The discussion assignment provides a forum for discussing relevant topics for this week on the basis of the course competencies covered

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The discussion assignment provides a forum for discussing relevant topics for this week on the basis of the course competencies covered. For this assignment, make sure you post your initial response to the Discussion Area by the due date assigned and complete your participation for this assignment by Day 7. To support your work, use your course and text readings and also use resources from the South University Online Library.As in all assignments, cite your sources in your work and provide references for the citations in APA format. Support your work, using your course lectures and textbook readings. Helpful APA guides and resources are available in the South University Online Library. Below are guides that are located in the library and can be accessed and downloaded via the South University Online Citation Resources: APA Style page. The American Psychological Association website also provides detailed guidance on formatting, citations, and references at APA Style.
• APA Citation Helper
• APA Citations Quick Sheet
• APA-Style Formatting Guidelines for a Written Essay
• Basic Essay Template

TASK

Post your initial response to one of the two topics below.

Health Risks, Disasters, and Nursing

Topic 1: Child and Adolescent Health Risks

As you discovered in this week’s lectures and readings, several populations face multiple health risks across their lifespan. Children and adolescents are a population that is at a higher health risk for obesity. A national movement is underway to reduce risk factors for developing obesity in children. Part of this movement is the “Let’s Move!” campaign, which is a comprehensive and coordinated initiative to prevent childhood obesity. The initiative emphasizes four primary components: healthy schools, access to affordable and healthy food, raising children’s physical activity levels, and empowering families to make healthy choices. Review Healthy People 2020:

  • Identify risk factors for childhood obesity.
  • Do the risk factors differ and how do they differ between children and adolescents? 
  • Identify objectives that will combat childhood and adolescent obesity.
  • Provide suggestions on how community health nurses can contribute to these national health objectives and accomplish the goal of decreasing obesity among this population.

Topic 2: Disaster Management

Contact your local public health department to learn about its role in a local disaster, including the role of the nurses who work there.

  • What did you learn from your discussion with the local health department?
  • Would you be a good candidate to serve on a disaster team?
  • Would your current employer be flexible in allowing you to participate in a disaster situation?
  • What is your personal preparedness to face a disaster?

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Latin America Nation

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This assignment you will create your perfect kingdom. Congratulations! You are about to become the leader of a fictional Latin American nation at some point during the Cold War (1945-1991).  Discuss your role in the new nation, how you will organize or guide the country, and how you will deal with emerging problems.

You are not obligated to answer all of these questions, but here are some issues you might want to consider for inclusion and in deciding how you will structure your country:

When did you rise to power? What alliances will you make?  What will be your foreign policy?
How did you come to power?  Was it a military coup? Free elections? Rigged elections?  How will this inform your decisions as the new leader?
From whom will you draw your support? Do you rule with an iron fist or do you share your power?
What kind of government is this?  Democracy? Oligarchy? Dictatorship? Something else?
Is this a capitalist nation? Communist? Other?
How are you going to keep the internal opposition in check or prevent another change in power?  Will you use secret police or the military to suppress them?  Or will you rule as a popular leader that shares the wealth of the nation with the people?  What kind of problems will you face as a result of these decisions?  What about the national media?
What will you do about the economy? Will you industrialize? Harvest raw materials? Create a tourist industry?  What will you do about labor unions?
How you deal with the influence of the church?  Will you embrace it?  Suppress it?
How will you deal with social issues such as womens rights, health care, alcohol/drugs, education, gambling, etc.?

Obviously there is no right answer for this assignment per se, but there can be wrong ones.  For example, it would not make much sense if you created a communist nation that was allied with the United States during the Cold War or if you created an authoritarian military regime that ruthlessly suppressed protests, yet you expect tourism to be the main industry. 
This will show your ability to incorporate specific (real) examples from Latin American history that will guide your decisions as well as your thoroughness in addressing and considering some of these issues.  Your examples should come from the period after independence through today.  Be sure that you explain the reasoning of your decisions through the lens of actual events and information from the textbook (and other sources).  You can explain your decisions through either positive or negative examples from Latin American history.  An example of the positive might be, I would take control of Stevetopia through guerrilla warfare and entrenching myself in the local mountains. This strategy worked very well for Fidel Castro in the late 1950s because he was able to capture Cuba with only 12 soldiers under his command (insert citation).  An example of the negative might be, I would closely align myself economically and politically with the United States.  Fidel Castros decision to stand against the U.S. during the Cold War led to several negative outcomes including.  These are very basic examples, so you would obviously want to expand on these. 
Just be sure that the paper is not mostly fiction and that you do tie your reasoning into actual examples.
The paper should not be a long stream of quotations or fictionalized back-story, but you should use carefully chosen examples to prove your argument convincingly.  Your fictional story is not bound by the restraints of what has actually occurred at your fictional point in time.  For example, you decide to create your setting in the late 1940s you can still use examples of why you would make a particular decision based on events that really occurred in the 1980s. 

Shalaby’s Troublemakers

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4.5-6 pages
Times New Roman or Arial size 12 Paper Due: Sunday, Dec. 6th
Paper Assignment for Shalabys Troublemakers
Select ONE of the following options to address. Make sure to use in-text citations so that readers can find material that you quote verbatim or that you paraphrase. Also include a Reference citation for the Shalaby text.
1. Shalabybeginshertextwithacallforschooltobeaplaceforteachingloveand freedom and ends by urging educators to be love. These are lofty ideals and goals. How does Shalaby pragmatically define teaching love and freedom and being love, in the context of schooling — and more specifically in the classroom? What do Shalabys observations reveal about the lack of fit experienced by children labeled as troublemakers? What vision of schooling and of classroom practices does Shalaby offer that might help to more closely approximate these goals?
2. ShalabyarguesthatinsteadoflookingatZoraandLucasandSeanandMarcus as troublemakers (a label thats a noun), we should look at the verb of trouble and turn our attention to how the context of schooling makes trouble for these children. How, specifically, does trouble manifest in the structure and demands of these childrens classrooms? And how is it reflected in the experiences of these children? Make sure to draw on Shalabys theorizing (i.e. her vision for schooling as put forth in her claims) and also to draw specifically on the experiences of two of the children.
3. Shalabyintroducesthethemesofvisibilityandinvisibilityandtheneedofall students to belong. What do these childrens experiences reveal about these themes? What kinds of visibility do they strive for? Do their efforts help them to feel a sense of belong with their peers and their teacher? In what ways are they rendered invisible even at moments of active attempts to be visible? Make sure to provide specific illustrative examples of what the children are doing and experiencing and what the short and long-term implications are for children who feel invisible and unaccepted. Make sure to draw specifically on Shalabys claims. Id recommend that you focus on no more than two of the children in developing your essay.

4. WelearnoverthecourseofthetextthatZora,Lucas,SeanandMarcusare eventually assessed and diagnosed three with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and one with an oppositional disorder. Shalaby, for the most part — and intentionally shifts our attention away from a focus on a label of a disorder to a focus on children labeled as being good or bad students. What do we gain from this move on her part? Does it give you a deeper, more nuanced understanding of the implications of being viewed as a troublemaker? Also, as the case studies evolve, how does learning about their diagnoses and the medication they take and the effects it has, complicate your thinking about medical solutions for children viewed as troublemakers?
5. Ifyouhaveworkedinaneducationalsetting(aclassroomorafterschool program –indoors or outside), have you had extended experience with one or more troublemakers? What was this child like? What challenges were they facing? Were there any similarities to Zora, Lucas, Marcus and/or Sean? Create a vivid portrait of the child(ren) and of their experiences and behaviors. Did you have the opportunity to meet or see the child interacting with a parent (or other primary caregiver) at home or in a non-classroom context? What were your interactions with the child like? What was the nature of your relationship and did it evolve over time? Did it progress in a positive or a more negative way? To what do you attribute any particular changes? What did you learn about this child/student from your experiences? How have Shalabys case studies and claims helped you to reflect on and rethink your experiences? What have you learned from one or more of these case studies? How have they contributed to your understanding of the child you worked with?
6. Ifyouareaprimarycaregiver(ie.,aparent,grandparent,guardian)ofachild who has been perceived as a troublemaker, address the above option from your perspective, making sure to highlight your experiences and your childs experiences interacting with the school. How was your child similar or different outside of school? Make sure to draw on Shalabys claims and one or more of these cases in supporting your discussion.
7. Youmaynothavehadlengthyexperienceswithonetroublemaker,butyoumay have had educational encounters with many troublemakers. Thinking back over time, what were some of the problems and issues that the children were dealing with? In what ways were they non-compliant? What behaviors did you observe? How did your preschool, kindergarten, or elementary school deal with troublemakers? What were the policies? How do the experiences of the children presented in the case studies resemble the experiences and challenges of the troublemaker(s) that you knew? How did the schooling and classroom practices make trouble for the children? Make sure to provide specifics about the children you knew and make sure to draw on Shalabys claims and on her observations of at least two of the children in the case studies.

You will write a 4 page essay exploring the relevance of two social theorists we

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You will write a 4 page essay exploring the relevance of two social theorists we have covered in class to a contemporary social issue(Jean Baudrillard,Rogers Brubaker). The goal is to show your familiarity with the theorists, your ability to relate his ideas to the current world, and your skill at effective written communication of theoretical ideas. In this essay you should strive to indicate mastery of some of the core ideas of the theorists you have chosen. Part of the essay will be a detailed description of one or more concepts from each theorist. The remainder of the essay will involve discussing how these concepts help us to better understand a contemporary social issue. While quotes are allowed, it is important that you be able to communicate the author’s ideas in your own words. This is a short essay so stay focused on the core elements of the assignment and be efficient.   
The topic for essay three is Covid-19. You should pick some specific angle on the issue such as resistance to vaccines, how Covid has changed work and learning, or how the risks posed by Covid are experienced unequally. Use 2 theorists to delve more deeply into the issue you are interested in. 
The paper is to be approximately 4 pages in 12 pt. type with 1 inch margins. No title page is required. 
Note: No outside source other than the course readings (Chapter 59 and 72)

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