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Why? Use terms and ideas from the social conflict and/or structural functionalist perspective in your answer. Your response should be about one double-spaced page.

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Please respond to the following posts;

Module 5 – Discussion 1 – Yolanda L



“Although social and economic policies are not considered part of health services infrastructure, such policies may influence health and disease by altering social determinants of health” (Osypuk et al, 2014). The disparities that impact vulnerable populations are intertwined in many cases with the political focus that is taking place within our world. As legislators continue to argue over the best way to handle the health care crisis, we see an increasing number of those that are part of vulnerable populations looking for answers and assistance and yet not being heard by legislatures as they are not the “majority”. Unfortunately, those that are not the “majority” are often the ones that need services such as healthcare the most, and the impact that political affiliations and debates have on this topic is alarming. Instead of fixing the issues in most cases they are adding to the disparities that exist and widening the gap. “ Health care and public health policies directly target health, through, e.g., health services, provision of health insurance, and prevention (e.g. immunization) programs. In contrast, social policies may indirectly influence health by virtue of their influence on social or economic outcomes (including income, education, employment, housing, marriage). Since these social and economic factors are also causes of health, they can then in turn can affect health” (Osypuk et al, 2014). Much of the fragmentation that exists can simply be based on differences of opinion and an argument over power. Research has shown that based on political party affiliations we are often found to look at these disparities in healthcare in certain ways, and to either accept or deny the existence of challenges and thus impact the number of disparities that are present (University of Pennsylvania Annenberg School for Communication, 2019). We see this as we all agree that the healthcare insurance needs an overhaul for example, and yet the need for control and exercise of power between political parties leaves those that need healthcare wondering if they have been forgotten.

References:

Osypuk, T. L., Joshi, P., Geronimo, K., & Acevedo-Garcia, D. (2014). Do Social and Economic Policies Influence Health? A Review. Current epidemiology reports, 1(3), 149–164. doi:10.1007/s40471-014-0013-5

University of Pennsylvania Annenberg School for Communication. (2019, April 18). Political values influence people’s response to health disparities messages. Retrieved from https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/1402…


Sociopolitical Factors & Vulnerability Module 5 Discussion 1

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Factors that contribute to fragmented and marginally effective services for vulnerable populations include education, attitude, and knowledge along with the skills necessary for providing quality care to a diverse population (Stange,2009). Fixated research on the type of service needed by a specific vulnerable population is required to understand the behavior and the treatment needed to accommodate individuals in need. Some causes of fragmentation are inefficiency, ineffectiveness, inequality and deprofessionalization. Politics play a role in fragmentation because politicians can’t fully address issues, they have little or no knowledge about. To improve health care the hard and joyful choices necessary to reduce fragmentation anticipates politicians to think and act differently as if they were affected (Stange,2009). A few sociopolitical forces that create barriers and challenges are an individual’s income, level of education, occupation, and neighborhood conditions. One factor creates challenges in the health care of individuals with certain occupations, their less accessible to a job that provides benefits, health insurance, dental coverage so the quality of health is determined to be lower than an individual with a better occupation.







Stange, K. C. (2009, March). The problem of fragmentation and the need for integrative solutions. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC26539…

Serving Vulnerable Populations Module 5 Discussion 2

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Vulnerable population- People that are experiencing homelessness.

Why this population is considered vulnerable? Individuals that are experiencing homelessness are at an increased risk for adverse health related outcomes.

The Homelessness Prevention Administration (HPA) works tirelessly to keep New Yorkers in their homes. This is a wonderful program that works with many housing organizations within New York City to prevent homelessness. Prevention is the best way to treat the ongoing issue of individuals not having a secure place to live.

HPA Website:

https://www1.nyc.gov/site/hra/help/homelessness-prevention.page

For more information on HPA, please call the Info line at 718-557-1399.

One of the many services provided by this organization is free legal services for those individuals that may be facing an eviction. The website also provides a lot of information about tenant rights, which is very important for anyone that is in a renting situation to understand.

The primary goal of this resource is to prevent homelessness from occurring in the first place. They do this by offering many free resources for tenants that could be facing eviction. They also offer cash assistance to eligible individuals.







From my overview of this initiative I cannot see any obvious barriers that would reduce the effectiveness of this service. A simple Google search and anyone could easily find this resource. I am sure that they could use more funding, as with any non profit service.

The Migrant Clinician Network Module 5 Discussion 2

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Migrant workers belong to a population that is underserved, in part because of the lack of resources, communication, and education within healthcare. Migrant workers can be an individual to entire families that migrate from their home country to another country for work (Migrant Clinicians Network [MCN], 2017). There are also workers known as agricultural workers who migrate within one country and usually during the seasons to find work (MCN, 2017). With the constant changes between communities and exposure to dangerous work conditions, migrant workers are at a greater risk for health concerns and often have little to no resources to seek medical treatment (MCN, 2017).

A resource that is in place to help address the underserved migrant population is the Migrant Clinicians Network. The MCN has multiple programs in place to benefit workers and their families. Examples include the migrant health promotion which aims to help farmworkers and families to improve their health through education, and the college assistant migrant program, which can assist a farmworker or their children who are enrolled in undergraduate studies (MCN, 2017). In relation to healthcare, the MCN aims to help clinicians in Federally Qualified Health centers with support, assistance, and professional development (MCN, 2017). Essentially, the MCN is a place to provide resources for workers and their families to aid with the inability to receive follow up care if the worker moves.







A barrier that may hinder the effectiveness of the MCN is the frequent discussion of the migrant status which shifts focus away from the health crisis towards this population (MCN, 2017). Unfortunately, this population is frequently subjected to political opinions which may lead the population to become afraid to seek help or treatment.

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Overview

The goal of this essay is to think back to the work you did for one of the earlier modules (2, 4, 5, or 6) and expand upon it to arrive at a more complex analysis of the literature that depicts the intersection of personal, national, and global concerns with the current events we have discussed during the semester.

Prompt

1. Select which Module (country and text) you want to write your reflexive essay about. Caution: you may only choose a module for which you have completed all assigned Discussion and/or Close Reading assignments.

Module Text Country(ies) Current Event Topic
2 “An Enemy of the People” Sweden criticism/threats against whistle-blowers and/or against the press
4 The Chibok Girls Nigeria Islamist terrorism (Boko Haram), politically-motivated kidnapping
5 Tell Me How it Ends

Mexico

US

Central America

immigration, border, family separation, gang violence
6 Born A Crime South Africa apartheid, domestic violence against women

I choose module 4

2. Assemble and clearly label the following materials into 1 document (50 points).Title this document:

Last name.draftdata.docx (using your last name)

  • Your Discussion post for the Module you selected
  • The comments you received for that Discussion essay (cut and paste them from Canvas)
  • Grading Comments I made on your Discussion essay
  • Only the CR answers for your chosen module that touch on the major literary work we discussed for those weeks (see chart)

I have attached this document in file. *use this document

Discussion 3 Task: (Already Completed) Will attach in files.

Overview

In this Discussion, we turn to the case study of the #BringBackOurGirls online activism campaign that came into prominence shortly after the Chibok girls’ kidnappings in Nigeria. There are a variety of articles here analyzing the scope and impact of the hashtag itself and of digital activism in general. This week there are also examples of visual art and poetry that also seek to make public statements that call for justice while also contributing objects of beauty–visual images, poems.

Task: Write a 400 word essay in which you present a provable argument about which type of activism discussed for the week best achieves its overall goals. You may begin this from your opinion, but the thesis has to be analytical and there has to be textual (including visual) support for your claims.

In other words, your thesis can’t be: “In my opinion, X type of activism is more effective than Y type of activism.” That’s just a reflection of what you personally think. It’s not an argument.

Instead, formulate your thesis in terms that can be proven and which characterize what kind of impact one type of activism has vs. the limited or broad nature of a different type of activism as represented by our readings.

3. Write a 1,000 word essay in which you make an argument about how the literary text you chose to discuss portrays or represents a country’s view on the current event topic you selected. (100 points). Title this document: Lastname.reflexiveessay.docx

  • In other words, your essay should explore to what degree the events chronicled in either the fictional play or the non-fiction books we read this semester represent one person’s views on the current event or whether the text aims to present the country’s official position on the tragedy or high profile event it depicts.
  • Feel free to use, expand, or revise the original writing you had done on this text and which you assembled for the first part of this essay. The point here is to help refresh your mind about what you thought about this when you first read it, benefit from the writing advice of your peers and the comments I offered you at the time your discussion essay was graded, and use this information as a source of departure for your new writing.
  • You must use at least 3 direct quotes from the book or play to support your claims on this essay.

Chidbook Link to support the claims:

https://read.amazon.com/

Email (phone for mobile accounts): alphabene@aol.com

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My guess is you’ve never considered a relationship between technology and democracy except maybe to think about electronic voting (and more recently, its hacking vulnerabilities.)

Your readings include two classic articles by Richard Sclove and by Langdon Winner and a more recent article from Issues in Science and Technology. Winner and Sclove introduce the relationship between technologies and organizational structures. Each structure has its own corresponding democratic implications. The more current article by Jones and Reinecke will look at the history of democratizing efforts.

Before I go on, I want to share the definition that I like for political process. I think it’s relevant. According to political scientist Harold Laswell, the political process is “the process by which it is decided who gets what, when they get it and how they get it.” The opposite is also true. Since there are hardly ever enough resources to go around, the decision of who gets what will most likely, by default, decide who doesn’t get what. (When? Last or never.) And notice this definition doesn’t say anything about government. Workplaces have politics, as do families and friend groups. Keep that in mind as you consider these articles.

In the Winner article it’s the story of urban planner, Robert Moses, and his bridges that gets me cranked up. Robert Moses had a vision for the Greater New York City area that was very car-centered. He also wanted beautiful public beaches on Long Island. But didn’t want ALL of the public there. To get from NYC to these beaches, the road (parkway) he built detoured around the estates of the wealthy but cut the property of many farmers in half, often ruining them. (He called his roads parkways to avoid a public approval process.) The technology he used to discriminate was bridges. He used low-clearance bridges (one is pictured in the banner for this module) to keep out busses, that is, public transportation. The ironic thing is he never learned to drive. He always had a driver.

In the Sclove article, I’m struck by the story of running water coming to Ibieca. I like running water but I never thought about its isolating effect until reading this article. I don’t want to go back to the village washbasin to do my laundry but I am concerned about our diminished civic life. Likewise with air-conditioning, small porches and neighborhoods without sidewalks…

Let’s also think about the Rudi Volti definition of technology: “Technology is a system based on the application of knowledge, manifested in physical objects and organizational forms, for the attainment of specific goals.”

To me the most important take-away from these three pieces is that technologies, once created and adopted establish systems for use. Any system likely benefits some people more than others. What do we need to consider as we adopt new technologies or create new systems for existing technologies to encourage democratic access? That’s the key question. Here are the specifics to which you are to respond in your paper.

DIRECTIONS: FOR EACH OF THE THREE ARTICLES, BEFORE RESPONDING TO THE PROMPT, BRIEFLY SUMMARIZE AND IDENTIFY THE MAIN THEME OF THE ARTICLE. Title each section with the authors’ last name(s). Don’t forget to substantively reference the articles when responding to the prompts.

Winner Prompt: Apply Winners ideas about democratic (flexible) technologies to the system that has developed around our car-driven (no pun intended) society. Go back to Module 3. In a lecture for that module, the class and I talked about the pros and cons of cars. Some of those pros and cons had to do with the system that has been established in which our automobile society operates. Before cars, cities were “walking cities.” That means that people had to live close to where they worked, worshiped and shopped. Often that was close to family, also. Your “world” was smaller when you lived in a “walking city” but you also had more face-to-face interaction on the way. Today most cities are organized around cars. It is difficult, unless you live in someplace like NYC where more than half the residents don’t have cars, to be truly independent without a car. 1) Talk about the system established by automobile drivership. 2) Who has benefitted? Who has been harmed? 3) What would the challenges be to changing to a system based more on public transportation and trains like they have in Europe? (This is not a question about Robert Moses and his bridges, but you can take some cues from that story.)

Sclove Prompt: 1) How are “things” that are isolating less democratic? (The underlying question is, why is isolation bad for democracy?) 2) What’s the role of technology in both isolating us and bringing us together? Use examples from the Sclove essay to show a more democratic use and a less democratic use of the same technology and its system.

Jones and Reinecke Prompt: 1) How should we define success for infrastructure? Explain why by discussing an example from the article. 2) What is our role as citizens in making sure that everyone in our country has access to quality infrastructure?

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1. What concerns should be understood about data communications being sent over wireless networks? Discuss the pros and cons of one method of transmission, such as Wireless Application Protocol.

Words: 400 with atleast two peer reviewed reference in APA format.

2. Refer to the attached case study and answer any ONE of the below questions

QUESTIONS

1. How many different estimating techniques were discussed in the case?

2. If each estimate is different, how does a project manager decide that one estimate is better than another?

3. If you were the project manager, which estimate would you use?

Words: 400 with atleast two peer reviewed reference in APA format.

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Read:

Read chapter 6 in the Jalongo & Stamp text.

Write a one page summary of chapter 6 – “The Integrated Arts Curriculum”.

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Clausewitz’s “Genius” Analysis

Clausewitz is arguably the greatest theorist on war and command known to the Western world. In a short essay, use Clausewitz’s criteria from his chapter on “Genius” and argue whether these criteria can still define a great commander in the modern era. If they can, then explain why. If they are no longer enough, explain why not.

Criteria for Success

  • Include evidence from at least two text sources in your response
  • Use 1-inch margins, Times New Roman, 12-point font, and double spacing
  • Sources must be correctly formatted according to APA guidelines. You must use both in-text citations and provide a reference page.
  • Excluding the cover page and references, your paper must be at least 2 pages of written text.

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1946/1946-h/1946-h…. is the link to CHAPTER III. THE GENIUS FOR WAR

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Please make sure to follow all instructions very carefully, and deliver it on time. If it does not meet the requirements, if the output is not same etc. I wont accept the answer.

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Read the Suburban Homes Construction Project case study found at the end of chapters 1 through 4, CPM 4e and answer the following questions in a paper formatted using a question-response format:

Question 1 (from Unit 1) – What advice would you offer to Adam

Smith on improving the performance of project management and

increasing project success rate? Minimum 250 words.

Question 2 (from Unit 4) – Describe the organizational structure that might best suit Suburban Homes. Ensure that your discussion includes all possible structures and why each is ruled out. Minimum 250 words.

Question 3 (from Unit 4) – Describe the type of lifecycle best suited for their emphasis on high-quality construction. Ensure that your discussion includes at least 3 possible lifecycles and why two of them are ruled out. Minimum 250 words.

You will be assessed on content and mechanics.

Content (30 points/question): The content must be based on the case study materials and reading assignments. The PMBOK 6e and CPM 4e, along with other reputable resources can be used to supplement the responses through summarizing, paraphrasing and quoting those sources.

Mechanics (10 points): Each question response must be at at minimum 250 words. “Minimum” is that amount typically needed to meet expectations (to earn a “B”). To exceed expectations (to earn an “A”), a deeper discussion is needed. Each reference should be listed at the end of the paper following APA guidelines. Online blogs are not acceptable references. See Purdue OWL website for guidance on in-text citations.

Your Instructor will use Turn-it-in to ensure your paper is authentic work. To avoid plagiarism, see the course home page for more information and use the Purdue Online Writing Lab to learn how to paraphrase, summarize and cite the references you use in all academic writing assignments.

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write a short essay of 4-5 pages on it using a very tight traditional construction: introduction with thesis and previewed steps of development, body with 3-6 paragraphs, and conclusion that restates thesis and steps very clearly.