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The subjects of retirement and health insurance are much in the news these days. Discuss your plans for retirement with a special emphasis on income after retirement and health insurance. After a lifetime of paying Social Security and Medicare taxes in every payroll check, your grandparents and parents are counting on having Social Security and Medicare to help with the inevitable loss of income occurring at retirement. Things may be different for your generation. Many are discussing privatizing Social Security and doing away with Medicare. Even Republican voters in the State of Florida are opposed to this plan. Read the report on a survey of Republican Primary Voters who objected 2:1 to plans to change these benefits (among Hispanic voters, the opposition was even stronger with 4:1 voters opposing changes). Given what you know of the volatility of the stock markets that are up one day and down drastically another, would you risk your retirement to the stock market? Would you risk your health on having the ability to pay for private health insurance when you retire? Despite what you’ve heard, Social Security and Medicare can be saved. The generation entering the workforce today (The Millenials) are an even larger generation than the retiring Baby Boomer generation. As long as many or more are paying into the system than those who are retiring, the programs can and should be saved. You never know how your life will turn out and it is essential to have a basic retirement cushion to live on. Moreover, it is your money after all. You have paid into both Social Security and Medicare with every paycheck since you started working. What can you do now to help save Social Security and Medicare? Some believe it is essential to send politicians to Washington and Tallahassee who will protect those benefits. But it is not enough to save these benefits. What can you do to guarantee a comfortable retirement and good medical care in your old age?

Rawls makes a connection between morality and what an ideal law would look like.  There are a number of different connections one might want to make between what is moral and what is legal.  What, exactly, is the connection between the law and morality?  Is everything that is legal morally acceptable?  Is everything that is illegal morally wrong?  Why do you think that?

you will be taking on the role of marketing manager for the organization that you researched in Unit VI. Within that role, you will need to present the marketing plan that you completed in Unit VI to the marketing team. This will require no additional research, but you will be compiling your content into a PowerPoint presentation and subsequent video. The items below should be included in your presentation. Introduction: Include a brief introduction to the company. Competitive Analysis: Provide a comparison of the company against two or three competitors. Marketing Strategies: Include an examination of all four Ps (product, price, place, and promotion). This should include the product and service, pricing, distribution/place, and both traditional and digital marketing strategies. Competitive Advantage: Address whether the company holds a competitive advantage in each of the areas of the four Ps. Ethical Stance of Company: Present the company’s ethical stance, which can include topics such as how they have created an ethical culture, social responsibility or corporate social responsibility (CSR), or any other topics related to ethical behaviour within the organization. Conclusion: Provide recommendations for this company with respect to future marketing strategies, remembering to include topics involving all four Ps.

Throughout this course, you have developed a formal, evidence-based practice proposal. The proposal is the plan for an evidence-based practice project designed to address a problem, issue, or concern in the professional work setting. Although several types of evidence can be used to support a proposed solution, a sufficient and compelling base of support from valid research studies is required as the major component of that evidence. Proposals must be submitted in a format suitable for obtaining formal approval in the work setting. Proposals will vary in length depending upon the problem or issue addressed (3,500 and 5,000 words). The cover sheet, abstract, references pages, and appendices are not included in the word count. Section headings for each section component are required. Evaluation of the proposal in all sections will be based upon the extent to which the depth of content reflects graduate-level critical thinking skills. This project contains seven formal sections: Section A: Organizational Culture and Readiness Assessment Section B: Proposal/Problem Statement and Literature Review Section C: Solution Description Section D: Change Model Section E: Implementation Plan Section F: Evaluation of Process Each section (A-F) will be submitted as a separate assignment in Topics 1-6 so your instructor can provide feedback (refer to applicable topics for complete descriptions of each section). The final paper submission in Topic 7 will consist of the completed project (with revisions to all sections), title page, abstract, compiled references list, and appendices. Appendices will include a conceptual model for the project, handouts, data and evaluation collection tools, a budget, a timeline, resource lists, and approval forms, as previously assigned in individual section assignments. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is required. This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion. You are required to submit this assignment to Lopes Write. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.

Choose a work of art from one of these movements. You may select a work from the textbook, resources, videos, or museum links. Your work of art should be one that you have not already examined elsewhere in this class. Include an image of the artwork. Identify the title, artist, movement (date if known), and region (place if known) of your work. Explain why you were attracted to this work, and discuss at least two characteristics of this artwork that you found interesting or noteworthy. Incorporate what you have learned about the process and components of art appreciation.

Describe the management strategies of recruitment and retention in nursing leadership Discussion Overview This discussion forum explores the problems that nursing leadership faces every day when managing a group of nurses. It addresses staffing concerns and patient safety. As a nurse manager, you must be aware of the general morale among staff members and address any morale issues on a short- and long-term basis. You will need to apply your knowledge of recruitment and retention to address these concerns. Deliverables Your participation in the discussion forum, including the following: Responses to the initial questions Responses to at least two other students’ posts Step 1 Read the scenario. You are one year into your first nurse manager position and you have noticed that your staffing is way below average. Your turnover rate is at 13%, and you have noticed that new RNs are only staying about six to nine months after orientation. You are hearing complaints from staff about constantly orientating new RNs. You also hear patient complaints that staff are not anticipating their needs. This is affecting your budget, staff morale, and patient outcomes. Additionally, a number of documentation and medication errors have occurred over the last three months, and these mistakes are contributing to poor patient outcomes. Step 2 Post your response to the discussion board. Discuss short- and long-term decisions to help alleviate problems on your unit. Respond to the following questions and, if it’s relevant, include your own personal experience: Discuss the concerns of this unit and any priorities that will need to be analyzed immediately. Explain your short-term (zero- to six-month) decisions and plan. Describe your long-term decisions and your rationale for making these decisions Objective Describe the management strategies of recruitment and retention in nursing leadership Discussion Overview This discussion forum explores the problems that nursing leadership faces every day when managing a group of nurses. It addresses staffing concerns and patient safety. As a nurse manager, you must be aware of the general morale among staff members and address any morale issues on a short- and long-term basis. You will need to apply your knowledge of recruitment and retention to address these concerns. Deliverables Your participation in the discussion forum, including the following: Responses to the initial questions Responses to at least two other students’ posts Step 1 Read the scenario. You are one year into your first nurse manager position and you have noticed that your staffing is way below average. Your turnover rate is at 13%, and you have noticed that new RNs are only staying about six to nine months after orientation. You are hearing complaints from staff about constantly orientating new RNs. You also hear patient complaints that staff are not anticipating their needs. This is affecting your budget, staff morale, and patient outcomes. Additionally, a number of documentation and medication errors have occurred over the last three months, and these mistakes are contributing to poor patient outcomes. Step 2 Post your response to the discussion board. Discuss short- and long-term decisions to help alleviate problems on your unit. Respond to the following questions and, if it’s relevant, include your own personal experience: Discuss the concerns of this unit and any priorities that will need to be analyzed immediately. Explain your short-term (zero- to six-month) decisions and plan. Describe your long-term decisions and your rationale for making these decisions

Why is therapy not always the best route when dealing with a psychopathic offender? How do psychopathic offenders differ from other offenders? What is the role of the SHU in a correctional facility?

Argueta and de Jesus both map what it is like to live under crisis. One Day of Life gives us the realities present under the Salvadoran civil war while Child of the Dark provides us insight into what life is like for a Black, working poor, single mother in the faves of Brazil. Crushing poverty and the lack of consistent access to food, potable water, and education are some of the similarities in both of these settings. For the final paper students will do a deep reading of both of these texts and map the similarities and differences that they illustrate as the expansion of COVID-19 continues in the US and around the globe, generally. What realities surrounding questions of power, inequality, and exploitation do Argueta and de Jesus expose? What relationships do those realities have with what COVID-19 will invariably keep uncovering in terms of inequity, power, and exploitation in the US? How does the legacy of civil war in El Salvador play itself out during the global pandemic? How does the legacy of grinding poverty, concentrated in Black Brazilian quarters of society, impact the spread and response to COVID-19 in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paolo (major cities in Brazil with large, impoverished sectors of Black Brazilians)? Finally, what lessons to survive do Argueta and de Jesus provide us in their texts?

Prior to beginning work on this discussion forum, read Chapter 6 and 7 from the textbook, and thoroughly explore the Art Across Regions  (Links to an external site.)  interactive. In the Art Across Regions interactive, you examined how differences between regions exist and the implications to art created within those regions. Now, select two works, each from the same time period and movement, but from different regions within that movement. Select works of art that you have not already examined in this class. Below are some examples of regions to explore within a particular movement (choose two regions): Italy France Northern Europe Spain Latin America The Caribbean United States Between the two works of art, what similarities and differences do you see in terms of the media (materials), methods, and subjects? Explain how each work of art is reflective of the movement, yet unique to its region. You can find works of art in the textbook, a website listed on the ART101 Museum and Images Website document, one of the assigned virtual reality videos, or visit your local museum. For guidance in comparing and contrasting your works of art, consult the Writing Center’s guide to Compare & Contrast Assignments  (Links to an external site.) . Cite your sources as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center  (Links to an external site.)  guides on APA: Citing Within Your Paper  (Links to an external site.)  and APA: Formatting Your References List  (Links to an external site.) . For works of art, follow the basic modified APA Style reference entry format in the APA Style Reference Entries for Artwork document.

write a 4-6 page (1,000-1,500 words) essay. Your essay should thoughtfully and thoroughly analyze the texts listed for each question, being informed with concrete evidence and support from our textbook. You will want to have an engaging and original title and introduction with an arguable thesis. Body paragraphs should be organized with topic sentences and transitions, supported with concrete, detailed, and relevant details and evidence. The conclusion should be memorable. Double-space your essay and be sure to proofread it using Grammarly (Links to an external site.)and attach a complete “Works Cited.” Write an essay comparing the role played by gender in all four essays listed below: -Eudora Welty’s “A Worn Path” -Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Cask of Admontillado” -William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” -Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” How does gender affect the experience of space? What space and images are associated with it? (SOURCES NOT REQUIRED BECAUSE THE ESSAY’S LISTED ABOVE IS IN THE BOOK LISTED DOWN BELOW IF YOU USE SOME SOURCES THAT HAVE THE ESSAY AND HELPS YOU WITH EVIDENCE SUPPORTING YOUR ARGUABLE THESIS, WORKS CITE IT) THE FOUR SOURCES IF FOR THE FOUR ESSAY’S IN CASE YOU WANT TO FIND SOME EVIDENCE BUT EVERYTHING SHOULD BE COMING FROM THE BOOK LISTED DOWN BELOW. (Topics and questions adapted from Literature: A World of Writing, Stories, Poems, Plays, and Essays, Eds. David L. Pike and Ana M. Acosta, Boston: Longman, 2014. 607)