This assignment is for Federal Government.
find a current news article (online or in print) about a current political event, issue, election, debate (etc.) that has taken place within the federal level of American governments or politics, in the last 3 months
Whats a summary analysis, you say? The grand daddy of political science, Harold Lasswell, is known for defining Politics. , Ideological values, beliefs, and opinions, aside, when it comes to government and politics, his definition of the word (ironically) is probably the only thing that all mankind can agree on. Lasswell, defines politics, as “who, gets what, where, when, and how”. Apply that definition to the article’s information, or the article’s information to that definition, and write a 10 sentence summary that focuses on critically evaluating what is going on, from your personal perspective. Interject your opinion. You should be making a statement, argument, and your opinion about the subject matter, should be known. However, this needs to be done in a scholarly and academic manner. Focus on explanation, reason and rationalization, to provide a clear opinion statement and discussion of their personal perspective and political position towards the event or issue in their article. In addition, to receive full credit, you MUST include a direct link to the original article’s text that they are using to complete this assignment.

Current Event Discussion Questions-use these as a guide to introduce your article, to group members, as well as write your critical summary analysis of the political events, covered.
1. What level, branch, individual, agency, group, organization…etc. is discussed, and how does it relate to federal government and politics.
2. Why is this relevant? Is there are certain group, demographic, population, that this is more/less relevant to?
3. Why is what is going on unusual and unexpected.-Refer back to your independent response to the prompt question: What is the purpose and necessity of government
4. What direct or indirect impact can affect the readers?
5. Describe the type of emotions it inflicts, from all angles, political ideologies and beliefs. Compare and contrast these possible emotional effects, and explain in terms of the different types of possible consequences or concerns of the people, places, politics, power that they could inflict emotional responses from. Are these effects realistic concerns? Is government’s involvement, or lack of regulation, consistent with your beliefs about what the necessity and purpose of government is?
6. The magnitude of the story is newsworthy. What are the stakes, risks costs and benefits. Basically, so what? Why should we are anybody else care, especially those of us who are not directly impacted?

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: geography

http://www.geography.ryerson.ca/jmaurer/GEO108_sample_essay.pdf

Ruling may up risk for ‘apparent authority.’ (2009). Healthcare Risk Management, 31(4), 43–44.

The article is about the Doctrine of Apparent Authority (or Apparent Agency, DAA), which is also discussed in Chapter 6 of your textbook.

After reading the article, compose a paper including, but not limited to, the following:

•Discuss apparent authority, generally.
•Include an understanding of risk management.
•Discuss the relationship between physician and hospital (or other authority/agency).
•What conclusions would you as a health administrator make about the relationship between physician and agency?
•How can health administrators help the relationship be productive for both parties?

Requirements

Your submission must be written in a scholarly, well-flowing piece that reflects Master’s level work.

Include a title page, a reference page, and 12 pt. Times New Roman font.

Your paper should be a minimum of 3 pages in length, not including the title page and references.

All formatting and references should follow APA format. You may include additional references beyond those provided within the Assignment.

The book that should be used:
Title: The Law of Healthcare Administration
Edition: 8th (2017)
Author: Showalter
Publisher: Health Administration Press
Book ISBN: 978-1567938760

A 22-year-old woman reports being “sick with the flu” for the past 8 days. She is vomiting several times every day, having difficulty keeping liquids or food down, and has been using more than the recommended dose of antacids in an attempt to calm the nausea. She has become severely dehydrated. After fainting at home, she was taken to a local hospital. An arterial blood gas sample was drawn and then an IV was placed to help rehydrate her. The arterial blood gas revealed the following:

Test                                                     Result                                               Normal levels

pH                                                                   7.5                                                       7.35 – 7.45

PaCO₂                                                 40 mm Hg                               35-45 mm Hg

PaO₂                                                    95 mm Hg                               80-100 mm Hg

SaO₂                            97%                                         95-100%

HCO₃–                                           32 meq/liter                       22-26 meq/liter

 

How would you classify the patient’s acid-base disturbance and explain why?

Given the case study, what are the possible factors causing this acid-base disturbance? Explain the pathophysiology created by these factors.

How would the renal and respiratory systems try to compensate for this acid-base disturbance?

What pharmacologic intervention is commonly used to correct this acid-base disturbance? Describe the pharmacological actions.

Describe the educational needs for this patient and what your approach will be.

Assignment 6: Communicating Change
You are the head of the accounting department for a large company that hires student interns each summer. You have always requested two or three interns depending on the needs of your staff. In years past, the human resources (HR) department not only fulfilled your intern requests but was also able to send you students who were accounting majors. This year, however, HR announced that due to budget cuts, the internship pool would be reduced by half. You can request an intern–only one–but HR will assign interns only to selected departments, and HR cannot guarantee that your intern, if assigned, will actually be an accounting major. HR will determine the intern assignments based on justified requests from each department head. During a department meeting with your staff, you explain the situation and ask for their input. The group offers the following justification:

The accounting department employs 15 full-time staff members. Your department is one of the smallest in the company, yet is responsible for critical operational and budgetary functions upon which all other departments depend.
The company’s fiscal year ends June 30, which means significant work is required in the summer months to generate year-end reports in addition to regular accounting operations.
Coincidentally, two employees in the accounting department will be out on maternity leave, one during May and June, and the other during June and July. These absences will further limit the department’s ability to fulfill its end-of-year responsibilities.
INSTRUCTIONS

Write a message to the Director of HR, Mary Jenkins, requesting an intern (accounting major, if possible) for your department. Do not simply repeat the points just outlined. Develop credibility, put the arguments in an effective order, supply evidence to support your arguments, and use techniques to motivate action

THIS IS NOT A PAPER rather a short discussion post, 250-350 words.

In this module we have focused on the works of Booker T. Washington and Frederick Douglass. However, there were other prominent African American authors that wrote during this time period in American History known as the Reconstruction Era.

For this discussion we will explore the literary works of other authors. Complete the following steps:

1. Conduct an internet search to find one African American author that lived and wrote during the time period of 1865 to 1919.

2. Post a description of the author and his/her literary contributions. Your post should include the following elements:

-Title your post with the name of the author and their life span (if dates are known). For example: Harriet Jacobs 1813 – 1897

-Describe the authors literary contributions and provide the titles of their work. You should also be able to include a link to the author’s works. Any documents written prior to 1923 are in the public domain (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..

-Provide a brief biography of the author, including:
Where they lived (geographical location) and
The experiences that shaped their writing.

-You can choose to provide a link to the author’s biography instead of writing a biography. YouTube videos are also acceptable. To add links to your post, you can copy and paste the URLs into your post

Educational neuroscience helps us with understanding why some children/adolescents show better learning behavior than others.
For the paper, please (1)focus on at least two brain subregions and(2) describe how they separately or together functionin any one of the following psychological processes: attention, memory, emotion, and decision making.
Then,please (3)think and provide one concrete example of any educational context where some children/adolescents show poor performance in your selected psychological process and (4) discuss why you think these children/adolescents may have difficulty in that process,in terms of individual differences in the structures, functions, and/or developmental trajectories of your selected brain subregions. To get full credit, be as specific as possible.

Part A. The Most Beautiful Object in the Museum
 As you walk through the museum, you should seek the most beautiful object you
can find. When you have discovered it, stand or sit before it for at least two
minutes.
 Try not at first to look at the “title” or other information displayed with the
object. Use your insight and imagination to understand the art before you.
 Think about what thoughts and questions are going through your mind as you
look at the object.
 Take notes that express your feelings and thoughts plainly and simply.
 Make a 8 x 10 sketch of the object, including the important details. (Do not
worry about your artistic talent – I just want to see your impression of what you
saw.)
 This part of the paper should include:
 the name of the museum you visited.
 the title of the work you selected, its artist, and the country the artist is
from.
 a detailed description of the work and why you selected it.
 the feelings the work aroused in you.
 a list of the questions you thought about while watching it.
 your 8×10 sketch, including the important details.
Part B. The Most Interesting Non-European/Non-North American Work of Art
 Follow the directions for Part A. Make sure to list the country the artist is from.
Part C. The Most Disturbing Work of Art OR A Work of Art that You Disliked
 Follow the directions for Part A.
Part D. 2 Paragraphs about a Special Exhibition
 Please add a paragraph about a special exhibit at the museum. What was the title of
the exhibit? What was the purpose of the exhibit? Give a general description of the
artwork that is part of the exhibit.
 In your second paragraph, select an object you feel is the most significant of this
particular exhibit. Make sure to include the title of the piece, the artist, country of
origin, a description and sketch, and why you thought it was the most significant of
the exhibit.
Part E. What Would You Take Home
 If you could take one work home, from anything in the museum, what would you
select and why? Describe the work you have selected and draw an 8×10 sketch.
Part F: Follow These Procedures
 If you have trouble writing your paper, go to Questions You Should Think about
When Looking at Art.
 Your paper must be typed in a 10-12 point font, double-spaced with margins that are
no more than 1 inch.
 If you don’t have Microsoft Word, save your file as a .txt, .pdf, or .rtf file.
I cannot open .wps files. Title your document with one word. For example, I might
use sarah1.doc.
 Make sure to upload your paper to the dropbox and read your originality report. If
your paper is above 5% copied (excluding quotes) make the necessary changes
before re-submitting it into the dropbox. For more information on using turnitin
dropboxes inside of Blackboard and understanding originality reports, click here.
 Sketches should NOT be included when you upload your paper. They should be
scanned in and uploaded to the seperate Museum Sketch dropbox or they can be
faxed to the number in the syllabus. Make sure your professor’s name is on the cover
sheet. The sketches can also be snail mailed to the address in the syllabus

Assignment: Using the lists below, write a four or five paragraph essay answering ONE of the following:
1. Choose either Gilgamesh or Enkidu. Which two (or three) characteristics of the “epic hero” does the character you have chosen seem to fulfill best? Find evidence to support your claim.
2. Analyze Gilgamesh the poem. Which two (or three) characteristics of the “epic poem” does Gilgamesh seem to fulfill best? Find evidence to support your claim.
Bring an outline of the paper to class next week:
Thesis: _____________________________________________
a. Body paragraph 1 = first characteristic __________________________________________
b. Body paragraph 2 = second characteristic________________________________________
c. Body paragraph 3 = third characteristic___________________________________(optional!!)
Conclusion: _________________________________________
Remember: your essay must evaluate how the quotes you select actually fulfill or satisfy the characteristics or requirements you have chosen. In other words, be sure that you choose typical and excellent evidence.
You must use and analyze at least two brief quotes in each body paragraph to illustrate your position. All of the quotes must be different, ideally from different parts of the poem. At least one quote in your essay must be drawn from the second half of the poem (i.e., pp. 141-199). See links in Blackboard for integrating quotes into your writing. Use MLA style to reference your citations.

Characteristics (requirements) of an epic hero:†
1. Is born of noble blood
2. Is partially descended from a god or goddess
3. Is often a political and/or social leader
4. Embodies one or more important values of his/her culture
5. Has great physical power or nearly superhuman strength (or other attribute, like cunning)
6. Demonstrates physical courage
7. Embarks on a quest or journey, facing adversaries along the way
8. Returns home changed by the journey

Conventions(requirements) of an Epic:†*
1. Often begins in medias res (in the middle of the action)
2. Often begins with an “invocation” to a muse
3. Is set in many countries or worlds
4. Favors the use of epithets (stock name like “Wily Odysseus” or repeated phrases like “wine-dark sea”)
5. Is written in high, formal style
6. Contains long lists (epic catalogues)
7. Includes long, formal speeches given by major characters
8. May show the hero descending into some kind of Underworld
9. Features gods and/or goddesses who intercede in human affairs

Critically analyse one of the suggested sources below. Your analysis should be a sustained reflection on the detractions, merits, and implications of your chosen article. It should be no less than 1100 words and no more than 1300 words long.

Richard K. Betts, ‘Analysis, War, and Decision: Why Intelligence Failures are Inevitable’, World Politics 31/1 (1978)

Your analysis should critically interrogate the assumptions and commitments of the article chosen.

Whether you agree or disagree with the article chosen for the analysis, you should critically explore the claims being put forward, the assumptions (explicit or implicit) that underwrite these claims, and the implications for theory and/or practice that emerge from the article