Background

Threaded discussion is a major component of this course. Words are powerful. Be mindful that both the written word and the spoken word can have a positive or negative impact on a reader or listener. As such, address all posts with civility and professionalism. The Civility section of the Course Outline below will be strictly enforced. 

It is especially crucial in an academic setting to contribute to discussions in a collegial manner and support your posts with relevant cites to the textbook. This manner of communication is vastly different from social media postings of opinion-based rhetoric. 

Please use classmates’ names in your posts when responding to them.  For highest performance and points, submit your initial post early enough in the week to allow for maximum exchange.  Then, respond to two or more students with two or more additional posts on two or more different days to see the progression of the discussion throughout the week. 

Discussion Boards (DB) Posting Requirements:
Participation requirements for graded discussions are the same for all 4 weeks:

  Each week, for full credit, you must make at least 3 posts per discussion question according to the following process:

    -(Required) Post a response to the original question (please do so no later than Wednesday so that others may realize the benefit of your comments). 

    -(Required) Post a minimum of 2 responses to a classmate’s response (by the end of the week). 

    -(Optional) Additional posts and days of participation are not required but are certainly welcome. 

Notes and Suggestions: 

-Please support your posts with citations to the textbook. Personal experiences that are relevant and on-point are also encouraged and valued in follow-up posts after your initial post.

-Please use classmates’ names and note discussion topic in your posts when responding.  

-Respond early in the week to generate a collaborative experience.

Instructions

1. View the Module 3 Video below. Discuss the importance of transparency and open dialogue from HR Managers to employees as it relates to Performance Management. (Worth 10 points.

Jerrold Williams (CHRO, Daymon Worldwide) on His Open-Dialogue HR Policy – Bing video

jerrold williams – Bing video

In each additional post, respond in a substantive manner to your classmates’ posts. You may share personal experiences that are relevant and on-point. 

Entity Relationship Diagram

Unit Outcomes practiced in this assignment:

Validate data models.

Describe the process of normalization.

• Create an entity relationship diagram.
• Course Outcome practiced in this assignment:
• IT460-4: Develop information systems by converting design specifications into data structures.

Purpose

Entity Relationship Diagrams are used to help show how information in a system is organized. This assignment will have you analyze data from a business situation, construct an ERD, and explain process of normalization and reasons when denormalization may be important.

Assignment Instructions and Requirements

Avery’s gym has partnered with a partner physical therapy business to provide treatment for some of its gym members. Gym members have the option to participate in special physical therapy sessions.

The main feature of this partnership provides gym members with the options to participate in physical therapy sessions. Each Physical Therapy Session must include a gym member, a trainer, and a therapist. Each session generates a unique Claim. Sessions also need to record the date, time and purpose of the sessions. Physical therapy sessions are billed back to insurance and claims must be filed with each physical therapy session.

You have been tasked with developing an Entity Relationship Diagram to help show this part of the larger gym system. You have also been asked to explain the importance of both normalization and denormalization of data structures.

You have been given a report as an example of some of the information generated by the system, and the file contains the following fields. Hint: unique IDs may need to be created to correctly generate the data model.

Physical Therapy Session

Session Date

Session Time

1. Session Details/Purpose
2. Member Name
3. Member Address
4. Member Phone
5. Member Age
6. Member Email
7. Insurance Number
8. Insurance Name
9. Insurance Address
10. Insurance Plan details
11. Trainer Name
12. Trainer Phone
13. Trainer Email
14. Trainer Specialty
15. Therapist Name
16. Therapist Phone
17. Therapist Email
18. Therapist Specialty
19. Insurance Claim Number
20. Claim Cost
21. Complete the following two tasks:
22. Normalize the data. Organize the information into data fields appropriate for a relational database. Analyze the information provided and normalize the data to create a database model.
23. Based on that information construct an ERD. Use Visio. Identify primary and foreign keys. For each entity, develop appropriate and thorough attributes. Use crow’s feet to show relations between entities.

Explain the importance of normalization: provide a summary of the steps necessary for each 1NF, 2NF, 3NF and importance. A minimum of 120 words is expected.

Write an Explication and Analysis of the poem The Word by Chilean author Pablo Neruda. Following the poem you’ll find a link to how to write a poetry explication, and a paragraph sample written by a student.

THE WORD

It was born
in blood, the word
grew in the dark body, beating
and flew through the lips and the mouth.

Further, and nearer
still, still it came
from dead fathers, nomadic races,
from lands made of stone,
that were tired of their wretched tribes,
because when pain set out on the way
the villages walked and arrived
and new earth and water joined again
to sow their words anew.
And so this is the legacy:
this is the air which connects us
to the dead man and the dawn
of new beings not yet woken.

The atmosphere still trembles
with the first word
formed
in panic and moans.
It rose
from the shadows
and even now no thunder
yet thunders with the clang
of that word
the first
word spoken:
perhaps it was only a sigh, a drop,
and yet its cascade falls and falls.
Then sense fills the word.
The word was made pregnant and filled with lives.
It was all births and cries:
affirmation, clarity, force,
negation, destruction, death:
the verb assumed all those powers
and merged existence and essence
in the electricity of her beauty.

Word, human, syllabic, pelvis
of wide light and solid silver,
hereditary cup that receives
the communication of blood:
here is where silence was fused
in the total human word
and not to speak is to be dying among beings:
language springs from the roots of the hair,
the mouth talks without the lips moving:
the eyes of a sudden are words.

I take the word and traverse it
as if it were solely human form,
its lineaments delight me and I fly
through each resonance of language:
I pronounce and I am and I reach without speech
the silence at the end of words.
I drink to the word, lifting
a word or a glass of crystal,
in it I drink
the wine of language
or the interminable waters
maternal fount of words,
and glass and water and wine
originate my song
because the verb is the origin
and the living channel: it is blood
the blood that speaks its substance
and so is ready to flow:
giving crystal to crystal, blood to blood
and giving life to life, the words.

Here are two links to help you understand what an Explication and Analysis is. https://online.smc.edu/courses/67329/files/15767628?verifier=mplpRCCI8q37f76Zu1ryZI7LbyZZfnQZfe5brtxC&wrap=1

https://www.utoledo.edu/al/english/programs/ma-lit…