Please compose the following assessment of your writing and research abilities, and your interest in the theme of our course. Write one paragraph in response to each set of questions. Use relevant multimodal evidence. This assessment will facilitate communication with your classmates and with me, and will establish the foundation for your self-reflective work in our course. You do not have to answer more than one question per section. Please feel free to answer as few or as many questions as you wish. Remember to use multimodal evidence where appropriate. When you’re finished, submit the assessment to your ePortfolio.

Part One: Your writing

When did you recognize a successful writing strategy in your own work, and how did you see it, finally, exemplified on the page? Explain, and give your best example. Have you had success with particular organizing or outlining strategies, or other methods or writing? What specific element of Writing 39B (or equivalent course) do you find most valuable or best remember? For instance, thesis development, appealing to an audience, understanding purpose, recognizing tone? Arguments constructed on logos, pathos or ethos? Explain, and give an example. What is an area you do well at in writing, and what is an area you’d like to improve in? What is the relationship between writing and learning, for you? Describe the central strategies of your writing process. When and how did you learn them? How have they changed over time and what experiences (in the WR39 series or elsewhere) have been most influential to you? How do you expect to use them in WR39C? Explain and use examples.

Part Two: Your research

Have you worked on research writing projects in the past? If so, describe your project(s) and perhaps show an example. What would be your dream research job? What is the role of research in your major and/or your future profession? Do you picture yourself as a researcher? If so, how? When you think about research, do you picture reading books, going to the library, reading articles online, interviewing people, doing laboratory research, or something else? Explain. What is the difference between a primary and a secondary source, and what is the importance of knowing the difference between a credible and a questionable secondary source? Have you ever disagreed with something you read in a textbook or other supposedly authoritative source? Would you like to develop ways to argue back? Explain.

Part Three: Your interest in our course theme

What is your background and your general level of knowledge regarding our central text? What are your first impressions of the text? What objections, reservations, anxieties, or questions do you have about our text? What do you think may end up being fascinating, enlightening, edifying, or surprising about the text? What kind of productive debates do you anticipate having with your classmates? What kinds of images, music, movies, artifacts, literature, websites, or other sources would you like to study in relation to our central text? If you could ask the author anything, what would you ask? If you could set up a conversation between the author and any other person, living or dead, who would you choose, and why?

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Which of these develops from the Wolffian-system in the fetus

• The fallopian tubes
• The upper one-third of the vagina
• The scrotum
• The epididymis

At birth, with complete androgen insensitivity syndrome are almost always labeled

• Female
• Male
• Androgynous
• Intersexual

Normally, a mature sperm, like a mature egg cell, contains

• 46 chromosome pairs
• 23 chromosome pairs
• 23 chromosomes
• 46 chromosomes

What is mitosis?

• The process by which one body cell becomes two identical cells
• The connections between the chromosomes and the genes a person inherits
• The period of prenatal development from conception until birth
• The process by which germs cells divide to produce ova and sperm

Soon after they differentiate in the fets, the tests begin to manufacture two substances, both of which affect development of the genitalia. Those two substance are

• Testosterone and wolffian-inhibiting substance (WIS)
• Estrogen and wolffian-inhibiting substance (WIS)
• Testosterone and estradiol
• Testosterone and mullerian-inhibiting substance (MIS

Prentally, in most males the labioscrotal fold fuse (join together) to become the

• Scrotum
• Inner surface of the urethral tube
• Penis
• Wolffian ducts

On average, women perform better than men in ___ problem solving–skills, but men tend to perform better than women with ___

• Visual-spatial; tests of fine motor control
• Verbal; describing emotions
• visual -spatial; verbal skills like crossword puzzles
• Verbal; visual-spatial problems

The mullerian ducts develop into all of the following EXCEPT the

• Uterus
• Ovaries
• Upper ⅔ of the vagina
• Fallopian tubes

Which hormone has the most direct effect of the development of the external male genitalia (penis and scrotum) before birth?

• Estradiol
• Progesterone
• Dihydrotesterone (DHT)
• Testosterone

By definition, a genetic male who is sexually aroused by fantasies of his own body being female is

• A homosexual transsexual
• Gyneandrophilis
• Autogynephilic
• A homosexual transgenderist
• Semi Androphilic

Three of the following statemts about trajssexual surgery (gender confirmation surgery) are mostly true. Which one if not true?

• The hormone treatments and surgery creat the bodily appearabce of the target sex
• Male-to-female gential surgeries typically produce more realistic results than female-to male surgeries
• After each surgery, many trans people can participate in sexual activity and have orgasms
• After such surgery, trans people who went in the male-to-female direction can bear children in their uterus (using donor eggs and sperm)

According to professor sandra bem, psychological androgyny is defined as

• Having schema (mental construct or generalization) that represent masculine and feminine characteristics as opposites
• The belief that one’s gender identity is both male and female female (“gender queer”)
• Having both stereotypically masculine and stereotypically feminine traits
• Having brain structures of both males and females

The genetic sex of a child is determined by chromosomes in its

• Grade point average
• Autosomes
• Mother’s ovum
• Father’s sperm
• Zona pellucida

Which of these points did out guest speaker van discuss in his gender lecture?

• Why being molested by his aunt had no effect on his being transgender
• How his sibiling, who was born a boy, grew up to be a male-to-female transsexual (maybe)
• The emotional pain when he discovered that his siter had written a religious booklet about why strict christians should not accept transgender rights
• Men and women’s bathroom behaviors are very different

In 1973, the american psychiatric associa removed which of the following conditions from its official list of mental disorders (the DSM)?

• Homosexuality
• Transsexualism
• Transvestism
• Childhood gender nonconformity

One the phil donahue show video, dr. weinrich ended up in the same side of the argument as

• Dotson rader, who had done research on young street prostitutes
• John de cecco, editor of a scholarly journal
• Frank aqueno, a perfomance artist who insisted that he chose to be gay
• Simin levay, who studied the INAH-3 in the braina

Whose theory claimed that gay men became gay become of “castration anxiety”?

• Sigmund freud
• William masters (and, to a lesser extent, virgina johnson)
• Alfred kinsey
• Magnus hirschfeld

Homosexuality in ancient greece was

• Very similar to homosexuality in native american hunter-gatheres
• More common among lesbian (like sappho) than among men
• Typically associated with childhood and adult gender nonconformity
• Widely accepted and often integrated into the social structure

What event marked the beginning of the gay liberation movement?

• The appointment of sexretly gay FBI head J. Edgar Hoover
• The assassiantion of John f. Kennedy
• The oremiere if the TV series queer eye for the straight guy
• The watts riots
• The stonewall riots

LeVay (1991) examined the volume of the INAH-3 region of the hypothalamis in homosexual males, heterosexual males, and heterosexual women. He found that

• The regions were the same size in the all three groups
• Heterosexual women had the highest volume in that region
• Heterosexual men had a higher volume in that regin than homosexual men had
• Homosexual men had a higher vilume in that region than did heterosexual men

Whixh donohue show panelist alientad many (or most) of the members of the audience when he said that he chose to be gay because he lernedat an early age that “women were not my equal”

• John de cecco, editor of a scholarly journal
• Dotson rader, freelance write
• Simon levay, from the salk institute
• Frank aquino, performance artist

The kinsey scale if measure of

• Penis length, recorded by the subject on a postcard after he returned home after the kinsey interview
• Sexual orientation, ranging rom 0 (exclusively heterosexual) to 6 (exclusively homosexual)
• Total sexual outlet (the total number of orgasms in a particular time period)
• masculinity/femininity with 1 dimension

What are androphilia and gynephilia

• Gonadotropic hormones more influential in men and in women, respectively
• Medical terms for cancer of the testes and ovaries
• New, politically correct terms for :gay” and “straight,” respectively
• Professor kurt freund’s terms for attraction to men’s body types and women’s body types, respectively

Researchers have found evidence in favor of biologal predispositions for homosexuality in which if the following areas?

• All of these areas have provided some evidence of such biological predispositions
• Structure of the hypothalamus
• Prenatal hormones
• Genetic studies of the X chromosome

Which if the following variables is most strongly associated with sdult homosexuality

• Childhood gender nonconformity
• Sex hormone imbalances in adulthood (but not childhood)
• None of these area significantly associated with sexual orientation
• Sexual molestation in childhood by an adult of the same sex

Homosexual behavior in animals

• none of these is true
• Is not really preference of the animals involves
• Is usually dominance behavior of no erotic significant
• Is extremely rare

Which researhcer claimed to be able to change homosexual or bisexual oeirnations to a heterosexual orientation, but probably falsified their data (according to Dr. Weinrich’s lecture)

• Robin fox
• John gagnon
• William masters (of masters and johnson)
• David mcwhirter

Until a supreme court decision in 2003, under what laws were homosexuals generally prosecuted in the united states?

• Larceny laws
• Felonious assault laws
• Sodomy laws
• Discrimiation laws

The storms (1980) model of sexual orientation is different from the kinset continuum model in that it includes which additional category (besides heterosexual, bisexual, and homosexual)

• Asexual
• Pansexuals
• Autosexuals
• Ambisexual

Which populations tend to have moderate to high levels of biphobia

• Both heterosexual populations and homosexual populations
• heterosexual populations but not homosexual populations
• homosexual populations but not heterosexual populations
• Neither homosexual populations nor heterosexual populations

Christine jorgensen was

• A male-to-femal transsexual
• The first female physician to gather secual orientation data from american women
• A gay drag queen entertainer whose real name was jorg christianson
• The owner of the stonewall inn, a famous gay bar in new york

Carl has been in prison for 2 years and has had sexx with men many times in prison. He is a heterosexual populations and has homosexual relations only because he has no opportunities for heterosexual contact. This is called

• Reflective bisexuality
• Heterosexism
• Homophobia
• Situtional homosexuality

Which of the following is not one of hendrick and hendrick’s “style of love”?

• Pragma (logical love)
• Ludus (game-playing love)
• Agape (selfless love)
• Eors (passionate, romantic love)
• Fidelius (faithfulness)
• Mania (possessive, excited love)
• Stronge (friendship)

According to dr. weinrich’s lecture about attraction and love, wedding rings first symbolized the husband possessing the wife; what were the usually made of

• Gold
• Silver
• Leather
• Platinum
• Iron

Suzan married Bob because he is of the same race/ethnicity, has a similar education, and participated at suzan’s lunch. This is an example of

• Polugamy
• Simogamy
• Ontogeny
• Homogamy

Researchers have studied many chemicals in research in the biological mechanism of love. Which of the following have they studies

• Dopamine
• Endorphins
• Oxytocin
• All of these chemical are being studied for their role in feelings of love

According to dr. weinrich’s lecture, what word did dorothy trnnoc create in order to describe a type of love that characterized by preoccupation, acute longing, exaggeration of good qualities, overlooking bad qualities, and seesawing emotion

• Lovulance
• Lavishment
• Luster
• Limerence

What physical traits in women are most lesbians attracted to, according to the textbook?

• Women with large breasts
• All of these
• Women who are heavy
• Women with a waist-to-hip ratio of approximately 0.7

The three sides of sterberg’s love triangle are

• Passion, commitment, and intimacy
• Limerence, lust, and liberty
• Erotic love, fatuous love, and consummate love
• Id, ego, and superego

Which of the following statements is true about cultural attitudes toward female weight?

• Wide hips are valued in very few cultures
• Thin, muscular-abdomen figures are valued in most cultures in history
• In our culture, anorexic(extreme) thinness is preferred by most men
• Some preliterate societies value plump (heavy) women

Sometimes people have relationshipns in sex and marriage with others who are similar to themselves, and sometimes they don’t. Generally speaking, which of the following items, is similar when two people have a sexual and/or marriage relationship in our culture

• All of these tend to be similar
• Ethnicity (race, color, ancestors, etc)
• Educational level
• Age

In animals, the vomeronasal organ detects

• Genotypes
• Pheromones
• Hormones
• Orientation in space (which way is up)

According to one the “truth of fiction” items that turned out to be true, rating of someone’s attractiveness tend to be higher if the person is

• Looking confident
• smiling
• Laughing
• Not looking down

It is common sense that “opposite attract,” but it is also common sense that :birds of a feather flock together” (similar people attract each other). For erotic attraction and getting married, which of these is more often true (according to your textbook)

• Both statements tend to be true
• “Opposite attract” tends to be true
• “Birds of a feather flock together” tends to be true
• Neither statement is true. We cannot predict attraction because it is a mystery

Aging women experience many changes in exual functionning. Including 3 og the 4 listed belows. Which of the following is not usually experienced by aging women?

• Increased desire for sexual relations
• Smaller increases in breast size during sexual arousal
• Vaginal walls that are less elastic
• Less vaginal lubrication

What is the most likely effect of having an infant sleep in a parents bed (co-sleeping)? Although some pediatricians disagree, according to scholarly=by researchers cited in the textbook

• Co-sleeping does not have harmful effects
• Parents who co-sleep with their infants usually have emotional problems
• Co-sleeping with parents is likely to inhibit (hold back) a child’s sexual functioning as an adult
• Adults with emotional problems are more likely to report a history of co-sleeping during childhood

Concerning eroticism in infant boys and infant girls, which of the following if true

• Girls can product vsginsl lubrication, but boys cannot have erections
• Boys can have erections, but girls cannot produce vaginsl lubricationd
• Girls cannot produce vaginsl lubrication, and boys cannot have erections
• Girls can produce vaginal lubricants (although it can be difficult to detect), and boys can have erections

Suzzette is a 4 years old girl who insists that although girls can group up to be nurses, only boys can group up to be doctors. But Suzette’s own mother is a doctor. What is the most likely explanation of this discrepancy (conflicting pair of fact)

• Suzette doesn’t really understand that her mother is doctor
• Suzette was joking
• Suzette was probably raised in an overprotective way, and thus has not imprinted on the actual reality of make and female occupational choices in our society
• Suzette is at a developmental stage where she is recognizing and learning the general rules about male and female roles

Celibacy is

• Having mutiple secual partners
• Living alone
• Refraining from sexual intercource (not doing it)
• The same as serial monogamy

Financially, divorce tends to impact (affect negatively)

• Only people in low-income marriages
• The women more than man
• Both the men and the women equally
• The man more than the women

According to the three movie clips shown in class about children’s understanding of gender

• Boys who wear swim goggles are likely to become comedians
• Children’s upbringing rarely explains their stereotypical beliefs about what mothers and fathers do
• Only the oldest children typically say that both mothers and father go work
• Experimenters often accidentally suggest certain answers by the way they hold the male and female dolls in front of them
• The youngest boys and girls often believe that they can change sex if they want to

The term homogamy refers to

• Opposite attract
• Polygamy
• Gay marriage
• Likely marrying like (birds of a feather flock together)

Where do adolescents get their information about sexuality? According to surveys of the adolescents themselves, it is most often from

• Brothers and sisters
• Parents
• Friend
• Sex eduction classes

Which is true regarding early childhood erections in boys and vsginal lubrication in girls

• These response mark the beginning of freud’s phallic stage of development
• These responses clearly indicate early sexual interest
• These responses are reflexes (not under conscious control) and do not necessarily indicate sexual interest
• These responses are one of the common ways by which children show affection for adults

Throughout most of history, love was not considered an important basis for marriage. The notion that marriage should be based on love become common in the

• Nineteenth century
• Sixteenth century
• Seventeenth century
• Fourteenth century

Punishing children for exploting their own genital or masturbatin may

• Make it more liekly they will guilty about sex in adulthood
• Destroy their chances of ever having a serious relationship in adulthood
• Help them abstain from sex (be abstient; nit have sex) as an adolscent
• Make it more likely that that have will grown up to be sexually responsible adults

According to the textbook, same-gender sexual behavior childhood

• Is a result of gender confusion
• May be more common than heterosuxual play
• Probably has strong influence on adult sexual orientation
• Happens very rarely

Assignment : A Letter to Your Representative

Complete and submit this assignment by the due date to receive full credit.

• Imagine you work in a steel mill in a large industrial city in England in the late 1800s. You live in a neighborhood with other factory workers, and share the same living and working conditions they do. Write a letter to your representative in Parliament expressing your opinions on what the government should do, if anything, about the plight of the English working class during the Industrial Revolution. In your letter, include details about your situation, as well as solutions for
  problems. Include some of the points below:

• Working conditions in English factories, the hours you work, opportunities for breaks, the average wages workers are paid, safety on the job, ages of those you work with (including children), health and healthcare, and what you will do when you are too old to work
• Types of laws that might be passed to address your concerns, including measures that factory owners should take to improve conditions, or steps the government could take to protect workers and insure better living conditions
• Ideas you have for improving urban life such as city planning, technological innovations, sanitation, schools, hospitals, and law enforcement
• How the government’s actions can affect England’s future, including the health, education, and welfare of its citizens

1. Congratulations! You have recently been promoted and are the company’s new Human Resources Manager! You have offices in several countries, so how would you evaluate different compensation packages for employees who are located throughout the world?

Instructions:

a) Main discussion with 300 word length

b) Two Responses for the discussion with 200 word length(First response with 200 words length and second response with 200 word length)

c) No plagarism

d) Three references

e) typewritten in Times New Roman size 12 font

f) double-spaced

2. What are some key performance indicators that are used by organizations in which you have been employed? How did managers explain the importance of these KPIs, and were any rewards tied to them?

Instructions:

a) Main discussion with 300 word length

b) Two Responses for the discussion with 200 word length(First response with 200 words length and second response with 200 word length)

c) No plagarism

d) Three references

e) typewritten in Times New Roman size 12 font

f) double-spaced

3. Power point presentation

Topic: develop a compensation and benefits package that you would like to be offered from your organization.

Instructions:

a.) Need 7 slides not including the cover slide and the reference slide.

b.)Every slide needs to include 100 words in the Notes section.

c.)in-text citation and your reference (on your reference slide) must be in APA format.

Instructions – PLEASE READ THEM CAREFULLY

• The Assignment must be submitted on Blackboard (WORD format only) via allocated folder.
• Assignments submitted through email will not be accepted.
• Students are advised to make their work clear and well presented; marks may be reduced for poor presentation. This includes filling your information on the cover page.
• Students must mention question number clearly in their answer.
• Late submission will NOT be accepted.
• Avoid plagiarism, the work should be in your own words, copying from students or other resources without proper referencing will result in ZERO marks. No exceptions.
• All answered must be typed using Times New Roman (size 12, double-spaced) font. No pictures containing text will be accepted and will be considered plagiarism).
• Submissions without this cover page will NOT be accepted.

ASSIGNMENT-2

Knowledge Management (MGT-403)

Second Semester (2019-2020)

Assignment Workload:

This Assignment is a mini project type assignment.

Assignment is to be submitted by each student individually.

Course Learning Outcomes-Covered

1	Implement knowledge management cycle processes in organization (Lo 2.2 & 2.5).
2	Apply elements of core knowledge and learning organization principles (Lo 2.1).
3	Identify and analyze challenges and issues pertaining to community of practice (Lo 2.7).

Submission Guidelines

• All students are encouraged to use their own words.
• This assignment is individual assignment.
• Be very specific and focused on the issue while answering a question.
• Student must apply Saudi Electronic University academic writing standards and APA style guidelines and review at least three (3) scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles to support their answer for each question or concept.
• A mark of zero will be given for any submission that includes copying from other resource without referencing it.
• No marks will be given for irrelevant details.
• It is strongly encouraged that you should submit all assignments into the safe assignment Originality Check prior to submitting it to your instructor for grading.
• If the assignment shows more than 25% plagiarism, the students would be graded zero.

Assignment Title: Knowledge management cycle process in organizations and significance communities of practice

Note: Each question/concept/ topic must be supported with peer reviewed journalreferences.

Assignment Structure:

Part A.

• Provide brief description about knowledge management processes in organizations. (1 Mark)
• Explain the concept of organizational learning and describe the link between individual and organizational leaning. (2 Marks)
• Describe role of organizational culture in knowledge management. (2 Marks)

Part B.

• Describe the concept of community. Describe its key components. (1 Mark)
• Discuss how communities can be linked to organizational memory in order to foster organizational learning and innovation. (2 Marks)
• Highlight some of the key steps you would need to carry out in order to conduct social network analysis of an organization.What sort of questions could the social network analysis answer? (2 Marks)