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1. Write an essay consisting of at least 500 words addressing all of the following topics (a through e):

a. Describe the U.S. Bureau of Land Management including when it was formed and its purpose.

b. What was the purpose of the Wilderness Act of 1964? Was the act effective?

c. How does the Clean Water Act impact wetlands?

d. How has implementation of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act of 1968 varied from 1968 to the present?

e. Describe a lawsuit related to the Endangered Species Act.

You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

2. Write an essay consisting of at least 500 words addressing all of the following topics (a through e):

a. Explain the history of the U.S. Department of the Interior and how it regulates the use of natural resources.

b. What was the purpose of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003? Was the act effective?

c. Has the 1972 Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act been effective?

d. List the pros and cons of the 1973 Endangered Species Act.

e. Describe a lawsuit related to the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act.

You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

1, What are the negative impacts and challenges of using wind farms to meet our energy needs? How can we overcome these challenges? Would you be opposed to living in close proximity to a wind farm? Why or why not?

Your response must be at least 200 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

2. What are the costs and benefits of increasing our use of nuclear power to meet our long-term energy needs? Do you think that the United States should meet its energy demands by building new nuclear power plants? Why or why not?

Your response must be at least 200 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

3.Describe three of the natural geologic hazards discussed in the text. What actions can be taken to minimize the damage of these hazards?

Your response must be at least 200 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

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Metamorphic rock

Option #2: The Role and Impact of the Health Insurance Market (Presentation)

For this assignment, prepare an economic analysis brief in the form of a PowerPoint presentation that describes the role and impact of the health insurance market in the U.S. healthcare industry to demonstrate an understanding of Module 4. Discuss and synthesize key elements from at least two recent scholarly articles (found in the CSU-Global Library) that address one of the following points:

Determine the performance of the health insurance industry.
Apply economic models, theories, or assumptions.
Offer objective methods for attempting to predict future market behavior in response to events, trends, and cycles.
Assess economic policy recommendations for healthcare stakeholders.
Evaluate the economic health of the nation or state.

Your analysis should be thoughtful and thorough, well written, and should include:

A minimum of 15 slides (not including the title and reference slides).
Speaker’s notes containing 50-100 words per slide to elaborate on the visual/text content on the slide.
Appropriate graphics, multi-media, and other visual elements to enhance the presentation delivery.
A properly formatted reference slide that conforms to CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA Requirements.

Overview

This assignment requires you to identify, describe, and analyze some work of visual art significant to your location or some place you have lived previously.  The format of the assignment must be typed and double-spaced, must correspond with the list of questions below, and be submitted through the link below.  The length is determined by thoroughly responding to each question.  The final word count is not likely to be fewer than 500 words.

Topic

Pick any interesting work of art in the region where you currently live, or some place you have lived in the past.  “Region” can be a state, the South, a country, an area where they speak a common language or share a common culture, etc.  In other words, it’s fairly broadly defined.

The work you choose should be available for the public to see.  It can be a work in a museum or gallery, a significant work of architecture, or a public monument.

The project must be in your own words.  The first part is the only one that invites you to look up information.  Everything else should reflect your own thought process.

Questions

Your paper should clearly distinguish your answers.  It is best to simply number your responses, and add nothing that does not belong in that section.

1. What work have you chosen and where is it?  How old is it?  Who is responsible for it?  Provide relevant details about the medium/materials.  Say exactly what sources were used for this information.

2. Provide a detailed description of the work.  Assume your reader has not seen it, and you are trying to recreate it in their minds as accurately as possible.

3. Explain why you were drawn to this work.

4. Provide an analysis of the work.  This should include a thesis statement and illustration or evidence to support that statement.  This should be your longest answer.

An analysis can be many things.  Sometimes it is looking for some meaning in the work (what is someone trying to say?), but it might also be a process of looking at how parts make up a whole.  It might be a matter of looking at the larger context, how the work reflects the culture or historical period it belongs to (or contradicts those).  It can also be viewed within the context of an artist’s other works.

The voice presentations under Lessons 4 and 8 are intended to provide samples of analytical approaches.

If you find it easiest to compare the work to something appropriate, that is often a useful technique for building an analysis.

Criteria

These will be graded on the following:

•         Organization – the paper should be logically arranged according to the questions provided, with each section well-structure.

•         Development – each section should have sufficient and relevant detail and thought.

•         Clarity – I look at all elements of writing, so the paper should show attention to details like sentence structure, editing, formatting, punctuation, as well as word choice and tone.

•         Subject Matter – the subject of your paper is up to you (within the boundaries described), but its significance and depth will help produce a fully developed paper.  It should be appropriate to the course.

For this assignment, prepare an economic analysis brief in the form of a PowerPoint presentation that describes the role and impact of the health insurance market in the U.S. healthcare industry to demonstrate an understanding of Module 4. Discuss and synthesize key elements from at least two recent scholarly articles (found in the CSU-Global Library) that address one of the following points:

• Determine the performance of the health insurance industry.
• Apply economic models, theories, or assumptions.
• Offer objective methods for attempting to predict future market behavior in response to events, trends, and cycles.
• Assess economic policy recommendations for healthcare stakeholders.
• Evaluate the economic health of the nation or state.

Your analysis should be thoughtful and thorough, well written, and should include:

• A minimum of 15 slides (not including the title and reference slides).
• Speaker’s notes containing 50-100 words per slide to elaborate on the visual/text content on the slide.
• Appropriate graphics, multi-media, and other visual elements to enhance the presentation delivery.
• A properly formatted reference slide that conforms to CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA Requirements.

Assignment 1: Diversity and Families

Throughout this course, you have learned about various aspects of multiculturalism. You have also been asked to critically analyze various components of culture and discuss how and whether they relate to the human services industry.

In Module 5, the focus has been on aspects of diversity related to the family; however, there are a few aspects of diversity that can impact a family that have not been highlighted in this course—age and disability. As the average life span continues to grow, more family members are caring for their elderly parents. Also, family members are frequently taking care of a child, spouse, parent, or extended relative with a disability, and it is important to consider disability in broad terms (i.e., a child with autism, a sister with multiple sclerosis, etc.).

Tasks:

In a minimum of 300 words, post your responses to the following:

• With regard to the human services industry, what challenges might families face when it comes to caring for an elderly family member or a family member with a disability?
• What are some resources available for families in these situations? Becausedisability is a broad category, you may identify a specific disability to address. Be specific in your responses and illustrate using examples.

Submission Details:

• By Saturday, October 31, 2015, post your responses to this Discussion Area. Support your assumptions by citing reputable source material used for this discussion in APA format.

This course requires the completion of a comprehensive Strategic Plan.

You have a choice to use either an existing company or a fictitious company. In either case, the Project is to complete a written plan that will suggest a practical Strategic Direction for the company.

The Plan will have 7 sections. The 6 sections will reflect each of the 6 TCOs plus a bibliography. Each section will be 2 – 3 pages in standard business proposal format.

The sections are:

1. Strategy (TCO F)
2. Core Competencies (TCO C)
3. Industry Dynamics (TCO A)
4. Technology Sourcing and Internal Innovation (TCO D)
5. Product Development Strategy (TCO E)
6. Strategy to protect innovations (TCO B)
7. A bibliography listing your references for the project

Resource: Strategic Planning and HR Planning: Linking the Process & Figure 2.1 in Ch. 2 of Managing Human Resources

Choose a company with which you are familiar.

Create a 10- to 15- slide Microsoft^® PowerPoint^® presentation to explain the integration of the HR planning process and strategic process to new employees in your company.

Analyze each major HR responsibility in a company. Provide your analysis of these responsibilities to new employees, along with an explanation of how these integrate into the strategic planning process.

• For Local Campus students, these are 15- to 20-minute oral presentations accompanied by Microsoft^® PowerPoint^® presentations.
• For Online and Directed Study students, these are Microsoft^® PowerPoint^® presentations with notes.

Format your memo and presentation consistent with APA guidelines.

Write a 2-3 page paper analyzing the “legislative consequences” of health care reform related to the 2010 Congressional and Senatorial Elections results where Republicans gained control of the House of Representatives. (Remember, this election came right after passage of the 2010 Affordable Health Care for America Act.) In your paper, include one or two specific examples that could be considered legislative consequences of health care reform. Remember, consequences can include election, re-election, or loss of an election.

Overview

This assignment requires you to identify, describe, and analyze some work of visual art significant to your location or some place you have lived previously.  The format of the assignment must be typed and double-spaced, must correspond with the list of questions below, and be submitted through the link below.  The length is determined by thoroughly responding to each question.  The final word count is not likely to be fewer than 500 words.

Topic

Pick any interesting work of art in the region where you currently live, or some place you have lived in the past.  “Region” can be a state, the South, a country, an area where they speak a common language or share a common culture, etc.  In other words, it’s fairly broadly defined.

The work you choose should be available for the public to see.  It can be a work in a museum or gallery, a significant work of architecture, or a public monument.

The project must be in your own words.  The first part is the only one that invites you to look up information.  Everything else should reflect your own thought process.

Questions

Your paper should clearly distinguish your answers.  It is best to simply number your responses, and add nothing that does not belong in that section.

1. What work have you chosen and where is it?  How old is it?  Who is responsible for it?  Provide relevant details about the medium/materials.  Say exactly what sources were used for this information.

2. Provide a detailed description of the work.  Assume your reader has not seen it, and you are trying to recreate it in their minds as accurately as possible.

3. Explain why you were drawn to this work.

4. Provide an analysis of the work.  This should include a thesis statement and illustration or evidence to support that statement.  This should be your longest answer.

An analysis can be many things.  Sometimes it is looking for some meaning in the work (what is someone trying to say?), but it might also be a process of looking at how parts make up a whole.  It might be a matter of looking at the larger context, how the work reflects the culture or historical period it belongs to (or contradicts those).  It can also be viewed within the context of an artist’s other works.

The voice presentations under Lessons 4 and 8 are intended to provide samples of analytical approaches.

If you find it easiest to compare the work to something appropriate, that is often a useful technique for building an analysis.

Criteria

These will be graded on the following:

•         Organization – the paper should be logically arranged according to the questions provided, with each section well-structure.

•         Development – each section should have sufficient and relevant detail and thought.

•         Clarity – I look at all elements of writing, so the paper should show attention to details like sentence structure, editing, formatting, punctuation, as well as word choice and tone.

•         Subject Matter – the subject of your paper is up to you (within the boundaries described), but its significance and depth will help produce a fully developed paper.  It should be appropriate to the course.

PLEASE ONLY ACCEPT IF YOU HAVE ART HISTORY OR ARE COMPENTENT IN THIS SUBJECT