What is Latin America? First stop the present

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Read pages 1-9. Then ACCORDING TO THE READING answer the following questions. Upload your file and send the answer to me by Saturday, June 12, at 11:59 pm (EST)
1. Why did the author say that geography will always be one of the most important aspects of human life? Give three examples.
2. Which minerals Chile is well known for?
3. How Brazil and Chile are different?
4. Mexico is the worlds ______________ largest produce of silver.
5. Indicate is the following statement is true or false. Most of the world’s Roman Catholics are Latin American.
6. What is the reason that many Latin Americans come to the United States?
7. What is a mestizo?
8. What are Zapatistas?
9. What are liberalism and nationalism?
10. What is the racial and cultural complexity of Latin America?
11. In Latin America which three countries have the highest literacy rates? What about the highest expectancy rate? What do you think about this? Any surprise for you in this aspect?

Why the COVID-19 Vaccine is Facing Resistance

Background
Research: Research information on Why the COVID-19 Vaccine is Facing Resistance
including
at least 3 scholarly references. Your research should focus on the
selected issue and concepts that relate to decision-making, resource
management, or other. (2 pages)
Your next task for your ethics project paper is to
identify at least 3 resources that you intend to use in the writing of your
paper. You can present the information on your references by listing each
resource and writing a narrative text that describes the reference and how the
content will help you write your paper. Or you can present the material
as an annotated bibliography which would list each reference, give a capsule
summary of the content of the resource, and an explanation of how the material
will assist you in the writing of your paper.

Create a research question you are interested in, conduct the research to answer that question, and write a complete scholarly paper on your question. This paper should contain the following sections:

Create a research question you are interested in, conduct the research to answer that question, and write a complete scholarly paper on your question. This paper should contain the following sections:
An introductory section that explains your research question, your purpose, and how your paper fills a deficiency or gap in the research. Also explain any limitations to your study and how you dealt with any potential ethical issues.
A section reviewing the current literature on this topic. This section should discuss as least five relevant and current articles related to your research question.
A section on the methods you followed to perform your research.
A section on data collection and analysis.
A section that details your findings.
A concluding section that evaluates the usefulness of your study and any practical implications it has

The Health Impacts on Mexican Female Workers in the Tortilla Industry (working title)

Based on the country Mexico and theme of focus Health, write a 200-250 word (max 250 words) Synopsis. The Synopsis should contain a brief outline of the focus of the paper, the issue (or problem) at hand, and the trajectory of the argument you seek to make. Read the Briefing Paper Information requirements attached when preparing the Synopsis. I have attached the instructions that include the sources that need to be used. If you find better sources that can be added to the external sources but I provided some good sources already for the external sources in the attached document. If you want to pick a different theme from the them list that is fine as well, however, I chose health because there appears to be alot of scholarly work written about the impact of globalization and neoliberalism on the health of exploited labour force like female Mexican workers in the tortilla industry.

Thank you.

Step 1: Select from the list provided below one country of the Global South where neoliberal reforms have been initiated. Investigate how the processes of Globalization and changes in the material economy there have impacted the lives of either poor urban or rural women in this country.
Mexico
Focus on just one theme from Part 2 of the Curriculum (Thematic Study of the Gendered Impact of Globalization),
womens integration into the labour market (informal or in Export Processing Zones),
migration,
health,
agriculture
in the intimate realm of social relations.
Imagine that you will be writing a briefing paper that you hope to present to your local MP / House of Commons (government) just before a summit titled Benefits of Market Reforms is to take place in Ottawa (Canadas capital and Parliament Government).
Step 2:

Based on the country Mexico and theme Health of focus selected, write and submit your 200-250 word (max 250 words) Synopsis. The Synopsis should contain a brief outline of the focus of your paper, the issue (or problem) at hand, and the trajectory of the argument you seek to make. You are advised to read the Briefing Paper Information requirements (see below) when preparing your Synopsis.
Please refer to the Course Timeline for all relevant due dates/times.
Briefing Paper Information
Your job in presenting the brief is to show the multidimensional gendered impact of market reforms. You do that by taking up a case study of one country. Your brief has to be precise in its argument, provide a background or context, steer clear of jargon, and make a persuasive argument. Please use a third person voice in your writing.
The aim of your Briefing Paper is to equip your local MP (local government official) to:
Question the role of market reforms in improving the lives of women (and the larger population); and
Have Canada take the lead in reshaping policies and programs.
There are 4 parts to the Briefing:
Part 1: Give an overview of the changes that occurred in the services provided to the countrys populace such as in health, education, subsidies in food, transport, or housing due to the imposition of neoliberal reforms.
Part 2: Provide a broad outline about the gendered impact of market reforms. Here, discuss how womens lives in general have been reshaped due to market reforms. You can discuss ability to access employment, health services, or education, to list a few. Discuss the impact of lifting of subsidies on increasing the burden on womens productive and reproductive labour.
Part 3: Speak specifically on just one category of women rural or urban. Discuss one particular topic such as agriculture, migration, informal or formal economy, or social relations in relation to the impact on womens lives locally. Remember to bring in an intersectional approach that brings in race, class, ethnicity, and/or religion into the analysis.
Part 4: Offer concrete suggestions and policy changes that the Canadian government should undertake to address the issues at stake, offer culturally appropriate interventions that improve the lives of women in that particular sphere, and build transnational solidarity linkages between Canada and the Global South. While offering suggestions, keep in mind readings from Weeks Three and Four about western saviour narratives and avoid language of help and charity as compared to a human rights discourse. Your core arguments and data should clearly demonstrate the links between gender and globalization on one hand, and course themes on the other.

Organization Analysis

The goal is to explain and analyze what the organization is doing to impact the culture. You can focus on the strengths and accomplishments of the group, or you could focus on its weaknesses and suggest ways the group could be more effective. Cite your information where necessary. Your answer must be at least 250 words.

Source: https://www.patriotacademy.com/

Strategy and Participants

Instructions
Identify the research
strategy you will use for your study. Determine the population of interest, how
you will choose the participants (sample), desired number of participants,
characteristics of participants, etc. (CO5) Submit a Word document with your
research strategy.

My Topic : Are Energy Drinks Bad

Would you recommend that accountants wait until collections are made from customers before recording sales revenue? Should they wait until known accounts prove to be uncollectible before charging an expense account?

In view of the difficulty in estimating future events, would you recommend that accountants wait until collections are made from customers before recording sales revenue? Should they wait until known accounts prove to be uncollectible before charging an expense account? Explain and provide examples.
Exercise Instructions: You are required to submit a 2-Page (Title Page and Content Page), APA formatted paper with substantial content. Substantial content requires staying on topic and fully addresses the assignment in a clear, concise, and meaningful manner. The deliverable length of your posting responses must be at least 2-pages, (Title Page and Content Page) APA format.
Exercises must be the students original thoughts based on the topics from the “Open Educational Resource” (OER) Course Textbook and/or other referenced sources. Direct quotes from references must be less than 20 words.

Health Care finance

I. As a new nurse engaged in advanced nursing practice (NP, Educator, or Administrator) you are asked in your Primary Care Clinic to take the lead in strategic planning for the clinic. This 1600 square foot urban-based clinic has 6 exam rooms, 1 small reception area, 1 staff meeting room, and serves 3,000 older adults with 4-6 patients booked each hour.
At present, a receptionist/billing intake staff associate greets patients and also schedules all appointments. There are 2 registered nurses, and 2 medical assistants. At a recent meeting there was little information about the population seen, ICD-10 codes, nor reporting on quality care outcomes. Dr. T, a leader in geriatric medicine and Dr. S. felt that the clinic was running smoothly, while the staff complained of files not filed, a backlog of billing not processed, and no training opportunities. You overheard some patients in the waiting area complain that they must wait weeks to find out lab results. You are asked to provide a renewal to the clinic environment and processes.
Select 2 goals for your strategic plan and specify your financial plan for only those two goals and the process for roll-out (gaining buy-in/ownership, meeting challenges of barriers, etc).
Notes: Remember though this is a local situation, health finance advocacy can extend from state to federal level. Keep in mind that you are planning for a better health care system. Additional resources beyond the course text and selected websites (screened for quality) are welcomed.

1. Suppose that the government was forecast to spend $3 trillion this year and take in $2.5 trillion in revenues. Suppose one politician argued for selling enough federally owned land in the West to bring in $0.5 trillion in revenue. If this proposal were to pass, describe the effect it would have on the budget in terms of both cash accounting and capital accounting.

3 QUESTIONS

1. Suppose that the government was forecast to spend $3 trillion this year and take in $2.5 trillion in revenues. Suppose one politician argued for selling enough federally owned land in the West to bring in $0.5 trillion in revenue. If this proposal were to pass, describe the effect it would have on the budget in terms of both cash accounting and capital accounting.

2. Some have argued in favor of reducing taxes on repatriated earnings that companies operating in the United States have made in other countries. Such a tax break could lead to a sharp increase in the amount of repatriated earnings and raise tax revenues. If such an increase were temporary, what would be the effect on the real budget deficit for the current year? What would be the effect on the structural deficit? Explain.

3. Suppose your town wishes to build a dam to protect itself from the risk of flooding. Despite the fact that each family in the town is willing and able to pay up to $200 to have the dam built and it will cost only $150 per family, a voluntary contribution campaign is unable to raise enough funds to build the dam. Why? What type of problem is this, and what solution would you recommend?

Stigmatization and Re-defining Families

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the stigma behind same-sex families, specifically gay fathers.

Thesis: This paper argues that heteronormative patriarchal structures reproduce the marginilization of same sex families through the concept of the traditional nuclear family.

Subissues:
1) Patriarchal customs
2) Adoption and Surrogacy
3) Raising children in heterosexist societies
NOTE: MAXIMUM TWO DIRECT QUOTES
Students may pick any topic that deals with any social issue relating to Canadian families. Students are required to write a sociological paper that is analytical and critical. It is imperative to note that the writing of a sociological paper requires the primary use of scholarly sociological sources, such as sociological scholarly journals, sociological books, and sociological edited collections. The paper MUST include a minimum of FIVE sociological scholarly sources (books, scholarly journal articles) NOT including the course text book and relevant course materials.
The essay should be 7-8 pages in length, with one inch margins, size 12 font, double spaced and stapled, not including the bibliography or title page. Do not triple or quadruple space between paragraphs. In doing so, you immediately signify to me that you have not met the minimum length requirements for this paper. Moreover, triple and quadruple spacing between paragraphs is improper formatting and does not meet the standards of APA or Chicago Style.
Students are required to include a full bibliography of all materials used in the paper.
Late papers will not be accepted without consent from the course director obtained PRIOR to the scheduled due date.
Papers must be submitted to the Assignments drop box in D2L.
Please note that references that are NOT scholarly sources and will NOT count in your
bibliography as scholarly sources include the following:
newspaper articles (i.e., The Toronto Star, The Toronto Sun, The Globe and Mail, The National Post, etc.)
magazine articles (Macleans, Newsweek, The Economist, etc.)
encyclopedia references (including Wikipedia)
dictionary references (including Oxford Dictionary and other dictionaries)
non-scholarly websites, blogs, etc.
Students should also note that government websites and statistical data are what are considered primary sources. These sources require interpretation and analysis. Rely on your secondary scholarly resources for analysis and interpretation of statistical date and government policies. On their own, they are NOT scholarly sources and will NOT count as one of the five scholarly sources required for this paper. Government websites and statistical data provide information that is NOT scholarly and NOT analytical. Statistics denote a social trend but can be interpreted in numerous and contradictory ways. Statistics themselves are devoid of analysis. Simply stating a statistic does not explain or explore any critical sociological analysis. Similarly, government websites state government policy that is devoid of analysis, and usually reproduces mainstream stereotypes, assumptions and misconceptions. Critical sociological analysis provides a critique of mainstream stereotypes and assumptions. The use of government data requires critical sociological analysis. Please note that these government websites and statistics include, but are not limited to the following:
Statistics Canada
Ministry of Immigration and Citizenship
Government of Canada website
Government of Ontario website
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Scholarly journal articles can be retrieved on-line through the Ryerson Library journal abstracts website, Sociological Abstracts. Sources acquired on-line through Sociological Abstracts do not require instructor permission. Nonetheless, it is the students responsibility to vet the source and determine whether or not it is sociological. Just because the database is called Sociological Abstracts does not mean that all sources that it lists are sociological. Depending on the topic, some sources that show up are psychological and medical.
Students should also note that the research paper is a SOCIOLOGICAL paper that requires SOCIOLOGICAL analysis. Scholarly sources are required to be limited to sociological sources. Scholarly sources that are NOT sociological and will NOT be counted as part of your FIVE required sociological scholarly sources include:
Nursing journals and books
Medical journals and books
Economic journals and books
Business journals and books
Social work journals and books
Psychology journals and books
Social psychology journals and books
Behavioural science journals and books
Biology journals and books
Genetics journals and books
Papers that do not include a minimum of five scholarly sociological sources will be assigned an automatic failing grade. Make sure that your sources and your analysis are sociological. Make sure that your sources are SOCIOLOGICAL and NOT psychological, medical or derived from popular mainstream media. Papers that are written from a psychological, medical or mainstream popular media perspective will automatically be assigned a failing grade.
Students should never reference lecture notes or their own undergraduate papers for other courses in their papers. The reference of lecture notes in essays is improper and shows laziness on the part of the student for failure to research their topic properly. Lectures are based on scholarly sociological research. Any issue raised in lecture must be referenced in its original scholarly sociological source upon which the lecture is based. This means that students are required to seek out the original scholarly publication.
Please note that students who do not submit the research paper will automatically fail the course.
Scholarly sociological sources that are ACCEPTABLE are the following:
Race and ethnicity journals and books
Feminist and Womens Studies journals and books
Sociology journals and books
Communications journals and books
Criminology journals and books
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Sociology of Education journals and books
Sociology of the Family journals and books
Sociology of Work and Occupations journals and books
Political science journals and books
Political economy journals and books
History journals and books
Law journals and books
Possible research topics include but are not limited to the following:
Same sex families
Lesbian/gay parenting
Aboriginal families and colonialism
Immigrant families
Ethnic and racialized minority families
New reproductive technologies and Canadian families
Domestic labour and the family in Canada
The gender division of labour and the family
The cult of domesticity
The ideology of motherhood
Fatherhood
Women and divorce law in Canada
Divorce and custody in Canada
The family and state policies
Canadian families and poverty
Single female headed households and poverty
Women, work and childcare issues
The gender division of labour in the family
Work and the family
Single parent families and poverty in Canada
The ideology of motherhood
Care-giving and the elderly in Canadian families
Families and disability
Grading Criteria for Research Essays:
Your research paper is worth 30% of your final grade and will be evaluated on a 30-point scale based on the following criteria:
1) Content: (15 points) adequately addressing the topic with an emphasis on Canadian families and critical analysis. Do not summarize and/or describe your research sources, or simply describe a problem. You must argue and support your thesis. You must engage the sources and critically apply them to your argument (i.e., thesis). Your analysis should address why and how this social problem/issue occurs. Your paper should emphasize HOW this social phenomenon becomes normalized in our society. In other words, you need to examine the social process by which this social phenomenon occurs and is legitimated in our society as normative.
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2) Clarity of Argument: (5 points) focus, direction and logical organization and integration of ideas in a well structured argument. Do you have a thesis statement? Your paper should have an obvious, clear, concise, one sentence thesis. Your thesis statement clearly states in one sentence the argument of your paper.
3) Structure and Organization: (5 points) paper should include the following components:
a. Introduction: clearly stating your thesis/research argument and the specified points you will be arguing in the paper.
b. Body of Paper: where you develop your argument with support from your reference sources.
c. Conclusion: links your main ideas together.
4) Proper referencing style and grammar: (5 points) Both direct quotes and an
authors ideas must be referenced in your paper. Your paper should not have more than one or two (maximum) direct quotes. The paper should primarily be written in your own voice with social science citations crediting the scholars to whom those ideas belong. APA is the preferred referencing style. All referencing citations must include the authors name and the year of the publication. Social science citations are located as the end of the direct quote or an authors idea. Social science citations are located inside brackets and include the authors last name, the year of the publication, and the page number. For example, (Miles, 1989, p. 18). Your references in your bibliography must include the authors name, the year of the publication, the exact and complete title of the article/book, the publishers name, the city of publication, and (in the case of a journal article or book chapter) page numbers. Please note that essays that do not include the required FIVE scholarly sources (as defined in the terms above) will automatically be given a failing grade.
5) Bibliographic References: The following are examples of proper bibliographic reference styles for books, edited collections, and journal articles.
a. Book Reference Example:
Miles, Robert. 1989. Racism. London: Routledge.
b. Edited Collection Reference Example:
Mitchell, Allyson & Karaian, Lara. 2005. Third Wave Feminisms. In Nancy Mandell (Ed.). Feminist Issues: Race, Class and Sexuality. Fourth Edition. Toronto: Pearson Education Canada Inc.
c. Journal Article Reference Example:
MacKinnon, Catherine A. 1983. Feminism, Marxism, Method, and the State: Toward Feminist Jurisprudence. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. 8(4):635-658.