What impact do you believe the increasing legalization of marijuana will have upon mental illness? With marijuana becoming more readily available, are we likely to see any changes in psychiatric disorders in terms of how and when they present? Will the rates of psychiatric disorders go up, down, or stay the same? What evidence do you have?
Write an essay on issues in higher learning, such as teaching styles or the engagement of students.
-Prepare an informal business report for your peers, informing them about your career field in other countries. This report can compare/contrast other countries with the United States within reasons; the main goal is to educate others on your career field in other countries, not your own.
Prepare: Prior to beginning work on this assignment, please review this Sample Final Paper GEN499 for additional guidance on the expectations of this assignment.
The topic of your essay needs to be a global societal problem from the following list:
Climate change
Pollution
Religious conflict and violence
Rise of artificial intelligence
Lack of education
Unemployment and lack of economic opportunity
Government accountability and corruption
Food and water security
International drug trafficking
Poverty and income inequality
Reflect: Based on the topic that you have chosen, you will need to use critical thinking skills to thoroughly understand how this topic can be a global societal problem and determine some logical solutions to the problem.
Write: This Final Paper, an argumentative essay, will present research relating the critical thinker to the modern, globalized world. In this assignment, you need to address the items below in separate sections with new headings for each.
In your paper,
Identify the global societal problem within the introductory paragraph.
Conclude with a thesis statement that states your proposed solutions to the problem. (For guidance on how to construct a good introduction paragraph, please review the Introductions & Conclusions (Links to an external site.) from the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.).)
Describe background information on how that problem developed or came into existence.
Show why this is a societal problem.
Provide perspectives from multiple disciplines or populations so that you fully represent what different parts of society have to say about this issue.
Construct an argument supporting your proposed solutions, considering multiple disciplines or populations so that your solution shows that multiple parts of society will benefit from this solution.
Provide evidence from multiple scholarly sources as evidence that your proposed solution is viable.
Interpret statistical data from at least three peer-reviewed scholarly sources within your argument.
Discuss the validity, reliability, and any biases.
Identify the strengths and weaknesses of these sources, pointing out limitations of current research and attempting to indicate areas for future research. (You may even use visual representations such as graphs or charts to explain statistics from sources.)
Evaluate the ethical outcomes that result from your solution.
Provide at least one positive ethical outcome as well as at least one negative ethical outcome that could result from your solution.
Explain at least two ethical issues related to each of those outcomes. (It is important to consider all of society.)
Develop a conclusion for the last paragraphs of the essay, starting with rephrasing your thesis statement and then presenting the major points of the topic and how they support your argument. (For guidance on how to write a good conclusion paragraph, please review the Introductions & Conclusions (Links to an external site.) from the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.).)
Consider your current work environment and your role as a member of the health care team. What can you do to encourage collaboration and demonstrate stewardship?
In the assigned article, “Core Principles & Values of Effective Team-Based Health Care,” the authors state that “the incorporation of multiple perspectives in health care offers the benefit of diverse knowledge and experience; however, in practice, shared responsibility without high-quality teamwork can be fraught with peril.” Describe the perils that the authors say lead to uncoordinated care and unnecessary waste and cost. How do communication and interdisciplinary collaboration prevent adverse events?
Healing Hands Hospital is an acute care community hospital that serves a suburban community outside of a large city with two competing large academic medical centers. Both Healing Hands Hospital and the academic medical centers have a long history of service to the region, but their business and fundamental practices are different. Your manager, Ms. Woods, Healing Hands’ Chief Operating Officer, is part of the Task Force working on the strategic plan for the hospital and needs to understand the fundamental practices of these academic medical centers.
In a paper, describe the similarities and differences between academic medical centers and acute care community hospitals like Healing Hands Hospital in terms of the following:
Mission, goals, and objectives
Staffing and management structure
Accreditation, Policies, and Procedures
Reimbursement model
Research and clinical trials
Reference example:
Dyrda L., Rosen T., Wood, M., and Hoefner, M.. (2017). 100 Great community Hospitals Becker’s Hospital Review. Retrieved from https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/lists/100-great-community-hospitals-2017.html
Using the definitions of Environmental Justice that we have read and discussed as well as any others you have encountered in your research, write your definition of the term environmental justice. Put all of the sources into conversation in order to explain how and why you came to your particular definition. Which sources support your definition? Which sources challenge it? Explain why you define is as you do, despite those differences.
How my definition is similar to those of others.
Step 1:
Open your section with a sentence stem that explains to your reader what you are doing and why you are doing it. It might look like one of these:
Though my argument relates to ___, I would like to begin by clarifying how I am using the term environmental justice.
Before I begin, let me clarify how I will use the term environmental justice.
In this paper, environmental justice will . . .
Step 2:
Use ACEITCEIT structure to provide AT LEAST TWO pieces of evidence that support your definition of environmental justice. For each CEIT, provide context on the source, a quotation, analysis or interpretation of the quotation, and an explanation of how it supports your definition of EJ.
How my definition is different from others and why I still believe in my own conception of EJ.
Step 1:
Open your section with a sentence stem that explains to your reader what you are doing and why you are doing it. It might look like one of these:
Many critics would disagree that ___.
Though I define environmental justice ___, others might argue that ___.
My definition of environmental justice runs counter to many others, which contend ___.
Step 2:
Use ACEITCEIT structure to provide TWO pieces of evidence that contradict your definition of environmental justice. For each CEIT, provide context on the source, a quotation, analysis or interpretation of the quotation, and an explanation of how it supports your definition of EJ. Be sure your tie back explains why you still believe in your definition despite having others who disagree with you.
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Below are a number of discussions of environmental justice, some of which we have looked at together and analyzed and some we have not. Please feel free to draw from these or other definitions/discussions you have encountered in your research.
Buell, Lawrence. The Future of Environmental Criticism. Malden: Blackwell, 2005.
“[T]he sheer moral force of ecojustice revisionism’s critique of the demographic homogeneity of traditional environmental movements and academic environmental studies, including early ecocriticism, should not be underestimated. Indeed this has been a simmering anxiety for the ecocritical movement from the beginning. The contributors to The Environmental Justice Reader may underestimate how strongly that tide will continue to run in their favor.
As for impediments, two may be especially consequential, other than simply the inertial resistances of prior commitments and internal solidarity on both sides. One is the sensitive question of how closely ‘environmental justice’ should be seen as tied to the problem of ‘environmental racism.’ Certainly in the US and probably also worldwide, racial and ethnic minorities have been subjected to disproportionate environmental immiseration. Certainly within the US and perhaps also worldwide the awareness of this has been pivotal in attracting sizeable numbers of minority activists and scholars to engaging (some) environmental issues. Yet it remains a ‘contentious issue’ as to ‘which groups or populations to include under the environmental-justice umbrella. Should income or regional location count as much (if at all) as race or ethnicity in environment-justice schemes’ (Rhodes 2003: 18). The preamble to the 1991 Principles calls specifically for ‘a national and international movement of all peoples of color,’ but its 17 points are generally couched in universalizing form (‘mutual respect and justice for all peoples’) (Merchant 1999: 371). Conversely, The Environmental Justice Reader’s opening editorial statements define environmental justice initiatives broadly, as attempts ‘to redress the disproportionate incidence of environmental contamination in communities of the poor and/or communities of color’ (Adamson, Evans, and Stein 2002: 4); but the ensuing historical sketch focuses solely on the emergence of minority opposition to environmental racism” (Buell 115-116).
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Heise, Ursula. Sense of Place, Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global. New York: Oxford UP, 2008.
Rationale: Elementary teachers increasingly encourage children to use websites and other software to help them learn and refine knowledge. But not all content and format is equal in quality and appropriateness for young children.
Description: Critique web-based resources for children K-3 and evaluate the appropriateness of each website’s ability to support standards based instruction.
Directions:
1. Identify ten websites designed to teach math and science concepts to children in K-3 that would support standards-based instruction. Evaluate the website using the evaluation form provided by your professor. After evaluating using the evaluation from write a one page analysis for each website that includes:
a. an evaluation of the website’s content (website evaluation form will be provided by the instructor)
b. an analysis of its developmental appropriateness
c. your thoughts on what children would like or not like about the sites
d. what changes or improvements you would make
e. whether or not you would recommend the website as a teaching tool for teachers or parents
2. Rank the ten websites from your most to least favorite by making a list.
3. Using your most and least favorite of the math and science websites, spend at least 10 minutes on each site with two different children and ask for their feedback on the site. (FEAP 3.g)
4. Write a reflection that includes the following:
a. Children’s feedback
b. How well your professional assumptions about the websites matched up with the children’s reactions and experiences.
c. What did you learn from this experience?
d. How you would plan to use appropriate technology to support standards-based instruction in your classroom. How could these websites become part of the activities within your classroom to assist in meeting learning outcomes? (FEAP 1.f)
Write a paper over the following question(s):
Should there be a standardized measure of school performance? Will this force schools to make trade-offs in terms of choosing output or performance measures as a means to allocate valuable resources? By emphasizing a particular output, is possible to ignore potentially damaging effects on other important aspects of school performance?
