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write a sales letter addressed to an appropriate audience on why they should be happy taking...

write a sales letter addressed to an appropriate audience on why they should be happy taking a vacation where you did last year

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How can funding education through local property taxes led to discrimination? Patterns in race and class...

How can funding education through local property taxes led to discrimination?
Patterns in race and class school segregation today.
What is the largest ethnic group among the elderly?
By 2023 a majority of children (under 18 years of age) in the United States will be from a minority background.

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US History Freedom House was an organization that: a demanded American intervention in the European war....

US History

Freedom House was an organization that:

a demanded American intervention in the European war.

b Jewish refugees could flee to from Europe.

c believed the European war was not an American concern.

d raised funds for Japanese-Americans to use for legal fees to bring court cases against the United States for unlawful imprisonment.

e was located in Chicago and acted as a networking resource for blacks moving there from the South.

Which of the following best describes Nixon's foreign policy of "détente"?

a It meant a continuation of the status quo.

b The United States was not yet willing to sign arms-control treaties with the Soviet Union.

c As demonstrated by diplomatic visits to both China and the Soviet Union, Nixon sought a peaceful coexistence with communist nations.

d It meant a rejection of Henry Kissinger's "realist" approach to the Cold War.

e It meant Nixon had gone "soft" on communism.

"Americanization" was:

a the Viet Cong's policy of immediate execution of defectors recaptured from the South Vietnamese army.

b Nixon's term for the transformation of young people into "real" Americans when they refrained from protesting against the war.

c Nixon's Vietnam strategy to have American troops gradually withdraw and South Vietnamese troops assume more of the fighting.

d the State Department program offering fast-tracked political asylum for South Vietnamese military officials and their families.

e the spread of American culture in South Vietnam to display the benefits of capitalism.

What was the Contract with America?

a A press term for the Clinton reelection strategy.

b Clinton's 256-page proposal to overhaul the nation's welfare system.

c A 1994 Republican plan to steeply cut federal education, medical, and environmental programs.

d A speech delivered by Clinton that promised to continue to work on health care reform.

e what Democrats called Bill Clinton's victory in 1992.

Globalization:

a had little to do with the collapse of communism.

b was symbolized by corporations such as Microsoft and organizations like the WTO.

c is closely associated with the 1990s, although it was not a new phenomenon.

d promoted the free flow of goods and services across borders, but only with a strict regulatory apparatus in place.

e B and C

In the 1990s, the prison population:

a declined because there was little new prison construction.

b experienced shorter sentences and more rehabilitation programs than before.

c increased because crime rates increased in the 1990s.

d increased as state governments increased penalties for crimes and decreased parole.

e declined because states refused to fund the "prison-industrial complex."

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What is sociological imagination? How can using the sociological imagination give us the power to change...

What is sociological imagination? How can using the sociological imagination give us the power to change the world? Give a suitable example.

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What are the critiques against the culture of poverty perspective? What do women get paid less...

What are the critiques against the culture of poverty perspective? What do women get paid less than men?

What percentage of low income groups enroll in college?
Is the federal minimum wage enough to keep families out of poverty?
Who is more likely to die during combat?

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Write a 4 page in which you provide analysis and insight into the developmental theories by...

Write a 4 page in which you provide analysis and insight into the developmental theories by Erikson, Freud and Piaget up until Adulthood. Identify and explain the strengths and weaknesses of each theory and which theory applies to individuals and explain why. Also, compare and contrast the three developmental theories and analyze the major differences between the three models.

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1. Come up with 3 topics about which you might be interested in writing a research...

1. Come up with 3 topics about which you might be interested in writing a research paper.

a. These topics can be very general: carnivals, Nicola Tesla, cartoons, special education, etc. Try to pick three subjects that interest you, about which you might actually enjoy learning more.

b. You don't necessarily need to know anything about those subjects yet, so it's fine if you pick subjects that are new to you.

2. For each topic, generate a question (or a few questions) you would like to ask.

a. The answer to this question, which you will only fully discover during your research, should eventually help you form your thesis statement.

b. I suggest generating questions by going online and getting a general sense of what information is available about your subject--especially if it’s a new subject for you!

3. Find one source that you feel is trustworthy and would be useful for researching each topic. For each source, write a paragraph about how this source would be useful in answering the question(s) you generated in Step 2. Be sure to include whether the source is popular or academic and whether it’s primary or secondary--and address why you chose the type of source you did!

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Context can influence our expectations and so it can influence our perceptual set. Describe one way...

Context can influence our expectations and so it can influence our perceptual set. Describe one way in which you might set up a context in which you think people would be more likely to see the vase rather than the face. Now describe a context where people might be more likely to see the face. How would you test your hypotheses about this?

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Lynn et al., (2012). Dissociation and dissociative disorders: Challenging conventional wisdom The current (fourth) edition of...

Lynn et al., (2012). Dissociation and dissociative disorders: Challenging conventional wisdom

The current (fourth) edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR) defines dissociation as “a disruption in the usually integrated functions of consciousness, memory, identity, or perception of the environment” (American Psychiatric Association, 2000, p. 519). Many psychologists and psychiatrists view dissociation as a coping mechanism designed to deal with overpowering stress (Dell & O’Neil, 2009). One well-known form of dissociation is depersonalization, in which individuals feel disconnected from themselves; they may feel like an automaton or feel as if they are watching themselves from a distance. Another is derealization, in which individuals feel disconnected from reality; they may feel as though they are in a dream or that things seem to be moving in slow motion. Steven Spielberg’s 1998 film, Saving Private Ryan, vividly depicts an episode of derealization (spoiler alert): After being shot, Captain John Miller (portrayed by Tom Hanks) witnesses the events around him unfolding as if in a silent, slow-motion movie. Certain forms of dissociation are widespread in the general population; for example, most estimates suggest that nearly 50% of individuals have experienced depersonalization at some point in their lives (Aderibigbe, Bloch, & Walker, 2001). When mild and intermittent, such symptoms are rarely of clinical concern. Nevertheless, in some cases, dissociation may take the form of grossly impairing dissociative disorders. These puzzling conditions include dissociative identity disorder (DID), formerly known as multiple personality disorder, dissociative fugue, and depersonalization disorder. In the best known dissociative disorder, DID, individuals supposedly develop multiple coexisting personalities, known as “alters.” In dissociative fugue, individuals purportedly suddenly forget their past, travel from home or work (fugue has the same root as fugitive), and adopt a new identity; in depersonalization disorder, individuals experience frequent bouts of depersonalization, derealization, or both. Dissociation also features prominently in other psychological conditions not formally classified as dissociative disorders, such as panic disorder, borderline and schizotypal personality disorders, and posttraumatic stress disorder. The origins of dissociation are poorly understood. Nevertheless, the clinical literature on dissociation has been marked by three widely accepted assumptions associated with what is often referred to as the posttraumatic model. Specifically, it has long been assumed that chronic dissociation is (a) a coping mechanism to deal with intense stressors, especially childhood sexual and physical trauma; (b) accompanied by cognitive deficits that interfere with the processing of emotionally laden information; and (c) marked by an avoidant informationprocessing style characterized by a tendency to forget painful memories. The coping mechanism outlined in (a) is typically assumed to play a key causal role in dissociative disorders. For example, many authors have argued that DID reflects individuals’ attempts to “compartmentalize” and obtain psychological distance from traumatic experiences such as child abuse (Dell & O’Neil, 2009). In this article, we review recent research that calls these widespread assumptions into question and proposes novel and scientifically supported approaches for conceptualizing dissociation and dissociative disorders.

The Posttraumatic Model The posttraumatic model (Bremner, 2010; Gleaves, 1996) is ostensibly supported by very high rates—sometimes exceeding 90%—of reported histories of childhood trauma, most commonly child sexual abuse, among patients with DID and perhaps other dissociative disorders (Gleaves, 1996; Simeon, Guralnik, Schmeidler, Sirof, & Knutelska, 2001). Nevertheless, a number of authors (e.g., Giesbrecht, Lynn, Lilienfeld, & Merckelbach, 2008, 2010; Kihlstrom, 2005; Merckelbach & Muris, 2001; Piper & Merskey, 2004; Spanos, 1994, 1996) have questioned the oft-cited link between child abuse/ maltreatment and dissociation for several reasons. First, in most studies (e.g., Ross & Ness, 2010), objective corroboration of abuse is lacking. Second, the overwhelming majority of studies of self-reported trauma and dissociation are based on cross-sectional designs that do not permit causal inferences; in these designs, individuals are typically assessed for DID or other dissociative disorders and asked to recollect whether they had been abused or neglected in childhood. Prospective studies that circumvent the pitfalls of such retrospective reporting often fail to substantiate a link between childhood abuse and dissociation in adulthood (Giesbrecht et al., 2008; but see Bremner, 2010). Third, researchers have rarely controlled for overlapping conditions or symptoms, such as those of anxiety, eating, and personality disorders, raising the possibility that the correlates of abuse are not specific to dissociative disorders. Fourth, the reported high levels of child abuse among DID patients may be attributable to selection and referral biases (Pope & Hudson, 1995); for example, individuals with dissociative disorders may be especially likely to enter treatment if they are struggling with problems stemming from early abuse. Fifth, correlations between abuse and psychopathology decrease substantially or disappear when participants’ perception of family pathology is controlled statistically (Nash, Hulsey, Sexton, Harralson, & Lambert, 1993), which could mean that this association is due to global familial maladjustment rather than abuse itself. These five points of contention suggest ample reasons to be skeptical of the claim that child abuse plays a central or direct causal role in DID—although, as we will suggest later, it may be one element of the complex etiological network that contributes to this condition. The Sociocognitive Model In contrast to the posttraumatic model, the sociocognitive model (Spanos, 1994; see also Aldridge-Morris, 1989; Lilienfeld et al., 1999; McHugh, 1993; Sarbin, 1995) proposes that DID is a consequence of social learning and expectancies. This model holds that DID results from inadvertent therapist cueing (e.g., suggestive questioning regarding the existence of possible alters, hypnosis for memory recovery, sodium amytal), media influences (e.g., television and film portrayals of DID), and sociocultural expectations regarding the presumed clinical features of DID. In aggregate, the sociocognitive model posits that these influences can lead predisposed individuals to become convinced that indwelling entities— alters—account for their dramatic mood swings, identity changes, impulsive actions, and other puzzling behaviors (see below). Over time, especially when abetted by suggestive therapeutic procedures, efforts to recover memories, and a propensity to fantasize, they may come to attribute distinctive memories and personality traits to one or more imaginary alters. A number of findings (e.g., Lilienfeld & Lynn, 2003; Lilienfeld et al., 1999; Piper, 1997; Spanos, 1994) are consistent with the sociocognitive model and present serious challenges to the posttraumatic model. For example, the number of patients with DID, along with the number of alters per DID patient, increased dramatically from the 1970s to the 1990s (Elzinga, van Dyck, & Spinhoven, 1998), although the number of alters at the time of initial diagnosis appears to have remained constant (North, Ryall, Ricci, & Wetzel, 1993). In addition, the massive increase in reported cases of DID followed closely upon the release in the mid-1970s of the bestselling book (turned into a widely viewed television film in 1976), Sybil (Schreiber, 1973), which told the story of a young woman with 16 personalities who reported a history of severe child abuse at the hands of her mother (see Nathan, 2011; Rieber, 2006, for evidence that many details of the Sybil story are inaccurate). Manifestations of DID symptoms also vary across cultures. For example, in India, the transition period as the individual shifts between alter personalities is typically preceded by sleep, a presentation that reflects common media portrayals of DID in that country (North et al., 1993). Moreover, mainstream treatment techniques for DID often reinforce patients’ displays of multiplicity (e.g., asking questions like, “Is there another part of you with whom I have not spoken?”), reify alters as distinct personalities (e.g., calling different alters by different names), and encourage patients to establish contact and dialogue with presumed alters. Interestingly, many or most DID patients show few or no clear-cut signs of this condition (e.g., alters) prior to psychotherapy (Kluft, 1984), raising the specter that alters are generated by treatment. Indeed, the number of alters per DID individual tends to increase substantially over the course of DID-oriented psychotherapy (Piper, 1997). Curiously, psychotherapists who use hypnosis tend to have more DID patients in their caseloads than do psychotherapists who do not use hypnosis (Powell & Gee, 1999), and most DID diagnoses derive from a small number of therapy specialists in DID (Mai, 1995), again suggesting that alters may be created rather than discovered in therapy. These sources of evidence do not imply that DID can typically be created in vacuo by iatrogenic (therapist-induced) or sociocultural influences. Sociocognitive theorists acknowledge that iatrogenic and sociocultural influences typically operate against a backdrop of preexisting psychopathology. Indeed, the sociocognitive model is consistent with findings that many or most patients with DID, and to a lesser extent other dissociative disorders, meet criteria for borderline personality disorder, a condition marked by extremely unstable behaviors, such as unpredictable shifts in mood, impulsive actions, and self-mutilation (Lilienfeld et al., 1999). Individuals with this disorder are understandably seeking an explanation for their bewildering behaviors. The presence of hidden alters may be one such explanation, and it may assume particular plausibility when suggested by psychotherapists or sensational media portrayals. Cognitive Mechanisms of Dissociation Much of the literature on cognitive mechanisms of dissociation is more consistent with the sociocognitive model than with the posttraumatic model. For example, researchers have found little evidence for inter-identity amnesia among patients with DID using objective measures of memory (e.g., eventrelated potentials or behavioral tasks; Allen & Movius, 2000; Huntjens et al., 2006). In such studies, investigators present certain forms of information to one alter and see whether it is accessible to another alter. In most cases, it is, demonstrating that alters are not psychologically distinct entities. Contradicting the claim that individuals with heightened dissociation are defending against the impact of threat-related information and therefore exhibit slower or impaired processing of such information, patients with DID and other “high dissociators” display better memory for to-be-forgotten sexual words in directed-forgetting tasks (Elzinga, de Beurs, Sergeant, van Dyck, & Phaf, 2000). This finding is strikingly discrepant with the presumed coping function of dissociation. Studies of cognitive inhibition in highly dissociative clinical and nonclinical samples typically find a breakdown in such inhibition, challenging the widespread idea that amnesia (i.e., extreme inhibition) is a core feature of dissociation (Giesbrecht et al., 2008, 2010). The extant evidence therefore questions the widespread assumption that dissociation is related to avoidant information processing and suggests that apparent gaps in memory in interidentity amnesia, or dissociative amnesia more generally, could reflect intentional failures to report information. Moreover, the literature indicates that dissociation is marked by a propensity toward false memories, possibly mediated by heightened levels of suggestibility, fantasy proneness, and cognitive failures (e.g., lapses in attention). Indeed, at least 10 studies from diverse laboratories have confirmed a link between dissociation and fantasy proneness. In addition, heightened levels of fantasy proneness are associated with the tendency to overreport autobiographical memories and the false recall of aversive memory material (Giesbrecht et al., 2010). Accordingly, the relation between dissociation and fantasy proneness may explain why individuals with high levels of dissociation are especially prone to develop false memories of emotional childhood events. This explanation dovetails with data revealing links between dissociative symptoms and hypnotizability (Frischholz, Lipman, Braun, & Sachs, 1992) and high scores on the Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scale (Merckelbach, Muris, Rassin, & Horselenberg, 2000). Similarly, dissociation increases the number of commission memory errors (e.g., confabulations/false positives, problems discriminating perception from imagery) but not omission memory errors, which are presumably associated with dissociative amnesia (Holmes et al., 2005). These findings, together with research demonstrating a link between dissociation and cognitive failures, point to an association between a heightened risk of confabulation and pseudomemories. They also raise questions regarding the accuracy of retrospective reports of traumatic experiences. Still, these findings do not exclude some role for trauma in dissociation. Suggestibility, cognitive failures, and fantasy proneness could contribute to an overestimation of a genuine, although perhaps modest, link between dissociation and trauma. Alternatively, early trauma might predispose individuals to develop high levels of fantasy proneness, absorption (the tendency to become immersed in sensory or imaginative experiences; Tellegen & Atkinson, 1974), or related traits. In turn, such traits may render individuals susceptible to the iatrogenic and cultural influences posited by the sociocognitive model, thereby increasing the likelihood of DID. Sleep, Memory, and Dissociation A recent theory connecting sleep, memory problems, and dissociation may provide a conceptual bridge between the posttraumatic model and the sociocognitive model. In a review of 23 studies, van der Kloet, Merckelbach, Giesbrecht, and Lynn (2011) concluded that data from clinical and nonclinical samples provide strong support for a link between dissociative experiences and a labile sleep–wake cycle. This link, they contend, is evident across a range of sleep-related phenomena, including waking dreams, nightmares, and hypnagogic (occurring while falling asleep) and hypnopompic (occurring while awakening) hallucinations. Supporting this hypothesis, studies of the association between dissociative experiences and sleep disturbances have generally yielded modest correlations (in the range of .30 to .55), implying that unusual sleep experiences and dissociation are moderately related constructs (see also Watson, 2001). Nevertheless, these studies typically relied on cross-sectional designs. To address this limitation, Giesbrecht, Smeets, Leppink, Jelicic, and Merckelbach (2007) deprived 25 healthy volunteers of one night of sleep and found that sleep loss engenders a substantial increase in dissociative symptoms. They also found that this increase could not be accounted for by mood changes or response bias. van der Kloet, Giesbrecht, Lynn, Merckelbach, and de Zutter (in press) later conducted a longitudinal investigation of sleep experiences and dissociative symptoms among 266 patients who were evaluated on arrival and at discharge 6 to 8 weeks later. Sleep hygiene was a core treatment component. Prior to treatment, 24% of participants met the clinical cut-off for dissociative disorders (i.e., Dissociative Experiences Scale > 30; Bernstein-Carlson & Putnam, 1993); at follow-up, this number dropped to 12%. Although sleep improvements were associated with a reduction in global psychopathology (e.g., anxiety, depression), this reduction did not account fully for the specific effect of treatment on dissociation. The fact that a sleep-hygiene intervention reduces dissociative symptoms independent of generalized psychopathology bears noteworthy clinical implications. It also suggests that researchers may wish to revisit the treatment of dissociative disorders. Surprisingly, this clinically important area has received minimal investigation: For example, Brand, Classen, McNary, and Zaveri (2009) reported that only eight nonpharmacological studies, none of which was a well-controlled randomized trial, have examined treatment outcomes for DID. van der Kloet et al.’s (in press) findings suggest an intriguing interpretation of the link between dissociative symptoms and deviant sleep phenomena (see also Watson, 2001). According to their working model, individuals with a labile sleep– wake cycle experience intrusions of sleep phenomena (e.g., dreamlike experiences) into waking consciousness, in turn fostering dissociative symptoms. This labile sleep–wake cycle may stem in part from a genetic propensity (Lang, Paris, Zweig-Frank, & Livesley, 1998), distressing trauma-related memories, or other unknown causal influences. van der Kloet et al.’s model further proposes that disruptions of the sleep– wake cycle degrade memory and attentional control, thereby accounting for, or at least contributing to, the cognitive deficits of highly dissociative individuals. Accordingly, the sleep-dissociation perspective may explain (a) how aversive events disrupt the sleep–wake cycle and increase vulnerability to dissociative symptoms, and (b) why dissociation, trauma, fantasy proneness, and cognitive failures overlap. Thus, this perspective is commensurate with the possibility that trauma engenders sleep disturbances that in turn play a pivotal role in the genesis of dissociation and suggests that competing theoretical perspectives may be amenable to integration. The SCM holds that patients become convinced that they possess multiple selves as a by-product of suggestive media, sociocultural, and psychotherapeutic influences. Their sensitivity to suggestive influences may arise from increased salience of distressing memories (some of which may stem in part from trauma) and susceptibility to memory errors and a propensity to fantasize and experience difficulties in distinguishing fantasy from reality, brought about at least in part by sleep disruptions. The data we have summarized have received only scant attention in the clinical literature. Nevertheless, they have the potential to reshape the conceptualization and operationalization of dissociative disorders in the upcoming edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSMV, publication scheduled in 2013). In particular, they suggest that sleep disturbances, as well as sociocultural and psychotherapeutic influences, merit greater attention in the conceptualization and perhaps classification of dissociative disorders (Lynn et al., in press). From this perspective, the hypothesis that dissociative disorders can be triggered by (a) a labile sleep cycle that impairs cognitive functioning, combined with (b) highly suggestive psychotherapeutic techniques, warrants empirical investigation. More broadly, the data reviewed point to fruitful directions for our thinking and research regarding dissociation and dissociative disorders in years to come.

Respond to whether you think DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder) “exists” and what you mean by that. In your opinion, do you think it exists? What do you think DID is and what causes it and why?

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What types of extraneous variables should the researchers be concerned about in this study? Purpose of...

What types of extraneous variables should the researchers be concerned about in this study?

Purpose of the Study. The researchers examined preferences for beer under conditions that varied in terms of when information about an ingredient of one of the beers was given: before tasting, after tasting but before preferences were indicated, and never (no information was given to one group about the ingredients). The ingredient given is one that most people think should make the beer taste worse. The research question was whether the timing of the ingredient information would affect the preference for the beer by influencing one’s expectation of taste of the beer. Preference for the beer with the undesired ingredient should be lower in any condition where the information influences the preference.

Method of the Study. Pub patrons in Massachusetts were asked to participate in a taste test of two types of beer labeled “regular beer” and “MIT brew.” The “MIT brew” contained a few drops of balsamic vinegar (the vinegar apparently changed the flavor of the beer very little). Participants were randomly assigned to one of the three groups that differed according to when information was given: blind group (no information given), before-tasting group (information given before tasting), and after-tasting group (information given after tasting but before preference was indicated). All participants were given a small sample of each beer to taste. They were asked to indicate which of the two beers they preferred.

Results of the Study. In the blind condition, the “MIT brew” was preferred more often (about 60% of the group) than the before condition (only about 30% of the group), indicating that ingredient information had an effect before tasting. However, the “MIT brew” was also preferred more often in the after condition (just over 50% of the group) than in the before condition and was not preferred less often than the blind condition, indicating that when ingredient information is given after tasting, it does not affect preference. Figure B.1 presents the means of the three groups.

Conclusions of the Study. The researchers concluded that the timing of information about a beer-drinking experience affects preference for the beer. Their results indicated that when information about the beer ingredient was given before the participants tasted the beer, it affected their tasting experience (and their preferences), but when information was given after the participants tasted the beer, it did not affect their experience or their preference. More generally, this study showed that our expectations of our perceptual experiences affect how we judge those experiences.

SOURCE: Results from Lee, Frederick, and Ariely’s (2006) study.

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Discuss in depth Sternberg’s triangular theory of love. Give examples of each point of the triangle,...

Discuss in depth Sternberg’s triangular theory of love. Give examples of each point of the triangle, including consummate love. Please elaborate in a minimum 3-5 paragraph

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List and DESCRIBE three distinct categories of jazz and give an example for each.

List and DESCRIBE three distinct categories of jazz and give an example for each.

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one of the characteristics of intellectual development in adolescent is inquisitive about adults, challenging their authority...

one of the characteristics of intellectual development in adolescent is inquisitive about adults, challenging their authority and always observing them

a)Discuss this characteristics and give an example

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Have you ever sent a text message that revealed your most intimate of thoughts and emotions?  Text...

Have you ever sent a text message that revealed your most intimate of thoughts and emotions?  Text messages are often raw, unvarnished, and immediate, not to mention can be taken completely out of context. However, we send them to those who are expected to guard them from publication.

The status of text messages in criminal investigations remains unsettled in the US. Is it reasonable for people to expect the contents of their electronic text messages to remain private, especially from law enforcement? Do we have a right to privacy for text message conversations? Even the United States Supreme Court has struggled with the legal challenges raised by emerging technology, most especially in the realm of cellular phones and their contents.

Situation 1

David Leon Riley was arrested on August 22, 2009, after a traffic stop resulted in the discovery of loaded firearms in his car. The officers took Riley's phone, and searched through his messages, contacts, videos, and photographs. Based in part on the data stored on Riley's phone, the officers charged him with an unrelated shooting that had taken place several weeks prior to his arrest.

Situation 2

Gregory Diaz, was arrested for the sale of the illicit drug ecstasy and his cell phone, containing incriminating evidence, was seized and searched without a warrant. In trial court proceedings, Diaz motioned to suppress the information obtained from his cell phone, which was denied   on the grounds that the search of his cell phone was incident to a lawful arrest.

Situation 3

At 6:08am, on October 4, 2009, Trisha Oliver frantically called 911 from her apartment in Cranston, Rhode Island when her six-year-old son, Marco Nieves, stopped breathing. The Fire Department took Marco to Hasbro Children's Hospital, where he was found to be in full cardiac arrest. He died 11 hours later.

By 6:20am, Sgt. Michael Kite of the Cranston Police Department had arrived at the apartment, where he found Oliver, her boyfriend Michael Patino, and their 14-month-old daughter, Jazlyn Oliver. Kite observed a couple of stripped beds  and linens on the floor, a trash can with vomit inside it, dark brown vomit in a toilet, and, crucially, a cell phone on the kitchen. Kite picked up the cell phone.

Kite viewed a text message on the phone, which was owned by Trisha Oliver, reading "Wat if I got 2 take him 2 da hospital wat do I say and dos marks on his neck omg." The message was sent from Oliver to Patino, although the sending of the message apparently failed. There were other messages on the phone "with profane language and references to punching Marco—three times—the hardest of which was in the stomach," according to court records. Patino was then arrested and charged with murder. He later confessed to the death of Marco Nieves.

Sgt. Kite claims he picked up the phone because it was "beeping," and that he thought it might help get in touch with the boy's birth father.

Patino's attorney argues to exclude the State‘s core evidence from being used at trial, which is the text messages. He wants any other evidence steaming from it such as all cell phones and their contents, all cell phone records, and critical portions of the Defendant‘s videotaped statement and his written statement given to the police suppressed as well. The attorney claims, the cell phone searches were "illegal as warrantless or in excess of the warrants obtained," and "As such, all of these searches and seizures, therefore, were unreasonable in violation of the Fourth Amendment,"

I realized the information I presented is limited...What do you think about the cases in general? Do you think that Riley or Diaz had an expectation of privacy? Do you think that Patino and Oliver had an expectation of privacy, since the phone was on the kitchen counter in their apartment? Would it make a difference if the phone was found outside in the grass? Do you think the police violated their fourth amendment rights? Should the police have secured a search warrant before looking in the phone in any of these situations? How should the judge handle these cases? Keep in mind that these ruling are used for the basis of future decisions by the courts. Should digital contents of a cell phone be categorized as a warrantless search? Do you think these situations are different from each other or should they all be handled the same?

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talked about the multifaceted roles, significance and issues associated with women in any of the Western...

talked about the multifaceted roles, significance and issues associated with women in any of the Western (Abrahamic, i.e. Judaism, Christi-anity, or Islam) or Indigenous religions in North America.

please if you can provide the resource as a reference that will be awesome thank you

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