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GENDER AND SEXUAL DEVELOPMENTBriefly discuss both biological and social contributions to the development of sexual identity and development. Be sure your discussion includes both biological and social aspects of development across the lifespan. Include both same-sex and opposite sex identities in your discussion.Then, provide at least one bible scripture that supports or forbids same-sex behavior. It is important to distinguish between attraction and behavior in this part of the discussion. Do you believe it is a sin to be attracted (tempted) to a person of the same-sex? Do you believe it is a sin to act on that temptation by practicing homosexual behavior? Do you believe the attraction is a product of “ nature” (biological) or “nurture” (social) or both?Note, do not simply discuss what you “think” or “feel”. Rather give valid bases for your answers. These can include both scripture and scientific bases. Just be sure to think critically regarding your sources and the application to your position.NOTE: This is one question, but has two parts that should be connected with each other in your discussion3909912 minutes agoThis is a discussion board post

What was the Counter-Reformation? include information about the Council of Trent and its purpose. What were some of the results of the council? how were these results reflected in the art, music, and culture of the Catholic Church?

“Without attention, the human sense of wonder and the holy will stir occasionally, but to become a steady flame it must be tended.” Judaism seeks to hallow life through prayer, ritual, and tradition. How do you personally or others you know fan the flame of reverence and wonder?

Brief reflection post on the following theories 1) Marilyn Anne Roy’s Theory of Bureaucratic Caring 2) Troutman-Jordan’s Theory of Successful Aging

For any written project, it’s safe to start with the basics. Who, what, when, where, how, why (did you like/dislike).  What impressed you most about the performance? Why?  Why did you like/dislike the music? Did one song stand out from all the others?  Describe the performers. Were they connecting with the audience or just ignoring them? Were they expressive or just going through the motions?  Can you connect the musical terms and concepts you learned from the student guide with the live performance of the musicians? Explain using examples. Your paper should be at least 300 words and must be submitted online. Concert Reports: The Live Experience Attend a musical performance and write a summary of your experience, as indicated below in “What to Look For at the Concerts.” Unless told otherwise by your instructor, you will complete two concert reports during this course. To give you time to pick and attend these concerts, the assignment is given now and is due at the end of Lesson Nine. For the most mileage, make sure at least one of the concerts are by professionals playing music in the cultures we are studying (either traditional or contemporary world music from those cultures). The second concert can be from any world music culture in the world. Do not include Western popular music, jazz, or Western classical music unless it includes significantelements of world music. Music rooted in traditional folk cultures, such as Irish music or Klezmer, is fine. If you are taking this course in an area that does not have live world music, you can rent DVD performances or see if there are suitable performances on television, but live performance is preferred and worth traveling to hear. Most areas have cultural performances. In your report, be sure to note whether the music was in a concert or a cultural setting, and whether it was contemporary or traditional world music. Was it pure or cross-cultural? Include a description of the environment you saw it in. Was there something you learned about the culture from the performance or the performer(s)? Be prepared to bring a notebook and pen to write down information from the concert. Remember to include the following details: Date of concert. Name of non-Western European Concert or Event attended. Place of concert. Type of concert. The name(s) of performer(s), or group(s). Title of the compositions and dances (if included). Description of any visual effects (i.e., movement, dance, costumes, stage scenery, director, narrator, and so forth). Culture of the music and/or dance (include any historical considerations you can give, based on research, conversations with performers, or concert program, if any). Description of music using specific musical terms (i.e., melody, harmony, rhythm, texture/instrumentation, dynamics, timbre, and form). Why did you choose this concert? What did you like or dislike about this concert and its environment? Choose one composition that you enjoyed the best and explain why (please add the title, composer, instruments/timbre, form, tempo, and anything else that may have added to your musical experience). Carefully read through the list of what to look for below and make any additional observations.Before attending each concert, you may want to look up information on the composer(s), performers, styles, and pieces ahead of time. You can look these up on the Internet or in other reference sources (including later lessons of this course). What to Look For at the Concerts Review the items below ahead of time, perhaps even bringing them with you! While it is important to be supportive of the performers and allow yourself to continue to simply enjoy the music, some added levels of appreciation and sensitivity can make your experience richer. Here are some things to consider and comment on in your paper. They will help you be more specific about your reactions. One way to experience a work of art or a piece of music is to be completely innocent and receptive, and be aware, in effect, of how your body, mind, emotions, and spirit are transformed. You can essentially become the work and describe your experience. Describe the effect of this performance on your body, mind, and emotions. A live performance can be a chance for the performer (and composer) to enter into communication with the audience. To what extent do you feel the performer or performers responded to what was happening in the room during the performance? (Maybe they didn’t!) Do you feel they were intimate and giving or simply going through the motions? Did they seem to be in familiar territory or were they “going for it,” digging deep into the material and discovering something as they played? The performer’s state of consciousness has an effect on what is communicated. Did you feel the performer and/or conductor was emotional? intellectual? expanded? contracted? transported? fluid? enjoying? at ease? What were your clues? Were your clues physical, musical, or intuitive? What visual elements contributed to the performance? Were you expected to participate? If so, did you participate fully? In the playing, were there sensitivity and variety in the dynamics? Did the tempo seem satisfying? Was the performer comfortable with periods of silence or very low volume? Did you feel that the music seemed to arise out of silence or was it purely active? If it was an ensemble, were the performers listening or communicating with each other? Was it different during solos (if any)? Was vocal music a part of the performance? If so, what qualities of voice were part of the style? What musical forms or structures did you notice? Was there a good balance of repetition and contrast in these pieces? What aspects were inventive or surprising? Which elements were attractive? In terms of the characteristics that contribute to making you able to identify music as being from a particular culture, what elements stood out or seemed important? What made the music clearly from this culture? What else did you notice about the following elements: melody, harmony, rhythm, timbre, dynamics, texture, form, cultural elements? If any of the elements bothered you, why? If you were already familiar with any of the music or players, how did this performance differ from what you have heard? Could you recognize a basic melody or repeating melodic patterns? While you are there, think about some of the typical concert conventions. Why do you think people clap? How do you think that affects the performer and audience? Who were the audience members? Were many from the music’s native culture? Did they follow any conventions that struck you? How did your expectations affect your experience? Did you feel different or changed in some way after the performance? Would you recommend this performer or any of the music to someone else? How did having awareness of the aspects above affect your experience or enjoyment? If this is your second, is your answer to this any different from what it was for the previous concert? If you have attended both traditional and contemporary world music concerts for this assignment, did this approach work well for both?

Discussion Post – Two Separate Questions: Please relate answers to the class materials from this week Directions: For each Discussion Forum Topic, thoroughly respond to each of the questions in the discussion prompt. Your initial post should be substantial (300-350 words) and should integrate the readings and media from the week as well as outside sources if appropriate. Use complete sentences and proper syntax, spelling, and grammar. Cite all sources in APA. Question 1: What role does a leader have in creating effective communication in teams?  Provide your answer based on the reading this week and give three examples of poor team/organizational communication that you are familiar with and at least one recommendation for each on how they could have been improved.  Please change names to keep confidential information and identities safe. Question 2: Developing more effective teams is critical to workplace performance.  Pick 1 of the following to summarize key points from the reading: Teams Across Cultures Virtual Teams Team Decision-Making Strategies Creativity on Teams Support your selection with an example or two that you can relate to. Class Materials: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHpB1EBufFo&feature=emb_title Robbins, S. & Judge, T. (2019). Organizational Behavior (18th ed.). New York: Pearson.

Philosophy Paper Prompt “Self-driving” cars hold the promise of being safer and more fuel-efficient than today’s manually driven cars. However, they also introduce some challenging ethical issues. Since accidents will still occur, these cars must be programmed to deal with different types of accident situations. Consider this hypothetical scenario: One day in the not-too-distant future, you are sitting in your self-driving car cruising down a city street. Suddenly two cars full of passengers in front of you have a mild accident. Your car quickly steers aside to avoid crashing into these vehicles (which likely would have resulted in multiple deaths). However, now your car is careening directly toward a bystander on the sidewalk. There is no time to brake. The car has only two options: (1) hit the bystander, which will likely kill this person, or (2) steer into a wall, which will likely kill you. In your essay, you should answer the following three questions: (1) What is hedonistic act-utilitarianism? (2) What does hedonistic act-utilitarianism imply about how a self-driving car should be programmed for the above kind of situation? Explain why hedonistic act-utilitarianism has this implication. (3) Is the hedonistic act-utilitarian response the correct ethical response to this type of situation? Provide a justification for your answer. (If you agree with hedonistic act-utilitarianism, then you should anticipate and respond to objections that might be raised.)

The main characteristics of New Religious Movements are: ·        They are founded by single powerful leaders [controlled from top] ·        They spring up quickly and may end violently [Jim Jones and Peoples Temple in Guyana; WACO, etc.] ·        They start small but can become international movements [LDS, Jehovah Witnesses, Christian Science, Seventh Day Adventists, etc.] ·        They are tightly organized – counter cultural movements [often disrupts traditional family life ties] ·        They address modern concerns in new ways [media savvy]. Based on the above characteristics, is it fair to describe New Religious Movements as cults? At what point do NRMs cease being “new religious movements” and begin being religions? Explain your answer using the example of a traditional religion such as Christianity, Islam, or Buddhism.

Required Resources Read/review the following resources for this activity: Textbook: Review chapters as needed: Molloy, M. (2020). Experiencing the world’s religions: Tradition, challenge, and change (8th ed.). McGraw-Hill. Minimum of 1 scholarly source (in addition to the textbook/lesson) For this assignment you are required to sit down for a conversation with someone whose religious identity differs from your own, which I identify as Christian. The purpose of this exercise is for one to engage with someone else in a conversation about religion different from their own religion. That means that you will not only ask questions, but you will hopefully answer questions about your own beliefs, as well. Please note atheist and agnostic are not acceptable choices for your assignment as neither is recognized as a religion. Before meeting with your partner, review the above article for this activity, “Talking About Religion – How to Do It Right” (link in Required Resources), for some guidance on how to engage in conversations about religion. You may also wish to share this information with your partner, if needed. In this assignment, you will listen to the ideas of someone whom you identify as religiously “other.” You will share your own ideas (though to a lesser extent) and report on what you learned about this other religion, including your partner’s beliefs and how those beliefs compare to your own religious upbringing and/or current practice. The report should describe the major topics of discussion (below) and a detailed summary of what you learned. Your final essay should include all of the following: Introduction: Provide some cultural and historical context for the religious tradition of your conversation partner. Include why you chose this religion and person. (It is important that you do some research before you have your conversation so that you ask informed questions that come from genuine interest.) This should not be a long section of the essay. Describe your conversation partner’s beliefs. Include the following 8 elements of religion from Week 1: Belief system. Several beliefs fit together into a complete and systematic interpretation of the universe and the place of humans in it; it explains a religion’s worldview. Highlight the most important. Community. How are the belief system and its ideals practiced as a group of believers who come together? How do they come together? Central myths. Stories that express the religious beliefs and history of a religion and give it meaning through retelling and/or re-enacting (e.g., major events in the life of Krishna, the enlightenment of Buddha, death and resurrection of Jesus, Mohammed’s escape from Mecca, Israelite’s escape through the Red Sea, and so on). Ritual. Ceremonies and/or Rites that enrich beliefs. Ethics. Rules about human behavior which are often believed to be given by a supernatural realm (God) or socially generated guidelines. Characteristic emotional experiences. Some emotions associated with religion are dread, guilt, awe, mystery, devotion, conversion, “rebirth,” liberation, ecstasy bliss, inner peace. Material expressions. Physical elements like statues, paintings, musical compositions, instruments, objects like incense, flowers, clothing, architecture or sacred places. Sacredness/Holiness. A distinction is made between what is ordinary and what is sacred through use of a different language or ceremony or clothing or acts of reverence. Certain objects, actions, people and places may share or express sacredness/holiness (e.g., receiving communion, Mecca, an altar, a shrine, the Dali Lama, menorah). Identify any conflicts between the stated beliefs of their tradition and their personal beliefs. After hearing your partner’s description, explain whose theory of the origin of religions (Week 1) you think offers the best explanation for his/her religion? What challenges can your partner identify that their religious tradition faces in the modern world? Do they feel that their tradition is responding positively? Explain. Examine if the tradition is focused on belief (orthodoxy) or behavior (orthopraxis). Compare your partner’s beliefs and practices to your own religious upbringing and/or current practice. This is to be done in the report not as a debate with your partner. Conclusion: Conclude with your personal reaction to this experience and any additional questions that came up after your conversation. This is a formal academic paper, so pay careful attention to the basics of writing a good English composition, to essay structure, and complete APA. In addition to outside sources, make sure to reference your textbook and/or lesson. Writing Requirements (APA format) Length: 1000-1200 words (not including title page or references page) 1-inch margins Double spaced 12-point Times New Roman font Title page References page (Cite textbook/lesson and a minimum of 1 outside scholarly source.) Page or paragraph for in-text citations

Policy analysis is about finding out what governments do, why they do it, and what difference those activities make.  One result of that process is considering the termination of a program.  However, this is not an easy process.(1) Why are government programs seldom terminated?  Provide at least three reasons in your response.(2) Please present an example of a government program that should have been terminated and explain how it may have survived (think about stakeholders and their interests).