Write a letter to the Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation exploring the ethos of gender construction as it is presented in this company’s 2006 movie, Bratz Passion 4 Fashion Diamondz. Focus on the construction of masculinity, femininity or both, and employ ideas of theorists such as Mary Wollstonefraft, John Stuart Mill, Virginia Wolf, Margaret Mead,Claude Levi-strauss, or Germaine Greer.
What is your school decided not to give any more quizzes, test, or grades to students? What could be the reasons for such a decision? What would be the effects?
For this assignment, analyze at least three health care practices that create conflicts of interest for the stakeholders involved (e.g., physicians who receive samples from drug representatives). For each practice analyzed, develop and propose one strategy (or strategies) that would eliminate these conflicts. From an ethical standpoint, include your overall recommendations for eliminating conflicts of interests in the three areas that you selected with specific evidence and support from the literature.
Your paper must be five double-spaced pages (excluding title and reference pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. Utilize a minimum of two to four scholarly sources that were published within the last five years, and cite them in APA format.
Is America a Village? In M. Night Shyamalan’s The Village, the inhabitants are seeking a better life for themselves and
their children, seeking freedom from the kind of greed and violence that caused them such harrowing
loss and pain. Have they achieved their goal? Has America?
Assignment: Write an essay in which you construct your own vision of America, engaging the texts we
have read this term to write your response to the implicit question this course asks: What is your
response to the way America has been imagined and how do you imagine America?
Ideas to Consider: This semester we started with a sermon that imagined the Massachusetts Bay Colony
as city upon a hill, a Christian model of charity that fulfilled a covenant with God to create
a new, more pure way of life with a greater commitment to God. We moved onto the ways America has
been imagined since then, the cleavages wrought by the civil war and slavery, and how that has
impacted race relations as they are represented in the film and literature of the twentieth century.
We have reviewed the Great Depression, World War II, the Cold War and now, with 2004, the
“war on terror.” We have read some of the most important literature and non-fiction of the century,
including W.E.B. DuBois, John Dos Passos, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison and Shirley Jackson.
We have watched some of the more significant films of the century, including Birth of a Nation,
Sullivan’s Travels, The Manchurian Candidate, and now The Village. What is your response to these
representations? Have we become a city upon a hill, a beacon of freedom? Applying Foucault to
these texts, do they suggest that we have become a perverse version of what Winthrop imagined
in 1630 when he said: “We shall be as a city upon a hill, the eyes of all people are upon us?”
Have we become subjects of that gaze, divided and fragmented from one another? Or are we instead,
as Pratt suggests, developing methods of questioning the legitimacy of those with power over us,
creating a contact zone in which we “clash and grapple” with one another? Are we neither of these
extreme visions but something in between, something more complicated?
Reminders: Final draft must be at least five pages long, contain an introductory paragraph and a
central thesis or argument. Each paragraph must have a project, a point that the rest of the
paragraph works to support/elucidate through engagement (quotation and analysis or detailed
description) with, preferably, multiple texts (may pick and choose among texts that best support
your idea). Please include a concluding paragraph as well in which you answer: What does
it all mean?,” taking a macro-view of the issues/ideas raised in your paper.
Pick an infectious disease in which you are interested in, such as Tuberculosis, AIDS, the Bird Flu,Anthrax, or Chickenpox. This infectious disease must be different from your “Disease in the News”
Infectious disease. As part of your investigation, select a population of interest. For example,
A particular race or ethnicity and how they relate to your infectious disease. In a 1,400-1,750
Word paper explore the social and cultural aspects of the disease. Include the following information:
Describe the agent of disease.
Describe the factors that make this particular population vulnerable to the disease.
Describe environmental factors that make the population vulnerable to the disease.
d.What are the modes for disease transmission?
e.What methods are used to control the spread of the disease? Are there alternative methods used bythe selected population for treatment? What is the effect of alternate treatments?
What role do social and/or cultural influences play in the disease for a particular population?
What are the effects of the populations’ beliefs and values have on treatment options?
Working on the same two facilities that you identified in W3 Assignment 2, prepare a 7 page report in a Microsoft Word document including the following:
Describe the roles and responsibilities of the administration in each department of your chosen facilities.Identify and list the sources of financing available to consumers for the various programs provided by your chosen facilities. Identify the key public and private sources of reimbursement available. Also discuss the role played by managed care and its impact on long-term care reimbursement.Describe the various government and private resources available that assist in developing and maintaining quality improvement programs in your chosen facilities. Describe the ways in which quality and cost are controlled in your chosen facilities. Also discuss the ethical aspect of access to care in the facilities, including rationing.
Based on your observations and learning from the two facilities, discuss the changes brought in the long-term care system to make it reach full status as a competition-driven system. You may include the following points in your discussion:
Discuss the changes made in the control mechanisms (external and internal) in order to control the management, financing, and quality in the long-term care systems.Discuss the changes taking place in long-term care reimbursement system in order to provide better reimbursement options both to consumers and providers.Discuss the changes made in the efforts of providers to accommodate changing magnitude of the day-to-day needs of long-term care consumers.
Jimmy Richardson is a 15-year-old Centervale high school freshman with no past criminal history. He currently works part-time at a local retail establishment. The local police believe Richardson is involved with a local gang. They also suspect him of having used drugs in school.
Richardson and a friend are caught stealing $150 from a local gas station. The arresting officer smells alcohol on both Richardson and his friend. Richardson expresses regret for his actions and comments to the police and the court staff that he has been depressed lately because of his parents’ impending divorce.
The judge presiding over Richardson’s case decides to place Richardson on probation instead of sentencing him to confinement. However, before this sentence can be finalized, a document called a probation agreement needs to be prepared and authorized by the court. Essentially, a probation agreement is a contract of sorts between the probationer, the probationer’s parents (in the case of juvenile probation), and the judge, and it outlines what is expected of the juvenile while on probation.
Elements of the probation agreement generally include basic information about the defendant (his or her name, the court out of which the defendant is serving his or her probation, and the offense). Other common elements are the general conditions of probation, which are the terms, rules, and guidelines required of all probationers (these are typically the same for all probation agreements within a particular jurisdiction), and special conditions of probation, which are terms specific to each individual probationer. Special conditions of probation are based on the circumstances pertaining to the defendant’s arrest and conviction.
Tasks:
You are a juvenile probation officer assigned to Richardson’s case. Using the template provided, prepare a probation agreement for the adjudicating judge to review.
Click here to download the template.
In your agreement, list the general conditions (conditions that apply to all probationers) as well as any special conditions (conditions that apply only to Richardson in this particular case) that are appropriate.
Use the juvenile probation agreement forms found at the following links as guides to select proper general and special conditions:
Review Juanita’s World Parts 1-5, which are found in the Weeks 1 and 2 lectures, and write a 5-7 page paper. Pretend you are Juanita and develop a human resource plan to share with your boss. Develop a scenario which analyzes and summarizes the current situation for the employer. You are to create details that make this scenario more realistic and support your response to the issues and questions presented below.
Your paper should include the following:
Write a 5 to 7-page paper in Word format. Use at least three resources to justify your responses. Apply current APA standards for writing style to your work.
Please describe two instances of intentional, and two instances of unintentional, environmental injustice described in the reading. Think back to your own experiences and identify at least one personal encounter you have had with environmental injustice. Which of the examples from the reading resonated most with you, given your own experience?
The Final Paper for this course is an opportunity to demonstrate your knowledge of children’s cognitive development and skill by explaining strategies for applying course concepts to working with children in order to meet their diverse needs and abilities. You will write a paper that outlines the development of a child from birth through age eight from both a theoretical and cognitive skill/knowledge-based perspective. Next, you will explain strategies to apply this information to assist teachers and parents who work with young children. As you explain the strategies, questions to think about include the following:
Urban Policy Paper: Write two separate summaries of the articles provided. And one source each, that is relevant to the respective articles and explain how the outside sources are relevant. Site all four sources (two articles and two outside sources) using FOOTNOTES. Finally, write a conclusion explain how smart growth, inner-city development, citizen participation, the failure of economic incentives, and technological advancement like GIS (Geographic information systems) are all important in Urban Planning