Get to know an adolescent or adult through observation(s). 17 year female Briefly, clearly, and objectively present the specific current observation of the individual. The primary emphasis of the paper is the specific current observation of the individual for at least one (1) hour total.  Background information should be brief and to the point.  If you do an interview it is not considered the observation. o The information you obtain is for Background Information.  The observation is not a review of experiences and observations you may have had with the individual over a period of time. o This is Background Information.  You can include what you experienced through playing and talking with the individual, but the emphasis should be what you observed.

We are learning about Ramayana in Mythology and I'm having a bit of trouble understanding the story. Why would Rama be set apart as a true hero?

The story of Rama and Sita is a favorite story that parents tell their children. What purpose does the Ramayana serve as an instructional story for Indian culture?

What effect do the test and temptations have on the heroic character?

Patricia Kuhl: The linguistic genius of babies. Please watch this Ted Talk and then answer the following questions.

http://www.ted.com/talks/patricia_kuhl_the_linguistic_genius_of_babies/transcript?language=en#t-34951.

1. Describe Kuhl’s presentation from the perspective of nature and nurture as it relates to language development. What about the perspective of universal and context specific?

Explain the possible correclation where both perpetrators and victims of violent crimes are likely to have consumed alcohol prior to certain aggressive acts, such as rape, assault, domestic violence, and murder (Collins and Messerschmidt 1993; Arseneault et al.2000; Cunradi et al. 1999; Scott et al. 1999).

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COLLINS, J.J., AND MESSERSCHMIDT, M.A. Epidemiology of alcohol-related violence. Alcohol Health & Research World 17:93–100, 1993.

CUNRADI, C.B.; CAETANO, R.; CLARK, C.L.; AND SCHAFER, J. Alcohol-related problems and inti mate partner violence among white, black, and Hispanic couples in the U.S. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research 23:1492–1501, 1999.

SCOTT, K.D.; SCHAFER, J.; AND GREENFIELD, T.K. The role of alcohol in physical assault perpetration and victimization. Journal of Studies on Alcohol 60:528–536, 1999.

What does it mean to say the left hemisphere is the "Interpreter." Fully describe and explain the study that shows the left hemisphere is the "interpreter" compaired to the right hemisphere. (what are the variables? how is the right hemisphere different than the left?) Trace the path of the information from the stimuli t the hemisphere. How does the study show the left hemisphere is the interpreter?

Patricia Kuhl: The linguistic genius of babies. Please watch this Ted Talk and then answer the following questions.

http://www.ted.com/talks/patricia_kuhl_the_linguistic_genius_of_babies/transcript?language=en#t-34951.

3. Find quotations from the talk that shows support for language learning to be both an experience dependent and experience expectant behavior.

Describe three general implications of cognitive learning theories for classroom practice. Illustrate each implication with a concrete example of what a teacher might do.

Most Americans support capital punishment. Review the arguments for and against the death penalty and list what you think are the 3 best arguments for and against

CASE EXAMPLE: Kaitlyn, 24, is a single mother with three children Sean, 2, Shane, 4, and Shannon, 5. She has an eleventh grade education, as she dropped out of high school to live with Irving, the children’s father.   Irving, 35, had lived with the family for six years until one year ago when he abruptly left without warning. Kaitlyn thought she had been smelling a woman’s perfume on his clothing for several months prior to his leaving. Although Kaitlyn loved Irving, he had refused to marry her, maintaining that marriage only ruins the spontaneity in a relationship. One Sunday Kaitlyn came home from visiting her mother and abruptly discovered that Irving had left with all his things—along with the TV, the DVR, the MP3 player, the blender, her crock pot, and some jewelry she had inherited from an aunt. At that point she wished she would have gone through with cutting every third stitch out of the seams holding his trousers together, a plan she had earlier considered after suspecting his infidelity.

Kaitlyn thought she and Irving had been happy. Now Irving is nowhere to be found. His work history involved a series of briefly held, part-time unskilled jobs. He has no immediate relatives. She feels he would be virtually impossible to track down.

For the past year since Irving disappeared, Kaitlyn was forced to apply for public assistance and compelled to undergo some job training aimed at placement in a food service setting. She had recently gotten a minimum wage job for 35 hours a week as a cook at Boogie’s Burger Heaven. The job would be subsidized by state TANF funds for the next year. (The intent of such subsidy is to encourage businesses to hire TANF recipients, as what actually came out of the business’ pockets to pay employees is considerably less than minimum wage.) Boogie’s does not provide health insurance for its employees.

Kaitlyn enjoys her work and her fellow employees. She feels proud of getting back on her feet again and becoming independent. However, there are a few issues about which she has nagging concerns. First she has to work a lot of nights. Her children attend a publicly funded daycare center, but it closes at 8:00 p.m. Sometimes, she’s scheduled to work two nights a week until midnight. She then must impose on her neighbors or her mother to baby-sit. Her mother has arthritis and chronic bronchial problems so finds it difficult to help out.

A second issue is that Shannon finds daycare really boring and is beginning to manifest some behavioral problems when she’s there. Daycare staff have started to threaten Kaitlyn that if Shannon doesn’t “shape up,” they’ll expel her.

A third concern is that Shane has been diagnosed with Tourette’s syndrome, “a neurological disorder beginning in childhood ... in which stereotyped motor movements (tics) are accompanied by multiple vocal outbursts that may include grunting or barking noises or socially inappropriate words or statements” (Hallahan & Kauffman, 2006, p. 256). Although daycare staff and baby-sitting neighbors tend to like Shane and tolerate his increasingly inappropriate and uncontrollable behavior, Kaitlyn thinks they’re beginning to tire of it.   Meanwhile, Kaitlyn is working with medical specialists to administer, monitor, and adapt medications to help control Shane’s tics and outbursts. She has been told this will be a lifelong process.

A fourth issue is that Sean is not yet toilet trained. Kaitlyn finds it impossible to maintain consistency when she is at work so often and he is in the care of so many different people.

Finally, although Kaitlyn likes her job, she aspires to something that would provide her with a better future. She would like to get her GED (general education development, general education diploma, or high school equivalency). Ideally, she would prefer to work in a professional office, perhaps as an optometrist’s assistant or doing something with computers.

Discuss the following questions:

1.        In what ways is TANF helping Kaitlyn and her family survive?

2.        In what ways is TANF limiting Kaitlyn’s ability to attain her and her family’s optimal health and well-being?

3.        What do you see as Kaitlyn’s future problems in view of TANF’s restrictions?

4.        In what ways might public assistance help Kaitlyn become more independent and improve her and her family’s health, well-being, and quality of life?

3. A 35-year-old patient, diagnosed with schizophrenia, refuses to eat. The patient tells the nurse: “I am being poisoned.” According to Erikson’s theory, in what developmental stage would you place the patient?

a. Autonomy vs. shame and doubt

b. Intimacy vs. isolation

c. Generativity vs. self-absorption

d. Trust vs. mistrust

4. The nurse is assessing a client diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder. According to Mahler’s theory of object relations, which describes the client’s unmet developmental need?

a. The need for survival and comfort.

b. The need for awareness of an external source of fulfillment.

c. The need for awareness of separateness of self.

d. The need for internalization of a sustained image of love object/person

We have learned about conditioning in class. There are countless ways that we encounter condition in everyday life. This assignment requires that you examine conditioning (either classical or operant) as you’ve experienced it. Provide five examples of conditioning from your own life with a detailed description of stimulus/response and reinforcement patterns.​

f you are from Christian background, can you answer the question, "What does it mean to be Christian?", without excluding numerous groups of people who fervently view themselves as "Christian," but who live, practice and believe in ways that may differ significantly from you? They, too, appeal to the same Bible that you do -- often emphasizing things there that you either ignore, minimize or interpret differently. Is this situation any different for Christians than it is for people of any of the other traditions we are studying this quarter? Can people of ANY religious tradition describe their religious tradition without excluding others who view themselves as part of that same tradition, but who live, practice and believe in ways that may differ significantly from others who claim the same tradition?

Police officers are required to make split-second decisions that may be a life or death decision. Why is it important for police officers to use discretion?

What types of instances may discretion be used? please explain in detail.

Define the term media convergence and then identify and explain three examples from three different mediums of media convergence.