Author: chris

Since carbon dioxide (CO2) is considered a major component of the global warming crisis, air quality standards are beginning to play a central role in regulating this gas. CO2 is released into the air through the respiration process of organisms, the process of decay, volcanic activity, the release from ocean waters that absorb CO2, the burning of fossil fuels, cement production, and deforestation. Vehicles are one of the biggest sources of CO2 released into the air, and air quality dramatically decreases in areas with a large number of vehicles, such as major cities.
In this Discussion, you will learn more about the air quality standards of a regional government and the standards recommended by a global agency. You will evaluate whether enough is being done to improve air quality, and consider new technologies that help reduce CO2 emissions.
Questions about this assignment? Post them in the Ask the Instructor area under Course Home. That way, everyone in the class will see and benefit from the Instructor’s response.
To prepare for this Discussion:
•    Review Chapters 14 and 15 in the course text, Environmental Science.
•    Review the WHO website on air quality in the Learning Resources.
•    Choose two of the technologies listed in the box on page 396 or from your own prior knowledge to further study their effectiveness in reducing carbon dioxide emissions.
•    Consider how air quality impacts the environment, agriculture, and the health of humans. Also consider the costs associated with poor health.
•    Choose a state or country you would like to investigate for this assignment. It may be a state or country where you have lived, would like to live, or just one that is easy to find on the Internet. Locate the website for your chosen state or country’s government, and then find resources concerning their air quality regulations and standards. Compare the air quality regulations and standards from your chosen region with those listed on the WHO website.
•    Reflect on how mandating a certain level of air quality improves the environment and human lives.
•    What, if any, impact would reducing air pollution have on global warming?
With these thoughts in mind:
Post by Day 3, 2–3 paragraphs that evaluate the measures to reduce air pollution. Your post should include the following:
•    An explanation of why air quality is important for humans and the environment
•    An assessment of whether your chosen country or state complies with the air quality guidelines recommended by the WHO. Explain any differences you notice between the two standards (the WHO and your country or state).
•    An evaluation of whether the WHO guidelines for air quality are successful in reducing air pollution in your chosen state or country. If not, what more should be done? If the guidelines are successful, do you foresee any need to increase or decrease these standards in the future?
•    A conclusion that includes the research you did on the two technologies that reduce CO2 emissions. How could states and nations incorporate these technologies to meet or improve on the mandated air quality standards?

Part 2
•    Ask a probing question.
•    Share an insight from having read
•    Offer and support an opinion.
•    Validate an idea with your own experience.
•    Make a suggestion.
Conclusion

To quote the 17th-century French philosopher and mathematician, Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) “I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had time to make it shorter.” In other words, do not ramble and think that more is better – it’s not. Being concise is generally more difficult that the “shotgun approach.” Being concise does not mean a short answer with little or no content, but if I feel that you are bluffing your way through an answer, your grade will suffer. Feel free to include YOUR personal opinions and actual work experience when you can, but do not use your own experiences and opinions to take up the bulk of the paper. Tell me what you think about what the text you are citing says and if you disagree, please say why you disagree

In this essay, you will combine the close reading and rhetorical analysis skills developed in your first essay and weekly forum posts with the knowledge of spy fiction conventions that you have acquired by studying our primary and secondary texts throughout the term. Where our previous writing assignments asked you to focus narrowly on reading a single text, this assignment will ask you to buttress the close reading of your chosen text with historical and generic research.

Prompt: This essay has 3 components:

1) Historical Context (2-3 pages): Here, you will introduce any historical contexts/events necessary to understand your chosen text. This could include particular events, long-term trends, or even social or political attitudes held by the text’s original audiences.

2) Generic Context (2-3 pages – MAY BE INTEGRATED INTO BODY OF RHETORICAL ANALYSIS): None of you has chosen to write on a “first-generation” piece of espionage fiction, such as Buchan’s The Thirty-Nine Steps. Instead, each of your chosen texts builds on and updates the tropes of espionage fiction (or related genres) laid out in earlier works. In this section, you will take time to identify the tropes or themes of spy fiction present in your chosen text and give some explanation of how your chosen author/filmmaker updates or modifies those tropes so as to appeal to your chosen audience. In doing so, you may use our previous class texts as references. Additionally, if your chosen text draws heavily upon a genre other than spy fiction, you may address that other genre here.

3) Rhetorical Analysis (4-6 pages): In this section, you will draw on the information laid out in your first two sections to support a thesis-driven argument for how your chosen text uses the conventions and themes of spy fiction to comment upon or respond to social or political issues of its time. While the overall focus will be thematic, you should support your arguments by using close readings of particular scenes or episodes from you text, paying close attention to how your author/filmmaker uses literary, rhetorical, or filmic devices to convey his/her messages to the text’s audience. 

Novels

The Spy (Cooper)

Democracy (Didion)

The Untouchable (Banville)

The Third Man, Our Man in Havana, The Ministry of Fear, The Human Factor (Greene)

The Manchurian Candidate (Condon)

The Informer (O’Flaherty)

Any novels by Ian Fleming or John Le Carré

The IPCRESS File (Deighton)

The Day of the Jackal (Forsyth)

The Man Who Was Thursday (Chesterton)

Epitaph for a Spy (Ambler)

Ashenden; or, The British Agent (Maugham)

The Heat of the Day (Bowen)

Lust, Caution (Zhang)

Six Days of the Condor (Grady)

Enigma (Harris)

Your Republic Is Calling You (Kim Young-Ha)

The Tourist, The Nearest Exit, or An American Spy (Olen Steinhauer)

Films

Three Days of the Condor (Pollack)

Enemy of the State (Scott)

The Conversation (Coppola)

The Third Man (Reed)

North by North-West, Notorious, The Lady Vanishes (Hitchcock)

The Manchurian Candidate (Frankenheimer)

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (Alfredson)

Syriana (Gaghan)

Burn After Reading  (Coen)

The Lives of Others (Donnersmarck)

The Good Shepherd (de Niro)

Spy Game (Scott)

Munich (Spielberg)

The War Is Over/La guerre est finie (Resnais)

Argo (Affleck)

Lust, Caution (Lee)

Enigma (Apted)

Farewell (Carion)

Army of Shadows (Melville)

La Femme Nikita (Besson)

The IPCRESS File (Furie)

Television (episodes of any of the following)

The Americans (FX)

Cambridge Spies (BBC)

Alias (ABC)

Homeland (Showtime)

24 (Fox)

Spooks/Mi-5 (BBC)

Drama

Democracy (Frayn)

Document and analyze how a literature work of your choice has been construed by certain audiences. The mission of your essay is to offer a hypothesis about some aspect of the literary work’s relation over time to history and culture.

Course Description:  During the semester, we will present theoretical, conceptual, historical and analytical materials relating to the health care system.  We will analyze the status, institutions, attitudes, behaviors and delivery of services related to health care in the United States.  Included in this analysis will be the evolution, structure and dynamics of health professions.  Personal and institutional aspects of the health care system and their effects on such areas as planning, public policy, the sick role, physician-patient relationships, death and dying, the hospital, and health care politics will also be examined.  We will also monitor any health care issues that may be debated on the local, state or national scene.  Contemporary information about the health care system will be emphasized throughout the course.

Course Objectives:    Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

1.      Describe the private, governmental, professional and economic contributions to the development and operation of the healthcare system.

2.      Describe the types and interrelationships of healthcare facilities, services and personnel.

3.      Understand the important challenges of public sector health policy making.

4.      Understand the major ethical, economic, professional and legal issues confronting providers, insurers and consumers.

5.      Describe the special problems of high-risk populations and health system responses.

6.      Identify and describe the quality control activities of the current healthcare system and relate service provider behaviors to legal, ethical and financial considerations.

7.      Describe the values and assumptions that underlie the changing priorities in health planning resource allocation.

Potential Paper Topics

1. Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) Use among Adults.
2. The New Age of Consumerism in Healthcare.
3. How Do Americans Rate the Health of Healthcare?
4. Health Spending in the U.S. and the Cost of Healthcare.
5. Will Disruptive Innovations Cure Healthcare?
6. The State of Medicare.
7. Redefining Competition in Healthcare.
8. How Does the Quality of Care in America Compare with Other Countries?
9. Patient Safety in American Hospitals.
10. Characteristics of the Uninsured.
11. Health Care Coverage in America.

answer the questions from the movie.

how was the sound design ?
how was the background ? is matching
what kind of movies?
how was the photography?
does the movie was interesting?
which part was the most interesting?
does the movie attract you

Please select a painting or sculpture that you find attractive or incredibly unattractive (please, do not select a photo as we will do that in a separate assignment). This might be a style of art that you love or hate, an artist you admire or don’t “get”, or an individual piece that just strikes you as wonderful or horrible.

You may choose any work that you feel like analyzing for this project. HOWEVER, the more famous or notorious the work is, the easier your life will be. You are free to choose something that you are viewing solely online or something that you are able to view in person. Additionally, please do not analyze something created by an individual you know personally, as it will make some aspects of this assignment more difficult for you to accomplish.

Part II: Personal Perspective of this Work [1-2 paragraphs]

This is the easy part of the assignment. You cannot give a “wrong answer” here.

Looking at this piece, what is your gut reaction to it? Is it ugly? Gorgeous? Nice, but certainly not something you’d buy and put in your house? Please be as descriptive as possible as far as what you like or dislike about this piece.

Next, briefly explain why you feel you might be reacting this way to the piece. Is it the artist, the style, the subject, your background, etc.?

Part III: Prepare for Analysis of the Work [approximately 5-9 paragraphs]

The book discusses how an individual prepares to analyze a work. Please follow the following steps recommended in the chapter and write down your impressions in each area. For item 1, you may write it as a bullet-point list if that makes more sense to you. For items 4-6, it is okay if there are no examples that you can see, but please mention that you do not see any rather than just leaving it blank so that I can see you completed the task.

1.    Make a detailed inventory list of everything in the work of art. What objects are shown? What people are shown?
2.    Note unique compositional elements within the frame. What parts of the work grab your attention or fail to do so? What parts of the work are distracting? What parts are distracting?
3.    Look at the color, form, depth, and movement in the work. How would you describe the color? What forms are present? How is depth used? How do your eyes move around the work; in what order do you “read” this work?
4.    Identify any examples of the gestalt laws of similarity, proximity, continuation, and common fate
5.    Identify and explain any iconic, indexical, and symbolic signs you see in this picture.
6.    Do you see any examples of the semiotic codes of metonymy, analogy, displaced, and condensed? What are they?
7.    What is the literal meaning of this work of art, in your opinion and in your own words?
8.    Why do you think this picture was created?
9.    Is this image aesthetically pleasing? Why or why not? Was it meant to be? Why or why not?

Part IV: Historical Perspective of the Work [2-3 paragraphs; sources required]

This is where choosing a more well-known piece will start to pay off. Using scholarly resources or resources provided by the gallery, conduct some research into the piece of art you have chosen to analyze. When was it made? What was happening during this time period? Is there a style this artist is copying/ satirizing/ parodying?

Please provide in-text citations and a reference page in the style of your choice for the sources you are citing in this portion of the paper.

Part V: Technical Perspective of the Work [2-3 paragraphs; sources may be required]

Based on your observation and/ or research, please explain how this work was created. What techniques were used? Is the work of art a good example of the techniques used to make it? If you conduct research to understand the techniques used, please provide in-text citations and sources on the reference page in the style of your choice.

Part VI: Ethical Perspective of the Work [2-3 paragraphs; sources may be required]

There are two ways you can choose to analyze the work at this stage: analyzing the artist or analyzing the work itself. If you are analyzing the artist, please look at the ethics of what he or she did in the creation of the piece. Were people harmed by the creation of the work? Was the artist (un)fairly compensated for the work? Was the creation of the work conducted in an ethical and fair manner? If you are analyzing the work, please look at the ethics of the message the piece provides. Is this piece encouraging or belittling people? Is it encouraging or squashing social justice? Is it promoting overly loose, overly strict, or appropriate moral values? Is it promoting or degrading a certain religion or value system? You are certainly welcome to analyze the ethical values of both the artist and the work.

You may find it necessary to reference your research from the historical and technical perspective to understand the ethics and norms of the artist/ the work. You may also find it necessary to reference certain ethical schools of thought. If you conduct research to understand the ethical systems represented, please provide in-text citations and sources on the reference page in the style of your choice.

Part VII: Cultural Perspective of the Work [2-3 paragraphs; sources may be required]

The next stage includes identifying the symbols and metaphors used in an image and determining their meaning for society as a whole. Some of the content you provide here may overlap with Part III: Questions 5 & 6—that’s fine. Things to consider in this portion of the analysis are: who comes off looking “right” or “good” and who comes off looking “evil” or “stupid”, what does the artist appear to think about his or her subject(s), what are the words that are included in the work to describe it or supplement it, and how does the form of this work (small statue vs. painting vs. large fixture in a community park) affect the content of the work?

Once you have identified the symbols and metaphors, please assess who they are meant to appeal to and make sense to and who are they meant to exclude or limit? Again, this may require additional research or it may tie into the previously conducted research you did to write the rest of the paper. Keep in mind that we all automatically analyze based on our own culture and values—you may also need to do research to help you analyze through the lens of the culture and value system it was meant to appeal to/ understand why it might be exclusionary or hard to understand to another culture or value system. If you conduct research to understand the cultural perspectives represented, please provide in-text citations and sources on the reference page in the style of your choice.

Part VII: Critical Perspective of the Work [2-3 paragraph; sources may be required]

As a final stage, please attempt to go beyond the work of art you are currently talking about and draw general conclusions about the medium, the culture it came from, and the viewer. At this point, you are critiquing society’s rejection or acceptance of this work, but also works of art that are similar to this one. Again, this may require additional research or it may tie into the previously conducted research you did to write the rest of the paper. If you conduct research to understand the cultural perspectives represented, please provide in-text citations and sources on the reference page in the style of your choice. If you conduct research to make your critiques, please provide in-text citations and sources on the reference page in the style of your choice

(1) Describe 3 types of tolerances
(2) Compare hypersensitivity type 1 and 2
(3) Descript HIV mechanism to invade the immune
(4) Describe and compare MHC 1 and 2
(5) Dendritic cell describe the active and inactive in the immune system
(6) Describe the immune system in relation to tumour killing
(7) Mechanism of the immune in transplantation
(8) Describe the three compliment pathway system?
(9)What are the antigens in tumours that are recognised as
Foreign by the immune system?

* Identify foods eaten in the average daily diet that have been associated with this food range * Investigate features of this food range that sets it apart from regular foods on the market * Investigate the advantages and disadvantages associated with this food range – production, consumption, cost, etc. * Argue your point of view and draw conclusions as to whether there is a place for these foods in the food marketplace. Consider does this food range have positive or negative effects on the food choices and health of the individual and families, within the community * Make recommendations to consumers about selecting and including this food range in the daily diet. Consider key pieces of information and their source, necessary to improve the understanding of consumers, and outline how consumer education can occur