Marjorie Benton

Health and the environment

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Using the same country from week 2( United Arab Emirates ), you will examine the effect of health and the environment.

Address the following in your response:

  1. What is the environmental profile of the country?
  2. Analyze if there are immediate environmental threats or burdens for the country.
  3. Determine and discuss if there are any nutritional problems.
  4. Assess the costs associated with these threats or burdens.
  5. Identify any cost-effective solutions to mitigate the burdens.
  6. Evaluate the resources available to the country.\

(All must be answered in your response)

Requirements:

  1. Cite your information, using a minimum of 2-3 scholarly sources.

2-3 pages

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The environmental burdens faced in the UAE has cost the economy of the UAE a lot of money. First, the water shortage has made the economy of the UAE to depend on imported food. This consumes a lot of resources than when foods are produced locally.  Secondly, the government is allocating resources and personnel to control and reduce carbon emission. Therefore, to save on the resources, the government of the UAE needs cost-effective solutions to remedy the burdens. First, the nation should improve local food production by providing more water to the farmers. Secondly, since most of the UAE’s land cannot support farming, the government should lease agricultural lands in other countries for cheap importation of food. Finally, the government should invest in technology and find new ways of producing electricity instead of burning fuels that increase carbon concentration in the air.

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Health and the environment

Marjorie Benton

Global risk areas

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As the world continues to become more global because of technological advances, the risks will increase. Choose one of the global risk areas: economic, environmental, geopolitical, societal, or technological. Then choose a specific issue related to the global risk area.

Your response must be a minimum of 300 words.

Use at least one scholarly or credible source.

A common debate in ethics is universalism versus relativism of ethics and moral codes. A frequently asked question is “Does a universal moral code exist regardless of an individual’s culture?” As organizations are becoming increasingly global, and understanding of universalism versus relativism of culture ethics is important.

  • Compare and contrast universalism and relativism.
  • Evaluate how universalism and relativism affect global social corporate responsibility.

Your response must be a minimum of 300 words.

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The ethical issue emerging from the improper recycling of technological devices is pollution. Pollution has become a global problem leading to global warming and the extinction of species. It is also ethically bad because it destroys the environment, which human beings depend on. When technological devices such as mobile phones and computers are recycled, they are broken or put under high temperatures to extract valuable metals and plastics. In countries where electronic recycling plants are not enclosed, harmful gasses and substances get their way into the air and water bodies (Kumar & Singh, 2019). For example, the burning of circuit boards in an open place can cause the emission of beryllium cadmium and mercury (Kumar & Singh, 2019).

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Global risk areas

Marjorie Benton

Environmental aspect of sustainability

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3 articles reviews x 1 page each( 3 pages total)

Article Review Format: ( 1 page everything, each article)

Reference Information:

Purpose of Study:

Sampling Comments:

Measures:

Findings/Results/Main Points

Conclusion

Will provide the articles and format example.

Now, this is an example of the format to use.

Example

Article Review 1

 

Reference Information: Mohami, Z., Aghmi, A., & Jolai, F. (2020). A green closed-loop supply chain design using a queuing system for reducing environmental impact and energy consumption. Journal of Cleaner Prction, 242, 118452. Retrieved from https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/…

Purpose of Study: This artcle aims to study and bring out the knowledge of the reducing environmental effects formed by the impacts transport fleets because it has never been examined broadly in forward and reverse logistics suply chains. The article designs a green supply chain with both the forward and reverse logistic considerations to fill the gap that has never been investigated well. The article also uses the quuing system for optimization of the transport and waiting time of the fleets network.

Sampling Comments: Gren supply chains are one of the most efficient matters connected to the ecological effects, and a lot of researches have been done to confirm this (Mohtashami, Aghsami & Jolai, 2020). Transport flees move products within the logistic centers and are among the vital factors rising the environmental consequences when moving products between the centers and waiting in the loading queue (Mohtashami, Aghsami & Jolai, 2020).

Measures: Green supply chain managent mostly focuses on the environmental aspect of sustainability, which can be influential in achieving a worable supply chain.

Findings/Results/Main Points: For GAMS software, the amount of objective function equals 65.451. The objective function of the genetic system apprch is equal to 66.276. They are evaluating the model’s sensitivity to changes of parameter results to proper knowledge of its behavior. Sensitivity analysis is done for several transport fleets, and the objective function has rising behavior with an inease of fleets.

Conclusion: The contribuons that shall make the model real are presenting an all-inclusive model, green supply chain control, assumption of tranport fleets as clients to load the systems and using S seers for every individual loading system.

these are the APAreferences:

1-Bailey, K., & Breslin, D. (2020). The COVID-19 Pandemic: What can we learn from past research in organizations and management. International Journal of Management Reviews.

2- Ivanov, D. (2020). Predicting the impacts of epidemic outbreaks on global supply chains: A simulation-based analysis on the coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2) case. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 136, 101922.

3 Crespo Márquez, A., & SIM Research Group. (2020). A COVID-19 Recovery Strategy Based

on the Health System Capacity Modeling. Implications on Citizen Self-management.

another example

Student Name Sample Article Review 1

Reference Information: Scanzoni, John (2001). From the Normal Family to Alternate Families to the Quest for Diversity With Interdependence, Journal or Family Issues, vol. 22 No. 6, September 2001, 688­710.

Purpose of Study: To look at the changes and the diversity of the households from the late 1960’s to present, both from the constructionist and the functionalistic view. And figuring out which family style works the best to meet both the family and societies needs.

Sampling Comments: Otto (1970), “man can create marriage and family possibilities uniquely suited to his time, place and situation.” Sussman and Cogswell (1972) “…adults must live for themselves and not only for their children.” The standard family (nuclear) stifled mutual confidant between mates. Single parenting was viewed as a temporary condition, which would resolve when the parent remarried, thus it wasn’t seen as a “real” family.

Measures: The standard family (or nuclear family) was faired to the different variant families such as single parents, homosexual, multi­marriages, and getting pregnant out of wedlock. Scanzoni reviewed and summarized the functionalist and constructionalist models and theories starting from post World War II to the present.

Findings/Results/Main Points: Functionalists support the model that views a new standard family were previous traditional roles are in place while the children are young in order to promote optimal child development. Scanzoni’s research found that developmentalists believe that it is more the lifelong encounters between a child’s genetic makeup, personality and social context and not just the first few years of life. While the functionalists want to exclude the community, the constructionalists believe that the community makes the family. “Families are produced and created by the actions of persons operating within the social structure and cultural milieu that surrounds them (Maines, 2000).” They also believe that if the community views a groups as not mainstream than that group is likely not to succeed.

Conclusion: While one believes that negotiations build a stronger family and community the other does not believe in negotiation of any type. The citizens that feel the neostandard model is better state they would have a hard time fairing up. This self­doubt along with lack of support may stifle their innovations. Most citizens admit to wanting the neostandard model for themselves and their children but are willing to accept the reality of the variant family. “Because there is no best family pattern to stray from, there can be no variants that are invariably judged as lesser. Then and only then have we taken the first step toward embracing genuine diversity, (Scanzoni 1989).” To date there is no one household model that is flawless but household variety has been found to enrich the family. Household diversity with interdependence that builds a strong sense of community has been found to be healthy.

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Sampling Comments: The lean and globalized structures of supply chains has made them prone to the pandemic. About 94% of the fortune 1000 companies have experienced coronavirus related disruptions to their supply chains (Fortune, 2020). When using a discrete-event simulation of Analogic, which was successfully applied to the supply chain risk and resilience analysis (Ivanov & Rozhov, 2019). A full set of technologies to build a digital supply chain uses a combination of simulation, optimization, and performance visualizations (Ivanov & Dolgui, 2020)

Measures: The paper uses a case study where a model is formulated. The model is of a global supply chain for a company selling lighting equipment of five different types.

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Environmental aspect of sustainability

Marjorie Benton

Climate justice

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Climate change disproportionately affects communities of color; in the form of communities of color living near more polluted areas, poorer nations facing the brunt of the economic and ecological impact, etc. Racial inequality also means these communities that suffer the most adverse effects, also have the fewest resources to combat these issues. Now, more than ever, we need to work towards climate justice and an equitable future for everyone.

Prompt: Write a paper (3 page minimum – double spaced, Times New Roman 12, word doc) on how Climate Change Disproportionately Affects BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) Communities. You should focus on finding papers that address this issue, summarize the key points and also provide a personal reflection on the topic.
Resource citations are not included in the page count.

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Climate change has impacted economies in the developing world more than developed countries. There has been a steady upsurge in temperature over the last sixty years due to global warming. Studies show that the temperature distribution is not even, and tropical regions got the lion’s share. Republics in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East that were already hot are being heated to unbearable temperatures. High temperature creates an unconducive working environment. Temperature directly affects productivity. The countries are unable to produce products to their full potential. As a result, the nations’ economic growth is stunted.

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Climate justice

Marjorie Benton

Least restrictive environment

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What measures would you take in your classroom to make sure your students are educated in the least restrictive environment possible?

no citing own words opinion based plagiarism free with report

one page

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Assistive technology has revolutionized how abled differently people lead their lives. Having such in the classroom will go a long way to help the students keep up with the pace their peers are in class. The good thing with such tech is the fact that they can be readily available. An instance is an app that translates the teacher’s text to speech, which would help a blind student take notes in class. These are apps I will get for my students. Have programs tailored for specific students in the class is a good measure as well. In the case where a student with a learning disability who finds it hard to get everything at a similar pace, then they can have pull-out sessions. This way, they get to recap on what was learned without feeling the pressure of getting the concept as fast as their classmates are. The extra attention paid to them when they are in a specialized classroom will help them stay at the same pace as their colleagues. This can be scheduled daily, but they still get to attend classes with the rest of the students.

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Least restrictive environment

Marjorie Benton

Climate Change

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Prepare: Prior to beginning work on this assignment, please review this Sample Final Paper GEN499 for additional guidance on the expectations of this assignment.

The topic of your essay needs to be a global societal problem from the following list:

Reflect: Based on the topic that you have chosen, you will need to use critical thinking skills to thoroughly understand how this topic can be a global societal problem and determine some logical solutions to the problem.

Write: This Final Paper, an argumentative essay, will present research relating the critical thinker to the modern, globalized world. In this assignment, you need to address the items below in separate sections with new headings for each.

In your paper,

  • Identify the global societal problem within the introductory paragraph.
  • Describe background information on how that problem developed or came into existence.
    • Show why this is a societal problem.
    • Provide perspectives from multiple disciplines or populations so that you fully represent what different parts of society have to say about this issue.
  • Construct an argument supporting your proposed solutions, considering multiple disciplines or populations so that your solution shows that multiple parts of society will benefit from this solution.
    • Provide evidence from multiple scholarly sources as evidence that your proposed solution is viable.
  • Interpret statistical data from at least three peer-reviewed scholarly sources within your argument.
    • Discuss the validity, reliability, and any biases.
    • Identify the strengths and weaknesses of these sources, pointing out limitations of current research and attempting to indicate areas for future research. (You may even use visual representations such as graphs or charts to explain statistics from sources.)
  • Evaluate the ethical outcomes that result from your solution.
    • Provide at least one positive ethical outcome as well as at least one negative ethical outcome that could result from your solution.
    • Explain at least two ethical issues related to each of those outcomes. (It is important to consider all of society.)

The Global Societal Problem, Argument, and Solution Paper

  • Must be 1,750 to 2,250 words in length (approximately between seven and nine pages; not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style, as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center’s APA Style (Links to an external site.) resource.
  • Must include a separate title page with the following:
    • Title of paper
    • Student’s name
    • Course name and number
    • Instructor’s name
    • Date submitted
  • For further assistance with the formatting and the title page, refer to APA Formatting for Word 2013 (Links to an external site.).
  • Must utilize academic voice. See the Academic Voice (Links to an external site.) resource for additional guidance.
  • Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.
  • Must use at least eight scholarly sources.
    • Source Document Requirements:
      • Multimedia sources (such as videos) may be used, but no more than two such sources may be used. If multimedia sources are used, they must be authored and distributed by credible sources, such as universities, law schools, medical schools, or professors, or found in the Ashford University Library.
      • Government sources may be used, but no more than two such sources may be used. Examples include whitehouse.gov, state.gov, usa.gov, cdc.gov, and so forth. These websites can be used to make a stronger point about your proposed solution within the argument.
      • Where documents are used for source materials, those must be peer-reviewed, scholarly journal articles, and academically published books. Popular media sources (e.g., newspapers, magazines, television and radio shows, etc.) must not be used. Materials from advocacy groups (e.g., Greenpeace, Human Rights Campaign, National Organization for Women, etc.) must not be used.
      • Sites such as ProCon.org and Wikipedia must not be used.
      • Religious texts must not be used.
    • The Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources (Links to an external site.) table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for an assignment. The Integrating Research (Links to an external site.) tutorial will offer further assistance with including supporting information and reasoning.
    • Must document in APA style any information used from sources, as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center’s Citing Within Your Paper (Links to an external site.).
    • Must have no more than 15% quoted material in the body of your essay based on the Turnitin report. References list will be excluded from the Turnitin originality score.
    • Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style. See the Formatting Your References List (Links to an external site.) resource in the Ashford Writing Center for specifications.

Good Critical Thinking Tips:

  • Your paper should include academic sources that explain multiple sides of the issue.
  • Your interpretations of the evidence should be objective and state the conclusions and theses presented in the evidence clearly and fairly.
  • Your paper should place the various forms of evidence in relation to one another and demonstrate why one form or perspective is stronger than the other positions that one could take on the issue.
  • Your paper should point out the limitations of current evidence and attempt to indicate areas for future research.

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This indicates the high need to focus on the problem of climate change as a social issue since its consequences are directly affecting the lives of people in society. According to Grundmann (2016), there has been a rapid increase in population in southern and coastal regions of the U. S. The author further indicates that these regions are mostly experiencing coastal storms, heat waves, and air pollution. The population living in the Mountain West is also posed with the danger of wildfires attributed to climate change. This evidence indicates the way the problem of climate change affects various populations in different parts, making the problem demand social approaches in addressing the issue.

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Climate change

Marjorie Benton

Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act

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Have legislative remedies, like the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act, produced results to mitigate negative externalities? At what cost? Have the benefits of the legislation outweighed the costs to industry? Identify and describe two additional measures that state and/or city governments are undertaking to reduce contributions to climate change by addressing degradation of air, land, and water (e.g., efforts in California, City of Phoenix).

2. As we examine our second discussion question, I wanted to offer a couple questions to help spur the conversation. Explain how expansionary monetary policy leads to inflation whereas monetary policy in the short and long run can influence real output.

3. As we examine our second discussion question, I wanted to offer a couple questions to help spur the conversation. Discuss how price stability is a foundation for stable economic policy. Should the government always intervene to correct price instability? Why?

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Expansionary monetary policy is implemented in a country if there is a need to increase the supply of money. It helps to boost the economy whenever there is a recession. However, this policy causes inflation in a country. Inflation happens when the prices of products and services go high. That is, the unit of money in a country reduces in value, thus buying fewer products than in previous years. Expansionary monetary policy is enforced in a nation by increasing the money spending. As a result, people end up having more disposable income, which causes the price of products and services to go high. As the policy continues, the price of products continues to increase, causing inflation. On the other hand, monetary policy is essential in sustaining effective economic development. What this means is that monetary policy should be applied for a short period to achieve positive long term outcomes. However, when the rules of expansionary monetary policy continue to be functional for a long time, it might ruin the economy by increasing financial instability (Paul, 2016).

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Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act

Marjorie Benton

ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

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ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Estes and Palmisano (1974), Estes et al. (1998) – Questions for Discussion

  1. Define a “keystone species”. (1pt)
  2. Explain how the orca-otter-urchin-kelp food web presented in these studies is an example of top-down control. (1pt)
  3. Define “anthropogenic”. What anthropogenic effect is most responsible for the situation with the sea otters? (1pt)
  4. Find and describe another example of a keystone predator creating top-down controls in an ecosystem. Include the predator species, the ecosystem, and how the ecosystem would be different in the absence of the predator species. (2pt)
  5. Estes and Palmisano 1974, Figure 1: What is this graph comparing? Why is there no line shown for vegetation at Shemya Island (hint: what does “coincident with the ordinate” mean)? (2pt)
  6. Estes and Palmisano 1974, Figure 2: Based on this graph, describe the difference in sea urchin size demographics between the two islands. Why are these differences important? (2pt)
  7. Why are kelp forests ecologically important? What ecosystem services do they provide to other species living in the region? What benefits can they provide to human societies? (3pt)
  8. Keystone species are often the focus of conservation efforts. Describe at least one benefit of this approach to conservation, as well as one potential risk or limitation to this approach. (3pt)
  9. Describe a potential strategy for bringing these kelp forest ecosystems back into balance. What might be a limitation or difficulty with implementing this strategy? (3pt)
  10. Write out the citations for both papers using Ecology formatting. (2pts)

–> Please read the two short articles to answer the questions, Also please read the other attached document to follow the formatting.

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In their graph, Estes & Palmisano (1974) evaluate how to vegetation cover and sea urchin density changes with changes in the depth of the ocean. The graph indicates that the percentage of vegetation cover decreases with an increase in depth.  Similarly, the sea Urchin density in Shemya Island increases with the proliferation of the vegetation cover.  On the other hand, the sea Urchin density in Amchitka decreases with an increase of the vegetation cover and fall in depth. In Shemya Island, the vegetation line is not shown because it coincides with the ordinate line. Both ordinate and vegetation lines share the same variables.

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ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Marjorie Benton

Climate Change

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The essay should include Climate Change:

1- Definition

2- Causes

3- Scientific evidence

4- impacts

5- Adaptation

6- Mitigation

* Notes:- DON’T put introduction or conclusuon

– Plagiarism is to be avoided.

– Pay attention to grammar.

– Use credible sources

you are encouraged to use the following sources:

https://www.noaa.gov/education/resource-collection...

https://climate.nasa.gov/effects/

https://www.britannica.com/science/climate-change

https://youmatter.world/en/definition/climate-chan…

https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/climate-change/

https://www.activesustainability.com/climate-chang…

https://www.worldwildlife.org/stories/what-s-the-d…

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For a long time, the greenhouse effect helped warm up the planet, in the process making it hospitable for human and plant life. However, the industrial revolution changed all this. Ever since it happened, people are releasing more and more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, an aspect that leads to the gasses trapping and redirecting even more heat to the surface. Besides the burning of fossil fuels, human beings also contribute to the increased greenhouse gas presence in numerous other ways (You Matter, 2020). Trees are very important regulators of the earth’s climate. They not only absorb but also store carbon dioxide released into the earth’s atmosphere. As such, when human beings cut down trees to build things or create space for construction, they are interfering with the planet’s natural mechanism of regulating carbon dioxide levels. This allows the gas to build up much faster within the atmosphere, considering there are no trees to absorb the gas. Some agricultural practices also contribute to the increased presence of greenhouse gases (You Matter, 2020).

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Climate change

Marjorie Benton

Application of Knowledge

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Provide a reflection of at least 500 words (or 2 pages double spaced) of how the knowledge, skills, or theories of this course (Access Control) have been applied, or could be applied, in a practical manner to your current work environment. If you are not currently working, share times when you have or could observe these theories and knowledge could be applied to an employment opportunity in your field of study.

Requirements:

Provide a 500 word (or 2 pages double spaced) minimum reflection.

Use of proper APA formatting and citations. If supporting evidence from outside resources is used those must be properly cited.

Share a personal connection that identifies specific knowledge and theories from this course.

Demonstrate a connection to your current work environment. If you are not employed, demonstrate a connection to your desired work environment.

Requirements: 500

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course:

Determine appropriate security controls for infrastructure.

Evaluate ways to secure facilities with biometric technologies.

Review classification standards for infrastructure access.

Implement remote access solutions.

Utilize procedures to maintain access control.

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Prior to offering this advice to management personnel, the company had just gotten rid of its server room and opted for a data center. As such, they dedicated an unused section of the building to serve as its data center. Very few employees had access to this room, and those that did had to key in a password at the entrance to gain access to the data center. In order to improve the security of the company and client data stored within this room, I advised the company to add another layer of protection. This extra layer would be a biometric authentication system. In addition to requiring authorized employees to key in their password, they will also have to place their finger onto a scanner to verify their identity. Thus, an employee will have to key in their password and then slide their finger into a scanner with their fingerprint record to complete the identity verification process. Without these two, an employee cannot gain access to the company’s data center.

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Application of Knowledge