Explain what the southerners said, and why, and then discuss why by 1850 the national debate over slavery had changed from a primarily legal debate to a moral debate. What events caused this shift?

Choose one question from the list below and respond. Identify to which question you are responding. Submit your 2-3 page response to the Discussion Area. Remember to use supporting citations from the textbook and online lectures. (Here is a guide to help you with APA-style citations.) By the end of the week, please comment substantively on two or more classmates’ assignments and to any questions left to you by the instructor in his or her feedback. Leave comments that raise salient points and stimulate discussion. Focus on the topic and its historical context. Be respectful, helpful, clear, and concise. Always utilize constructive language, even in criticism, to work toward the goal of further learning.

By the 1820s, slavery was under attack, and southerners countered by defending slavery as a positive good and used biblical examples to support their arguments. Explain what the southerners said, and why, and then discuss why by 1850 the national debate over slavery had changed from a primarily legal debate to a moral debate. What events caused this shift?

As industrialization changed the manufacturing scene in America, more and more women entered the workforce. Discuss whether or not the use of women in factories was an example of women’s empowerment or their exploitation. Offer specifics to defend your decisions.

Regarding the biblical perspectives that were incorporated, how does that influence how you use your writing to communicate?

This course has been a whirlwind of learning how and what to write, but knowing the how isn’t always enough. This is your opportunity to ask and respond with a “So What?” Why do you think what you learned in this class was important? What will you take to your next classes? What concepts did you learn that you can take beyond your classes to help you in your work, home, or community? Regarding the biblical perspectives that were incorporated, how does that influence how you use your writing to communicate?

Remember, in this class, you didn’t just learn how to write – you learned how to communicate various ideas and through various methods.

Chapter 3 starts with the identification and the introduction of the Principles, and the characteristics of a successful IG program. Identify these Principles, and provide a brief explanation of their importance?

Q1: Chapter 3 starts with the identification and the introduction of the Principles, and the characteristics of a successful IG program.  Identify these Principles, and provide a brief explanation of their importance?

Chapter 4 – Information Risk Planning and Management. Please read the resource below and respond to the question What is Information Governance?

Resources

:Debra Logan, “What Is Information Governance? And Why Is It So Hard?” January 11, 2010, http://blogs.gartner.com/debra_logan/2010/01/11/what-is-information-governance-and-why-is-it-so-hard/.

s you look ahead to your future as a professional counselor, consider how program evaluation promotes and sustains improvements in delivering mental health services. How do you see yourself implementing the research and evaluation skills you have learned in order to promote best practices?

As you look ahead to your future as a professional counselor, consider how program evaluation promotes and sustains improvements in delivering mental health services. How do you see yourself implementing the research and evaluation skills you have learned in order to promote best practices? Consider the following possibilities:

  • Will you engage in action research in your community?
  • Will you will be asked to help write a grant or to administer one?
  • Will you assist with the collection and analysis of data at your site in order to demonstrate your agency’s effectiveness?
  • Will you adapt counseling programs described in published efficacy studies for use in your own community?

In this discussion, share your vision of how you see research fitting into your future as a professional mental health counselor. Use and cite the readings from this course that you find particularly helpful when envisioning your future possibilities.

Describe the advantages and disadvantages a company may face when exploring acquisition to enter a new industry.

This assignment covers chapter nine, Corporate-Level Strategy: Horizontal Integration, Vertical Integration, and Strategic Outsourcing, and chapter ten, Corporate-Level Strategy: Related and Unrelated Diversification.

Chapter 9 Questions

  1. Who makes strategies at the corporate level, and how this strategy  is made? How would an organization with a multi-business model form their strategies? What would they target?
  2. Why would a company leverage horizontal integration as a strategy? What are the advantages and disadvantages of horizontal integration ?
  3. Why would a company leverage vertical integration as a strategy? What are the advantages and disadvantages of vertical integration? When companies vertically disintegrate and why?
  4. What is strategic outsourcing? Describe why a company would explore this option as an alternative to vertical integration. What are the potential advantages and disadvantages of strategic outsourcing.

Chapter 10 Questions

  1. Why do companies diversify? When do companies consider diversification? What are the advantages of diversification.
  2. Describe related and unrelated diversification, and why a company would choose one diversification method or the other.
  3. Describe what can cause diversification to fail.
  4. When seeking to enter a new industry, some companies decide to acquire another company. Describe the advantages and disadvantages a company may face when exploring acquisition to enter a new industry.

Locate an article about a current event related to health and/or healthcare that has affected your community.

Locate an article about a current event related to health and/or healthcare that has affected your community.

Part 2: Reflect

In a minimum of two-pages (not counting the title page and reference page) address the following:

  • Offer a one (1) paragraph synopsis of the article.
  • Identify if this event is something that is common in your community or more of an isolated incident?
  • Discuss if it is something that is common in your community, what strategies would you suggest be implemented in your community to combat it?
  • Address if it is a rare occurrence and why do you believe it happened?
  • Explain how you would advocate for your client if they were the victim in this situation?

Explain why Social Media campaigns can be supportive to vulnerable populations that may be dealing with social problems.

There are many social problems that impact our society, and on a larger scale, our world. As a human services professional, you need to develop a greater sense of awareness of these social problems, which will better assist you to become an advocate for the people for whom you serve.

For this part of your social problems project, you will develop a persuasive solution to social problem you selected. (Drug Abuse)

Part 1: Research

Locate two (2) Social Media campaigns geared toward support of the social problem you have selected. Compile the information collected through your research and develop a persuasive solution to the chosen social problem. Be sure to incorporate the information collected on Social Media campaigns.

Part 2: Reflect

Your goal is to educate an audience about the ways in which this problem could be effectively handled.

In a minimum of two-pages (not counting the title page and reference page) address the following in your persuasive solution:

  • Provide a detailed overview of two (2) Social Media campaign geared toward support of the chosen social problem.
  • Evaluate whether each Social Media campaign was effective or ineffective. Support your opinion.
  • Explain why Social Media campaigns can be supportive to vulnerable populations that may be dealing with social problems.

Conduct a descriptive epidemiology analysis of the health condition.

The purpose of this assignment is:
1. Integrate knowledge and skills learned throughout the NR503 course
2. Direct application of course objectives utilizing epidemiological analysis of a chronic health problem, along with state and national-level data.
This paper should clearly and comprehensively identify the chronic health disease chosen
Alcohol Addiction.
The paper should be organized into the following sections:
1. Introduction (Identification of the problem) with a clear presentation of the problem as well as the significance and a scholarly overview of the paper’s content.
2. Background and Significance of the disease, to include: Definition, description, signs and symptoms, and current incidence and/or prevalence statistics by the state with a comparison to national statistics pertaining to the disease.  Create a table of incidence or prevalence rates by your geographic county/city or state with a comparison to national statistics. This is a table that you create using relevant data, it should not be a table from another source using copy/paste.
3. Surveillance and Reporting: Current surveillance methods and mandated reporting processes as related to the chronic health condition chosen should be specific.
4. Epidemiological Analysis: Conduct a descriptive epidemiology analysis of the health condition. Be sure to include all of the 5 W’s: What, Who, Where, When, Why. Use details associated with all of the W’s, such as the “Who” which should include an analysis of the determinants of health. Include costs (both financial and social) associated with the disease or problem.
5. Screening and Guidelines: Review how the disease is diagnosed and current national standards (guidelines). Pick one screening test (review Week 2 Discussion Board) and review its sensitivity, specificity, predictive value, and cost.
6. Plan: Integrating evidence, provide a plan of how a nurse practitioner will address this chronic health condition after graduation. Provide three specific interventions that are based on the evidence and include how you will measure outcomes (how will you know that the interventions have utility, are useful?) Note:  Consider primary, secondary, and tertiary interventions as well as the integration of health policy advocacy efforts. All interventions should be based on evidence – connected to a resource such as a scholarly piece of research.
7. Summary/Conclusion: Conclude in a clear manner with a brief overview of the key points from each section of the paper utilizing the integration of resources.
8. The paper should be formatted and organized into the following sections which focus on the chosen chronic health condition.