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Warm-Up Activity 7.1: Watch a Video
Watch the Aging and Intimacy video, and then consider factors related to aging and intimacy.
Warm-Up Activity 7.2: Watch a Video
Watch the Boomer Dating video, and then consider the importance of social interaction in the lives of older adults.
Assignment
This week’s assignment requires you to focus on the importance of sexuality for older adults. Write a paper addressing sexuality in older adulthood.
In your paper, address the following points:
Identify five components of sexuality related to older adulthood.
Do you believe sexuality is an important part of aging?
What do researchers say about healthy aging and sexuality?
Address the concerns that arise with elder care and sexuality.
Why is it important to address sexuality as part of effective elder care?
Should elder care facilities such as nursing homes support the sexuality of its residents?
Make recommendations for effective responses to older adults, caregivers, or family members regarding questions that they have about sexuality in older adulthood.
Be sure to incorporate the research articles that you located in Week 6.
Length: 5-7 pages
Your paper should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course by providing new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards

Prior to beginning work on this discussion,
Read Chapter 13 of Macroeconomics: Private and Public Choice.
Monetary policy is largely determined by the Federal Reserve Bank (Fed) in the United States. For this discussion, let’s cordially debate the necessity of the Fed.
For your initial post address the following:
How does the Fed control the money supply? Be sure to explain how they can expand or restrict the money supply.
How does the banking system create money?
List two to three pros and cons of the Federal Reserve Bank.
What is your conclusion: is the Fed necessary? Support your opinion.
Your initial response should be a minimum of 200 words. Graduate school students learn to assess the perspectives of several scholars. Support your response with at least one scholarly and/or credible resource in addition to the text.

Use only works on the course
guide from the following authors: Emerson,
Thoreau, Melville, Whitman, Dickinson.
Do not use any outside sources and refer only to the works by the
writers, not any background material in the textbook.

For each of the following
questions write a developed response of about 200 – 250 words. 25 points max each.

1. Contrast the poetry of Walt
Whitman and Emily Dickinson giving examples from each. Focus on subject matter,
verse form, or tone.

2. How does Thoreau, in the chapter
“Spring” from Walden, make practical some
of the ideas in Emerson’s “Self –Reliance”? Discuss both Emerson’s
transcendentalist ideas and Thoreau’s use of them.

3. Discuss how Melville’s
“Benito Cereno” comments on the difficulties humans face when they look for
signs in the world.

4. Select any two writers on
the course guide from Emerson to Whitman and compare how they incorporate one of the following aspects of
American Romanticism:
a. Valuing intuition over
reason
b. Nature as a source of
knowledge
c. Valuing the individual over
the group
d. Experimentation in forms of
writing

Discuss the importance of studying Philippine History.

Describe delegation versus assignment and
the RN’s role in each. Use a minimum of 2 resources and include in-text
citations.

Analysis paper

OPTION #2
Long Interviews as main resource

Six million African Americans escaped or ran away from their homes in the U.S. South (typically rural) to seek refuge in the North (typically urban) as a solution to a host of challenges they faced in the south. Explore your individual interviewees’ descriptions of problems (lack of opportunities, racial terrorism, personal reasons, etc.) they faced in the South or their original location, and how they used migration as a tactic to escape these problems. Explore how the individual migration stories connect to or compare with the general Great Migration “push” and “pull” factors, that motivated so many African Americans to leave the South. To help draw these micro-to-macro connections consider the following course themes: resisting enslavement (i.e., escape),
leadership tactics, and African American socio-economic status and demographics.

what separates “normal” anxiety from a diagnosable anxiety disorder, include what that anxiety has more to do with personal, family, or other factors.

The 2007-2009 financial crisis was the most intense period of global financial strains since the Great Depression, and it resulted in a deep and prolonged global economic recession. The Federal Reserve took extraordinary actions to help stabilize the U.S. economy and financial system. These actions included reducing short-term interest rates to near zero. The Federal Reserve purchased large quantities of longer-term Treasury securities and longer-term securities issued or guaranteed by government-sponsored agencies to reduce longer-term interest rates. Low interest rates were supposed to help households and businesses finance new spending and help support the prices of other assets, such as stocks and houses.
The research paper will be due on July 14, 2019. A 10 page (excluding appendices, table of contents, abstract, reference, and bibliography) research paper (case study) is required. This paper will be prepared consistent with the current APA Manual and will have a minimum of ten different references. The research paper will be prepared consistent with the following:
Section I: This serves as an introduction to the Research Paper. Provide an overview of the research designof the paper. Introduce the various topics that will be addressed in the research paper. Identify the method(s)that will be used to collect the data for the topics and how that data will be evaluated.
Section II: Describe how the Federal Reserve conducts monetary policy to achieve maximum employment, stable prices, and moderate long-term interest rates.
Section III: Discuss what methods that the Federal Reserve used to keep the interest rates near zero between 2007 – 2015.
Section IV: Evaluate and discuss who benefited and suffered due to the near zero interest rates. The wealth gap between America’s between middle-income and upper-income families reached record high levels since the economic recovery from the Great Recession of 2007-09. Evaluate and discuss what role the Federal Reserve played in increasing the wealth gap.
Section V: Summary and conclusion(s). The discussion should provide a brief summary of the previous sections, and the conclusions you have reached.

please answer the following questions.
Do not answer simply yes or no. Please explain your answers.No reference/citation needed

1. Do pharmaceutical companies have a moral obligation to save lives?

2. Does the current patent regime for pharmaceuticals need to be reformed?

3. WTO “TRIPS plus” standards require developing nations to grant pharmaceutical patents lasting at least 20 years. Is 20 years a reasonable time for drug companies to regain their investments? If not, how long should patents last?

4. Do pharmaceutical companies have a right to set drug prices themselves? Why, or why not?

5. Should patents come with strings attached? If so, what can governments demand from patent holders?

6. Can governments ever be justified in stripping companies of their patents if they feel that the patents are being abused?

7. Expanding the production of cheap generics in the developing world would certainly help millions of poor HIV patients receive much needed treatment. But what about poor people in the developed world who lack access to life-saving medications? And what about those who can afford branded drugs, but only barely?

8. Because there are only so many ways in which a single disease or symptom can be effectively treated, drug patents often create monopolies, thus presenting consumers with only two options: buy this particular drug, or die. Can this be remedied, or can there never be a true free market for life-saving commodities?

Do you believe Elisa Lam (the real Miri Krim) was murdered, committed suicide, or was there something else responsible for her disappearance?
Why did Joyce Carol Oates fictionalize Elisa Lam’s murder to illustrate the emotional and physical “price” of a college education?
How do the principles of Occam’s Razor and Occam’s Broom affect your answer?