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The Emerald Forest
(a) comparison of the authority structure implied by the chief's statement, "If I told a man to do what he does not want to do, I would no longer be chief," with the authority structures of American society and/or your own society;
(b) an examination of the role of technology in each culture, including its relationship to the natural environment, and why the Westerners are called the termite people;
(c) the ways in which spirituality is revealed in the culture of the Invisible People;
(d) which culture, in your view, makes people happier and better satisfies human needs (say what these are, and include spirituality and community);
(e) how Freud, Durkheim, OR Marx might answer part (d) above, and why (very important; should be at least 200 words); and
(f) which culture would you rather live in, and why? Whichever culture you choose, what might our culture learn from the culture of the Invisible People?
If you use any outside sources to help you answer the questions you must provide the URL.
What was the fair housing act? Why are issues and the history around housing so important to understanding racial inequality in the US.
What is Black Lives Matter? How is it related to earlier social movements for racial equality?
According to the author of this piece, why has BLM achieved so much popularity recently?
What are some forms of social control that have been used to contain and punish African Americans in the past and present?
According to the article, what was the original source and reason for the development of racist ideologies in the United States?
How has the US government promoted and insured that Black Americans would remain economically disenfranchised in the past?
Why, according to the author, do we need to address economic inequality in order to achieve racial equality? What evidence does the author present to make this point? What do you think?
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There are estimated to be anywhere between 11 and 20 million undocumented aliens in the US. The estimates vary because this population is not easily counted. In addition, enforcing the immigration laws is problematic because there are different views about the seriousness of the problem. The federal government has sole jurisdiction to enforce the immigration laws, but some states intentionally obstruct federal enforcement efforts and label themselves as sanctuary cities. The caravans from Central America continue to be a problem for the Department of Homeland Security. Some consider migration problems to be a crisis while others do not. Since President Trump was elected in 2016 the immigration debate has increased in intensity.
The continuum of official responses to the immigration problem range from allowing open borders and full amnesty through strict enforcement of existing immigration laws and the removal of all undocumented aliens from the US and everything in between.
Forum C Assignment:
After reviewing your opinion and responses to at least two other posts conduct more detailed research on the immigration issues and submit a short paper that compares and contrasts your original opinion and label as forum C. Look for information on legal and illegal immigration, sanctuary cities, political asylum, or any other immigration related information of interest and after reviewing the forum posts of other students has your final opinion changed? Your final opinion should be approximately 500 words or 2-3 typewritten pages with a bibliography. 10 pts. Due: 7/20
Reminder: submit only recognizable file formats such as MS Word, .rtf., txt., doc., docx. Blackboard may upload the file, but I may not be able to open it at my end unless it matches acceptable formats. Please avoid google files, MS works, or zip files. They may not open in blackboard.
Submit online by the due date listed in the syllabus. Refer to the Rubric for submission guidelines.
Suggested background information:
Caravans continue to push for U.S. Border
3,000 Central American migrants’ crosses into Mexico
Immigration
The Illegal Alien Problem
DHS Inspector General Report (2015)
The Immigration Paradox
Illegal Immigrant Acquitted of Killing Kate Steinle
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For the paper, all you have to do is simply write about a black lives matter text in the form of a research essay or else a critical literary review. In regards to choosing or understanding if the text supporting the theme Black Lives Matters, all you would have to do is simply see if the text supports the idea of Black lives Matters. Not the organization, but the theme itself. From there, you can make a thesis statement based on a detail you find to align with your opinion. For example: Lift every voice and sing demands a take your knee off my neck moment with the vivid use of imagery and literary devices to promote the idea that we are rising. *I'm not using this as a thesis. After this, you would explain how the work does this with sources that could be other people's critical review of the literature or genre research on topics building up the one that you have found USING ACADEMIC JOURNALS. Then from there, you would write using a non-first person voice. FOr more details, you can look here-> https://www.bucks.edu/media/bcccmedialibrary/pdf/HOWTOWRITEALITERARYANALYSISESSAY_10.15.07_001.pdf
As far as the presentation, you are literary making a PowerPoint as it is explained in the content or link below. I haven't started on mine yet.
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Use one quote from "Mother Tongue", by Amy Tan to argue for or against this generalization (In order to truly thrive and reach fulfillment, a person must understand their family history). Write four paragraph essay introduction, conclusion and two body paragraphs.
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As you learned from your reading, or soon will, statistics can be very misleading, especially if they’re based on faulty research techniques or are otherwise biased. And just because something is reported to be statistically relevant, that’s not always the case either. For your Discussion Board # 2 I want you to do the following:
I want you to find, on-line, a statement about some statistic about something. I don’t care what the statistic is about, per se. I just want you to find something that you can use for this assignment Keep in mind that using terms like increase by 30%, double your chances or other such terminology is math-based and usable for this assignment. So that we can all go check it out for ourselves, 1) I want you to cut and paste the link to the quoted material into your Discussion Board post. I will randomly be looking up several of these referenced links to check that the stat was actually on-line where identified…
After finding a stat, hopefully one that is interesting and fun to examine, I want you to practice using your Sociological Imagination, Sociological Perspectives and your new knowledge of statistics and conducting appropriate research to examine the legitimacy of the statistic. Granted, there's no way to truly know if your analysis is accurate or not because you won't actually have the real data to observe. 2) What I want you to do instead is simply practice the art of questioning the data/statistic/information that you receive.
Much of what were are spoon fed by the media and other outlets is not based on well-researched data. And, even if the data seems reliable the explanation of the data is lacking. A good example was with my illustration of the Conflict Theory as it attempts to understand the high numbers of minorities in the criminal justice system. Statistically speaking, yes, there are more minorities incarcerated than whites. BUT, that is certainly not the whole picture. Aside from the obvious assumption that minorities are all criminals, there are other rational explanations for this phenomena. Perhaps there are more minorities in jail b/c they can’t afford good legal council, or because they are targets of increased surveillance, or because the Criminal Justice system is full biases…
So, again, find a statistic of some kind and then analyze it. 3) Tell me/us what things (besides the obvious) might also account for the statistic? 4) What does the stat really mean? Go beyond common sense answers and the obvious. Reach for a "Big Picture"understanding of what's not being included in the study. 5) Tell us what you think the researcher might be missing that could explain the data. Feel free to be pretty creative in your explanations of the data. I don't mind as long as your explanation is somewhat plausible. 6) Conversely, if the stat you find isn't easily analyzed in that manner, what I want you to do is question the reliability of the stat based on your knowledge of research. For instance, if the NRA says that guns don't kill, it seems logical that we might question that data. Explain why you might be inclined to question the stat.
To help you with this assignment, I encourage you to read the additional handout on Canvas titled Misleading Statistics. There are several examples therein of faulty reasoning that might be helpful/applicable when you’re in the position of questioning your stat.
This initial post is due and also involves two response posts to the threads posted by your peers. Please examine the posts of your peers and let them know what you think of their analysis. Did they miss anything that you personally might question about the stat they choose?
Please remember to add an INTERESTING subject line to your thread. Don't just put Question 2. That is SO boring! Also, I again strongly encourage you to keep the conversation going. Respond to those that respond to you...
Why not make this assignment fun! You can create a video that answers this question using the same criteria above. You may also create a video in order to reply to someone else's post. You can use YouTube, Ponapto, or other kinds of similar video recorders. Cell Phones work as well. Your videos should be around 2-5 minutes in length, you can even act out a scenario!
Discussion Posts checklist:
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No unread replies.No replies. Did I answer all the questions. Must write each questions, then answer that one question. Did I use at least two terms from the chapter in question. In my post, BOLDing each term so that everyone knows which terms I used. Is it long enough. Did I answer each question fully in sociological terms or did I just write a sentence without referring to the knowledge in the text book. Did I write in proper English and use proper netiquette Did I respond to two other posts sociologically Did I use two terms from the book for each response, once again BOLDing the terms so that everyone knows which terms I am using. If you have any questions about this post assignment, please e-mail me directly.
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For this week's discussion forum, I would like for you to do a google search on "preparedness and X" where X is your local jurisdiction. So for example, I would search "preparedness and Orlando." Write your post this week about the resources you find, and be sure to reference the text and at least one of the videos in your post.
Start your own thread by posting a 500 word reply to this question
Three Videos below: https://www.coursera.org/learn/disaster-preparedness?action=enroll
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