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Discussion #1

 

Prepare: Prior to beginning work on this discussion, read chapters 8, 9, and 10 in American Government and watch the video, Episode II – It’s a Free Country.
	Reflect: Our political system is characterized by certain fundamental features to include a system of laws, rights, and liberties. The laws, created and supported by the Constitutional framework, are designed to protect and secure the rights and liberties of individuals and groups throughout the U.S. However, the government also has an obligation to provide for the security of its citizens from serious internal and external threats that could cause grave or severe damage to our country. The need for homeland and national security can create a dilemma where conflicts emerge between these security needs and the demands for civil rights and liberties.
	Write: In your initial post, explain what obligations the U.S. government has towards its citizens and how can these obligations impact individual and group rights? Provide real-world examples to support your explanation. Fully respond to all parts of the prompt and write your response in your own words. Your initial response must be 200 to 250 words. Support your position with APA citations to two or more of the assigned resources required for this discussion. Please be sure that you demonstrate understanding of these resources, integrate them into your argument, and cite them properly.
	Respond to Peers: By Day 7, respond to at least two of your classmates’ initial posts. Your peer responses should be 75 to 100 words each. As your reply to your classmates, attempt to take the conversation further by examining their claims or arguments in more depth or responding to the posts that they make to you. Keep the discussion on target and try to analyze things in as much detail as you can. For instance, you might consider if your classmate’s arguments are well supported with valid sources and logically argued.           Discussion #2     Prepare:Prior to beginning work on this discussion, read chapters 8, 9, and 10 inAmerican Government, watch the video,Episode II – It’s a Free Country, and review your results from the Political Typology Quiz. Reflect:Political parties mobilize voters to win elections and implement policy goals. Parties use their stated policy goals (i.e., their platforms) as a way to mobilize voter support. Generally, in order to be successful in a two-party system, parties must have policy goals across a broad range of issue areas to appeal to a broad range of voters. Write: Identify oneissue area that you want investigate. Use the assigned resources required for this discussion to gather information about the goals and proposals, in that issue area, of threeU.S. political parties – the Democratic and Republican parties and a third party. Summarize each of the three parties’ policy goals in your issue area. Evaluate each party’s goals from twoperspectives: According on your own political philosophy, values, or ideology based on the Political Typology Quiz results, which party’s position on this issue is closest to your own and which is furthest and why? Does each party currently have national popular support on this issue? If so, why, and if not, why not? For example, if you are a ‘Steadfast Conservative,’ what do the Democratic Party, the Republican Party, and a third party have to say about your position on taxation? If you are a ‘Solid Liberal,’ what do Democrats, Republicans, and a third party say about your views on environmental issues? Who is the closest? Furthest away? Why? Your initial response must be 200 to 250 words. Justify your conclusions with facts and persuasive reasoning. Fully respond to all parts of the question and write your response in your own words. Support your position with APA citations to two or more of the assigned resources required for this discussion. Please be sure that you demonstrate understanding of these resources, integrate them into your argument, and cite them properly.

Question: Audre Lorde contends that “master’s tools will never dismantle master’s house” in order to emphasize the need for an overall alteration of “old structures of oppression.” Can the structures that oppress the “other” be altered with a critique using the tools available in the exist ing system/relations of power? Why or why not? Discuss with reference to the theories of Machiavelli and/or Aristotle. 1) Your paper MUST have an introduction with a thesis statement that provides a clear, complete, and direct answer to the question. 2) To answer this question you may either choose one of the thinkers, or you may write a paper comparing the two. You must explain HOW the thinker engages with the “other,” and whether their theories provide the tools for a systemic criticism and an alterat ion of the relationships between self and other . You must engage into a discussion of what these “ tools , ” that reinforce the system or provide points of resistance. 3) You may choose to discuss a feminist critique of either thinker as it relates to this question, in which case you would need to articulate HOW/WHY the critique you discuss is important for answering the question. What insights does this critique offer for thinking about the systemic criticism of self/other relationship ? Why do you find this critique convincing or not? How does the method of the critique supports/challenges your central claim. 4) Your paper will be evaluated by the following criteri a: clarity and thoughtfulness of the central argument (including a clear thesis statement in the introduction); the organization of your paper as a defense of your thesis; the depth of engagement with the course r eadings ; and basic writing mechanics (gramm ar, punctuation, avoidance of sentence fragments and run – ons).

1. In Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, Catherine Earnshaw tells Nelly Deane that ‘[i]t would degrade me to marry Heathcliff’ (p. 94).How far is Catherine’s marriage choice in Wuthering Heights influenced by the patriarchal attitudes and gender conventions of her society?

Compare and contrast high school and college life.

Are test scores a good indication of a school’s competency?

Write a 300+ response to the following statement: “Preservation of ecosystems is more effective than preservation of individual species”. You must include one scientific reference, and explain why you chose that source.

 

1. The primary developmental task of adolescence is:
2. developing a sense of industry
3. developing a sense of intimacy
4. developing a sense of identity
5. developing a sense of initiative

 

2. Some characteristics that peer groups offer and which may be lacking in families are:
3. strong belief structure
4. a clear system of rules
5.   communication and discussion about drugs, sex, and religion.
6. all of the above.

 

3. Peer pressure is strongly associated with:
4. level of academic success
5. gender role conformity
6. a and b
7. none of the above

 

 

4. Fundamental changes that occur in the adolescent brain include:
5.   neurological change
6. cognitive appraisal
7. emotion processing
8. all of the above

 

5. Adolescent thinking/cognition is characterized by:
6. a belief that his or her experience is unique
7. egocentrism
8. a and b
9. none of the above

 

6. The pre-frontal cortex of the brain is associated with:
7. self-awareness
8. weighing consequences of potential decisions
9. a and b
10. none of the above

 

7. Parents serve as role models for:
8. substance abuse
9. eating patterns
10. physical activity
11. all of the above.

 

8. Baumrind’s research showed a relationship between parents’ authoritative parenting style and adolescents’
9. academic competence
10. social maturity
11. a and b
12. none of the above

 

9. Qualities of effective parent-child relationships with adolescents include:
10. open communication
11. monitoring
12. supervision
13. all of the above

 

10. Authoritative parenting was related to teens’ self-confidence and competence regardless of
11. ethnic background
12. gender
13. socioeconomic status
14. all of the above

 

11. Protective factors that decrease the likelihood of risky behavior in adolescents include:

support of adolescents’ involvement in:

1. extracurricular activities
2. organized religion
3. a and b
4. none of the above.

 

12. Which of the following is not true of gay and lesbian parents reveals that:
13. they are as competent as heterosexual parents
14. their children show special problems with self-concept
15. their children appear to be typically developing children.
16. all of the above

 

13. Which of the following is not characteristic of adolescent mothers?
14. They are less likely to talk to and cognitively stimulate their infants.
15. Their development conflicts with early parenthood.
16. They are not as warm and responsive as older mothers.
17. Their egocentrism may interfere with the development of empathy for the newborn.

 

14. Children raised in poverty are at-risk for:
15. poor physical and mental health
16. social incompetence
17. abuse
18. all of the above.

 

15. Children in poverty are likely to experience:
16. more family conflict and turmoil
17. separation from loved ones
18. less social support
19. all of the above

 

16. Which of the following have been identified as adjustment problems of children from affluent families?
17. depression
18. substance abuse
19. emotional problems
20. all of the above

 

17. Which of the following have been identified as sources of problems in affluent families?
18. disconnectedness
19. pressure to achieve
20.   a and b
21. none  of the above

 

18. The cultural niche within which parenting occurs includes:
19. the physical and social environment
20. customs of child rearing and child care
21. the parents’ beliefs, values, and attitudes.
22. all of the above.

 

 

 

Answer the following in paragraph form:

 

19.

 

What are the advantages and disadvantages of high-school-age adolescents working part-time jobs during the school year?  Include examples in your answer.  (6 points)

 

 

 

20.

 

In the Week 1 Discussion Forum, you were asked “If parents had to obtain a license in order to have a child, what would you require for such a license?  Why?”  How did you answer that question?  Would you answer it in the same way today?  Why?  Why not?

 

How did/do your ideas compare to those of Jack Westerman (p.329 in the textbook, chapter on social policy)?  Explain. (10 points)

 

21. Select ONE of the following four parent groups:

 

Ø  Divorcing Parents

Ø  Step-parents

Ø  Military Parents

Ø  Working Parents

 

Briefly describe the underlying concepts of family systems theory. Then apply family systems theory to one of the four parenting groups above by identifying and describing their changes/challenges/issues related to roles, boundaries, rules, traditions, rituals, communication, etc.

 

 

Identify and describe strategies to reduce parental and child stress in the midst of these changes, challenges, and issues. (14 points)

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The aim of this task is to define the common good in relation to this topic. The common good is what is best for all, as opposed to the particular goods that each stakeholder may pursue. Your response should analyse the various perspectives and critique these using relevant principles of human flourishing, in order to show how the common good might be achieved.

 

Choose one of the two Hot Topics and three of the perspectives represented by the major stakeholders in the issue.

 

Structure your essay according to the following framework (word count is given as a guide only):  Briefly describe the issue and explain how this is an issue which affects the common good. (200 words) (criterion 1) (INTRODUCTION)

 Describe and explain the perspectives of three stakeholders. Include a discussion of the main arguments they put forward and the resolution/s they would opt for. (700 words) (criterion 2)

 Choose three principles of human flourishing that are relevant to this issue. Use these principles to analyse each perspective you described above and discuss the ways in which the perspectives of these stakeholders support or hinder the common good. (800 words). (criterion 3)

 How might the common good be achieved in relation to this issue? Suggest a specific course of action and explain how this would best serve the common good. Include a proposal for what each stakeholder could do and what society as a whole could do to promote the achievement of the common good in relation to this issue. (300 words) (criterion 4) (CONCLUSION)

superhero：yahoo, Marissa Mayer

require：600-800

Identify your business superhero’s real name and the company he/she heads in an opening paragraph where you make a claim about this person’s status: superhero OR supervillain? Based on what evidence?

Provide his or her origin story. Identify the key moments that led to this individual’s transformation from ordinary individual to business superhero. Trace his or her rise to power, including significant job changes or dates of promotion.

Describe your subject’s key attributes or business superpowers, and make it clear how they are illustrated by his or her rise to prominence. Provide supporting examples that show your subject’s super abilities.

Describe his or her iconic Your images should clearly support how your business superhero presents himself/herself to the world, and how his or her appearance clearly “proclaims” a distinctive identity.

What is your subject’s mission? Is it fully reflected in his/her company mission statement, or is it something more? Locate a quote or statement from the company website that expresses the company’s overriding goal, and provide a real-world example of your subject’s performance that either supports or exceeds the company’s mission.