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Today’s health care organizations rely on an interdependent network of employees. Managers, especially, must be able to assess their own strengths and areas for development in order to collaborate with others to create the best possible outcomes for their organization and for the people it serves.

Engaging in self-reflection is a vital part of leadership development, and it can help you to meet the high professional standards associated with the field of health care management.

Throughout this course, you will consider how your own values, beliefs, skills, and experiences influence your view of organizational effectiveness and leadership. In this week’s media segment, Dr. Cecelia K. Wooden describes the process of gathering data about yourself and your leadership preferences as part of “building your leadership toolkit.”

For this assignment, you will review some of the standards and competencies associated with managers in the health care profession and engage in an initial analysis of your own strengths and needs for development.

To prepare for this Application Assignment:

Review the NCHL Health Leadership Competency Model and the ACHE Code of Ethics as well as the other information on leadership and management that was presented in the Week 1 Learning Resources.
Think about the key trends and issues that affect contemporary health care organizations, as indicated in the Week 1 Learning Resources.
Select a few competencies or standards that you think are particularly important in light of expectations for health care managers in these organizations. Evaluate your own level of proficiency with regard to these competencies or standards.
Reflect on any questions you have at the outset of this course that might guide your exploration of organizational effectiveness and leadership and help you to make connections between the material presented and your personal and professional aspirations.
Then to complete this Application Assignment, write a 1- to 2-page paper in which you complete the following:

Assess your proficiency for at least two competencies or standards related to organizational effectiveness and leadership. Discuss at least one competency or standard for which you would consider yourself to be particularly strong as well as at least one for which you believe you could use significant improvement.
Explain how each competency or standard you have selected relates to key trends or issues affecting contemporary health care organizations.
Provide a rationale for how gaining proficiency for each of these competencies or standards would better enable you to contribute to organizational effectiveness and to succeed in this profession.
Note any questions you currently have that might guide your exploration of the topics in this course.
Your written assignments must follow APA guidelines.
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Module: Managing complex projects, products and systems (890N1)
Coursework: Module papers

Formal assessment of the course is made on the basis of a paper (3,000 words)

Papers should be developed by the students. This can be done in consultation with the module convenor. The paper will give students the chance to more closely explore a topic from the course. Please use the module reading list and any supplemental readings you can find on your chosen topic. Evaluation of the module paper will take into account the student’s ability to identify, outline and discuss a particular problem of his or her own interest related to one of the module themes presented in the lectures and/or discussed in classwork exercises/seminars. The paper may take one of two forms, critical essay or project case study.

Critical essay

The critical essay should be an analytical assessment of one of the module themes presented in the lectures and/or discussed in classwork exercises/seminars. Essays should be developed by the student (i.e. essay titles are not set by the module convenor).

The essay can apply concepts, frameworks and approaches from module material and articles to a particular case (e.g. a project, firm, industry or category of CoPS). It can also critically evaluate the claims made by one of the articles in the module reading list. Think about conflicting theories and approaches, exceptions to the rule, competing hypotheses and the generalisability of your conclusions across different types of projects, firms and industries. If possible, try to provide empirical support for your argument, using data from various sources such as newspapers, company websites and trade press. A comparison between CoPS and high-volume industries can be a helpful way of emphasising the distinctive characteristics of CoPS. Also comparing and contrasting different levels of complexity in projects and their environment can be explored and exploited. A critique of the traditional approach to project management can also be developed: for example, a critique on the limitations of planning and control as the optimum solution to the problem of managing complex projects effectively.

The key criterion for the module evaluation of the critical essay is the ability to show an awareness of the challenges of managing complex projects, products and systems related to specific issues such as:
• product complexity and the dynamics of innovation
• project management capability, performance and strategies
• critical views/approaches of project management
• systems integration and competitive strategies
• project organisations and the innovation environment
• managing complex software development
• learning in temporary project organisations
• strategies, capabilities and organisations for delivering integrated solutions
• application of the lessons learned from CoPS to high-volume (and other industries
• innovative project management methods
• megaprojects
• sustainability in the management of projects: managing the project ‘effect’ or ‘impact’)

Project case study

The case study should show how the experiences of one or more projects relate to one of the module themes presented in the lectures and/or discussed in classwork exercises/seminars. Referring to project and company background information from personal experience or secondary sources, the case study should reveal interesting project events, facts, people, organisational approaches, challenges and how these are overcome (or not).

The key criterion for the module evaluation of the case study is the ability to identify key lessons about managing projects from one or more project cases. The project case study may cover a number of issues such as:

• The project goal.
• Type of project (e.g. using the NTCP framework).
• The project success measures.
• The project web: systems integrator/prime contractor, customers, subcontractors, government agencies, finance, etc.
• The project organisation: matrix, project-based organisation (PBO) or functional structures.
• Project life cycle: phases of the project from invitation to tender (ITT), through bid and contract, to project execution and hand-over to the customer.
• ‘Hot spots’ in the project: problem areas that had to be overcome during the project life cycle.
• ‘Beauty spots’: areas of good practice in the project, innovative methods being deployed.
• Appropriate and inappropriate approaches for the project according to its type (e.g. managing a high-tech project as a medium-tech one).
• User participation in the project.
• Core capabilities/competencies involved in the project, e.g. systems integration, project management, bid management, software engineering, marketing, etc.
• Broader issues affecting megaprojects (e.g. risks, decision-making, etc.)
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Case study is provided below. Please answer the associated questions. The assignment is to be presented in a question/answer format NOT as an essay (i.e. no introduction or conclusion).
The following questions relates to the patient within the first 24 hours since admission to the emergency department (ED):
1. Outline the causes, incidence and risk factors of the identified condition and how it can impact on the patient and family (400 words)
2. List five (5) common signs and symptoms of the identified condition; for each provide a link to the underlying pathophysiology (350 words)
a. This can be done in the form of a table – each point needs to be appropriately referenced
3. Describe two (2) common classes of drugs used for patients with the identified condition including physiological effect of each class on the body (350 words)
a. This does not mean specific drugs but rather the class that these drugs belong to.
4. Identify and explain, in order of priority the nursing care strategies you, as the registered nurse, should use within the first 24 hours post admission for this patient (500 words).

Case Study 1: Myocardial infarction with history of stable angina and mitral valve stenosis Mr Tupa Savea is a 54 year old male who has been transferred to the coronary care unit (CCU) from the emergency department for management of episodic chest pain. He has a history of stable angina and mitral valve stenosis. Mr Savea is of Samoan background and has lived in regional Queensland for the last 20 years with his wife and children. He was brought in by ambulance having had chest pain and shortness of breath. He reports having similar symptoms on and off for the past two months but did not visit his GP as he assumed the discomfort was due to indigestion. Mr Savea is an ex-smoker, tobacco free for the last six months and a social drinker (approx. 10 units/week). He works full-time as an orderly at a local hospital and is active in the Samoan support community.
On assessment Mr Savea’s vital signs are: PR 90 bpm and irregular; RR 12 bpm; BP 150/100mmHg; Temp 36.9°C; SpO2 98% on oxygen 8L/min via Hudson mask. He has a body mass index (BMI) of 35 kg/m2 indicating clinical obesity. Blood test results show elevated cardiac enzymes and troponin levels and cholesterol level of 8.9mmol/L. His ECG indicates that he has a ST segment elevated myocardial infarction. Mr Savea was administered sublingual glyceryl trinitrate followed by morphine 2.5 mg IV for pain in the emergency department. He reports being pain free on admission to CCU.

REFERENCES: 2010 above please
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The following questions need to be answered:

1. What is the main function of a jury? Why is this duty imposed on the jury? Why do you believe some people do not want to perform their duty by sitting on a jury? What are some of the potential issues or risks if they do?

2. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that there are four guiding principles that should be used when determining whether a juror has been properly execused for cause in capital cases. What are those four principles? Do you think any of the principles should be eliminated? Can you think of any principles which need to be added? If so, why?

3. The Unites States Supreme Court has often held that “Mere police questioning does not constitute a seizure”, Florida v. Bostick, 501 U.S. 429, 434 (1991). Whether or not the officer doing the questioning has any basis for suspecting an individual of criminal activity, if the circumstances surrounding the knock and talk are such that the person does not feel free to leave and stop answering questions, the questioning becomes “custodial” and the person is “seized” under the Fourth Amendment. With that noted, what factors do you think should be recognized or taken into consideration when judging whether a person should reasonably consider him/herself in “custody”? Explain your responses.

4. Define the concept of standing. When does a defendant have standing to challenge a police search of a place or things? Be sure to provide examples.

5. Where police misconduct violates an individuals right protected by the United States Constitution, the applicability of an exclusionary rule (and a court’s ability to change the rule) can depend on the constitutional right violated. Do you feel evidence that would be omitted due to such a violation should be excluded, even if the evidence would clear someone of guilt or innocence? Why or why not?

The ONLY book that is allowed as reference is:

In Gardner, T. J., & In Anderson, T. M. (2016). Criminal evidence: Principles and cases.

The ISBN# to the book is 9781285459004.

Thank you
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I need a historigraphical essay on the following 5 books:

Bibliography

Hirsch, Arnold R. Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940-1960. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.

Jackson, Kenneth T. Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.

Satter, Beryl. Family Properties: How the Struggle over Race and Real Estate Transformed Chicago and Urban America. 2009

Self, Robert O. American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003.

Sugrue, Thomas J. The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996.

I want to talk about the importance of each book, what each author contributed, and also put them in conversation with each other when possible (for example talk about books that focus on suburbanization vs urbanization. compare how Satter and Hirsch write about Chicago. Compare how Hirsch focuses on the actions of white people while Robert Self includes more discussion on black response and political mobilization). I also want to follow them chronologically when possible (books written in the 80’s vs 90’s vs 2000’s). No other sources are needed.

Below I wrote part of a draft of what I wanted to discuss. It doesn’t need to be included in the paper.

The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950’s and 1960’s has the legacy of successfully and permanently ending legalized segregation by race in the Southern states, in other words, ending Jim Crow. However, while SNCC sat at the counter in Woolworth’s, Martin Luther King captured the attention and sympathies of large parts of the nation, and students rode towards constant racialized violence in buses, Blacks in cities outside of the southern states experienced a different struggle and their own form of spatial separation and racialized victimhood not specifically addressed by this movement. In cities outside of the Southern states, black people continuously suffered in poverty and remained outside of the growing suburbanized United States. Years after the victories of the Civil Rights Movement, black people throughout country lived separately from whites. Historians have worked to uncover when and why this happened over the last thirty years. Historians of the twentieth century have written about the impacts of de-industrialization and massive suburbanization in the post-World War II era and the impact of both on the “urban crisis.” because of widespread federal programs, local politics, industrial trends, racial violence, and housing issue.

The establishment and maintenance of segregation in Northern cities presents a larger discussion for historians as state legislatures and legacy of slavery does not act as the specific historical cause. Historians have handled the issues of race and space in various ways. In each case, historians present a timeline and an answer to the when, why, and how of the urban crisis and so-called de-facto segregation. Although they analyze different locations (such as Chicago, Oakland, and Detroit), and focus on different causes (whether federal, local, individual), collectively historians make clear that racism became institutionalized in American housing and that people did this deliberately. Historians have captured the expansive causes throughout the United States to uncover and expose the culmination of causes of isolation as well as the detrimental effects of racist policy. Racist policy combined with racist people and shared racist ideology of those that had power, influence, and interest in separation. These works emphasize the mutual dependency of the growing suburbs and the povertized city. As these historians use different sources in different places they collectively prove that the American dream was one meant for white people alone.
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Task
This assessment task requires that you synthesise your understanding of organisational culture and leadership with your theoretical and practical knowledge of OB in Australian organisations. The focus of this activity is to determine how the practice of OB must be redesigned and realigned in multiethnic/multicultural contexts to ensure cultural appropriateness and to achieve organisational effectiveness.

Scenario
Australia has one of the world’s most culturally diverse workforces. Managing different cultural workgroups has ongoing implications on the success of the organisation. However, cultural differences leading to conflicts caused by ineffective communication and increasing moral and ethical degradation at workplaces continue to be issues of growing concern. Furthermore, as the workforce becomes more diverse and multigenerational, labour power may force improvement in the employment relationship and call for different kinds of leaderships. Recently, exploratory studies conducted in Australia have examined the blend of leadership styles/behaviours that different cultural workgroups preferred their managers to exhibit.
Using both literature and publicly available data:
1. Identify and critically analyse and discuss the communication challenges that a leader would expect to encounter in relation to the cultural diversity of many Australian organisations.
2. Critically discuss how leaders can address the ethical issues related to the cultural diversity in many Australian organisations.
3. Identify, synthesise and critically discuss an optimal mix of leadership styles/behaviours which would be aligned with managing culturally diverse workplaces; these should be sufficiently flexible, and able to be appropriately adopted in Australian organisations.

Rationale
The purpose of the assignment is to build up a specific understanding of managing a multicultural workforce and behavioural practices. This is a multi-strand knowledge gathering research that focuses on critical strategic issues in leadership and employee behaviour.

Marking criteria
There are three key themes to be addressed, all in relation to culturally diverse Australian organisations.
1. Identifiy, critically analyse and discuss the communication challenges that a leader would expect to encounter in culturally diverse Australian organisations (10 marks – see marking guide below: Information=3; Critique=3; Application=4).
2. Critically discuss how leaders can confront the ethical issues related to culturally diverse workforces in Australian organisations (10 marks – (10 marks – see marking guide below: Information=3; Critique=3; Application=4).
3. Identify and critically discuss the appropriate leadership models/styles for managing culturally diverse workplaces in Australian organisations (10 marks – see marking guide below: Information=3; Critique=3; Application=4).
4. Correct use of spelling, puncuation, grammar, syntax, and sematics; well-organised structure; the use of academic style of writing and the correct use of APA6 referencing (10 marks).
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SIGNATURE ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS AND RUBRIC
File PSYU 617 signature assignment rubric SV.pdf (221.371 KB)
To demonstrate your personal understanding of the process of career counseling, you will write a 13 page, APA compliant paper (including one title page, one abstract page, ten pages of content and one reference page) in which you:
1. Identify a possible practice choice (type of career counseling)
2. Explain your best-fit counseling theory for your practice as a career counselor
3. Apply the model of approach you might employ in your work
Be sure to include:
1. A strong thesis/purpose of the paper that sets the stage for the information to come, provides paper rationale, and catches readers’ attention.
2. An analysis of the value and the disadvantages, from your viewpoint, of incorporating assessment testing into your practice. Consider the specific assessment test (s) you might you use, and provide a clear rationale that substantiates your selection of assessment tools.
3. How you will apply multiculturalism in your counseling
4. An explanation of how you intend to be in compliance with relevant state laws and various ethic codes. You will need to reference sources, such as state laws and models/theories that you mentioned in your previous assignments, but in this assignment, you are responsible to discuss how you will be in compliance with law and the application of models/theory as you engage in the practice of career counseling in your state
5. A discussion of how you plan to provide support to people with special needs.
6. Your in-text citations and references must include a minimum of ten peer reviewed resources. One of these resources must be the article you read for Week 2, “Finding True North: How to help clients find a fulfilling career”.
7. Text: Chapters 3 and 4
8. Read article Finding true north: How to help clients find a fulfilling career path. The article is found at https://www.thesavvycareercounselor.com/find-true-north.html. You will need to reference this article in your Final paper.
9. Your readings about career counseling models and integrative counseling will be very important in order for you to complete you term paper, so be sure to plan your reading time accordingly.
10. Also, included in the ten references, you are expected to cite and reference the NCDA Code of Ethics that you reviewed in Week 3.
11. Located in the Course Information content area you will find a Library and Research Guide (LibGuide) that has been created specifically for you by a Brandman Reference Librarian to assist you with this assignment. Wikipedia is not considered to be an appropriate source.
12. The Paper is worth up to 400 points toward your final grade, and is due no later than 11:59 Sunday of Week Seven. Click the Turnitin Link below to submit.
***First Reference Book: Career Counseling A Holistic Approach 8th Edition.***
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How does Zhu Fu (The New Year Sacrifice) contrast with Zao chun er yue (Early Spring in the Second Lunar Month)? Are they films of different periods? Does this call into question the characterization that “the first 17 years of the PRC” ought to be considered one period in the history of Chinese film?
Possible additional sources:
Transnational Chinese Cinemas: Identity, Nationhood, Gender. / edited by Sheldon
Hsiao-peng Lu. — Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1997.
Encyclopedia of Chinese Film. / edited by Zhang Yingjin and Xiao Zhiwei — London:
Routledge, 1998.
Chinese Filography: the 2444 Feature Films Produced by Studios in the People’s
Republic of China from 1949-1995. / ed. by Donald J. Marion. – Jefferson, NC andLondon: McFarland & Co., 1997.
Pang, Laikwan. Building a New China in Cinema: The Chinese Left-Wing Cinema
Movement 1932-1937 – Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002.
Silbergeld, Jerome. China Into Film: Frames of Reference in Contemporary Chinese
Cinema – London: Reaktion Books, 1999.
Chinese film theory: a guide to the new era / edited by George S. Semsel, and Xia Hong,
Hou Jianping; foreword by Luo Yijun. — New York: Praeger, 1990.
Chinese film : the state of the art in the People’s Republic / edited by George Stephen
Semsel. — New York : Praeger, 1987.
Cinema and cultural identity : reflections on films from Japan, India, and China / edited by
Wimal Dissanayake. — Lanham, MD : University Press of America, c1988.
Clark, Paul, 1949- ; Chinese cinema : culture and politics since 1949 / Paul Clark. —
Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
Berry, Chris, Fran Martin, Audrey Yue. Mobile Cultures: New Media in queer Asia –
Durham: Duke University Press, 2003
Berry, Chris. Chinese Films in Focus – London: BFI Pub, 2003.
Berry Chris. Chinese Films in Focus II – New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Berry, Chris. Island on the Edge: Taiwan New Cinema and After – Hong Kong: Hong
Kong University Press, 2005.
Berry, Chris. The New Chinese Documentary Film Movement: For the Public Record –
Hong Kong University Press, 2010.
Berry, Chris. Public Space, Media Space – New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Le Cinema chinois / sous la direction de Marie-Claire Quiquemelle et Jean-Loup Passek
; textes de Geremie Barme … . — Paris : Centre Georges Pompidou, c1985.
Literatura i iskusstvo KNR, 1976-1985 / . — Nauch.
izd. — Moskva : “Nauka,” Glav. red. vostochnoi lit-ry, 1989. 235 p. ; 22 cm. At head of
title: Akademiia nauk SSSR. Institut Dal’nego Vostoka. Summary in English. Includes
bibliographical references (p. 230-234).
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ASSIGNMENT
Introduction and background notes (vocational context) All learners, regardless of their level of education or experience, require honed employability Skills in order to successfully enter and progress in the health and social care sector. This unit gives learners an opportunity to assess and develop an understanding of their own responsibilities and performance in or when entering the workplace. This assignment is about assessing your preparation for employment in health and social care. Through writing of this assignment you are required to demonstrate that you have a good grasp of the skills that are needed to successfully perform your roles and responsibilities in a health and social care sector work environment. It consists of the skills required for general employment, such as interpersonal skills and transferable skills. Also this requires you to have an ability to work with others in teams or groups, including leadership and communication skills. Moreover, through writing of this assignment will enable you to assess the understanding of the day-to-day issues at your workplace and therefore being able to solve problems.

Assignment Scenario:
In order to carry out this assignment, you have worked or are currently working in a care home. You are to provide a brief profile of the care home with the course final report submission (one page either in the appendix or as a preamble). Your line manager has asked you to contribute in the writing of the organisation’s annual report which is a comprehensive report that will allow internal and external stakeholders to further understand what your organisation is all about. All the tasks in this coursework assignment are all based on your own personal scenario in the context of your organisation as described above but your discussion should be supported by relevant theories and concepts.

Task 3: LO3 Understand the dynamics of working with others What you must do:

3.1 Explain the roles people play in a team and how they can work together to achieve shared goals.

Example Task Roles and Maintenance Groups

Task Roles: objectives Clarifiers, Planners, Leaders etc

Maintenance Groups/Roles : Formers, Consensus, Harmonizers, Gatekeepers, Encouragers, compromisers.

3.2 Analyse team dynamics at your health & social care work place.
Example

Teams and Team Buildings: Selecting team members eg specialist roles, Skills and style/approach mixes; identification of team/work,
Objectives, Size, Norms, Cohesiveness, status, Roles

3.3 Based on your analysis of teams in tasks 3.1 &3.2; suggest alternative ways to complete a task as team and achieve the goals in Health and Social Care sector.

Please UK SOURCES/Proper Harvard Referencing Style only.
Brief Introduction and conclusion .

All of the answers should be focused on your own personal scenario in the context of the care home as described above but your discussion should be supported by relevant theories and concepts.
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Course Outcomes and the Applied Final Project

As a result of completing the final project, students will demonstrate their ability to:

Distinguish among the complexities and multifaceted nature of domestic violence to assess institutional, community, and individual responses;
Apply knowledge of research and theory of domestic violence to identify the scope of the issue within society and dispel commonly held misconceptions;
Locate and evaluate resources relevant to domestic violence issues in order to effect social change.
Throughout this course, we have been examining the Pulitzer prize winning series by the Post and Courier of Charleston, S.C., “Till Death Do Us Part.” https://www.postandcourier.com/tilldeath/title.html

Applying the concepts, theories and content that you have learned in this course, write a paper that evaluates how accurately and thoughtfully the series addresses the issues of intimate partner violence, homicide, institutional, community and individual responses.

Step 1

Write a paper (no more than 6 pages in length) that includes the following:
Evaluation of how accurately and thoughtfully the series addresses the issue of intimate partner violence and homicide based on what you have learned throughout this course.
Some suggested topics to cover:
What are some of the characteristics of the abusers who are discussed?
What were some of the dynamics of domestic violence in the cases presented?
What was the effect on the children who witnessed the violence?
What challenges were present in South Carolina in addressing domestic violence? Are these challenges unique to South Carolina or present elsewhere?
How did the system (police, courts, legislature, etc.) respond to the problem?
How did the community respond to the problem?
What did you like most about the series? What did you like least about the series?
Did the series identify the appropriate problems and solutions?
How effective was this series in bringing about change?

Additional information about your paper:

The paper requires a cover sheet (title page) and a reference page.
The total number of pages for this assignment is no more than 6.
The paper should follow APA style.
The paper should be double-spaced
Paragraphs should be indented 5 spaces
The pages should be numbered.
Step 2

Submit your paper in your Assignment Drop Box as either an attachment in Word or rtf. Due week 8, by May 8, 2016 at 11:59 PM
Helpful Hints
When quoting or summarizing any information from the course materials or any other resource materials be sure to cite and reference this information following APA Guidelines.
Be concise! Remember that the body of your final paper should be only 6 pages long.
Failure to include concepts, theories and/or content from the course will result in lost points. This assignment is intended to demonstrate applied learning (i.e., how well you are able to apply concepts, theories and content from the course to “real world” examples).
Grading Reminders for the Applied Final Project

The Applied Final Project is worth 25% of the final grade
Please Note: I will not accept late submissions for the Applied Final Project unless prior arrangements have been made and the student can demonstrate that an extreme circumstance prohibited him/her from submitting the work on time.
Grading Rubric:

Student provided a thorough and thoughtful summary of the media series. (5 points)
Student provided a thorough and thoughtful evaluation of the popular media article. (10 points)
Student demonstrated correct understanding of material. (5 points)
Student used appropriate punctuation, grammar, correct spelling and followed APA style. (5 points)

Please use this link to base the paper on:

https://www.postandcourier.com/tilldeath/title.html
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