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Essay Instructions: AHS 411 Bio-Psycho-Social Issues of Aging



Written Report



A 6 to 15 page research paper is required for this course. This does not include the reference pages or any graphs you may wish to include. The student should use the APA style. The topic for the paper should be How Will the “Baby Boomer” Generation Affect HealthCare. You should consider the following topics for inclusion: (This list is not to be considered all-inclusive.)



Please remember that you are all at least college juniors. Critical thinking and logic are expected of you. Please use this opportunity to present a rational, well-researched paper. You should work alone; plagiarism is not tolerated.



The “Baby Boomer” generation includes all persons born between 1946 and 1964. They grew up on Mustangs, Rock’n’Roll, and Bonanza. They questioned the status quo and stopped a war. They fought for civil rights, experimented with drugs and sex, and joined the Peace Corps. Schools had to be built to accommodate their expanding ranks, and they filled colleges and universities, becoming the best educated Americans in history. Today they are our government and corporate leaders, Bill Clinton and George Bush are both older “baby boomers”. They also wield enormous buying power and own most of this country’s wealth. They are, paradoxically, both more health conscious and fatter than there predessors. As they start to retire and begin experiencing problems associated with age such as heart disease and arthritis, they threaten to overload our healthcare system. They are predicted to live longer than their predecessors and with more chronic health problems.



How will this generation affect our health care system?



· What demographic trends will affect your health care organization and the economy in general? When and where will the greatest healthcare resources be used?

· What about generational trends and conflicts? Will tax money be funneled to the elderly or will elderly appropriations be cut by those persons in younger generations? Is the baby boomer generation stretching the healthcare resources? Who has the political power and who is expected to use it?

· Is the morbidity curve being further compressed? How healthy are the elderly? Are there differences in the health status between the sexes? Or between the races? Or between the wealthy and the poor? Explain

· What about the mental status of the elderly? Is senile dementia and Alzheimer’s disease increasing? How are these persons being treated? Have there been drug breakthroughs?

· How are organizations coping with these trends? Are new providers for care of the elderly being developed? What about the traditional nursing homes? Have they changed? Who cares for the long-term care patient? Is there more emphasis being placed on home care? Hospice care? Wellness programs? . How are seniors being encouraged to take care of their health?

· Are there new health care professions being created to work with the elderly? Are more therapists being demanded? Do we have new specialties in medical school? In nursing school? In allied health?

· Is there new technology which is affecting elder care? What about new drugs? Do these new technologies positively affect long-term care or is the technology simply prolonging persons with poor qualities of life?

· Have health care ethics caught up with the gains in health care? How are we dealing with physician-assisted suicide or euthanasia? How do we handle DNR’s and the issue of “death with dignity”?

· What financing mechanisms are in place to pay for elder care? What about Social Security? Is it still viable? Has the number of persons with long-term care insurance policies rising? Is more elder care being paid through managed care?



The report should be text-processed in 12-point font, double-spaced, and include a cover page. MS Word must be used. Margins should not exceed 1 inch in any direction. Reports will be graded using the attached criteria. APA style is considered appropriate. A minimum of 10 references is expected.



Reports will be graded using the attached Written Assignment Grading Criteria. Reports are due by the date indicated on the class schedule, although they may be submitted earlier. Submit the report through the assignment drop box.



Plagiarism is not allowed. This is easily detected through certain computer programs. Any student who plagiarizes a paper will be given a “zero” for the paper.



Written Report Grading Criteria



CONTENT

70 points
Contains all correct information requested; well developed and in logical sequence, i.e., introduction, body, conclusion. Addresses the assigned topics: primary lessons learned about oneself from the course, and application of learning. At least six pages of text.

65 points
Contains all correct information requested. Somewhat developed.

60 points
Contains most information requested. May lack some accuracy.

0-59 points
Contains inaccurate or incomplete information. Does not address the assigned topics.




DEPTH

10 points
Evidence of thoughtful serious consideration of topics.

1-9 points
Moderate amount of consideration.

0 points
Superficial treatment of topics.




ENGLISH/GRAMMAR

8 points
Written in correct English. Well developed sentence structure. Correct punctuation.

6 points
Fair/good use of English language. Few errors in punctuation or sentence structure.

4 points
Average use of English language. Several errors in punctuation and/or sentence structure.

0-2 points
Written in poor English. Many errors in sentence structure and/or punctuation.




NEATNESS/SPELLING

6 points
Neatly typed/printed. No misspelled words or spacing errors.

5 points
One misspelled word

4 points
Two (2) misspelled words.

2 points
Four (4) misspelled words.

0-1 point
Handwritten. Six (6) or more misspelled words.




CREATIVITY

4 points
Very creative. Use of illustrations, etc.

3 points
Some creativity

1-2 points
Contains minimal creativity.

0 points
No evidence of creativity.




PRESENTATION

2 points
Presented with properly designed title page giving finished, professional look.

1 point
Plain title page (title only).

0 points
Presented without title page.

Essay Instructions: Ah.. The Epic....
As you know, epic poetry has several characteristics:
1. long formal speeches
2. a male battle hero of noble stature
3. influence of supernatural powers
4. the hero possesses super-human traits
5. the fate of a people rests in the deeds of the hero
6. formal tone and diction
7. the use of kennings and stock epithets
8. beginning in medias res
9. begins with an invocation of the muse
10. the invocation is typically followed by a prologue that summarizes the story of that epic
11. subject matter is typically of a high and lofty stature, often involving great battles or events from history, as well as the heroes & characters from those events

Your Tasks:
You will write an epic of your own, following the basic format as modeled in paradise Lost, which was modeled on The Aeneid, The Illiad, and The Odyssey.

Nuts& Bolts
* incorporate all 11 characteristics listed above
* write in verse (poetry) format
* {note: it doesn''t have to rhytme}
* be sure to select a topic that is "lofty" enough to merit and epic
* type the final product
* it should be 3-5 pages long ( not less than 3, not more than 5)
* All language and topic material must be appropriate to share with all of your peers
* be prepared to share it with some of your peers

Scoring: You will be graded according to the fulfrullment of the task requirements, not on creative writing ablility. Include all 11 characteristics in your work !

Essay Instructions: In a 500-word double-spaced grammatically & orthographically correct essay, discuss the world as Bartleby seems to see it, from his past work in the "Dead Letter" office, to his job on Wall Street, to his days roaming idly, & at last to his final imprisonment & death.  Where is the justice in Bartleby's world?  What must a human do to survive, and how does that mesh with ideas of conscience, morality, and mortality?  What significance has the "dead letter" office, both literally & figuratively? What significance has his repeated reply, "I would prefer not to"?  And at last, what significance has the Narrator's final lament, "Ah, Bartleby!  Ah Humanity!"?

In your conclusion, feel free to relate Bartleby's situation to recent doings on Wall Street, if you so desire.  Do not forget to give your work a proper title, according to the rules we've set out.  And spend as little time summarizing and as much time analyzing as possible.
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Essay Instructions: From the five following passages explain the significance of each one in a thesis goverened one page responce to each passage. your discussion should directly tie in with what you believe to be the theme of the story. Make a clear connection between the passage and the theme. Also, make suure you provide other textual examples of the stories to support your answers(make sure that youu also explain the significance of the passages and clealy show how they support your interptation)

1. A Good Man is Hartd to Find by Flannery O'Connor

Passage: "His voice seemed about to crack and the grandmother's head cleared for an instant. She saw the man's face twisted close to her awn as if he were going to cry and she murrmered.'Why your one of my babies. Your one of my own children!'She reached out and touched him on the shoulder. The Misfit sprang back as if a snake had bitten him and shot her three times in the chest"

2. Gimpel the Fool by Isaac Bashevis Singer

Passage: I wondered over the land, and good people sis not neglect me. After many years I became old and white; I heard a great deal, many lies and falsehoods, but the longer I lived the more I understood that there really were no lies. whatever doesn't really happen is dreamed at night. It happens to one if it doesn't happen to another, tomorrow if not today, or a century hence if not nest year"

3. Swaddling Clothes by Mishima Yokio

Passage: "She did not feel in the least afraid and made no effort to free herself. In a flash the thought had struk her, Ah so the twenty years have already gone by!The forest of the Imperial Palace was pitch dark and uterly silent"

4. A Father by Bharati Mukherjee

passage: "At twenty-six Babli had found the man of her dreams;whereas at twenty-six Mr. Bhowmick had given up on truth, beauty, and poetry, and exchanged them for two years at Carnegie Tech'

5. The Gold-Legged Frog by Khamsing Srinawk

Passage: "You sure are lucky,' the words raised his spirts. He smiled a little before repeating expectantly, How was i lucky, how?"

All of these short stories can be found in World of Fiction by Roberta Rubenstein & Charles R. Larson