Write an introduction which includes the Sunday chosen, the three readings (1st, 2nd, and Gospel) along with their citations. Include your thesis statement which is reason these reading are grouped together.

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The Catholic Church has a three year cycle of readings from Scripture which is used for Mass on Sunday. Each student will choose one Sunday’s set of readings, research those passages, and then provide a conclusion as to why the readings were chosen to be presented together.

Length: At least 9 pages of double-spaced text. (Does not include Title Page / Works Cited Page)

Procedure:

1) Choose one Sunday of Ordinary time from the link provided in Blackboard and read the First and Second Readings, the Psalm, and the Gospel Reading.

Section B (10:10): You will choose from Year B

 

2) Write an introduction which includes the Sunday chosen, the three readings (1st, 2nd, and Gospel) along with their citations. Include your thesis statement which is reason these reading are grouped together.

3) Part I of the paper: Exegesis of passages

For each of the 3 readings (1st, 2nd, and Gospel), you need to

a) identify the reading

b) summarize what is in the passage

c) give the context of the passage (what is around it in the book)

d) give the overall meaning of the passage in context

 

For the Psalm, you need to

a) identify the Psalm

b) summarize the verses used for the Sunday

c) give the overall meaning and structure of the poem

NB: You may need to use the link on BB to help reconcile verse numbers in the lectionary with whatever Bible you are using.

4) Part II of the paper

You should give and analyze the connections that are found within the readings and the Psalm. What are their themes and how do the themes relate? Is there a progression from one reading to another? What else makes these fit together. This is where you prove your thesis.

Other Guidelines

Please name your file in the following format 1301_Lastname_Firstinitial_rp

Please include a separate title page (not counted toward the page count) with your name and ID number.

Include page numbers on each page, but do not include your name with the page number.

You must use Chicago style parenthetical references and Works Cited page (not counted for page count).

You must have at least TWO sources for your paper outside the Bible and Lectionary. You cannot have a source from the internet UNLESS it is an on-line journal provided from the Doherty Library e-journal holdings.

Please proof-read the paper well and make sure everything is well documented.

 
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What absolutely must be part of it; what can be omitted without loss? Give your best answer, and as always be sure to provide your reasons for believing it to be the best answer.

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Please read last 2 db paragraphs and provide a 2 part 100 word total minimum response. The first 2 paragraphs is the actual db question for reference.

 

Discussion Question

Part I

The information that you will need for the discussion can be found in Case 14, p. 49; Case 11, p. 167; and Case 12a, p. 62 of Thinking Critically About Ethical Issues. For one of these cases, identify the parties and the moral issue(s) posed by religious belief, keeping an eye out for similarities that it shares with the other cases. Identify common ground. You may draw on any moral concepts discussed throughout the course: utility, duties, rights, virtues, and care.

Part II

In this week’s module we took a look at what is often called the ‘Euthyphro Dilemma’. Socrates is looking for that characteristic that makes all holy acts and only holy acts, holy. Acts we saw might have all sorts of characteristics. They might be done slowly, frequently, in the evenings, in the presence of many other people, few people, etc. Are any of these characteristics (being slow, frequent, occurring in the evenings, being done in the presence of many people, few people, etc.) absolutely required for an act to be holy, or are they just incidental? Think of an example of a holy action. What absolutely must be part of it; what can be omitted without loss? Give your best answer, and as always be sure to provide your reasons for believing it to be the best answer.

Request 2 part DB Response

Part 1:

In case 12a on page 62 of our Critical Thinking textbooks the parties involved are the Chrisitan missionary and the members of the primitive jungle settlement. The moral issue posed by religious belief is that the idea that extramarital promiscuity is wrong. According to Divine Command Theory we can focus on this situation from either an autonomous moral standard or traditional divine command theory perspective, both view that “right and good depends on what God commands” (module 8). According to the text, “if we accept the autonomy thesis, then there exists a moral standard independent of God” (Burnor and Raley 281). This implies that the perceived sin of extramarital relations is part of a set of rules and “there is a standard, independent of God” (Burnor and Raley 281). However, traditional divine theory could suggest that extramarital promiscuity is okay so long as God says it’s okay “anything could thus be made right just as long as God wills or commands it” (Burnor and Raley 281). Something all three cases have in common is clash of religious and social morals. Just because Christianity frowns upon adultery, doesn’t make it universalizable. As we learned with “(Popular) Relativism: there can be different moral standards for different societies” (Burnor and Raley 26). The practice of polygamy can be found in more than one religion worldwide, and perhaps because of the isolation of the jungle settlement, members must keep the gene pool diverse to fight against the deformities too much incest would cause. Although the Christian missionary is there to promote their Christian values, the right the settlement natives have to their way of life is protected under the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights which “gives rights of: life, liberty, and security of the person including religion and thought…these rights belong to any hunan individual, no matter what country they belong to” (Module 5).

Part 2:

A characteristic of an act to be holy, is: good and pure intentions. A holy act, even if the person in action receives a benefit from their action, must come from a place of selflessness where they only acted out of good (and pure) intentions. A holy action could be the building of a school in an underdeveloped country. The fact that a school is being built in this area is a good thing, no matter what the intentions are behind it. However, when done by “someone who perfectly embodies Kantian or utilitarian moral ideals-a moral saint” (Burnor and Raley 231) then the act can also be holy. I believe this is the best answer because along with action, one must also come from a good and loving place and since God carries out his will with good and love for us, it should be our goal to emulate what he wants us to be as much as possible.

 
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Discuss the music of the piece. What is the texture? What instruments are used? What is the range? What is the melody like…conjunct or disjunct?

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Assignment:
Choose a work that was composed about a conflict or time of conflict. You may find this work either through the internet, youtube, the McKay Music library, the Marriott Library, or ITunesU, or it may be one you have in your own library. Many of your sources may come from internet sites. Please cite the URL address at the end of your paper. Please write in your own words. Do not copy and paste from the internet. If you do choose to quote something from another source, please use quotations and cite the sources. This assignment will be run through TURNITIN to check for plagiarism.

In a 2-3 page paper, answer the following questions about the piece. The paper should be double-spaced, 12 point Times Roman font.
1. What was the conflict or unrest that the music was composed about or during? Give some historical background information about the conflict.
2. When was the music composed? Give the closest date possible. Was it during, before, or after the conflict?
3. Did the music escalate the crisis? Was it designed to do that? Did it reach the audience that needed to hear it?
4. What do the lyrics discuss? Who’s side of the conflict does the song side with, if any? Who sings the piece?
5. Discuss the music of the piece. What is the texture? What instruments are used? What is the range? What is the melody like…conjunct or disjunct? What is the meter? Describe the rhythm. Do these musical elements make the piece more noticeable or unique?
Please submit the paper here as an attachment or if you have Word Perfect or Microsoft Works…. please copy and past the paper in the space below. It is OK if this changes the formatting.  I will not mark of for that in this case. Please proof-read your paper for grammar, spelling, and punctuation.

 
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How has energy use changed over time, particularly for the purposes of national economic growth or the use of military force? 

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Throughout history, energy has been necessary to both economic growth and military mobility. From the age of sail, to the one driven by coal, and now to our nuclear and oil era, militaries and large oil companies have sought secure energy supplies. As a result of energy’s importance to economic and military power, powerful, entrenched actors emerged, and their interests have often shaped the world’s energy system, whether they are navies and coal merchants of the past, or air forces and jet fuel refiners.

Much of this energy system shaping is taking place anew in the Arctic, as the polar ice cap and the Greenland ice sheet are both shrinking, exposing oil and natural gas resources to development. It is ironic that many of those actors responsible for greenhouse gas emissions are the same ones working toward uncovering energy resources due to climate change in the Arctic region. In light of these developments, actors as seemingly diverse as democratic Canada and autocratic Russia agree that these resources are valuable and should be developed. ExxonMobil and Russia’s Rosneft even began drilling in the Arctic and struck a substantial find in the Kara Sea before US sanctions on Russia forced ExxonMobil to halt, temporarily, its partnership with Rosneft in late 2014.

Using and citing some of the statistics on energy use from this module’s readings and notes (i.e., use and cite quantitative information), evaluate trends in energy use and the role of energy in geopolitical rivalry by answering the questions below.

Respond to the following:

  • How has energy use changed over time, particularly for the purposes of national economic growth or the use of military force?
  • Choose one energy-related geopolitical event or moment of either conflict or cooperation (other than in the Arctic); how did concerns for energy affect the behavior of key political actors?
  • In your assessment, how is the Arctic faring compared to your other example and do you believe Arctic energy will lead to geopolitical peace more than national rivalry over the resources?
 
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Explain your recommendations for initial resources and treatment. Use scholarly resources to support your evidence-based treatment recommendations.

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The sign of an effective clinician is the ability to identify the criteria that distinguish the diagnosis from any other possibility (otherwise known as a differential diagnosis). An ambiguous clinical diagnosis can lead to a faulty course of treatment and hurt the client more than it helps. In this Assignment, using the DSM-5 and all of the skills you have acquired to date, you assess an actual case client named L who is presenting certain psychosocial problems (which would be diagnosed using Z codes).

This is a culmination of learning from all the weeks covered so far.

To prepare: Use a differential diagnosis process and analysis of the Mental Status Exam in “The Case of L” to determine if the case meets the criteria for a clinical diagnosis.

Submit a 5- to 7 page paper in which you:

  • Provide the full DSM-5 diagnosis. Remember, a full diagnosis should include the name of the disorder, ICD-10-CM code, specifiers, severity, and the Z codes (other conditions that may need clinical attention).
  • Explain the full diagnosis, matching the symptoms of the case to the criteria for any diagnoses used.
  • Identify 2–3 of the close differentials that you considered for the case and have ruled out. Concisely explain why these conditions were considered but eliminated.
  • Identify the assessments you recommend to validate treatment. Explain the rationale behind choosing the assessment instruments to support, clarify, or track treatment progress for the diagnosis.
  • Explain your recommendations for initial resources and treatment. Use scholarly resources to support your evidence-based treatment recommendations.
  • Explain how you took cultural factors and diversity into account when making the assessment and recommending interventions.
  • Identify client strengths, and explain how you would utilize strengths throughout treatment.
  • Identify specific knowledge or skills you would need to obtain to effectively treat this client, and provide a plan on how you will do so.
 
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Explain the role you would take in any intervention given your scope of practice and to whom you would refer the client for additional intervention.

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Trauma is ubiquitous. While trauma is most commonly associated with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, trauma can manifest in a myriad of different ways and not every client who experiences trauma will be diagnosed with PTSD. Social workers intervene directly with trauma when working in Veteran’s services, domestic violence/sexual assault response programs, and child protective services. Social workers also work with trauma indirectly when working in mental health, substance abuse services, schools, refugee resettlement, and other forms of social service. Whether or not you are directly treating a traumatic episode as the presenting problem, trauma will be present in the clinical space.

In this Week’s Discussion, you will demonstrate your skills related to explaining trauma and intervention to a client. This will require you explain the concepts in a manner that is understandable to the developmental and educational level of the client. No need to solicit a volunteer to assist you. Position yourself as though the client is directly behind the camera lens. The goal is to show, not tell. In other words, you are expected to demonstrate rather than discuss your skills. You should role-play as if you were speaking directly to a client.

Submit a 4-5 minute video demonstrating your skills. In the role-play:

  • Ask one question that you would use to elicit information about a client’s trauma experience. [Assume a response and move to the next part of the skill demonstration]
  • Explain to the client the effects of trauma generally and how trauma may be affecting the client specifically.
  • Explain to the client what intervention(s) you would recommend and why.
  • Explain the role you would take in any intervention given your scope of practice and to whom you would refer the client for additional intervention.

 

Required Readings

Plummer, S.-B., Makris, S., & Brocksen, S. M. (Eds.). (2014a). Sessions: case histories. Baltimore, MD: Laureate International Universities Publishing. [Vital Source e-reader].
The Levy Family (pp. 15–16)

Knight, C. (2015). Trauma-informed social work practice: Practice considerations and challenges. Clinical Social Work Journal, 43(1), 25-37.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
Note: Retrieved from Walden Library databases.

Thyer, B. A. (2013). Intervention with adults. In M. J. Holosko, C. N. Dulmus, & K. M. Sowers (Eds.), Social work practice with individuals and families: Evidence-informed assessments and interventions (pp. 147–176). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.

Elliott, D. E., Bjelajac, P., Fallot, R. D., Markoff, L. S., & Reed, B. G. (2005). Trauma-informed or trauma-denied: Principles and implementation of trauma-informed services for women. Journal of Community Psychology, 33(4), 461-477.
Note: Retrieved from Walden Library databases.

Required Media

Laureate Education (Producer). (2013b). Levy family: Episode 3 [Video file]. Retrieved from https://class.waldenu.edu
Accessible player –Downloads–Download Video w/CCDownload AudioDownload TranscriptCredit: Provided courtesy of the Laureate International Network of Universities.

Optional Resources

Use this link to access the MSW home page, which provides resources for your social work program.

 
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provide the rationale behind your chosen issue and the approach you took with the specific representative.

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Assignment: Advocating with Policy Makers

In social work, advocacy is very important to promote social change. Letters are often used as an effective tool to bring attention to social justice issues. This assignment requires you to choose a social justice issue that is important to you, gather current research and data on the subject matter, and write a one page professional and formal letter to your elected local, state, or national representative responsible for your social justice matter you have identified.

Choose a social welfare problem that you believe is in need of change and write a letter to an elected local, state, or federal official regarding the issue you have chosen. You are not required to send the letter; however, it must be written in a professional, well organized, clear, and concise format.

Writing letters to public officials is a form of political advocacy for clients and social workers. For this Assignment, you will write an advocacy letter to public official about a problem and a policy. In addition, you will write a 1-2 page explanation of your letter. Your explanation will provide the rationale behind your chosen issue and the approach you took with the specific representative.

Assignment: In the same document, submit both Part I and II of the assignment (2-4 pages):

Part I: Letter to Representative

Your letter should include:

A description of the social welfare issue

An explanation of how you want the legislator to respond to the issue (vote, create legislation, hold public hearings, etc.) and why.

Support of your viewpoints with credible facts and research.

Part II: Explanation (1-2 pages, double-space, APA format)

For this part of the assignment, provide an explanation of:

Why you selected the issue

How the issue affects social work

The reason you chose the specific representative

The approach you took with the representative (consider the representative’s voting history, political affiliation, and any other factors you considered)

 
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Describe a substance use or drug policy that you believe is unjust or disproportionately affects a certain group or population. 

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Discussion: Drug Policies and Ethics

The NASW Code of Ethics provides social workers with guidelines and standards for interacting with clients, colleagues, communities, and society, as a whole. These standards govern interactions and professional behavior of social work practitioners. The NASW has also developed specific standards, which are published in the NASW Standards for Social Work Practice With Clients With Substance Use Disorders. These standards emphasize the importance of the competence of social workers. The standards indicate that social workers should be knowledgeable of evidence-based interventions for substance disorders. The confidentiality standard becomes essential as social workers must be informed and comply with federal, state, and local laws about substance use, as well as third-party payee regulations.

For this Discussion, review this week’s resources, including the case Working with Clients with Dual Diagnosis: The Case of Joe,and consider how social policies affect Joe’s circumstances as described in the case study. Then, think about any gaps in service you found in Joe’s case. Finally, reflect on how you might address these gaps or make changes to the policies that affect Joe.

Explanation of how drug policies affect Joe’s circumstances, as described in the case study.

Explain any gaps in service you found in Joe’s case as a result of the drug policies described in the case study.

Describe a strategy you might use to address these gaps or make changes to the policies that affect Joe.

Support your post with specific references to the resources.

Describe a substance use or drug policy that you believe is unjust or disproportionately affects a certain group or population.

Describe the ethical obligations of social workers to make changes to substance use policies.

Be sure to provide full APA citations for your references.

 
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Evaluate the difference between the personal lens and the ethical obligations of the profession. An examination of how the information presented will meet the goals of the workshop.

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Presentation Rough Draft

This assignment and the final assignment (in the next unit) involve the development of a hypothetical ethics workshop in which you identify and analyze a specific ethical situation or topic for a target population. You will build your workshop around the topic and professional code of ethics you selected in Unit 2 and which you have used in the previous assignments in this course. Your workshop must incorporate literature and code of ethics information from your Unit 4 assignment. It must incorporate case presentations that apply to your selected topic from the Unit 6 assignment. In the workshop, participants must gain skills for applying ethical expectations, models, and regulatory standards and for evaluating the intersection of the personal lens and ethical obligations. The workshop presenter will facilitate discussions related to the chosen topic area.

For this assignment, create a PowerPoint presentation that describes the content and activities that are part of your hypothetical ethics workshop. In addition to submitting your PowerPoint presentation in this assignment, you will post it in a discussion for this unit so your fellow learners can provide feedback.

For the assignment in the next unit, you will revise your PowerPoint presentation in response to the feedback you receive from other learners and your instructor. In that assignment, you also will record an introduction to the workshop based on the content of the PowerPoint presentation.

Your PowerPoint presentation for this assignment must include at least one slide for each of the following elements:

  • The title of the workshop.
  • Target audience.
  • Goals of the workshop.
  • An outline of the content and activities for the workshop, including time frames.
  • A list of sources and references for further study.
  • An outline of facilitated small group discussions in which participants use case studies to:
    • Apply ethical expectations and models to decision making.
    • Evaluate the difference between the personal lens and the ethical obligations of the profession.
  • An examination of how the information presented will meet the goals of the workshop.

Use the PowerPoint Notes feature to include additional talking points you would use as a presenter speaking to the PowerPoint slides.

Assignment Requirements

  • Written communication: Written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.
  • APA formatting: Headings, references, and citations are formatted according to current APA style and formatting.
  • Length of PowerPoint presentation: 12–15 PowerPoint slides.

Unit8Disc1

When Ethics and Legalities Collide

Each professional code of ethics includes a requirement to define limitations of confidentiality that are not always required by law. Legal mandates in some states can result in dilemmas when they conflict with standards in the code of ethics. For example, standards of confidentiality might conflict with a court order or a duty to protect a third party.

In your initial post, consider a situation such as the disclosure of HIV status or adolescent privacy standards for disclosure to parents without consent. Use the Tarvydas (2012) integrative approach to decision making (described in your textbook) to discuss how you would arrive at a decision about confidentiality or disclosure related to potential ethical dilemmas caused by conflicts between the code of ethics and legal requirements.

 
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How does the scope of practice for radiologic technologists vary for each state (e.g., administration, certification,regulation, etc.)?

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Assignment Content

  1.    In this scenario, your organization has struggled during the past year with hiring qualified radiologic technologists (X-ray techs, radiographers, or rad techs) in your state(Maryland)  and two neighboring states. After reading an Office of Inspector General’s (OIG) scope of practice case, your supervisor has become concerned about whether your radiologic technologists can legally administer contrast media, or dye, under the supervision of a physician. If the state allows radiologic technologists to administer contrast media, the organization wants to invest in training radiologic technologists to administer the contrast media rather than hiring additional personnel.
    Locate and evaluate the scope of practice information for radiologic technologists for your state and two neighboring states.Create a 10-minute, 7- to 9-slide voice-over presentation using either Microsoft® PowerPoint® or websites like Google Slides™, Adobe® Slate, or Prezi that examines the following:

    • What information does each state include regarding scope of practice for radiologic technologists?
    • How does the scope of practice for radiologic technologists vary for each state (e.g., administration, certification,regulation, etc.)?
    • Can radiologic technologists in the three states administer contrast media or dye under the supervision of a physician?
    • In the absence of clarity from the state, discuss options where you might be able to turn to in order to justify practice guidelines for your organization. (What are other similar organizations doing? How do they justify it?)
    • Recommend action items to your supervisor.
    • Training in contrast administration?
    • Hire additional personnel?
    • Cost?
    • Cite 3 reputable references to support your assignment (e.g., trade or industry publications, government or agency websites, scholarly works, or other sources of similar quality).
 
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