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What are the ethical questions the technology presents for our society?

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Write a 700- to- 1,050-word reflection on the two technologies you selected (350 to 700 words per technology).

Assess each of the technologies as it applies to you and include the following:

What are the issues the technology causes for our society?

What opportunities does the technology provide for our society?

What are the ethical questions the technology presents for our society?

How can and does the technology influence human activities?

Determine your stance on each technology after you have assessed the technologies. Do the positives of each technology outweigh the negatives?

What arguments does the author use to support his main point and what evidence does he cite.

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Critiquing
• The first step to take is to analyze the piece of work.

• Discuss the author’s main point of view and his purpose.

• See who is he performing for i.e.

• who is his audience.

• What arguments does the author use to support his main point
and what evidence does he cite.

• Check for any underlying biases or assumptions in the work
that the author produces.

How does the poet make use of the physical description? Does it create a mood?

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As you read your poems look for clues
 1.What is the theme of the poem? What is the poet trying to say? What is the poem about?

2.What happens in the poem? Are conflicts or themes introduced? Resolved?

 3.Who is the speaker? What is the “point of view” or perspective of the speaker? The perspective might be social, intellectual, political, or even physical.

 4.What is the setting? What is the time and place? How does the poet make use of the physical description? Does it create a mood?

5.Are there any key statements or lines that indicate meaning? Look for one key line or symbol; however, the poet may make use of recurring symbols, actions, or motifs.

6.How does the sound or language contribute to the poem’s meaning? Does the rhythm affect what the poet is trying to convey? What kinds of words are used? Are there words with double meanings?

7.Does the poem refer to other literary works? For example, is there a Biblical reference or reference to another poem? How does the other work relate to the meaning?
 8.Is there a historical, ideological, or cultural aspect? Does the poem refer to a world event, period of time, or particular aspect of culture (race, status, gender, class)? What are the basic ideas of the world or human condition or experience (love, hate, orderliness of the universe, etc.)?

 9.What qualities or emotions does the poem evoke? How does the poem make you feel?

10.What imagery is used? Does the poet use physical imagery or figures of speech, such as metaphors?

Do transitional words and phrases clearly lead readers from subject to subject and from point to point?

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Writing a Comparison-Contrast

Have you chosen two subjects that have significant similarities?

Does your paper’s structure follow either a point-by-point or a subject-by-subject pattern?

Does each of your topic sentences identify the subject you are discussing and the point you are focusing on in the
paragraph?

Do transitional words and phrases clearly lead readers from subject to subject and from point to point?

Have you followed your instructor’s format and documentation guidelines?

Does your paper’s structure follow either a point-by-point or a subject-by-subject pattern?

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Writing a Comparison–Contrast

Have you chosen two subjects that have significant similarities?

Does your paper’s structure follow either a point–by–point or a subject–by–subject pattern?

Does each of your topic sentences identify the subject you are discussing and the point you are focusing on in the paragraph?

Do transitional words and phrases clearly lead readers from subject to subject and from point to point?

Have you followed your instructor’s format and documentation guidelines?

How is peer pressure different in college than in high school?

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Discuss the power of peer pressure while addressing the following questions:

How is peer pressure different in college than in high school?

Was there more peer pressure or less peer pressure in high school?

Looking at the clothes you wear, the products you buy, the car you drive (or hope to drive someday), and the forms of entertainment you enjoy—how many of these are the result of truly independent choices versus the influence, at least to some degree, of peer pressure. my race is african american ethnicity- belizean.

Going to school to get a higher education was always and still is a big thing in my family.

How do you see social learning theory applying to this field?

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Social work is the subject
In reference to the readings and the OBH Council link, what social work theories can you identify being used in this field? How do you see social learning theory applying to this field? How about the importance of soft skills and crisis-interventions skills? Why are these important?

In looking at the accredited organizations listed on the OBH site how many were affiliated with the Aspen(CRC) Group?(Hint: look in previous module link: The Aspen Guide to Wilderness Therapy to compare). In looking at one of the OBH accredited programs, that is not affiliated with the Aspen Group, did you notice any differences or similarities in their approach versus Aspen’s? In your own words, and after previously reading chapter 2 in Shouting at the Sky (about Aaron Bacon’s death) and this weeks article:

Dark side of a Bain Success, why do you think it is important to have an independent accrediting body for wilderness therapy and outdoor behavioral programs? How does it compare or differ from other more urban youth affiliated programs or organizations that have come under scrutiny or have had similar tragedies? Do you agree or disagree with the statement, mentioned by a parent in Ferguson’s book Shouting at the Sky, “You can hate what happened to Aaron Bacon…without needing to hate the whole idea of kids going to the wilds to heal.”(p.16)

How do materialist feminists understand women’s place in society?

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New Developments in Theories of Gender and Sexuality

SELECT ONE OF THE ESSAY QUESTIONS

1. How do materialist feminists understand women’s place in society? Critically assess the limitation of their position in relation to either intersectionality or postcolonial theory.

2. Critically assess the significance for feminist thought of a shift from ‘working on women’ to ‘theorising gender’?

3. Drawing on an empirical example (this could be a current event, a cultural text, or a particular public figure or group) critically assess the concept of ‘intersectionality’.

4. Critically assess the concept of hegemonic masculinity. Discuss with reference to empirical examples (this could be a public figure, cultural text or social structure or social phenomenon).

5. Is it possible to create a world feminist movement? Identify the challenges of such a project and the position of postcolonial feminists towards the issue.

6. Critically discuss the claim that ‘sex is a biological category’.

7. Sexuality is a social construct. What are the theoretical and political implications of this claim?

8. What is ‘queer’? Is it anything other than being ‘against the normative’?

9. Drawing on one or more empirical examples, critically assess the role of the media in reproducing and/or subverting gendered norms.

10. Are we living in post-feminist times? Critically discuss this using empirical examples (from the media, personalities, events, trends, activist groups etc.).

 

Discuss the various ways of determining the validity of a particular measure?

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 Identifying Validity, Reliability, and Scaling Issues (Graded)

What is the difference between validity and reliability? Discuss the various ways of determining the validity of a particular measure? Of what importance is triangulation in resolving the issue of validity?

Discuss the three means of demonstrating reliability of measurement.

Describe the theory that colonialism explains how the world’s nations became stratified.

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Describe the theory that colonialism explains how the world’s nations became stratified.

Use details and examples from the text and outside sources, if you choose.