In a minimum of three (3) pages (double-spaced, Times New Roman font, with 1-inch page margins) each (and a maximum of four [4] pages), answer Question #1 (1a, 1b, and 1c) AND answer Question #3 (3a, 3b, and 3c). (The Final Exam overall should thus be a minimum of six [6] pages, and a maximum of eight [8] pages):
In short: All students must answer Question #3, and #1.
(1) By employing a “cultural politics” framework to supposedly “common sense” categories like race and nature, Moore, Pandian, and Kosek (2003, 2) delineate how cultural and historical processes have produced specific cultural understandings of nature that have often obscured histories of racial exclusion from forms of nature. Cronon (1996, 24), moreover, problematizes the popular U.S. conception of “wilderness” and implores environmentalist organizations and ordinary citizens to “embrace the full continuum of a natural landscape that is also cultural, in which the city, the suburb, the pastoral, and the wild each has its proper place, which we permit ourselves to celebrate without needlessly denigrating the other.”
(1a) Explain what is meant by the “wilderness” conception of nature and the environment, and describe how this conception has changed over time.
(1b) How do race and nature work together to “legitimate particular forms of political representation, reproduce social hierarchies, and authorize violent exclusions” (Moore et al. 2003:3)? Provide some concrete historical examples.
(1c) What are some of the problems encountered by projects for biodiversity conservation (e.g. nature reserves, conservation zones, restoration projects, and national parks) when such projects are exclusively informed by a “wilderness” conception of nature? How can such projects be improved?
(3) The frameworks of “environmental justice” and “climate justice” have been used to inform policy and law, academic theories, and contemporary social movements.
(3a) Explain what is meant by environmental justice. How and why did the modern environmental justice movement emerge in the United States? What have been some of the key issues and concerns of the movement? How are conceptual terms like “sacrifice zones” and government designations like “Superfund Sites” relevant to the environmental justice movement? How, moreover, does environmental justice intersect with other issues and challenges (e.g., police brutality, occupational safety, war and other military activities, the homelessness crisis, etc.)? What are important issues of environmental justice in Los Angeles County?
(3b) Explain what is meant by “climate change” and “climate crisis.” Why do climatologists like NASA scientist Peter Kalmus as well as authors like Naomi Klein consider this to be an “existential crisis” for humanity? What is “climate justice,” and what has been the response of the climate justice movement to the existential crisis of the climate? How is climate justice related to environmental justice? Why, moreover, is an analysis of the differences (historically, socioeconomically, geopolitically, etc.) between countries in the Global North (e.g., the United States, Britain, Japan, and France) and the Global South (e.g., Bolivia, the Philippines, etc.) centrally important to global conceptions of climate justice? What are some of the similarities and differences between the Global North and Global South (as well as between different communities within all countries, North and South) in terms of the impacts of the climate crisis?
(3c) Climate scientists and environmentalists have implored the global community to transition from fossil-fuel based economies to economies based on 100% clean and renewable energy. At the same time, proponents of environmental and climate justice argue that the transition to 100% renewable energy must be a Just Transition and based on the principles of energy democracy and energy justice. Do you agree that the transition to 100% renewable energy is necessary? Do you believe it is possible? What are some of the challenges involved with constructing and maintaining renewable-energy infrastructures? Moreover, what is energy democracy and energy justice? How are projects for energy democracy being implemented in places like the state of Vermont, and what, in your opinion, are the prospects for implementing such policies on a larger scale?
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Title: “Exploring the Intersection of Race, Nature, and Justice: A Critical Analysis of Environmental and Climate Issues” “Challenges and Opportunities in Pursuing Renewable Energy Infrastructure and Energy Democracy” Introduction The increasing demand for renewable energy sources has led to the development of renewable energy infrastructures. These infrastructures are designed to harness renewable sources such as solar, wind,
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“Film Analysis: Exploring the Themes and Messages of ‘The Secret Life of Walter Mitty’ on YouTube”
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“The Impact of Court Decisions on the Safety of Domestic Violence Victims: Analyzing Casey Brittle, Morrison, and Castle Rock” “The Safety Dilemma: Examining the Effects of Court Decisions on Domestic Violence Victims in Casey Brittle
One question many will explore in domestic violence issues is “Why doesn’t she leave”? Look at the Court’s holdings in Casey Brittle, Morrison and Castle Rock and did the decisions of these cases make it safer or less safe for victims to leave?
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“Jane’s Skateboards Case Requirements 11-12”
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Complete requirements 11 through 12 of the Jane’s Skateboards case for the third milestone of the course project. Use the file you completed in milestone two. Make sure you have updated the file if you have received feedback from your instructor about any errors found when your previous milestones were graded.
You will use the Course Project Template Jane’s Skateboards.
Save your file as “LastnameFirstinitial-ACCT105-M3.”
Submit your work by midnight ET on Day 7 (Sunday).
Your homework exercises/problems will be evaluated according to the following Homework Problems Grading:
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Assessing a Patient, Family, or Population Health Problem: A Leadership, Collaboration, Communication, Change Management, and Policy Perspective “Addressing Patient, Family, and Population Health Problems: A Baccalaureate-Prepared Nurse’s Role in Policy, Leadership, and Evidence-Based Practice” “Leadership Strategies for Improving Patient Outcomes and Experience: A Practicum Experience”
In a 5–7 page written assessment, define the patient, family, or population health problem that will be the focus of your capstone project. Assess the problem from a leadership, collaboration, communication, change management, and policy perspective. Plan to spend approximately 2 direct practicum hours meeting with a patient, family, or group of your choice to explore the problem and, if desired, consulting with subject matter and industry experts. Document the time spent (your practicum hours) with these individuals or group in the Capella Academic Portal Volunteer Experience Form.
Introduction
This assessment lays the foundation for the work that will carry you through your capstone experience and guide the practicum hours needed to complete the work in this course. In addition, it will enable you to do the following:
Develop a problem statement for a patient, family, or population that’s relevant to your practice.
Begin building a body of evidence that will inform your approach to your practicum.
Focus on the influence of leadership, collaboration, communication, change management, and policy on the problem.
Preparation
In this assessment, you’ll assess the patient, family, or population health problem that will be the focus of your capstone project. Plan to spend approximately 2 hours working with a patient, family, or group of your choice to explore the problem from a leadership, collaboration, communication, change management, and policy perspective. During this time, you may also choose to consult with subject matter and industry experts about the problem (for example, directors of quality or patient safety, nurse managers/directors, physicians, and epidemiologists).
To prepare for the assessment, complete the following:
Identify the patient, family, or group you want to work with during your practicum. The patient you select can be a friend or a family member. You’ll work with this patient, family, or group throughout your capstone project, focusing on a specific health care problem.
Begin surveying the scholarly and professional literature to establish your evidence and research base, inform your assessment, and meet scholarly expectations for supporting evidence.
In addition, you may wish to complete the following:
Review the assessment instructions and scoring guide to ensure that you understand the work you’ll be asked to complete and how it will be assessed.
Review the Practicum Focus Sheet: Assessment 1 [PDF] Download Practicum Focus Sheet: Assessment 1 [PDF], which provides guidance for conducting this portion of your practicum.
Note: As you revise your writing, check out the resources listed on the Writing Center’s Writing Support page.
Instructions
Complete this assessment in two parts.
Part 1
Use Assessment 01 Supplement: Assessing the Problem: Leadership, Collaboration, Communication, Change Management, and Policy Considerations [PDF] Download Assessment 01 Supplement: Assessing the Problem: Leadership, Collaboration, Communication, Change Management, and Policy Considerations [PDF]to define the patient, family, or population health problem that will be the focus of your capstone project. Assess the problem from a leadership, collaboration, communication, change management, and policy perspective and establish your evidence and research base to plan, implement, and share findings related to your project.
Part 2
Connect with the patient, family, or group you’ll work with during your practicum. During this portion of your practicum, plan to spend at least 2 hours meeting with the patient, family, or group and, if desired, consulting with subject matter and industry experts of your choice. The hours you spend meeting with them should take place outside of regular work hours. Use the Practicum Focus Sheet [PDF] Download Practicum Focus Sheet [PDF]provided for this assessment to guide your work and interpersonal interactions. Document the time spent (your practicum hours) with these individuals or group in the Capella Academic Portal Volunteer Experience Form.
Requirements
The assessment requirements, outlined below, correspond to the scoring guide criteria, so be sure to address each main point. Read the performance-level descriptions for each criterion to see how your work will be assessed. In addition, note the additional requirements for document format and length and for supporting evidence.
Define a patient, family, or population health problem that’s relevant to your practice.
Summarize the problem you’ll explore.
Identify the patient, family, or group you intend to work with during your practicum.
Provide context, data, or information that substantiates the presence of the problem and its significance and relevance to the patient, family, or population.
Explain why this problem is relevant to your practice as a baccalaureate-prepared nurse.
Analyze evidence from peer-reviewed literature and professional sources that describes and guides nursing actions related to the patient, family, or population problem you’ve defined.
Note whether the authors provide supporting evidence from the literature that’s consistent with what you see in your nursing practice.
Explain how you would know if the data are unreliable.
Describe what the literature says about barriers to the implementation of evidence-based practice in addressing the problem you’ve defined.
Describe research that has tested the effectiveness of nursing standards and/or policies in improving patient, family, or population outcomes for this problem.
Describe current literature on the role of nurses in policy making to improve outcomes, prevent illness, and reduce hospital readmissions.
Describe what the literature says about a nursing theory or conceptual framework that might frame and guide your actions during your practicum.
Explain how state board nursing practice standards and/or organizational or governmental policies could affect the patient, family, or population problem you’ve defined.
Describe research that has tested the effectiveness of these standards and/or policies in improving patient, family, or population outcomes for this problem.
Describe current literature on the role of nurses in policy making to improve outcomes, prevent illness, and reduce hospital readmissions.
Describe the effects of local, state, and federal policies or legislation on your nursing scope of practice, within the context of this problem.
Propose leadership strategies to improve outcomes, patient-centered care, and the patient experience related to the patient, family, or population problem you’ve defined.
Discuss research on the effectiveness of leadership strategies.
Define the role that you anticipate leadership must play in addressing the problem.
Describe collaboration and communication strategies that you anticipate will be needed to address the problem.
Describe the change management strategies that you anticipate will be required to address the problem.
Document the time spent (your practicum hours) with these individuals or group in the Capella Academic Portal Volunteer Experience Form.
Organize content so ideas flow logically with smooth transitions.
Apply APA style and formatting to scholarly writing.
Additional Requirements
Format: Format your paper using APA style. APA Style Paper Tutorial [DOCX] is provided to help you in writing and formatting your paper. Be sure to include:
A title page and reference page. An abstract is not required.
Appropriate section headings.
Length: Your paper should be approximately 5–7 pages in length, not including the reference page.
Supporting evidence: Cite at least five sources of scholarly or professional evidence that support your central ideas. Resources should be no more than five years old. Provide in-text citations and references in APA format.
Proofreading: Proofread your paper, before you submit it, to minimize errors that could distract readers and make it more difficult for them to focus on its substance.
Capella Academic Portal
Complete the NURS-FPX4900 Volunteer Experience Form in Capella Academic Portal. Include a description of your relationship to the patient, family, or group in the Volunteer Experience comments field.
The BSN Capstone Course (NURS-FPX4900 ) requires the completion and documentation of nine (9) practicum hours. All hours must be recorded in the Capella Academic Portal. Please review the BSN Practicum Campus page for more information and instructions on how to log your hours.
Context
Nurses in all professional roles work to effect positive patient outcomes and improve organizational processes. Professional nurses are leaders in problem identification, planning, and strategy implementation—skills that directly affect patient care or organizational effectiveness.
Too often, change agents jump to a conclusion that an intervention will promote the envisioned improvement. Instead, the ideal approach is to determine which interventions are appropriate, based on an assessment and review of credible evidence. Interventions could be patient-facing or involve a change in policy and process. In this assessment, you’ll identify and make the case for your practicum focus area, then explore it in depth from a leadership, collaboration, communication, change management, and policy perspective.
Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:
Competency 1: Lead people and processes to improve patient, systems, and population outcomes.
Define a patient, family, or population health problem that’s relevant to personal and professional practice.
Competency 2: Make clinical and operational decisions based upon the best available evidence.
Analyze evidence from peer-reviewed literature and professional sources that describes and guides nursing actions related to a defined patient, family, or population problem.
Competency 5: Analyze the impact of health policy on quality and cost of care.
Explain how state board nursing practice standards and/or organizational or governmental policies could affect a defined patient, family, or population problem.
Competency 7: Implement patient-centered care to improve quality of care and the patient experience.
Propose leadership strategies to improve outcomes, patient-centered care, and the patient experience related to a defined patient, family, or population problem and document the practicum hours spent with these individuals or group in the Capella Academic Portal Volunteer Experience Form.
Competency 8: Integrate professional standards and values into practice.
Organize content so ideas flow logically with smooth transitions.
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Exploring the Cultural Significance of Music: An Ethnomusicological Perspective SECTION ONE 1. What do ethnomusicologists mean when they say, “Music is universal, but it is not a universal language”? Ethnomusic
Provide short essays to FOUR of the following questions. You must answer ONE question from Each Section.
SECTION ONE
1. What do ethnomusicologists mean when they say, “Music is universal, but it is not a universal language”?
2. In what ways does world music study require an interdisciplinary approach?
SECTION TWO
3. How does pitch differ from tuning system? How does tuning system differ from scale? How does scale differ from range?
4. Discuss the four properties of a musical sound.
SECTION THREE
5. What distinguishes “modern” from “postmodern” scholarship in music?
6. How might an “insider” to a musical tradition hear it differently from an “outsider”? Are both
perspectives necessary for a complete picture
SECTION FOUR
7. Why is music important to the Australian Aborigine’s cosmology, The Dreaming?
8. Name some ways in which Christian missionaries have influenced traditional music Oceania?
An Essay in this class must be at least One – Two PAGES or otherwise stated.
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Title: Group Psychotherapy: Benefits, Challenges, and Considerations Group psychotherapy has many benefits, including providing a supportive and collaborative environment for clients to work through their issues, fostering a sense of belonging and connection, and offering a more cost
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS1.What are the benefits and the challenges of offering group psychotherapy services within both inpatient and outpatient clinical environments?
2.Discuss key components of group process that occur during all phases of group development, giving examples of patient-focused activity that occurs during each phase.
3.Describe how various theoretical orientations could be used when leading short-term group psychotherapy. What patient populations or clinical presentations would be best served by each theoretical framework.
4.Discuss the benefits and challenges of using one or two group therapists during a psychotherapeutic intervention.
5.Discuss the importance of identifying ground rules, especially in relation to confidentiality for group psychotherapy services.
6.Describe how group psychotherapy differs from individual psychotherapy and describe the types of patients who might be better served by group psychotherapy.
7.Identify a specific group you would like to lead in your practice and discuss the purpose, your target population, how you would screen and recruit participants, establishing a fee schedule, the time frame (open or closed), number of participants, theoretical orientation for the group, selection of a co-therapist or why you do not want a co-therapist, marketing and advertising, and length of each session.
To reflect, write one or two paragraphs with a minimum of 150 words, scholarly written, APA formatted, and referenced. A minimum of two references are required (other than your text). -
“Exploring the Intersection of Art and Technology: A Review of the Whitney Biennial 2024 Featuring Harold Cohen’s ‘Aaron’ AI Program”
Exhibit Chosen = Whitney Museum
Whitney Biennial 2024: starts March 20
Harold Cohen: Aaron (the evolution of AI program for artmaking
Guidelines:
First it is a good idea to get acquainted with exhibition reviews by reading magazines such as: Art in America, Art News or the online magazine Hyperallergic.com. Each of these has a substantial review section at the end and they all are available in the library. The Friday Art section of the New York Times also contains weekly reviews of current exhibitions in New York.
When writing a review, keep in mind that you are trying to inform the reader about an exhibition that you saw, and that she or he hasn’t. You need to include pertinent information: location, dates, artists, and to describe some of the works, so that you communicate to the reader a precise idea of what the exhibition is about. Then discuss what you found interesting, or not and why you liked or disliked it.
In most galleries and museums there are brochures or press releases and various materials that are available and free. Ask for them at the desk in galleries and at information desks in museums. These materials will help you to write a review with information regarding the artists or the show.
*****Your review should include:
1- The location (gallery, museum), title, name(s) of the artist(s), dates of the exhibition.
2- Describe the content of the exhibition from a general point of view: is there one or several themes, what are the mediums used, and most importantly, what are the issues/questions raised by the exhibition. Describe and discuss each of these aspects. If there is no specific theme, try to explain what the exhibition is about (a survey of an artist work, a selection of works from a certain period…)
3- Select a few objects (two are sufficient in most cases) that you find particularly relevant and interesting and analyze them more specifically. Analyze in details the visual and conceptual contents, the meaning, specific aspects involved.
4- Additional research about the artist(s) is necessary to complete your review. Who is the artists, what he/she is known for? Try to relate the particular exhibition or the works described to the career of the artist (is there a definite style, are they changes from previous works or previous exhibition. Does the artist hold a place in a movement or a group of artists?
5- Give your opinion about the exhibition. Support your opinion with specific examples/ideas.
CITE the references you used for your essay WHEN NEEDED: when you use information from a gallery or museum brochure, a press release or any other source of information, such as websites. Use the MLA format (author’s name. Year of publication) in the body of your essay. Add a cited source page at the end of your essay with all the sources used in alphabetical order. -
Analysis of Banco Santander’s Competitiveness in the Spanish Banking Industry
SLEPT analyses but only the economical factors in Spain and their effects on Banco Santander in spain that can affect the bank. Porter analyses, only the competitors of banco santander in spain ( the market share, if banco santander is better than their competitors in Spain. In the Pdfs there are descriptions), and the threats faced by new entrants ( check pdf also) and also the swot analyses but only do the weaknesses faced banco santander in Spain . refences in apa 7th edition. Please make sure to add diagrams. E,g a graph showing the total assets of the biggest banks in spain in order to compare competitors of Banco santander.
The second part of the report aim to present the analysis of selected company’s competitive strategy, its key success factors, and assessment in want extent the company and strategy addresses the customers’ needs, expectations and values, as well as current trends and enable competing with firm’s rivals.
Just an example
Threat of New Entrants:
Evaluate barriers to entry in the Spanish banking industry, such as regulatory requirements, economies of scale, and brand loyalty.
Assess the likelihood of new entrants disrupting Banco Santander’s market position and competitive advantage.
SWOT Analysis: Weaknesses of Banco Santander in Spain:
1. Weak Market Positioning:
Discuss any areas where Banco Santander may lag behind competitors in terms of market share or brand perception.
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Exploring the Characteristics and Similarities/Differences Between American Deaf Culture and Hearing Culture: A Study of Thoughts, Beliefs, Values, Language, and Behavior Patterns
Each student is required to write one (1) research paper using information from book readings, film showing, and attendance at Deaf community events and ASL club meetings to answer the following question:
Research Question
What is culture? What are the characteristics of the American Deaf culture in thoughts, beliefs, values, language, and behavior patterns? What are the locations where Deaf culture is found? How is the Deaf culture similar to the hearing culture? Explain why there are similarities. How is the Deaf culture differ from the hearing culture? Explain why there are differences.
Film Showing:
Students will watch two (2) films during the semester about deaf culture in class. Students will take notes and prepare to use as part of the references in their research paper.
Film Screenings
Film Screening (Both films will be shown in class first before you go ahead and do the research paper)
Film #1 – Audism
Film #2 – Through Deaf Eyes