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For this Written Assignment, you will need to choose one of the following questions to answer in your paper. Your response needs to be based on the corresponding documents that I have provided below. Failure to rely heavily on these documents will result in a significant deduction in your grade, as the purpose of this assignment is to gain the firsthand perspective from people who experienced these events personally. 1. Martin Luther sparked the beginning of the Protestant Reformation when he posted his "Disputation of Doctor Martin Luther on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences" (more commonly known as "the "95 Theses") on the door of the cathedral in Wittenberg, Germany on 31 October 1517. In 1524-25, many peasants throughout the German states revolted against their noble landlords, often ransacking their homes, pillaging, and murdering. It was their claim that people such as Martin Luther would support their violent actions. Based on his "95 Theses," did the peasants have reason to expect his support? Why or why not? 2. Witchcraft trials have taken place throughout medieval history, in almost every continent, but particularly in Europe and North America. Pope Innocent VIII supported and encouraged seeking out witches and putting them on trial for their alleged heretical beliefs and behaviors. Many others wrote speeches and guides explaining how to catch, prosecute and punish witches (the most famous example being the Malleus Maleficarum). Based on the ideas presented by Innocent VIII, Johannes Nider and in the excerpt from the Malleus Maleficarum, was it possible for anyone accused of being a witch to receive a "fair" trial? Why or why not? (Be sure to base your opinions firmly on the information provided in the required documents. You need to address each of the witchcraft excerpts in your paper.) Your paper must be at least three full pages long (excluding your title page, notes and bibliography). Historians in both academic and professional settings use Chicago style citations in their work, which requires footnotes or endnotes and a bibliography. You are not, however, required to use this format. If you are more comfortable with MLA or APA citations, I recommend that you use them. If you need help with any of the citation styles, there are guides within the APUS Online Library. I also encourage you to ask me any questions you might have. Whatever format you choose, your citations must be correctly done in order to receive full credit. Please be sure to include page numbers, if/when appropriate. Luther, Martin. "Disputation of Doctor Martin Luther on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences." Project Gutenberg https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/274/pg274.html (accessed 9 October 2011). "Witchcraft Documents [15th Century])." Internet History Sourcebooks Project https://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/witches1.html (accessed 9 October 2011).
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personal statement to study master’s degree in social service. The topic is: “Social service approach from perspective of a health care and family care” ( medical, family filed ) Family field : solving family problems, such as domestic violence. Spreading awareness among people through the development of societies intellectually, culturally, socially and educationally Medical field: Preventive level: which works on the early detection of any personal or community disorder, such as early detection of disability dealing with incurable diseases that cause many additional problems of the patient, such as depression, or non-acceptance of the disease. Therapeutic level is the post-detection stage where the social worker prepares and supports people in order to alleviate feelings of anxiety and depression that individuals may experience as a result of impairment such as detecting a person’s disability or addressing a social problem.

Create a mind map of situations that may present to ambulance services as one form of emergency but in fact could be occult self-harm.

Assignment 1: Economic Concepts Please read the power point/pdf and HACCP economics in fish processing plants article by Lupin, et al. 1. Explain why one must calculate depreciation for investments made for food safety mitigation strategies (e.g., a new wash station). 2. If you were asked to estimate the cost of a new strategy to reduce food safety risks in a medium-sized potato processing plant, identify two unique (different) means by which you might gather the necessary data (e.g., conduct a survey, expert opinion). Provide a bit of detail, including, e.g., who would be queried and where you would find the data (e.g., provide a specific Internet address). 3. From the reading HACCP economics in fish processing plants by Lupin, et al. define Quality Cost Index. Explain how this index can be used to evaluate if HACCP systems are cost-effective (benefits outweigh the costs) for firms implementing HACCP systems. Assignment 2: Social Accounting Matrix The Social Accounting Matrix helps us quantify costs and benefits to society of food-borne illness and death. Read the study Tracing the Costs and Benefits of Improvements in Food Safety see attached file. Respond to the following questions in essay format 1. where does the benefit data come from in this study? What are the sources of the benefit? Why do estimates vary? Where does the cost data come from? 2. Which household type receives the most net benefit? 3. How do HACCP costs compare to reduction in premature deaths? How do the premature deaths influence the cost of food borne illness? How do they affect net benefit? 4. How much will the medical sector lose and why? 5. What are five take home ideas (not facts, ideas) that you learned from this article? Each idea should be unique and include a great detail.
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Topic – Planning, implementation and evaluation of a non-communicable disease prevention initiative
This assignment uses a suburban state primary school as a setting for the prevention of overweight and obesity. The task involves an extensive whole-of-school initiative that targets specific stakeholder groups usually associated with a school (pupils, teachers, families, community). Students will work as Public Health Officers working for the state Department of Health on the planning, implementation and evaluation of this intervention. Students will identify how this new initiative will be deployed, what resources, support and incentives will be required and what concerns and/or barriers the initiative may encounter. Students will also develop information for the stakeholder groups and other communication strategies, and outline an evaluation strategy. Importantly, a direct link between the intervention design and risk reduction in the target group must be demonstrated.
Submission will comprise the following (approximate distributions of word count):
Demographic characteristics of the specific school and surrounding community (600 words)
Etiology and epidemiology of overweight and obesity in the target group (700 words)
Justification of stakeholder group selection (200 words)
of the intervention (700 words)
Outline of the communication strategy (300 words)
Outline of the evaluation framework (500 words)

The course project will be a critique and application of the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI), arguably a more complex and inclusive ecological measure of progress and well being than the current measures being used to characterize economic and social well-being such as Gross Domestic Product and the Human Development Index. The following articles include arguments for applying GPI and offer examples of comprehensive applications of GPI; these should serve as the basis of your own examination and critique of the GPI approach to achieving sustainable development: Gross domestic product (GDP) — “the total market value of the goods and services produced by a country’s economy during a specified period of time. It includes all final goods and services — that is, those that are produced by the economic agents located in that country regardless of their ownership and that are not resold in any form. It is used throughout the world as the main measure of output and economic activity” (Encylopedia Britannica online).Ecological Footprint — “The simplest way to define ecological footprint would be to call it the impact of human activities measured in terms of the area of biologically productive land and water required to produce the goods consumed and to assimilate the wastes generated” (WWF online).Human Development Index (HDI) — “The Human Development Index (HDI) is a summary measure of average achievement in key dimensions of human development: a long and healthy life, being knowledgeable and have a decent standard of living. The HDI is the geometric mean of normalized indices for each of the three dimensions” (Human Development Reports, UN)
Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare (ISEW) — “like the GPI, this metric measures personal consumption in terms of adding public non-defensive expenditures; subtracting private defensive expenditures; adding capital formation; adding services from domestic labour; subtracting costs of environmental degradation; and subtracting depreciation of natural capital” (Wikiprogress online).
Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI) — “a metric used to measure the economic growth of a country. It is often considered as a replacement to the more well known gross domestic product (GDP) economic indicator. The GPI indicator takes everything the GDP uses into account, but also adds other figures that represent the cost of the negative effects related to economic activity (such as the cost of crime, cost of ozone depletion and cost of resource depletion, among others). The GPI nets the positive and negative results of economic growth to examine whether or not it has benefited people overall” (Investopedia online).
* conceptualizing and comparing different ecological metrics…from Beyond GDP
On GPI specifically…* a general introduction to the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI);* the GPI Atlantic experience (viewed during one of the first tutorials); PLEASE READ the following three articles linked below and listen to the Ideas podcast:(I) Hamilton, Clive, 1999, “The genuine progress indicator methodological developments and results from Australia”, Ecological Economics, Vol. 30, pp. 13-28; …the GPI as Hamilton (1999) applied it to the Australian economy
According to Hamilton, the GPI (or ISEW) “attempts an approximation of sustainable consumption by setting itself two tasks:…….1. to define and measure ‘consumption’ in a way that provides a better approximation of actual well-being than the simple measure of marketed goods and services that appears in the national accounts; and …….2. to account for the sustainability of consumption by incorporating measures of changes in the value of capital stocks” (p14).
…and here is an example of how to foster bottom-up decsion-making that incorporates community values and approaches to problem solving. and check out the application of GPI to the Canadian economy, including a more critical assessment of the GPI than what Hamilton offered:
(II) Wilson, J. and Peter Tyedmers, 2013, “Rethinking What Counts. Perspectives on Wellbeing and Genuine Progress Indicator Metrics from a Canadian Viewpoint”, Sustainability, Vol. 5, pp187-202.
“[There is] an entrenched familiarity and reliance on traditional economic indicators among established organizations as a barrier preventing wider adoption of GPI metrics. The System of National Accounts has been in use and evolving since WWII. Coming up with an international standard for GPI-type accounting and protocols is a daunting task. Critics of the Alberta GPI accused the work of indicator selection bias (ie. picking indicators that would make Alberta’s progress look poor) and giving equal weight to each of the 51 indicators in the Alberta GPI. The sentiment was that economic indicators should be prioritized (emphasis added)…[and] in the United States (we presume this applies to Canada as well) political interference from lobby groups undermines the development and adoption of new metrics. Many industries feel threatened that changing the emphasis of what we measure will lead to public sentiment and policies that ultimately affect how they operate. Whether it is political interference, society’s general malaise for change, or the difficulty in designing new metrics and models, meaningful progress towards suitable alternatives has been disturbingly slow. Critics have been questioning the merits of economic growth for over half a century” (emphasis added) (p196-197).
(III)…read why GPI is a necessary ‘political strategy’ as well as being socio-economically and environmentally wise; and
…listen to the full episode of this CBC Radio One podcast of IDEAS: Artificial intelligence, robots and the future of work, Part 1. The major written paper for the course asks you to consider the following:
(a) keeping in mind course concepts and lecture materials;(b) supported by authoritative materials you have found on your own; and (c) offering your own informed opinion;
…each student will(1) critique the GPI’s approach to achieving a sustainable society… (2) by incorporating some of the issues and recommendations described in the documentary The End of Poverty IF APPROPRIATE TO YOUR TOPIC; (3) along with ANY environmental concerns associated with the global village that we will be discussing in class;
(4) to make a thoughtful and convincing argument for applying the GPI as a way of addressing the following topic in the specified location#The written project should consist of an essay of approximately 1500 words that clearly and concisely presents your arguments and conclusions regarding the usefulness of applying this ecological measure to help achieve some level of sustainable development relevant to the topic you have chosen to investigate. Refer to the course outline regarding research resources, in-text referencing and bibliographic requirements.#all essay content that is not your own opinion or your personal observations (that is, all secondary information sources) MUST be sourced in your essay to a bibliography formatted using the same style as your in-text referencing; …..do not include more than two or three (at most) direct citations;…..all direct citations must be placed within quotation marks “__” (unless it is a quotatin block) and sourced with the author or agency name, year if APA, and the page number (or paragraph number for an unpaginated source);…..and images, charts and maps in your essay must be sequentially numbered (Figure 1, 2…n) and sourced, including the author or agency name, year if APA, and the page number (or paragraph number for an unpaginated source).HERE IS AN EXAMPLE OF A VERY WELL WRITTEN AND RESEARCHED ESSAY CONCERNING AN EVALUATION OF THE SUSTAINABILITY OF PUBLIC TRANSIT USING GPI. username: maurer
password: geographyhttp://www.geography.ryerson.ca/jmaurer/GEO108_sample_essay.pdf

Malala argues that an education for women should be a basic right. She writes,education is education. We should learn everything and then choose which path to follow. Education is neither eastern nor western, it is human (162). Do you agree that education is a basic right? What does Malala mean by education? What is education for the taliban? What happens when a group of people is denied education?

Using relevant data, explain the nature of existing economic relationships, develop relevant conclusions and recommendations. Must contain a cover page, abstract, introduction, body of analysis, conclusion and reference page.

Why is this person better than the other? Which one do you have more sympathy for and why? You MUST COMPARE them to support your argument. You must use at least 3 pieces of evidence from the text to back up your comparisons and arguments.Im a college freshman in english 101.

How do you respond to the notion that the humanitarian principles are aspirational rather than reflecting current reality?