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Spend 10-12 minutes on this question. Your grade on this ‘summary of our semester’ question is based on providing a complete answer, that will be two paragraphs of 5 to 8 sentences for each paragraph, responding to the following scenario and application. The question has you applying theories we’ve covered to a topic related to assessing your personal growth in the course. First, here’s a foundation for our class: Through effort on your part, you should have a new range of knowledge that has a good chance of being useful to you, likely in another class, likely in your career. Part of making it through a class is–for some students, but not all–to see that you may be accustomed to classes that don’t expect much of you. Classes may have minimal assigned work, and minimal work expectations. (Some of you acknowledged this reality in your final Reflections answers.) Other teachers / professors may use a different approach that also works to help you learn. But, the process of learning is why we should be here, and I believe it’s not in your best interest to instead let you ‘bluff your way through.’ I can also see the over-dependence on AI from a lot of you, instead of people making their own effort (yes, it’s obvious). As I have said, you’re just cheating yourself. So from this described environment, some of you have a completely different mindset than I have about what a university class should be. I accept that some students will be upset that they are pushed to work harder than they’re expecting. I have spent my entire life living the adventure of being fully engaged as ‘a media person.’ It doesn’t mean I’m always great at everything I do, but it does mean I always try to be as good as my abilities allow, and to keep learning. I have also had some important mentors. So, from that described context, now apply something you have learned in this class. We used the term hegemony throughout the semester, meaning ‘negotiating a preferred position.’ Here’s our first scenario: some students’ preferred position may be “don’t challenge me to think more deeply, don’t ask much work from me” while my position is “my job is to push you to see your potential, trying to serve as a caring mentor, trying to guide you toward making yourself competitive from your skills and knowledge for when you’re getting into a career. Second scenario:  “Spiral of Silence” means a person who sees themselves as being in the minority against a majority opinion and may choose to stay silent instead of speaking up. Within that model, I choose NOT to stay silent, but to ‘speak up’ by trying to push back against an expectation that a university class should expect very little of you, and in turn provide very little educational growth for you. Now to the writing about these: Your 1st paragraph: say how you agree or disagree by applying hegemony and describing ways it works to the challenge for college students related to any class they may take. Your 2nd discussion paragraph: apply Spiral of Silence to say how you agree or disagree with someone seeing the better potential possible in college students and speaking up and pushing back against a system that doesn’t work to help each person achieve their full potential and describing ways it works to the challenge for college students related to any class they may take.

Spend 5-6 minutes on this question. Our book set up The Seven Secrets About the Media “They” Don’t Want You to Know” then continued to refer back to the items in the list throughout the chapters. Now, imagine you’re sharing that list with a friend who’s about to take the class, and give your friend an example of several of these and what they mean.

The process of transitioning from work being done by people to being done by machines is known as ______.

Hydrogel mainly contains:

Which of the following are Lithium batteries used in?

THE SIMPLE DIRECTIONS: Do a Room Scan now that slowly shows the workspace / desktop area in front of you and all the area around you in a 360° scan, just like the provided sample scan showed to you. READ THE FOLLOWING MORE DETAILED DIRECTIONS IF NEEDED. NO QUIZ GRADE if room scan is not done or not done correctly. THIS PROCESS IS REQUIRED BEFORE YOU GO TO THE NEXT QUESTION FOR YOU TO RECEIVE A GRADE ON THIS QUIZ. Even if you did a room scan while starting, do a ‘slow and methodical’ scan now: Your full desktop area must be shown, and shown clearly. You must pick up your laptop and turn it around, without you in view, to clearly show the desktop area where you are working. It must be the same view of the space that you see while taking the quiz. To ensure you are simulating a secure testing environment, next complete a full 360°, slow room scan of your testing location. You can do this by picking up your laptop/webcam and moving it around to show your desktop and then your whole testing area. Be certain when you turn your laptop or camera around, you tilt your computer downward so the camera can see the entire desk/table you’re sitting at. If not correctly or done too quickly to show the work area, you receive no grade for this quiz. If you use a desktop computer, you must have a ‘football size or larger’ (about the size of a laptop screen) handheld mirror and accomplish the same kind of full, slow demonstration of your desktop and surroundings.FINAL STEP: ONCE YOU COMPLETE THE PROCESS, mark True if you did the correct room scan using your laptop and mark False if you did it using a ‘football size or larger’ handheld mirror or over your should full size mirror. Grade deduction if done wrong. No quiz grade if you do no scan or for improper room scan that does not clearly and fully show your desktop, or if you fail to write a sentence or two that describes the room scan you just did.

Which is a major advantage of soft robots?

A wave has a speed of 200 m/s and a wavelength of 4 m. What is period of the wave?

A high- speed lifting mechanism supports an 800- kg object with a steel cable that is 65.0 m long and 4.00 cm2 in cross- sectional area. Determine the elongation of the cable in mm. Young’s modulus of steel is 20×1010 Pa.

A sinusoidal wave moving along a string is shown twice in the figure, as crest A travels in the positive direction of an x axis by distance d = 6.20 cm in 4.10 ms. The tick marks along the axis are separated by 13.0 cm; height H = 6.00 mm. If the wave equation is of the form y(x, t) = ym sin(kx ± ωt ), what is the value of ω?