Answer the following questions based on the attached article. The
answers don’t need to be lengthy, just complete.
Was this an observational or experimental study?
Describe the methods used to collect the data and explain why the methods are appropriate based on the research question.
Was the data collected quantitative or qualitative? Support your identification with examples from the study.
Describe the analysis method used to analyze the data, identifying the software that was used.
Discuss the potential weaknesses of the data collection and data analysis methods used. Support your discussion with specific details.
Describe the key demographics of the population sampled and identify the inclusion and exclusion criteria for participants.
Respond to any of my notes, the textbook or the videos in the “Chapter 2–Hinduism and Jainism” section under Assignments. Or you can address one or more of the following questions.
What do you think of the Hindu openness to different paths to god (yogas)?
Does your religious faith or personal morality include something similar to karma?
Is reincarnation an appealing idea, allowing for many opportunities to live and improve one self?
How realistic is the Jain ideal of non-violence?
Professor’s Notes:
We now begin our look at organized religions, with the oldest of these traditions–Hinduism. This is the oldest in that it goes back in recorded time longer than any of the others. As a reminder, this is an academic class, and so we are looking at the religions through that lens versus that of faith. For instance, those of you from the Christian background might claim to be part of the oldest faith based on the creation stories in the book of Genesis. However, even Judaism as a specific religion doesn’t begin with creation, but with Moses and the laws God gave to him later in the Bible. Christianity is not quite 2,000 years old as a distinct religion, and Islam is not quite 1,400 years old. By the time Jesus was born, all of the eastern religions had been long established.
* Hinduism is our only tradition we will study that does not have a human founder. Faithful Hindus might argue that this is because it has been around since the beginning of time. A more traditional term for this religion is Sanatana Dharma, which can be translated as the “eternal order.”
* Hinduism originated in the subcontinent of India (which includes the modern nations of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Tibet). Jainism, Buddhism and Sikhism also began in India, while almost all world faiths have followers there. India is, and has always been, an incredibly spiritual place.
* Hinduism is a polytheistic tradition, meaning it has a belief in many, many gods–perhaps millions of them. We will see as we go through the course that each faith tries its best to do the impossible–put into human words what an all powerful god is. While some religions insist that no images of God be allowed, Hinduism embraces the idea of many gods, with a wide range of images representing them.
* The greatest of the Hindu gods is Brahman, one for which you will find no image and also typically no direct worship at temples.
* Other major gods include Brahma (Creator god), Vishnu (preserver of life) and Shiva (destroyer of life). These three symbolize the cycle of birth, life and death that all living beings go through. Other well known gods include Krishna, Lakshmi, Hanuman, and Ganesh.
* Check out this video link to see some of the images of these deities (don’t worry about taking any notes or remembering the gods and their traits…but get a sense of their images).
* Why do Hindu gods have such interesting characteristics, such as blue skin, multiple arms or legs, or half animal and half human bodies? Scholars suggest this is Hinduism’s effort to represent the unknowable god, in ways that we are not likely to actually encounter in our day to day existence. With Brahman, the highest god, no image is shown as a way to acknowledge that ultimately, we cannot comprehend god. However, god can still be approached through one of the lesser deities.
* Many Indian traditions share the belief in reincarnation. Also known as “transmigration of the soul,” reincarnation is the belief that each soul moves through many, many bodies before it is able to reach enlightenment and the cycle of rebirth. Reincarnation is mysterious–you tend not to remember previous lives, there is no way to know how many lives you have to lead, you might or might not be in only human bodies (some believe souls begin in plant life and then move into animals and eventually humans). In essence, the journey to enlightenment takes multiple lifetimes for your soul to be prepared.
* Enlightenment itself is also mysterious…it tends not be a place, like Heaven or Hell, but an end to life in bodies, and all the suffering that we endure as humans. Even if you live a long, healthy life, there is suffering in losing those close to you and ultimately in dying.
* If you are from the western tradition, which teaches we live only one life and that you end up in Heaven or Hell, you can see that reincarnation and enlightenment are almost the exact opposite. However, no one knows what happens after we die as we have no evidence. Someone may die with faith they will be reincarnated, or faith they will go to Heaven or a belief that there is nothing after death–and in the end each of us will find out for ourselves which of these was right.
* The process of reincarnation is determined by karma, which is basically the law of action and reaction. From the moment you are born, everything you do or say builds good or bad karma. At death, this accumulation of karma leads to a rebirth in a better or worse state than the life you just lived. In this way, Hinduism is all about personal responsibility for one’s own actions.
* As you live your life, Hinduism encourages everyone to live as good a life as possible it is also open to the idea that the path to god is different for everyone. The textbook details four primary ways to reach god and enlightenment. These are known as yogas–but spiritual disciplines as opposed to stretching and exercise. 1) Jnana yoga is the path of intellectual study 2) Bhakti yoga is the path of prayer and devotion to god 3) Karma yoga is the path of service to others 4) Raja yoga is the path of meditation. Each of our personalities is different, and Hinduism respects that. Do you enjoy sermons and reading scripture? Then Jnana yoga may be right for you. But if you fall asleep in lectures or reading, that’s okay…perhaps volunteering is where you feel closest to god (Karma yoga) or when you are praying to your god (Bhakti yoga).
* Be sure to read over the Stages of life and the Stations of life in the textbook for more on Hindu traditions.
Here are some videos on the Hindu tradition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkAwQ3HqBac
Creative Writing: Sonnets
Write a sonnet in both Shakespearian and Petrarchan forms. Submit your assignment to Canvas as a Word Document. Do NOT
submit screenshots.
It may be on any subject you like as long as it’s appropriate for a general audience. Sonnets are fourteen lines long. However, there are differences between the two forms:
Petrarchan
One octet (eight-line stanza) presents a problem (abba rhyme pattern)
One sestet (six-line stanza) presents the resolution to the problem (cdc rhyme pattern)
Shakespearian
Three quatrains (four-line stanzas) and ending couplet (two-line stanza).
Three quatrains present a problem (often the third quatrain begins a partial resolution)
The final couplet presents the resolution to the problem
abab cdcd efef gg rhyme scheme
Class, please read this report on the 911 system (also found under the readings tab ). What does the analysis on the 911 system reveal about the need in communities and how they be better addressed instead of calling the police? (Please also discuss anything else that comes to mind)
In chapter one you get a sense of the discipline of anthropology. What is it and how is it similar or different to other disciplines you have studied? There is an incredible amount of specialization within the discipline as well as great breadth?
Economic anthropology –What can be gained from an analysis of commodity chains (production, trade, and consumption)? How do the case studies discussed in this chapter illustrate different perspective of economics of value of things and also value of work? What of our Cacao documentary?
Marriage and the family—Why do anthropologists study the act of marriage? What can we learn from the text and additional materials for this week? What do we learn about polyandry and other different ways of conceptualizing the family unit? Why is studying the family such a core issue for anthropologists?
What can we learn from the text ?
Discuss what anthropologists mean when they say that race is a socially constructed concept and explain how race has been
socially constructed in the United States and Brazil.
• Identify what is meant by racial formation, hypodescent, and the one-drop rule.
• Describe how ethnicity is different from race, how ethnic groups are different from racial groups, and what is meant by symbolic ethnicity.
Write a literature review
paper on a topic in cognitive developmental psychology. You should formulate your
topic as a question and then review relevant literature in trying to answer that question.
Your paper should present a comprehensive account of what we know about your chosen
topic. Although student will work in groups, each student is required to write their
own paper. Your paper should review 10 to 12 studies (with at least half being from
2000 to now) and be 10 pages in length. The paper should be in the format of the APA
Publication Manual (6th Ed.).
When writing the introduction, start off with a research question (e.g., cognitive abilities of infants),
progressively narrow it (category formation in infants), and finally state the specific lines of research you
will be discussing (eight recent articles on infant discrimination of basic-level categories for concrete
objects). You want to establish a brisk but even pace when moving from a broad topic to a specific topic,
avoiding sudden jumps that will lose your reader.
3. Describe each article (or each line of research, depending on what makes sense), then compare them.
Comparisons are essential; descriptions alone are not illuminating. What do you compare? The possibilities
include: research assumptions, research theories tested, hypotheses stated, research designs used, variables
selected (independent and dependent), equipment used, instructions given, results obtained, interpretation of
results, researcher speculations about future studies. Your job is to determine which factors are relevant. All
studies have strengths and weaknesses. Finding them will help you make meaningful comparisons.
Main Goal
Your goal is to evaluate a body of literature; i.e., to “identify relations, contradictions, gaps, and inconsistencies” and
“suggest next steps to solve the research problem” (APA Publication Manual 2010, p. 10). Begin writing when you
have decided on your story and how to organize your research to support that story.
Organization
Organize the literature review to highlight the theme that you want to emphasize – the story that you want to tell.
Literature reviews tend to be organized something like this:
Introduction:
(1) Introduce the research topic (what it is, why does it matter)
(2) Frame the story: narrow the research topic to the studies you will discuss
(3) Briefly outline how you have organized the review
Body:
(1) Headings. Use theme headings to organize your argument (see below)
(2) Describe, compare, and evaluate studies for each section of your argument under your headings
(a) Describe the relevant parts of each study and explain why it is relevant to the subtopic at hand.
(b) Compare the studies if need be, to discuss their implications (i.e., your interpretation of what the
studies show and whether there are important differences or similarities)
(c) Evaluate the importance of each study or group of studies, as well as the implications for the
subtopic, and where research should go from here (on the level of the subtopic)
Conclusion: Final evaluation, summation and conclusion
Headings. Use headings to identify major sections that show the organization of the paper. (Headings also help you to
identify organizational problems while you’re writing.) Avoid the standard headings of research articles (Introduction,
Method, Results, Discussion). Use specific, conceptual headings. If you are reviewing whether facial expressions are
universally understood, headings might include Studies in Western Cultures and Studies in Non-Western Cultures.
Organize your argument into topics that fit under each heading (one or more per heading).
. IDs (identifications) that I have chosen for each chapter. I’ve included below the parameters for the IDs that were also in the Study Guide:
{(((- First paragraph:
Identification: Provide information on who? what? where? and when?
– Second paragraph: (the MOST important factor in the ID section)
Significance: Why is this information relevant? Establish the item as the result/cause of other factors existing in the period. What were the political or social or economic or cultural consequences of this item? Basically, why is this person/event important in history?)))}
Remember, each ID should be 2 FULL paragraphs (4-6 sentences) and you need to write on all 3 that I have selected:
Chapter 5
Boston Tea Party
Chapter 6
Battle of Saratoga
Chapter 7
Educational Reform
Rate each of the seven roles of teaching—motivator, manager, instructional expert, counselor, model, leader, and reflective professional—according to the degree of importance for a teacher. Consider each of the seven roles of teaching in relation to your personal perceptions of your teaching goals and abilities. Which areas are you strong in; which areas do you need to work on? In what type of setting might you be serving as teacher ? Keep in mind that teaching can be applied in many contexts whether in an academic setting or work setting.
What are the roles for education and psychology envisioned by E. L. Thorndike? Have those roles changed? What kinds of methods did Thorndike recommend for use in research?
Experiential Model
The practice of Experiential Family therapy typically assumes that a family is relatively stable. Please refer to the ACA (2014) Code of Ethics and identify and discuss at least two ethical issues that could arise if Experiential Family therapy was practiced with a family in turmoil? Or with a missing family member? How would you resolve that ethical issue as a family therapist? To address how you will handle this situation, please apply each stage of Welfel’s Ethical Decision Making model found on pages 60—66 in:
Jungers, C. M., & Gregoire, J. (2013). Counseling Ethics: Philosophical and Professional Foundations. Danvers, MA: Springer Publishing Company.
Chapter 3 Frameworks and Models in Ethical Decision Making.pdf
NOTE: 1 posting by Wednesday at midnight. You also must use APA style in your posting and replies, so please use in-text references and provide a reference to give proper credit to the authors.
In Chapter 18 and associated lectures, we discussed the causes and consequences of climate change as well as what governments and individuals can do to address climate change and associated impacts. Your assignment is to write a public service announcement teaching the general public about the causes and impacts of climate change and persuading them of the need to address climate change. The learning objective of this assignment is to teach you how to communicate scientific and technical information to a broad audience in a limited amount of time (or space). This will mean that you will need to decide which types of information is important to make your case that action is needed to address climate change.
This assignment is meant to be creative so there are many different formats you can use to complete the assignment; you can write a speech for a local or state politician. Your submission must be both educational and persuasive. While this assignment can be creative there must be some guidelines that everyone must follow:
Present evidence that climate is changing (how do we know climate change is occurring?)
Explain how humans have caused the increase in the rate of change (what are the sources of climate change?)
Must explain minimum one consequence of climate change (what are potential impacts of climate change?)
How governments and individuals can help to address climate change and its impacts (what can we do?)
The measures to address climate change or impacts must address the consequences discussed
All information and material must be cited (even pictures or graphs)
Grading Rubric:
Description of evidence that climate is changing (35%)
Description of consequences of climate change (25%)
Explanation of what we can do to address climate change (20%)
Language (10%)
Grammar, use of terminology, etc.
More than 10 mistakes will reduce grade 5%.
Citations (10 %)
