Is the Supreme Court Too Powerful?”

Some of the most important reforms in U.S. history have been advanced by court decisions. This is especially true in the areas of civil rights (Black liberation, women’s rights, LGBTQ+ rights,  etc.) Thinking about the role of the courts and the Congress, is it best for major policy changes to be made legislatively, or by the courts? Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of policy change through court rulings. Refer to specific court cases to support your points.

Background Materials

1. OpenStax American Government, Chapter 13

2. Various Authors. “Is the Supreme Court Too Powerful?” (New York Times, Room for Debate, July 6, 2015). The “room for debate” includes six articles and reader comments. Read at least four of the six articles.

What does the Crystal Palace tell us about Britain in terms of technology

Each week we will be looking at a set period from our past.  Although these are our ancestors, it will seem like we are studying a distant planet, inhabited by people with the strangest of habits.  Fortunately, these subjects of our observation give us abundant clues about who they are.  Their art, their writing, their technology, the way they do business, the way they govern themselves all feed into a picture we will attempt to paint for ourselves each week.  Understanding who they were will help us understand who we are.

Each week you will be given three or four questions pertaining to important topics covered in the materials provided in the question itself, the textbook, the lectures, the other materials provided, and my comments in my Live Session. You choose the one you like and post a response of 125 words or more.  You also need to respond to another post from one of your fellow students.  This second post should be at least 60 or so words long and should not just agree with or repeat what has been said.

Please use an example that has not already been used in the discussion.

1.  Impressionist painters sought to portray the world they saw in emotional and immediate terms.  Russian realist painters sought to preserve national traditions and lifestyles in their work.  Both contributed to their national cultures by capturing the world around them in their painting, often showing an idealized version of that world.  Choose one Impressionist painter and one Realist painter and compare ;their contributions to their nation’s identity.  How did their art define something important about their national identity? Chapter 31 has some great examples.

2.    What does the Crystal Palace tell us about Britain in terms of technology, the economy, and society at the end of the 19th century?

3.   How did Edgar Degas portray women in his artwork?  How did Mary Cassatt portray women in her art?  Compare the two visions of women using some specific examples that demonstrate the roles these artists saw women playing in their time?   Chapter 32 has some great examples.

4. George Catlin’s artwork was exquisite but so were the many pieces of art created by the various Native American art traditions described in Chapter 32.  Compare Catlin’s work with one of those artistic traditions and what it produced. Please use specific examples.

5.  America created its own Crystal Palace with the Columbian Exhibition of 1893.  What was the purpose of this exhibition?  What picture of America does this exhibition paint?

6.  Your book has a short but good section on the birth of jazz.  Jazz is a uniquely American art form.  How did it reflect America in the time in which it was being born?  What picture of our country did this spectacularly creative art form paint?  Why did jazz come into being during a time when so much else was going on in America?  How does jazz today define America?

How to Improve Your Score with Discussion Boards

With the first week of Discussion Boards in front of us, it is a good time to pause and reflect before moving forward. If the score is the only thing you look at and moved on, you are doing yourself a disservice. Read the feedback and consider why you lost points, to prevent the same thing happening week after week.

Here are a few common mistakes to avoid:

  1. Not writing enough. This is a writing class. You are expected to read and listen to the materials, analyze and write an understandable response that covers the subject and answers the questions. Use complete sentences, as these are not short-answer questions. You might need to do a bit of extra research.
  2. Cite your sources at the end of the initial post. Never cut-and-paste materials from sources. We want to see your thoughts and not those of others. If you summarize someone else’s thoughts or you use a direct quote, cite them. With assignments of this length, do not use long quotes. A short phrase is the maximum.
  3. If your response to your classmates is “Great post!” “I agree with you!”  are all you write, then you will not get points. Read their posts and find something they say that you can comment on. You can agree or disagree but provide evidence to prove your claims. The length here is important as well. Say something interesting that relates to the subject. Again, if you use outside sources, cite them.
  4. Make sure your comments are organized, relate to the subject and make sense.
  5. Check grammar, spelling, sentence structure, etc. As a college student, mistakes in these areas should not be present in your writing. When they are present, go back and review and learn why you made the mistake, so that you will not make them next time.
  6. When you have completed your post, before you post it, re-read and edit it. You send your best work to be graded. Grading should not be an editing service, but a confirmation of your hard work. You are not done and should not post until you have edited your work for errors.
  7. As a southerner, I often tell myself…Self, you cannot write the way you speak. Use your formal voice, with correct grammar and diction. To be honest, I was born a redneck, but I work hard to keep it under wraps in my writing. Writing well will become one of the greatest skills you can develop, but it takes constant work.
  8. Try to check and respond to your classmates throughout the week. Read my responses to your classmates as well. You will find that the give and take of the responses will add much to your understanding.

Hopefully, these thoughts will help. Go through this process each week after grades are posted. It is always about continual improvement. I often say that for any of us, there is no finish line in writing. We will work to improve throughout our lives. Dr. Mike

Evaluation of Agency’s Public Personnel Administration

Write a 4–5 page paper titled, “Evaluation of Agency’s Public Personnel Administration,” in which you:

Analyze the organizational design of the selected agency’s human resource management in relationship to the entire organization. Assess its strengths and weaknesses (title this section “Organizational Design”).

Assess the agency in terms of its global or international linkages, highlighting its application of theory to its approach to personnel management (title this section “Global Linkages and Personnel Management”).

Analyze at least three of the major components of the agency’s human resource system’s goals and practices regarding the recruitment and hiring of a qualified workforce (title this section “Personnel Recruitment and Hiring Practices”).

Evaluate the agency’s approach to training and programs provided for new and existing employees for the development of knowledge, skills, and overall competencies, highlighting the strengths and weaknesses (title this section “Employee Skills Training”).

Recommend at least two actions the agency could take to improve in the areas of recruiting and training a qualified workforce (title this section “Recruiting and Training Recommendations”).

Appropriately incorporate at least four quality sources. A quality source can be either popular, such as a news article, or scholarly, such as peer-reviewed works. In the case of public administration, government websites are appropriate quality resources. Note: Wikipedia, SparkNotes, and similar websites do not qualify as academic resources. Go to Basic Search: Strayer University Online Library to conduct research.

The organization that you will be writing about is: THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Lessons from African Americans’ struggles for equality

1. What lessons from African Americans’ struggles for equality in the past can help inform current and future civil rights issues?In your own words, describe your strongest evidence. Which pieces of information from your sources are most helpful for answering your research question?

2.In your own words, describe your weakest evidence. Which pieces of information from your sources don’t connect as easily to your research question?

3.What has been difficult about using these sources to answer your research question?

Martin Luther King, Jr. August 28, 1963. “I Have a Dream,” Address Delivered at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/i-have-dream-address-delivered-march-washington-jobs-and-freedom

Barack Obama. March 18, 2008. Speech on Race. https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88478467

how much the United States and Europe spend on healthcare every year

how much the United States and Europe spend on healthcare every year

In 750-1,000 words, do the following:

1.  Compare how much the United States and Europe spend on healthcare every year. Does the U.S. spend comparatively more or less than other developed countries?

2.  Explain what metrics are used to measure health. Where does the United States fall, according to those metrics?

3.  Describe the rationale for the role of government in health care. To what extent is poverty a salient factor, in terms of government intervention?  Explain.

4.  Describe how health care might be reformed to address high costs and limited coverage.

5.  Discuss the prospective advantages and disadvantages of a single-payer system, like that of Canada.

Use two to three scholarly resources to support your explanations.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion. You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin

American Insurrection 

  1. f the above link is broken then google PBS Frontline Archives.  Click on the link and there you will find the list of videos available to view.  Type in the title of the video in the search box or scroll through the videos to find it.
  2. Select and view the video listed below.  Please note the video is equipped and/or has close captioning available and is located on the botton right hand corner of the video.  The video also includes-offers a transcript of the documentary and is available by clicking on the “Transcript” link,
  3. Answer the questions found in the template below.  You must type the questions and answers in the forum. Please note I will not accept any analyses that are submitted as attachments.  Make sure you post your response in the forum.
  4. You are not required to post a response to a classmate for this assignment.

American Insurrection

Template for Analyzing the Video

  1. State as accurately as possible the video’s purpose for presenting this    information.  Explain your analysis/answer in five (5) or more sentences.
  2. What is the video attempting to convey and from what perspective is it presenting the information?  Provide your analysis/answer in five (5) or more sentences.
  3. What key question can you develop from the content presented in the article?  Provide your question and then your analysis/answer in five (5) or more sentences.
  4. What are the most important ideas you would have to understand in order to understand the video’s line of reasoning?  Provide your analysis/answer in five (5) or more sentences.
  5. What is the video failing to address (what might be questioned)?  Provide your analysis/answer in five (5) or more sentences.
  6. What consequences are likely to follow if people take the video’s line of reasoning seriously? Provide your analysis/answer in five (5) or more sentences.
  7. What consequences are likely to follow if people ignore the video’s reasoning?  Provide your analysis/answer in five (5) or more sentences.
  8. Identify the key conclusions the video comes to and presents?  Provide your analysis/answer in five (5) or more sentences.
  9. What facts, experiences, or data is the video using to support its conclusions?  Provide your analysis/answer in five (5) or more sentences.

Foreign Policy (On-line activity) Problems/Solutions

 

Foreign Policy (On-line activity) Problems/Solutions

Solutions to problems should Improve systems and better serve people

Directions: Select any THREE American Foreign Policy tools listed below. For each tool complete the following:

1. Describe why the implementation of this policy tool presents itself as a challenge to the United States

2. Discuss the positive effects of implementation of this policy citing specific historical examples

3. Discuss the negative effects of implementation of this policy citing specific historical examples

4. Compare and evaluate -make a case (using specific research evidence to support your argument) for one or more alternative solutions to successfully implementing the foreign policy tool to which you have been assigned

Foreign Policy Tools

Describe why the implementation of this policy tool presents itself as a challenge to the United States

1. Protect domestic food, energy and infrastructure from threats

2. Physical security of Americans from foreign threats

3. Contain/eliminate Non-State Actors 

4. Promote/protect economic prosperity

5. Isolationism

6. Deterrence

7. Appeasement

8. Diplomacy/International organizations

9. Humanitarian 

10. Preemption

 Nursing leaders need a workforce that can provide culturally competent care

 Nursing leaders need a workforce that can provide culturally competent care

Week two Discussion Assignment

Discussion Topic:    Nursing leaders need a workforce that can provide culturally competent care. Besides, nursing’s goal is to create a workforce that reflects the population it serves. In our country, we have a multicultural population. Discuss ethical issues in transcultural health care with which staff might be confronted in various work settings (inpatient, clinic, hospice). Ethics, whether philosophical, religious, or spiritual, is the study of morality, good and evil, and the rights and wrongs of human behavior and decision-making. One cultural group might find itself in a healthcare system that is based on the values of a different culture.

The Discussion:

  • Must address the topic.
  • Rationale must be provided.
  • May list examples from your own nursing practice.
  • 150-word minimum/250-word maximum without the references.
  • Minimum of two references (the course textbook must be one of the references) in APA format, must have been published within last 3-5 years.
  • Upload by Thursday, week # 2
  • Each student must respond to two student’s original post by day seven. This grade is a compilation of the original post and the response post. Please see the discussion topic rubric with responses in the course documents folder.

Global Health Comparison Matrix

In this Assignment, you will examine a global health issue and consider the approach to this issue by the United States and by one other country.

To Prepare:

  • Review the World Health Organization’s (WHO) global health agenda and select one global health issue to focus on for this Assignment.
  • Select at least one additional country to compare to the U.S. for this Assignment.
  • Reflect on how the global health issue you selected is approached in the U.S. and in the additional country you selected.
  • Review and download the Global Health Comparison Matrix provided in the Resources.

The Assignment: (1- to 2-page Global Health Comparison Matrix; 1-page Plan for Social Change)

Part 1: Global Health Comparison Matrix

Focusing on the country you selected and the U.S., complete the Global Health Comparison Matrix. Be sure to address the following:

  • Consider the U.S. national/federal health policies that have been adapted for the global health issue you selected from the WHO global health agenda. Compare these policies to the additional country you selected for study.
  • Explain the strengths and weaknesses of each policy.
  • Explain how the social determinants of health may impact the global health issue you selected. Be specific and provide examples.
  • Using the WHO’s Organization’s global health agenda as well as the results of your own research, analyze how each country’s government addresses cost, quality, and access to the global health issue selected.
  • Explain how the health policy you selected might impact the health of the global population. Be specific and provide examples.
  • Explain how the health policy you selected might impact the role of the nurse in each country.
  • Explain how global health issues impact local healthcare organizations and policies in both countries. Be specific and provide examples.

Part 2: A Plan for Social Change

Reflect on the global health policy comparison and analysis you conducted in Part 1 of the Assignment and the impact that global health issues may have on the world, the U.S., your community, as well as your practice as a nurse leader.

In a 1-page response, create a plan for social change that incorporates a global perspective or lens into your local practice and role as a nurse leader.

  • Explain how you would advocate for the incorporation of a global perspective or lens into your local practice and role as a nurse leader.
  • Explain how the incorporation of a global perspective or lens might impact your local practice and role as a nurse leader.
  • Explain how the incorporation of a global perspective or lens into your local practice as a nurse leader represents and contributes to social change. Be specific and provide examples

Develop your vision of the ideal health care system.

Develop your vision of the ideal health care system.

Topics- from Learning by Experience and Reflection:

· Develop your vision of the ideal health care system.

·  List some of the characteristics that constitute such a system. What would be the goal or goals of your ideal system?

· Think about how you would go about implementing your ideal system.

· Consider some of the problems you are likely to encounter.

·   Must address all of the topics.

·    150-word minimm/250-word maximum without the references

· Minimum of two references (the course textbook can be one of the references, as well as the organizational website) in APA format. If additional articles chosen, they must have been published within last 3-5 years.

·         Upload by Fridayday at 11:59pm,