Tag: Political

What evidence do you see that both Vivian Bearing and her healthcare providers have been socialized to use the Voice of the Lifeworld and/or the Voice of Medicine?

The story of an English professor, Vivian Bearing, who is diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer.

The purpose of this paper is to apply your understanding of these topics to the movie Wit (2001), which features The story of an English professor, Vivian Bearing, who is diagnosed with Terminal ovarian cancer. Bearing describes her experiences as a cancer patient and offers her reactions to various health communication interactions during her diagnosis and treatment.

Carefully watch the movie and answer the following questions, using evidence from the texts to support your ideas

1. How does Vivian Bearing’s experience of social support influence her illness experience?

2. How do Vivian Bearing’s experiences with health care providers support the well-documented trends in patient-provider communication (e.g., physician-centered communication, asymmetrical versus transactional communication, etc.)?

3. What evidence do you see that both Vivian Bearing and her healthcare providers have been socialized to use the Voice of the Lifeworld and/or the Voice of Medicine? Does anyone in the movie deviate from the patient and/or health care provider role expectations and if so, how?

4. How does Vivian Bearing’s experience support Nuland’s ideas about how our cultural conceptions surrounding the “beautiful death” cause so many people to die alone?

Paper Requirements
The paper is worth 40 points. Your paper should have a title page formatted according to APA (7th edition) style conventions, which includes the use of a references page. Your paper should be double-spaced with 12-point font and the length of the paper should be no less than 1250 words (somewhere between 5 and 6 double-spaced pages, excluding the title and reference pages).

Suggestions for Writing the Analysis Paper
A high-quality paper will have strong organizational structure. This means, generally, that the paper should have an introductory paragraph that contains a thesis statement and a preview of the main points of the paper. You should work to carefully craft a succinct, well-reasoned, and well-integrated response to the questions in this assignment. The body of the paper, where you answer the key questions and apply the course concepts/theories, will be clearly organized. The paper will also have a concluding paragraph that summarizes the purpose of the paper and any important final thoughts.

To receive full credit, you will need to apply each theory/concept in detail and provide concrete examples.

A high-quality paper will demonstrate a thoughtful analysis of the key questions and provide a thorough synthesis of the course readings and lectures.

A well-written paper will not have spelling, grammatical or typo errors.

Although you do not need to use outside sources for this paper, you should cite all relevant sources (e.g., readings, lectures) using APA 7th edition style (and include a references page).

Describe how the changes in DNA can become cancerous. Explain the effects of radiation on DNA.

 

Prepare a full 2 pg paper in which you analyze the effects of ionizing radiation on Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) to provide a chemical reason as to

why this might cause cancer. In your paper, include the following items:
o Describe alpha, beta, and gamma radiation.
o Analyze the chemistry of DNA.
o Explain the effects of radiation on DNA.
o Describe how the changes in DNA can become cancerous.

Format your reflection consistent with APA guidelines.

Must have 3 references outside of the text and must have the correct reference page and in-text citations.

have attached the rubric and a template.

You may use a online citation generator.

Identify any remarks that make either of the two forms of Ethical Appeal discussed above. Does this speaker establish his practical wisdom, his commitment to principles, and his sense of altruism?

Journal 3

Greed is Good: The Ethical Appeals of Gordon Gekko

Identify any remarks that make either of the two forms of Ethical Appeal discussed above. Does this speaker establish his practical wisdom, his commitment to principles, and his sense of Altruism?

If so, what does he say to make these qualities apparent?

Does he appear to take account of the values, desires, fears, or prejudices of his particular audience?

Explain how exactly he does that. Make sure you discuss both forms of ethos in your Journal Assignment.

Gordon Gekko’s “Greed is Good” Speech From Wall Street

Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) is a thoroughly corrupt stock market profiteer. He illegally uses insider information and he uses his influence to sabotage various corporations – all in order to take the risk out of his investment schemes. And in his capacity as majority shareholder of Teldar Paper, he is able to manipulate the company in a way that will virtually guarantee that he will make a modest profit.

In this speech, he addresses the other shareholders at their annual meeting where they will vote on any proposed changes to the company. Gekko displays his Rhetorical chops as he discredits the management of the Teldar Paper Corporation in an effort to get the shareholders to fire them. Gekko argues that such a change in high-level personnel will help the failing company to recover and begin to turn a profit. But in reality, this is the last thing in the world that Gekko wants.

He was able to buy a controlling interest in the company relatively cheaply because it was failing. But he never planned to make it succeed. Instead, he plans to drive the company even further into failure so that it will be forced to shut down. At that point, Gekko plans to break it up and sell off the different divisions of it to other companies. Eliminating the experienced leadership from the company will ultimately hurt it, which is exactly what Gekko really wants. He’s willing to betray the interests of all the other shareholders and all of the employees of Teldar Paper in order to get what he wants.

How interesting that such a thoroughly unethical character manages to deploy brilliantly effective ethical appeals in his rhetoric!

Gekko:

Well,  appreciate the opportunity you’re giving me, Mr. Cromwell, as the single largest shareholder in Teldar Paper, to speak.

Well, ladies and gentlemen, we’re not here to indulge in fantasy, but in political and economic reality. America, America has become a second-rate power. Its trade deficit and its fiscal deficit are at nightmare proportions. Now, in the days of the free market, when our country was a top industrial power, there was accountability to the stockholder. The Carnegies, the Mellons, the men that built this great industrial empire, made sure of it because it was their money at stake.

Today, management has no stake in the company! All together, these men sitting up here [Teldar management] own less than 3 percent of the
company. And where does Mr. Cromwell put his million-dollar salary? Not in Teldar stock; he owns less than 1 percent. You own the company. That’s right — you, the stockholder. And you are all being royally screwed over by these, these bureaucrats, with their steak lunches, their hunting and fishing trips, their corporate jets and golden parachutes.

Cromwell (CEO of Teldar Paper):Gekko

Teldar Paper, Mr. Cromwell, Teldar Paper has 33 different vice presidents, each earning over 200 thousand dollars a year. Now, have spent the last two months analyzing what all these guys do, and still can’t figure it out.

One thing do know is that our paper company lost 110 million dollars last year, andbet that half of that was spent in all the paperwork going back and forth between all these vice presidents.

The new law of evolution in corporate America seems to be survival of the unfittest. Well, in my book you either do it right or you get eliminated. In the last seven deals that been involved with, there were 2.5 million stockholders who have made a pretax profit of 12 billion dollars.

[The audience of shareholders applauds enthusiastically]

Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms — greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge — has marked the upward surge of mankind.

And greed — you mark my words — will not only save Teldar Paper, but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA. Thank you very much.

Discuss the costs and benefits associated with these ideas using two or more selections.

 

1. Every story and essay in this section of the class deals with the conflict between the real and the ideal. Compare/contrast three of the selections and specifically look at how the characters handle the problems and challenges associated with their identities and situations.

2. Many of these stories and essays are focused on the way American society welcomes or excludes the various Ethnicity that make up our country. Choose three of them and discuss how their characters handle these difficulties.

3. From our laws to our social/moral code, it can be argued that America is obsessed with both the notions of exceptionalism and equality.

Discuss the costs and benefits associated with these ideas using two or more selections.

You are also required to use one outside source to provide additional support for your argument.

Remember that you must include all sources in your works cited page as well as Parenthetically cite them where they appear in your paper.

Describe how your project will improve services or outcomes and distinguish the organization from their competitors.

Innovative Healthcare Initiative

Your Business Case Plan should be based on the information that you learn within your clinical facility. Be sure to review the mission, vision, and values to understand the organizations purpose and culture. Based on your interpretation of the organization, what opportunities have you discerned that could improve their services?

Remember, you are not writing a BCP for a board of directors; that would take more time and resources than we have at our disposal and exceeds the boundaries of this course.

However, you are expected to follow the outline of the BCP and provide the required elements as outlined in the assignment instructions and grading rubric.

See the Course Schedule for the due date. Follow the guidelines below to complete your Business Case Plan.

Review the Business Case Plan Rubric [DOCX] for grading criteria and guidelines for creating your plan.
Use the following headings in your plan:

Executive summary

The primary purpose of the executive summary, the first section of the BPC, is to provide a condensed overview of the main document and capture the attention of the reader(s), and key stakeholder(s)

While the executive summary is the first section of a BCP, it should be written after you complete the other sections; remember it summarizes the entire presentation.

Define the Proposal
The purpose of this should be enumerated in three subsections:

1) Provide a factual summary of the current situation or environment;

2) Provide a clear analysis of the problem; and

3) Identify the solution. It is important to provide the reader with a clear picture of why you are making this proposal and then to help them understand the problem.

It is vitally important to align the organization’s mission, vision, and goals with your proposal

Clearly portray your solution to the problem through a relatively succinct description

Describe how your project will improve services or outcomes and distinguish the organization from their competitors.

Presentation of Options

This section focuses on brainstorming ideas and identifying alternative solutions to address and resolve the identified problem.; you are presenting the reader with options.

At a minimum, present the reader with two additional options to counterbalance the proposed option.

If one of your choices includes a status quo option, one that requires no change from the current situation, it is important to connect the consequences of doing so with the organization and how it will or will not address the problem being faced.

Market Analysis and Opportunity

This section will focus on the environment in which you plan to establish and grow your proposed idea(s) if approved. The market analysis may be internal (within your organization) or external (within the community environment).

Most nursing proposals are based upon inter-organizational (internal) analysis rather than external analysis.

Goals and Objectives

Consider what it is that you want to accomplish with this proposal Clearly describe your expectations for success and how that success will be identified and measured for key stakeholders.

Goals are generally broad and long-term as they determine the direction that you want to take.

Objectives are more detailed and define the specific, measurable actions that must be taken to achieve the overall goal.

It is important that goals and objectives are written in specific, measurable, and time-bound terms.

You may have multiple objectives that support the achievement of one goal.
Performance measures are the strategies that define the how, the actions, taken to meet identified objectives. They quantitatively assess each objective.

Each objective may have one or more performance measures that are used to determine if the objective has been achieved or not.

Implementation Plan and Timeline

Building on the identified goals and objectives, it is important to develop a detailed implementation plan that includes important milestones and deliverables with expected dates of completion.

Follow up any narrative descriptions of the implementation plan with a table to illustrate data

Key stakeholders will need to understand the resources required to implement the project in terms of financial, physical, and human capital support

Evaluation of the Program

This section will describe the evaluation plan for on-going assessment, measurement, and assurance of quality outcomes.
Performance measures should include both financial and service outcomes in their metrics for measurement and align with established goals and objectives for the proposal.

Financial Data and Projections

In this section you will need to provide a comprehensive financial picture of the project with budgetary assumptions and performance expectations clearly outlined.

In nursing, the BCP is typically focused on services, interdepartmental improvements or changes. As such, the financial analysis for the interdepartmental proposal has focused on expected revenue in the form of improved reimbursement or expanded service lines.

Projected costs of the proposed project- renovation of physical space, equipment, and salaries are offset by cost savings in decreased overtime or premium pay or better reimbursement rates.

This information will help you and your key stakeholders to decide if your proposal is worth initiating, or if you need to reevaluate key assumptions. It is important to prepare projections that both realistic and inclusive, but also account for any known financial risks.

Identify Risks Key stakeholders and decision makers will be looking for a comprehensive analysis of risk that addresses three aspects:

1) a detailed discussion of risks related to the identified problem as noted in the Proposal section,

2) a detailed discussion of risk as they relate to each of the identified options noted in the Presentation of Options section, and

3) describe risks in terms of proceeding or not proceeding with your proposal. Risks should be described in easy to define terms and address the likelihood of their occurrence.
Consider threats and opportunities that you identified in the Market

Analysis and provide a discussion of them here.
Benefits can be defined as savings in terms of revenue, productivity, and improved reimbursement rates that are the result of improving outcomes and achieving greater efficiency in processes.

Recommendation – Based on the financial analysis, present your final recommendation and explain your rationale. Highlight the benefits and costs involved and point out how the recommended solution clearly demonstrates the greatest ROI
Include a table to summarize financial information

Summary/conclusion

Emphasize the crucial parts of your BCP that you want key stakeholders and decision-makers to remember after the presentation.

This is a persuasive argument, your last chance to sell your idea and convince them that your proposal has merit and should be approved.

Highlight the strengths of the proposal and critical points.

Review the problem in terms of why the proposal is so important.

Remind them of the possible solutions and the benefits and risks of each.
Point out the return of investment highlighting why your proposal is the most efficient, effective option for the organization.

Lastly, based on the information presented state your final recommendation.

Note: When using tables you may include them as an addendum so as not to exceed the page limit.

Identify the role that individuals within organizations hold in relation to the successful planning and implementation of interventions.

The application of applied behavior analysis (ABA) in organizations.

In this assignment, you will play the role of a behavior-consulting intern. You are working as a behavior consulting intern for Acme, Inc. Your company is taking on a new client, Shoreside Community-Based Residential Facility. You will prepare a presentation consisting of a narrated Power Point addressing the following scenario.

Scenario: Shoreside Community-Based Residential FacilityShoreside would like your company to provide consultation in their unit for adults with traumatic brain injury. Shoreside management and staff have expressed a concern over increasing rates of disruptive behavior during community outings and have had little success with their current interventions. They believe they may need assistance with staff training and behavior management Techniques.The company uses some Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) with their clients but has never used ABA at an organizational level. The Director recently learned about Organizational Behavior Management (OBM) and wants to know more about how basic concepts of ABA could be used at Shoreside. The Director of Shoreside believes this would be an effective way to address the problems within the organization.You have been tasked with conducting a preliminary assessment using the first few steps of the problem-solving model: Pinpointing and Measurement, as well as providing an overview of what the process will look like at Shoreside. Your manager has asked you to make a presentation to management and staff to provide more information about OBM and how fundamental principles of behavior can be used in the organization. Additionally, Shoreside is skeptical that the same principles they use with their clients could be applied to staff within the organization.

Using what you have learned about OBM and fundamental principles of behavior, you must create a narrated PowerPoint presentation (minimum of 12 slides) consisting of the following:

Provide an overview of Organizational Behavior Management (OBM):

Define and describe OBM.
Identify and describe at least one specific application of OBM that is applicable to the above organization.
Provide an overview of the problem-solving process:

Describe the steps of a behavior analytic problem-solving model for organizations.

Identify the role that individuals within organizations hold in relation to the successful planning and implementation of interventions.

Describe how problems are prioritized and addressed.

Define and describe fundamental principles of behavior and provide

examples of how this is applied on an organizational level. Use non-technical language, when possible, so that all those attending the meeting understand your discussion:

Reinforcement and punishment
Define positive and negative reinforcement and punishment.
Provide general examples illustrating the principles.
Utilize the ABC Model and conduct a PIC/NIC analysis for one behavior using the following information from an observation at shoreside:

re with 2 staff members and a group leader. One client started engaging in grabbing items off the shelf and yelling. Staff member #1 immediately yelled at the client, which is not the correct protocol reviewed by the behavior analyst prior to the outing. The Group Leader saw this and then turned away and began talking to Staff member #2. Staff member #2 gave attention to another client for asking to look at items before picking them up. The Group Leader was observed to be holding his phone and scrolling through social media throughout the remainder of the outing.

ABC (PIC/NIC) Analysis
Provide one example of a PIC/NIC analysis for Shoreside utilizing the following table in your presentation to organize the information.
Antecedents

Consequence

P/N

I/F

C/U

The problem performance (occurring now): List the staff behavior for change here

The desired performance: List the desired staff behavior here

Reinforcement and Punishment
Describe the result of the PIC/NIC analysis.
Discuss the roles of positive and negative reinforcement.
5. Identify 1 pinpoint for change at Shoreside and identify the measurement to be used.

Include an operational definition for the staff behavior to be changed.
Describe how behavior will be measured by selecting a measurement type, i.e., frequency, duration, and how the data will be collected.
6. Introduce the next steps in the problem-solving process:

Provide a general overview of the problem-solving process
Include a research question related to a potential intervention based on the pinpoint identified.
Describe why using a behavior analytic approach on all levels of the organization is preferred over a non-scientific approach and how the principles of ABA can be used to improve performance in organizations.
Narrated Power Point:

Create a 5–10-minute presentation by narrating your Power Point slides. Your narration should share key ideas expanding on the bullet points located on each of your Power Point slides.
Write your speaking points from your narration of your presentation in the notes section for each corresponding slide.
Draw from the course material and briefly elaborate on the concepts covered in each slide.
Presentation should be a high quality and professional presentation that would be presented by a behavior analyst in the given scenario.
Your PowerPoint presentation should have an APA Style title page and reference page. The sources of the information used in the preparation of your presentation should be cited with in-text citations in APA Style and should be reflected on your reference page.

Your PowerPoint should be a minimum of 12 slides in length, not including title and reference pages, include proper APA formatting (including properly formatted headings for each section of your plan), and include at least two academic references (including your course text)

Identifying and measure risk in portfolio, and adjust these risks and create a new portfolio with these adjustments.

Investment Asset Portfolio, Risk management, Finance

Analysing the performance of a fund (investment portfolio). Measuring the funds’s performance through capital /dividend/interest.

Identifying and measure risk in Portfolio, and adjust these risks and create a new portfolio with these adjustments.

Discuss the elements in the management of change. Identify the similarities and the differences as highlighted by all these articles and in relation to human resources management.

Change management implementation within organisations

You are required to review between 10 to 15 academic journal articles on how to manage change in an organization (example, Business, Non-Profit Organisation (NGO) and or communities). The central question is “How can change be successfully implemented in an organization”? putting the emphases on the human resources management and the changes it goes through during that change period.

The Proposed Report structure
1. Executive Summary
To include introduction and background of the study. The introductory paragraph is to cover the topic reviewed, the number of articles reviewed and the aim of the review

2. Literature reviews
Provide in a summary form, the literature of the articles reviewed. You are to explain what these articles are saying about the topic of study. Quotations are required in this section. For example, According to John (2020), he mentioned that change management is necessary as it allows organisations to adapt to the changes in the external environment
3. Body
1: Define the term change management and provide an example.
2: Discuss the elements in the management of change.
3: Identify the similarities and the differences as highlighted by all these articles and in relation to human resources management.
4: Identify the gaps by evaluating the findings and linking them together to make sense out of your findings

In answering this section consider the questions of what, why, where and how changes happen in organisations.

4. Conclusion You are to provide a conclusion by answering the reason for the study, summarise your main findings and provide your opinion

5. Reference and Bibliography Provide the list of the references or Bibliography from your articles, a minimum of 10 and maximum of 15 journal articles

What distinguishes a hate crime from, say, a merely malicious or hateful act? Was your case an example of a symbolic or actuarial bias offense?

Conceptualization of What Constitutes a Hate Crime
The purpose of this assignment is to provide you with an opportunity to think about hate crimes by trying to conceptualize what is meant by the term and whether or not definitions of hate crime should or should not include select provisions (e.g., race, sexual orientation, gender, disability, celebrity, political affiliation, etc.).

Requirements:
Find a recent hate crime case (from January 2015 until the present) in a reputable newspaper (New York Times, LA Times, Chicago Tribune, etc.) and link the article in the Works Cited of your paper. This case must be from the United States and must have ended: plea bargain, guilty verdict, found innocent, etc. No papers about cases without verdict, for example: Charlottesville.

Using the case you’ve found, consider the ideas and examples presented in class. Having considered this material (lecture and readings), summarize the case (max. 1-page summary) and then answer the following types of questions in an essay format:
1.What constitutes a hate crime?
2.Why is the case you find not simply a “parallel” crime?
3.How do we know a hate crime when we see one?
4.What evidence was present in your case?
5.What distinguishes a hate crime from, say, a merely Malicious or hateful act?
6.Was your case an example of a symbolic or actuarial bias offense?
7.How does the law handle the issue of “motivation” or “intention” in respect to your case?
8.Do you believe the outcome of the case was fair? Why or why not? Use evidence.

What is the typical state of mind of those who experience these emotions? That is, what do you imagine are the basic feelings that, when combined, give rise to those emotions?

The Pathetic Appeal in King Henry’s “Band of Brothers” Speech

The following speech is taken from Shakespeare’s play, Henry V (Henry the Fifth). Here, the army of King Henry is preparing to face the forces of France, who vastly outnumber his own dwindling forces. In order to check on the morale of his troops, Henry has disguised himself as a common soldier to move among his men and eavesdrop on their conversations. He learns that they are very much afraid and that some of them wish to break ranks and run. One of his generals, the Earl of Westmorland, cries out that he wishes they had another 10,000 soldiers so that it would at least be a fair fight. At that moment, Henry throws off his disguise and presents the following speech, chock-full of pathetic appeal, in order to invoke the particular emotions that will prepare his men for the bloody fight against a superior force. Henry’s army will win this battle, which will be decisive and end the war with victory going to England. This speech, Shakespeare implies, was instrumental in securing Henry’s victory over the full might of the French army.

Your assignment is first of all to identify the particular emotions Henry invokes and then to discuss the particular way in which he invokes them. For this second task, ask yourself

A) What is the typical state of mind of those who experience these emotions? That is, what do you imagine are the basic feelings that, when combined, give rise to those emotions?

B) What vivid images associated with those feelings does Henry paint in the minds of his men? And C) towards whom are each of these emotions directed?

(Assignment length: approximately 300 words)

“Band of Brothers” Speech
from Henry V by William Shakespeare

WESTMORELAND. O that we now had here
But one ten thousand of those men in England
That do no work to-day!

Rubric
Journal Rubric
Journal Rubric
Criteria Ratings
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeFocus
Journal establishes and sustains a narrow focus on the particular Rhetorical elements at work in the reading selection as assigned.
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeDevelopment
Thesis is well supported with examples from the reading selection. Analysis is accurate, reflects an understanding of the reading, and is as detailed as the word count allows. The elements of rhetorical theory assigned in the corresponding unit are used to generate genuine insight into the piece of literature being examined.
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeStyle
An advanced level of written fluency is demonstrated. Writing not only clearly express thoughts, but employs the resources of sentence-structure and vocabulary to refine and arrange those thoughts.
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeResearch and Documentation
Essay distinguishes ideas of the author from the ideas of other writers. Paraphrase, quotations, citations and formatting are compliant with MLA conventions of documentation.
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeMinimum Requirements
To be awarded credit towards the completion of this course, assignment must meet the required word count, not be plagiarized, and/or excessively weak in Focus, Development, Documentation and/or Style.