Share an experience where you observed a child’s excitement and curiosity about something in their environment or an experience that you recall from your own childhood. How did you or the child act, behave, and interact? How can these “curiosity” behaviors inform teachers in planning science activities or inquiries? What questions could you ask to focus children on their curiosity?

. It needs to be well written and clearly organized using standard English, characterized by strong writing style elements, and free from grammar, punctuation, usage, and spelling errors.
Share an experience where you observed a child’s excitement and curiosity about something in their environment or an experience that you recall from your own childhood. How did you or the child act, behave, and interact? How can these “curiosity” behaviors inform teachers in planning science activities or inquiries? What questions could you ask to focus children on their curiosity?
What is an activity related to one of the five science areas you could do to deepen child curiosity and extend their engagement in scientific inquiry? Name the science area and briefly describe the activity.

You have been asked by your private employer to create a handout to educate employees on how health insurance impacts preventative care. Be sure to include the following information: Covered preventative measures; Frequency of preventative care allowed; How utilization changes based on health insurance coverage; The impact of preventative care on the individual, organization. and nation; and Figures, examples, and statistics supporting your findings.

You have been asked by your private employer to create a handout to educate employees on how health insurance impacts preventative care.
Be sure to include the following information:

Covered preventative measures;
Frequency of preventative care allowed;
How utilization changes based on health insurance coverage;
The impact of preventative care on the individual, organization. and nation; and
Figures, examples, and statistics supporting your findings.
 

Revisit the goals and objectives from your Practicum Experience Plan. Explain the degree to which you achieved each during the practicum experience. Reflect on the three (3) most challenging patients you encountered during the practicum experience. What was most challenging about each? What did you learn from this experience? What resources were available?

Refer to the “Population-Focused Nurse Practitioner Competencies” found in the Week 1 Learning Resources, and consider the quality measures or indicators advanced nursing practice nurses must possess in your specialty of interest.
Refer to your Clinical Skills Self-Assessment Form you submitted in Week 1, and consider your strengths and opportunities for improvement.
Learning From Experiences
Revisit the goals and objectives from your Practicum Experience Plan. Explain the degree to which you achieved each during the practicum experience.
Reflect on the three (3) most challenging patients you encountered during the practicum experience. What was most challenging about each?
What did you learn from this experience?
What resources were available?
What evidence-based practice did you use for the patients?
What would you do differently?
How are you managing patient flow and volume?
How can you apply your growing skillset to be a social change agent within your community?

Discuss the concept of suffering, lament, and factors guiding how we counsel those who are struggling with trauma and pain.

For this discussion, we consider how to counsel suffering clients. The class lectures, your textbooks, such as Neff and McMinn Chapter 1, all discuss the concept of suffering, lament, and factors guiding how we counsel those who are struggling with trauma and pain. In fact, a careful review of the materials in the Learn section indicates numerous concepts and principles that we could apply as we counsel those who are hurting.

 Are terrorists who they say they are unless proven otherwise? When confronted with terrorism by groups that define themselves and the reason they fight, should that be the start point of the counter-terror effort or should the investigation begin with the categories of terrorism?

 
QUESTION ONE:  Reality Dislocation? 
“It is entirely possible that the true and authentic reality is being drowned out by countless superficial information bits noisily and breathlessly presented in propaganda fashion. Consequently, one may be entirely knowledgeable about a thousand details and nevertheless, because of ignorance regarding the core of the matter, remain without basic insight … Arnold Gehlen labeled it “a fundamental ignorance, created by technology and nourished by information . . . … the place of authentic reality is taken over by fictitious reality; my perception is indeed still directed toward an object, but now it is pseudoreality, deceptively appearing as being real, so much so that it becomes almost impossible any more to discern the truth.” (Josef Pieper – Abuse of Language, Abuse of Power,” 1974)
“Whether it be the intrusion of hackers, a major explosion at the World Trade Center, of a bombing attack by bin Laden, all of these greatly exceed the frequency bandwidths understood by the American military . . . This is because they have never taken into consideration and have even refused to consider means that are contrary to tradition and to select measures of operation other than military means.” (Col Qiao Liang, Col Wang Xiangsui, Unrestricted Warfare, 1999)
 Josef Pieper’s quote (above) has been used to suggest that intense concentration on data bits in support of models can degrade discernment over the “core of the matter” to the point where reality dislocation occurs.  Has the dominance of the social sciences in the conduct of the counter-terror effort since 9/11 pushed that effort into Pieper calls pseudoreality (or the Matrix’s identities as the Blue Pill universe)? A few questions to consider when answering:
Did we win or lose in Afghanistan? 
Did terrorism succeed in reducing American power and prestige along lines forecast by the Islamic Movement? 
Has America’s response been reduced to incoherence because of it? 
 When answering the question, please account for the observations of the two Chinese colonels from Unrestricted Warfare, as posted above. 
 Question TWO:  Suicide Terrorism 
1PAPE1.pdf Download 1PAPE1.pdf Please read this article (click on the link). 
Do you agree with Jordon Smith’s characterization of Robert Pape’s argument that terrorism is a RATIONAL, goal-directed, strategic response aimed at achieving a certain objective? Why or why not? Does the article sustain a narrative or does it orient on the terror threats as they present themselves? 
Cite at least three supporting examples for your argument based on groups we have learned about this semester.
 (Here, the opposite of rational is not ‘irrational’ or ‘crazy’.  Pape is not arguing about the mental health of terrorists, but whether they are capable of formulating and carrying out a strategy aimed at achieving an objective.
 
Question Three:  Types of Terrorism (25 points)
Are terrorists who they say they are unless proven otherwise? When confronted with terrorism by groups that define themselves and the reason they fight, should that be the start point of the counter-terror effort or should the investigation begin with the categories of terrorism?
Take a look at your textbook and note all the different TYPES of terrorism which they identify (nationalist terrorism;  religiously-based terrorism, domestic terrorism, etc.)
Do you think it is useful to break down terrorism into different types in this way? 
Why is it important to be able to say what type of terrorist someone is? 
Do you think that the differences between the groups are more important – or are the similarities between groups more important, and why?
 
Question Four:   Nationalist Terrorism (25 points)
Some analysts have argued that our world is becoming more globalized.  People travel more, they interact with others through the internet and as a result, we are perhaps becoming more nationalistic.
Do you think that Nationalist Terrorism is a response to globalization (or, in the alternative, terrorism by those seeking the destruction of national identity) will at some point cease to be a force in international relations, or will it always be an important source of conflict?  IF you think it is becoming less important, what other forces are perhaps becoming more important?
 

What is the history of the test? What is the purpose of the test? What population is it intended for? What sample was the psychometric properties derived from? What are the psychometric properties of the test itself? What should this test be used for? Last, what is this test popular?

What is the history of the test? What is the purpose of the test? What population is it intended for? What sample was the psychometric properties derived from? What are the psychometric properties of the test itself? What should this test be used for? Last, what is this test popular?

 A 41-year-old man presents to his PCP with feelings of hopelessness, sadness, and helplessness. He says that he cries for no reason, and has difficulty sleeping. He noticed that the problems began about 6 weeks before, and he did not feel able to shrug them off. He has been drinking more alcohol than usual and has stopped going to work. When on his own, he admitted that he had thought of driving his car into the nearest canal. Summarize the clinical case. What is the DSM 5-TR diagnosis based on the information provided in the case? Which pharmacological treatment would you prescribe including the name, dose, route and frequency of the drug in accordance with the clinical guidelines?

 
Answer the questions below based on the following case study.
A 41-year-old man presents to his PCP with feelings of hopelessness, sadness, and helplessness. He says that he cries for no reason, and has difficulty sleeping. He noticed that the problems began about 6 weeks before, and he did not feel able to shrug them off. He has been drinking more alcohol than usual and has stopped going to work. When on his own, he admitted that he had thought of driving his car into the nearest canal.
Summarize the clinical case.
What is the DSM 5-TR diagnosis based on the information provided in the case?
Which pharmacological treatment would you prescribe including the name, dose, route and frequency of the drug in accordance with the clinical guidelines? Include the rationale for this treatment.
Which non-pharmacological treatment would you prescribe according to the clinical guidelines? Include the rationale for this treatment excluding a psychotherapeutic modality.
Include an assessment of the treatment’s appropriateness, cost, effectiveness, safety, and potential for patient adherence to the chosen medication. Use a local pharmacy to research the cost of the medication and provide the most cost-effective choice for the patient. Use great detail when answering questions 3-5.
Submission Instructions:
Your initial post should be at least 500 words, formatted and cited in the current APA style with support from at least 2 academic sources.  Your initial post is worth 8 points.
You should respond to at least two of your peers by extending, refuting/correcting, or adding additional nuance to their posts. Your reply posts are worth 2 points (1 point per response.) 
All replies must be constructive and use literature where possible.
Please post your initial response by 11:59 PM ET Thursday, and comment on the posts of two classmates by 11:59 PM ET Sunday.
Late work policies, expectations regarding proper citations, acceptable means of responding to peer feedback, and other expectations are at the discretion of the instructor.
You can expect feedback from the instructor within 48 to 72 hours from the Sunday due date.

Write a visual analysis (2-5 sentences). Describe what you see for each image. Think about shape, material, color, pigment (if it has any), and texture. Is it an object? A sculpture? A painting. Observe the image, and simply just describe what you see. Then list 3-5 facts about the image.

Write a visual analysis (2-5 sentences). Describe what you see for each image. Think about shape, material, color, pigment (if it has any), and texture. Is it an object? A sculpture? A painting. Observe the image, and simply just describe what you see. Then list 3-5 facts about the image. Situate it in its historical context and tell me something we won’t know just by looking at it. Consider questions like who made it? Why was it made? What does it represent? What was its function? What’s the connection between the artist and the object?Images

  You are working for a national clothing chain. Several of the buyers have been having a lot of problems obtaining well-designed reports from your organization’s sales and marketing departments on their activities by state over the past year. They want to be able to create reports as needed and access them anytime, anywhere. The buyers need this knowledge to help them plan future purchases and think that a knowledge management system would help improve the retrieval of information from the company’s data warehouse. You have been asked to research KM software packages and to report back to your colleagues. View a list of the top 10 KM software packages at the Capterra website (List of the top 10 KM software packagesLinks to an external site.). Choose at least three KM software tools from the list and go to their websites and take the demo. Write a report describing and comparing the KM tools that you demoed. Discuss the pros and cons of each of them and identify your favorite. Explain your choice.

 
You are working for a national clothing chain. Several of the buyers have been having a lot of problems obtaining well-designed reports from your organization’s sales and marketing departments on their activities by state over the past year. They want to be able to create reports as needed and access them anytime, anywhere. The buyers need this knowledge to help them plan future purchases and think that a knowledge management system would help improve the retrieval of information from the company’s data warehouse. You have been asked to research KM software packages and to report back to your colleagues. View a list of the top 10 KM software packages at the Capterra website (List of the top 10 KM software packagesLinks to an external site.). Choose at least three KM software tools from the list and go to their websites and take the demo. Write a report describing and comparing the KM tools that you demoed. Discuss the pros and cons of each of them and identify your favorite. Explain your choice.
Your paper should be in APA format and 3-4 pages, not counting the title page and reference pages. Make sure you have in-text citations and a reference page. 

Buddhism is deeply tied to the life of Siddhartha, who is believed to be the very first Buddha. Buddha translates into the “enlightened one”, and according the Buddhist principles, anyone can become a Buddha. Discuss what you understand Buddhism to be. What and who does this religion represent?

Buddhism is deeply tied to the life of Siddhartha, who is believed to be the very first Buddha. Buddha translates into the “enlightened one”, and according the Buddhist principles, anyone can become a Buddha. Discuss what you understand Buddhism to be. What and who does this religion represent?It is not easy work and requires enormous discipline, concentration, and focus. Please watch this video The Story of SiddharthaLinks to an external site. and read this article detailing the life of Siddhartha Write a short response summarizing Siddhartha, and how he inspired Buddhism. Discuss what you understand Buddhism to be. What and who does this religion represent?After, choose 3 images from the top section of the article and give a visual analysis of each. Describe how each image is tied to Siddhartha’s life. Give detail to the visual details of the images and how they are related to Siddharthat’s personal life and path to Buddhism.