Hpr 232 community health promotion methods wk5-d1
Advocacy and Policy
Advocacy and policy are both elements that must be integrated into effective health education. Your post will consist of the following two parts:
Part I:
Examine the differences between advocacy and lobbying.
Explain why health educators focus on advocacy rather than lobbying
Post Part I in the discussion forums text box and attach your document from Part II.
Part II:
Select a public health concern from this list which you desire to research and address:
Ban texting while driving.
Ban the sale of cigarettes.
Stop synthetic drug creation and abuse (prescription or nonprescription).
Improve public healths reach regarding mental health options.
Place tighter restrictions on who can purchase a firearm.
Using the following scenario, advocate for one of these issues for a nationwide law.
Scenario: You are working for your states health department and are advocating for a nationwide law to accomplish the goal you selected from above list. As part of your campaign, you must write a letter to one of your federal legislators. For Part II of this discussion, you will be drafting that letter. You are limited to no more than two pages of single-spaced type (12 point font), so your letter must be succinct and follow the protocols outlined in your reading for this week. Refer to the Sample Letters to Legislators for additional information on how to format, address, and compose a letter of this nature.
Do the following:
Research and identify one federal legislator from your state who you feel should have an interest in your chosen issue. Every state has its own federal legislators in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. Therefore, the individuals to choose from will be different for each state. Make sure the address line and your salutation properly addresses your selected individual.
Compose your letter and state your case in favor of a nationwide law to address your chosen health issue. Formal letters such as these generally do not include APA-cited references, so you do not have to include in-text citations within your letter. However, you must clearly reference major statistics and other documents within your letter as your chosen legislator will want to know which law or issue you are addressing. For example, The Institutes of Medicine found that
or According to the National Transportation Safety Board
Save your letter as a PDF (.pdf) file so that all of your classmates may view it regardless of what computer system they are using. Please be considerate of those who do not have Microsoft and cannot open .doc or .docx files.
Your entire post will consist of
Part I: typed into the text box of the discussion forum.
Part II: attached as a formal letter to your discussion post.
Case study 2 i pledge allegiance to the flag – elk grove unified
I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag
Religion and Politics have traditionally been highly debated topics in our society. Recently, the Pledge of Allegiance has added to this debate. American citizens have generally recited the Pledge of Allegiance at important ceremonies ranging from presidential inaugurations to the beginning of the school day. The pledge has a great deal of sentimental value to many Americans, but also creates a great deal of controversy for others.
Review the Supreme Court case Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow, which highlights the debate.
Write a five to eight (5-8) page paper in which you:
1. Summarize the salient points of the Supreme Court case Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow.
2. Discuss the levels of the court through which the case evolved before it reached the Supreme Court.
3. Explain the decision of the Supreme Court in this case in brief.
4. Explain the fundamental impact that the court decision in question has had on American society in general and on ethics in American society in particular. Provide a rationale for the response.
5. Discuss whether you believe that the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance is a religious issue or a sign of respect for the United States.
6. Discuss whether or not you think public schools should be allowed to recite the pledge.
7. Use at least three (3) quality academic resources.
Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources. Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the students name, the professors name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length. The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
Examine the current ethical issues inherent throughout the criminal and civil justice systems.
Describe the dispensation of justice through the criminal and civil justice systems.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in the criminal court and the judicial process in America.
Write clearly and concisely about the American court system using proper writing mechanics and APA style conventions.
Journal: tragedy and history | Literature homework help
Directions
In this journal entry, you will explore the historical context for John Millington Synge’s Riders to the Sea. In his 1911 introduction to the play, an American writer named Edward J. O’Brien suggests that Maurya’s suffering is a virtue: “It is their virtue in life to be lonely, and none but the lonely man in tragedy may be great. He dies, and then it is the virtue in life of the women, mothers and wives and sisters to be great in their loneliness, great as Maurya, the stricken mother, is great in her final word.” Using the idea of tragedy to describe actual suffering sometimes suggests that there is something noble and mysterious about the difficulties people face. The word tragedy may even suggest that some larger or uncontrollable force, much like the sea, may be the ultimate source of the suffering.
However, historical studies of Ireland in the mid to late 19th century reveal that many Irish people were driven from their farmlands to the less fertile lands along the coast after the Great Famine (1845 – 1852). Fishing was not a primary occupation for most of the people displaced to the coast, and in contrast to farming, it proved be a much more dangerous way of acquiring food and money. Synge’s family, however, belonged to the wealthier, landowning class in Ireland. The very same class of people who were largely responsible for the evictions that took place during the Great Famine. Begin your research by reading a short entry on Riders to the Sea in The Encyclopedia of Americana from 1920. Next, your Module 4 Readings document includes a few pages of Richard Barry O’Brien’s account of the evictions in his book, Fifty Years of Concessions to Ireland (1883). Compare his account to a report given by the Liberal Union of Ireland in The Plan of Campaign(1892) on pages 36 – 37. This reading is also included in the Module 4 Readings.
Finally, on your own, find three sources of information about the Great Famine or the Irish Potato Famine, as it is commonly referred to in America. These sources can include other artistic works such as songs, paintings, or documentary films. Explain how this historical context helps to provide a better understanding of Synge’s play. Do you think Synge’s play sheds more light on the socio-economic factors surrounding the difficult lives of the people of Aran, or does the playwright tend to romanticize or idealize their suffering?
Include hyperlinks to relevant texts, videos, or images in addition to your written text. Also consider embedding images or videos in your entry to make it more interactive.
Psychology paper- decision making | Psychology homework help
Decision-Making
Based on our content this week, discuss the importance of rationale decision-making in an organization, using necessary citations. Include how bounded reality, cognitive biases, and conjunction fallacy might affect decision-making.
Attribution Theory
Explain attribution theory using necessary citations. Include a discussion about the effects of consistency, consensus, distinctiveness, and fundamental attribution error. Consider inclusion about the effects of perception, primacy and recency effects, selective perceptions, contrast effect, stereotyping to further support your discussion.
Personal Experience: Inaccurate Judgement
Based on our content this week, consider your own experiences with others. Have your actions ever been judged inaccurately by a person such as a boss, a peer, or a family member? How could this experience support your thesis about whether or not attribution theory and bias affect human behaviors with organization?
Can self-serving, or other, bias affect ones perception of a behavior?
Creative Decision Making
Explain how creative decision-making can improve our ability to make better decisions, considering the numerous obstacles to do so. Include an analysis about how good decision making can potentially affect productivity and job satisfaction.
Writing considerations:
The introduction paragraph should introduce your topic and clearly explain what the paper will address.
Headings can be used to organize your information. See . (Each heading should include at least two paragraphs minimum.)
Each paragraph should make a point which can be linked back to your introduction paragraph. Design the topic sentence to embody what the paragraph will entail.
The most important consideration in the body paragraphs is the argument that you want to develop (is or is not perceptions, attribution theory and bias applicable?) in response to the topic (applicability of perception, attribution theory and bias). This argument is developed by making and linking points in and between paragraphs.
The conclusion paragraph should restate your thesis (your suggestion that perceptions, attribution theory and bias does or does not apply to human behaviors in organizations.)
Your assignment should be a minimum of five to six double-spaced pages, and should adequately discuss the topic, demonstrate maturating self-awareness, and include at least one peer-reviewed source, in addition to your text. Use the rubric to check for thoroughness. Include frequent citation to resources.
The Ashford Library should be used as your primary resource for this assignment, but other credible sources will also be accepted. Your sources should be cited according to APA format as outlined in the .
The paper
Quiz and discussion | Information Systems homework help
DISCUSSION:
Chapter 13 discussed managing complex systems and chapter 15 introduced the advantages of visual decision support. Discuss how you would combine the two concepts to create visualizations for an ABM-Based Gaming simulation for policy-making. First, describe what specific policy youre trying to create. Lets stick with the SmartCity scenario. Describe a specific policy (that you havent used before), and how you plan to use ABM-Based Gaming to build a model for simulating the effects of the policy. Then, describe what type of visualization technique youll use to make the model more accessible. Use figure 15.9 and describe what data a new column for your policy would contain.
To complete this assignment, you must do the following:A) Create a new thread. As indicated above, discuss how you would combine the two concepts to create visualizations for an ABM-Based Gaming simulation for policy-making. First, describe what specific policy youre trying to create. Lets stick with the SmartCity scenario. Describe a specific policy (that you havent used before), and how you plan to use ABM-Based Gaming to build a model for simulating the effects of the policy. Then, describe what type of visualization technique youll use to make the model more accessible. Use figure 15.9 and describe what data a new column for your policy would contain.
B) Select AT LEAST 3 other students’ threads and post substantive comments on those threads, evaluating the pros and cons of that students recommendations. Your comments should extend the conversation started with the thread.Remember your initial post on the main topic should be posted by Thursday 11:59 PM (EST). Your 2 following posts should be commenting on your classmates post on different days by Sunday 11:59 PM (EST). You should end the week with 3 total discussion posts. A quality post is more than stating, I agree with you. Maybe you should state why you agree with your classmates post. Additionally, post some examples or find a related topic. NOTE: These discussions should be informal discussions, NOT research papers. If you MUST directly quote a resource, then cite it properly. However, I would much rather simply read your words.
QUIZ:
Week 11
1. Answer in 2-3 sentences. Classify and describe the values attributed to data in a computational model.
2. Answer in 2-3 sentences. Classify and describe the values attributed to a computational model.
3. Answer in 2-3 sentences. Classify and describe the values attributed to the decision-making process.
4. Write a reference.
Identify a recent scholarly article that presents possible biases, arguments or values on a computational model and write the reference to the article in APA format.
Week 12
1.Select two resources on visual decision support for policy-making and write a short analysis (3-4 paragraphs). Include the APA formatted references in your submission.
Management Macroeconomic Factors Influencing Interest Rates Essay
Part 1: Interest Rates Many managers do not understand the various ways that interest rates can affect business decisions. For example, if your company decided to build a plant with a 30-year life and short-term debt financing (renewed annually), the cost of the plant could skyrocket if interest rates were to return to their previous highs of 12% to 14%. On the other hand, locking into high, long-term rates could be very costly also with a long period when low short-term interest rates were to be available. As you can see, the ability to know your economic environment and its impact on projected interest rates can be crucial to making good financing decisions.Describe two to three macroeconomic factors that influence interest rates in general. Explain the effects of each factor on interest rates.Now think about the industry in which you are employed or one in which you have past experience. To what macroeconomic factors is your industry most sensitive?Describe two contemporary factors that seem to be impacting your industry today, and identify their impacts on the interest rates experienced within your chosen industry.Stock valuationDividend Discount Model Stock ValuationHow to value a company using discounted cash flow (DCF)Stock Valuation and Investment Decisions The links above contain information on stock valuation, risk and returns. Please review each one of them. Based on the knowledge gained from the materials presented in the links above, complete the following activities:Present a detailed discussion of what you learned about stock valuation. Provide examples of how your company have used the concepts. Do you believe financing a company’s operation using stock is better than financing with bonds? Why or why not? Support your discussion with a numerical example.Based on the materials presented in the Risk and Return video, present a discussion on why the materials are important in financial decision making. How would you incorporate risk and return in your financing decisions?
General Healthcare Technology Trends Discussion Question
In response to your peers, discuss the contribution of genes and the environment in the determination of who we are.Classmate # 1 Pamela The reason that this experiment is so vital is because there are thousands of sets of twins, but even though they are genetically the same, they vary ever so slightly. Wither it’s food preferences, music choice, or personality. There is also the case of illness; one twin might get sick, and the other doesn’t. I like how the experiment concentrated on how the genetics changed over time, and compared twins not only to each other but to other sets of another age group. Heredity is something that is a gamble. For example, my mom has a genetic auto-immune illness, but yet me and my brother both do not possess the gene that would allow us to get this illness Classmate # 2 RobertThe reason as to why genetically identical mice can look so different, is a matter of genes. As the mice are genetically the same, some genes are turned “on” or “off”. This allows the genetically identical mice to have different appearance. In this case, DNA methylation, or the methyl group will attach to a gene controlling its behavior. Controlling if it is “on” or “off”. To me, this is absolutely mind blowing. Humans can alter what genes show their presence and what genes do not. This can be done on the scientific scale, but also by the individual, through certain lifestyle habits. With that information, it would make sense as to why certain ways of living can lead to similar effects as other living the same lifestyles. Looking at society, peoples lifestyles have a clear impact on their body and appearance, but the fact that it also changes what we can’t see. Being able to change the body on the genetic level throws me for a loop. Very interesting and very cool. Definitely learned a lot from this video!
English 102 – i need someone who will work with me through entire
Unit 1
For Unit 1, you’ll have a few different assignments to complete. First, you should read all of the attached documents and videos (the two documents in this unit below, along with the Library Instruction videos that are linked) which provide an overview of the work you’ll be doing this semester and get you started with a solid foundation in research-based writing. The material covered in these documents is absolutely vital to your success in the course. After you’ve completed the reading and viewing, you should move on to the Project Plan, which will be your method for selecting a topic to write about this summer.
Unit 2
As with the first unit, your work in the second unit should begin with reading all of the assigned material included below. In this unit we’ll begin conducting scholarly research. Your major assignment for the unit will be the submission of an annotated bibliography. Please carefully review all of the guidelines, the overview of Works Cited citations, and the sample annotated bibliography so that you can meet all assignment expectations. The annotated bibliography will be due at the end of the unit (Sunday June 23 at 11:59 p.m.)
As always, please let me know if you need help. The annotated bibliography will require you to perform several tasks (building a research question/thesis, finding sources, citing sources, evaluating sources, and linking sources to your argument), so if you need any help with any of these tasks, please let me know. I’m always happy to answer questions or to review drafts of work ahead of submission.
I’ll also be grading your Project Plan forms as you get them submitted. Make sure to check the feedback that I provide when you get your grade. For some topics, I might ask for additional analysis or clarification in my comments before I approve the topic, so please pay close attention to the feedback that I provide.
This is what the instructor wants for the first 2 units.
Rt mhr 6451 unit 1
For this assignment, you will read an article that discusses interviewing techniques, and you will then apply what you have learned by creating your own set of interview questions. To begin, navigate to the Business Source Complete database in the CSU Online Library, and locate the following article: Oliphant, G. C., Hansen, K., & Oliphant, B. J. (2008). A review of a telephone-administered behavior-based interview technique. Business Communication Quarterly, 71(3), 383-386. Part I: After reading the article, summarize the purpose of the study, and then answer the questions below. ◾ What are the authors main points for conducting the study? ◾ Do you agree with the authors findings? ◾ What evidence from additional sources supports your opinion? ◾ What are the reasons employers use the employment interview to fill job openings? ◾ How effective do you think behavior-based interviews that are conducted via telephone are? ◾Briefly describe the main features of equal employment laws, and tell how this article demonstrates these features. Part II: Using the knowledge you have accumulated throughout this unit, develop a minimum of five (but no more than eight) non-discriminatory interview questions that you would ask when conducting a telephone interview. These questions should be listed on the last page of your critique. Use the guidelines below to prepare your article critique. ◾ Parts I and II combined must be at least three pages in length. ◾ Summarize the article on page one. Identify the main topic or question. ◾ Identify the intended audience. ◾ Think critically about the article and how it applies to the course when answering the questions. ◾ Organize the material logically by using smooth transitions and by grouping similar material together. Submit Parts I and II as a single document. Format your article critique using APA style. Use your own words, and avoid plagiarism. At least one source other than the article must be used. All sources used must be referenced; any paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations in APA format.
Conflict | Social Science homework help
Write a minimum two-page paper describing a time you experienced miscommunication or conflict. For example, you can describe an argument you had with someone, a misunderstanding due to language differences or other cultural difference, or an incident that lead to confusion for you and perhaps the other party. The incident you describe should be detailed, but feel free to change names of participants if you feel more comfortable.
After you describe the conflict or misunderstanding in detail, analyze the situation. Why did this scenario play out the way it did? What role did you play in the misunderstanding? What could you have done differently? What could the other person have done differently? How will you avoid this type of conflict in the future?
In other words, did people openly disagree? Did they encourage open discussion of differences? Was conflict resolved? Did people yell, or talk respectfully?
Secondly, what parts of these conflict scripts do you engage in now? What parts do you try to avoid? You may want to think back to your early childhood and adolescence, and try to remember rules for conflict that your family modeled. What conflict scripts did you learn in your family?
Chapter 9 is about conflict and offers some tips to being effective at dealing with conflict.
An “A” paper will meet the following requirements:
Paper shows a deep, thoughtful look at the writer’s life and the people in it who help define self-concept.
Paper is written at college-level (e.g., avoiding use of third person where appropriate, free of errors and clearly proofread with care, sentences are clear and concise, style is formal, formatting is appropriate, logical organization, etc).
Material is clear and well organized.
The paper covered a variety of material inside and outside of the class experience.
The paper intertwines concepts and vocabulary words from the course material, lecture, textbook, resources, etc, with your own real life. (That means your paper would have a reference page, because you’re citing concepts from a least the book if not other sources.)
The paper is no less than 2 pages.
