SOC-100 Week 7 Pillars Of Society Matrix

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Week 7 Pillars of Society Matrix

Complete the “Pillars of Society Matrix” worksheet.

Part 1: Matrix

Instructions: Complete the matrix below. Each cell/cube of the matrix needs to have a three- to five-sentence response.

Pillars What have you read about how the economy impacts each ofsociety’s pillars today? (Use your textbook and other academic readings.) What have you observed about how the economy impacts each ofsociety’s pillars today? (Draw upon your own personal experience.) How does your community impact the pillars? How has technology impacted each ofthe pillars?
Politics        
Marriage and Family        
Religion        
Education        

 

Part 2: Summary

Instructions: Write a 100-150-word summary of your matrix. Cite one to two resources you used to complete the matrix. 

 

Use your assigned Readings and the GCU Library for research support.

While GCU style 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 GCU documentation guidelines, which can be found in the GCU Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

You are not required to submit this assignment to Turnitin.

 
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MN 551 Unit 9 DQ 1

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Topic 1: Case Study

Case Study Posting Requirements

  1. Make sure all of the topics in the case study have been      addressed.
  2. Cite at least three sources—journal articles, textbooks      or evidenced-based websites to support the content.
  3. All sources must be within five years.
  4. Do not use .com, Wikipedia, or up-to-date, etc., for      your sources.

Case Study 1

Organization and Control of Neural Function

Riku is a 19-year-old college student. One morning, after a long night of studying, Riku woke up and made himself a hot cup of coffee and toast.

Much to his surprise, when he brought the cup to his mouth to drink, the coffee spilt onto the table. Riku went to the bathroom mirror and noticed the left side of his face seemed to droop. He quickly got dressed and ran to the medical clinic on the college campus. As he ran, his left eye began to feel scratchy and dry, but he could not blink in response. The physician at the clinic listened to Riku’s story and then did a careful cranial nerve examination. She concluded that Riku had Bell palsy, an inflammatory condition of the facial nerve most likely caused by a virus.

  1. What are an afferent neuron and efferent neuron? What      are efferent components of the facial nerve and their actions?
  2. Under certain circumstances, axons in the peripheral      nervous system can regenerate after sustaining damage. Why is axonal      regeneration in the central nervous system much less likely?
  3. At a healthy myoneural junction, acetylcholine is      responsible for stimulating muscle activity. What mechanisms are in place      to prevent the continuous stimulation of a muscle fiber after the      neurotransmitter is released from the presynaptic membrane?

Case Study 2

Somatosensory Function, Pain, and Headache

Ramandeep is an active 23-year-old. She works as a part-time nurse during the day and is studying for a postgraduate certificate in the evening. Ramandeep started to wear a bite plate at night after she began to experience jaw pain and headaches. Sometimes the pain radiated to her ear, and she would apply a hot water bottle to it to ease the discomfort. Her husband mentioned to her that he heard her grinding her teeth at night while she was sleeping. She knew then that her headaches might be from temporomandibular joint syndrome, and she went to her dentist to confirm her thoughts. In addition to the bite plate, the dentist also recommended she should continue with the application of heat, use NSAIDs when needed, and incorporate regular relaxation exercises throughout her stressful days.

  1. What effect does heat have on nociceptors so that it      makes a good nonpharmacologic treatment for pain?
  2. Heat and cold treatment are both hypothesized to have      an effect on the release of endogenous opioids. What are these chemicals,      and why are they hypothesized to be beneficial in the body?
  3. Using your knowledge of physiology, how do NSAID      analgesics function in the management of pain?

Case Study 3

Disorders of Motor Function

John is 63 years old and receives home care by an occupational therapist twice a week. His therapist is currently working with John on maintaining joint flexibility and balance. John demonstrates resting tremor, so his therapist is also working on adaptive techniques, so John can continue to use his hands to write, use the computer, and cook simple meals. John’s wife assists with his mobility and walks slowly beside him, holding his arm. Sometimes she needs to help him open his prescription bottles, so he can take his medicine, a combination of levodopa and carbidopa.

  1. What motor disease does John demonstrate? One of his      signs is resting tremor. What is the difference between a resting tremor      and an intention tremor?
  2. What is the advantage of combining levodopa with      carbidopa? What is the benefit of anticholinergic drugs in the management      of Parkinson disease?
  3. Parkinson disease involves the destruction of the      substantia nigra and the nigrostriatal pathway. Where are these structures      anatomically?
  4. The patient with Parkinson disease typically presents      with a masklike facial expression. Why does he or she have a masklike      facial expression? How are the eyes, mouth, and laryngopharynx affected by      this disease?

Case Study 4

Disorders of Brain Function

Bonnie is a 70-year-old woman who lives alone. One evening, she felt light-headed and dizzy. When her head began to ache, she decided to take an analgesic and go to bed early. The following morning, upon awakening, she was unable to move the bed sheets with her right arm. At this point she was experiencing tingling sensations in her limbs, and she had difficulty keeping her balance. She dialed 911 for help, and by the time the ambulance arrived, she was confused and unable to articulate her words although she knew what information he was asking of her. In the hospital, she was examined and treated for ischemic stroke.

  1. Stroke, or brain attack, involves brain tissue injury.      Describe ischemic penumbra and what factors contribute to the survival of      the neurons involved. What happens if the cells of the penumbra are unable      to be preserved?
  2. Compare and contrast hypoxia and ischemia. What      condition is more dangerous to the brain? Explain your answer.
  3. Knowing what you do about the effects of ischemia on      the brain, why would someone with ischemic stroke develop cerebral edema?
  4. What type of aphasia was Bonnie exhibiting when talking      to her caregivers? Explain your answer.

Case Study 5

Sleep and Sleep Disorders

Jessica is six years old. Her parents recently saw her pediatrician because they were concerned about the sleeping difficulties Jessica has been having. Often she would scream out loud in her sleep. Her parents would rush to her room and find her sitting upright in bed, panting heavily in a state of panic. Jessica would not respond to her parent’s words of consolation, and the next morning she would have no memory of the incident at all. Her parents were worried about the anxiety their daughter was experiencing and asked the pediatrician what they could do about her nightmares. The pediatrician explained Jessica was likely suffering from sleep terrors and carefully described what that meant.

  1. What are the similarities and differences between      nightmares and sleep terrors?
  2. What are the characteristics of motor, sensory, and      autonomic function during REM sleep? What is thought to be the importance      of this stage of sleep?
  3. Jessica’s pediatrician said that the careful management      of sleep hygiene may help to decrease the incidence of her sleep terrors.      What is included in an overview of the general features that demonstrate      good sleep hygiene?

Case Study 6

Disorders of Thought, Emotion, and Memory

Ella is 88 years old and was living at home until very recently. Her children, who visited her regularly, noticed she was becoming more forgetful. At first, she mislaid objects, and then she began to forget her doctor’s appointments. With time, her personality changed and she became withdrawn. At home she would forget to turn off the stove or leave the kettle on until it boiled dry. After seeking advice from a gerontologist and social worker, Ella’s children placed her in a nursing home with a unit equipped for patients with Alzheimer disease.

  1. What is dementia? Why is Alzheimer disease based on a      “diagnosis of exclusion”?
  2. What are the macroscopic and microscopic features of      the brain that are typical in Alzheimer disease?
  3. One of Ella’s children brought her a new pair of      slippers to wear in the nursing home. A minute after she received them,      Ella could not remember the exchange and asked what they were doing on her      bed. What part of the brain has largely been affected to produce this      behavior, and what is the pathophysiology involved?

To view the Grading Rubric for this Assignment, please visit the Grading Rubrics section of the Course Home.

 
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Existential Questions And Post-Traumatic Growth

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Upon hearing the stories of sometimes horrific atrocities clients or client families have experienced, you as a social worker may find yourself confronting existential questions such as Why? For example, Why do horrible events happen to good people? Why do people abuse their children?

Trying to make sense of such trauma is not easy, and you may seek answers to these existential questions your whole life. And yet, there are opportunities for growth despite trauma for both clients and social workers. This is known as post-traumatic growth, where a renewed sense purpose or a more profound outlook on life is the by-product.

In this Discussion, you work to seek meaning from the trauma your clients experience and the subsequent healing you help your clients achieve in your social work practice.

To prepare:

  • Read about trauma-informed social work, and read this article listed in the Learning Resources: Vis, J.-A., & Boynton, H. M. (2008). Spirituality and transcendent meaning making: possibilities for enhancing posttraumatic growth. Journal of Religion & Spirituality in Social Work, 27(1/2): 69–86. http://dx.doi.org.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/10.1080/15426430802113814

Assignment:

  • In 1 sentence, identify an existential question with which you have grappled in relation to a client who has been traumatized.
    • Reflect on an existential question that might arise in working with the client in the case study you have selected throughout the course. The Case of Jake Levy- Attached.
  • In 3 to 4 brief sentences, describe where there is potential for growth for the client as a result of the trauma.
  • In 3 to 4 brief sentences, explain where there is potential for growth for you, the social worker, as a result of listening to the client’s stories and bearing witness to their trauma.
  • Describe any challenges you may experience between the meaning you hold based on your personal beliefs and working within the client’s potentially different belief framework
 
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Discussion Reply

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Answer two of the following questions, and respond to at least one other student’s post afterward for a total of at least 400 words.

1. According to Sternheimer, what is the larger issue behind focusing on or blaming media for various social problems? What does the author believe are the more important underlying issues? Why might politicians, the public, and the media itself be reluctant to discuss these issues, in your opinion?

2. Why does Sternheimer believe that social context is so important in understanding fears about media and popular culture? What are “moral panics,” and what examples of moral panics does she provide in 20th century music? Do you see examples of similar, current moral panics in American culture?

3. What is “agenda-setting theory,” and how does the media itself ironically stoke public fears about media influence on children? How might a constructionist approach to social problems provide us with a more nuanced understanding of the supposed “harm” of popular culture?

Please give a response to this post:

Q1

According to chapter one, Sternheimer explains blaming media that televisions and video games are the cause of social problems can distract our attention from essential issues and causations. The largely contemporary issues she analyzes including education, violence, early pregnancies, poverty, and family instability. The most serious challenge American children face is poverty. The families don’t get enough benefit from their works. And, schools in poverty area are not safe and qualified. Kids are in danger. However, people ignore the real causation but attribute the issue to popular culture which is derived from media. In my opinion, politicians and the public don’t have the ability to solve these issues. Instead of looking at the cause of social problems, they are content to simply blame popular culture and media. So, the media will reluctant to discuss these issues to avoid unnecessary trouble.

 
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Assume That You Are A Consultant Hired By This Organization To Study It And Provide Recommendations About Your Findings. Evaluate The Organization You Have Chosen To Study Throughout This Course.

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APA FORMAT

 

 

Assume that you are a consultant hired by this organization to study it and provide recommendations about your findings. Evaluate the organization you have chosen to study throughout this course.

Submit the Key Assignment draft for grading and instructor feedback. The Key Assignment draft assignment should cover the concepts introduced in Weeks 1 through 4.

Assume that you are a consultant hired by this organization to study it and provide recommendations about your findings. The final paper will include specific actions to be taken by the managers, supervisors, and leaders as they address challenges in the organization.

In your Key Assignment draft, include the following:

  • Provide 250–350 words briefly summarizing general information about the organization (industry, size, public vs. private, etc.).
  • Describe at least 1 significant issue or challenge that this organization is currently facing as it relates to the topics covered each week.
  • Identify how you would take action to correct these issues. Be sure to include the following in your answer:
    • Description of current management challenges and the current functions, roles, and skills
    • Descriptions of supervisory challenges (which may include, but are not limited to, motivation and performance evaluation)
    • Leadership styles currently in use at the organization you are studying and the leadership theories that will be used in the solution
    • Communication challenges and the solution to these challenges (interpersonal, group, team, and organizational)
    • A minimum of 5 peer-reviewed scholarly references

Also, be sure to include an analysis of your organization’s challenges with and efforts to:

  • Address stress and the work–life balance
  • Improve problem solving and decision making throughout the organization
  • Deal with change and resistance to change
 
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Environment61

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final Environmental Issues Project is due. Make sure that you have followed the requirements and made any corrections that were needed. Your final paper should address the following key points:

  • The Controversy: Identify the controversy
  • The Major Players: Who is involved? Why are they involved?
  • Important Facts: State relevant facts concerning the issue. Try to separate fact from opinion. Try not to show your own bias. Properly use APA citations
  • Side One: Arguments; state briefly and cite your sources
  • Side Two: Arguments; state briefly and cite your sources
  • Your Opinion and Rationale: I believe that… We should… I feel that… Use supporting arguments and rationale. What arguments would you use to present to those who disagree with you? Cite all of your sources.
  • References: Alphabetize your sources. Make sure there are sources representing both sides of the issue.

You must use a minimum of six sources. The final paper should be a 6- to 8-page Word document with citations in APA format.

 
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This Final Exam

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This final exam is comprised of eight worksheets covering various key topics of the Harvard fully online eLearning course on Quantitative Methods.

Complete the exam as if you were submitting this workbook to a lay person not familiar with quantitative methods such that they could easily understand your arguments, graphs, mathematical evidence and conclusions.

Please show all of your work.  It is not enough to simply get right answers on this Exam or to just explain the mathematical process in a text box; you must show your work to demonstrate that YOU know how to arrive at correct answers using Excel calculations, functions, and/or appropriate utility.  If a utility is used, the specific utility must be pasted to the respective worksheet.

 

There is a deadline for the submission of this exam.  You are responsible for submitting this completed workbook to your coach before the deadline.  Use  Lastname.Firstname.FinalExam as the file name of your document.

Q-1a.  You run a call center and are concerned about customer support service levels on the Help Desk.  You want to know how many calls per day are handled by your help desk staff.  You collect the data at left over a 75-day period.  Use appropriate descriptive statistics to make sense of this data.  Use an appropriate graph also.  Explain  your findings so that your non-quantitative partner will understand them.  (5 pts.)

Can demographic information be  helpful in predicting sales at sporting goods stores?  The data at left are monthly sales totals from a random sample of 33 stores in a large chain of nationwide sporting goods stores.  All stores in the franchise, and thus within the sample, are approximately the same size and carry the same merchandise.  The county, or in some cases counties, in which the store draws the majority of its customers is referred to here as the customer base.  For each of the 33 set are:

Sales ——Latest one month sales total (dollars)

 

Income —Median family income of customer base (dollars)

Age ——–Median age of customer base (years)

HS ———-Percentage of customer base with a high school diploma

College —Percentage of customer base with a college diploma

Growth —Annual population growth rate of customer base over the past 10 years.

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Q-2a. Construct a scatter plot, using sales as the dependent variable and median family income as the independent variable.  Discuss the scatter plot. (5 pts.)

 

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Q-2b.  Assuming a linear relationship, use the least-squares method to compute the regression coefficients b0and b1 and state the regression equation. (5 pts.)

 

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Q-2c.  Interpret the meaning of the Y-intercept, b0, and the slope, b1, in this problem. (5 pts.)

 

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Q-2d.  Compute the coefficient of determination r2, and interpret its meaning.  (5 pts.)

 

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Q-2e.  Construct a 95% confidence interval estimate of the population slope and interpret its meaning. ( 5 pts.)

 

 

Q-3a.   A sample of students from an introductory psychology class were polled regarding the number of hours they spent studying for the last exam.   All students anonymously submitted the number of hours on a 3 by 5 card. There were 24 individuals in the one section of the course polled. The data was used to make inferences regarding the other students taking the course.  Construct a 95% confidence interval  estimate .  Explain your findings so that your non-quantitave partner will understand them.   Their data is  below: (5 pts.)

 

 

 

20         18           7.5         11           10           3.5             7.5           18            19           2.5          9             14

 

9         14          14.5        17           22           4.5           10.5           15              5           8.5          8             20

 

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Q-3b.  A sample of Alzheimer’s patients are tested to assess the amount of time (in minutes)  in stage IV sleep. It has been hypothesized that individuals sufferering from Alzheimer’s Disease may spend less time per night in the deeper stages of sleep.  The number of minutes spent is Stage IV sleep is recorded for thirty patients (refer to sample data below of stage IV sleep over a 24 hour period).  Compute a 95 percent confidence interval for this data. What does this information tell you about a particular individual’s (an Alzheimer’s patient) stage IV sleep?   Explain your findings so that your non-quantitative partner will understand them.  (5 pts.)

 

Stage IV Sleep in Minutes

 

28.5     37.4     18.5     53.2     61.3     18.75     33.9     27.1     73.0     53.4     66.0     20.5     51.7     57.25     35.6

 

 

 

33.4     25.1     65.3     55.0     35.0     19.25     81.5     44.1     28.7     36.5     32.2     47.3     41.7     39.75     18.3

 

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Q-3c.  A large retail corportation plans to sample sales receipts of its meat department to estimate the average size (in dollars) of a customer purchase.  Previous analysis suggest that the standard deviation of the purchase amount is approximately  $50.72.  In order to calculate a 95% confidence interval of the total width less than $6.50, how many sales receipts should the corportion include in the sample?  Explain your findings so that your non-quantitative partner will understand them.  (5 pts.)

 

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Q-3d.  A survey of 850 workers were asked how much they used the Internet at work.  578 said they used the internet within limits, and 255 said that they did not use the Internet within limits.  Construct a 95% confidence interval estimate for the proportion of all workers who did not use the Internet within limits.  Explain your findings so that your non-quantitative partner will understand them.  (5 pts.)

 

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Q-3e.  You are the designer for your company’s web site.  You have data to indicate that the mean download time for the homepage is 5.8 seconds and that the standard deviation of download time is 2.1 seconds.  If we assume that the download times are normally distributed, what percent of users will wait between 4 and 8 seconds for the homepage to download?  Explain your findings so that your non-quantitative partner will understand them.  (5 pts.)

 

 

Q-4a.  You are the manager of a popular retail store.  You want to determine whether the population mean  wait time for customer to

 

check-out has changed in the past month from its previous population mean value of 4.25 minutes.  From past experience, you

 

can assume that the population is normally distributed with a population standard deviation of 1.6 minutes.  You select a sample

 

of 43 customer’s wait time to check-out during a one hour period.  The sample mean is 4.75 minutes.  Determine whether there

 

is evidence at the 0.05 level of significance that the population mean wait time to check-out has changed in the past month from

 

its previous population mean value of 4.25 minutes.   Explain your findings utlizing information from the hypothesis test you

 

conduct.  (5 pts.)

 

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Q-4b.  You are the manager of a fast-food restaurant.  Based on a sample of two-hundred fifty drive-through orders, you discovered that

 

orders were filled correctly 86.5% of the time.  In an effort to improve the amount of orders filled correctly, you developed a new

 

process to fill orders.  After sampling two-hundred fifty orders under this new process, the results reviled that 225 orders were

 

filled correctly.  At the 0.01 level of significance, can you conclude that the new process population proportion of orders filled

 

correctly is higher than the proportion of orders filled under the old process?   Explain your findings utilizing information from the

 

test you conduct. (5 pts.)

 

Q-5a.  One of the important features of a camera is the battery life

 

as measured by the number of shots taken until the battery

 

needs to be recharged.  The data at left contain the battery

 

life of 27 subcompact cameras and 15 compact cameras.

 

Assuming that the population variances from both types of

 

digital cameras are equal, is there evidence of a difference

 

in the mean battery life between the two types of digital

 

cameras at the 95% confidence level?  (5 pts.)

 

A real estate Association in a suburban community would like to study the relationship between the size of a single-family house (as measured by number of rooms) and the selling price of the house (in thousands of dollars).  Two different neighborhoods are included in the study, one on the east side of the community (=0) and the other on the west side (=1).  A random sample of 20 houses was selected with the results given at left.

 

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Q-6a.  State the multiple regression equation that predicts the selling price

 

based on the number of rooms in the neighborhood. (5 pts.)

 

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Q-6b.  Interpret the regression coefficients.  (5 pts.)

 

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Q-6c.  Predict the selling price for a house with 10 rooms that is located in a

 

East-side neighborhood.  Explain your findings so that your non-

 

quantitative partner will understand them.  (5 pts.)

 

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Q-6d.  Compute and interpret the adjusted r2.  (5 pts.)

 

Q-7a.  The management of a bank in the Caribbean was concerned about the potential loss that

 

might occur in the event of a hurricane.  The bank estimated that the loss from one of these

 

storms could be as much as $120 million including losses due to interrupted service and customer

 

relations.  One project the bank is considering is the installation of an emergency power generator

 

at its operations headquarters.  The cost of the emergency generator is $550,000, and if it is

 

installed no losses from this type of storm will be incurred.  However, if the generator is not

 

installed, there is a 10% chance that a power outage will occur during the next year.  If there is an

 

outage there is a 5% probability that the resulting losses will be very large or approximately $135

 

million in lost earnings.  Alternatively it is estimated that there is a 95% probability of only slight

 

losses of around $1.1 million.   Using decision tree analysis, determined whether the bank should

 

install  the new power generator.  (5 pts.)

 

An investor is to purchase one of three types of real estate.  The investor must decide among an apartment building, an office building, and a warehouse.  The future states of nature that will determine how much profit the investor will make are good economic conditions and poor economic conditions.  The profits that will result from each decision in the event of each state of nature are shown above.

 

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Q-8a. Which investment has the highest EMV andwhat is the expected value of

 

perfect information in this problem ?  Explain your findings so that your non-

 

quantitative partner will understand them.  (5 pts.)

 
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The Trouble with Wilderness: Or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature

The purpose of the journal article titled The Trouble with Wilderness: Or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature by William Cronon is to explore if the possibility of the preservation of the world is through wilderness. According to the author, William Cronon, wilderness is not what we may assume it to be and as a result wilderness is a human creation that does not stand apart from civilization. In other words, wilderness is influenced by the cultures and histories of humans that has in one form or the other been contaminated by some type of human development. Wilderness is also made of all the memories that a person gets while walking through a natural path in a natural environment, which are also influenced by a cultural creation. In the late eighteen century the word wilderness meant to be a savage, deserted, and waste (Cronon 8). The word wilderness has also been mentioned in the bible to referrer to the place where Moses wondered for forty years with his people. Wilderness in the early years also referred to a place where a person went against their own will with fear. It was also a landscape where supernatural activities occurred. For instance, God seemed to appear in the most sublime places where a person was reminded of their mortality (Cronon 10). These sublime places are now located in The Grand Canyon, Yellowstone Park, and Zion because of the emotions that these places induced.

William Wordsworth, an early romantic writer and artist, described his sublime experiences in his poem The Prelude, which is based on the terror he felt while he crossed the Simplon Pass and climbed the Alps. Other writers, liked John Muir, captured the domesticated part of the sublime wilderness, which is extremely different than the writings of Wordsworth and Thoreaus. In Muir’s writings on the North Dome in Yosemite Valley, he describes the place as being a religiously connected without pain or fear. Although there are some differences in the way these writers chose to express their perception of wilderness, they all have one thing in common and that is that they are participating in the same cultural tradition of mankind’s myths. Mankind’s myths have caused Americans to protect their wilderness and national parks for the preservation of the nation’s important sacred myth (Cronon 14). The protection of these landscapes was influenced from the vanishing frontier lands that sparked Americans’ fears of losing their history. The vanishing frontiers caused American leaders, like President Roosevelt, to protect the wilderness landscapes from becoming wiped out. The vanishing frontiers in America also created strong nostalgic emotions that lead to the creation of frontier gender myths. In the frontier wilderness, for instance, men were able to be real men without civilization threatening their masculinity. This impacted people to remember the frontier as the greatest place in the history of America.

The years that followed the wiping out of the frontier, the rich community saw the wilderness as recreation places and places to travel to. The developments of these touristic places for the elites lead the Native America Indian population to be forced to move to other locations. In the eyes of Native American Indians, the myth of the wilderness being a virgin uninhabited land is seen with cruel eyes because their land was taken away for touristic purposes. This lead to the concept that the American wilderness is truly a myth because it has all been invented. There is no uninhabited wilderness in America that was not previously inhibited by Indians. In order for the wilderness myth to be perpetuated Indians were removed from their homes, which had also been the homes of their ancestors. This is a reminder of how invented the American wilderness concept really is because the actual history of the wilderness is denied.

Wilderness is meant to be a place of freedom in which a person can find their true self and also a place to come back to after living an artificial life. In other words, wilderness is the ultimate place for authenticity where a people can come and learn more about themselves. The problem with wilderness is that it can also be used as a place where a person comes to escape responsibilities and not take accountability for the past. In the long run, I found this journal article to be genuine and well thought out compared to the ideas of other writers. The author, William Cronon, did an excellent job in explaining the historical myth events that have led humanity to become separate from the wild environment. For instance, Thoreaus has approached wilderness as a spiritual place where human beings can come and heal. Cronon on the other hand, remained emotionally indifferent towards the spiritual and emotional opinions of wilderness. He instead wanted humankind to take responsibility for the separation that exists between cultures and wilderness.

Sources:

Cronon, William. “The Trouble with Wilderness: Or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature.” Enviromental History Vol 1 (1996): 7-28. Print.

 
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Lab Report

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Name:

 

Date:

 

Instructor’s Name:

 

Assignment: SCIE211 Phase 5 Lab Report

 

Title: Identifying Environmental Hazards

 

Instructions: You will write a 1-page lab report using the scientific method to answer the following questions:

 

·         Why do you see increases and decreases in the invasive species population?

·         What are the implications associated with these alterations to the ecosystem as a whole?

 

When your lab report is complete, post it in Submitted Assignment files.

 

Part I: Using the lab animation, fill in the data table below to help you generate your hypothesis, outcomes, and analysis.

 

Years Zebra and Quagga Mussel (density/m2) Phytoplankton (µg/ml) Zooplankton (µg/ml) Cladophora Biomass (g/m2) Foraging Fish (kilotons) Lake Trout (kilotons)
0 100 3 2 10 150 15
4 1,000 2.5 1 100 100 10
7 2,500 2 0.5 200 80 8
10 7,500 1.5 0.25 600 50 5
13 15,000 1 0.1 700 25 25
16 7,500 1.5 0.2 243 40 4
20 5,000 1.75 0.4 136 60 6

 

Part II: Write a 1-page lab report using the following scientific method sections:

  • Purpose
    • State the purpose of the lab.
  • Introduction
    • This is an investigation of what is currently known about the question being asked. Use background information from credible references to write a short summary about concepts in the lab. List and cite references in APA style.
  • Hypothesis/Predicted Outcome
    • A hypothesis is an educated guess. Based on what you have learned and written about in the Introduction, state what you expect to be the results of the lab procedures.
  • Methods
    • Summarize the procedures that you used in the lab. The Methods section should also state clearly how data (numbers) were collected during the lab; this will be reported in the Results/Outcome section.
  • Results/Outcome
    • Provide here any results or data that were generated while doing the lab procedure.
  • Discussion/Analysis
    • In this section, state clearly whether you obtained the expected results, and if the outcome was as expected.
    • Note: You can use the lab data to help you discuss the results and what you learned.

Provide references in APA format. This includes a reference list and in-text citations for references used in the Introduction section.

Give your paper a title and number, and identify each section as specified above. Although the hypothesis will be a 1-sentence answer, the other sections will need to be paragraphs to adequately explain your experiment.

 

When your lab report is complete, post it in Submitted Assignment files.

 
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Industrial Hygiene Unit VIII

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Question 1

You are an industrial hygienist conducting personal sampling on a worker who is overseeing a production process involving use of acetone (Note: The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has established a Permissible Exposure Limit of 1000 parts per million (ppm) of acetone). You are able to measure the following exposures:

700 ppm for 3 hours

1300 ppm for 2 hours

900 ppm for 3 hours

What is the calculated TWA? What would you tell plant management in terms of exposure to acetone and compliance with the PEL?

 

  • there is a 200 word minimum response required.
  • Credible reference materials, including your course textbook(s), may be used to complete the assessment.

Question 2

 

Please solve the following problem, indicating your response on a Word document and submitting the document via File Upload.

Using the following formula, solve the problem below, and show your work.

TWA = CaTa + CbTb + … + CnTn

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TWA      =             Time-Weighted Average

Ca           =             Concentration of contaminant during the sampling period “a”

Ta           =             Time of sampling period “a”

Cb           =             Concentration of contaminant during the sampling period “b”

Tb           =             Time of sampling period “b”

Cn           =             Concentration of contaminant during the sampling period “n”, where “n” is the last of a series of contaminants

Tn           =             Time of sampling period “n”

 

 

Note: All concentrations are in parts contaminant per million parts of air or milligrams of contaminant per cubic meter of air.

Air Sampling Problem: You are an industrial hygienist that is conducting personal sampling on a worker who is overseeing a production process involving use of toluene (Note: The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has established a Permissible Exposure Limit of 200 parts per million (ppm)). You are able to measure the following exposures:

500 ppm for 1 hour

100 ppm for 4 hours

225 ppm for 3 hours

 

What is the calculated TWA? What would you tell plant management in terms of exposure to toluene and compliance with the PEL?

  • there is a 200 word minimum response required.
  • Credible reference materials, including your course textbook(s), may be used to complete the assessment.
 
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