What famous philosopher was expelled from Florence and wrote “The Prince?”
a) Francis Bacon b) Aristotle c) Niccolo Macchiavelli d) Immanuel Kant
Category: philosopy
STIRNER – NIETZSCHE – FOUCAULT : THE DEATH OF GOD AND THE END OF HUMANKIND
Writing the Research Proposal
Your detailed research proposal (minimum 1500 words + bibliography) must cover the following points:
Research question: What is the major problem or issue that your thesis will attempt to solve? What major question will it try to answer? What hypothesis will it test? In essence, what will your thesis be about?
Significance/Innovation: Why will your thesis be significant? What makes it important, original, or innovative?
Relevant scholarship: What does current scholarship say about your major question? How does your thesis relate to what has already been written on your topic? What will make it important or original? In essence, why will it matter?
Method and evidence: What methods will you use to conduct your research? Will you use particular theories and/or schools of thought? What evidence or texts will you be using? In essence, how will you do your thesis?
Preliminary bibliography: This needs to include relevant items and to demonstrate some familiarity with the major scholarly works in your proposed area of research.
“The last Gun Fight” by Jeff Guin
1. What did a western town look like? Why was it placed where it was—how did it originate; what structures, buildings, and housing did it have; what did it offer its inhabitants in goods and services; how were towns divided and what conflicts existed in them?
Geography of the Holocaust
Under the title “Geography of the Holocaust”, write an essay about which countries were involved and describe what role each of these countries played in the Holocaust.
“Anatomy and Physiology
2. Fill in the table below with the appropriate terms. (3 marks)
Name of a structure is directional term to Name of the second structure
Example -trapezius is proximal to pectoralis major
diaphragm is superior to
is inferior to scalenes
rectus abdominis is anterior to
is distal to biceps femoris
pectoralis minor is medial to
is lateral to external oblique
3. For the following diagrams, identify the muscle and its actions. (12 marks – 2 marks per muscle)
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
F.
4. Which of the following statements are true of the neuromuscular junction? (Read carefully and select all the correct statements.) (1 mark)
A. A synapse is the space between two muscle fibers.
B. Acetylcholine is released from vesicles in the sarcolemma.
C. The axon terminal is the end of a sensory neuron.
D. Acetylcholine makes the sarcolemma more permeable to calcium ions.
E. Cholinesterase is an enzyme that destroys acetylcholine so that the impulse will continue at the same strength.
F. The receptors for acetylcholine are in the sarcolemma.
5. Which of the following statements are true of the locations and functions of muscles? (Read carefully and select all the correct statements.) (4 marks)
A. The masseter lowers the maxilla.
B. The gluteus maximus flexes the thigh.
C. The biceps brachii flexes the forearm.
D. The tibialis anterior plantar flexes the foot.
E. The orbicularis oris opens the mouth.
F. The external obliques help laterally flex the vertebral column.
G. The hamstring group extends the thigh at the hip.
H. The trapezius raises the shoulder.
6. Which of the following statements are true of the locations and functions of muscles? (Read carefully and select all the correct statements.) (2 marks)
A. The masseter raises the maxilla.
B. The gluteus medius abducts the thigh.
C. The triceps brachii flexes the forearm.
D. The gastrocnemius dorsiflexes the foot.
E. The orbicularis oculi opens the eye.
F. The rectus abdominis extends the vertebral column.
G. The sternocleidomastoids flex the head and neck.
H. The quadriceps femoris group extends the thigh at the hip.
Credits
• “Anatomy and Physiology I Lab” by Victoria Vidal under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 https://www.oercommons.org/authoring/59397-anatomy-and-physiology-i-lab
• Human Anatomy Lab Manual by Malgosia Wilk-Blaszczak is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
• All diagrams retrieved from Encyclopædia Britannica ImageQuest.
The philosophy and methods of antibiotic selection and stewardship.
Research and discuss the philosophy and methods of antibiotic selection and stewardship. Select and address one of the focus areas below. Support your answer with two or three peer-reviewed resources.
Discuss antibiotic stewardship and the role you play in this as a nurse practitioner.
Discuss antibiotic resistance.
Discuss what resources are available for antibiotic selection.
Explain how to obtain and interpret microbiology cultures/sensitivities.
Explain antibiograms.
Discuss when is it appropriate to withhold antibiotics until a pathogen can be identified versus when you must initiate empiric antibiotic therapy while the pathogen is still being identified.
Explain what is meant by local or geographic antibiotic resistance.
Explain when it is appropriate to consult an infectious disease specialist.
Robert Frost
Frost topics: the everyday life in the country. The emotions, events. Ice weigh down branches of tree, mending stones of a wall, mowing a field of hay; Frost views a deeper meaning, a metaphysical expression of these of love, hate, conflict.
Pastoral poet, inspired by natural world, especially as a chicken farmer in New Hampshire. Was a city boy moved to country, was very intrigued by the natural world
Pastoral themes and dramatic struggles in the natural world. Conflict of changing seasons, destructive side of nature; Inspired deep metaphysical thought
Frost not happy; felt his poetry wasn’t that great; he suffered from b outs of depression and anxiety; Suffered through deaths of father, mother, sister, 4 of his 6 children, and wife.
There is a melancholic mentality
Raw emotion, sense of loss.
Believed that the sound of the poetry is as important as the actual words. Poems are accessible and simple.
themes:
Nature: pastoral scenes, dramatic struggle
Communication or lack of it. Inability to communicate
Everyday life
Community VS Isolation of the individual
Loss of innocence
Duty. Rationality VS imagination. Important sense of duty
Rural life provides quality and clarity of life. Creates self-knowledge
Symbols
Trees. Represent borders, link between earth and sky
Birds and birdsong
Solitary travelers. The social outcast, wanderer, one who exists on fringes of community
THE POEMS:
1. Mending Wall.
2. 2 men meet in terms of civility and neighborliness. Build barrier out of tradition, habit. Nature breaks down barriers. What does poem say about barrier-building
3. There’s a folksy straightforwardness, that ends in complex ambiguity.
4. There are 2 types of people: wall-builders and wall breakers.
5. Wall building is ancient.
6. Ritual of wall maintenance: rights of property boundaries.
7. Wall building is social What about mutual trust, communication, goodwill
8. Dark-age mentality; man cannot look beyond folly of old kins of reasoning.
9. Written in blank verse. 5 stressed syllables per line
Road Not Taken
1. Structure: 4 stanzas of 5 lines Rhyme scheme ABAAB;
2. NEITHER road is less traveled by.
3. We are free to choose, but we do not know beforehand what we are choosing between.
4. Poem concerned with how the present will look from a future vantage point.
5. INRYP: I shall be telling this. Knows that her will need to come up with a story about why he took one road over another.
6. Anticipation and remorse: made a choice, knows that he will second guess himself somewhere down the line; there is no right path, just the chosen path and the other path.
“Out, Out”
The buzz-saw personified. Comes alive. Frost blames the saw, not the boy. Boys’ passivity and innocence. Boys leave childhoods behind and can be destroyed by circumstances beyond their control
Ending: there is no reason for why the boy has to die
“Stopping by woods on a Snowy Evening”
1. 4 iambic stanzas
2. Frost said he wrote this in one sitting
3. Poem is lovely, but entices us with dark depths.
4. Last 2 lines:
5. Basic conflict in poem: attraction toward woods and pull of responsibility outside the woods.
6. What do woods represent?
7. Does poem express a death wish?
8. Woods sit on the edge of civilization…they draw the speaker away from it. Regard for beauty and danger.
Rights ethics with regards to Locke.
In week three, we were looking at rights ethics with regards to Locke. As a reminder, Locke said we have inalienable rights to life, liberty, and property. It is immoral to violate them. Many think we have more rights than those listed by Locke. Some even think we have a right to health care. That means it is the duty of the state to provide each citizen with their medical needs.
Rights theory says to respect the entitlements we have. If a right is inalienable, it cannot truly be violated ethically even with our consent. We have basic needs. Rights are something beyond needs. They are what we should be authorized to have. We are due what we have a right to. That is not always the case with need. For example, we need food, but people often go hungry. A need refers to something we need physically to exist. A right is a moral entitlement to something. Asking if we have a right to food is a moral question. Needs are determined by the requirements of the body and of material existence. Rights are determined by moral reflection, inquiry, an argument We have a right to own property. We do not need it to live. We could imaginably be allowed to use another’s. We have a right to own a home. We can rent.
Initial Post Instructions
For the initial post, respond to one of the following options, and label the beginning of your post indicating either Option 1 or Option 2:
Option 1: Assess the moral solutions arrived at through “care” (care-based ethics) and “rights” ethics to social issues of ethical import such as poverty, drug use, and/or lack of health care,
That is, note any ethical problems that arise related to those particular issues. Then, say how both care-based and rights theory of ethics would solve those problems.
Are those solutions correct? Why or why not?
What is your own approach there?
Option 2: What moral guidelines should we use when it comes to recently introduced healthcare technologies of any kind (you will note and engage with your own examples) and social technologies of any kind (you will note and engage with your own examples)?
Cloud service model.
In a Word document, identify the following and write a brief summary of what you learned in your research.
What the service model is and what advantages it provides
What kinds of scenarios the service model is commonly used for
The management responsibility associated with the service model—what the provider manages vs. what you manage
A brief description of at least three different service providers for the cloud service model selected
Save your file, and submit it using the instructions below.
IMPORTANT: This is not a formal paper. Please be concise. Your entire assignment should only be between 1/2 to 1 page.
Instructions
Follow the instructions below to complete this assignment:
Write a 1-page paper describing the advantages and disadvantages of a virtualized environment in the cloud
Kant’s famous First Formulation of the Categorical Imperative
Kant’s famous First Formulation of the Categorical Imperative reads, “Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.” Kant taught morality as a matter of following maxims of living that reflect absolute laws. “Universal” is a term that allows for no exceptions, and what is universal applies always and everywhere. Don’t forget about the second formulation of the categorical imperative which states, “Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of another, always at the same time as an end and never simply as a means.” It is just as important.
Initial Post Instructions
For the initial post, address one of the following sets of questions:
What are the personal and/or communal ethical factors that may be involved in determining the moral position of either side given a contemporary debate, such as those concerning animal rights, stem cell research, abortion, the death penalty, and so forth?
Elaborate in detail the ethical positions arrived at by using the Kantian categorical imperative relative to the long standing debate surrounding the death penalty or abortion. Argue the ethics from the point of view of the prisoner or from the fetus
Evaluate the ethical positions in part two. You will want to detail whether they are convincing, logical, correct, consistent, etc.