HCS 304 Week 1 Assignment 1

The staff will be trained appropriately to fit their role in the program. The staff has a goal of being an effective staff in which they want to provide the best care for the suffering inmates. The top three health officials beginning with the psychiatrist, will be required to attend multiple mental health seminars in order to be an effective program. The staff will base their training off of moral standards such as the four basic rules by Suresh Bada Math which are “1. Protect, promote and endorse human rights of the prisoners. 2. Take care of the needs of the prisoners to the extent feasible within the prison environment. 3. identify patients who have health problems and get them the needed health care. 4. Pay special attention to the vulnerable

The process in gerrymandering occurs when it’s time for the congressional state districts to be redrawn, which happens every 10 years(Altman). The goal of gerrymandering is to give your political party an advantage by giving them the most members in the House of Representatives or state legislature. Each state district sends one representative to the House, so when it’s time to redraw the districts, politicians will put as many voters of the opposing party in one district as possible, this way, the other party’s votes will be wasted in a district that they will already win, and will have no effect on the other districts that the party redrawing the districts plan to win. This gives the party redrawing the districts more members in the House and give them a yuuuuge partisan advantage when it comes to passing legislation favorable to their party's agenda, and to stopping legislation that opposes that party’s values.

Denise is on vacation August 29th thru September 2nd. I don’t know if Julie mentioned to you, if Kim could cover some of her shifts. I would need help especially on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 2:30 to 9:30 p.m. If she is able to help out on Monday and Friday, I would appreciate any time in the afternoon hours. Please let me know if any these hours work because I’m working on the schedule now for that

Gerrymandering may prevent the purpose of members being elected on a single-member district basis because districts can be drawn favoring one political party. Gerrymandering is when districts have been drawn so the boundaries of legislative districts in bizarre or unusual shapes to favor one party. Gerrymandering protects incumbents and discourages challengers and it strengthens the majority party while weakening the opposition party

Say there is a state with a population of fifty, now three fifths of that state are democratic and the other two fifths are republican, now we need to separate this state into five congressional districts. The best way to do this would be so there are two republican representatives and three democratic. However with gerrymandering democrats can draw districts that are unfair and they get all five representatives, but if republicans draw the districts they can draw them were there are three republican representatives and only two democratic representatives. This process is seen through many states. In North Carolina forty-four percent of voters voted democratic, however thanks to a creative congressional map, seventy- seven percent of representatives were republican. The twelfth district in North Carolina is considered the most gerrymandered district in the country, and is home to two more of the top ten gerrymandered districts. Republicans rule six of the most Gerrymandered states, including North Carolina, Louisiana, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Alabama. The other four

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Through using the IDEA software, I was able to dive deeper into the recorders of Troy Township. I was able to import Troy’s fiscal year transaction data and run multiple analysis on the data. IDEA is an easy-to-use software that took the difficulty out of the sorting and configuring reports that could show exactly what I was looking for. I was able to create many useful reports that helped me get to the bottom of the fraud that I believe was happening at Troy Township. The records I will be evaluating are; a record count report, a material amount report, a highest expenditure report, a day specific report, a Benford’s report, a duplicate report, and a name specific report. All these reports have their own bit of useful information that had led me to the conclusion that fraud is occurring at Troy.

Lefèvre, Ledoux and Filbet (2015) researched the painting therapy not only importing the mental state such as sadness, anxiety and depression. Also, it can enhance

When looking at a map of the United States, it can be seen that it is very cut and dry. The borders of states are straight, cut at right angles, and distributes the land proportionally. The same cannot be seen or said for Congressional districts. The intention is to evenly divide up the States even further but instead, it is based on the state populations. It can also be apparent that the drawing of the districts in recent years has been less than about population numbers, but as to who the population votes for. Representation including district boundaries is known as the practice of gerrymandering. So in the process of setting districts, gerrymandering is a practice attempting to establish a political advantage for a particular group.

Gerrymandering is often compared to redistricting which is supposed to achieve equality in districts’ voting power, so called “one person, one vote” requirement. In the U.S. redistricting happens every 10 years to account for changes in population, so “the votes will be worth the same amount” (The James Irvine Foundation ). Gerrymandering is based on the wasting or weakening of votes of what is usually the minority

The districts should represent the demographics of the states, but since there is nothing stopping it, these districts can be changed as many times as needed to get the desired outcome. This also opens up opportunity for bribery as the candidates could pay the office in charge of drawing out the districts to ensure success. More often than not, it is the Democrats who tend to draw the legislative and congressional district lines in favor of themselves. These districts are usually always approved by neutral scholars who say that the statistic is irrelevant because Democrats have the tendency to represent areas where people are less likely to vote, mainly under the idea that many congressional races are not seriously contested. Gerrymandering can be disguised in ways that would more than likely pass a court muster by the party which dominates a state legislature. “In the long run it is control of state legislatures and governors` offices, not court decisions, that will determine which party gets the reapportionment advantage.” The drawing of

Redistricting, the process of adjusting states’ district lines to “even” the population among said districts, has transformed into a science. Depending on a state 's’ population, a certain amount of agents represent that state in the House of Representatives. Well each representative has his or her own district in their home state. These districts then play a role in electing that specific representative to the House. This seems like a standard government function, but the Constitution does not specify any limits on how or by who the districts should be drawn. This process has been left to the state legislatures. The issue that we run into is that once placed in legislature hands, those in power have the ability to draw the congressional

Despite gerrymandering being a big problem in the United states, many do not even know what it is or that it even exists. There is no simple definition for gerrymandering. In general, it is when someone redraws districts to make an election’s outcome not dependent on a vote. While the US is referred to as a democracy, it is a republic. In democracies, everyone votes for the next leader and laws directly, but in a republic, the people vote for representatives who will vote on things on their behalf. Picking representatives is easier than having everyone vote on a simple issue but it leaves room for gerrymandering. Each state is divided into districts drawn by the state legislature. The popular vote in

Suppose that two districts of equal population are voting to elect 1 representative each. Suppose further that in District A, the winning candidate receives 90% of the votes, while in District B, the winner receives only 51%. In District A, 39% of the votes for the winner (all excess after reaching 51%) had no effect on the outcome, as that candidate would have won either way. In District B, no winning votes are wasted. However, in both cases, the same amount of representation is awarded. In essence, 39% of the winning voters in District A are not being represented. Similarly, all votes to the losing candidate are wasted – their desires are in no way reflected in the result of the election. In any two person race, 49% of voters do not receive any representation for their vote. With more candidates, often more than 50% of votes are wasted. Voters do not fail to see this, and it affects their desire to vote (Amy). If natural wasting of votes isn’t bad enough, politicians currently holding office grossly manipulate the voting districts to artificially create wasted votes in a strategy known as gerrymandering. Two types of gerrymandering are most common; cracking and packing. In cracking, politicians redraw voting boundaries to spread out the votes that oppose them such that in all districts, they hold a minority, effectively forcing all their votes to be wasted. Similarly, in packing, boundaries are redrawn

Simply put, gerrymandering is the act of politicians meddling in the redrawing of legislative districts to help their party and friends, and hurt the other party and their enemies (FairVote). Our current, winner take all, voting system allows the gerrymandering we see today. In 2013, Republican candidates for the New Jersey assembly won 51% of the vote, but only 32 (40%) of 80 seats. In 2014, Democratic U.S. House candidates won 57% of votes in California’s 53 U.S. House races, but 74% of seats (FairVote). The two most common methods used to gerrymander districts are cracking and packing. Cracking is reducing the chance of an opponent winning by splitting up their voters into several districts, ensuring that they never reach a plurality in any district. Packing buts all of the opposing party’s voters into one district, ensuring that they will win a maximum of one district (Portland Press). Ranked choice voting has two ways it attacks