Imagine that you have been appointed the Director of Health at the Kaluyu Memorial Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya – a for-profit hospital. The facility is also a referral hospital and receives severe cases of accidents, chronicle / communicable diseases and houses an HIV / AIDS ward. As you settle into your position, you realize that the employees always act scared as they approach their superiors. […]

Select ONE of the following prompts as the basis for a well-developed, adequately supported, and thought-provoking essay of critical analysis of a minimum of five (5) paragraphs.  Adhere to MLA formatting guidelines, and include a Work Cited for the respective literary work.   Sherman Alexie’s “Superman and Me”  Critical Thinking Question 2 (222)—Eliminate the last statement referring to your personal observations.  Fred Setterberg’s “The Usual […]

Journal Three: Addressing Problems of Writing Your Literary Analysis Read About Journals in ENG125: Introduction to Literature for more information about the purpose and expectations for journals. As you move forward to reflect on the process of writing your Literary Analysis Draft in Week Three, watch the video Writing the Compare and Contrast Essay, which provides an overview of the writing process.  This may seem […]

Using any of the literary works on the Daily Syllabus, up to and including Gogol’s “The Overcoat,” respond to the question in a well-developed, multi-paragraph essay that has a clear statement of thesis that is supported by thorough discussion in its body paragraphs. –Use specific references to the literary works in the body paragraphs. –Use at least one direct quotation from each literary work discussed. […]

Depending on whether you are seeking a DBA or a PhD, it is of paramount importance that you identify an overall organizing structure in the literature using either a conceptual framework (DBA students) or theoretical framework (PhD students). As previously mentioned, it is important to be able to relate the issues discussed within the review to theory or other frameworks that already exist in the […]

Rapid Fire Reflection Journals allow you to think about how the course content relates to your experiences, philosophies, and beliefs.  There are no right or wrong answers; the value lies in your critical thinking.  The questions below may spark some ideas regarding language and communication.  You do not need to address all the questions; instead, write down your thoughts as they unfold.  You are surrounded […]

David Hume said that the “self” is an illusion created by closeness and proximity (much like our erroneous believe in “cause and effect”). A modern example of Hume’s ideas about the “self” might be to look at movie film. At 30 frames a second, the individual pictures come so quickly that it looks like continuous movement instead of thousands of individual pictures. And the changes […]

Write THREE essays.  Essays should be approximately 500 words (about 1½  to 2 pages, double-spaced) in length.  Your essays should have a clear thesis paragraph which answers the question posed, then a body of several paragraphs where you offer evidence, examples and quotations from the stories we have read, and finally a clear conclusion that wraps up your essay.  PICK Three topics from the following […]

Scholarly  discussion Based on what you have learned in the course so far, discuss the similarities and differences between the philosophies of wellness presented this week. Discuss how they relate to the concept of wellness as defined in this course, how they relate to specific challenges or supports for wellness, and how learning about different philosophies may have influenced your own conceptualization of wellness. Remember: Support […]

Compare and Contrast: Religious and Spiritual Systems of Belief  This question is fairly open ended in order to shed light into an important methodology in cultural anthropology: comparative methods. Choose one system of belief (organized religion or spiritual system) that you are not familiar with and compare it to your own system(s) of belief. What are the similarities you notice between the two? What are […]