Category: Writing

Healthcare
Healthcare as a Right or Privilege
I believe healthcare should be regarded as a privilege instead of a right. This is because of the following reasons. First, healthcare services are just like every other commodity in the market. The principles of economics that apply to economics are also applicable to healthcare. Additionally, like how other commodities act as privileges to those who can afford to buy them, healthcare accessibility is more of a privilege to those who can afford issues in Healthcare, 2021). Some individuals get more quality healthcare than others, depending on the resources they pay to get the services.
Additionally, healthcare is a privilege and not a right because it is a limited economic resource that requires money. The more the money, the more the privilege of accessing and earning healthcare services and vice versa (Issues in Healthcare, 2021). Healthcare is considered a right is just the idealization that citizens are entitled to healthcare because of their existence, while in the real sense, it’s a privilege because, in reality, it is associated with costs that only those who are competitive in the market can afford. Declaring healthcare as a right is not a guarantee of its provision.
Healthcare is also a privilege because it is earned from a personal responsibility. It is determined by choice and responsibility, where individuals are obligated to take the necessary actions to improve their health. The decisions they make regarding actions to take to improve their health are significantly impacted by the money they have.
How the Changing Healthcare Environment Impacted My Practice
The changing healthcare environment has had a significant impact on the nursing sector. The changes have impacted me in the following ways. First, I have learned the importance of keeping updated with the latest technological trends, ensuring I adapt to these technological advances to provide optimal care by training online on how to use these emerging tools. The changing healthcare environment has also pushed me to become a leader in the healthcare field. The changes have increased responsibilities and expectations for nurses, forcing us to be confident and hardworking as we fill those roles.
Additionally, the changing healthcare environment has fostered a culture of partnership in the healthcare field. The changes emphasize the importance of nurses partnering and voicing their concerns for the progression of healthcare. The changing environment has forced nurses to collaborate more effectively to provide comprehensive, coordinated care.
In addition, the changing healthcare environment has changed the way nurses previously interacted with their patients. The emphasis is to provide patients with care in a more personalized way to enhance the patient’s engagement and experience and improve the overall clinical outcome (Nursing Practice & Education, 2020). This has led me to develop empathy and compassion. I have to keep the patient in the loop, understand their concern, know what they want, and provide care satisfactorily to meet their needs and preferences. Additionally, with the changing healthcare environment, there are frequent regulatory updates, and I must ensure I stay informed when providing care. This involves keeping up with the latest evidence-based research findings from reputable sources, including clinical practice guidelines and journals.
Discussion reply 1
Health Care, a Right or a Privilege
Health care is among the most important factors that have elicited passionate discussion about whether it is a right or a privilege in society. Therefore, it is possible to reconcile the pulling of opposite thought processes by addressing ethical, practical, and philosophic questions surrounding the issue with a fair and balanced perspective regarding healthcare access and distribution.
Based on this point of view, it is against the principles of health care that people should be denied access to services they need based on their ability to pay. This view originates from the understanding of health as an inalienable right and from the prognosis of a society to be responsible for the well-being of its population. Binkley (2020) notes that it is paramount that citizens be granted access to healthcare, mostly because this stems from an ethical principle of justice. Within this context, healthcare delivery systems must reflect the principles of universal care, writing off the possibility of anyone being locked out of a system because of a lack of adequate funds. It encourages a group responsibility in financing health care through taxation, consolidating the view of health care as a public good.
In contrast, those who consider health care a privilege fully explain that it is not a right everyone is entitled to but rather a product to which people with certain status, employment, and financial capabilities are entitled. This worldview focuses on individual initiatives and market relations to define the availability and quality of healthcare services. According to Binkley (2020), from this perspective, the healthcare sector should operate within market institutions whereby competition and choices by consumers allow the crafting of doctors’ services that are efficient and innovative. Reasons, why advocates support this idea, include boosting the motivation of workers and better and healthier lives of patients through improving the efforts of the healthcare system. However, Klunk (2022) brings more nuance into the debate because while he does not deny that healthcare is a right, he also asserts that it is not a privilege either—it is something else entirely. According to Klunk (2022), health care is a basic need that has to be protected, yet it can hardly be regarded as a pure right. It is a mixture of right and marketplace. It recognizes the fact that healthcare financing has its bounds and that it cannot cater to the needs of every individual. However, it remains right and moral to try as much as possible to attend to every person who presents himself/herself to the healthcare system. If addressing the issue as a human right in need of health care, government and policymakers can adopt what Hallmark describes as a twin-track approach that involves the provision of public funding for basic health care and market incentives for innovation in other sectors.
In conclusion, they are striving for the common belief that people must stay healthy as a right and a privilege must be acknowledged and addressed with a complex approach through which health care must be viewed as a basic necessity. This approach has to embrace both justice-oriented ethical principles and more practical and logistical concerns connected to the economic feasibility of the process and the consequent optimal outcomes. In this way, society can move toward a health care system that guarantees everyone a right to health and promotes the development of new methods that will make people responsible for their health. 
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LANGUAGE LEARNING DISABILITIES PAPER ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS
After reading Chapters 14, 20, and 30 of the Swanson, Harris & Graham book, you will
summarize the main points. The summary must draw information from the readings, and it must
demonstrate a strong relationship between language processes, reading comprehension, and
research.
Parameters for this assignment include:
1. Include a correctly formatted title page, headings, abstract, and reference page.
2. Include a minimum of 7 citations within your paper and a minimum of 3 outside sources.
3. Must be 5-7 pages in length (excluding the title page, abstract, and reference page).
4. Include the following topics:
a. Importance of Language
b. How is language foundational for students to:
i. understand instruction, participate in classroom discussions,
ii. establish working relationships with peers and teachers,
iii. and synthesize information and expanding knowledge?
c. Learning and/or Language Disabilities (LLD)
i. Discuss the nature of LLD from the preschool years to the oral end of the
continuum.
ii. Discuss primary grades when children are expected to use language for
learning.
iii. Include research focused on various approaches to improving the early
language skills of children who may be at risk for LLD.
d. Reading
i. Discuss students with significant reading difficulties and those who are
candidates for reading intervention.
ii. Many of these students have been provided reading intervention during the
elementary grades yet continue to demonstrate reading difficulties at the
secondary level.
iii. Conceptualize interventions for students at the secondary level citing
evidence from the reading.
e. Technology
i. How can the power of technology be used to enhance literacy outcomes?
ii. What does the research to date tell us?
iii. What devices/programs are out there to aid in reading comprehension.
f. Summary and Biblical Integration
i. In a summary that discusses the findings and make connections between
all three readings. Use citations to support your assertions.
ii. Include a summary that includes a biblical perspective on the topics above.

I have a Cv already but as I am about to graduate in Human Resources and Management I would like to update my CV in a very attractive and professional way by adding important informations and key words in my description and reviewing my work experiences

Research on What factors account for the United States stock market crash of 1929?
The introduction and conclusion should not exceed 2 paragraphs each

This week, you are building on ideas from last week’s journal and reshaping them into a full argument in essay form. You might be able to reuse some material from last week–but you should definitely go over the feedback you received. In addition, this assignment contains some new elements, so be sure to read carefully. Directions for Writing
Revisit the video you looked at last week and draft a full analysis of the rhetorical efficacy of one video. Those speeches once again include:
“New Steak House Restaurant in Las Vegas: Salt Bae’s Nusr-Et Steakhouse – Worth It?” (opens in new window): a review of an upscale steakhouse by Tanya and Dave from Turn It Up World.
“Vegas Burger Showdown: Holstein’s vs. Gordon Ramsay’s Burger” (opens in a new window): a review of two burger restaurants by Bill and Lisa from Bill & Lisa’s Food and Travel.
“Is Bouchon by Thomas Keller the Best Steakhouse in Las Vegas?” (opens in new window): a review of a French brasserie-style restaurant by Bill from Dine Drink Vegas.
“I Tried Luxor’s $17 All You Can Eat Buffet in Las Vegas…” (opens in new window): a review of Luxor’s all-you-can eat buffet by Ruby from Travel Ruby.

Instructions
Item 1 of the Portfolio: Report on the Communication in My Field of Study (due in week 2)
For this assignment you will complete a form, providing information about 4 things:
The program (discipline) you are studying (examples: Intelligence Studies or Criminal Justice).
Some ways you learned about folks in your discipline (looking at your program’s research guide, journals, websites, organizations, books, blogs, podcasts, etc.).
Tips for communicating with folks in your discipline gathered from Artificial Intelligence (AI).
YOUR tips for communicating with folks in your discipline (merging AI observations with your own).
Read the information below for a broad understanding of the purpose of this assignment. Refer to the attached template for more specific details on what to do.
What is a discourse community?
You learned earlier that writing does not exist in a vacuum, that it is a conversation between writer and reader. One scholar, Erik Borg, says that “We do not generally use language to communicate with the world at large, but with individuals or groups of individuals…these groups are gathered into communities.”
Each of us belongs to a number of these groups (called discourse communities). If you stop at a coffee shop routinely, you are a member of that community. Members know what the “rules” are for communicating with each other, what kind of greeting is used, what the standard length of comments is, what kind of comments are acceptable, and what kind are not. Other discourse communities might be related to activities with children, fitness, or church. You can probably think of examples of a conversation topic or a greeting that would be acceptable at the gym but not at church. In this assignment, you are going to look at the communication that occurs in one of your discourse communities, the one formed by an interest in your field of study (major, program, or discipline).
How do I learn about the discourse community in my field? What will you be looking for? You will be looking at the kinds of reading and writing members of the community do; the expectations and rules (conventions) for the communication; the way they communicate with each other online; and other tips that help you understand this group.
Here’s an easy way to gather this information.
Click the link in the classroom to the APUS Library.
Click the link Subject A-Z.
Click the alphabet letter that starts the name of your degree program (N for Nursing, F for Fire Science, A for Accounting, etc.).
Click the name of your degree program (Nursing, Fire Science, Accounting, etc.).
Look through the many choices listed there, including databases, multi-media, podcasts, websites, career, associations, government agencies, and social media. Click numerous links in these choices and see what you can learn about how these professionals communicate with each other and those outside the field. Look at how these professionals write by reading items in the sites as well as tips offered for persons new to the field.
Once I’ve learned about my field’s discourse community, what do I do with that information?
After you have looked at your program in the library’s page, do the following steps.
Go to a generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) site, such as ChatGPT or Google Bard, and type a question like this into the site’s chat box:
What style of writing do professionals in the field of ___(type in your program)___ use?
Example questions to ask AI:
What style of writing do professionals in the field of nursing use? What style of writing do professionals in the field of sports fitness use?
Copy and paste the answer from AI into a Word document. Be sure to write in the name of the AI tool you used to get these results. You will be pasting this information in the template to be turned in.
(NOTE: This site is a comprehensive catalog of AI tools: Futurepedia, The Largest AI Tools Directory. It is updated daily. Do a search for General Writing to get started.)
Open the template for the assignment and save it as a Word file with the title “(Your last name) Report on Communication.”
Answer the questions on the template with the information you have gathered and the analysis you have done.

WRTG 394   
Midterm Reflection on Your WRTG 394 Experience
Assignment Summary
This assignment asks you to consider where you are in your WRTG 394 course (Week 5, just past the midway point) and write a brief (150-250 words – at its longest this document should be no longer than one page) reflection about how you are thinking and feeling about WRTG 394 at this point in time. You’ll be asked to do this again in Week 8 as you complete the course.
How Your Midterm Reflection relates to your other work in WRTG 394
This class, which is probably your first experience with Labor Based Contract Grading, has likely been something of a revelation, perhaps even a shock to you in its refusal to be like a traditional “product” oriented course where your focus is on the assignments you submit rather than on the work you do to prepare and refine those assignments. Since we’re involved in your skill development (remember all that info from the Labor Contract that discusses how learning writing skills is cognitive learning akin to learning/improving your process of performing an action (writing) rather than production of a product such as a research paper, presentation, or other task), that’s something to think about and discuss in your reflection.
What You Must Provide for the Midterm Reflection
In a single draft (no revision for this or the final reflection assignments), you will discuss what working on developing your skill rather than producing a product has been like for you. You should provide the following for this assignment:
1.    A short memo that discusses your experience thus far in WRTG 394 and mentions in particular any experiences that you have found memorable.
Memo Template to Use as You Complete this Assignment
To: [Dr. Jim Booth, Professor, WRTG 394]
From: [Your name and title]
Date: [Today’s Date]
Subject: [Reflections on WRTG 394 at the course midpoint]
Summary
(Here you should give a one-two sentence summary of your reflection.)
WRTG 394’s Memorable Moments (So Far)
(Talk about what you have found most interesting/problematic/maddening about this new approach to learning about writing.)
Conclusion
(Any final thoughts/concerns?)
Remember, the key is to keep it short and to focus in on any issue or topic that you think key at this point of the course term.

You are encouraged to start writing as soon as you can.
• Each student should pick a publicly listed company which has top executives
featured in In Good Company with Nicolai Tangen (available for free on
Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Youtube, etc.). If you’re uncertain about a
company’s public-listing status, ask Google!
• The paper should be no longer than 10 pages in length, single space, 1-inch
margins all around (including cover page, references).
• The paper should be uploaded to D2L, where Turnitin checks similarity rates
(a similarity of 25+% will be suspect of plagiarism). Due date: June 20 th
• Please follow the guidelines below to structure your paper.
1. Company overview (Introduce the company, and evaluate the company’s
performance over the past five years.)
2. Identify the company’s business-level, corporate-level, and international-
level strategies with examples. [Underline the key words (textbook
terminologies) for the three levels of strategies.]
3. Identify the competitive advantages of the company, and evaluate whether
these advantages are sustainable or not using the RBV framework.
4. Conduct an up-to-date analysis of the company in the current environment
using the Porter’s Five Forces framework.
5. Reflect on the Podcast episode in which the top executive is interviewed.
Summarize key insights that are consistent (or inconsistent) with your above
analysis. [DO NOT transcribe the podcast.]
6. Based on your research, offer recommendations on how the company can
improve its performance.
7. Conclusion.
8. References.

Learning Goal: I’m working on a writing discussion question and need the explanation and answer to help me learn.
Educational Thinker Presentation Assignment Instructions
Overview
The overview of the first three modules of this course has led you into an exploration of various educational philosophies. Traditional philosophies, modern and post-modern philosophies, as well as educational theories of transformation and transmission have all been studied along with their corresponding personalities. This assignment will give you the opportunity to take a selected personality, an educational thinker of your choice, and to “teach” this individual and their educational philosophy as if you were teaching in a classroom in both print and presentation formats, thus combining theory and practice.
Instructions
Follow this checklist to guide you in completing this assignment successfully.
Select an educational thinker from the list provided under Educational Thinker Presentation Assignment Resources.
Handout
Research the educational ideas and educational influences of your thinker. Create a one-page handout reflecting this information, including at least 3 examples of the thinker’s ideas and at least 3 examples of the thinker’s impact on education.
Information: You may include minimal biographical information about the thinker only as it relates to how life events influenced the individual’s philosophy of education. The major focus, however, should be given to the person’s educational ideas and educational impact. Make a strong connection from the thinker’s theory to his or her practice.
Your Name: Ensure that your name appears somewhere on the handout.
Sources: In fine print on the back or in the footer of the handout, insert your 3 major sources in current APA format. Use credible academic sources. Wikipedia is not acceptable. (Check the index of your textbooks to see if the authors have anything to say about your thinker.)
Link to Video Presentation: Please include the link to your video presentation on the handout.
Format
The handout may follow whatever format you choose and may be as creative as you wish.
Charts, outlines, graphic organizers, conceptual maps, pictures, etc., are not required but are welcome. Some students have formatted their handouts as brochures, résumés, simulated Facebook pages, etc.
A simple traditional outline will suffice if that is what you choose.
Submit the handout using the appropriate link in the course submissions area.
Prepare a 5-minute video presentation. A common error is for students to spend too much time on biographical information. Get to the ideas, impact, and critique before the 3-minute timer goes off.
Refrain from reading the entire handout, but you may refer to it and read quotes from it. You are welcome to use note cards.
As part of your presentation, critique the educational ideas and educational influence of the thinker. You may share what critics have stated but also give your own assessment. You must include at least 1 outside critique and 1 personal critique.
After you have recorded yourself presenting your Educational Thinking assignment, upload your video file to a platform or location from which a shareable link can be generated (e.g., Microsoft OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox, YouTube, etc.). Ensure the settings of your video file will allow anyone with the URL link to your video to view it. Share your video by copying and pasting its link onto the handout document.
Please note that you should wear professional dress when recording the video. In addition, make sure the background is neutral or “professional” in nature.
The handout is the only document that will be submitted for this assignment. The handout must contain the link to the video presentation in addition to the required information listed above.
Note: Your assignment will be checked for originality via the Turnitin plagiarism tool.

The skill of grouping is used to sort through an assortment of elements to determine how they can be arranged into meaningful sets such that the elements in each set share significant similarities while the elements across sets exhibit significant differences. Thus, the grouping skill involves contrasting and comparing. Contrasting is looking for differences across elements. Comparing is looking for commonalities across elements. 
For decades, The Flinstones and The Jetsons have entertained audiences by showing how family dynamic thrives in the distant past and future. Both George Jetson and Fred Flinstone represent the ideal of what it means to work hard and provide for their families. One is set in prehistoric times and the other in the future. They both have wives, children, friends, and even a dog. They both go to work and are socially active. George has a flying car, while Fred uses his feet as accelerator and break. Fred (without all the technical advancements) faces the same challenges as They both seem to live perfectly good lives and enjoy the advances of their times. 
But the question remains that if these cartoons BOTH represent what can be considered as a good life, then has technological advancements really changed human behavior and interaction? And if so, how? What are the changes? And have they been bad or good for society? How has the changes in the media industry helped or hindered society? 
(Image credit: https://www.cbr.com/flintstones-jetsons-same-time-period-theory/)
Assignments
Have you ever had a conversation with someone much older than you? What would you find out about the societal effects and behaviors of the “advancements” of technology? These talks can be riddled with gems and bits of information that can illuminate answers and connect historical dots. This assignment will allow you to explore the impact of technology on the lives of everyday people.
In this assignment, you will conduct an interview with someone 60 (or older) years old. Below you will find a list of questions to help guide you through the interview, but feel free to ask them any other questions you see fit. You should record their answers so that you can refer to them later.
Using the media literacy skill of grouping, address the following:
How are you and your interviewee alike? How are you different? Identify three ways that you and your interviewee are alike. Identify three ways that you are different. What conclusions can you draw from this? Discuss how what you found related to this week’s readings and videos.
Resources
Interview questions:
Do you remember life with early technology like radio, “talkies,” TV, video, CDs?
When did you listen to the radio? With whom? Where? What else did you do? What did you listen to? How did your quality-of-life change with this technology?
When you got a TV, how did things change? When did you watch TV? With whom? Where? What else did you do? What did you watch? How did your quality-of-life change with this technology?
When did you get cable? Multiple TVs? How did that change what and how you watched TV? How did your quality-of-life change with this technology?
When did you used to go to the movies? With whom? Why? How has that experience changed compared to today? How did your quality-of-life change with this technology?
When did you get a VCR, DVD, TiVo? How do you use it? How has your quality of life changed with this technology?
How do you use the computer? How often? Why do you use the computer? How has your quality of life changed with this technology?
How has the quality of media products changed? How has the content of media products changed?
Pew Research Center online survey findings in Millennials will benefit and suffer due to their hyperconnected lives, February 29, 2012. “Teens and young adults brought up from childhood with a continuous connection to each other and to information will be nimble, quick-acting multitaskers who count on the Internet as their external brain and who approach problems in a different way from their elders…”
Pew Research Center study findings of: Share of those 65 and older who are tech users has grown in the past decade, by Michelle Faverio, , January 13, 2022. “There are still notable differences in tech use between U.S. adults under 30 and those 65 and older. But on several fronts, adoption of key technologies by those in the oldest group has grown markedly since about a decade ago…”
Instructions
Using the information you collected from the activity outlined above, write a 500 word paper using the Make sure you review the Writing Assignment Organizer to assist you in completing your work.
Use the media literacy skill of grouping (defined above) to help you organize and present your findings.
Don’t forget to provide support from the course resources AND from your interview. Note: you MUST include the interview in your reference page and don’t be afraid to use any of the answers from your interview as in text quotations.
Reminders and Policies
Make sure that you proofread your work PRIOR to submission.
Upload a WORD DOCUMENT ONLY to Canvas.
Paper MUST be double-spaced. Use page numbers, but do not use title pages and/or page runners.
Use 12 pt. Times Roman typeface.
DO NOT ignore or write OVER the word count! Assignments that go over the word count will lose 10% of the final grade. (See rubric below). Word counts will be checked. Please put your word count at the bottom of the paper.
Review Working With Turnitin for submission information, similarity scores, AI detection and how to view your feedback and grades.
Don’t forget to include a reference page at the end of the reaction paper. Visit The Roughwriter’s Guide APA References Page by Dr. Karen Palmer for correct format. 
Late assignments will not be accepted, and technical difficulties ARE NOT an acceptable excuse for late work. If you experience technical issues, contact Canvas Technical Support.
It is the policy of this course that plagiarism is NOT allowed. Assignments that have a Turnitin Similarity score higher than 25% will automatically receive a “0”. Make sure to check your similarity score prior to submission.
Students are encouraged and required to complete and submit original work created by them without the use of any automated tools (as outlined in FIU’s Student Conduct and Honor Code), including any use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) programs in this course. This course utilizes the Turnitin Artificial Intelligence (AI) Writing Detection Tool. Students who receive a AI Similarity score higher than 30% will receive a “0” for the assignment and must arrange to speak to the course instructor. Review the IDS 3309 How We Know What We Know Automated Tools (including AI generative and regenerative software) Course Policy.This course is a “Gordon Rule” course. The Gordon Rule requires students in Florida public universities to complete a minimum of writing intensive courses. FIU Gordon Rule courses meet this requirement by assigning several writing assignments, sequenced throughout the course, typically totaling 3,500 words or more. At FIU, in a Gordon Rule course, writing will be evaluated based on the following characteristics:
Driven by a clear thesis or controlling idea.
Supports thesis with adequate reasons and evidence.
Displays sustained analysis and critical thought.
Is organized clearly and logically.
Shows knowledge of conventions of formal written English.
Shows awareness of disciplinary conventions regarding content, style, form, and delivery method.
The assignment will be assessed using the following rubric: