, quantitative research
necessitates extensive statistical analysis, which can be difficult

4. to perform for researchers from non- statistical backgrounds
(Chetty, 2016).
2ND PEER IS TRINA
Quantitative method, per Creswell, focuses specifically on
survey and experimental designs (Creswell, 2014). A survey
design provides numeric description of trends, attitudes, or
opinions of a population by studying a sample of that
population (Creswell, 2014). Survey methods follow a standard
format, starting with introducing readers to the basic purpose
and rationale for the survey research (Creswell, 2014). During
data collection, detailed information regarding the survey
instrument being used in the proposed study is discussed.
Variables should relate to the specific questions and hypotheses
on the instrument, as well as information on how data will be
analyzed. An experimental design is used to test the impact of a
treatment on an outcome (Creswell, 2014).
An experimental design has standard component: participants,
materials, procedures and measures. In the experimental
research design, information about the selection process,
assignments, and the number of participants will be given to the
readers. As far as variables, readers need to be clear on
treatment and outcomes to be measured. Experimental
researchers must identify potential threats towards the validity
of their experiments, internal and external (Creswell, 2014).
Lastly, the readers should be familiar with the design, the
observations, treatments, and the timeline of activities.
The challenges of quantitative research designs are the inability
to infer meaning beyond the results achieved through statistical
analysis (Castellan, 2010), as well controlling variables that
may adversely affect the validity of statistical analysis of data

5. and the difficulty of trying to quantify abstract ideas (Bogdan &
Biklen, 1998).
The goals from a quantitative aspect is to collect facts of human
behavior, which when accumulated will provide verification and
elaboration on a theory that will allow scientists to state causes
and predict human behavior (Bogdan & Biklen, 1998). Other
goals of quantitative research design can be to show
relationships between variables, statistical description,
establishing facts (Bogdan & Biklen, 1998), validation
(Krathwohl, 1998), and testing hypotheses (Gall, 1996).