In order to understand the subtle ways social pressure exists to have or not have children, you are to review a current popular magazine (identify the magazine) whose focus is not directly related to children. Read an article about children presented in a particular issue and then answer the following:
(a) What can be said about the amount of coverage given to children in this magazine?
(b) How much of the advertising in this magazine includes children? Cite examples.
(c) How does the article generally portray children? Are children presented in a positive way or are they presented as a problem? Give specific examples when appropriate.
(d) How do you feel about children after reading the article?

For your Unit 9 Assignment, you will write a paper that helps you review the cognitive, social, and emotional developmental theories studied in this course. You will create a profile of a hypothetical client using one or two of the provided scenarios. The purpose of this paper is to challenge you to use your formal writing/thinking skills to evaluate your chosen scenario using the developmental theories you have studied. Your paper should be between 6 and 8 pages long (for the body) with a title page and a reference page (an additional two pages). Successful papers are written using proper English conventions, are in APA format, and include synthesis of theory and information from the scenarios.

Suggested paper structure:

Title page (first page)

Body of paper (6-8 pages, double-spaced)

Reference page (last page)

Select either scenario 1 or 2 for your paper and then write your essay to respond to the questions found below the scenario. Assume that you work for a child and family services agency in the family intervention division. Your job is to help families whose children are in state care to rejoin their parents in their home.

Scenario 1: James (23-year-old father of two children)

James comes to your office as part of his plan for family reintegration. A year ago, his two children ages 2 and 8 were taken from his home because he and the children?s mother were abusive to each other and to the children. Both he and the mother of the children have completed mandatory domestic violence counseling and parenting classes. He should be ready to have his children return home; however, you still have some concerns based on James? past.

As a child, he was left with an aunt as an infant because his mother was incarcerated. He was the youngest of seven children in the home and was raised by the older children and various strangers who lived with them during his toddler years. He did not attend preschool until he was five years old and was already six years old when he entered kindergarten.

Family services visited his aunt?s house often while he was in elementary school because of reports of drug activity (his aunt and her friends used cocaine and marijuana) and abuse. James was often beaten by his aunt?s boyfriends for misbehaving. He did not trust adults and began to act out in middle school. He got into trouble in many of his classes as an early adolescent. He told his teachers that he was too stupid to be in school and was waiting till he turned 16 so he could drop out and get a job. His grades were too low for him to participate in sports, though he was one of the best athletes in his class.

During his adolescent years, James skipped school a lot until he turned 16 and dropped out. He joined a gang and earned money robbing stores and selling drugs. By the time he was 17, he had fathered a child and, by 19, four children with two different women. He was arrested for armed robbery by age 20 and was in prison for two years. When released at age 22, the mother of his two youngest children asked him to live with them to help pay the bills. James was hired to work at the local grocery store and has done well in the last year and a half, receiving a promotion to Assistant Manager of the meat department. He has just finished probation for the robbery and is attending GED classes at night. However, as a young adult, he still suffers from deep anger issues that relate to his childhood and that continue to affect his actions as an adult.

Scenario 2: Anna and Jojo

Anna is a 19-year-old mother of a 2-year-old toddler (Jojo) and both are clients of yours. Jojo was taken from her mother 3 months ago because of neglect, though this client?s problems are different from any of the others whom you have worked with before. Child and family services became involved with Anna and Jojo because of a report made by Jojo?s Head Start teacher that Anna was not feeding Jojo appropriately. In fact, the investigators discovered that Anna thought Jojo was too fat and only fed her water and bananas to help her lose weight. She apparently fed Jojo like this for three weeks before the teacher noticed a change in Jojo during school time. When the teacher noticed that Jojo was rapidly losing weight, she contacted Anna, who told the teacher to mind her own business. Because Jojo continued to lose weight and was hardly able to move during class time, the teacher filed an abuse report for neglect. Jojo was removed from Anna?s care and placed in a foster home.

Jojo gained weight and began to thrive in foster care. Whenever she visited with her mother, she cried and ran away from her. There was no evidence of abuse when Jojo was examined by the doctor, but still, it was clear that Anna had some parenting issues. Anna was referred to a psychiatrist for further assessment. It was discovered that she suffered from depression and suicidal ideations as well as an eating disorder.

In your work with Anna, you discover that her earliest memories of her mother are of her telling her that she was fat and lazy. Anna remembers checking her image in the mirror every day and wishing that she was skinny like her mother. During Anna?s elementary school years, her mother only fed her yogurt and diet food and encouraged her to exercise many times during the day. Anna became fanatical about what she ate and began to take diet pills while in middle school. She threw herself into school activities, trying to be the president of every club and the top student in all of her classes.

However, during this time, she started dating a football player who convinced her that she was too ugly for him to date. He encouraged her to become sexually active to keep him interested in the relationship and told her that no one else would ever want her. She believed him and soon became pregnant during her junior year of high school. Because of her poor nutrition, her doctor had her hospitalized during the last trimester of pregnancy to ensure the health of the baby.

Once Jojo was born, Anna tried to lose weight quickly (though she had very little to lose) and became thinner than ever before. Her eating disorder has gotten progressively worse and she has only just started working with a doctor and a psychiatrist as a part of her agreement to reunify with her daughter.

Questions for paper (use either scenario as a guide for your responses):

Using either scenario 1 or 2, explain how James or Anna?s current adult problems are a result of cognitive problems developed during at least one specific time in their lives (e.g., infancy, early childhood, middle childhood, and/or adolescence). Explain this using information from either Piaget?s cognitive development theory or information processing theory.
How was your hypothetical client affected by social pressures from parents and peers during their early childhood through their adolescent years? How did your client?s response to that social pressure create their current problems?
Using information from our readings and Discussions, explain how your hypothetical client mishandles his or her emotions. What problems is the client experiencing in his or her life now because of lack of emotional regulation?
Provide some suggestions for appropriate interventions that can be used to help your client to be a responsible adult and parent.

Please follow instruction as I cannot afford to have a bad paper.

Thank you guys so much.

This is an order pertaining to social psychology. The purpose of this assignment is to help you gain and appreciation of the power of social pressures. You are asked to do a norm violation behavior, describe the experience and analyze your reactions and those of other people. Choose simple and subtle actions, not outrageous or extravagant behaviors. Choose one social not and repeat your violation of it in several situations with individuals who may differ with respects to age, gender, social status etc.

Here are some examples, but feel free to be creative Please notify me on which you are interested on basing the order on:
-Eat with hands at restaurant (non finger food)
-Wear clothes backwards
-Face opposite side while riding the elevator.
-Sing to people when you talk.
-Sit next to a person on the bus when there are a lot of available seats

Caution, do not break any law or explicit rules. Do not do anything that will harm of any other individual. Do not inconvenience or anger other people.

Please include the following topics in the order.

1. Identify the implicit social norm (not law or explicit rule) about common everyday behavior.
2. Identify the action you have taken that break, or violate that norm.
3. Describe the several situations in which you violate a norm, ideally for a whole day.
4. Describe how people reacted to your violation, including verbal and nonverbal responses, and any pattern. Look for different reactions from different people. Look for patterns associated with age, sex, place, situations, time of day. Your object is to produce momentary confusion or consternation, not anxiety or hostility. Where possible you may provide brief explanation to people you engage with after you note their reactions to your behavior.
5. Discuss your own reactions to your actions. Included thoughts and feeling and how they changed over time and situations.

Please message me with any questions.

One flew over the cuckoo's nest essay
Title Does social pressure and shame push people to check out of society? (pretend to be crazy to get away etc.) You may write something similar should you find quotes. any questions - email me
MLA format, minimum of 3 pages (just make it 3 pages not longer) has to be an original essay, mention all the quotes with page number. use as many as 10-15 quotes, not too long. I put some quotes below, you may use them and/or find some others.

SOCIAL PRESSURE AND SHAME
Randle McMurphy is shocked to learn that there are more men
on the psych ward who are voluntarily committed than those,
like him, who have been committed by the state. Dale Harding,
for instance, is so ashamed of his homosexuality that he
chooses to commit himself to a mental asylum to escape the
shame he feels around his wife. Billy Bibbit is in his early
thirties, but he has become so infantilized and reliant on his
mother?s acceptance and approval that he is paralyzed by the
thought of being with another woman, or of his mother finding
out anything about him that would lessen her esteem of him
(e.g. when he sleeps with Candy and blames the events on
McMurphy and the rest of the men).
The novels makes it clear that many of these men are holding
themselves back from living freely because they are terrified of
how they will be received by the general population for their
behaviors. Not fitting in because of sexual orientation, ethnic
background, infantilization?no matter what it is, the men fear
what makes them different and would rather hide from society
than face its judgment of them. The judgments about what
constitutes normal or abnormal behavior, about what is
shameful and what is not, are decided by the few in positions of
institutional power, but their influence and legitimacy gives
their views?however wrong or right?the ability to become the
definition of what is Normal in society. For most of these men,
they simply cannot deal with the shame of not fitting into what
is conventionally normal until McMurphy helps them to
recognize their own internal dignity and self-worth, to
reconnect with themselves in a way that is unaffected by
society's perception of them.

Some Quotes:

Across the room from the Acutes are the culls of the Combine?s product, the Chronics. Not in the hospital, these, to get fixed, but just to keep them from walking around the streets giving the product a bad name. Chronics are in for good, the staff concedes. Chronics are divided into Walkers like me, can still get around if you keep them fed, and Wheelers and Vegetables. What the Chronics are?or most of us?are machines with flaws inside that can?t be repaired, flaws born in, or flaws beat in over so many years of the guy running head-on into solid things that by the time the hospital found him he was bleeding rust in some vacant lot. page 14-15

No wife wanting new linoleum. No relatives pulling at him with
watery old eyes. No one to care about, which is what makes
[McMurphy] free enough to be a good con man. page ?

Yes. This is what I know. The ward is a factory for the Combine. It's for fixing up mistakes made in the neighborhoods and in the schools and in the churches, the hospital is. When a completed product goes back out into society, all fixed up good as new, better than new sometimes, it brings joy to the Big Nurse's heart.... pg. 40

There?s something strange about a place where the men won?t let themselves loose and laugh, something strange about the way they all knuckle under to that smiling flour-faced old mother there with the too-red lipstick and the too-big boobs. And he thinks he?ll just wait a while to see what the story is in this new place before he makes any kind of play. That?s a good rule for a smart gambler: look the game over awhile before you draw yourself a hand. page 43

This world?belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak. We must face up to this. Nor more than right that it should be this way. We must learn to accept it as a law of the natural world. The rabbits accept their role in the ritual and recognize the wolf as the strong. In defense, the rabbit becomes sly and frightened and elusive and he digs holes and hides when the wolf is about. And he endures, he goes on. He knows his place. He most certainly doesn?t challenge the wolf to combat. Now, would that be wise? Would it? page 57

You know, that's the first thing that got me about this place, that there wasn?t anybody laughing. I haven?t heard a real laugh since I came through that door, do you know that? Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing. A man go around lettin? a woman whup him up and down till he can?t laugh any more, and he loses one of the biggest edges he?s got on his side. First thing you know he?ll begin to think she?s tougher than he is? page 63

I?d think he was strong enough being his own self that he would never back down the way she was hoping he would. I?d think, maybe he truly is something extraordinary. He?s what he is, that?s it. Maybe that makes him strong enough, being what he is. The Combine hasn?t got to him in all these years; what makes the nurse think she?s gonna be able to do it in a few weeks? He?s not gonna let them twist him and manufacture him. page 139-140

Tell me why. You gripe, you bitch for weeks on end about how you can?t stand this place, can?t stand the nurse or anything about her, and all the time you ain?t committed. I can understand it with some of those old guys on the ward. They?re nuts. But you, you?re not exactly the everyday man on the street, but you?re not nuts. page 167

What worries me, Billy,' she said- I could hear the change in her voice- 'is how your mother is going to take this. pg. 264

Resource: The Responsibility Project website
Perform an Internet search for the site called The Responsibility Project.
Select the link for this site.
Note: this assignment is for an ethics class.
View the short films on the Responsibility Project website.
Select one of the short films that addresses organizational issues.
Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper describing how ethical principles can be used to address organizational issues. Include the link to the film you select and discuss the following:

? Why are the issues in the film important?
? What role do external social pressures have in influencing organizational ethics?
? How might these issues be relevant to organizational and personal decisions?
? What is the relationship between legal and ethical issues as shown in the film?

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

Organizational Issues

Select and complete one of the following assignments:
Option 1: The Responsibility Project

Resource: The Responsibility Project website

Perform an Internet search for the site called The Responsibility Project.
Select the link for this site.
View the short films on the Responsibility Project website.
Select one of the short films that addresses organizational issues.
Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper describing how ethical principles can be used to address organizational issues. Include the link to the film you select and discuss the following:

? Why are the issues in the film important?
? What role do external social pressures have in influencing organizational ethics?
? How might these issues be relevant to organizational and personal decisions?
? What is the relationship between legal and ethical issues as shown in the film?

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

Here's the website address of the films: This is the video references. You may pick one base in your interest. There are quite few of film that are interesting.

Liberty Mutual. (2011). The Responsibility Project. Retrieved from
http://responsibility-project.libertymutual.com/#fbid=YSS6BDTOk
No Phone Zone Day. (2010). [Video file]. Available from Liberty Mutual website: http://responsibility-project.libertymutual.com/films/no-phone-zone- day#fbid=YSS6BDTOk
You may chose any of the video on you r own convenience, Thanks U

THIS (BELOW) IS THE FINAL COPY OF THE ESSAY, MAKE AN ESSAY THAT WOULD FIT AS A DRAFT, BECAUSE TEACHER SUSPECTED THAT IT WAS NOT MY WORK BUT IT WAS FROM CUSTOM WRITING- MAKE IT SUPER DRAFT- WITH MANY GRAMATICAL ERROR. MAKE IT LESS PERFECT!!
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George Orwells essay, Shooting an Elephant, reveals many aspects about human nature. In this essay, Orwell explores the theme of an inner struggle with doing the right things as opposed to doing what looks good. Here we see how it is not always easy to follows ones heart when one works for the British Empire as a police officer. The struggle to look good comes at him from the desire to look good among the Burmese and his own peers. Symbolism is an important tool in the essay in that Orwell allows the narrator and the elephant to become powerful symbols that force us to think about circumstances. Irony also comes into play in this essay because with all of the struggle that the narrator experiences, he is still a puppet not only for the Burmese but his peers as he behaves completely opposite from how he would without the constraints of social pressure. Orwell proves his point that life is never as easy as it seems with the theme of inner struggle represented through symbolism and irony.
The inner struggle of man becomes a powerful theme in the story as the narrator must deal with his duty and his moral code. His being in Burma is that he is a hated man- hated by large numbers of people (694). He explains that this hatred stems from his chosen professions. He is a sub-divisional police officer in a foreign land and his job requires him to maintain a certain level of respectability from the natives. To make matters worse for him, he is an obvious target (694) for sneers and gestures because he represents a strong European influence that is not necessarily welcome. These aspects of the job upset the narrator to the point that he decides that imperialism was an evil thing and the sooner I chucked up my job and got out of it the better (694). He admits that inwardly, he was for the Burmese and all against their oppressors (694). He also confesses that he is stuck between my hatred of the empire I served and my rage against the evil-spirited little beasts who tried to make my job impossible (694). In addition, his reputation is on the line with the Burmese, which also affects his decision-making. This is reinforced with the elephant because the narrator knows that he should not kill the elephant. However, as the gathering crowd watches and waits for him to do something in retaliation, the narrator realizes that in order not to be laughed at, he must kill the elephant. A white man mustnt be frightened in front of natives (697), he notes. The narrator knows that he has done the right thing (699) legally but he knows otherwise as he admits that he did it solely to avoid looking like a fool (699). These instances illustrate how the narrator is constantly struggling with himself. His moral code knows without a doubt that the European influence in Burma is crippling the community but his job prevents him from saying or doing anything to express his true feelings. This struggle with self is reinforced with the shooting of the elephant, which the narrator knows is clearly wrong but feels compelled to do because of the responsibility of his job and the desire to look good among everyone, including his peers.

Symbolism emerges in the essay in many forms. The narrator himself becomes a symbol of the Burmese people because he is placed in a situation in which he bitterly hates. The Burmese hate him just as he hates those in authority over him. He is also a symbol of British rule itself. He represents the very thing that is oppressing the people and they resent him for it. The Burmese sneer and hoot at him and even the Buddhist priests jeer at the Europeans. The narrator can witnesses the dirty work of the empire at close quarters (694) and he despises it but, at the same, he is that empire on the streets of Burma.

The elephant is a symbol as well. It represents the Burmese society that is crumbling under the oppression of the British rule. It also symbolizes humanity in that no one should suffer under the oppression of others and a long and painful death is the result of such oppression. The elephants death is also a symbol for the slow death of Burma. Before the arrival of the empire, Burma was free but now it struggles for its last dying breaths under British rule. The implication is clear in that the narrator does not attempt to disguise his feelings toward the monarchy in any way. The British crown is stifling and killing those that it oppresses and it wounds her officers by making them partake in activities that force them to go against their innate will. The elephant, the most powerful symbol of all, eventually dies but it is not without agony nor is it guilty of anything but being what it is. Those under British rule are behaving as they are and are being what they were born to be but the power of the empire is forcing them to bend and behave in ways that are essentially unnatural.

Orwell also employs irony in the essay to prove salient points. For example, his inner struggle surfaces in part because of how he is perceived by the Burmese. As a result, the narrator acts and behaves certain ways to keep their sneers and jeers at bay. In this way, the white man has actually become a puppet of the natives because he is afraid to appear certain ways before them. They expect him to kill the elephant so he does. For a man that refers the Burmese as evil-spirited beasts, he certainly does care about what they think enough to go against his own moral judgment. He knows that legally, he was right but he knew with the crowd of Burmese growing every minute (697), he knew he had no choice in the matter even if the elephant had returned to its docile state. It is ironic that the right thing to do becomes the impossible thing to do. The narrator is fully aware of how he is behaving and even admits that he is an absurd puppet (697) and he wears a mask (697). In a moment of realization, he states, I perceived in this moment that when the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys (697). Similarly, he also knows that his friends will have something to say about his behavior. At the end of the essay, the narrator states that his older friends agreed with his decision to shoot the animal but the younger men commented that it was a damn shame (699). Here we see that the narrator was in a situation in that no matter what he did, he would receive criticism. This only emphasizes the irony that killing the animal does nothing for no one except help the narrator maintain his status as an official that must do his duty.

Shooting an Elephant, explores the nature of man from several different perspectives. The narrators perspective is the most poignant because he is forced to realize many things about himself and others by killing the elephant. The theme of an individuals struggle to do the right thing becomes the primary theme of the essay. The danger of imperialism emerges through the narrators circumstances. He finds that he cannot act according to his inclinations because of his profession and how others would perceive him. He is a symbol just like the Burmese are symbols of the oppression of the British. The elephant is a symbol of what happens to those under such oppression. The irony exists when the narrator finds that he is forced to behave a certain way by those that he is supposedly above. He is expected to keep things in order but that comes at the cost of his own beliefs. While he is perceived as the oppressor, he is actually nothing more than a puppet for those around him. He is no more free than the Burmese. It is through these circumstances that Orwell demonstrates how difficult it is to simply be human and follow ones heart at times. Work, peer pressure, and outside pressure become powerfu factors that often force us to act in ways we would rather not.

A synthesis paper based on three essays (Opinions and Social Pressure by Salomon E.Asch,The Stanford Prison Experiment by Philip G. Zimbardo and Disobedience as a Psychological and Moral Problem by Erich Fromm)

The essay focuses on this questions:
"In response to the question, "Why is man so prone to obey and why is it so difficult for him to disobey?" Erich Fromm suggests that obedience lets people identify with the powerful and invites feeling of safety.
Disobedience is psychologically more difficult and requires an act of courage. Solomon Asch notes that the tendency to conformity is generally stronger than the tendency to independence.
And in his final paragraph, Philip Zimbardo writes that a "prison of fear" keeps people compliant and frees them of the need to take responsibility for their own actions.
In a synthesis that draws on these three sources, explore the interplay of fear and its opposite, courage, in relation to obedience. To prevent the paper from becoming too abstract, direct your attention repeatedly to a single case, the details of which will help to keep your focus. This essay may be based upon a particular event from your own life or the life of someone you know"

The paper should consists of:
I.introduce essay, state thesis
II.introduce criterion 1
A. passage A's viewpoint
B.passage B's viewpoint
III.introduce criterion 2
A.passage A's viewpoint
B.passage B's viewpoint
IV.discussion and conclusion

I will be sending more resources (all three essays).

There are faxes for this order.

Visit an internet site called The Responsibility Project at http://responsibility-project.libertymutual.com/

View the short films on the Responsibility Project website.

Select one of the short films that addresses organizational issues.

Write a 500- to 1,050-word paper describing how ethical principles can be used to address organizational issues. Include the link to the film you select and discuss the following:

? Why are the issues in the film important?
? What role do external social pressures have in influencing organizational ethics?
? How might these issues be relevant to organizational and personal decisions?
? What is the relationship between legal and ethical issues as shown in the film?

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STATEMENT 1: In his homily at the Class of 2005's Baccalaureate Mass, LMU's President Fr. Robert Lawton, S.J., said: ''So what is the answer to this deep insecurity we all feel? The answer, I think, is to embrace the adventure of becoming deeply, and fully, ourselves. This is what God is really calling us to. It seems like the riskiest of all journeys, this journey to be one self. But it's ultimately the journey that leads us to happiness, that leads us into God's dreams for us.''

QUESTION 1: Why do you think Fr. Lawton says the ''journey to be oneself'' seems the riskiest of all journeys? What risks lie ahead in your college career as you embark on the ''adventure'' of discovering and becoming yourself?



History is often told as chronicle of great people doing great things, and while these stories are important, the majority of us experience life through smaller moments. It is the smaller choices and the small decisions that add up over time create our life as a patchwork of these choice. Our choice and decisions define who we become, and ultimately it is the sum of all these seemingly small decisions define whether or not we can be proud of ourselves at the end of the day. Thus far in my life I am proud of who I have become, and what I have accomplish; however, I see a long road ahead of me of upward battles to meet my goals. As I embrace the next step on my education career unexpected happen, and I never know what challenges I will face. College will be interesting adventure for me, the phase of my life I not only will gaining knowledge, but also discovering and knowing myself.
Journey to be oneself in my opinion is like uncovering present, but at the same time it also like pealing onion because beside I will be surprise of knowing who I really am, it will be a never ending journey that going on and on in every step of my life. However, I agree with Fr. Lawton that thejourney to be oneself is the riskiest journey of all because I might have to walk against the totem pole of society and overwhelming .
One thing Ive learned so far in my young life is that the impact of social pressure can be overwhelming for anyone. Our parents, peers, and the media are constantly suggesting what we should do and be; its very difficult to remain true to oneself. The society seems like forcing us to be someone else for be fitted in to the community. And people who work against it will appearing to be a weak person. The one that is the odd in the society. And to be different than anybody else need a bold move.
The other thing that make these journey is the riskiest is because it is an overwhelming journey. Just like I mention before, discovering our self is like uncover present. We will not know what we will get in side. Just like these journey, we will be surprised to know who really are. And the thing that make these thing worse is there are no refund. We sure can change our bad habits, however, we can not change who we are. We are born these way. Due to these reason many people do not want to go down these road because they do not want to involved with messy immosional issues.
As I embrace my college career, and the adventure of discovering and becoming myself there will be many risks lie ahead. One of them is many people may do not agree with what I want to do. Since I was a child my parents always want me to be a scientist. However, I do not good at it. That is one of the reason I majoring accounting beside the fact that I better in accounting than biology, I also enjoy it. Because I agree to take this adventure by work against my parents will, I have to prove to them that to be a success person I do not need to be a scientist, I can be a accountant and still be a success person. Beside that fact that I have a huge pressure to be a success accounting, I also afraid that I will regret my decision of choosing accounting if in the future I have to face mountains of problems. However, I believe I will enjoy these adventure more than adventure becoming a scientist.
The other risk that lie a head of me is I have to surrender my self to God because He is the one who is creating me in to these world, so He is the one who know exactly the purpose of my life. For many people these may not sounds as a risk, however, for me to be surrender and put all my dream to Gods head is scary because I do not know where He will lead me to. Everything is still uncover and unknown, I am afraid. However, I have to believe that He will guide me to a place where I belong weather I happy or not or agree or not. Just like Abrahams adventure in Bible. He just obey to Gods will that told him to get out from his home land and follow God will to the place that God told him to go and at the end Abraham end up at the place he can be.
I believe that college will be full of adventure to me. It will be journey to gain knowledge and becoming and knowing who I am. These may be a great adventure of my life with a huge risk. Many people may not want to go down this road, but I am more than ready. Because I believe that if I complete these journey I will win a price that greater than anything that is a happiness. I also believe that LMU will be the right place to start my adventure.

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Organizational Issues

The Responsibility Project

Resource: The Responsibility Project website
Perform an Internet search for the site called The Responsibility Project.
Select the link for this site.
View the short films on the Responsibility Project website.
Select one of the short films that address organizational issues.
Write a 750, word paper describing how ethical principles can be used to address organizational issues. Include the link to the film you select and discuss the following:

? Why are the issues in the film important?
? What role do external social pressures have in influencing organizational ethics?
? How might these issues be relevant to organizational and personal decisions?
? What is the relationship between legal and ethical issues as shown in the film?

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

I need a term paper that specifically compares Nora from "A doll's house" and Julie from "Miss Julie"

Below is the proposal I wrote, the paper must be based on this:

Ibsens Nora in A Dolls House and Strindbergs Miss Julie in Miss Julie were victims, and also products, of their societies (how were they victims and products?). They share many similar psychological characteristics, but at the same time, they are complements of one another (how are they complements of one another). Both women swing between extremes; they were happy or extremely depressed, poised or neurotic, determined or helpless, until the end of the plays. For these reasons I have chosen to write about these two plays which have made me think a lot on womens roles, independence, and the social pressure, especially during the 1870s and 1880s. I am mainly going to focus on Nora and Miss Julie because even though they are different socially, their stories end up being almost the same.

Please let me know if this is clear.

I also need a paper with the secondary sources that were used and I do not want to have that many citations which have happened to me before; specially not long citations.

capital punishment in the usa
1-history: only limited to the usa, how people were put to death.
2-evolution of capital punishment: how has it evolved,changes made to it,how social pressure has changed it, scientific technology developed.
3-what crimes are capital crimes, details about it.
4-diferent rules followed to apply capital punishment,who decides death penalty,statistics, diferent cases.
5- opinions: pros and contras, does it help correction of offenderswho agrees with it,who does not agree with it,mistakes made in sentence, how many times has it happened.
There are faxes for this order.

This is the one I chose but there are 2 choices, it really doesn't matter just which ever one is easier. The assignment of from UOP so maybe you have seen it before. There is an attachment with both choices but the one I chose is listed below.

Resource: The Responsibility Project website

Perform an Internet search for the site called The Responsibility Project.

Select the link for this site.

View the short films on the Responsibility Project website.

Select one of the short films that addresses organizational issues.

Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper describing how ethical principles can be used to address organizational issues. Include the link to the film you select and discuss the following:

? Why are the issues in the film important?

? What role do external social pressures have in influencing organizational ethics?

? How might these issues be relevant to organizational and personal decisions?

? What is the relationship between legal and ethical issues as shown in the film?

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

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Organizational Issues

The Responsibility Project

Resource: The Responsibility Project website
Perform an Internet search for the site called The Responsibility Project.
Select the link for this site.
View the short films on the Responsibility Project website.
Select one of the short films that addresses organizational issues.
Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper describing how ethical principles can be used to address organizational issues
Include the link to the film you select and discuss the following:


? Identify and briefly summarize the film
? Why are the issues in the film important?
? What role do external social pressures have in influencing organizational ethics?
? How might these issues be relevant to organizational and personal decisions?
? What is the relationship between legal and ethical issues as shown in the film?

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

Topic: Online-dating

The paper is for the class "Models and Modeling in Anthropology". The class teaches us modeling from both individual and social structure viewpoints. The paper is to
Observe/research a phenomenon. Use two models to analyze the phenomenon. No citations are required.

The followings are some suggestions my professor gave me:

To analyze why people online-date by:

- indifference/budget curve of time spent doing in-person activities vs online dating activities.

- memes people develop about online dating and ways those memes are transmitted

- maybe use temperament theory to capture what people want/expect from relationships and online dating experience.

I'd like the paper to anaylze online-dating focusing on the MEMES people develop about online dating and ways those memes are transimitted. Also, please use temperament theory (Four types temperaments: Idealist, guardian, rational and artisan) to capture what people want/expect from relationship and online-dating experience. Other models (if possible, but not necessary) can be used to analyze the topic, such as decision-tree model, fuzzy cognitive maps, indifference/ budget curve. (But actually, I can add them myself as it involves graphs). We have to use 2-3 models in the paper. Maybe model 1 is memes theory model 2 is temperament theory.

Please include these elements: introduction/purpose, summary of observations/research,analysis using model 1, analysis using model 2, comparison/synthesis of models used and
conclusing thoughts.

Thanks a lot!!! Handouts from the class on temperament theory and memes wil be faxed to you.

The following is a sample paper from the class (which also uses memes theory and temperament theory) to do an annlysis :

Understanding the ?Walking Advertisements? Phenomenon

?FCUK fashion.? No, I did not just curse. This is actually a phrase that appears on a shirt by French Connection-United Kingdom, a trendy clothing company with a clever gimmick. When I saw one of my quieter friends wearing this shirt, I did a double take. Did her shirt say what I thought it said? Oh no, it was just another brand name.
It seems that Americans are obsessed with brand names. For example, many people prefer to buy brand name foods and drugs even though cheaper generic versions are available. Why is this? Perhaps they believe that brand names denote higher quality products. But how can this be true if the generic products are made with the exact same ingredients as their brand name counterparts?
A similar phenomenon is observed with fashion. For instance, it would be a challenge to go an entire day without seeing somebody wearing a shirt that reads, ?Abercrombie & Fitch? or ?Bebe? - especially at a college campus like USC. Obviously, people place some kind of value on name brand clothing just like they often do with food and drugs. However, this phenomenon, which I like to call the ?walking advertisements? phenomenon, is fundamentally different from name brand food and drugs because people can readily observe a brand name on the front of a shirt but cannot tell what type of toothpaste someone uses by looking at their smile. Therefore, it is interesting to observe that people will often wear shirts with brand names on them even though they do not own many other items by that company. For example, my friend wearing the FCUK shirt did not own any other items from this company. In fact, most of her clothes were from less expensive stores like Target or on sale at slightly more expensive stores like the Gap. This observation lends itself to three important questions. First, what makes someone more likely to buy and wear clothes with brand names on them? Second, why don?t people wear shirts that say, ?Target? or ?Ross? if most of their clothes come from these stores? Third, why do people pay to publicly endorse a company they have no business ties to?
The answers to these questions are complicated because people have different values, budgets, and interpretations of social ?norms.? However, we can analyze the phenomenon by taking advantage of three models used frequently in the social sciences. The first model, called ?memes theory,? allows us to recognize the types of feedback people receive from their culture or society and analyze how this influences their behavior. The second model, called ?temperament theory,? allows us to gain a deeper understanding of how peoples? needs and values affect the choices they make. The final model, called ?exchange theory,? compares what people want versus what they can afford to predict their behavior. Because each model is limited in its scope, all three must be used to achieve a more comprehensive understanding of this phenomenon.
The basis of memes theory, not surprisingly, is the ?meme,? which is defined as a unit of cultural heredity. Just as genes are passed down biologically from generation to generation through reproduction, memes are transferred to other people within a society through communication. Also like genes, memes have the ability to ?mutate? by way of human creativity. Thus, memes often change over time as attitudes shift and new possibilities present themselves.
According to the memes theory, memes often make a distinction or boundary between two concepts, explain a cause and effect relationship, or suggest certain attitudes or associations. Therefore, wearing brand name clothing is a meme because it appears to establish a distinction between people who have style and money and those who do not. This particular meme is inescapable because it is communicated through all forms of media including magazines, newspapers, movies, billboards, and television. For example, does a poor girl who wears clothes from TJ Maxx end up on the cover of Glamour magazine? Not likely. This message, although not usually communicated explicitly for fear of political incorrectness, has an enormous effect on how people wish to be seen and, therefore, affects the types of clothes people buy and wear.
Memes are typically evaluated according to how good (i.e., helpful), successful (i.e., popular), and true (i.e., testable) they are. The meme that says wearing brand name clothes is associated with wealth and style is extremely successful, but is not always good or true. Specifically, the meme is successful because it is repeated over and over in the media, which reaches millions of people. Therefore, if movie stars are wearing ?Dolce and Gabbana? outfits to the Oscars, then the appeal of buying clothes from this company increases. This is not necessarily good, however, because most people cannot afford clothes from Dolce and Gabbana. For example, people may sacrifice their paychecks or good credit just to own a single item from this company. However, most people choose to submit to the meme on a less extreme level by simply purchasing a shirt that says the company?s name on it. Usually these items are the most affordable in a high-end store like Dolce and Gabbana because the company cannot lose by essentially getting paid to advertise. Because middle class people are usually able to afford shirts with brand names on them, the meme is actually an illusion. Wearing brand name clothes appears to be linked to wealth and style but, in fact, anybody who is compelled to submit to the meme can usually afford a shirt with a brand name on it.
In summary, meme theory offers partial explanations for the three questions posed at the beginning of this paper. Specifically, this theory explains that people will choose to buy and wear brand name clothes because they are overwhelmed by powerful societal messages about what constitutes wealth and style. These messages will tend to make them avoid wearing clothes with ?lower? brand names on them because doing so would contradict the meme. The meme itself is so powerful that it will drive people to spend money on shirts with brand names on them so they can continue to propagate the meme throughout society. People are often more than happy to spread the memes they follow because they feel as if they are setting the standards for society.
Another model that can be used to analyze this phenomenon is temperament theory. According to this theory, there are four types of temperaments (?Guardian,? ?Artisan,? ?Idealist,? and ?Rational?) that describe the needs, values, talents, and behaviors of most people. For example, ?Guardians? have a strong need for membership or belonging and value conformity. They are also skilled in rule making and are usually economical people. ?Artisans,? on the other hand, need the freedom to act on their impulses and value variety in their lives. They are skilled in adapting to new situations and tend to engage in risky, impulsive behaviors. ?Idealists? need a unique identity to be fulfilled and, therefore, value authenticity. They are often skilled in interpretation and tend to be impressionistic. Finally, ?Rationals? need mastery and self-control to be satisfied and value logical consistency. They are skilled in analyzing situations but they are often oblivious to the world around them.
These characteristics can be used to model how people with certain temperaments will respond to the idea that brand name clothing exudes wealth and style in society. For instance, Guardians would most likely buy brand name clothing because it would satisfy their need to fit in with their peer group and society. However, Guardians are typically economical people, so they would most likely strike a balance between conforming and saving money by only purchasing designer shirts that display the company?s name on them. Therefore, having a Guardian temperament explains why certain people wear shirts with brand names on them even though most of their clothes are from less expensive stores.
We can also look at this situation from an Artisan?s point of view. Because Artisans need to feel like they are making an impact on society, they may wear shirts with brand names on them so they can affect other peoples? fashion choices. Because they seek variety, Artisans might own many shirts with different brand names on them so they can have several opportunities to influence the ?fashion norms? held by society. Therefore, Artisans would likely participate in the ?walking advertisements? phenomenon because they view it as an opportunity to impress society with their fashion choices.
Idealists, on the other hand, would not participate in the ?walking advertisements? phenomenon simply because everybody else thinks it is important to do so. In fact, Idealists would probably only endorse a brand name if the company stood for something meaningful. For example, Idealists would not likely support a company like Abercrombie and Fitch because their shirts have been known to promote offensive messages about minorities (e.g., one of their shirts depicted two Chinese laundrymen with the slogan, ?Two Wongs can make it White?). However, Idealists would be more willing to wear a brand name like Armani because this company has donated generously to Down?s syndrome charities. Because Idealists value morals and authenticity, they would likely only wear a brand name if it had personal meaning to them. Otherwise, they would be happier wearing clothes that reflect who they really are.
Like Idealists, Rationals would not likely participate in the ?walking advertisements? phenomenon because they are often oblivious to the world around them. Because this phenomenon is created and propagated by societal messages of how people should present themselves, Rationals avoid the pressure to wear brand name clothing by simply not being receptive to it. In addition, Rationals foster individualism, so they are not as compelled as Artisans and Guardians to conform to what society deems important.
Thus, temperament theory offers a different interpretation of the ?walking advertisements? phenomenon than memes theory because it focuses on how people react to the world around them based on their individual needs and values. Memes theory, on the other hand, focuses on describing what people are exposed to in society, how these social messages are transmitted, and how people in general react to these messages. Therefore, temperament theory is able to do something that memes theory cannot; it can predict how people with certain temperaments will respond to the overwhelming social meme of equating brand name clothing to wealth and style. Specifically, temperament theory predicts that people who have Guardian or Artisan temperaments will be more likely to wear brand name shirts than people who have Rational or Idealist temperaments.
Another factor that influences this phenomenon is the idea of a budget. As mentioned earlier, people with different budgets are able to make different consumption choices. Specifically, people with low budgets are generally restricted to buying less expensive clothing and people with unlimited budgets are generally able to purchase whatever they choose. However, clothing preferences also influence how people choose to spend their money. A way to model how people strike a balance between their budget and what makes them happy is to use a model called ?exchange theory? to plot indifference curves and consumption lines. Indifference curves represent combinations of choices that share the same value, or utility. So, let us say that a person would be just as happy with six inexpensive shirts as they would be with four designer shirts and various combinations of the two in between. According to a related theory called ?marginal utility theory,? this situation is quite realistic because it reflects the idea that people value things more if they do not already have a lot of them.
After establishing what combinations would make the person happy, we would plot a consumption, or budget line to determine what combinations are feasible given what is desired and what is mandated by the budget. For example, if a person can only afford two designer shirts or seven inexpensive shirts at the extremes, then a point of intersection could lie at four inexpensive shirts and one designer shirt (see attached graph). This point represents a combination that makes the person happy while still staying true to the budget.
This scenario plays a significant role in the ?walking advertisements? phenomenon. If people are unable to purchase many designer clothes, then they will strike a balance between their limited budget and their desire to appear ?fashionable? by purchasing only one designer shirt and several inexpensive shirts. Specifically, they will choose to purchase a designer shirt with a brand name on it so as to give the appearance that they own many items from this company and, therefore, have a larger budget (i.e., they are wealthy).
Although this model is helpful, the ?walking advertisements? phenomenon cannot be completely understood without considering the effects of all three models. Only when we examine each model?s implications can we begin to answer the three questions posed at the beginning of this investigation. First, people are more likely to buy and wear clothes with brand names on them because they are bombarded with messages from the media saying that designer clothing denotes wealth and style. However, the influence of such a meme could be amplified or diminished based on one?s individual temperament. For example, if someone is concerned with conforming (e.g., Guardians) or making an impact on society (e.g., Artisans), then the effect will likely be observed. However, if someone is oblivious to these memes (e.g., Rationals) or strives to be authentic (e.g., Idealist), then the effect will not appear. Budgets also play a role. For example, wealthy Rationals may become more aware of social messages than poorer Rationals because they are exposed to more people who reinforce this effect.
Second, people are not likely to wear clothes with ?Target? or ?Ross? on them, even though most of their clothes may come from these stores, because doing so would contradict the prevailing social meme. But once again, this is not the only way to look at this situation. Perhaps people avoid wearing clothes with inexpensive brand names on them because they do not like wearing brand names in general (a likely ?Idealist? trait). Or perhaps this phenomenon is influenced by marginal utility theory such that people prefer to wear, purchase, or display things they do not already have.
Finally, the idea that people pay to publicly endorse a company they have no business ties to may seem logically unsound, but it actually makes sense within the context of social pressures and personal values because these influences are not based on logic either. Rather, social pressures are based on arbitrary ideals and personal values are influenced by gut feelings or significant past experiences. Therefore, people often do not consider whether or not their actions are logical when they are acting in accordance with a meme or temperament.
After analyzing the ?walking advertisements? phenomenon using meme, temperament, and exchange theories, I have a better understanding of why people wear shirts with brand names on them even though this behavior may contradict other aspects of their lives. I, personally, consider myself to be an Idealist, so it was always difficult for me to understand why people felt the need to endorse certain companies that were only socially, and probably not personally, relevant. However, applying these three models to the phenomenon made me realize that the situation is more complex than I originally thought. Whereas I used to attribute the phenomenon to desires for attention, these models reveal that it is likely due to a combination of factors including social, personal, and monetary influences. Because each of these factors contributes to the phenomenon in its own way, it is important to use several relevant models to analyze the observed behavior so that such incomplete assumptions can be avoided.





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I need a research paper on new product development.

An important prerequisite of new product development is extensive marketing research. The following case from Business Week deals with observational marketing research, a specific type of ethnographic investigation.

First, read the article from .

"Consumers in the Mist: Mad Ave.'s anthropologists are unearthing our secrets" by Gerry Khermouch. February 26, 2001 . , Iss. 3721; pg. 92

What other companies use ethnographic research? What do they find out about when they conduct this type of market research to develop their products? Note the table that appears at the end of the article.

You may be wondering about the value of focus groups, interviews, and the like. How do "qualitative" research activities add value to marketing? Below in bullet format is a complete discussion of qualitative research, its role, etc.

Qualitative marketing research

Qualitative research is a set of research techniques, used in marketing and the social sciences, in which data are obtained from a relatively small group of respondents and not analyzed with statistical techniques. This differentiates it from quantitative research in which a large group of respondents provides data that is statistically analyzed.

Contents
1 The role of qualitative research

2 Approaches

3 The main types of qualitative research are:

4 See also

5 Lists of related topics


The role of qualitative research
Qualitative research methods are used primarily as a prelude to quantitative research. They are used to define a problem, generate hypotheses, identify determinants, and develop quantitative research designs. They are inexpensive and fast. Because of the low number of respondents involved, these exploratory research methods cannot be used to generalize to the whole population. They are however, very valuable for exploring an issue and are used by almost all researchers. They can be better than quantitative research at probing below the surface for affective drives and subconscious motivations.


Approaches
Most qualitative methods use a direct approach : they clearly disclose the purpose of the study and the organization that commissioned it. Questions are direct and to the point. Many other qualitative techniques use an indirect approach. The true intent of the research is disguised, either by claiming a false purpose or by omitting any reference to the study?s purpose. Some researchers have ethical misgivings about the deceit involved in this approach. Those researchers that use this approach feel that it provides the more honest and accurate responses. If disguised methods are used, all respondents should, on completion, attend a debriefing session in which the true purpose of the research is given and the reason for the deception explained.


The main types of qualitative research are:
Depth Interviews
interview is conducted one-on-one, and lasts between 30 and 60 minutes
best method for in-depth probing of personal opinions, beliefs, and values
very rich depth of information
very flexible
probing is very useful at uncovering hidden issues
they are unstructured (or loosely structured)- this differentiates them from survey interviews in which the same questions are asked to all respondents
can be time consuming and responses can be difficult to interpret
requires skilled interviewers - expensive - interviewer bias can easily be introduced
there is no social pressure on respondents to conform and no group dynamics
start with general questions and rapport establishing questions, then proceed to more purposive questions
laddering is a technique used by depth interviewers in which you start with questions about external objects and external social phenomena, then proceed to internal attitudes and feelings
hidden issue questioning is a technique used by depth interviewers in which they concentrate on deeply felt personal concerns and pet peeves
symbolic analysis is a technique used by depth interviewers in which deeper symbolic meanings are probed by asking questions about their opposites
Focus Groups
an interactive group discussion lead by a moderator
unstructured (or loosely structured) discussion where the moderator encourages the free flow of ideas
usually 8 to 12 members in the group
usually last for 1 to 2 hours
usually recorded on video
the room usually has a large window with one-way glass - participants cannot see out, but the researchers can see in
inexpensive and fast
can use computer and internet technology for on-line focus groups
respondents feel a group pressure to conform
group dynamics is useful in developing new streams of thought and covering an issue thoroughly
see focus group for a more detailed description
Projective Techniques
these are unstructured prompts or stimulus that encourage the respondent to project their underlying motivations, beliefs, attitudes, or feelings onto an ambiguous situation
they are all indirect techniques that attempt to disguise the purpose of the research
examples of projective techniques include:
word association - say the first word that comes to mind after hearing a word - only some of the words in the list are test words that the researcher is interested in, the rest are fillers - is useful in testing brand names - variants include chain word association and controlled word association
sentence completion - respondents are given incomplete sentences and asked to complete them
story completion - respondents are given part of a story and are asked to complete it
cartoon tests - pictures of cartoon characters are shown in a specific situation and with dialogue balloons - one of the dialogue balloons is empty and the respondent is asked to fill it in
thematic apperception tests - respondents are shown a picture (or series of pictures) and asked to make up a story about the picture(s)
role playing - respondents are asked to play the role of someone else - researchers assume that subjects will project their own feelings or behaviours into the role
third-person technique - a verbal or visual representation of an individual and his/her situation is presented to the respondent - the respondent is asked to relate the attitudes or feelings of that person - researchers assume that talking in the third person will minimize the social pressure to give standard or politically correct responses

Below is the most important part:

For the case assignment, after reading the Business Week article and list, and looking at the qualitative research information, answer the following in a 3-4 page paper:

1. Describe the major marketing research methods with which you are familiar from your readings and other sources in this Module.
2. What kinds of insights do you envision from observational research for new product development? What drawbacks do you perceive?

Here are some other articles pertaining to the topic:

1. Allen, Gemmy (n.d.) Chapter 5 New Product Development: Cyber Marketing Textbook. Retrieved July 28, 2004 from http://ollie.dcccd.edu/mrkt2370/book/mrktbook.htm

2. Cohen, William (1991). Product/Market Matrices. The Practice of Marketing Management, 2nd ed. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co. p. 155.

3. Khermouch,Gerry (2001 February 26) Consumers in the Mist: Mad Ave.'s anthropologists are unearthing our secrets. 3721. p. 92

4. McNamara, Carter (n.d.) Product and Service Management. Retrieved July 28, 2004 from http://www.mapnp.org/library/prod_mng/prod_mng.htm

5. No author listed (n.d.) Qualitative Marketing Research. Wikipedia Encyclopedia. Retrieved July 28, 2004 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualitative_marketing_research


Please contact me if you have any questions or require any further information.

Here is the assignment sheet for this RESEARCH PROPOSAL, with very specific guidelines....

Description: You are asked to choose a topic of interest and write a RESEARCH PROPOSAL. This PROPOSAL will consist of a brief literature review (a minimum of 3 peer-reviewed sources, a section that identifies your independent and dependent variables and the study's hypotheses, a methodology section (proposed sample, sampling, measures, and experimental porcedures), and a section on proposed statisical analyses. A reference page must accompany your proposal. Evidence of critical thinking (e.g., issues regarding reliability and validity) should be exhibited throughout your proposal.

In preparing your proposal, you are asked to adhere to the following structure:

1. A brief literature review that succinctly frames the issue in question. Upon reading this section of the proposal, the reader should understand the topic of the study, past findings relevant to the topic, and the purpose/importance of the present study. (20pts)

2.Following the literature review, the proposal should include a section wherein the conceptual variables, independent variable(s) and dependent variable(s) are identified and clearly defined. Research hypotheses (with respective null hypotheses stated in parentheses) should also be included in the section. (20pts)

3. The methodology section follows and must include a description of (and rationale for) the proposed sample, sampling technique to be used, independent variable manipulation(s), measure(s), to be used (i.e., operationalization), and experimental procedures to be followed. In this section of the proposal you will want to discuss the cost(s) and benefit(s) of your choices, including issues of reliabilty and validity (i.e., systematic error. (30pts)

4. The last substantive section of your paper will present the statistics for your proposed analyses. It is here that you will identify what statistical test you will apply to your (hypothetical) data set, the reasons for this choice, and whether your test value will be compared to a one- or two-tailed critical value (if relevant). (15pts)

Paper must be in essay format. This is a RESEARCH PROPOSAL!

I have already formulated the Research Objective, Research Question, and Hypotheses! Here they are......

Research Objective:
The purpose of this study is to determine if biracial children have identity problems resulting from social pressure.

Research Question:
Is society causing biracial children to struggle with their identity?

Hypotheses:
Biracial children are more likely to experience difficulties with their identity than children of a single race due to societal opinion.

Please use these as the basis for the research proposal.

Essay 2: Writing to Inform
Using any or all of the 3 article databases in the APUS Online Library (Proquest, EBSCO, and/or the LexisNexis) research the topic you have chosen in Week 2, and write an essay in which you inform the reader about the topic. Do not, however, write the essay in the first person. Instead, write in the third person??"i.e., Astronomy is an innately interesting field of study, not I am extremely interested in astronomy.

We generally use third person exclusively in academic or scholarly writing, unless we are specifically directed to use first person. Last week, your narrative was written in first person, since it was about your own life. This week, you will need to be aware of what person you are in, and take out first and second person. Here is an example:

I love my country because it represents liberty and justice. This is first person. You do not want to write this in academic writing unless you are directed to write in first person.

You love your country because it represents liberty and justice. This is second person. You do not want to write this in academic writing unless you are allowed to use second person.

Americans love their country because it represents liberty and justice. This is third person. This is the preferred voice for academic writing.

Third person lends authority to your writing. Look at the difference between these two sentences:


I believe Hemingway brought a powerful masculine voice to American literature.
Hemingway brought a powerful masculine voice to American literature.

The second sentence sounds more authoritative, doesnt it?

For Essay 2, you will need to integrate a minimum of 2 sources from any or all of the three article databases. Remember that an informative essay does not include the writer's feelings or opinions, but simply informs the reader about the topic. Make sure you refer to your Essay 2 checklist before and after you have written your draft. All essays should be in MLA format and contain the essay checklist. Your essay should be between 500-750 words.

See Week 3 Assignment Materials for a sample essay that may be used as a template.

In your essay feedback it may be recommended that you use the tutoring services available through the library portal. Students who have utilized this resource have significantly improved their writing and raised their grades. You can find more about tutoring from the APUS Online Library homepage.

Below is what I have written but I need it to be in the above format with MLA.

Understanding and Analyzing Stay/Leave Behavior

Bell & Naugle write, Additional factors that may increase the risk that a victim will stay in the relationship include lack of financial and housing resources, lack of child care, few relationship alternatives, lack of employment or education, batteres promises to change, fear of batterer retaliation, and social pressure. (2) (Brookoff et al., 1997; Gelles, 1976; Short et al., 2000; Stevens & Rosenbaum, 1991; Strube & Barbour, 1983, 1984).
After analyzing and researching some of these facts, I can only agree on the same conclusion. Having to witness some of my close friends and family members go through an abusive relationship and not being able to detach themselves from this unhealthy and emotional situation. The common factor where, money, a place to live, lack of education and where to turn for help are the main factors of all; that the abuser will not do it again (because he promises). Most of my female friends main reasons were all the same. Not having a place to go with their kids and the lack of financial support restrain them from a lot of options. They all wanted to move to a new location and getting their own place to start a fresh/new life.
The lack of better judgment over the past years only resulted in a poor education. Not having where to turn, the end results were always the same. Believing that the person they fell in love with had the ability to change. Which in most cases the honeymoon effect only lasted for the first few weeks. I spend quite some time giving advice to my friends and family member that where going through this ruff time in their lives. Like the old saying goes there is no worst blind then the person that doesnt want to see. Eventually some of them moved on to better things and others it just escalated into a higher degree of domestic violence.
Further studies have indicated that some frustration or violence can come from a relationship that a woman works a full time job and comes home to a man that sits at home. Some of this situation can lead to verbal abuse and domestic violence. Studies conducted by Myers in 1995 (7) the womans compliance following physical assault may also serve as a reinforcer for the husbands violent behavior, which may further strengthen the battering response. How woman react sometimes take a huge factor in future responses from their partners. The one that can plantain a strong character and decide not to take that type of aggression and the one that star thinking that its her fault that this is happening.
This has shown that regardless of your age and sex, anyone can go through on event on their life that can leave permanent scars. It doesnt matter if it stars at an early age or later in life, the wounds are all the same. Im compel to know that there are sites and counseling groups that are willing to extend a hand and show support to this victims and letting them know that they are not along. After going through the experience with my family and friends and reading the stories, there is only one thing that comes to my main. From the great words of the actor, model and drag queen RuPaul if you cant love yourself, how do you expect to love somebody else. Put yourself first before someone that is not wheeling to vale you the way you are supposed to.





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The Great Gatsby and how F. Scott Fitzgerald uses this piece of his writing to highlight the negative effects of materialism and social status pressures in his character's attempt to fulfill the "American Dream."

Potential thesis statement: In the novel, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald highlights the negative effects of materialism and social pressures by taking us into a particular scene in the 1920's where the American Dream can be easily destroyed when our desires are unattainable.

Points to be made - Why people strive to attain the American Dream - and generally, what does that mean - how do we continue to define that generation after generation.

Citing the novel (please use this as a source) - documenting how and why Gatsby seeks greater status and materialism.

As a counter point - why seeking materialism and greater social staus is not all wrong.

Conclude how Fitzgerald really makes the point in his novel that there are great dangers associated with a materialistic society and how it can often lead to a negative outcome.

While APA style doesnt allow the writer to refer to her/himself in the first person (i.e. using I or me to refer to yourself), this paper will require the use of first person language.

Topics for discussion:

1. Discuss any of your actions and/or thought processes since your psychology class that demonstrate your understanding and tolerance of the behavior of other people, allowing greater acceptance of what is labeled different, deviant, abnormal, pathological, or crazy.

2. Identify and discuss the forces acting on you to limit or prevent your freedom of choice, both those rooted in your past (such as guilt, traumatic memories, obligations, bad contracts, unrewarding experiences, punishment, low self?esteem, or shyness), those rooted in the present (including social pressures to conform, comply, obey, and do what others reward you for; personal pressure to be recognized, approved of, accepted, and loved), and those based in the future (such as unrealistic expectations, aspirations, concern for liabilities and responsibilities, desire for security, or fear of death).

3. Compare and contrast any differences between how you explained why people (including you) behaved as they did before you took a psychology class and how you explain these behaviors now.

4. Discuss how you develop and express intelligent skepticism about accepting unwarranted claims- those made in the mass media as well as those made by credentialed authorities.

5. Summarize your experience by identifying the psychology of and in everyday life that you were unaware of before taking a psychology class.

** Here's the outline** You can add information.
** Title and Work Cited page needed

I. Introduction

a. Millions of illegal immigrants had come to United States the past few years.
b. Most of them risk their lives by crossing the border by walking or driving looking for a better life. Many of them do not make it because they died or get caught by the police on their ways.
c. Some immigrants own houses, cars, pay taxes.


II. Why do illegal immigrants come to the United States?

a. Better education
b. More opportunities
c. Social pressure
d. Economic opportunity
e. Lack of employments in their countries
f. Government (Example: Communism )


III. What do illegal immigrants need and ask?

a. Work legally in this country
b. Contribute to the Social Security, so some day they can retire.
c. Health care.
d. Not being treat with discrimination


IV. Benefits: Illegal Immigrants working legally

a. Immigrants do labor work and even some high-tech work.
b. Government: Taxes: More workers paying taxes
c. Health insurance: They can get insurance in their work places.

V. What should government do?

a. Temporary permit work
b. Check criminal records and contributions of illegal immigrants before giving them permanent resident.
c. Do not apply high fees because it will be too expensive for them. ( They do not have a good financial status since some of them get paid minimum wages)
i. ** George Bush Proposal**


VI. Conclusion

a. There are many pros and cons about illegal immigration; however Government needs to find a way of balancing this issue. Many of them really deserve to have a permit work or an alien resident card.

Topic & Question.

Studies have pointed to increasing social pressure on attraction developers to operate in a socially responsible way. Using supporting literature discuss the arguments, for and against, wildlife attractions from an ethical point of view.

THE ESSAY I AM ORDERING IS FOR MY EXAM TOMORROW.
PLEASE CHOOSE AN INTERESTING TITLE.
THE CLASS IS CALLED: GENDER IDENTITY, SEXUAL ORIENTATION AND THE CINEMA.
I HAVE ORDERED ANOTHER ESSAY FROM BEFORE FOR MY MIDTERM FOR THE SAME CLASS IF YOU REMEMBER.

BUT I WILL WRITE DOWN DETAILS OF THE COURSE JUST INCASE:
COURSE SYLLABUS: THIS COURSE DEALS WITH THE PATHOLOGIZATION OF THE HUMAN SEXUAL POTENTIAL BY SOCIAL PRESSURES AND COMPULSORY DEMANDS FOR NORMALIZATION.
FIRST, A CRITICAL EXAMINATION WILL BE MADE OF TERMINOLOGY. THE FOLLOWING DISTINCTIONS WILLBE MADE: GENDER IDENTITY/ SEXUAL ORIENTATION, SEXUALITY/ EROTICISIM, PRE-GENITAL DRIVES/GENITALITY. FREUD'S THREE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE THEORY OF SEX WILL BE USED IN THIS CONTEXT.
THEN GENDER IDENTITY, EXHIBITIONISM AND TRANSVESTISM WILL BE STUDIED IN QUENTIN CRIPS'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY AS PRESENTED IN GOLD'S FILM THE NAKED CIVIL SERVANT. AFTER WHICH THE PROBLEM HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVIOR, HOMOEROTIC PREFERENCE, DEVIANCE, STIGMATIZATION AND GUILTY WILL BE ANALYZED AS PRESENTED IN THE MERCHANT-IVORY PRDUCTION OF MAURICE. GOFFMAN'S ESSAY WILL BE SETUDIED IN THIS CONTEXT.

THE SECOND HALF OF SCOTT'S THE CRYING GAME WILL BE VIEWED IN ORDER TO FURTHER THE STUDY OF GENDER IDENTITY, TRANSVESTISM AND TRANSSEXUALISM AND TO DIFFERENTIATE THEM FROM HOMOSEXUALITY AND HOMOEROTICISM. FINALLY, THE SUBJECT OF "LESBIANISM" AND OF FEMALE ORGASM WILL BE APPROACHED BY THE WAY OF METZGER'S THERESE ET ISABELLE.

STUDENT LEARNING OBJECTIVES: TO EXPOSE STUDENTS IN A STRUCTURED CONTEXT TO THE SUBJECTS OUTLINED ABOVE IN THE COURSE CONTENTS; TO ENABLE THEM TO THINK AND TO DIALOGUE METHODICALLY, CRITICALLY AND OPEN-MINDEDLY ABOUT THE CONTROVERSIAL ASPECTS OF HUMAN NATURE, SEXUALITY, AND CULTURALLY RELATIVE PREJUDICES. NO ATTEMPT WILL BE MADE TO INDOCTRINATE STUDENTS. RATHER, THEY WILL BE ENCOURAGED TO DEVELOP THEIR OBSERVATIONAL SKILLS, TO FORMULATE VERBALLY AND IN WRITING WHAT THEY HAVE OBSERVED, TO BE SELF-CRITICAL AND TO ENGAGE IN OPEN, DIPLOMATIC DEBATE CONCERNING SUBJECTS ABOUT WHICH HITHERTO THEY MAY NOT HAVE FELT FREE TO EXPRESS THEMSELVES.


SINCE YOU ALREADY DID THE MIDTERM ESSAY AND YOU WATCHED THE FIRST TWO MOVIES SO IT WILL BE EASY. NOW, PLEASE WATCH THESE NEW TWO MOVIES: THE CRYING GAME AND THERESE ET ISABELLE
AND PLEASE READ THE FIRST TWO CHAPTERS OF GOFFMAN'S (STIGMA).
THEN WRITE THE ESSAY.
THE ESSAY SHOULD BE TWO PARTS.
ONE PART ABOUT THE FIRST MOVIE AND THE CHARACTER DILL.
THE SECOND PART SHOULD BE ABOUT THE TWO CHARACTERS THERESE ET ISABELE AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP.

Diagnose both characters in both movies( IN THE FIRST MOVIE: DILL MAINLY, BUT PLEASE DO MENTION RELATIONSHIPS WITH PEOPLE).
Then write an essay comparing and contrasting both movies; I mean both characters and their behavior and complexity.
MOST IMPORTANTLY, YOU SHOULD COMPARE DILL AND QUENTIN CRISP USING TERMS.
AND ALSO, COMPARE RELATIONSHIP OF MAURICE AND CLIVE TO THERESE AND ISABELLE.

USING OR THROUGH GOFMAN'S BOOK WHICH IS CALLED (STIGMA). IT IS ABOUT SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, BUT PLEASE DO READ THE FIRST TWO CHAPTERS OF THE BOOK CAREFULLY, PLEASE DO NOT READ SUMMARIES. AND WHEN YOU COMPARE OR CONTRAST OR TALK ABOUT THE TWO CHARACTERS, USE THE TERMS WHICH GOFMAN USES IN HIS BOOK, FOR EXAMPLE when he talks about NORMAFYING as in to pass the normal.. ETC.

Of course, you will have to focus gender identity, sexualities, and identity in general.
Questions of: stereotype, why did they both identify with this?
what are the psychological aspects behind it? how do we distinguish between both characters? how do we identify with both?
What happens with stigma?
what is the psychological point of view?

Please read the text below and commenting on problems you or someone else might have in making sense of some difficult ideas in the readings.

READING PART 1.
Introduction to the Study of Asian Religious Traditions


"Religion" vs. "spirituality"
The word "religion" causes some problems for students studying Asian religious traditions.

For most people "religion" is something that exists outside of individuals. It is an external structure placing obligations on individuals and restricting what they can do. There have been and are many "religious" organizations in Asia whose members identify themselves as "followers of the Buddha." (This is what I refer to below as "lay Buddhism.") A survey of these organizations would require a course in itself, since they have taken on very diverse forms in the many different Asian societies Buddhism has existed in over the course of its 2,500-year history.

Buddhism in Asia is a "religion," but the present course does not focus on this aspect of Buddhism. This course focuses instead on a different aspect of Buddhism, which is perhaps best called "spirituality." Spirituality is not obligatory for anyone. It is intensely personal. It appeals to individuals who feel dissatisfied with just conforming to social standards, individuals who would today be described as somewhat "alienated." It teaches such an individual techniques for freeing herself from all external dependencies, including dependence on institutionalized "religion."

Modern alienated individuals often focus their attention on just negatively freeing themselves from restrictions, and value the ability to express their freedom by their lifestyle and the way they behave. Spirituality by contrast is positive and internal. It is positive in the sense that it is a way of raising the level of an individual??s life above what it would be if she only conformed to ordinary social norms. It is internal in the sense that it is psychological, having to do with the way a person feels inside rather than with her external behavior.



Historically speaking, Buddhism began as a spirituality rather than as a religion.
The first Buddhists were alienated individuals who felt ordinary life in society was spiritually unsatisfying, and had left city-life and civilization to try to "find themselves" living alone or in small groups in forested areas outside of towns. The historical Buddha was one of these individuals who discovered and fashioned a particular spirituality that appealed to other such individuals. Such individuals were called bhikkus (feminine bhikkunis), a term probably related to the English word "beggar." It was only later that groups of these individuals attracted a following of admirers living a family life in villages, people who wanted to support and associate themselves with Buddhist bhikkus and bhikkunis.

These "householder Buddhists" looked up to and respected those following the Buddhist spiritual path. But following this path fully required studying and understanding some rather difficult and abstract concepts, concepts referring to invisible internal feelings rather than external behavior. It also required engaging in prolonged meditation exercises. Householder admirers of Buddhist bhikkus/bhikkunis were not interested in such intense study and meditation.

This is the origin of a traditional, divided social structure rather unique to Buddhism, although it has some parallels in medieval Christianity.

On the one side, there were bhikkus/bhikkunis, (the equivalent of medieval Christian monks and nuns), trying to follow the full spiritual path taught by the Buddha, ideally doing this voluntarily out of individual personal interest in this spirituality. In modern terms, this could be called "college-level Buddhism," in that it required a rather high level of literacy and education, and intensive and prolonged study. As in medieval Europe, monasteries were the main centers of learning in many Asian countries in premodern times.

On the other side, there were large groups of "lay Buddhists," consisting of those who admired Buddhist monks and nuns, gave them material support, and committed themselves to a simple moral code of external behavior supported by the monks and nuns . This simple code was embodied in "five precepts," similar to the Christian "ten commandments: not to steal, not to hurt others, not to engage in sexual misconduct, not to lie or slander others, not to get drunk. This "lay Buddhism" roughly corresponds to what Westerners call a "religion." Only a very small percentage of lay Buddhists take a deep interest in the Buddhist spirituality we are studying in this course.

In traditional times, then, college level Buddhist spirituality was taught and practiced almost exclusively by Buddhist monks and nuns living in established monasteries and convents, while Buddhism also became a social "religion" practiced by mostly uneducated lay Buddhists outside the monasteries.



Modernizing lay Buddhism
In modern times, many countries in Asia have seen the growth of a large educated middle class. Educated individuals in Asia tend to look on traditional lay "religion" in the same way that educated Westerners look on the seemingly "superstitious" beliefs and practices of medieval Christianity. Having now attained an educational level equal or superior to that of monks and nuns, they are no longer willing to accord monks and nuns the prestige that they had in premodern times. Many such people look on traditional religion as a relic of the past. On the other hand, some have become interested in college-level spirituality previously taught to monks and nuns, and adapting it to the lives of those living an ordinary family life. Some monks and nuns have responded to this interest by actively trying to adapt traditional teachings for people not living a traditional monastic lifestyle. They have founded meditation centers where laypeople can come to learn meditation techniques traditionally practiced only by monks and nuns. Thus there has grown up what might be called "modernizing lay spirituality," an interpretation of traditional spirituality traditionally taught to monks and nuns, but now adapted to ordinary life outside of monasteries and convents.

Modernizing lay Buddhism is not a very strong movement in Asia. It is important in the present context because this is the spirituality that is being taught by Asian teachers who have traveled to the US and Europe to teach Asian spirituality there. Thus the majority of Westerners who have studied Buddhism and learned Buddhist meditation are basically practicing a kind of modernized lay Buddhism.

This is sometimes a source of misunderstanding, in that it gives Westerners the impression that Buddhism as practiced by the masses of people in Asia is a highly spiritual and rational religion that contrasts strongly with the traditional institutionalized Christianity they are aware of. (Most Western Christians are unaware that there is also such a thing a college-level Christian theology and spirituality.)

The Buddhism unit of this course consists in an academic study of Buddhist spirituality, along the general lines followed by modernizing lay Buddhism. It focuses on excerpts from traditional Buddhist writings, which were part of the curriculum of study for Buddhist monks and nuns in traditional Asia. These writings themselves are already more rational than traditional lay-Buddhist "religion," and the academic study of Buddhism this course will focus even more narrowly on those aspects of Buddhist spirituality that can be rationally explained and supported.

There are two aspects of even college-level traditional Buddhist beliefs that I think cannot be rationally supported.

The first consists in beliefs about what happens after death. For example, almost all Hindus and Buddhists believe in reincarnation. But, like most beliefs about what happens after death, it is difficult to support rationally. And belief in reincarnation is in no way central or essential to Buddhist spirituality (some early Buddhist texts even actively discourage concern for one??s fate after death). From a rational point of view, the validity of Buddhist spirituality has to do with the way it raises the level of a person's life and being in this life. Its validity is in no way dependent on the truth of any beliefs about what happens after death.

The second aspect of Hindu and Buddhist belief that I think cannot be rationally supported is the traditional claim that their religion is the only true spiritual path. This was a claim made by almost all religions and philosophies until very recently. I think this claim cannot be rationally supported. I think what can be supported is that Hindu and Buddhist spirituality is one way of achieving a kind of transcendence, one way of raising the level of one??s life above what it would be if one only conformed to normal social standards and achieved "success" in terms of material prosperity and social status.

Within these limits, I will be trying to present here an interpretation of modernized lay spirituality that can be rationally supported. The fact that this is based on a modernized version of college-level understandings of these religions, and the fact that it restricts itself to what can be rationally supported, will make what is presented here very different from what most Westerners associate with "religion." I hope what is said above will dispel the common impression that this kind of interpretation gives an accurate picture of the religion practiced by the masses of people in Asia.



The bottom line:
In Asia, and among Asian immigrant communities, there do exist many different Asian social institutions which fit the description of what Westerners call "religion."

This course focuses instead on a rational understanding of Asian spirituality. For most students, it might be best not to think of this as "religion" at all, since it lacks many of the characteristics that Westerners usually associate with the word "religion." It is personal, individual, and voluntary, rather than something imposed as a social obligation and enforced by social pressure. It is "spirituality," meaning that it does not involve rules for external behavior, but rather has to do with how an individual relates to her own inner life, her feelings, impulses, desires, thoughts, and mental states, the dynamics of her personal spiritual psychology.


READING PART 2
A summary of some central themes in the Pali Canon
The Pali Canon is the oldest extant collection of Buddhist writings, written down sometime around 200 b.c.. It constitutes the scriptures of a Buddhist sect called "Theravada" Buddhism, the dominant Buddhist sect in Southeast Asia.

The following just states in a very brief fashion the main themes in the teachings of the Pali Canon. Taken literally, one can immediately think of many objections to them. The task for this unit is to make sense of some of the more challenging and difficult aspects of early Buddhist teaching. For this purpose, we should try to take objections as "counterexamples," leading to a more refined and intelligent critical interpretation of these teachings, rather than to simply rejecting them.

For a list of the most common objections to these teachings, click here.


The Four Noble Truths
1. Suffering (dukkha) pervades human life

2. The cause of Dukkha: Craving and Clinging (Tanha and Upadana)

3. The Cessation of Dukkha

4. The Path to the Cessation of Dukkha

3 parts to the Path:

a-morality (common moral decency)

b-wisdom (understanding and internalizing the Buddhist worldview)

c-meditation ?C the ultimate goal of Buddhist meditation techniques is the reduction or elimination of tanha and upadana



The Three Marks of all existing things:
1 ?C Dukkha

2 ?C Anicca (literally "im-permanence) ?C If you fully realized all things are impermanent this would cause craving and clinging to cease

3 ?C An-atta (literally "non-self") ?C There is nothing in the external material world worthy of being regarded as "mine," "I," "myself." But advanced meditators who think that in deep introspective meditation they can come to directly experience something in an internal mental/spiritual world worthy of being regarded as "mine," "I," "myself" are also mistaken.



The an-atta doctrine
most often expressed in relation to the Five Khandas.

Khanda means "group," and the five khandas are meant to be an exhaustive list of categories for grouping everything one could possibly directly perceive. Buddhist say that everything belonging to any of the five khandas is impermanent (anicca), and therefore not worthy to be regarded as atta, "self." One should "turn away from" anything belonging under these five khandas (everything directly perceptible), regarding it as an-atta, "non-self".


The five Khandas
1. Body (the entire material world including one's own physical body)

2. Feelings (pleasant and unpleasant feelings)

3. Mental Perceptions (ideas, images, etc.)

4. Mental Conditions (moods, sadness, anger, calmness, etc.)

5. Consciousness-of-objects



Nibbana
(Nibbana is the Pali equivalent of the more familiar Sanskrit term "Nirvana". Pali and Sanskrit are closely related dialects of the same Indian language.)

Nibbana should be taken as the ultimate goal of human life, what finally matters in life.

Nibbana can be defined several ways:

?C the complete extinction of tanha/upadana/dukkha

?C the state of a person who does not treat anything directly perceptible as "mine," "I", "myself"

?C a "non-abiding consciousness" ?C a consciousness that does not "abide in" or "find support in" anything belonging to the five khandas

?C being in an "unborn," "unoriginated," "uncreated" realm

A person can reach Nibbana and remain in Nibbana in this lifetime (in the Buddha's story, he lived 40 years after reaching Nibbana).

Buddhists also believe that, ordinarily, people store up good or bad karma by their good or bad actions. Ordinarily when people die they come back into another life (are "reincarnated") ?C good people are rewarded with better lives, and bad people are punished with worse lives. A person who reaches Nibbana stores up no karma and is not reincarnated at all. Buddhist writings declare that it is a mistake to describe such a person as either "continuing to exist" or "not continuing to exist."

There are faxes for this order.