Divorce is almost always a stressful process for adults, but some children are more resilient and adaptive than others. Make a list of the possible ways parents can lessen some of a divorce’s negative effects on their children. Would it be harder for parents to get a divorce if they have children under age 18? Why or why not?

Intimate partner violence is abuse that occurs between two people in a close relationship. Intimate partner violence ranges from a single episode to ongoing abuse.

Do you feel there is one main reason for intimate partner violence? Why or why not?

List out the risk factors associated with intimate partner violence.

Determine best strategies for reaching these audiences. How would you communicate with various audiences? Would you use emails? Training videos? Manuals with graphics? Websites? Blogs? Other channels?

Pick two target audiences, one technical (customer support, research and development, etc.) and one nontechnical (management, marketing, sales, customers, etc.), and describe how you would educate them on a new technical product that was being developed and launched.

To transient and traditional artistic streams, in what way might encounters with transcendent music or art become a meaningful, inspiring, and valuable part of life?

The distribution of wealth and income in the United States has grown increasingly unequal over the last forty years.  This may soon get worse, for engineers and programmers are now developing new forms of automation, including robots and artificial intelligence, which will replace human labor and eliminate some jobs.  You can already find devices on the table in some restaurants that take the place of a server to come get your order; there are still servers, but fewer of them, for part of their job has been automated. Travel agencies have largely disappeared; their work is now handled mostly by websites run primarily by computer. Self-driving cars and trucks threaten to throw huge numbers of taxi drivers and truck drivers out of work. Factories require fewer workers than ever before, and this trend is continuing.  To sum things up, a new report from Oxford University concludes that nearly half of all jobs in America may disappear due to automation in the next 20 years (though the authors suggest that some of those people may find new work elsewhere in the economy—like a former factory worker who gets a job at Walmart.)

In the past, new industries arrived to employ people who lost their jobs due to mechanization.  Factories, for example, employed people who no longer worked on farms or made craft goods by hand.  However, some experts believe we might not be so lucky this time, for the new industries that are coming along use relatively few workers.  (For example, Google has roughly 74,000 workers and dominates the web browser market, while General Motors, which shares the auto market with several other huge companies, has 180,000 workers.)

For purposes of this part of the exam, we’re going to imagine that, 20 years from now, 3 out of 10 working Americans are permanently unemployed due to automation.  That may or may not happen, but for the sake of discussion let’s imagine a world where it does.

Many people have proposed to deal with such a situation by giving people a “universal basic income.”  Here is one common version of this idea: you get $1700 a month if you have no income or assets, and progressively less the more you make, with nothing at all for people making more than $30,000.  (In other words, if you made $20,000 a year, you would get something in addition to that, but less than $1700 a month.)  Imagine that this would be funded from the profits of businesses who have automated and laid off workers (so that part of what they used to pay workers is now paid in taxes to support the basic income for others).    

For purposes of your discussion, assume that we are considering instituting a universal basic income just like the one described above, paying for it in the way described above, and that this will go to the 3 out of 10 Americans who are permanently unemployed due to automation.  

Is this solution to the problems created by automation consistent with justice?  Why/why not?

Discuss this issue using the Utilitarian theory of distributive justice.  Here are some concepts you might use in your answer:

Utility and the Principle of Utility

What a distribution must be like to be just, according to Utilitarianism

Discuss this issue using Nozick’s version of the Libertarian theory of distributive justice.  Here are some concepts you might use in this part of your answer:

Liberty (autonomy, self-determination)

Principle of original acquisition

Principle of justice in transfer

Principle of justice in rectification

What a distribution must be like in order to be just, according to Nozick’s version of Libertarianism

Discuss this issue using Rawls’ version of the Egalitarian theory of distributive justice.  Here are some concepts you might use in this part of your answer:

The liberty principle

The difference principle

The fair equality of opportunity principle

8. Your textbook says that folktales typically succeed without a dynamic main character. How is this so?

9. In what ways are the characters in historical fiction and contemporary realism alike?

10. How have contemporary science fiction characters changed in recent years?

11. Lukens says that a story can illuminate character. What differences do you find between defining character and illuminating a character?

Are female psychologists better suited to treat female offenders? Explain why based on the role a psychologist should play.

What does it mean to say that an ethical standard is objective? In what ways do ethical relativists deny the objectivity of ethics, and why do you think they do so? Is morality objective? Defend your answer.

Discuss how transference and countertransference act as problems during the closing process. Make sure to use examples of both.

To transient and traditional artistic streams, in what way might encounters with transcendent music or art become a meaningful, inspiring, and valuable part of your life?

Provide an overview of persecution in the first century in the gospel of Mark. (200 words)

Although some states and cities have passed laws to ban texting and using handheld phones while driving, there is no current law to ban all cell phone use while driving. However, according to the National Safety Council (2009), 28 percent of all crashes—1.6 million per year—are caused by cell phone use and texting by drivers. The mission of a new national nonprofit organization called FocusDriven, patterned after Mothers Against Drunk Driving, is to make phone use while driving as illegal and socially unacceptable as drunk driving.
Based on the gaps in current research dealing with cell phone use and texting, describe the variables, populations, and situations which you would like to see future research address.