Discuss a vector-borne illness with an emphasis on the life-cycle of the pathogenic microorganism.

Discuss a vector-borne illness with an emphasis on the life-cycle of the pathogenic microorganism. You will take an analytical approach to explore the life cycles of vector-born pathogens. Using this knowledge, determine what steps could be employed to decrease the risk of infection and limit morbidity/mortality.

Describe a vector-borne illness, with an emphasis on the type of vector involved, the life cycle of the pathogen and the treatment/prevention methods employed.

Describe a vector-borne pathogen, including the specific vector involved in transmission and a short summary of the life cycle. Based on your knowledge of the life cycle and the vector involved, what methods would you employ to limit your risk of being infected? If you were to be infected with this pathogen, what are the most effective treatment options?

Describe the Continuity and Competence and Environmental Press theories.

Description:

In this discussion you will explore two theories of psychosocial aging, the Continuity theory and the Competence and Environmental Press theory. You will also identify how social policies affect older adults in the United States.

Objectives:

Provide examples to illustrate the Continuity and Competence and Environmental Press theories of psychosocial aging
Discuss how social policies affect older adults in the United States

Describe the Continuity and Competence and Environmental Press theories. Provide examples to illustrate each theory. What strategies do you recommend for older adults to use to preserve or extend the intellectual stamina? How do ethnic and cultural factors influence how people behave in later life? What are your thoughts regarding retirement? Should age be a determining factor in retirement? What factors should be considered?
Be sure to address each of the following in your discussion post:
Describe Continuity Theory.
Provide an example.
Describe Competence and Environmental Press.
Provide an example.
What strategies do you recommend for older adults to use to preserve or extend their intellectual stamina?
Describe how ethnic and cultural factors influence behavior in late life.
Describe your thoughts on retirement.
Describe your position on age as a determining factor for retirement.
Describe what factors you think should be used to determine retirement.

Describe the anatomical differences between skeletal, smooth, and cardiac muscle.

Describe the gross and microscopic anatomy of skeletal muscle.
Describe the anatomical differences between skeletal, smooth, and cardiac muscle.
What profession do you pursue or hope to pursue in the future? What is one physical activity that you think you will have to perform on a regular basis as part of that profession, and why? Describe at least three muscles that are most essential to that activity, including their type, anatomical structure, and function.

What happens to a person at death?

Worldview Paper: In this assignment, the student will attempt to answer the question What is my worldview and how did I come to this perspective? Questions that may be addressed in this paper are: What is prime realitythe really real? What is the nature of external reality, that is, the world around us? What is a human being? (a machine made of meat?) What happens to a person at death? Why is it possible to know anything at all? How do we know what is right or wrong? What is the meaning of human history? What personal, life-orienting core commitments are consistent with the worldview?

What role should college play in your personal, intellectual, and vocational formation?

Write a collegeview the instructions are going to be listed below.

1. Write it (150-250 words)

A “collegeview” is a document that describes your ideas about what college is for and what it means to you. It is not just a list of goals or a to-do list of activities (that’s your Bucket List) – it’s your manifesto about college’s purpose.

If it helps, use the questions below to guide your thinking. There are more questions than you have space to respond to, so choose the items that feel more important.

What’s college for?

You can use college to answer many questions; what question do you want to explore?

What role should college play in your personal, intellectual, and vocational formation?

What responsibility does the institution have in making your college experience positive? How much of that responsibility is yours?

What are the critical outcomes of college for you?

Where are the most persuasive voices trying to influence your collegeview (e.g., family, Lynn, friends, lore…)? How do you feel about these various voices, and what role do they deserve to play or not?

How might you complete the sentence, “College will have been worthwhile if… “.

Write a research paper on the topic of human dignity as understood in the thought one of the following major Western philosophers: Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Descartes, Locke, Kant, Hume, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Sartre, Martin Buber, Simone de Beauvoir, or W.E.B. Du Bois.

Exploration Paper: Write a research paper on the topic of human dignity as understood in the thought one of the following major Western philosophers: Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Descartes, Locke, Kant, Hume, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Sartre, Martin Buber, Simone de Beauvoir, or W.E.B. Du Bois. One should explore how the philosopher defined dignity, how he or she accounted for the basis or cause of human dignity, and what the philosopher considered to be the implications of human dignity in terms of the ethical, the social, and the political. Concentrate on how the thinker argued. That is, identify the thinkers premises (assumptions), inferences from the given premises, and conclusions ultimately reached.

Discuss 3 specific areas of strength (and include your highest scores).

This assignment is designed to (1) increase your understanding of the meaning of the term multicultural competence as endorsed by the ACA (American Counseling Association) and (2) help you assess your current multicultural competence.

For this paper, you are being asked to self-reflect upon your own level of multicultural awareness, knowledge, and skills. This assignment is meant to offer to you a baseline so that you know where some of your strengths may be as well as potential gaps of knowledge in terms of multicultural competence.

a) Understand the Multicultural Counseling Competencies. To complete this assignment, you will want to review the Multicultural Counseling Competencies that are outlined in Box 2.1 (p. 59-60) in your text as well as the article below and understand what this means in terms of the 3 areas of competence (awareness, knowledge, skills).

ACA article on Importance of MCC.pdf ACA article on Importance of MCC.pdf – Alternative Formats

b) Assess Your Current Level of Multicultural Counseling Competency. Below are the 34 original multicultural counseling competencies. Please review and rate yourself based on the instructions included in the document on each competency currently. Please try to be honest with yourself in doing this. You may also want to review the below resources, which will help you understand what different areas of competence might look like in practice and help you understand better where your strengths and challenges lie.

Multicultural Self Assessment -Ivey.pdf Multicultural Self Assessment -Ivey.pdf – Alternative Formats

Multicultural Self Assessment -Ivey.pdf – Alternative Formats

Multcultural Competencies Operationalized.pdf Multcultural Competencies Operationalized.pdf – Alternative Formats

c) Reflection. Your paper will be a reflection of your experience/reactions to assessing your Multicultural Counseling Competencies. What did you learn about yourself and discuss any reactions you had? Discuss 3 specific areas of strength (and include your highest scores). Discuss 3 specific areas that you have identified as potential growth areas (and include your lowest scores) that you would like to focus on to increase your own multicultural counseling competence. Hypothesize ways you might do this.

Additional Guidelines:

Must Follow APA guidelines for the most part (however, personal language is OKAY in this paper); no abstract is necessary

3-4 pages maximum (excluding title and reference pages)

Grading will be based quality and depth of your reflection/reactions, APA style, grammar and organization, and demonstrated understanding of multicultural competence.

Please note that although I ask you to include them, you will NOT be graded, judged, or evaluated on your scoring or areas of strength/challenge. This is meant to allow each of us to understand where we might need to grow and it is already assumed that we each have areas to grow in.

DUE DATE: 9/11/20