SECTION A Answer the question on Reef OR the question on Playing in the Light. Your essay in Section A should be about 1000-1200 words, and include a bibliography of all your cited sources. QUESTION 1 — Romesh Gunesekera: Reef In an essay of 1000-1200 words, explore Triton’s mixed feelings about Miss Nili moving into Mr Salgado’s home, basing your response in a close analysis of the extract below. You should also quote and discuss at least one other relevant example of your own choice from the novel where Triton appears to struggle with his feelings for Miss Nili, having to be loyal to his master but also admiring her, and requiring her approval. I should have expected it, I suppose, but the speed at which our circumstances changed surprised me. I didn’t let anything show. I nodded and quickly picked up the cases. It was not any of my business how they organized their affairs. I was pleased that she was coming to live with us; the whole place seemed to pick up the moment she stepped in… I took the bags into the bedroom first. I put them down next to the bed; the prospect of moving all his things to the other room was not something to look forward to. And for what purpose? For how long? It was a man’s room: should I change the furniture? My orange curtains? I remembered how she had looked out of the window the time we came in together to choose a shirt. Was this in her mind even then? (Gunesekera 103, 104 and 105). OR Page 2 of 3 QUESTION 2 — Zoë Wicomb: Playing in the Light Carefully read the following extract, which shows the interactions between two employees in Marion Campbell’s business, MC Travel. Make sure that you re-read the whole section which is relevant to this extract. Write an essay of 1000 to 1200 words which focuses on the relationship between Brenda and Boetie, and how this reflects questions of race and gender. Your essay should begin with a short opening paragraph introducing the novel as a whole. In the first part of the body of your essay, briefly contextualise the given extract, and then carefully analyse the dynamics between Brenda and Boetie, explaining what this reveals about them, and their attitudes to each other. In what ways do Brenda’s and Boetie’s gender and race affect their interactions? How, do you think, Brenda is feeling at this moment? Support all your responses with detailed analysis of the extract, quoting examples as evidence. In the second part of the essay, find one other relevant moment in the novel where Boetie and Brenda interact with each other. Copy down this second extract which you have chosen yourself (not more than 12 typed out lines, which can be added as additional to your word count), and explain what it reveals about Brenda as a person. Again, make sure to quote examples from the extract to support your argument. Give your essay a suitable title. Brenda’s back is stiff after hours at the computer. She raises her arms, holds the stretch, then bends down slowly to touch her toes. Ten times, while Boetie stares at her rump, over which the cloth of her trousers strains as she bends. Boetie addresses the doubled-over body, Are you making tea? Brenda, drawing herself up, says, No, it’s too hot for tea, but if I change my mind I’ll let you know. Milk and two sugars, he says from behind the newspaper. Brenda does not reply; she retrieves her jersey and stands at the window with the garment swinging from the hook of her thumb. Jesus, what is this country coming to, Boetie exclaims. (Wicomb, 42) SECTION B Question 3 – Short Stories “The Company of Wolves” and “Manoka” are stories where characters transform in ways that affect the developments that take place in these stories. Choose one of the stories and write an essay of 300 – 400 words that discusses the importance of the transformation in the story. Choose relevant sections from the story to support your response, and make sure to quote and discuss examples from the text as evidence for your interpretation.
Assignment details: Write a scientific paper about what causes economic growth and/or human development. The paper should include a quantitative analysis of the significance of these causes. The dependent variable is optional, but it should be an indicator of human development. Successful candidates should have clearly defined variables derived from different theories with multiple references. The paper should be well structured, preferably in IMRAD-style. It should be sufficient for a top mark to do a multivariate model estimated by OLS, but candidates who try to do more advanced models should be rewarded.- Please do not take this assignment if you do not have knowledge in Economics, politics, and quantitative social science methods. Also, during the obligatory assignments we needed to use R or Stata, where theoretical knowledge was used to test hypotheses about what causes economic growth and/or human development. You would need to do this now also. I have attached one of the assignments done in class, and some lecture notes. There are also some other resources that might be useful. Again, please do not take this assignment if you cannot complete it satisfactory, as this is a graded assignment.
BI Report – Part B Word Count Max 1000 Words Assignment tasks/description BI Report – Part B (Group) Property Wealth Advisory (PWA) Property Wealth Advisory (PWA) is a boutique client-focused property investment advisory. PWA provides advice and market research on property investments specializing joint owned property investments for clients looking to diversify their portfolio. The company also cater for individuals who are seeking to be a home-owner in the right locations. The service offered by PWA is considered a premium in Australia. The recommendations made by PWA is based on real estate data carefully curated through various means, including data from Consumer Affairs Victoria, Domain.com.au, PropertyData.com.au, and PropertyValue.com.au. The company often advertised its ability to select properties in areas that deliver strong yields with minimum risk (i.e., capital growth in a high-growth area), and/or have the potential for added value to increase future returns (i.e., sizeable land for future development). PWA operates in three states: Queensland, Victoria, and New South Wales. The backbone of the operations is a small team of young and talented analysts located in PWA’s main office in Hawthorn, Victoria. The analysts’ role is to go through the real estate data and write a report on the trends, key indicators, market forecasting, and other valuable insights emerging from the data. An Urgent Task After your report (BI Report – Part A), your manager was sufficiently confident you would make a great BI professional one day. The manager was impressed enough that you have been inducted into the -A- Team of PWA. The A-Team at PWA is responsible for providing critical analysis to PWAs most valuable and high-profile clients. PWA CEO just had a series of meetings with several groups of investors who have indicated a strong interest in real estate investing in Melbourne. These investors have been accumulating funds during the pandemic and now ready to put it to good use. However, they are concerned about the housing market volatility. The news in mainstream media seem to oscillate between the prediction of Melbourne heading into an unprecedented property glut and the worst property-bubble burst against the forecast of another stellar growth in 2022-2023. 2020-2021 have been a challenging year for everyone and for a lot of sectors. The real estate is no exception. It was evident that the Melbourne real estate has ‘cooled off’ in 2020. On the other hand, the recent 2021 property auction results indicates a strong performance and a strong (but somewhat unreasonable) growth on property prices in a number of suburbs. However, this could just be a temporary bounce from a depressed market. These investors have asked for PWA’s insights on the property market. They specifically want to know: • If the REM bubble going to burst vs further growth is anticipated; • If it’s worth considering investing in properties in, closer, or further away from Melbourne CBD; • An estimate of the impact to the value of their investments if the property market in certain suburb/postcodes if the overall property market fluctuates within a threshold of +/- 10%; • Other interesting insights and foresights that can add value to their decision making and investment. Note: Do Only The “Red Point”, Don’t Have To Do “Yellow Points” & Do Conclusion. A special request from the investors: One page (A4 size) infographic showcasing the key findings from the report
These are sophisticated and very critical investor groups. They will not be satisfied being given statements and/or recommendations. They will scrutinize the information PWA give them. Hence, the CEO specifically requested the analyst team to also provide strong justification on every insights, information, trends, recommendations and conclusion. Melbourne Real Estate Market Data Your team will use the same Melbourne REM data you have used to produce the previous report (i.e., Part A – You will negotiate with the rest of the team as to which version should be used). Our Data Technician has scraped 3 years data on Melbourne Real Estate Market. The 2020-2022 data should be adequate to allow the analyst team to conduct a thorough analysis of the data and write a report. The data technician acknowledges there may be missing values and/or inconsistent values in the dataset, but given the urgency of the request, he left it to the analyst team to contact him (he can be reached through our discussion channel: BI Report (Part A – Individual & Part B – Group)) with specific queries on major anomalies the team encounter in the dataset or when adjudication is required due to the differences of opinions amongst the A-team. As per usual, the original/initial Melbourne REM 2020-2022 dataset Download Melbourne REM 2020-2022 datasethas been uploaded in PWA central repository (a.k.a., INF30004 Canvas site) ready to be accessed by the analyst team. In order to help your team making sense of the data, the following data dictionary is provided. Suburb Suburb Address Address Rooms Number of rooms Price Price in Australian dollars Method S – property sold SP – property sold prior PI – property passed in PN – sold prior not disclosed SN – sold not disclosed NB – no bid VB – vendor bid W – withdrawn prior to auction SA – sold after auction SS – sold after auction price not disclosed N/A – price or highest bid not available Type br – bedroom(s) h – house,cottage,villa, semi,terrace u – unit, duplex t – townhouse dev site – development site o res – other residential SellerG Real Estate Agent Date Date sold Distance Distance from CBD in Kilometres Regionname General Region (West, North West, North, North east …etc) Propertycount Number of properties that exist in the suburb Bedroom # of Bedrooms Bathroom # of Bathrooms Car Carport size/capacity Landsize Land Size in Metres BuildingArea Building Size in Metres YearBuilt Year the house was built CouncilArea Governing council for the area Latitude Latitude Longitude Longitude
GRAPIC DESIGN Project case study content The purpose of this project is creating a brand identity for a brand new clothing brand that focus on sustainable and fashionable and design three deliverables for the brand. The three deliverable had been designed and done. 1. Project Outline (Design Problem, Project Objectives, Research, Stakeholders, Process, etc) 2. Project Design Process (what was your design processes and whether there were any issues during these stages?) 3. Project Timeline (critical stages and deadlines and whether they were met, issues meeting them?) 4. Project deliverables (what was achieved? Can you validate the success of your deliverables) 5. Reflections and Evaluations (what could have been done better, what needs to be addressed in the future and how will these outputs affect the project outcomes, how will they affect, influence, change the world we live in?) I have a design proposal and I need to proceed my design proposal to a case study. Will be attach my design proposal and case study example. I will be putting points for the case study needed an expert to detail it and make it more professional content. I will be putting all the contents together so don’t have to do the layout I will do that myself. Here is one of the case study example. https://issuu.com/shelbymoore3/docs/book_final_moores_uocasestudy_2020
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Using Microsoft Excel online or installed version of Microsoft Excel complete the following assignment
NOTE: To complete the assignment you will need to start with this file, Lab 3-2 PHM Reliable Catering Weekly Payroll Report
Problem: PHM Reliable Catering is a company that provides catering services to both small and large businesses. You have been asked to update the weekly payroll report to reflect changes in personnel, to update certain mandatory deductions, and to add overtime computations. The final worksheet is shown in Figure 3–87.
1. Open the workbook, Lab 3-2 PHM Reliable Catering Weekly Payroll Report.
2. Save the file as CS155Week6LastnameFirstname. Ensure that you use your Lastname and Firstname in filename.
3. Delete rows 12 through 14 to remove the statistics below the Totals row.
4. Delete column B. Set column A width to 31.00 and columns B through K to 11.00. Select row 3 and set text to wrap in this row using the Wrap Text button (Home tab | Alignment group), and then set the row height to best fit.
5. Delete the record for the employee Evans, Timothy. Add two blank lines directly above the row for Mi, Emily, and add the information for the two new employees listed in Table 3–11.
6. Replace one of employee’s names with your name. .
7. If necessary, use the fill handle in cell E6 to copy the gross pay formula to the rows of the two new employees.
8. Add the Tax Rates information shown in Figure 3–87 in cells A15:B20 to your worksheet.
9. Change the font size in cell A1 to 28-point. Change the font size in cell A2 to 18-point. Change the font in cell A15 to 18-point italic and underlined. Change the row height for rows 1, 2, and 15 to best fit.
10. Insert three columns to the right of the Gross Pay column. Add the column titles Taxable Income, Social Security, and Medicare in cells F3:H3. Center the contents of cells B3:K3. Calculate the Social Security and Medicare taxes in columns G and H by multiplying the tax rates in the Tax Rates table by the Gross Pay.
11. Federal tax calculations must take into account two tiers of income tax, which are applied to the taxable income. Calculate the taxable income, which is the Gross Pay — (number of withholding allowances * $90).
12. Calculate the federal tax withheld. If an employee has a taxable income of greater than or equal to $689, then the federal tax withheld equals $110.85 plus the federal tax rate found in cell B19 multiplied by the taxable income in excess of $689. If an employee’s taxable income is $689 or less, the federal tax withheld equals the taxable income multiplied by the federal tax rate found in cell B18. Use the IF function to calculate the federal tax in Column I.
13. State tax is calculated as a percentage of federal tax. Use the tax rate in the Tax Rates table to calculate state tax in column J.
14. Calculate Net Pay in column K, as Gross Pay — Social Security, Medicare, Federal Tax, and State Tax.
15. Use the background color of your choice for the ranges A1:K2 and A15:B20.
16. Center the range B4:B11. Apply the currency style with two decimal places, no dollar signs, and negative numbers in black and parentheses to the range C4:C11 and E4:K12.
17. Apply a Thick Bottom Border to the range A3:K3. Apply a Thick Outside Border to the range A15:B20.
18. Change the sheet tab name to Weekly Payroll and the tab color to match the color used as background color in cell A1.
19. Preview the worksheet. In page setup fit the worksheet to one page in landscape orientation
2. Create classes with some of the functionality of a bank account. A single account may have (2) one or more joint owners, but one customer can be the owner of only one bank account (for now). Each of the following should be represented by a class that can have data and functions: • Customer class • Account class 3. • Customer should have the following attributes: Account, Full Name, Work Phone, Home (4) Phone, Cell Phone, Address Line 1, Address Line 2, City, Province, Postal Code. • Customer should always have a full name and also has a default empty string for all of the string values. • Customer should have member functions to set/get all of the data members. • Add validation code to ensure the following: – It is optional for a customer to have an account – A customer must have a full name of at least 1 character in length – One of the phone numbers must be set (any one), and additional phone numbers are optional – Address Line 2 can be blank, but the other address lines can not be blank For each of the above items, write a human readable error message to standard error when validation prevents an action from succeeding. For setter functions, return true if the operation succeeded, and return false if the operation failed. 4. • Account should have the following data members: Account Number, status (can only be (3) one of open, closed, frozen), date opened, branch number, subaccounts • Account should have a constructor that sets reasonable defaults for all of the data members. • Account should have member functions to set/get all of the data members where it makes sense to set the value (add inline comments explaining any decisions to omit get/set functions). In the case of subaccounts add member functions to add and/or remove one subaccount at a time. • Add validation code to ensure the following: – The constructor always requires an account number and a Customer – A newly created account is automatically an open account – An open account can be closed or frozen. A closed account can not be opened or frozen. A frozen account can return to open state and it also can be closed without returning to open state first. – Account balance can be both negative or positive, and must be stored as an integer representing a number of pennies (cents) rather than dollars. – Account deposits and withdrawals must be done using number of pennies (cents) rather than dollars. – Deposits and withdrawals must be positive numbers. – Ensure that the balance can never fall outside of the range of a 32 bit signed integer, but permit as much of this range as possible, including negative values. For each of the above items, write a human readable error message to standard error when validation prevents an action from succeeding. For setter functions, return true if the operation succeeded, and return false if the operation failed. 5. Write a test suite for the above functionality. Use the test suite to verify that your classes are (6) implemented correctly. Ensure that I have access to your git repostory. Please post the path of your git repository to the assignment drop box
Learning and understanding the mechanics of a firearm is important because it allows you to visualize and understand how a bullet (projectile) and cartridge case receive identifiable toolmark impressions when being fired from a firearm. Being able to identify toolmark impressions, compare and identify them to the firearm that they were fired from is a specialty, but it is essential that you have the understanding as to why this type of evidence can be crucial to an investigation.
In this discussion, I would like for you to combine what you have learned from your reading assignment and the attached video. After watching the video, I would like for you to describe in your own words, how your new understanding of firearm mechanics correlates with your new understanding of firearm evidence examination and toolmark impressions.
Discussion Question Response:
Part 1: Please answer the following question: Describe a scenario that this type of evidence can help an investigation. What can be determined with a firearm toolmark identification? What cannot be determined?
People learn about the world around them by observation. We see things, examine relationships, and discuss our observations with friends, family, and colleagues. These observations, without passing through the steps of scientific inquiry are anecdotal.
The scientific community goes beyond observing and speculating. The long-established logical sequence employed by scientists is the scientific method.
The first step is to establish something of interest which leads to a study. This culminates in the formation of a hypothesis. The hypothesis is a testable statement based on observations and relationships which have already been established. It is not based on speculation or guessing.
The hypothesis needs to be carefully worded. The intention is that it will most likely be tested again by independent researchers who will want to document the findings. It’s only when the results can be repeated that theories are developed to provide more widespread explanations.
Many scientists prefer to test a null hypothesis (H0), which suggests that the two groups are the same. If, in fact, the two groups are different, you can reject the H0. Otherwise, you have failed to reject the null hypothesis; this is perceived as support for it.
Testing the hypothesis involves the collection of quantitative data. Quantitative means that the information is numerical. This is necessary so that the data can be analyzed by an appropriately selected statistical test.
After this analysis, the investigators present results and draw conclusions. These conclusions include projection towards future studies necessary to expound upon and reveal more of the relationship in question.
For a study to be taken seriously, its results should be published in a scientific journal. Websites, magazines, newspapers, pamphlets, and blogs are loaded with reports that would never pass the scrutiny required to be published in a journal.
Studies reported in scientific journals have been thoroughly and critically reviewed by teams of unbiased experts in the field of study. Findings are generally not approved for publication unless they have been statistically treated and results can be supported by a minimum of 95% confidence.
There are two general types of studies, observational and experimental. Observational studies are very common in the field of nutrition. For example, there are countless longitudinal studies, taking place over long periods of time, during which thousands of people are being tracked but not experimented with.
One group might consist of people who consume a certain type of food, for example salmon. People in the other group may lack salmon in their diet. Data are collected for each group, for example rates of certain diseases.
The independent variable is the inclusion or exclusion of the food type. The dependent variable would be rates of a disease such as CAD (coronary artery disease). The hypothesis addresses the potential that development of CAD is dependent upon diet (the independent variable).
When interesting findings result from observational studies, researchers are encouraged to pursue experimental studies.
In this example, subjects in the experimental group would consume a certain amount of salmon (grams per kg of body weight) for a period of many years. Subjects in the control group would consume the same amount of an equivalent food, tilapia. Rates of CAD would be tracked over many years. Nutritional studies usually take a very long time to complete!
A sensible follow-up to a food study like the one in this example would be to refine the specific nutrient that might be responsible for a potential difference between the experimental and control subjects. What does salmon have that’s lacking in tilapia? Does a component of salmon offer protection from CAD or is there a trigger for the disease in tilapia that’s lacking in salmon? Is salmon “good” or tilapia “bad”?
As you can see, testing one hypothesis usually leads to the formation of more hypotheses and the need to conduct additional studies.
It is crucial to control variables other than the one being studied. All subjects participating in a study should have equivalent levels of general health, be as physically similar to each other as possible, be either non-smokers or smoke equally, and be taking no other drugs or herbal supplements.
Generally speaking, for any good study, the subjects should be as uniform as possible (age, gender, size….) to try to eliminate the potential for other influential variables. These subjects then need to be randomly assigned to the experimental and control groups; there can be no bias in assigning certain individuals to the experimental group.
Lab Report – The Scientific Method
Before proceeding, carefully read through this lab exercise. You should also read the section on the scientific method in your lecture textbook so that you have a solid background in the subject matter.
Based on observations that you have made in the past, or relationships that you might have heard about, you will develop and test your own hypothesis. Your challenge is to hypothesize a relationship between certain populations of people and some quantifiable (numerical) anatomical or physiological feature related to the course content.
Make sure that your hypothesis is testable and that you will be able to collect relevant data. Remember to control as many other variables as possible. All of your subjects should be in good health, the same gender and as close to the same age and height as possible.
Suggested Studies
The following examples are worded as null hypotheses, meaning that the statement predicts no difference between groups. If, in fact, there seems to be a difference, the null hypothesis will be rejected. Remember that the hypothesis is just a statement that you are testing; it is not what you think or predict.
You are free to test one of these suggestions or modify one to suit your own interests.
Smoking has no effect on resting pulse.Note that a lower resting heart rate is linked to good cardiovascular fitness and that the average rate for a healthy adult is 75 beats per minute (BPM).
Example: “People smoking a minimum of three cigarettes a day for a minimum of two years have similar resting pulse rates to non-smokers.” You would need to be careful to keep other variables, such as age and general health, constant.
You can compare body composition, reflected by body mass indices (BMIs) between two different groups of people. The contrast can be between athletes playing different positions, musicians playing different instruments, male vs. female actors; be creative!
For example:
BMIs are the same between professional golfers and soccer players.
BMIs can be determined from public record of heights and weights.
People on different types of diets, for example vegetarian vs. meat eaters, have similar BMIs. Once again, it would be very important to keep other variables, such as age and level of activity, as constant as possible when selecting subjects.
These are merely a few of countless comparisons that can be done. Your instructor will work with you to refine your hypothesis and help you set up your study. Unless you plan to test one of the suggested hypotheses, YOU ARE REQUIRED TO DISCUSS THIS STUDY WITH YOUR INSTRUCTOR BEFORE BEGINNING WORK ON IT. THERE WILL BE POINT DEDUCTIONS IF YOUR STUDY IS NOT SET UP WELL AS A RESULT OF NOT SEEKING GUIDANCE!
General Instructions
You will need a total of twenty subjects. Ten will be in each group.
All twenty individuals should be as similar to each other as possible regarding variables that might mask the one being studied.
For example, if you were interested in the relationship between diet and BMI you would not want to compare elderly vegetarians with thyroid disorders, who never exercise with young, active meat eaters.
You will collect the relevant data, display results in a table, and perform a statistical test to determine if you can reject the null hypothesis.
What to Submit – all submissions should be in the form of a Word document.
The following are required sections to be included in your report. Grading preference will be given to concise and well-structured sentences that do not stray off topic:
Introduction – This will include your hypothesis and how you decided upon it.
Methods – How you selected your subjects and gathered data.
Results – A description of your findings which includes a table displaying the data.
Analysis – A brief description of your statistical review, using the student’s t test described below. You should report the mean (average) and sample variance for each group, as well as the calculated t value. You may lose points if you don’t show your work.
Discussion – Does your t value allow you to accept or reject your null hypothesis? What are your thoughts regarding this?
Conclusions – Suggest a follow up study for further investigation. What would you have done differently this time?
Instructions for performing a student’s t test
This statistical test will allow you to assign confidence to a statement that you make regarding your null hypothesis. You will only be able to reject the null hypothesis, suggesting that your two groups are different, if the t value that you calculate is greater than 1.833.
In order to determine the t value you will need to calculate the mean (average) for each of your two groups. (The “x” with the bar over it is the symbol for mean.) Designate the group with the higher mean as group 1. The group with the lower mean will be group 2.
FORMULA FOR CALCULATING THE t VALUE:
Measures of Dispersion represent how widely spread observations are relative to the mean. It’s more difficult to demonstrate difference between two groups when there is great dispersion.
One measure of dispersion is variance. Variance is measure of how much variation exists in the population. You will need to calculate sample variance for each group to determine the t value.
This is done by subtracting the mean from each data value and then squaring that value as depicted by the equation below. These values are then added up and divided by n-1, which will be 9.
s2 = sample variance
Once you know the sample variance and mean for each group you can calculate the t value. Assign the group with the higher mean as Group 1 so your t value will be positive:
The numerator is the difference between the group means. The denominator is the square of the sum of the sample variances divided by n-1, which is 9.
As you can see, the t value will be larger with a bigger difference between the group averages and with less variance within each group, making the numerator larger than the denominator.
This means that even if the group averages are very different, if there’s also a lot of variation (scientists sometimes refer to this is “slop”) the t value will be small and the groups will not be significantly different.
THESE INSTRUCTIONS ARE ONLY RELEVANT IF YOU HAVE TWO GROUPS WITH TEN SUBJECTS IN EACH.
If your calculated t value is at least 1.833 you can reject the null hypothesis and you would be at least 95% certain that the two groups are different. If the t value is less than 1.833, you cannot reject the null hypothesis; the two groups are not significantly different
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Directions: Below is a case study presentation of a patient with a condition covered in Chapter 10. Read the case study, and answer the questions below. Some questions will ask for information not included within this chapter. Use your textbook, a medical dictionary, or any other reference material you choose to answer these questions. Be sure to cite any outside sources, including the textbook, in APA format.
An 88-year-old female was seen in the physician’s office complaining of SOB, dizziness, orthopnea, elevated temperature, and a productive cough. Lung auscultation revealed rales over the R bronchus. CXR revealed fluid in the RUL. The patient was sent to the hospital with an admitting diagnosis of pneumonia. Vital signs upon admission were: temperature 102°F, pulse 100 and rapid, respirations 24 and labored, blood pressure 180/110. She was treated with IV antibiotics and IPPB. She responded well to treatment and was released home to her family with oral antibiotics on the third day.
Critical Thinking Questions
Answer the questions below regarding this case study. Do not just copy words out of the case study; translate all medical terms. To answer some of these questions, you may need to look up information from another chapter of this textbook.
1. What is this patient’s admitting diagnosis? Look this condition up in a reference source, and include a short description of it.
2. List and define each of the patient’s presenting symptoms in your own words.
3. Define auscultation and CXR. Describe what each revealed in your own words.
4. What does the term “vital signs” mean? Describe the patient’s vital signs in your own words.
5. Describe the treatments she received while in the hospital in your own words.
6. Explain the change in her medication when she was discharged home
Prepare for your report by conducting your research and outlining your report. You will need to include the following:
Annotated bibliography
Create an annotated bibliography consisting of at least 8-10 sources that you will use in conducting your research for this report (at least 2 must be peer-reviewed journal articles).
The annotated bibliography consists of your reference plus a paragraph (at least 3 sentences) below which describes how you will use this particular source. It should also provide a critique of the source (i.e. is your information reliable?).
Cover page and table of contents
Create a cover page and table of contents which will outline how you will address the questions listed below for the report.
Introduction
Write the introduction for your report and address the following:
A brief history of tourism in your chosen location. For example, is your location a well-developed tourism destination with solid organization and continued growth, or is tourism a relatively new undertaking with little organization?
The present demand for tourism based on a review of available tourism statistics (present this data in a table or in a visually appealing point format – be creative!). Include information such as:
Number of tourists and the revenue they generate
Origin of the tourists (i.e. where do they come from?).
Purpose of their trip.
A description of the key months/key seasons for visitation. When do most arrive? Are there opportunities to increase visitation at other times?
Information about the evolution of visitation over the past 10 – 20 years (e.g. increasing, decreasing, stagnant)
Part B: Situation Analysis & Future Plans
Using the outline, research, and introduction you prepared for Part A, prepare a report for your minister that examines the following. You can use the headings provided below as an organization guideline for formatting your paper.
Introduction and Overview of Tourism
Include content from Part A.
The Impact of Tourism
The benefits that tourism brings to your location.
The barriers to tourism acceptance at your location.
The impact of tourism on your location’s culture.
Tourism Management
Provide a brief description of how tourism is currently managed in your location. For example, are there government departments overseeing tourism in your location? If so, how is this structured? Are there strong LOCAL tourism organizations involved in tourism?
An overview of the training (or lack of) available to tourism employees.
Provide a brief summary of the components of a tourist destination area (TDA) at your location. Examine the adequacy of present supply (the five components noted below) with present demand (level of visitation). In other words, are the following five components of the TDA sufficient for tourism there? For each component comment on what is working and what you think could be improved. Provide evidence or examples to support your statements.
Natural resources
Infrastructure
Suprastructure
Transportation system
Hospitality of the host
Note: If you have selected a location that you have personal experience with, your own experiences are a great starting point for research, but this report should be based on research and evidence. For example, don’t just say that the transportation systems seemed sufficient from when you were there. Do some research and reference your sources to support your statements.
Where you believe your location fits on the life cycle of a destination; justify or explain why you chose a particular stage in the life cycle.
Tourism Planning and Marketing
An analysis of the tourism planning process (i.e. has your location gone through a tourism planning process)? If so, what steps were followed? What key dimensions were incorporated in planning (i.e. environmental, social, and economic)? If no planning has taken place, discuss how this has impacted this tourism destination.
Using the basic 4 Ps of marketing (product, price, place, promotion), in general terms identify how your location is marketing itself today. Identify what could be changed and what could be improved for future marketing efforts.
Based on a review of tourism trends (global and local) identify future tourism plans for your location as well as challenges that lie ahead. Identify these future tourism plans using the eight components of tourism as your framework (transportation, accommodations, food and beverage, attractions, events, adventure tourism and outdoor recreation, travel services, and tourism services). Use the next 3 to 5 years as your planning horizon. *Hint: Use the tourism planning process described in this course and your text as your example.
Conclusion
Summarize your main points and provide a conclusion for the minister regarding your recommendations.
Format for Case Study
All assignments must be typed in Times New Roman font, 12-point size, double spaced.
Submit assignments in .doc or .docx or .pdf format.
All assignments must be professionally organized and presented. Instant messaging (IM), chat and email slang and abbreviations are not acceptable forms of communication in this course.
The final paper should not exceed 12 typed double spaced pages (excluding your title page, table of contents page, references page and appendices). Focus on being concise.
Visuals such as maps, infographics or tables are encouraged. Visuals are not included in the total page number count, as they are not text.
For in-text citations, references page, and title page, your papers must adhere to the guidelines set out in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA, 7th edition). There are many online resources that you can access to perfect this format.
Submit your assignments using dropbox on or before the deadline shared through the course announcements.
You are responsible for ensuring the safety of your work by making regular backups (i.e. extra copies). “The computer ate my work, I lost my flash drive, my hard drive crashed, my printer isn’t working” are not acceptable excuses for late assignments. Expect that you will have technical difficulties and plan accordingly.\
