In our readings for this week, several frameworks for understanding consciousness are presented. For our discussion, this week, think about personal identity and individual ego. How do these various traditions frame the ego and its role in development? What is the role of the ego in enlightenment across the traditions? Does it mean transcending the ego? —dissolving the ego? Reading is attached. Please submit in 2 days […]

A 23-year-old male softball coach has consensual sexual intercourse with a 17-year-old female player while driving her home after a game. A 23-year-old female high school teacher engages in consensual sexual relations with a 17-year-old male student during an after-school tutoring session in the classroom. These are two crimes that carry with them the same penalties because they violate the same statute. Based upon your […]

The task is to study a premodern[2] settlement system of a whole political-military network [3] composed of interacting polities. Please submit a word document with your name, and name and location the main premodern settlement that will be the focus of your study of a settlement system and the time period you will study. Also include full citations for at least three sources of information about your […]

Watch the video below and respond to the following discussion prompts. Make sure to use examples from the video and concepts from this week’s reading assignment to answer the questions. 1. How are issues of gender “socially constructed” in society? 2. How do social institutions such as the family, the peer group, educational institutions and the media facilitate social expectations of gender? 3. Does the […]

Research the issue of education disparity between impoverished families and those from high income families/communities. Explain if research shows that students from high income families achieve better in school. Develop a list outlining possible reasons why this disparity is real. Next, create a list of possible solutions micro (individual) and macro (systems, laws) solutions) that can address this disparity, with hopes of closing the gap. […]

Review the New York Times “A Conversation on Race”. Choose one of the videos that you relate least to and watch it (you are welcome to watch all the videos). Write a synopsis of the video and address the following questions: What stereotypes did you have regarding the race that was discussed? Do you have a new perception of the race, or did your perception remain […]

Without ignoring due process and Constitutional protections, what changes to the death penalty would make it a more effective deterrent to murder? here is my answer to the question: Most people have legitimate feelings about the death penalty’s deterrence impact. A deterrent impact is self-evident to others. To some, the lack of a deterrence impact is self-evident attributable to the complexity of the death penalty’s encroachment and […]

A team of social workers meets to discuss their services to low-income young mothers. One social worker states that what the young mothers need most is information about community resources. She proposes that the social workers’ activities consist of making referrals to programs for public assistance for income support, food stamps, medical insurance, employment agencies, and educational resources. However, another team member points out that […]

If there is a right and wrong answer, there is no ethical dilemma. An ethical dilemma occurs when one or more competing ethical principles must be considered and weighed against each other. Social workers serve individuals, families, and communities who experience complex problems for which there are rarely simple solutions, or right or wrong answers. As such, social workers use the NASW Code of Ethics […]

In their article, “Sex, Sexuality, Sexting and Sex Ed,” researchers Brown, Keller, and Stern (2009) state that the Internet has become a sex education class. Based on this article, identify a website that a teen may view to learn more about dating, sex, or romantic love, taking care to not include pornographic sites. Analyze how a teen may interpret the information presented on the website […]