What is the expected value of your gain?
Expected Value
Imagine there is a raffle for a single item: a brand-new Corolla to the value of $30,000. You have no belief in winning this raffle but because your friend put his heart into it, you want to prove they’re wrong. You buy only one 10$ ticket, but your friend buys two 10$ tickets. Three thousand tickets are sold. What is the expected value of your gain? What is the expected value of your friend’s gain? What would be the expected value of your friend’s gain if he/she purchased one 20$ ticket instead?
What if you purchase a 10$ ticket and you are entered into a chance of winning the car, a Yamaha motorcycle, and a Samsung S22 ultra. What is the expected value of your gain?
In this project, you will need to evaluate the loss and gain in each situation, following the format below.
Methodology
Tools/Analytics
Mention the techniques used to analyze the data
Mention the assumptions you make to complete the calculations
Tabulate the calculations for each scenario
2.0 Analysis statement
Mention the ideas that might increase your chance of winning
Write a 6-8-page essay comparing two U.S. states’ approaches to issues of same-sex marriage or immigration policy.
Assessment 5 Instructions: Comparing Politics, Law, Policy, and Power
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Write a 6-8-page essay comparing two U.S. states’ approaches to issues of same-sex marriage or immigration policy.
Introduction
Note: You must complete Assessment 4 before beginning this assessment.
How can sociological research help us understand how laws and policies are made and how they change over time? How might we use the sociological perspective to develop more effective solutions to political and social issues or create policies that are effective and based on sound research? These are questions to consider as you explore the connection between political and economic power and legislative decision making.
In this final assessment, you study how our culture’s beliefs about diversity are reflected in the law-making and policy-making process, including laws and policies that pertain to immigration and same-sex marriage. As you compare and contrast how two specific states have approached immigration or same-sex marriage, reflect on which sociological theories (such as power elite theory, state autonomy theory, or pluralism) best apply to the policy decisions that have been made in your states. Something to think about, too, is whether the policies and positions maintained by those in power actually reflect the research and data on the topic or issue they address. The research you do for this final assessment should show you how power and politics, as well as population demographics, influence policy making.
Demonstration of Proficiency
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the course competencies through the following assessment scoring guide criteria:
Competency 1: Describe theoretical ideas of power in relation to policy.
Discuss contrasts in how states approach a diversity issue, using theoretical ideas of power.
Competency 2: Identify historical and contemporary influences of discrimination in U.S. culture.
Discuss law, policy, or politics in states with varying approaches to a diversity issue.
Competency 3: Analyze the effects of social policy using aggregated data.
Analyze data to project how state policies might affect population migration.
Competency 4: Analyze how laws are applied or created based on race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, and social class.
Discuss contrasts between two states in areas of law, politics, or policy as they apply to a diversity issue.
Competency 5: Apply diversity strategies in professional, educational, and personal contexts.
Apply historical solutions to an issue where there are discrepancies between state and federal diversity law.
Competency 6: Communicate effectively.
Write coherently to support a central idea in appropriate format and with few errors of grammar, usage, and mechanics.
Instructions
Building on your research and analysis of the immigration policy or same-sex marriage debates, this assessment asks you to more closely examine the connection between power, policy, and law making by comparing and contrasting how two states have handled these issues.
In order to understand the link between power and political and legal decision making, you will place this process in each state in the appropriate context. That means that you need to assess the historical, demographic, cultural, and socioeconomic factors that have influenced each state’s different approach to immigration policy or same-sex marriage. You will also reflect on the consequences of state-to-state discrepancies in policies and laws regarding controversial social and political issues like these.
This assessment combines the key components of studying cultural diversity from a sociological perspective—placing current social issues in historical context, understanding how demographic and cultural trends influence public opinion, and applying sociological theories to determine the role of power in shaping policy-making decisions.
Write an essay addressing each of the following three parts:
Part 1 – Complete the following:
Discuss one of the following for each of the two states you have chosen as it relates to your chosen topic:
Law (rules and standards enforced by a particular institution).
Politics (the key political players in the policy-making and law-making processes).
Policy (principles or methods used to achieve a particular goal or make decisions about political or social issues).
Discuss theories of power that might explain the differences between how each state has handled your issue.
Examples of theories of power include power elite theory, the four networks theory of power, pluralism, Marxist theory, and state autonomy theory.
Discuss other possible explanations for the differences in how each state’s government has approached your topic. Address at least three of the following potential factors, and come up with another of your own that might explain the divergent approaches you have identified:
Demographics of the state population, including age, race/ethnicity, gender, and percentage of the population in urban versus rural areas.
Geography.
Religion.
History.
Socioeconomic standing, including median or average income and education levels of the population, as well as the overall economic well-being of each state.
Part 2 – Answer the following, incorporating data to support your answers:
To what extent have these states’ existing policies and laws affected past or recent migration patterns of the groups affected (immigrants or those seeking same-sex marriage rights)?
How might future migration patterns be affected?
Part 3 – Complete the following:
Reflect on a historical precedent in which a state has had to alter its laws as a result of inconsistencies with federal law.
Why and how did the state change its laws?
What lessons might be learned from this precedent, and how can those lessons be applied to your topic?
Additional Requirements
Written communication: Written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.
Length: 6–8 pages, not including the title and reference pages.
Format: Include a title page and reference page, and format the essay and your citations according to current APA style and formatting guidelines.
Identify historical and contemporary influences of discrimination in U.S. culture.
Assessment 4 Instructions: Framing an Issue From the Sociological Perspective
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⦁ Create a 15-20-slide presentation or a 15-20-minute speech on either same-sex marriage or immigration policy.
Introduction
Note: You must complete this assessment before starting on Assessment 5.
Many of the current political, legal, and social debates in U.S. society concern diversity and its related issues. Two of those debates have centered on immigration policy and same-sex marriage. These debates involve not only arguments regarding discriminatory treatment of particular ethnic groups or sexual minorities but also legal, economic, and religious questions and concerns.
In this assessment, you apply the sociological perspective to one of these debates. You research the political players and key arguments on the different sides of your chosen controversy, and you place them in historical and contemporary context to gain a deeper understanding of the causes and consequences of the debate, and current and proposed policy solutions. Understanding the key developments and policy changes that pertain to your debate puts you in a position in which you can more accurately evaluate the merits of arguments made by politicians, leaders, and others with a stake in shaping future policy decisions.
Demonstration of Proficiency
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the course competencies through the following assessment scoring guide criteria:
⦁ Competency 1: Describe theoretical ideas of power in relation to policy.
⦁ Discuss how sociological theory can be used to understand disparities in political power.
⦁ Competency 2: Identify historical and contemporary influences of discrimination in U.S. culture.
⦁ Describe the evolution of the social movements that have emerged as a result of a diversity issue.
⦁ Competency 3: Analyze the effects of social policy using aggregated data.
⦁ Address questions that reflect public perception using supporting data or research.
⦁ Competency 4: Analyze how laws are applied or created based on race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, and social class.
⦁ Analyze the evolution of antidiscrimination law to give context to current law or policy.
⦁ Competency 5: Apply diversity strategies in professional, educational, and personal contexts.
⦁ Discuss tactics employed by activists to promote a cause.
⦁ Competency 6: Communicate effectively.
⦁ Write coherently to support a central idea in appropriate format and with few errors of grammar, usage, and mechanics.
Instructions
Your task in this assessment is to choose one of two debates—same-sex marriage or immigration policy—and create a presentation that would be delivered at a symposium on a college campus. You will need to place the debate in historical context, which will involve researching the history of policy as it pertains to your chosen topic and the social movements that developed as a result—for example, the gay rights movement. You will also be asked to address potential questions audience members might ask in this kind of situation.
Your presentation should demonstrate your understanding of the debate you have chosen, as well as your ability to apply the sociological perspective to a complex and controversial social issue.
Focusing on either same-sex marriage or immigration policy, create a PowerPoint presentation for the hypothetical audience you are addressing that addresses each of the items below. Include graphics with supporting data in the form of charts, tables, or graphs when appropriate, and include any other information that supports your message. Be sure to include extensive speaker’s notes (using the Notes feature in PowerPoint, which allows you to add notes to each slide) to provide detailed descriptions of each of the topics covered in the presentation
Complete the following:
⦁ Provide an overview and description of the central issue you have chosen to address.
⦁ Describe the evolution of the social movements (the gay rights movement or immigration rights movements, for example) that are a precursor for or have emerged as a result of your chosen issue.
⦁ Include a time line with key events to provide historical context.
⦁ Describe any milestones that have characterized the development of the social movement involving your issue.
⦁ Briefly analyze the following for your selected topic:
⦁ The evolution of federal legislation on the topic over the past 10 years.
⦁ The current political landscape, including key political debates related to your central issue.
⦁ Introduce the important political players in the national debate.
⦁ Explain how at least one specific sociological theory can be used to understand why some players have more power than others in this debate. Examples of theories include conflict theory, power elite theory, and human capital theory.
⦁ Discuss how the continued uncertainty in political and legal environments affects stakeholders who are seeking to expand their rights or challenge existing policies.
⦁ Describe tactics activists on either side of the debate have used to further the cause.
⦁ The symposium coordinator has sent you the questions below in anticipation of your visit. Draft answers for each, typing your answers in the Notes box below the Questions slide you have created, if you are doing a PowerPoint presentation. If you are writing a speech, include the questions and answers at the end. Support your answers with research and data from scholarly sources. Choose the set of questions that is appropriate for your chosen topic.
⦁ Immigration:
⦁ “Ninety percent of illegal immigrants are on the public dole. Why are we giving welfare benefits to people who aren’t citizens?”
⦁ “Mexicans are taking away our jobs. What is the best way to stop them?”
⦁ Same-sex marriage:
⦁ “I heard 75 percent of people are against gay marriage. Who are they?”
⦁ “If we allow gays to marry, won’t it destroy our social fabric?”
Additional Requirements
⦁ Written communication: Written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.
⦁ Length: If you chose to do a PowerPoint presentation, it should contain 15–20 slides. Slides should contain no more than a few bulleted points and/or a graphic. Rather than cramming slides with text, use the Notes box below each slide to explain and expand on your bulleted points in each slide. If a written speech is chosen, it should be 15–20 minutes long when read aloud, aloud or at least 1500 words.
⦁ Format: Include a title and reference slides or pages. Cite any sources used in current APA style and format.
⦁ Sources: Cite at least six credible scholarly sources to support your presentation.
Discuss personal characteristics or experiences that might account for feelings or reactions involving a diversity issue.
Assessment 1 Instructions: Cultural Diversity and You
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Write a 5-page essay describing, examining, and reflecting upon a personal cultural diversity encounter.
Introduction
Understanding cultural diversity from a sociological perspective first requires understanding the concepts and theoretical frameworks that guide sociological thinking. Cultural diversity encompasses a variety of social categories, including race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, social class, age, and physical or mental disability. Sociologists examine these categories at both the micro level (how they affect or are affected by individuals) and at the macro level (how they impact society as a whole).
In this assessment, you practice making connections between the micro and macro levels by examining how your personal experiences or observations connect to broader issues related to diversity in American culture. For example, if you have observed or experienced firsthand a situation involving prejudice, stereotypes, or discrimination in the workplace, consider not only how that situation relates to broader patterns or trends in the workplace but also to specific theories of diversity within the field of sociology. By placing your personal observations and experience in the context of the society in which you live, you will be thinking like a sociologist and practicing your sociological imagination.
Demonstration of Proficiency
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the course competencies through the following assessment scoring guide criteria:
Competency 1: Describe theoretical ideas of power in relation to policy.
Connect a personal experience to sociological concepts of power.
Competency 3: Analyze the effects of social policy using aggregated data.
Analyze data to make valid sociological inferences.
Competency 4: Analyze how laws are applied or created based on race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, and social class.
Analyze how laws or policies are applied to a diversity issue.
Competency 5: Apply diversity strategies in professional, educational, and personal contexts.
Apply strategies for addressing a cultural diversity issue.
Discuss personal characteristics or experiences that might account for feelings or reactions involving a diversity issue.
Competency 6: Communicate effectively.
Write coherently to support a central idea in appropriate format and with few errors of grammar, usage, and mechanics.
Instructions
Reflect on an instance when you or someone else were unfairly excluded, discriminated against, or otherwise neglected or treated inappropriately due to race, ethnicity, age, gender, social class, sexuality, disability, or other category related to diversity. Depending on the setting in which the incident occurred, consider whether any laws or policies were violated, either those established by an organization, such as a business or school, or state or federal antidiscrimination policies.
Write an essay in which you complete each of the following:
Part 1 – Describe your experience:
Describe the event and the underlying diversity issues at play.
Describe your opinions, feelings, actions, and what you learned from the event.
Part 2 – Examine your experience:
Discuss experiences from your personal background that might account for your feelings or reactions. Consider areas such as your ethnicity, history, upbringing, local mores, recent events, et cetera.
Connect your experience to at least three sociological concepts and/or issues. For example, if you are writing about what if feels like to be an outsider, you could connect your discussion to the concept of power or social structure, or the broader issue of relationships between dominant and minority groups.
Examples of other concepts you could include are prejudice, discrimination, stereotypes, cultural pluralism, assimilation, structural mobility, social distance, and modern racism.
Examples of theories include functional or conflict theory, Marx’s and Weber’s theories of inequality, Park’s race relations cycle, Gordon’s theory of assimilation, human capital theory, scapegoat hypothesis, and the theory of authoritarian personality.
Incorporate research on the broader issue that your experience illustrates. For example, if the incident you describe involves discrimination in the workplace, research workplace discrimination and find data on the prevalence or nature of this problem. If the incident involves bullying at school, locate data on how extensive this issue is. Questions to consider include:
Is the type of incident you describe commonplace?
Where might this be most prevalent?
Among what groups is it most likely to occur?
What trends did you notice in your research? For example, does the kind of incident you experienced or observed seem to be an increasing problem, or is it declining over time?
Analyze how relevant laws or policies might be applied to this situation. These may be civil or criminal laws or, perhaps, policies established in the workplace or schools.
Consider whether any laws or policies were violated and how those laws or policies might be changed or better enforced to address the situation you describe.
Part 3 – Reflect on your experience:
Based on your reflections of the event and the research you have now done, share personal strategies that are useful for informing the interactions or relationships between the involved parties, as well as your own understanding or perspectives.
Additional Requirements
Written communication: Written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.
Length: 5 pages, not including title and reference pages.
Format: Include a title page and reference page, and format the paper and your citations according to current APA style and formatting guidelines.
Sources: Cite at least two scholarly sources.
Write a five-page paper in which you explore changes and alternatives to address gaps and flaws in minimum wage
Write a five-page paper in which you explore changes and alternatives to address gaps and flaws in minimum wage
Include the following in your submission:
Introduction
Provide an introduction that succinctly describes the issue or problem, the current federal social welfare policy designed to address it, and the gaps or flaws that impact its effectiveness.
Body of Paper
Describe possible changes to the federal policy that would address known gaps, flaws, or shortcomings.
Describe alternative policies that have been proposed to address shortcomings or flaws with the current policy.
Compare and contrast the similarities and differences between the current policy and an alternative proposal, including any changes in who may benefit and the effects on families.
Describe the relationship between policy and best practices for human service professionals.
Conclusion
Provide a succinct conclusion that highlights the key points of your discussion
Please use a minimum of 7 scholarly peer reviewed articles.
One of those articles should come from this website: https://crsreports.congress.gov/
What is the percentage of men who experience depression the first year after a child’s birth?
Student “To Do” List
Attendance Quiz to be completed within the first 15 minutes of class.
Question- I am present for clinical today. Answer- TRUE
If you fail to do this quiz, you will be counted as absence for clinical
Please note- ALL clinical hours must be met in order to get a S for this clinical
Go to: https://www.psychiatry.org/patients-families/postpartum-depression/what-is-postpartum-depression read through the information. In a Word document, answer these questions.
What is the statistic regarding postpartum depression (what is the ratio of women who experience postpartum depression)?
What is the percentage of men who experience depression the first year after a child’s birth?
What are three treatment options for PPD.
What are the four classes of antidepressants that can be taken in pregnancy?
What is the percentage of women who experience an anxiety disorder in pregnancy? Does that percentage increase or decrease in the postpartum period?
Watch the following video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_3NlTtybIA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdqhGNmJ_pw
Read Chrissy Teigen’s story here: https://www.glamour.com/story/chrissy-teigen-postpartum-depression
Group Project
Create a concept map with one of the three stories above include in the center “Chrissy Teigen” then from there, talk about her signs/symptoms, treatments, in the last “bubble” why do you feel it’s important for celebrities to talk about their struggle with PPD.
Discussion within your groups:
Case Study: Postpartum Depression
Sheela’s Story Sheela was a 30 year-old mother of four children who had been married for eight years. She lived with her husband and in-laws in a small village. She had given birth to her fourth child three months previously. Her pregnancy and labor had been uneventful, and an untrained traditional midwife helped conduct the home delivery. Because pregnancy was viewed in her village as a normal occurrence that did not require any medical attention, Sheela did not receive any antenatal or postnatal care. For a month after the birth, Sheela felt normal, but then she began to exhibit unusual behavior. She became reclusive and stopped speaking to anyone at home, losing interest in her daily activities and ceasing to care for her children. The rest of the people in her family, however, were busy with their own lives and seemed indifferent to her condition. One day, when all of her family members had gone to the fields to work, Sheela set herself on fire and walked out of the house covered in flames. Some neighboring men saw her and smothered the flames with blankets, and one of them ran to get her family from the fields. They called an auto rickshaw to take her to the hospital, where Sheela was admitted to the burns unit. She had sustained 63% superficial and deep burns. Eight days after admission, she died of shock and septicemias.
What were the social, economic, and medical factors that contributed to Sheela’s death? What could have been done to prevent it? Write your answers in a Word Document and submit (one person in your group may write this but you all need to submit the document to the dropbox).
Class Discussion of scenario once everyone is done with #4.
Watch the documentary “When the Bough Breaks” here: https://www.amazon.com/When-Bough-Breaks-Brooke-Shields/dp/B06XDQZ5SC (choose the free option with ads)
Write a short paragraph on how this made you feel watching these stories. Did they make you anxious, sad, empathetic? Why? How will you be able to convey your emotions in an appropriate manor to your patients in the future? Remember, you are their advocate and one they may lean on in these circumstance.
Postpartum Psychosis
Read the short page on postpartum psychosis. What are 5 signs or symptoms? What are 5 interesting facts you found in this short article? Put in a word document and submit
https://www.postpartum.net/learn-more/postpartum-psychosis/
Watch the following video:
https://youtu.be/Xa3HFPMI-_0
https://youtu.be/8qgV7Yug-xs
Group discussion about the videos
Research Andrea Pia Yates. Watch the following video: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5g8z0j write 10 interesting facts from the video.
Research the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS). In the discussion post, pick one of the scenarios or articles from today and take the assessment as if you were the individual from the scenario (if some of the questions don’t apply, use your best judgement). What score did you give for your choice and why? How often should women be assessed with the EPDS? At least 200 words
Group Work:
Use your ATI Templates to complete the following (everyone in the group must submit the documents):
Postpartum Depression
Postpartum Psychosis
Medications: SSRIs – Zoloft
Return to the discussion board and reply to two of your classmates.
Reflection paper: What did you enjoy about today? What was your favorite story and why? How are you going to change your practice towards women who are pregnant or individuals with mental health illness that are in child-bearing age?
List and define three justification defenses.
List and define three justification defenses. Find a real-life example for each of these defenses, and explain which justification defense they fall under, and why.
500 words
Describe these recommendations for health promotion in a detailed patient teaching plan.
Overview: Health promotion and the wellness connection
This information will be included in your Assignment Module 5-1 Family Health Assessment. Please use your interview family for this assignment
Health Promotion and maintaining family wellness is beyond preventing illness. Love (2010) states wellness is a state of optimal health to which each of us can aim regardless of age, physical limitation, & income level.
Instructions:
Identify areas needing intervention by using the using the modified Love to Live Well Assessment below to highlight suggestions you may make for your interview family.
Use your interview family and identify areas for making health and wellness promotion.
Describe these recommendations for health promotion in a detailed patient teaching plan.
Consider the impact that EBP may have on factors impacting these quadruple aim elements, such as preventable medical errors or healthcare delivery.
Healthcare organizations continually seek to optimize healthcare performance. For years, this approach was a three-pronged one known as the Triple Aim, with efforts focused on improved population health, enhanced patient experience, and lower healthcare costs.
More recently, this approach has evolved to a Quadruple Aim by including a focus on improving the work life of healthcare providers. Each of these measures are impacted by decisions made at the organizational level, and organizations have increasingly turned to EBP to inform and justify these decisions.
To Prepare:
Read the articles by Sikka, Morath, & Leape (2015); Crabtree, Brennan, Davis, & Coyle (2016); and Kim et al. (2016) provided in the Resources.
Reflect on how EBP might impact (or not impact) the Quadruple Aim in healthcare.
Consider the impact that EBP may have on factors impacting these quadruple aim elements, such as preventable medical errors or healthcare delivery.
To Complete:
Write a brief analysis (no longer than 2 pages) of the connection between EBP and the Quadruple Aim.
Your analysis should address how EBP might (or might not) help reach the Quadruple Aim, including each of the four measures of:
Patient experience
Population health
Costs
Work life of healthcare providers
Here are the 3 resources you need. APa format
Describe the tactics and why they are not helpful in conflict resolution.
Weekly Assignment 4: Conflict Resolution Tactics to Avoid
Article: https://www.verywellmind.com/conflict-resolution-mistakes-to-avoid-3144982
Read the article above and answer the following questions:
Which of the 10 tactics described in the article have you witnessed the most in conflicts you have experienced? Describe the tactics and why they are not helpful in conflict resolution.
Identify at least one of the 10 tactics described in the article that you engage in the most (meaning you engaged in these tactics on your end of the conflict). Define this tactic and describe why it is not helpful in conflict resolution.
List one example for how EACH of the 10 tactics to avoid would look in an active conflict. Ex: Overgeneralizing – I address my coworker for ALWAYS showing up late for shift report.
For EACH of the 10 tactics to avoid, describe a better strategy you could use to avoid exacerbating a conflict. Ex: Overgeneralizing – I would specifically address my coworker on the 3 recent times he/she was late for shift report without saying ALWAYS.
Choose one of the 10 tactics to avoid and describe how you would handle someone who is using that tactic on you during a conflict.
