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Topic: Conflict Management
Description
Please write 2 pages about “How proper conflict management skills allow a leader to excel in business.”
*Intro
*Conflict definition
*Causes
*Types of conflict
Topic: Radclyffe Hall’s ‘Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself’ unsettles the sex/gender distinction
Description
Critically evaluate this statement, taking into account the work of early sexologists as well as Hall’s short story. book- KRUEGER.Hall-Miss-Ogilvy-Finds-Herself.pdf ( hcommons.org ) Assess some of the main issues raised by theoretical accounts of sexuality and gender. Analyse and critically evaluate literary texts in ways informed by their historical and cultural context, and informed by theoretical accounts of sexuality and gender. Demonstrate written expression, argumentation and research skills suitable for level 5 work. > an essay/assignment- 1000 words
Your second assignment is a 2000-word business report consisting of:
Your work will be judged on its overall coherence and hence only one mark will be given.
Coursework Format Requirements
A link to guidance on the required Harvard standard of referencing (via the Cite Them Right website) can be found on the Moodle site for this module.
Description
The QSEN competency I would like a paper on is teamwork and collaboration issues between Nurse practitioners and physicians in a hospital setting. In my clinical setting, one issue I’ve notice is that physicians don’t take into consideration the Nurse Practitioner’s plan of care and often question their judgement. An annotated bibiliography is required for this paper as well (5 articles minimum). I already have 3 articles that you can use for this paper that is attached in the document as well. THE DIRECTIONS FOR THIS PAPER IS: Required Elements for the Clinical Integration Paper The paper will be no more than 12 pages in length, excluding title page and references. The paper must be constructed according to APA format 7th Edition. Make sure that you include headings (see below) and reference citations in the text of the paper. 1) Introduction: Introduce the problem. Describe the significance of the problem for nurse practitioners as related to the identified IOM/QSEN nursing competency: Why is it important to study/explore this issue or concern? 2) Review of the Research Literature: Complete a review of the literature related to the clinical problem of interest and the specific IOM/QSEN competency. You need to review literature in two areas (separate these by headings): Identified the problem. Nursing practice and care for this problem. (What does the literature suggest as best practice to improve safety and ensure quality care?) Cite at least 5 references from the literature that were written within the last 5 years – at least 3 references need to be research-based. Textbooks and Wikipedia cannot be used as references. 2) Case Example: Provide a case example from your clinical experiences that exemplifies the problem related to the identified IOM/QSEN safety competency. 3) Conclusion: Synthesize nurse practitioner implications from the literature related to the specified problem. Include nurse practitioner implications in these areas: Practice: What did you determine is the best practice for this issue? Education: What are the current guidelines for educating staff about care for this problem? Research: What are the priorities for further study (from a nurse practitioner perspective) related to this problem?
Unit 10 Discussion
Textbook
Winston, M. E., & Edelbach, R. (2014). Society, ethics, and technology (5th ed.). Wadsworth Cengage Learning.
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Reflections
“Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences.”
— Lewis Mumford
During this course, you and your fellow students have written quite a bit of academic content pertaining to technology and society. You explored the impact of the technologies produced in the past, present, and near future on people and societies.
So, in your last (non-graded) discussion section, you will switch from academic to practical.
Directions: Using the required academic readings and supplemental academic research, please address the following while adhering to the Discussion Board Rubric:
The use of information technology by Governments
In this assignment, you will compose a letter to the editor concerning a contemporary example of the government’s use of information technology that you support or oppose. A letter to the editor should assertively state your opinion while embodying a professional demeanor. Your letter should articulate how you came to your conclusion, thus demonstrating your problem-solving and/or decision-making process.
Directions: For this assignment, you will write a 300-word letter on the topic of technology, history, and society. Your essay should have a clearly established and sustained viewpoint and purpose. In addition, your writing should be well ordered, logical, and unified, as well as original and insightful. Following are the content requirements of the letter:
Pick an example of when the government used information technology to affect domestic or foreign policy.
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The Use of Information Technology by Governments
“I Want You For the US Army.”
— WWI recruitment poster.
During his famous senatorial debates with Stephen Douglas in 1858, Lincoln asserted that “Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it, nothing can succeed. Consequently, he who moulds public sentiment, goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions” (Holzer, 2014).
For governments, shaping public sentiment is crucial for political success, including domestic and foreign initiatives. Governmental use of information technology is especially vital when it comes to warfare. There are several examples in history of information technology (be it the printing press, radio, TV, film, or the internet) being employed to persuade citizens during armed conflict.
One specific domestic example concerns Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s use of radio. In the midst of the Great Depression, Roosevelt utilized radio for his Fireside Chat broadcasts to “bring the nation together, to inspire and to cajole. So effective and affecting were his talks that the number of letters written directly to the president reached unprecedented levels” (Rudel, 2008). This was the first time the American people had heard the voice of their president. Roosevelt’s calm demeanor and reassurances during the so-called “fireside chats” were incredibly important because of the economic uncertainty confronting the nation. One correspondent at the time said that people “felt he was there talking to you, not to 50 million others, but to you personally” (Levine & Levine, 2002, p. 18). Using radio, Roosevelt was able to mold public opinion in his favor.
Prior to this example, other technology was utilized for communication efforts. As American patriots were debating their relationship with Great Britain, writer Thomas Paine published Common Sense in January 1776. This pamphlet quickly became a bestseller, with over 120,000 copies sold by April of that year (Keane, 1995, p. 111). Paine’s arguments convinced many wavering Americans to support the patriot cause against Great Britain.
During the American Civil War, newspapers allied with the Lincoln administration and the Republican Party trumpeted the importance of keeping the union intact by fighting secession efforts by Southern states. The conflict would also see a recent technological innovation emerge: photography. Pioneers such as Matthew Brady and Alexander Gardner took pictures of generals, soldiers, politicians (including several famous photos of Abraham Lincoln), and battlefields. Some of the photographs of Antietam and Gettysburg showed the grisly reality of battle. Yet, not many Northerners saw those images, so they did not disturb the message of the Lincoln administration and its supporters to keep fighting until the South was subdued.
During WW.I, President Wilson created the Committee on Public Information (CPI) by executive order. The head of the CPI, George Creel, maintained it was his duty to “sell the war to America” (Jowett & O’Donnell, 2019). This was accomplished by calls for patriotic duty, alongside unabashed efforts to dehumanize the German government and soldiers.
In WWII, the government used posters, radio, and film to mold public opinion concerning efforts in Europe and the Pacific. The film series, Why We Fight, directed by Frank Capra, was one example of this effort. The films were shown to service members, and were eventually viewed by over 54 million Americans in various movie theaters (Rollins, 1996). All of these efforts were to bolster American opinion on the justice of fighting overseas following years of isolationism.
During the Cold War, the government utilized various information technologies to warn Americans of the danger of a new foe, Soviet communism. At the same time, there was a desire by the government to prepare Americans for a potential Soviet atomic attack. There were numerous civil defense films produced (including the famous Burt the Turtle) about what schoolchildren should do in the case of such an attack.
Even though there was no direct combat during the Cold War, there were proxy wars, which would test the government’s use of persuasion, especially in Vietnam. By 1967–1968, the American government lost control of its narrative that U.S. intervention was necessary, partly because of the popularity of television. In 1950, just 9% of American households owned a television. By 1960, 85.9% of American households had one (Thompson, 2019). This now ubiquitous technology would play a role in how some Americans viewed the war in Southeast Asia (the conflict is often called “the first television war”). Marshall McLuhan, the famous scholar of communication technology, stated in 1975 that “Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America—not the battlefields of Vietnam” (Axelrod, 2000). The images and photographs from Vietnam counteracted the government’s rosy pronouncements, and they would eventually feed into an emerging antiwar movement in the United States.
Having learned the difficult lessons of Vietnam, the government attempted to sculpt public opinion in a constructive way during the first Gulf War. As two scholars on persuasion techniques point out, “fear of another Vietnam was initially a negative metaphor, but it also set the groundwork for developing a strong propaganda campaign aimed at creating a mood in the American public that those experiences would never be repeated” (Jowett & O’Donnell, 2019). Remembering the issues with the media presence in Vietnam, the government restricted press access in most circumstances, and any press personnel near combat areas were required to be accompanied by military personnel. The military also utilized television to separate the actual battlefield from the American public. The commander in the field, General Schwarzkopf, gave a number of press briefings to the media, often showing video footage of smart bombs from the perspective of pilots, without showing the aftermath of the explosions. The gritty visuals of Vietnam were minimized, demonstrating that the government understood the need to control the narrative with technology, as it had in WWII.
Today, governments around the world continue to utilize information technology to shape public opinion on foreign and domestic matters. Being aware of how technology is used in this way is crucial as you judge what governmental officials tell you.
Description Answer both of the following questions. 2 full pages per question. Do not use any other outside sources besides the ones I have provided down below. each of which is worth 45 points. I will evaluate answers on the basis of the following: a) thorough and accurate explanation of theoretical concepts; b) creative application of those concepts to produce novel and meaningful insights about social life. DISCUSS 3 DIFFERENT THEORISTS FOR EACH ESSAY. INCLUDE A LIST OF REFERENCES AT THE END OF EACH ESSAY. 1) Foucault (1978, 94) argues that “[p]ower comes from below; that is, there is no binary and allencompassing opposition between rulers and ruled at the root of power relations, and serving as a general matrix – no such duality extending from the top down and reacting on more and more limited groups to the very depths of the social body.” 2) In An Essay on Liberation, Marcuse (1969, 6) argues that “the world of human freedom cannot be built by the established societies…Their class structure, and the perfected controls required to sustain it, generate needs, satisfactions, and values which reproduce the servitude of human existence.” He advocates transforming society, as well as ourselves, so that we become people “who have the good conscience of being human, tender, sensuous, who are no longer ashamed of [our]selves” (Marcuse 1969, 21). How should social theorists conceptualize power? Drawing upon Foucault and 2 other theorists, discuss 3 key ideas that you see as most important in theorizing power. Evaluate their relative strengths and limitations. Discuss 3 concepts that might help to transform society and develop new forms of consciousness and being in the world. Integrate ideas from Marcuse, queer and anarchist theory, as well as one or two other theorists of your choice. Discuss 3 different theorists than you did in your first answer. Explain the concepts and why they are useful; also discuss their limitations.
General Term Paper Information
This assignment is one in which you will examine one of the Supreme Court decisions of the 20th century that impacted civil rights and freedoms. Generally speaking, the Supreme Court was much more active in expanding civil liberties and protections in the twentieth century than during any other period of U.S. history.
For this paper, you will analyze a single Supreme Court decision from almost any point in this course (1914 through 2000). The only topics you need to avoid are subjects that do not fall within the time frame for this assignment or that limit civil liberties in the United States (e.g. Korematsu v. United States). Also, Roe v. Wade is not an option for this assignment because I provided a sample of the term paper below that used this court case. A list of pre-approved court cases has been provided for you below, but you are not limited to these topics. If there is another topic of interest, please contact me for approval before you begin your research. As a bit of advice, a lot of former students choose very large cases like Brown v. Board with the thought that the more resources available the better, but the amount of information out there can be overwhelming and hamper your research (so you might find selecting a less well-known case makes for an easier paper).
Below you will find a list of some of the various Supreme Court decisions, broken down into categories, which expanded civil rights during the time frame of this class. By no means is the following list intended to cover every possible case of the 20th century, but hopefully this will give you some ideas of where you can go with this research paper. If you find a potential topic that is not on the list, suggest it!
Ideas for Term Paper Topics.docx
Term Paper Structure
The paper will consist of multiple distinct and individual sections which focus on your selected Supreme Court case.
Cover Page – The top page of your submission should be the cover/title page of your paper. The cover page consists of the subject of your paper in the center, with your name and any other information you want to include in the bottom right. Feel free to include a title for your paper to give it some personality, but this is optional.
Body of Essay – Each of the three sections should be clearly marked with a title as a new section. For example, Section I would be titled “Background” and Section III would be titled “Significance.” This is a very basic example, so feel free to get creative on titles, etc. The titles should be regular sized font, but centered, bolded, and/or underlined to make it clear. If Section I is two and a half pages, you should end the section there (mid-page), start a new page, and add the title at the top of the new page to indicate the beginning of Section II.
Section I – This section should provide a short background of the case, including the circumstances of the initial arrest, incident, or challenge to established law. Include any information you feel is important for the reader to know in order to understand your subject. This section should be a minimum of 350 words (about 1 page) in length.
Section II – This section should explain the decision by the court. This will include the motivations for the decision as well as an explanation of the dissenting votes. If your case was decided on a unanimous vote, you would analyze the legal arguments presented by the losing side in the case. This section should be a minimum of 350 words (about 1 page) in length.
Section III. This section will analyze the significance of the case on civil liberties and should much more extensively researched than the first two sections (which are largely explanatory). Examine the outcomes of the decision in terms of immediate changes and their impact on other cases, if relevant. This section should be a minimum of 700 words (about 2 pages) in length.
Works Cited – The final page of your paper is the works cited page. The works cited page should be on its own page and includes the full citation of the sources you have used in the paper in Chicago style. Please see the handout on citations and Chicago formatting.
I have included a sample student paper below. It is not perfect, but this should give you an idea of how you should format the final submission. Since I am giving you an example of Roe v. Wade, you cannot do this case for the assignment.
Student Sample 1.docx
Required Submissions
Topic Approval (optional)
If you have decided to write on a Supreme Court case which is listed on the handout above, you can skip this step.
If you have decided to write on a decision that is not listed on the handout, you must submit a prospectus (formal proposal) that includes a detailed description of your project. The goal of a prospectus is to explain the main components of your paper, the key evidence, and the sources of that evidence. The prospectus must include the subject of your research paper and a brief summary of the impacts and significance of the case. You must also include the specific sources where you found the information in your preliminary research. This is an ungraded assignment, but the subject of all papers not listed on the handout must be approved to receive credit for the other submissions listed below. Any papers submitted with a non-approved topic will not be graded and will be marked as “No credit.” If you have chosen a topic from the approved list, but you would like me to look over your sources and early research, feel free to send me a prospectus. There is no location within Canvas to upload the prospectus, so please submit the prospectus via email as a Word attachment.
Rough Draft – Due Week 6
In order to keep on track, you should have Section I and II completed and starting to work on Section III of your court case.
For this assignment, you need to submit a rough draft of your term paper that includes a completed Section I & II, and everything you have completed for Section III. Anything that you have not fully completed in Section III should be put in a detailed outline so that I can see where you are going for the rest of the paper. Avoid generalizations in the outlined section and be as detailed as possible. The last page should be a Works Cited page including any sources you have used for the paper.
This is a rough draft so you can always edit later before your final submission, but you should have Section I & II completed and only need minor changes like word selection, punctuation, etc., if anything at all. This means all formatting and footnoting should be complete for the first two sections. Your submission should be a minimum of 350 words for Section I, 350 words for Section II, and one page of detailed outline for Section III (or at least 1 page of a completed Section III), which is a total of three pages plus a works cited page. The last page of detailed outline needs to include the structure, specific evidence, and sources of this research, otherwise only partial credit will be given due to short/missing components. This assignment will be returned with comments indicating the larger issues, but is not intended to be comprehensive.
PLEASE NOTE – There are only three grades given for this assignment. Credit for the Term Paper Rough Draft assignment will be given as 50 points for a completed submission, 30 points for submissions with short/missing components, and 0 points for submissions with very short/multiple missing components. The rough draft will be accepted late for up to one week with a 5 point deduction for each day or any portion thereof.
Final Draft – Due Week 10
The total submission is a minimum of about four double spaced pages (must meet minimum word counts for each section), which means four full pages of essay not including footnotes, titles, etc. The format should follow what is described in the “Term Paper Structure” above.
Final Draft Submission Format and Requirements
Essay should be 12 point Times New Roman font with standard 1” margins on all sides. Do not put your name on each page or skip extra lines between paragraphs or titles. Writing should be tight and have a good flow (e.g. avoiding dropped quotes and having topic sentences).
You should use Chicago style formatting for all citations, which means you must include footnotes for the evidence used in your paper (not endnotes or parenthetical citations). There is a very specific way to insert footnotes, so please read the citations handout in Canvas. Failure to cite sources can be construed as plagiarism – please see the syllabus and college catalog for details. Any direct quotes five or more lines in length need to be cited as block quotes but as a general rule, five lines is too long anyway and you should try to paraphrase or only use part of the quote.
Late papers are accepted, but they will receive a one grade (15 point) deduction for each day they are late, or any portion thereof. The last submission date for late papers is five days after the due date, at which point the assignment will be graded as “No credit.”
Unit 9 Readings In this unit’s readings, you examine information technologies.
Required
o ANDREW J. FLANIGAN, CRAIG FLANIGAN, AND JOHN FLANIGAN: Technical Code and the Social Constructions of the Internet
o MAX BOOT: The Consequences of the Information Revolution
o NICHOLAS CARR: Is Google Making Us Stupid?
o REBECCA MACKINNON: Corporate Censorship
Directions: Using the required academic readings and supplemental academic research, please address the following while adhering to the Discussion Board Rubric:
Information Technology’s Effect on Society
“The medium is the message.”
“All media exists to invest our lives with artificial perception and arbitrary values.”
— Marshall McLuhan
Let’s travel back to the 1400s, shall we? You will recall that Johannes Gutenberg’s invention of the printing press was a revolutionary technology, one that would change world history. Tom Wheeler, former Chairman of the FCC, writes that
the network of printers that sprang up across Europe ended the monopoly of information that priests and princes had exploited in pursuit of power. The free movement of ideas fired the Reformation, spread the Renaissance, and became the basis of all that followed. (Wheeler, 2019)
Gutenberg’s invention was the first information network. Other information networks would follow: the telegraph, telephone, radio, and television.
The information network you are most familiar with today is the internet, the single “biggest technological construction of our daily existence” (Blum, 2012). Because of the internet, you have access to more information than any person pre-2020. No longer is information the prerogative of the elites in society. Information is now democratized like never before.
The positives of the internet are many. You can now get a university degree, no matter your physical location/proximity to a university. As an example, members of the armed forces can serve their country at the same time they work on a bachelor’s degree. You can research any historical era for a school paper, find out what tomorrow’s weather will be, look up information on the new movie coming out, or check the latest sports. Any piece of data you could possibly want is available 24/7. Over 4.5 billion people do just that. Information from Google indicates that there are “40,000 search queries every second on average, which translates to over 3.5 billion searches per day and 1.2 trillion searches per year worldwide” (Google Search Statistics, n.d.). All in the quest for information.
However, there are certain aspects of the internet that should give you pause.
While a precise number is impossible, it is estimated that there are over 40 zettabytes of data on the internet (Petrov, 2020). One zettabyte is 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes! With easy access to all of this information, is society experiencing information overload?
Communication theorist Neil Postman believed that yes, information overload was a critical issue. As long ago as 1992, Postman wrote that information “has become a form of garbage, not only incapable of answering the most fundamental human questions but barely useful in providing coherent direction to the solution of even mundane problems” (Postman, 1992). Today, with 40+ zettabytes of data available online, many people find that too much information is overwhelming, leading to confusion and uncertainty. Is the information obtained online accurate? How can you tell? What happens when you run across contradictory information about a topic?
Another issue concerns political polarization as a result of the political information contained on internet sites. In the 1950s, people had access to three or four television networks, a couple of radio stations, and their local paper. During this pre-internet era, the political information a person consumed was basically the same as their neighbors. Conversations, therefore, took place against a backdrop of commonality concerning topics.
Today, on the other hand, the internet allows people to visit specific “news” sites geared to their political proclivities. Many of the individuals who frequent such sites have preconceived notions, and want those notions to be verified (often referred to as “preaching to the choir”). Many politically liberal leaning individuals may visit a liberal “news” site, while a conservative individual may frequent a conservative “news” site. Bring those two people together to discuss a political issue, and they might as well be speaking different languages.
As a result of the media’s agenda setting and framing, political polarization occurs, in which people cannot even agree on the terms to debate because they received different information from contradictory sources. In a survey by the Pew Research Center, it was found that “73% of the public says that most Republican and Democratic voters not only disagree over plans and policies, but also disagree on ‘basic facts’” (Pew Research Center, 2019). That is the end result of the many news-oriented websites where political opinions are packaged as facts.
Even with the negative aspects of this information network, it is so intertwined with your existence that it is impossible to imagine your daily routine without it.
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Antivirals and immunologics are the most expensive drugs in the United States. Unfortunately, the people who need these drugs the most belong to demographics that cannot access or afford these medicines. Watch the movie, Dallas Buyer’s Club starring Matthew McConaughey. You can watch it on a variety of streaming services or on YouTube. This movie tells a story about how one man created a group to help people access medication that was not readily available or FDA approved. As a public health professional, we are supposed to support the FDA, CDC and other health-related government agencies which can make our career morally complicated. ————
Write a short essay (1 page minimum, 2 pages max single spaced) explaining why you think what the Dallas Buyer’s Club did was right or wrong. Do you think it’s OK for terminally ill people to take nonFDA approved medications? Why or Why not? Why do you think the FDA has such tight restrictions on experimental medications? Do you think these rules should change? Why? Please include at least 3 references to support your opinions.