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What extent has cinema both reflected AND shaped attitudes towards gender OR sexuality in society? Choose no more than two case-study films to base your essay around.

Mass Media, Music and Society

Author Nelson George (2004: xiv) has argued that “you can tell where black people are at any given point in history by our music.” critically evaluate this assertion by focusing on any twentieth century and/or twenty-first century black American or black British music.

“Music can serve as useful primary source material to understand the character and identity of places” (Kong, 1995: 184). Critique this statement by analysing the relationship between music and a specific city or region, giving due consideration to the authorship, performance and reception of the music you choose to focus on.

Technology has repeatedly transformed the content produced by the mass media and music industries. such transformations have, in turn, frequently re-shaped the structures/processes/priorities of both those industries and of society more broadly. Discuss how this has occurred by focusing on one technology of your choice, one that is associated with the mass media or music industries.

To what extent has cinema both reflected AND shaped attitudes towards gender OR sexuality in society? Choose no more than two case-study films
to base your essay around.

Examine a specific genre or musician(s) of your choice to critically assess how music has been used to challenge and/or subvert patriarchy in society.

Music, film and TV have long provided key platforms for confronting social injustices. Critique this statement by choosing ONE social injustice theme
(e.g. relating to societal attitudes towards sexuality, class, disability, mental illness etc.) and examine how your ONE chosen social justice has been addressed/ confronted in the work of EITHER a particular musician, OR
in the content of a particular film or TV show
(i.e. essay should be focussed on only one of: music or film or TV).

How severely impacted was your country by the event? Does the article give any indication?Based on your graphs (and article, if applicable), do you think your country took a Keynesian or a Classical approach to dealing with the event discussed and why?

Briefly summarize the key points of the article – keep summary to a half page or less.

How severely impacted was your country by the event? Does the article give any indication?

Did the event impact the rest of the world or just your country? If the event impacted the US economy, how did outcomes differ in the U.S. verses the country being analyzed.

Does your article talk about any fiscal policy responses by your country?

Do you see evidence of these policies in your graphs? How does any response compare to the US based on your graphs (and article, if applicable)?

Based on your graphs (and article, if applicable), do you think your country took a Keynesian or a Classical approach to dealing with the event discussed and why?

When a survey measures an organization’s employee engagement, it measures “retention elements” and “engagement elements.” What’s the difference?

Building Positive Employee Relations

When a survey measures an organization’s employee engagement, it measures “retention elements” and “engagement elements.” What’s the difference?

Retention elements include pay, benefits, or an entire compensation package. These are items that keep an employee working, but they don’t create engagement. Employees will stay with a company that compensates them well. But this doesn’t mean that they go above or beyond to achieve their goals or the goals of the organization.

Engagement elements, on the other hand, are those elements that push an employee from a working drone to an active, engaged member of a work team who furthers the goals of the organization. Rewards and recognition is an example of an engagement element. When an employee is recognized for her contributions in front of her peers, for instance, her engagement level goes up. Other engagement elements include employee accountability/ownership, leadership, culture, company vision, and corporate responsibility.

Discussion Prompt
Select one engagement element from the following list:

rewards/recognition
employee accountability/ownership
leadership
culture
company vision
corporate responsibility
Find a company that’s exercising your chosen engagement element well. Do a quick write up of that company and how they’re keeping their employees engaged with that element.

Is this really the case, that some performance management scoring systems are gender biased? Why would a six-point scale work more in a woman’s favor than a ten-point system?

Performance Management and Appraisal

Discussion Prompt
Is this really the case, that some performance management scoring systems are gender biased? Why would a six-point scale work more in a woman’s favor than a ten-point system? Write at least a paragraph describing why this shift in rating scale would be more favorable to women. Then, in your next paragraph, provide some solutions as to how you, as a human resources professional, would put changes in place to level the playing field for your female employees.

Use studies to defend your statements and give evidence for or against the claims made in the ad. Is the use of this product supported by scientific evidence?

KIN163 Health Benefits of Apple Watch

Use studies to defend your statements and give evidence for or against the claims made in the ad. Is the use of this product supported by scientific evidence?

Reference 1: https://www.apple.com/apple-watch-series-7/why-apple-watch/

Analyze the Partnerships That Can Mitigate, or Address each Planning and Development Challenges selected using a biblical worldview (What parties are involved in the comprehensive planning process? What do they contribute? What purpose do they serve? What are the impacts and second order consequences of their involvement?)

Analyze several of the Critical Challenges Facing an Urban Planner What are they? [See below] How do they affect the planning process? Why do they affect the planning process? What are second-order consequences?
Some Challenges (pressures that exert a decisive influence on a planning organization’s likelihood of future success.)

Disruptive innovations
Financing Difficulties
Fragmented and overlapping governments, authorities, and special districts
Untangling organizational purpose and organizational strategy
Social conflicts, and rapid population growth
The spread of scattered new development
Outdated planning and zoning techniques
Incorporating “what people think” (reputation and the social definition of value) in strategic planning

Analyze the Solutions to each Planning and Development Challenge selected (What are they How will they work? What are the impacts and second order consequences?)

Analyze the Partnerships That Can Mitigate, or Address each Planning and Development Challenges selected using a biblical worldview (What parties are involved in the comprehensive planning process? What do they contribute? What purpose do they serve? What are the impacts and second order consequences of their involvement?)

Compare the distribution of power in Medieval Europe amongst people with different social identities or positions (from 900-1450 or so).

Compare the distribution of power in Medieval Europe amongst people with different social identities or positions (from 900-1450 or so).

Choose 2 or more social identities (Christian clergy, Christian laypeople, heretics, pagans, Jews, Muslims, upper class, lower class, male, female) and compare them around how much power and what kind of power each was perceived as having. (A) would be one or more groups with one kind of social identity and (B) would be a different one or more groups with other social identities.