It was recently announced that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will extend its regulatory authority to E-cigarettes, tobacco pipes, and cigars. They have proposed a ban of these products to those under 18 (in person and Internet sales), those purchasing these products must show identification, a ban on use in public places, and products must include warning labels. The producers of cigars and e-cigarettes must register with the FDA, provide a detailed accounting of their product ingredients, disclose their manufacturing processes and scientific data, and would be subject to FDA inspections. Many have argued that the FDA oversight will close the smaller producers. They argue that innovations to these products will be significantly slowed down due to these regulations. The regulations will also increase their costs--application costs, user fees, creating scientific costs will force the smaller producers to close down or merge with the larger producers (many are the tobacco industry). Research this discussion. What is your position? Cite your reference(s) to support your position.

How does common law murder and modern statutory elements for murder compare? Define each element.

How do the concepts of race and deviance work together to maintain a system of social control, power, privilege  and economic advantages?

Note: This is related to Psychology

According to John Stuart Mill’s Utilitarian theory of ethics, how do we determine which actions are right and which actions are wrong? Be sure your answer makes use of the Greatest Happiness Principle and explains how this concept is used.

Briefly describe postpartum depression. What are some of the symptoms that distinguish it from a more typical case of baby blues? What would you consider the two effective treatment methods for postpartum depression? Have you ever had experience with someone who has had postpartum depression? Consider some of the cultural barriers that women may face in south texas (i.e., Hispanic culture) when seeking help. Answer should be 350-500 words.

Is psychology common sense?
Why study psychology?

*** Provide information from one or more scholarly sources with an in-text citation and match referencing to support your discussion. Wikipedia is not a scholarly source. Discussion without a source will receive zero (0) point.

*** Responses to Discussion Question should be 200 words or more and substantive-this does not include assignment or references. A good practice to produce a response in Word Document to monitor word count, copy and paste into message area. Please be sure to include proper APA citation and reference for all information.

Describe an instance where you remember being the victim, perpetrator, or witness of bullying, and how you handled the situation at the time.

How would you respond if you were the parent of a child being bullied?

If you were a school principal, how would you design and implement a bullying prevention/reduction problem at your school?

Considering what you have learned about the effects of drugs (legal or not) on the brain, have you changed your ideas about drug use? What is your current attitude about the use of drugs? If you were to tell your younger brother, sister, cousin, neighbor or anyone else about whom you care about using drugs, what would you say? Do you think that explaining any potentially negative effects of drug usage to someone else would change your own behavior?

Martin Seligman talks about psychology as a field of study and as it works one-on-one with each patient and each practitioner. As it moves beyond a focus on disease, what can modern psychology help us to become? What is psychology, and what is it not? Are Psychologists Scientists? You need to use the APA format for your discussion. You need to watch the video.

https://www.ted.com/talks/martin_seligman_on_the_state_of_psychology

Discuss how tribal police and local police agencies can work together to solve these crimes, to educate the communities on these crimes, and what can be done collaboratively for better prevention of these type of crimes.

What is parental monitoring, and what are its advantages? In what circumstances are adolescents likely to feel more comfortable disclosing information to their parents? Does technology make it easier for adolescents to disclose to parents? Consider the differences from when you were an adolescent compared to today's youth in the monitoring behaviors your parents engaged in. Answer should be 350-500 words.

Please read the following study case "Hot Coffee" then answer:

In a world of get-rich-quick schemes, few are mentioned more frequently than lawsuits. One of the reasons is the infamous McDonald’s coffee case (Liebeck v. McDonald’s Restaurants). This is what happened in 1992 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Stella Liebeck, seventy-nine, was riding in a car driven by her grandson. They stopped at a McDonald’s drive-through, where she purchased a Styrofoam cup of coffee. Wanting to add cream and sugar, she squeezed the cup between her knees and pulled off the plastic lid. The entire thing spilled back into her lap. The searing liquid left her with extensive third-degree burns. Eight days of hospitalization—which included skin grafts—were required.

Initially, she sought $20,000 from McDonald’s, which was more or less the cost of her medical bills. McDonald’s refused. They went to court. There it came to light that about seven hundred claims had been made by consumers between 1982 and 1992 for similar incidents. This seems to indicate that McDonald’s knew—or at least should have known—that the hot coffee was a problem.

Most of the rest of the case turned around temperature questions. McDonald’s admitted that they served their coffee at 185 degrees, which will burn the mouth and throat and is about 50 degrees higher than typical homemade coffee. More importantly, coffee served at temperatures up to 155 degrees won’t cause burns, but the danger rises abruptly with each degree above that limit. So why did McDonald’s serve it so hot? Most customers, the company claimed, bought on the way to work or home and would drink it on arrival. The high temperature would keep it fresh until then. Unfortunately, internal documents showed that McDonald’s knew their customers intended to drink the coffee in the car immediately after purchase. Next, McDonald’s asserted that their customers wanted their coffee hot. The restaurant conceded, however, that customers were unaware of the serious burn danger and that no adequate warning of the threat’s severity was provided.

Finally, the jury awarded Liebeck $160,000 in compensatory damages and $2.7 million in punitive damages (about two days worth of McDonalds’ coffee sales). The judge, however, reduced the $2.7 million to $480,000. McDonald’s threatened to appeal, and the two sides eventually came to a private settlement agreement.Consumer Attorneys of California, “The Actual Facts About the McDonalds’ Coffee Case,” The ‘Lectric Law Library, 1995, accessed June 2, 2011, http://www.lectlaw.com/files/cur78.htm.

Questions:

1. What does caveat emptor mean? According to this doctrine, who is responsible for Stella Liebeck’s burns? Explain.
2. Does the fact that she’s seventy-nine years old make it more difficult to justify a caveat emptor attitude in this case?
3. One aspect of the caveat emptor doctrine is that it maximizes respect for the consumer as an independent and autonomous decider. Could that be a reason for affirming that a seventy-nine-year-old is a better candidate than most for a caveat emptor ethics of consumption?
4. In general terms, what does it mean to claim that an implicit contract arises around a transaction? How does that contract protect the consumer?

What is James weldon johnson views of the global problem of war

How do sensation and perception interact? Give two specific examples from your own experiences. What factors might influence both the sensation and the perception?

Describe how adults (i.e., older adults) cope with death. Consider the cultural influences in this region on helping us cope with death. What is the difference between grief and mourning compared to mood disorders such as depression? Is it important to have a clear distinction between the sadness experienced due to losing a loved one as opposed to a depressive episode? These are questions that have been brought up among researchers in this field, as some believe that sadness as a result from death should also be considered a mental disorder under the diagnostic manual used to diagnose mental illness. Answer should be 350-500 words.