Assessment and Needs Analysis Thoughts Part 1: As you conducted your needs analysis, were there any results that surprised you? Did your assessment provide new insights on other projects that could be conducted? Did they support the initial scope of your project? Part 2: In this topic, you will submit your Capstone Project Overview, which includes a description of your action plan. Use this discussion forum as
Assessment and Needs Analysis Thoughts
space to briefly describe your plan. Do you have any areas of concern? Use the leadership skills and knowledge you have developed in this program to provide feedback and suggestions about your peers’ action plan steps.
Colonial and Revolutionary America 1] In what ways were Britain’s North American colonies interconnected, socially, economically and politically, to a broader Atlantic community (including Europe, Africa, the Caribbean & etc.) in the eighteenth century?
Colonial and Revolutionary America
Which of these connections do you feel had the most impact on Colonial American society? 2] Was the American Revolution a “revolution”? And if so, for whom? (You should define what revolution means to you, and consider if/how different peoples benefited more or less from the political changes between the 1760s and 1780’s) Section 2: Women & Minorities in America. Answer ONE 3] How did the roles, rights, and opportunities for women change from the colonial period to the era of Reconstruction (ending in 1877)? Which of these changes do you feel represent the most significant improvement for the lives of American women? (Bear in mind women’s suffrage is not achieved until 1920) 4] What role did minorities (you may choose among ethnic/racial, religious or other minorities) play in the shaping of American institutions and culture from the mid-18th to the mid-19th century? What was the most significant contribution of one, or all, of these groups you addressed? Section 3: American Politics & Society. Answer ONE 5] How did Americans’ attitudes towards democracy and political participation change from the era of the Early Republic (the 1780’s) to the Jacksonian Era (1820’s-40’s)? What do you feel was the most significant/indicative example of this change? 6] Discuss three ways/instances in which conflicts between Democrats and Whigs/Republicans over the purpose, functions and/or authority of the Federal Government contributed to the Civil War. You may discuss any movement/event/law/court case & etc in the period between 1850-1861. How do the instances you discussed undermine (if at all) the argument that the Civil War was largely caused by a conflict over “states’ rights”?
Jaguar Breaks Down On Wilshire Essay 1) Find all the verbs (pronouns) in Presence (Present) in the text below, and rewrite them to pre-term (date).
Jaguar Breaks Down On Wilshire Essay
Write the entire text as your answer and clearly mark the verbs (verbs) as in the example. The Jaguar breaks down… The Jaguar broke down… The Jaguar breaks down on Wilshire. I am driving and the sunroof is open and the radio is on and suddenly the car jerks and begins to pull to the right. I step on the gas pedal and press it to the floor and the car jerks again and pulls to the right. I park the car, crookedly, next to the curb, […]. I pull the keys out of the ignition and sit in the stalled Jaguar on Wilshire with the sunroof open and listen to traffic passing. I finally get out of the car and find a phone booth at the Mobil station on the corner of La Cienega and I call Martin, but another voice, this time a girl’s, answers and tells me that Martin is at the beach and I hang up and call the studio but I am told by an assistant that William is at the Polo Lounge with the director of his next film and even though I know the number of the Polo Lounge I don’t call. 2) Find all the nouns in singular (singular) in the text below and rewrite them into plural (majority).
Jaguar Breaks Down On Wilshire Essay
Do not change other words in the text. Write the entire text as your answer and clearly mark the nouns (nouns) as shown in the example. Emma studies the bee and… Emma studies the bees and… Emma studies the bee and the butterfly through the microscope. Outside the laboratory, she and her colleague get on the bus. If it does not rain tomorrow, she may trim the hedge, the bush and the old apple tree. At home, she cuts the apple in half and cleans the knife afterward. She looks after the baby in the pram. Tonight the researcher’s family will celebrate together. 3) Write a summary of “Living alone is living the dream – but it can be a nightmare too” in about 150 words. Write a short analytical essay (at least 300 words) about “Why more Americans are living alone”. You must focus on the consequences of living alone for the individual as well as for society. Include the following analytical terms in your essay: topic, genre, receiver, intention Taking your starting point in one of the two texts, discuss whether it is a positive or negative development for a society that more people choose to live alone.
Jaguar Breaks Down On Wilshire Essay
Use at least two phrases from the box below in your discussion. On the one hand, on the other hand, for instance, not until, apart from, likewise, finally, in other words, Use the link below https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RacNp9gcWNk 4) The texts in this assignment focus on eSports. Write a summary of “eSports: Are Pro Gamers the Athletes of the Future?” in about 150 words. Write a short analytical essay (at least 300 words) about “The competitive world of eSports”. You must focus on the intention of the CBS News story. Include the following terms in your essay: Topic, attitude, argument, receiver Taking your starting point in one of the texts, discuss the pros and cons of the growing popularity of eSports. Use at least two phrases from the box below. for some reason, partly, instead, although, in comparison, in other words, yet Use the link below https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BN7YB2sHX0 5) Write a ”Summary of marriage inconvenience”. in 150 words. Write a short analytical essay (at least 300 words) about ”Summary of marriage inconvenience”. You must focus on the mother Irene. Include the following terms in your essay: conflict, framing, themes, message Taking your starting point in one of the short film, discuss how to overcome differences within a family. Use at least two phrases from the box below. Initially, whereas, consequently, on the contrary, yet, however, finally. Use link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak89uGHEilM
Cybercrime Research Design and Methods Research Topic: How does Cybercrime could become one of the biggest threat or issue to the US Criminal Justice System?
Cybercrime Research Design and Methods
Cybercrime Research Design and Methods Structure Concept paper
A short summary that tells the reader what your research project is, why it is important, and how it will be carried out. Even if no one else ever reads it, the concept paper helps you to spot any holes in your research project, which might later prove fatal.
**Important: Please follow these patterns & make sure to include all these bullet points!
A concept paper contains these elements:
A clear description of the research topic, including a summary of what is already known about that topic.
A short statement of the research question that the project seeks to answer. (This is almost always something that is not known.) The concept paper should also connect this question to the existing literature.
A demonstration of why it is important to answer this research question: What good comes of this answer? Why is this project worth anybody’s time?
A description of how you plan to answer the research question. This includes
o An outline of how the proposed project will be logically structured to answer the research question
o A description of the data that you plan to collect or use
o A description of how you will gather these data including details about your sample
o A description of where you will gather these data
o A description of how you will analyze these data
A clear discussion of core concepts, basic assumptions, and conditions that must exist for the study to proceed.
A statement of the limitations of this research, specifically the things that it cannot discover (and why).
An explanation of validity and reliability concerns and how they will be addressed.
A summary of any ethical issues that you expect to arise in the research process.
References.
The concept paper is a formal writing assignment. Like all written work, it should be computer-printed in 12-point font, spell-checked and proofread. Please provide full citations for all articles referenced.
Corcyreans and the Corinthians at Athens Write a 3-5 page typed, double-spaced essay in response to one of the following questions.
Corcyreans and the Corinthians at Athens
Be sure to answer all parts of the question in standard essay form (introduction, body, and conclusion) and to support your claims with specific evidence from the assigned readings. You will not need to consult outside sources for this assignment. Your essay is due no later than the beginning of class on Wednesday, September 26. 1. Analyze in detail any one of the following sets of speeches. Questions you might Consider: What practical aim did the speakers hope to attain by speaking, and with what arguments did they attempt to persuade their audience? What obstacles (e.g., moral, political, strategic) did they face, and how did they try to overcome them? How do the issues raised contribute to our understanding of the war as a whole and of the nature of international politics? (Warning: your essay should not be a mere summary of the speeches but an analysis of them.) a. The Corcyreans and the Corinthians at Athens (I.32-43) b. Cleon and Diodotus (III.37-48) d. The Melians and the Athenians on Melos (V.84-111) 2. Analyze Diodotus as he comes to sight in Thucydides’ book. Focus your analysis on a close examination of his one speech in the book (III.42-48) and the events surrounding this speech. 3. At the outset of the Peloponnesian War, most Greeks condemned the Athenians for their empire over unwilling subjects (II.8). And Thucydides himself tells us that it was inevitable that Sparta would go to war against Athens because of its fear of Athenian power (I.23). Did Thucydides thus hold Athens morally responsible for the Pelopennesian War? Why might he not have done so? 4. Thucydides claims that his account of the war of the Peloponnesians and the Athenians is a “possession for all time” that will as such be of use to anyone who wishes to investigate the truth of things. What is the truth about human nature and international politics that Thucydides saw in and through this war? Be sure to ground your answer in the text and, preferably, in a close analysis of a few key episodes in the war or in the events leading up to it.
In this paper, the student will analyze current forces of either genetic influences, socio-cultural factors and/or environmental pressures on the personality as discussed by a theorist in the textbook. Your paper will integrate a classical personality theory of your choice (Freud, Jung, Horney, Sullivan, Adler etc.) with modern day influences on individuals’ personality and its evolution. The fundamental questions for this project are, “are the classical theories still relevant?”, “are personalities evolving from those discussed in the textbook?”, and finally, “if modern personalities are evolving, what is the impetus of this phenomenon?”.
Secondary Research on Sex Trafficking There is two main types of research: primary and secondary.
Secondary Research on Sex Trafficking
In primary research, you collect your own data to analyze a topic of interest. For this Assignment, you will be conducting secondary research. In secondary research, your research information already collected by a primary researcher. Performing secondary research includes evaluating existing literature for strengths, limitations, and ethical considerations. When evaluating literature, think about questions such as the following: Were the author’s interpretations and conclusions supported by the evidence he or she presented? Was there any apparent bias? Were there other ways that specific data could be interpreted other than how the author approached it? Were any important variables left out of the study? Was every assertion supported by fact? Did the text use reliable resources? When conducting secondary research, you have the responsibility of evaluating your own research to avoid ethical issues. To Prepare Find three peer-reviewed journal articles in the Walden Library databases related to a human and social services program that interests you professionally. You may wish to use the program you selected for this week’s Discussion. Consider strengths and limitations when evaluating the articles. Finally, consider potential ethical issues in conducting secondary research. The Assignment (3 pages): Briefly summarize each article you selected. In your summary, provide an evaluation of the articles (accuracy, authority, objectivity, currency, and coverage). Finally, explain one potential ethical issue of conducting secondary research. Include how you might avoid this ethical issue. Be specific, and provide examples to support your answers. I would like the 3 peer journals to be about Sex trafficking
Delivery of Sport and Physical Activity This assessment is designed to encourage you to develop your understanding of the delivery of sport and physical activity.
Delivery of Sport and Physical Activity
You will experience a range of pedagogical approaches that should enhance your ability to plan and facilitate high-quality episodes to community groups. The assessment should include 3 parts: A rationale, a session/lesson plan, and risk assessment. Show recognition of a rationale for the event. This must explain clearly the concepts and principles used to plan the session. Communicate clearly and concisely an explanation of the major facets of the event through a lesson plan including establishing appropriate learning outcomes. Demonstrate an awareness of the major organizational factors, including safety considerations, equipment requirements, timings etc A detailed and supported rationale (2000 words)
A lesson plan
A risk assessment
*Make sure you give particular attention to the rationale as this is the aspect which will demonstrate your understanding of this area in most detail. It is not feasible or practical to provide a precise word count for the lesson plan and risk assessment aspects of this assignment, but your rationale should be around 1500 words.
Report format – You are required to articulate your lesson rationale in the 3rd person. Your work needs to be word-processed and you should ensure that you adopt an informed perspective fully supported through appropriate reading. The word limit is 2000 (not including appendices-see above). The plan and risk assessment can be part of the appendices but you need to submit all the material as one document.
The overall presentation should adopt: a report style and layout, demonstrate correct spelling and grammar, using the appropriate system of referencing (criteria which generally apply to University written work).
Information or IT and Data Governance Difference. 1) Organizations are struggling to reduce and right-size their information foot-print, using data governance techniques like data cleansing and de-duplication. Why is this effort necessary? Briefly explain.
Information or IT and Data Governance Difference
2) Information Governance, IT Governance, and Data Governance: What’s the Difference? Briefly explain.
Please write, minimum 300 – 350 words for each question. If there’s anything that’s defining successful businesses today, it’s the successful understanding, use, and strategy of a company’s data. Understanding your data and determining how to implement it brings up a whole range of questions, from both users and stakeholders: how is the data stored? How do we know it’s timely and accurate? Can we trust it? What is the best data for my problem?
The Looking Glass and Point of View Symbolic Interaction In this part of the course we take up the sociology of the body from the point of view of symbolic interaction.
The Looking Glass and Point of View Symbolic Interaction
As Waskul and Vannini (2006) point out in Chapter 1 of their edited collection Bodies/Embodiment, social and cultural changes in the Western world have made questions of the body and embodiment “appear more substantially more visible than ever before”. This visibility has resulted in a large and varied corpus of sociological work that can loosely be labeled “the sociology of the body”. Waskul and Vannini focus on the sociology of the body from the perspective of symbolic interaction.
As with the theorists we took up earlier, Waskul and Vannini take the position that “the body as an object” [i.e. the body as something tangible, physical] cannot be separated from “the body as a subject “ [i.e. the meaning the body holds both for the individual and for society]”. For Waskul and Vannini “embodiment” is the process whereby the ‘object body is actively experienced, produced, sustained, and/or transformed as a subject-body”. One does not just “inhabit” a body. Rather one is “subjectively embodied in a fluid, emergent, and negotiated process of being”. This means that body, the self and the social interactions the self is involved in are all tightly integrated.
To repeat, for symbolic interactionists, the body is never just an object. It is always embodied and therefore subjectively experienced.. The questions of interest for social interactionists that follow from this are: “how” and “by what means”? is the body experienced. Waskul and Vannini point to four different, although as they say, highly inter-changeable orientations that symbolic interactionists take up when answering these two questions:, viz. the looking-glass body, the dramaturgical body, the phenomenological body, the socio-semiotic body, and the narrative body. In this section we will take up the first two of the symbolic interactionist orientations noted by Waskul and Vannini, i.e. the looking-glass body, and the dramaturgical body:
The Looking Glass and Point of View Symbolic Interaction
The concept of the looking-glass body derives its inspiration from the theorizing of Charles Horton Cooley (1902). Cooley famously wrote:
In a very large and interesting class of cases, the social reference takes the form of a somewhat definite imagination of how one’s self—that is an idea he appropriates—appears in a particular mind, and the kind of self-feeling one has is determined by the attitude toward this attributed to that other mind. A social self of this sort might be called the reflected or looking-glass self:
“Each to each a looking-glass
Reflects the other that doth pass.”
As we see our face, figure, and dress in the glass, and are interested in them because they are ours, and pleased or otherwise with them according as they do or do not answer to what we should like them to be; so in imagination we perceive in another’s mind some thought of our appearance, manners, aims, deeds, character, friends, and so on, and are variously affected by it (1902:183-4).
Cooley went on to claim that the “looking-glass self” has three elements: “…the imagination of our appearance to the other person; the imagination of his judgment of that appearance, and some sort of self-feeling, such as pride or mortification” (ibid.). And that …“There is no sense of “I” … without its correlative sense of you, or he, or they…. A social self of this sort might be called the reflected or looking-glass self” Charles Horton Cooley, Human Nature and Social Order (1902)
The “looking-glass body” Waskul and Vannini (2006) tell us “obviously and intentionally resonates with Cooley’s familiar “looking-glass self”. The looking-glass body is the result of the individual seeing and interpreting the bodies of others. It is the result of the individual imagining what others see and feel about him/her. The looking-glass body is “an imagined reflection built of cues gleaned from others” (ibid).
The Looking Glass and Point of View Symbolic Interaction and The Body as Abject
One type of body that sociologists have focused on are ill, disabled bodies- bodies that are “troublesome”; “abject bodies. How then, is the disabled and/or chronically ill body constructed and experienced? What does it mean to have an abject body?
The “body as abject” approach to embodiment “privileges a controlling mind over the material form of a person” The abject body is “at once a site of attraction and revulsion” (Cregan 2006:11-12). In this approach, the body is treated either as a “site of spiritual and ritual significance” (as in the work of many anthropologists), or as a “producer of reviled products”.
Theories that treat the body as abject, Cregan tells us, “center on the individually situated mental control of bodily acts and processes” (2006: 8). Feminist philosopher Julia Kristeva has theorized how “abjection” occurs as “the rejection of and revulsion at what both is and is not the body”. Abjection involves “dealing with evidence of the body’s boundaries”, an act that is both “necessary and dangerous to the self-constitution subject” (Kegan 2002:96). Mary Douglas, an anthropologist also writes about pollution and taboos and their effects on abjection. But as Cregan points out there is a significant difference between Douglas and Kristeva. Whereas Kristeva focuses on the transition between infancy and adulthood and metaphoric issues of abjection, Douglas “is interested in how abjection functions materially in social relations, amongst adults…” (ibid)
Berit Lindahl (2010) applies the concept of the object, taken from the work of Julia Kristeva, to an analysis of the “situation of people living at home on a [home mechanical] ventilator [HMV]”. Lindahl collected stories from HMV users, arguing that the “concept of abjection adds a deeper understanding to issues about embodiment …” As you read this article, try to assess Lindahl’s arguments that the work of Kristiva on abject embodiment can help us to recognize our own “incompleteness and strangeness” thus making it possible to have and to appreciate “relations with others who at first sight seem strange to us…”
Bodily excretions and/or by-products are objects of fascination, attraction and/or revulsion in all cultures. But across cultures what attracts repulses or fascinates differ. There are codes aimed at controlling and regulating the body and different acts or materials bring different responses. The issue for theorists who focus on the body as abject is the cultural and social regulation of the practical power of the mind over the body (Cregan p 13).
For those following a “looking-glass body” approach to the question of disability/illness, an individual’s experiences of their embodiment is central to their sense of being- including who they think they are, and what they think others attribute to them. For some sociologists, like Waskul and van der Riet (2002) important research question emerge: “how does the self handle the implications of a gruesome body? How do people manage selfhood in light of grotesque physical appearance?” (p. 487). In answering these questions Waskul and van der Riet (2002) begin with the understanding that the body and experiences of embodiment are central to an individual’s sense of self. What happens, they ask, “…when one’s body is humiliating? How does the self handle the implications of a gruesome body?” They draw on Charles Horton Cooley’s concept of the “looking-glass self” as their theoretical framework in order to write about how a person experiences and manages a body that is in a state of “abject embodiment”. While you are reading this article pay close attention to the concepts of abject embodiment and the concept of “looking-glass self” in order to assess their analysis of how an individual experiences, and manages, a body that is in a state of “abject embodiment”.
Brooks Gardner and Gronfein (2006) drew inspiration from Irving Goffman’s classic work Relations in Public (1971) to examine and theorize about “how fragile and unpredictable bodies are “armoured” in public space to better defend and manage trespass”. Read the article, paying close attention to the concepts that Brooks Gardner and Grofein have adapted from Goffman’s work (i.e. “the huddle”, “allowable breaches”, ‘the shell”, ‘body doubles”, and “chaperones”. They use these concepts to illustrate ‘the micropolitics of everyday life” as experienced by persons with disabilities.
Once you have read the articles, watch the film “My Left Foot”. My Left Foot is a 1989 film adaptation of an autobiographical book of the same title by Christy Brown, an Irishman born with cerebral palsy. View the film
