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Part 1 (Essay 1—Comma Errors and Corrections) This week we learned and practiced all of the comma rules! I did not count off heavily for comma usage on your first essay because we had not yet studied them in detail. However, I will look more closely at your comma usage for upcoming essays. Commas are tricky, so we are going to practice them here, in addition to our quiz this week. Take a close look at your first essay. Now that you know the comma rules, do you see any instances in your paper where you added a comma that did not belong? Did you omit a comma where you should have included one? My guess is that you probably did both, and that is OK!  In this part, I would like for you to share some sentences from your essay where these errors occurred. Then tell us which comma rules explain why this is wrong. Next, fix your error. (Include more than one sentence, if you wish, to help you reach the required word count.)  Example: In my first paragraph, I wrote the following sentence. “I like to watch the show Ghost Adventures because of the investigators, the places they visit and the paranormal theme.” This is incorrect because I should have included a comma before the last-named item. The rule that explains this is the “items in a series rule.” The corrected sentences is as follows. “I like to watch the show Ghost Adventures because of the investigators, the places they visit, and the paranormal theme.” In the rare event that you do not find any comma errors, please share sentences where you used commas correctly and which rules apply. Part 2 (Other Comma Rules) Using a rule that you did NOT discuss in Part 1, create a new sentence that demonstrates proper comma usage. Please include the rule you are demonstrating. You may include more than one sentence and rule to help you reach your word count. Example: “During the winter, I wear socks every day because my feet stay so cold.” I put a comma after winter because the first three words of my sentence are an “introductory word group.” Part 3 (Checking In) We mentioned writing anxieties during week one, and I am bringing this up again simply to check on you. Are you doing OK with the writing process at this point? Are the tips and instructions provided thus far in this course helping to eliminate anxiety? If you are nervous or want to discuss anything with the class, please feel free to share here. You may also comment that you are doing just fine, or you may Message me privately if you do not wish to share your thoughts with everyone. However, please do comment at least briefly here in order to receive forum credit. Tips for student replies: It will likely be a little harder for you to comment on Parts 1 and 2, so feel free to comment only on Part 3, if you wish. Maybe there is an idea you can offer to your fellow student to help with his/her writing issues. For example, if they mention that they are easily distracted, perhaps you could ask them if they have tried writing in a quiet room or a library. Hope this helps! The grading rubric for this forum is attached below.

Weapons of Mass Destruction and Emergency Management

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The field of emergency management undergoes constant change as new threats emerge.

Consequentially, a healthcare professional may face various disaster scenarios and will need to learn about the necessary tools to prepare and deal with such disaster scenarios. On the basis of what you learned in this week’s readings and in regard to the above statement, answer the following questions:

  • What is the biggest threat in the healthcare industry? Why? Provide a fact-based rationale for your choice.
  • Does the healthcare industry face different threats now than they it did twenty years ago? What are the new threats?
  • How would you prepare for the new threat?
  • How could a healthcare facility prepare itself in the event terrorists began to focus on soft targets such as sporting events, shopping malls, or healthcare facilities?

Let’s read the following statement.

Several agencies have suggested specific guidelines for preparing for a bioterrorist attack. In their opinion, there are several areas healthcare facilities need to focus on when preparing for a bioterrorist attack. These areas include preparedness and prevention, detection and surveillance, diagnosis and characterization of biological and chemical agents, and response and communication. Communication is an integral part of a successful response to a disaster.

Answer the following questions in regard to the above recommendations by various agencies:

  • What is the effect of communication on collaboration with other agencies or organizations dealing with a disaster situation?
  • Why did it take 9/11 for top law enforcement agencies of the United States to begin sharing information? How important is this sharing of information to fight against terror?
  • What are the guidelines for establishing effective lines of communication in a disaster scenario?

 

****Please just answer those questions, ZERO plagiarism and add references***

WATER SHED

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Choose a location and do the following

  1. An abstract (overview of your work and conclusion)
  2. An introduction (that will provide a statement of objective and justification for the watershed and time period selected)
  3. Descriptive information on the watershed (size, location, land cover) and data sources
  4. Hydrological analysis of this watershed (real precipitation and flow data for the specific watershed must be presented, and this part must include detailed calculation between precipitation and runoff flow).
  5. Results, discussion of results, including discussion of scientific articles that provide relevant explanation for any of the patterns observed. 
  6. References (including all citations you used in your report)

 

The paper should be about 12 pages (Time new roman, 12) in length. 

 

Grading Standards:

 

  1. The project will account for 20% of your overall grade. The written report will be double-spaced. The first part should concisely describe the nature of the problem that will be addressed.
  2. Components of Project
    1. Well-organized structure ( 5 pts)
    2. Abstract (10 pts)
    3. Introduction (20 pts)

 

                                                               i.       Statement of objective (5 pts)

 

                                                             ii.      Justification of the watershed you selected (5 pts)

 

                                                            iii.      Literature review of hydrologic analysis of the watershed (5 pts)

 

                                                           iv.      Quality of writing (5 pts)

 

    1. Descriptive information on the watershed (size, location, land cover, show a decent geographical map, 10pts) and data sources (5 pts). (15 pts)
    2. Hydrological analysis of this watershed (25 pts)

 

                                                               i.      Real precipitation and flow data in a table for the specific watershed (10 pts)

 

                                                             ii.      Detailed calculation of precipitation, runoff flow and other hydrological processes (e.g., IDF curve development). (15 pts)

 

    1. Results and Conclusions (20 pts)

 

                                                               i.      Results analysis of your calculation including some figures such as hydrographhyetograph, IDF curves (for design concerns) etc.(10 pts)

 

                                                             ii.      Show your conclusion based on your analysis (5 pts)

 

    1. References (5 pts)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

watershed project

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The objective of the project is to investigate long term changes (at least several- month long) in stream flow patterns due to precipitation in a particular watershed.  analyze a different watershed for which stream flow data and precipitation data are available for the specific period, and present results in a written paper. Watersheds and time periods of analysis should be selected to answer a question about changes in stream flows in response to changes in crop production practices or urbanization or IDF curve development.  The paper will include

  1. An abstract (overview of your work and conclusion)
  2. An introduction (that will provide a statement of objective and justification for the watershed and time period selected)
  3. Descriptive information on the watershed (size, location, land cover) and data sources
  4. Hydrological analysis of this watershed (real precipitation and flow data for the specific watershed must be presented, and this part must include detailed calculation between precipitation and runoff flow).
  5. Results, discussion of results, including discussion of scientific articles that provide relevant explanation for any of the patterns observed. 
  6. References (including all citations you used in your report)

The paper should be about 12 pages (Time new roman, 12) in length. 

Grading Standards:

  1. The written report will be double-spaced. The first part should concisely describe the nature of the problem that will be addressed.
  2. Components of Project
    1. Well-organized structure
    2. Abstract
    3. Introduction

                                               i.      Statement of objective

                                             ii.     Justification of the watershed you selected

                                            iii.     Literature review of hydrologic analysis of the watershed

                                            iv.     Quality of writing

    1. Descriptive information on the watershed (size, location, land cover, show a decent geographical map, and data sources
    2. Hydrological analysis of this watershed

                                               i.     Real precipitation and flow data in a table for the specific watershed

                                             ii.     Detailed calculation of precipitation, runoff flow and other hydrological processes (e.g., IDF curve development).

    1. Results and Conclusions

                                               i.     Results analysis of your calculation including some figures such as hydrograph hyetograph, IDF curves (for design concerns) etc.

                                             ii.     Show your conclusion based on your analysis

    1. References

Environmental Controversy – Waste and Human Health

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This week’s environmental controversy is centered on waste and human health. It addresses the question, should consumers have to pay for plastic or paper bags at grocery and other stores? Using the references below, write a 2 page response to the questions posed to you. Remember to cite your sources using APA.

 

Background Information

 

Your textbook discusses the controversies associated with requiring consumers to pay for plastic and paper bags at their supermarkets and other stores. Advocates of the consumer pay system argue that bags are harmful to the environment and that under this system people would be encouraged to buy cloth bags or other reusable containers. Critics reply that many supermarkets already have drop bins for recycling old bags. They also argue that instead of making consumers pay for bags, individuals that provide their own bags should be given discounts from the store.

 

 

References

 

Use these references to help answer the questions that follow. You may want to also search the Internet for additional resources.

 

Query, S. (2007). Paper or Plastic. E – The Environmental Magazine, 18(6), 22.http://search.ebscohost.com

Link to article

 

Bob Condor. (21 March). New plastic bags that dispose of themselves! Knight Ridder Tribune News Service,1.

Link to article

 

Questions

 

Based on what you have read, do you believe that consumers should have to pay for plastic or paper bags at grocery and other stores? What arguments most influenced your decision? How would you explain your position to someone who disagrees with you?

 

This paper should be 2 pages of complete content (cover page and reference page are separate) and have in-text citations. The paper will be in APA style (both in formatting the paper and reference page). One scholarly article as a minimum should be included in the paper.

Rough Draft

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Paper One Requirements:

Visual rhetoric is the persuasive use of images to construct meaning or an argument. In regards to advertisements, companies use visual rhetoric to influence consumers to buy their products. For this paper, you will analyze the use of visual rhetoric in print advertisements.

Prompt:

Study print advertisements for one type of product (e.g., cars, cosmetics, cigarettes, alcohol, food) to draw inferences about the visual rhetoric techniques used to sell that product. Remember that the more advertisements you study, the more support you have for you inferences. You should study at least 10 advertisements.

 

You cannot use commercials for this paper.

The thesis should articulate the purpose of the paper; that purpose should be linked to the idea of visual rhetoric—the use of images to persuade consumers.

III. The thesis should state which visual rhetoric techniques you are using to analyze the pictures. There are five techniques: Models, camera techniques, eye gaze, props, and setting.

Specific Requirements:

 

–       You will not use outside sources, except the advertisement pictures.

–       The paper should be times new roman, 12 point font, and double spaced. 

–       Works Cited Page (for the ten advertisements)

o   Consult your textbook for help :  Current Issues and Enduring Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking and Argument, with Readings 10th Edition 

ISBN-13: 978-1457622601 

ISBN-10: 1457622602 

o   This website is also useful:  http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/12/

 (Links to an external site.)

Links to an external site.

Or, you can use easybib.com

QUESTION:

Write your rough draft for paper one, and it should be 400 words or more. 

Barriers to Healthcare for Women and Minorities

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Poverty and lack of education are two big barriers to healthcare for women and minorities. Low levels of education are associated with low life expectancies and high mortality rates. People living in poverty often lack education about when, why, and where to access healthcare. There have been various legislative activities in the US to improve public health.

On the basis of your understanding of the access to healthcare facilities and impacts of barriers to healthcare access, answer the following questions:

  • Explain at least three public health campaigns targeting access to healthcare for women and/or minorities. Describe at least two aspects of their advertising strategies that have addressed income and education.
  • Abortion has been the subject of numerous legislative activities in the United States. How have various legislations affected low-income and minority women?
  • Describe the legal battle over birth control devices in the United States. Include how access to healthcare has been affected by the legal decisions.
  • Describe the legal barriers to healthcare access for low-income immigrant minorities.
  • Review the articles, “Ethnic and gender disparities in needed adolescent mental health care”, and “Overlooked and underserved: Improving the health of men of color”. Explain what it means to be “overlooked” by the healthcare system.
  • Discuss at least two examples that illustrate why minorities are often overlooked in the healthcare system. Do you agree or disagree with these reasons, why or why not?
  • Despite the fact that school-based psychological counseling is available to all students, Thomas et al., report that ethnic disparities in mental healthcare access and utilization still persist. Explain why this disparity exists. What can be done to decrease mental health access and utilization barriers for low-income and minority students?
  • What strategies does former U.S. Surgeon General, David Satcher, M.D., discuss that will decrease the potential for minorities to be overlooked by the healthcare system?

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Instructions

 In addition to the thread, you are required to reply to 2 other classmates’ threads. Each reply must be at least 200 words, and assertions must be supported by 1 textbook and/or biblical citation and 1 outside academic resource.  

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Systematic cultural value analysis helps us to grasp the alternative paths that other cultures may prefer the alternative paths that other cultures may prefer in their ways of thinking, valuing and being.[1] Cultural value patterns serve many functions, including the identity meaning function, motivational function, and ingroup-out-group evaluation function.[2]Cultural beliefs and values provide the anchoring points to which we attach meanings and significance to our complex identities.[3] Tingey-Toomey and Chung call these in groups and out groups. When we interact with our own culture we operate in knowledge that outsiders may not have. There are things that may be understood without being said. As we learn to communicate cross-culturally, insight into those cultures values can be useful to developing a successful relationship with them and ultimately to accomplishing whatever goal that needs to be accomplished. Intercultural misunderstandings may pile up if we do not attach the appropriate cultural values to explain the words and nonverbal gestures that people use in a particular cultural scene.[4] Cultural values form the implicit standards by which we judge appropriate and inappropriate behaviors in a communication episode.[5]

Livermore makes the point that, “The ability to understand and work with a culture doesn’t just come intuitively. It requires a disciplined effort to better understand cultural differences.”[6] The path toward improving CQ Knowledge begins with seeing the influence of our culture on everything we think, say, and do. Culture is defined as the beliefs, values, behaviors, customs, and attitudes that distinguish one group from another.[7] What we believe and value influences behavior and what is and is not acceptable in varying cultures. The limitation to this is that as an out-group one would not possess the knowledge necessary to communicate successfully in order to achieve an goal, like sharing the gospel for example. Having in-group knowledge, an understanding of what is appropriate and what is not appropriate, is helpful in to understanding what is important to a culture and how to best and most effectively share necessary information, such as the gospel, in a way that would be accepted. If one was not mindful of these cultural patterns, one would run the risk of possibly offending the other culture which would ruin an attempt to communicate to achieve the ultimate goal.

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Class, this week we are working on essay two! Let’s try to help each other out. Here are the instructions.  Part 1 (Essay 2–Paragraphs) First (in your initial response), post at least two paragraphs of essay two. You may post any paragraphs you wish, but please tell us which paragraphs they are and also be sure to include your thesis statement at the top of your post if you are not sharing paragraph one. Please put your thesis in bold. Also include at least one citation and one Works Cited entry. Part 2 (MLA or Essay Help) Do you have any questions about MLA usage thus far? Is there anything troubling you about this essay? Do you need help in any specific area? Did you find any aspect of this essay (research, outlining, drafting, etc.) particularly stressful? If so, let us help! *** For your student replies, answer some or all of the checklist questions below (enough to reach the required word counts, please). Please do NOT copy and paste the questions into your post, but please do include the numbers, so we will know to which questions you are responding. Answer in complete sentences. An example is below.    4. I do not see a transition word in your topic sentence for paragraph two. Perhaps you could add “furthermore” at the beginning of the sentence.    Here are the questions.    Is the thesis statement one concise sentence (i.e., a statement, not a question)? Is it the last sentence of the introduction? Does it contain three clear parts? What are the three topics that will be discussed in this essay? Does the topic sentence of each paragraph coordinate with the thesis statement and in the correct order (i.e., the same order they are presented in the thesis statement)? Do the supporting details of each paragraph support that particular topic sentence? Are there any sentences that do not belong? Why do they not belong? Did the author use transitions? Which words are transitions and where are they used? Can you suggest any other transition words that would work well in this essay?  Did the author use third person only and avoid first and second person? See the Grammar Review if you need examples of each. Did the author use contractions (e.g., don’t, can’t, won’t)? If so, where do you see these words? You may suggest a revision, if you wish. Did the author write enough words per paragraph (at least 100)? Did the author write approximately 5-7 well developed sentences per paragraph? Do you see any misspelled words or other grammatical problems? Use your grammar review handout, a dictionary, or a previously recommended site.  Did the author use signal phrases and in-text citations within the essay? Example: Critic John Smith indicates that “quote from article” (page number).  Are the sources listed in alphabetical order and in MLA style on the Works Cited page?  Which APUS library search engines were used, and are they listed in italics? (Hint: Sources should be listed in alphabetical order according to the author’s last name. If the author is unknown, alphabetize by the first important word in the title.) The grading rubric for this forum is attached below. This week’s initial post will not be submitted through Turnitin since your essay will be submitted through Turnitin under Assignments.

Assignment 1: History of Environmental Issues for an Area

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In this assignment, you will select one region of the world with known environmental issues and create a timeline of the events in this area, going back no more than 200 years. For example, you could choose to focus on the Gulf Coast in the United States and its history of hurricanes, floods, and the recent oil spill; the Love Canal disaster in New York; the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown in Ukraine; or Canada’s tar-sands in Alberta. Each of these areas has a history of environmental problems that have impacted populations, and their health, drastically.

To help identify a region with known environmental events for this assignment, consult your textbook, the WHO Public Health and Environment Program’s Web site, and the UNEP’s Web site. Please be sure to support your public health analysis of these environmental issues with evidence-based research.

Using this timeline of events, create a presentation analyzing the environmental issues in this region, including the following topics/issues:

  • History—A brief timeline: Describe the environmental history for the area(s)/region(s) impacted, including the environmental disasters that have taken place and their immediate- and long-term impacts on the population’s health in this region. Wherever appropriate, include a description of the population(s) in the region, along with demographics and population sizes. This should take approximately 4–5 slides.
  • The factors that caused these disasters and public health outcomes in this area. Be sure to list all known causative factors at play and whether they are caused by humans and/or are natural. This should take approximately 2–3 slides.
  • An analysis of how these events have impacted or will impact the health and/or disease risk of this region of the world. Be sure to address other determinants of health—social, economic, cultural, and other environmental factors—in your analysis that influence or will influence the magnitude of environmental events on health outcomes in this region. Examine whether you are focusing on a region with primarily developed or developing countries and explain how this influences current and future health outcomes. This should take approximately 4–5 slides.
  • A summary of past, current, and proposed efforts that aim to help combat the effects of these environmental issues/threats on health (local and/or global), including emergency response planning and prevention efforts. This should take approximately 3–4 slides.
  • Three recommendations for strategies to protect populations in this region from poor health outcomes due to these environmental issues. Be sure that your three recommendations are supported with evidence-based research. These could include long-term policies, emergency response plans, or public health programs that would protect public health in the region. This should take approximately 3–4 slides.
  • References used for the project in APA format. This should take approximately 2–3 slides.

Be sure to include detailed speaker notes for each slide to elaborate on what you would say while presenting your material.

Develop a 20–25-slide presentation in Microsoft PowerPoint format. Apply APA standards to citation of sources. Use the following file naming convention: LastnameFirstInitial_M5_A1.ppt.