What does it mean to live below the poverty level? Determine the income for a family of four living in poverty. Be sure your response identifies income levels for poverty based on current U.S. National averages.

Describe and analyze such a family’s total monetary needs to live one week, including housing expenses, food, childcare, transportation, and all other possible expenses.

Imagine one of the children becomes ill on Wednesday, requiring medical expenses and three days of lost wages for one parent (roughly 100% of the total weekly budget). Explain the consequences for the family, including consequences for the family’s budget and lifestyle. Discuss how they obtain food and cover the various expenses associated with day-to-day living and maintenance of well-being. Suggest one or two human services that might be put in place to serve needs such as those described in the scenario. 200-300 words please include a reference.

Complete a global
competitive landscape and supply chain scan for your teams selected
organization and industry. You are expected to apply the tools,
concepts, and methodologies that you have learned during this course.

Perform an analysis of the
supply chain and changing eco-system in an effort to develop a lean
value chain that fosters innovation and growth. You are expected to
provide value to customers while addressing change management challenges
in terms of process, products, and services.(Amazon)

Create a 500-word Implementation Plan in which you include the following:

• Develop a list of key objectives that foster innovation and growth in context of the business / industry.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

add references:

Access to quality healthcare is a major social issue in the United States and around the world. In fact, healthcare reform and access to affordable health insurance is a hotly debated political issue. Many advocates of healthcare reform point to the high level of spending on healthcare in the United Sates and the relatively poor health outcomes in the U.S. as compared to other countries. In 2010, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) passed, and was later upheld by the Supreme Court. While this controversial policy greatly decreased the number of U.S. citizens without health insurance, the United States still stands more or less alone among wealthy industrialized democracies in this approach to healthcare. For this discussion, you will take an in-depth look at access to healthcare as a social problem by comparing the U.S. healthcare system to another country of your choice.

For this discussion review each of the following resources:

• Poor and Uninsured (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
• Key Facts about the Uninsured (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
• Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: How the Performance of the U.S. Health Care System Compares Internationally (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
• Here’s a Map of the Countries that Provide Universal Health Care (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
• Recommended: U.S. Health Care from a Global Perspective: Spending, Use of Services, Prices, and Health in 13 Countries (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Based on these resources, please address each of the following:

• In general, who comprises the uninsured population in the United States? Since the passage of the 2010 Affordable Care Act, what are the most common reasons that people still lack health insurance?
• Describe how healthcare spending in the U.S. compares to other countries. Describe how healthcare outcomes in the U.S. compare to other countries. Based on the resources you reviewed, are healthcare spending and health outcomes related to one another? In other words, does spending more on health care lead to better health outcomes (i.e. a healthier population) and vice versa?
• What is universal health care? Describe the healthcare system in at least one country that guarantees universal health coverage to all of its citizens (you can find a list of such countries in the resources provided).
• How does a universal health care system compare to the system currently in place in the U.S.? In your informed opinion, why is the U.S. one of the only wealthy industrialized democracies that does not have university healthcare coverage?
• According to the Commonwealth Fund reports, how is the performance of the United States’ healthcare system related to equity? Which social groups have the least access to quality healthcare? Why?

Your initial post should be at least 500 words in length. Support your claims with examples from required material(s) and/or other scholarly resources, and properly cite any references.

The British Columbia Experience:

As British Columbians, trees are a constant in our landscape. Every part of the province contains the ever present conifer trees. Forestry is the harvesting of trees for lumber and paper pulp. This assignment explores the relationship that British Columbians have had with trees and the industry of forestry.

PART 1:

First, lets look at a snapshot of the natural history of the province before we take a close up look at one industry, the paper mill.

Culture and History of BC

PART 2: Pulp and Paper Industry

The pulp and paper industry consists of manufacturing enterprises that convert predominantly woody plant material into a wide variety of pulps, papers and paperboards.

Pulp and Paper Industry

1. Harvesting the trees. 2. Cut into logs and taken to the mill. 3. Machinery turns the wood chips into pulp. 4. Pulp is mixed with water and poured onto a long machine. 5. The fibres bond to one another at the dry end of the machine. 6. Researchers perform tests at each stage (artwork by Claire Tremblay).

Pulp Mill, Saint John

On the Saint John River, New Brunswick (photo by Al Harvey/Masterfile).

The pulp and paper industry consists of manufacturing enterprises that convert predominantly woody plant material into a wide variety of pulps, papers and paperboards. The Canadian industry began in the 1800s, and has undergone revolutionary changes over the years. Most recently, the move from newsprint to electronic media caused the industry to decline; however, pulp and paper remains a fundamental part of the Canadian economy, especially for remote and northern communities.

Understanding the Industry

Typically, paper has been made from “pulping” or crushing fibrous plant or woody material into its cellulose components using either friction or chemicals. During this process the waste, or non-cellulose material, is eliminated, as is the water, which is removed using heat and pressure, resulting in paper. The world’s first sheets were made in ancient Egypt by layering thinly-cut strips of papyrus plants at right angles (the word “paper” is derived from papyrus). However, the modern process of turning pulp into paper was born in China during roughly the earliest part of the Common Era. When knowledge of this enterprise migrated to Europe near the end of the first millennium, the raw material of choice for paper-making became animal skins and the product was called parchment paper. Its high cost spurred a search for a cheaper raw material, namely old cotton and linen rags. By the 19th century, trends in the Western World — including rising literacy rates and the proliferation of high-circulation newspapers — spurred a drive to find an even less expensive raw material, and wood was chosen. European (largely German) papermakers developed machines to break down logs from various tree species into pulps and also dry and flatten the pulps using a series of rollers that grew progressively larger and faster. This allowed for the mass production of many types of pulps and papers, of which newsprint was by far the least expensive. The former were turned into an ever-widening array of items, most importantly personal hygiene products such as tissues and toilet paper.

The Industry’s Pioneering Years in Canada, 1800–1900

Canada’s pulp and paper industry was born in the early 1800s. During its nascent years, the industry was relatively tiny, diversified and localized. Initially, the need for paper was met by importing it from the United States. But as the colony’s population grew, so too did demand for paper, spurring the industry’s growth. Paper producers were initially clustered in the urban centres of Ontario, Québec and Nova Scotia. They located there to be near their raw material (rags) and markets, and most were erected by newspaper proprietors. The first of these enterprises was built over the course of 1803–1805 by James Brown. His Argenteuil Paper Manufactory in St. Andrews East (near present-day Montréal) was associated with the newspaper now known as the Montreal Gazette.

The development of Canada’s modern pulp and paper industry took place in the second half of the 19th century, and was marked by several trends. First, the industry paradoxically both diversified and specialized. It began churning out much larger volumes of a wider variety of products, including book paper, printing paper, wallpaper and wrapping paper. At the same time, the demand for newsprint was growing exponentially, and it spurred a number of entrepreneurs to focus exclusively on manufacturing this type of paper. John Riordon was on the vanguard of this movement, and his devotion to it earned him the title, ‘the father of the Canadian newsprint industry.’ He built his flagship mill in Merritton, Ontario, along the Welland Canal, roughly five years before Confederation.

Soon after 1867, Riordon’s firm arguably became the first in Canada to convert to using wood instead of rags as its raw material — marking one of the most important industry shifts to take place over the last quarter of the 19th century. In very short order, the country’s bounty of conifer forests and untapped water powers were eagerly sought by pulp and paper makers at home and abroad. They were interested specifically in producing newsprint, both because American demand was growing exponentially and Canada’s spruce and hydroelectric resources were its crucial raw materials. They were eyed most intensively by producers in the Northeast US, whose concerns were deepening over their rapidly dwindling supplies of pulpwood trees. The construction of a railway through Northern Ontario around this time helped render this region’s trees and cascades accessible for development.

During this time, provincial governments were thrust into playing a central role in Canada’s pulp and paper industry. Canada’s colonial legacy and the British North America Act had given them control over crown resources (i.e., public land, timber, minerals, water power, etc.). This meant that governments in Ontario, Québec and British Columbia, whose hinterlands were blessed with abundant supplies of trees and water power, held potentially enormous authority over the industry. The same was true in less well-endowed provinces, provincially those in the Maritimes. That authority was reinforced by the provincial governments’ decision to lease — and not sell outright — the timber and hydraulic resources the industry sought. When the Ontario government began executing such deals with mill developers in the 1890s, they set a precedent of landlord-tenant relationships between the politicians and the industry that other jurisdictions would soon emulate.

Part 3:

Natural Resources

About 60 per cent of British Columbia is forested, accounting for approximately 19.5 per cent of the forested land in Canada.

The geology of most mountainous areas is favourable to mineralization, and BC is no exception. A wide range of metals has been discovered throughout the mountainous part of the province, including lead, zinc, gold, silver, molybdenum, copper and iron. The Peace River Lowland, northeast of the Rocky Mountains, has a different geological base consisting of younger, sedimentary rocks which have been the sources of petroleum, natural gas and coal.

BC has the largest provincial potential for electric power generation, as the heavy precipitation, steep mountain slopes and large, interior drainage basins are ideal physical conditions for the production of hydroelectric power. However, some of the large interior rivers have not been harnessed because it would damage the habitat of the Pacific salmon which spawn in the headwaters of coastal and interior rivers flowing into the Pacific Ocean.

Conservation

The balance between economic development and environmental protection is particularly troublesome in British Columbia, which relies heavily on renewable resources. Early on many of the province’s resources seemed inexhaustible, but by the 1930s the coast forest was being rapidly depleted. The salmon fishery has been threatened by overfishing and the destruction of marine and river habitats in some places, and some of British Columbia’s scarce agricultural land has been lost to roads, housing and industry. Early provincial governments were primarily concerned with rapid development to promote local employment. However, especially since the Second World War, much legislation has been enacted to preserve the environment and natural resources. The success of reforestation programs has been questioned, but forestry is being managed by the principle of “sustained yield.”

Fishing is confined to certain places and times, and a freeze was placed on changing the use of agricultural land in 1973. The British Columbia Ecological Reserves Act(1971) set aside numerous reserves of representative ecosystems. Enbridge’s proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline, which would transport petroleum and condensate between Edmonton, AB and Kitimat, BC, faces ongoing opposition from Aboriginal groups, environmental activists and politicians. However, in November 2013, Alberta and British Columbia reached an agreement regarding how to go about approving future pipeline projects.

ASSIGNMENT

Forestry in the Past, Present and Future of BC

Now that you have read and studied the introduction to this assignment, consider forestry from a bigger view.

Summarize the importance this resource has been, is and might be, for BC.

You may need to research other sources to fully explore this option.

Needs to be around 750 words, proper citation, proper grammar, no plagiarism.

Thank you!

Personality Analysis

Prior to beginning work on this assignment, review Chapter 3 in your textbook and the HumanMetrics Jung Typology Test website, and read the Choca (1999), Paris (2005), and Westen (1998) articles.

For this assignment, choose a historically important figure or a character from a movie, novel, or TV show, then address the following in your paper:

• Examine your figure or character from the perspective of Jung’s theoretical approach to personality and describe your chosen figure or character based on the dichotomous facets of personality as defined by Jung.
• Evaluate the current Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) personality instrument, which is based on Jung’s theories, and provide your impression of your chosen figure or character through the major facets of the MBTI.
• Analyze how ethical issues might affect the implementation of MBTI personality assessment in the setting native to your chosen figure or character.
• Assess the MBTI and its use to provide results on your chosen figure or character and describe the efficacy and reliability of this assessment as it relates to your chosen person.
• Summarize and present your opinion about how well this theory describes the person in question. Provide research to support your claims.

The Personality Analysis

• Must be three to five double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.