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The influence of nurse staffing on the quality of nursing home care

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The assigned reading/viewing background materials for Module 1 included such thoughts, words, ideas, and/or concepts as poverty, non-profit, philanthropy, giving, happiness, charity, champion, altruism, and community.

Select two or more of these societal constructs in which you see some sort of connection. For example, how is philanthropy connected to community… happiness connected to giving… or poverty connected to community?

In a well-organized and well-supported essay, discuss where, how, and why that connection exists in our society today. Be sure to provide specific examples to support your point of view, perhaps your own experience in your community, at work, or through your own pursuits. On the other hand, maybe you do not see a connection between many of these concepts, while there should be. In this case, an essay might address ways in which society needs to improve as we consider ways to find connections between these concepts and societal constructs.

Please note that there is no right or wrong response here, just your ability to make a point and support it using details and examples from the readings/viewings as well as your own experience.

A well-organized essay has a beginning, middle, and an end. The beginning, or introduction, should include an opening sentence to grab your reader’s attention. Follow the opening sentence with a brief background to introduce the topic. The last sentence of the introduction is the thesis statement. The thesis states the main point of the essay, which in this case, would be the ways in which two or more concepts resonate. For example,

The principle or practice of altruism on a small (or large) scale can conquer poverty, one individual at a time.
The body (middle) of the essay supports the thesis using points, details, and examples; the conclusion typically summarizes the main points of the essay and/or closes with a lasting impression that connects the reader to their world.

Be sure to proofread your essay and edit for proper grammar, punctuation, diction (word choice), and spelling, as errors in sentence skills will lower a final grade. A grade will be determined based on the Module 1 Case expectations and the University General Education rubric for English.
Papers must be double-spaced in Times or Times New Roman font (12 cpi) with standard one-inch margins.

When citing secondary source material within the essay, APA Style citations and a Works Cited page are required.




*******Reading Resource****"""

Birdsong, M. (n.d.). The story we tell about poverty isn't true. Retrieved April 19, 2017, from https://www.ted.com/talks/mia_birdsong_the_story_we_tell_about_poverty_isn_t_true

Gates, M. (n.d.). What nonprofits can learn from Coca-Cola. Retrieved April 18, 2017, from https://www.ted.com/talks/melinda_french_gates_what_nonprofits_can_learn_from_coca_cola

Fulton, K. (n.d.). You are the future of philanthropy. Retrieved April 18, 2017, from https://www.ted.com/talks/katherine_fulton_you_are_the_future_of_philanthropy

LaVine, L. (2013, June 26). The Power of Giving Back: How Community Involvement Can Boost Your Bottom Line. Retrieved April 18, 2017, from https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/226974

Norton, M. (n.d.). How to buy happiness. Retrieved April 18, 2017, from https://www.ted.com/talks/michael_norton_how_to_buy_happiness

Pallotta, D. (n.d.). The way we think about charity is dead wrong. Retrieved April 18, 2017, from https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pallotta_the_way_we_think_about_charity_is_dead_wrong

Pierson, R. (n.d.). Every kid needs a champion. Retrieved April 19, 2017, from https://www.ted.com/talks/rita_pierson_every_kid_needs_a_champion#t-9127

Singer, P. (n.d.). The why and how of effective altruism. Retrieved April 18, 2017, from https://www.ted.com/talks/peter_singer_the_why_and_how_of_effective_altruism

What is community, and why is it important? (n.d.). Retrieved April 18, 2017, from http://www.ikedacenter.org/thinkers-themes/themes/community/what-is-community-responses

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Context

As cities respond, adapt, and modify their existing economies and processes in response to the current global COVID-19 pandemic, the most successful urban regions will most likely be the ones who can figure out how to quickly balance the new and unforeseen challenges and needs of its residents and economy alike. Issues such as access to engaging public spaces, healthy greenspaces, and accessible/transparent decision-making processes will be at the centre of many post-COVID-19 plans.



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Visit the Canadian Urban Institute’s ‘Events’ webpage, and watch one of the videos from their Cities in the Time of COVID-19 webinars. The purpose of this assignment is to write a succinct critical analysis of the topic discussed during the webinar.

https://canurb.org/citytalk-news/?type=recent_discussions (Links to an external site.)

You should select an issue that you find personally interesting and ideally one that can help bring added depth and focus to the topic that you have been writing about in the Stakeholder Map and Stakeholder Briefing Note. Another goal of this assignment is to help provide real-world practical context to your upcoming Research Paper.



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Did the moderator, speakers, and discussion help you better understand the topic being discussed?

If yes, then what aspect of the topic helped you better understand the issue? Explain why you think it is relevant to urban politics.

If no, then what aspect of the topic do you think was missing or confusing? Explain why you think it is relevant to urban politics.

Your Critical Reflection should be 300 words maximum and please reference your sources as required. (i.e., the word limit does not include your references)

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Women’s rights associated with sociology today. Some examples: Gender and sexuality – sex and gender, gender identity and gender roles, gender stratification sexual orientation, homosexuality, controversies about sexuality: abortion, same sex marriage, pornography. Basically there is not many requirements but the paper has to be about sociology. I was thinking about women’s rights and gender roles

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To prepare for this Assignment, select a public health issue of interest to you (e.g., obesity, diabetes, cancer, HIV/AIDS, mental health).

In a 5- to 7-page report:

Describe the specific population(s) (ethnic or racial group, homosexuals, veterans, women, children, adolescents, etc.) affected by the health issue you selected. Explain how this population is discriminately affected by the health issue you selected.
Explain the primary determinants of the health issue. Then, explain how these determinants contribute to the disparities in care for the population.
Explain what specific social work interventions you might implement to address this health issue, reduce or eliminate disparities, and improve health outcomes.
Identify some challenges you may encounter when implementing the interventions. Then, explain the strategies you might employ to address these challenges.
Explain the advocacy roles a medical social worker might play in addressing the disparities in health care for the health issues and population you selected.
Cite your response using external scholarly resources.

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An explanation of how you have addressed termination or how you might address termination in your field education experience

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Liminal Spaces and Southern Sounds: Gospel, Blues, Country and the Birth of Rock

Your thoughts on the material in this module. What do you think the roots of blues, country and rock say about the potential of liminal spaces to foster the transmission of material culture? What type of liminal spaces do you think exist in the contemporary South and what type of music is emerging from them?

Material:

http://www.jimmierodgers.com/  (Links to an external site.) 

https://seesharppress.wordpress.com/2014/04/06/a-very-brief-history-of-country-music/

http://www.jimmierodgers.com/

https://youtu.be/B2V8HqgraaQ

https://youtu.be/ZSLBgPnYrsU

https://youtu.be/tYcadYXsTyM

https://youtu.be/Dan6idfM6sI




The word liminal comes from the Latin limen which means threshold. It is a place or state between two things. Think of the vampire legends where Dracula is caught between the worlds of the living and the dead – or in the case of the movie poster above, between the past and the future. Less fancifully, think of an open doorway allowing free passage between two spaces.

In a sociological sense a liminal place is one where different social worlds overlap, a doorway that allows people and culture to pass between the boundaries that demarcate social class, gender, religion or race. And it is in such places that some of the most vibrant elements of southern culture are born, certainly that is the case with the subject of this module – the music of the South.

We often think of the segregated South as two worlds strictly divided by color. Yet, liminal places existed even in the midst of segregation. The boundaries between white and black were always more porous than segregationist rhetoric would lead you to believe. Even in the 20th century as whites struggled to maintain a 19th century social order, African Americans and whites worked side-by-side in cotton fields. They hunted and fished together. Their lives intersected at multiple points where elements of material culture – including music -- were shared.

I think of my own family who for four generations fished with a guide named Scott Dunbar, who led fishing groups by day and then entertained at fish fries by night.

Those evenings spent on the banks of an oxbow lake near the Mississippi River were certainly a liminal experience.

A number of night clubs – from cross-road juke joints to sophisticated clubs like the Blue Room in Vicksburg, Mississippi (Links to an external site.) where inter-racial audiences listened to the likes of B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Louis Armstrong, Erskine Hawkins and Little Milton – were liminal spaces.

More than a decade before Alan Freed would begin playing R&B records on a white station in Cleveland, Ohio, a radio station in Florence, Alabama, WLAY, had an open format playing music by white and African American musicians. Talk about liminal spaces, this was a station that hosted live appearances by both blue grass legend Bill Monroe (Links to an external site.) and bluesman Son House (Links to an external site.).

It was in these liminal spaces where country acquired its soul and the blues its country twang, where white and African American gospel musicians traded notes, where the sounds of the South were formed and the seeds of rock and roll were planted.

The Blues originated in the Mississippi Delta, an alluvial flood plain that stretches 200 miles from Vicksburg to Memphis and is 70 miles wide at its broadest point. It was the music of poor African Americans who worked the plantations in this region. A distinctive fusion drawn from spirituals, hymns, and elements of African music, The Blues were little known outside the South until the development of recording studios and the Great Migration took the music to other parts of America. Incredibly vibrant and evocative, this music would eventually be known the world over.

Perhaps the greatest of the Delta bluesmen was Robert Johnson (1911 - 1938). According to legend, Johnson sold his soul to the devil in order to become the greatest blues man of all time. Between 1936 and 1937 he recorded 29 songs that arguably constitute the most influential American musical portfolio of the 20th century. His work influenced rock musicians from Eric Clapton and Keith Richards to Robert Plant to Bob Dylan.

Had it not been for the advent of recording technology and radio, the Delta blues might well have remained a regional art form. But, in an example of the ways in which technology shapes and transmits material culture, the blues captured the imagination of people the world over. And in England, a young generation of musicians that included Eric Clapton and Keith Richards was inspired by this music. In many ways, they were the ones who reintroduced the music to broad audiences in America. Clapton would even record a tribute album to Robert Johnson and duplicate the famous photo of Johnson on its cover.

When I was putting this course together, PBS still had a license to distribute the documentary Rumble. This film tells a remarkable and often overlooked chapter in the history of rock, namely the influence that native American music forms had on everything from jazz and rock-and-roll to heavy metal. However, this documentary is no longer available for free through PBS -- and I already have assigned several feature-length documentaries. So, I'm making it optional. You won't be tested on any of this material, but it is fascinating. I've included a link below to a trailer for the movie. Should you want to watch it, you can rent it from You Tube, Vudu, Amazon, etc.

Gospel, soul, the blues and rock all fuse together in the Muscle Shoals sound. With 13,000 residents in northwest Alabama, Muscle Shoals has had an outsized influence of popular music. Virtually every major recording artist of the late 20th century recorded there -- Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, The Rolling Stones, Tina Turner, Percy Sledge, and the list goes on. To understand the power of liminal spaces watch the documentary Muscle Shoals (2013) directed by Greg "Freddy" Camalier.




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References:

Cobb, James C. 2007. Away Down South: A History of Southern Identity. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Frank, Andrew K. & Malcolm Swanston. 1999. The Routledge Historical Atlas of the American South. New York: Routledge.

Harvey, Paul. 2016.  Christianity and Race in the American South. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

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This is a social science research paper. The purpose of the paper task is to illustrate the
student can properly apply the scientific method and the sociological imagination to the study of social phenomena.

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Drawing from course materials, outside research, and your own experience and interests, you will write a 5-7 pages, double spaced analytical paper. Evaluations will be based on your ability to elaborate on theoretical concepts and mechanisms, compare different theories and discuss their applications to real world situations or works of fiction. Students must use one of the following author-date style citation formats: ASA, APA, Chicago.

Regardless of the selected paper theme, all papers will address the following three questions:

I)  What does your theoretical perspective suggest about how society operates? Elaborate on the key theoretical components of the thinkers as it relates to your paper.

II)Either:

(a) Pick a contemporary issue (such as a political or social issue like healthcare reform, criminal justice reform, childcare policies, environmental regulation, etc.) and explain how you can use the readings to think about that issue, explain how theory applies to it;

(b) explain how readings have helped you think about your own identity and/or interactions with others;

(c) Pick an artwork/collection of works from music, film, poetry, painting, etc., and discuss how the theory you selected can help you think about it;

III) Finally, discuss some possible weaknesses of your theoretical lens and how other perspectives covered in the class might complement the analysis, before concluding your paper.

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Paper Outline (due one week before turning in your essay)

For this outline, you will need to include the following information:

5-7 sentences about what your theoretical perspective says about society or how it operates.
A few sentences describing the specific issue or art piece you are going to focus in your paper.
Identify and write a few sentences about at least three sources from class that you believe to be useful for your paper topic.
A few sentences about how these sources might help you explore your topic.
(Optional) If you are going to use outside sources, list them here. You do not need to include any other information.
You can format your paper outline in whatever manner works for you, including using a bulleted list and your responses beneath those bullets, a cohesive narrative or paper draft, etc. This will be your opportunity to get feedback, so choose what you will most benefit from.

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If you have brothers or sisters, you may want to examine sibling rivalry and how it changes across the life span. How do differences in gender, age, and abilities affect sibling relationships?

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Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity: gay adoption/parenting, hate crimes, media treatment, transgender military ban, etc

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Immigration: Immigration laws, treatment of immigrants, undocumented people, DACA, etc