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What is the meaning of the title? How does the author say the immigrant feels about “home”? How does their travel change or wound them?

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No Place Like Home

Choose one set of question prompts and use them to begin writing a well- formulated three page essay. These essay prompts are for you to use as needed. As you write, reflect upon what you have learned so far from pre-writing and either one or both of these essays.

If you are writing about “No Place Like Home” answer the following questions:
What is the meaning of the title? Why does the author allude to the Wizard of Oz in the title?
How does the author say the immigrant feels about “home”?
How does their travel change or wound them?
What is the difference between an emigrant and an immigrant? What is the effect of being both?
What is the meaning of the Portuguese word “Saudade” and why does the author associate it with the holidays?
How does the writer and/or ordinary person use memory and literature to make a home?

Describe the scientific method as it applies to sociology. Include the possible research methods within your answer. Describe the characteristics of bureaucracy as constructed by Max Weber.

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Three major theoretical perspectives in sociology.

Answer 3 of 4 questions in essay format. Each question should be submitted in a typed, double-spaced format, in a MS Word document. Each answer is required to be a short paper that is 250 to 500 words in length (2 to 3 pages; it may go longer if you like).

1. Delineate between the three major theoretical perspectives in sociology. You should include at least one famous sociologist as an example of each perspective. Please also include the other paradigms within the three major ones.

2. Describe the scientific method as it applies to sociology. Include the possible research methods within your answer.

3. Describe the characteristics of bureaucracy as constructed by Max Weber.

4. Describe the main components of culture. What role does culture play in society in terms of variations?

How was the ‘formula one’ strategy different from how they traditionally competed? What caused this shift? What are your recommendations for Silvio and for his boss going forward?

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Silvio Napoli

The maximum page length allowed is 1 page (format specifications: Times New Roman, 12-point font size, single-spaced, 1” margin all around). State the question number only for each one of your answers for the questions below:
1. How was the ‘formula one’ strategy different from how they traditionally competed? What caused this shift?
2. What were the biggest challenges for Silvio during his first seven months as general manager of the Indian company?
3. What are your recommendations for Silvio and for his boss going forward?

What strategic transformations were Philips and Matsushita trying to accomplish? Why was changing strategy so difficult for the two companies?

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Philips – Matsushita

The maximum page length allowed is 1 page (format specifications: Times New Roman, 12-point font size, single-spaced, 1” margin all around). State the question number only for each one of your answers to the questions below:
1. Compare and contrast the strategies that enabled Philips and Matsushita to become market leaders.
2. What strategic transformations were Philips and Matsushita trying to accomplish? Why?
3. Why was changing strategy so difficult for the two companies?

Locate a recent article when an instance of fraud or abuse was committed and summarize it for your classmates. Then Review the Standards of Ethical Coding and discuss how they apply to working with documentation.

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Various forms of documentation in a medical record

Discussion Post: This module discusses the various forms of documentation in a medical record that a professional coder will use when coding diagnoses and procedures for optimum reimbursement for a health care facility. In a quest for optimum reimbursement, many coders may be committing fraud or abuse. Locate a recent article when an instance of fraud or abuse was committed and summarize it for your classmates. Then Review the Standards of Ethical Coding from Chapter 1, and discuss how they apply to working with documentation.

How do you think the adoption of the EHR, and other information systems, have impacted the HIM department? Describe the ways an information system can improve the efficiency of the HIM department.

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Meditech VLab Reflection:

For this discussion, you will reflect on and share your experiences navigating the drchrono modules in the Vlab. Answer the following two questions, and then continue your reflection using some of the possible prompts listed below.
How do you think the adoption of the EHR, and other information systems, have impacted the HIM department?
Describe the ways an information system can improve the efficiency of the HIM department.
Prompts: What did you like about the EHR? What did you dislike? Compare to previous EHRs you may have used/experienced. What did you learn from the lessons? Is there anything you feel that are missing from the lessons? Is there anything you are confused about? Did you learn anything to better prepare you as an HIM professional?

What is the situation that the two space agencies face at the present moment? Are things moving ahead or is there turmoil? Are there sufficient resources for what they are doing or will they run short?

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Making a report

This is an emergency. Your supervisor has been directed to make a report to a Congressional sub-committee in the morning, and you have to prepare the statement she will present. She must make a short, crisp presentation about the status of the space programs of two nations. She has been told: no history, no review of launch vehicles, just what is happening right now and what is expected to happen in the next 12 months.

What is the situation that the two space agencies face at the present moment? Are things moving ahead or is there turmoil? Are there sufficient resources for what they are doing or will they run short? Have there been any significant developments or occurrences in the past six months? What changes have been made to their plans in the past few months?
As for the future, what is the launch schedule for the next 12 months? Is anything new and interesting planned? What are they likely to do that could be of particular interest to the United States? Any manned launches? Are there any cooperative ventures planned with other nations that would be of interest or concern to the U.S.? Will any new systems or equipment come on line in the next year? Will there be any lunar or Martian or other missions beyond LEO that we should be concerned about?
The specs of your report are as follows:
1. Choose any two nations other than the United States and the one for which you are preparing your major country report.
2. Each country is to be presented separately.
3. The overall document is to have four sections with estimated lengths in parentheses:
a. Introduction (~100 words)
b. Country one summary (~750 words)
c. Country two summary (~750 words)
d. Implications for the United States – what does it mean and what should we do? (~250 words)
4. Each report is to be no less than 1,500 and no more than 2,000 words in length.
5. Each report must contain bibliographic information for at least five relevant reference documents that you used and that could be of interest to the sub-committee.
Assessment will be based on content, crispness, and coverage. Presenting to Congress is no joke, your boss will not be pleased if this report doesn't make them look good.

Describe the levels of evidence in each of the four peer-reviewed articles you selected, including an explanation of the strengths of using systematic reviews for clinical research. Be specific and provide examples.

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Evidence-Based Project, Part 2: Advanced Levels of Clinical Inquiry and Systematic Reviews

Your quest to purchase a new car begins with an identification of the factors important to you. As you conduct a search of cars that rate high on those factors, you collect evidence and try to understand the extent of that evidence. A report that suggests a certain make and model of automobile has high mileage is encouraging. But who produced that report? How valid is it? How was the data collected, and what was the sample size?

In this Assignment, you will delve deeper into clinical inquiry by closely examining your PICO(T) question. You also begin to analyze the evidence you have collected.

To Prepare:

Review the Resources and identify a clinical issue of interest that can form the basis of a clinical inquiry.

Develop a PICO(T) question to address the clinical issue of interest you identified in Module 2 for the Assignment. This PICOT question will remain the same for the entire course.

Use the key words from the PICO(T) question you developed and search at least four different databases in the Walden Library. Identify at least four relevant systematic reviews or other filtered high-level evidence, which includes meta-analyses, critically-appraised topics (evidence syntheses), critically-appraised individual articles (article synopses). The evidence will not necessarily address all the elements of your PICO(T) question, so select the most important concepts to search and find the best evidence available.

Reflect on the process of creating a PICO(T) question and searching for peer-reviewed research.

The Assignment (Evidence-Based Project)

Part 2: Advanced Levels of Clinical Inquiry and Systematic Reviews

Create a 6- to 7-slide PowerPoint presentation in which you do the following:

Identify and briefly describe your chosen clinical issue of interest.

Describe how you developed a PICO(T) question focused on your chosen clinical issue of interest.

Identify the four research databases that you used to conduct your search for the peer-reviewed articles you selected.

Provide APA citations of the four relevant peer-reviewed articles at the systematic-reviews level related to your research question. If there are no systematic review level articles or meta-analysis on your topic, then use the highest level of evidence peer reviewed article.

Describe the levels of evidence in each of the four peer-reviewed articles you selected, including an explanation of the strengths of using systematic reviews for clinical research. Be specific and provide examples.

what are your thoughts about the spread of disease through intravenous drug use?

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Infectious disease

The risk of infectious disease significantly increases if someone living with addiction uses drugs your own examination of peer-reviewed sources, what are your thoughts about the spread of disease through intravenous drug use?

What is the relevance of the film to this class/ unit? Why do you think the professor required students to view it? Compare and contrast race in Brazil versus United States? What do you think is the biggest take-away from the film?

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https://howardcc.instructure.com/courses/1105587/assignments/8757466?module_item_id=12955310

Directions: Write a 3 page essay answering the prompt.12 point font. Double spaced. New Times Roman. Upload the file on this page for submission. Please be sure to export your file to a readable format (.doc/ .docx/ .rtf). Please DO NOT upload .gdoc or .pages.

Goal: The goal of any assignment is for you (the student) to demonstrate and explore your learning. This paper requires you to apply the content of the unit/class and analyze the film “”Brazil: A Racial Paradise.”

Prompt/ Questions: What is the relevance of the film to this class/ unit? Why do you think the professor required students to view it? Compare and contrast race in Brazil versus United States? What do you think is the biggest take-away from the film?