Before any health information system can be successfully implemented, there must be a team of experts who understand the vision and mission of both the health care organization and its stakeholders. Strategic health care leaders are positioned to propose system upgrades and/or implementations that can withstand inevitable organizational changes. Health information systems’ leaders understand that predicting gaps and promoting parities in an effort to reduce […]

Option One: You are a consultant with 10 years experience in the health care insurance industry. A group of 20 doctors is considering forming a new medical group. The group has asked you to prepare a report on whether it should build a facility within 30 miles of the downtown center of a city with a population of 500,000 for $100 million dollars. Prepare a […]

Part 1: Write a response (a paragraph or more)  to ONE of the articles listed below under “Sample Autoethnographies.” What did you find most interesting about this autoethnography? How did this author use personal experience of the topic and/or personal narrative to make a larger sociological point? How is personal narrative combined with other forms of research, such as secondary sources that provide a larger […]

1500 word paper analyzing the music of one complete feature film of your choice. Choose one complete film of your choice either current or older and write about its music. Taking into account many of the items in Unit One as a template for analyses. Write about specific scenes of your choosing and discuss the musical content and why the composer made this particular musical […]

The individual written assignments will be relatively short assignments (between 500 and 750 words).  The assignments  will  be  addressed  to  teach  participants  to  convey  concepts  from  cognitive  psychology, neuroscience, and related fields to a broad audience; that is, convey very technical information and making it accessible  to  readers  with  limited  background  in  the  research  area  that  is  being  discussed,  while  also representing the scientific content […]

 1) Wright (pp. 4–5) cites Robert Alter in his discussion of Zen canonicity: “A canon is above all a trans-historical textual community. Knowledge of the received texts and recourse to them constitute the community, but the texts do not have a single authoritative meaning, however many the established spokesmen for the canon at any given moment may claim that it is the case.” What does […]

 We have already touched upon Metaphysics in the previous modules. You will find that all the divisions of Philosophy connect and overlap. For this module’s discussion, answer the following questions: 1. Does reality exist before we are born and after we die? Does it exist while we are living? 2. Does reality consist of only one nature, two, or multiple? What are they? 3. Does […]

Our choices of social media shape our perceptions of events, issues, and people. Cultural memberships influence the content of digital and online communication. Social media have altered how we perceive time and space. People tend to feel anonymous online, even when they have a name associated with their avatar. On the internet, computer mediated conversations lack body language, voice intonation, and other important nonverbal elements. […]

 Throughout our life, it is bound that there are periods of challenges that we must face, but the real challenge is how we grow and learn from overcoming them. Being naive, innocent children, we ignorantly believed that life was going to be simple and effortless. Oh, we were far from correct, we can only dream for life to be that easy. My life, in particular, […]

Tell a story: Inspire a vision. Leaders of organizations often tell stories from their personal journey that inspire employees to adopt the vision the leader has for the future of the organization.  During your life journey you may have many fond memories of experiences that helped you develop as an individual. Tell a specific story from your personal journey that inspired you to pursue your […]