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Read Barbara Ehrenreich, “The Real Truth about the Female,”
Answer the following questions:
What new theories are being suggested in this document? (Offer two complete examples)
Why are earlier theories being questioned? Why are these earlier theories being challenged?
What kinds of pieces of evidence are being used to support these new theories? (Offer two complete examples from the article)
Are you convinced by this evidence or these theories? Why or why not?
What did you learn about Human Development? What stage of life are you in and what is something that you have grown to understand about yourself through this course? What are you looking forward to experiencing in your next stage of life? What do you hope to leave behind as your legacy?
You communicate how cultural, historical, and local factors have an impact on situations, events, issues, or phenomena related to Human Development, and Mental Health.
When working on your semester project please consider the following:
• Audience awareness: Your communication reflects an understanding of the needs and perspectives of your audience.
• Empathy: You explain how perspectives influence human interactions and understandings of a situation, event, issue, or phenomenon discussed in your paper.
• Perspective: You explain how access to knowledge, technology, and resources, influence perspectives and interpretations of situations, events, issues, or phenomena discussed in your paper
• Appropriation: You sample and remix a variety of content to produce new meaning.
• Synthesis: You understand and can explain to others the phenomenon discussed in your paper
• Adaptability: You apply your current knowledge to learning new ones.
• Resiliency: You seek out and use a variety of resources in your paper.
Human development includes cognitive, physical, social and moral development
processes throughout our lifespan. Choose one of the major developmental areas discussed in the
text (cognitive, physical, social or moral development) and briefly discuss its importance to human
development. How would an individual’s well-being be impacted without proper development of this
developmental area? For example, what happens when someone is lacking in social developmental
areas? Or what about the person who doesn’t reach the level of post-conventional morality?