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Explore your biases, micro aggressive behaviors towards others, and the barriers you have and foresee working with communities of cultural backgrounds other than your own. Distinguish between different types of communication styles you were taught (and the inferences held within) and how this helped you navigate the world.

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Psychology Question

Instructions

Explore your biases, micro aggressive behaviors towards others, and the barriers you have and foresee working with communities of cultural backgrounds other than your own. Distinguish between different types of communication styles you were taught (and the inferences held within) and how this helped you navigate the world.

After your have completed your interviews, write a 3-page (750 word minimum) paper detailing your findings.

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Assignment: Lying Interviews

Lying Interview Assignment

Directions:

  1. Read the notes on Lying (in this module). Please read the notes before conducting your interviews for this assignment.
  2. Reread pgs. 94-99 in your textbook “Alternatives to Self Disclosure”
  • You will need to interview 4 people about lying. Ask and record the answers to each of the following questions. You need to ask each of the 4 people you interview all of the questions below.

After your have completed your interviews, write a 3-page (750 word minimum) paper detailing your findings. Do not answer the questions in a bullet point style in your paper. This is a formal essay. Make sure you share details on each of interviewee’s answers.

What was the most recent lie you told someone? Why did you lie? According to your notes, chapter reading, and articles, how could you have handled the situation differently?

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Discussion Board #13 Lies

Discuss each of the following questions

1. What was the most recent lie you told someone?

2. Why did you lie?

3. According to your notes, chapter reading, and articles, how could you have handled the situation differently?

4. What alternative(s) to lying could you have used instead? Is there one you read about that you’d like to try next time?

5. What do you think would have happened if you told the truth instead?

What is iOS, what is its history, describe the changes in different versions. What is Android, what is its history, describe the changes in different updates.

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Cyber Security Question

In 8 pages please research the below material:

  • What is iOS, what is its history, describe the changes in different versions.
  • What is Android, what is its history, describe the changes in different updates.
  • What do iOS and Android have in common? How are they different?
  • What is SE bound?
  • What is a secure start-up?
  • What is FBE and what OS versions did it begin in iOS and Android?
  • What is the main database type in today’s cell phones and why is it the main one used?
  • Describe the SQLite database. How does it work? Describe what happens when things are deleted from the database.
  • What is a vacuum in a database and how does it affect data?
  • What is the WAL, write-ahead long, and how does it affect databases and analysis?

How is gender typically depicted in the media? What has impacted your beliefs about gender in your everyday life? How has the perception of gender changed in society?

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Journal Reflection

Assignment Prompt:

What are the distinctions in sociology between the terms sex and gender? What importance does the differentiation between the terms have in modern society? Also discuss gender stratification and provide examples of gender stratification from the U.S. or other societies. Find a recent news piece (within the last year) related to gender or provide an example of how gender is portrayed in the media (such as advertisements shown on GenderAds.com). Share a link to your selected source or image and describe the connection to the course topics this week (such as sexism or gender roles). How is gender typically depicted in the media? What has impacted your beliefs about gender in your everyday life? How has the perception of gender changed in society?

After watching these two performances, leave a comment on which one you found more engaging or interesting. Why? What about this performance was interesting/engaging?

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New Sounds, New Boundaries

As we have talked about before, jazz tends to follow some semi-predictable patterns. Things often revolve around four-bar phrases, we tend to hear the melody up front followed by a series of improvisations based upon its form (with each band member taking turns). Then, at the end, we usually hear the original melody again, almost exactly like we did at the beginning. These patterns are pretty deep in the DNA of a typical jazz performance.

However, we have now arrived at a point in history where a lot of these conventions are being thrown aside, or at least stretched in significant ways. Free Jazz through almost all of this out in exchange for a semi-free-for-all approach. Some of jazz’s later developments, like its various “fusions” with rock and funk, reigned in some of Free Jazz’s excesses this regard, but some of that style’s “looseness” and unpredictability became a central feature of Fusion.

Take a look at this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h56USliw3eo

Links to an external site.

This is the Fusion band Weather Report playing the song “Barbary Coast.” Weather Report was one of Fusion’s most prominent bands. (Not coincidentally, it contains a few high-profile alumni from Miles Davis’s fusion bands.) Notice how the roles between soloist and accompanist are blurred. Notice how the usual “roles” are a little trickier to pin down. Also, the presence of some new instruments and sounds.

Now, have a look at this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgntkGc5iBo

Links to an external site.

This is the Jaco Pastorius band playing “The Chicken.” (You might recognize the bass player in this one as the same guy from Weather Report. This is Jaco Pastorius, one of the people who played bass in Weather Report and a very innovative bassist (and musician in general).) The lines around each “section” are not quite as blurry, here. But, there are still some new instruments/sounds.

After watching these two performances, leave a comment on which one you found more engaging or interesting. Why? What about this performance was interesting/engaging?

Can you think of anything—a style of music, a type of movie, a type of book, etc.—which is often degraded as not very artistic, but who you just love or find very moving? Why do you think this thing—music, movie, book, etc.—is so derided by the elites? Why do you disagree?

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Discussion 5 – Jazz As “Art Music”

The idea that there is some sort of dividing line between what is considered “art music” and “everything else” is actually pretty new. If we go back to Medieval or Renaissance Europe, we can find discussions of different contexts for music, but never really a distinction that one was “art” and that another was “not art.” The same goes for the artistic context of early America. This idea that there is “art music” and “popular music” (which is thereby, not art) comes sometime in the mid-nineteenth century. It was tied up with all sorts of categorization efforts with which people in the US and Europe (and their colonies) were obsessed at the time. Thus, while it’s a relatively new idea, this idea is one that jazz inherited, or at least that the public inherited and applied to jazz.

Once we get to the mid-1940s, jazz seems to cross into the territory of “art music.” Basically, before WW2, folks thought of jazz as “pop music” and after the war they treated it more like “art music.” Generally, the term “art music” was applied to music played in fancy concert halls set aside just for this purpose, music written by dead German guys, music played on violins and oboes. Now, with the arrival of bebop, some of the reverence usually reserved for this old, dead music was being directed at jazz.

There are a variety of reasons for this shift in perception, some of which we have—or will—gone into elsewhere. The point, there, though, is simply that this shift in perception happened and what that means for the style’s future.

Modern Pop vs Art

This totally arbitrary line between “art” and “pop” persists, today. We interact with it all the time, even when we don’t do so on purpose. We “enforce” these “rules” about the music through all sorts of ways. For example, when attending a concert, we are supposed to dress and/or applaud differently depending upon which type of music we are seeing performed. This is kind of silly, but also aids in the ways we are able to truly “appreciate” the music in the most appropriate way.

But, this brings lots of dumb elitism to different styles of music.

Can you think of anything—a style of music, a type of movie, a type of book, etc.—which is often degraded as not very artistic, but who you just love or find very moving? Why do you think this thing—music, movie, book, etc.—is so derided by the elites? Why do you disagree?

What are the distinctions in sociology between the terms sex and gender? What importance does the differentiation between the terms have in modern society?

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Journal Reflection

Purpose:

The purpose of this assignment is to allow for reflection on the course topics and their connection to everyday life.

Instructions (Read this in its entirety):

Be sure to mention the topic you select in your Introduction paragraph. Do NOT copy and paste the question, as we don’t do that in college papers.

Respond to ALL the questions for the selected option and share a reflection on the topic. Consider the course materials in your reflection as well, focusing on a sociological analysis of the topic in society. In this, course materials need to be cited, per APA 7th ed. format, and appear on the References page. Also share what has potentially impacted your views on those topics.

Although the prompt you select may ask for your opinion, write this assignment entirely in 3rd person, not in first person (I, we, us, my, mine), and 2nd person (you, your, you’re) is never used in college papers. This way, your writing will be sociologically-focused and objective.

Your journal reflection should be at least 1 1/2 pages in length, not including the Student Title Page and References page. Be very sure to write in your own words (paraphrase), using no direct quotes. However, all information from outside sources needs to be cited or it may be considered plagiarism! 😊

Assignment Prompt:

What are the distinctions in sociology between the terms sex and gender? What importance does the differentiation between the terms have in modern society? Also discuss gender stratification and provide examples of gender stratification from the U.S. or other societies. Find a recent news piece (within the last year) related to gender or provide an example of how gender is portrayed in the media (such as advertisements shown on GenderAds.com). Share a link to your selected source or image and describe the connection to the course topics this week (such as sexism or gender roles). How is gender typically depicted in the media? What has impacted your beliefs about gender in your everyday life? How has the perception of gender changed in society?

Identify the five changes you made, noting what was originally written and what the changes were that you chose to make. Discuss the “why” behind your revision process in the multimodal element.

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Emily Dickinson

Note that the essays and PowerPoints included in the directions for each role are distinct parts of the writing, meaning each (the essay and PowerPoint) should contain original writing and the use of original sources.

Deliverable – a two-page essay (double-spaced, Times New Roman and 12) with sources, MLA 9th edition formatted (with two sources to help make your argument), and a PowerPoint.

They say that if you can’t beat them, well, then, you better join them, and that is what we are doing in this assignment. The poem “Because I Could Not Stop For Death” by Emily Dickinson you see below was written by ChatGPT. You will critique and revise one of the poems below written in the style of an author you read this semester. Consider one way that the writing is consistent with what you know of the author’s work from reading the poet’s work this semester. Share the original poem and compare what the program wrote to what the author wrote, noting a key similarity. Consider one way that the writing is different and do the same. Share lines from the original poem and compare what the program wrote to what the author wrote, noting a key difference.

Edit the poem. You may use comment boxes in Microsoft Word or Google to show your five significant changes. Identify the five changes you made, noting what was originally written and what the changes were that you chose to make. You will discuss the “why” behind your revision process in the multimodal element. Within your analysis / comparison of the writing, you should include two scholarly database sources that help to support your claims regarding a key similarity and difference within the writing.

Calculate the total operating expenses for Amazon, Walmart, and Target for 2022 and 2021.

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Total operating expenses

Use Excel. Calculate the total operating expenses for Amazon, Walmart, and Target for 2022 and 2021.