The student is required to reply to the threads of at least 1 classmates. Each reply must be at least 250 words and include at least 2 peer-reviewed source citations in current APA format, the text, and the integration of 1 biblical principle as outlined in the Discussion Board rubric.
Day: February 19, 2021
Watch the movie The Women Knight of Mirror Lake (2011) and answer the following question.
Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMggZ7A3ys0&list=PLgWufpeF8TZXAT0TZaRqZKMAF5TkirFiO
Plot synopsis:
The film tells the story of Qiu Jin (1875-1907), the first Chinese female revolutionary martyr, and her involvement in revolutionary uprisings against the Qing Dynasty in Anhui province. Influences on her life are shown through a series of flashbacks. As a child, Qiu Jin resisted having her feet bound according to common practice, and instead pursued her interests to learn horse riding, martial arts and literature with her father and brother. Through her poetry, she expresses her sorrow at the weak state of the nation and the repression of women. Finding other like minded women in Beijing and then travelling to Japan to study reinforces her view that nationalist action is required to reform China.
Returning to China, Qiu Jin takes the position as Xu Xilin ‘s lieutenant, assisting with the training of revolutionaries at the Datong school and plotting the revolution. Xu Xilin is later captured while executing the assassination of the governor, and Qiu Jin is captured when government forces storm the Datong school. Qiu Jin is tortured in an attempt to reveal other conspirators and she is later executed.
***Question: Use particular examples from the movie to explain what women issues in China in the late 19th and early 20th centuries are revealed by the film.
Write and submit the Balance Sheet Analysis section of the final project. Do not include any sections of the final project that you wrote for previous assignments. Only include the section asked for in this assignment.
Balance Sheet Analysis: In this section, answer the following for the trend analysis: What are the total assets, liabilities and shareholder equity for each year? How have these numbers changed over the three years and what could be some reasons why these numbers have changed the way they have? In addition, pick at least one appropriate (for this statement) ratio or financial in addition to what is provided and calculate that and explain it. See the section on ratio analysis below for ideas
Your assignment must follow all the formatting guidelines laid out in the final project (such as including APA-formatted title page, references, in-text citations, and have at least 2 pages of content).
Minimum of two posts: one response to BOTH prompts below by Thursday night at 11:59pm and a second post offering a response to any other student by Sunday night at 11:59pm.
Screening Choices: See the watchlist for specific choices and instructions, particularly if you’d like to write about Chernobyl.
PROMPT 1: Identifying Continuity Edits
Watch your chosen film very closely. In a paragraph or a couple of detailed bullet points, post TWO different examples of continuity editing. So, for example, you could write about an eyeline match and crosscutting (there are MANY other options, as you will see in the lecture and chapter). This is an identification prompt, so you need to explain what technique you see how how — across the cuts — the edit or edits are in fact exemplary of the technique under consideration. This is the rare case in which I’m not asking for any big analytical point.just accurate, detailed identifications. Screenshots and/or clips are required: in order to demonstrate editing, you need at least two images (one before and one after the cut) or a video. Click here for that handy guide. Here’s the embedding video walkthrough. And here’s the sandbox, as well. (Chernobyl viewers: you may write about episodes 2, 3, or 4 for editing.)
PROMPT 2: Editing Styles & Meaning Generation
Each of the films in this week’s list qualify as both continuity and discontinuity in format. Big secret: nearly all discontinuity films function only because of the continuity patterns evident beneath. Prompt 1 makes that point very clear. For this prompt, apply the discontinuity portion of Chapter 6 to the film you watched. Your primary goal is to link the film’s discontinuous aspects to specific purposes and patterns evident in the chapter. More broadly, your primary goal should be to answer this question: what does the film’s disorienting or confusing editing convey about the characters or the story? In other words, why tell this story in this manner…why not make things easy and simply go with continuity format?
IMAGES ARE REQUIRED, AS ALWAYS. Note: for continuity editing, you will need at least two (if not more) images — one before and one after the cut.
Organizations committed to respecting and promoting diversity and inclusion express this commitment in their mission and vision statements and establish company-wide policies to ensure that these values are reflected in everyday practices. This commitment does not originate from, nor is it propelled by, a cookie-cutter approach to such business practices as talent acquisition, professional development, leadership opportunities, and simply put: the way business gets done. These organizations recognize how critical diversity and inclusion are to a healthy workplace culture and organizational effectiveness. And, these organizations arent afraid to ask tough questions, such as:
Does our workforce include people who are diverse in abilities, ethnicities, culture, race, religion, sexual and/or gender orientation, and socio-economic status?
Do all employees truly have equal opportunities to grow and succeed in a healthy and respectful work environment?
Do we confront issues related to diversity and culture no matter how uncomfortable they may be, or do we shy away from dealing with problems of bias and stereotyping that can be disruptive to the status quo?
Are we honestly being inclusive of other cultures and ideas in creating our definition of global diversity and inclusion, or are we merely trying to impose our U.S.-centric views on others? (Diversity Best Practices, 2009).
Take time to review the weekly resources and reflect on your own experiences with diversity and inclusion in the workplace and what questions these experiences have raised for you.
Write a cohesive and scholarly response based on and attached resources.
Explain at least 2 benefits and 2 challenges of promoting a culture of diversity and inclusion to an organization.
Explain how cultural, economic, political, religious, social, and economic factors may impact diversity and inclusion practices within organizations. Include examples that demonstrate this.
Use three of the attached sources.
n Chapters 89 of your text, you learned about various types of family contexts. Your textbook discusses these contexts, identifies ways in which resilience can be promoted and fostered, and provides specific intervention programs available to children and families that are experiencing non-nuclear family placements. Please use your readings and research peer-reviewed journal articles in the Purdue Global Library to support your post.
Please respond to the following:
1. Identify and analyze two non-nuclear family contexts and discuss the factors that may necessitate these types of contexts.
2. Identify two ways that a human services professional can promote resilience in each of these contexts.
3. Identify two interventions that could be implemented to assist either the nuclear or the non-nuclear family. Explain your rationale for each selection.
Introduction: In 100-200 words, tell us about yourself. Why are you applying for this scholarship? Feel free to include fun facts, an appropriate photograph, or anything that you feel would make you stand out.
About me:
– Why I apply for this scholarship? To able to use resources for my mental health nurse practitioner program.
– Fun fact: Me, Lucky (my dog), and Emma (my cat) are all going on a diet in 2021. We will be in shape as a family of three.
– Stand out: Serve in the military as a corpsman for 5 years (2006-2011). Currently fighting COVID -19 as front line nurse working in the ICU COVID-19 designated unit.
Short Essay: In 300-600 words, write about the following: Why have you chosen to pursue a career in health care and what are the key qualities you possess that will help you be successful?
I choose to be a nurse to help people because I believe everyone has the power to help themselves. The nurse has the powder to help someone to realize they can heal themselves with some simple techniques of self hygiene.
Nursing is self caring and caring for others.
Key qualities I possess: sense of humor, compassionate about people, easy to talk to, listen and empathize with others, open and willing to experience new things.
1. Evaluate the impact of talent identification on current and future elite performers
2. Critically analyse a development of excellence programme in Footballl
3. Analyse critically the varied issues affecting the coach working at different levels
within the UK
4. Research and compile a case study report
In addition to working directly with clients, human service professionals also work with a variety of systems (political, economic, educational, legal), organizations, and key stakeholders. For this weeks discussion, you will examine cultural competence and how it is beneficial when advocating for children and their families. You will also explore agency operations and the role stakeholders play in the advocacy process.
Please respond to the following:
1. Define what cultural competence is, and describe how it is beneficial when advocating for children and their families.
2. Identify an issue that impacts children and their families. Discuss how this issue may be related to the operations of an agency and analyze how a human service professional may advocate for something within the agency to be changed in order to benefit children and their family members.
3. Discuss why it is important to engage key stakeholders in the advocacy process.
4. Examine three generalist skills that you believe are essential when advocating for children and their families. Explain why you selected the skills identified.
Please read the following chapter from the text (ATTACHED):
Chapter 3: Human Services Advocacy Interventions
Library Reading
Canavan, J., Pinkerton, J., Pinkerton, J., & Dolan, P. (2016). Understanding family support: Policy, practice and theory. Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
Chapter 4: Direct Work With Children, Parents and Communities
Web Resources
Standpoint. (n.d.). Attorneys & advocates against domestic & sexual violence. http://www.standpointmn.org/
SafeHouse Center. (2020). Legal advocacy services. https://www.safehousecenter.org/find-help-support/legal-advocacy-services/
Week 6 Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment Across Europe
The sixteenth century saw the reexamining of classical knowledge in the fields of physics, astronomy, and medicine. These new natural philosophers looked at classical figures like Aristotle, Ptolemy, and Galen, discarded the theories that did not seem to work, and tried out new ones. This created an explosion of knowledge and learning. This knowledge allowed for a revolution in thought that made people reexamine their place within the natural order of things. This change in thought has been called by some the Scientific Revolution.
This was the time of Galileo, Copernicus, Bacon, and Newton. Voltaire himself once claimed that Newton was perhaps the greatest man in history: for if true greatness consists in having received from heaven the advantage of a superior genius, with the talent for applying it for the interest of the possessor and mankind, a man like Newton and such a man is hardly to be found within ten centuries is surely by much the greatest man.
A continuation of the Scientific Revolution, the Enlightenment was the philosophical culmination of the works of Hobbes, Locke, and Descartes. Taking a cue from the Scientific Method, Enlightened philosophers (known as philosophes) preached progress, not just because it improved society, but because they believed it was a law of nature. According to the historian J.M. Roberts, it was truly the end of the intellectual Middle Ages. In essence, the Enlightenment was based on the advancement of the human condition in many ways through the belief that scientific principles could be applied to all human activities. At its center, the Enlightenment was focused on the application of human reason to improve society.
The Enlightenment brought many progressive ideas to Europe, including the spread of literacy, penal and legal reform, the principle of free speech, and the beginnings of a conversation to end slavery (though Voltaire would merely call it part of humanities penchant for power and domination). There were also a number of contradictions that existed from the works of the philosophes. The readings this week will focus largely on one of these: the place of women in European society. On one side, we have Rousseau, whose most famous work, The Social Contract begins with Man is born free, and everywhere is in chains. He believed that through reform a general will could transform society in a truly rational manner. On the other, we have Mary Wollstonecrafts A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, in which she challenges Rousseaus view of the ideal woman in Emile and creates the foundation text for womens rights in the 19th and 20th centuries. These two sides show not only the contradiction but also the extreme intelligence and discourse going on in the Age of Reason.
The Enlightenment was so popular amongst European elites, many monarchs of the 18th century took up the ideas of the Enlightenment, with many supporting or funding the philosophes who supported monarchy. Voltaire, perhaps one of the most famous members of the Enlightenment, worked directly in the Court of Frederick the Great, King of Prussia (the predecessor to modern Germany). Most of these Enlightened Despots show the contradictions, but at the same time mass appeal, of the ideas of the Enlightenment. It was evident that the intellectual groundwork for the modern age was laid during the 18th century, but it would take a cataclysmic event triggered by its ideas to reshape the face of Europe.
In the end, the historian Michel Foucault is perhaps the most insightful when he suggested that the Enlightenment way of thinking has shaped the modern worldview. The largest influence of the Enlightenment likely rests in the creation of a critical perspective toward knowledge, society, and politics that it championed. This critical perspective, for better or worse, defines the modern world the Enlightenment ushered in.
This week, we will once again have both a Discussion Posts and the Discussion Paper due.
Discussion Prompt
Immanuel Kant, from your readings this week, asked this fundamental question: what is Enlightenment? Using the information we covered this week from the Scientific Revolution and/or the Enlightenment, what was enlightenment during this period? How do you think it was defined by the people living through this period of major intellectual change?
Please do not be overly general, but instead, illustrate specific details from the assigned material. Remember, your posts should be at least one to two paragraphs. Keep in mind a paragraph is three to five complete sentences.
Respond to this thread and this thread only. Do your best not to repeat the examples given by your fellow students. Also, remember that you need to respond to at least one other post to receive full points.
