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Consider a major cultural development or historical event that has occurred throughout the time frame of our course. How is that development or event addressed in a contemporaneous poem? In later poems that respond to that event? What is the cultural or societal role of the poem in this context?

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Write a 6-7 page paper (~1500-1800 words) that makes a clear, persuasive argument about at least one of the poems we have studied in this course.
While you are welcome and encouraged to develop your own argument independent of prompts, here are a few prompts that you may respond to, or that you may use to jumpstart your thinking:
1) How does the approach to form develop in the poems we have encountered in this course? How is form revised and adapted to address issues contemporaneous to the poet?
2) Throughout this course, we have been grappling with questions of impersonality and biography. With attention to at least one poem, consider how these concerns intersect, and are addressed within the poem and, potentially, beyond it.

3) Consider a major cultural development or historical event that has occurred throughout the time frame of our course. How is that development or event addressed in a contemporaneous poem? In later poems that respond to that event? What is the cultural or societal role of the poem in this context?
4) Compare and contrast two decades we have covered in class via attention to a representative poem from each decade (note: you may not pair poems already paired in the syllabus). How do the poems function differently in their contexts? How does the approach to “the poem” change, as addressed in the poems chosen?

When and where was the most recent coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 discovered? How would you describe the coronavirus situation currently in the news? What are the symptoms of COVID-19 and how is it different from influenza? What effects does the coronavirus have on the body and how is it currently treated?

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As you conduct your own research, discuss the following questions regarding the global Novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19) pandemic. Each proper response should be based on information that you found published, and written in your own words. In other words, not just copying information and pasting it in your document. Also, you must include references and properly cite any quotations.
1. When and where was the most recent coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 discovered?
2. How would you describe the coronavirus situation currently in the news?
3. What are the symptoms of COVID-19 and how is it different from influenza?
4. What effects does the coronavirus have on the body and how is it currently treated?
5. Why should this be a major concern for people living in the United States and especially Atlanta, Georgia?
6. As of the time and date of your report, how many current cases of COVID-19 are there globally? In the U.S.?
7. Finally, based on the number of cases, reported deaths and your research, should we be greatly alarmed by this virus, yes or no, and why?

Do you agree with the way the DEA currently schedules illicit substances? Why or why not? What, if any, changes would you recommend? What are the common stereotypes that society has about specific drug users? How does this impact the way drugs get scheduled?

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Crime is a popular topic discussed in the news, both locally and nationally. News media tend to focus on crime stories because they know it will capture and maintain an intrigued audience. How are criminals depicted in the news? What narratives do the media perpetuate about crime and criminals? Are there any discriminatory differences in how the news media portrays certain types of offenders? Provide a specific example.

Option 2: Psychoactive Drugs
The way society and the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) classify drugs has major implications for the criminal justice system. Illegal drugs are classified by two major factors:

Their potential for abuse and for their known medical utility.
The ratio between the effective dose (ED) and lethal dose (LD) is used to determine the relative toxicity and safety of a substance. Review the DEA Drug Schedules and answer the following:

Do you agree with the way the DEA currently schedules illicit substances? Why or why not? What, if any, changes would you recommend? What are the common stereotypes that society has about specific drug users? How does this impact the way drugs get scheduled?

Discuss the importance of fair and accurate financial reporting in the healthcare industry. Support your statements with research. Find additional resources (at least two) and provide an original post of at least 250 words

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Many of the regulations you have read about this week were developed from prior actions within the medical community that warranted changes to be made to protect patients, individuals, investors, and other stakeholders. The Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act of 2002 was born out of several accounting scandals at the time. One of these accounting scandals was HealthSouth Corp., the nation’s largest provider of outpatient surgery, diagnostic and rehabilitative healthcare services at the time (Sec.gov, 2003). Discuss the importance of fair and accurate financial reporting in the healthcare industry. Support your statements with research. Find additional resources (at least two) and provide an original post of at least 250 words

How can we significantly improve our ability to help people in need of mental health treatment? What should we do about the stigma that some attach to seeing a mental health professional? What about the equal stigma of being labeled as someone who is “mental?”

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Looking at one’s own mind can be tricky. For example, how do we know if what we are thinking and feeling is actually normal? Or if being sad is really depression? Or being happy is really a state of complete denial of reality?

In contrast to physical health, mental health does not have the same clarity of disease as breaking a bone, rupturing an artery, or having a viral infection. No – mental health is more…well, mental. It’s more in our heads, in our minds, and in the processes we use to think about things like mental health in the first place.

But despite its lack of clarity, mental health is a real thing nevertheless. For example, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) has noted that: “Everyone occasionally feels blue or sad. But these feelings are usually short-lived and pass within a couple of days. When you have depression, it interferes with daily life and causes pain for both you and those who care about you. Depression is a common but serious illness.” See: NIMH:

But it’s not just depression that is at issue. According to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America (AADA),

It’s not uncommon for someone with depression to also suffer form an anxiety disorder or vice versa. Further:

Anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in the U.S., affecting 40 million adults in the United States age 18 and older (18% of U.S. population). Anxiety disorders are highly treatable, yet only about one-third of those suffering receive treatment. So, bottom line is that mental health issues like excessive anxiety and depression are no joke – either at a personal level or at the macro level of the US healthcare system.

But while millions of people suffer from mental health issues, it is also noted above that millions of suffering people are left undiagnosed and untreated.

So what should we do?

How can we significantly improve our ability to help people in need of mental health treatment?

What should we do about the stigma that some attach to seeing a mental health professional?

What about the equal stigma of being labeled as someone who is “mental?”

How do we, as healthcare professionals, best reach out to those that desperately need assistance –without making anyone think we are looking for “crazy” people?

Overall – what is the best way to address the large and underserved need for mental health care?

Using the OIG website, select a current (within the past 12 months) healthcare fraud report from your local area (Maryland – DC).Provide additional information research for case selected from academically appropriate sources to feature within your paper to educate the organization on the various case(s), the importance of healthcare finance compliance practices

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Compliance is a comprehensive program that helps institutions and their employees conduct operations and activities ethically, with the highest level of integrity and in compliance with legal and regulatory requirements. To have an effective compliance program, an organization must establish and maintain an organizational culture that “encourages ethical conduct and a commitment to compliance with the law” (U.S. Federal Sentencing Guidelines §8B2.1(a)(2)).

Using the OIG website, select a current (within the past 12 months) healthcare fraud report from your local area (Maryland – DC).Provide additional information research for case selected from academically appropriate sources to feature within your paper to educate the organization on the various case(s), the importance of healthcare finance compliance practices, and the potential criminal and monetary fines that can be imposed on the individual and/or organization from the case.

Develop a 4- to 5-page white paper that provides a succinct overview of the healthcare finance fraud committed.

Analyze the organization’s current information systems security measures in place that allow users to access the organization’s data. Evaluate the current cyberlaws to ensure that they protect the organization’s data against outside intrusion.

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IT 659 Information Technology Risk Analysis and Cyber Security Policy Part 1 Guidelines and Rubric.
The first component of the summative assessment for this course is the development and creation of a risk analysis paper. The assessment will allow students the opportunity to investigate international and U.S. cyberlaws; state statutes; criminal, civil, private, and public laws; and ethics and then compare them within the current cyber business model of an organization to identify any implications for information technology. Students will research their chosen organization, studying the business models, to identify key areas of potential risk due to the business activities and industry.
Prompt: Submit a comprehensive risk analysis paper that identifies the cyberlaw foundations that affect the current information technology business model. The framework for the assessment will include how the business model ensures that their current cyber practices are both legal and ethical.
Specifically the following critical elements must be addressed:
1. Define and evaluate the information technology business model of the organization.
2. Analyze the precise cyber-security laws, private and public laws, state statutes, criminal and civil laws, and ethical guidelines that are pertinent to the organization.
3. Evaluate the current cyberlaws, regulations, and policies within the organization as they relate to the organization’s information systems.
4. Cyberlaw crimes
a) Evaluate how cyber-related crimes should be investigated and handled within an organization.
b) Analyze the impact that these cyber-crimes can have on an organization’s information technology structure.
c) Evaluate the appropriate information security measures that should be in place to safeguard an organization’s information.
5. Cyber-crime and e-commerce
a) Analyze the organization’s current information systems security measures in place that allow users to access the organization’s data.
b) Evaluate the current cyberlaws to ensure that they protect the organization’s data against outside intrusion.

Why do you believe these two theories or models are relevant to the study? How does a theoretical foundation specifically link to the problem statement for the study?

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Discussion Question Content

Answer ALL of the following:

  • Why it is appropriate to provide the theoretical foundation for your problem statement?
  • How does a theoretical foundation specifically link to the problem statement for the study?
  • What are TWO of the theories or models that comprise the theoretical foundations for your study?
  • Why do you believe these two theories or models are relevant to the study?

Format Instructions

A response should average between 250-300 words in length. The post should include appropriate foundation knowledge and be factual and enhance the ongoing dialogue. Meaning you should have at least one supporting academic source. Responses should focus on enriching the discussion by providing topic-related ideas that encourage classmates to continue forward with the topic’s narrative.

You are expected not simply to report what others have already stated, but to demonstrate application and/or reflection of knowledge such that you enhance the meaning of the material. Contributing to the discussion should promote an exciting, vibrant, shared learning community that accomplishes two of the following:

  • Expands on someone’s comments in a value-adding, topic-related way.
  • Promotes a collaborative, supportive doctoral community.

Note: “One-liners,” off-topic posts, vague statements, unsupported opinions, and inadequate explanations or posts do not meet the requirements listed above.

Write a concise piece of legal advice advising James of his chances of a successful appeal to the Supreme Court.

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James read an advertisement by a firm of London auctioneers to the effect that there would be held in London an auction sale “without reserve” of the famous Gatsby Painting Collection, valued by an independent expert recently at £250,000. He immediately booked a flight from Scotland to the auction rooms in London where the auction was to be held.

He was determined to get the Collection at any price, especially after catching sight of the artist himself at the sale. James was participating spiritedly in the bidding, which was reaching a very high level under the direction of the auctioneer, when Gatsby demanded that the auction cease since he could not after all bear to part with the paintings.  The auctioneer immediately refused to accept any more bids (the last one had been made by James) and went on to the next item. James’s last bid was £150,000.

James brought an action against the auctioneers for breach of contract demanding £100,000 damages (representing the difference between the contract price and the market value of the lot at the date of the breach) on the basis that the advertisement to hold an auction without reserve constituted a unilateral offer to sell the Collection to the highest bidder and that such an offer was accepted by him when he bid at the auction. The County Court, however, found for the auctioneers holding that:

  1. The advertisement to hold an auction without reserve did not amount to an offer to sell the lot to the highest bidder since there were no express words to that effect in the advertisement, merely a statement of fact that the seller had not placed a reserve on the lot.
  2. The auctioneer’s request for bids amounted merely to an invitation to make an offer to buy and that offer was made by bidding. No contract could be completed until the fall of the auctioneer’s hammer.
  3. There was no contract because there was no consideration for the auctioneer’s promise.
  4. In any event, damages would be purely nominal because, as the highest bidder, James was simply deprived of the chance of obtaining the lot at the price which he actually bid. Until the fall of the hammer, it would have been open to other bidders to bid at a higher price.

You are asked to write a concise piece of legal advice advising James of his chances of a successful appeal to the Supreme Court.

What is the impact of the African-Americans on the creation of Hollywood Films? What characteristics and qualifications deter African-Americans from appearing in Hollywood films?

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The following research questions (RQs) would be useful to ensure that an in-depth understanding of the study topic “Hollywood and the lack of diversity” obtained.

RQ1. What is the impact of the African-Americans on the creation of Hollywood Films?

  • What characteristics and qualifications deter African-Americans from appearing in Hollywood films?
  • What characteristics and qualifications promotes white dominance in Hollywood films?

RQ2. Why is the media so stereotypic, despite being a federal agency that should promote equality and non-discriminative ideologies?

  • What roles does the media play in Oscar’s awards films?
  • What is the relationship between culture and media in the United States of America?

RQ3. How does America’s media compare in terms of African-Americans and white’s composition?

  • Is a higher population of one category in the Hollywood associated with the white dominance in Oscar’s award?
  • Does the media undermine the roles of African-Americans in the Hollywood Industry?