Short Description and Instructions The assignment for this unit consists of doing an act of kindness for someone else to foster everyday heroism. Parameters of this assignment include: Step 1: Topic and Outline due in week 6 Step 2: Final paper due in week 9 Perform your planned action. You may take notes, reflections, observations or record comments you heard in that experience. You may also take photos/short clips "No identifying footage or names to be included for privacy issues."! Your final report should include the following: Introduction Description of the chosen act of kindness (ex. Buying a meal for a homeless individual) Identify social vulnerabilities that created a climate for the act of kindness to occur (ex. Food insecurity, housing insecurity, mental health diversity, economic disparity, etc.). - Provide location- specific data (ex. Statistics on homelessness in the city). . This section includes a theoretical component. Students must use at least 2 academic scholarly articles to discuss social determinants of health. . An analysis of the distribution of the social powers involved in the act of kindness (ex. Why do you have the power to provide this meal?). . This section includes a theoretical component. Students must use at least 2 academic scholarly articles to discuss social power distribution. . Discuss: Does this act make you feel heroic? Is that a type of social power? . What community organizations can you identify that contribute to everyday heroism that is related to your act of kindness? Important Considerations the act of good has to be something the student would not have otherwise done; it has to clearly help another person the student did not have a relationship with, in order for that person to believe there was good in the world; the students cannot accept any reward, praise or public recognition; the student is allowed to ask the person he or she helped to do a good deed, in turn, to "pay it forward"; the student cannot collaborate with anyone else in the course but could engage the help of friends and family; and 8-page (2000 word not including reference list) research-based written assignment of the Act of Kindness and the identification of the social/political/individual vulnerabilities it addressed