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Discuss the manifest and latent functions of education? Identify rules or regulations that some educational institutions may use to encourage students to maintain the status quo and discourage individual creativity, can you also relate? What trends in education are beneficial and which are not? (Is mandatory testing/STAR doing its job? Is bilingual education working? should students learn a language before graduating?) Consider the high school you attended, do you feel like you received a good education; did it prepare you for college?
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1) Why is the American president often called the most powerful leader in the world? If that is true, what special responsibilities does this reality entail? Should we limit the president’s role in world affairs? Why or why not? 2. Are the responsibilities of the most powerful leader in the world, the American president, too large a job for one person? Why has the American presidency as an institution grown so large? Are there any powers you think should be taken away from the president?
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Discuss the dangers of the unchecked internet in the political world. Can these dangers be combated? If so, how??
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Olaudah Equiano
Introduction
Olaudah Equiano was a West African who had been sold into slavery
and transported across the Atlantic Ocean to a new life of
servitude. In the New World, Equiano converted to Christianity and
learned to read and write. Ultimately, he was able to secure his
freedom and moved to London where he wrote and published an account
of his life as a slave. Equiano's memoir is a rare piece of
evidence providing us with the views of an enslaved West
African.
Questions to Consider
•Why did Equiano say he would have preferred death to continued
existence on the slave ship?
• How did Equiano find himself is such a terrible predicament? Did
he seem to hold any grudge against his original captors?
Source
The first object which saluted my eyes when I arrived on the coast
was the sea, and a slave ship, which was then riding at anchor, and
waiting for its cargo. These filled me with astonishment, which was
soon converted into terror, which I am yet at a loss to describe
nor the then feelings of my mind. When I was carried on board I was
immediately handled, and tossed up, to see if I were sound by some
of the crew; and I was now persuaded that I had got into a world of
bad spirits, and that they were going to kill me. Their complexions
too differing so much from ours, their long hair, and the language
they spoke, which was very different from any I had ever heard,
united to confirm me in this belief. Indeed, such were the horrors
of my views and fears at the moment, that, if ten thousand worlds
had been my own, I would have parted with them all to have
exchanged my condition with that of the meanest slave in my own
country. When I looked around the ship too, and saw a large furnace
or copper boiling, and a multitude of black people of every
description chained together, every one of their countenances
expressing dejection and sorrow, I no longer doubted of my fate;
and, quite overpowered with horror and anguish, I fell motionless
on the deck and fainted. When I recovered a little, I found some
black people about me, who, I believed were some of those who
brought me on board, and had been receiving their pay; they talked
to me in order to cheer me, but all in vain. I asked them if we
were not to be eaten by those white men with horrible looks, red
faces, and long hair? They told me I was not; and one of the crew
brought me a small portion of spirituous liquor in a wine glass;
but, being afraid of him, I would not take it out of his hand. One
of the blacks therefore took it from him, and gave it to me, and I
took a little down my palate, which, instead of reviving me, as
they thought it would, threw me into the greatest consternation at
the strange feeling it produced, having never tasted any such
liquor before. Soon after this, the blacks who brought me on board
went off, and left me abandoned to despair. I now saw myself
deprived of any chance of returning to my native country, or even
the least glimpse of hope of gaining the shore, which I now
considered as friendly; and I even wished for my former slavery, in
preference to my present situation, which was filled with horrors
of every kind, still heightened by my ignorance of what I was to
undergo. I was not long suffered to indulge my grief; I was soon
put down under the decks, and there I received such a salutation in
my nostrils as I had never experienced in my life; so that, with
the loathsomeness of the stench, and crying together, I became so
sick and low that I was not able to eat, nor had I the least desire
to taste any thing. I now wished for the last friend, Death, to
relieve me; but soon, to my grief, two of the white men offered me
eatables; and, on my refusing to eat, one of them held me fast by
the hands, and laid me across, I think, the windlass, and tied my
feet, while the other flogged me severely....
Source: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (London: 1793), in David Northrup, ed., The Atlantic Slave Trade (Lexington, Mass.: D. C. Heath, 1994) 77-78.
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Industrial psychology.
I am supposed to desgin motivational intervention that improves job satisfaction, improves job performance, reduces job stress, and reduces turnover. This intervention can, and should, include multiple parts, as it’s unlikely that one change will provide a solution to all four problems.
- describe the intervention in detail. What changes will be made to the organization and/or the job itself? How will the intervention be implemented?
- Use at least three work motivation theories (can also use theories related to job stress and/or work attitudes and emotions) to explain why this intervention will improve job satisfaction, improve job performance, reduce job stress, and reduce turnover.
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what is applied behavior analysis? Name and define the seven dimensions of ABA in your own words.
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1. Detail the components of Ethnocentric Mono-culturism.
2. Detail the assessment and actions of the clinician in each step
G.A.T.E.
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1. Detail the ESSENTIAL VALUES for crisis response. Detail all ten of the values and give examples.
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Parenting styles are the characteristic strategies that parents use to manage children’s behavior. Diana Baumrind focuses on four aspects of family functioning, each of which has been independently shown to be related to various child behaviors
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How do parenting styles affect children’s development? Provide examples.
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