Miller posited that juvenile delinquency stems from lower-class culture and its value system. Discuss the theory and concerns regarding its implications.

There are some groups who have tried to designate English as the "official" language of the United States. Why has this not been implemented? Is this a good idea?

Violence against men far outnumbers violence against women. Thoughts/Comments?

Evaluate the use of Supermax against the long-term pathologies it creates....

200 word minimum please

Learning: Operant Conditioning

Psychologists like B. F. Skinner have studied how we can use operant conditioning to change the behavior of people and animals. Drawing on your personal experience, choose a person or animal whose behavior you want to change. (You may select your own behavior for this question if you wish.) How could you use operant conditioning to change the behavior of this person or animal?

In a multi-paragraph essay, describe your plan to change this behavior. Be sure to mention what type of reinforcer and reinforcement schedule you would use and explain why you made those particular choices. Include information from class materials, readings, and research on operant conditioning to support your discussion.

My name is Charles, but my friends and family call me Chuck. I am the fifth child in a family of 7, three older sisters and an older brother before me, and a sister one a year younger and a brother 5 years younger than her. Due to the age difference between my sister and my little brother, jokes were told in family gatherings referring to my little brother as an “accident” or as “Ramses” making reference to a popular name brand of condoms implying that my mother had gotten pregnant because the Ramses Condoms were somehow damaged. At that time in my life, roughly 15 years old, I did not find these jokes or comments funny at all. Nevertheless, we had grown to know my little brother as Ramses for lack of a better nickname and he hated it even though I do not think he understood what it meant.

One warm summer afternoon, my little brother came home very angry. For days to follow, he did not want to talk about what was making him upset and seemed absent and sad. As the week came to an end, he was still obviously upset to the point that he refused to go to a football game that we had been planning to go for weeks. I did not understand what the problem was, but what I was about to find out, would make me reevaluate the meaning of the word “honor.”

A few weeks before this incident, a young Down Syndrome boy had been accepted into my brother school, fact that I was not aware of. Moved by a government “full integration” policy, schools were admitting what in those days were known as “non-traditional students”, a group that was composed by Down Syndrome, Autistic and other learning disabled children that up until that time had been going to special education centers out of the public eye. Thinking in retrospect, I personally had never been close or even seen a Down Syndrome child. The closest thing I remember was a boy who lived across the street who used to spy on us as we played in the street but never came out. Later on in life I found out that his name was Bobby and he had been the victim of a nasty disease known as Polio and thus confined to a wheel chair. Bobby was “home schooled” not because he had a learning disability, but probably because his parents tried to protect him from bullies and deep down inside they were possibly a bit ashamed of him.

After a while, my little brother (whose real name was David), decided to open up to me and told me the reasons why he had been upset in the past days. With tears in his eyes, David proceeded to narrate what he had been subjected to by kids in the school. He looked and me and said: Last Monday I went to school and some of the older kids were pointing at me and laughing. Before I knew it from the crowd I heard a voice yelling “Ramses, Ramses you mother can’t keep on her pantses.” In a macabre and cruel way of making fun of David by making up words to make a silly rhyme, they were implying that my mother was a whore who could not keep her pants on and thus, got pregnant with David. Never mind that my mother was married to my father and consequently she could not be labeled as a whore, I was enraged that this kids would have my mother in their stupid mouths. I was so upset about this that I told David that next time he saw the kid or kids who did this to him to point them out to me that I would make them pay. Keep in mind that David was around 8 years old at that time, so to him it was a huge deal to be reassured by his big brother that he was going to be protected.

Weeks went by without any incidents and then one afternoon as David and I were walking through the playground by our house, he saw the culprit of his ridicule. He seemed excited and nervous when he pointed out his “offender” in the distance. From that perspective the kid seemed big, even bigger than me at 15. Without thinking about it I ran towards him convinced that if I surprised him and hit first, I would have the advantage. Since the kid was walking away from him, I grabbed him by the collar of his shirt and swung him around. A right hook to his belly made him lose his air, a punch in the mouth and then another….. by this time all of the kids in the playground were surrounding me chanting “fight, fight, fight…” All I could think of was my mother’s honor….. never again would anyone dare calling my mother a whore…. I was blinded by rage as I continued to punch and kick. It was not long before someone grabbed me and pinned me down…. In my rage I heard a woman crying in desperation…… as I reclaimed by composure, I began to see what I had done.

On the ground, bleeding with what seemed a broken nose, and crying covering his face was this big kid…. The woman who had been crying, his mother, was trying to console him and as she helped him out my rage turned to horror as I realized the kid I had badly hurt was the Down Syndrome boy that had come to my brother’s school a few weeks ago. I learned his name was Christian and in an act of cruelty bigger than anything I had ever seen, had been bullied by the bigger kids into making fun of my brother. I had inflicted a lot of damage on this boy who had no understanding of what he was saying and I did not know what to say. In an attack of remorse, I too started to cry asking him to forgive him… I could not look at him or his mother, I had never in my short life felt so much remorse.

In an effort to regain my mother’s honor, I had attacked the wrong person, I had acted without thinking, I had committed an act of violence against someone who could not properly defend himself. What a shameful and coward act.

Time passed and we all got older. Christian was taken out of the school and we never heard anything from him. I got married and had children… 3 girls and a boy. Life sometimes likes to play cruel jokes on us and my boy was born with Down Syndrome. In a reconciliatory move, I named him Christian…. Not because I felt guilty anymore, but because I wanted to protect this little Christian and make sure that no bully ever took advantage of him. Today Christian is 10 years old. He is a mild case of Down Syndrome and the doctors seem to think that he will live a long and productive life. I cannot help however, to see the stares or the little boys pointing at him when we go to the playground. Today my honor is in making sure that my son will never be abused by anyone. Funny I should say this, but sometimes when I hold my Christian in my arms I still shed a tear of remorse for what I did to that poor boy many years ago.

Based on this story,

int terms of honor,,, in your perspective, what is the most important lesson to be learned from this short story?

In your perspective, what would be the best ethical theory to analyze the case study "my family's honor? Please elaborate on why you think this way

My family’s Honor

My name is Charles, but my friends and family call me Chuck. I am the fifth child in a family of 7, three older sisters and an older brother before me, and a sister one a year younger and a brother 5 years younger than her. Due to the age difference between my sister and my little brother, jokes were told in family gatherings referring to my little brother as an “accident” or as “Ramses” making reference to a popular name brand of condoms implying that my mother had gotten pregnant because the Ramses Condoms were somehow damaged. At that time in my life, roughly 15 years old, I did not find these jokes or comments funny at all. Nevertheless, we had grown to know my little brother as Ramses for lack of a better nickname and he hated it even though I do not think he understood what it meant.

One warm summer afternoon, my little brother came home very angry. For days to follow, he did not want to talk about what was making him upset and seemed absent and sad. As the week came to an end, he was still obviously upset to the point that he refused to go to a football game that we had been planning to go for weeks. I did not understand what the problem was, but what I was about to find out, would make me reevaluate the meaning of the word “honor.”

A few weeks before this incident, a young Down Syndrome boy had been accepted into my brother school, fact that I was not aware of. Moved by a government “full integration” policy, schools were admitting what in those days were known as “non-traditional students”, a group that was composed by Down Syndrome, Autistic and other learning disabled children that up until that time had been going to special education centers out of the public eye. Thinking in retrospect, I personally had never been close or even seen a Down Syndrome child. The closest thing I remember was a boy who lived across the street who used to spy on us as we played in the street but never came out. Later on in life I found out that his name was Bobby and he had been the victim of a nasty disease known as Polio and thus confined to a wheel chair. Bobby was “home schooled” not because he had a learning disability, but probably because his parents tried to protect him from bullies and deep down inside they were possibly a bit ashamed of him.

After a while, my little brother (whose real name was David), decided to open up to me and told me the reasons why he had been upset in the past days. With tears in his eyes, David proceeded to narrate what he had been subjected to by kids in the school. He looked and me and said: Last Monday I went to school and some of the older kids were pointing at me and laughing. Before I knew it from the crowd I heard a voice yelling “Ramses, Ramses you mother can’t keep on her pantses.” In a macabre and cruel way of making fun of David by making up words to make a silly rhyme, they were implying that my mother was a whore who could not keep her pants on and thus, got pregnant with David. Never mind that my mother was married to my father and consequently she could not be labeled as a whore, I was enraged that this kids would have my mother in their stupid mouths. I was so upset about this that I told David that next time he saw the kid or kids who did this to him to point them out to me that I would make them pay. Keep in mind that David was around 8 years old at that time, so to him it was a huge deal to be reassured by his big brother that he was going to be protected.

Weeks went by without any incidents and then one afternoon as David and I were walking through the playground by our house, he saw the culprit of his ridicule. He seemed excited and nervous when he pointed out his “offender” in the distance. From that perspective the kid seemed big, even bigger than me at 15. Without thinking about it I ran towards him convinced that if I surprised him and hit first, I would have the advantage. Since the kid was walking away from him, I grabbed him by the collar of his shirt and swung him around. A right hook to his belly made him lose his air, a punch in the mouth and then another….. by this time all of the kids in the playground were surrounding me chanting “fight, fight, fight…” All I could think of was my mother’s honor….. never again would anyone dare calling my mother a whore…. I was blinded by rage as I continued to punch and kick. It was not long before someone grabbed me and pinned me down…. In my rage I heard a woman crying in desperation…… as I reclaimed by composure, I began to see what I had done.

On the ground, bleeding with what seemed a broken nose, and crying covering his face was this big kid…. The woman who had been crying, his mother, was trying to console him and as she helped him out my rage turned to horror as I realized the kid I had badly hurt was the Down Syndrome boy that had come to my brother’s school a few weeks ago. I learned his name was Christian and in an act of cruelty bigger than anything I had ever seen, had been bullied by the bigger kids into making fun of my brother. I had inflicted a lot of damage on this boy who had no understanding of what he was saying and I did not know what to say. In an attack of remorse, I too started to cry asking him to forgive him… I could not look at him or his mother, I had never in my short life felt so much remorse.

In an effort to regain my mother’s honor, I had attacked the wrong person, I had acted without thinking, I had committed an act of violence against someone who could not properly defend himself. What a shameful and coward act.

Time passed and we all got older. Christian was taken out of the school and we never heard anything from him. I got married and had children… 3 girls and a boy. Life sometimes likes to play cruel jokes on us and my boy was born with Down Syndrome. In a reconciliatory move, I named him Christian…. Not because I felt guilty anymore, but because I wanted to protect this little Christian and make sure that no bully ever took advantage of him. Today Christian is 10 years old. He is a mild case of Down Syndrome and the doctors seem to think that he will live a long and productive life. I cannot help however, to see the stares or the little boys pointing at him when we go to the playground. Today my honor is in making sure that my son will never be abused by anyone. Funny I should say this, but sometimes when I hold my Christian in my arms I still shed a tear of remorse for what I did to that poor boy many years ago.

Define intelligence and explain whether intelligence is the result of nature or nurture. In your answer be sure to explain what "nature" and "nurture" refer to and give one piece of evidence for each side of the argument for intelligence.

What are some specific examples of literature, art, and music in which artists responded strongly to the devastation of World War I and World War II?

Both the Stoics and Frankl build their theories on the concept of the Logos. Briefly compare and contrast the Stoics (who are Eudaimonists holding Happiness is the Ultimate Good in life) to Frankl (who is a Non-Eudaimonist holding that Meaning and not Happiness is the ultimate good in life.) What points in their theories do you agree with—e.g., are you Rationalist or Existentialist? In short, would you say you are more a follower of Frankl or Stoicism, or can you integrate both theories?

Explain the difference between the following two positions: 1. The gods love a pious act because it is pious. 2. A pious act is pious because the gods love it. Which of the two does Socrates adhere to, and why? Do you agree with Socrates' position? Why or why not?

explain how data are to be analyzed and interpreted

Do you believe that social norms were followed completely as far as getting married first then having babies and hidden back then? Are social norms and beliefs always about family or are people more worried about what others think?

Each of the following passages contains an argument. Identify or list the premises, con­ clusions, and indicator words in each passage.

1) Government statistics show that it is safer to fly than to drive. Since government statistics are generally reliable, it follows that if you are traveling across the coun­ try this summer, your chance of surviving the trip will be higher if you fly than if you drive.

2) Simple ethical egoism is a false ethical theory. For if it were true,it would followt hat it is morally acceptable for someone to make a living robbing little old ladies who just cashed their meager Social Security checks (if that is what the robber wants to do at the moment). But upon careful reflection on all the facts, including the inter­ ests of everyone involved, robbing little old ladies clearly seems morally wrong.

3)All differences in income and wealth between people are due solely to luck. Since nobody deserves something if they have it due solely to luck, it follows that all dif­ ferences in income and wealth are undeserved.