When considering labeling someone with a disorder it is important that we use the most up to date information. We need to stay current on diagnostic criteria, disorders, research methods, and treatment options that are available. While clinicians agree that we should stay current on research many do not take the time to read the research findings. According to Comer (2005) there are task forces that have been formed to help in this area as a way to consolidate the research to “identify which therapies have received clear research support for each disorder, to propose corresponding treatment guidelines, and to spread such information to clinicians.” (p.89)    

However, there are critics of the task force movement that feel that the efforts are not far reaching enough and may be biased or misleading. (Comer, 2005)

With clinicians being very busy and research noting that they gain information about the latest developments in the field from colleagues, professional newsletters, workshops, conferences, and books (Comer, 2005) what would you recommend to consolidate the research so that more clinicians will review the data and implement the information into their current practice?

Some of the most serious abuses taking place in developing countries deal with child labor, human slavery, sweatshops, bad governance, and environmental degradation. Select one (1) developing country, and examine the extent to which two (2) of these five (5) issues are occurring. Support your response with specific examples.

Conduct a research design.

You have been asked by a university to determine whether living in dormitories improves student satisfaction and learning outcomes.  Propose a research design to assess this question.  Good answers will invoke parts of the research design process that we have been discussing: research questions; hypotheses; dependent variable; independent variable; population targeted; unit of analysis; data collection strategy; plan of analysis (i.e., what will you be comparing?).

1. Sara Dorow researched the process by which Chinese infants are adopted by white American parents who bring the children to live in a new country. Why are children from China attractive to parents looking to adopt?

   		There are few birth records for babies put up for adoption in China, which makes contacting their birth parents very difficult.
   		Non-Chinese individuals adopting children from China are given help in avoiding any contact with the birth parents
   		Chinese authorities try to encourage as many adoptions as possible because they make money from the adoption process
   		Chinese authorities try to find good homes for as many babies as they can

1. What is the major difference between reliability and validity? Is it possible to have a scale that is reliable, but not valid? If so, how?

Suppose you work in public relations for a company that is developing an attractive, affordable, low-emissions car. The company's engineers have just discovered that the car's fuel tank is placed so that in a very rare kind of crash (1 out of 10,000), the car will instantly explode, killing the people inside. This means that some people who drive the car will die in a horrible accident, but most drivers will be fine. You make sure this information is not made public, and at a press conference you lie and claim that the car is safe. Would a deontologist (someone who subscribes to Immanuel Kant's moral philosophy) say that you acted ethically? Explain why / why not (Be sure to formulate the maxim you act on when you tell the lie and test it. Recall the formula for maxims: "Whenever [circumstances], I'l | [action]"). Determine whether the maxim is consistent with the Categorical Imperative. If the maxim is not consistent with the Categorical Imperative, explain why the maxim fails Kant's test. Next, explain whether an Act Utilitarian would say that you acted ethically (be sure to explain what makes actions right / wrong in general for Act Utilitarianism). What would have to happen to make your lie about the car permissible for the Act Utilitarian?

For the short essay assignment you will compare Pablo Neruda’s “Ode to a Large Tuna in the Market” with Elizabeth Bishop’s poem “The Fish.” I would like your analysis to focus specifically on the poets’ use of figurative language (metaphor and simile, in particular). How does the speaker in each of the poems feel about the fish? How does the poet’s use of figurative language contribute to the poem’s tone? Your short essay needs to be 750+ words and written in MLA format. Your paper should consist entirely of analysis. Both poems are included below along with reading questions to help guide your analysis. Ode to a Large Tuna in the Market By Pablo Neruda & translated By Robin Robertson Here, among the market vegetables, this torpedo from the ocean depths, a missile that swam, now lying in front of me dead. Surrounded by the earth's green froth —these lettuces, bunches of carrots— only you lived through the sea's truth, survived the unknown, the unfathomable darkness, the depths of the sea, the great abyss, le grand abîme, only you: varnished black-pitched witness to that deepest night. Only you: dark bullet barreled from the depths, carrying only your one wound, but resurgent, always renewed, locked into the current, fins fletched like wings in the torrent, in the coursing of the underwater dark, like a grieving arrow, sea-javelin, a nerveless oiled harpoon. Dead in front of me, catafalqued king of my own ocean; once sappy as a sprung fir in the green turmoil, once seed to sea-quake, tidal wave, now simply dead remains; in the whole market yours was the only shape left with purpose or direction in this jumbled ruin of nature; you are a solitary man of war among these frail vegetables, your flanks and prow black and slippery as if you were still a well-oiled ship of the wind, the only true machine of the sea: unflawed, undefiled, navigating now the waters of death. Questions for “Ode to a Large Tuna in the Market” by Pablo Neruda 1. Compile a list of words from the poem that deal with weapons or warfare. 2. Annotate all of the metaphors and similes in the poem. What do you notice of the balance of similes and metaphors? 3. What’s the subject of the poem? 4. Who is the speaker? 5. What’s the tone of the poem? 6. How does Neruda marry form and content in the poem? 7. Do you like the poem? Why or why not? THE FISH I caught a tremendous fish and held him beside the boat half out of water, with my hook fast in a corner of his mouth. He didn't fight. He hadn't fought at all. He hung a grunting weight, battered and venerable and homely. Here and there his brown skin hung in strips like ancient wallpaper, and its pattern of darker brown was like wallpaper: shapes like full-blown roses stained and lost through age. He was speckled with barnacles, fine rosettes of lime, and infested with tiny white sea-lice, and underneath two or three rags of green weed hung down. While his gills were breathing in the terrible oxygen - the frightening gills, fresh and crisp with blood, that can cut so badly- I thought of the coarse white flesh packed in like feathers, the big bones and the little bones, the dramatic reds and blacks of his shiny entrails, and the pink swim-bladder like a big peony. I looked into his eyes which were far larger than mine but shallower, and yellowed, the irises backed and packed with tarnished tinfoil seen through the lenses of old scratched isinglass. They shifted a little, but not to return my stare. - It was more like the tipping of an object toward the light. I admired his sullen face, the mechanism of his jaw, and then I saw that from his lower lip - if you could call it a lip grim, wet, and weaponlike, hung five old pieces of fish-line, or four and a wire leader with the swivel still attached, with all their five big hooks grown firmly in his mouth. A green line, frayed at the end where he broke it, two heavier lines, and a fine black thread still crimped from the strain and snap when it broke and he got away. Like medals with their ribbons frayed and wavering, a five-haired beard of wisdom trailing from his aching jaw. I stared and stared and victory filled up the little rented boat, from the pool of bilge where oil had spread a rainbow around the rusted engine to the bailer rusted orange, the sun-cracked thwarts, the oarlocks on their strings, the gunnels- until everything was rainbow, rainbow, rainbow! And I let the fish go. Elizabeth Bishop The Noonday Press Elizabeth Bishop: The Complete Poems Questions on Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Fish” 1. Define the following words: venerable, barnacles, rosettes, sea-lice, entrails, peony, irises, isinglass, sullen, grim, swivel, fray, bilge, thwarts, oarlock, gunnels. 2. What is the subject of the poem and who is the speaker? 3. Find all of the similes (a comparison of two things using the words “like” or “as”) in the poem. Which of them, in your opinion, is the strongest and why? 4. Explain the following image: “Like medals with their ribbons/ frayed and wavering,/ a five-haired beard of wisdom/ trailing from his aching jaw.” What does she mean by “a five-haired beard of wisdom?” Why do you think Bishop chose to use the word “medals?” 5. Track Bishop’s use of color in the poem. Find the instances where she mentions specific colors. Why do you think that Bishop writes, “until everything/ was rainbow, rainbow, rainbow!” towards the end of the poem? 6. Bishop repeats words and phrases throughout the poem. Choose an instance where she uses repetition and explains how it contributes to the poem. 7. Explain the tone (the speaker’s attitude about the subject matter) of the poem. Use evidence from the poem to support your answer 8. What, in your thinking, is the strongest aspect of this poem? Do you like the poem? Why or why not? 9. Fill in the outline of a fish with 15 details from the poem. Please label each of the details. Feel free to add to the area around the fish.

Please indicate whether the claim reported in the headline below is most likely to be normative (i.e., how things ought to be), descriptive (i.e., a snapshot of how the world is), or causal (i.e., independent variable has an effect on dependent variable).   

Jean-Jacques Rousseau and John Locke both seem to have an idea as to what best impacts development, nature or nurture. Explain their respective view whilst you contrast them

Imagine that you are a reader of a newspaper that has a section that allows ‘letters to the editor.’ (This is where readers are able to write and submit a short article arguing for some point of view). Three such hypothetical letters are below. Imagine that you are writing a response to these letters. Write a response in which you use your social psychology knowledge to argue against the letter writer.

(2) How anyone could have been fooled by Edward Fresno’s money-making program is beyond me. These are supposedly intelligent people who joined this group (cult is more like it!), who were promised to make millions of dollars. What a scam it turned out to be when it was discovered that the whole program was a pyramid scheme! There have been a lot of explanations for how this occurred – for instance, how Edward Fresno was a charismatic person who enticed these people by offering them gradual rewards for being part of the group, or how these people were isolated from others who were not part of the group and thus came to reach really poor decisions because of the lack of outside criticism – but let’s look at the facts. These people had to give up everything to join this group – how could an intelligent person come to enjoy being part of a group like that? How could this Edward Fresno individual persuade intelligent people? Obviously these people weren’t that smart. Anyone with half a brain could have seen years ago that this was a scam! -Josh M. Grant

In your own words, discuss The Fourth Amendment. How are new areas of technology impacted by the Fourth Amendment? Should police have access to privacy records?

You must post a minimum of three times. Your initial post will be your 2 to 3 paragraph response to the discussion question.  

Note: Each paragraph should contain 4-5 complete sentences and have no grammar/spelling errors

Compare and contrast modernization theory and dependency theory. Which do you think is more useful for explaining global inequality? Explain, using examples.

Describe the state constitutions that were more democratic and those that were less so. What effect would these different constitutions have upon those states? Who could participate in government, whereby voting or by holding public office? Whose interests were represented, and whose were compromised?

You want to determine if there is a relationship between birth order (first, or second child in the family) and current relationship status. You interview 1000 people who are all either 1st, or 2nd born in their family and group them as follows: (i) never been in a relationship, (ii) in a committed relationship, (iii) in a casual relationship, (iv) was in a relationship, but currently unattached, (v) pursuing multiple relationships.

A) type out the rules for your analysis