Should policing as an institution be reformed in America? If so, what reforms should be implemented to improve policing?

Provide 2 concrete examples.

If not, provide 2 reasons why policing in America should remain unchanged

Translate the following into standard form and symbolic form. Is it a valid or invalid argument? Sound or unsound? Why? "Science and religion are basically the same. In religion, you believe something based purely upon faith. But in science, even if there is evidence, you have to have faith in your experiments and in the scientific method.""

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The idea that simple physical objects, like stones, have goals strikes us now as very peculiar, but we actually do still use teleological explanations. What, in your view, is the main criterion that governs the appropriateness today of a teleological explanation as opposed to a mechanistic explanation? Do you believe that teleological explanations are required in the cases where we employ it, or are they in principle replaceable by mechanistic explanations? Why or why not?

Utilize either of the following theories: Gestalt, Behavior, or CBT and answer the following questions. What is your personal beliefs about the nature of human behavior, the basic tenets of human needs and the principles and approaches of counseling that you believe to most effectively address such behavior and needs. Include your beliefs about the therapeutic relationship, personal strengths and characteristics that you bring to such a relationship and ethical guidelines that you consider important to adhere to within such a relationship. Your thoughts should make sense together as a whole

Explain the difference between a necessary and a sufficient condition, and their relation to conditional statements. Provide an example, and give it in both standard form and symbolic form.

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It has been argued that the Thirty Years' War was the first European-wide conflict. Agree or Disagree? What was the outcome of the war? Give evidence to support.

Please answer prompts in three to four sentences. It is for my sociology of aging course.

Prompt Four:

What is ageism and how is its continuation perpetuated?

Prompt Five:

What are some of the ways that older Americans differ regarding health, marital status, income/poverty, and aging?

Write a three (3) pages research essay (Not Definitions) with a minimum of six (6) peer-review (Academic References) about the following terms:

A- Employer,

B- Employee,

C- Independent Contractor

Think of two scenarios where you might struggle to practice ethically because of the nature of family therapy. Identify at least four ethical challenges. Once you have identified the challenges write in detail how you would move through ethical decision making.

1) Does mass media have an influence on violent behavior?

2) How can we heal from the recent tragedy of George Floyd?

3) What should be our next step as a nation and what will you do in your everyday life different because of this issue?

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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.

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."