You may choose to compare two stories, authors, characters, etc. For example, you may want to compare the role of religion, regional influences, or gender roles in the works of two different authors, or examine differences or similarities in the language, theme, plot, etc.
Paragraph 1 should include a brief biography of both authors and a 1-2 line synopsis of both subjects. Next, you should establish common ground between your two subjects (ex: Faulkner and Welty are both southern gothic writers, etc) This paragraph should end with a thesis statement that points out at least three similiarities or differences in the two works.

Paragraphs 2-4 should be a detailed discussion of the similarities or differences and include textual evidence (with page numbers) of your assertions whenever possible. For example, if you are examining the differences in how Faulkner and O’Connor deal with race or religion in their work you should quote from passages in the text that illustrate these differences.

The concluding paragraph should include a summary of the major ideas presented in the body of the paper and it should revisit the thesis statement.

Agency Analysis-Counseling and Recovery Services

1. Agency Overview/ Historical origins of the agency: What is the name of the agency; what is the history of the agency? How many years has it been in existence? What services does the agency provide? Number of employees; Annual budget, number of years in existence.
2. Agency mission, vision and goals: Identify the key elements in your organization’s mission statement, vision and goals; Is the mission statement clear, compelling, inspirational, and concise; In what ways does the organization communicate the mission to its various stakeholders?
3. Agency service provision: (pb a) What services does the agency provide? How does the agency advocate for clients to have access to the services provided? What is the potential for other services that the agency might provide in the future? What steps will need to be taken in order for the agency to provide these new services that you have identified? This section should also include a literature review and the student should utilize a minimum of 6 professional journal articles as sources that are focused on the placement agency’s services.
4. Staffing & human resources: (pb b) Leadership; What is the leadership of the agency? Discuss the organization culture and how change occurs; What is the quality of working life (e.g. employee relationships and functioning); Describe ways in which workplace problems are addressed (e.g. discrimination, bullying & harassment); etc. How do agency staff/professionals practice personal reflection and self-correction to assure continual professional development?
5. Roles in the agency: (pb c) What titles or professional roles are identified in the agency? How are interns to identify themselves to clients in the agency? How specifically do social workers in the agency attend to professional roles and boundaries?
6. Professionalism: (pb d) How do the agency staff/professionals demonstrate professional demeanor in behavior, appearance, and communication? Provide some specific examples.
7. Lifelong Learning/Continuing Education: (pb e) How does the agency staff/professionals address continuing education or lifelong learning? Does the agency provide any training for agency personnel? Is social work licensure required? If so what levels of licensure are required or what levels of licensure are found in the agency and what roles are they associated with?
8. Supervision/Consultation: (pb f) How do the agency staff/professionals utilize supervision and consultation when needed? Are there designated supervisors who oversee certain units or departments within the agency? How are ethical dilemmas resolved?
9. Stakeholder expectations: What is the status of client relations; Describe the program design and service delivery.
10. Policy: Discuss local, state, or federal policy that impacts the agency; discuss policies that are relevant in relating to the functioning of the agency. How is policy created for the agency? How are policies amended in the agency?
11. Environment: Assess the environment, including strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats; social, political, economic, and technological trends;
12. Diversity: How does diversity fit in the agency environment and plan? How is
cultural competency addressed?
13. Funding of the Agency: Assess the financial resources and funding opportunities. What are the areas for growth or expansion for the agency?
14. Strengths and Weaknesses: Comment on key strengths and weaknesses of the agency. Note any prior or current efforts to address any of them. Use examples to illustrate particularly strong or weak areas. Identify critical issues facing the organization such as: What area needs attention and/or development? Why does this area need attention and/or development?

Elementary and secondary schools around the country are beginning to actively address the problem of bullies. In your opinion, is bullying an issue that should be addressed by schools or left to parents? Use specific reasons and examples to support your position.

Compose an essay 800-1000 words in length. Your job is to convince me of your position and perhaps even sway me over to your way of thinking. In an effort to persuade, you should provide support from books, magazines, the internet, etc. that will strengthen your view.

Your essay must include at least 3 reasons to support your view. Additionally, you must provide outside sources (at least 3 no more than 6) to support your ideas. You should provide a Works Cited list of your resources at the end of your essay. Works Cited refers to any outside research you incorporate into your essay.

Keep this in mind…if you use an outside source in the essay, you must include it on the works cited page; however, DO NOT list a source on the works cited page and then not use it in the essay.

When you use a source (quoted or paraphrased), you should simple place the author’s last name or if there is no author use the first two or three words of the article title inside parentheses to indicate that you are using a source.

Consider the following setting: the availability of a critical computer system is monitored by two independent mechanisms. One is sending ping packets over the network and raises an alarm if there is no return packet within a second. The second measures the temperature of the computer system and if it is below
a threshold it will raise an alarm (as the system is then probably not running).

The computer system itself is certified by the manufacturer to be up and running 99.9% of the time. The ping mechanism can be faulty as well, the likelihood for this is 1%. If the ping mechanism works correctly, it is reliable in showing uptime: if the critical computer system is up and the ping mechanism is not faulty, then in
9999 out of 10000 cases the ping mechanism will report the computer system to be up. It is less precise when the computer system is down, in that case even if the ping mechanism is not faulty, the ping mechanism will report the computer system to be down only in 700 out of 1000 cases. If the ping mechanism is faulty and the computer system is up, then the ping mechanism will report the system to be up only in 1 out of 10000 cases. If the ping mechanism is faulty and the computer system is down, then the ping mechanism will however report the computer system to be unavailable in 800 out of 1000 cases. The reliability of the thermometer (the second mechanism) is influenced by the computer system, as it tends to be more faulty with high temperature (so when the system is available). In particular, when the temperature is above the threshold, the thermometer is faulty in 30% of all cases, while it is faulty only in 3% of the cases when the temperature is below the threshold. When the thermometer works correctly, it will identify high temperature correctly in 95 out of 100 cases, and it will identify low temperature correctly in 999 out of 1000 cases. If the thermometer is faulty, it will still identify high temperature correctly in 93% of all cases, but low temperature will be misidentified in 98% of all cases.
Create a Bayesian network that models this situation.

Answer the following questions:
_ How likely is it that the ping mechanism raises an alarm when the system
is available?
_ Both mechanisms signal unavailability of the computer system. How likely
is it that the computer system is really unavailable?
_ How likely is it that computer system unavailability goes undetected (i.e.
neither the ping mechanism nor the thermometer indicate unavailability
when the system is actually unavailable)?
_ The computer system is unavailable, but neither the ping mechanism nor
the thermometer indicate unavailability. How likely is it that the ping
mechanism is faulty? How likely is it that the thermometer is faulty?

Read the articles on Computer Assisted Coding (CAC).

Step 2

Write a summary of the article and answer the following questions:

How will the HIM profession and professional be effected by CAC?

In order to implement a computer assisted coding program, what does a HIM director need to consider and how does he/she present the information to the hospital administration?

How will computer assisted coding effect the coders and productivity?

What are some of the challenges with implementing a computer assisted coding program?
Be sure to provide citations and a reference list for any sources used in the format requested by your instructor.

On February 25, 1990, a Florida woman named Terri Schiavo went into cardiac arrest, apparently triggered by a bulimic episode. She was eventually revived, but her brain had been deprived of oxygen for a long time. Brain scans indicated that there was no activity in her cerebral cortex, and she suffered from severe and permanent cerebral atrophy. Basically, Schiavo was in a vegetative state. Medical professionals determined that she would never again be able to move, talk, or respond in any way. To remain alive, she required a feeding tube, and there was no chance that her situation would ever improve.

On occasion, Schiavo’s eyes would move, and sometimes she would groan. Despite the doctors’ insistence to the contrary, her parents believed that these were signs that she was trying to communicate with them.

After 12 years, Schiavo’s husband argued that his wife would not have wanted to be kept alive with no feelings, sensations, or brain activity. Her parents, however, were very much against removing her feeding tube. Eventually, the case made its way to the courts, both in the state of Florida and at the federal level. By 2005, the courts found in favor of Schiavo’s husband, and the feeding tube was removed on March 18, 2005. Schiavo died 13 days later.

Why did Schiavo’s eyes sometimes move, and why did she groan? Although the parts of her brain that control thought, voluntary movement, and feeling were completely damaged, her brainstem was still intact. Her medulla and pons maintained her breathing and caused involuntary movements of her eyes and the occasional groans. Over the 15-year period that she was on a feeding tube, Schiavo’s medical costs may have topped $7 million (Arnst, 2003).

These questions were brought to popular conscience 25 years ago in the case of Terri Schiavo, and they persist today. In 2013, a 13-year-old girl who suffered complications after tonsil surgery was declared brain dead. There was a battle between her family, who wanted her to remain on life support, and the hospital’s policies regarding persons declared brain dead. In another complicated 2013–14 case in Texas, a pregnant EMT professional declared brain dead was kept alive for weeks, despite her spouse’s directives, which were based on her wishes should this situation arise. In this case, state laws designed to protect an unborn fetus came into consideration until doctors determined the fetus unviable.

What do you think? Choose ONE of the following question prompts for your INITIAL discussion post:

Decisions surrounding the medical response to patients declared brain dead are complex. What do you think about these issues?
What would you do if your spouse or loved one was declared brain dead but his or her body was being kept alive by medical equipment?
Whose decision should it be to remove a feeding tube?
Should medical care costs be a factor?

please read and follow all the information that is listed below correctly.

Learning outcomes assessed:
1. Identify the different petroleum products, their markets and any seasonality of demand.

2. Differentiate between the characteristics of National Oil Companies, International Oil Companies and Government-Sponsored Enterprises.

3. Explain the structure of the Oil & Gas industry.

4. Explain the fundamental differences in the supply chain for petroleum
products from that for natural gas and an appreciation of fossil fuel’s share of
the global energy market, the historical trends and the broad outlook for the
future.

Assignment Question
Write a 1500 word report on the following topic:
Describe the journey of one petroleum product and one natural gas product of
your choice and compare and contrast the differences in their journeys from the
start to finish through the supply chain:
The supply chains of the Oil and Gas (with use of diagram)
• Upstream
• Midstream
• Downstream
Describe the following:
• The history and the structure of the Oil & Gas industry
• The origin and formation of Oil & Gas
Explain the different roles of the followings:
• International Oil Companies
• National Oil Companies
• Government Sponsored Enterprises
Discuss the demand and seasonality of the chosen product
• Discuss how the chosen products are demanded in the markets

Introduction (about 10% of word count)
Include some brief background information on the oil and gas industry and the products you will discuss.
Explain the steps you will take to address the question.

Main Body (about 80% of word count)
Include separate sections for the different tasks listed above and use subheadings as appropriate.

Conclusion (about 10% of word count)
Do not introduce any NEW material here. Summarise your findings, including
any key similarities and differences. Comment briefly on possible future developments in relation to the industry or products discussed.

Reference List
An alphabetically ordered list of the references cited in your report, in Harvard
style.

Mrs Kapoor is a 67-year-old British Asian lady who was diagnosed with colorectal cancer 2 years ago, and has undergone surgery (with stoma formation) followed by chemotherapy, which has helped to control the disease. Her most recent scans indicate that the cancer has recurred, and has spread. The treatment options have been discussed with her and her family, and she has decided that due to the extent of the disease, and the likely benefit of the treatment she would prefer to have a more palliative approach in managing the disease. Mrs Kapoor and her family are aware that she is nearing the end of her life.

Mrs Kapoor lives with her husband, daughter and mother at home. She also has a married son who lives nearby and a grandaughter.
Mrs Kapoor has family in India, and her Hindu faith is important to her.

You are part of the inter-discilplinary team caring for Mrs Kapoor, and it is your role to ensure her nursing needs are met.

Information Systems to Support Population Health Management

Research a minimum of four articles on big data, its usefulness in healthcare, and achieving the goal of improving patient outcomes. Do a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) analysis on the use of health data and the potential to improve patient outcomes based on these articles. Summarize the benefits to the patients, healthcare organizations, and providers.

Your paper should include the following:

3 pages in length, not including the title and reference pages.
3 references cited in the assignment. Remember, you must support your thinking/opinions and prior knowledge with references; all facts must be supported; and in-text references used throughout the assignment must be included in an APA-formatted reference list.
Review the grading rubric, which can be accessed from the module folder.

What is the most important health intervention in East London in 2018?

1. Please describe the health intervention and identify what issue it would address.
2. Explain the reasons why you think is important- draw upon evidence to support your argument.
3. Ensure that you identify key national and international public health policies and drivers.
4. Who will benefit most from this intervention ( age, gender, for example)?
5. Conclusion.

Word count is 2000 words.

Reference in Harvard.