Provide a description of the process of gender role learning at all stages of development from childhood through adolescence. What do you think are the major socialization influences throughout the process, and the changes, if any, in contemporary roles and encoded sexual scripts of gender and gender theory? Explain how gender role learning applies here, if it does. Provide an explanation of the perspectives that influence sexual orientation with regard to the assigned gender, gender identity, and gender roles. For example, what did you learn as a child as it relates to "what it means to be a boy or a girl in our society"? Where you influenced by gender role socialization?

      Nonverbal communication is a key factor in therapy sessions. What possible information and insight can a therapist gain from the client’s body language? Additionally, how might the therapists body language influence the session? Provide examples to illustrate the dynamics of the relationship.

In your opinion, does law create social change, or does social change affect law? Use at least three (3) specific examples to illustrate your answer.

How has information technology compressed the ability of governments and organizations across the board to implement long-term strategic planning?

How has information technology redefined sovereign and cultural borders?

How can the government leverage information technology to “fight back” and what kinds of skills and resources are needed by both the people sending the message and those receiving the information?

ETHICS 445

Scenario

It is 2020, and General Foryota Company opens a plant in which to build a new mass-produced hover-craft. This hover-craft will work using E-85 Ethanol, will travel up to 200 mph, and will reduce pollution worldwide at a rate of 10 percent per year. It is likely that when all automobiles in the industrial world have been changed over to hovercrafts, emission of greenhouse gasses may be so reduced that global warming may end and air quality will become completely refreshed.

However, the downside is that during the transition time, GFC's Hover-Vee (only available in red or black), will most likely put all transportation as we know it in major dissaray. Roadways will no longer be necessary, but new methods of controlling traffic will be required. Further, while the old version of cars are still being used, Hover-vee's will cause accidents, parking issues, and most likely class envy and warfare. The sticker price on the first two models will be about four times that of the average SUV (to about $200,000.) Even so, GFC's marketing futurists have let them know that they will be able to pre-sell their first three years of expected production, with a potential waiting list which will take between 15 and 20 years to fill.

The Chief Engineer (CE) of GFC commissions a study on potential liabilities for the Hover-vees. The preliminary result is that Hover-vees will likely kill or maim humans at an increased rate of double to triple over automobile travel because of collisions and crashes at high speeds -- projected annual death rates of 100,000 to 200,000. However, global warming will end, and the environment will flourish.

The U. S. Government gets wind of the plans. Congress begins to discuss the rules on who can own and operate Hover-vees. GFC's stock skyrockets. The Chief Engineer takes the results of the study to the Chief Legal Counsel (CLC), and together they agree to bury the study, going forward with the production plans. The Chief Project Manager (CPM), who has read the study and agreed to bury it, goes ahead and plans out the project for the company, with target dates and production deadlines.

Somebody sent a secret copy of the report to you at your home address. It has no information in it at all, except for the report showing the proof of the increase in accidents and deaths. The report shows, on its face, that the CE, CLC, CPM, and your Congressional Representative have seen copies of this report. On the front there are these words typed in red: They knew — they buried this. Please save the world!

As an Engineer on the GFC team, I feel a very loyal tie to my boss and my company/country. I have mortgage, and family to feed. It is likely if I blow the whistle on this report, I will lose my job and my livelihood. I'm not even sure who wrote the study in the envelope or who actually sent it to me.

Utilizing my profession's code of ethics, what should be my first step?

Who should I talk to first?

should I go to the press?

should I go to your boss?

Should I react at all?

What professional ethics codes with international scope can I use to see the guidance given for dilemmas such as this.

Describe one way to collect AND use data in the ABA process. You can describe a real example if you have one.

Explain in detail why stages 5 and 6 of Erikson’s (Identity vs Role Confusion and Intimacy vs Isolation ) eight stages of personality development may be the highest hurdles to jump in life. Think about your junior high and high school years and what’s to come in your post-high school years. Include physical, emotional, and cognitive aspects and explain how these all fit into Erikson’s stages 5 and 6.

Write a short essay about:

a- How do the halves of the brain operate interdependently?
b- How can an understanding of the nervous system help us find ways to alleviate disease and pain?

Do you think by implementing a national language more people would actually speak English? How would this be enforced

1. What evidence does Chesnut offer to support her allegation about interracial sexual relations between owners and enslaved women. What value judgements does she make? Why does she call slavery “ a monstrous system”?

Answers should contain material quoted from the document and/or the course textbook and provide analysis/explanation of how the quoted material supports your response.
Mary Boykin Chesnut, A Confederate Lady's Diary (1861)

I wonder if it be a sin to think slavery a curse to any land. Sumner said not one word of this hated institution which is not true. Men & women are punished when their masters & mistresses are brutes & not when they do wrong-& then we live surrounded by prostitutes. An abandoned woman is sent out of any decent house elsewhere. Who thinks any worse of a Negro or Mulatto woman for being a thing we can't name. God forgive us, but ours is a monstrous system & wrong & iniquity. Perhaps the rest of the world is as bad. This is only what I see: like the patriarchs of old, our men live all in one house with their wives & their concubines, & the Mulattos one sees in every family exactly resemble the white children-& every lady tells you who is the father of all the Mulatto children in everybody's household, but those in her own, she seems to think drop from the clouds or pretends so to think-. Good women we have, but they talk of nastiness tho they never do wrong; they talk day & night of -. My disgust sometimes is boiling over-but they are, I believe, in conduct the purest women God ever made. Thank God for my countrywomen-alas for the men! No worse than men everywhere, but the lower their mistresses, the more degraded they must be.

My mother-in-law told me when I was first married not to send my female servants in the street on errands. They were there tempted, led astray-& then she said placidly, "So they told me when I came here-& I was very particular, but you see with what result." Mr. Harris said it was so patriarchal. So it is-flocks & herds & slaves-& wife Leah does not suffice. Rachel must be added, if not married & all the time they seem to think themselves patterns-models of husbands & fathers.

Mrs. Davis told me "everybody described my husband's father as an odd character, a Millionaire who did nothing for his son whatever, left him to struggle with poverty," &c. I replied, "Mr. Chesnut Senior thinks himself the best of fathers-& his son thinks likewise. I have nothing to say-but it is true, he has no money but what he makes as a lawyer," &c. Again I say, my countrywomen are as pure as angels-tho surrounded by another race who are-the social evil!

What can we do to keep the peace when it comes to different religions and cultures?

Short Story “Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin

1. Discuss the theme of brotherly love in “Sonny’s Blues.”
2. How can the city of Harlem be an antagonist itself in Baldwin’s story?
3. Discuss the significance of Gracie’s death in the story. How was Grace’s death significant in the reuniting of Sonny and the narrator?
4. Did music save Sonny’s life? Explain.
5. Discuss the significance and meaning of the title “Sonny’s Blues.”