Answer to a couple peers with 150 words. The Narrative text name is Mother Tongue by Amy Tan and e visual text about ocean pollution.
The main idea of Mother Tongue by Amy Tan is to show the differences in how people react to others with limited english speaking abilities.
The conflict of Mothers tongue was learning to accept her pride and embarrasment by learning that her mothers broken english is what helped her grown into the rebel to go to college and change her major to enjoy her love for writing. She choose to accept all by learning to (Chpt 61 Literacy Narratives pg 703) “I wanted to capture, what language ability test can never reveal: her intent, her passion her imagery, the rhythms of her speech and the nature of her thoughts”. This writing shows us it is okay to speak with broken english because we can still become very successful in life. Mother tongue was written in a First person rhethoical technique. This technique was written by Amys personal life experiences she showed multiple examples from personal life experiences that people might not have understood her mother though she fully understood her. Another example of Amys life experience was when she was embarrased by her mothers limited English, by saying “she felt her mothers limited use of english was what reflected the quality of what she wanted to say”. Example three people would ignore her mother in different places. Amys views on her mothers english changes though as she learns its not a limitation because her broken english helped shape Amys future in her writing. Example for support was when she choose to accept her love for her mothers tongue and embrace it to strengthen her writing skills.
Mother Tongue, by Amy Tan
I am not a scholar of English or literature. I cannot give you much more than personal opinions on the English language and its variations in this country or others.
I am a writer. And by that definition, I am someone who has always loved language. I am fascinated by language in daily life. I spend a great deal of my time thinking about the power of language — the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth. Language is the tool of my trade. And I use them all — all the Englishes I grew up with.
Recently, I was made keenly aware of the different Englishes I do use. I was giving a talk to a large group of people, the same talk I had already given to half a dozen other groups. The nature of the talk was about my writing, my life, and my book, The Joy Luck Club. The talk was going along well enough, until I remembered one major difference that made the whole talk sound wrong. My mother was in the room. And it was perhaps the first time she had heard me give a lengthy speech, using the kind of English I have never used with her. I was saying things like, “The intersection of memory upon imagination” and “There is an aspect of my fiction that relates to thus-and-thus’–a speech filled with carefully wrought grammatical phrases, burdened, it suddenly seemed to me, with nominalized forms, past perfect tenses, conditional phrases, all the forms of standard English that I had learned in school and through books, the forms of English I did not use at home with my mother.
Just last week, I was walking down the street with my mother, and I again found myself conscious of the English I was using, the English I do use with her. We were talking about the price of new and used furniture and I heard myself saying this: “Not waste money that way.” My husband was with us as well, and he didn’t notice any switch in my English. And then I realized why. It’s because over the twenty years we’ve been together I’ve often used that same kind of English with him, and sometimes he even uses it with me. It has become our language of intimacy, a different sort of English that relates to family talk, the language I grew up with.
So you’ll have some idea of what this family talk I heard sounds like, I’11 quote what my mother said during a recent conversation which I videotaped and then transcribed. During this conversation, my mother was talking about a political gangster in Shanghai who had the same last name as her family’s, Du, and how the gangster in his early years wanted to be adopted by her family, which was rich by comparison. Later, the gangster became more powerful, far richer than my mother’s family, and one day showed up at my mother’s wedding to pay his respects. Here’s what she said in part: “Du Yusong having business like fruit stand. Like off the street kind. He is Du like Du Zong — but not Tsung-ming Island people. The local people call putong, the river east side, he belong to that side local people. That man want to ask Du Zong father take him in like become own family. Du Zong father wasn’t look down on him, but didn’t take seriously, until that man big like become a mafia. Now important person, very hard to inviting him. Chinese way, came only to show respect, don’t stay for dinner. Respect for making big celebration, he shows up. Mean gives lots of respect. Chinese custom. Chinese social life that way. If too important won’t have to stay too long. He come to my wedding. I didn’t see, I heard it. I gone to boy’s side, they have YMCA dinner. Chinese age I was nineteen.”
You should know that my mother’s expressive command of English belies how much she actually understands. She reads the Forbes report, listens to Wall Street Week, converses daily with her stockbroker, reads all of Shirley MacLaine’s books with ease–all kinds of things I can’t begin to understand. Yet some of my friends tell me they understand 50 percent of what my mother says. Some say they understand 80 to 90 percent. Some say they understand none of it, as if she were speaking pure Chinese. But to me, my mother’s English is perfectly clear, perfectly natural. It’s my mother tongue. Her language, as I hear it, is vivid, direct, full of observation and imagery. That was the language that helped shape the way I saw things, expressed things, made sense of the world.
Lately, I’ve been giving more thought to the kind of English my mother speaks. Like others, I have described it to people as ‘broken” or “fractured” English. But I wince when I say that. It has always bothered me that I can think of no way to describe it other than “broken,” as if it were damaged and needed to be fixed, as if it lacked a certain wholeness and soundness. I’ve heard other terms used, “limited English,” for example. But they seem just as bad, as if everything is limited, including people’s perceptions of the limited English speaker.
I know this for a fact, because when I was growing up, my mother’s “limited” English limited my perception of her. I was ashamed of her English. I believed that her English reflected the quality of what she had to say That is, because she expressed them imperfectly her thoughts were imperfect. And I had plenty of empirical evidence to support me: the fact that people in department stores, at banks, and at restaurants did not take her seriously, did not give her good service, pretended not to understand her, or even acted as if they did not hear her.
My mother has long realized the limitations of her English as well. When I was fifteen, she used to have me call people on the phone to pretend I was she. In this guise, I was forced to ask for information or even to complain and yell at people who had been rude to her. One time it was a call to her stockbroker in New York. She had cashed out her small portfolio and it just so happened we were going to go to New York the next week, our very first trip outside California. I had to get on the phone and say in an adolescent voice that was not very convincing, “This is Mrs. Tan.”
And my mother was standing in the back whispering loudly, “Why he don’t send me check, already two weeks late. So mad he lie to me, losing me money.
And then I said in perfect English, “Yes, I’m getting rather concerned. You had agreed to send the check two weeks ago, but it hasn’t arrived.”
Then she began to talk more loudly. “What he want, I come to New York tell him front of his boss, you cheating me?” And I was trying to calm her down, make her be quiet, while telling the stockbroker, “I can’t tolerate any more excuses. If I don’t receive the check immediately, I am going to have to speak to your manager when I’m in New York next week.” And sure enough, the following week there we were in front of this astonished stockbroker, and I was sitting there red-faced and quiet, and my mother, the real Mrs. Tan, was shouting at his boss in her impeccable broken English.
We used a similar routine just five days ago, for a situation that was far less humorous. My mother had gone to the hospital for an appointment, to find out about a benign brain tumor a CAT scan had revealed a month ago. She said she had spoken very good English, her best English, no mistakes. Still, she said, the hospital did not apologize when they said they had lost the CAT scan and she had come for nothing. She said they did not seem to have any sympathy when she told them she was anxious to know the exact diagnosis, since her husband and son had both died of brain tumors. She said they would not give her any more information until the next time and she would have to make another appointment for that. So she said she would not leave until the doctor called her daughter. She wouldn’t budge. And when the doctor finally called her daughter, me, who spoke in perfect English — lo and behold — we had assurances the CAT scan would be found, promises that a conference call on Monday would be held, and apologies for any suffering my mother had gone through for a most regrettable mistake.
I think my mother’s English almost had an effect on limiting my possibilities in life as well. Sociologists and linguists probably will tell you that a person’s developing language skills are more influenced by peers. But I do think that the language spoken in the family, especially in immigrant families which are more insular, plays a large role in shaping the language of the child. And I believe that it affected my results on achievement tests, I.Q. tests, and the SAT. While my English skills were never judged as poor, compared to math, English could not be considered my strong suit. In grade school I did moderately well, getting perhaps B’s, sometimes B-pluses, in English and scoring perhaps in the sixtieth or seventieth percentile on
achievement tests. But those scores were not good enough to override the opinion that my true abilities lay in math and science, because in those areas I achieved A’s and scored in the ninetieth percentile or higher.
This was understandable. Math is precise; there is only one correct answer. Whereas, for me at least, the answers on English tests were always a judgment call, a matter of opinion and personal experience. Those tests were constructed around items like fill-in-the-blank sentence completion, such as, “Even though Tom was, Mary thought he was –.” And the correct answer always seemed to be the most bland combinations of thoughts, for example, “Even though Tom was shy, Mary thought he was charming:’ with the grammatical structure “even though” limiting the correct answer to some sort of semantic opposites, so you wouldn’t get answers like, “Even though Tom was foolish, Mary thought he was ridiculous:’ Well, according to my mother, there were very few limitations as to what Tom could have been and what Mary might have thought of him. So I never did well on tests like that
The same was true with word analogies, pairs of words in which you were supposed to find some sort of logical, semantic relationship — for example, “Sunset is to nightfall as is to .” And here you would be presented with a list of four possible pairs, one of which showed the same kind of relationship: red is to stoplight, bus is to arrival, chills is to fever, yawn is to boring: Well, I could never think that way. I knew what the tests were asking, but I could not block out of my mind the images already created by the first pair, “sunset is to nightfall”–and I would see a burst of colors against a darkening sky, the moon rising, the lowering of a curtain of stars. And all the other pairs of words –red, bus, stoplight, boring–just threw up a mass of confusing images, making it impossible for me to sort out something as logical as saying: “A sunset precedes nightfall” is the same as “a chill precedes a fever.” The only way I would have gotten that answer right would have been to imagine an associative situation, for example, my being disobedient and staying out past sunset, catching a chill at night, which turns into feverish pneumonia as punishment, which indeed did happen to me.
I have been thinking about all this lately, about my mother’s English, about achievement tests. Because lately I’ve been asked, as a writer, why there are not more Asian Americans represented in American literature. Why are there few Asian Americans enrolled in creative writing programs? Why do so many Chinese students go into engineering! Well, these are broad sociological questions I can’t begin to answer. But I have noticed in surveys — in fact, just last week — that Asian students, as a whole, always do significantly better on math achievement tests than in English. And this makes me think that there are other Asian-American students whose English spoken in the home might also be described as “broken” or “limited.” And perhaps they also have teachers who are steering them away from writing and into math and science, which is what happened to me.
Fortunately, I happen to be rebellious in nature and enjoy the challenge of disproving assumptions made about me. I became an English major my first year in college, after being enrolled as pre-med. I started writing nonfiction as a freelancer the week after I was told by my former boss that writing was my worst skill and I should hone my talents toward account management.
But it wasn’t until 1985 that I finally began to write fiction. And at first I wrote using what I thought to be wittily crafted sentences, sentences that would finally prove I had mastery over the English language. Here’s an example from the first draft of a story that later made its way into The Joy Luck Club, but without this line: “That was my mental quandary in its nascent state.” A terrible line, which I can barely pronounce.
Fortunately, for reasons I won’t get into today, I later decided I should envision a reader for the stories I would write. And the reader I decided upon was my mother, because these were stories about mothers. So with this reader in mind — and in fact she did read my early drafts–I began to write stories using all the Englishes I grew up with: the English I spoke to my mother, which for lack of a better term might be described as “simple”; the English she used with me, which for lack of a better term might be described as “broken”; my translation of her Chinese, which could certainly be described as “watered down”; and what I imagined to be her translation of her Chinese if she could speak in perfect English, her internal language, and for that I sought to preserve the essence, but neither an English nor a Chinese structure. I wanted to
capture what language ability tests can never reveal: her intent, her passion, her imagery, the rhythms of her speech and the nature of her thoughts.
Apart from what any critic had to say about my writing, I knew I had succeeded where it counted when my mother finished reading my book and gave me her verdict: “So easy to read.”
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Mother Tongue definiton is defined as first language the person learns and is used in their home country. wat i take from this is influence has a big affect on people life as the author shared those stories and it happens in daily life as well curently. In this passage the author describes forms of English languages by different individuals. She shows how challenging it can be to learn english from a parent who speaks limited English- it showed people being judged poorly.
She also mentions in the story some emarassments because of the difference in what her mother taught comapered to her education so she was very conflicted within herself.
Visual – Polution is not looked at as urgent issue and is swept under the radar unless there is a big news story covering a major issue.Ocean(marine) polution is a combination of chemicals and trash, most which comes from land and is washed or blown into the ocean . This type of polution is causing damage to the enviroment and health of economoic structures world wide. There are many diffrent ways it is affecting the atmosphere from humans animals to making the world evolve; There are toxins in polution Oils cover the feathers of birds and gills of fish,lung and liver issues from deposits. skin and eye issues. Reproductive issues from the exposure to poisionous agriculture products. What can we do to help with polution and enviromental help recycle properly, spread the word, reduce you use in 1 time use plastic products.
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solved Answer to a couple peers with 150 words. The Narrative
/in /by adminAnswer to a couple peers with 150 words. The Narrative text name is Mother Tongue by Amy Tan and e visual text about ocean pollution.
The main idea of Mother Tongue by Amy Tan is to show the differences in how people react to others with limited english speaking abilities.
The conflict of Mothers tongue was learning to accept her pride and embarrasment by learning that her mothers broken english is what helped her grown into the rebel to go to college and change her major to enjoy her love for writing. She choose to accept all by learning to (Chpt 61 Literacy Narratives pg 703) “I wanted to capture, what language ability test can never reveal: her intent, her passion her imagery, the rhythms of her speech and the nature of her thoughts”. This writing shows us it is okay to speak with broken english because we can still become very successful in life. Mother tongue was written in a First person rhethoical technique. This technique was written by Amys personal life experiences she showed multiple examples from personal life experiences that people might not have understood her mother though she fully understood her. Another example of Amys life experience was when she was embarrased by her mothers limited English, by saying “she felt her mothers limited use of english was what reflected the quality of what she wanted to say”. Example three people would ignore her mother in different places. Amys views on her mothers english changes though as she learns its not a limitation because her broken english helped shape Amys future in her writing. Example for support was when she choose to accept her love for her mothers tongue and embrace it to strengthen her writing skills.
Mother Tongue, by Amy Tan
I am not a scholar of English or literature. I cannot give you much more than personal opinions on the English language and its variations in this country or others.
I am a writer. And by that definition, I am someone who has always loved language. I am fascinated by language in daily life. I spend a great deal of my time thinking about the power of language — the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth. Language is the tool of my trade. And I use them all — all the Englishes I grew up with.
Recently, I was made keenly aware of the different Englishes I do use. I was giving a talk to a large group of people, the same talk I had already given to half a dozen other groups. The nature of the talk was about my writing, my life, and my book, The Joy Luck Club. The talk was going along well enough, until I remembered one major difference that made the whole talk sound wrong. My mother was in the room. And it was perhaps the first time she had heard me give a lengthy speech, using the kind of English I have never used with her. I was saying things like, “The intersection of memory upon imagination” and “There is an aspect of my fiction that relates to thus-and-thus’–a speech filled with carefully wrought grammatical phrases, burdened, it suddenly seemed to me, with nominalized forms, past perfect tenses, conditional phrases, all the forms of standard English that I had learned in school and through books, the forms of English I did not use at home with my mother.
Just last week, I was walking down the street with my mother, and I again found myself conscious of the English I was using, the English I do use with her. We were talking about the price of new and used furniture and I heard myself saying this: “Not waste money that way.” My husband was with us as well, and he didn’t notice any switch in my English. And then I realized why. It’s because over the twenty years we’ve been together I’ve often used that same kind of English with him, and sometimes he even uses it with me. It has become our language of intimacy, a different sort of English that relates to family talk, the language I grew up with.
So you’ll have some idea of what this family talk I heard sounds like, I’11 quote what my mother said during a recent conversation which I videotaped and then transcribed. During this conversation, my mother was talking about a political gangster in Shanghai who had the same last name as her family’s, Du, and how the gangster in his early years wanted to be adopted by her family, which was rich by comparison. Later, the gangster became more powerful, far richer than my mother’s family, and one day showed up at my mother’s wedding to pay his respects. Here’s what she said in part: “Du Yusong having business like fruit stand. Like off the street kind. He is Du like Du Zong — but not Tsung-ming Island people. The local people call putong, the river east side, he belong to that side local people. That man want to ask Du Zong father take him in like become own family. Du Zong father wasn’t look down on him, but didn’t take seriously, until that man big like become a mafia. Now important person, very hard to inviting him. Chinese way, came only to show respect, don’t stay for dinner. Respect for making big celebration, he shows up. Mean gives lots of respect. Chinese custom. Chinese social life that way. If too important won’t have to stay too long. He come to my wedding. I didn’t see, I heard it. I gone to boy’s side, they have YMCA dinner. Chinese age I was nineteen.”
You should know that my mother’s expressive command of English belies how much she actually understands. She reads the Forbes report, listens to Wall Street Week, converses daily with her stockbroker, reads all of Shirley MacLaine’s books with ease–all kinds of things I can’t begin to understand. Yet some of my friends tell me they understand 50 percent of what my mother says. Some say they understand 80 to 90 percent. Some say they understand none of it, as if she were speaking pure Chinese. But to me, my mother’s English is perfectly clear, perfectly natural. It’s my mother tongue. Her language, as I hear it, is vivid, direct, full of observation and imagery. That was the language that helped shape the way I saw things, expressed things, made sense of the world.
Lately, I’ve been giving more thought to the kind of English my mother speaks. Like others, I have described it to people as ‘broken” or “fractured” English. But I wince when I say that. It has always bothered me that I can think of no way to describe it other than “broken,” as if it were damaged and needed to be fixed, as if it lacked a certain wholeness and soundness. I’ve heard other terms used, “limited English,” for example. But they seem just as bad, as if everything is limited, including people’s perceptions of the limited English speaker.
I know this for a fact, because when I was growing up, my mother’s “limited” English limited my perception of her. I was ashamed of her English. I believed that her English reflected the quality of what she had to say That is, because she expressed them imperfectly her thoughts were imperfect. And I had plenty of empirical evidence to support me: the fact that people in department stores, at banks, and at restaurants did not take her seriously, did not give her good service, pretended not to understand her, or even acted as if they did not hear her.
My mother has long realized the limitations of her English as well. When I was fifteen, she used to have me call people on the phone to pretend I was she. In this guise, I was forced to ask for information or even to complain and yell at people who had been rude to her. One time it was a call to her stockbroker in New York. She had cashed out her small portfolio and it just so happened we were going to go to New York the next week, our very first trip outside California. I had to get on the phone and say in an adolescent voice that was not very convincing, “This is Mrs. Tan.”
And my mother was standing in the back whispering loudly, “Why he don’t send me check, already two weeks late. So mad he lie to me, losing me money.
And then I said in perfect English, “Yes, I’m getting rather concerned. You had agreed to send the check two weeks ago, but it hasn’t arrived.”
Then she began to talk more loudly. “What he want, I come to New York tell him front of his boss, you cheating me?” And I was trying to calm her down, make her be quiet, while telling the stockbroker, “I can’t tolerate any more excuses. If I don’t receive the check immediately, I am going to have to speak to your manager when I’m in New York next week.” And sure enough, the following week there we were in front of this astonished stockbroker, and I was sitting there red-faced and quiet, and my mother, the real Mrs. Tan, was shouting at his boss in her impeccable broken English.
We used a similar routine just five days ago, for a situation that was far less humorous. My mother had gone to the hospital for an appointment, to find out about a benign brain tumor a CAT scan had revealed a month ago. She said she had spoken very good English, her best English, no mistakes. Still, she said, the hospital did not apologize when they said they had lost the CAT scan and she had come for nothing. She said they did not seem to have any sympathy when she told them she was anxious to know the exact diagnosis, since her husband and son had both died of brain tumors. She said they would not give her any more information until the next time and she would have to make another appointment for that. So she said she would not leave until the doctor called her daughter. She wouldn’t budge. And when the doctor finally called her daughter, me, who spoke in perfect English — lo and behold — we had assurances the CAT scan would be found, promises that a conference call on Monday would be held, and apologies for any suffering my mother had gone through for a most regrettable mistake.
I think my mother’s English almost had an effect on limiting my possibilities in life as well. Sociologists and linguists probably will tell you that a person’s developing language skills are more influenced by peers. But I do think that the language spoken in the family, especially in immigrant families which are more insular, plays a large role in shaping the language of the child. And I believe that it affected my results on achievement tests, I.Q. tests, and the SAT. While my English skills were never judged as poor, compared to math, English could not be considered my strong suit. In grade school I did moderately well, getting perhaps B’s, sometimes B-pluses, in English and scoring perhaps in the sixtieth or seventieth percentile on
achievement tests. But those scores were not good enough to override the opinion that my true abilities lay in math and science, because in those areas I achieved A’s and scored in the ninetieth percentile or higher.
This was understandable. Math is precise; there is only one correct answer. Whereas, for me at least, the answers on English tests were always a judgment call, a matter of opinion and personal experience. Those tests were constructed around items like fill-in-the-blank sentence completion, such as, “Even though Tom was, Mary thought he was –.” And the correct answer always seemed to be the most bland combinations of thoughts, for example, “Even though Tom was shy, Mary thought he was charming:’ with the grammatical structure “even though” limiting the correct answer to some sort of semantic opposites, so you wouldn’t get answers like, “Even though Tom was foolish, Mary thought he was ridiculous:’ Well, according to my mother, there were very few limitations as to what Tom could have been and what Mary might have thought of him. So I never did well on tests like that
The same was true with word analogies, pairs of words in which you were supposed to find some sort of logical, semantic relationship — for example, “Sunset is to nightfall as is to .” And here you would be presented with a list of four possible pairs, one of which showed the same kind of relationship: red is to stoplight, bus is to arrival, chills is to fever, yawn is to boring: Well, I could never think that way. I knew what the tests were asking, but I could not block out of my mind the images already created by the first pair, “sunset is to nightfall”–and I would see a burst of colors against a darkening sky, the moon rising, the lowering of a curtain of stars. And all the other pairs of words –red, bus, stoplight, boring–just threw up a mass of confusing images, making it impossible for me to sort out something as logical as saying: “A sunset precedes nightfall” is the same as “a chill precedes a fever.” The only way I would have gotten that answer right would have been to imagine an associative situation, for example, my being disobedient and staying out past sunset, catching a chill at night, which turns into feverish pneumonia as punishment, which indeed did happen to me.
I have been thinking about all this lately, about my mother’s English, about achievement tests. Because lately I’ve been asked, as a writer, why there are not more Asian Americans represented in American literature. Why are there few Asian Americans enrolled in creative writing programs? Why do so many Chinese students go into engineering! Well, these are broad sociological questions I can’t begin to answer. But I have noticed in surveys — in fact, just last week — that Asian students, as a whole, always do significantly better on math achievement tests than in English. And this makes me think that there are other Asian-American students whose English spoken in the home might also be described as “broken” or “limited.” And perhaps they also have teachers who are steering them away from writing and into math and science, which is what happened to me.
Fortunately, I happen to be rebellious in nature and enjoy the challenge of disproving assumptions made about me. I became an English major my first year in college, after being enrolled as pre-med. I started writing nonfiction as a freelancer the week after I was told by my former boss that writing was my worst skill and I should hone my talents toward account management.
But it wasn’t until 1985 that I finally began to write fiction. And at first I wrote using what I thought to be wittily crafted sentences, sentences that would finally prove I had mastery over the English language. Here’s an example from the first draft of a story that later made its way into The Joy Luck Club, but without this line: “That was my mental quandary in its nascent state.” A terrible line, which I can barely pronounce.
Fortunately, for reasons I won’t get into today, I later decided I should envision a reader for the stories I would write. And the reader I decided upon was my mother, because these were stories about mothers. So with this reader in mind — and in fact she did read my early drafts–I began to write stories using all the Englishes I grew up with: the English I spoke to my mother, which for lack of a better term might be described as “simple”; the English she used with me, which for lack of a better term might be described as “broken”; my translation of her Chinese, which could certainly be described as “watered down”; and what I imagined to be her translation of her Chinese if she could speak in perfect English, her internal language, and for that I sought to preserve the essence, but neither an English nor a Chinese structure. I wanted to
capture what language ability tests can never reveal: her intent, her passion, her imagery, the rhythms of her speech and the nature of her thoughts.
Apart from what any critic had to say about my writing, I knew I had succeeded where it counted when my mother finished reading my book and gave me her verdict: “So easy to read.”
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Mother Tongue definiton is defined as first language the person learns and is used in their home country. wat i take from this is influence has a big affect on people life as the author shared those stories and it happens in daily life as well curently. In this passage the author describes forms of English languages by different individuals. She shows how challenging it can be to learn english from a parent who speaks limited English- it showed people being judged poorly.
She also mentions in the story some emarassments because of the difference in what her mother taught comapered to her education so she was very conflicted within herself.
Visual – Polution is not looked at as urgent issue and is swept under the radar unless there is a big news story covering a major issue.Ocean(marine) polution is a combination of chemicals and trash, most which comes from land and is washed or blown into the ocean . This type of polution is causing damage to the enviroment and health of economoic structures world wide. There are many diffrent ways it is affecting the atmosphere from humans animals to making the world evolve; There are toxins in polution Oils cover the feathers of birds and gills of fish,lung and liver issues from deposits. skin and eye issues. Reproductive issues from the exposure to poisionous agriculture products. What can we do to help with polution and enviromental help recycle properly, spread the word, reduce you use in 1 time use plastic products.
solved please write feedback for 2 peers’ Text-in-Context Essay. Please read
/in /by adminplease write feedback for 2 peers’ Text-in-Context Essay. Please read it before working on this assignment and keep the format. In your feedback, answer the following questions in your feedback:At this point, do not address spelling, punctuation, or grammar. Remember that these are rough drafts which may not have been proofread yet. 1. What expectations do you form about the paper based on the paper’s title? If the paper doesn’t have a title, or if the title doesn’t fit the paper’s theme (or there is no title), what suggestions do you have for a title?2. What is the paper’s thesis or main message? Do you get some indication about what the thesis will be from the introduction?3. How do the secondary sources support the writer’s main points; what do they add to the discussion of this story? If the writer isn’t using any secondary sources, what suggestions do you have for the types of sources that might be helpful to this writer?4. What is most successful about this draft?5. What final recommendations do you have for this writer?1st peer’s comparative analysis:Materialism and Unhappiness: A Text-in-Context Analysis of “The Necklaceâ€Many people dream of living a more luxurious life and wish to climb higher in the social class ladder. Some long for things that they cannot afford like the newest phone, expensive brand clothing or to socialize with the rich and the famous. However, what happens when desiring these material things so strongly makes them unhappy with the reality of their lives? “The Necklace†by Guy de Maupassant follows a young woman who is deeply dissatisfied with her financial and social place in life because she aches to be a woman of wealth and finer things. “The Necklace†is a realist story which illustrates how social class division and materialistic values can negatively affect a person’s mental and physical well-being as experienced by the main character in the story. “The Necklace†was written in 1884 and it is important to understand society at the time to better comprehend the main character and story. At the time the story was written Realist Literature, like the stories written by Guy De Maupassant, were extremely popular. Realism is a form of art or literature which depicts everyday working- or lower-class people and things in a realistic way, rather than an exaggerated or romantic view. This story realistically portrays the middle to lower-middle class character, Mathilde Loisel, and her struggle with accepting that she is not part of the luxurious upper class. At the time that the story was written, French society was highly divided between the three social classes- the very wealthy upper class, the middle class, and the poorer laborers of the lower class. Maupassant points out that “with women there is neither caste nor rank; and beauty, grace, and charm act instead of family and birth†as women of the time held no rank, and their worth was with their looks and attractive personality instead. The French social classes and how they were viewed play a large role in the misery experienced by Mathilde. Although life in nineteenth century France may seem very different from what life looks like now, it is similar when considering the division of social classes which is still evident in life today, even in the United States. This division continues to have negative effects on individuals of different class status. An individual’s social class plays a large role in their ability to obtain healthcare, afford housing and food or enjoy nonessential luxuries. People of lower class “experience worse health outcomes, are subjected to increased social devaluation and exclusion, and report reduced subjective well-being,†(Piff and Moskowitz) they also experience more anxiety and depression. Those of higher-class experience more of the opposite, with greater access to healthcare, luxuries, and higher wellbeing. Other researchers have conducted studies on social class which have shown that social class also effects a person’s perception of themselves when they are conscious of their lower social standing, “people from lower objective social class backgrounds have reduced self-esteem relative to their upper-class counterparts, and this association is statistically explained by subjective perceptions of social class rank in comparison to others.†(Kraus and Park) Research continues to prove that lower social class creates difficulties to both the physical and mental health of those affected.Along with one’s social class experience one may also endure classism which Bernice Lott explains as, “classism denotes negative attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors directed toward those with less power, who are socially devalued. Lott also describes research which has shown that “those from working-class backgrounds remembered the shame and anxiety they experienced in situations where their clothing or food appeared to violate middle-class norms†This prejudice and shame stemming from one’s social class explains the shame and anxiety felt by Mathilde when the thought of attending an event without nice jewelry made her not want to attend at all, “No; there’s nothing more humiliating than to look poor among other women who are rich.†(Maupassant) The shame caused by classism among social classes certainly contributes to negative mental wellbeing.Along with classism, materialism also plays a part in Mathilde’s unhappiness as Maupassant described, “She suffered ceaselessly, feeling herself born for the delicacies and all the luxuries.†Psychologist Tim Kasser explains that people tend to have materialistic values for two reasons, “First, people are more materialistic when they are exposed to messages that suggest such pursuits are important, whether through their parents and friends, society, or the media. Second, and somewhat less obvious — people are more materialistic when they feel insecure or threatened, whether because of rejection, economic fears or thoughts of their own death.†Zimmerman, an experimental psychologist provides coinciding information, “materialistic individuals do tend to be more insecure, and in laboratory settings when people have been made to feel more insecure, they’ve responded with higher levels of materialism.†Considering those reasons, it is clear how Mathilde grew to be materialistic, and why it pained her to not have the materialistic things she dreamed of, or even to see her old friend “who was rich, and whom she did not like to go see anymore, because she suffered so much when she came back.†The combination of societal views of her based on her social class and her insecurity from such views developed the materialism which appears as greediness and lack of gratitude but reaches deeper into her feelings of wanting to be regarded as more than a lower-middle class woman. “She would so have liked to please, to be envied, to be charming, to be sought after.†(Maupassant) Despite the many odds against happiness for those not belonging to the rich upper class, there are many middle and lower-class individuals who do feel positively about their lives. Research has shown that “upper class individuals exhibited greater self-oriented feelings of pride and contentment, as well as greater amusement, whereas lower class individuals exhibited more other-oriented feelings of compassion and love, as well as awe.†(Piff and Moskowitz) Other psychologists agree that it is important to avoid comparisons to others to avoid feeling of envy toward those of higher social class, or scorn towards those who of lower social class. (Fiske) It is also important to focus on forming strong relationships with others, and avoid the idea that happiness lies in what one owns, “the happiness we imagine ourselves experiencing at the thought of owning a product is probably transient at best, and when we feel like we need a product to be happy we’re likely just fooling ourselves.†(Zimmerman)Ultimately, social class and an individual’s high preoccupation with obtaining wealth and higher social status can contribute to general unhappiness and lower satisfaction in life. The negative effects of classism on people of middle to lower class can create feelings of shame which may foster materialistic values due to the envy felt when comparing oneself to those of higher social class. Maupassant drew from the highly divided social classes of his time to show how this division, classism, and materialism all at play can be detrimental to person’s self esteem and happiness, as shown with the character Mathilde. However, an individual’s social class is not a lifetime sentence to despair and dissatisfaction if they are able to deeper significance within themselves and their loved ones. 2nd peer’s comparative analysis::Fear of Honesty When we are children lying becomes natural. Even as adults we lie daily. Whether it’s a good morning to a friend. When they ask us how we are doing, and we respond with great. When deep don’t we are having we could be having a terrible day, we have kids that are sick, or even can be money issues. We stray away from complete honesty, so we don’t have to talk about it. Most people do not like confrontation. Some people have a very hard time opening up. There are many reasons we decide to lie or even bend the truth. In the short story “The Necklace,†Guy De Maupassant uses materialism and the value of one character to show that honesty is the best policy whether it’s for yourself and others. Mme Loisel is a poor woman that daydreams about a life she wishes she could have. The joys of beautiful jewels and dresses. She finds herself invited to a ball with nothing to wear. Her husband gives up the money he was saving for his wife to be happy and buy a dress. This is not quite enough for her. She decides she needs jewelry to look the part. She borrows a necklace from a dear friend, and during the ball, the necklace gets lost. Now when she has the opportunity, to tell the truth of what had happened, she lies. She is so worried about how much she believes the necklace cost. Her husband takes on many different jobs to make the money to buy a new necklace and replace the new one with the old one. They spent 10 years working off the debt to acquire the replacement. When she finally has it all paid off, she gets the nerve, to tell the truth just to find out it was costume jewelry. Her friend tells her if she would have told her the truth she would have known that. This would have spared Mme Loisel and her husband 10 years of all the hard work they put into getting the money. Honesty would have saved them 10 years. In the story, Maupassant describes Mme Loisel as a “pretty and charming girl.†She didn’t have a dowry nor was she going to wed a rich man. She married a clerk. Loisel didn’t have much. She was in anguish over her lack of wealth. She often daydreamed of the materials that the wealthy women had. This made her angry to think about. This made her compare herself to the women who had everything she didn’t. It’s hard to not be jealous of what others have and this causes us to make a judgment on our own lives. When people compare their lives to others they tend to overlook what they have. Loisel tells her husband she needs a beautiful dress and jewelry so that she may look distinguished at the ball. These materialistic needs she has come from comparing her life to others. This causes her to lie to herself and she believes she isn’t wealthy in her own life. She must not need these items to be happy in her life. In the Journal “A Concept of Materialism and Well-Being†The author states, “Materialistic people will feel satisfied through acquisition of possessions, financial success, attaining status and having the right image.†(Aisyahrani, Handayani, Dewi, and Muhtar) Loisel had many materials in her life but lacked the strength to believe that those were everything she needed. So, she lied to herself and her husband and said she needed them. Which started the downfall of the story. Mme Loisel suffers from envy of these beautiful women that have all the riches she doesn’t. In the article “On Envy,†written by Arthur Dobrin he states, “Envy arises from feelings of inadequacy, a sense of hollowness and unworthiness. Closing the gap between what others have and what you want by having others lose what they have is to bolster yourself at another’s expense, always a risky enterprise.†(Dobrin) Dobrin explains that we all have what we truly need, we just have to be able to see it. We need to look in the right places. Envy is a very dangerous feeling that causes someone to overlook the things to cherish in their own life. Dobrin explains in great detail how envy is a bad feeling that in time can only get worse. Being envious of those other women made Loisel angry and weep. She even has a hard time visiting her old friend from school who ends up loaning her the Necklace because she gets so upset each time she has to leave and come back to her own life. Seeing what Mme. Forestier has and what Loisel thinks her life lacks makes her in so much pain. Envy is just one of the feelings that cause many people to lie. When Mme. Loisel attends the ball she has a very best of time. Its until she arrives back that she realizes this Necklace that she believes is very expensive is missing. Now at this point, she should have immediately looked for it and told her friend it was lost. This is not an easy thing to do. No one enjoys admitting they have made a mistake. Especially if that mistake can cost her a great deal of money. Maupassant describes Loisel’s reaction while her husband went back to look, “She waited all day, in the same condition of mad fear before this terrible calamity.†(Maupassant) The fear that Maupassant describes helps readers understand just how fearful she is. Now she has to tell her friend the truth, but she doesn’t. Fear of honesty is a hard feeling to cope with. In the Journal, “The Truth About Lying and What It Does to the Body†Bill Sullivan, a professor at the Indiana University School of Medicine writes what happens to the body physically when someone lies. The author writes about what goes on in the brain and the nervous system when someone tells a lie. This is how the polygraph test works. He explains the physical attributes that come with lying and why some people work so hard, to be honest. Sullivan states. “Knowing that dishonesty risks irrevocable damage to one’s reputation, lying is an inherently stressful activity. When we engage in deceit, our respiratory and heart rates increase, we start to sweat, our mouth goes dry, and our voice can shake.†(Sullivan) In “The Necklace†Loisel’s husband tells her to write her friend a letter and lie so they have some time to keep looking. They lost all hope of finding this necklace, Maupassant describes Loisel as “had aged 5 years†(Maupassant). This was just in a week. This is the stress that she had caused upon herself by keeping this lie. This could have been evaded if they just went straight to Mme. Forestier. Mme Loisel and her husband spent the next 10 years borrowing money and working themselves to the bone to make the money for the replacement necklace. When she had given the replacement to Mme Forestier without telling her what happened she knew she had done wrong. “Mme. Loisel now knew the horrible existence of the needy. She took her part, moreover, all of a sudden, with heroism. That dreadful debt must be paid. She would pay it.†(Maupassant) If she had just been honest would it have changed anything? At this point in the story, she had not the strength to try. A quote from the article “It Takes Courage to Tel the Truth-The Journey of Loving and Letting Go,†says, “Telling the truth is a relentless act of courage which invites strength and tempers the heart.†(Gordon) Meaning even though it may be hard to do the relief it may give you, to tell the truth over holding onto lies will ease your heart. In the end, after she paid off the debt, this made her feel a bit relieved to finally accept the truth and tell her friend. When she did her friend explained that the jewelry was just costume jewelry. It wasn’t worth much. She should have just told her and she could have spared her all the misery for the last ten years. One could have only imagined the pain in her hard from hearing this. If she had just been honest. Furthermore, the journey Mme Loisel goes through in “The Necklace†takes her through endless pain and misery. She had one night that she was able to feel like she was someone special. Like the woman she envied. Was this worth it in the end? She had done one thing right by replacing the necklace which wasted 10 years of her happiness. If she merely just told the truth she would have been able to live those ten years enjoying them with her husband. Materialism and value that is portrayed through Mme Loisel show readers that honesty is the best policy whether it’s for yourself and others.
solved Griselda VRE: Unit 2.1 DB: Research ArticleGood evening Professor and
/in /by adminGriselda VRE: Unit 2.1 DB: Research ArticleGood evening Professor and classmates, This student developed an interest in further studying the effects of traumatic experiences after her husband was diagnosed with severe Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), something he has struggled with since childhood and later, in the military. Individuals who have experienced traumatic experiences are affected in many aspects of their lives. According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) (2014), traumas or traumatic experiences are events that leave lasting adverse effects, affecting one’s biological, psychological, social, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing. Trauma not only affects the individual but those in their immediate surroundings as well, such as family members and colleagues. For some individuals who struggle with trauma, communicating what they are experiencing or have experienced, or even seeking treatment, becomes almost impossible. This can occur when the individuals are depressed or battle with other PTSD symptoms. As everyone reacts and copes differently, one area that is oftentimes affected is their cognitive abilities, such as communication becoming impaired. The significance of this article and research in the area of trauma, and specifically, PTSD is to increase awareness and identify barriers for veterans who were referred specifically to evidence-based psychotherapy such as Cognitive Processing Therapy or Prolonged Exposure, but who did not attend (Hundt, Helm, Smith, Lamkin, Cully, and Stanley, 2017). Qualitative interviews were conducted in order to gain a better understanding of the experiences of these veterans. In these interviews, veterans reported numerous barriers to treatment engagement. These barriers were categorized into the following: practical, knowledge, emotional, therapy-related, and VA (Veterans Affairs) system-related (Hund et. Al., 2017). VA system-related barriers were the most endorsed category which consisted of delays, inefficiencies, negative experiences with staff or providers, discomfort within the VA environment, and lastly, difficulty in navigating the VA system (Hundt et. Al., 2017). While this article reports both positive and negative experiences with the VA, it places a higher emphasis on negative experiences, stating that some veterans according to the interview, would rather obtain services from the private sector.According to the article, some veterans suffering from PTSD express discomfort with the VA system with areas such as completing the intake assessment, obtaining an appointment with a primary care provider, requesting a mental health consultation, waiting for mental health assessments, to obtaining PTSD treatment and therapy (Hundt et. Al., 2017). However, it was also learned that delays in obtaining services with the VA were also in part due to individuals’ lack of awareness in knowing how to navigate the VA system (Hundt et. al., 2017). For instance, individuals with a lack of transportation were unaware that they are also able to obtain psychotherapy for PTSD at VA outpatient clients. Other veterans were not aware of telehealth appointments being an option, same-day access clinics, hours of service, or other ways of obtaining psychotherapy. Overall, this study suggests the need for additional resources for VA care navigation that would assist veterans including shortening the assessment process by breaking down the assessment process and providing clarity of how to obtain desired services. References Hundt, N.E., Helm, A., Smith, T.L., Lamkin, J., Cully, J.A., & Stanley, M.A. (2017). Failure to Engage: A Qualitative Study of Veterans Who Decline Evidence-Based Psychotherapies for PTSD. American Psychological Association. Retrieved from https://psycnet.apa.org/manuscript/2017-57286-001.pdfSAMHSA. (2014). SAMHSA’s Concept of Trauma and Guideline for a Trauma-Informed Approach. SAMHSA’s Trauma and Justice Strategic Initiative. Retrieved from https://ncsacw.samhsa.gov/userfiles/files/SAMHSA_T… Rebecca GRE: Unit 2.1 DB: Research ArticleThe five basic components of a literature review are that the review introduces the problem area, establishes its importance, provides an overview of relevant literature, shows how the current study will add knowledge in the area, and describes the researcher’s specific research questions, purpose, and hypotheses (Pyrczak, 2019). This writer was interested in the overuse of opiods in Veterans and how the become victims of addiction due to the overuse. The article chosen, Prescription opioid misuse and its correlates among veterans and military in the United States: A systematic literature review. This writer found that the prevalence of prescription opioid misuse (POM) that the prevalence of POM in veterans and military ranged from 6.9%–77.9% varying by study samples, individual POM behaviors, and recalled time periods (Tam, Zeng, & Li, 2020).The article by Tam, Zeng & Li (2020) has all the basic components of a literature, such that there is an introduction section that provides background about the implications of POM on Vets and what statistics were after the prescriptions were prescribed. The body of the article includes important statistics and other quantitative data that shows how many Vets are affected by the POM with other variables such as socio-demographic factors , pain-related factors , other physical factors, opioid-medication-related factors, behavioral factors such as substance use disorder, alcohol use, cigarette use, and other prescription drug use, and psychological factors. Tam, Zeng, & Li (2019) also elaborate and go on to explain POM was prevalent in veterans and military and could be potentially influenced by multiple psycho-behavioral factors. The hypothesize that many of the implications on mental health and that future research guided by a theoretical framework is warranted to examine psycho-behavioral influences on POM and their mechanisms and to inform effective psychosocial POM interventions in veterans and military.ReferencesPyrczak, F., & Tcherni-Buzzeo, M. (2019). Evaluating Research in Academic Journals.New York, NY: Routledge.Tam, h. C., Zeng, C., & Li, X. (2020). Prescription opioid misuse and its correlates among veterans and military. Science Direct, doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2020.108311.Taylar FRE: Unit 2.2 DB: Analyzing Literature The article that this writer used for the first discussion board of this week does meet the literature review standards outlined in Pyrczack (2019). Pyrczak (2019) explores the quality of literature reviews by checking if the researcher has avoided using too many sources for one single point which rules out the chance of the researcher not having sufficient evidence to support their standpoint. The article this writer chose, writer by Panchel et. al (2021) meets the criteria, as most of the sources used were statistical polls and analysis of quantitative data pertaining to the topic of interest. Pyrczak (2019) then goes on to check if the literature review is critical and if current research is cited, which the article this writer used does. The article by Panchel et. al (2021) researched how mental health was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and did only utilize relevant and recent sources that supported their idea. Pyrczak (2019) also analyzes if the author has cited any contradictory research and have they distinguished between opinions and research findings, which is important in ensuring that the author has explored all ideas, even contradictory ones and understand if their findings support their argument. Panchel et. al (2021) do explore gaps in the literature, such that they include that the data found may not be completely accurate because not all Americans responded to surveys/ questionnaires, and many did not report any changes to mental health because they did not feel comfortable or seek treatment. Pyrczack (2019) also asks whether the researcher has interpreted research in light of the limits of empirical research and have they avoided the overuse of direct quotations from sources, which the article chosen meets these last two standards. In her future work, this writer will remain mindful of the eight important questions outlined by Pyrczak (2019). While all literature reviews may not meet the standards outlined, it’s important that authors of literature reviews do their best to meet the criteria.ReferencesPanchel, N., Kamal, R., Cox, C., and Garfield, R. (2021). The Implications of COVID-19 for Mental Health and Substance Abuse. KFF Publishing. Retrieved from https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/the-implications-of-covid-19-for-mental-health-and-substance-use/Pyrczak, F. & Tcherni-Buzzeo, M. (2019). Evaluating research in academic journals: A practical guide to realistic evaluation (7th ed.). Pyrczak Publishing.Jasmine JRE: Unit 2.2 DB: Analyzing LiteratureBased upon this week’s reading, Pyrczack and Tcherni-Buzzeo (2019) has some questions about researchers having a critique literature review. It is important researchers understand those questions and why it is essential for them to apply it to the literature review. As this writer continues to expand her education and skills, she will be mindful of the information and questions Pyrczack and Tcherni-Buzzeo (2019) discussed and how to apply them when writing a literature review to ensure criteria is met. The article this writer chose to discuss involves mental illness and how it has affected youths since the discovery of the COVID-19 virus.According to Pyrczack and Tcherni-Buzzeo (2019), there is a criterion that must be met when establishing a literature and it is important that the researchers follow the criteria to ensure the readers are can fully understand the information being provided and the supported details. Pyrczack and Tcherni-Buzzeo (2019) expresses to his audience to have a professionally written literature review, researchers should avoid using too many sources as it takes away from the literature review; however, evidence to support the information being shared is important to cite. The article this writer has been sharing with the class meets these criteria because the researchers use statistical sources for the date collected from the individuals who participated in the questionnaires and assessments.This writer feels the article she chose is up to date and important to society. Researchers ensured to use sources that were beneficial to the topic being discussed. Quantitative and qualitative data was used accurately which allows the audience to receive a better understanding of how individuals, specifically youths, affected by the COVID-19 developed psychological distress. Liang et al. (2020) provides the audience with clear, supportive details by discussing the overview of the COVID-19 then proceeds to explaining how data is collected to determine the ratio of the amount of youths affected by this severe pandemic.This writer believes this article is beneficial for this line of work in the counseling and human services field because many youths are experiencing mental illness due to their environment and family. In addition, this article meets the standards of Pyrczak and Tcherni-Buzzeo (2019).Reference:Liang, L., Ren, H., Cao, R., Hu, Y., Qin, Z., Li, C., & Mei, S. (2020). The Effect of COVID-19 on Youth Mental Health. Psychiatric Quarterly, 91(3), 841–852. https://doi-org.postu.idm.oclc.org/10.1007/s11126-020-09744-3Pyrczak, F. & Tcherni-Buzzeo, M. (2019). Evaluating Research in Academic Journals: A Practical Guide to Realistic Evaluation (7th ed.). Pyrczak Publishing.Taylar FRE: Unit 2.3 DB: TerminologyIn the article this writer utilized written by Panchel et. al (2021), there is a methodology section which includes the population used to determine quantitative research, a sample size, and generalizability of the sample. While there was no one sample size of participants used to identify the ways in which COVID-19 impacted mental health, the US Census Bureau Household Pulse Survey, World Health Organization, CDC, and Health Tracking Polls were used to determine as close to exact statistics as possible. The population’s identified were US adults, young adults, adults experiencing job loss or income insecurity, essential workers of the pandemic, people of color, and parents and their children. Panchel et. al (2021) included statistics relating to each population identified and compared and contrasted, determining that all populations explored were negatively impacted mentally by the pandemic. The generalizability of the research can be applied to other populations, such as other individuals in different countries outside of the United States, because it’s likely that other individuals were similarly negatively impacted by the Coronavirus. Banerjee and Chaudhury (2010) do an excellent job defining the terms population and sample size and explaining their importance. The target population is the defined population of the area of research and the work population does not refer to a demographic meaning. For instance, the population of the research conducted by Panchel et. al (2021) was several groups of individuals who were all commonly experienced changes to their mental health from COVID-19. Banerjee and Chaudhury (2010) explain that the generalizability of observations/ research findings is a measure of how well the results of a study can be applied to a broader group of people or larger sample size. In the study conducted by Panchel et. al (2021), it can be argued that there is a lack of generalizability due to a lack of validity and reliability of data because the research findings were so broad. While data was based off of reports from the CDC and World Health Organization, it’s important to understand that not all Americans may have answered surveys and questionnaires or even reported changes to their mental health during the pandemic.ReferencesBanerjee, A., & Chaudhury, S. (2010). Statistics without tears: Populations and samples. Industrial psychiatry journal, 19(1), 60.Panchel, N., Kamal, R., Cox, C., and Garfield, R. (2021). The Implications of COVID-19 for Mental Health and Substance Abuse. KFF Publishing. Retrieved from https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/the-implications-of-covid-19-for-mental-health-and-substance-use/Jasmine JRE: Unit 2.3 DB: TerminologyIn the article this writer has shared with the class written by Liang et al. (2020) contains a methodology section for its audience. Liang et al. (2020) states the population, sample size, and generalizability used for this study. As stated in the initial post, this was a cross-sectional survey. Liang et al., (2020) provided quantitative and qualitative research with statistics and numbers as well as developing surveys with open-ended questions and scaling relating to the topic of this case study. The goal of mixed methods is not to replace quantitative or qualitative approaches, but to draw from their strengths and minimize their limitations (Kuada, 2012).The participants of this survey were mainly young people aged from 14 to 35 years old (Liang et al., 2020) A total of 610 questionnaires were completed; however, only a total of 584 were valid resulting in a rate of 95.7% (Liang et al., 2020). In this article, Liang et al., (2020) provided a characteristic of the participants specifying 77.9% of the participants had a bachelor’s degree, 13.5% had a master’s degree or above, 30.1% of the participants had full knowledge of the COVID-19, 6.5% of the participants lacked knowledge of the COVID-19, and 5.0% of the participants did not fully understand that psychological balance can improve immunity. The generalizability of this article specifies that this study is not only directed to individuals in the United States, but also in the areas outside of the United States such as individuals residing in China who was also affected and developed mental illnesses. Not only does this article provide statistics to people who are curious about what is going on in the world, but it also has a relation to the human services field. As a counselor, this writer has learned many individuals, including adults and children, lack the services they can receive by not wanting to face reality. These individuals have some type of awareness of new behavior changes and patterns but are afraid to seek help because of interpersonal issues or begin judged. This writer is here to inform all people who are suffering from a mental illness to obtain the help they need to remain positive and enjoy life.Reference:Kuada, J. E. (2012). Research Methodology: A Project Guide for University Students: Vol. 1st edition. Samfundslitteratur Press.Liang, L., Ren, H., Cao, R., Hu, Y., Qin, Z., Li, C., & Mei, S. (2020). The Effect of COVID-19 on Youth Mental Health. Psychiatric Quarterly, 91(3), 841–852. https://doi-org.postu.idm.oclc.org/10.1007/s11126-020-09744-3
solved Discussion Post #10: MEDIA So far, our reflections have been
/in /by adminDiscussion Post #10: MEDIA
So far, our reflections have been onthe, let’ssay, “positive” spectrum. This week, our focus changes to the “darker” side of our culture. For many of you, this week’s reflection will force you to see beyond the “smoke and mirrors” of our media, political system, and often misguided understandings of our culture; looking at both domestic and international agencies.
Being honest, informing you on all of the lies being propagated by the media and our political system would take more time than we have in this course. Additionally, many of you would have a hard time believing the extent of manipulation and oppression being advanced by those in “control”. The truth is sometimes hard to believe when it forces you to accept that for the majority of your life you may have been lied to and seen more as a commodity than a human being. However, this can only change when you become informed and possess the critical thinking skills necessary to decipher fact from fiction and recognize your own oppression.
This is not to imply that all media is bad or is based on lies. On the contrary, media can serve as a valuable source of information. The key is possessing the critical thinking skills required to acknowledge our own bias, to look at an issue from multiple perspectives, and to try to find out who is the source from which presented information occurs. Not just who is presenting the information, but who is providing the information to the persons presenting the information.
Back to this week. The documentary you are assigned for this week will hopefully start to open your eyes to what is going on behind the scenes. I can’t pretend to know all of what is going on, nor how to properly connect all the pieces. What I can do is provide you with a starting point that allows you to begin to see the bigger picture for yourself.
Getting to this week’s reflection – You are to watch the very insightful documentary”Requiem for the American Dream”(can be found on Amazon Prime & other online sites). Heads up, this is a very dense documentary. I encourage you to watch it with friends and discuss its implications afterward.
Once you watch the documentary respond to the questions below. 500 words min. and feel free to write as much as you’d like.
(1) What is your overall takeaway from watching this documentary? Give specific details that indicate you watched this documentary in full.
(2) What is the connection between this documentary and the Culture of the United States?
Now, please watch this short video and then respond to the last question.
PBS:
(3) How do you feel about the current state of the U.S. media? Why do you feel this way? Can you provide empirical evidence to support your beliefs? (if so, please provide it)
For your peer responses, focus on questions 1 and 3. While I encourage healthy disagreements it is very important to me that you remain respectful to one another’s viewpoints. People are more than just their ideas. Separate a person from their ideas and the person still exists. Furthermore, ideas are fluid and can change with time, life experience, and exposure to new information. Personal attacks are never necessary and generally indicate that someone does not feel comfortable enough with their arguments, therefore resorting to insults. If you chose to disagree with a classmate, you are welcome to do so. Once again, just focus on the arguments themselves. I will step in as a mediator if I feel necessary.
Personal Opinion:
I recognize and acknowledge my orientation to the left. I share many values that could be categorized as both Republican and Democratic. For social issues, I do generally lean toward the left. For fiscal issues, I sometimes lean to the right. Regardless of my own opinions and beliefs, I find tremendous value in listening (not just arguing, but actually listening) to those who view the world different than me. From doing this, I am able to view the world from new perspectives I may have not thought of. If I agree with what was said, then I try to remain open to adjusting my own beliefs. If I disagree with what was said, my ideas become even stronger because I allowed them to be challenged and despite these challenges they still remain.
I feel that because of the complexity of the world, how subjective life can be, how much we don’t actually know in the grand scheme of things, the large amount of misinformation being presented, and all the special agendas behind the scenes, it can be very difficult to come to an “objective truth” on most issues. However, one way we can get closer to deciphering fact from fiction is to talk about it; for both sides to come together and have civil conversations that focus on the issues, not the person … just my opinion.
Below is one more video that you may find insightful. There are no questions pertaining to this.
John Oliver:
Reply:
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The media can be a very dangerous place. While I do say that, I do not mean the media is a means of falsifying the truth, but rather puts forth specific stories over others. This week we were instructed to watch the documentary called “Requiem for the American Dream.†The 2015 documentary follows an interview with Noam Chomsky and his discussions about the wealthy and powerful. At the start of the documentary I found myself trying to understand the importance of this documentary in comparison to the topic of this post, the media. But as minutes went by, the message was clear.
The best start to understanding the importance of this documentary was its title. When we hear the words “American Dream†we think about opportunity, chance, and success. We hear these stories about individuals fleeing their country in order to come to the United States for a better, more prosperous life. However, “Requiem for the American Dream†has showcased the flaws behind the system and the harsh reality of this so-called “American Dream.†The “American Dream†isn’t as obtainable as society has made it appear to be and this has to be the biggest takeaway of mine from this documentary. The media today depicts the United States as the dream place to live. You commonly hear the words and phrases about freedom of speech and democracy. Who wouldn’t dream of living somewhere where their voice is heard and actually taken into consideration. If only that were entirely true. The documentary was very quick to unveil that yes, all of these things may stand true, but only for a select group of individuals. The only people who have any chance in living out this “American Dream†are the powerful and wealthy, as previously mentioned. Everything our country does is for the rich, something Noam Chomsky explicitly stated at the beginning of the documentary. I found this aspect of the documentary to be connected to the Culture of the United States in that it is entirely based on money. Money and wealth have been made to be the “American Dreamâ€, not what we see in the media. Chomsky explains that the wealthy and privileged are kept protected by all means. I found this to be very similar to how the media portrays such prominent figures in our own time. Money brings a lot of dirty laundry, and the media will refrain from showing that harsh reality. The media wants us to believe we live in this united country where all our voices are heard, but how can we forget the very state of this country within the last 100 years when minorities, POC, and women never even had a voice. The “American Dream†is not the fictitious dream we see in the media, it is the harsh reality depicted in this documentary.
After watching the video following the documentary, I thought about the current state of the U.S. media. I do believe that our current media is quite divided. It has become very easy to identify media sources that are left leaning or right leaning. The most common example of this is CNN and Fox News. It has become common knowledge that CNN is a more liberal based media source while Fox News is conservative. This is also shown through the people that each station welcomes on, something I similarly gathered from watching the short video.
Hi Nika!
After reading your discussion, I completely agree that the media of the United States is divided between political party! I too discussed that in my discussion on how it so clear to distinguish which news stations are right or left leaning and in high school, several of my teachers revealed to me how they watch a specific news station depending on what party they align with. One of my teachers who was clearly conservative was a strong follower of Fox News and I think that our nation needs to do a better job of re-establishing that these news outlets need to be unbiased.
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1. My overall takeaway from watching this documentary is that through Chomsky’s ten principles where he goes into detail about the effect of power and wealth on our nation, there is a large discrepancy between the obvious wealthy, upper-class community and lower-class group. These discrepancies create inequalities amongst both groups of people and show clear distinctions between those who hold power in our nation and economy and those who do not, displayed by not giving those in low social status equal opportunity. Overall, I think this documentary highlighted the idea that our economic system is headed in a downward direction and is in need of drastic improvements but there is potential for the American society to improve and overcome such economic issues.
2. The connection between this documentary and the Culture of the United States because money, power, and wealth are the key foundations of “The American Dream’ and the core values that our nation strongly upholds. This culture of overemphasizing wealth and power in our society is closely demonstrated throughout this film and it clearly reveals how although our nation is supposed to grant equal opportunities for every individual no matter their social status, that is not always the case. Many times, individuals who are in positions of power are the only ones who can attain and have access to the same opportunities for growth and success; that is a major flaw unravelled throughout this American Dream. We as a society are so focused on money and power that sometimes qualifications themselves are overlooked beyond belief, and this cultural issue is in need of reform. Although the purpose of the “American Dream†is for individuals to to come to the United States to seek out better opportunities, the exact opposite sometimes occurs, and only those in high class receive these opportunities, which is why the system is in need of a change and redistribution of power and wealth within our society.
3. After watching this video, the way that I feel about the current state of the U.S. media is that news channels definitely favor one political party over another and it is extremely clear when certain media outlets are biased. This overall is so extremely unethical because news outlets are supposed to be designed as unbiased and only present actual and reliable information to viewers, but instead, in today’s society, it is obvious that some networks are more conservative or liberal. The fact that this occurs when media outlets are simply supposed to just tell hard evidence proves that our media outlets are in need of some alterations and networks need to be redesigned to be unbiased and overall reliable. I have always learned this to be true through my previous educational experiences as many teachers throughout high school and government classes have told me how media networks can be biased and right or left-leaning, but this video confirmed what I have always been taught to be true and I recognize now why our society needs this system to be redesigned.
Hi Alexa,
I really enjoyed reading your post and recognized a lot of similarities between our discussions! I could not agree with you more and truthfully believe the basis of this country is money and favoring the wealthy. Society has painted this picture of what the “American Dream” is, but reality has not followed through in portraying that picture. Individuals have been made to believe that this leap of faith is their greatest chance in life, but as you mentioned, this is not always the case for those who seek these better opportunities. Further, I could not agree with you more on your discussion of how the media and its news sources have become increasingly biased. This was also something I highlighted in my own post as it has become crystal clear. Great post!
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The media is a channel where certain things get “weeded†out depending on how important they are deemed for society to view. While this does not necessarily mean that every piece of information one can find online is false, it still should make us question whether or not we are getting reported back on everything (or only simply the stories the media wants us to see). In the film we got assigned for this week, “Requiem for the American Dreamâ€, the viewer follows Noam Chomsky in an interview where different subjects based off the “American Dream†are discussed and analyzed.
My biggest takeaway from “Requiem for the American Dream†was when Noam Chomsky began to explain his ten principles. Behind the name “The American Dream†is a concept that in reality, only realistically works out for the white and the wealthy. Essentially, he begins to dive into the fact that no matter how hard one can try to work for this American Dream, the playing field is so uneven that one cannot get close enough to that reality without already having those tools to begin with (money, family that lives in the United States, suburban house, a wealthy extended family, etc). However, this concept is something people interested in sociology and communication do tend to know. With that being said, the impact of media itself onto this concept is so important and very rarely talked about. Overall, this documentary has highlighted the fact that there is a major issue with the power structure in the United States, and it is done so subtly (for the most part).
“Requiem for the American Dream†connects to the culture of the United States in an obvious way. Noam Chomsky continuously mentioned that the wealthy are the people in society that stay the most protected, and everything is done for the sake of the rich. This puts worth values to human beings, even though technically we are all “equalâ€, right? Money is a way to gain power, and in a capitalistic society like the one we are in, money becomes the most important thing, especially for those who already have a lot of it (and want it to stay that way). The media, as shown in this documentary, will pick favorites with what pieces of information are important enough and not important enough. An example I have been seeing of this travel through the internet is the missing person case of Gabby Patito. During the month of August, there were so many missing people (most of them being POC), however, the only missing person media that truly went viral during that month was surrounding the case of a white girl. The media chooses whose life is more worthy of discussing, and it is disgusting!
In the final video we needed to watch for this week, I instantly went back to how it felt watching the news in 2016 and 2020. Obviously, the nation is incredibly polarized in a way that is different from how it used to be. The left and the right can both be radical, and that is typically how they have become to be depicted on most news channels. CNN and Fox News can report the same protest but send out wildly different messages, and since we are raised to prefer one or the other, the one we chose is the news we will intake as reality.
Hi Andrea,
I really enjoyed reading your post and seeing our similar discussions! Much like you, I also started my discussion by recognizing how the media handles stories and what they decide to report. As you said, the issue with the media is that they put forth specific stories over others, not that they falsify the news. I agree that this is a major issue when it comes to our media. You provided a perfect example with the Gabby Petito case as yes, she was a missing white girl that had the world following her story while disregarding POC who were going through the same thing and the same exact time. I followed the case myself and while scrolling through articles on CNN, which we both also discuss when talking about how split media is, there was other articles hyperlinked throughout specifically related to how society was ignoring these POC cases. Great post!
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1. Geographic Determinism on the course of historical events
There are many instances in history when the course of human events is determined by the geography and not merely by human will or action. One good example of this is the Nile River. The manner in which the Nile River flows and slowly floods its banks provided a natural irrigation with rich deposits of nutritious soils that created a well fed culture known as the Egyptians. Without the Nile, there would have been NO Egypt.
2. The Big “Câ€s ~ Conquest, Commerce, Colonization, & Conversion on the Course of History
This theme resonates throughout history and is the manner in which peoples, their cultures and their ideas, spread across the landscape. An obvious perfect example is the discovery of the New World and the subsequent conquest of the western hemispheric peoples, their often-times forced conversion to Christianity, and the purposeful colonization of the New World in order to advance commercial trade and build wealth for the Spanish Empire.
3. Causes and Effects in History ~ “what came first, the chicken or the egg?â€
This historical theme is the very core of understanding the course of human events. Historical events do not occur in a vacuum ~ one event leads to another, which leads to another and in this manner we see how humans act, and mostly, react, to stimului of their times. Did the invention of the moveable type printing press in 15th century Europe cause a great surge in literacy OR did a desire to become more literate have the effect of finding faster ways to spread the written word? The argument is yours to make.
4. “Shoulda, Woulda, Couldas†~ alternate histories with alternate endings
This is probably one of my favorite themes in history. What would have happened differently in the future course of history IF one important change were made to its past? IF ONLY HITLER HAD BEEN FATALLY WOUNDED IN WWI instead of recovering, OR if he had died from the gassings of the trenches in WWI. Would there have even been a WWII? Would there have been 60+ million lives lost in WWII? Would there have been a Holocaust? When you use this theme, you need to first discuss the actual history and then propose a viable alternate history based on a possible course change in the events. It has to be a plausible alternative.
5. Role of Economics in History ~ “money makes the world go around†or does it?
If I have said it once, I have said it a MILLION times = money DRIVES politics ~ it is NOT the other way around. Most actions of human beings, if not all, have an economic desire behind them, whether for food, land, power, security, etc., humans labor and toil to accomplish a goal that is always rooted in a desired end = using scarce resources, which have alternative uses, to achieve profitable results. When the early Islamic Empires conquered the known world, it was more desirable NOT to force Christians and Jews to convert, because as Dhimmi they were taxed at a much higher rate. So, less conversion = more money in taxes, therefore religious tolerance in early Islamic caliphates had an economic return.
6. GREED & POWER ~ Who has it? How do they get it? What do they do with it? Why do we care?
Is there anyone ever born in the history of the world who is NOT greedy, at least a little bit? Hunger makes us greedy for food. Poverty makes us greedy for riches. I work to make money so I can afford the things in life I need and enjoy. You all are furthering your education to do that same thing. But when the normal human level of greed multiplies like a cancer and produces a lust for power, the very worst in human behavior occurs. Genghis Khan is a good example = through ruthless behavior he united all the tribes of the steppes and built the largest land empire the world has ever known – but he lusted after China with its rich rice paddies and advances in culture and wealth. He fought his way up from poverty and tribal slavery to being recognized as the punishing flail of God, but he was forever irked that he could not conquer China after many attempts. It would be his grandson, Kublai Khan that succeeded where Genghis did not.
7. Gender and History ~ “The hand that rocks the cradle, rules the world†~ oh, really?
The role of women is the history of the world is filled with tragedy, abuse, exploitation, and ignorance. Women went from being equals with men in Paleolithic societies and innovators of the Agricultural Revolution, to being bought and sold like pack animals. But women became very adept at learning how to manipulate situations in their favor, or at least the men in those situations, when necessary. Whether driven by mere survival instincts, or motivated by higher yearnings, women of influence, power and action were an aberration in history. Joan of Arc was a simple, possibly delusional French country maiden who convinced armies of men that God had sent her to lead the French in conquest against the British – and indeed she did.
8. “Them versus Us†Scenarios ~ How Differences in Race, Ethnicity, Language, Class affect History
We don’t often think in terms of racism in history until the onslaught of Black African slavery, which began in the 7th and 8th centuries by Islamic merchants. But certainly history is full of “them versus us” scenarios of one culture, or nation maintaining their superiority of being over another. The Romans were a great example of a culture seeing themselves superior to all other societies, whom they regarded as barbarians. If you were not Roman, then you were born inferior and you deserved to be conquered and ruled by a superior people. This thinking has driven Imperialism since Sargon the Great, the first empire builder in the 3rd millennium BCE.
9. Religion and History ~ “My God is better than your godâ€
This theme kind of goes hand in hand with “them versus us” scenarios, only this is MY GOD is better than your god = meaning my GOD is the most powerful and your god is not. Religion was NOT a concept of belief in the ancient world as it is in the modern world, something you chose to accept or not – in the ancient world it was your complete way of life and thought and the motivation of all action. Humans created myths and legends of gods and creation stories to help them understand their world and their place in it, and in so doing it helped them justify why one people can dominate another. The history of the Hebrews-Israelites-Jews demonstrates a people who created a religious ideal of ONE GOD who demanded their separation from the rest of the world, and in so doing projected a religious identity unique in world history, only to see it adopted and changed by Christianity first, and then by Islam.
10. Role of Family in History ~ as a social, a defensive, an economic, and/or a spiritual construct
Family units are the very core of how human beings have organized themselves from their very beginnings. Parents, children, grandparents evolved into generations of extended families that grew into tribes and then into larger societies. But what happened to the role of the parents? of children? How did civilization impact the family unit? An interesting study is the Spartans, who had institutionalized segregation of the sexes and dissolution of the family unit in favor of a male-dominated society of warriors who began their training from the time they are born and raised from the time of 8 years old in a completely male environment. The entire aim of Spartan society was to produce elite Spartan warriors, for women to give birth to them and for men to raise them.
11. The Effects of Education on History ~ “I know something you don’t know . . .â€
Education is one of the five hallmark institutions of society, along with political institutions, economic institutions, family institutions, and religious institutions. Indeed, education is experienced from the time you are born and you learn language and other cultural skills from your family. The development of a writing system is one of the hallmarks of civilization, which enables a society to record and preserve their thoughts, beliefs, ideas, inventions, innovations, etc. and pass them forward in time. Education also allows for concepts and ideas to pass from culture to culture, via trade, or migrations, or even conversions. When the European Crusaders journeyed through the Byzantine Empire of their way to the Holy Land, they picked up new ideas, new skills, new thoughts and concepts, which eventually lead to the intellectual rebirth of Europe called the Renaissance ~ an era in which backwater Europe would propel itself within 100 years to the top of the global food chain of civilizations.
12. Individualism vs. Communalism ~ “the need of the one†or the “need of the many�
Human beings need each other, it is that simple. Men hunted wild game in packs and women birthed and nurtured their families in packs. We are communal creatures – so when and why did the concept of individuality begin? We were for centuries defined by our gender, or our class, or our professions, or our utility to a society – but seldom were we defined by our unique qualities, unless we were the few and the fearless who aspired to greatness above the masses. And here is where the occasional person or people emerge who place more value on the unique ability of the individual, then on the herding instinct of the masses. Art became a way for the one to differentiate themselves from the many, as it expressed a part of them in a public setting. For example, the communalism of an army was always led by the individuality of a general and his art of military tactics. Athens is a good example of a society that stressed the power of the individual with the creation of Athenian Democracy that granted all citizens, males over 18, a voice in the politics of the city-state.
13. WAR ~ “What was it good for?â€
War is the most constant theme in history ~ it has been occurring and reoccurring in every age of human existence and while it is easy to recount the horrible effects of war there is also a case to be made for the positive outcomes of war. An obvious positive outcome of war is the independence won in the American Revolution and the eventual creation of the unique Democratic Republican government outlined in our U.S. Constitution.
14. Pivot Points in History ~ “when in the course of human events . . .†~ the course abruptly changes
There are incredible moments in history when the path that human existence is following dramatically changes and heads off in another direction. Sometimes these changes occur because of major geologic events, such as the volcanic eruption that buried the Roman City of Pompeii or they occur from human actions, such as the discovery of vaccines that globally improved human health. So with this theme you will look at one pivotal event and discuss how it changed the direction human life was taking.
15. The Power of Personality ~ Celebrities who change history
This is similar to Pivot Points in History, but instead of a pivotal event you have a pivotal personality ~ someone who impacts history politically, culturally, religiously, economically, etc. Not all pivotal personalities in history were conquerors, such as Alexander the Great or Julius Caesar. Some influential personalities who changed history would be John Locke and his theories of liberty and freedom that were foundational to the rhetoric of the U.S. Declaration of Independence; Martin Luther King and his activism for racial equality in America that inspired the Civil Rights movement of the 60s; Harriet Beecher Stowe and her novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin that exposed the horrors of American southern slavery to northerners and contributing to the start of the Civil War.
16. “One man’s VIRTUE is another man’s EVIL†~ Extreme human acts and responses in history
These acts are the most disturbing aspects of our historical past, and even our present. Either through individuals or groups, horrifically classified acts such as genocides, tortures, or suicides have been perpetrated for reasons that to some are revered as heroic or religious acts and to others they are seen as evil. The attacks of 911, the Holocaust of Euorpe’s Jews, the Armenian Genocide of WWI – these and many more are acts in history of shock and awe that result in responses that affect history. So you need to not just write up the the details of the extreme event, but the responses to it that changed history.
17. “Ruling the Roost” ~ methods and styles of administration of government over the populace
From the earliest origins of human societies, communities of human beings had to establish some kind of concession of rules they would follow in order to live in harmony and cooperation. These evolved into institutions of governments usually formed by one small aristocratic rank of society ruling over a large majority and variety of non-aristocratic peoples. These systems each held unique features of governing peculiar to the unique needs and/or demands of their particular societies. A perfect example of this can be seen in the militaristic state of the Spartans in ancient Greek history. An elite group of retired Spartan soldiers, who had lived long enough and survived the wars of their youth, ruled Sparta as an oligarchy that held life and death decisions over the fate of their citizens from the time they were born. They ruled over a gender-segregated Spartan world completely dedicated to the training and maintenance of a militarized citizenry that then ruled over a much larger slave society in their midst called the Helots, who did ALL other labors and duties necessary for sustaining the life and well-being of Spartans citizens who contributed nothing else to Sparta except their military prowess.
18. “Mirror, Mirror on the Wall . . .” ~ paradoxes in history ~ “heads and tails,” i.e. flip sides (ex: good and bad) of the same event, person, or place.
This is a theme that requires a higher level of critical thinking and reasoning. It is important to understand that there is NO historical event, person, era, place, etc. that is monothematic = meaning there is only one way to view it. A good example of a historical person with many facets of interpretation is Martin Luther. He is credited with one of the bravest and selfless acts in history by challenging the corruption of the Catholic Church and becoming the driving force of the Reformation. But there is another side to Martin Luther that few know about because history prefers to focus on the positive side of him = I am talking about his raging Anti-Jewish attitudes. He advocated some of the most heinous anti-Semitic acts of his time, irrationally hating the Jews. One cannot truly say they know about Martin Luther unless they are willing to examine BOTH sides of his personality.
19. “For want of a nail . . .” ~ how technology has affected history
This is a favorite theme in history for students – how new inventions and innovations can change history. The Cotton Gin that I mentioned above would be a good example. The moveable type printing press used by Johann Gutenberg to mass print the Bible propelled an explosion in printed material that incited desires in people to become literate so they could read all the materials being circulated.
20. History and the Environment ~ exploiting Mother Nature and its consequences.
This in kind of the opposite of Geographic Determinism, in that it is how humans have impacted the earth, rather than how the earth has impacted humans. A good example is the Dust Bowl in American modern history. For thousands of years, the Great Plains of North America had been natural grazing lands for migratory herds. The deep rooted prairie grasses withstood droughts, storms, winds, and fires. But once humans started cultivating the Great Plains in the 1800s by plowing up all the prairie grasses and replacing them with temporary, short rooted crops, this directly resulted in the black blizzards of the 1930s. Droughts and winds carried all the top soil off the plains and carried it into the atmosphere, leaving the once rich farm lands a desert wasteland.Â
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(1st Post)Discussion Forum4Creating a ResumeDay 7Assignment7InterviewingDay 7Assignment6
Learning Outcomes
This week students will:
Analyze essential components of cover letters and design specific sections for a personalized cover letter.
Create a targeted resume.
Prepare for a mock interview.
Introduction
You made it to Week 4 – we are now officially two weeks from the finish line! This week will be another relevant week in preparing for your upcoming career. You will have the opportunity to appraise essential components of a cover letter and start with the design of your personalized document. Also, you are able to create your own resume and prepare for a mock interview. The skills learned this week will be crucial when searching for a job in your chosen career field. Have fun!
Cover letters are recommended, and in some instances required, for job applications. If you want to stand out from other candidates, you will want to write a unique cover letter for each position you apply to. Cover letters allow you to clarify, detail, and expand upon your most relevant skills and competencies. In addition, a cover letter allows you to showcase your written communication skills.
It is important that you have a compelling cover letter. To write an impactful cover letter you need to answer the following questions before you begin composing it. Starting with these questions will help provide a clear and concise message for the reader of your cover letter.
Why are you interested in the position? Consider what makes the position, organization, or company interesting to you.
What three skills or competencies do you possess that match the skills the employer is seeking in a candidate?
You can find these skills by viewing the job description. These specific skills are the reason every cover letter should be unique for each job for which you apply.
For this discussion, you will explore the components of a cover letter, reflect on your most relevant skills, and assess what action steps you can take to make your resume stronger.
For step-by-step instructions for creating a cover letter, please use the Writing a Cover Letter (Links to an external site.) webpage to see additional ways to format your cover letter.
For more in-depth templates for writing a cover letter please review the Cover Letter Templates (Links to an external site.) webpage.Â
Required Resources
Multimedia
University of Arizona Global Campus. (n.d.). Complete a mock interview on my career (Links to an external site.). Retrieved from https://bit.ly/3cPdmct
This module can help users prepare for an interview. This module will assist you with your interviewing assignment this week.
University of Arizona Global Campus. (n.d.). Resume module (Links to an external site.). Retrieved from https://bit.ly/2ygP6AX
This module provides information on creating a professional cover letter and resume. This module will assist you with your Creating a Resume Assignment this week.
Vault.com. (n.d.). Interview questions & tips (Links to an external site.). Retrieved from https://access.vault.com/recordurl?nid=55314&wid=2…
These resources provide information and strategies for a successful interview. This module will assist you with your interviewing assignment this week.
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University of Arizona Global Campus. (n.d.). Writing a cover letter (Links to an external site.). Retrieved from https://content.bridgepointeducation.com/curriculu…
This document provides the essential elements of a cover letter. This webpage will assist you with your Cover Letter Discussion this week.
Valult.com. (n.d.). Cover letter templates (Links to an external site.). Retrieved from https://access.vault.com/recordurl?nid=244271&wid=…
This webpage provides cover letter templates. This webpage will assist you with your Cover Letter Discussion this week.
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indeed (Links to an external site.) (http://www.indeed.com/)
This is a job search engine that may help in finding desired jobs within a specified area. This website will assist you with your interviewing assignment this week.
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Guidance for HWE 498
Health and Wellness Capstone
Week 4
Week 4 Overview
Activity
Due Date
Format
Cover Letter
Day 3
(1st Post)
Discussion
Creating a Resume
Day 5
Activity
Interviewing
Day 7
Assignment
Welcome to your fourth week in this course! This week will be all about you and your career. As part of the discussion forum this week, you will have the opportunity to create a cover letter and share an excerpt with your peers for feedback. In order to land your dream job, you also require a strong resume. In the activity assignment, you will have a chance to create or fine-tune your resume that is tailored toward a specific job posting. The resources and tips in the My Career section of your student portal will help you with the design of this project. Last but not least, you will be able to prepare for a mock interview by practicing your responses to common interview questions. This assignment will help you feel more confident when you are invited for an interview and hopefully land you the job. As always, don’t hesitate to reach out to your instructor with questions or concerns! Enjoy week 4 and keep the end in mind – you are so very close now!
Guidance Introduction
An interview can be very intimidating since there is much at stake: your dream job. Sitting in front of several people, all staring at you and asking you questions, is something that most people would like to avoid if they could. However, rather than seeing this process as something negative, look at it this way: You and only you can relay all that you have learned and done in the past. You will be able to tell everyone about your achievements, strengths, and character. Additionally, you can personally communicate your interest for the position and the organization, as well as your potential. Your resume has landed you the interview and now it is time to show off your skills. Go for it!
Interviewing tips
It is very important to practice answering interview questions prior to the interview. Â If you are serious about your job search, which you should be, you need to practice and be prepared. Â Monster Worldwide (2016) offers the following ten tips to prepare for an interview:
1) Research the company- You need to know about the organization you are interviewing with. Â What does the company do? Â What services does it offer? What is its mission? This is also important information to help you decide if this is a place where you can be happy working.
2) Dress professional- I don’t care where or what type of job this is, you should always dress professional.  I remember going into a job interview when I was in college wearing a business suit.  It was only for a part-time factory job to get me through college, but I was astounded at what some of the interviewees were wearing.  If you want the job, show them you want it.  Dress professional. No excuses.
3) Be prepared- When going to the interview, bring along a file of any pertinent information that may help you land the job. Â Bring along a hard copy of your resume, a portfolio of previous experience, Â a list of references, and a list of questions to ask the employer.
4) Be on time- This means show up 10-15 minutes before the interview is to start. There is no worse way to get off on the wrong foot than to show up late to an interview.
5) Be enthusiastic- Whoever you encounter in the building, be courteous and kind. Â It is important to treat everyone with respect. Â When you meet the individual who is going to interview you, provide a strong handshake and look the person in the eye.
6) Listen- Do not forget to listen to the person interviewing you. Â This sounds simple, but it can be difficult. I remember when I was on an interview once, I was so nervous about remembering what questions I wanted to ask I kept repeating them over and over in my head, and I was not paying attention to what the interviewer was saying. You can miss a lot of valuable information if you do not listen actively during the interview.
7) Answer the question- Think before you respond to a question and be sure that you are answering the question that is being asked and not giving a response that does not pertain to the question.
8) Give examples- Â If you are discussing a time where you resolved a conflict, provide a specific example of what happened and how you dealt with it. Â Employers want specific examples of specific situations.
9) Ask questions- You should always have 3-4 questions prepared to ask the employer. Â This shows the employer that you are truly interested in the job. In addition, this gives you an opportunity to find out more about the job.
10) Follow up- After the interview, you should follow up with a phone call or email to the person who interviewed you. This provides you with an opportunity to show them that you are still interested and remind them of your talent and skills that match what they are looking for.
Conclusion
As you go out to the first, second, or even third job interview, be sure to practice your answers and be able to provide examples. Â You can find a list of common interview questions on the internet. It is a good idea to go through the types of questions you think you may be asked. Â Practice answering these questions. Â Also be sure to allow yourself enough time to arrive before the interview starts. Â Then just relax and do the best you can to land that new job. Â Before you know it, you will be off to work every day to your dream job. Good luck!
Additional Resources:
http://career-advice.monster.com/job-interview/Interview-Preparation/Practice-Makes-Perfect/article.aspx (Links to an external site.)
http://www.olin.edu/sites/default/files/01_skillsandtech.pdf (Links to an external site.)
https://careerservices.wayne.edu/behavioralinterviewinfo.pdf (Links to an external site.)
http://career-advice.monster.com/salary-benefits/Negotiation-Tips/Salary-Negotiation-Know-How/article.aspx (Links to an external site.)
References
Monster Worldwide. (2016). Interviewing tips (Links to an external site.). Retrieved from http://career-
advice.monster.com/job-interview/interview-preparation/ten-interviewing-rules/article.aspx
Image Reference
iStock Images. Retrieved from http://www.istockphoto.com/photo/business-people-w…
In your discussion:
First, identify a position on www.indeed.com (Links to an external site.) that interests you as a potential job opportunity and using the job description identify three (3) skills or qualifications that match your background.
Note: You may choose the position you selected in Week 3 Discussion for the completion of your cover letter.Â
Next, using the format suggestions from both the webinar and cover letter sample, create a second paragraph that communicates the three (3) matching skills and/or competencies you would like to highlight for the employer. Keeping these three skills in mind, develop a three to four sentence paragraph that you can share on the discussion board to obtain feedback from your classmates. The goal is to tailor the body of your cover letter to the position you seek.
In your discussion post, paste the link of the job description you’re interested in and a 3-4 sentence paragraph that you have written for this job application.
Please post your response to these elements directly within the forum; do not attach a word document with your work. Any sources used must be referenced (Links to an external site.) and cited (Links to an external site.) according to APA guidelines, as outlined in the Writing Center. Your initial post should be at least 250 words in length.
Guided Response: Respond to at least two of your peers by Day 7. Provide feedback on how your peers’ three key skills will help them in achieving their career goal. Offer at least one additional suggestion on how your peers might emphasize their relevant skills.
REPLY TO:
Three skills or qualifications that match my background:
    1. Bachelor’s degree in healthcare, or a related field
    2. Coordination of quality assessments and improvement activities
    3. NCQA accreditation process and contractual requirement experience
September 29, 2021
Hiring Manager
WellCare of North Carolina
Raleigh, NC 27604
Dear Hiring Manager,
I am reaching out in response to the job advertisement from September 18th on Indeed.com. I am interested in the Senior Manager, Quality Improvement position at your company. As a skilled career professional with over ten years of extensive experience in hospital, business offices, and professional environments, I believe my skills can be useful for your company.
I have three years of quality improvement leadership experience. I have a Bachelor of Health and Wellness from the University of Arizona Global Campus and have continued to update my professional skills by earning a certification from The National Association for Healthcare Quality. I have successfully created and implemented continuous quality improvement initiatives throughout my career that improved efficiency, processes and demonstrated improved quality. I have extensive knowledge in the coordination of the accreditation process for NCQA that includes compliance and contractual requirements across all health plan departments and several lines of business. Additionally, I am extensively trained and certified as a Six Sigma Black Belt and demonstrate leadership in the execution of quality improvement Six Sigma projects.
I have attached my resume to provide further details about my skills and education. I am confident that my skills and experience in the field will qualify me for consideration in the open position. I welcome the opportunity to discuss this position with you.
I am looking forward to a positive response and will follow up with a call to your office.
Respond to this also
John Potter
Sep 29, 2021 at 1:03 PM
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-Bachelor’s Degree in Nutrition or a related field
-Written and Oral communication skills
-Basic computer literacy
Next, using the format suggestions from both the webinar and cover letter sample, create a second paragraph that communicates the three (3) matching skills and/or competencies you would like to highlight for the employer. Keeping these three skills in mind, develop a three to four sentence paragraph that you can share on the discussion board to obtain feedback from your classmates. The goal is to tailor the body of your cover letter to the position you seek.
B
Hello,
This letter serves to inform that I have taken interest in your establishment and would like the opportunity to join the staff there in your mission to aid in improving the lives of your patients through optimal healthcare.
Having just recently completed my bachelor’s degree in Health and Wellness at UAGC, I now have several years of knowledge awaiting application. On top of this, skills with both oral and written communication as well as computer literacy have been further refined during my time at UAGC through extensive use of research and online coursework. Aside from that, I have previous experience working with computers from high school courses, and due to an early childhood exposure to such have developed talents such as a typing speed of nearly 128wpm, and familiarity with programs like Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. Many of my previous jobs have required an emphasis on customer service, something which communication and engagement are central to. This is an area I have received praise for in the past from previous employers and would very much like to demonstrate my capabilities in while working with those in need of assistance and guidance in maintaining or improving their health.
Included is a resume offering further details on background and skillset as well as experience, if you have questions please feel free to ask as I am very open to discussion and would prefer that you be both informed and confident in choosing to provide me the chance to become a part of your healthcare team.
I eagerly await your response but will be sure to check back soon and inquire about the status of my application and any measures I can take to further enhance the process.
Thank you for your time,
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Hello All,
In week 2, my selected topic was diabetes, more specifically type 2. I wanted to complete further research on the National Diabetes Prevention Program. From a public health lens, cost-effectiveness analysis is the comparison of costs and effectiveness of two or more health interventions to determine whether the value of the intervention justifies the costs; effectiveness is measured in similar units (Marseille, Larson, Kazi, Kahn, & Rosen, 2014). It is an economic principle that compares the relative costs of the intervention and its outcome; this data guide policy-makers in prioritizing and allocating resources to health interventions (Getzen, 2013).
(Kuvaja-Köllner, Valtonen, Komulainen, Hassinen, & Rauramaa, 2013) discussed the allocation of time to various activities based on opportunity costs of time. The motivation towards one activity versus another is observed through behavior. For example, a person’s deciding not to attend a healthy lifestyle class is time being provided to complete another activity or event for an hour. The National Diabetes prevention Program is time giving to an alternative activity. The assumption for this project is that attending the sessions for the NDPP is time to socially jumpstart a healthier lifestyle and reduce weight loss through the programs goals. Â
Maintaining both mental and physical health are major public health issues. There is no shortage of evidence to support the claim that there are multiple benefits of physical activity, and more particularly, green exercise/activity (Farrell & Price, 2013; Gladwell, Brown, Wood, Sandercock, & Barton, 2013b; Pretty et al., 2005). While there is no definitive guidance on the quantity or frequency of green exercise required for the best health outcomes, some researcher utilizes a dose framework to examine the relationship between duration, frequency, and intensity of exposure to green exercise (Cox et al., 2017; Shanahan et al., 2016).Â
Employing a cost-effectiveness analysis can measure overall public health benefit of the program by comparing the cost that the preventive health services will cost to reduce risk or increase the quality-adjusted life years (Getzen, 2013). The program should be able to demonstrate success by providing evidence of an improved quality of life years.
After reviewing this week’s learning resources as well as supplemental readings, it appears more cost-effective to allocate resources to a public health program that employ evidenced-informed interventions, and or promising programs to support their outcomes (Getzen, 2013).
From a previous study, the CEA results seemed undetermined. Many of the population-based approaches did not conduct formal CEA. As a result, the CS results from these studies needs to be better understood, as they were a simple comparison of costs given a certain level of health benefit. Also, many of the CE results were estimated from governmental or health care system perspectives rather than a societal perspective. Third, the societal perspective defined in population-based approaches was not as inclusive as it was for high-risk approaches (Zhou et al., 2020). Some cost categories were not included in the societal perspective, such as productivity loss or time cost.
References
Cox, D. T., Shanahan, D. F., Hudson, H. L., Fuller, R. A., Anderson, K., Hancock, S., & Gaston, K. J. (2017). Doses of nearby nature simultaneously associated with multiple health benefits Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute.
Farrell, H. C., & Price, L. (2013). The (unintended) benefits of green exercise International Centre for Research in Events, Tourism, and Hospitality, Leeds ….
Getzen, T. E. (2013). Health economics and financing (5th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons.
Kuvaja-Köllner, V., Valtonen, H., Komulainen, P., Hassinen, M., & Rauramaa, R. (2013). The impact of time cost of physical exercise on health outcomes by older adults: The DR’s EXTRA study Springer.
Marseille, E., Larson, B., Kazi, D. S., Kahn, J. G., & Rosen, S. (2014). Thresholds for the cost- effectiveness of interventions: Alternative approaches SciELO Public Health.
Public Health Management Corporation, (PHMC). (2017). Public health management corporation | Philadelphia public health, healthcare nonprofits Pennsylvania, public health resources (http://www.phmc.org/site/index.php ed.) Retrieved from http://www.phmc.org/site/index.php
Zhou, X., Siegel, K. R., Ng, B. P., Jawanda, S., Proia, K. K., Zhang, X., Albright, A. L., & Zhang, P. (2020, July 1). Cost-effectiveness of Diabetes Prevention Interventions Targeting High-risk Individuals and Whole Populations: A Systematic Review. Diabetes Care. https://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/43/7/1593.Â
2 days ago
Isaac YAHÂ
RE: Discussion – Week 5
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Isaac Yah
Week 5 Discussion: Cost-Effectiveness of Public Decisions
Description of Community and Intervention
In week two I selected the Maryland Million Hearts Initiative funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) at the states level to prevent 1 million health attacks and strokes over a five-year period (cdc.gov, n. d.). The strategies of the initiative were to implement small set of evidence-based programs at the community level to improve cardiovascular health. The Maryland Million Heart Initiative will use Community health workers deployed in communities to take part in a network of referral and monitoring of hypertension, improve identification of undiagnosed hypertension, improve treatment to decrease emergency rooms visit for hypertension in Maryland by 5% (Maryland.gov, n. d.).
Tailoring and Description of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis to Maryland Million Heart Initiative
Cardiovascular disease is the leading causes of death in the United States which prompted the CDC and Center for Medicaid and Medicare to launch the Million Heart initiative in 2012 to reverse the trend (Kottke & Horst, 2019). Improving heart health and associated conditions and reducing Heart attack and stroke rates positively impact the Country financially. The initiative includes self-management education, Community providers, clinical quality reporting and many others, require cost to implement (MD.gov, n. d.). However, Getzen (2013) indicated that cost-benefit analysis looks at the trades offs in the dollars spent to save lives and prevent diseases in decision making while cost-effectiveness analysis examines the cost side of and initiative.
Use of Cost-Effective Analysis to measure Benefits the Million Heart Initiative
        In cost-effective analysis, we examine the cost while cost-benefit examines the benefit against the cost. For example, in the million-heart initiative, the strategies such as smoking cessation, dietary reduction of sodium consumption, hypertension self-care, nutrition and physical education, just to name a few would cost millions of dollars to implement. However, according to the million-heart initiative report, there are 1.5 million heart attacks, 800,00 deaths and $316.6 billion in health care cost and lost productivity each year in the United States (millionhearts.hhs.gov, 2011). Comparing the cost of treating stroke patients a year and saving 1 million hearts over five-year period, the benefits are incomparable.
Is It Cost effective to Allocate Resources for One Public health Program Versus the Other?
        Considering the magnitude of cardiovascular disease and associated conditions it is cost-effective to allocate resources to the million hearts initiative. For example, Kottke and Horst (2019) reported that the million heart goals of controlling risks factors by promoting healthy diet, physical activities, abstinence from tobacco, hypertension treatment, and dyslipidemia would prevent or postpone more than 50% of all deaths in the US middle-age population. While allocating resources to the million hearts initiative may not only prevent deaths from hypertension and strokes, but it also impacts diabetes, kidney, and other chronic diseases. Heart diseases kills roughly the same number people who die from cancer, pneumonia, and accidents combined each year in the US (millionhearts.hss.gov, 2011).
References
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC.gov, n. d.). Million Hearts Partnerships 2012-2016: Key evaluation findings and successes. Retrieved from cdc.gov/dhdsp/evaluation_resources/mh-partner-network-evaluation.htm.
Getzen, T. E. (w2013). Health economic and financing (5th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons
Kottke, T. E., & Horst, S. (2019). We can save million hearts. The Permanente Journal 2019; 23: 18-289. Doi.org/10.7812/TPP/18-289
Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (Maryland.gov, n. d.). Maryland Million Hearts Implementation Guide. Â Aligning and guiding statewide efforts. Retrieved from https://chronicdisease.org/resources/resmgr/diabetes_webinar/million_hearts_implementation.pdf
Million Hearts (2011). Cost and consequences. Key Facts. Retrieved from https://millionhearts.hhs.gov/learn-prevent/cost-consequences.html
4 days ago
Ijeoma NwazuruokehÂ
RE: Discussion – Week 5
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Statistical Significance and Meaningfulness
Statistically significant relationships in research do not necessarily mean that they will have a meaningful contribution to literature (Laureate Education, 2016f). Research studies having statistically significant variables will not always have theoretical importance; instead, hypothesis testing remains the primary model used to derive statistical inferences (Frankfort-Nachmias, et al., 2020). According to the American Statistical Association (ASA), the importance of a result cannot be measured only by a p-value or statistical significance (ASA, 2016).
It is essential to know what is being tested and relate this to the population in the study (Walden University, 2021). When the research work is deemed exploratory, the researcher will be examining a new area of research, and the results will not be able to drive policy decisions. A type 1 error occurs when the true null hypothesis is rejected; in their footnote, the researchers were letting readers know that they dropped the confidence interval from 95%, which is standard for social research, to 90%, the confidence level for the study is at 10% risk of being wrong (Frankfort-Nachmias, et al., 2020). Incorrect decisions are made based on relaxing to the 0.10 level. As a reader, the footnote informs me that this research work cannot be used as a reference because there is the expectation that the statistical significance is open to type I and type II errors. Nevertheless, this research work should not be overlooked because it can be the beginning of a research question worthy of attention.
References
American Statistical Association. (2016). American Statistical Association release statement on statistical significance and P-values. Retrieved from https://www.amstat.org/asa/files/pdfs/P-ValueStatement.pdf
Frankfort-Nachmias, C., Leon-Guerrero, A., & Davis, G. (2020). Social statistics for a diverse society (9th ed.) Sage.
Laureate Education (Producer). (2016f). Meaningfulness vs statistical significance [Video]. Baltimore, MD: Author
Walden University (2021). Academic skills center. Hypothesis Testing [Video]. YouTube https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/academic-skills-center/tutors/stats-drop-in-rsch-8210
4 days ago
Joy GarbaÂ
RE: Discussion – Week 5
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Statistical Significance and Meaningfulness
According to Bhansari et al. (2016), a hypothesis is statistical when the parameters or the probability distribution for a designated population generates the observations. The Type I error rate or actual alpha level, increases as a function of the number of conducted tests (Strobe & Strack, 2014). An inflated alpha level (.01) occurs because the researcher’s nominal alpha level was only intended to cover one opportunity to reject the null hypothesis, and it is applied to two options (Strobe & Strack, 2014).
           Also, Statistical tools such as p-values and confidence intervals are meaningful confirmatory analyses (Rubin, 2017). In turn, preregistration is one of the very few ways to check and confirm that the presented analyses were indeed confirmatory. Researchers who do exploratory work cannot interpret their statistical tests’ outcomes in a meaningful way because of unknown comparisons. While researchers who wish to interpret their statistical tests’ outcomes in a meaningful way are forced to preregister their analyses,  preregistration is the price one pays for being allowed anywhere near a statistical test.
Misconception and Misuse of the p-value
p-values can indicate how incompatible the data are with a specified statistical model. A common misuse of p-values is that they are often turned into statements about the null hypothesis’s truth. P-values do not measure the probability that the studied hypothesis is true or the probability that the data were produced by random chance alone (Greenland et al., 2016). The American Statistical Association (2016) states that p-values can indicate how incompatible the data are with a specified statistical models and are often used or misinterpreted. Ranstam (2016) concluded that p values could be highly misleading measures of evidence because the use of p values make it relatively easy to obtain statistically significant findings, such that p =. 05 can indicate no evidence against Ho.
P-value or statistical significance does not measure the size of an effect or the importance of a result (Greenland et al., 2016). A smaller p-value does not indicate a more robust association or a larger effect and tells little about the association’s magnitude. p-value or statistical significance does not measure the size of an effect or the importance of a result (Greenland et al., 2016)
Response to Scenario
Explanatory research is carried out to investigate a timely phenomenon that had not been studied before or had not been well explained to provide details where a small amount of information exists. From the scenario, given that this research was exploratory, traditional levels of significance to reject the null hypotheses were relaxed to the .10 level.
Given that; H?(predictor) – HA(Response) ? 0
To reject the null hypotheses (H?) P ?.10 to illustrate that there is no statistically significant difference between the predictor and response variables (Warner, 2012). Â If the null hypothesis (H?) is rejected when it is true, there is a possibility of committing a Type, I error. On the other hand, if the null hypothesis (H?) is rejected when the alternative hypotheses (HA) is false, there will be a possibility of committing Type II error.
The study results are significant because they provide evidence for the researcher to conclude the predictor variables and the response variables.
References
American Statistical Association. (2016). American Statistical Association Release Statement on Statistical Significance and P-Values. Retrieved from https://www.amstat.org/asa/files/pdfs/P-ValueStatement.pdf
Bhandari M, Montori VM, Schemitsch EH. (2016). The undue influence of significant p-values on the perceived importance of study results. Acta Orthop. 2015 Jun;76(3):291-5.
Warner, R.M. (2012). Applied statistics from bivariate through multivariate techniques (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.Applied Statistics From Bivariate Through Multivariate Techniques, 2nd Edition by Warner, R.M. Copyright 2012 by Sage College. Reprinted by permission of Sage College via the Copyright Clearance Centre.
Chapter 3, “Statistical Significance Testing” (pp.81-124).
Greenland S, Senn SJ, Rothman KJ, Carlin JB, Poole C, Goodman SN, Altman DG. (2016) Statistical tests, p values, confidence intervals, and power: a guide to misinterpretations. Eur J Epidemiol. 2016 Apr;31(4):337-50. Epub 2016 May 21. 3. Nuzzo R. Scientific method: statistical errors. Nature. 2014 Feb 13;506 (7487):150-2
Ranstam, J. (2012). Why the p-value culture is bad and confidence intervals a better alternative. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, 20(8), 805–808. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.joca.2012.04.001
Rubin, M. (2017). Do p values lose their meaning in exploratory analyses? It depends on how you define the family-wise error rate. Review of General Psychology, 21, 269-275. Dog:10.1037/gpr0000123.
Stroebe, W., & Strack, F. (2014). The alleged crisis and the illusion of exact replication.Perspectives on Psychological Science, 9, 59-71. doi: 10.1177/1745691613514450
solved This is the second installment of the two NACLA Report
/in /by adminThis is the second installment of the two NACLA Report on the Americas reviews that you will submit for this class. This review is to be at least 3-4 pages and this due date of July 9, at 11:59 PM corresponds to South America, such as Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Ecuador, etc. Please submit your review through Canvas in either of the following formats: doc, docx or PDF. Late papers will be accepted but only for one week after the assigned due date and will be assessed a full grade deduction. Please use both a title page and a works cited page (neither of these pages count toward your 3-4 pages of text). Both reports will count as a combined 35% toward your final grade, with each review counting as 17.5% of your overall grade. In your works cited page, compose your article entry in a format like this:Medea Benjamin and Leonardo Flores, “Rural Teacher Pedro Castillo Poised to Write a New Chapter in Peru’s History,” NACLA Report on the Americas website (June 8, 2021).Here is a list of articles from the NACLA website pertaining to regions for the July 9 due date. Everybody, just pick any one article from this list for your July 9 review. Just follow the same format for your first NACLA submission. These articles range in date from February 2019 to June 2021. For this list, I’m going in alphabetical order by nation (note: more recent articles since October 2020 are indicated by the parentheses):Argentina:A Clash of Interests in Villa 31 (Links to an external site.)Activists Call for Legislation to Protect Argentina’s Wetlands (Oct. 2020) (Links to an external site.)Activists Keep Argentina’s Abortion Reform on the Agenda Despite Covid-19 (Links to an external site.)Another IMF Bailout in Argentina (Links to an external site.)Argentina: A Tentative Case for Democratic Populism (Links to an external site.)Argentina’s Failing Fracking Experiment (Links to an external site.)Argentina and the IMF: What to Expect with the Likely Return of KirchnerismDead Girls (Book Review) (June 2021) (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)Decades After Argentina’s Dictatorship, the Abuelas Continue Reuniting Families (Links to an external site.)Demands for Land and Housing Continue After Guernica Eviction (Nov. 2020) (Links to an external site.)Feminists Fight Covid on Buenos Aires’ Urban Margins (Links to an external site.)In Argentina, a “Right Turn” That Wasn’t and Left-Peronism’s Unlikely Comeback (Links to an external site.)In Argentina, the Next Generation Finds Its Voice (Links to an external site.)Macri’s Failed Fracking Dreams (Links to an external site.)Macri’s Yellow Balloons (Links to an external site.)”Our Struggle is Not Just for Ourselves, It is For All Workers” (Links to an external site.)Public Debt Defines First Year of Fernández Presidency (Dec. 2020) (Links to an external site.)The Audacity and Calculations of Cristina Kirchner (Links to an external site.)The Consequences of Mr. MacriThe Union of Land Workers is Creating a New Food Paradigm in Argentina (Apr. 2021) (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)Bolivia:A New MAS Era in Bolivia (Oct. 2020) (Links to an external site.)Bolivia Has Provided Us a Radical Vision of Hope (Oct. 2020) (Links to an external site.)Bolivia’s Path to Camacho (Interview) (Links to an external site.)Bolivia’s Plurinational Healthcare Revolution Will Not Be Defeated (Links to an external site.)Bolivia’s School Closures Will Deepen Divide of Who Gets to Study (Sept. 2020) (Links to an external site.)Bolivia’s Tragic Turmoil (Links to an external site.)Centuries of Fire: Rebel Memory and Andean Utopias in Bolivia (Book Excerpt) (Links to an external site.)Evo Morales Wins Bolivia’s Election, but Fraud Allegations Tarnish the Victory (Links to an external site.)History at the Barricades: Evo Morales and the Power of the Past in Bolivian Politics (Book Excerpt) (Links to an external site.)MAS Regains Bolivian Presidency (Oct. 2020) (Links to an external site.)Mixed Results for the MAS in Bolivia Regional Elections (March 2021) (Links to an external site.)Remembering Orlando Gutiérrez of the Bolivia Miners Union (Nov. 2020) (Links to an external site.)State Violence in Ãñez’s Bolivia: Interview with Human Rights Lawyer David Inca Apaza (Links to an external site.)Survivors Fight for Justice for 2003 Bolivian Military Massacre (Links to an external site.)The Highs and Lows of Bolivia’s Rebel City (Links to an external site.)Trump Bets on Closer Ties with Bolivia (Links to an external site.)Understanding Bolivia’s Nightmare (Links to an external site.)Understanding MAS’s Winning Strategy in Bolivia (Oct. 2020) (Links to an external site.)Will Evo Morales Survive Bolivia’s Fires? (Links to an external site.)Brazil:Attacks on Brazilian Press Increase Under Bolsonaro (Links to an external site.)Bolsonaro and Brazil Court the Global Far Right (Links to an external site.)Brazil: Corruption as a Mode of Rule (Links to an external site.)Brazil Falters In Public Health Leadership (Links to an external site.)Brazil’s Vulnerable Left Behind in the Pandemic (Links to an external site.)Finding Marielle Franco’s KillersFordlândia and Capitalism’s Fantasy in the Amazon (May 2021) (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)Guns, Crime, and Corruption: Bolsonaro’s First Month in Office (Links to an external site.)Lawfare Unmasked in Brazil (Links to an external site.)Lingering Trauma in Brazil: Police Violence Against Black WomenMadalena (Film Review)(May 2021) (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)Marielle Franco, Presente! (Links to an external site.)Marielle Franco’s Seeds: Black Women and the 2020 Brazilian Election (Nov. 2020) (Links to an external site.)Outsourcing Repression (Links to an external site.)Pandemic Worsens Working Conditions in Brazil’s Informal Care Economy (Oct. 2020) (Links to an external site.)Paulinho Paiakan Dies of Covid-19 in Brazil (Links to an external site.)“Racial Democracy†Reloaded (Links to an external site.)The Burning Quest to Revive a Nationalist Vision in Brazil’s Amazon (Links to an external site.)The Inversion of Human Rights in Brazil (Links to an external site.)The Losing Struggle for Brazilian Democracy (Film Review) (Links to an external site.)The Social Cost of Bolsonaro’s Denial (Links to an external site.)Triggering Police Violence in Brazil (Links to an external site.)U.S. Expands Influence in the Brazilian Amazon During Pandemic (Links to an external site.)Understanding the Fires in South America (Links to an external site.)Urbanismo Miliciano in Rio de Janeiro (also available in Spanish) (Links to an external site.)We Will All Be Judged By History: Political Upheaval in Brazil (Links to an external site.)With Lula Back, the Political Fight in Brazil is Between Democracy and Authoritarianism (March 2021) (Links to an external site.)Chile:Burying Pinochet (Oct. 2020) (Links to an external site.)Children who Come from Afar (Nov. 2020) (Links to an external site.)Chile’s Environmental Betrayal (Links to an external site.)Chile’s Struggle to Democratize the State (Links to an external site.)Chilean Arpilleras Sustain Political Momentum During Lockdown (Links to an external site.)Creativity at the Service of Social Mobilization in Chile (Links to an external site.)Fire and Fury in the Chilean “Oasis†(Links to an external site.)In Chile, the Post-Neoliberal Future is Now (Links to an external site.)Mapuche Political Prisoners Continue Struggle for Land and Freedom (Dec. 2020)Memory on Chile’s Frontlines (June 2021) (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)Pinochet-era Intelligence Agent Faces Extradition from Australia (Links to an external site.)Professors Test the Limits of “Me Too†in Chile (Links to an external site.)Social Progress Deferred in Chile (Links to an external site.)The Chilean State Seeks to Ban the Poets (Oct. 2020) (Links to an external site.)The Reality in Chile (Links to an external site.)The Santiago Metro as a Microcosm of Chile (Links to an external site.)Toward a People’s Constitution for Chile (Nov. 2020)What Does Chile’s New Left Want? (May 2021) (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)Colombia:A New Progressive Movement Scores Landslide Local Victories in Colombia (Links to an external site.)Afro-Colombians Protest Violence and Government Neglect in Buenaventura (March 2021) (Links to an external site.)Behind the National Strike in Colombia (Links to an external site.)“Birds of Passage:†Indigenous Communities Rewrite the Drug WarColombia Rises Up (May 2021) (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)Colombia’s Environmental Crisis Accelerates Under Duque (Links to an external site.)Colombia’s Longest Insurgency and the Last Chance for Peace? (Links to an external site.)Colombia’s National Protests Show that Infrastructure, Too, is PoliticsLinks to an external site.Colombian Uprising Takes Aim at Inequality (May 2021) (Links to an external site.)Colombians Question Deployment of U.S. Security Forces (Links to an external site.)Coronavirus and the Colombian Countryside (Links to an external site.)Creative Resistance in MedellÃn’s Changing Public Space (Links to an external site.)Empty Seats and Full Streets in the Colombian Minga (Oct. 2020)Feminist Political Movement Organizes for Change in Colombia (Apr. 2021) (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)Former FARC Combatants Face Their Pasts (Links to an external site.)In Colombia, Civil Society Fights for Peace (Links to an external site.)In Colombia, the Press Under Fire (Links to an external site.)Kilo: Life and Death Inside the Secret World of the Cocaine Cartels (Book Review) (Links to an external site.)Marijuana Boom: The Rise and Fall of Colombia’s First Drug Paradise (Book Review) (Jan. 2021) (Links to an external site.)Massacres in Colombia Lay Bare Next Phase of the Conflict (Sept. 2020)Money Heist or Guerrilla Heist? (June 2021) (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)Protests Against Police Brutality Spread in Colombia (Links to an external site.)Rejecting Inequality and State Violence in Colombia (link to several other NACLA articles; pick one at the bottom of the page)Sexual Violence: A Weapon to Silence Women Protesting in Colombia (May 2021) (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)The Brink of Extinction in ColombiaThe Colombian State Misrepresents Its Enemy (May 2021) (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)The Green Erasure of Indigenous Life (Links to an external site.)The Wide-Angle Lens of Colombia’s National Strike (Links to an external site.)Victims of Colombian Conflict Seek Resolution Through Transitional Justice (Jan. 2021) (Links to an external site.)Vital Decomposition (Book Review)What Will Happen to Cesar, Colombia When the Mines Leave? (Apr. 2021) (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)Will Megaprojects Destroy Colombia’s Peace Process? (Links to an external site.)Women Weaving Life in Southern Colombia (Links to an external site.)Ecuador:Carceral Pandemic Politics and Epidemiological Elites in Ecuador (Links to an external site.)Ecuador: Society’s Reaction to IMF Austerity Package (Links to an external site.)Ecuador Grapples with Food Sovereignty (Links to an external site.)Ecuador Indigenous Protests Braved ‘War Zone’ to Win People’s Victory, But Anti-IMF Fight Not Over (Links to an external site.)Ecuadorians Seek Truth and Justice, While the Government Prepares a New IMF Deal (Dec. 2020) (Links to an external site.)El Aromo Solar Project Sets Precedent for Renewable Energy in Ecuador (Jan. 2021) (Links to an external site.)Elected Left, Governing RightHow the Right Returned to Power in Ecuador (Apr. 2021) (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)In Ecuador, Lawfare Marches on Despite CoronavirusMovement Against Mining Gains Ground in Ecuador (Apr. 2021) (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)Orphanhoods in the Ecuadorian Andes (Dec. 2020) (Links to an external site.)The Long Coup in Ecuador (Links to an external site.)Paraguay:A Ray of Light for Paraguay’s Trans Community (Links to an external site.)COVID-19 Drives Unlikely Changes in Paraguay (Links to an external site.)Inside Paraguay’s Coronavirus Shelters (Links to an external site.)Paraguay Stifles Criticism After Two Girls Killed in Military Raid (Oct. 2020) (Links to an external site.)Protesters in Paraguay Question Pandemic Response and One-Party Rule (March 2021) (Links to an external site.)Remembering Paraguay’s Great War (also available in Spanish) (Links to an external site.)Tales of Terror on the Triple Frontier (Links to an external site.)The Dam that (Almost) Brought Down Paraguay’s President (Links to an external site.)Peru:A 30-Year Quest for Justice in Peru (Links to an external site.)A Narrowly-Avoided Constitutional Crisis in Peru (Links to an external site.)A New Era of Protest Rocks Peru (Nov. 2020) (Links to an external site.)An Uncertain Way Forward for PeruBetween Change and Continuity in Peru (May 2021) (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)Covid-19 and Extraction Pressures in the Peruvian Amazon (Links to an external site.)Gahela Cari: “In Peru, People are Questioning the System†(Feb. 2021) (Links to an external site.)Lima’s Wall(s) of Shame (Links to an external site.)Peru Dissolves its Congress, Setting Up a Fight for the Political Future (Links to an external site.)Peru Passes Coronavirus Risk to the Working Class (Links to an external site.)Peruvians Reject Politics as Usual (Nov. 2020) (Links to an external site.)Revisiting Peru’s Agrarian Reform (Film Review) (Links to an external site.)Rings of Corruption in PeruRural Teacher Pedro Castillo Poised to Write a New Chapter in Peru’s History (June 2021) (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)Silenced No More in Peru (Links to an external site.)The PolitiquerÃa of Vizcarra’s Call for Early Elections in PeruWho is Peru’s Frontrunner Pedro Castillo? (Apr. 2021) (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)Will the Peruvian Amazon Finally Have Political Representation in 2020? (Links to an external site.)Suriname:Suriname on Election’s Eve (Links to an external site.)Uruguay:From Police Reform to Police Repression: 50 Years after an Assassination (Links to an external site.)Venezuela:A History of Inconvenient Allies and Convenient Enemies (Links to an external site.)Caught in the Crossfire: Mothers’ Everyday Resistance in Caracas (Links to an external site.)Four Scenarios for Venezuela’s Parliamentary Elections (Dec. 2020) (Links to an external site.)From Middle Power to Regime Change Specialist: Canada and the Venezuela Crisis (Links to an external site.)Juan Guaidó’s Policy Proposals: “The Venezuela to Come†or the Venezuela that has already been? (Links to an external site.)Learning from Venezuela’s Missteps in Building Urban Popular Power (also available in Spanish) (Links to an external site.)Maduro’s Brown New Deal for Venezuela (Feb. 2021) (Links to an external site.)Narco-terrorism Charges Against Maduro and the “Cartel of the Suns†(Links to an external site.)Open Letter to Demand an End to U.S. Intervention in Venezuela (Feb. 2021) (Links to an external site.)Racism and State Violence in Venezuela (Links to an external site.)Regime Change “Made in the U.S.A.†(Links to an external site.)Republicans Left a Minefield in Venezuela (March 2021) (Links to an external site.)Spectacle, Internationalization, and the Elephant in the Room in Venezuela’s Crisis (Links to an external site.)The Battle of “The Lost World†in Venezuela’s Gran Sabana (Links to an external site.)The Stalemate in Venezuela (Links to an external site.)The Triple Crisis in Venezuela (Links to an external site.)Untangling the Gordian Knot: Negotiating Shared Power in Venezuela (Links to an external site.)Venezuela’s Opposition at a Crossroads (also available in Spanish) (Links to an external site.)Venezuela’s Popular Sectors and the Future of a Country (Links to an external site.)Venezuelan Women Confront State Violence (Links to an external site.)Washington Doubles Down on its Military Intervention Script in Venezuela (Links to an external site.)Washington Intensifies Its Collective Punishment of Venezuelans
solved For this assessment, you will develop a 3-5 page paper
/in /by adminFor this assessment, you will develop a 3-5 page paper that examines a safety quality issue pertaining to medication administration in a health care setting. You will analyze the issue and examine potential evidence-based and best-practice solutions from the literature as well as the role of nurses and other stakeholders in addressing the issue.Health care organizations and professionals strive to create safe environments for patients however, due to the complexity of the health care system, maintaining safety can be a challenge. Since nurses comprise the largest group of health care professionals, a great deal of responsibility falls in the hands of practicing nurses. Quality improvement (QI) measures and safety improvement plans are effective interventions to reduce medical errors and sentinel events such as medication errors, falls, infections, and deaths. A 2000 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report indicated that almost one million people are harmed annually in the United States, (Kohn et al., 2000) and 210,000–440,000 die as a result of medical errors (Allen, 2013).The role of the baccalaureate nurse includes identifying and explaining specific patient risk factors, incorporating evidence-based solutions to improving patient safety and coordinating care. A solid foundation of knowledge and understanding of safety organizations such as Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN), the Institute of Medicine (IOM), and The Joint Commission and its National Patient Safety Goals (NPSGs) program is vital to practicing nurses with regard to providing and promoting safe and effective patient care.You are encouraged to complete the Identifying Safety Risks and Solutions activity. This activity offers an opportunity to review a case study and practice identifying safety risks and possible solutions. We have found that learners who complete course activities and review resources are more successful with first submissions. Completing course activities is also a way to demonstrate course engagement.Demonstration of ProficiencyBy successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:Competency 1: Analyze the elements of a successful quality improvement initiative.Explain evidence-based and best-practice solutions to improve patient safety focusing on medication administration and reducing costs.Competency 2: Analyze factors that lead to patient safety risks.Explain factors leading to a specific patient-safety risk focusing on medication administration.Competency 4: Explain the nurse’s role in coordinating care to enhance quality and reduce costs.Explain how nurses can help coordinate care to increase patient safety with medication administration and reduce costs.Identify stakeholders with whom nurses would need to coordinate to drive quality and safety enhancements with medication administration.Competency 5: Apply professional, scholarly, evidence-based strategies to communicate in a manner that supports safe and effective patient care.Communicate using writing that is clear, logical, and professional with correct grammar and spelling using current APA style.ReferencesAllen, M. (2013). How many die from medical mistakes in U.S. hospitals? Retrieved from https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/09/20/224507654/how-many-die-from-medical-mistakes-in-u-s-hospitals.Kohn, L. T., Corrigan, J., & Donaldson, M. S. (Eds.). (2000). To err is human: Building a safer health system. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.Professional ContextAs a baccalaureate-prepared nurse, you will be responsible for implementing quality improvement (QI) and patient safety measures in health care settings. Effective quality improvement measures result in systemic and organizational changes, ultimately leading to the development of a patient safety culture.ScenarioConsider a previous experience or hypothetical situation pertaining to medication errors, and consider how the error could have been prevented or alleviated with the use of evidence-based guidelines.Choose a specific condition of interest surrounding a medication administration safety risk and incorporate evidence-based strategies to support communication and ensure safe and effective care. For this assessment:Analyze a current issue or experience in clinical practice surrounding a medication administration safety risk and identify a quality improvement (QI) initiative in the health care setting.InstructionsThe purpose of this assessment is to better understand the role of the baccalaureate-prepared nurse in enhancing quality improvement (QI) measures that address a medication administration safety risk. This will be within the specific context of patient safety risks at a health care setting of your choice. You will do this by exploring the professional guidelines and best practices for improving and maintaining patient safety in health care settings from organizations such as QSEN and the IOM. Looking through the lens of these professional best practices to examine the current policies and procedures currently in place at your chosen organization and the impact on safety measures for patients surrounding medication administration, you will consider the role of the nurse in driving quality and safety improvements. You will identify stakeholders in QI improvement and safety measures as well as consider evidence-based strategies to enhance quality of care and promote medication administration safety in the context of your chosen health care setting.Be sure that your plan addresses the following, which corresponds to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. Please study the scoring guide carefully so that you know what is needed for a distinguished score.Explain factors leading to a specific patient-safety risk focusing on medication administration.Explain evidence-based and best-practice solutions to improve patient safety focusing on medication administration and reducing costs.Explain how nurses can help coordinate care to increase patient safety with medication administration and reduce costs. Identify stakeholders with whom nurses would coordinate to drive safety enhancements with medication administration.Communicate using writing that is clear, logical, and professional, with correct grammar and spelling, using current APA style.Additional RequirementsLength of submission: 3–5 pages, plus title and reference pages.Number of references: Cite a minimum of 4 sources of scholarly or professional evidence that support your findings and considerations. Resources should be no more than 5 years old.APA formatting: References and citations are formatted according to current APA style.Collaboration and LeadershipCho, S. M., & Choi, J. (2018). Patient safety culture associated with patient safety competencies among registered nurses. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 50(5), 549–557. https://doi-org.library.capella.edu/10.1111/jnu.12…This article discusses the importance of creating a unit-specific patient safety culture that is tailored to the competencies of the unit’s RNs in patient safety practice.SonÄŸur, C., Özer, O., Gün, C., & Top, M. (2018). Patient safety culture, evidence-based practice and performance in nursing. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 31(4), 359–374.Evidence-based practice is a problem-solving approach in which the best available and useful evidence is used by integrating research evidence, clinical expertise, and patient values and preferences to improve health outcomes, service quality, patient safety and clinical effectiveness, and employee performance.Stalter, A. M., & Mota, A. (2017). Recommendations for promoting quality and safety in health care systems. The Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing, 48(7), 295–297.This article provides recommendation to promote quality and safety education with a focus on systems thinking awareness among direct care nurses. A key point is error prevention, which requires a shared effort among all nurses.Manno, M. S. (2016). The role transition characteristics of new registered nurses: A study of work environment influences and individual traits. (Publication No. 10037467) [Doctoral dissertation, Capella University]. http://library.capella.edu/login?qurl=https%3A%2F%…This research study may be helpful in identifying traits and qualities of new registered nurses that are helpful in coordinating and leading quality and safety measures related to this assessment.Boomah, S. A. (2018). Emergence of informal clinical leadership as a catalyst for improving patient care quality and job satisfaction. Journal of Advanced Nursing. 75(5), 1000–1009. https://doi-org.library.capella.edu/10.1111/jan.13…This research analyzes attributes and best practices of leadership and nursing staff that help aid in patient care quality and job satisfaction.Greenstein, T. (2020). Leading innovation is completely different from leading change. WWD.com.This article examines competencies that may help nurses collaborate more effectively to improve patient outcomes.Poder, T. G., & Mattais, S. (2018). Systemic analysis of medication administration omission errors in a tertiary-care hospital in Quebec. Health Information Management Journal, 49(2-3), 99–107.This examination of underlying systemic causes of medication errors may be useful as you consider QI vest practices and ways to coordinate care to increase safety and quality.Antevy, P. (2017). How care collaboration is improving patient outcomes. EMS World, 46(4), 26–33.This article examines competencies that may help health care professionals collaborate more effectively to improve patient outcomes.Keers, R. N., Plácido, M., Bennet, K., Clayton, K., Brown, P., & Ashcroft, D. M. (2018, October 26). What causes medication administration errors in a mental health hospital? A qualitative study with nursing staff. PLOS One. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.13…This examination of underlying systemic causes of medication errors may be useful as you consider QI best practices and ways to coordinate care to increase safety and quality.Quality Improvement InitiativesAllison, J. (2016). Ideas and approaches for quality-assessment and performance-improvement projects in ambulatory surgery centers. AORN Journal, 103(5), 483–488.This article focuses on approaches and indicators customary to the services and operations of an ambulatory surgery center, going beyond reviewing data from routine outcome measures and explaining the effect these ideas can have on improving quality of care.Coles, E., Wells, M., Maxwell, M., Harris, F. M., Anderson, J., Gray, N. M., . . . MacGillivray, S. (2017). The influence of contextual factors on healthcare quality improvement initiatives: What works, for whom and in what setting? Protocol for a realist review. Systematic Reviews, 6, 168–178. Retrieved from https://systematicreviewsjournal.biomedcentral.com…This article examines ways in which the context of a quality improvement initiative plays a role in its success or failure and should help you consider the context of your proposed quality improvement initiative.Institute for Healthcare Improvement. (n.d.). Reliability series part 1: What is reliability? [Video]. Retrieved from http://www.ihi.org/education/IHIOpenSchool/resourc…This video discusses the relationship between reliability and quality in health care.Robinson, J., & Gelling, L. (2019). Nurses+QI=better hospital performance? A critical review of the literature. Nursing Management (Harrow), 26(4), 22–28.Abstract: NHS regulators, such as NHS Improvement and the Care Quality Commission, promote staff involvement in quality improvement (QI), while national nursing leaders and the Nursing and Midwifery Council advocate nurses’ involvement in improving services. This article critically explores the evidence base for a national nursing strategy to involve nurses in QI using a literature review. A thematic analysis shows that nurse involvement in QI has several positive outcomes, which are also included in the NHS Improvement’s Single Oversight Framework for NHS Providers. The article concludes that nurse involvement in QI helps improve hospital performance (Robinson & Gelling, 2019).Chen, H., Feng, H., Liao, L., Wu, X., Zhao, Y., Hu, M., Li, H., Hu, H., & Yang, X. (2020). Evaluation of quality improvement intervention with nurse training in nursing homes: A systematic review. Journal of Clinical Nursing, (29)15–16. https://doi-org.library.capella.edu/10.1111/jocn.1…The need for implementing systemic quality improvement practices to improve safety and quality is discussed in this article.Quality and Safety EducationLyle-Edrosolo, G., & Waxman, K. (2016). Aligning healthcare safety and quality competencies: Quality and safety education for nurses (QSEN), the Joint Commission, and American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) Magnet® standards crosswalk. Nurse Leader, 14(1), 70–75. This article attempts to align the language used in three quality and safety standards and reduce confusion for health care professionals.Altmiller, G., & Hopkins-Pepe, L. (2019). Why quality and safety education for nurses (QSEN) matters in practice. The Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing, 50(5), 199–200.This article discusses the needs for quality and safety education in nursing and how the Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing supports QSEN competency implementation in practice.Johnson, L., McNally, S., Meller, N., & Dempsey, J. (2019). The experience of undergraduate nursing students in patient safety education: A qualitative study. Australian Nursing and Midwifery Journal, 26(8), 55.This article discusses educating nursing students about patient safety early within their learning journey and how it has shown to have a compelling positive impact on each individual’s knowledge, skills, and behavior growth surrounding the concept of patient safety.Wieke Noviyanti, L., Handiyani, H., & Gayatri, D. (2018). Improving the implementation of patient safety by nursing students using nursing instructors trained in the use of quality circles. BMC Nursing, 17(2).Abstract: It is recognized worldwide that the skills of nursing students concerning patient safety is still not optimal. The role of clinical instructors is to instill in students the importance of patient safety. Therefore, it is important to have competent clinical instructors. Their experience can be enhanced through the application of quality circles. This study identifies the effect of quality circles on improving the safety of patients of nursing students. Patient safety is inseparable from the quality of nursing education. Existing research shows that patient safety should be emphasized at all levels of the healthcare education system. In hospitals, the ratio between nursing students and clinical instructors is disproportionately low. In Indonesia, incident data relating to patient safety involving students is not well documented, and the incidents often occur in the absence of a clinical instructor (Wieke Noviyanti, Handiyani, & Gayatri, 2018).Havaei, F., MacPhee, M., & Dahinten, V. S. (2019). The effect of nursing care delivery models on quality and safety outcomes of care: A crossâ€sectional survey study of medicalâ€surgical nurses. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 75(10), 2144–2155.This study examines components of nursing care delivery and the mode of nursing care delivery. This may be helpful in seeing safety and quality education and best practices.Health and medicine – quality of care; new findings from Karolinska Institute in the area of quality of care reported (shared responsibility: school nurses’ experience of collaborating in school-based interprofessional teams). (2017, July 21). Health and Medicine Week.This wire feed examines evidence-based and best-practice strategies for improving the care offered by school nurses, may help you identify useful strategies for your assessment.Quality and Safety Case StudiesConsider reviewing the following case studies as you complete your assessment:Institute for Healthcare Improvement. (n.d.). One dose, fifty pills (AHRQ). Retrieved from http://www.ihi.org/education/IHIOpenSchool/resourc…Institute for Healthcare Improvement. (n.d.). Josie King – What happened to Josie? ;[Video]. Retrieved from http://www.ihi.org/education/IHIOpenSchool/resourc…