Focusing on the concept of cultural relativism, do we as Americans have the right to morally judge another culture? While noting the merits of cultural relativism, do you feel there are any limits to these merits? Are all cultural values and practices equally valid? Can you imagine any acts that a group of people can do to its own members that cross the line of human decency? If so, who gets to draw the line and what should the response be? Be sure to substantiate your answer with facts and examples.

You may see a lot of brain imaging studies in the news or on the internet. What kind of questions should you ask about these studies before accepting the findings as valid?

What type of t-test should I use to for the topic, " Does mindfulness meditation affect college students' anxiety?"

Q: What does substance abuse mean to you and why do you want to educate your peers about substance abuse?

Answer in 200 words or above, much appreciated for the ideas.

The Milgram Experiments

The Milgram experiments on obedience to authority, discussed in chapter five (Society: The Basics13th Edition by John J. Macionis) were conducted with groups of subjects who had not met before the experimental session.

Do you think that groups of people who already knew each other would demonstrate more or less conformity if placed in these experimental situations? What if the teachers were men and the learners were women? Would teenagers conform the same as adults?

How does ethnicity affect health? Be specific and give examples.  

Egocentricity

Please respond to EACH of the following discussion topics and submit them to the discussion forum as a single post. Your initial post should be 75-150 words in length.Then, make at least two thoughtful responses to your fellow students’ posts. If you haven’t recently, please review the Rules of Discussion.

Take the Egocentricity Quiz:

http://home.earthlink.net/~bmgei/educate/docs/aperson/thinking/ego-quiz.htm

If you scored more than nine, read “If you are egocentric, what can you do?” at this website:

http://home.earthlink.net/~bmgei/educate/docs/aperson/thinking/kill-ego.htm

Pick one characteristic from the left column (Non-Egocentric) of the Egocentricity Quiz that describes your way of thinking. Describe a time when this trait helped you.

Pick one characteristic from the right column (Egocentric) of the Egocentricity Quiz that describes your way of thinking. Describe a time when has this trait hurt you.

Be sure you integrate your course readings on egocentricity and egocentric thinking within your work to show a good understanding of course concepts.

How has classical liberalism evolved since Adam Smith first used it? Why do you think it has evolved?

J. S. Furnivall’s explanation of the “marketplace” is relevant to our Caribbean reality. Explain what this means in terms of relations among members of society.

Select three television shows or two movies depicting gender, race and class. Write a study on the media’s impact of how race, class and gender are viewed in American society. Analyze the tv shows/movies based on gender, race and class. What family dynamic exists? How do the tv shows influence women? (self esteem, self image) Take notes while you are watching television shows and note your observations. How might these tv shows/movies impact the viewers/audience? How do these tv shows/films impact you as an individual? How do these tv shows/movies influence society?

CONSUMER BEHAVIOR: Explain in a few paragraphs how consumers interpret information about products and people through their perceptions, learning, and memory.

Please re write and re-organize the essay. Feel free to change the words. I just need 750 words.

Sexual predators and sex offenders are, as unfortunate as it is to say, nothing new. However, with the dawn of the internet and extensive social platforms in which everyone from the age 3-103 can interact on, new concerns about adolescents’ safety have emerged. The internet has brought with it a new arena in which sex offenders can coerce and manipulate adolescents. Parents and children alike share very personal information on the internet that has been believed to make them vulnerable to sexual predators. Now pedophiles could network with a younger generation in a private manner which makes it easier to exploit them.

            In an effort to keep parents and younger people aware of the dangers of online social interaction, we are going to discuss some concrete tools in which we can implement in the name of information and safety. Symptoms of online vulnerability include risky behavior like interacting online with unknown people, having unknown people on a buddy/friend list, talking online to unknown people about sex, seeking pornography online, or being rude/nasty online. When an adolescent takes part in the before mentioned activities they put themselves at a higher risk of being victimized online. A person who is the most likely to take part in these behaviors are girls ages 15-17, homosexual boys, or boys questioning their sexuality, prior rape victims, children with absent parents, or abused children. The outcome or diagnosis of the risky behavior or symptoms is often statutory rape.

            When a child engages in the behaviors noted in the previous paragraph they often leave themselves open to statutory rape. The definition of statutory rape is when adolescents who are legally too young to consent to intercourse, are involved in nonforcible sex. It is a crime and each state have their own laws regarding what age a person can consent to sexual intercourse, the ages vary from 14-18. They are also known as age-of-consent laws and they constitute a very large portion of sex crimes against minors. Typically, internet-initiated sex crimes pursued to arrest involved adult offenders who are 10 or more years older than their victim. If a person engages in the risky behavior, for whatever reason, and then meets with this unknown person it is likely that they will be involved in a statutory rape legal situation (my prognosis.)

            The next stage is a prescription or establishing a norm. In New Jersey there are two statutory sexual abuse charges, endangering the welfare of children (2-4-degree crime depending on circumstances), and lewdness (4^th degree crime.) I didn't see anything regarding intent, but I would personally take the deontological approach and say that any intent to commit statutory rape or sexual exploitation of a minor would be punishable by law and therefor a crime. When it comes to children it isn't the outcome, but the mere thought or action itself that is ethically wrong, regardless of the consequences of the predators’ actions. I would argue that a lot of the consequences of sexual exploitation and misconduct are not evident until someone is older. This fact further supports my deontological approach, that the act itself is wrong. However, under some circumstances with older adolescents, I think degrees of crimes as appropriate, like New Jersey has. Statutory rape is a crime regardless of consent. I think a consequential approach in respect to severity of the crime and age of the child is warranted. Each case is unique and should be assigned a degree of severity based on details of the case and the effects on the victim. But regardless of outcome, it is still a punishable crime.

            To avoid these types of situations there are measures we can take to protect children. The reading suggests that efforts be focused on educating adolescents and less on parents. The reason for this is because, “The adolescents who tend to be the victims of internet-initiated sex crimes may not themselves be very receptive to the advice and supervision of parents. Moreover, some of the most vulnerable youths are alienated from their parents, victims of familial abuse...” (Finkelhor et al. 2008) If we educate adolescents on how to avoid and prevent these types of risky behaviors, as well as what to look for in the event they are a bystander or witness to someone else experiencing these things, than they know what to look for and to report it.

It hasn't been proven that posting personal information makes someone more vulnerable to sexual predators. The risky behaviors listed earlier are the ingredients to making someone more vulnerable so therefore we need to focus attention on the importance of online interactions on the internet and how it is what we say and what we do that can leave us vulnerable. Also, make talks about internet safety developmentally appropriate. Talks about sexual victimization can be discussed in a healthy way regarding overall healthy sexual development. Our reading suggests discussing issues of, “types of internet use and websites, risky situations youth may encounter online, and the practicing of refusal and resistance techniques” (Finkelhor et al. 2008) with younger adolescents. While older adolescents would benefit from knowledge of, “age-of-consent laws, the problems of relationships with older partners, the dangers of transmitting sexual pictures, and online grooming tactics used by sexual offenders.” (Finkelhor et al. 2008)    

            With technology changing faster than we can grasp, we need to keep the most vulnerable members of our society as safe as possible. By implementing laws and tactics mentioned above we can educate everyone on how to keep children safe from sexual harm. And while sex crimes against youth haven't increased because of the internet, it is a new way for predators to take advantage on our children. And it is our responsibility to be aware of the new dangers that come with using the internet and how we can best avoid them.

Julia Wood (2016) said that the first 3 minutes of a conflict are very important, therefore, unless you set the proper climate, very little will be accomplished. Once a conflict arises, there are steps you can take to ensure a communication climate that is conducive to a satisfying outcome. Outline the steps you would take to ensure a mutually satisfying outcome in a conflict in (a) a personal relationship situation and (b) in a professional relationship situation.