Governments around the world regulate acceptable behaviors through rules developed for the best interest of the common good. These regulations range from taxes to military activities to environmental health. This week's Discussion requires you to consider the ideals of personal freedoms versus governmental regulation and assurance. You evaluate the benefits and demerits of both governmental regulation and privatization with regard to environmental health.

To prepare for this Discussion, read Chapters 9, 10, and 11 of the course text. Review the PowerPoint presentations in your Learning Resources. Review the required websites expanding your knowledge of air, food, water, and human health issues. Focus on the regulations regarding food-handling, indoor air quality, water privatization, and the responsibilities of the involved parties. Also, if you choose, review the optional resources, which have been chosen to highlight exciting public health topics.

Post a comprehensive response to one of the following questions. Discuss the potential human health effects associated with the topic/question you selected. Then explain your position and justify your viewpoint with support from the course text and at least two reputable organizations' websites. Identify the topic in the first line of your posting (for example, Air).

Questions:

1. Water: Should private companies be allowed to pump water from water sources in order to produce bottled water that is sold for profit?
   1. If so, what would you require of them regarding the source water? Would you limit their profits?
   2. If not, how do you balance your decision with the rights of companies to participate in capitalism?
2. Air: Does the government have the right to tell people they cannot smoke tobacco products in public? Explain your answer.

Food: A restaurant recently underwent a governmental food inspection and was found to have multiple food-handling issues that may cause illness. The government inspectors required that the issues be cleared within three months, or the restaurant would be closed. During those three months, 98 people became ill with Clostridium perfringens. The victims believe the government shares in the responsibility for their illness and have named the governmental inspectors in a lawsuit. Do you agree with the victims? To what extent are the inspectors, the government, the owners, and the victims responsible for the victims' illness?

Academic honesty is an integral part of your learning experience. While plagiarism is the most common form of academic dishonesty, cheating or furnishing fabricated or false information are also acts of academic dishonesty, and those apply to research projects that you will be conducting during your graduate studies. Have you encountered instances of academic dishonesty? List different kinds of acts that you might encounter across the discipline and possible solutions.

This is based on the final project (milestone) you started in week 2.

For this assignment, you will summarize the current literature relevant to the issue you chose in Module Two. A literature review is an analytical essay containing an introduction (including a thesis and a research question), body (where you use research to support your issue and tie the resources back to your research question), and a conclusion. The purpose of a literature review is to summarize and synthesize the ideas of others in regard to your chosen issue. This will construct a solid foundation for your final paper, due in Module Nine. 

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Choose one legislator on the state or federal level who is also a nurse, and discuss the importance of their role as an advocate for improving healthcare delivery. What specific bill(s) have they sponsored or supported that has/have influenced health

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Replying to Thought Experiments and Case Studies

For the purposes of our class the response paper is 5 pages. There are four key areas you should cover in those 5 pages (homework is 3 pages) Below is geared to the 5 page paper. For homework, it is 20% shorter.

Find and describe the elements of the thought experiment. What is it trying to do? What is the point? Interpret any key terms and show why they are necessary to your interpretation of what is happening.

Set out the relevant practical and theoretical philosophical principles at stake and apply them to the problem.

Solve the problem set out in the thought experiment.

Reflect on the significance of your solution. What 3 abstract general points about the world have now been elucidated? * most important point. At least a page.

Rubric.  If you represent all four points sequentially in your paper you will earn some kind of “B” grade (so long as you are also close to 5 pages, i.e., within a half-page under or a full page over).  To get a high “B” or an “A-“ or “A” grade you will have to do well on the reflection bullet.

In this assignment, you will create a PowerPoint presentation on the topic of collective bargaining. You will highlight seven different areas of collective bargaining that you will explore. 

Be sure to also include an introduction.  The goal is for you to explore areas that interest you and for you to explain them in more depth. You can be creative in how you demonstrate your knowledge about the topic you choose. You can use links in the presentation, graphics, case law, videos, etc. You can choose one area and highlight different processes in collective bargaining such as the process, duty to bargain, tasks involved, administration, enforcement, etc., or each area can be an entirely different aspect of collective bargaining such as picketing, strikers, unions, enforcement, etc.  

The above are suggestions. This assignment is a chance for you to explore. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your content. All sources used, including the textbook must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying APA style citations.

Read your assigned chapter. By synthesizing information from your assigned chapter and the assigned article, discuss modern correctional alternatives

Are parents in juvenile interrogations Friend or Foe? Read the article and share your thoughts. How involved should a parent be? After viewing the video Why Don't Kids Have Lawyers?, consider how to resolve this apparent dilemma.

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Imagine you are the chief of police of your local community and have decided to implement a community-oriented policing program. One of the issues confronting your community is a phenomenon found in some urban communities called Stop Snitching. Present your community-oriented policing program, including a specific program that addresses this phenomenon. Be very specific; you are presenting this to your department and community

Write an essay (no less than 800 words, no more than 1200) in response to the following prompt:

Both Plato a Descartes begin the process of philosophizing by worrying about the possibility of deception, and they concoct thought experiments in order to separate knowledge from mere belief and illusion. First, based on the essay we read by David Foster Wallace (This is Water") or using Palmer's discussions in chapter 1 and 2 tell me: why is this concern for certainty or stability a legitimate worry for the human-turned-philosopher? In other words, justify Plato’s and Descartes’ worry about the unexamined, everyday world. Second, tell me at least one significant way Plato’s and Descartes thought experiments are the same—what do they assume in common, what is their 'rationalist' core? And, tell me at least one significant way in which their projects differ. Third, tell me which you you think you would prefer as a method for beginning to think about the possibility of illusion or deception in your own the everyday world—escape from 'the cave' or purification of your 'evil genius'? And why? Since you are already a philosopher by writing this paper, tell me: what is one practical step you could make toward that goal using this rationalist method in your current life?