Post Revolution Writing Assessment
Imagine that you are a one of the leading voices of your community. People from all around your town depend on you for your perspective and insight, especially with very troubling events. Thanks to advances in printing and distribution, you and other firebrands of the era are able to circulate your thoughts and opinions to many more individuals. The events after the American revolution through the Presidency of Thomas Jefferson (1783-1808) have kept you busy as a journalist as you continue to apply your trade and provide valuable insight as to what is happening with the new United States and if you feel that the country is heading in the right direction. Your task is to report on any one of the major events that occured in the US from 1783-1808. I encourage you to use a strong persuasive voice supported with a convincing argument with supporting evidence to convince your readers that your viewpoints are correct.
An eye-catching title for your Newspaper or Blog
A banner headline for your own article.
An introductory paragraph with thesis statement clearly defining your position.
A minimum total of-three well written paragraphs, free of critical spelling and grammatical errors.
Your writing will be supported with at least 3 pieces of evidence or examples. Paragraphs can be handwritten or typed on a google doc. Digital pieces need to be shared with me and also printed out and attached to your pamphlet.
This is an argumentative/persuasive writing piece so opinion and voice are important. You are trying to convince the readers of your position.
MLA Style Bibliography.
A minimum of 2 colorful illustrations.
Technical aspects of paper (20%)
News Paper and banner headline Titles
Minimum number of Paragraphs
Spelling and Grammar
MLA Bibliography
Illustrations/Images
Content (80%)
See attached Rubric on classroom.
Total score ______/100 ____/10
The negro’s speaks of rivers
This essay will be the first in which you will use some sources. While it should primarily use passages from the poem to discuss as evidence, it should also reference 1-2 scholarly sources.
The essay should be in MLA essay format (see the sample essay for an example of an MLA formatted essay).
The essay must have an MLA format works cited list that cites all sources used.
The essay grading rubric can be found here.
Do not use the same poems you used previously for your initial post in weeks three and four. I will be checking.
Avoid any and all summary sites within your essay.
Use literary present and third person in your essay, as discussed in lesson two.
How power plays a role in Macbeth with evidence from the book and Power Play article
Considering the “Power Play” article, write an essay in which you evaluate power dynamics in the play “Macbeth.”
– Consider focusing on one character, multiple characters, static vs. dynamic power plays, gender roles analysis, social class differences, “good” vs “bad” power + leadership, etc.
– Remember to incorporate textual evidence from the play + article.
^power play article
Applied Managerial Finance
Key Assignment Draft Now that the product and promotional decisions have been made for the new product, Michelle is concerned about the pricing of the new product and the distribution channels that will be used to make the product available to customers. She has asked you to write a 2-3 page memo outlining two different pricing strategies that MM should consider. Her voice mail message goes on to say, I want you to recommend which strategy you think should be used for the target market and why. The second part of the memo should outline a distribution plan that will make the product available to the target customers. You are ready for Michelle’s request and begin drafting the memo to her that same day.
metaphors from Morgan’s writings
PLEASE ANSWER THIS QUESTION. ONLY 250 WORD
1. Discuss one the metaphors from Morgan’s writings (SEE ATTACHMENT) that applies to your own organizational context. From the perspective of a leader/manager, discuss the benefit of identifying the functionality of your organization through the lens of the selected metaphor. What do you learn about your organization using that metaphor? What do you learn about your role in the organization through recognizing the metaphor at work? USE THE DEPARTMENT OF JUVENILE JUSTICE AS THE ORGANIZATION. USE #4 off the attachment as the organizational perspective.
This forum is reflective (No citations/references required). First person is acceptable.
2. PLEASE RESPOND TO THIS DISCUSSION. ONLY 100 WORDS
My organization is in line with the machine metaphor. Morgan writes “Machine organizations are modelled on the military from which it borrowed ranks and uniforms, standardized regulations, task specialization, standardized equipment, systematic training, and command language.” Oddly enough because my organizations supports United States air force operations, it must act in a manner that will allow the objective, of providing airworthy aircraft. Looking at this from a management perspective there are tremendous benefit from adhering to a pre-determined set of rules and regulations. This mitigates or minimizes the risk factor when it comes to performing work in an industrial environment. Secondly the point about dividing labor is exactly how my organization is separated. While we all work together collectively to provide air worthy aircraft, we have different sections that are responsible for special systems on the aircraft, and one section which has overall responsibility. This organization operate as a hierarchy, however not as stringent as the military in that we do not have a rank structure. While we have different levels of mechanical ability, we all are responsible for even distribution of tasks and maintenance actions. On the negative side of this coin my organization runs well if things are operating in a smooth, or normal sense. However, when those currently in control of managing the assets are threatened, or challenged by a worker, or supervisor, they become irate, and begin to make poor, or ill-tempered decisions. This fosters, the idea of us vs them, instead of lets work together, in order to adapt, and overcome.
3. PLEASE RESPOND TO THIS DISCUSSION. ONLY 100 WORDS
From my perspective, the military is an organization of culture. Nearly everyone has the same entry point into the organization. Unlike a corporation it is very rare to have a leader come from the outside so the culture at the top should mirror the culture at the bottom with only slight generational differences. There are set rules for how to do almost everything. The traditions are long standing, some several hundred years old that we still utilize such as a change of command ceremony to identify who the current leader is of an organization in front of their people. The organization has it’s own set of laws, The Uniform Code of Military Justice, it’s own court system and in the case of most bases, it’s own small town complete with schools, churches, homes, gas stations, a commissary, and a mall called a base (or post) exchange.
My job in the organization is to provide constant opportunities for development to progress the individual’s performance as well as to provide guidance and stability to the families. Unlike other organizations, the family is a key part of the military culture. There is also the looser “family” term that refers to the brotherhood of service members.
Although, I believe that this is generally positive, I agree with the warning that “a cultural model can also lead to ideological control in the wrong hands” as we’ve seen in negative trends with some military units who have charismatic, but unethical leadership at the top who lead to either an allowance of or direct support of negative actions as we saw with the Abu Graib atrocities in Iraq a few years ago.
Summary of a Literary Non-Fiction Text
How It Feels to Be Colored Me
I AM COLORED but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother’s side was not an Indian chief.
I remember the very day that I became colored. Up to my thirteenth year I lived in the little Negro town of Eatonville l Florida. It is exclusively a colored town. The only white people I knew passed through the town going to or coming from Orlando. The native whites rode dusty horses l the Northern tourists chugged down the sandy village road in automobiles. The town knew the Southerners and never stopped cane chewing when they passed. But the Northerners were something else again. They were peered at cautiously from behind curtains by the timid. The more venturesome would come out on the porch to watch them go past and got just as much pleasure out of the tourists as the tourists got out of the village.
The front porch might seem a daring place for the rest of the town l but it was a gallery seat for me. My favorite place was atop the gate?post. Proscenium box for a born first?nighter. Not only did I enjoy the showl but I didn’t mind the actors knowing that I liked it. I usually spoke to them in passing. I’d wave at them and when they returned my salute l I would say something like this: “Howdy?do?well?I?thank?you?where?yougoin’?” Usually automobile or the horse paused at this l and after a queer exchange of compliments l I would probably “go a piece of the way” with them l as we say in farthest Florida. If one of my family happened to come to the front in time to see mel of course negotiations would be rudely broken off. But even SOl it is clear that I was the first “welcome?to? ourstate” Floridian, and I hope the Miami Chamber of Commerce will please take notice.
During this period, white people differed from colored to me only in that they rode through town and never lived there. They liked to hear me I I speak pieces” and sing and wanted to see me dance the parse?me?la, and gave me generously of their small silver for doing these things, which seemed strange to me for I wanted to do them so much that I needed bribing to stop, only they didn’t know it. The colored people gave no dimes. They deplored any joyful tendencies in me, but I was their lora nevertheless. I belonged to them, to the nearby hotelsl to the county? everybody’s lora.
But changes came in the family when I was thirteen, and I was sent to school in Jacksonville. I left Eatonville, the town of the oleanders, a lora. When I disembarked from the river?boat at Jacksonville, she was no
I AM COLORED but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother’s side was not an Indian chief.
I remember the very day that I became colored. Up to my thirteenth year I lived in the little Negro town of Eatonville l Florida. It is exclusively a colored town. The only white people I knew passed through the town going to or coming from Orlando. The native whites rode dusty horses l the Northern tourists chugged down the sandy village road in automobiles. The town knew the Southerners and never stopped cane chewing when they passed. But the Northerners were something else again. They were peered at cautiously from behind curtains by the timid. The more venturesome would come out on the porch to watch them go past and got just as much pleasure out of the tourists as the tourists got out of the village.
The front porch might seem a daring place for the rest of the town l but it was a gallery seat for me. My favorite place was atop the gate?post. Proscenium box for a born first?nighter. Not only did I enjoy the showl but I didn’t mind the actors knowing that I liked it. I usually spoke to them in passing. I’d wave at them and when they returned my salute l I would say something like this: “Howdy?do?well?I?thank?you?where?yougoin’?” Usually automobile or the horse paused at this l and after a queer exchange of compliments l I would probably “go a piece of the way” with them l as we say in farthest Florida. If one of my family happened to come to the front in time to see mel of course negotiations would be rudely broken off. But even SOl it is clear that I was the first “welcome?to? ourstate” Floridian, and I hope the Miami Chamber of Commerce will please take notice.
During this period, white people differed from colored to me only in that they rode through town and never lived there. They liked to hear me I I speak pieces” and sing and wanted to see me dance the parse?me?la, and gave me generously of their small silver for doing these things, which seemed strange to me for I wanted to do them so much that I needed bribing to stop, only they didn’t know it. The colored people gave no dimes. They deplored any joyful tendencies in me, but I was their lora nevertheless. I belonged to them, to the nearby hotelsl to the county? everybody’s lora.
But changes came in the family when I was thirteen, and I was sent to school in Jacksonville. I left Eatonville, the town of the oleanders, a lora. When I disembarked from the river?boat at Jacksonville, she was no
more. It seemed that I had suffered a sea change. I was not Zora of Orange County any more, I was now a little colored girl. I found it out in certain ways. In my heart as well as in the mirror, I became a fast brownwarranted not to rub nor run.
BUT I AM NOT tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. I do not be long to the sobbing school of Negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a lowdown dirty deal and whose feelings are all but about it. Even in the helter?skelter skirmish that is my life, I have seer that the world is to the strong regardless of a little pigmentation more of less. No, I do not weep at the world??! am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the grand daughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me. Slavery is sixty years in the past. The operation was successful and the patient is doing well, thank you. The terrible struggle that made me an American out of a potential slave said “On the line! ” The Reconstruction said “Get set! ” and the generation before said “Go! ” I am off to a flying start and I must not halt in the stretch to look behind and weep. Slavery is the price I paid for civilization, and the choice was not with me. It is a bully adventure and worthi.all that 1 have paid through my ancestors for it. No one on earth ever had a greater chance for glory. The world to be won and nothing to be lost. It is thrilling to think?to know that for any act of mine, I shall get twice as much praise or twice as much blame. It is quite exciting to hold the center of the national stage, with the spectators not knowing whether to laugh or to weep.
The position of my white neighbor is much more difficult. No brown specter pulls up a chair beside me when I sit down to eat. No dark ghost thrusts its leg against mine in bed. The game of keeping what one has is never so exciting as the game of getting.
I do not always feel colored. Even now? I often achieve the unconscious Zora of Eatonville before the Hegira. I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.
For instance at Barnard. “Beside the waters of the Hudson” I feel my race. Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept, but through it all, I remain myself. When covered by the waters, I am; and the ebb but reveals me again.
SOMETlfVlES IT IS the other way around. A white person is set down in our midst, but the contrast is just as sharp for me. For instance, when I sit in the drafty basement that is The New World Cabaret with a white person, my color comes. We enter chatting about any little nothing that we have in common and are seated by the jazz waiters. In the abrupt way that jazz orchestras have, this one plunges into a number. It loses no time in circumlocutions, but gets right down to business. It constricts the thorax
BUT I AM NOT tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. I do not be long to the sobbing school of Negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a lowdown dirty deal and whose feelings are all but about it. Even in the helter?skelter skirmish that is my life, I have seer that the world is to the strong regardless of a little pigmentation more of less. No, I do not weep at the world??! am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the grand daughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me. Slavery is sixty years in the past. The operation was successful and the patient is doing well, thank you. The terrible struggle that made me an American out of a potential slave said “On the line! ” The Reconstruction said “Get set! ” and the generation before said “Go! ” I am off to a flying start and I must not halt in the stretch to look behind and weep. Slavery is the price I paid for civilization, and the choice was not with me. It is a bully adventure and worthi.all that 1 have paid through my ancestors for it. No one on earth ever had a greater chance for glory. The world to be won and nothing to be lost. It is thrilling to think?to know that for any act of mine, I shall get twice as much praise or twice as much blame. It is quite exciting to hold the center of the national stage, with the spectators not knowing whether to laugh or to weep.
The position of my white neighbor is much more difficult. No brown specter pulls up a chair beside me when I sit down to eat. No dark ghost thrusts its leg against mine in bed. The game of keeping what one has is never so exciting as the game of getting.
I do not always feel colored. Even now? I often achieve the unconscious Zora of Eatonville before the Hegira. I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.
For instance at Barnard. “Beside the waters of the Hudson” I feel my race. Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept, but through it all, I remain myself. When covered by the waters, I am; and the ebb but reveals me again.
SOMETlfVlES IT IS the other way around. A white person is set down in our midst, but the contrast is just as sharp for me. For instance, when I sit in the drafty basement that is The New World Cabaret with a white person, my color comes. We enter chatting about any little nothing that we have in common and are seated by the jazz waiters. In the abrupt way that jazz orchestras have, this one plunges into a number. It loses no time in circumlocutions, but gets right down to business. It constricts the thorax
and splits the heart with its tempo and narcotic harmonies. This orchestra grows rambunctious, rears on its hind legs and attacks the tonal veil with primitive fury, rending it, clawing it until it breaks through to the jungle beyond. I follow those heathen?follow them exultingly. I dance wildly inside myself; I yell within, I whoop; I shake my assegai above my head, I hurl it true to the mark yeeeeooww! I am in the jungle and living in the jungle way. My face is painted red and yellow and my body is painted blue, My pulse is throbbing like a war drum. I want to slaughter something?give pain, give death to what, I do not know. But the piece ends. The men of the orchestra wipe their lips and rest their fingers. I creep back slowly to the veneer we call civilization with the last tone and find the white friend sitting motionless in his seat, smoking calmly.
“Good music they have here,” he remarks, drumming the table with his fingertips.
Music. The great blobs of purple and red emotion have not touched him. He has only heard what I felt. He is far away and I see him but dimly across the ocean and the continent that have fallen between us. He is so pale with his whiteness then and I am so colored.
AT CERTAIN TIMES I have no race, I am me. When I set my hat at a certain angle and saunter down Seventh Avenue, Harlem City, feeling as snooty as the lions in front of the Forty?Second Street Library, for instance. So far as my feelings are concerned, Peggy Hopkins Joyce on the Boule Mich with her gorgeous raiment, stately carriage, knees knocking together in a most aristocratic manner, has nothing on me. The cosmic Zora emerges. I belong to no race nor time. I am the eternal feminine with its string of beads.
I have no separate feeling about being an American citizen and colored. I am merely a fragment of the Great Soul that surges within the boundaries. My country, right or wrong.
Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.
But in the main, I feel like a brown bag of miscellany propped against a wall. Against a wall In company with other bags, white, red and yellow. Pour out the contents, and there is discovered a jumble of small, things priceless and worthless. A first?water diamond, an empty spool bits of broken glass, lengths of string, a key to a door long since crumbled away, a rusty knife?blade, old shoes saved for a road that never was and never will be, a nail bent under the weight of things too heavy for any nail, a dried flower or two still a little fragrant. in your hand is the brown bag. On the ground before you is the jumble it held?so much like the jumble in the bags could they be emptied that all might be dumped in a single heap and the bags refilled without altering the content of any greatly. A bit of
“Good music they have here,” he remarks, drumming the table with his fingertips.
Music. The great blobs of purple and red emotion have not touched him. He has only heard what I felt. He is far away and I see him but dimly across the ocean and the continent that have fallen between us. He is so pale with his whiteness then and I am so colored.
AT CERTAIN TIMES I have no race, I am me. When I set my hat at a certain angle and saunter down Seventh Avenue, Harlem City, feeling as snooty as the lions in front of the Forty?Second Street Library, for instance. So far as my feelings are concerned, Peggy Hopkins Joyce on the Boule Mich with her gorgeous raiment, stately carriage, knees knocking together in a most aristocratic manner, has nothing on me. The cosmic Zora emerges. I belong to no race nor time. I am the eternal feminine with its string of beads.
I have no separate feeling about being an American citizen and colored. I am merely a fragment of the Great Soul that surges within the boundaries. My country, right or wrong.
Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.
But in the main, I feel like a brown bag of miscellany propped against a wall. Against a wall In company with other bags, white, red and yellow. Pour out the contents, and there is discovered a jumble of small, things priceless and worthless. A first?water diamond, an empty spool bits of broken glass, lengths of string, a key to a door long since crumbled away, a rusty knife?blade, old shoes saved for a road that never was and never will be, a nail bent under the weight of things too heavy for any nail, a dried flower or two still a little fragrant. in your hand is the brown bag. On the ground before you is the jumble it held?so much like the jumble in the bags could they be emptied that all might be dumped in a single heap and the bags refilled without altering the content of any greatly. A bit of
colored glass more or less would not matter. Perhaps that is how the Great Stuffer of Bags filled them in the first place?who knows?
Mules and Men: Ways of Seeing
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Acute Vs. Long-Term Care
Acute and long-term care are two significantly different health service delivery models designed to meet different patient needs. Acute care facilities generally deal with immediate, generally urgent, medical needs, focusing on stabilizing the patient and discharging them as soon as possible. In contrast, long-term care facilities take an ongoing approach to care, as patients are often considered residents for varying periods of time.
To prepare for this Discussion, review this week’s Learning Resources. Consider your experience preparing for the Week 2 Application Assignment.
By Day 4
Post a comprehensive response to the following: 300 words
- What are at least two similarities and two differences between traditional hospital and nursing-home settings? What are some of the important practical effects of the similarities and differences?
- What are some of the alternatives to historical long-term care-delivery models?
Case study
◦What determination does a judge need to make before a defendant is allowed to represent himself or herself? ◦Did Judge Jet satisfy the requirements in the case of Leon Keller? ◦What Supreme Court decision established the right to represent oneself? What was the Court’s reasoning? 2.Explain what crimes indigent defendants have the right to the appointment of counsel. Do you agree with this? What would happen if there were no standards in place to provide representation to the indigent? 3.There are two ways in which unnecessary suggestiveness can be injected into a pretrial witness identification. List and explain the ways, and provide examples to illustrate. 4.Which of the three witness identification procedures can be challenged under the due process clause? Explain why this is this important for police officers to understand, and how these procedures surface in conjunction with police work.
Incident Action Plan Phase 1
Incident Action Plan [IAP] Phase 1 For this assignment, you will begin working on an Incident Action Plan (IAP), which is due in Unit VIII. There are five phases to the IAP. You will complete Phase 1 in this assignment. Refer to the FEMA Incident Action Planning Guide, specifically Phase 1. See Unit VIII assignment instructions for more details about the final requirements for the IAP. The incident action planning process will be a way for you to plan and execute operations on any incident that may occur within the community provided in the scenario. This means that incident action planning will be more than producing an IAP. It will be a set of activities in each unit that provides a consistent rhythm and structure to incident management of any type. In several units of this course, through the incident action planning process, you will begin developing a tool that will synchronize operations at the incident level to ensure that incident operations are conducted in support of incident objectives. The incident action planning process is built on the following phases: 1. understand the situation; 2. establish incident objectives; 3. develop the plan; 4. prepare and disseminate the plan; and 5. execute, evaluate, and revise the plan. During each phase, you will prepare a well-organized and thoughtful summary/narrative consisting of two sections. One section will consist of a one-to-two-page narrative for each phase of the IAP. In this assignment, your narrative will consist of your evaluation of Phase I of the IAP. Phase I covers the operational period, which is the period of time scheduled for executing a given set of operational actions as specified in the IAP. Chapter 4 of the textbook National incident management system: Principles and practice (pp. 45-46) defines the Operational Period and the specific incident mission requirements needed to begin Phase 1. The second section of your summary/narrative will consist of at least three pages in which you address the following: If or when the Finance/Administration Section should be established during an emergency incident; If the emergency incident requires a Finance/Administration section, determine when it should have pre-established agreements, contracts, and a procedural process with local vendors, suppliers, and contractors on equipment and/or supplies that could be required during the emergency; If the emergency incident does not require a Finance/Administration section, determine why it does not need preestablished agreements, contracts, and a procedural process with local vendors, suppliers, and contractors on equipment and/or supplies that could be required during the emergency; and Explain the importance of a budget for fire and emergency medical services (EMS) administration in preparation for emergency incidents For Phase 1, retrieve ICS Form 201: Incident Briefing from the IAP Assignment Documents folder in the course menu on Blackboard and begin entering the data from the background information documents and the scenario you choose. This information and other resources will enable you to complete Phase I of the IAP. Check with your instructor if you are having difficulty with any section of the form. You will choose one event from the different incident scenarios that could occur on Little Columbia Southern Island. Please click here to view the scenarios. The background information will be the same for all five events; however, the emergency event will be different. The five incident scenarios are: fire-related emergency, storm-related emergency, public health-related emergency, environmental-related emergency, and mass shooter incident. In addition, you are provided photos of various places on Little Columbia Southern Island to help you evaluate the conditions for the scenario you choose. MSE 5201, Advanced Fire Administration 3 Click here for access to bay homes photos. Click here for a map of the island. Click here for northern side of island photos. Click here for middle of island home photos. Click here for south side of island photos. Click here for unimproved roads photos. Refer to these documents for this assignment as well as all other assignments when completing the IAP. Use any available resource that your community has available as if it were Columbia County. For instance, if your county has 23 fire apparatus equipment, then make them available if needed for Columbia County, or if your county has a mobile medical clinic and it is part of your plan then list it on the form. These resources will be listed on ICS Form 201. The purpose of this assignment is for you to apply the concepts and knowledge you learned in this unit to begin writing the IAP. Also, this assignment provides you with the opportunity to use your skills, expertise, and experience to enrich your response. To supplement your discussion and support your writing, you may use information from reputable, reliable journal articles, case studies, scholarly papers, and other sources that you feel are pertinent. You should use at least three sources that can include one or both of your textbooks. All sources used, including the textbook(s), must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations in proper APA style. Both the summary/narrative and the completed ICS Form 202 should be uploaded into the assignment area in Blackboard
Public Health-Related Emergency Scenario Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) One of the island residents returned to the island after being overseas and volunteering in several rural hospitals. During this time, the person was unknowingly carrying Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). The man spoke at several island events during a seven day period and at neighboring humanitarian events throughout Columbia County. He even spoke at a July 4th event on the island where just under a thousand visitors made contact with him during the two-day event to raise money for another humanitarian trip. The next day, he suddenly became ill with shortness of breath, flu-like symptoms, gastrointestinal discomfort, muscle ache, and a cough. Over a two-day period, several more people on the island began complaining of similar symptoms to include lethargy and a sore throat. There was a small red tide outbreak that causes the same symptoms in many patients. Paramedics from Little Columbia Southern Island Fire Department responded to the emergency and a patient was transported via boat to the closest hospital. As a result of the red tide bloom, many patients believed the symptoms were just that. The local hospital misdiagnosed SARs as the side effects of the red tide bloom and released the patient to return to the island. As a result, the disease spread rapidly throughout the tight-knit community with a total of 12 deaths. M
Background and Scenarios for Incident Action Plan Project Little Columbia Southern Island Physical Attributes and Infrastructure Little Columbia Southern Island is a bridgeless barrier island located off the Southwest Coast of the United States. The nearest municipality is a one hour drive from the Columbia Coastal Marina, which then takes 45 minutes to reach the island by ferry or boat. The water between the mainland and the island is designated as a protected wildlife zone by the U. S. Fish and Game Commission. All boat traffic is limited to 15 mph per hour. The island is approximately seven miles in length and varies between 1/8 and 3/8 miles wide. The length and width of the island changes as currents erode and deposit sand along the shoreline. The only vehicles/equipment on the island are electric golf carts used by the residents, one 1930 jeep used to grade the main road, a Coastal Power & Light truck, one sea plane, and fire department apparatus. There are no commercial stores or facilities on the island, which includes food or other amenities. The governing body of the island is an Advisory Board with one person elected from each district of the island representing 2,724 residents. The island is divided equally into five different districts. The advisory board communicates concerns, problems or issues to the Columbia County Commissioner who represents the island. All Advisory Board and community meetings are held in the Coastal Chapel on the island. Rarely do the island residents attend any of the County Commission meetings due to the time and distance to the meetings held on the mainland. The Advisory Board provides a summary list of the issues and considerations for their County Commissioner to present at various hearings and meetings. The island is divided into three distinct mindsets. The northern end of the island will not utilize any governmental agency and refuses to have potable water connected to their homes. The middle of the island is made up of rental properties along the coast and bay. The southern part of the island is made up of residents who have a vision for change by developing the infrastructure to include water and sewer from the mainland. The majority of the island is single-family homes with two condominium developments; combined, both condominiums have 300 units. The condominiums on the bay are protected by a sprinkler system that is supplied from a fire pump connected to the island’s only pond. The island has no public use or facilities for public access. The road system consists of unimproved paths and dirt roads which are maintained by the residents. Many of the unimproved paths and dirt roads only allow vehicular access that is limited to the width of a golf cart. The main roadway system that runs the length of the island will accommodate fire apparatus and the island’s utility truck. Residents that live on the bay side have privately owned docks that extend out past the shallow flats for access to their home. Many of those homes are only accessible from the dock and water. There is only one dock that will accommodate the ferry and fire boat from Columbia County Emergency Services. The ferry is mainly used for transporting people and household garbage from the island to the Columbia Coastal Marina. The infrastructure is very limited with Coastal Power & Light providing electricity and the Coastal Telephone Company providing phone services. Cellular phone coverage is limited due to a lack of cellular towers within close range. Potable water is provided by a privately-owned water company (owned by one of the island residents). The privately-owned water company has a deep well that provides water to 10% of the island residents through a 3-inch water main with 1 ½ inch branches. The four fire hydrants located in the southern part of the island are fed from the fire pump. All the homes in the northern section of the island have individual cisterns that rely on rain as their source of water. Some homes have shallow wells and a reverse osmosis desalinization plant that provides water to 38% of the residents and condominiums. Single-family homes are on septic tanks and drain field systems, except the condominiums which has a wastewater treatment system. All parcels of the island are privately owned by the residents and there are 745 platted lots ranging in various sizes from one tenth of an acre to five acres. The majority of the homes and structures have native vegetation within five feet and no fuel reduction buffers. Several of the residents have pushed for community awareness regarding Firewise principles and a defensible space, keeping wildfire away from homes and structures, but it has been met with resistance. They want the native vegetation to remain in place to have the old coastal look. Part of the concern from those aware of the fire danger are weather patterns and available firefighting resources that would influence the ability to control the fire quickly. Emergency Services Emergency medical services are provided by the Little Columbia Southern Island Fire Department. The fire department has two fulltime career personnel which includes the fire chief and a firefighter/paramedic. Four volunteers from the community provide assistance to the fire department on emergency incidents. The fire department is funded through a non-ad valorem assessment levied on each property and contributions from island residents and visitors during special events held on the island. Law enforcement is provided by the Columbia County Sheriff’s Department. The Little Columbia Southern Island Fire Department was formed after a fatal fire that killed four island residents. The delayed response from Columbia County Emergency Services to the fire occurred after the 9-1-1 call was dropped. The fire was so intense that fire investigators from the State could not determine the cause. Following that fire incident, the island’s Advisory Board met and demanded fire protection. After several meetings with their County Commissioner a solution was proposed to provide limited fire protection and emergency services from the county. The Little Columbia Southern Island Fire Department was able to maintain on-duty status of at least one or more persons 24 hours per day, 7 days a week. In addition, the fire department had to initiate measures to control the emergency while the county provided a full response to the incident, if needed. The Little Columbia Southern Island Fire Department had to also submit a proposed budget for approval during the budgetary process beginning each October 1st. The island’s Advisory Board also serves as the Fire Board with oversight for the fire department. The total budget for the fire department is $220,057.78. Twenty thousand dollars is raised by the volunteers and Advisory Board from the sale of tee-shirts and hats during special events on the island. The fire department is temporarily using one of the rental homes on the island as their station. The station has a small generator which provides power to the radio, refrigerator, and some emergency lights during power outages. Most emergency calls are received by a cellular phone which is carried by the on-duty person at the fire station. Many residents do not trust the Columbia County 9-1-1 Public Address System (PAS) since the communications center dropped the emergency call that resulted in the fatal fire. The fire department utilizes two all-wheel drive pickup trucks converted to fire apparatus and two all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) to access the beach and remote areas of the island. Environmental-Related Emergency Scenario Red Tide Along the coastal area of Little Columbia Southern Island, the largest red tide bloom in more than five decades occurred, killing thousands of fish. Long-term island residents have never seen such a magnitude of devastation to the fish and marine organisms as is occurring with this bloom. As the dead fish and marine organisms begin to wash ashore, many of the residents have begun to develop health issues. According to the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, the Department of Environmental Protection,
and the Columbia Marine Laboratory, this red tide bloom threat is expected to last for three months. A researcher with the Ocean Technology program at the Columbia Marine Laboratory suggested that the phenomenon of red tide blooms has existed for centuries and many times the bloom remains offshore. However, this bloom is impacting the health and safety of residents and commercial fishing for the entire coastal area. The Department of Environmental Protection obtained a sample of the red tide bloom and discovered the bloom is the harmful algal bloom (HAB). As a result, multiple manatees, sea turtles, and bottlenose dolphins are being washed up on the northern side of the island. Columbia County health officials, the Department of Environmental Protection, and the Columbia Marine Laboratory have issued warnings of brevetoxin exposure from the HAB. However, each agency’s warning does not exactly contain the same information. Nonetheless, they all agree that inhalation of aerosolized toxins or the consumption of any fish or marine life in the area may be dangerous to one’s health. They stated clinical symptom signs are respiratory illnesses followed by lethargy and muscle weakness including death. They have ordered a voluntary evacuation; however, residents of the island refuse to leave. The Department of Environmental Protection and health officials began monitoring the potable water from the reverse osmosis desalinization system and found HAB have penetrated the purification semipermeable membrane, allowing the toxin to be disseminated into the potable water. In fact, several residents had complained that the potable water tasted salty at times and county officials refused to investigate the complaints because of it being a private system. Within a week after the red tide bloom began to occur, 45 deaths resulted from people drinking the water and eating shellfish from the bay.
Kinesic Interviewing
Assignment: Provide 500 – 600 words for each of the prompts below –Essay Questions:
1. Describe a brief profile of the mentally disturbed subject that enables the interrogator to classify the subject as possibly being a psychotic.
2. Write a brief treatment on schizophrenia (as mental illness and as a fractured or shattered personality) and use the four main categories of schizophrenic characteristics in your essay.
3. There is an extensive list of brain diseases in your text. Select one of them. Go on the Internet and research the expected behaviors resulting from the damage they can do to the brain and write two paragraphs describing the behaviors of this brain disease, then relate how an interrogator would identify the disease during interaction with the subject.
4. Describe the action the interrogator should take once he or she has been alerted by the subject’s kinesic behavior to a possible risk of suicide.
1. Describe a brief profile of the mentally disturbed subject that enables the interrogator to classify the subject as possibly being a psychotic.
2. Write a brief treatment on schizophrenia (as mental illness and as a fractured or shattered personality) and use the four main categories of schizophrenic characteristics in your essay.
3. There is an extensive list of brain diseases in your text. Select one of them. Go on the Internet and research the expected behaviors resulting from the damage they can do to the brain and write two paragraphs describing the behaviors of this brain disease, then relate how an interrogator would identify the disease during interaction with the subject.
4. Describe the action the interrogator should take once he or she has been alerted by the subject’s kinesic behavior to a possible risk of suicide.