Sunday, 9 February 2014

South Korea

South Korea

Project Description: The session long project (SLP) consists of an investigation of a country: it can be either an industrialized country (other than the United States), or an advanced developing country (like China); please do not choose a developing country (like Iraq). The relationship between the country's health and demographics will be addressed.
SLP #2: Investigate your selected country with respect to the health of its population:
1. Discuss the major health issues in your country? The country I selected is South Korea.
2. Identify which health issues disproportionately effect certain groups based on their demographics (e.g. gender, race, age, employment status, location).





ASSIGNMENT EXPECTATIONS: Please read before completing assignments.

Assignment should be approximately 2-3 pages in length (double-spaced).

Please use major sections corresponding to the major points of the assignment, and where appropriate use sub-sections (with headings).

Remember to write in a Scientific manner (try to avoid using the first person except when describing a relevant personal experience).

Quoted material should not exceed 10% of the total paper (since the focus of these assignments is on independent thinking and critical analysis). Use your own words and build on the ideas of others.

When material is copied verbatim from external sources, it MUST be properly cited. This means that material copied verbatim must be enclosed in quotes and the reference should be cited either within the text or with a footnote.

Use of peer-reviewed articles is strongly recommended. Websites as references should be minimal


Select an article from a consumer magazine or newspaper (must have been written in the last 30 days, provide link for all classmates to read article in full) on a topic related to the health of the skin, hair, or nails – a component of the integumentary system. Provide a summary of the article as well as a discussion of the associated anatomy and physiology. Teach the topic to your classmates by means of a 300 to 500-word post. Describe the topic to them as if you were the instructor teaching the class. Be sure to provide your opinion regarding the information noted in the article. What impressed you about the information, etc? Make a connection to the anatomy and physiology of the topic we covered this week.

Write a minimum 5 pages reflection critical analysis' essay entitled “Is morality relative or are there objective moral truths?


Write a minimum 5 pages reflection critical analysis' essay entitled “Is morality relative or are there objective moral truths?” This essay should explore the ethical, scientific, historic and socio-cultural dimensions of the readings. You have to read two readings (links you will find below the assignment description), one written by Ruth Benedict, “The Case for Moral Relativism” and a second written by Louis P. Pojman entitled “The Case Against Moral Relativism.”
What position do you hold regarding the essay’s question? Do you agree or disagree with the positions stated in the two readings? In order to prove your thesis make reference to the required readings from Unit 1 and 2, to the Instructor’s Lecture, as well as to two readings included in this assignment. In the Instructor’s Lecture you have an additional bibliography.


In your essay you should:
1. Use both readings as well as the rest of the required readings included in the Learning Modules.
2. Give answers to the following questions:
1. Regarding Benedict’s paper:
1. Is Benedict correct in saying that our culture is “but one entry in a long series of possible adjustments”? What are the implications of this statement?
2. Can we separate the descriptive (or fact-stating) aspect of anthropological study from the prescriptive (evaluative) aspect of evaluating cultures? Are there some independent criteria by which we can say that some cultures are better than others? Can you think how this project might begin?
3. What are the implications of Benedict's claim that morality is simply whatever a culture deems normal behavior? Is this a satisfactory equation? Can you apply it to the institution of slavery or the Nazi policy of anti-Semitism?
4. What is the significance of Benedict’s statement, “The very eyes with which we see the problem are conditioned by the long traditional habits of our own society”? Can we apply the conceptual relativism embodied in this statement to her own position? (taken form Pojman L.P., Vaughn L., The Moral Life, New York 2007, p. 165.)
b. Regarding Pojman’s paper:

1.    Is Pojman correct in thinking most American students tend to be moral relativists? If he is, why is this? What is the attraction of relativism? If he’s not correct, explain your answer.
2. Explain the difference between subjective ethical relativism and conventionalism.
3. Sometimes people argue that since there are no universal moral truths, each culture’s morality is as good as every other, so we ought not to interfere in its practices. Assess this argument.
4. Does moral relativism have a bad effect on society? Reread the tape-recorded conversation between serial murderer Ted Bundy and one of his victims (pages 171-172) in which Bundy attempts to justify the murder of his victim on the basis of the idea that all moral values are subjective. Analyze Bundy's discussion. How would the relativist respond to Bundy's claim that relativism justifies rape and murder? What do you think? Why? (taken form Pojman L.P., Vaughn L., The Moral Life, New York 2007, pp. 190-191.)
Readings:
1. http://www.colorado.edu/philosophy/heathwood/pdf/benedict_relativism.pdf
2. Louis P. Pojman, “The Case Against Moral Relativism."

The laser in an audio compact disc player uses light with a wavelength of 7.80×10 Squared nm calculate the frequency of this light

Sociological Forces

Sociological forces

Write an essay of 750-1,000 words describing the sociological forces that have generated the controversy over same-sex marriages and civil unions in the United States. Explain the ramifications of these unions on society and describe if and how this will result in further social change.

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Short Creative Essay

During the Fall quarter, among the issues we discussed were cultural myths and the cultural roots of “common sense” As we grow within a particular environment and culture we gradually develop a strongly embedded picture of “how the world works”. Our perceptions are shaped by our expectations and our thinking and behaviors are molded and constrained by our assumptions. What happens when you find yourself suddenly in a situation where the old rules apparently no longer apply? How do we experience the shift? How do you respond? Can you adapt?

This situation is one that to various degrees we all have or will confront. History presents us with examples from the Native Americans encountering the conquistadors to Hitler's implementing his “final solution” upon assimilated Jews. Consider Plato's philosopher when he first emerges from the cave. Literature and film have found this a rich vein to mine... from Shakespeare to James Cameron.

This assignment is to write a short story in which a character experiences a dislocation of expectations. Assumptions, expectations, shared values are suddenly gone. You are free to choose any context from your story.... an internal family drama to a sudden translocation to another galaxy. The common thread is to establish the assumptions, disrupt them and explore the consequences. I'd say 5 pages would be about right. 

Discussion -Starburst Cluster, Kepler-Brahe, Laplace

Create a post that responds to one of the four topics posted by taking a position (agree or disagree) on that topic and back it up with peer-reviewed reference information. Make sure that your opinion is approximately one paragraph followed by your supporting information (one paragraph).

1. The sun should not have planets if it originated in a starburst cluster

2. M67 was a starburst cluster

3. Kepler murdered Brahe (you will need to use outside resources to make an educated post).

4. Laplace's philosophy was that God set up the Universe to evolve completely by natural forces with no supernatural intervention after creation. He was correct. There is no need to appeal to supernatural intervention in order to explain the characteristics of the Earth and solar system.