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Write about an environmental/sustainability problem of your interest. What is the nature of the problem, its sources, and its scope? When did it start to become a recognized issue, and why? Who are the key stakeholders affected, and what policy actors and venues driving legislation in the US? Give a brief legislative history and some policies that have been developed around the issue to date.
Write a report on use of artificial intelligence for water distribution systems
Watch this video from the United Nations before completing this activity:
For this assignment you are to attempt to go one week without purchasing or using single-use disposable plastics! Things such as:
• disposable water bottles
• plastic forks and spoons
• straws
• plastic drink lids
• candy wrappers or snack bags
• plastic grocery bags
Tip: Take your own mug/water bottle everywhere, a well as your own reusable utensils. Buy snacks in paper bags or cardboard boxes. Purchase things from the bulk section and use reusable cloth bags or containers. Bring your own reusable take-out containers. Ask for paper bags or bring your own instead of using plastic grocery bags.
It’s okay to use things you have already purchased, but try not to purchase new things that come in single-use disposable plastic.
Then, write a short (1500-word max) reflection on the challenge, addressing each the following questions:
• Did you succeed at going plastic-free for a week?
• What were the major challenges?
• What were the plastics that gave you the most trouble for the challenge?
• Could you go plastic free for longer than a week?
• How could you use less plastic in your life?
Part A: Go to the following website www.prisonexp.org. Go through the website thoroughly and study the experiment described therein. When you are finished, go to the tab (on the website) labeled “Discussion Questions” and answer questions 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 12 and 14 as completely as possible. Your responses should total between 1-2 original, non-plagiarized pages, with Times New Roman 12-point font, double-spaced.
Question # 3: What prevented “good guards” from objecting or countermanding the orders from tough or bad guards?
Question #4: If you were a prisoner, would you have been able to endure the experience? What would you have done differently than those subjects did? If you were imprisoned in a “real” prison for five years or more, could you take it?
Question #6: What factors would lead prisoners to attribute guard brutality to the guards’ disposition or character, rather than to the situation?
Question #8: What is identity? Is there a core to your self-identity independent of how others define you? How difficult would it be to remake any given person into someone with a new identity?
Question #9: Do you think that kids from an urban working-class environment would have broken down emotionally in the same way as did our middle-class prisoners? Why? What about women?
Question #12: Was it ethical to do this study? Was it right to trade the suffering experienced by participants for the knowledge gained by the research? (The experimenters did not take this issue lightly, although the Slide Show may sound somewhat matter-of-fact about the events and experiences that occurred).
Question #14: If you were the experimenter in charge, would you have done this study? Would you have terminated it earlier? Would you have conducted a follow-up study?
Part B: Would you follow orders of an authority figure? Watch the following clip and discuss the influence of obedience on our behavior. What factors in this video could have increased the likelihood that the victim and the others involved followed orders? What factors could have reduced the likelihood that all persons involved complied with the “authority figure?”
(74) Obedience – Fast Food Strip Search – YouTube
The student is to identify and analyze the differences in the competitive environment between the Capstone simulation and the Comp-XM one and list them in a Word document.
Sociology: Understanding and changing the social world. (2016). University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing. https://open.lib.umn.edu/sociology/
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Chapter 20: Social Change and the Environment
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20 Social Issues in the NewsLinks to an external site. (p. 752) https://open.lib.umn.edu/sociology/part/chapter-20-social-change-and-the-environment/
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Chapter 20: Social Change and the Environment
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20.1 Understanding Social ChangeLinks to an external site.(pp. 754–759) https://open.lib.umn.edu/sociology/chapter/20-1-understanding-social-change/
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Chapter 20: Social Change and the Environment
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20.2 Sources of Social ChangeLinks to an external site. (pp. 760–765) https://open.lib.umn.edu/sociology/chapter/20-2-sources-of-social-change/
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Chapter 20: Social Change and the Environment
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20.3 Society and the EnvironmentLinks to an external site.(pp. 766–770) https://open.lib.umn.edu/sociology/chapter/20-3-society-and-the-environment/
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Chapter 20: Social Change and the Environment
Discuss the strategies for maintaining a healthy work environment; the legal implications of workplace violence and the responsibilities from organizations in providing a healthy work environment
Review the ANA Bill of Rights (Box 14-1 from your textbook) and discuss how it protects nurses.
Explain how homology is different from convergent evolution and give examples. Briefly define homology and convergent evolution in your explanation.
Explain how homology is different from convergent evolution and give examples. Briefly define homology and convergent evolution in your explanation.
The purpose of a vulnerability scanner is to scan systems within your environment to make sure there are no missing patches or known threats. Depending on the size of the environment this can be a daunting task. Is this discussion you are to research a vulnerability scanner (try not to duplicate your classmates if possible). In your initial post, you should give an overview of the software and why you chose it. Is it client based or clientless? Is it cloud based? What is the cost of the licensing or is it open source? What are some disadvantages or issues with the software?