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Context
Through this course we have examined the role of civil society actors in cities and investigated how they might use different strategies to facilitate change in order to achieve their goal(s). These strategies may include one or any combination of the following:
Engagement through political decision-making procedures
Participation through elections and other democratic processes
The utilization of scientific expertise
Communications and messaging using traditional and/or new forms of media
Interacting with different levels of government
Organizing public demonstrations, protests, and civil disobedience
All of the above have their benefits and drawbacks, and might be applicable and relevant depending on the issue, jurisdictions, and particular moment in time.

Question
Based on the topic that you selected for your Stakeholder Map or Stakeholder Briefing Note assignments, you are to select one of the strategies listed above and explain and build a case as to why you think that particular strategy is the most effective in helping a civil society actor (that you have identified) achieve its goal(s).

Tips and Instructions
Your Research Paper will require a clear and concise research question, which is specific to the topic that you selected. You may structure your paper and corresponding arguments, findings, conclusions in any manner you wish.  
please reference your sources as required. (i.e., the word limit does not include your references).

Grading Rubric
Your Research Paper will be graded using the following composite rubric:
Topic and Research Question
Is the topic current, specific, and relevant to both cities and urban politics?
Does the student identify and incorporate a suitable theoretical framework throughout the paper?
Civil Society
Did the student identify an appropriate civil society actor that is pertinent to the topic?
Critical Analysis of the Strategy
Does the student support the strategy using evidence from course readings and/or external references?
Are the references included both applicable and relevant and to the topic/arguments presented?
Conclusions
Is the summary and conclusion plausible and achievable?
Grammar, Writing Style, and Referencing
Is the paper easy to read and are the arguments clear and quickly identifiable?
Does the student use a recognized referencing style and is consistent throughout the body of the paper?

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Maintaining the cultural identity of minority children who receive foster care and adoption services is a heated issue in child welfare. When there are too few minority families for the children needing foster care and adoption, what should the policy of the welfare department be in placing minority children? How consistent is your answer with the current child welfare policy in your community (Kansas)?

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Discuss the process of crop domestication, using specific examples. What are some of the main cultural impacts of the switch from hunting and gathering to crop domestication?

2.  Discuss the history and cultural significance of aphrodisiac foods. Use specific food examples.

3.  Discuss the history and significance of spices in regional cuisines. Use specific examples.

4. Discuss the history of chocolate as well as its possible health and intelligence impacts on people.

5. What are food taboos? Why do they exist? Give specific examples.

6. Salmon represents one of the few modern foods that is still harvested (mostly) from the wild in large numbers. Discuss the life cycle of salmon, as well as the likely health benefits of salmon consumption. What are your views on genetically modified salmon?

7.  Review the transfer and transformation of chili peppers—including their uses and cultural significance—from Mexico to Europe.  

8. Review the domestication of animals for food.  Also, discuss the historical and cultural significance of turkeys.

9.  Discuss the origin and cultural significance of potatoes. Explain how (according to McNeill) the humble potato changed world history.

10. Discuss the development and spread of American fast food. Use examples, including the story of Taco Bell.

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Please write the given topic(title) based on the following main points

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Gender and Resource Extracting: The Case of the Maroons of Suriname Resource extraction is a highly gendered activity. Yet, despite the type of gender, the resource extraction is a very important for rapid economic growth. Every human person, whether male or female, has a major role to play in economic development, for individual, communal, or national sectors of life. Seck and Simons study on ‘Resource Extraction and the Human Rights of Women and Girls’ identifies that the relationship between the women and the resource extraction is complex, pointing out "Large-scale mining and oil and gas development is highly gendered and deeply masculine"1. Although women from some countries and regions of the world may work as employees, managers, lawyers, or executives in the sectors of mining and oil extraction, some communities discriminate against women when it comes to resource extraction. Heemskert provides the best example of women discrimination among the Maroons of Suriname in gold mining. The study has conducted among the Ndjuka Maroons in Suriname, South America, has established that few Ndjuka women participate in mining.  In light of the impact of gender discrimination and classification in resource extraction, the study seeks to identify the household economic consequences of excluding women from resource extraction among the Maroons of Suriname. 

Study Objectives:
The objectives of the essay is to establish whether indeed there is gender bias in resource extraction, to determine the role that culture plays in gender discrimination and to find out whether the gender discrimination in resource extraction is prevalent in a certain ethnicities and races as compared to others.

Research Questions :
I. What role does gender bias play in resource extraction among the Maroons of Suriname? 
II. What effects do gendered resource extraction biases have on individuals, families, and society in general? 
III. What steps can be taken to address issues of gender bias in resource extraction? 

Theoretical Framework and Methodology:  
Varieties of theories examine and explore the phenomenon of gender, especially when it comes to the classification of roles. Some of the gender theories are social constructionism, feminism theory, structural functionalism, critical theory, conflict theory, positivism, and social change. In view of the subject of gender bias on the resource extraction, the study would focus on the theories of social constructionism, structural functionalism, and social change. The study would employ based on relevant literatures. The essence of using relevant literatures is to be able to obtain data from the ground and from experts and scholars who have studied the subject of gender biases in resource extraction, particularly among the population of the Maroons.

Bibliography 
Heemskerk, Marieke. “Gender and Gold Mining: The Case of the Maroons of Suriname.” 
Women and International Development 202, no. 269, (2000): 1-33. 

Khoesial, Sheela. Women Food Producers in Suriname: Technology and Marketing. San Jose: 
IICA Biblioeca Venezuela, 1996. 

Seck, Sara, and Penelope Simons. “Resource Extraction and the Human Rights of Women and 
Girls: Policy Recommendations Associated with the Feminist International Assistance Policy.” Research Gate (2018): 1-14

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Background: We are presently employed in a Court Clinic. A young man, Douglas Murrow, is awaiting trial for Breaking and Entering in the Nighttime and Assault & Battery (2 counts). The police report states that Mr. Murrow, age 39, has a long history of both police and psychiatric interventions, including two involuntary hospitalizations. He broke into the home of his parents last night, awakened them with his screaming and ranting, and he threw all of their prescription and over-the-counter medications at his father and mother and shoved each of them when they tried to reach the telephone in order to call the police. The police have intervened before with this man, who refuses all treatment.

When he meets with his court-appointed attorney and us, the psychologists in the court clinic, he confides that his parents have been coming into his apartment at night, and torturing him in his sleep, resulting in many sleepless nights. He also complained that they are conspiring with his doctor to give him psychotropic medications, and putting medications into the milk and juice in his refrigerator. He broke into their apartment, he said, to give them a "taste of what they are handing out." He avoided any questions about his feelings, confusion, paranoid ideas, and insisted there was nothing wrong with him. His attorney requested an evaluation for competency to stand trial, because Mr. Murrow refuses to consider an insanity defense. His attorney believes it's a plausible and even compelling defense, because of the delusional nature of Mr. Murrow's beliefs. Mr. Murrow, however, will not hear of it, and says he intends to file a motion to get a new attorney, one who will expose his parents' many crimes against him to the court, so that "the truth will finally come out."

When asked the standard questions about competency to stand trial, Mr. Murrow's responses are coherent and correct, although there is sometimes a bit of a paranoid tinge to the occasional response. For example, when asked what role his lawyer would take in a trial, instead of saying, "defend me," or something similar, his response indicated that he felt most of the court-appointed defense attorneys were puppets of "the system," and did not have the intelligence necessary to "see through the bull" and recognize just how badly Douglas Murrow was being treated.

His attorney wonders if Mr. Murrow is competent to stand trial, since his refusal to consider a viable defense that has a good chance to prevail, as well as his insistence on an approach that will "unmask" the conspiracies against him makes it impossible to work with him.

In your jurisdiction the standard for competency to stand trial is that the defendant must have sufficient present ability to understand the charges against him and possible penalties if found guilty, and sufficient present ability to consult with his attorney in order to assist in his own defense.

Discussion Question:

What is your opinion (not on competency – the ultimate issue – but on his abilities as described above)? Support your opinion based on information from the scenario as well as on case law precedents and other competency information from the text. I expect a lively discussion about the various ways one can look at this issue.

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Write in your course journal at least one (up to three) or more pages reflecting on at least two impactful things you learned for that week and briefly why they are significant to you or others. They can be big or small, theoretical or empirical, and you are the judge of whether they are significant. // focus primarily on meritocracy and then the history of talentism and racism

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Does marital satisfaction influence parenting?

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When and where they existed. Significant morphological features. Significant cultural or behavioral adaptations that the particular species utilized. Anything else you may want to add.

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With any relationship, the boundaries between people can sometimes become blurred. An interaction that has been identified in social work practice as a potential for blurring boundaries is called countertransference. This dynamic occurs when a social worker unconsciously relates to the client’s situation. Perhaps the client reminds the social worker of themselves at a point in their lives or of a close friend. This perspective may result in intense feelings, a narrowing of professional boundaries, and ultimately a weakened client-social worker relationship.

Similarly, these same intense feelings can occur in the client if the client aligns the social worker with an influential person in their life, such as seeing the social worker as a mother figure. This phenomenon is known as transference.

In this Assignment, you reflect on countertransference and transference and how you might minimize its effects in a social work scenario.


Submit a 4- to 5-page paper in which you:

Define the concepts of countertransference and transference as they relate to working with a client.
Identify a population or a social issue to which you may personally relate.
Reflect on and describe how countertransference could negatively impact your relationship with a client who may relate to the population or social issue you identified.
Reflect on and describe how the client may engage in transference with you for similar reasons.
Identify two strategies you would use to address countertransference and/or transference in this scenario.

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Write a 750-1,000-word analysis on social stratification regarding race Choose a social institution to describe and analyze the effect that the stratification elements of race have on that social institution. Include the following in your analysis: Explain how race impacts the social institution. Identify a form of race inequality associated with the social institution and use theoretical perspectives to explain the social behaviors that perpetuate the inequality. Suggest measures for the social institution to implement to help alleviate the racial inequality you identified. Provide a minimum of three to five scholarly sources to support your analysis and conclusion. Additionally, you will need to include statistical data of the expression of stratification regarding Race within the social institution

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Apply theories of conformity to develop social influence strategies which can promote workfrom-home effectiveness in teams.
There must be citations of relevant theoretical and empirical evidence to support your arguments, with a minimum of 3 references listed accurately in APA format required for this paper. These references should be based on your additional research. That is, you shall cite at least THREE journal articles or published book chapters (excluding the textbook)

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deals with the concept of gender socialization-the processes by which certain people and experiences teach us what it is to be a girl or boy, woman or man.  reflect on this concept and compare it to your personal experiences from your formative years. clearly state the "rules" of gender and how well you back them up with some rich, vivid details.          
  describe at least two different agents of socialization--that is, family, school, peers, coworkers, media influences, etc. that you think were the most important influences shaping your idea of appropriate gender roles.  What exactly did each of these agents teach you about gender?  
describe the ways in which they taught you these lessons.  Did they explicitly tell you, "here's how to act like a girl/boy/woman/man?" or were there more subtle cues you just sort of "picked up on"?
describe your reactions--do you think you ended up conforming to the roles you were taught?  Why or why not?
conclude with your thoughts for the future...Do you think you will teach your children the same gender roles you were taught?  What do you think would be good messages to spread to young girls and boys, women and men in the future?