• In what significant ways was slavery in Africa different from slavery in the new world?

Area of concern: Children ( child labor)

•What were the issues in 1900?

•What are the issues today?

•Similarities/differences/lessons to be learned

1. While emotional intelligence is considered an important and desirable quality in employees, discuss the ways in which emotional intelligence may be used in unscrupulous or unethical ways. For example, imagine you are running a Ponzi scheme similar to the one Bernie Madoff created and ran. How would social awareness, relationship management, self-awareness, and self-management benefit your efforts to swindle people and foundations? Rank the usefulness of each of the four dimensions of IE.

2. To what extent can organizational commitment and employee engagement contribute to a successful organization? Do situations exist where organizational commitment and employee engagement are counterproductive to organizational success?

3. what factors contribute to your own level of stress. Under what circumstances are you most likely to experience eustress? Under what circumstances are you most likely to experience distress? Do individual personalities play a role in how people experience stress?  

There are several readings this week about disability culture. Please describe your understanding of disability culture and give an example.

Your personality is uniquely yours. No one has ever been exactly like you, and there will never be anyone just like you again. Considering the nature versus nurture debate (i.e., the debate regarding the influence of biology/heredity versus the influence of environment on the development of people's traits), please respond in writing to the following: "In your opinion, how much of your personality is influenced by your genes (i.e., what you have inherited from your parents), and how much of it has been shaped by your environment? Please support your answer with at least two brief personal examples.

1. A local community center asks you to give a presentation to parents-to-be on out-of-home care and its potential influence on child development. What points might you include in your presentation? Make explicit reference to the prevalence of out-of-home care and to the effects of the child's background, the quality of the care, and the amount of time spent in out-of-home care.

Who do you think is responsible for the Cold War? Is there some way the Cold War could have been prevented? Is there some way that it could have been stopped?

Why is sleep significant to your stress management?

Give detailed examples of these three types of learning that you have experienced in your life:

1. Classical Conditioning

2. Operant Conditioning

3. Observational Learning

In each example, describe how you acquired the particular behavior in question and how you would use each type of learning paradigm to modify that behavior. Separate your discussion in a way that clearly shows which type of conditioning you are writing about.

What factors should one consider when faced with a decision.

write a paragraph about how can the following topics effect a chemistry research:

1- Theories of arousal and performance

2- The stress process

3- How arousal, stress, and anxiety affect performance

Psychology of sport

Briefly describe brain development that influences the shift in the balance between automatic (emotional) control and deliberate (intelligent) control that extends from adolescence through the emerging adult years.?

Describe the connection between a lack of close relationships and stress-related illness.

Explain why Rawls thinks the rules for an ideally just society should be negotiated behind a veil of ignorance? In other words, what purpose does the veil serve?