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The Assignment: (1–2 pages)

• Briefly summarize the case of “Evelyn C.”
• Explain your diagnosis. Provide specific supporting information.
• Describe additional information that might be significant to the assessment, treatment, and welfare of the client.
• Briefly describe the interventions you would recommend, and explain why you would make these recommendations.

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The Drunken Wife and Mother Evelyn C., a 36-year-old homemaker and mother of two school-age children (from a previous marriage), began to drink to excess following intense disagreements with her husband, John, a manager of a retail business. For several months, she had been drinking during the day when her children were at school and on two occasions was inebriated when they came home. On one recent occasion, Evelyn failed to pick up her older daughter after an after-school event. Her daughter called John’s cell phone (he was out of town on a business trip), and he had an assistant pick her up. When they arrived home, Evelyn (apparently unaware of the problem she had caused) created a scene and was verbally abusive toward the assistant. Her out-of-control drinking increased when her husband of 3 years began staying out all night. These emotionally charged encounters resulted in John’s physically abusing her one morning when he came back home after a night away. John moved out of the house and filed for divorce. Excessive use of alcohol is one of the most frequent causes of divorce in the United States (Perreira & Sloan, 2001) and is often a hidden factor in the two most common causes—financial and sexual problems. The deterioration in interpersonal relationships of the alcohol abuser or dependent, of course, further augments the stress and disorganization in her or his life. The breakdown of marital relationships can be a highly stressful situation for many people. The stress of divorce and the often erratic adjustment period that follows can lead to increased substance abuse. Family relationship problems have also been found to be central to the development of alcoholism (Dooley & Prause, 2007). In a classic longitudinal study of possible etiologic factors in alcohol abuse, Vaillant and colleagues (1982) described six family relationship factors that were significantly associated with the development of alcoholism in the individuals they studied. The most important family variables that were considered to predispose an individual to substance use problems were the presence of an alcoholic father, acute marital conflict, lax maternal supervision and inconsistent discipline, many moves during the family’s early years, lack of “attachment” to the father, and lack of family cohesiveness.

The product you select will be integrated into an existing economy.
That economy will be very important to the success or failure of a
marketing strategy. In some cases, a product may not depend on a
macroeconomic analysis but that micro-economy still functions within the
larger national economy. Some critical economic characteristics need to
be considered:

• What is the size of the GDP? (Total and Per-Capita)
• What is the rate of unemployment?
• What is the rate of inflation?
• What is the growth forecast for the country’s economy?
• What talents does the labor force have?
• What is the age distribution of the labor force?
• What key resources does the country have?
• Are there critical concerns in the country as to its economic performance?

Here is what you need to do for this assignment:

1. Provide a summary table of core economic data and growth rates for:

• Inflation
• Unemployment by race and gender and age, underemployed and long term unemployment
• Real GDP
• Stock Market Performance
• Budget Deficit
• Trade Deficit
• Exchange Rates
• Wage levels
• Inequality measures in income, education, assets

You can find some of this core data at the Economist link below or even the Euromoney link has good summary data:

1. Situate the country on the policy cross (see handout)
2. Read
   economic analysis about the country from credible sources such as
   research institutes or international organizations such as the World
   Bank, International Monetary Fund or OECD to provide a summary of
   economic risk in that country.

Suggested Resources:

• http://www.economist.com/indicators
• http://www.euromoneycountryrisk.com/
• http://nationalequityatlas.org/ ( for equity data)
• http://www.imf.org/external/index.htm
• https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html
• http://www.oecd.org/

Instructions/Requirements

There a 3 separate
questions. Please provide a follow up to classmates 1 & 2 for each
question. Please answer question 3 and provide reasoning. There is NO min length
requirements. Please provide at least 1 reference for each reply. APA format
with in citations

Discussion 1:

Current U.S.
military doctrine recognizes four categories of power available to a nation:
diplomatic, informational, military, and economic. Upon examination, it
is apparent that only a nation/state can wield these elements of power; they
would be beyond the reach of weaker powers or organizations. How then,
can these lesser entities influence the powerful? Five “underdog”
strategies are outlined as alternative sources of power for the weak. If
you are trying to influence the national policy of the United States, which of
these five strategies do you feel would be the most effective? Why?

Classmate 1 (provide a follow up/ response):

After reading
the five “underdog” strategies it came down to the Mao and Terrorism
strategies. But I thought about and even after all the terrorist attacks
against the U.S., we still haven’t changed our policies. Sure we’ve made
a few national security changes or improvements here and there, but all-in-all
we’re still going about our business as usual. We’ve been attacking
Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan since 9/11 and now we’re fighting Isis in Syria and
Iraq. If I was trying to influence the national Policy of the US, I would
use the Mao strategy. This is a strategy that worked before and most
likely could work again.

Mao used
three stages to his revolution that worked for his communist party. These
three stages successfully setup his party, while simultaneously weakening the
Chinese National Government.

Stage
1: Organization. During this first stage, Mao organized his party
out in rural areas away from the eyes of the State government. The locals
are educated on the Party and it was easy for Mao to gain the trust of the
local inhabitants in these rural and pheasant areas because the government
would normally ignore them or discriminate against them. The point in
this stage is to gain trust, support and build an army.

Stage
2: Progressive expansion by guerilla attacks to gain supplies and
political support. During this second stage, the Party will plan small
individual attacks against prominent figures, military posts and
infrastructure. The point of these attacks is to weaken the government
and stoke fear in those supporting the government. The other point is to
have the government military spread so thin just chasing the revolutionists
around that they give up, pull back and are reduced to a simple static role of
guarding towns and military posts which all but erodes their combat
capabilities.

Stage
3: Decision or destruction of the enemy in battle. During this
final stage, the revolutionist guerrilla units of the Party find out if their
plans in stages 1 & 2 have worked. If the stages 1 & 2 worked
correctly than the revolutionary party should have political support and
recognition from other nations. The revolutionist army has grown so much
in size that they should now rival and can challenge the National
military. The revolutionist army will now act more like a conventional
army in tactics and operations as it fights national army. The point of
this stage is to defeat the national government and take over the
country.

Classmate 2 (provide a follow up/ response:

With the
United States being a globally deployable and influential nation with some
super dominant economics and resources to assist and continue in a long term
engagement, I would have to say that Terrorism would be the Achilles heel of
any nation. I only say this as it is so hard to fight individuals whom
are always seeking to hide amongst innocent bystanders. Each of the
strategies have some way to meaning to what could be applied. With the
United States being identified as a national powerhouse, one way to influence a
superpower would be the usage of fear and of the unknowing when a terror threat
can and will continually occur. Out of the five underdog strategies
outlined to review and identify, Terrorism is by far and in my eye – would be
the most effective of the reviewed choices.

I only say this, as any type of action done by the terrorists can make any
superpower nation collapse unto the ground. According to our reading, in
particular Chapter 7 discussing a Survey of Theory of Strategy, it clearly
identifies that a “military power can deter other states from doing something,
or it can compel them to do something” (Boone, p. 127). As these lesser
enemies consume and drive the hearts and minds of the populace – the only
predetermined plan for a nation to engage with its leaders in order to seek out
and halt the continued terror being done and initiated by these
terrorist. Acts of violence do not go unnoticed within today’s world of
technological advances, as the news will appear rapidly. Unfortunately,
this same technology is what fuels the terrorists, as they are almost always
seen on video and or in a hurry to acknowledge that they were, in effect,
behind the terror plots by either financing and or engaged with the terrorists
training. Either way, the usage of terrorism certainly does have an
effective way in regards to a nation concentrating on all of its resources to
eliminate a select few; whom seem to grow from time to time.

Discussion 2:

The official
declared national strategy for the US military is the two Major Theater of War
(MTW) strategy. The central tenet of this strategy is that the United
States must be prepared to fight two simultaneous MTWs. Is it possible to
execute such a strategy today? Why or why not?

Classmate 1 (provide a follow up/ response:

I am in the
middle one this one, and agree with Michael that this was a tough
question. It is possible to execute such strategies today if done
appropriately and are military is properly prepared for. The military has
changed considerable and leaders need to determine the military force required
to safeguard the nation, and its interests. When creating the force,
military leaders need to keep in mind what needs to be done to protect US
national interests, determine how much force is required to protect those
interests with a certain degree of assured success, and to determine how to
posture our military forces (Pickell, 2000, para. 1). Although it will
not be easy to predict military requirements, it can be done with great
preparation. What makes the strategy unclear today is technology and
force structure. Technology will reduce the requirement for conventional
combat forces, and military force structure is used as a bench mark from Desert
Strom on how future MTW forces will be postured (Pickell, 2000, para. 4).
These two topics have been a debate with the concerns not focusing on the
enemy. Most military leaders reference MTW’s in reference to Desert
Storm, and need to think of the most likely case scenario, and not the
best-case scenario from the past. If the US were to go at war with Korea
it would be a huge failure. They would need to assume a limited warning,
since this would be the preferred case, and need to be well prepared/versed on
what other countries are capable of doing in a time of war. Determining what
the correct benchmarks are for the future and not going off Desert Storm can
better prepare the US to execute a MTW strategy. The US military’s
ability to adapt to a rapidly changing environment is well established and can
be done.

Classmate 2 (provide a follow up/ response:

The establishment of the national
strategy for the US military: two Major Theater of War (MTW) was derived from a
need to respond to operational military contingencies. Essentially, the MTW
strategy allows the United States to fight two simultaneous wars and is still
possible to execute such a strategy today. However, it is only possible to
execute such a strategy if done in proper coordination as well as being able to
do this with established resources. As is the general consensus, future wars
may not look like the past wars: World War I or World War II in the sense that
large scale battles are conducted over multiple distant regions at once.
However, if a new war were to emerge that would require the use of this MTW
strategy successful execution would require adequate resources. Like past wars,
the gathering of resources as well as financial backing for the war was always
an issue. The idea of successfully engaging a strategy must go into other
aspects of war.

Today, the United States has the
title of having the largest military in the world which holds global presence.
With that in mind, the next aspect of being able to sustain two wars as well as
being able to control the largest military force in the world, is the need to
budget financial and economic resources to even think about engaging in war.
The US has experienced the problem of sequestration within the last 5 years. In
a recent hearing conducted by the House Armed Service Committee that took place
in 2013, joint chiefs believe that they would not be able to “meet at even one
major theater contingency”. Additionally, Ferdinando (2016), states that this
sequestration has established that it is the biggest threat to military
readiness. With this issue getting progressively worse, I believe that the
answer to this weeks question is: no, the United States is not able to execute
an MTW strategy today. Unless sequestration is addressed properly, the
mobility, preparedness, and military power of the United States is greatly
hindered.

Question 3 (please respond and provide explain/reasoning as to why or why not for the question:

There is a school of thought that
holds that the US lost the ability to fight two simultaneous Major Theater Wars
(MTWs) when we moved away from the Draft to an all-volunteer military.
When the Draft ended in 1973, so the argument goes, the military began a long,
slow decline in size and capability – we just don’t have the manpower anymore
to fight two wars at once. The last time we truly fought two wars was
WWII against Germany and Japan. By the end of the war in 1945, we had
over 12,000,000 men and women under arms. For your instructor, Vietnam
was “my” war. At its peak in 1968, our armed forces totaled
3,547,902 personnel. The projected active duty end strength in the armed
forces for FY 2017 is 1,281,900. During Vietnam, everyone was tasked to
serve a 12 month tour in Southeast Asia once. No one was sent
involuntarily for a second tour until every other eligible member served
one. Many volunteered for multiple tours but, for the majority of us, you
were one and done. Today, we have personnel who have served four or more
deployments to Iraq and/or Afghanistan. That is one of the legacies of a
shrinking manpower pool – 12M to 3.5M to 1.3M. Should we bring back the
Draft? Why or why not?

The purpose of a persuasive speech is to influence, change, or reinforce listeners’ ideas, attitudes, beliefs, or behaviors.

For your third speech I would like you to perform an informative speech. The speech topic will be: Your choice of a topic

This includes information you think that is important, or information you wish to let your listeners know about that they might not already know.

This excludes: intimate or personal interactions. I do not want to know anything too personal. The assignment is to describe a specific event not to invade personal lives romantically or anatomically.

Time Requirement for this speech will be a minimum of 5 minutes, and maximum of 7 minutes.

I am looking for each part of a speech to be there: introduction, body, and conclusion.

The introduction has two goals: to capture and hold your audience’s attention and to prepare your audience for the body of the speech.

The body holds your core information about your topic. You will want to mention your references and clearly state all your main points.

The conclusion is there to reinforce the central idea. You will want to summarize your points. Your conclusion should be brief and typically take up 10% of your speech length.

Visual Aids- All types of mediums can be used to present your aids. You can make slides, have posters or charts. Some rules regarding your visual aids:

1. Do not show any nudity or offense pictures regarding the human body or suggestive actions.

2.Do not use images that are from someone you without permission

3.Do not bring any weapons or objects that can be used for weapons to show the class

4.If you bring props for your speech they must be approved by your professor

5.No videos are permitted for this speech

Outlines- Are to be turned in the day of your speech. Typed and with a total of three (3) references.

At least 700 woed