So what do you think? Does “The White Cat” challenge traditional values or reinforce them? Is it a feminist story

(LINK:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjOtsnlGle4&t=234s&ab_channel=criticalreading)

So what do you think? Does “The White Cat” challenge traditional values or reinforce them? Is it a feminist story, or does it ultimately rely on the same old assumptions about women? Or is it a bit of both?

Respond to this question in a paragraph (5-8 sentences). Be sure to provide specific details from the story to support your position, and engage with one or more of the points raised in this lesson (you’re free to agree or disagree).

Describe the traits and behaviors of effective leaders.

Hiring Leaders

Overview

Hiring people with a leadership style that will fit well within your organization is an important skill to master. For this activity, you will explore what makes a good leader and how you might identify those traits in potential applicants. This topic is one of four aspects of leadership that you will explore for next week’s Leadership Training Webinar assignment.

Instructions

Complete a 1–2 paper in which you:

  • Describe the traits and behaviors of effective leaders.
  • Explain how you can search for and detect these traits and behaviors in hiring leadership talent.

Note: For your assignment due next week, you will need to cite at least three credible, relevant, and appropriate sources to support your writing. As you conduct your research for this activity, make sure you save any sources you might be able to use for that assignment.

How would you begin this conversation?

Suppose that you manage an employee who is spending too much time using social media at work and has missed three important deadlines in one week as a result. You are planning a face-to-face conversation to address this performance problem, and your goal is to communicate with radical honesty. How would you begin this conversation?

Discuss how the organization will change while meeting its strategic challenges in the future.

Targeted Work Class

Write a 1000-1200 word paper:

· Describe the results of your assessment of the work processes and key employees to be addressed in your final paper.

· Discuss how the organization will change while meeting its strategic challenges in the future.

· Include the kinds of workers will be needed; what knowledge, skills, and abilities will be appropriate; what is the compensation system and is it reflective of the market’s conditions?

In addition to the requirements above, your paper:

· Must be double-spaced and 12 point font

· Must be formatted according to APA style

· Must include an introductory paragraph with a thesis statement

· Must conclude with a restatement of the thesis and a conclusion paragraph

· Must reference two scholarly resources in addition to the textbook

Must include a reference page written in APA format

Write 100-250 words in length about EACH of the two images you choose.

Write 100-250 words in length about EACH of the two images you choose. Your analyses should contain proper grammar, be free of spelling errors, and reflect critical thinking.

Image 1:  Marine Style octopus flask, from Palaikastro (Crete), Greece, ca. 1450 BCE

  • Subject represented
  • Stylistic characteristics
  • Function & significance

Image 2:  Lady of Auxerre, ca. 650-625 BCE

  • Medium/materials
  • Stylistic features
  • Function & significance
Explain three factors or issues that contribute to race often being omitted in research on the history of technology.  

Race

After reading de la Peña’s “The History of Technology, the Resistance of Archives, and the Whiteness of Race” and Marijan’s “Algorithms Are Not Impartial” in the Required Learning Resource, please do the following:

1. Explain three factors or issues that contribute to race often being omitted in research on the history of technology.

2. Explain one factor or issue that contributes to race being omitted in algorithmic calculations.

3. Choose one of the solutions that either of these authors proposes to the problem they outline. Do you think that the author’s proposed solution can be effective? Why or why not?

4. Discuss one other roadblock, factor or issue you think can come up in trying to address race and technology in historical research or algorithmic calculations.

5. Use  two quotes from any of your resources  to support or explain your points. Make sure to provide in-text citations for both quotes in MLA format.

6. Provide references for all sources in MLA format.

Briefly explain three things that you learned from these resources that have contributed to the tendency to relate technology to the male gender and stereotypes about gender and technology? 

Gender

After reading Wacjman’s chapter, “Feminist Theories of Technology,” and Todd’s commentary, “GamerGate and Resistance to the Diversification of Gaming Culture,” in the Required Learning Materials, please do the following:

1. Briefly explain three things that you learned from these resources that have contributed to the tendency to relate technology to the male gender and stereotypes about gender and technology?

2. Identify one of your perceptions about technology and gender and explain why you might hold that idea.

For instance, maybe you hold the idea that all car mechanics are men. You think this because you have only seen boys taking engine repair classes in high school, and every mechanic shop you have gone to has only had men working there repairing cars. You have also seen many television shows about racing, and the majority of those who drive racing cars and who work in the pits are men. Also, when you think of “mechanic,” an image of a greasy man in overalls holding a wrench comes into your head.  

Alternately, maybe you hold the idea that women like to vacuum. You hold this idea because you grew up only seeing the female grownup in your household use the vacuum cleaner. You have seen countless commercials and television shows with women vacuuming, and you remember something about the old Kirby vacuum cleaner sales people always wanting to talk to the “woman of the house.”  

3. Finally, discuss why you think there can be such resistance, as exemplified by #Gamergate when genders other than male attempt to participate in creating and using technology?

4. Use  two quotes from any of your resources  to support or explain your points. Make sure to provide in-text citations for both quotes in MLA format.

5. Provide references for all sources in MLA format.

Using your own words and paraphrasing or summarizing, describe what Technological Politics is when it is part of the design or arrangement of a device or system, according to Winner.

Technological Politics 

Langdon Winner argues in “Do Artifacts have Politics” that technological artifacts can have political properties. After reviewing his article, please do the following:

1. Using your own words and paraphrasing or summarizing, describe what Technological Politics is when it is part of the design or arrangement of a device or system, according to Winner.  (Please see  tips on paraphrasing here . Please  see tips on summarizing here .)

2. Choose one example from the article (Robert Moses overpasses, pneumatic molding machines, tomato harvester machine) and explain its political properties, according to Winner. Be sure to discuss who has power and who does not due to the artifact’s design.

3. Find an example of a technological artifact in your environment (bridge, street sign, game, tool, device, utensil, band-aid etc.), describe it briefly, and then explain who you think this artifact was designed for AND who may not have been considered when this artifact was designed. Who do you think might have more power due to the design of the artifact, and why? Explain your assessment using specific examples from the artifact.  

For instance, you could point out that those with small hand sizes, often women, may not have been fully considered in the design of the Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra because it is too big for those with smaller hands to use with one hand. Then, give the dimensions of the phone and the dimensions of a typical woman’s hand to show how this could be true. You could then talk about how those with bigger hands might have more power when using this device since it’s easier for them to use to take selfies, become influencers using it, etc.   

4. Use  two quotes from any of your resources  to support or explain your points. Make sure to provide in-text citations for both quotes in MLA format.

5. Provide references for all sources in MLA format.