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1. Examine the Geography of cocaine from the perspective of a country from each of the three realms it most impacts: South America, Middle America, and North America. What specific issues of the cocaine trade are unique to each of the countries, and what steps (if any) are taken to combat the drug trade?
2. Investigate the flow of refugees from North Africa/Southwest Asia into Europe. What specific push/pull factors are involved in this migration? What role do terrorist networks play in this process? What impact do these migrations have on politics and society in Europe? Please give specific examples.
3. Identify and examine a regional conflict where Russia has invoked the concept of the Near Abroad to further its own agenda. What specific factors influence Russian decision making in this region? What responses to Russian moves have been offered, and what are the motivations of those responses by the parties involved?

Write how GroupThink may have affected the Trump Administration’s early response to today’s COVID-19 outbreak. There are a great number of articles on this topic. Check nytimes.com, time.com, foxnews.com, and/or cnn.com. What kinds of decisions were being made when the outbreak was limited to just a few cases in the USA? Who was involved in making these decisions? What was the outcome?

Most importantly, try to determine how each of the following Groupthink indicators played into these decisions:

Illusion of invulnerability: excessive optimism that encourages taking extreme risks

Collective rationalization: members discount warnings and do not reconsider their assumptions

Self-censorship: doubts and deviations from the perceived group consensus are not expressed

Illusion of unanimity: the majority view and judgments are assumed to be unanimous

Direct pressure on dissenters: members are under pressure not to express arguments against any of the group’s views

This doesn’t need to be a formal paper. You may simply list each of the GroupThink indicators (bulleted list above) and write about how they seemed to have played out during early COVID-19 decision making. Be sure to cite your sources, however. You may do so informally, for example: (“The Poor are Harder Hit by the Spread of Disease,” NY Times, March 16, 2020) where you provide the title of the article, source, and date.

Describe ways you would have supported Magda’s self-determination through the assessment and treatment-planning process. Include questions you would have asked Magda and her professional support system (doctors, nurses, etc.) to gain further insight into the situation.

Discuss the academic/scholarly literature that addresses the phenomenon you are studying. Explain how these scholars respond to and explain this phenomenon (e.g. some scholars argue countries’ human rights ratification behavior is associated with regime type, whether a country is democratic or not).

Explain how you plan to evaluate the plan of care for effectiveness in your selected population?
2. Include how is the plan of care for your Community teaching:
a. Appropriate-suitable for a particular occasion or use?
b. Adequate-able to fill a requirement, sufficient or satisfactory?
c. Effective-producing an expected result; productive?

Question 1: How do toxic metals affect the environment? Provide at least two examples of the effects of toxic metals on humans. What could be done to help in the examples given?

Question 2: Describe a vector-borne disease. Provide a brief history of the disease and how it can be contracted.

Your response must be at least 200 words in length.

Question 3: Explain how zoonotic diseases are transferred to humans. In your answer, please give one example of a zoonotic disease and its effects on humans.

Write an intersectional research essay based on a topic that fits within the course. Write an intersectional research essay (2,500 words) based on a topic that fits within the course.

Write a proposal for some form of social advocacy that will seek to change a social, organizational, or legislative policy.
Explain how this policy affects clients you might see in a clinical setting and why, as a clinical social worker, it would be important to advocate for change.
Describe your initial work to change the policy (i.e., plan for social advocacy).

Apparatus: Describes the apparatus (e.g., operant conditioning chamber) or materials used in the experiment. (1 point)
Dependent variable: Describe the measured target behavior (e.g., bar pressing) including what was measured (e.g., the frequency of bar pressing). (2 points)
Procedure: Describe the procedures implemented to teach the target behavior or skill (e.g., magazine training, shaping procedure). This should be extremely detailed- a step by step guide to what you did. The general steps you need to describe include the baseline phase, magazine training, and the shaping phase. (5 points)
Results: Report the obtained data (e.g., frequency of bar pressing in sessions, cumulative record of bar pressing in sessions). Describe the cumulative record in detail. Summarize the obtained the data. Should include the following:
Describe the cumulative graph- what does it display? Thoroughly explain the graph and any markings on the graph. This should be written as “Figure 1 displays….” (1 point)
Describe the data during baseline- did Sniffy press the bar at all during baseline? If so, how many times? (1 point)
Describe the data during magazine training- how long did magazine training take? Did Sniffy press the bar at all during magazine training? (1 point)
Describe the data during shaping-How long did it take to shape Sniffy to press the bar? During the last minute of shaping- how many times did Sniffy press the bar per minute? How does the slope (which indicates the rate of responding) differ during the last 5 minute phase of shaping compared to baseline? (2 points)
Method
Subject: Describe Sniffy/the Sniffy program (1 point)
Apparatus: Describes the apparatus (e.g., operant conditioning chamber) or materials used in the experiment. (1 point)
Dependent variable: Describe the measured target behavior (e.g., bar pressing) including what was measured (e.g., the frequency of bar pressing). (2 points)
Procedure: Describe the procedures implemented to teach the target behavior or skill (e.g., magazine training, shaping procedure). This should be extremely detailed- a step by step guide to what you did. The general steps you need to describe include the baseline phase, magazine training, and the shaping phase. (5 points)
Results: Report the obtained data (e.g., frequency of bar pressing in sessions, cumulative record of bar pressing in sessions). Describe the cumulative record in detail. Summarize the obtained the data. Should include the following:
Describe the cumulative graph- what does it display? Thoroughly explain the graph and any markings on the graph. This should be written as “Figure 1 displays….” (1 point)
Describe the data during baseline- did Sniffy press the bar at all during baseline? If so, how many times? (1 point)
Describe the data during magazine training- how long did magazine training take? Did Sniffy press the bar at all during magazine training? (1 point)
Describe the data during shaping-How long did it take to shape Sniffy to press the bar? During the last minute of shaping- how many times did Sniffy press the bar per minute? How does the slope (which indicates the rate of responding) differ during the last 5 minute phase of shaping compared to baseline? (2 points)

Discussion: Interpret and explain the obtained results. Summarize major findings (e.g., whether the shaping technique was effective in teaching the new target behavior or skill). State any limitations of the experiment conducted and the data obtained, if there are. Give any direction or suggestion for future research in relation to the experiment conducted (e.g., the application of shaping procedure in animal training and in teaching new behaviors to a human participants). (3 points)
References: List all reference articles and/or books cited in the Introduction in APA style. (1 point)
Figure 1
See APA style examples for figures. Figures should be on their own page after the references section. (1 point)

*Overall APA style: make sure the paper is in APA style 7th edition format (2 points)
*Overall grammar/writing (2 points)
Discussion: Interpret and explain the obtained results. Summarize major findings (e.g., whether the shaping technique was effective in teaching the new target behavior or skill). State any limitations of the experiment conducted and the data obtained, if there are. Give any direction or suggestion for future research in relation to the experiment conducted (e.g., the application of shaping procedure in animal training and in teaching new behaviors to a human participants). (3 points)
References: List all reference articles and/or books cited in the Introduction in APA style. (1 point)
Figure 1
See APA style examples for figures. Figures should be on their own page after the references section. (1 point)

*Overall APA style: make sure the paper is in APA style 7th edition format (2 points)
*Overall grammar/writing (2 points)

Identify French anti-terrorism legislation: fully include in the essay
identify its extensive reach and loose interpretation.
Identify Benin anti-terrorism legislation: fully include in the essay- verbatim
Identify Tunisian anti-terrorism legislation: fully include in the essay- verbatim
Identify Moroccan anti-terrorism legislation: fully include in the essay- verbatim