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Clara Barton, Medical Life at the Battlefield (1862) Born in Massachusetts, Clare Barton was a teacher and clerk in the U.S. Patent Office. Upon the arrival of the Civil War, she organized a network, separate from the government, to get food, supplies and nursing aid to the soldiers. She served as a nurse on several battlefields including Fredricksburg and Antietam. After the war, Barton went to Europe for a time where she became involved in the International Red Cross. Upon her return she worked for the establishment of the American Red Cross. Though she had much government opposition to her efforts, in 1882 the Senate ratified the Geneva Convention and the American Red Cross was born. At the age of 77 Barton again served conflict during the Spanish American war. These letters reveal the horrific nature of the Civil War battlefield. Instructions 1. Read the attached document and answer the following questions: What does Barton’s account reveal about the difficulties and obstacles facing army nurses and medical personnel during the war? Given the description presented by Barton, what conclusions can be made regarding the conditions of battle for the soldiers. How effective was the care given to the injured? Grading Policy: Discussion Posts must be submitted in the proper format (see instructions). For each post, students are expected to craft a well-written entry that fulfills the assignment requirements. Discussion posts allow the student to explore an aspect of history that is of interest to them and share that topic with the class. As such, information provided must be from credible resources (see instructions). Discussion posts are graded within one week of the due date posted. Please review the rubric for each assignment. The rubric will help you understand how I will grade your post. Student Learning Outcome Analyze and interpret primary and secondary sources (Critical Thinking; Communication Skills; Personal Responsibility; Social Responsibility). SLO2

Write an organized and well-developed essay on one of the following topics. Essays should be at least five paragraphs, with a developed argument throughout that is supported by correctly cited evidence from the text. Identify a theme or idea common to all three stories. Write an essay describing how O’Connor treats this theme. Support your argument with evidence from all three stories. All three stories are about revelations of one kind or another. How do these three revelations relate to each other? Back up your argument with evidence from the three stories. Comment on O’Connor’s use of humor in the three stories. How does comedy help her to say what she wishes to say?

Basic Structure/Layout of the Paper Introduction [1 paragraph] Thesis [1, maybe two sentences] Background paragraph which explains only the most essential of the background, history, terms, concepts, or the like of this topic. [1-2 paragraphs; some research] Describe the text’s denotation—what it appears to be, represent, or say on the surface. [1-3 paragraphs] Put this text in conversation with comparable things. Highlight similarities and differences. [3-5 paragraphs; some research] Analyzing superheroes? What are some others your chosen hero is like or unlike in some notable way? Analyzing drinks? What are some others yours is like or unlike in some notable way? Establish a framework for oppositional reading—a lens through which you will examine it. This is often historical and political in nature. (research-heavy) Explain or offer up your oppositional reading of the text (the connotation). [bulk of the paper’s body; research as support as needed] Either sign-by-sign adding up to the overall interpretation OR Overall interpretation to sign by sign Conclusion [1 paragraph] AND I have 7 sources already. Work cited Barry, John M. The Great Influenza: the Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History. Penguin Books, 2018. Moalem, Sharon, and Jonathan Prince. Survival of the Sickest: the Surprising Connections between Disease and Longevity. Harper Perennial, 2008. Saluzzo Jean-Franc?ois. La Saga Des Vaccins: Contre Les Virus. Belin-Pour La Science, 2011. Sue Tong, sammi Zheng. “Briefing: More than 2,100 deaths in the United States; young Chinese awakened in the epidemic.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 29 Mar. 2020, cn.nytimes.com/morning-brief/20200329/coronavirus-briefing/ Holmes, Lindsay. “These Are The Most Common Symptoms Of COVID-19 Right Now.” Yahoo!, Yahoo!,26June2020, www.yahoo.com/huffpost/most-common-covid-19-symptoms-195950075.html. Staff, KOMU 8 Digital. “Friday COVID-19 Coverage: Columbia Mayor Calls for Mask Ordinance.” KOMU.com, www.komu.com/news/friday-covid-19-coverage-columbia-mayor-calls-for-mask-ordinance/. Yahoo!, Yahoo!, 23 June 2020, www.yahoo.com/entertainment/7-old-boy-reads-books-154320521.html

this a discussion questions to answer as paragraphs. each questions most answer in order . question 1 and question 5 is referring to the book which can be read online as PDF for answers . book description is “ Tanner, J.L., Warren, A.E.A., & Bellack, D. (2015). Visualizing the Lifespan, Wiley. ” the book pdf can be useful as reference . 1. After carefully studying the information in chapter 1, especially the research by Baltes, answer this question: As you move closer to your professional goals in life, what is gained and what is lost as a person makes the transition from student to worker? Draw upon the research to address this topic. 2. How do sleep needs change over the lifespan? Define adolescent sleep phase delay. If you were in charge of creating educational policies in your school district, what changes would you want to institute? What changes do you think would be feasible? 3. Discussion on Aging: View the TED talk on aging and the Blue Zones Beuttner has identified. What are some of the factors Buettner has observed to be correlated with living to 100 years? Which of these are elements that can be easily incorporated into your life and which cannot? If you could design an ideal town or living community, which factors would you want to incorporate? https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_buettner_how_to_live_to_be_100 4. Describe exactly what role nutrition and physical activity play in our cognitive, social and emotional development throughout the lifespan. What can you do to improve the health and well-being of yourself and others in your family? 5. After studying chapter 13, describe the changes that occur in midlife as a result of the aging process. What are some of the daily tasks that adults may find more difficult as they experience decreases in brain volume during middle adulthood. What are some ways adults can compensate for these losses? 6. Describe what you enjoyed most about this course and then explain what you would suggest be changed. Please be specific and thank you for this information! (I can always email the pdf book if that’s not a problem for reference)

The research paper must be written in MLA format (double spaced, 12 Times New Roman) with the correct use of quotations/citations). It must be approximately 1500 words or five full pages in length (not counting a Works Cited page). Sample Topics (you don’t HAVE to choose from this list, but use it if it helps you. DO NOT turn in an author bio or plot summary. The paper must have a point-of-view and a purpose that is your own). You must use Maggie: A Girl of the Streets.  Discuss who you believe the protagonist of this story is. Hint: It may not be Maggie. What symbols or themes do you feel are the most powerful? How do they move the story forward? What type of writer is Crane: Realist, Naturalist, Modernist, or Post-Modernist? How is this style reflected in the story? Discuss how the setting (time period, general or specific setting, dirty alleys, etc.) influenced the story. Could this same story have been set anywhere else? If so, where? What kind of character is Maggie? How do you feel about her? Is she responsible for her fate? Who is/are the antagonist(s) in this story? The Irish immigrant stereotype is alive and well in this story. How does this reflect Crane’s attitude? How is violence portrayed in this story? Use specific scenes to support your response. What does it say about weakness and strength? Religion is important to this community. What role does it play in specific characters’ lives and in general? How does it affect Maggie? What do you believe is Maggie’s fate and why? Is this justified?

It’s my impression that many readers of the Arctic Book Review are seeking stirring tales of exploration from long ago. On that basis, this book – which contains enthusiastic teenage solvent abuse, erotic encounters with wild animals and gleeful retribution against human bullies and predators – may not be everyone’s cup of tea. For me, though, it’s one of the most impressive books I have read in years. Author Tanya Tagaq’s Wikipedia page describes her as a “Canadian Inuk throat singer from Cambridge Bay (Iqaluktuutiaq), Nunavut, Canada.” Tagaq has released four solo albums of increasing artistic range and ferocity, has collaborated with Bjork and the Kronos Quartet, tours worldwide, is an accomplished painter and an outspoken advocate for indigenous rights and climate activism. It would be no exaggeration to say that she’s an Inuit superstar. This is her first book. Split Tooth is a novel, with frequent nods to memoir, poetry, and traditional tales. At times, to this reader from a temperate clime, the book reads like science fiction or horror: encounters with the Northern Lights, journeys by snowmobile over frozen seas, battles with malignant spirits and musings on quantum physics. But at its icy, fiery heart, this is a book about female puberty. The unnamed protagonist, when we first meet her, is an eleven-year-old girl living in a small village by Cambridge Bay in the High Arctic. Awkward, smart, and not particularly popular, she spends the long days and long nights in her home town negotiating the universally recognizable childhood assault course of friends, bullies, teachers, neighbors and relatives, while at the same time wishing she had ‘actual breasts’. Alongside this familiar-yet-unfamiliar narrative, there runs a strand of poetry, blocks of text in Inuktitut syllabics, and excellent pop culture illustrations (by Jaime Hernandez.) Some of the events described or alluded to are shocking. Tagaq certainly pulls no punches. This is not the Arctic wonderland of noble natives that some readers may expect. The first sentence of the book is “Sometimes we would hide in the closet when the drunks came home from the bar.” Alcohol seems mostly for the adults and their tedious rowdy house parties – to be avoided. Our hero and her pals start with cigarette ends and pilfered joints, moving up to butane, rubber cement and gasoline huffed out of snowmobiles. What else is there to do when night and day have no meaning, nothing seems worth learning and the adults are either passed out from booze or away hunting? We learn, as our young hero does, that loud country music blasting from a house is a warning sign – and this is the kind of shorthand at which Tagaq excels, sketching the line from colonial corruption to child abuse. Predatory adult males are a daily challenge – the teacher who habitually gropes his pupils under their desks, the relatives who sneak into children’s bedrooms at night. One of the first poems in the book is called Sternum,” and begins as a meditation on the human breastbone and ribcage. The last few lines come with the kind of kick that marks her writing throughout The Human Sternum is used for so many things Clavicles like handlebars Ribs like stairs The sternum is the shield Even when impaired Even when it smothers a little girl’s face As the bedsprings squeak However – and I cannot emphasize this enough – Split Tooth is not a grim, dour book. It is a tragedy and a triumph. The book’s second strand, of poems, dreams and folk tales, initially a kind of counterpoint to the coming-of-age dramas of village life, gradually takes over the life of the book. The day-to-day narrative starts to incorporate brushes with malevolent spirits. Wild animals, such as the fox she encounters beneath her parents’ house while hiding from the school bully, walk into her dreams and begin to demand their due or bestow favor. In a key chapter on which the book’s plot turns, she walks out onto the sea ice one night and has an encounter with the Northern Lights that changes her life. What started out as a funny, harrowing tale of village life for an awkward teenager turns into a psychedelic spiritual ordeal ending up with some extraordinary choices for Tagaq’s young hero. I am being circumspect – this book is a page turner, and I’d really hate to spoil it with any further clues. If you choose to read this book, you will be hanging on by your fingertips by the end. What makes all this work so splendidly, is that Tagaq – and her protagonist – are such perceptive, funny, rational company. The book is sharp and bright as a knife, informed not only by Inuit folktales, but also by 21st century climate politics. Every violent act or thought is balanced with kindness and empathy. The suggestive, elliptical poetry is spiced with a lot of very specific cuss words. For anyone who has seen Tagaq as a live musical performer, this may come as no surprise. Having read the physical edition of the book, I went in again to listen to the audio book, read by the author with brief throat-singing interludes between chapters. If I had to choose a format to recommend, it would be the audiobook. The hardback is a lovely object (and there is also a vinyl album of the poems), but the five-hour audio book is another level. It is a performance. The journey from recording studio to written page hides pitfalls that have tripped many an artist. But this book’s icy white covers and red-tipped pages contain wonders. Tagaq writes with clarity, rage, humor and authority. In this book she has created what might be a defining artistic statement of the North. It is an Arctic masterpiece.

• MLK: Letter from A Birmingham Jail • President Obama: We the People Prompt: Imagine discovered these speeches several hundred years from now, say the year 2500, and they were the only evidence you had on race relations in America during our time. You have no other evidence. Based on these two speeches, how did race relations in America change between 1963 when the Reverend Martin Luther King wrote Letter from A Birmingham Jail and 2008 when Presidential Candidate Barack Obama wrote “A More Perfect Union”? 5+ pages, 12 font, MLA formatted • Intro that provides context and funnels to a thesis • Body paragraphs that make strong comparisons between King’s and Obama’s ideas about the place of Black people in America. • A summary and emphatic conclusion Introduction: The factual background—short list for context and introduction: • Who: President Obama and Dr. Martin Luther King • What: Two speeches—We the People, in order to Form a More Perfect Union and Letter from a Birmingham Jail • Where: King in a Birmingham Jail and Obama at the Constitution Center in Philadelphia • When: King in 1963 and Obama. In 2008 • How/Why: King was writing in response to the letter from the eight Alabama Clergymen and Obama in response the scandal surrounding his friend, the fiery minister, Reverend Wright. • After context, write a thesis the captures in one sentence the essential differences in how King and Obama understood race relations in America Body: Shoot for three solid comparisons—remember to compare like to like: for example, • Compare how Obama and King portray the legal status of black Americans • Compare how Obama and King portray the tone of race relations (the emotional pitch of how black and white people felt about each other) • Compare the hopes for America Obama and King developed in their speeches • Compare the frustrations Obama and King developed in their speeches Be sure to use good paragraphing (ICE paragraphs)and include quotes from Obama and King to back up each comparison. Conclusion: • Write a summary and emphatic conclusion that wraps up what you’ve developed in your body paragraphs in a way that is fresh, thorough and emphatic. The process for this is to o pause after you’ve finished your last body paragraph o make sure your thesis and topic sentences align (global coherence) o make sure your comparison paragraphs are focused o then take a short break and come back and scan your body paragraphs 2-3 times, asking yourself what the main idea is from each comparison, and then bring home the gist of your essay in a way that is fresh, thorough and emphatic

Students will demonstrate ability to critically analyse literature to support research development. To examine the process of critical analysis (critique) of research literature, read TWO research articles and undertake a critical analysis (critique) of each study.  The research articles to be used for this task relate to healthcare and infection risk management and will be provided on Moodle. 1. In a 350-word summary: Define research critique and discuss why this is an important area of research inquiry; Briefly summarize the key areas of the quantitative and qualitative research studies provided.  Your summary should clearly describe the aim, research design, methodology and method as well as the key findings reported in each research article. Identify the levels of evidence of each study. 2.  Use the framework provided to undertake a critique of the TWO research articles provided. Use scholarly research literature to provide appropriate justification for your critique comments for each one of the areas included in the framework; Complete the critique using a blank template, as shown in Appendix I, page 24. Please type your critique directly into the Word copy of the template which can be downloaded from Moodle. All sections of the template are to be completed. Use a separate copy of the template for each article you critique. Please add the reference for each article you are critiquing where it is indicated at the top of each template.   Submissions must be uploaded to the Moodle Dropbox before the specified due date. Please see the Course Outline for the rubric. Word limit: 2000 words Submission date: 19.8.2020, 11.55 pm Weighting: 40% Critique Articles:  1. Quantitative article Sekerci & Bicer (2019). The effect of walking exercise on quality of life and sleep of elderly individuals: Randomize control study. 2. Qualitative article Kim (2018).  Nurses’ experiences of care for patients with Middle East respiratory syndrome – corona-virus in South Korea. Both articles can be accessed through Discovery database.

Personal statement letter into the dept of couple, marriage, and family therapy. In 500 words or less, describe explicitly your professional goals and any further information relevant to your interest and capacity for graduate study. Include a statement of how experiences in your family of origin have influenced your career goals.

Critical Essay: 750-850 Word Critique Essay http://middlesexcc.libguides.com/c.php?g=203418&p=1342034 Use articles from the LIB Guide