Ergonomics

This assignment is designed to provide an opportunity to apply the concepts presented in the Unit V Lesson regarding controlling ergonomic risk factors with proper work environmental design. Specifically, you will be evaluating a work task to identify specific control measures that can be implemented to improve the design of the work.
For this assignment, you will evaluate the same video from Unit III and IV to identify opportunities to improve the task using the concepts presented in your Unit V Lesson.
Click here to access the video for this assignment. Please note that this video includes audio.
You are required to develop a report that includes the following information:
identification of ALL of the environmental factors you observed in the video;
summarization of ALL the environmental factors you observed, including the potential impact each of them could have on the worker; and
recommendations for controlling the environmental risk factors using the hierarchy of controls (you must include at least one of each of the controls: engineering control, administrative control, and PPE).
Your completed assignment must include a minimum of two outside sources, one of which must be from the CSU Online Library, and the assignment must be a minimum of two pages in length, not counting the title and references pages. You may also include graphics to illustrate your design recommendations.

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Cultural Informative Speech Outline w/ Visual aid (POWERPOINT)

Topic: JAPAN: About the Japanese culture… Speech is 5-7 min so maybe 2.5 – 3 pages and the rest is the PowerPoint.

Instructions:
Create a culturally informative speech delivery outline for your speech. You cannot use Wikipedia, About.com, or E-how. If you decide to use sources from the Internet, remember to evaluate your sources.

Overview:
You are required to research cultural values and to explain the cultural values through analysis. Use information from research to analyze three of the following cultural values:
High-Low context
Individualism-Collectivism
High-Low Power Distance
Competitive and Cooperative (masculinity and femininity)
Talk-Silence
High-Low Uncertainty Avoidance

Additionally, you must identify how the cultural values are displayed or practiced within the culture through verbal and nonverbal means. Research is required for this speech, and you must locate a total of four sources to integrate into your speech. You cannot use Wikipedia, About.com, or E-how. If you decide to use sources from the Internet, remember to evaluate your sources. It would help if you considered using a Research Guide: Countries and Cultures.

Format
You must have four sections of your outline (Introduction, Body, Conclusion, and bibliography), and each section must have the appropriate heading. This outline must be in full sentence format.

The Introduction and Conclusion must have capital letters next to each of the elements in the section. Each element must be on a separate line. The main points in the body of the outline must have Roman numerals, and the supporting details must have uppercase letters. The supporting details and sub-supporting details must be Arabic numbers and lowercase letters. You can review the sample outlines in the Learning Module Two Public Speaking Tools folder. Just remember that you have to adjust your outline for this assignment.

Nonverbal behavior: Indicate nonverbal signals throughout your outline.

Introduction: You must have the following elements in the introduction. First, attention-getter/grabber, second: credibility, third: thesis, and last: preview. Each element must be separate and have an uppercase letter next to it. Please see the example below:

Example:

Introduction: A. Believe it or not, chocolate is good for us to eat! (Look at the audience and smile!)B. Not only am I a chocolate lover, but I am also a professional baker, and I specialized in chocolate desserts. C.There are many benefits of eating chocolateD. Today; Ill explain the health benefits and psychological benefits of eating chocolate.

Body: You can only use one organization pattern to organize your main points, and your main points must be parallel. You must have between two to five main points that are subdivided. Each main point should have at minimum two supporting points and a maximum of five supporting points. You must consistently separate all points (main, supporting, sub-supporting, etc.) using the appropriate Roman numerals, Arabic numbers, uppercase letters, and lowercase letters. All supporting points and sub-supporting points must be indented appropriately. All transitions, internal summaries or reviews, and signpost must be in either brackets or parenthesis. (If you use material or information from another source, please do not forget to cite your source.)

Conclusion: You must have the following elements in your conclusion. First, review the preview, then write the memorable thought, and the last include thank you. Again, all elements must be separate and have an uppercase letter next to them. Please see the example below:

Example: ConclusionA. You should now know the health and psychological benefits of eating chocolate. B. A quote from Michael Levine in Brenners text The Emperors of Chocolate: Inside the Secret World of Hershey and Mars, Chemically speaking, chocolate really is the worlds perfect food. (Walk to the center of the room and smile!)C. Thank you

Bibliography
Brenner, Joel. The Emperors of Chocolate: Inside the Secret World of Hershey and Mars. New York, NY: Broadway Books. 2000. Print.

Citation: You must use MLA 8 citation style for the bibliography. However, you should integrate your citations within the other sections of your outline. Remember, if you cite a source within the introduction, body, or conclusion, it must appear on your bibliography page. If you have sources on your bibliography page, they must appear in either the introduction, body, or conclusion.

Then ADD a visual presentation (POWERPOINT) to support it.
Overview
You are required to create a slide presentation that accommodates your oral delivery. The slide presentation cannot replace you as the speaker. However, it supports your main points in the speech. Slide presentations appeal to our visual senses and help us understand and remember the material. For example, if you were giving a speech on psoriasis, a skin disorder, it would be helpful to show pictures of psoriasis and perhaps a brief bullet list of the contributors of psoriasis.

Can you tell me what should go on each slide from beginning to end? Yes.
First, you should have between 3-5 slides. The first slide is the cover. Think of your cover slides like a cover for a book or a magazine. You should put a title that corresponds with your speech and your name at a minimum on the cover slide. You can also add a picture if you want. The inside slides should represent your main points. The last slide is either the bibliography or works cited for the slide presentation, or you can type Thank You.

What can I put on my slides? You can use pictures, pie charts, bar charts, line charts, word charts, bullet lists, diagrams, and drawings. Make sure that your charts and/or diagrams are easy to read from a distance.

Where can I locate pictures? You can use Pixabay (www.pixabay.com) or Google Images.

Can I put more than one picture on a slide? Yes, if it helps support the point that you are discussing. Be careful and try not to overcrowd the slide.

Can I add a video or sound? Yes, you can add a video or sound if they support what you are talking about. For example, a student once gave a speech on classical music, and after she explained each musical piece, she played a 30 second sound clip. So, make sure to keep your video clip or sound clip less than one minute so that it does not distract from your speech. If you are going to use a sound clip for background noise, make sure that you are speaking loud enough that you can be heard over the background noise. For example, a student gave a speech about a natural disaster, and on one slide in the background, the student had a low siren play.
As you create your visual aid, keep your audience in mind. Dont bore them or waste your time typing a lot of text on your slide. Look for graphics or pictures to replace the wording.
Do I have to place my works cited or bibliography on the slide? It depends. Did you put a quote from someone on the slide? Did you use someone elses chart on your slide? Anything that you place on your slide that belongs to someone else and requires attribution (citation), then you must add works cited or bibliography. You also have to cite on the slide either by using a parenthetical citation or a caption.
What should I not put on slides?
You should not put paragraphs on your slides. You should not put any part of your introduction on the slide or any part of your conclusion.

The final edition will be evaluated and checked for plagiarism, so please be original and factual. Good luck-

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Language and Situation

Assignment:

Journal: Language and Situation

Dont forget to apply the stages of the writing process by, first, starting with an outline of your ideas about this weeks topic for your essay. Please include your bulleted outline as part of your submission this week.

This week you will explore how language changes based on the situation. Imagine a situation in which one person is asking another person for a favor (identify one favor and utilize it for the entire assignment). Select three of the following situations:

Grandchild talking to grandparent
Two romantically involved people talking
Employee talking to boss
Student talking to professor
Two siblings talking
Two neighbors talking
Parishioner talking to a pastor
Parent talking to a child
Two colleagues talking
For each situation that you select, write a dialogue between the two fictitious people; the dialogue should focus on one person requesting a favor from the other person.

Reflecting on your dialogues, answer the following questions:

How did the dialogues change?
Why did the dialogues change?

You are practicing the Drafting and Revising stages of the Writing Process this week. Review this process below.
Pre-Writing
Drafting
Revising
Peer Review
Editing
Publishing

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Exercise 17.3 – Preparing for an Interview

Exercise 17.3 – Preparing for an Interview
You are public relations director for LakeLand Chemicals, a company that uses chemicals in the manufacturing of paint.
First thing this morning, you learned that the Environmental Protection Agency is listing LakeLand as a borderline violator for discharging a toxic chemical through its smokestack. The federal standard allows 35 micrograms per cubic meter of particulate matter (PM2.5), and LakeLand discharges an average of 40 micrograms.
PM2.5 is linked to premature death, increased hospital admissions and development of respiratory diseases. It also has adverse effects on agriculture. The chemical has received considerable media attention in your area because of its negative health and environmental consequences.
Because of the borderline levels, the EPA will give LakeLand six months to improve emissions before any penalties might be levied.
You learned the information first thing this morning. You know that the EPA will release the information to reporters by noon today.
You also know that LakeLand has been discussing the purchase of an expensive new high-tech smokestack filter that could significantly decrease the toxic emissions, but you are not yet at liberty to announce this.
Prepare for interviews with reporters with the following activities:
Part 1. Prepare a brief planning sheet indicating your companys key publics; an analysis of their wants, interests and needs; and your main objectives in dealing with reporters.
Part 2. Anticipate questions reporters might ask. Make notes of appropriate responses to these questions.
Part 3. Summarize the main point or points you want to communicate to your key publics. Sketch out anecdotes or examples that might convey that point.

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English as Lingua Franca (part 1)

Books you may need for this: Images of English: Cultural History of the Language 2009 By Richard W. Bailey, English as a Global Language By David Crystal and Global Englishes: A Resource Book for Students By Jennifer Jenkins.

This paper will be developed in two parts, but you will just be doing the first part–English as Lingua Franca: Thesis, Outline, and Working Bibliography–
English as Lingua Franca: Thesis, Outline, and Working Bibliography will require you to develop a thesis statement of 1-3 full sentences, a logical and systematic outline of main and secondary points that support your thesis claim, and a working bibliography with at least 6 scholarly, peer-reviewed sources. You are asked to submit only these three elements in part 1 not a full-length essay at this point. There is no established word count for this phase because the three required components will likely vary in length.
–I uploaded the instructions.

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Writing Workshop: Evaluating Sources That Support a Claim

Health care costs in the United States are on the rise. Some people say that a universal health care system would bring costs down and increase access to care. Others say it would be too expensive and would reduce the quality of care. Complete an internet search for two editorials from both sides of the argument. An editorial is an opinion article written by a professional with an authority on the topic. Editorials can be written by a member of the publication’s editorial board or a professional from within the field. Look for reputable websites such as National Public Radio or The New England Journal of Medicine to conduct your research. Then, write a five-paragraph essay in which you compare and contrast each argument in terms of objectivity and the types of evidence presented. Evaluate and explain how the sources use effective evidence to support their claims. Cite the resources you used in your essay to avoid plagiarism.

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Ethical Challenge – Analyzing Communication Behaviors

Read Table (Unethical Communication Behaviors) attached. The behaviors are presented in what some (but certainly not all) communication experts would describe as “most serious to least serious” ethical faults.

Do you agree or disagree with the order of this list? Explain your answer and whether you would change the order of any of these behaviors.

Are there any other behaviors that you would add to the list?

Please answer questions thoroughly.

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Persuasive Writing Memo

You work in Human Resources for a medium-sized company providing a variety of business services. Your new boss, John Marin, is a strong believer in the responsibility a company has to play a role (give back) in the community that supports it.

Mr. Marin has talked with you about creating a list of ways in which employees of your company can help out in the community, mostly involving volunteer work. High on the list is working for Habitat for Humanity in building homes for low-income residents of the community. Your task is to create an easily accessible list of ways that employees can be more involved in their community, and to write an email in appropriate business style to all employees, using good persuasive appeals, motivating them to become involved and giving them all the information they need to get involved.

Factors:

*The companys work force is made up of about 20% more women than men.
*Fifty percent of the companys employees are 30 years old or older.
*Mr. Marin has said that your company might be able to provide some incentives to encourage employees to do volunteer work.
*The average work week of an employee is 45 hours, so your employees are putting in plenty of time at work.
*Mr. Marin wants to track which employees are volunteering, and for what.
*Your company has been growing rapidly, so 25 % of your employees have worked at the company for less than two years. Of this 25 %, a high percentage are recent university graduates.
*You can make up any other details about your company or its workforce.
*Challenge: are you writing to one audience, or do you have both primary and secondary audiences? Do you have a hidden audience?
*Put yourself in the position of an employee of this company.
*What would you like to hear, and what would you not like to hear about this new policy?
*What questions would you have about your participation?
*Have you anticipated all objections?
*Are there any unstated factors complicating your persuasion?

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photography and the evidence

These are the exact instructions from my professor:

Writing Visual Evidence (450-550 words): 10%

Presented with an instance of photographic evidence, we ask: “evidence of what?”

For this assignment you will select a single example of photographic evidence and compose a brief 450-550-word essay illuminating and querying that image in relation to the themes of this class so far. Your paper should offer a speculative reading based on careful visual analysis and some online research. Your submission should conclude with a set of hypotheses and questions, along with proposals for a plausible research plan suggesting how one might (given the time) pursue additional research.

Some questions to consider:

What or who does the photograph depict?

Why was it taken?

By whom was it taken?

For what audience?

To what intended end?

What other meanings or purposes are possible?

Instructions:

1. Follow this link (https://dp.la/search?q=evidence&page=1&type=%22image%22&page_size=100&list_view=grid) to visit the website Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), which aggregates and renders searchable hundreds of institutional digitized image collections (and so millions of images). This link will preselect for you a set of 6,231 images whose metadata includes the keyword “evidence. From that highly (deliberately) arbitrary pool, I ask that you select a single image as a case study. In selecting this case study, I encourage you to dig deep within this resource, following your own interests and instincts. Feel free to utilize additional search terms within DPLAs database in making your selection (so long as your selection is a photograph and carries the tag evidence). There is no expectation that you will be able to offer a definitive historical context for this selection: its original context and meanings may remain a mystery. Please keep a record of your search methodology and include a link to your image’s source page in your submission.

2. Read the short methodological essay “Reading the Visual Record” by Elspeth Brown. This essay offers a clear pathway for constructing a brief essay in the historical visual analysis of photographic images and evidence.

(I will attach this essay below)

3. Follow Brown’s recipe of description, deduction, and interpretation to produce a suggestive visual analysis of your chosen image, followed by a brief prospectus offering two (hypothetical) avenues for further research. Please be sure to connect this analysis to concepts developed in our class readings and discussions. Consider the questions: Evidence of what? For and against whom? Please cite and make productive use of at least two assigned course readings.

Here again is your link: https://dp.la/search?q=evidence&page=1&type=%22image%22&page_size=100&list_view=grid (Links to an external site.)

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