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Write a 300-500 word summary of the article The Beauty Happiness Connection. This summary will consist of a few paragraphs that summarize the main and supporting points of the article.

Objectives
• Master pre-reading and reading strategies for different texts
• Understand how genre and intended audience shapes reading and writing
• Determine the logic to the ordering of ideas in a text and identify transitions as signposts to the different parts of texts
• Annotate a reading by identifying main ideas and supporting evidence
• Recognize the effect of perspective and purpose on tone, organization, and vocabulary choice
• Summarize accurately

To complete this assignment successfully
• Read and annotate the article, noting in the margins the main purpose of each paragraph
• Underline the main points of the article and number the evidence that supports it
• Try making an outline of the article
• Determine the article’s thesis (implicit or explicit)
• Make a list of what to include in your summary.
• Draft, paying careful attention to attribution of ideas and/or citations
• Review paraphrases
• Revise

Checklist
Content:
o Do you correctly surmise the thesis of the article?
o Do you accurately report all the main and supporting points for this thesis?
o Have you represented the author’s ideas clearly without distortion?
o Have you represented the authors ides concisely without including unnecessary detail?
o Have you used attributive tags to discuss the author’s arguments?
o Have you used your own words with few quotes and adequate paraphrase?
o Have you followed summary conventions mentioning the title and the author of the article?
o Have you included a works cited page?

Organization:
o Is your summary organized logically so as to clearly present the argument of the article (without necessarily mirroring the original order of the article)?
o Have you used transitions to smoothly link the supporting points to the main points?
o Do you differentiate (if necessary) between more important and less important reasons through transitional words?

Style:
o Is the summary typed and double spaced?
o Is the essay clean stylistically, using concise and clear sentences, strong verbs and active voice, and sentence variety?
o Is the essay grammatically correct?

Summary Grading Criteria For Students

Summary Grading Criteria (for students)

A Sophisticated summary

• Correctly surmises the thesis and includes all of the major supporting points
• Likely does not mirror the original order of the article
• Contains no misreadings; represents the authors arguments fairly and accurately
• Contains no opinion or information not mentioned in the article
• Uses attributive tags and/or citations consistently and correctly
• Summarizes using own words and adequate paraphrases
• Quotes sparingly but when done, quotes are smoothly integrated
• Smoothly transitions between ideas, differentiating between more important and less important points
• Contains fluid sentence-level prose

B Clear and coherent summary

• Summary contains the thesis and most of the main points
• Contains few, if any, misreadings of article
• Attributive tags and/or citations are used somewhat consistently and correctly
• Quotes may not be integrated but they are explained
• Paraphrases adequately
• Uses competent transitions
• Contains clear and concise sentence-level prose with some lapses

C Competent summary

• Correctly, or nearly correctly, surmises the thesis and some of the main points.
• Summary may place too much emphasis on one main point or focus too much on minor points
• Summary contains some misreadings but these misreadings don’t extend to the thesis of the article
• Summary may too closely follow the organization of the article itself (a blow-by-blow paraphrase is not a successful summary)
• Attributive tags and/or citations are used, but are used inconsistently and/or incorrectly
• Quotes are unexplained and there may be too many quotes
• Paraphrases may come too close to original though much of the original sentence is changed
• Transitions exist but may be inappropriate or confusing
• Sentences are mostly correct (the occasional fragment or run on) but may be awkward

D Inadequate summary

• Misreads purpose/thesis of article; may invent too different a thesis for the article; may read so much into the article that it is somewhat unrecognizable
• Personal opinion may exist throughout
• Fails to use attributive tags and/or citations to indicate the information presented is the author’s and not the student’s
• Quotes are mostly unexplained
• Paraphrases are too close to original
• Transitions may be nonexistent
• Sentences contain many errors and boundary issues though they are readable

F Failing summary

Exam may fail for any number of reasons: the writer responds to the ideas in the article rather than summarizes; the writer grossly misunderstands or misreads the article; the writer copies sentences without quoting or citing; sentences may be impossible to follow

and this is the article http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/08/the-beautyhappiness-connection/375678/

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For the Final Project, you will select a public organization
(federal, state, or local) or non-profit organization with which you are
familiar. This may be an organization for which you currently work or
have worked, know about from others, or have learned about through
academic resources and/or the media, as long as it isnota private for-profit organization.
With this organization in mind, you will explore the various topics of
the course. As you progress through the readings and assignments in the
course, think about how these topics relate to finance and budgeting
within the organization you selected. The Learning Resources, the
Discussions, and the Assignments will assist you in completing each
section of the Final Project.

Your Final Project should contain the following sections (the sections can be reordered for appropriate flow):

1. Mission and goals of the organization
2. Ethical considerations related to finance and budgeting within the organization
3. Technological considerations for improving the efficiency or effectiveness of finance and budgeting within the organization
4. Applicable laws, regulations, and policies impacting the organization’s financial and budgetary operations
5. Evaluation of the organization’s budget process and revenue sources
6. Internal factors impacting successful strategic financial planning
7. The organization’s usage of cost-benefit analysis
8. Evaluation of the organization’s annual financial report
9. Assessment of the organization’s overall financial condition

Your
Final Project must demonstrate both breadth and depth of knowledge and
critical thinking appropriate to graduate-level scholarship. It must
follow thePublication Manual of the American Psychological Associationguidelines
and be free of typographical, spelling, and grammatical errors. Also,
you must use at least six scholarly sources from the library that were
published within the past five years to support the paper.

The project should be 14–15 pages in length (double-spaced), not including the title page, the abstract, and references. 

Be sure to support your Final Project with specific references to all resources used in its preparation.

All references should be in APA format.

Readings

• Mikesell, J. L. (2014).Fiscal administration: Analysis and applications for the public sector(9th ed.). Boston, MA: Wadsworth.
  • Preface (pp. vii–ix)
  • Chapter 1, “Fundamental Principles of Public Finance” (pp. 1–34)
  • Chapter 3, “Federal Budget Structures and Institutions” (pp. 90–143)
  • Chapter 4, “State and Local Budgets” (pp. 152–173)
• Becker-Medina, E. (2013).Annual survey of public pensions: State- and locally-administered defined benefit data summary report: 2011. Retrievedhttp://www2.census.gov/govs/retire/2011summaryreport.pdf
• Chantrill, C. (2014). Government spending in the US. Retrieved fromhttp://www.usgovernmentspending.com/local_spending_2010USrn
• Document:Final Project Guidelines (PDF)

Media

• Laureate Education (Producer). (2008c).Introduction to finance and budget administration[Video file]. Retrieved from https://class.waldenu.edu

Optional Resources

• Net Industries. (2014). Taxes and government spending – Overview. Retrieved fromhttp://www.libraryindex.com/pages/1309/Taxes-Government-Spending-OVERVIEW.htm

1. Choose a fictional universe with which you are very familiar, not something fictional happening in the real world. So, Star Wars or Game of Thrones is a good choice while Twilight is not. Other good choices include Hunger Games, Divergent, and Star Trek. The list is long. If you aren’t sure, shoot me a text!

2. Break down that universe’s culture into the components of culture from Chapter Two: material culture (technology, tools, clothing, food, etc.) and nonmaterial culture (values, norms, beliefs, language, etc.).

3. Just make a list of cultural attributes of your chosen universe. For Game of Thrones you have multiple cultures to work with. All good authors craft complete cultures to make their characters more believable and the world one that the reader will love or love to hate.

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In a new document —- For that same universe, continue by listing the structural attributes of that universe. The social structures are in the file attached below

Past and Present
Influences on U.S. Hospital System: Paper

For this assignment, you will write a two to three page paper addressing the following:

Over the course of history, key events have helped to shape
the hospital system in the United States. Evaluate the impact of one of the
following—the development of the modern
health insurance industry, Medicare
and Medicaid, or the Hill-Burton Act
of 1946—on the development of the hospital system.

How
might our hospital system be different today had history been
different? 

What
influence did recent healthcare reform efforts (Affordable Care Act) have
on the current U.S. healthcare system?

Your paper should meet the following requirements:

Two to three pages in length, not including the cover or
reference pages.

Be formatted according to the Guide to Writing and APA Requirements. 

A minimum of four
references with associated in-text
citations. Each reference must be
cited at least once in the paper.Use headings to
organize the content in your work.  Please no plagiarism and follow all instructions.