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There are three types of homelessness – chronic, transitional, and episodic. The reasons homelessness occurs amongst most families and individuals in inner cities range from lack of affordable housing, job loss, crime, substance abuse, mental illness, lack of education, and extreme poverty; all of which were heightened during the COVID-19 pandemic. Research shows this population is less likely to overcome the long term effects of Covid-19 due to pre-existing conditions, overexposure, and the inability to access social services at a pre-pandemic rate. Most believed that the anticipated $1200 stimulus checks that were distributed to all Americans as a direct result of the pandemic would help alleviate the homelessness issue, however, just as always it was a minor band-aid on an issue that requires surgical stitches.

Part I The Advance Health Care Directive  Locate a copy of an advanced directive (AD) that complies with the laws of the state in which you work. The organization in which you work should have a copy of an advance directive that is given to patients. If not, download your state’s Advance Directives here http://www.caringinfo.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3289.Complete the advance directive for yourself.  Do not turn in your AD with your paper. The AD is for your personal use. In your paper, Part I:  Identify where you obtained the AD and explain its compliance with state law. Conduct research (1-2 sources) to learn more about the AD in your state and explain how it works. Discuss how easy or difficult it was to complete the AD. Your comments should be specific and both objective and subjective. For example, when you state your personal feelings, you must relate them to the literature (textbook and research) that discusses this process and the difficulties that many people face when completing an advance directive. (Cite/ reference any sources you use to explore these questions, including your texts.)  Part II Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) Form  What is a Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) form? When should this form be completed? Who can complete the form? Who needs to sign the form to make it a legal document? (Cite/reference any sources you use to explore these questions, including your texts.) Part III Tie the two first sections together by writing a summary and conclusion. This section should address:1. the differences between an Advance Health Care Directive and the POLST, 2. the RN’s important role in assuring the patient’s right to autonomy in choosing the healthcare interventions the patient does or does not want.

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What are the positive and negative impacts of renewable energy resource you chose? Hydropower plants typically use the mechanical energy of water from rivers, streams, or reservoirs to rotate generator blades and produce energy. This allows zero-emission power from a potentially unending  “fuel” source. Additionally, pumped storage plants can take water from lower to higher elevations when the excess flow is available and release it to generate electricity during times of higher electricity demand (M3  33).  However, this comes at a cost, causing local environmental problems since the 1960s, according to the Norwegian Environment  Agency, (2015).  The dams and plants required for hydropower can cause changes in the environment, specifically fish and wildlife, vegetation, and erosion (M3 61). A lack of indigenous support in the Philippines has not only lead to 30 people being killed defending their land and environment in 2018, (as well as 48 murders in 2017) but also disrupt the way of life of these same indigenous people who utilize the waterways for their basic living needs (Delina, 2020). Can or cannot renewable energy replace fossil fuels? I believe that it is possible to eventually replace fossil fuels with renewable energy sources (and have written a few different papers on it over my degree), although admittedly some large barriers still remain.   Norway currently boasts 97% carbon neutral power generation and are still pushing to achieve its remaining 3% (Carroll 2019).  This transition involves overcoming technological, regulatory, and political issues.  Norway’s Energy Act of 1990 deregulated its electricity sector and developed the Nord Pool, which is the world’s largest market for electricity (Hansen 2013).  Within the US, only almost 20% of the power generated is renewable energy (with 7% hydropower, 7% wind energy, 2%  biomass, 2% solar energy and less than 1% geothermal), but separating electrical generation from political gain, putting funding into renewables for advances in energy storage and transitioning fossil fuel jobs into comparable renewable jobs make this a possibility (IEA, 2019). How does renewable energy affect the current power industry infrastructure? Ideally, as new renewable energy gets adapted, the demand on the grid will decrease as efficiencies increase and some buildings will become self-sustaining. In the interim, however, the creation and maintenance of an updated distribution network to provides the safe and reliable delivery of power will require substantial infrastructure investment (M5  33). The costs of new construction and upgrades to the system  (including but not limited to smart meters distribution networks that detect and prevent overloads) will continue to increase along with consumer demand (M5 34). What help, if any, should governments give to help the establishment of renewable energy production? Beginning a focus on a renewable power transition is beneficial to the establishment in both economic and ecological ways.  The application of carbon avoidance costs has already shown large upgrades and additions to current fossil fuel flue gas lines or pulled more money in from these establishments.  Renewables would not only decrease the consumer cost per energy when compared to carbon avoidance costs but also plays a direct role in minimizing the amount of carbon released into the atmosphere.  Funding for renewable research and training for renewable job transitions would feed into electrical corporations’ financial balancing act of building new renewable power plants versus the expenses of fossil fuels and the subsequent carbon emission costs. Will the Clean Power Plan Survive? Why or why not? It is hard to believe that the Clean Power Plan will survive,  although much of my work in furthering my education comes in the hope that I can be part of it succeeding. The Clean Power Plan (Links to an external site.)  of 2015 set limits on carbon pollution from U.S. power plants,  attempting to curb the impacts of climate change around the world (NRDC 2017).   It says that limiting carbon pollution from power plants is “the single biggest step we can take to fight” climate change (NRDC, 2017).   However, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says that, with current operations, even expecting perfect execution going forward, the goal of limiting temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius is out of reach, and the 1.5-degree target that scientists say must be achieved to save the earth’s coral reefs is farther still (Poneman,  2019).  I personally have seen the effects of the U.S. “clean coal”  technologies, removing mercury and acid gasses from the flue gas with activated carbon and hydrated lime or pretreating the coal to decrease the chance of those same toxins escaping (M3 55).  However, unless the  aforementioned political and training changes are fulfilled, it seems  unlikely that the IPCC prediction will change

My Research County was Fort Bend County, Texas, and comparison county was Queen Anne’s County Research was on the demographics, tax systems, retail, tourism, schools, hospitals, activities for various age groups, gather as many details as possible. You are to become an economist for this assignment. This county project/research paper will be assessed in three ways: 1) the quality and quantity of data gathered 2) a comparison of your chosen county and the county in which you live 3) three ORIGINAL recommendations for NEW opportunities for your county of choice with proper explanation and justification for these ideas. Some counties are without a major hospital or a small airport.  And some may have an outdated mode of public transportation.  Determine what may better support the existing demographic or may attract a new demographic. How does your county’s tax system support or hinder the ability to make proper changes in your county?   This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeExplanation of a topic, clearly identify the purpose, potential problems, or nuances. This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeEvidence: Evaluate inferences, conclusions, and arguments for clarity, precision, relevance, accuracy, breadth, depth, significance, logic, and fairness. This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeSocial, political, environmental, and economic impacts: Recognize industry, political, environmental, and/or economic assumptions used in reasoning. This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomePoint of view: Differentiate between opinion and fact. Answer clearly and precisely potential relevant questions. Identify, assess, and interpret relevant information. Use researched data for support. Do not use “I” in this paper. This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeConclusions and related outcomes (implications and consequences); Analyze the implications and practical consequences of a line of reasoning. Demonstrate how point of view may have been altered through the discovery of researched evidence.

What are some critical political and policy considerations that impact difficult decisions of how much and what types of health care can be provided with limited budgets/resources, and what political and policy contributory factors might lead to higher rates of illness? OR How are the health issues of infant mortality and nutrition similar and different for the countries of China and India? And how do their cultural influences and beliefs of health care practices and traditional medicine affect health and health care differently?

there need to be at least 12 peer-reviewed articles. Competitive analysis. product/service features, benefits and brand identity. marketing plan objectives described using SMART goals. competitive analysis including differentiation, positioning and target market profile. How the marketing mix (the 4 Ps or 7 Ps) will work together to reinforce the plan objectives, and the marketing communication budget. Integrated Marketing Communications plan (IMC) for your product/service. Media plan for this section should clearly state the communication message and how you will relate the message through your selection of specific modes of communication. Marketing communications budget including total budget and allocations for each media channel.

1. Learning how to enhance images while preparing accurate, court-admissible photographs takes practice. This week, you will use Camera RAW photos. You should primarily use techniques contained within the Week 3 Practical Exercise folder. However, you may choose to apply additional techniques you previously learned in this class. Directions: Using the 15 images within the Camera RAW Lab Photos folder, edit each to be a fair and accurate representation of the scene while using valid and repeatable methods in Photoshop. Based on your discretion, edit the photographs to make them better quality. Then, fill in the boxes below with the original image, enhanced image, overall steps you took to enhance the image, and the justification for why you chose those edits/why they were necessary. (4 points (per enhanced photo), 1 points (steps to enhance), and 1 points (justification)) Finally, answer the questions below. See each individual question for allocated point values. Note: You may need to compress the final images in order to submit the assignment

I have provided you with two videos below. Your task is to watch the provided videos, create 10 questions and answers, and submit for grading. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=-Yqk5cHXsko&feature=emb_title https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=SnxfV3iG9iQ&feature=emb_title

Using the Goucher College Master of Education database of action research projects, select one article to read that you think will help you to make sense of the ways that others in your area of interest are implementing change into their practices. Pay particular attention to strategies that are tried and the outcomes of this work. Post your thoughts on the strategies that were tried in the piece, reflecting on: 1. How did the author describe the strategies? 2. Were you able to envision what was tried based on how they wrote about it? 3. What else do you wish you were told to better understand the innovation? 4. What ideas could you take from here to inform your own action research project? Be sure to include a full APA reference for the article you chose to read. Be sure to include a reminder for the reader of your post about why you chose to focus on this article by tying it to your research question/area of interest. This will help us all to provide you with useful feedback and comments. https://mdsoar.org/handle/11603/1602 This is the link to the articles.