Addition to Assignment3.9

Dr.Kaufman, Here is the introductory letter you asked me to write.

3431 Amber Bay Loop
Anchorage, AK 99515
August 11, 2007



Mrs. Laura Valinske
Practice Manager
Providence Behavioral Medicine Group
3260 Providence Drive, Tower C, Suite 422
Anchorage,AK 99508

Dear Mrs. Valinske:

Sandy Hobbs at the Wasilla location of Providence Behavioral Medicine Group indicates that you are interested in hiring and Administrative Coordinator. The degree that I am working on will enhance my work experience in this field. Please consider me for the position of Administrative Assistant within your office.

During my last two and a half years I have received two advancements, bringing me to Administrative Coordinator. My responsibilities include:

• Create and monitor processes and procedures
• Analyze financial spreadsheets
• Coordinate doctor's schedules to ensure financial targets are met
• Budget management

I have an Associates of Applied Science in Medical Office Administration. With a concentration in Billing and Coding. I am nearly finished with my Bachelors of Science in Information Technology Management. With this level of education, I will be able to offer new ideas to incorporate into the current clinic practices.

I am confident that I can make a positive contribution to Providence Behavioral Medicine Group. I have enclosed a copy of my resume for your review. I will contact you next Wednesday to request an appointment or you may reach me at 907-677-0765. Thank you for considering my request. I look forward to hearing from you.

Respectfully,

Angel Stanley

Enclosures

cc:Sandy Hobbs, Providence Behavioral Medicine Group-Wasilla

Assignment 8.2

I chose to write about "Surviving Chronic E-mail Fatigue."

What is Chronic E-Mail Fatigue? It's where you constantly check your email, you may hit the "check for email" button in the hopes that there is an incoming message for you to read. You probably check your email right when you get up, probably before taking a shower or having a cup of coffee, and check it right before you go to bed. You may check it hoping for something more interesting to do or read instead of what you are presently doing. But most likely, it will just be junk mail.

With the invention of email, we have opened ourselves to a world of unwanted, un-asked for junk mail. If you enter a website your address is listed on their site, and then you are running the change of spam and virus'.

It is highly advised that you get spam filtering on your computer to avoid these things. Your IP may offer it as an included service.

If you are truly addicted to E-mail, see signs listed above, then it is advised that you set specific times to check your email and stick to it.

So the next time you hear the little ringing and the words, "you've got mail." stop and think before you act. Is it time to read your email? If so, is it anything interesting really? If not, have your address removed from their mailing list.

Assignment 8.1

The questions are: who gets to be an American. When, why and how. Basically the consensus is that "everyone wants immigration policies that contribute to a society that is consistent with American ideals." How that is achieved is an ongoing discussion that I am sure will not be solved anytime soon.

The ongoing stereotype is that Hispanics are stupid. They are getting married to US citizens in order to stay in the country...although one has to stop and think...is that really stupid? Not really. But now that the US has started withholding citizenship until the couple has been married and then can pass a very hard exam about the other, perhaps that will give people pause to think before they jump right into marriage. Perhaps it will cause people to marry for the right reason, not just to gain citizenship.

There are common ground concerns regarding immigration. Immigrants will take all of our jobs, increase the population thereby straining city and state budgets. Increasing taxes by way of increasing the need for unemployment benefits, more money needed for schooling...etc. Yet we certainly aren't shy about exploiting the immigrants by hiring them for lower than livable wages. I think this creates a problem of the people needing to be on public assistance.

Why shouldn't a person be free to live where ever they want to or are able to achieve the lifestyle they desire. Who's right is it to decide they can or can't live there? What gives Government that right? "We should reexamine our founding principles of freedom, why we abandoned them and should we restore them.

Immigration has increased dramatically. To reduce immigration the following ideas were offered: limit family immigration, eliminate the parents of US citizens, eliminate the VISA lottery, tighten requirements for employment and humanitarian based immigration.

So, who should be citizens and what does it mean to be a good citizen? Anyone who can contribute positively to society and support themselves, and their family should be allowed to be citizens.

Assignment 3.9

This is a copy of my resume:

Angel Stanley
3431 Amber Bay Loop
Anchorage, AK 99515
907-317-0804-Cell Phone
907-677-0765-Home Phone

thestanleys@gci.net

Objective
Administrative Coordinator for a medical office

Related Qualifications

• Create and monitor processes and procedures
• Analyze financial spreadsheets
• Budget management
• Coordinate Doctor's schedules
• Employee counseling
• Authorize medication refill requests appropriately
• Administrative support
• Accurate billing practices
• Word and Excel proficiency
• Keyboarding 70 words per minute

Education

• Associates of Applied Science Medical Offices Administration, 2007 Charter College, Anchorage, Alaska
• Certification in Medical Billing and Coding, 2006 Charter College, Anchorage, Alaska
• Microsoft Office Specialist, Word, 2007
• Currently persuing a Bachelors of Science in Information Technology Managment, Charter College, Anchorage, Alaska

Experience

Providence Behavioral Medicine Group, Anchorage, Alaska

September 2003-Current

I am currently listed as on-call status. My last worked day was 04-13-2007

• Administrative Coordinator: Develop and monitor processes and procedures, create efficient filing systems, manage doctors schedules to ensure financial targets are met, monitor and provide guidance for support staff, created and managed quality improvement program, meet reporting deadlines, employee counseling
• Administrative Assistant: Direct support to Practice Manager and clinical nurse, numerous clerical duties
• Support Staff: assist patients will all related needs.

Carlile Transportation,Anchorage Alaska

March 2003-September 2003

• Billing Clerk: Worked independently to bill invoices accurately

Trans America Glass, Anchorage, Alaska

September 1996-March 2003

• Office Supervisor: Directed staff of five, administrative support, price quotes and wholesale estimates. This included invoicing, inventory ordering and receiving, creation of dailyand monthly sales reports, coordinated domestice and international freight shipments, designed layouts for glass fabrication, troubleshooting, operating high volume phone system, and customer service

Extra Credit Assignment 7.3

I chose cluster 3 of chapter 10 to write about.

Who decides what a woman can do with her body with regards to reproductivity? As with the case of China, you get one child and that's it. Well, now you can pay to have another one. Who says the government had the right to make that decision? Was there a vote on it and ALL women agreed to it?

In America we have the inherent right to decide if, when and how many children we can have. I think this is very important. However, I do think that women who have children just to collect or extend their welfare benefits should not be allowed to continue to have children. I think that a person should have as many children as they can reasonably support.

Parents have more money and guilt, now that both parents work outside of the home, to direct towards their children. Here we can create the perfect child. I can go to the infertility clinic and chose the profile of the sperm and/or egg donor I like the best, go through the procedures and hopefully have the child of my engineering. I think parents feel guilty that they don't spend much time with their children so they buy them off with activities, beautiful clothes and electronics...etc. This is supposed to make up for good old fashioned being with family. In fact, I believe the text book states that we have turned our children into little adults.

In the past children weren't given rights to much in the household. They were told what to do, when to do it, and how to do it. There were expectations that they were going to contribute to the family household financially or with labor. If they didn't they got beat. Today children feel entitled to make demands and don't feel like they have to contribute to the family.

Today we can create the perfect child. We can literally physically create the child of our dreams,. We can mold them however we want, we give them rights that perhaps they don't deserve, nor do they know what to do with. We have higher expectations now, we direct our children to do "great" things that we didn't do, or to become just like us if we are successful and happy with our lives.

It is not acceptable for the government to have rights over a woman's body, to tell her what she can do with it and when. Nor is it responsible of the government to give her money to take care of all of these children she insists on having.

Fathers have become much more involved in the rearing of children than they had been in the past. In fact, many fathers are the primary care giver for the children. I encourage that. Men can contribute somethings to the children's lives that a mother can't. The book says "fathers, in effect, give children practice in regulating their own emotions and recognizing others' emotional cues." For girls they show how to have a great relationship with their spouse. They show their girls that they should want to be valued as a woman, wife. "Dads give teenage girls confidence that they can expect men to be interested in them for reasons beyond sex.

In conclusion, it is a woman's right to have as many children as she wants. It is a man's right to create as many children as he wants. We have the ability to create the perfect child for us, but is that morally right? It is proven that children with both parents in their life grow up to be a more competent member of society with realistic expectations.

Assignment 7.2

I chose to do my assignment on cluster 2, Great Expectations. Are we looking for the "perfect" relationship and why? Historically people married for necessity. For example, status, money, convenience...etc. The thought of love didn't matter. I can remember reading some books where the father arranged a marriage and the daughter, often much younger than the groom-to-be, would say, "but Daddy, I don't love him" and her father dismissing her as silly or stupid. I can remember him telling her that the union would join the two lands together so that they could farm a larger area. And she would hang her head and eventually the marriage would go through.

In those types of relationships, I suspect there was a lot of abuse and infidelity. It seemed alright for the man to have affairs, but not the woman. In fact, it was often public knowledge that farmer john visited the brothels or kept a girlfriend in town if he was wealthy. However, it was not acceptable for the wife. She was to be a virgin and was supposed to maintain the appearance of the proper wife. Today if there is infidelity it's because one person feels they are not getting something at home that they need. It doesn't necessarily mean sex, but maybe conversations or whatever, just a level of intimacy or communication that is missing from home.

Now it seems that both men and women have come to realize that marriages do not have to be arranged for economic or status reasons. They are free to join a relationship and make the proper efforts. Women are more independent and self sufficient than in the past. Perhaps the 1950's wife was afraid to leave because she had no way to support herself or her children, and no where to go because divorce was looked upon as very bad. Today, If it doesn't work, there are plenty of options for leaving the relationship.

The text talks about same-sex marriages and the controversy that is constantly going on. It seems unfair to make it legal one year, and then turn around another year and say nope, not legal. I personally don't care what your "family" looks like. I think that perhaps the commitment level of same-sex marriages are stronger than a lot of traditional marriages. I think that the same-sex partners have spent a lot of time overcoming adversity to get to the point of marriage that they have given it plenty of thought and energy. They also realize what the effects can be if they need to separate, as far as any children or common items such as house, car...etc. Again, the commitment level is stronger. It would be nice for someone to make a real final decision on this subject so the country can move on.

Assignment 6.1B

Chapter 6 talks about doing the research for your paper. It gives details on how to read the researched material properly to pull out useful data. It tells you how to take notes, annotate, summarize etc. Of course it talks about plagiarism. The chapter goes on to give ideas for material sources and gives descriptions of the different types of sources.

Chapter 7 talks about how to document correctly. How to use foot and end notes. How to properly organize a bibliography.

As I have most of the research done I will use Chapter 7 the most for my paper. It is important to properly give credit where credit is due and cite the sources properly. This is an area of weakness for me. Meaning, I always give credit, it's just difficult for me to get it in proper format.

Assignment 6.3

This assignment is a review of Chapter 9 on Body Image. I have chosen cluster 2, Why Are So Many Americans Overweight? This is a topic that I have written about several times here in my time with Charter. It is a shame that this generation of children are so overweight. The text book states "it would be the fist time in 200 years that children would be statistically likely to live shorter lives than their grandparents." This should be alarming to all of America. I see article after article that say children of America are fat, they are overweight, they are the fatest kids in history....but in my opinion, I don't see the level of urgency to create and IMPLEMENT a solution that is on a crisis level of the articles.

In a world where we are so busy going here and there, filling our days with as much activities as we can and where both parents work outside the home, we have taken the food out of the home and put it in the car. In a time when mom stayed home with the kids and made dinner so that it was ready when Dad got home from work at 6pm, she was able to provide and monitor proper food intake. She was able to send the kids outside to play, essentially because there wasn't much to do inside the house. So by nature she was ensuring they ate the proper nutrients and that they got the proper level of exercise to prevent the majority of obesity. I am sure there were plenty of overweight people at that time, however, they were the exception, not the norm.

The text book makes a point that dieting and bariatric surgeries have soared in recent years. I think these are quick fixes to a long term problem. If adults would take a look around and see their children are getting fat, they would start to change their own ways and lead their children to a healthier lifestyle through example. Eating healthier foods, eating at home as a family, exercise individually and with the family, and simply turning off the electronics can go a long way towards reversing the current trend towards obesity.

Assignment 5.2

I chose to write read about cluster 1 of chapter 8: "who owns words and ideas?" This is a very interesting topic. The question is, "Is it really possible for anyone to 'own' words or ideas?" If so, how much does that person own? Do they own the actual result of the word or idea, do they own the written words, as in the case of the poem Footprints in the Sand, do they own the very idea of the result. Again, three women claimed to have written Footprints in the Sand, who really owns the poem? Was it the person who, let's say, wrote it on a napkin at a luncheon one day, or is it the person who actually went to the proper authorities and had it copy written? I think for all legal purposes it should be claimed by whomever actually went through the copy write process. This will give the court system something to stand on when the lawsuits start to come in. Instead of having to make an emotional decision, or one person trying to prove they had the idea first, the courts can simply look at the copy write and see who the owner is.

What is the difference between collaboration and cheating. As the book indicates Georgia Tech had a very strict policy on collaboration. It stated that there was to be absolutely no collaboration, discussion...etc with other students. The policy was clearly stating that the students may not discuss the class with each other at all. That seems like such a hard thing to do. By nature humans collaborate on a daily basis. It can be something as simple as asking the spouse what they want for dinner. Or it can be as controversial as the Georgia Tech issue. In school work, I believe that students should be able to collaborate to help figure out the processes'. Collaboration has been proven to improve school grades, come up with more creative results. collaboration has been part of most every new invention we have in the world. If someone hadn't said, "hmmmm..I'd like to see the TV in color. I wonder how we can do that?" And then went to the TV companies and said, "this is my idea, how can we make it happen?" We'd all still be watching black and white television. To there credit Georgia Tech reviewed and revised the policy very quickly to allow collaboration in the assignments, but just not in the tests, where the students are truly scored for their learning abilities.

It is the responsibility of all people to give credit where credit is due. It is the responsibility of the person who thought up the idea to protect it if they feel it could be of use in the future.

Assignment 7.1

I sent Dr. Kaufman my rough draft via email a couple of weeks ago. I think I'll have my mom edit my paper as she is one of my fathers editors. Then I will review her edits, make appropriate changes, place in proper MLA format, and create a bibliography page. There isn't much else to write for this assignment.

Assignment 6.1

Here are the sources that I used in my paper:
http://www.kidsource.com/kidsource/content2/obesity.html
http://www.nih.gov/news/wordonhealth/jun2002/childhoodobesity.html
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/childhood-obesity/fl00058
http://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/overweight/pdf/alaska.pdf
http://mayclinic.com/health/childhoodobesity/ds00698
http://cdc.gov/healthyyouth/overweight/index.html

Assignment 5.6

I chose the topic Prevention and Treatment of Childhood Obesity. I have a step daughter that is quite large and I was always on her for her weight. I was a very very thin child, all the way through high school, so her weight is alarming health wise to me. Once I stepped into the high school and started looking around I realized that there are LOADS of children who are overweight.

I then had to ask why and how did these kids get this way. I realize how adults get that way. As an adult I have the choice to put whatever I want in my mouth, and exercise as little as I want to. As a child, I had to eat what I was given, we weren't allowed to have sugar, candy, soda....we thought it was a major treat to have homemade cookies once in a while, and we were glad there was six kids in the family, that meant cake at least six times a year. AND we respected the guideline my parents set. Never in my mind would I have bought a soda out of the vending machine when I had been told not to, despite the fact that there would have been no way for my parents to KNOW I had had one. Of course, this all changed when I became a senior in high school and started drinking diet soda.

Anyway, I thought some research into this topic would be warranted. As I mentioned in my paper, I feel it's every one's responsibility to cut down on childhood obesity. Childhood obesity will lead to adult obesity, which will put greater stress on the health industry....until we find the "miracle fat pill." Which I am totally against. It just seems wrong to take a pill and continue to eat in a less than healthy manner. Does that make any sense? If they do make the wonder drug, I hope they make the side effects terrible if you eat the fat and high sugar foods.

I think I have strayed from the intended purpose of this assignment. I will restate myself: childhood obesity is on an alarming rise, it is every ones responsibility to become educated in proper nutrition and exercise, and it is the governments responsibility to provide safe communities and reasonably food prices.

Assignment 4.4

I think I'll write an instructional paper on how to interview successfully. It will include items such as proper dress, research the company you are interviewing for, adjusting your resume to the position you desire and other components.

Assignment 4.2

I was out of town for the last week or so. For some reason I thought I'd be able to lots of homework while I was gone. However, I got absolutely none done, despite numerous attempts at starting. I have given my project some thought though. I will get online to see if there are distance programs I can attend. I will also see what APU offers. Currently I'll need a school with flexible scheduling as I am staying home with the girls, and my husband works full time. That will be one of my primary points on my criteria list. Actually, that's probably the only point on my criteria list at this moment. The list will grow as I research and see what else is out there. Then I can decide what my full criteria list is and what facility will fit my needs best.

Assignment 4.1

I was not aware of the SQ4R method. However, I seem to loosely follow it in my studies anyway. I do not care for the Diagonal mapping. It is too visually busy for me. I like things to be neat and tidy. With Diagonal it appears to me that there are words all over the page. Again, to busy for me. I'll keep using the SQ4R method.

Assignment 3.8

I believe that Logos would be the most effective rhetoric method to persuade a supervisor to choose my team to conduct the new sales campaign at the new car dealership.

I would use our outstanding sales numbers from previous sales campaigns. I would show her that we have a proven track record. She could clearly see that we have great communication and relationships.

Basically I would state the facts, give her some of our personal and group success stories. She would reason inductively that we were the best group for the job based on evidence and her observations of our team.

I think the Pathos method would have the least impact in this situation. A sales team is put together to increase sales. It's only job is to sell product and make money. There are emotions when selling/buying product. However, in this particular case, the group is trying to sell themselves to their own supervisor. She shouldn't have emotions related to the selection. She should consider first which team can and will make the most amount of money, or be the most productive at this event.

The Ethos approach could be effective in this instance. It would be combined with the Logos approach. It would be logical to include things like,"You can count on Bob to be on time with the visual aids. He has never let me down before." or "Remember the last sales campaign that Tim's group lead? It was a disaster."

Assignment Week #2, Item #5

Reviewing the first three chapters I see that it is important to take many points into consideration before stating the argument. We need to consider the purpose, context, and media for our arguments. Obviously this can be a lengthy process or a very short process, depending on how much time we have.

We have to decided what our purpose for arguing will be. Do we want to state an opinion, reach a specific goal, or reconcile a difference. Or will it be some combination of the three.

We have to analyze the context of our argument. Do we know the audience, what are they like? Does our argument have the potential to alienate some of the audience, if so, how can we soften the argument to not offend, but still get our point across.

What mode will our argument take? Will we be creating an advertisement to sell the latest handbag? Will we be offering our opinion on the Editorial page of our local newspaper?

Not every argument needs to follow these formal steps. Often times we follow these processes without much thought. Other times we are required to give serious thought, research and consideration to the point before we offer our argument.

By wrapping all of the points into one argument, we will have formed a great argument, one that will probably win our point.

Assignment week 2 #3 Free Write

I have been a stay-at-home-mom for 9 weeks now. I worked for the previous 18 years. I had been told that staying home would be a hard adjustment. I was certain that it would be easier to stay home. How hard could it be to wrangle two little kids?

I used to have great time management skills. I used to wear nice, pretty, and clean clothes. Now I can't seem to get all of us ready and out the door before 11am, even if I start at 7am. Often times Jerry will come home for lunch at 11am and I still haven't taken a shower. I find myself wearing my lounge pants and some old T-shirt-dare I say maybe a maternity T-shirt-all day long. I guarantee you the shirt will have someones food or spit up on it. He wonders where is nicely put together wife went. To his credit, he doesn't complain about it often. I guess it's time to buy clothes that are not career clothes. Hmm...I suppose I should watch the show "What Not to Wear" so that I can find out what a person wears who stays home, and doesn't want to look like a total slob all day, but still needs to have functional clothes.

How hard could it be to reason with a 20 month old girl? Very hard I have found out. Today she woke up way too early from her nap. Then proceeded to cry loudly for the next 45 minutes but wouldn't go back to sleep. At the same time the 2 month old was crying because she wanted to eat. Why couldn't the older one just get the point that if she went back to sleep, she'd feel so much better when she woke up? It got to the point where I had to phone someone or start to cry myself.

These last 9 weeks have been the best, and the most challenging of my life. I am told it gets easier. Let's hope so. But I wouldn't trade this for anything. Already I think about how sad I'll be when the girls are grown and how much I'll miss all their baby stuff.

Assignment for week 2 task 2

It's been only recently that I have taken an interest in writing. Actually it's been my husband and father who have put the bug in my ear about my writing. It might be interesting to really explore this class beyond the normal just muddle through it mentality to see if there is any merit to me writing.

I have edited my father's disertation and many of his technical papers and such. I have written many personal, for lack of better words, short stories about things, events that have an impact on me.

I typically write on a personal level to simply get the thoughts out of my head. Otherwise, they stay in there and occupy my brain time. I suppose it's a way of working through my thoughts. Typically when I write for personal I write, then throw away or put away where (I thought) no one would find them. However, there have been a few that I have shared with my husband. He has said that there is emotion in my personal writing. It might be interesting to see if I can come up with work that someone might be able to read, and that I wouldn't mind others reading.

I like to edit technical papers, at least my fathers. I think there are a lot of very interesting topics that can be explored. I figure I can read and learn about many topics. When editing a person has to have some knowledge base, or will have to do some research to gain a basic understanding of the topic in order to insure the information presented makes appropriate sense and that the writers stated point is made. Perhaps I can make some money at it in the future????