Category: Essays

Textbook: Kassin, Fein & Markus (2014) Social psychology (9th ed). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning. You need to choose any topic from this textbook for example aggression, attitudes, helping others , perception of others, the social self, stereotypes, prejudice and discrimination, perceiving persons,attraction and close relationships, conformity, group processes and connect your article, book, TV show or anything mentioned in the attached file with the textbook which means you need to also cite from the textbook if you read the instruction attached you would see that. I would need you send me an outline before you conclude the final write-up.This is an example of an outline by a classmateFinal Paper Outline:Introduction: Definition of group polarization, groupthink, and deindividuation and introduction of my chosen “real world” example: “Scandal”
Meaning of group polarization, groupthink, and deindividuation.
How do group polarization, groupthink and deindividuation operate?
How and when do these concepts take place?
What are the positive or/and negative consequences of group polarization, groupthink and deindividuation?Summary of Scandal as my chosen TV show and how group polarization, groupthink and individuation operate in this show.
What is Scandal about?
How is Scandal a good show to connect with group polarization, groupthink and deindividuation.3. Connection of group polarization, groupthink and deindividuation to Scandal focusing on “The Gladiators”, a group created by Olivia Pope, an attorney, who solves people’s problems in a very particular manner.Specific examples explaining how Scandal is an example of group polarization.
Specific examples explaining how Scandal is an example of groupthink.
Specific examples explaining how Scandal is an example of deindividuation.4. How cultural perspectives can influence group polarization, groupthink and deindividuation.How do group polarization, groupthink and deindividuation operate on a cultural setting?
5. ConclusionI will summarize the concepts and TV show I chose to provide a review of how group polarization, groupthink and individuation connect to Scandal.

In Douglas Rushkoff’s Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now, he argues that our culture is stuck in “a continuous present.” We have lost our ability to plan for the future, Rushkoff suggests, because we are distracted by the now. In the four chapters that we covered in class, Rushkoff analyzes key sectors of our culture: pop culture, politics, journalism, and business, to name a few. In his view, nearly every area of our lives today is affected by the problem of “present shock.”
For your assignment, you’ll need to identify two specific, related claims that Rushkoff makes in his book and write a research essay that responds to those claims. For instance, he claims that the “CNN Effect” creates an approach to news that doesn’t allow for reflection. This is a claim – the idea that we don’t have time to reflect – that he returns to in each chapter of Present Shock. Later in the book, he suggests that businesses who use social media to communicate with clients might also be victims of “present shock.” He thinks corporations get caught in a feedback loop when they use social media incorrectly. His solution is for businesses to be truthful in their advertising. If they rely more on truth, Rushkoff argues, they will be more likely to encourage the type of positive communication that businesses need.
With the above examples in mind, your essay should attempt to evaluate his claims and the effectiveness of his solutions. You will need to use at least six scholarly sources to help you formulate your answer. This essay is not simply a presentation of your research. You will use your research to develop an informed response. The answers you arrive at most likely won’t be as simple as “Yes, he’s right,” or “No, he’s wrong.” As you can see in Rushkoff’s book, the answers to our problems often require nuance.

I am requesting you write about how rushkoff talks about the "CNN Effect" starting at pg 46 and also "Jerry Michalski – The brain" starting at pg 237 about how everything is related. i need sources not from google but something from the "Summon library" tool. Im pretty bad with writing so it doesn't have to be too advanced but still good.

Introduction:
We’ve discussed just a few of the principle pressures that have formed how we understand the ways “mothers” function in both the private sphere of home and the public arena of community and work. We’ve also looked at the functions of motherhood and the way these functions have been understood, complicated, and challenged.

In Noah Baumbach’s film, Squid and the Whale (2005), The Berkman family is beset by a whole host of issues that stem from and precede the divorce of its two principle characters: Bernard and Joan. While the conflict is largely confined to the sphere of domestic life (infidelity, unhappiness, custody, finances, etc…), each family member (including Walt and Frank) struggles, in large part, from their desire to create and from their desire to have their creations heard, read, and understood.

Instructions:

Write a 4-5 page essay that engages one of the prompts below. Incorporate references to a minimum of 3 additional texts (beyond the film) that we’ve read and discussed in class. Read further instructions below.

• Joan, whether consciously or not, responds to and challenges the expectations that motherhood and matrimony place upon her. These challenges are understood in light of the work, the material set of arrangements, and the opportunities that arrive in the person of Ivan, her emergence as a writer, and the dissolving relationship between her and Bernard. Similarly, Peggy, from Tony Earley’s short story, “Here We Are in Paradise,” faces a new set of challenges with her diagnosis and invasive cancer. Surprisingly, we discover that she finds new ways to articulate her responses to her “world,” and this world, with its new textures and ever shifting dimensions, becomes abundantly real, even as it threatens to dissolve and fade away. For this paper, create an argument that works to frame, interpret, and examine notions of the women’s choices, especially as they pertain to expression (physical, domestic, emotional, social, historical, etc.) and the ways these expressions render and reveal desire (and its unusual manifestations—love, fear, anger, loss, pleasure, pain).

• A big part of this film centers on the slippery slope of familial discourse. That is, the terms of Joan and Bernard’s divorce take on multiple meanings, and impact Walt and Frank in far ranging ways. Does the rhetoric (“the art of persuasion”) of their agreement (or lack thereof) say anything about the family dynamic? Consider the conditions, and the terms, and the meanings associated with specific arrangements like “joint custody”, and designations such as “Philistine.” How do these arrangements, and designations, alongside any others you might identify, further complicate Walt’s (intellectual) and Frank’s (physical) development? Consider the tensions presented by the boy’s individual trajectories.

Instructions:

• Write a 4-5 page paper that engages one of the two prompts listed above.
• Create an engaging introduction that incorporates a quote(s), a brief overview of the subject, and a brief summary of the controversy.
• Be sure to situate your paper in the context of the topics presented in the film and the readings we’ve completed to this point of the semester.
• Consider the views that Noah Baumbach’s film, Squid and the Whale, is responding to. While you will want to identify the argument(s) presented in the film, ultimately you will construct your own argument in response to the arguments you encounter.
• Write a thesis statement that presents a stance that reveals and blends well-informed and a multi-faceted position.
• Write strong body paragraphs develop the idea found within your topic sentences.
• Incorporate a minimum of three sources according to MLA format.
• Write a strong conclusion that re-states your thesis and offers any further implications your findings have for the future of the subject.
• Be sure to use the texts we’ve covered in class: Rebecca Jo Plant’s chapter “Banishing the Suffering Mother: The Quest for Painless Childbirth”, Tony Earley’s “Here We Are in Paradise”, Rebecca Kulka’s “Ethics and Ideology in Breastfeeding Advocacy Campaigns”, and Anne-Marie Slaughter’s “Why Women Still Can’t Have it All”, and “Rhetorical Visions.”

Dear Writer: Please follow the instructions carefully and kind pay attention to the grading rubric I've included to ensure the paper gets a good grade. Also, please run the paper through a grammar checker. My teacher uses Grammarly.com If you don't have account, I'll give you access to mine. He's a stickler for grammar. This is for a masters level social worker course, not sociology.
*There are 2 separate papers here. I will outline what I need for both below*
Paper #1 5 pages long and entitled First Six Years. Please fill out the included chart as past of the paper.

Take the information you inputted into the Table from Unit 4a about your first 6 years. Using three specific concepts from the life course perspective, apply and illustrate these concepts to events that occurred in the first 6 years of your life. (Alternatively, you can use another person for this assignment. Use someone who you know quite well). 3-4 pages.
Try to link the concepts and the events from the table into a cohesive piece written in a paragraph format. **This can be entirely fictional**

Paper #2 11 pages
In Unit 4, you have read about several different theoretical frameworks for understanding child development. For your final paper, apply concepts from the life course perspective and the risk and resilience perspective to describe one person’s early life adaptation. You can use yourself and the material you collected for the discussion boards, or, if you prefer, you can apply the concepts to someone else that you know well. If you are going to do someone else, use the table and texts to organize material.
A. Demonstrate your understanding of Bowlby and/or Mahler’s theories and apply them to specific transaction you viewed in your detailed parent/child observation. 3-4 pages.
B. Take the information you inputted into the Table from Unit 4a about your first 6 years. Using three specific concepts from the life course perspective, apply and illustrate these concepts to events that occurred in the first 6 years of your life. (Alternatively, you can use another person for this assignment. Use someone who you know quite well). 3-4 pages.
C. Demonstrate your understanding of the risk and resilience framework (Davies, Chapter 3), describe factors in your (or their) life by applying this model to your life or this other person’s (that you used above). Include risk and protective factors that were present in each of the three domains: the child, the parent and the environment. 3-4 pages.
D. Reflect on how the material for this course has altered how you might approach understanding yourself and future clients. 1 page.
**Please show a good an understanding as possible of Bowlby and/or Mahler’s theories**
**I will need a draft of the papers on May 8. Please remember to send both papers separately.**
Thanks for your time and effort.

MAKE SURE NO plagiarism or misuse of quotations
Capella University online course, DPA8420

What happens when a policy and its associated programs do not work? Identify such a condition with a particular policy and its related programs. Next choose an analytical approach to assess the degree and scope of its deficiencies. Support your argument through relevant findings produced by an appropriate public oversight entity such as the GAO or the CBO as well as peer-reviewed journals. Describe your findings in detail, identifying any other analytical or assessment tools that would have supported your examination of this policy and program. Do the resources you are citing offer further insight into analytical tools or approaches you could have applied?

In addition to analyzing the policy and program deficiencies, identify two areas of the policy and explore the nature and scope of barriers that impeded their overall implementation.

The requirements for this assignment include:
•Written communication that is free of errors that detract from the overall message.
•Resources and citations are formatted according to APA (6th ed.) style and formatting.
•Minimum of 5 peer-reviewed or otherwise academically credible sources (including the report which contains the findings being discussed).
•Length of paper: 5–8 typed, double-spaced pages.
•Font and font size: Ariel, 12 point.
For this assignment, you will need to identify a policy and related programs that is not working well due to program deficiencies and barriers.

Per the prompt: “What happens when a policy and its associated programs do not work? Identify such a condition with a particular policy and its related programs. Next choose an analytical approach to assess the degree and scope of its deficiencies.

Support your argument through relevant findings produced by an appropriate public oversight entity such as the GAO or the CBO as well as peer-reviewed journals. Describe your findings in detail, identifying any other analytical or assessment tools that would have supported your examination of this policy and program. Do the resources you are citing offer further insight into analytical tools or approaches you could have applied?

In addition to analyzing the policy and program deficiencies, identify two areas of the policy and explore the nature and scope of barriers that impeded their overall implementation.”

So, for the assignment, you will need to look at a policy in which the GAO or CBO has looked at a policy. My suggestion is to look for a GAO or CBO report where they have studied a policy using both qualitative and quantitative methods, and where they have also done a Cost Benefit Analysis.

http://gao.gov/browse/date/week

https://www.cbo.gov/cost-estimates

For this assignment, you want to not only address the prompt, but the scoring guide:

• Applies appropriate tools and methods of policy analysis; explains rationale for the choices of tools and methods.

• Evaluates additional methods of analysis with discussion of what they would have added to the overall analysis had they been used.

• Critiques examples of public policy analysis and advocacy with evidence of citizen participation, and offers recommendations or assessments of that analysis.

• Demonstrates a superior academic writing style that is free of errors and through its clarity increases the reader's ability to engage with the material.

please do not make a factual statements or quotes without citing the article , author ,and page number – APA style!!!! not one word in this paper can come from a personal point of view everything has to fact based and cited – when citing please use author and page number – this is very important- make sure you reference resilience and Ellen\’s resilience throughout the paper this paper should focus on object relation theory, attachment theory and resilience. Please discuss racism and trauma, in regards to ellen. Instructions on what to include in this paper are included in the attachments, Ellens Story is also attached the rest of the articles can be used throughout and all must be cited

The topic and thesis must be approved by me before you can write on it.

The paper must be formatted as shown in the handout What A Research Paper Should Look Like. This means proper heading, margins, title that does not include \”Research Paper\” or something that would turn it in to an assignment instead of an essay. Make up a title that does not include the assignment name.

It must be 1000 words which does not include heading, title, or Works Cited..

It must NOT use first person. It must not use second person \”you.\”

It must include a thesis in the first paragraph, as this will be a persuasive paper. Do not ask questions anywhere in the essay. Use statements instead.

It must use internal citations.

It must have a Works Cited at the end which uses at least three relevant sources. All sources must be different from each other. All must be relevant, meaning, related to the field and not to something that is just opinions about opinions. Wikipedia, the Encyclopedia, Dictionaries are not acceptable sources for your topic. You must do actual reading in the field of your topic. Do not use magazines like Washington Post that just happens to have an opinion article in it about your topic.

This is not a comparison/contrast paper. Those end with people being aware of the differences between two things and then it is left to them to decide which is best for them. Argument papers attempt to persuade someone of something. You might want to persuade someone that autism is not related to vaccines. Then you would use actual statistics from the CDC or real sources to show a lack of causal relationship.

You must be sure that there is a counterargument addressed somewhere in the paper. In other words, the only time you need a persuasive argument paper is when you are trying to persuade someone who believes something that reasonable adults believe. \”Smoking is bad for you\” is not a thesis because there is no one who needs to be persuaded of this who is an intelligent reasonable adult.

There must be a conclusion to your paper that is not just a repeat of the thesis statement.

MY TOPIC IS: Education. I want to talk about how they are changing the system and what the best teaching method is for students. Also, make sure it doesn\’t sound too professional. I need it to sound like I actually wrote it lol but thank you.

During the Fukishima incident in Japan, several local stores on the west coast reported that they were out of potassium iodide pills because of widespread panic. Assume that you are a public information officer for your jurisdiction of( Jacksonville, Florida) and have just learned about a nuclear incident in Japan. Your job is to craft a public health message for the general public of Jacksonville Florida to prevent widespread panic.

When looking for information about a particular issue, how often do you try to resist biases toward your own point of view? This assignment asks you to engage in this aspect of critical thinking.

The assignment is divided into two (2) parts.
For Part I of the assignment (due Week 2), you read a book excerpt about critical thinking processes, reviewed the Procon.org Website in order to gather information, and engaged in prewriting to examine your thoughts.
* Remember that in the Week 2 Discussion, you examined the biases discussed in Chapter 2 of the webtext.

In Part II of the assignment (due Week 4), you will write a paper to synthesize your ideas.
Part II – Writing
Write at three to four (3-4) page paper in which you:
1. State your position on the topic you selected for Assignment 1.1.
2. Identify (3) three premises (reasons) from the Procon.org website that support your position and explain why you selected these specific reasons.
3. Explain your answers to the “believing” questions about the three (3) premises opposing your position from the Procon.org website.
4. Examine at least two (2) types of biases that you likely experienced as you evaluated the premises for and against your position.
5. Discuss the effects of your own enculturation or group identification that may have influenced your biases.
6. Discuss whether or not your thinking about the topic has changed after playing the “Believing Game,” even if your position on the issue has stayed the same.

The paper should follow guidelines for clear and organized writing:

Include an introductory paragraph and concluding paragraph.
Address main ideas in body paragraphs with a topic sentence and supporting sentences.
Adhere to standard rules of English grammar, punctuation, mechanics, and spelling.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA Style format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

Directions:

Write an autobiography of your mathematical experiences. Take one topic in your experience which gave you trouble (it does not necessarily need to give you trouble now) and research it and elaborate on it. For example, “borrowing” when doing subtraction may have been difficult for you to learn. Research it and cast it in a new light – why do we just write a “1” by the number, what does it mean (think in terms of a place value system), and how does this differ from, say, subtracting clock time where there would be units of hours, minutes and seconds? Overall, the paper should be, first, biographical, and, second, a “research” paper.

The following should apply to your paper:

(1) Minimum of 5 pages, double-spaced with one-inch margins all around, not counting the title page nor any reference page you may need to include (see below).

(2) Include a title page with Title, Your Name, and BASV 314 (note: this cover page does not count toward your minimum of 5 pages)

(3) Use two of the following for different sources and references:

Printed Reference: This reference can be found on the Web, but should also be available in print (e.g., newspaper article, magazine article, research journal article, etc.)
Electronic Reference: This reference can be found on the Web, but is not necessarily something that would have to be available in print, although it may be one of the following: e.g., Website, e-article, list-serve, etc.
Interview: You interview someone else who is familiar with you. Your interview should focus on questions you ask the individual about yourself and your own experiences related to mathematics (in the past and present). It may be a good idea to write about 5 questions that you would like the person to address specifically to ensure your interview is relevant to your autobiography. You may use the interview (verbatim) in the paper and it may count up to 1 page towards your 5 pages. Text of the interviews should be single spaced in the statements with double spaces between statements of each individual.
(4) You need to follow MLA or APA style in writing your paper. The following is a very helpful online writing resource that many students have found to be user-friendly:

Purdue Owl Writing Lab: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
(5) Include a complete reference list at the end of your paper using either MLA or APA format, but not both (note the reference list will not count toward your 5 pages).