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Purpose: To discuss the differences and interrelationship of romance and friendship and their implications for long-term marriages.

1. How would you answer the following question?

“If a person had all the other qualities you desired, would you marry that person if you were not in love?” Why or why not? What is the basis of your answer?

Cross-cultural studies suggested being in love is becoming a universal basis for marriage and that today’s marriages depend more and more on the “sweetness of its contents.” Yet, scholars argue that high divorce rates may result from people’s adoption of romantic love as a primary basis for marriage because it may lead to unrealistic expectations of emotional fulfillment. This conclusion is supported by studies showing that while all couples experience a decline in their marital satisfaction, couples most likely to divorce began their marriages with the highest levels of affection and romance and showed the steepest decline in marital satisfaction.  

Many scholars argue that marriages might be more successful if they were built on deep and abiding friendship rather than romantic love. Evidence for this conclusion comes from studies of long-term happily married couples that say friendship, not romance, is the foundation for an enduring successful marriage.

Do you agree with these conclusions? Are “too high” romantic expectations a significant contributor to relationship failure?

2. To explore this issue consider the following questions:

What are the differences between loving someone and being in love with someone? Between a friend and a romantic partner? What do we expect from our romantic partners that we do not expect from our closest friends? (Text Chapter 11 suggests that the major differences between friendship and romantic love involve differences in emotional intensity, clarity of rules, complexities of feelings, and expectations).  

3. Do we expect too much from romance? If you lived with your closest friend for many years do you think you would you have fewer or just as many relationship problems as a typical marriage?

Describe what employee engagement looks like in an organization, why it is important to sustainability efforts, and how employee engagement can facilitate committed action. Use personal examples to help illustrate your points.

What is a “proxy war”? Discuss an example of a current or recent “proxy war.” (Learn about this term in "Required resources" folder)

Compare and contrast how archaeologists and paleoanthropologists date their discoveries.

Discuss the basic techniques used to locate archaeological sites and fossil localities.

1.6 Strategies to support full participation of students with disability                                                       Demonstrate broad knowledge and understanding of legislative requirements and teaching strategies that support participation and learning of students with disability.

Blake has developed a new measure of personality to assess what personality type people have. It is called the “Blockbuster Personality Type” measure. The measure includes images from the top ten most popular Hollywood movies in the last ten years and asks respondents to describe what is happening in the scenes. Responses are scored in terms of how consistent they are with the original movies, and how much respondents show empathy for the different characters in the scenes. As a result of this scoring, respondents are classified as either being either “active heroes”, “passive victims”, or “conniving villains”, reflecting the hidden desires and goals that they were born with.

Blake wants to encourage people to use the test for selection and recruitment in organisations around the world, so he collects information about the test’s reliability and validity. He asks his first-year psychology class to take the test at the start of semester and at the end of semester and compares their scores for a measure of reliability. To test validity, he uses scores on the test to predict how well his students do in their university studies.

Question: What are some of the issues with what Blake has done? How could he have designed and evaluated his test in a better way? For each issue you identify, explain why it is an issue and how it could be improved.

Choose 1 particular disorder that poses a challenge for military couples. giving special consideration to Moore's work, describe a biblical approach to help the couple with that problem.

Stereotyping and prejudice are distinct concepts with different definitions. Prejudice refers to a preconceived judgment, how does that differ from stereotype?

What resources should prisons provide for (a) mentally ill inmates, (b) pregnant inmates, (c) elderly inmates, and (d) inmates with chronic and/or infectious diseases? What strategies should prisons use to prevent violence? Why? "Please type response due to me not understanding some handwriting." Thanks!

Discussion (200 to 250 words based on the following case)
Consider the following Hill Country Community Hospital case study:
Hill Country Community Hospital is a 100-bed acute-care facility in rural Texas. The hospital has served the local community for over 40 years but has experienced financial decline over the past 3 years. Hospital administrators believe that the best way to cut costs is to terminate all contracts with staff physicians and allow a large, Dallas-based physician group to take over in-hospital patient care. The move would quickly solve the current budget crisis, even enabling the hospital to show a profit for the fiscal year. However, community residents are strongly opposed to the plan, as they have always been accustomed to receiving in-hospital care from their family physicians. The proposed move is creating public relations problems, with both external and internal audiences. Employees are also highly resistant to the change, as they fear that their jobs may also be outsourced and that bringing in outsiders to provide patient care will ruin the hospital’s reputation. This is creating emotional labor, poor morale, and increased patient complaints. As resistance is a natural phenomenon, understanding and working with it effectively is key to successful organizational consultation. It is essential for the OD practitioner or consultant to recognize and deal with resistance that is derived from psychological needs and wants. There are also elements that have been shown to stimulate “normal” resistance and therefore should also be considered during the consultation process.

Post a response to the following:

Identify, analyze, and discuss the various types of resistance affecting the Hill Country Community Hospital and its various stakeholder groups. What do you see as the root cause of this resistance?

Question No. 1: As we know that Global Financial markets have impact on companies’ performance which arise many ethical issues in multinational companies. According to you, what are the main ethical issues/problems you can think of in any multinational company? Explain in detail. (Select a multinational company of your own choice)

Where and how does the Declaration of Independence define the qualities a critical thinker has?