Which country had a population of just over 200 million in 2010?In Which continent is this country locate
For this assignment, you will perform ratio analysis in order to compare two companies in the health care industry:
In order to perform this analysis, you will need to select 4 ratios that you would like to evaluate and then find the values of the same 4 ratios for each company.
The Internet has a number of websites which provide financial profiles of publically traded companies. Many of these will provide financial ratios that have already been calculated for you. Examples includeMSN Money, Yahoo Finance, CNN Money, MarketWatch.com.
Once you have the ratios values for each company, provide your own analysis of what the ratios are showing and how the companies compare to each other. Based on the ratios, which of the companies do you think is stronger financially and why?
300 words). You will post your responses to the D2L dropboxes.
Within these responses, you do not need to worry about grammar, spelling, or proper organization of your ideas—the short written response is a place for you to practice writing as a means of discovering what you think, working out your ideas so that you may better articulate them during our discussions.
Some questions to consider to get you started include (but are not limited by):
What are some first impressions and questions that come to mind during and after your reading?
What confuses you? What piques your curiosity or makes you want to know more?
What words or phrases affect you most?
Do you identify with any of the characters or situations? If so, does this sense of identification help or interfere with your response? How so?
What do you find most interesting or compelling about the work?
You might also consider answering any questions provided by the text after each poetry, drama, or fiction selection.
**The short written responses as a whole are worth 10% of your grade for the course—points will be given based on successful completion of each response and evidence of engagement with the texts.
300 words). You will post your responses to the D2L dropboxes.
Within these responses, you do not need to worry about grammar, spelling, or proper organization of your ideas—the short written response is a place for you to practice writing as a means of discovering what you think, working out your ideas so that you may better articulate them during our discussions.
Some questions to consider to get you started include (but are not limited by):
What are some first impressions and questions that come to mind during and after your reading?
What confuses you? What piques your curiosity or makes you want to know more?
What words or phrases affect you most?
Do you identify with any of the characters or situations? If so, does this sense of identification help or interfere with your response? How so?
What do you find most interesting or compelling about the work?
You might also consider answering any questions provided by the text after each poetry, drama, or fiction selection.
**The short written responses as a whole are worth 10% of your grade for the course—points will be given based on successful completion of each response and evidence of engagement with the texts.
DUE IN 3 HOURS
cite your sources using APA
Read what is provided below AND at least one other outside source
Using the references below along with other reputable resources from own research, write a 1.5 page response to these questions below:
QUESTIONS:
Based on what you have read, should we legalize the production of human clones?
What arguments most influenced your decision?
How would you explain your position to someone who disagrees with you?
Reading 1:
POLICY AND PEOPLE
Medical research using human cloning techniques should be permitted for therapeutic purposes, the Australian Academy of Science (AAS) has declared in a controversial statement released last week.
The Academy says, the recent cloning advances could revolutionise treatment of damaged tissues and organs. “Human cells, whether derived from cloning techniques, from embryonic stem-cell lines, or from primordial germ cells should not be precluded from use in approved research activities in cellular and developmental biology”, says the AAS statement (http://www.science.org.au/policy/statemen/cloning.htm).
Sue Serjeantson from the AAS Steering Group on Human Cloning, said the Academy, like other similar organisations internationally was firmly opposed to reproductive cloning to create fetuses. “We want to encourage public discussion on this. It is going to take quite a long time, as it is a complex issue and there will be different and legitimate points of view being aired.”
Recent developments make self-compatible tissue and organ repair more likely, the AAS notes. These developments include: cloning of mammals from adult cells; the establishment of embryonic stem-cell cultures; and the ability of human fetal nerve stem-cells to develop into multiple and appropriate nerve-cell types following transplantation into animals. Julian Savulescu (Ethics Unit, The Murdoch Institute for Genetics Research, Melbourne), supports the AAS position: “Some people think that human zygotes are special because they have the potential to create people. Cloning has shattered that belief. There is no morally significant difference between a fertilised egg in a petri dish in an IVF [in-vitro fertilisation] clinic, a cloned cell, and a skin cell: they could all be persons, with the application of modern technology”.
However, the Catholic church and some ethicists have condemned the AAS’s position. The federal Government supports the more cautious line taken by the Australian Health Ethics Committee of the National Health and Medical Research Council, which advocates regulation to allow cloning on embryos in “exceptional circumstances”.
Reading 2:
New methods can create a baby who is your genetic twin
YES
The cloning of human beings is now possible. Scientists can take an egg cell, remove its DNA, insert DNA from a cell of any person, and create an embryo who is that person’s younger but identical twin. This technology offers a miracle option for families who cannot have children of their own by any other method. After 25 years as a fertility specialist, trying to help couples have babies, I have joined with scientists in Europe and elsewhere to develop that option. By doing so, I believe, we will be helping humanity.
It is true that the cloning of animals-such as Dolly the sheep, created in Scotland in 1997-has so far had a high failure rate and is fraught with risks. But those risks have been exaggerated, and many of them have resulted from improper cloning. Meanwhile, I can show you e-mails from thousands of families eager to accept those risks. They say in their messages that if they are able to have a child through cloning, they will love that son or daughter just as much as they would any other.
Believe it or not, the genie is out of the bottle. Human cloning will be done whether we like it or not. I think we should accept it, make it legal, regulate it, and make sure it is done in a responsible, scientifically correct way -not left to unscrupulous black-market exploiters.
-PANOS ZAVOS, PH.D.
Director, Andrology
Institute of America
Lexington, Ky.
NO
Don’t think about human cloning from the point of view of the person being cloned. Think about it as if you were the younger, duplicated copy. If you do, you’ll see at once why cloning a human being is deeply unethical.
First, the known grave risks of abnormality and deformity seen in animal cloning make attempts at human cloning an immoral experiment on the resulting child-to-be. Second, even if you were a healthy clone, would you want to be constantly compared with the adult original in whose image you have been made? Wouldn’t you want to have your own unique identity and an open-ended future, fully a surprise to yourself and the world?
If you were the clone of your “mother,” would it help your adolescence to turn into the spitting image of the woman Daddy fell in love with? If you were the clone of your “father” but your parents later divorced, would you like to look just like the man your mother now detests?
Third, don’t you think it is a form of child abuse for parents to try to determine in advance just exactly what kind of a child you are supposed to be? Do you want to live under the tyranny of their biologically determined expectations?
Finally, would you like to turn human procreation into manufacture, producing children as artifacts? Cloning is tyrannical and dehumanizing. We should have none of it.
Short read and the response needs to be a minimum of 400 words with references to the reading. I can provide the reading via a .PDF file. The required reading is the Introduction to the 3rd chapter, but you may not need to read it entirely if you can answer sufficiently without.
Respond to these questions:
1. What sort of images do you think mythology creates for women? Do you think that some of the assumptions or stereotypes toward women might have evolved from mythology? What are the assumptions or stereotypes that you find interesting or problematic?
2. From Introduction to chapter 3, we notice that she points out several reasons why women’s creative work and lives are not well recorded throughout history. What are the reasons? How does the lack of sufficient information affect our understanding of women’s lives in ancient times? Whose lives gets recorded?
What was going on in Europe that was influencing American Artists?
The wide range of styles present in early American Modernism Is demonstrated by the Chinese restaurant paintings of Max Weber and John Sloan. After reading Chapter 3, how would you describe these two styles of Modern American art? What do they have in common? What was happening in Europe that influenced America? Or did it?
What reasons are given for the enduring popularity of Edward Hopper? Do you think that the themes of loneliness, separation and the disillusionment with materialism continue to be prevailing characteristics of modern American life?
Case History
When conducting an evaluation, it is also important to consider the client’s demography as a possible contributing factor.
Use the module readings and the Argosy University online library resources to research methods of recording case histories.
Create a case history for a person with an addiction that clearly traces contributing factors. Do not include identifying information. At this point, do not include details of any mental illness that would constitute a dual diagnosis. Be sure to cover the following components in your case history:
After completing the case history, consider ethical standards in relation to this client. What potential ethical issues exist or may come into play with this client? Be sure to include at least one ethical issue. Explore multiculturalism, duty to report/warn, and confidentiality. For example, if the client has children, explain how duty to report may come into play when working with this client.
Write a 3–4-page report in Word format. Apply APA standards to citation of sources. Use the following file naming convention:
Provide an example from your own experience where you acted in accordance with one or more of the patterns of irrational or unethical decision making. Explain the ego centrism or sociocentrism, as well as any pathological tendencies of mind, involved in your thought process. How could you have applied the keys to sound decision making to approach the situation more rationally?
If you prefer not to discuss your own decision making experience, you may instead discuss someone you know, a historical figure, or a fictional character.
Your response should be at least one page in length, and in Times New Roman 12pt. font. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations in APA format. The title and reference page do not count towards the one-page minimum.
