...language you have chosen and preview the points you will be making in the paper. The Artifact I Have Chosen That Best Represents the Culture I Live In Today Write your response to this element here. Remember to include in-text citations at the end of every paragraph in which you refer to information from any source, i.e., (Burnette, 2013). Please refer to the APA Guide found under Instructor Guide > Course Overview, Course Materials > APA Guidelines for correct formatting of in-text citation. A Description and Analysis of How (your chosen artifact) Relates to the Values and Beliefs of My Culture Write your response to this element here. Remember to include in-text citations at the end of every paragraph in which you refer to information from any source, i.e., (Burnette, 2013). Please refer to the APA Guide found under Instructor Guide > Course Overview, Course Materials > APA Guidelines for correct formatting of in-text citation. The Cultural Roots of (your chosen artifact) Write your response to this element here. Remember to include in-text citations at the end of every paragraph in which you refer to information from any source, i.e., (Burnette, 2013). Please refer to the APA Guide found under Instructor Guide > Course Overview, Course Materials > APA Guidelines for correct formatting of in-text citation. The Historical Roots That Allowed (your chosen artifact) To Come Into Being Write your response to this element here. Remember to include in-text...
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... 1. What project did you do for you second project? Since we had just finished our second project, I thought that it would be interesting to learn what projects that everyone did and to see how it went. The Fasting project was done by one group member and two other group members did Sabbath project and I did the Service project. We talked about thing that we liked about the project and things that we did not like about the projects. The two members that did the Sabbath project both said that they enjoyed their projects, although they did find it a tiny bit frustrating that during the times that they were trying to commit to their time of Sabbath that was the times that they we most motivated to do homework. The group member that participated in the fasting project said that it was a hard project to stay committed to simply because as a college student you eat when you get a chance or it convenient to eat. I did not find the Service project hard at all simply because I have many opportunities to serve certain people in my life. 2. Did you learn anything about yourself from your project? I, also thought it would be interesting to talk about what we leaned about ourselves as we did our projects. The two group members that participated in the Sabbath projects said that they both learned that we live very busy lives but that some of the busyness that was in their lives was not necessary. They found that it was possible to get all of the things that the y really need to do done...
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... 9/25/13 Dev. Writing II Ms. Harper Kevin Jennings’ American Dreams In Kevin Jennings' American Dream, he talks about some of the major cultural artifacts in his life that made his own social identity. While growing up in rural community in Lewisville, North Carolina, Kevin Jennings and his mother wanted what most people wanted in the 60s, the American Dream. One of the first cultural artifacts that affect Kevin Jennings was his father and his father’s ministry. He was brought up as a Southern Baptist and right from the beginning he was taught in his father’s sermons that, “gay people were twisted perverts destined for a lifetime of eternal damnation.” He knew from a very young age of six or seven that he was gay and that because of his upbringings and his father that he needed to hide his difference and pretend to be wheat he thought was “normal”. This trend of Kevin Jennings pretending to be “normal” followed him in to high school. He graduated from Radford High in 1981, which is another cultural artifact that shaped his social identity. While in high school he again tried to do what he thought was normal. He tried to date every girl he could get his hands on. Jennings said, that these actions were “earning a well-deserved reputation as a jerk who tried to see how far he could get on the first date.” He also...
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...Week Five Assignment Corporate Culture Paper PSY 428 August 28, 2006 Corporate Culture Paper Organizational culture refers to an organization's values, beliefs, and behaviors. In general, it is concerned with beliefs and values on the basis of which people interpret experiences and behave, individually and in groups. Cultural statements become operationalized when executives articulate and publish the values of their firm, which provide patterns for how employees should behave. Firms with strong cultures achieve higher results because employees sustain focus both on what to do and how to do it. Organizational culture is reflected in the use of symbols, artifacts, rites and rituals, language communication, stories and legends. According to Jex, Symbols and artifacts are objects or aspects of the organizational environment that convey some greater meaning. In most organizations, symbols provide us with information on the nature of the culture. An example of a symbol would be an employee obtaining the largest or “Corner office” and example of an artifact would be the Business suit or corporate attire, however, the suit and tie seems to be giving way to a more casual look in many organizations. Another example of how organizational culture manifests itself is in rites and rituals. According to Jex, Rites as described as “relatively elaborate, dramatic, planned sets of activities that consolidate various forms of cultural expressions into one event...
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...EDL 515 Week 2 Learning Team Cultural Analysis Presentation To Buy This material Click below link http://www.uoptutors.com/EDL-515/EDL-515-Week-2-Learning-Team-Cultural-Analysis-Presentation Conduct a cultural analysis of a specific organization by using observable artifacts as indicators of underlying assumptions. Discuss various categories of organizations (e.g., fast food restaurants, churches, public libraries, specialty retail stores, etc.). Select one location within an organizational category (e.g., McDonald’s is a location within the fast food category) for purposes of conducting an organizational analysis. Visit the selected location to gather data and artifacts (e.g., brochures, digital photographs, menus, etc.) to be used for an organizational analysis. Cite your sources consistent with APA guidelines. Gather data on the following: · Physical environment · Interpersonal relationships among employees · Interpersonal relationships between employees and customers · Rituals of the organization · Dress codes · Observable organizational values and/or beliefs Conduct interviews with employees of the respective location. The purpose of the interview is to learn more about the organization’s culture. Ask interview questions that address the items above (e.g., “How would you characterize the relationships among employees?” “How would you characterize the relationships between employees and customers?” “What are the rituals of your organization?”) in...
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...EDL 515 Week 2 Learning Team Cultural Analysis Presentation To Buy This material Click below link http://www.uoptutors.com/EDL-515/EDL-515-Week-2-Learning-Team-Cultural-Analysis-Presentation Conduct a cultural analysis of a specific organization by using observable artifacts as indicators of underlying assumptions. Discuss various categories of organizations (e.g., fast food restaurants, churches, public libraries, specialty retail stores, etc.). Select one location within an organizational category (e.g., McDonald’s is a location within the fast food category) for purposes of conducting an organizational analysis. Visit the selected location to gather data and artifacts (e.g., brochures, digital photographs, menus, etc.) to be used for an organizational analysis. Cite your sources consistent with APA guidelines. Gather data on the following: · Physical environment · Interpersonal relationships among employees · Interpersonal relationships between employees and customers · Rituals of the organization · Dress codes · Observable organizational values and/or beliefs Conduct interviews with employees of the respective location. The purpose of the interview is to learn more about the organization’s culture. Ask interview questions that address the items above (e.g., “How would you characterize the relationships among employees?” “How would you characterize the relationships between employees and customers?” “What are the rituals of your organization?”) in...
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...Communication 389 CSULA Summer 2014 ICC Artifact Two 7/27/14 ICC Artifact assignment: The Cochlear Implant Controversy According to our text in Chapter 7 Nonverbal code and cultural space there are certain aspects of the culture and its relationship to nonverbal activity. Personal–contextual and the static–dynamic dia- lectics. Although nonverbal communication can be highly dynamic, personal space, gestures, and facial expressions are fairly static patterns of specific non- verbal communication codes. Their interpretation will vary depending upon its context and culture that it is being communicated to. The chapter talks about how different the dynamics of intercultural nonverbal communication are across different cultural groups. In this ICC artifact assignment we will examine and look at the topic of The Cochlear implant controversy. The controversy involves the scientific hearing assistance breakthrough device for the deaf community, and whether or not its use and development will be the ultimate removal of and extinction of the deaf community as a culture. The following essay will examine the relevance and truth to this argument and examine the negative and positive manifestations to the Deaf culture from the development and use of the Cochlear Implant itself. The Chapter talks about several research findings about nonverbal communication. Research investigating the universality of nonverbal communication has focused on four areas: (1) the relationship...
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...Assignment 1 1. Classifactory-Historical period: The field of archaeology had very crude beginnings with antiquarians - rich people cavorting around the world searching for artifacts they deemed as valuable, while usually destroying other important artifacts. There was no interest in the context or history of the people, the only concern was finding objects of value. In the mid-nineteenth century the approach to archaeology began to shift towards the development and study of chronologies, igniting what is known as the Classifactory-Historical period of archaeology - an archaeological paradigm that would last until the 1960s.This shift in focus was largely due in part to the acceptance of the antiquity of humankind, the concept of evolution,...
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...BUS610: Organizational Behavior (MOC1451B) Shawna Wentlandt December 22, 2014 Observable artifacts, espoused values, and enacted values analysis discovers a great measure of units to the look which unite to establish total organizational culture. It mentions the broad culture inside a company or organization, and is frequently as well related to for corporate culture (Gimenez-Espin, Jiménez-Jiménez, & Martínez-Costa, 2013). Organizational cultures is the arrangement of the set of beliefs, values, and norms, conjoined with symbols as adopted consequences and personalities, that symbolizes the specific role of an organization, and allows the circumstance for process within them and through them. In this assignment, I will be discuss an organizational culture analysis of observable artifacts, espoused values, and enacted values of my past or present employment. The observable artifacts of a culture are the visible organization linked on them. It consisted of symbolic representation, observances, philology, and interpersonal specs which characterized a sort of living that admits captions, stories, and jargon. Stories are one method of channelizing cultural artifacts through explicating dichotomies, equations, bias and ancient issues. They produce individuality, form firm structures, and apply a feel of belonging (Baack, 2012). Two striking illustrations of observable artifacts that ascend Birch Tree Nursing Home in Clinton, KY is the company's logo of a big tree and the...
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...Cultural Activity Strayer University Humanities 112 Professor Renee Pistone December 7, 2014 Cultural activity has continued to be part be art of the human race since times in history. Due to a major role held by culture in shaping the society, various museums have been set up across the county for remembrance of various historical artifacts and other fine art works. In fulfillment of the assignment in this unit HUM 112, I visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan. The main aims of the visit are to identify the major artwork kept in the museum in addition to the influences of the intellectual, religious and socio-political forces on the arts. Moreover, it also recognizes the use of technology and information resources to research issues in the study of cultures. The visit involved recognition of the main artworks stored in the museum in addition to the selection of the two pieces of art that would be selected for being saved first in case of a fire outbreak. A visit to Metropolitan Museum of Art that houses more than two million artworks representing five thousand years of history carried out on 5th of December 2014 was used to aid in writing this report. The visit began with a brief look into the floor layout of the complex museum layout. As a result, this enabled the location of the most interesting artworks in the Museum. Additionally, a staff curator offered to give me a trip around the expansive museum explaining various facts around...
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...Writing Assignment #2, Site Survey and Mapping: In our site we found artifacts clustered together in 5 different clusters. In the cluster of squares 7B,C we found the most artifacts of all the clusters with a total of 110 artifacts from the two squares. We found almost a hundred thin small shards of either rock or pottery. The pieces had unnaturally sharp edges that must have been man made, most likely by chipping off edges with another rock. These pieces could have been used either as scrappers, arrowheads, small axes or for the heads of small spears. The geometric shapes of the small rocks indicate the microburin technique may have been used to create these geometric microliths. Squares 9-10,A contained 12 small shards of rocks. They were mainly bifacial tools most likely made from pressure flaking judging by the sharpness. Most of the shards were made from rock, bone and pottery. There were also 2 pieces I was unsure what they were made of. They appeared to have possibly been made of mud, clay or maybe coal. The pieces of bone indicate possible hunting along with the many sharp artifacts that may have been used as weapons. We also found 1 isolated square that contained 2 artifacts, 1 oval and 1 spherical rock. The rocks are too smooth to not have been altered. They were both very worn down, possibly from being used as a food grinder or maybe a hammer due to the physical wear they had both received. It doesn’t seem to be from natural formation. Because these two stones...
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...Assignment 2: Formation Processes of the Archaeological Record I noticed a few differences between the artifacts used in the activity area and those deposited as primary refuse, one difference I noticed was some items deposited as primary refuse were packaging for another item like a gum wrapper. Other items were either accidentally left behind or no longer functional, such an ink pen. An old water bottled which was left behind on the table where it was also consumed, had clearly served its purpose and was no longer needed. The male front desk attendant of the commuter lounge did eventually go grab the water bottle that was left on the table and tossed it into the plastics bin once it was clear that the woman would not be returning. A man enters and sits down at the table next to me and he pulls out Tupperware with pasta in it, he proceeded to heat it up in the microwave then returned to his seat to eat it. This man reaches into his book bag and pulls out a metal fork from home to eat his lunch with. The differences between the artifacts being used and those destined for secondary refuse appears to depend on quality of the materials the objects are made out of. The water bottles that were disposed of were a much thinner cheaper plastic than the refillable bottles several students had. I found it interesting to see the students take their empty refillable water bottles out to the refill station and were able to refill their bottles for free, as well as reduce the amount of...
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...Organization’s Background .................................................................................................................. 3 Research Methodology ......................................................................................................................... 3 Literature Review.................................................................................................................................. 4 Findings................................................................................................................................................. 5 5.1 Artifacts......................................................................................................................................... 5 Physical artifacts ................................................................................................................... 5 Information artifacts.............................................................................................................. 6 5.1.1 5.1.2 5.2 5.3 6 7 8 9 Values ........................................................................................................................................... 6 Basic Assumptions ........................................................................................................................ 7...
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...profitable and relevant in the one hundred plus years since it was founded, but how has it remained amongst the top performers in this field? The organizational culture of the company may be able to answer this. The Cultural Artifacts of UPS The artifacts of the United Parcel Service are many and varied, but one above the rest stands alone, that being the color brown. The color itself has been used in much of the other symbology and artifacts of the shipping giant. UPS uses a specific shade of brown which is called Pullman brown. At the time of UPS’s inception in the early twentieth century the height of luxury cross country travel was done by rail. The most luxurious of all the rail line cars were made by the Pullman Palace Car Company, as such brown was associated with luxury. One addition benefit of the color brown for over the road vehicle that frequently travels unimproved roads is that it easily hides dirt and road grime. The color brown has been used in the as a major portion of the marketing strategy of UPS, even so far as using it in a very successful slogan, “What Can Brown Do For You?” You can find their distinctive Pullman brown color in almost everything UPS related, from the uniforms the employees wear, to the vehicles that they drive. Another unique artifact of the...
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...Leadership Skills Assignment - 4 Due date: 20/1/2013 Instructions for Submitting your Assignments 1. Type your name and your ID number 2. Read the textbook for the course before answering any question. 3. Multiple choices; Choose the most accurate choice. 4. Essay questions: hand writing only. Don’t type the answers. 5. Submit your assignments before the due date, no exceptions. Name…Hamad Aldarei…….ID#............................................... Chapters covered; 13, 14, 15 Measurement | | | | CLO 1 | CLO 2 | CLO 3 | CLO 4 | Knowledge | Analysis | Application | Synthesis & Evaluation | Comprehension | | | | | | | | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | MCQs | | | | Essay Qs | Essay Qs | Essay Qs | Essay Qs | | | | | Chapter 13 1. Female and male leaders evaluated favorably when they used a. a democratic leadership style b. a directive or autocratic style c. a goal-oriented style d. a situational style 2. Females evaluated unfavorably when they used e. a democratic leadership style f. a directive or autocratic style g. a goal-oriented style h. a situational style 3. Women were devalued when they worked in i. Female- dominated environments and when the evaluators were female j. Male-dominated environments and when the evaluators were men k. Male-dominated environments and when the evaluators were female l. Female- dominated environments and when the...
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