Discuss the basic ways in which terrorists approach surveillance, what are some of their more common techniques?

Terrorist Methods of Infiltration and the Targets that Require Special Mission Training and Equipment
First, begin by listening to the following radio talk show host’s concerns:
Rep. Kevin McCarthy gives ultimatum over military vaccine mandate #shorts

For your main post,
Pick one of the two discussion questions below to answer in your HS Chat; please be sure to present research to support your discussion and document that research in APA format.
1. Terrorists are often specially trained in skills to infiltrate borders, difficult targets, secure places, and checkpoints. Knowing the potential methods of infiltration and the targets that require special mission training and equipment will help you take necessary security measures to stop surveillance or an attack. Discuss some of the required special mission training and equipment that might help you succeed.
2. Discuss the basic ways in which terrorists approach surveillance, what are some of their more common techniques?
Please use a case example in your answer, as well as research to support your opinion.

Requirements
⦁ Your main post should be 350+ words.
⦁ Your main post should use APA format.
Resources
You may review the rubric by clicking here. here. – Alternative Formats
You may review a sample discussion board post by clicking here here – Alternative Formats .

Are governments ever justified in censoring art? Why or why not?

Week 7 Assignment: Controversial Art and Censorship
Instructions
Although social justice art is not a topic exclusive to the 20th and 21st centuries, the distribution of information regarding controversial art with gender, race, sexual, and/or environmental themes has increased with the proliferation of media. Choose an example of a social justice work of art from the 20th or 21st centuries from any discipline of the humanities (music, literature, sculpture, film, television, etc.). Then, address the following:
Identify the work and the medium.
Based on your example, to what extent does this work of art make a social contribution?
What aesthetic value does the work have? How does it reflect the human condition? How does it relate to your life?
Has this work ever been censored? If so, explain the circumstances.
Are governments ever justified in censoring art? Why or why not?
Examine some of the influences of this work of art. What was the public reaction to this work? Does it effectively portray its message?
Argue whether or not this work should be considered art. Explain why using terms learned in this course.
Include an accompanying statement from the artist(s) and a statement from a critic to support your points.
Writing Requirements (APA format)
Length: 1.5-2 pages (not including title page or references page)
1-inch margins
Double spaced
12-point Times New Roman font
Title page
References page (minimum of 1 scholarly source and 1 primary source)
Required Resources
Read/review the following resources for this activity:
Textbook: Chapter 14
Lesson
Minimum of 1 primary sources (artist statement)
Minimum of 1 scholarly source (in addition to the textbook – from critic)

identify and discuss cultural competence in professional nursing.

Week 7 Discussion: Presentation of Course Project: Part 3 (Graded)
**Please Note: This Discussion is linked to your Week 6: Course Project Part 3 Assignment**
Discussion
This discussion prompts you to identify and discuss cultural competence in professional nursing. You must present your Week 6: Course Project Part 3 Poster to your classmates. Please submit the poster as an attachment so your classmates can review this information. Please address the following in the discussion box:
Cultural population selected and why
Health issue selected and why
Highlight three or more key points from your poster
Scholarly outside sources are included and credited on your poster.

Explain the criteria you used to evaluate whether the journal article you selected was peer reviewed or not.

To prepare:
Review the Learning Resources and Course Announcement.
Access the Walden University Library and complete a search on a topic of interest (such as mental health, child welfare, family re-integration post-incarceration, or access to food).
Narrow down your library database results and choose one peer-reviewed article published within the last five years.
Access any internet browser and find a non-library, online source on the same topic of interest.
Narrow down your online results to find one reliable source published within the last five years.
Read and reflect on the two sources.
Note that Assignments in your doctoral program are required to adhere to all APA standards.
BY DAY 7
Write a 2-page paper in which you:
Describe the peer-reviewed journal article that you selected. Outline the summary of the article, the method, and the results of the study.
Include the name of the database where you located the article, and how you narrowed your results. Explain the criteria you used to evaluate whether the journal article you selected was peer reviewed or not. (FOUND ARTICLE IN WALDEN UNIVERSITY DATABASE)
Explain the importance of using peer-reviewed journal articles and reliable online sources as a human services professional practitioner and doctoral student. Use specific examples as evidence to illustrate this importance.
Use APA style citations, references, and page formatting.
Be sure that your paper includes all elements of an academic paper of introduction with a thesis, body, and conclusion.

Develop an argument about either of the following themes, or any combination of these themes, in Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days.

English 1202: Research Essay Topics
Length: 1800-2100 words double-spaced, 12 pt font. Choose one of the following:

1. Develop an argument about either of the following themes, or any combination of these themes, in Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days.
– memory: to generate ideas for yourself, consider different things Winnie remembers, from the trivial to the profound, as well as real and false memories, sameness and change, pasts either real or idealized, and memories repressed or denied.
– repression (or denial): a more focused version of the “memory” theme; to generate ideas, consider similar angles as above.
– fear and desire: while looking at both these themes, consider also the “paradox” of simultaneous fear and desire for the same things, and/or how a person’s desires often contradict one another.
– attachments: consider this topic at various levels, including but moving beyond the interpersonal; you might think, for example, of attachments to ideas, desires (like being seen or heard), locations, identities, and ways of behaving or communicating.

-vision and observation: consider related concepts such as observation of self, of others, and by others; blindness (willful or otherwise) and insight; imagination, light, exposure, eyes, etc.

2. Compare Knut Hamsun’s Glahn and Camus’ Meursault as “outsiders” or “strangers.” How is the theme of alienation treated similarly and/or differently in both novels? Look closely at each character’s attitudes toward various parts of their lives and various people in their lives. Look also at their sensibilities, their memories, their desires, their methods of self-expression and their use of language, their values and beliefs. Develop a complex overall argument about alienation that accounts for both characters.

Sources: you are required to use at least three peer-reviewed sources (book chapters, or articles) in your essay. These three should be relevant enough that you can cite them in detail throughout major portions of your essay. They must be books or articles that analyze the particular play or novel you are writing about. You can of course add more sources, which you might refer to in passing, or in less detail.
At least two of your main sources MUST be taken from the “Research Paper Sources” at the bottom of our course Moodle Page. You are welcome to take all of your sources from these readings if you like. Files or links to each source are included there (for most links, you will be prompted to login to the KPU Library site with your Student ID number and password).
-If you want to look for other sources, you can find print books and full-text e-books through a KPU Library Catalogue search, and full-text articles through research databases such as Academic Search Complete, the MLA International Bibliography, and JSTOR.
Here is how to access books and articles that are not included in the Moodle course site section called “Research Paper Sources”:
– for print books and e-books, go online to the KPU library homepage, and do a “Catalogue” search (click “Catalogue Search,” then the “advanced catalogue search” option at the lower right corner of the options bar).  In the search term boxes, simply put the name of your author in one box, and the name of the play or novel you want to write about in the other box.  Then “search,” and results will come up.

– for articles, go online to the KPU library homepage, and do a “Research Databases” search (click “Research Databases,” then choose the “research databases A-Z” option at the lower right corner of the options bar).  Then search as above — by inserting the author’s name in one box, and the play or novel in the other — in the following databases: Academic Search Complete, MLA International Bibliography, and JSTOR.  In Academic Search Complete and MLA International Bibliography, be sure to place a check in the “scholarly” or “peer-reviewed” box below the search term boxes.  Also be sure that you are finding full-length articles by academic authors, several pages long at least, and not “Review” articles that may be only a journalist’s review of a particular play performance. (You can also find articles through a “Summon” search on the KPU homepage, but this will produce a huge number of hits and will require careful limiting of your search to find useful sources).

In both cases, you’ll need to log in when prompted with your Student ID number and password.

Does self-reliance mean no trade?

Lesson 6 Discussion

After watching the video: Michael Shuman on Going Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities in the Global Age, complete the following critical thinking questions – support your position(s) with cited academic/peer reviewed and credible resources. After answering the questions, respond to at least one other classmate’s post with substantive (challenging) information/questions/additional sources.

This requires a post answering the questions below:
Answer ALL Questions:
Why have imports?
Why limit imports?
How would a city or region that imported less benefit from limiting imports?
What types of products could be more locally produced? Why? How?
In what other areas would self-reliance be a good idea? (other “essentials”)
What are local examples of self-reliance or import substitution? (farmers’ markets, local fairs with local products)
Does self-reliance mean no trade?
In what ways do current laws/regulations make it difficult for businesses to stay local (not export) their labor/resources/businesses? Be Specific.

When replying to your classmates’ posts:
Read your classmate’s post and reply to no less than two of your classmates and a question.
Your question should be one of the following three types:
Clarification Based: This kind of question helps the writer by asking your peer to clarify points that you think could be more fully explained.
Evidence question – When a writer states something as fact rather than personal opinion, your peers argument is stronger if they cite evidence that the fact is true. Facts can be evidenced, in approximate order of strongest evidence to weakest, (1) by citing trustworthy data, (2) by citing the opinions of experts, (3) by citing repeatable personal experience, or (4) by citing common opinion. This kind of question helps the writer by asking for evidence if the student states something as fact but doesn’t cite evidence.
Hypothetical question – This kind of question helps the writer by asking your peer to test their argument by applying it to a situation that you specify.

Describe the challenges and barriers of measuring health and disease among people of a non-western culture like those in Kigali.  

Essay
Scenario
Action Aid, an international non-governmental organization (NGO), has just hired you for its global health programs as the field program officer. Your previous manager from the World Health Organization recommended you for the job and now you are required to do a comprehensive Assessment for a USAID funded project in Kigali, in the Republic of Rwanda. Kigali has been hit with COVID-19 few months ago, but the cases have dwindled since last week. Unfortunately, in the last three days, there has been another outbreak of a new variant of COVID. Experts say it is highly infectious and the death rate has been increasing especially among the elderly and children. International organizations and foreign governments have been collaborating to help.

Food shortages, malnutrition, and lack of water supply are problematic in Kigali because of lack of irrigation. Action Aid is helping with the construction of water wells, but they have a long way to go especially in dealing with the culture and beliefs of the local citizens.

One of the issues you discovered was that the new variant affected only a specific demographic. The government in Kigali has changed health policies to favor nations that came in to help and many primary health organizations are teaching the population preventive measures and other infection control measures. To save lives certain risk behaviors were banned by the government and a mask mandate was instituted for everyone in the community.

Your work in Kigali is to do a thorough assessment for Action Aid and prepare a report to the [presented to USAID for funding. In your 5–6 pages report, address the following areas in justifying your request for funding. (cite peer-review articles as references)

Describe the challenges and barriers of measuring health and disease among people of a non-western culture like those in Kigali.
Explain the benefits and limitations of the western biomedical approach to health in other cultural contexts.
How could you apply those measures to the situation in Kigali?
Describe some of the dominant types of cultural explanations of disease causation and methods for understanding culture
Explain the relationship between social determinants and the challenges of improving the health population in the community.
Describe why the children and elderly were more vulnerable to the disease outbreak in Kigali, and what role did malnutrition and micronutrient deficiencies play in this case.
Do you believe the situation would have been different if it were a western country? Why?
How did the difference in income level of the population become a factor in the spread and severity of the disease?
Discuss mitigation to the cumulative exposure to risk factors, as well as alleviation strategies that impact health outcomes.
Describe policy responses you would recommend to the government in Kigali to help mitigate the problem.

How does your state constitution protect your individual rights?

Our Struggle for Freedom, Civil Liberties And Political Equality

Required Resources
Read/review the following resources for this activity:
Textbook: Chapter 15, 16 The Struggle for Democracy, 2018 Elections and Updates edition 12th Edition
Lesson: Read this Week’s Lesson
Initial Post: minimum of 2 scholarly sources (must include your textbook for one of the sources).
Your Initial Post and your Follow-Up Post must be based on the same Option that you chose in order to receive credit for both posts.
Initial Post Instructions
For the initial post, respond to one of the following options, and label the beginning of your post indicating either Option 1 or Option 2:
Option 1: The Equal Rights Amendment was first proposed almost a century ago and has still not been added to the United States Constitution. It is supposed to guarantee equal legal rights for all American citizens regardless of sex. It was first introduced to Congress by Alice Paul, leader of women’s suffrage movement in 1923. Compare/contrast the Equal Rights Amendment with the Fourteenth Amendment. Did they deal with separate concepts? Explain your answer.
Option 2: The Bill of Rights is not only included with the United States Constitution but also state constitutions. All states have provisions in their constitutions that protect individual rights. Go online and look up your state constitution concerning amendments that are included in the Bill of Rights. How does your state constitution protect your individual rights?
Be sure to make connections between your ideas and conclusions and the research, concepts, terms, and theory we are discussing this week.
Writing Requirements
Minimum of 2 posts (1 initial & 1 follow-up)
Minimum of 2 sources cited (assigned readings/online lessons and an outside source) for your Initial Post, and 1 scholarly source for your Follow-Up Post.
APA format for in-text citations and list of references
Due Wednesday

Research a recent scholarly article on a subject in strategic planning for healthcare that you consider key.  Why is this so?

Research a recent scholarly article on a subject in strategic planning for healthcare that you consider key.  Why is this so?  Briefly describe the issue.  This is your opportunity to apply the past units to a focus meaningful to you.

What ethical issues inhibit access and quality for care for these issues?

Patient Outcomes and Sustainable Change
Assessment Description
Reflecting on the “IHI Module TA 103: Increasing Value and Reducing Waste at the Point of Care,” describe the role of the DNP-prepared nurse in managing costs. Identify one common barrier to cost management and inappropriate resource use. Discuss a change theory and how it can be applied in nursing practice to integrate sustainable care delivery. Provide supporting evidence.

Assessment Description
Reflecting on the “IHI Module TA 102: Improving Health Equity,” describe two causes of health disparities in the United States, or in your local community, that lead to health inequity. What ethical issues inhibit access and quality for care for these issues? Outline an initiative, integrating your faith and ethical principles surrounding practice, to reduce these health inequities and sustain the change within the health care system.

Assessment Description
Reflecting on the “IHI Module QI 202: Addressing Small Problems to Build Safer, More Reliable Systems,” describe how your direct practice improvement project achieves clinical improvement. How will you achieve widespread change? How would the widespread change of your DPI Project be affected if it were implemented in a country with universal health care. Describe how the health outcome would be impacted. Provide supporting evidence.

Assessment Description
Reflect on the “IHI Module QI 201: Planning for Spread: From Local Improvements to System-Wide Change.” Describe how change spreads according to Kurt Lewin and Everett Rogers. Using the IHI Framework for Spread, assess the current culture of your organization or practice site and explain how likely a new idea will spread. Provided rationale and support for your explanation.

Assessment Description
Reflect on the “IHI Module PS 203: Pursuing Professional Accountability and a Just Culture.” As a future DNP leader describe what quantitative and qualitative data you could use to assess the culture of your practice site or organization. Explain how you can create, shape, and sustain a culture of safety for your site or organization using the six domains of a culture of safety. How will you inspire, motivate, and inform your organization on a journey of zero harm? Provide rationale and support for your explanation.

Assessment Description
Reflect on the “IHI Module PFC 102: Key Dimensions of Patient and Family Centered Care” module. Explain how the four dimensions of patient- and family-centered care are applied or can be applied within your organization. How does your organization collaborate with patients and families to redesign care?

Assessment Description
Reflecting on the “IHI Module: PS 202 Achieving Total Systems of Safety,” describe the eight recommendations proposed in the IHI report that DNP leaders can apply to accelerate patient safety and the prevention of harm. What three key recommendations will you use as a DNP leader to promote safety among the workforce in your organization to improve health outcomes?