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Public Policy – Housing Stability Before anyone had heard of COVID-19, Texas already had a housing affordability problem. The cost of housing has risen steady over the past three decades while wages for low-skill and unskilled workers have been largely stagnant. When the coronavirus pandemic derailed the economy in March, 2020, many Texans found themselves out of work, especially service workers in nail salons, restaurants, bars, hotels and other “non-essential’ businesses that were forced to close or greatly cut back on their operations. Many Texans, living paycheck-to-paycheck already, quickly found themselves unable to pay rent. The Texas Supreme Court quickly imposed a moratorium on residential evictions through the end of May. Congress passed the CARES Act, which suspended evictions on “covered properties” through the end of July, and made the process more lengthy after the end of the moratorium. Local cities and counties created various rental assistance programs, the funding for which was exhausted as quickly as each program could open for applications. Now, Texas is looking at a resumption of evictions, even as many Texans are unemployed and unemployment compensation is running out. At the same time, housing providers are struggling to pay their bills and keep utilities turned on at thousands of apartment properties, even with many residents not paying rent. As if this weren’t enough, the downturn in the energy industry may last far longer than the virus, and cause further economic problems that impact the job and housing markets. In June, Houston and Harris County appointed a Housing Stability Task Force to make policy recommendations, which began meeting the same week this class started. For your final assignment in this class, write our standard 2 – 5 page essay (this will probably need more than 2 pages…) as if you were serving on the Housing Policy Task Force. What would you recommend and why? If your recommendation costs money, make sure your recommendation includes a source for the funding. Submit in Word. Cite your sources. Additional Resources Here’s your Housing Stability Task Force: https://cjo.harriscountytx.gov/Newsroom/housing-stability-task-force-members-represent-service-providers-property-owners-tenants-and-advocates   (Links to an external site.) The Texas Supreme Court imposes an eviction moratorium: https://www.texastribune.org/2020/03/19/coronavirus-updates-texas-economy-government-employees-telemedicine/  (Links to an external site.) And extends it: https://www.texastribune.org/2020/04/28/Texas-evictions-moratorium-extended/  (Links to an external site.) This Kinder Institute report outlines the problem: https://kinder.rice.edu/urbanedge/2020/06/23/rents-and-home-prices-go-once-affordable-houston-housing-grows-less-accessible  (Links to an external site.) January Advisors has an “Eviction Dashboard” that tracks eviction cases across the county: https://www.januaryadvisors.com/evictions/  (Links to an external site.) Here’s a look at the problem from the landlord’s perspective: RidgwayOpEdJuly2020.docx

1.     Choose one of the following topics related to concepts covered in NR325: Health and wellness, infection control, hygiene, safety, immobility, skin and wounds, urinary, bowel, nutrition, oxygenation, pain, sleep, spiritual, and loss/death/grief. 2.     Each student is to conduct his or her own literature search related to the chosen topic and is to select an evidence-based nursing research article from a peer-reviewed journal. 3.     The article selected should ideally be no more than 8 pages in length and written within the past 5 years. 4.     Provide up to a 3-page paraphrased summary of the article, double-spaced, Times New Roman font size 12, in APA format that includes the following: o   Purpose/Research Question – why was the research conducted? In other words, was a problem, issue, concern, or curiosity identified as something that supported the need for the research? o   Population/Sample – who were the participants in the study? o   What were the main findings or conclusions in the study? o   What is the application of this research to nursing practice? This section of your paper should be written in your own words, so writing in first person is allowed.  Share your thoughts about what this topic and findings of the research mean to you and how important you feel they are to nursing and why.  Based on the topic and research findings, what will you do to uphold the ethical and legal standards of professional nursing practice?  In other words, how does this research apply to nursing care and nursing responsibilities? 5.     Use the Summary of Research Article Template provided. Save the template as a Word document in the original format.  Only insert your name and date on the title page.  Students should type directly on the template to complete this assignment.  Each section of the paper begins with a bolded Level 1 Heading that should remain as noted on the template. 6.     The Reference page is a separate page in a paper. For this assignment, the only reference to be noted on the reference page is the one article that was reviewed and summarized. 7.     Please include a copy or link of the selected article with your paper submission.

In the Chapters 7, 8, and 9, we have explored centuries of diverse cultural developments in the context of the Middle Ages.  For this exam, students are asked to write three short essays focusing on the separate phases of this dynamic period. Essay 1:  The end of the Roman Empire in Western Europe is best described as a period of transformation rather than simply the collapse of Roman Civilization.  Using specific examples of people, places, dates, events, etc., describe how Roman culture survived in the context of Byzantium, Islam, and the Carolingian Empire under Charlemagne. Essay 2:  The period around the year 1000, following the invasions of the Ninth Century, can be described as a period of ‘recovery’.  Support this view using specific examples of people, places, dates, events, etc.. Essay 3:  Chapter 9 discusses the consolidation of Europe, from 1100 to 1250, which can also be called the High Middle Ages.  While the earlier period around 1000 can be described as a period of ‘recovery’, the High Middle Ages are often considered a period of “achievement”.  Support this view of the period using specific examples of people, places, dates, events, etc.. Each essay should be 2 full pages, double spaced, Arial font 11.  Please submit these three separate essays as one document.

This assignment is a literature review for the novel “Fathers and Sons” by Ivan Turgenev. Also the literature review should contain these points (Idea about them/ a background) :  * The political and social landscape in Russia in the late 19th century.  * Nicholas I * Gendarme of Europe * The role of Napoleon in Russian history, How did this impact Russian culture?  * Slavophiles vs. Westernizers * Why did literature play such an important role in 19th century Russia?  * Russia and Serfdom *Superfluous Man *Nihilism * Nikolai Chernyshevsky “What Is to Be Done? (novel)”  Also, the review should give a little background about the writer “Ivan Turgenev.”

Topic : The importance of representation to those in minority groups. Choose an issue of importance to you—the issue could be personal, school related, local, political, or international in scope—and write an essay in which you explain the significance of that issue to yourself, your family, your community, or your generation.

A health policy  research paper with strong grammatically correct writing with accurate referencing. Thesis: The purpose of this research is to analyze and discuss the importance of increased surveillance data to accurately provide evidence of the caries prevalence and risks in US children, to promote progression and public awareness in children’s dental health, and lastly to determine the appropriate policies to progress children’s dental health.

In your own words, what is scientific management? ½ page How has scientific management influenced leadership and management today? 1 page How will you apply scientific management to your own leadership? Conclusion ½ page Please cite page numbers if you are using quotes (remember that I want to see your understanding of the quote, not just the quote – use quotes minimally. Suggestion:  one quotation per page.

For this assignment, you will be learning about how NASA climate scientists arrive at their conclusions concerning sea level rise and you will have a chance to consider some consequences of sea level rise. You will also see how “climate change deniers” generate their claims and learn about the tactics they use in their attempts to popularize these claims.  Read more about climate change here: NASA: Climate Change (https://climate.nasa.gov/) You have already learned about the nature of inductive reasoning and that inductive reasoning is the backbone of the scientific method. Some very savvy thinkers have utilized facts about inductive reasoning to attempt to sow doubt about scientific claims as they relate to ethical issues. In the documentary, you hear about the Heritage Foundation and its role in generating climate change denial. You will also hear that the same organization helped tobacco companies develop arguments denying that their products cause cancer. Question 2, below, will address their tactics.  For this assignment, answer the following questions fully: In “Our Rising Oceans”, you witnessed a conference of “climate change deniers” at which scientific claims about climate change are called into question. What are three things that stood out to you about this conference? Explain. At the conference of “climate change deniers”, you heard a speaker state that “observation claims are not knowledge: they are not universal, necessary, and certain.” What this speaker is referencing is called the “problem of induction,” and this problem is simply a fact of inductive reasoning. In short, if a conclusion depends on our observations rather than on necessary logical relationships, those conclusions cannot be guaranteed. Consider the following: “universal” means true in all cases “necessary” means could not be otherwise “certain” means cannot be doubted With these things in mind, it should be clear that there is nothing that we know from experience or observation that is “universal, necessary, and certain.” But does this mean that nothing we “know” from observation or experience actually counts as “knowledge?” That would imply that you don’t “know” whether it is day or night, whether the screen you are reading this on actually exists, or whether you even have a body at all! I don’t think, for most of us, that our standard of knowledge is quite that strict. Your supplementary materials above include two YouTube videos that offer short explanations of the problem of induction for your consideration. Consider what you have read here and what you saw in these videos. Here, then, is question 2: Is the problem of induction sufficient to dismiss scientific claims about climate change? Why or why not?  In the documentary, you saw some consequences of climate change that are already occurring in Bangladesh. What are three things that stood out to you from that section of the video? Explain what you found significant about these things.

everything had been perfect in the past, it would be perfect now.  We know that it’s not perfect now, and it wasn’t perfect back then.  We know that our problems often have roots in the past. Latin American countries had remarkable resources and people, but they struggled after independence. Using the chapters on Postcolonial Blues, Progress, and Neocolonialism (chapters 5, and 6 in Chasteen) which do you think were the three of the biggest challenges that they faced as new countries?  Explain these problems, don’t just describe them.  Given that these countries had been colonies for hundreds of years, which parts of the colonial past do you think were responsible for these challenges or contributed to them?   You must discuss three different countries. Remember: you must use information from Chasteen in your work.  You can also quote and paraphrase from Chasteen  for this essay. This is not a research paper.  Don’t use outside sources.  No Works Cited page needed because Chasteen will be your only source. Minimum 5 paragraphs, 12 pitch, double-spaced please! you’re writing about three of the biggest challenges facing three different countries in  this history.  Chasteen writes mostly about Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Nicaragua, Cuba, and Peru, as well as others.  Pick three of them to write about. For the “challenges,” you can choose economic challenges, political challenges, challenges with patriarchy and gender,  racial challenges, challenges with the powerful and wealthy Catholic church,  challenges with unjust use of resources, etc.  THREE COUNTRIES, and THREE CHALLENGES.

Cover page (Including student names, group number, course number, course name, project number, project title, issued date, due date) Objective(s) Assignment Conclusion/Summary Reference(s) Reference: Creating a Histogram https://www.khanacademy.org/math/cc-sixth-grade-math/cc-6th-data- statistics/histograms/v/histograms-intro How to Determine Histogram Bin Width and Bin Intervals https://www.qimacros.com/histogram-excel/how-to-determine-histogram-bin- interval/ Binomial random variables https://www.khanacademy.or /math/statistics-probability/random-va tats- library/binomial-random-variables/v/binomial-distribution?modal=1       Visualizing a binomial distribution https://www.khanacademy.org/math/statistics-probability/random-variables- statslibrary/binomial-random-variables/v/visualizing-a-binomial-distribution?modal=1 Binomial probability example https://www.khanacademy.org/math/statistics-probability/random-variables-stats- library/binomial-random-variables/v/probability-of-making-2-shots-in-6- attempts?modal=1 An Introduction to Linear Regression Analysis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPG4NjIkCjc How to calculate linear regression using least square method https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvS2triCgOY How to Calculate R Squared Using Regression Analysis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2FKXOa0HGA Standard Error of the Estimate used in Regression Analysis (Mean Square Error)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-txC-dpI-E