1) In the now second textbook required for class, “The Great American Crime Decline by Franklin E. Zimring” chapter 1, how broad of a decline was there in hoicide rates and give 2 reasons why?
2) In the now second textbook required for class, “The Great American Crime Decline by Franklin E. Zimring” chapter 2, the section of “effects search for causes” list 2 different effects used and briefly explain them.
Case 7
Please complete the assigned readings. Next, go to the website www.symptommedia.com and log in: [please note-different log-in and password this week !]
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Background information: Gil was referred for a substance use assessment following an arrest for disorderly conduct (an incident during which he was under the influence). He recently lost another event job due to his substance use and revealed that he sometimes engages in cutting (using a knife to make shallow cuts on his legs) when he feels overwhelmed. Previously, he was diagnosed with Bipolar 1 Disorder
Write two paragraphs:
1) In the first paragraph, select the appropriate mental health diagnosis(es) (related to substance use) for the client and briefly explain why you selected this diagnosis(es) (in your own words, connect the DSM-5 criteria to the client’s symptoms). The diagnosis is from the chapters assigned for this week.
2) In the second paragraph, list all applicable conditions from DSM-5 that start on p. 715 (“Other Conditions that May Be a Focus of Clinical Attention”) AND provide a brief explanation for each condition you selected.
-Why is happiness a philosophical problem?
-Why is it so hard and difficult to be happy? Is it possible to live a good life and a life of happiness, given all the human suffering, violence, injustices, poverty, global crises and natural disasters?
-to deal with the hardships, suffering, pain, anxiety, fear and stress of living through existentially uncertain and dark times?
-Whose philosophy, Epicurus or Augustine, do you find the most helpful, realistic and relevant? Critically assess, discuss and analyze the strengths and weaknesses of Epicurus and Augustine’s main ideas, key points and arguments.
This research paper is based on the topic of immigration, it should be at least 1600 words and 5 pages long. Down below is a link to the assignment (Only focus on Option 1). I will provide 1 out of the 3 links for this paper! Please don’t be afraid to reach out to ask some questions! I will be more than glad to answer them!
The sensory systems are largely intertwined with the nervous system because the nervous system receives sensations and interprets what they mean. When there is damage to part of a sensory system, it may change the sensory experience.
Imagine you have been asked to write an article for a popular medical magazine on the role of the sensory system and the effects of damage within it.
Choose 2 of the 5 senses.
Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word article on how damage to the nervous system affects the sensory experience. Include the following:
Identify which nervous system structures are involved in that sensory system.
Identify which peripheral nervous system structures are involved in the chosen sensory systems, including sensory and motor neurons.
Explain potential or hypothetical damage to the structures.
Describe how the damage has affected the nervous system’s function, including autonomic nervous system responses (parasympathetic and sympathetic) as well as somatic nervous system responses.
Explain why this change in the nervous system has occurred.
Explain external indicators, or symptoms, of the damage.
Describe how the sensory experience may be different because of this damage.
Include a minimum of 2 peer-reviewed sources.
Format your article according to APA guidelines.
Pick one of the following cases to read about:
“The Awful, Odd Downfall of the Librarian of the Year” Peltz, Jeffiner. Associated Press Apr 15, 2017
https://www.stltoday.com/news/national/the-awful-odd-downfall-of-the-school-librarian-of-the/article_fead11a5-fc55-5e90-8d01-3fc5eee7668b.htmlLinks to an external site
Suryadevara, U. Holbert, R. & Averbuch, R. “Opioid Use in the Elderly.” Psychiatric Times. Vol 35 Issue 1 January 30, 2018.
Instructions:
Select one of the two geriatric articles above.
Describe the condition or disease such as definition, treatments, complications, sites of care, usual challenges for functioning with employment, family responsibilities, social relationships, activities of daily living, etc.
Describe the treatments that are needed to maintain health (e.g. treatment, therapy, daily medication).
Identify the challenges with adherence to treatment, e.g. costs, travel, loss of work time, conflicts with family responsibilities, depression, anxiety, pain management, and care giver stress.
Discuss the role of healthcare social work practice with persons with these conditions within one or more settings that they may use, for example, hospital social work, dialysis center social work, hospice/palliative care social work, primary care social work.
Discuss your recommendations for social work practice with this condition.
At least 2 additional peer reviewed resources and citations are required.
The paper should be approximately 4-5 pages double spaced. Include a separate reference page.
Paper Topic: Combating Human Traffficking During President Biden’s Administration
General requirements: The course paper consists of not less than 15 full pages, excluding Title and Reference Pages and a minimum of eight references to relevant scholarly articles in peer-reviewed academic journals. No abstract is required or desired. Full pages begin at the very top of the page and continue to the very bottom of the page.
Quotes: Limit direct quotes to those absolutely necessary for a full exposition fo the
discussion or analysis at issue. This includes charts, tables, graphs, etc. Don’t significantly reduce original composition by filling pages with quoted material.
This is a genetic paper about family pedigree and just have to do some research of your family history and just figure out the probabilities if you have a mental health issue.
Paper Instructions for the Individual Marketing Plan:
1. Choose an existing company/brand that needs to be revamped.
2. The company that you choose must have experienced a decline in popularity, sales, or growth.
3. Create a marketing plan for the company/brand.
4. The written report must use titles and include all of the following components:
a. Executive Summary
b. Situation Overview
c. Goal
d. Strategy: Target Market
e. Strategy: Value Proposition
f. Tactics
g. Implementation
h. Control
5. You must include a biblical application section (minimum 600-750 words)
– this section must discuss how a biblical foundation should be incorporated to achieve company marketing goals
– this section must include at least six (6) verses from Scripture (the Bible) that build the foundation for Christian worldview.
Format Requirements:
– 3,500 – 4,000 words using APA formatting
– Must include a title page
– Must include a reference page
– Must include the subheadings listed above
– Include biblical foundations application (600 – 750 words)
– Minimum of nine peer reviewed scholarly references
One of the required references:
Kotler, P., Keller, K. L., & Chernev, A. (2022). Marketing management (16th ed.). Pearson. ISBN: 978-0135887158
On Foucault
Give an example of a disciplinary mechanism that is at work around you, preferably one that everyone seems to take for granted.
Analyze how it controls human activity (consider using concepts we have discussed, such as automation, fixity, etc.).
Assess whether it tends to be used ethically or not.
Could a leader (of some relevant kind) transform the use of that mechanism in either an ethical or more productive direction? Or, if the mechanism is unethical, is it irredeemable and ought to be entirely eliminated?
On Alexander
In your own cultural and educational experience, in what ways has the problem of mass incarceration been excluded or included in how you have learned about society? How much was this exclusion/inclusion intentional or unintentional on the part of leaders in education, media, business, government, etc.?
Note: If you are the citizen of a foreign country, feel free to speak about your cultural and educational experience of incarceration in your country.
On King
Are King’s four steps of nonviolent resistance still a good guide for leaders who want to resist existing power structures? Would the steps need to be updated in any way to fit with our particular times?
Original Post
Your original post will be a minimum of 500 words long and a maximum of 700 words long. By “original” we simply mean your own thoughts responding to the question(s) listed for each discussion forum. You will not have access to the posts of your classmates until you submit your original post. Only your first post will be counted as your original post for grading purposes. Please do not post more than one week before the deadline.
You are required to quote the text once in your original post. The quote should be about one or two sentences long. Only up to 50 words of the quote will count toward the minimum word count. The quote should provide evidence that your interpretation is correct (just as a prosecutor might provide a gun with the defendant’s fingerprints on it to convince the jury she is correct about him being the murderer). Provide a parenthetical citation for your quote.
No outside sources are to be used for this assignment. Use only the assigned reading. Any documented use of outside sources will be penalized for not following the instructions. Any undocumented use of outside sources constitutes plagiarism and charges will be filed for an academic offense.
To be used as a Reference
So let’s now discuss King’s four steps to a nonviolent campaign, and remember for King, nonviolence is the signature move that he brought to the civil rights movement. So in designing this nonviolent approach, he’s really thinking about how to lead the resistance campaign against segregation, against discrimination, against Jim Crow laws, and all of the above, OK?
Now the first thing that he says that we have to do is to collect facts to determine an injustice. Think of this as simply doing your homework, doing your research so that when you get to step two, negotiation, you have the facts available. You have the material for your argumentation available so that in your negotiation, you can be as effective as possible.
Now in Birmingham, where King was, there were plenty of facts of injustice. So we had segregation throughout the community. We had police brutality. We had unsolved bombings, and the list goes on. So these were the facts of the injustices that were taking place. Injustices that, for example, in the bombings, were not being addressed by the proper mechanisms of justice, which is to say the justice system.
Therefore, when they went to the table to negotiate, they had these facts available and they could lay them out as just cause for the negotiation. So that’s what they did. They negotiated. They negotiated and were able to come to an agreement at first, in fact, in the city of Birmingham, which would allow the desegregation of local businesses. OK?
So they did try to negotiate with the economic leaders. However, these economic leaders ended up breaking the promises.
Now, what would have happened if they had not broken the promises? Let’s think this through for a moment. This says something about the steps of the campaign and the relative importance.
In Scenario One here, we collect our facts and then we negotiate, and if the negotiation is successful– put a little check mark here– then that’s it. We’ve been successful, right? We’ve negotiated, we figured out a solution to the problem, and then we can move forward. Right? The injustice has been addressed in a certain way.
However, here we see that the economic leaders broke their promises. They weren’t willing to desegregate. OK? So what happens? If, in fact, step two fails– our little x point here– that means that we have to go forward with the steps. OK?
So negotiation, in a certain sense, is absolutely key. In fact, it’s really the key step in the entire process because if it’s successful at first, we’re done. And in fact, if steps three and four, as we’ll see, are successful, we return to steps two. In fact, three and four are really only meant to return us to step two, negotiation. That is the peaceful, nonviolent way of solving a problem. Negotiating, compromising, figuring out a solution. OK? That is the intent. That’s why this is the most important step in the process.
Now, we know this failed in the case of Birmingham. So what’s our next step? The next step is self-purification, OK? And this required workshops. What did that mean? It meant going to the workshops and learning how to accept the possibility of violence when you were in these protests.
And as we saw in the actual protests in Birmingham, there was the possibility of police brutality, police violence. You could be hit, you could be bitten by police dogs. Now, whenever someone’s doing violence to you in general, what are your natural two reactions? Your natural reactions are to fight back, to use violence against violence, to stop the violence, right? Or to flee, right? This is our fight and flight response. This is basic psychology.
Neither of those scenarios are acceptable for the campaign, because think about it– if you fight back, then suddenly the police have a justification, a built-in justification for their own violence and they can spin it that they were simply suppressing the violence of the protesters. Right?
If you flee, well, then there is no march, there is no sit-in, right? So you’ve completely undermined the campaign itself.
So either if you’re violent, it becomes a violent campaign, or if you flee, there’s no campaign at all. Neither of those natural human responses are acceptable. So they needed to work on it. They needed to learn how to overcome their natural reactions to being attacked, to being harmed, right? To learn how to accept that. That is extremely difficult for human beings to do, for any human being to do.
And these people, who are already being oppressed, had to learn how to do it in the most extreme circumstance, right? That’s what King’s workshops were about– learning that process of overcoming your instincts and attaining a kind of higher form of action.
That would allow you to then engage in the direct action itself, and the direct action would be the march, the sit-in, the protest. OK?
This is what allowed the visible face of the movement to flourish. Now what does this actually do? What does the actual march, sit-in, et cetera actually do for us? And how does it help us get back to this essential step of negotiation? We’ll read a passage from King.
King says, “You may well ask, why direct action? Why sit-ins, marches, et cetera? Isn’t negotiation a better path?”
Of course, we’ve already seen that he went through negotiation to direct action, but he’s speaking to his critics here.
“You are exactly right in your call for negotiation. Indeed, this is the purpose of direct action.” This is this coming back to negotiation.
This is the key passage, perhaps key passage of the entire text. “Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue.”
So now we have a kind of tension that King is trying to create. Why would we possibly want to create tension? Isn’t there enough tension already, right? Why would King want to create more tension? What is the point here? I’ll read further.
“This nonviolent direct action seeks to so dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored. I just referred to the creation of tension as part of the work of nonviolent resistance.” this may sound rather shocking. But I must confess, I am not afraid of the word tension.
I have earnestly worked and preached against violent tension–” So here, he’s going to get to a nonviolent form of tension.
“But there is the type of constructive, nonviolent tension that is necessary for growth. Just as Socrates felt it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths and half-truths to the unfettered realm of creative analysis an objective appraisal, we must see the need of having nonviolent gadflies to create the kind of tension in society that it will help men rise from the dark depths of prejudice and racism to the majestic heights of understanding and brotherhood.”
So now we can begin to understand what this creative tension is actually about. By dramatizing the issue, it forces the community to face the injustice. It can no longer hide from it. Right? That’s what’s essential about creating the tension. It can no longer hide from it. It can no longer put it aside. It’s right in its face.
Moreover, we need to be like Socratic gadflies. We need to transform society from believing in myth, as he says, and be able to move to the analysis of events, to be able to understand them rationally. Not reactively and not according to myths, like that of white supremacy. But rather, truly analyze and understand the situation, which essentially means, in King’s contexts, not just in the Socratic context, of being able to move from the myth of racism to, as he puts it, brotherhood, where everyone can come together in a kind of harmony.
Now this isn’t the entire story. We also need to think in terms of what’s already existing. It’s true that King is creating a tension, but there’s more to it. A passage a few pages later in the text, in the middle of a paragraph, King says, “Actually, we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive we bring it out into the open where it can be seen and dealt with. Like a boil that can never be cured as long it is covered up but must be open with all its pus-flowing ugliness to the natural medicine of light and air, injustice must likewise be exposed, with all of the tension it creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.”
So racism and its falsehoods are kind of like a boil, right? And they need to be opened up. They are already there. Society has already has these things in place. So there is a kind of hidden or underlying tension that already exists because of racism, and this is the most profound kind of tension.
But the protest itself, by creating a space in which the community is forced to see that underlying tension, this is the immediate tension created by the movement itself, by the sit-in, by the march.
So really, there are two things at work here. There’s the creating of a tension in the physical space in which these things are taking place so that the hidden tension, the problem in society, the problem that King is trying to resist so that that can be seen by everyone and dealt with. And that might force people to come back to the negotiation process and create new laws, and create new habits and norms in society. That’s what King, as a leader of the movement, is trying to achieve.