Week 5 – Final Project

Final Project

In your role as a health care professional, you have been asked to speak to a community group regarding the connection between the human body and disease. You have been asked to select one of the CDC’s top five diseases (heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes, or arthritis) that affects the systems explored in the class (see table below) and create a PowerPoint presentation that:

1. Uses lay-person and medical terminology to describe the anatomical and physiological changes associated with the condition.
2. Describes proper functioning of the primary system(s) that is/are affected by the chronic disease you select:
   • Major organ(s)
   • Essential functions
   • Importance to health
3. Evaluates the dysfunction as a result of your chosen disease and describes the following:
   • Contributing factors
   • The nature of the dysfunction
   • The effect on other systems (comorbidities)
4. Evaluates at least one genetic factor and at least two lifestyle factors that contribute to the onset of the disease.
5. Analyzes at least two preventive actions people can take to reduce their risk of getting the disease.
6. Analyzes at least two environmental elements that contribute to the onset and progression of the disease. Examples include: air quality, chemicals in products regularly used and/or consumed, food quality, consumption of soda and caffeine, petroleum-based chemicals used on and in food, genetically modified foods, impact of plastic, tobacco use and/or second-hand smoke, UV light exposure, environmental carcinogens, etcetera.
7. Analyze ways in which the treatment of the disease can negatively impact the environment. Examples include: medical and household waste, recycling challenges, radiation, production of electricity, water usage, paper usage, air pollution, etcetera.

Systems covered in class:

Skeletal

Muscle

Integumentary

Nervous

Special Senses

Endocrine

Cardiovascular

Respiratory

Reproductive

Lymph/immune

Urinary

Gastrointestinal

Please note: You must create original work for this assignment. Submitting previously used material is unacceptable.

Preparing the Final Project

The Final Project:

1. Must be a minimum of 20 PowerPoint slides in length and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

 

1. Must include a title slide with the following:
   1. Title of presentation
   2. Student’s name
   3. Course name and number
   4. Instructor’s name
   5. Date submitted

 

1. Must use at least six scholarly sources. The course textbook and a minimum of three scholarly articles from the Ashford University Library must be used. The remaining sources can come from the Ashford University Library or scholarly websites.

 

1. Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

 

1. Must include a separate reference slide that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

 

1. Must include detailed speaker notes for each slide. Must make creative use of images and charts. Cite all images taken from an online source. Creative Commons and Flickr are great websites for open source images.

Carefully review the Grading Rubric for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.

 

Discussion

 

The government, in its counter-terrorism efforts, has aggressively sought to access private information such as emails and telephone calls of large numbers of non-citizens and citizens alike. Do you believe this practice is necessary to protect society? Should additional restrictions be placed on this practice? Please explain your reasoning when answering these two questions.

 

Scenario

 

You are a soldier in Iraq and have taken pictures of fellow soldiers engaging in various acts of abuse and torture. What, if anything, would you do with the pictures? What ethical system most accurately supports your decision, “ethical formalism” or “utilitarianism?”

Please include the following questions in the essay.

 

 

Please read the question for this discussion thread carefully and answer it in details.

 

1. Class Inequality: What are three types of social mobility present in the American Society? Give at least one example of each mobility. (6 points)

2. Gender Inequality: What is Glass Ceiling? How does it apply to women? Please quote the textbook. (2 points)

 

I uploaded 3 reading file.

 

This will help you write essay. please read

 

i need 500 words.

Write a minimum 5 pages reflection critical analysis’ essay entitled “Is morality relative or are there objective moral truths?” This essay should explore the ethical, scientific, historic and socio-cultural dimensions of the readings. You have to read two readings (links you will find below the assignment description), one written by Ruth Benedict, “The Case for Moral Relativism” and a second written by Louis P. Pojman entitled “The Case Against Moral Relativism.”

 

What position do you hold regarding the essay’s question? Do you agree or disagree with the positions stated in the two readings? In order to prove your thesis make reference to the required readings from Unit 1 and 2, to the Instructor’s Lecture, as well as to two readings included in this assignment. In the Instructor’s Lecture you have an additional bibliography.

 

Refer to Essay’s Rubrics in order to see the grading system.

 

In your essay you should:

 

1. Use both readings as well as the rest of the required readings included in the Learning Modules.
2. Give answers to the following questions:

1. Regarding Benedict’s paper:

1. Is Benedict correct in saying that our culture is “but one entry in a long series of possible adjustments”? What are the implications of this statement?
2. Can we separate the descriptive (or fact-stating) aspect of anthropological study from the prescriptive (evaluative) aspect of evaluating cultures? Are there some independent criteria by which we can say that some cultures are better than others? Can you think how this project might begin?
3. What are the implications of Benedict’s claim that morality is simply whatever a culture deems normal behavior? Is this a satisfactory equation? Can you apply it to the institution of slavery or the Nazi policy of anti-Semitism?
4. What is the significance of Benedict’s statement, “The very eyes with which we see the problem are conditioned by the long traditional habits of our own society”? Can we apply the conceptual relativism embodied in this statement to her own position? (taken form Pojman L.P., Vaughn L., The Moral Life, New York 2007, p. 165.)

 

b. Regarding Pojman’s paper:

 

1. Is Pojman correct in thinking most American students tend to be moral relativists? If he is, why is this? What is the attraction of relativism? If he’s not correct, explain your answer.
2. Explain the difference between subjective ethical relativism and conventionalism.
3. Sometimes people argue that since there are no universal moral truths, each culture’s morality is as good as every other, so we ought not to interfere in its practices. Assess this argument.
4. Does moral relativism have a bad effect on society? Reread the tape-recorded conversation between serial murderer Ted Bundy and one of his victims (pages 171-172) in which Bundy attempts to justify the murder of his victim on the basis of the idea that all moral values are subjective. Analyze Bundy’s discussion. How would the relativist respond to Bundy’s claim that relativism justifies rape and murder? What do you think? Why? (taken form Pojman L.P., Vaughn L., The Moral Life, New York 2007, pp. 190-191.)

    

   Here are the readings :

    

   http://www.colorado.edu/philosophy/heathwood/pdf/benedict_relativism.pdf

    

   https://interbb.blackboard.com/courses/1/201413.1648/messaging/users/_21111_1/attachments/42d595b4d22c47ef9bb6374cf1e389e9/PojmanCase%281%29.pdf