The Normal Distribution

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The Normal Distribution Required Resources Read/review the following resources for this activity: • OpenStax Textbook: Chapter 2, 6, 7- Attached • Lesson- Attached • Minimum of 1 scholarly source and one from text or lesson In your reference for this assignment, be sure to include both your text/class materials AND your outside reading(s). Initial Post Instructions Many variables in medicine follow a normal distribution where there are approximately an equal number of values below the mean as above the mean. Describe two variables that you work with that would probably follow a normal distribution. Also note which of the two variables would be likely to have a larger standard deviation and why. Writing Requirement • APA format for in-text citations and list of references The Big Picture – Week Five This week we’re going to shift our attention from “discrete distributions” which have only a finite set of values to “continuous distributions” where the data can take on a potentially infinite range of values. The most common of these, the normal distribution, can be used to describe a wide variety of physical phenomena including medical relevant data like heights and weights. Supplemental Materials / Lectures The Normal Distribution (Links to an external site.) The Empirical Rule (Links to an external site.) Calculating Normal Probabilities (Links to an external site.)

Skills needed to accurately look at media critically

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This reaction paper is designed for you to secure the skills needed to accurately look at media critically. You will keep in mind what you’ve learned from the text about interpreting or analyzing media. Bottom line, you should recognize the bias (or lack of bias) in either Restrepo OR Gardeners of Eden. This bias or lack of bias MUST be supported with scholarly, peer -reviewed research!! These papers should be written according to APA style with a cover page, abstract and reference page. Those pages DO NOT COUNT toward your 2-page paper. You will write at least 2 pages not including these aspects of APA. This paper will also help you practice APA and get you prepared for your final paper. Your paper should explore 2 key concepts: Meaning Construction – What meaning do you or would the audience draw from this documentary (In other words – what did you glean while keeping in mind what the filmmakers wanted you to know) Agenda setting theory Also, really look at Chapters 8, 9 & 10 when writing this paper… Use the concepts from these chapters to create a very good argument around recognizing bias If you think of other things you would like to react to – that’s fine…. Just be sure you are reflecting on bias and how this movie is or is not biased. Things to think about and bring up in your paper – questions work for both films: Research who the director is and how he / she made the film Research who owns the outlet … And strategies they use to tell a story… Are the strategies they use to tell the story bias in and of themselves? What do you know after viewing the film?

Defensive and Supportive relationships

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Defensive and Supportive relationships

Defensive & Supportive Relationships 20 Points Possible Identify one relationship in which you feel on-guard and defensive, and one relationship in which you feel comfortable and supported. Describe and analyze the communication behaviors in each relationship. To what extent do the defensive and supportive communication behaviors explain the climates of these two relationships? I would limit the textual support to include information from chapters 8-10. I will be looking for specific concepts from the text clearly articulating the examples. Within the above mentioned chapters you may limit it to a few of the verbal or nonverbal messages communicated that create a supportive and defensive climate. This essay should be two pages in length and follow standard formatting guidelines.

How assessments influence classroom environments

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Write a 750-1000 word reading assessment plan that includes creating and delivering instruction addressing diverse learning strengths and needs, as well as creating opportunities for students to demonstrate their learning in different ways. Be sure to include how assessments influence classroom environments. Use 3-5 scholarly sources to support your plan. Include examples of two formal and two informal assessments that you might use in your classroom that can be differentiated for diverse populations, and that would measure vocabulary, fluency, or comprehension. The assessments need to be created, but generic enough to be used in other units. For example, a “ticket out the door” and a “KWL” are examples of informal assessments that can be used to check comprehension (choose assessments other than the two mentioned).

Diversity and Immigration

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Argumentative Research Paper You will write a research paper which argues position on a focused topic about Diversity and Immigration. Your arguments must be logical, clear, and well supported using academic sources. You should also use rhetorical devices in your paper to achieve your purpose and convince your audience. Paper Requirements: • 4-5 typed pages, standard font and paper formatting. • At least three academic sources. • MLA citations and Works Cited page. Graded Assignments: 1. Annotated Bibliography (100 pts) 2. Draft (50 pts) 3. Final Paper (200 pts) Grading Criteria for Final Draft • Main Idea (25%): Paper develops a clear position on a focused topic with logical, relevant persuasive reasons. • Content Development (25%): Supporting ideas are well developed using relevant evidence from academic sources. • Organization (15%): Well organized with clear introduction, body, and conclusion. Effective transitions guide the reader through the paper. • Rhetorical Strategies (10%): Effective use of a variety of rhetorical devices to argue your position and convince your audience. • Language (15%): Writing is easy to understand. There may be minor errors in grammar or vocabulary that do not interfere with overall meaning. • MLA Citations (10%): Sources are correctly cited in-text and in the Works Cited page.

Comparing Asa Gray and William Turner

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Comparing Asa Gray and William Turner

Read the introduction to Part I in The American Intellectual Tradition (p. 3) You are assigned to read Turner and James and then any two of the others listed. So you will read four authors only, two of which are Turner and James. Asa Gray (p. 6-11) http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Asa_Gray.aspx#2-1G2:3404702624-full (not required reading) Charles Pierce (p. 16-26) http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Charles_Sanders_Peirce.aspx#4-1O119:PeirceCharlesSanders-full (not required reading) Charles A. Briggs (p. 37-41) http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Charles_Augustus_Briggs.aspx#1 (not required reading) Frederick Jackson Turner (p. 60-68) http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Frederick_Jackson_Turner.aspx#2-1G2:3404706496-full (not required reading) William James (p. 69-82) http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/William_James.aspx#5-1G2:2830902165-full (not required reading) George Santayana (p.108-120) http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/George_Santayana.aspx#2-1G2:3404705723-full (not required reading) Write a 450-500 word journal with your thoughts on the following question: Compare and contrast two of the writers and their ideas? What made them so different/alike? When you’ve completed your assignment, save a copy for yourself and submit a copy to your instructor using the Dropbox by the end of the workshop. Title the paper by the two author’s last names. For instance: “Comparison of Arnold and Jones”. If you quote any thing or use any information that you find in your text or in another source, then be sure to cite it using correct APA format. This means if it is a direct quote, you must have a page number in the citation. Strict APA formatting will be enforced.

Strategic Plan Presentation

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Effective oral communication is essential in the business setting, especially when it comes to achieving buy-in for significant, complex, or costly change. To practice your oral communication skills, create a 5-7 minute oral presentation of your strategic plan for your manager or director or other essential stakeholders whose approval you would require. Be sure to address the “why” and “how” for your strategic plan in the presentation, providing all the necessary details your audience needs to make an informed decision. Create a short speech created from the files provided for oral presentation.

Describe the historical events or innovations that characterize the period in which the work was created (s

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Humanities A. Analyze the work by doing the following:

1. Describe the historical events or innovations that characterize the period in which the work was created (suggested length of 1–2 paragraphs).

2. Analyze how this work reflects a theme or stylistic characteristic from its period (suggested length of 1–2 paragraphs).

3. Analyze the work’s or author’s/artist’s/composer’s contributions to the humanities (suggested length of 1–2 paragraphs).

B. When you use sources to support ideas and elements in a paper or project, provide acknowledgement of source information for any content that is quoted, paraphrased or summarized. Acknowledgement of source information includes in-text citation noting specifically where in the submission the source is used and a corresponding reference, which includes the following points:

• author • date • title • location of information (e.g., publisher, journal, website URL) Poem below to be used for essay When I have Fears That I May Cease to Be Launch Audio in a New Window BY JOHN KEATS When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain, Before high-pilèd books, in charactery,

Hold like rich garners the full ripened grain; When I behold, upon the night’s starred face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows with the magic hand of chance; And when I feel, fair creature of an hour, That I shall never look upon thee more, Never have relish in the faery power Of unreflecting love—then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.

Gardner’s Intelligence Theory

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Identify one of Gardner’s 8 intelligences that you excel in and briefly explain how you know that you excel in it. State whether you think your talent in this area is due to nature or nurture and explain your reasoning. Then, identify one of Gardner’s 8 intelligences that you are not as good at, and briefly explain how you know that this isn’t one of your talents. The following are the eight intelligences Linguistic- includes vocubalry and the use of language Logico-Mathematical- Includes reasoning (logic) and mathematical skills Musical- Inlcudes ability to appreciate music or to express one’s self through music (by playing or creating music) Spatial- Includes the ability to manipulate objects mentally through space or to understand spatial relationships Bodily-Kinesthetic- Includes the ability to understand and use one’s body in creative or athletic ways. Interpersonal- Includes getting along with others and undestanding social relationships Intrapersonal- Includes self-control and knowledge of self; mental health, metacognition Naturalistic- includes the ability to see the “big picture” in the world- identify how things fit with others, see relationships among categories

Annotated Artifacts& annotated bibliography

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Annotated Artifacts& annotated bibliography

5 APA formatted bibliography citations with accompanying annotations from this quarters readings Annotations should include: APA citation; A statement of the readings thesis; A statement of a personal/professional connection. Each one has at least 150 words no more than 180 words. 1Annotated Artifacts (i.e. samples of your work) Each annotated artifact need at least 100 words. Each annotation should answer these five questions: what is it? by whom was it produced? (aka acknowledge if it was a group project or solely created by you) (all 5 essays solely created by myself) when was it produced? (summer quarter) why was it produced? (aka what was the assignment) (Foundations of strategic communication management class Reaction Paper and Stakeholder Statement) what is it intended to show? (i.e. what learning outcomes does it represent and/or what skills, tool, or technique did you develop? what did you learn from its production?)