Category: essay

Plague of Justinian

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  1. Article on the Justianic Plague
    https://origins.osu.edu/connecting-history/covid-justinianic-plague-lessons?language_content_entity=en
  2. Procopius: The Plague, 542
    https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/542procopius-plague.asp
  3. Pseudo-Dionysius of Tel-Mahre
    https://www.plu.edu/studyaway/wp-content/uploads/sites/222/2020/09/john-of-ephesus-for-glst.pdf

Instructions:
First, read the three selections linked above, including the short article on the Justianic Plague, excerpts of the writings of the court historian Procopius about
the plague, and excerpts of the Pseudo-Dionysius of Tel-Mahre, a Syriac monastic account that describes the plague in the Middle East. Next, in your essay,
you will account for the bubonic plague that hit the Byzantine Empire during the rule of the emperor Justinian in the sixth century CE.
In doing so, your essay, address all of the following questions:

  1. What were the main symptoms of the bubonic plague? How did it seem to spread and what areas were the hardest hit?
  2. How did ordinary people react to the plague? How did authorities such as physicians and government officials attempt to help plague victims, both the
    living and the dead? What impact did their actions have?
  3. What sorts of reasons did people in the sixth century CE use to explain why the bubonic plague occurred? What lessons does this particular outbreak have
    for us today?

Personal feelings

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Take time to self-reflect upon your rough draft. In this essay, share your personal feelings by answering questions such as the following: What did you do well? What do you need to improve? Do you feel confident or insecure about this paperRr so far? How have others responded to your rough draft? What remaining questions do you have?

Quality Improvement Project—FOCUS Model

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In module 3, you wrote a problem statement for a quality issue in health care. Building off that issue, you will now apply the first part of the FOCUS model to your issue—the F, O, C, and U of the FOCUS model. You should also revisit your learning materials and weekly module notes on the FOCUS model.
This assignment is going to give you valuable practice in applying quality improvement models to problems organizations are facing.

Apply the F, O, C, and U of the FOCUS Model to investigate the issue and determine what went wrong.
• Find 3 related breakdowns in processes, requirements, regulations, or policy that highlight the need for improvement. Identify and briefly describe them.
• Organize or choose roles for your team that could help you in your work. Who in that organization would know what happened and how to fix it? Describe their roles and why you have chosen these roles to be on your team.
• Clarify your knowledge at the time of the case. What were the existing processes at the time of the error? Be specific and provide examples to illustrate your points.
• Understand which variables broke down within each of the 3 processes you chose. Here you will do a brief literature search around these three processes to inform your understanding. You will then share that understanding in your analysis and will apply it directly to your chosen case. Avoid opinions in this section; as leaders, you must be familiar with and know how to apply the research in ways that are supported by evidence.
Lastly, provide a conclusion for this section that integrates what you have learned about your chosen issue from the literature with your experiences.

Approach to self-care

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In at least 250 words, write a journal entry reflecting on how The A-Z Self-Care Handbook for Social Workers and Other Helping Professionals has changed your approach to self-care. How might you incorporate what you have learned in promoting self-care among your clients?

 

 

Concept Engagement

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Ewen and Ewen show that US film culture went through a significant shift from the 1910s to the 1920s. In the 1910s, movies and movie houses offered spaces and stories that spoke directly to working-class immigrants, and particularly immigrant women. By the 1920s, movies began telling very different stories to immigrant women. According to Ewen and Ewen, in what ways did movies in the 1910s speak to working class immigrants, and in what ways did movies start to tell different stories in the 1920s? Explain how this shift in movie culture relates to the concept of antiseptic electrical space.

LOVE FLOWS World Fish Migration

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tBtz2uv8fI
LOVE FLOWS World Fish Migration Day Documentary
Watch the this documentary please and do about the questions.
The documentary ‘Love Flows’ captures the stories of the events from World Fish Migration Day 2018 through the narration of Joshua Royte, a conservation scientist for The Nature Conservancy. It highlights our evolved understanding of the impacts of dams and the people who are working to make positive differences for rivers. This documentary aims to give these fish and the rivers they depend on a voice by showcasing the celebrations, knowledge, and great visions we have for our rivers.
As you were watching:
• What facts described in the film stood out to you the most?
• Were there aspects of the film that described something that you hadn’t heard about before, caused you to think in a new way, or helped you understand something more thoroughly than before?
• Other thoughts or comments?

The Shapiro Library and identify

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Use the Shapiro Library and identify a primary source, peer-reviewed public health or medical journal article that used any of the statistical methodologies covered in this class to analyze their data, and use it to respond to the following prompts:
State one of the research questions that the authors researched data to answer.
What are the variables that had to be measured on each subject to answer this research question? Were they categorical or continuous?
What statistical methodology did the authors use to find the answer to this research question? Does it seem appropriate to you? Explain.
What were the results? Provide the actual statistical results and interpret them using your own words.
Provide any graph, figure, or table that displays these results and interpret it.
Do you feel that this article fully answered the research question? Explain why or why not. Include a reference citation for your chosen article.

Tension between the US and USSR during WWII

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READ:
Please read Chapter 23
the United States and the Cold War, Foner
WHAT TO DO:
Next, identify any five of the following using your textbook. Please include at least 3 sentences for each of your answers.
Satellite Nation
Sphere of Influence
Containment
Iron Curtain
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Berlin Airlift
Chiang Kai‐shek
Mao Zedong
Taiwan
38th parallel
Korean War
Next, choose two of the following and respond. Your answers should be at least five sentences long.
1. What caused tension between the US and USSR during WWII and the early Cold War period?
2. Discuss the conflict at the Potsdam conference?
3. What specific actions did the USSR take in Europe that were opposed by the United States?
4. How were the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan related?
5. Why did Stalin close access to Berlin? How did the Allies get supplies to Berlin?
6. What precipitated renewed civil war in China and what was the outcome?
7. How did Korea become divided into two countries?
8. What did MacArthur’s counterattack at Inchon accomplish?
9. What caused the disagreement between MacArthur and Truman?

 

Schizophrenia From Patient’s Point Of View

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Think about a client with schizophrenia that you know about from personal, work or clinical experience, or from news media or other sources. Describe the individual.

What are the positive and/or negative symptoms?
What are the person’s struggles? What treatments have been tried and failed? What works?
If you were that person, what would you like to tell your nurse about yourself, your needs, and your fears?
Please provide evidence from professional sources to support your information. Include examples of your prior experience with a client who was having a problem with delusions and/or hallucinations.