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There are many ways to identify your network of contacts. One way is through the use of a mind map. The attached worksheet provides you with a mind map template you can use to begin the identification process. This is only a first step toward creating a network that can work for you as you are trying to find a job.
Option 1: The main social insurance programs like Social Security, Medicare, and unemployment compensation are funded by a payroll tax on the earnings of individuals who may receive benefits. Do you think the social insurance programs are effective? How are social insurance programs affected by the socioeconomic and political forces? Explain your answers.
Option 2: Research government regulations on a particular area of your choice, such as food, drugs, product safety, fracking, environment, etc. Do you think the government regulations go too far? Do you think the government needs to add more regulations? How are lobbyists involved concerning regulations on food and drug safety, and our environment concerning fracking? Explain your answers.
OPTION 1: For each of the following 3 levels of social action, outline a single concrete intervention into your focal injustice (1-2 pages each);
1. Awareness-raising / educational projects
2. Policy change (organization policy and/or law)
3. Mutual aid and/or direct action
OPTION 2: Pick only one level of intervention (of the 3 types), and submit a much more detailed proposal.
The intervention(s) you describe should be as concrete and specific as possible. For example, “end audism” or “end racism” is neither concrete or specific, but something like “allocate state education funding to train future doctors/teachers about the harms of language deprivation and/or bias” is.
Whichever option you choose, your proposal should:
• Briefly summarize what the focal injustice is and why it is important to address it (1 paragraph max)
• Explain the goals and methodologies of your proposed intervention(s):
o What specific aspect of the injustice is this intervention designed to target?
o Why this intervention in particular? (Why do you believe it will be effective?)
o What kinds of resources would be needed for this intervention?
o Who is the target audience? Whose support will it be necessary to ensure?
The purpose of the journal entry is to provide a weekly overview of the type of duties you carried out during your volunteer or internship experience and relate this to your current academic course work. Describe the important knowledge, skills, and experience you have gained and how it will benefit your future career.
In 250-300 words, describe the general responsibilities you managed this week during your volunteer or internship experience, including whether you worked collaboratively with a team or as an individual.
Additionally, describe how this experience in your volunteer or internship work can be applied to a position you are seeking in your career field. What skills and knowledge have you gained that are transferrable to that position?
According to David Kennedy, the war in the Pacific “was to an unusual degree a race war,” (illustrations, p 652 + 13, caption 2). Assess Kennedy’s statement, including in your discussion the role of race in the war at home and abroad.
Chapter 7 of your textbook provides an example of morphological analysis as represented by the repositioning of a product based on five-methods.
● Provide another example using this five-method process.
How does gender, class and race lead to change. What were the challenges? Be specific give details.
1. Is climate change a real phenomenon, or something scientists still need to collect more data about? Explain your thinking.
2. Choose a location that is meaningful to you. You will be working with this location all semester – it can be your hometown, a favorite vacation spot, or somewhere you have always wanted to travel.
3. Explain why you chose this location. That is, why is this location important or meaningful to you?
4. How might a DECREASE or an INCREASE in temperature affect each of the following characteristics of your location? You do not need to know the answer – just make an educated guess. EXPLAIN YOUR REASONING!
4a. Water resources: sources of water that are useful or potentially useful (for home use, agriculture, industry, energy, etc.)
4b. Biodiversity: the variety of plants and animals and other living things in a particular area or region
4c. Precipitation: snow, rain, hail, etc.
4d. Agriculture: the cultivation of animals, plants, fungi, and other life forms for food, fiber, biofuel, drugs, and other products used to sustain and enhance human life.
4e. Outdoor Recreation: includes activities that occur outdoors in man-made environments as well as those activities traditionally associated with the natural environment
4f. Environmental Human Health: public health that is concerned with all aspects of the natural and man-made environments that may affect human health. For example, organisms or chemicals in the environment can affect human health.