Chapter 7

Chapter 7 went into great detail about the different types of Managed Care Plans. People want to carry health insurance to help cover them in case of a health emergency. Firms sell insurance because they are paid a set amount to assume a risk that can be managed by spreading it over a large pool of insurers. Insurance companies set premiums based on the expected payout along with other costs. Typically, health care is provided by a managed care organization (MCO) to a defined population at a…

The main point Wharton Professor Adam Grant makes in the chapter 7: Overcoming the Doormat Effect of his book entitled Give and Take, published in 2014, is that givers or altruistic people can avoid becoming doormats by using sincerity screening, generous tit for tat, and advocating for others. In the beginning of this chapter, Grant brings up the reasons why givers often become doormats or pushovers: being too timid, too empathetic, and too trusting. Therefore, as trust is one of the reasons…

(1) Chapter 7: Death, dying, bereavement, and widowhood (Attitudes toward death, p.555-556) (2) Description: Older adults from different cultural backgrounds perceive death and cope with distress regarding death differently. (3) Discussion of Enhancement of Understanding: I learn from this section that death may be a sensitive, fearful, and even taboo topic to discuss with older adults. Older adults from different cultural background perceive death differently. Their perception will lead to…

2 books. School of Fear, by Gitty Daneshvari, a fiction novel, and Counting by 7’s, by Holly Goldberg Sloan, a realistic fiction novel. School of Fear was a just right book for me. I knew almost all the words and understood the plot. Counting by 7’s was also a just right book for me. I could relate to some of the characters, comprehended the words, and understood what was happening throughout the story. Counting by 7’s was my favorite book this term. 2. Write a quote (with author and page…

In Chapter 7 of Ways of Seeing, Berger mainly talks about publicity images, which "never speak of the present" but "often refer to the past and always speak of the future" (p 130). In another word, publicity offers its future buyer an image of himself/herself became glamorous by the product or its related opportunities (p 132). Indeed, this kind of illusion of authority is also incorporated into lots of traditional oil paintings; and in this regard, publicity and oil paintings share tons of…

In Chapter 7, Land of Opportunity, Loewen discusses social class throughout US History. For the most part, people will stay in the same social class for their whole life. If you were born in the lower class, you will most likely die in the lower class. Same for middle and upper classes. This is because of opportunity. Americans like to preach on how America is the “Land of Opportunity,” even though not everyone is given an equal opportunity. Babies born into the lower classes are usually less…

It was interesting to read a bit about the various tribes inhabiting Afghanistan and to see the country as a “melting pot”. Afghanistan’s level of diversity is similar to that of the United States. Due to the intermingling of cultures, the various ethnic groups have distinct ethnic, cultural, physical, and linguistic differences. I was previously unaware that some ethnic groups are more dominating and oppressive than others. The Pushtoons’s antagonistic and aggressive nature makes them feared…

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Project Rationale In chapter 7 of Animal Farm there is a scene where an execution took place. Obviously, the execution was unfair and the alleged crimes that the executed animals have committed was false. And because of the cruel nature of the execution, the animals were left feeling shocked and unsure, which brings us to the propaganda. The purpose of the print ad is to convince the animals that the “criminals” were traitors to the farm that deserved to die. And this lie is significant to the…

In chapter 7 of Aldous Huxley’s book “Brave New World” the main characters Bernard and Lenina venture off to a place that most people from their world have never been to, an Indian reservation. Upon arrival they spot an elderly man who is struggling, but succeeding at descending down a handmade ladder, they notice how his skin is wrinkly and how diseases have taken his youth, they compare the elderly man to the “elders” of their community. The two converse on how the “unnatural” man only ages to…