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Discussion Prompt for Module 4:

Reflect on the Nursing situation that you submitted in Module 1 and thoughtfully consider which theoretical approach to caring in nursing is most congruent with your practice. Briefly apply Dr. Parker’s analysis of nursing theories (Chapter 2 of text book Theories for Practice) to your nursing situation and describe the purpose, the values, the metaparadigm and environment. This will be outline/framework for your Synthesis Paper in which you situate your nursing situation in a Theory grounded in caring that you studied this term.

Instructions for Reaction Paper

The Reaction Paper Assignment

You will be writing a 1,000 word Reaction Paper in this course using the instructions and links found below. You will be completing the following tasks and gathering the following information for your paper:

1. Watch the epigenetics video from PBS. Begin your paper by defining epigenetics in your own words and discussingyour reaction to the video.
2. Interview your family members and complete the Family History-Dr. Oz.pdf . Find out which disease(s) you are most at risk for.
3. Research and locate one article on epigenetics and whatever disease you are most at risk for (select a study on research conducted on humans) from a reputable academic source:

Reputable Sources:

• journal articles
• government publications based on research

Do not use:

• magazines of any sort, whether they are on paper or online
• Websites of any type, including epigenetics websites
• Wikipedia

How to Perform Your Research

• Use the College Library in person or online (log in with your new MDC ID number (the one that is all numbers). Your password is the last four digits of that same MDC ID unless you have changed it.

Read the epigenetics article you find. Continue your paper with a discussion of the epigenetics article. Be sure to paraphrase (put things in your own words) and be sure to cite the author(s) of the article you find using APA style (see the section below on using APA style). Aim for about a page for this part of your paper.

1. Discuss the concept of epigenesis in light of your family history and the article you read. Aim for one page for this section of your paper.
2. Complete the Living to 100 Questionnaire. Integrate your findings on the questionnaire into your discussion. Aim for another page.
3. Discuss how you can improve your health and longevity in light of your findings in this questionnaire, your understanding of epigenetics, and your knowledge of your family history. This should be your final page.

You can go over or under a page for any of the sections of the paper as long as your total paper is 1,000 words not counting the references.

General Rules for an “A” Paper (check your paper against this list)

◻ 1,000 words

◻ Original work; plagiarism score of less than 10% (90% original work)

◻ Double-spaced, 12-point font, 1-inch margins

◻ Covers all 6 tasks

◻ Spellchecked

◻ College-level grammar

◻ Cite your article APA style (author & year within body of paper; full reference at end)

◻ No abstract, no cover

◻ Place your name and reference number on the first page. Use page numbers.

Submit the paper by the deadline in the Schedule and also in the Calendar. The box will open at the beginning of the semester so that you have time to submit your paper, review the originality report, and resubmit your paper if necessary until you have a plagiarism score of under 10%. Be sure to use the Turnitin Grammar Checker to ensure that your paper is well written and ensure that you have spellchecked everything. If you resubmit your paper, note that it takes 24 hours for your new score to show up in the Turnitin Drop Box.

Submission to Turnitin Drop Box

The Turnitin Drop Box is in Blackboard in the Paper folder. You do NOT have to go to Turnitin to submit your paper. Turnitin is a plagiarism checking software. It checks to see if your work is original. I have set the Turnitin Drop Box so you can submit your paper as many times as you want until the due date. That will allow you to check your plagiarism score and see where your work is not original. You can then rephrase that section and put it into your own words. The expectation in this course is that your paper scores no more than 10% in plagiarism (90% original work). You will be able to resubmit your paper as many times as you need to in order to get it right until the Due Date. You will NOT be able to resubmit after the Due Date. Note that it takes 24 hours to see your new plagiarism score after resubmission. No more than 2 or 3 quotes in the entire paper, please.

Avoiding Plagiarism

You must be careful not to copy someone else’s ideas and not to copy and paste ideas from the sources you find. Copying and pasting from someone else’s work is considered plagiarism. You may use other people’s ideas, but you have to put them in your own words and reference the source. Putting things in your own words is called “paraphrasing.” And you must put the reference right after the idea. Needless to say, submitting plagiarized papers, including those copied from one of the Web sites that have “free” papers or even papers you can buy, will result in a penalty. That penalty in this course is that your grade will be reduced by the percentage of plagiarism over 10%. In other words, the less plagiarism, the higher your score; the more plagiarism, the lower your score. The paper is worth 10% of your grade in this course. Don’t risk it!

APA Style and References

One thing you will need to do in college is learn how to find and use references. References support your ideas. College-level work must be supported by research. You are expected to do that for this paper. You will research, locate, and use one reputable source from the literature on the topic of epigenetics/epigenesis. The “literature” is composed of studies that have been conducted in a scholarly way to support ideas. Scholarly sources can be found in journals or in some Web sites, especially those that come from .edu domains (.edu is short for “educational” Web sites) or .gov domains (.gov are government sites). The College Libraries have dozens of good journals you can use. You will be using the College Library for this paper. You may do the research in person or use the Web to access our library. See your librarian for more information on finding credible sources.

In APA style, you cite a source in two places: within the body of the paper where you use the idea or words of the author of the paper; and again in the Reference List at the end of the paper. For example, you might say, “According to Researcher A (2011)…epigenetics is…” What you must do is supply the researcher’s name within a sentence or at the end of a sentence in parenthesis (Smith, 2011). Then you give the full information for locating the study in the Reference List. That’s what Reference Lists are for: they allow the person reading your paper to look up your source if they want to. So remember, citing references APA style, requires two things: 1) that you cite the reference within the body of the paper, and 2) that you list the full reference at the end in the Reference List.

APA Tutorial

There are multiple tutorials and other training sources on APA style at the APA Web site. You do NOT have to buy the APA Manual to do this paper.

References

American Psychological Association (2011). APA style. Retrieved from http://www.apastyle.org/index.aspx

Red Clay Renovations is a company that is very well-known and praised for its renovation work (King, 2018). However, supporting this long-built excellence in home renovations is a very robust information technology (IT) system. With a very robust IT system comes a requirement for specific tools such as audit plans, in order to ensure the maximum defense against potential cybersecurity threats.

An audit plan that plays to this type of strength in reducing cyberattack threats and the potential of such threats is an audit of employee awareness of IT security policies. Studies have shown that company attacks happen very often due to human error and mistakes such as through phishing attacks, unwitting access to company systems, etc. (National Computing Centre, 2005), thus necessitating the testing of Red Clay Renovations employees’ knowledge of IT security policies. This is why this audit plan will be the most effective in curbing cyber threats.

Outside consultants must conduct this audit. These consultants will report directly to the Chief Information Officer and the Chief Information Security Officer, who will then in turn brief Red Clay Renovations leadership in conjunction with these outside consultants. This is to ensure no bias during this type of fact-finding audit (HR Technologist, 2011).

All company information technology policies must be covered in order to test employee knowledge. Some examples include employee knowledge about Red Clay Renovations’ Acceptable Use Policy, the “Bring Your Own Device” Policy, as well as the Security Education, Training, and Awareness program (King, 2018). With most employees needing to use the Red Clay Renovations network daily, these employees must be tested on the policies and procedures allowing said access.

This audit must be conducted in the middle of the fiscal year. This is to prevent any disruption to Red Clay Renovations workflow, as Red Clay Renovations is particularly busy at most other times of the year due to tax compliance, financial information disclosure requirements at the end of the fiscal year, and so on and so forth.

This audit must be conducted at all locations, to include Red Clay Renovation headquarters. It is important that all locations be tested because different locations may have been adhering to different policies and procedures in the past. It is important to ensure standardization among all Red Clay officers.

The audit that must be conducted is one that tests employees’ IT awareness of company security policies and procedures. This type of audit is effective at ensuring employee knowledge of said policies and procedures in order to raise and maintain a workforce who understands and adheres to these policies and procedure in order to mitigate any risk from cybersecurity threats (Goodchild, 2010).

References

Goodchild, J. (2010). Security awareness – helping employees really get company policy. Retrieved from https://www.csoonline.com/article/2126196/security…

HR Technologist (2011). How to improve employee IT security awareness. Retrieved from https://www.hrtechnologist.com/articles/safety/how…

King, V. J (2018). Red Clay Renovations Company Profile. Retrieved from https://learn.umuc.edu/d2l/le/content/349440/viewC…

Swanson, M., Hash, J., & Bowen, P. (2006). Guide for developing security plans for federal information systems (NIST SP 800-18, Rev 1). Retrieved from http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-18-…

1. Conduct your research and analysis on this engineering case study by

response
to the following particular queries

：

1)
What really happened on the accident on “Gas Pipeline burst in San Bruno, CA in 2010?”

2)
What are the consequences of this engineering disaster?

3)
What was the cause of the accident relating to engineering negligence?

4)
What were the loss of properties and human lives by this accident?

5)
What the owner of the pipeline – PG&E has been doing in compensations to the victims and remedial actions taken to avoid future similar occurrence?

6)
If you were a senior engineering manager at PG&E, what would you do to prevent the recurrence of the tragedy?

7)
How can engineering analysis help?

2.

Crash
of a DC 10 jet passenger plane over the Chicago O’Hare airport on May 25th, 1979 as shown in the picture:

What would be your response to the similar questions as posted in Quiz 1? The owner of the ill-fated aircraft was American Airlines.

Physics Lab 5

Density

This experiment will let you do “virtual” direct measurements of the mass and volume (via water displacement) and indirect measurements of density for a variety of “objects”.

Instructions:

• Go to http://www.phy.ntnu.edu.tw/demolab/html.php?htm=ExplorerScience/dswmedia/density
• Use the virtual scale and graduated cylinder to find the mass and volume of each object.
• Drop each object in the pail to see if it sinks or floats (density = 1 g/cc).
• Calculate the density of the objects (mass divided by volume).

Fill the table below. Type “YES” if the object floats, and “NO” if the object does not float. Rank Number the objects from lowest density to highest density.

Description	mass (g)	volume (ml)	Density (g/ml)	Does it float?	Rank
Blue Square
Blue Triangle
Red Square
Red Oval
Pink Square
Purple Oval
Green Triangle
Grey Triangle
Tan Rectangle
Red/Black Rectangle

Questions:

1. Do you notice any correlation (pattern) between the density of an object and the ability of the object to sink or float?

2. Which object has the greatest volume? The least volume?

3. Which object has the greatest mass? The least mass?

4. Which object has the greatest density? The least density?

Second extra-credit – Sinking and Floating Soda Cans:

Imagine a hot summer day. You’re at a picnic and go to the ice chest where the sodas are staying nice and cool. Which cans are floating in the ice water, and which have sunk to the bottom?

Fill a sink almost to the top with water. Place a can of regular soda into the water. Make sure that no air bubbles are trapped under the can when you place it in the water. Does it sink or float? Repeat the experiment with a can of diet soda. Does it sink or float? Hint: try different brands…

Explain the results.