COUNTRY/COMMUNITY OF INTEREST

COUNTRY/COMMUNITY OF INTEREST

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BEFORE working on this assignment READ the Instructions for the Informative and Persuasive Final Paper (Final Paper info can be found under instructional materials)
Instructions for Selecting the Country or Community of Interest
The choice of a country or US immigrant/refugee community will provide the focus for several assignments in this course. The country you choose will be the focus of the NGO Business Letter, the Email to a Healthcare Professional, and the Informative/Persuasive paper.
1. Choose one of the following countries/communities
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o Kenya
o Botswana
o Ecuador
o Peru
o Thailand
o Jamaica
o A specific immigrant or refugee community within the US, e.g. immigrant children from the southern hemisphere or a Muslim group who has recently arrived in the US or non-vaccinated individuals as a population.

If you have an interest in a country or community that does not appear on the list, seek approval from the TA/instructor before starting work on this assignment. In your request please state your reason for your desired choice.
2. Use resources (see Instructional Materials in Module 1) to learn about the country, the health of its citizens and/or healthcare issues in the country/community of choice. Helpful resources are:
· Website of the World Health Organization (https://www.who.int)
· Website of the Pan American Health Organization (https://www.paho.org)
· Websites that addresses immigrant populations is:https://www.migrationpolicy.org/programs/data-hub/charts/us-immigrant-population-state-and-county
Directions for how to use this website are below the map of the US that appears on the website.
3. Write a paragraph explaining why you chose the selected country/community. Specifically, what drew you to this country (or population)?
4. Write a paragraph specifying three (3) major healthcare issues in the chosen country/community. Explain why these issues are a concern in the chosen country/community. COVID is not an acceptable health issue.
5. Choose ONE of the identified health concerns/healthcare issues that will serve as a focus for the Informative and Persuasive paper. Describe why you chose this issue over the others.
6. Write approximately four (4) to six (6) paragraphs to complete this assignment. Support your reasoning with two (2) peer-reviewed references and citations, as well as a properly formatted title and reference page are required. Consult the following website if you are unsure about how to find peer-reviewed articles (https://libguides.library.ohio.edu/nursing/scholarly-peer-review).
7. Remember to use APA formatting and MUGS (Mechanics, Usage, Grammar, Spelling) guidelines for the paper.
Click here to download the document including links of potential topics.
· Click on the link titled “M1 A4: Country Selection Submission” to submit the assignment.

· Refer to Rubric for evaluation guidelines
· Points: 10
· Due: See Course Calendar/Checklist
Note: You will have three (3) attempts to submit a written assignment, only the final attempt will be graded. For each attempt you will receive a SafeAssign originality report. This will give you a chance to correct the assignment based on the SafeAssign score. Click here to view instructions on how to interpret your SafeAssign originality report.

Strategic Management External Environment

Instructions: Please read week 1 chapters carefully & after understanding the topics, answer the following questions. You can use additional information from external resources to support your answers. Please don’t forget to cite any sources you use in your answer.
Note 1: You cannot edit/change your post after you submit it. Please think about the questions, have your responses ready, and then start writing your discussion post.
Note 2: To receive full credit you need to review two other students’ posts and provide feedback. Click HERE to get some ideas on how to evaluate other posts.
Note 3: For this discussion, you can focus on a specific college at UTPB (e.g., Business, Engineering, etc.) or the whole University

Discussion Questions:
1- What competitive advantage do you feel that UTPB possesses? What evidence can you provide to support this opinion?
2- Describe UTPB external environment. What actions do you believe UTPB should take, given its external environment, and why?
3- Using the categories shown in Tables 3.1 and 3.2, list what you perceive as the UTPB tangible and intangible resources.
4- What are the vision & mission of UTPB? Do you think it is important for all employees from the top down to the lowest level to understand the vision and mission of the UTPB? Maybe it doesn’t matter if the lowest hourly employee understands the vision and mission. Explain your point of view.
5- In a similar vein, what people in UTPB should determine the vision and mission statement for the University? to what extent?

Pretend to be the character Ismene in the play “Antigone” and write a letter to Antigone before her arrest. What would you tell her about her plans to bury Polyneices? (This is a letter, so begin with the proper salutation of how you would address your sister, and should be 1-2 pages.)

ssays based on Sophocles play, “Antigone”. You must complete BOTH.
Read the following prompts carefully as each prompt is somewhat different from the other. You have one hour and forty five minutes to complete this portion of the final. Plan your time well and create an outline so that you can be sure to include all the main points you need to in your essay. Be sure to proofread everything for errors. Spelling, grammar, and syntax count as per rubric below.
Part #1
1. Pretend to be the character Ismene in the play “Antigone” and write a letter to Antigone before her arrest. What would you tell her about her plans to bury Polyneices? (This is a letter, so begin with the proper salutation of how you would address your sister, and should be 1-2 pages.)
Part #2
2. Consider the following questions, and compose a 5 paragraph essay incorporating your thoughts. Your essay must have an introductory paragraph ending with a thesis statement, followed by three well organized body paragraphs, ending with a conclusion that ties it all together.
How and why might the character Antigone appeal to modern feminists? In what ways does she exemplify particular feminist ideals? What would modern feminists make of Creon? In what ways might he represent male power (patriarchy) in general rather than simply the power of one particular male? Does Antigone ever behave in ways that modern feminists might criticize? What might feminists make of her suicide? How do you respond to her suicide? Explain your reasons in detail.

Discuss the historical application of statistics in the field of health care. Describe an example, other than Florence Nightingale’s contributions, where statistical application has greatly influenced or changed health care operations or practice.

Discuss the historical application of statistics in the field of health care. Describe an example, other than Florence Nightingale’s contributions, where statistical application has greatly influenced or changed health care operations or practice.

Excel Functions

You have been hired by John McDougal, sales manager of Macy’s Franklin Park store, to help him better understand the productivity of his sales force.
Mr. McDougal has provided you with a download from the POS system that contains the employee name, rank, department, sales and hours worked. That data is provided to you in the file named A1_MacysDeptStore.xlsx (and is available for download on Blackboard) and looks similar to the image below.
Using the file given (Do NOT copy into another Excel
file), Mr. McDougal would like you to produce a series of

BYZANTINE DISCUSSION

Explain the importance of Dura-Europas from both a religious perspective and an art historical perspective.
Please write at least 5 paragraphs addressing the above questions. Your response should be written in a formal manner, using formal language and well-thought arguments/validations. Please treat these discussion boards as though they are essays/traditional papers. You will be graded on grammar, spelling, colloquialism, professionalism, and overall understanding of content.

Leadership practice

Participants are to survey the literature and develop a profile that articulates qualities or behaviors integral to ethical leadership. Select at least two leaders as practical examples of these living values, and, with reference to the literature, provide a scholarly discussion that illustrates how these leaders model ethical leadership in their roles. The leaders may be drawn from your own field of practice, Textbook/Course Readings OR from some of the case studies produced by the Ontario College of Teachers in “Exploring Leadership Practices through Case Inquiry” found here Exploring Leadership Practice.
Length: 1500 words (Note: This assignment does not require an abstract)
Format: Paper must have a cover page (not included in the page count). Create a reference list in APA format and provide APA references in the text.

Hunger free community

Please read about the Center for Hunger-Free Communities. In a post of approximately 300 words share your thoughts about one of their programs. Is hunger a public health issue – why or why not? Do you see nutrition assistance programs like WIC (Supplementary Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children), Farmers’ Markets and SNAP (formerly known as the Food Stamp Program) as public health interventions?