Compare and contrast the healthcare system in your selected country with the U.S, healthcare system in terms of cost, access, and quality. Based on what you learned about the health care system in your selected country, do you believe the U.S. has the best health care system in the world? Explain.

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Health Care Finances Around The World

Select a foreign country whose health care system you would like to learn more about.

  • Conduct a literature search (CINAHL/MEDLINE Complete/Library Discovery) and retrieve at least 2 articles which discuss the healthcare system in your selected country. Look specifically for information related to the cost of health care, access, and quality.
  • Conduct a Google search to locate at least one reliable source of information related to the health care system in your selected country.  Look specifically for information related to the cost of health care, access, and quality.
  • Based on what you learned from your research post an original response to forum questions.

*NOTE:  consider doing a key word search using ‘healthcare system’ and the country’s name. 

  1. Choose a country whose health care system is of interest to you:
    1. Provide an overview of what you learned about the health care system in your selected country.  This overview is to include the name of the country, type of health care system (i.e. National Health system, federal government, commercial etc.) and a discussion of health care costs, access, quality, and choice.
    2. Compare and contrast the healthcare system in your selected country with the U.S, healthcare system in terms of cost, access, and quality.  Based on what you learned about the health care system in your selected country, do you believe the U.S. has the best health care system in the world?  Explain.

 

Write 500-1000 words describing the major theme in ONE of our two readings and how the author devises the action of the story or essay to comment on that theme.

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Social Issues

(1) Write 500-1000 words describing the major theme in ONE of our two readings and how the author devises the action of the story or essay to comment on that theme. The themes in Set One all have to do with Social Issues of one kind or another. Identify the theme and show how the characters and actions are effective in presenting that theme. Your task in paragraph one is to describe the theme itself. Start by writing an INTRODUCTORY SENTENCE called a ”SET-UP SENTENCE” that introduces the general idea of the theme itself, THEN name the author and title of the work you’re critiquing, along with that author’s perspective on the theme.

Remember that this paper is not a book report; you will have to identify elements of character and plot to make your point about the author’s theme, but your task is to explain how the author presents and develops that theme. You must also quote phrases from the work in your body paragraphs to prove that what you’re presenting is true.
You will find help writing a formal college paper on this subject in DOCUMENTS. Upload your paper below and upload it again in the ”Share Paper One’ portal next week.
By the way, no outside sources are necessary for this paper, but if you do use quotations or ideas from outside sources, please acknowledge them by ”Attributing” o ”Credentialing”your quote or paraphrase by saying, ”According to . . .” You do not need parenthetical citations or a Works Cited page for this paper – it’s not a documented essay.

Read the text closely several times, taking time to highlight and interact with it (review your work submitted in the Week 2: Summary Annotation Assignment. Identify the main argument of the piece. Put it into your own words.

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Final Summary Assignment

A foundational writing genre in the study of composition is the art of crafting effective summaries. Before we can advance our own rhetorical skills, we must first master strategies to strengthen the way we integrate the ideas of other authors through strategic quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing.

 

Step 1: (Remember, you have already selected your article via the Week 1: Summary Proposal assignment)

1. Read the text closely several times, taking time to highlight and interact with it (review your work submitted in the Week 2: Summary Annotation Assignment)

2. Identify the main argument of the piece (not just “what it’s about”). Put it into your own words.

3. Divide the piece into sections. (This step will depend on the length of the piece; in a short piece, a section might be one paragraph, but in a longer one, a section may be comprised of several paragraphs dealing with the same subtopic).

4. Identify what each section is “saying” and also what it is “doing.”

5. Check your own understanding. Do you see how the material in each section serves to support the main argument?

Step 2: Begin Writing your Brief Summary

Features of Effective Summary Writing include the following;

* is short, often significantly shorter than the original.
* typically begins by identifying the text’s title, author, publication, and main argument.
* traces the main ideas of a text, skipping any repetitive or non-essential details.
* proceeds chronologically, in the same order as the original text.
* should make sense to someone who has never read the original text before.
* is written in the summarizer’s language, not the author’s – attributive / identifying tags should be used in every sentence to separate summarizer and author.
* can include a few brief quotations and, of course, they’re copied carefully, punctuated correctly, and documented in MLA style.
* Recaptures only the words and ideas contained in the original text, not the summarizer’s opinion or critique. (Do not include your own personal commentary)

Write an essay that responds to this quote by explaining Gregory’s argument and discussing the extent to which you agree or disagree with his analysis.

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It’s for the Kids, Right?

Prompt: ”Across the nation, kids of all skill levels, in virtually, every team sport, are getting swept up by a youth sports economy that…[is] siphoning expensive participation fees from parents of kids with little hope of making the high school varsity, let alone the pros”(Sean Gregory). Write an essay that responds to this quote by explaining Gregory’s argument and discussing the extent to which you agree or disagree with his analysis.

I do agree with Sean Gregory’s argument if you could go in that direction with it.

Use evidence from these 4 sources:
https://time.com/4913687/how-kids-sports-became-15-billion-industry/
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/07/opinion/nike-running-mary-cain.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/28/sports/norway-youth-sports-model.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/01/learning/are-youth-sports-too-competitive.html

Write a five paragraph essay on how a supporting character in “The Martian” by Andy Weir and a supporting character in “Twelfth Night” by William Shakespeare help drive the plot in these two stories. Compare and contrast these two characters.

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English Assignment

Write a five paragraph essay on how a supporting character in “The Martian” by Andy Weir and a supporting character in “Twelfth Night” by William Shakespeare help drive the plot in these two stories. Compare and contrast these two characters.

What contributes to the ease of disseminating and accepting fake news?

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Fake news

What contributes to the ease of disseminating and accepting fake news?

Choose ONE critical lens (Feminist, Marxist, Psychological, Historical, or Archetypal) and analyze a “text” of your choice through that lens. Your choice of “text” may be a poem, song, short story, book, TV show, or movie.

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DISCUSSION ESSAY

Choose ONE critical lens (Feminist, Marxist, Psychological, Historical, or Archetypal) and analyze a “text” of your choice through that lens. Your choice of “text” may be a poem, song, short story, book, TV show, or movie.

Imagine you were asked to write an entire essay analyzing your text from the perspective of your critical lens. Come up with an outline for that essay, which includes a thesis, at least three topic sentences, and evidence from the text to support your claims. Create a presentation of your outline in Google Slides.

Who is the population for your claim? What question(s) will you ask in your survey to gather data on your claim? What variables will be in your study? What type of variable are they?

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Mini Study Part 1

You will conduct a mini study. You will survey 50 people through any method you choose to find out information on your topic. You will then calculate the statistics for your data. It is important to remember your mini study should use quantitative values since this is a statistics course so you can complete the required calculations.

1 State your topic

2 Who is the population for your claim? Justify your statement.

3 What question(s) will you ask in your survey to gather data on your claim? Explain the rationale for each question.

4 What variables will be in your study? What type of variable are they (ordinal, nominal, discrete, continuous, etc)?

5 Where will you post your survey and how will it reach your target population? (Facebook, email, in person, etc)

6 How will you collect your data? (Survey Monkey, Facebook Question, By hand/Excel, etc)

7 What type of sampling method will you use? Justify your choice and cite a reference supporting your decision.

8 What 2 types of graphs that you have learned about are the most appropriate for your data? Justify your statement and cite a reference supporting your decision.

*Hint: think about if your data may have outliers, is quantitative, is categorical vs interval, etc.

9 What 8 descriptive statistics that you have learned about are the most appropriate for your data? Justify your statement and cite a reference supporting your decision.

*Hint: think about if the data has outliers, is quantitative, is categorical vs interval, etc. *Note: if you have more than one survey question you can count statistics on EACH*

Write a well-developed Literacy Narrative essay. Use and correctly cite one outside source according to MLA style

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Literacy Narrative

Objectives:
 Write a well-developed Literacy Narrative essay.
 Use and correctly cite one outside source according to MLA style.

Point of view: First person— “I.” Use your best storytelling voice and openly and honestly reminisce about your past reading or writing experiences. You may focus on one or several personal, memorable literacy events (500-600 words). Also, you need to interweave information that comes from at least one outside source (an interview or a short article) that comes from research so we can satisfy our MLA style requirements. You need to show the reader that you can format the paper according to MLA style; provide internal (parenthetical info) in the text, and correctly cite your source on the Works Cited page.

Purpose: This form of writing will help you make sense out of your reading and writing experiences. Use description, dialogue, suspense, or other storytelling devices so that the reader, your audience, (peers and instructor) can relive your experiences along with you.

Process: Brainstorm a number of incidents concerning your awareness of reading and writing or other use of language.

 Select one or two specific incidents (no more than two so it does not look like a “shopping list” or an “encyclopedia entry”). Use free writing and clustering to gather your information.
 Read over your written information and label each new idea (place a keyword in the margin of each paragraph that represents the main idea of each paragraph).
 Look over your labels and give them an order (logical order, order of importance, chronological order, spatial order . . .).
 Put a number next to each label. Decide which information (number) can be used for your introduction, body, and conclusion.
 Make an outline.
 Write your first draft.

 Read your draft and label each paragraph. Make sure that you are developing only “one” idea per paragraph. Each paragraph should have well developed explicit main idea: topic sentence, supporting sentences, and a clincher.

 Look over your labels and select a couple of places in the text where you can interweave a few sentences that come from an outside source (an interview or an article from the internet) so that you can make your essay stronger and show the reader that you know how to cite outside sources in the text and on the Works Cited page.

You may quote or paraphrase or summarize someone’s words and document them correctly in the text and provide an entry of your source on the Works Cited page.

Make sure the new addition flows smoothly in the text along with your family member) who knows about your literacy journey. You can state, for example, according to my mother, books…. or you can just put your mother’s last name in parentheses (Brown) Interview…. If you use info from an article, consult with your A Writer’s Reference so you can cite your source correctly in the text and the Works Cite

Watch and relate to any 2 videos from Section Three posted in Course Resources. Briefly state what the key issue in each video is (one issue each, 2 issues total) and relate to course material for this section.

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Discussion essay

300-500 words, not counting replies to classmates

  1. Discuss at least three (3) key ideas/concepts discussed in this section as presented in the lecture for this Module (in class or as found in Readings and Resources). Your answers must directly reflect information from the lecture. After defining/explaining what these ideas/concepts are in your OWN WORDS, tell why you think they are important and share your own position on each of these 3 ideas.
  2. Watch and relate to any 2 videos from Section Three posted in Course Resources. Briefly state what the key issue in each video is (one issue each, 2 issues total) and relate to course material for this section. For example, compare and contrast Plato and Aristotle on their views on knowledge, or any of the issues addressed in Section Three.