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Directions: Choose one of the prompts below to complete the assigned taske.  Prompt 1: Methane emissions from cows are a significant contributor to climate change. Cattle release methane primarily through enteric fermentation (a digestive process) and manure management. This issue represents a market failure, as the environmental costs of methane emissions (negative externalities) are not reflected in the market price of beef and dairy products. Prompt 2: The decline in college enrollment and graduation rates in recent years has raised concerns about its long-term economic and societal impact. A well-educated workforce contributes to higher productivity, increased wages, and reduced social inequality, yet many individuals face financial, structural, and informational barriers to accessing and completing college. This issue represents a market failure because positive externalities, such as economic growth, lower unemployment, and improved civic engagement are not fully reflected in the market price of education.  Task:  Design an economic policy to solve one of the above market failures. For your approach, you must: Explain how the policy works and why it might be effective. (2 points) Analyze its impact on supply and demand—Will demand increase or decrease? Change in quantity demanded? (2 Points) Analyze its impact on price and quantity—Will prices rise or fall? Will quantity increase or decrease? (2 Points) Evaluate potential trade-offs—What are the possible downsides or unintended consequences of each approach? Are there other policies that can achieve the same effect? (2 Points)

Discussion. Choose ONE of the following quotes to respond to. Then, write one well-developed paragraph explaining the significance of the quote to an important theme in the text. Be sure to specifically identify the theme in the topic sentence of your paragraph. Use specific details / examples to explain your point.    Quotation 1: “Our parents wanted something better for us; they wanted us to get braces, use towels, be fulling bilingual. When the nuns showed up, our parents couldn’t refuse their offer. The nuns, they said, would make us naturalized citizens of human society. We would go to St. Lucy’s to study a better culture. We didn’t know at the time that our parents were sending us away for good. Neither did they.”    Quotation 2: ““You know that question I asked you before,” he said, “how a man is remembered after he’s gone? I know the answer now. I know because I remember my father, who was a very poor struggling man all his life. I remember him as a man that I would never want to be.”   Quotation 3: “She would have been a good woman,” The Misfit said, “if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.”   Quotation 4: “Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgment, to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such?”   Quotation 5: “Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town.”   Quotation 6: “Sitting beside a young woman who in the dawn seemed so lovely, soothed and spellbound in these magical surroundings—the sea, mountains, clouds, the open sky—Gurov thought how in reality everything is beautiful in this world when one reflects: everything except what we think or do ourselves when we forget our human dignity and the higher aims of our existence.”   Quotation 7: “I wait for you to complete the voyage into yourself, for the old wounds to heal. I know that when you return from your nightmares, we shall again walk hand in hand, as before.”    

Access your textbook to answer the following question. At this time, practice accessing/viewing your course textbook whether it is in electronic format and/or in hard copy printed format.   What is the name of the “agency administrator at Vicar Health Care” referenced in the Chapter 1 Case Study, Page 29?

Choose one of the two topics to plan and write a paragraph. 1. Name a specific store you like or dislike and explain 3 reasons why you like it or dislike it.  (choose only “like” or “dislike”, not both. The store can be in the U.S., in your native country, or in another country.  You need to give the name for the store.) 2. Give 3 suggestions to students who are going to take Writing III online next semester. Paragraph outline: topic sentence (complete sentence): supporting ideas 1: details: supporting ideas 2: details: supporting ideas 3: details:

What is the medication’s scheduled classification for controlled substances?

Which route of drug absorption has the greatest bioavailability?

The nurse is giving a large initial dose of a drug to rapidly achieve minimum effective concentration in the plasma.  What is this type of dosage called?

A nurse is administering a medication to a 70-year-old patient who has decreased liver and kidney function. The nurse understands that these factors may affect the distribution of the drug in the patient’s body. Which of the following is the most likely consequence of these physiological changes in the distribution process?

Which organ is primarily involved in the metabolism of medications?

In a large business hotel, [a]% of the guests read the Los Angeles Times, and only [b]% read the Wall Street Journal. Five present of guests read both papers. Suppose we select a hotel guest at random, what is the probability the person reads neither paper? Make a Venn diagram.