Describe how you think Beccaria would react to our current criminal justice system’s high incarceration, use of the death penalty, incarceration of mentally ill, and racial and social class disparities.

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What is the importance of Roman civilization, from the point of view of Ricardo Vera Tornell? Explain (8 points).

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What is the importance of Roman civilization from the point of view of Vicente Reynal?

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Why are Hispanics Latin-Americans? Explain (4 points)

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Readings on the importance of Rome

Importance of Roman History

By: Ricardo Vera Tornell

Of all those empires that existed in the ancient world, it is, without a doubt, the Roman, that has played a more transcendent role in history. To this end, that there is no European country that in some way more or less direct, cannot be regarded as a descendant of that great state and in whose institutions they do not endure, to a greater or lesser degree the traces of the right and the uses which they deprived in the old Ro Ma. And if to civilization and to the culture we make reference, it is well in sight the influence which, in all orders continues to exert the knowledge of the antiquity, of which Rome was depository.

And it is that Rome, of dark and rude origins, in conquering and assimilating the opulent countries that surrounded him, not only appropriated his immense material wealth, but also acquired the invaluable loot of the culture and art that those peoples possessed, and the Taking them to their own soil was then imposing it, in its laws and administration, in how many countries it subjected to its empire.

Rome became the owner of the world known at the time, which allowed him to put all peoples under a single domination and a single regime. This circumstance had to have a capitalísima importance in the course of civilization, because in propagating Christianity in the metropolis civilization of the world, it was necessarily to facilitate its penetration in all the peoples subjected to its dominion, Provides them a new spirituality.

It can be said that Rome ends all ancient history and begins... – The Middle Ages that lead us to the... – Modern. And, although he was not a creator of knowledge, nor of art, he knew so well to assimilate them, that through it he achieved its expansion and even the barbarous peoples who plundered it and managed to ruin its power, settling in the Roman solar itself, they had to be civilized later , drinking in the sources of Latin culture.

Extracted from: Universal History of Civilization, p. 288.

The importance of Roman civilization
By: Vicente reynal

The influence of Roman culture and civilization, even beyond the Western world, has been decisive and comprehensive. For centuries (of the II BC to the V after Christ) Rome was the capital of the empire that emerged in this city and was propagated to all of Italy and to the rest of the countries bathed by the Mediterranean Sea, as well as to others, where it was imposing its government , its laws, its customs, religion, language and art. This forced or voluntary imposition of the culture of Rome on other peoples is known as Romanization.

Then dismembered the empire in the 5th century A.D., the influx of Rome lasted through the language, Latin, and its legislation. Later, of Latin or Roman, Romance languages will emerge: Spanish, Italian, French, Galician, Portuguese, Catalan, Valencian, Romanian and, even today, to signify the continuation and perpetuity of this legacy we call as Latin peoples to those in which, Especially through the language, this influence survives.

After view the video/website about the Judge Rotenberg center and doing some of your own research, what are your thoughts? Do you think this school should use the procedures it does? Why or why not? What would you change?

name the thre elements involved in the present world crisis, explain why they matter and suggest solutions the crisis

prepare ONE PAGE reflction on Perceiving Objects and Scenes

E. D. Hirsch, in his book Cultural Literacy, has developed a list of things that all American students should know to be "culturally literate." Review Hirsch's book to determine the criteria for inclusion and exclusion on this (www.goodreads.com/book/show/76884 (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.). What person(s) or group(s) should have the authority to create such a mandate?  

what is the benefits of caffeine, does it outweighs its risks?

List five characteristics/traits that you think define who you are. Then, try to determine how those characteristics/traits might have been caused by operant or classical conditioning.

This question is more complicated than it seems. You would think that with more time, more leisure, and more luxuries, that compared to our ancestors, we would have more time. In ancient societies like among those in the Roman Empire, leisure time was generated because the slave class did their work. Even a few generations ago, your great-grandma scrubbed clothes on a scrubbing board, cooked on a coal or wood burning stove. Now, we are able to push washing machine buttons, use microwaves, and even have food delivered to us in minutes. So, you would think we would have more time to do what we want? But do we? It seems unlikely.

Philosopher Peter Kreeft of Boston College contends that "we want to complexity our lives. We don't have to, but we want to. We want to be harried, hassled, and busy. Unconsciously, we want the very thing we complain about. For if we had leisure, we would look at ourselves and listen to our hearts and see the gaping hole in our hearts and be terrified, because that hole is so big that nothing but God can fill it."

Kreeft claims:

"So run around like conscientious little bugs, scare rabbits, dancing attendance on our machines, our slaves, and making them our masters. We think we want peace and silence and freedom and leisure, but deep down we know that this is unendurable to us, like a dark empty room without distraction where we would be forced to confront ourselves, the one person...whom we fear the most, yet need the most, and the only person...whom we are constantly trying to escape, yet the only person who we can never escape, to all eternity."

Kreeft continues, "If you are typically modern, your life is like a rich mansion with a terrifying hole right in the middle of the living-room floor. So you paper over the hole with a very busy wallpaper pattern to distract yourself. You find a rhinoceros in the middle of your house. The rhinoceros is wretchedness and death. How in the world can you hid a rhinoceros? Easy: cover it with a million mice. Multiply diversions."

Pascal puts it this way:

"If our condition were truly happy we should not need to divert ourselves from thinking about it."

That is why Pascal famously stated:

“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”

Kreeft goes on to say:

"Therefore the society or individual which has the most diversions and amusements is not the happiest but the unhappiest. Therefore our society is the unhappiest. All the social indicators bear out this conclusion: depression, divorce, suicide, drugs, violence--you name it. The point is simple: we never want to divert ourselves from happiness, only from unhappiness. If life felt like a holiday, we would not want holidays from it.

Later, Pascal puts it this way:

All our life passes in this way: we seek rest by struggling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome, rest proves intolerable because of the boredom it produces. We must get away from it and crave excitement....Man is so unhappy that he would be bored even if he had no cause for boredom, by the very nature of his temperament, and he is so vain that, though he has a thousand and one basic reasons for being bored, the slightest thing, like pushing a ball with a billiard cue, will be enough to divert him."

Therefore, after reflecting upon these statements by Peter Kreeft and Blaise Pascal, do you think they are onto something? I mean, why are so occupied with business? Is it because, at some level, we are diverting ourselves from our state unhappiness? Is business a type of diversion from seeing how unhappy we actually are?

Researchers must protect participants and be aware of appropriate methods for obtaining information. What ethical considerations are important to research? In about 2 pages, write an analysis of the ethical concerns in the 3 diverse psychological research studies below. Be sure to include a paragraph of overall ethical consideration.

This paper should be 2-3 pages in length and use APA formatting (cover page, paper body formatting, citations, and references: see Rasmussen's APA guide in the Resources tab, or by clicking here. Prior to submitting your paper, be sure you proofread your work to check your spelling and grammar. If you use any outside sources, please cite those sources in APA citation format.

Haslam, S. A., & Reicher, S. D. (2012). Contesting the 'nature' of conformity: What Milgram and Zimbardo's studies really show. Plos Biology, 10(11), doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001426

Larsen, K. S. (1974). Conformity in the Asch experiment. The Journal Of Social Psychology, 94(2), 303-304. doi:10.1080/00224545.1974.9923224

Mischel, W., Ayduk, O., Berman, M. G., Casey, B. J., Gotlib, I. H., Jonides, J., & ... Shoda, Y. (2011). 'Willpower' over the life span: Decomposing self-regulation. Social Cognitive And Affective Neuroscience, 6(2), 252-256. doi:10.1093/scan/nsq081

In about 300 (4 paragraphs) words explain the Communication Theories and how they impact communication with peers, family and in the work place – use in text citations

• Make a list of characteristics that describe who you are (your self-concept). After looking at the list, see if you can come up with a few words that summarize the list to narrow in on the key features of your self-concept. Go back over the first list and evaluate each characteristic, for example noting whether it is something you do well/poorly, something that is good/bad, positive/negative, desirable/undesirable. Is the overall list more positive or more negative? After doing these exercises, what have you learned about your self-concept and self-esteem?
• Discuss at least one time in which you had a discrepancy or tension between two of the three selves described by self-discrepancy theory (the actual, ideal, and ought selves). What effect did this discrepancy have on your self-concept and/or self-esteem?
• Take one of the socializing forces discussed (family, culture, or media) and identify at least one positive and one negative influence that it/they have had on your self-concept and/or self-esteem.
• Getting integrated: Discuss some ways that you might strategically engage in self-presentation to influence the impressions of others in an academic, a professional, a personal, and a civic context.

1. Discuss self in human communication
2. Explain the Johari Window
3. What are factors that influence self – disclosure
4. Discuss the stages of perception.
5. What is the Pygmalion Effect?