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The Civil Rights Movement

Textbook: Chapter 28, 29, 30
Lesson
Minimum of 1 primary source
Minimum of 4 scholarly sources (in addition to the textbook)
Address the corresponding questions/prompts for your selected topic. Use at least one (1)
documented example of the corresponding primary source in your writing.

Using the Internet, locate and read Martin Luther King Jr’s “I Have a Dream” speech given in
Washington D.C., August 1963. Copy and paste the following keywords into your Google search
bar: “I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr.” Feel free also to locate and incorporate
additional scholarly sources to respond to this case study, including information on the Civil
Rights Movement.
Construct the case study by responding to the following prompts:
Explain if the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s effectively changed the nation.
What effect would the Civil Rights Acts have across the continent on minority groups?
Do you think that the tactics and strategies that civil rights activists used in the 1960s would
apply to today’s racial and ethnic conflicts? Why or why not?
Do the ideas of the 1960s still have relevance today? If so how? If not, why not?
Analyze how the Civil Rights Movement would impact diversity in America today.

Patient Falls

Part 1
Why does negligence occur in the healthcare setting?
Is negligence an ethical challenge for the health care system?
What are the consequences of negligence in the healthcare settings?
When a patient with Medicare coverage falls out of bed, who pays for treatment of the fall-related
health issues?
What is a list of ‘reasonably preventable’ mistakes, termed ‘never-events’?

Part 2

Summarize the facts in Harkins v. Natchitoches Parish Hospital.
Further, discuss the impact this failure to exercise reasonable care had on internal and external
stakeholders.
Examine the legal implications related to the healthcare organization compliance.
Review any legal requirements associated with the case such as, for example, reporting
requirements.
Analyze the ethical implications associated with the case. Be sure not to confuse ethical and
legal implications.
Discuss the problem of items on the patient parking lot that are dangerous for being tripping on,
especially if such items are hidden in the grass and not easily visible.
Use the Joint Commission Framework for Conducting a Root Cause Analysis template to
prepare a root cause analysis of an adverse event in Harkins v. Natchitoches Parish Hospital.

Neoliberalism in Brazil

Question: For the past three decades transnational development institutions (WB, IMF, WTO)
insisted that neoliberal free-market policies were the best policy alternative to foster development
in countries in the Global South. Brazil a country of the Global South that adopted these policies
to answer the following question: did neoliberal development policies have a positive or a
negative impact on human development in Brazil?
Your answer should provide a) a brief historical review of the development profile of the country;
b) describe the specific neoliberal policies that were implemented; c) discuss their impact on the
country’s human development.
About essay:
It must be organized around a clear argument (thesis statement) addressing the essay question.
The discussion must be presented in the context of the issues and concepts discussed in class,
and must integrate relevant sources from class readings.

It should contain an introduction, a thesis statement (in bold), a main body, and a concluding
paragraph. Each paragraph must be clearly structured around a topic sentence (in bold).
Discussion of the THREE most important academic sources in the bibliography:
Indicate the following for each of these three sources: why is this source useful/relevant for your
essay? What is the main argument? What kind of data or argument from this source will you be
using? You should write around 250 words for each source. Note: at least one of these three
sources must be published after 2010.
Bibliography:
List EIGHT scholarly sources that directly relate to your topic, using proper academic referencing
style. Include books, book chapters, and articles from academic journals (as opposed to
newspaper or magazine articles) indicating the library call numbers for each source. You may
also include a maximum of two documents produced by governments and/or development
institutions