Category: Organization

Personal Cultural Observations

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Describe the culture of the group you observed, including their shared values, language, rituals or traditions, religious or spiritual beliefs, and roles and expectations of the members of the group.
Explain how the attitudes, beliefs, and values of this culture are:
similar or different from your own culture
different from that of the dominant culture
Describe some of your prior impressions of this culture
What were your expectations of people from this cultural group before doing this investigation? What do your expectations reveal about the assumptions you’ve learned to make about people in this culture?
Which biases might you have been taught to believe about this cultural group in the past that were challenged by what you observed? What personal biases did you discover?
Describe how you plan to overcome these biases in your counseling practice. Explain what you have discovered as areas of improvement based on this experience. Describe your plan for improving in those areas.

 

 

Benita J. Fatality Case

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Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUfFIFBziEQ

Respond to the questions below:

What were the risk factors prior to the death of the four daughters?
Do you believe the deaths could have been prevented?
What preventative actions should the family, friends, and the child welfare system have taken?
List some lessons you have learned when it comes to investigating child abuse and neglect.

 

 

Gender/Sexuality and School Curriculum

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Recently, the governor of Florida signed a bill that prohibits teachers from including curriculum related to gender identity and sexual orientation in classes. Outline the nature of this debate in relation to relevant course material and concepts that we have studied. How is this debate connected to broader cultural issues and debates in North America surrounding gender and sexual identity?

 

Self-awareness

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Self-awareness, which is sometimes also referred to as self-knowledge or introspection, is about understanding your own needs, desires, shortcomings, habits, and everything else that makes you tick. Simply put, it just means to be “aware” of the things that make you who you are. The more you know about yourself, the better you are at adapting life’s changes. Essentially, the more you pay attention to your emotions and how you work, the better you’ll understand why you do the things you do, your purpose.

In the article “What Self-Awareness Really Is (and How to Cultivate it)” author Tasha Eurich states that “Even though most people believe they are self-aware, only 10-15% of the people we studied actually fit the criteria.” How would you rate your level of self-awareness? Based on the suggestions from the article, what are some ways that you can improve your self-awareness? Use content from the article to support your response.

 

American Domestic and Foreign Policies (1953-1991)

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Complete a search either in the Chamberlain Library or internet for domestic and foreign polices of four (4) of the following Presidents. Please incorporate at least one primary source of either a policy or act that you have chosen to write about.

Eisenhower
Kennedy
Johnson
Nixon
Ford
Carter
Reagan
Then, compare domestic and foreign polices of your four (4) presidents by answering the following prompts:

Explain how your selected presidents worked to improve the United States economically and socially. Give at least one example of each president.
Assess if the policies of your choice of presidents strengthen or weaken the United States.
Explain how you see your choice of presidents served the public interest and further the cause of democracy.
Determine if it is constitutional for the United States to fight preemptive wars.

 

 

 

McCarthyism and Anti-Communist Campaigns

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The Cold War brought about an irrational fear of communism and communist activities in the United States. As we are learning this week, one of the most vocal instigators of this paranoia was Senator Joseph McCarthy. McCarthy delivered a speech about the imminent threat of communism on February 9, 1950. Perform a search on the internet and locate and read Joseph McCarthy’s speech given in Wheeling, West Virginia on February 9, 1950. Copy and paste the following keywords into your Google search bar: “Joseph McCarthy, Wheeling, West Virginia.” The speech is also referred to as “Enemies from Within.”

Construct the case study by responding to the following prompts:

Explain how Senator Joseph McCarthy defined communist nations within the speech. What specific threats did these nations pose?
Assess if Senator Joseph McCarthy charges were accurate.
Analyze anti-communist sentiments during the Cold War era, were these sentiments valid. If so, how? If not, why not?
Explain if there are other examples of events similar to the Red Scare that have occurred throughout history and modern day.
Examine what happened to people who invoked the Fifth Amendment, refused to appear or were found in violation of the law as defined by the Congressional Committee

 

 

From the Vault: Barack Obama, September 1995″ (Dreams from My Father)

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Discussion 13: “From the Vault: Barack Obama, September 1995” (Dreams from My Father)

Students must answer at least five questions below:

1. How does the young Barack Obama appear to be different from the mature, older Obama, as we have seen him in recent years?

2. Accordingly, why did Obama write the his first book?

3. What was Obama’s relationship to his father?

4. How did Obama experience racism, growing up in Hawaii?

5. How did Malcolm X influence Barack Obama?

6. What was Obama’s relationship to Frank?

7. How did Obama relate to Toot and Gramps?

James Oakes’s The Crooked Path to Abolition

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Are you reading James Oakes’s The Crooked Path to Abolition? If so, you should know what the “federal consensus” about slavery was. In his first inaugural address, March 4, 1861, what did President Abraham Lincoln say to indicate that he accepted the federal consensus. On January 1, 1863, in the final Emancipation Proclamation, President Lincoln took an important step toward rejected the federal consensus. What did Lincoln write there? What caused Lincoln to change his position within a period of fewer than two years? Discuss in a few sentences.

 

 

Personal theory

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Develop your own personal theory of development based on concepts, theories, and research we discussed throughout the course.
Address the questions listed below.
What are the basic assumptions of your personal theory?
What is the philosophical rationale, if any, of your personal theory?
What are the important variables to be studied in your personal theory?
In what areas will your personal theory have its greatest impact?
Be creative – you can use anything and everything from the course and other sources to develop your own theory.

 

 

 

Early Adulthood

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Review the article, Romantic Relationship Development: The Interplay Between Age and Relationship Length. Respond to the following items:
Part 1: Evaluation
What are the findings of this study? Describe its purpose and what it aimed to study.
How do the qualities of short, medium, and long relationships change with age?
Beyond the article’s observations, what implications might their findings have for clinical work with young adults?
Part 2: Reflection
What was most interesting or surprising about this study’s findings?
How do the findings relate to our course material?
In what ways are the findings congruent with your personal experiences or those that you have observed?
Instructions:
Current APA formatting required
Minimum three sentences for each response
Journal Expectations and Rubrics

References
Lantagne, A. & Furman, W. (2017). Romantic relationship development: The interplay between age and relationship length.Developmental Psychology, 53(9): 1738-1740. https://www.ncbi.nlm.