Sustainable Business Management

Building on your report from assessment 1, use the case study provided to write a formal academic report to Green Business Network members to help them increase the resilience of their business by developing sustainable strategies or recommendations for the business.
You should imagine you are hired by the company to mitigate the sustainable challenges faced by the company. Develop 3 sustainable strategies or recommendations for the company and justify your strategy –
1. Environmental sustainability
2. Social sustainability
3. Economic sustainability
Make sure you provide appropriate strategies/recommendations to the company based on the challenges identified in Assessment 1. Use the learnings and theories covered in the class to find better alternatives for the case company. Make sure your recommendations are based on theories like Cradle-to-cradle, circular economy, cap and trade system, ecological modernization, sustainable development goals, Caroll’s CSR pyramid, social values, social enterprises etc.

School health

Access the school health website of Ohio and Florida ( http://health.mo.gov/living/families/schoolhealth/ and http://www.floridahealth.gov/healthy‑people‑and‑families/childrens‑health/school‑health/index.html . Compare the services and educational component as described on the website.
Compare this to the service described in community/public health nursing: promoting the health of populations chapter 30, school health.
Which state appears to have more comprehensive services? What factors may impact the services the states are able to provide? Please submit your analysis in an essay.

Why did The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) fail in its intervention in Libya?

This dissertation seeks to determine the reason why recent western military interventions in the middle east and north Africa have failed to secure the world and, on the contrary, made the world less safe and fuelled the rise of terrorism and military dissidence all over the world. Specifically, this dissertation will choose the first Libyan civil war of 2011 as the case study. In this thesis, the following questions will be raised
a. What are the root causes of the failure of NATO intervention in Libya?
b. What are the common reasons for the failure of western intervention in Libya, Afghanistan, and Iraq?
c. What are the real motives of western powers for these interventions?
d. What were the military’s intervention strategies in all these 3 cases?

Understanding Economics Concepts Assignment

Answer the following questions:
Section 1: (answer 2 questions)
1. Clark identifies Capitalism in the North in terms of a shift from self-sufficiency towards dependency on
outside markets. Goldin & Sokoloff detail how manufacturing expanded in the Northeast primarily with female labor. Analyze both of these perspectives and give opinion regarding the most likely realities underlying development for the North. What do you find? Why is an understanding of “true” development contributors pertinent in today’s world? Explain.
2. Steckel (1995) uses anthropometric analysis to better understand well-being during a period of time before GDP was formally recorded. What is anthropometric analysis? What are the strengths and weaknesses of using things such as stature to make inferences about states of wellbeing? Why is it
important to look at racial-specific components when considering growth profiles of children and adolescents? What racial distinctions exist in regards to stature? Explain.
3. How are credit markets critical to the story surrounding indentured servants? Explain. How are periods of war and peace related to the prevalence of indentured servitude/ slavery? Explain. Is there any relationship between the availability of credit and times of war/peace? Discuss in the context of both history and the present. What do you find?
Section 2: (answer 2 questions)
1. Haines, Craig and Weiss are concerned with understanding the “Antebellum Puzzle”. What is this
puzzle? Why is there concern over understanding and potentially “solving” this puzzle? What was found when performing a height-based regression – examining diverse explanatory variables? In conjunction with the Antebellum Puzzle, women were marrying at later ages and birth rates were falling. What factors led to this change in social behavior? What ramifications can follow a significant change in these

2. Benjamin Franklin believed that as long as land was available for cultivation, men would never be poor enough to be involved in manufacturing and have a master. Why was manufacturing seen as inferior to agricultural work? Explain. Has this ideology changed in the minds of people living in the U.S. in 2016?
What about for people living elsewhere throughout the world? What conditions need to be in place in order for people to willingly subject themselves to a “master” over the process of “development”?
Discuss.
3. Explain the concept of “assimilation”. Is it appropriate to use the ability to speak English as a proxy variable for assimilation? Why are we concerned about immigrant assimilation? Are all people and/or groups of people likely to assimilate at similar rates? According to Roberts, what distinctions exist
between the Cambodian and Vietnamese refugees flowing into the California labor markets in 1980?
What evidence exists to support or reject the hypothesis stating that Cambodian and Vietnamese refugees would assimilate into the U.S. labor markets at a similar rate? Explain. In what way does Roberts argue that a similar assimilation rate between these two groups provides answer to a deeper more quintessential question in social science? Do you agree? Discuss.
4. The Clark article talks about “preserving the old way of life”. What does this mean? What natural conflict existed between the preservation of old ways and the accumulation of wealth? Consider the following quote from the article: “The love of wealth seems natural to all mankind and but very few have sufficient of this world to content them”. How do you interpret this statement? What consequences exist to society contingent on the “truth” behind this statement? Discuss.

Sociology: Class Assignment Questions

Answer each question in a clear and organized way. Each answer should include a precise thesis (2-3 sentences) that directly addresses the question prompt, 1–2 direct quotes from the primary materials of the course, and at least 8 additional sentences that analyze the direct quotes and explain how the evidence supports your thesis:
1. Using either an order theory model, or a conflict theory model, please describe the causes and mechanisms of immigrant assimilation.
2. Omi and Winant discuss the parallels between gender and race relations in the US. What similarities and differences do they identify that link race and gender?
3. Discuss how the suburbanization of the middle classes impacted racial contestation and contributed to the erosion of overt Jim Crow segregation.
4. Almaguer discusses the role that emerging class tensions between whites play in the exclusion of nonwhites (in his chapter Chinese immigrants) from the labor market. Discuss the ways and reasons that capitalists employers divided the working class along racial lines, or discuss the ways in which laborers
attempted to preserve their social position through exclusion.
5. Dorothy Roberts, W.E.B. DuBois and Omi and Winant all discuss the political origins of race in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Pick one of the following institutions and discuss how it impacted the development of race in the US: Christianity, Colonialism, Slavery, Capitalism.

Schizophrenia and Other Mental Illnesses

QUESTION 1
Mirza is a 75-year-old patient with a long history of schizophrenia. During the past 5 years, she has shown significant cognitive decline consistent with dementia. The patient has been well controlled on a regimen of risperidone 1mg BID. As the PMHNP, the most appropriate course of action for this patient is:
1. Increase the risperidone to 1mg QAM, 2mg QPM
2. Discontinue risperidone and prescribe a long-acting injectable such as Invega Sustenna.
3. Discontinue risperidone and initiate therapy with clozapine.
4. Augment the patient’s risperidone with brexpiprazole.
QUESTION 2
Jason is a 6-year-old child whose mother presents to the clinic with him. The mother says that “he’s not himself lately.” After a thorough workup, you diagnose the patient as having GAD. Which of the following medications would be the LEAST appropriate to prescribe to this child
1. Sertraline
2. Paroxetine
3. Venlafaxine
4. Buspirone
QUESTION 3
Stephanie is a 36-year-old female who presents to the clinic with a history of anxiety. Social history is unremarkable. For the last 4 years, she has been well controlled on paroxetine, however she feels “it just doesn’t work anymore.” You have decided to change her medication regimen to vortioxetine 5mg, titrating up to a max dose of 20mg per day based on tolerability. The patient asks, “When can I expect this to start kicking in?” The best response is:
1. 3 or 4 days
2. 1 or 2 weeks
3. 3 or 4 weeks
4. 10 weeks
QUESTION 4
Mark is a 46-year-old male with treatment-resistant depression. He has tried various medications, including SSRIs, SNRI, and TCAs. You have decided to initiate therapy with phenelzine. Which of the following must the PMHNP take into consideration when initiating therapy with phenelzine?
1. There is a minimum 7-day washout period when switching from another antidepressant to phenelzine.
2. Patient must be counseled on dietary restrictions.
3. MAOIs may be given as an adjunctive therapy with SSRIs.
4. 1 & 2
5. All of the above
QUESTION 5
Thomas is a 28-year-old male who presents to the clinic with signs and symptoms consistent with MDD. He is concerned about starting antidepressant therapy, however, because one of his friends recently
experienced erectile dysfunction when he was put on an antidepressant. Which of the following would be the most appropriate antidepressant to start Thomas on?
1. Vilazodone
2. Sertraline
3. Paroxetine
4. Citalopram
QUESTION 6
Martin is a 92-year-old male who presents to the clinic with signs/symptoms consistent with MDD. The patient suffers from glaucoma and just recently underwent surgery for a cataract. Which of the following is the LEAST appropriate course of therapy when treating the MDD?
1. sertraline
2. amitriptyline
3. duloxetine
4. vilazodone
QUESTION 7
Amber is a 26-year-old female who presents to the clinic 6 weeks postpartum. The patient states that she has been “feeling down” since the birth of her son. She is currently breastfeeding her infant. You diagnose the patient with Postpartum depression. Which of the following is the LEAST appropriate option in treating her PPD?
1. paroxetine
2. escitalopram
3. citalopram
4. sertraline3.75 points
QUESTION 8
The patient in the previous question states, “I can’t even last 1 more day without feeling like my insides are going to explode with anxiety.” The most appropriate course of action would be:
1. Inform the patient to try yoga or other natural remedies until the vortioxetine takes effect.
2. Prescribe a short-term course of low dose benzodiazepine, such as alprazolam.
3. Prescribe an SNRI, such as venlafaxine, in addition to the vortioxetine.
4. Recommend in-patient mental health for the foreseeable future.
QUESTION 9
Steve is a 35-year-old male who presents to the primary care office complaining of anxiety secondary to quitting smoking cold turkey 2 weeks ago. The patient has a 14-year history of smoking two packs per day.
The patient has an unremarkable social history other than a recent divorce from his wife, Brittany. Which of the following would be the LEAST effective medication to treat Steve’s anxiety?
1. Buproprion
2. Sertraline
3. Varenicline
4. Alprazolam
QUESTION 10
Which of the following medications when given intramuscularly is most likely to cause severe postural hypotension?
1. haloperidol
2. lorazepam
3. benztropine
4. chlorpromazine
QUESTION 11
Earle is an 86-year-old patient who presents to the hospital with a Community Acquired Pneumonia. During stay, you notice that the patient often seems agitated. He suffers from cognitive decline and currently takes  mental health medications. Treatment for the CAP include ceftriaxone and azithromycin. The LEAST appropriate medication to treat Earle’s anxiety is:
1. sertraline
2. duloxetine
3. citalopram
4. venlafaxine
QUESTION 12
Cindy is a 55-year-old patient who presents with symptoms consistent with Generalized anxiety disorder.
The patient has an unremarkable social history other than she consumes two or three glasses of wine per night. Which of the following would be an appropriate therapy to start this patient on?
1. Xanax 0.25mg BID PRN Anxiety
3. Buspirone 10mg BID
4. Aripiprazole 10mg daily
QUESTION 13
Jordyn is a 27-year-old patient who presents to the clinic with GAD. She is 30 weeks pregnant and has been well controlled on a regimen of sertraline 50mg daily. Jordyn says that “about once or twice a week my husband really gets on my nerves and I can’t take it.” She is opposed to having the sertraline dose
increased due to the risk of further weight gain. You have decided to prescribe the patient a short-term course of benzodiazepines for breakthrough anxiety. Which of the following is the LEAST appropriate benzodiazepines to prescribe to this patient?
1. diazepam
2. alprazolam
3. clonazepa
4. lorazepam
QUESTION 14
Richard is a 54-year-old male who suffers from schizophrenia. After exhausting various medication options.
you have decided to start him on Clozapine. Which of the statements below is true regarding Clozapine?
1. Regular blood monitoring must be performed to monitor for neutropenia.
2. Clozapine can only be filled by a pharmacy that participates in the REMS program.
3. Bradycardia is a common side effect of Clozapine.
4. 1 & 2
5. All of the above
QUESTION 15
Melvin is an 89-year-old male who presents to the clinic with signs/symptoms consistent with MDD. Which of the following would be the LEAST appropriate medication to prescribe to this elderly patient?
1. nortriptyline
2. amitriptyline
3. desipramine
4. trazodone
QUESTION 16
Which of the following statements are true?
1. First-generation (typical) antipsychotics are associated with a higher incidence of EPS.
2. Second-generation (atypical) antipsychotics are associated with a higher risk of metabolic side effects.
3. There is evidence that atypical antipsychotics are significantly more effective than typical antipsychotics in the treatment of cognitive symptoms associated with schizophrenia.
4. 1 & 2
5. 1, 2, and3
QUESTION 17
Jane is a 17-year-old patient who presents to the office with signs consistent with schizophrenia. She states multiple times that she is concerned about gaining weight, as she has the perfect prom dress picked out and she finally got a date. Which of the following is the least appropriate choice to prescribe Jane?
1. Aripiprazole
2. Olanzapine
3. Haloperidol
4. Brexpiprazole
QUESTION 18
Sam is a 48-year-old male who presents to the clinic with signs and symptoms consistent with GAD &
MDD. Which of the following medications would be the LEAST appropriate choice when initiating pharmacotherapy?
1. duloxetine
2. sertraline
3. mirtazapine
4. buproprion
QUESTION 19
John is a 41-year old-patient who presents to the clinic with diarrhea, fatigue, and recently has been having tremors. He was diagnosed 19 years ago with bipolar disorder and is currently managed on Lithium 300mg BID. As the PMHNP, you decide to order a lithium level that comes back at 2.3mmol/l. What is the most
appropriate course of action?
1. Investigate other differential diagnoses for his symptoms.
2. Tell John to skip his next four Lithium doses and resume therapy.
3. Tell John he needs to go to the hospital and call an ambulance to bring him.
4. Prescribe loperamide to treat the diarrhea and ropinirole to treat the tremors
QUESTION 20
Rebecca is a 32-year-old female who was recently prescribed escitalopram for MDD. She presents to the clinic today complaining of diaphoresis, tachycardia, and confusion. The differential diagnosis for this  patient, based on the symptoms presenting, is:
1. Panic disorder
2. Gastroenteritis
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3. Abnormal gait
4. Serotonin syndrome

Sustainable Value Creation Assignment

Journal Entry:
1. Unilever’s Sustainable Living Plan: Watch Video 1 [4:07 min] | Watch Video 2 [1:25 min]
Optional Activity: There are numerous videos on The Story of Stuff Project website which you may find of interest.
2. After reading “Capitalism at the Crossroads: Next Generation Business Strategies for a Post Crisis World” by Stuart L. Hart Chapters 1 and 2 of Hart (2010), reflect on the positions in each of the videos. Respond to several of the following prompts in your reflection. In addition to delving to understand your own reaction to these videos, your journal entry should also draw on some concepts that you have encountered in the course texts:
What essential claims are being made by each organization? What is your own view of the validity of these claims? Why do you think you have this view?
What basic assumptions do those claims depend upon? How are these consistent with or different than your own assumptions?
What basic values can you infer? Are these similar to or different from your own values? In what ways?
What tensions or contradictions exist in the underlying assumptions in each of these provocations?
What are the tensions or the contradictions in the way that you think about sustainability?
How might we seek integration (vs. tradeoffs) across those tensions in the two provocations? Under what assumptions or values might they be seen as creative tensions versus contradictions (i.e. generate insights and innovative responses rather than negative reactions)? How might you shift your own assumptions in order to generate creative tensions rather than contradictions?

Nike Employment Research Paper

In this module, through video links, we explore the impact of outsourcing on the people who are hired by US companies to complete the work for much, much lower wages. We watched videos by Jim Keady including the one where he tries to live on Nike wages as workers do.
Now, DO SOME RESEARCH. Repeat, you are expected to do RESEARCH for this question.
Part A, Question 1
To determine for yourself whether you believe Nike workers in other countries are better off because NIKE is there and provides jobs, RESEARCH and answer THREE of the following questions (6 points each). You must support your answers with RESEARCH and URLs/Sites for that research. You must go beyond the clips and information I provided:
What is the cost living in the worker’s country and how do the wages compare with average earnings?
Do the workers have to do this work? Why/why not?
Does having the US company there have a chilling impact on other home-grown industries?
How corrupt is the government there?
What is the life of a worker like since the US company came to the worker’s country?
What do local people say about the company?
What benefits does the US company bring to the local community?
Part A, Question 2
Based on your research above, is Keady telling the truth or is he wrong? Are
workers making those wages better off? Conduct research beyond what I provided you to find information on whether workers at a Nike facility of your choice are better off because the US company is doing business there?
Part B: look at board of directors at NIKE
Look at the NIKE corporate board members. Be sure you are looking at the corporate board members and not shareholders and not executive leadership only.
1. What do you notice about this board in terms of their gender, age and experience they bring to the board?
2. Based on perspectives which are missing, who would you recommend serve on the board and why?
3. How likely is this board to decide to limit CEO pay? Why do you believe that?
4. How likely is this board to look closely into the issues that Jim Keady raises? Why do answer that way?