Analyze the role of the market in addressing workforce shortages, including projections for the physician market and monopsony model for the market for nurses. (Discussion Question 1 150)

Describe the difference between cost-saving and cost-increasing technology-based innovations. Provide an example of each and analyze why a cost-increasing innovation would continue to be used. (Discussion Question 2 150 )

Describe differences among families of various racial and ethnic subcultures in the United States. How do these differences affect U.S. society? Explain. Discussion Question 3 (150 words)

Imagine a child is adopted by parents of another race. What are some of the challenges the child and parents will face? How can these challenges be mitigated? Discussion Question 4 (150 words)

Be sure to review the risk management practices from the readings and use the internet and Library to research legal and regulatory issues common to the human services profession.

Please respond to the following:

• Identify and discuss, in detail, the legal and regulatory issues common to the human services profession.
• Discuss how risk management strategies might alleviate or avoid the risk of these issues.
• Develop a plan for how you might implement these risk management strategies in your own practice.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of these strategies.

Please read the following chapter in your text:

• Chapter 5: “Client Rights and Counselor Responsibilities”

Library Readings

Birrell, P. J., & Bruns, C. M. (2016). Ethics and relationship: From risk management to relational engagement. Journal of Counseling & Development, 94(4), 391–397.

Taube, D. O., Scroppo, J., & Zelechoski, A. D. (2018). Nine risk management lessons for practitioners. Practice Innovations, 3(4), 271–283.

QUICK LINK

National Organization for Human Services. (2015). Ethical standards for human services professionals. https://www.nationalhumanservices.org/ethical-stan…

• For this unit, please review Standards 5, 6, 8, and 9.

Please read the following chapter in your text:

• Chapter 5: “Client Rights and Counselor Responsibilities”

I’m working on a english project and need support to help me learn.

Sources: Minimum of five. NOTE: You may certainly use Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, or other social media as one source. I’d like you to have some variety, but having a print source isn’t required.

Instructions: Your job in your first argumentative essay will be to critique media coverage of a recent (within the last twelve months) news story. After reading, watching, and listening to coverage of a topic you choose, you will create a composition in which you ARGUE which media source did the BEST job of covering the story. In fact, your thesis should have language which reads something similar to this: “After reviewing the totality of the coverage, X clearly does the best job of reporting the story.”

AGAIN, DO NOT JUST SUMMARIZE THE STORY. YOUR JOB IS TO ARGUE WHICH SOURCE IS BEST BASED ON SUBJECTIVE CRITERIA YOU CREATE. Here’s an example of a good claim which might begin (deductive) or end (inductive) a paragraph: Source x does the best job of incorporating visual elements into the coverage. (Whereas you will most often be working with quotes, this claim actually allows you to paste the visual elements as evidence and to analyze them to prove your claim and thesis.)

Structure: This essay has at least four implied counter-arguments. While you argue which coverage is best, you also have to argue why the other sources do not meet the same standard. Complete this task by creating subjective criteria. You might base your arguments and counter-arguments on items like the following: visual elements, local/national/international bias, background information, quality of interviews, style of presentation, clarity of purpose, etc.

Hints for Success: DO NOT use “101 mode.” Simply put, you are NOT reporting the story. You are evaluating the presentation of the story. Hence try to be a lawyer in the courtroom. Create a clear and convincing case for which source is best.

Final Hints: Remember what we have covered in the modules. Weave together ethos, pathos, and logos. Additionally, go over your list of common errors and use it as an editing tool. Finally, have fun! The reader will respond to your pathos if you do so.

Background

The Founding Fathers were very skeptical of political parties, calling them “factions.” In fact, James Madison, the moving force behind the US Constitution, believed that the key to a successful republic was tamping down the impulse to form factions. Nevertheless, within a few years of the ratification of the Constitution, two political parties quickly formed — the Federalists and the Democratic-Republicans. And Madison himself by 1808 was the leader of the Democratic-Republicans, becoming president under its banner.

Today, 42 percent of Americans register themselves as Independents. Pollsters are a little skeptical about the idea that Independents are rejecting politics. The vast majority of Independents actually vote rather consistently for one party or the other and have clear political values. But it is also clear that they do not want to associate themselves with the two major political parties, perhaps feeling that they are sullying the political process. Polls have found that the two major political parties — Democratic and Republican — have lost a great deal of approval in the last two decades, falling about 20 percentage points from the mid-50 percent approval in the 1990s to mid-30s today.

The dislike of the two parties may explain why two outsiders were so successful in the 2016 presidential election process. Bernie Sanders was a long-time Independent but came close to winning the Democratic nomination. Donald Trump had been a Democrat and then switched party allegiance to the Republicans and went on to win the Republican nomination.

But this begs an even larger question about the necessity of political parties generally. After all, both Sanders and Trump chose to work within the two major parties in the electoral process. While many have argued that they should embrace their outsider roles, forget the major parties, and form third parties, that only suggests that political parties are still relevant and even necessary.

Sean Wilentz Argument

The noted political historian Sean Wilentz, in his article “The Politicians and the Egalitarians” (2016), argues not only are the political parties necessary, they are essential, indeed they are good. He maintains that, just as the Founding Fathers quickly discovered, parties and partisanship are needed in order to make lasting political change. The wrangling and fighting between parties leads to social progress, especially as a counterweight to wealth and power accumulation. The disenfranchised, the less wealthy, and the less powerful need an effective and strong mechanism to fight the natural tendencies in a society to put more money and power into the same hands. Political parties are that powerful institution. Major social changes such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964 happened because of the dynamics of political parties, not because of outsiders who put forward ideas but are too weak to create big change.

Rubric

Response Rubric 2021 (1)

One essential aspect of writing for audiences that we have left to explore at the end of our FYW sequence is addressing audience needs, values, and expectations in ways that go “beyond” the conventional academic essay (double-spaced, white pages with 1-inch margins). There are many reasons why you as a writer must be flexible and able to “recast,” remix, re-mediate, and/or de-form your central insights, research, claims, and conclusions from the Research Essay (CEL xxvii).

• To infuse your approach to issues with different energy, passion, or personality
• To be generous in explaining or giving more context for ideas that you write about
• To reach audiences in different modes, technologies, and materials
• To address different audiences with different expectations in style, tone, language, structure, etc.
• To offer new perspectives on issues via different genres of writing
• To de-form or disassemble your previous research for analysis and re-interpretation

For this final assignment, you will use the suggestions above or come up with your own way to unleash your creativity in remixing or going beyond the writing that you completed for the Unit 3: Addressing Issues Research Essay assignment.

With your topic, issue, research question, and basic thesis in mind, experiment with one or more different approaches to addressing the cultural or social issue you wrote about in your Unit 3: Addressing Issues Research Essay.

Your experiment(s) may take on different forms or modes, such as one of the suggestions from the “Beyond the Essay” sections in the CEL listed above. Or you may choose to experiment with writing for different audiences: one academic audience and one nonacademic audience of specialists or enthusiasts.

Along with your essay, write a short but detailed self-analysis (200-250 words) evaluating the choices you made (in content, design, tone, etc.) and explaining how your approach changes the audience, purpose, or context of your original submission to the Research Essay assignment.

Theme Definition (Links to an external site.)

The theme of a piece of literature is defined (Links to an external site.)as the main idea or an underlying meaning of a literary work that may be stated directly or indirectly. (http://literarydevices.net/theme (Links to an external site.))

Major and Minor Themes

Major and minor themes are two types of themes that appear in literary works. A major theme is an idea that a writer repeats in his work, making it the most significant idea in a literary work. A minor theme, on the other hand, refers to an idea that appears in a work briefly and gives way to another minor theme. (http://literarydevices.net/theme (Links to an external site.)) (Links to an external site.)

A story’s themes are best and most specifically expressed as complete sentences. Thus, rather than saying “one theme of Sonny’s Blues is suffering” or even “coping with suffering” we should be more precise and say: “One theme of Sonny’s Blues is that tragedy and suffering can be transformed into a communal art form such as blues music.” We might even go further to claim that blues music can be viewed as a catalyst for change, as the narrator begins to understand not only the music but also himself and his relationship with Sonny. Similarly, we might explore the theme of brotherhood in Sonny’s Blues, and suggest that the story implies that we are “our brother’s keepers,” and that brotherly support amounts to more than control or coercion. It requires listening and true understanding.

CHOOSE ONE of the themes noted above, or one that you want to put into your own words, and place it at the top of your response here. Then, in approximately one full page, note why this is a significant theme in “Sonny’s Blues” and USE QUOTES FROM THE STORY in every paragraph to support your assertion.

Let’s review the plot of “Sonny’s Blues” and address some questions:

1. “Sonny’s Blues” is narrated in the first-person by an unnamed character, Sonny’s brother. An algebra teacher in a high school in Harlem, this narrator is a stable family man with a wife and two sons. He is seven years older than Sonny and has tried, at various times during their lives, to parent him and to protect him. The story opens as the narrator, who has been estranged from Sonny for over a year, is on the subway, reading about a drug raid in which Sonny has been arrested and jailed. As guilt and sorrow wash over him, the narrator is approached by one of Sonny’s childhood friends, an addict who blames himself for Sonny’s addiction and subsequent arrest. The narrator and the friend discuss what has happened to Sonny, and we see the narrator begin, with anger, to try to understand how and why Sonny has become an addict. Reread the exchange between the narrator and Sonny’s friend. How would you characterize the narrator’s behavior and feelings towards Sonny’s friend? Is the narrator kind, cruel, compassionate, abrupt, empathic, angry? Explain your view and the evidence supporting it.

2. The narrator doesn’t contact Sonny while he is in prison/rehab until his own daughter, Gracie, dies of polio (Links to an external site.). When the narrator does finally contact Sonny, Sonny responds immediately, asking for forgiveness, trying to explain how and why he developed his heroin (Links to an external site.) addiction, and expressing his uncertainty over what will happen to him when he is released from prison. When Sonny is released from prison, the narrator brings him back to live with his family in Harlem and begins trying to repair their relationship. In your own dictionary (preferable), or via this link, review the theological or religious meaning of the word “grace (Links to an external site.)” (It has to do with the mercy and protection of God that is granted true believers). Now consider why Baldwin named the narrator’s doomed child “Gracie.” What might Baldwin be saying about religion in the lives of his characters? Is Sonny religious? Is the narrator?

3. At this point in the story, the narrator flashes back to several scenes that occurred during their young adulthood. In one scene, their mother asks the narrator to take care of Sonny and to watch out for him when she dies. She tells him that his own father had had a brother who was very much like Sonny, but who was killed by drunken whites on a rural road in the South. In a second flashback, the narrator tells us that following his mother’s funeral, the narrator arranges for the teen aged Sonny to live with his fiancée Isabel’s family while he is at war. In a third flashback, Sonny clashes with Isabel’s middle-class family, who don’t understand his passion for music, his desire to “hang out” downtown with other musicians (both white and black) or his rejection of Isabel’s family’s values and lifestyle. He runs away and joins the Navy, goes to Greece and returns to live a Bohemian (Links to an external site.) lifestyle in New York’s Greenwich Village. Presumably, he struggles there as a musician and a heroin addict, maintaining a fragile and intermittent relationship with his brother until he is picked up the final time on drug charges. Following these flashback scenes, we see the brothers trying to repair their relationship, threatened still by Sonny’s addiction, which is under control but hovering in the wings, and by the narrator’s continuing mistrust and misunderstanding of Sonny’s commitment to his music. As the narrator slowly comes closer to understanding Sonny, Sonny invites him to a nightclub in Greenwich Village, where he is able to witness Sonny in his element, playing the music that helps him remain whole and stay sane. Here, at the end of the story, the narrator finally begins to understand Sonny’s struggle and how music helps him, and his audience, endure and perhaps triumph over it. Consider the ways that the narrator’s relationship with Sonny might be similar to that of their father with his murdered brother. In what ways is Sonny like his uncle? How is the narrator’s temperament like his father’s? Do they share any coping strategies?
4. The narrator describes Sonny as “wild,” but not “crazy.” He says Sonny had “always been a good boy, he hadn’t ever turned hard or evil or disrespectful, the way kids can, so quick, so quick, especially in Harlem”. He compares Sonny to his students: dreamy, disenchanted, and obedient, but struggling against the hopelessness their impoverished lives promise.

Sonny’s one hope is that he can become a musician. Discouraged from that goal by his practical minded brother, Sonny agrees to finish high school living with Isabel’s family, only because the family has a piano. But he cannot change who he is to satisfy their expectations. At some level, the narrator writes, all of the adults understood that “Sonny was at that piano playing for his life” What does this quotation mean to you? How is Sonny “playing for his life?”
5. When the narrator is in the final moments of the story, and he’s watching Sonny play, he states, “…what the blues were all about. They were not about anything very new. He and his boys up there were keeping it new, at the risk of ruin, destruction, madness, and death, in order to find new ways to make us listen. For, while the tale of how we suffer, and how we are delighted, and how we may triumph is never new, it always must be heard. There isn’t any other tale to tell, it’s the only light we’ve got in all this darkness.” Do you agree? What tale of suffering is the narrator referring to , and must it always be heard?

1. In Echoes of Eden (2013), Barrs claims that the Christian artist “holds up the mirror to what God has made”. In this sense, we have the opportunity to express our creativity in ways that highlight things that God has created, sustained, redeemed and rebuilt. In two to three-pages (formatted per APA standards), reflect on your own specific creative talents by addressing these questions:
   • What are your two most significant creative talents, and how do you currently use them?
   • What is one creative talent that you would like to develop (or one that that admire in others)?
   • How do you, in your daily life, work to show the world what is true, beautiful, inspiring, and/or worthy of celebration within God’s Kingdom?

As more political power has shifted toward African Americans and Hispanics in our urban centers in the late 20th and early 21st century, the relationship between the two racial groups has gotten more complex. Can you please examine the current political relationship of African Americans and Hispanics in our urban cities?

3 sources must be from the book plus 3 outside sources