What is the best way to define the word “autonomy” when it comes to ethical decision making?

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SOC 120 week 4 Quiz (all correct)

 

Question 1.                

Since 1930, the average lifespan of someone in the United States has increased by________

7 years.

12 years.

19 years.

22 years.

26 years.

 

Question 2.                

The relativist would agree with which statement about stem cell research?

It should not be practiced.

It should be practiced in places where people believe that life begins when an egg is

fertilized.

It should not be practiced in places where people do not consider fetuses living beings.

The social context and laws determine where and when this research is acceptable.

All of the above

 

 

 

Question 3.                

What is one formulation of Kant’s categorical imperative?

An eye for an eye.

Always act in such a way that you promote the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Treat others as you would want to be treated.

Do good to others with hate in your heart.

Always treat people as ends in themselves, never as means to an end.

 

 

 

Question 4.                

People who work in the field of mental health__________________

may reveal information in cases where the patient intends bodily harm to another person.

may never reveal confidential information.

ought to never reveal any information.

may not reveal information about diseases that could be used to inflict pain on another person.

none of the above

 

 

Question 5.                

What is the difference between physician-assisted suicide (PAS) and euthanasia?

During PAS, patients end their own lives; during euthanasia, the doctor ends patients’ lives.

During PAS, the doctor ends the patients’ lives; during euthanasia, patients end their own lives.

During PAS, the doctor injects the drug to end the patient’s life; during euthanasia, the patient injects the drug to end their own life.

During PAS, the patient and the doctor cooperate to end the patient’s life; during euthanasia, patients end their own lives.

None of the above

 

 

Question 6.                

Who is famous for establishing the oath for physicians that exists today?

Socrates

Heraclitus

Aristotle

Tiberius

none of the above

 

 

Question 7.                

Death with Dignity requires that______________

the patient desire to undertake the procedure.

the doctor administer the lethal dose.

the patient have a family member aid in administering the lethal dose.

A and B

A and C

 

 

Question 8.                

How long was Terri Schiavo in a persistent vegetative state before the decision was made by her husband to remove her feeding tube?

1 year

4 years

6 years

8 years

10 years

 

 

Question 9.                

What is one of the most fundamental questions in the issue of whether or not one can ethically use stem cells from embryos for research?

How many embryos are there?

What is the dividing time for cells in an embryo?

From whom did the embryo emerge?

When does life begin in an embryo?

None of the above

 

Question 10.             

What is the best way to define the word “autonomy” when it comes to ethical decision making?

Having the freedom to do whatever someone wants to do

Having limitations that prevent one from doing what one wants to do

Having the freedom to make decisions that align with one’s desires, goals, and social context

Being determined by fate to act in specific ways

None of the above

 

 

 

 

 

What two to three points made by the social theorist did you find most interesting?

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Information in society is not always presented from the viewpoint of all. Often, social theorists argue that societal messages extend from a racially white and male gendered viewpoint. Through the research of these theorists we gain perspective and knowledge of different races, ethnicities, genders, and cultures. In Section Four of Social Theory Re-Wired – “Shifting the Paradigm: Excluded Standpoints, Alternative Knowledges” – you are offered several classical and contemporary readings. Choose one of the readings in this section as the basis of your two- to page journal paper. The purpose of the journal paper is to allow you to personally reflect on and present your experience of the reading.

 

In your journal paper, reflect on and present the following:

 

  • What do you think the reading tells us about society in general and the experience of the social group covered in the research in particular (e.g., women or those of different races or ethnicities)?
  • What two to three points made by the social theorist did you find most interesting?
  • In your own experience of living in society, can you relate to the points made by the theorist in your chosen reading?
  • How has the reading of the work of this theorist changed your perspective on the social group covered in the reading (e.g., women or those of different races or ethnicities)?
  • How has the reading enhanced your future experience of a diverse society and your study of Sociology?

 

 

Descriptive Statistics Using Excel – Central Tendency

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Week 4 – Discussion 2

 

Your initial discussion thread is due on Day 3 (Thursday) and you have until Day 7 (Monday) to respond to your classmates. Your grade will reflect both the quality of your initial post and the depth of your responses.
 

Data   Analysis Guide

By Day 1 of Week One, you will be assigned topic.  For your assigned topic, provide  step by step directions as if you were showing a fellow classmate how to complete the assignment.  The initial post should include the answers to the questions as well as the step by step directions.  You may choose the method for creating the directions including but not limited to audio visual, visual, etc. You may choose to work with other members of your group on this post IF you contact the instructor by Day 1 of the week. If you choose to collaborate in a group of two, include in your initial post, the team process, how it was decided who would do what and how you reached consensus on the posting.  Both students need to post in the discussion.
Include your topic in your discussion post title.
The CHF data should be used for this discussion.
Topic 1:
Descriptive Statistics Using Excel – Central Tendency

  • Calculate the mean, median and mode charge.
  • Sort the charge values in ascending order.
  • Calculate the mean, median and mode charge excluding      the maximum value.
  • Did the mean, median, and mode change more? Why?

Topic 2: 

  • Calculate the mean, median and mode LOS.
  • Sort the LOS values in ascending order.
  • Calculate the mean, median and mode LOS excluding the      maximum value.
  • Did the mean, median, and mode change ? Why?

Topic  3:
Descriptive Statistics Using Excel – Spread

  • Calculate the variance and range LOS.
  • Sort the LOS values in ascending order.
  • Calculate the variance and range LOS excluding the      maximum value.
  • Did the variance and range mean or median change      more?  Why?

Topic 4:

  • Calculate the variance and range  charge.
  • Sort the charge values in ascending order.
  • Calculate the variance and range charge excluding the      maximum value.
  • Did the variance and range mean or median change      more?  Why?

Topic 5:
One Sample T-Test

  • Test the hypothesis that the sample mean LOS for MS-DRG      291 is different from the national standard.  Obtain the national      Medicare LOS from HCUP.
  • Be sure to state the null and alternative hypotheses      and set the alpha prior to performing the test.

Topic 6:
Two Sample T-Test

  • Test the hypothesis that charges for patients with      MS-DRG 291 are different for men and women.
  • Be sure to state the null and alternative hypotheses      and set the alpha prior to performing the test.

Topic 7:
ANOVA

  • The basic principle of the IPPS payment system is that      the ‘levels’ (no CC/CC/MCC) of a MS-DRG family has different resource      intensity and therefore should be paid differently.  Use the CHF data      to test this hypothesis.  Use charge as a measure of resource      intensity.  Be sure to state the null and alternative hypotheses and      set the alpha prior to performing the test.
  • Can you conclude which MS-DRGs have significantly      different average charges?

Contact 24/7 Writing Tutoring for support with this discussion.   Please note, that if it is determined that you would benefit from tutoring in areas in addition to writing, you may be forwarded to a secondary tutor to meet your needs.
Guided Response: Post a minimum of two follow-up responses to peers by Day 7. Each peer response should be a minimum of five full sentences.  Critique the step by step directions in the selected peer post.  Are the directions detailed to the level you would need to complete a similar assignment on your own?  If not, what additional information would you like included? Critique the format of an initial post?  Was it easy to understand or did something confuse you?  How would you improve upon the directions?  Based upon the information in this discussion, could you complete a similar exercise on your own?  Your three required posts must be on three different days of the week.
Carefully review the Grading Rubric for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your discussion.

What’s Bothering Trevor?

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Ashford 2: – Week 1 – Discussion 1

 

Your initial discussion thread is due on Day 3 (Thursday) and you have until Day 7 (Monday) to respond to your classmates. Your grade will reflect both the quality of your initial post and the depth of your responses. Reference the Discussion Forum Grading Rubric for guidance on how your discussion will be evaluated.
 

What’s   Bothering Trevor?

Our nation is built on a free-market system. The delivery of health care is no exception. The United States spends more per capita than other countries in the world without quality outcomes. It has been stated that the United States is behind in the efficient and timely delivery of care as well as that it is the responsibility of all stakeholders to find a resolution to the inefficiencies of the current health care system. Therefore, it is the responsibility of all stakeholders to ensure the delivery of quality health care in the most effective and efficient manner.
This week you will review the simulation titled, What’s bothering Trevor: Considering Healthcare – Cost, Quality and Access, in Chapter 1.1 of your course textbook.
Once you have completed reviewing each of the simulations,

  • Examine the concerns and issues within each simulation      coming from each of the following stakeholder perspectives:
    • patient
    • family
    • health care professionals.
  • Determine what could have been done differently to      address the issues identified in all the options in relation to cost,      quality, and access.

Guided Response: Read through your classmates’ posts and find two reviews that differed from yours. If this had happened to you, what actions could you have taken to maintain patient satisfaction with the delivery of quality health care as it relates to cost, quality, and access?

 

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M1 Assignment 2 Discussion: Concepts Of Truth

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Before 1972, scientists believed that the rings of Saturn were composed of gasses or dust; on tests, any student who claimed that Saturn’s rings were composed of solids was incorrect because the true answer was that the rings were a gas. Later scientific investigation has shown that the rings are, in fact, composed of solid matter. Did the truth change? Should these students retroactively be given credit? Which group of students originally knew the correct answer?

Similarly, in the 1950s and 1960s physicians knew that stress caused ulcers, although we now know that bacteria causes ulcers. What does this imply for our definition of the words truth and knowing?

Prepare a 3- to 5-paragraph response and submit it to the Discussion Area by the due date assigned.

Energy Sources and Alternative Energy

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Ashford 5: – Week 4 – Laboratory

 

Energy Sources and Alternative Energy
Carefully review the Grading Rubric before beginning the assignment.
Read “Lab 4: Energy Sources and Alternative Energy.” This lab will allow you to investigate the effects of acid mine drainage through experimentation. Additionally, it will allow for the exploration of solar energy through the use of a solar cell motor. Then, you will utilize this information and your eScience lab kit to complete Experiments 1 and 2 on the Week Four Lab Reporting Form. Make sure to complete all of the following items before submission::

  1. Read through introductory material.
  2. Perform Experiment 1: The Effects of Coal Mining using      your eScience lab manual and kit.
  3. Complete Table 1 and answer the Post Lab Questions 1      through 4 in complete sentences on the Week Four Lab Reporting Form.
  4. Perform Experiment 2: Solar Energy using your eScience lab manual and kit.
  5. Complete Table 2 and answer Post Lab Questions 1      through 5 in complete sentences on the Week Four Lab Reporting Form.

Submit the Week Four Lab Reporting Form via Waypoint. The document does not need to include a title page or other APA formatting; however, any outside sources utilized in your answers must be referenced in proper APA format as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

Late Policy: Written assignments (essays, journals, presentations) are due on the specified days in the course. Written assignments will be subject to a late penalty of up to 10% per day up to three days late. If written assignments are submitted after 72 hours past the due date, instructors can give a penalty up to and including a grade of 0 for the assignment.

This section should interpret or explain the meaning of your data and provide conclusions

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Ashford 4: – Week 3 – Assignment

 

Rough Draft of the Final Lab Report

Carefully review the Grading Rubric that will be used to evaluate your assignment before you begin.
You are required to develop a rough draft for your Final Lab Report, which covers all three experiments for “Lab 2: Water Quality and Contamination.” To begin, carefully review the instructions for your Final Lab Report assignment located within Week Five. Next, download the Rough Draft of the Final Lab Report Template and utilize this form to ensure proper formatting and inclusion of all required material. Using the template will ensure proper formatting. You must use at least four scholarly sources and your lab manual to support your points. The rough draft must be three to five pages in length (excluding title and reference pages) and formatted according to APA style. For information regarding APA samples and tutorials, visit the Ashford Writing Center, located within the Learning Resources tab on the left navigation toolbar.
The Rough Draft of the Final Lab Report must contain the following seven sections in this order:

  1. Title Page – This page must include the title of your      report, your name, course name, instructor, and date submitted.
  2. Introduction – This section should discuss why the      experiment was conducted. At a minimum, it should contain three      paragraphs. One paragraph must cover background information of similar      studies that have already been done in the area. This is accomplished by      citing existing literature from similar experiments and explaining their      results. A second paragraph should provide an objective or a reason why      the experiment is being done. Why do we want to know the answer to the      question we are asking? A third paragraph should provide a hypothesis for      each of the three experiments conducted.
  3. Materials and Methods – This section should provide a      detailed description of the materials used in your experiment and how they      were used. A step-by-step rundown of your experiment is necessary;      however, it should be done in paragraph form, not in a list format. The      description should be exact enough to allow for someone reading the report      to replicate the experiment, but it should be in your own words and not      simply copied and pasted from the lab manual.
  4. Results – This section should include the data and      observations from the experiment. All tables and graphs should be present      in this section. Additionally, there should be at least one paragraph      explaining the data in paragraph form. There should be no personal opinions or discussion beyond the results of      your experiments located within this section.
  5. Discussion – This section should interpret or explain      the meaning of your data and provide conclusions. At least three      paragraphs should be outlined here. First, a paragraph should be present      that addresses whether the hypotheses were confirmed or denied and how you      know this. Second, you are to discuss the meaning of your findings in this      area utilizing scholarly sources to put the paper into context. For example,      how do your results compare with the findings of similar studies? Also,      you should discuss any future questions arising from your results and how      you might test them. Finally, you should discuss if there are any outside      factors (i.e., temperature, contaminants, time of day) that affected your      results. If so, how could you control for these in the future?
  6. Conclusions – This section should provide a brief      summary of your work.
  7. References – Provide a list of at least four scholarly      sources and your lab manual that will be used in the Final Lab Report.      Format your references according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford      Writing Center.

Note: An abstract must be included in the Final Lab Report. However, the abstract should not be included in the rough draft as it is to be written last after the entire paper is fully written. Do not forget this in your Final Lab Report.

Discuss the challenges that would exist if your employer

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Week 2 – Discussion 2

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Your initial discussion thread is due on Day 5 (Saturday) and you have until Day 7 (Monday) to respond to your classmates. Your grade will reflect both the quality of your initial post and the depth of your responses. Refer to the Discussion Forum Grading Rubric under the Settings icon above for guidance on how your discussion will be evaluated.

 

Product Liability

After viewing the Chinese Imports & Food Safety (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. video, consider whether U.S. retailers that utilize products or raw ingredients that are imported from China and are poorly regulated should be liable in tort for injuries to consumers who are harmed by those products. Answer parts a and b of the prompt.

  1. For this part of the prompt, answer one of the      following points:
    • If U.S. companies should not be liable, then they       could be legally exempt from tort liability. Discuss the consequences of       such a policy to U.S. consumers.
    • If the U.S. companies should be liable, then those       companies would not be legally exempt from tort liability. Discuss the       consequences of such a policy to U.S. businesses.
  2. Regardless of your response to part a, assume that U.S.      retailers do have legal liability for defective products. What steps could      U.S. retailers and manufacturers take when using products imported from      China that would minimize their liability exposure? For example, they      could warn consumers about the potential, though speculative, dangers when      using products comprised of poorly regulated ingredients or components.      Given your strategy, what challenges would exist for U.S. businesses that      implemented your strategy?

Guided Response: Respond to at least two of your fellow students’ posts in a substantive manner. Some ways to do this include the following, though you may choose a different approach, providing your response is substantive:

Discuss the challenges that would exist if your employer (or a fictitious employer) were to adopt your classmate’s strategy.

Marketing Management

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Week 1 – Discussion 2

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Your initial discussion thread is due on Day 3 (Thursday) and you have until Day 7 (Monday) to respond to your classmates. Your grade will reflect both the quality of your initial post and the depth of your responses. Refer to the Discussion Forum Grading Rubric under the Settings icon above for guidance on how your discussion will be evaluated.

 

Marketing   Management

Where do the IMC communications tactics fit within the marketing management flow chart and why? Why is it necessary to create integration and consistency with current and potential customers? Incorporate concepts and examples from this week’s lecture in your post. Respond to at least two of your classmates’ posts.

My School and Its Culture

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Ashford 2: – Week 1 – Assignment

 

My School and Its Culture
As illustrated in the introduction discussion this week, each of you has experienced a unique journey through a variety of educational experiences throughout your lives. Naturally, some of these experiences will have contributed to your personal development and identity with greater impact than others. Furthermore, many in-school variables have affected your educational journey. The decisions made by those teachers and school staff defining your in-school learning experiences were derived from their philosophies of education and their understanding of educational theory. The prevailing educational theories informing your teachers could likely be defined along the continuum of major theories that include behaviorism, cognitivism, and constructivism. Refer to the Learning Theories resources provided in the Instructor Guidance for a concise review of these major theories. Keep in mind also that prominent educational philosophies influencing professional educators have included perennialism, essentialism, progressivism and/or reconstructionism. Each of those theories is described in within the Instructor Guidance material for Week One.
After reading selected material from Chapters 7, 8 and 11 of the course text, you should now be familiar with the research that describes the relationship between social class and school success (Chapter 7), the impact of diversity on learning (Chapter 8), and the importance of family involvement (Chapter 11). You will use this knowledge as a foundation for completing this assignment.
For this assignment, describe a school-related experience that you believe influenced your identity either positively or negatively or both. You will analyze this experience and reflect on all the factors that might have shaped it, and the different ways these experiences shaped you. This analysis will include an examination of factors outside of school (such as social class, socioeconomic status, diversity, family issues, etc.) as well as factors inside of school (theories and philosophies) that you believe influenced classroom decisions. This type of analysis provides a powerful introduction to learning more about the relationship between culture, education and the teachers’ decisions in the classroom.
You analysis should include the following:
Content Expectations

  • School Experience (1 point): Describe your selected school experience that      influenced your personal identity development.
  • School Characteristics and      Cultural Dimensions (1 point):      Describe the school where your experience took place including (a) school      characteristics, (b) student population characteristics, (c)      socio-economic background of the families affiliated with the school, and      (d) the family structures represented in the school.
  • Educational Philosophy Analysis      (1.5 points): Describe the educational      philosophies that defined the school’s structure, purpose, operation, and      how the local culture may have influenced these philosophies.
  • Learning Theory Analysis (1.5      points): Describe the type(s) of      learning theories you believe your teachers used to help them design the      instructional experiences including (a) why or how you believe your      teachers demonstrated applications of behaviorism, cognitivism, and/or      constructivism and (b) how you feel these theories affected the      instructional decisions the teachers made. Refer to the Learning Theories      resources provided in the Instructor Guidance for a concise review of      these major theories.
  • Personal Influences (1 point): Reflect on the influence that your family’s “funds of      knowledge” and social capital had on your ability to succeed in your      school; address your success in the following three areas: academic      success, social success, and emotional success.
  • Application (1 point): Explain, using specific examples, how educators could      use information about culture and individual student identities to make      effective instructional decisions.

Written Communication Expectations

  • Page Requirement (.25 points): Submit three to five pages, not including the title      and reference pages.
  • APA Formatting (.25 points): Format your paper according to APA style as outlined      in the Ashford Writing Center.
  • Syntax and Mechanics (.25      points): Display meticulous      comprehension and organization of syntax and mechanics, such as spelling      and grammar.
  • Source Requirement (.25      points): Reference at least two      scholarly sources in addition to the Wardle (2013) textbook to provide      compelling evidence to support ideas. All sources on the references page      need to be used and cited correctly within the body of the assignment.

It is strongly recommended that you review this week’s Instructor Guidance for additional information about completing this assignment! Contact your instructor for clarifications about this or any assessment in the course before the due date using the “Ask Your Instructor” forum. Then, also using the Grading Rubric as a guide for your performance on this assignment, construct your assignment to meet each of the content and written communication expectations.
Next Steps: Review and Submit the Assignment

Review your assignment with the Grading Rubric to be sure you have achieved the distinguished levels of performance for each criterion. Next, submit the assignment for evaluation no later than Day 7.