Unit Lesson 

One of the basic building blocks of Critical Thinking involves how you see the world around you. Basic perception involves the senses, but human beings also filter those perceptions. You do not treat everything you see, hear, or touch in the same way, and a lot of the decisions about what to pay attention to AND what to ignore are made unconsciously, without you being aware that such decisions have been made. 

Taking a closer look at your reasoning process, therefore, means taking a closer look at how you perceive things. What is filtered out? What is added? How do your expectations influence what you 

UNIT IV STUDY GUIDE
Perceiving, Believing, and Knowing 

HUM 1020, Critical Thinking 1 

see and hear? How are other people influencing your perceptions? Where does yourTfilter comeIDE from? Although the film for this unit, A Beautiful Mind, presents the story of a scientist who has 

schizophrenia, it is also a vehicle for illustrating and discussing the problems and limits of what anyone can claim to “know” based on perception. 

Film Themes: 

· ·  Perception is reality. 

· ·  Increasing awareness of how we sense the world around us. 

· ·  Selecting, organizing and interpreting stimuli 

· ·  Knowing what has shaped our lenses, and how that affects our perception 

· ·  How we construct beliefs 

· ·  Stages of knowing 

Unit IV Essay 

Film Essay 

Each of the movie selections this unit deal with a big question that is very hard to answer, but a question we should all wrestle with. How do we determine perception vs. reality? 

In the movie  A Beautiful Mind , a doctor is explaining the horror of schizophrenia to John Nash's wife and he says: 

You see the nightmare in schizophrenia is not knowing what's true. Imagine if you had suddenly learned that the people and the places and the moments most important to you were not gone, not dead, but worse. . . had never been What kind of hell would that be? 

Discussion reality within your selected movie. How does the movie determine perception vs. reality 

What about you? When you look around the world, how do you know how to react to the people, events, or things that cross your path? As you make decisions about things both big and small, how do you know that you are awake and not dreaming? How do you determine what is perception and what is reality? 

Your essay should be no less than two full pages in length, roughly 500 words. If you use outside sources, please cite and reference them according to APA standards. 

Research ethical and legal issues around world health. Consider your stand on universal health care and what our responsibilities are. 

In an essay, respond to the following bullets:  

· Is universal health care a human rights issue? Is health care a basic human right or a luxury for those with the resources and means to access it? What is the World Health Organization (WHO)? What is the purpose and mission of the WHO? What are some of the areas of health and health care that advocate for and advance? What are some of the challenges identified by the WHO in bringing universal health care to countries around the world?  

Your essay must be the minimum of two pages in length, not including the title and reference page. You are required to use at least one outside source. All sources cited, including the textbook, must be cited and referenced according to APA standards. 

You are expected to raise relevant research questions based on  the  following background information and then investigate these  questions  using the provided data set.

Background

Investors and financial economists are interested in understanding   how the stock market values a firm’s equity (i.e. shares). In a   fundamental sense, the value of a firm’s shares should reflect   investors’ expectations of the firm’s future profitability. However,   data on expected future profitability is non-existent. Instead,   empirical financial studies use current firm characteristics (e.g.   current accounting information) as explanatory variables.

Most of the shares traded on the stock market are old shares in   existing firms. However, many old firms will issue some new shares in   addition to those already trading – these are referred to as “seasoned   equity offerings” (SEOs). Furthermore, some firms that have not traded   shares on the stock market in the past may decide to issue such shares   (e.g. a computer software firm owned by one individual may decide to  “go  public” and sell shares in order to raise money for future  investment  or expansion). Such shares are called “initial public  offerings” (IPOs).  The market value of IPO firms may be different from  that of SEO firms,  and this may be partially explained by the firm  characteristics.

Data

The data set in file EQUITY.TXT contains data on N = 309 firms who   sold new shares in the year 1996 in the US. Some of these are SEOs and   some are IPOs. Data on the following variables is provided. All   variables except SEO are measured in millions of

US dollars.

VALUE = total value of all shares (new and old) outstanding just   after the firm issued the new shares. This is calculated as the price   per share times the number of shares outstanding.

DEBT = amount of long-term debt held by the firm.

SALES = total sales of the firm.

INCOME = net income of the firm.

ASSETS = book value of the assets of the firm (i.e. what an accountant would judge the firm’s assets to be worth).

SEO = a dummy variable that equals 1 if the new share issue is an SEO and 0 if it is an IPO.

The report will be assessed from the following aspects:

1) Question and hypothesis development: ask relevant research questions and provide theoretical support to your hypothesis (10%)

2) Structure and presentation (10%)

3) Writings and explanations for your findings (20%)

4) Models, tables and graphs (20%): you should incorporate them in the main article

5) Data analysis techniques, including those covered in the recommended textbook (25%)

6) Discussion on the limitations of your report (10%)

7) Reference (5%)

Notes:

1. A sample of academic research is provided for your reference. It   will give you some idea on what a good research report looks like. You   can borrow the structure of the sample research when appropriate but  the  main body of your report, excluding reference, should not exceed 8   pages.

2. Plagiarism is a specific form of academic misconduct. If found,   both parties will be penalized regardless of who copies from whom.

3. The data file needed for this assignment is available on the   course website under the Assignment III folder, where this document is   located.

5. Submit your report via Myweb by the due time.

6. This assignment accounts for 40% of the total internal assessment.

(End of Assignment III)

10-12 pages

Choose a health care issue with controversial ethical and legal implications that was at the center of a high visibility case in the public domain. Some examples of issues include but are not limited to the following:

• Late term abortion
• Assisted suicide
• Surgical errors
• Patient abuse
• Parental refusal of medical treatment of minors for religious reasons
• Transplant patient selection process
• Access to clinical trials by terminal patients
• Gender assignment for infants born with intersex anatomy
• Survivor selection in conjoined twins
• Access to illicit drugs for palliative care
• Withholding hydration or nourishment
• Life support continuation for brain-dead patients
• Medical treatment for the elderly or terminally ill
• Donor organ harvesting
• Use of placebo in clinical trials
• Use of patient data without consent
• Stem cell research and treatments
• Access to treatments not yet approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

Note: There is no time frame during which the case must have occurred for this assignment. Please note, however, that any case selected must be analyzed in the context of laws and policies that existed at the time of the case in addition to current laws and policies.

Perform research in the University library using at least 8–10 relevant peer-reviewed academic or professional journal articles that were published within the past 5 years, and complete the following to prepare your report:

• Analyze the ethics of the case from each end of the ethical spectrum (ultraconservative to ultraliberal) from the perspective of 3 of the following stakeholders:
  • Patient,
  • Patient’s immediate family or guardians
  • Emergency medical personnel or first responders
  • Doctors, surgeons, specialists, or other medical providers
  • The hospital or health care facility
  • A pharmaceutical or medical device company
• Identify policies at the federal, state, and local levels relating to the provision of health care and patient rights that played the following roles in the case:
  • Assesses opposing views of these policies from the perspectives of the provider and patient
  • Analyzes the implications of these policies on the operations of health care organizations
• Identify at least 3 state or federal laws that are relevant to the case, and complete the following:
  • Evaluate key legal factors that are inherent in the case.
  • Assess various policies and procedures that are inherent in these laws that relate to the provision of health care by providers or patient rights.
• Differentiate between the demands of legal policies and ethical issues with relevance to the needs of the provider and patient.

Formulate an assessment of the potential impact of the case on decision-making options in the future for providers, patients, and administrators

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In this Assignment, you will demonstrate your understanding of certain economic principles that underlie virtually all decisions that people make. Specifically, the concept of Opportunity Costs by selecting the correct underlying principle and explaining in a series of logical steps which would likely produce the results described.

Questions 

1. Howard needs to buy a laptop computer to start online university courses. The price at the local computer store is $650. The identical computer is available at one online site for $605 and another site, for $622. All prices include the appropriate sales tax. The accompanying table indicates the typical shipping and handling charges for the computer ordered online.

Shipping method

Delivery time

Charge

Standard shipping

3–7 days

$13.99

Second–day air

2 business days

$18.98

Next–day air

1 business day

$23.98

a. Define “opportunity cost” in economic terms. 

b. In this situation, what are the opportunity costs of Howard choosing to buy online instead of at the local computer store? Note that if you buy the computer online, you must wait to get it.

c. Show all of the relevant choices for Howard.

d. What determines which of these choices Howard will choose?

2. During the improving economic conditions of 2015 and early 2016 much additional construction of homes and condos throughout much of the U.S. took place. This provided a significant increase in the income of workers in the construction trades.  Many of the construction workers were immigrants and have family and relatives in other countries. Often these workers would send part of their income to their less fortunate relatives in their old country, especially in Mexico and some of the South American countries.

a. Which of the economic principles best describes this situation?

b. Using the principle you have selected, describe the chain of events that best explains how increased spending for U.S. home and condo construction is likely to affect the performance of the economies of these South American countries.  

3. From June 2008 oil was at a high of $ 144.78 per barrel. During the period from April 2011 until July of 2014, the price of oil hovered between about $ 115.32 per barrel and about $ 105.22 a barrel. Then, starting in August 2014 oil began to precipitate fall in price from $ 105.22 to $ 33.62 a barrel in January 2016. Although the US has great amounts of oil that could be brought out of the ground by "fracking," by the beginning of 2016 many of the workers in the US oil exploration and drilling industry were out of work and tremendous amounts of oil exploration were sitting in the equivalent of "used car lots" to be sold.  

The. Which of the economic principles best describes this situation?

B. Using the principle you have selected, describe the chain of links that best explains how the falling international oil prices caused US workers to be left off and available US oil to be left in the ground.

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In this scenario you have been hired by the World Health Organization. As a leader in the organization you have been assigned to assess a small developing nation and determine the most cost effective public health solutions to improve overall health in the country. You need to select public health options that will allow you to help the most people. You have a budget of $700 million, you cannot divide services in half as a means of cutting cost and you cannot go over budget.

Review an overview of the country as well as the available public health services using this document: Health Decision Making.

Requirements:

1. Use the Submission Template  to indicate your selections and write your narrative. 

2. A 500-800 word narrative explaining how you used planning and prioritization to make your decisions and reach your goal.

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Assume iPremier wishes to insource their data center. In this new scenario, we recommend three (3) internal controls that iPremier should implement to either prevent, detect or correct future cyber-attacks [Hint: Classify each control as either Preventive, Detective or Corrective, explain and justify its importance].centre. Under this new scenario, recommend three (3) internal controls that iPremier should implement to either prevent, detect or correct future cyber-attacks [Hint: Classify each control as either Preventive, Detective or Corrective, explain and justify its importance].

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Did the risk reduction measures put in place by iPremier work appropriately during the cyberattack? [Hint: Explain three (3) measures adopted and also whether they failed or not].

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Main purpose of this assignment is to enable student to configure networking devices for a given business case study and understand limitations of a network design. After successful completion of this assignment, students should be able to:

a. Investigate and resolve appropriate design and solutions for medium sized organisations.

b. Analyse and report on the current and future state of the management of internetworking infrastructure and its applications.

c. Discuss a roadmap process to use internetworking architecture to support long-term business goals.

d. Implement a process to support the administration and management of internetworking.

A 7 – 10 page (excluding title page and reference list) research paper on the underlying issue you chose for the final project and description of how parents can deal with the issue / s of the Lot in Life – based upon theory and research findings .. Your research paper should draw from at least 8 scholarly primary sources of information (recent peer-reviewed journal articles, books written by human development theorists, and government bulletins reporting up-to-date statistics). All sources of information must be cited and referenced in APA, 6th edition, style. Please see the Syllabus and the UMUC policy on plagiarism.