The practice of health care providers at all levels brings you into contact with people from a variety of faiths. This calls for knowledge and understanding of a diversity of faith expressions; for the purpose of this course, the focus will be on the Christian worldview.

Based on “Case Study: End of Life Decisions,” the Christian worldview, and the worldview questions presented in the required topic study materials you will complete an ethical analysis of George’s situation and his decision from the perspective of the Christian worldview.

Provide a 1,500-2,000-word ethical analysis while answering the following questions:

1. How would George interpret his suffering in light of the Christian narrative, with an emphasis on the fallenness of the world?
2. How would George interpret his suffering in light of the Christian narrative, with an emphasis on the hope of resurrection?
3. As George contemplates life with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), how would the Christian worldview inform his view about the value of his life as a person?
4. What sorts of values and considerations would the Christian worldview focus on in deliberating about whether or not George should opt for euthanasia?
5. Given the above, what options would be morally justified in the Christian worldview for George and why?
6. Based on your worldview, what decision would you make if you were in George’s situation?

Remember to support your responses with the topic study materials.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is required.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

Week 2 Assignment: Journal

Submit Assignment

• Due Sunday by 11:59pm
• Points 35
• Submitting a file upload

Required Resources
Read/review the following resources for this activity:

• Textbook: Chapter 4, 5
• Lesson

Instructions
Remember – these journal questions require more thinking than writing. Think about exactly what you are asked to do, and then write as economically as possible. 

For this journal assignment, answer each of the following prompts:

• Important Idea
  • Considering only the Introduction to Chapter 5, in terms of developing critical thinking and reasoning, what do you consider is the most valuable and important idea in that section? You can either summarize or directly quote the text; then, briefly explain why you find this idea important and valuable.
• Critical Thinking
  • In Chapter 5, the section “Making Arguments” states: “In some ways applying our core critical thinking skills to analysis can be more difficult than offering an evaluative opinion. Analysis, like interpretation, is understanding at a deep level (p. 89)”
    • What concepts discussed in Chapter 4 might make analysis of a statement difficult – and why?
• Beliefs
  • Why do you believe what you believe?
  • What is your “evidence”?
  • Test one of your beliefs by asking yourself, “Why?” As you answer each “why,” go down another layer – four layers will probably give you a good idea of why you believe what you believe.
  • Your product should show a well-reasoned and logical basis for your belief. Stay away from the big stuff, like believing in God, or who to vote for in the next election, and don’t look for sources – this is about what you believe and why you believe it. After all, this is only an 8-week course, and we can’t settle everything!
  • Click on the following link for an example of layers of why:

Link: Example of Layers of Why

Note

Don’t be tempted to skip steps. If you start with layer 5, you have just opened up a whole new line of “whys.” For example, why should everyone be afforded an opportunity to reach his or her highest potential? After all, for most of the history of the world, that has not been the case.

If you include references to outside sources (beyond the textbook), make sure you cite them properly.

Writing Requirements (APA format)

• Length: 2 pages (not including title page or references page)
• 1-inch margins
• Double spaced
• 12-point Times New Roman font
• Title page
• References page (as needed)

Grading
This activity will be graded using the Journal Grading Rubric.

Course Outcomes (CO): 1, 4, 6

Due Date: By 11:59 p.m. MT on Sunday

Rubric

Journal Grading Rubric – 35 ptsJournal Grading Rubric – 35 ptsCriteriaRatingsPtsThis criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeLength5.0 ptsMeets length requirement0.0 ptsDoes not meet length requirement5.0 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeContent Reflection15.0 ptsReflection demonstrates a high degree of critical thinking in applying, analyzing, and evaluating key course concepts and theories from readings, lectures, media, discussions activities, and/or assignments. Insightful and relevant connections made through contextual explanations, inferences, and examples.12.75 ptsReflection demonstrates some degree of critical thinking in applying, analyzing, and/or evaluating key course concepts and theories from readings, lectures, media, discussions activities, and/or assignments. Connections made through explanations, inferences, and/or examples.11.25 ptsReflection demonstrates limited critical thinking in applying, analyzing, and/or evaluating key course concepts and theories from readings, lectures, media, discussions, activities, and/or assignments. Minimal connections made through explanations, inferences, and/or examples.9.0 ptsReflection lacks critical thinking. Superficial connections are made with key course concepts and course materials, activities, and/or assignments.0.0 ptsLittle or no reflection; copies or repeats text or lecture.15.0 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomePersonal Growth10.0 ptsConveys strong evidence of reflection on own work with a personal response to the self-assessment questions posed. Demonstrates significant personal growth and awareness of deeper meaning through inferences made, examples, well developed insights, and substantial depth in perceptions and challenges. Synthesizes current experience into future implications.8.5 ptsConveys evidence of reflection on own work with a personal response to the self-assessment questions posed. Demonstrates satisfactory personal growth and awareness through some inferences made, examples, insights, and challenges. Some thought of the future implications of current experience.7.5 ptsConveys limited evidence of reflection on own work in response to the self-assessment questions posed. Demonstrates less than adequate personal growth and awareness through few or simplistic inferences made, examples, insights, and/or challenges that are not well developed. Minimal thought of the future implications of current experience.6.0 ptsConveys inadequate evidence of reflection on own work in response to the self-assessment questions posed. Personal growth and awareness are not evident and/or demonstrates a neutral experience with negligible personal impact. Lacks enough inferences, examples, personal insights and challenges, and/or future implications are overlooked.0.0 ptsNo evidence of reflection.10.0 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeWriting Quality5.0 ptsWell written and clearly organized using standard English, characterized by elements of a strong writing style and basically free from grammar, punctuation, usage, and spelling errors.4.25 ptsAbove average writing style and logically organized using standard English with minor errors in grammar, punctuation, usage, and spelling.3.75 ptsAverage and/or casual writing style that is sometimes unclear and/or with some errors in grammar, punctuation, usage, and spelling.3.0 ptsPoor writing style lacking in standard English, clarity, language used, and/or frequent errors in grammar, punctuation, usage, and spelling. Needs work.0.0 ptsLacks coherence; errors in grammar, usage and spelling interfere with readability and understanding to significant degree.5.0 pts
Total Points: 35.0PreviousNext

The case study has been added as a powerpoint. 

Read the assigned Chapter and address the following prompts. (Please read the guidelines below before posting.)

1. Summarize the case.
2. What benefits did the case point out?
3. What are some consequences/risks of this case?
4. What would you suggest to further improve this process or extend it to other industries?

Full and clear answer to the  prompt(s) using standard English grammar and spelling (remember these  should be your initial ideas; do not look up your answers in the text or  elsewhere) (250-word minimum)

Essay One: Beginning to Philosophize

Richard Schumaker

Please respond to one and one only of the following questions in a carefully written essay of 3-6 pages.  

Your essay should have a formal introduction, body, and conclusion.  

Before writing the paper,  you should read Plato’s Cave, The Apology, The Symposium, and view our class videos.  Also, search the Web to see many graphic versions of the Cave.

Please be sure to use a cover sheet that has an image and a title that reflect the thesis of your paper.

In the introduction to your essay, please underline the 1-2 sentence main idea of the paper

1.  Identify and describe the four main parts of Plato’s Cave.  Show how each part has relevance to your life.  Be very specific about places, dates, and people.

2.  What are the three most important themes in Plato’s account of the interior of the Cave?  Please identify and describe with quotations from the text.  Finally, show how each of these themes is relevant to life today.

3.  Find at least four drawings of the Cave—not counting the ones we did in class which are masterpieces and have few faults.   Identify three aspects of Plato’s Cave as described in Republic VII that are seldom if ever included in the drawings that one sees.  Why do you think these aspects are omitted?

4. Extra-credit.  Draw a scene from the Life of Socrates as we have studied it so far in this class.  Here is what someone else a while back submitted:

MULTI TENANCY AND VIRTUALIZATION

All the time SaaS application can scale higher if it’s planned from the base up to require care of multi-occupancy issues love application customization and data security separation and sticking to the rule of limiting hard-authoritative of runtime processing assets to particular occupants. In any case, re-executing partner degree application completely isn’t perpetually a suitable plausibility for the SaaS ISV toward the begin, perhaps because of time-to-showcase confinements or because of there’s a need to rapidly demonstrate that the SaaS advertise request exist while not back an extreme measure of in re-designing exertion. In some of these things, virtualization innovation will encourage address multi-occupancy issues to a specific degree.

Notwithstanding SaaS ISVs, multi-occupancy issues conjointly affect SaaS holsters UN office are facilitating ISV applications. Assets inside the facilitating environment ought to be quickly parceled off and shared among the facilitated ISV inhabitants, while in the meantime regard the execution and security detachment limits set between very surprising applications. Here once more, virtualization innovation will encourage address some of the multi-tenure wants that SaaS hostlers have.

To date, there are numerous assortments of item and arrangements that claim to supply virtualization abilities, with very some encouraging quick courses to the on-request programming bundle conveyance advertise. it’s fundamental to comprehend that not all virtualization arrangements are made equivalent. in spite of the fact that most virtualization item will play a region in conveying SaaS, it’s essential that the best possible sensibly virtualization innovation is utilized to deal with the appropriate multi-occupancy issue.

Virtual machine innovation gives an equipment copying layer over the $64000 equipment all together that it’s feasible to run various duplicates of server in activity frameworks inside one physical machine. Physical equipment adores organize card and plate stockpiling is shared between the virtual programming framework occurrences. The Microsoft Virtual Server item fits into this class of innovation. A few holsters utilize virtual machine innovation to combine and cut back the measure of physical machines that they have to oversee, which may conjointly curtail the size of the required data focus floor zone. When all is said in done, it’s still very insufficient for SaaS ISV to depend upon virtual machine innovation to fulfill their multi-occupancy wants, given the very reality that it’s troublesome to ask very some virtual cases of in task frameworks running on each physical machine. Envision a SaaS ISV with countless buying in inhabitants – giving each occupant their own virtual machine occurrence isn’t a truly esteem viable multi-inhabitant reply. There are after all special cases to the present proclamation, especially inside the case wherever the inhabitant could be a mammoth endeavor customer and wouldn’t fret paying indispensable further greenbacks to shroud the cost of finding partner degree restrictive solution sent on discrete OS occurrences. On the contrary hand, virtual machine arrangements are horrendously profitable to SaaS hoisters giving facilitating administrations to SaaS ISVs. each virtual machine occasion grants individual SaaS ISV to tack together the product framework and introduce the best possible application stage that their answers might want. for example, relate degree ISV will tack together their virtual machine occasion to run Windows 2003 Enterprise version with Active Directory and furthermore the Kerberos Protocol change include turned on while not causing security-related unwell impacts to the next ISV’s application.

Reply 2

Multi-tenancy:

Multi-tenancy is an important technique used in the cloud. Each client or customer is called as a tenant. Here multiple customers are served by an instance of the application by resource sharing. In cloud service, the infrastructure and the software are shared across multiple clients. Based on the service model’s multi-tenancy can be implemented. Infrastructure as a service (IaaS): Here the infrastructure is shared among multiple clients. Platform as a service (PaaS): Here the Operating service and networking are shared among multiple clients. Software as a Service(SaaS): Here the software is shared among multiple clients.

Virtualization:

Virtualization shares physical infrastructure with multiple customers. The main use of virtualization in cloud technology is to provide the application to users. Using virtualization, the software application needed by other cloud providers are maintained by the third party and the cloud providers pay money for it.

The benefits of the virtualization for the companies are

• It requires less physical servers
• It reduces the energy cost and the maintenance
• It increases the security of the network
• It enables the data to move to the cloud.

Multi-tenancy and Virtualization difference:

In virtualization, multiple copies can be hosted by the single server. These copies can be supplied to different users. Each copy can be configured it independently and can use own OS and application. In multi-tenancy, the application is designed in such a way that it can be used by multiple users. Here the information regarding configuration cannot be accessed or configured their own. The users can customize the application.