Directions: Answer each question below by writing a strong paragraph that includes supporting information from the lesson. Please cite your outside resources.

A strong paragraph includes a minimum of three to five details from the lesson and is written in Academic English form. For more information on Academic English form, refer to the documents in the Orientation.

1. Give an explanation of what the Declaration of Independence signifies to America.

2. What was the purpose of the Declaration of Independence?

3. Why was John Hancock the first to sign the Declaration of Independence? What determined the order in which delegates signed the document? Choose one other person who signed the Declaration of Independence and give at least three (3) facts about this person.

4. The Declaration of Independence is based on which natural rights? Explain each right and give an example of each right. Tell how each of these natural rights pertains to you.

5. As you read the transcript of the Declaration of Independence, look at the bullet lists. What do think this list represents? Who are they referring to in the lists? Choose one item in the list and tell how this item has impacted us today in modern life.

Required Readings McWay, D. C. (2013). Today's Health Information Management: An Integrated Approach (2nd Edition). Publisher: Cengage, ISBN-13: 978-1-133-59247-1 Read Chapters 3 & 4. 
Article: Berner, E.S. Ethical and Legal Issues in the Use of Health Information Technology to Improve Patient Safety. HEC Forum 20 (3) pages 243-258
The objective of this assignment is to become familiar with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule and apply it to a simulated physician practice. 

Scenario You are the new office manager at Midwest OB-Gyne Affiliates. OB-Gyne is a small practice with three obstetricians, one nurse practitioner, a receptionist, two nurses, and one coder/biller. The practice also includes the equipment and staff to do ultrasonography on pregnant women. Each physician and the nurse practitioner are expected to see at least six patients a day. 

One of your first tasks is to ensure that the office is in compliance with the HIPAA Privacy Rule. The staff has shared with you the following concerns. The physicians would like to have your recommendations on how each should be handled, including the reference to the appropriate Privacy Rule regulation by number. 

1. In the past, we gave patients a video of their ultrasounds. Can we still do that? 2. We fax prenatal records to the hospital delivery room close to the patient’s due date. Can we still do that? 3. Can we notify the husbands or appropriate persons when a pregnant patient is in labor and that person is not with the patient? 4. College-age students come to the clinic for family planning assistance. They have requested that all bills and contact be made to their college address and cell phones instead of to their parents. Their insurance is usually through their parents. What should we do? 5. We would like to make arrangements for a new company to do transcription. This company uses transcriptionists who are located outside the United States. 6. Patients often bring in copies of medical records from other physicians. They are also starting to bring in something they call personal health records. What should we do with these records? 

Directions 1. Format your response in a report to the physicians. 2. For each concern listed: a. Identify the regulation by citing the specific paragraph number. There may be more than one. All must be found. b. Interpret the regulation that addresses this concern. c. Recommend the appropriate process. 3. You do not need to address state law. 4. Include any and all assumptions you made about the practice to determine your response. 

Use the scholarly criteria mentioned in a previous link (in the Unit Introduction) to find articles concerning this topic. The article topics are broad so that you can experiment and find interesting articles that pertains to this subject.

1 out of 3 works cited you can use.
Bagley, Constance E. Managers and the Legal Environment: Strategies for the 21st Century. Cengage Learning, 2016.

1. Must be in formal writing.
2.Your score will be determined by evaluation of your substantive content. Your analysis and solutions must be based on the principles of law, ethics, and business – not on your opinions. You MUST describe how application of the principles to the key facts support your determination of the issues, in other words, you need to show the reasoning behind your decision.
3. Key facts are those facts that determine if the principles of law are met. You must demonstrate that you recognize the key facts in this case. List the key facts individually. Do NOT simply repeat or retype the factual scenario.
4. Your assignment must be prepared using APA format. See the Tools and Resources page for more information about APA styling.

 Follow the speech plan Action Steps to prepare a five to eight minute informative speech in which you present carefully researched, in-depth information about a complex topic. You may choose one of the topics from Figure 16.2 in the textbook, or a topic suggested by your coursework; or a topic about which you are interested; or a topic suggested by your instructor. Your instructor must approve your topic. 

Criteria for evaluation include all the general criteria of topic and purpose, content, organization, and presentation, but special emphasis will be placed on how intellectually stimulating the topic is made for the audience, how creatively ideas are presented, and how clearly the important information is emphasized. Use the Expository Speech Evaluation Checklist, Figure 16.3 in the textbook to critique yourself as you practice your speech. 

Prior to presenting your speech, prepare an outline, a source list in APA format, and a written plan for adapting your speech to the audience. Your adaptation plan should describe both verbal and visual strategies and should address how you will: 

Establish common ground 

Build and maintain audience interest 

Adjust to the audiences knowledge and sophistication 

Build speaker credibility 

Adapt to the audiences attitudes toward your speech goal 

Adapt to audiences from different cultures and language communities (if relevant for you in this speech) 

Use visual aids to enhance audience understanding and memory 

If you have used Speech Builder Express to complete the action step activities online, you will be able to print out a copy of your completed outline and source list.

Choose a professional nursing organization that relates to the nursing profession or your clinical practice area. Assuming that you are the chairperson of membership for the organization, create a full-page flyer designed to recruit new members to the professional organization. In your flyer, include:

1. The function of the organization, as well as its mission and vision.
2. Potential advantages of membership in the organization.
3. Provide resource information for new members, including contact information, membership requirements, and organizational endorsements (i.e., what other members or other organizations are saying about the selected organization).
4. Create a topic for an upcoming meeting that would appeal to your target audience.

While APA format is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and in-text citations and references should be presented using APA documentation guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

This assignment uses a rubric. Students should review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the criteria and expectations for successful completion.

The name of the book is "Loon" by Henry Sharp he is the link to the book : 

https://books.google.com/books?id=pKKIdnSghFkC&lpg=PP1&dq=Loon%20by%20sharp&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=Loon%20by%20sharp&f=false

Double space, font size 12, 1” margins include at least one quotation from the reading to support your point. 

The reaction should be a cohesive essay, but please number the paragraphs within your paper to reflect the question being answered. Failure to do so may result in a reduction in points. 

Explore the following questions:

1)How did this ethnography differ from previous class readings? 

2)How was it similar to previous readings?

3)What were the sources and/or evidence relied upon to construct the account? What sorts of methods were used? How was the data presented?

4) What is the basis of the authority of the author to make the account? (i.e. academic, cultural, etc or some combination). Evaluate the author’s credibility and explore what makes them appear (or fail to appear) an authoritative source for the subjects they discuss. 

5) How do you feel towards this reading? What do you think about it? Has it changed your way of thinking at all? What ideas did it give you, or what unanswered questions do you still have?

Week 9 Discussion 1

"VPN Technologies" Please respond to the following:

• Examine two advantages of hardware VPNs and two advantages of software VPNs.  Select the type of VPN (hardware or software) that you consider to be the better of the two.  Provide a rationale for your response.

Week 9 Discussion 2

"VPN Protocols" Please respond to the following:

• Examine and explain the two advantages and two disadvantages for three types of protocol used in VPNs.  Select the one type of protocol that you would recommend to be used for a VPN.  Provide a rationale for your response.

If you were a value investor, you would be someone searching for undervalued stock by analyzing firms’ financial data and forming an estimate of the ‘true value’ of their stock. Present a problem that might arise in adopting a value-investing strategy.

Choose three sets of two companies featured in the Standard & Poors’ 500 index which are in the same sector. Use the following link to the SPDR Index Heat Map to ensure the firms are in the same sector.

Heat Map link:
http://www.sectorspdr.com/sectorspdr/tools/sector-tracker/components

Complete the following:

Report and compare the P/E ratios of each of the two selected companies. Describe how you would classify these—as a value investment or a growth firm.
Compare your firms to the total sector and indicate your preference of each pair. If three of these constitute a portfolio for your investment purposes, indicate what your preferences are for return.
Discuss what type of investor will have the same expectations regarding return.
Include an appendix containing all ratio calculations including a note on the numerator and denominator used.

Your paper should meet the following requirements:

Be approximately 2 pages in length, not including the cover page and reference page.
Follow the CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA. Each paper should include an introduction, a body with at least two fully developed paragraphs, and a conclusion.
Support your answers with the readings from Module 3 and at least one scholarly journal article. The CSU-Global Library is a great place to find resources.
Be clear and well written, concise, and logical, using excellent grammar and style techniques. You are being graded in part on the quality of your writing. If you need assistance with your writing style, start with Tools for Effective Writing at the CSU-Global Library, accessible from the Library’s homepage.

Scientific progress is based on finding answers to questions. While the answers to many of these questions may seem intuitive—without evidence—they may in fact be false. It is therefore important for you not to reach a conclusion when there is no evidence to support that conclusion. For this assignment, you will develop a brochure for families composed of national, ethnic, racial, religious, or sexual minorities who may or may not be economically disadvantaged. The purpose of the brochure is to inform them of specific sources of stress that they might experience. For example, in their article, Hicken, Lee, Morenoff, House, and Williams (2014) review race-based social stressors such as perceived discrimination and the stress of wanting to outperform negative expectations of one’s racial/ethnic group.

You will need to clearly select a specific group; in your brochure, you will need to define that group. Next, you must discuss both the stresses they might experience and the sources of those stressors. You can then provide them with some coping strategies to use including mindfulness. Please remember that you are expected to document all your statements even though a conclusion might seem intuitive.

Length: 6 columns and a 2-page brochure

Creating a Brochure – The Basics

 There are several software programs, including Microsoft Publisher, that are designed to create a variety of different written materials. However, you can easily create your own using Microsoft Word.

Depending on the version of Word that you may have, you can open a template and simply cut and paste your information into a template; or you can search the Internet for a free template that meets your needs. 

You can use Word to create a simple brochure by completing the following steps:

Open a new file in Word. Then, name it and save it as you would any other assignment.

Go to Page Layout>Margins>Narrow (1/2 inch).

Write your content or text. and then insert your graphics.

Go to Page Layout>Orientation>Landscape. Change to Landscape (11 x 8 ½).

Highlight the text.

With text highlighted, go to Page Layout>Columns>Three. Click and save.

Now, your file is a draft brochure that you can review, revise, and proofread before you submit it to your instructor for feedback.

Creating an Effective Brochure – Simple Tips

Effective brochures present information that is organized, informative, supported by valid research, and easy to understand. You can prepare an effective brochure by using the following tips:

Use short, yet compelling words, and brief sentences. Keep your audience in mind.

Use quotes sparingly. As a rule, quotes have value for emphasis if you cannot rephrase the information any better in your own words.

Write your content using the active voice. (Active voice: “Families can provide support to children struggling with homework by finding a great tutor.” Passive voice: “Support can be provided by the family to children struggling with homework by find a great tutor.”)

Be positive. “Families should” instead of, “Families should not.”

Knowing Your Targeted Readers

Understand your readers (ages, professions, levels of education, demographics, etc.) to ensure the success of your presentation.

Tailor your information to meet your readers’ interests and expertise.

Make the information relevant and appealing to your readers.

Planning Your Brochure Content

As you prepare your brochure content, consider the following questions:

What can your readers learn from this brochure information? What is the intended “take away”?

What do you want your readers to do with the information that they have learned?

Should they now think and/or behave differently because of your brochure?

What do you want them to remember from your brochure?

Use a simple font with a point-size of no less than 12-point (footnotes should be no smaller than 9 point).

Be consistent. Use the same font throughout your brochure.

Use color, underlining, and italics sparingly and for emphasis only.

Use white space effectively. If text is squeezed together, it is difficult to read. Take time to edit your information so that your key concepts are clearly and simply presented.

Use graphics that are relevant to your brochure’s overall content.

Be sure the graphics complement your content, instead of overwhelming it and creating distractions.

Ensure your graphics are tasteful, inclusive, and appropriate for your readers.