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This week you are tasked with presenting a communication theory to the class.You must present your presentation on Media Multiplexity Theory.

In a 5 to 10 minute PowerPoint presentation you will need to record yourself presenting your theory of choice (may be video or audio) as well as creating slides with visuals and brief wording (no paragraphs on slides). In the ‘NOTES’ area of PowerPoint (at the bottom near display settings) put what you’ll be saying in the presentation (such as main points that support the content on the slides). Don’t worry about the audio, Ill add that to the presentation.

Your PowerPoint must consist of:

Title Slide – Share what theory you are presenting, course name, Instructor Name, Date

Theory Description – In your own words how would you describe this theory? Is the theory interpretative or objective? Help us understand this theory (use examples).

Theory History – When was this theory created and why? Who helped create this theory? Does it relate to other communication theories? What are the common threads of this theory in connection with society?

Examples – Give examples of how this theory can be used or interpreted. For instance, how would you study this theory to see if it runs true in real/present life? Share how you could study this theory.

Compare – What are the strengths and limitations of this theory? Give examples of this to help us all gain a deeper understanding and show your knowledge

Criticize – Debate this theory. Do you find it useful? Do you find it outdated or in conflict with other theories? Can other theories relate to this theory (or be put in the same category)? Was the theory difficult to understand or apply?

Reference Slide- Share any sources you may have used here in APA formatting

Task 1: Discuss the company’s organizational behavior with relevant examples.

Task 2: Identify five stakeholders from the organization and identify their roles in achieving organizational success.

Task 3: Critically evaluate the components of intellectual capital in the chosen organization. Provide solution/s for three (3) identified weaknesses.

Task 4: From the organization, discuss the following work related attitudes (support discussions with examples).

 Job Satisfaction

 Job Involvement

 Organizational Commitment

 Perceived Organizational Support, and

 Employee Engagement

Task 5: Discuss any two functions of management and site relevant examples with reference to the company

Instructions:

1. Report should have the following:

 Cover page, which indicates module title, names of students, name of instructor and date of submission

 Table of Contents, which includes heading, subheading and page numbers.

 Introduction with objectives of the report, data sources, and report structure

 Discussion, description, discussion, explanation and analysis of the questions

 Conclusion that reveals main findings regarding the questions, with recommendation(s).

 List of References using C.U. Harvard style of referencing; at least ten references.

 The student declaration form should be attached in the final copy.

2. The report should be done in Word, font size 12, font style Times New Roman, text color black, colors can be used ONLY in appendices; main body of the report should be black and white.

3. Late submission and Plagiarism policy will be applied accordingly.

4. Discussions should with citations.

10 questions phy 130

I will send you the pdf

Problems 1-2 on Momentum

Problems 3-4 on Rotation

Problems 5-6 on Gravitation

Problems 7-8 on Waves

Problems 9-10 on fluids

WEEK 1

Speak to two people in two different ways – 1) via phone or video chat and 2) through email, messenger, or phone texting. You will ask them the same set of questions and discuss the same topic – their birthday or vacation plans. You will ask them the following questions:

1. What are you doing for your birthday or next vacation?
2. What did you do last year?
3. What do you want as a gift or what do you want to do while on vacation?

After your interaction, answer the following questions in the Week 1 Step 1 section of your Communication Notebook.

1. How much time did each exchange take (roughly)?
2. How well were the questions answered via phone or video chat?
3. How well were the questions answered via email, messenger, or phone texting?
4. How close did you feel to the person in the phone or video chat exchange?
5. How close did you feel to the person in email, messenger, or phone texting exchange?
6. Which interaction was most satisfying and why?

WEEK 2

This week, you will choose from the options below to explore. When you have finished the write-up, add the content to your notebook and take the quiz.

Week 2 Exercise Instructions (choose one option):

Option 1: Violate a nonverbal cultural norm by doing one of the following:

• Stand in the wrong direction, face someone, or sit down in an elevator, bus or even while in line at a store.
• Wave to everyone as you walk down a busy street.
• Shake the hands of as many people as possible when you greet them in the morning.

As you write about the experience, answer the following questions:

• What do the norms that are usually followed in the elevator, bus or line try to establish, in terms of values or beliefs?
• How does your experiment connect to one of the elements of nonverbal communication addressed in Bevan (e.g., haptics, proxemics, paralanguage or kinesics)?
• How have you been trained to obey the nonverbal communication norms you normally follow?

Option 2: How gender might impact patterns of communication

Read Bevan on gender and communication. Then, ask two people (one male and one female) to allow you to record your conversations with them on your phone. Here are some themes you can discuss: the weather on that day, some news event you just heard about, or something going on in your or their family. Keep the conversation to 2 to 3 minutes. Then, listen to the recordings and make note of whether you hear the more masculine or feminine styles of communication outlined in Bevan.

In addition to what Bevan says, here are five features that are often found in more stereotypically “feminine” and “masculine” styles of communication:

Feminine Styles:

• Tag questions (ending statements with phrases such as “isn’t it?” or “don’t you think?”). This is thought to undermine the speaker and demonstrate a lack of confidence.
• Flowery language (phrases such as absolutely or precision of color or taste)
• Hedging statements (mitigating assertiveness, including words such as “quite” or “at that time”)
• Intensifiers (words such as absolutely or incredible)
• Bonding (searching for common ground, agreement)

Masculine Styles:

• Certainty (speaks as if from fact, rather than opinion)
• Vulgarity/profanity
• Sentence fragments/informality
• Confrontation/argumentative
• Interrupting

Did you find that you or the two people you spoke with illustrated any of these patterns of more masculine or feminine styles of communication? Write a one to two-paragraph summary of your results. Include some of the expressions you heard to demonstrate your key points.

Option 3: Stereotypes

As we have learned in Bevan, we use perceptual schemas to make sense of the world around us. These are central to communication, as they involve perception (taking in information into our minds through observing verbal and nonverbal cues), classification (putting information into categorical boxes in our minds), and then assigning meaning to those classifications, which are typically positive or negative. In this option, you will explore a broad category of schemas called “stereotypes.” To complete the task, do the following, using and citing Bevan as much as possible:

• Define stereotypes, utilizing Bevan.
• Explain how stereotypes are useful tools we use to make sense of the world and make choices.
• Identify three common stereotypes and write a sentence that draws on them.
• Explore why each stereotypical sentence can be destructive.
• List some steps we can take to mitigate the negative impacts of stereotypes

The Communucation notebook which you will complete both these on are attach below.

chapter 13

Please answer the 11 questions in bold face type, and 1 of your own choosing.

1. What was meant by the term “manifest destiny”?
2. How did horses and European weapons change the Plains Indians?
3. How did the Election of 1844 hinge on the issue of expansion”?
4. What were the benefits of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo for the United States?
5. What was the Free Soil movement?
6. Briefly discuss the land and racial issues that emerged in California after the Mexican American War?
7. Why was California’s application for statehood problematic, and what was the Compromise of 1850?
8. What methods did slaves and abolitionists employ to counter the federal Fugitive Slave Act?
9. What was the Kansas/Nebraska Act and what effect did it have?
10. Describe the emergence of the Republican Party; what did it stand for?
11. What is the meaning of the term “Bleeding Kansas”?
12. What was the Dred Scott Decision and what effect did it have?
13. What was Abraham Lincoln’s view of slavery from the 1840s into the late 1850s, and how did it evolve?
14. What was “popular sovereignty” and what was Stephen Douglas’ Freeport Doctrine?
15. Who was John Brown?

chapter 14

Please answer the 10 questions in bold face type and 1 of your own choosing.

1. How did secession come about, and where did the sentiments for it originate?
2. Discuss the Upper South’s reaction to the secession of the Lower South?
3. According to Jefferson Davis, what was the South fighting for, and what did they need to do to achieve independence?
4. Why did Lincoln dismiss General McClellan?
5. What did “total war” mean in the context of the Civil War?
6. Briefly, how did the North and South mobilize resources with which to fight the war? How was the war financed?
7. What was contraband, and how was it controversial?
8. Why did Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation when he did and what did it mean?
9. What were the consequences of the victories at Vicksburg and Gettysburg happening at the same time?
10. After Vicksburg, what did Grant think of the “cautious tactics of previous Union commanders”?
11. What was General Sherman’s “hard war,” what was his “bold strategy” after taking Atlanta, and how did he justify his unconventional plan to Grant and Lincoln?
12. What was the reasoning behind the need for the Thirteenth Amendment?
13. Was the Civil War necessary? Many argue that it was not, that slavery would have died out within a few decades (it certainly would have, that’s unquestionable), and that the war was a tremendous loss of money, lives, and resources that could have been avoided. What do you think?