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Theories of Intelligence: An Introduction
$20.00Theories of Intelligence: An Introduction
Gardner (1983) has suggested there are seven different types of intelligence:
- Logical mathematical.
- Linguistic.
- Musical.
- Spatial.
- Bodily kinesthetic.
- Interpersonal.
- Intrapersonal.
Think about how would you test these dimensions of intelligence? For this assignment, assume you are going to test intelligence of people of two differing cultures.
- Choose three of the above dimensions of intelligence to measure. Describe each type of intelligence.
- Describe the two cultures you have chosen. What type of intelligence does each culture favor? What does it mean to be intelligent in each culture? What is the history of each culture? What is the environment like? Provide approximately half a page of description for each culture.
- Describe how you would test these three different dimensions of intelligence in each culture. Do you need to test differently? Why?
- Discuss theories of intelligence and how they account for cultural differences.
- 4 pages 12 Roman Time double space
Fears and Stigma of Creating a Safe Cultural Place
$17.50Fears and Stigma of Creating a Safe Cultural Place: A Report on Good Will Hunting
Length: 1200 – 1500 words
Value: 40%
Introduction
The creation of safe spaces requires cultural self-awareness, cultural intelligence and cultural capability. So this final assignment draws together all the learning from the unit in a report about safe spaces. They are fundamental to operating effectively in the workplace, community and the university. Yet many spaces are not that safe for the people who use them. How is it possible to create safe spaces for people?
Using an excerpt from a film or video of people interacting within a space, analyse the various aspects of the scenario including the physical location and interactions between actors to highlight your understanding of safe spaces. Demonstrate your growing cultural capabilities by writing a report that analyses safe or unsafe spaces as depicted in your chosen clip. You need to write an academic report using formal language to:
- analyse the chosen filmed scenario for safe or unsafe spaces
- demonstrate your understanding of the characteristics of culturally safe or unsafe spaces by discussing those identified in the film in relation to the research literature,
- provide recommendations/conclusions for creating or sustaining culturally safe spaces based on the scenario.
1. Choose a scenario Choose a scene (about 5-10 minutes in length) from a TV program, video or movie that focuses on a conflict situation in a community, university/school or workplace. Some suggestions of where you may find films/segments are provided below: Community Workplace University/School Offspring The Slap Angry Boys Big Bang Theory The Office Madmen All Saints Paper Giants Dead Poets Society Good Will Hunting Ja’mie The Community Examples you could choose from are also in the Web-site Learning Materials in ‘Creating Safe Spaces’ and ‘Preparation’.CUC 107 Cultural Intelligence and Capabilities Assessment 4 2 To source extracts you can try: ABC iview; YouTube; download from iTunes; Vimeo or hire from video shop/ local library.
1. Reading Along with the readings we have provided during the semester, you will need to conduct your own research. This means using:
- Library databases for journal articles and books using Summon Beta
- Appropriate readings included in this unit
- Google Scholar
2. Cultural safety report guidelines
Please note – many report formats require that a synopsis or executive summary of the report be included after the table of contents. This is not required in this task
Use the headings following to label each section of your report. These should also be numbered. Organise your report under the following sections and use the numbered headings as below for each section in the body of your report. Suggestions about what you should include under each heading are provided below the heading. Title of Report This should be on a separate page and include the title, your name and the date Table of Contents This should be on a separate page – remember page numbers
1. Introduction (approx. 150 words) This includes: 1.1 Background (An orientation to the topic of cultural safety and safe spaces)
1.2 Scope (Explain what the report will focus on including what video, what particular scenes if the example depicts a safe or unsafe space).
1.3 Aim (Tell the reader what the report aims to do – i.e provide a summary and description and analysis of an example of a safe or unsafe space and recommend improvements to improve the safety of the space where appropriate).
2. Summary (approx. 150 words) Summarise your chosen TV or Video excerpt. This is where you briefly explain the story line and key events related to the context of the safe or unsafe situation of this specific segment of a film in your own words.
3. Summary of literature (approx. 300 words and at least four sources) This is where you demonstrate your understanding of the key concepts covered in the unit by using relevant literature. So you should include definitions of safe spaces, cultural intelligence and capabilities and cultural selfawareness and show how these are all linked to increasing our ability to create safe spaces.CUC 107 Cultural Intelligence and Capabilities Assessment 4 3
4. Observations/analysis of Video (approx. 200 words) In this section you should identify the behaviours and scenarios in the video that are evidence of the cultural safety issues displayed in the video. These observations should confirm your statement in the introduction about whether the space is safe or unsafe. Some of the things to look for and describe are: Physical factors (size and layout of space, position of people in the space); Communication factors (Body language, Voice, Words); signs of inclusion or exclusion, displays of or lack of cultural intelligence. You could use the following table as guide and as a way of briefly describing in key words what you observed. Alternatively you might prefer to describe this in couple of paragraphs.
5. Discussion (approx. 350 words) Use key elements within the film excerpt and the theory you have outlined in the literature review section to discuss your observations of the video and to support your view about whether each scene is a safe or unsafe space. For example you might write: In Scene 1, Jane displayed a high level of cultural intelligence by adjusting her behaviour as soon as she became aware that her patient had never been in a hospital before. This had an instant effect on the patient who visibly relaxed and began to talk. This is an excellent example of what Brislin et al (2006) define as cultural intelligence or “the ability to adjust to another culture”.
6. Recommendations (approx. 200 words supported by academic sources.) Your recommendations (for how the scenario film clip you describe should be changed to make the space safer) should be based on what you discussed in the analysis. So it will be a summary of the things that need to change to enable a safer space in the scenario depicted and requires references in text for your ideas.
7. Conclusion (approx. 150 words) This is where you sum briefly everything covered in your report. So it would include: what the film clip covered, what it was about, what it showed re safe spaces, what needed to be changed if anything. (Don’t introduce new material or references into this section). References (last section of report on separate page and not numbered)
For this report we expect you to use readings provided and utilised in your previous assignment as well as additional references you might source that relate to the particular context of the scenario depicted in your film. For example, if your video depicts bullying at school you may find articles on school bullying. This will be helpful for your discussion and recommendations. You should use the APA 6th referencing style in text and for the reference list at the end.
NB Check how to reference correctly for multimedia. The references, title and content pages are not counted in your final word count. CUC 107 Cultural Intelligence and Capabilities Assessment
Hebrew people: “People of the Book.”
$7.001. The Hebrew people have been said to be a “People of the Book.” Describe in specific details this “Book,” its physical make up, its historical development, and its significance to the Jewish people. Be sure that you examine this from a Jewish perspective and not a Christian one.
2. Examine Orthodox Judaism in terms of the ten characteristics which all religions have in common.,0
3. Examine in detail the differences between the four main branches of Judaism as practiced in the United States (Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, and Reconstructionist).
4. Examine the issue of anti-semitism. What is it? What is its historical development? Why has it persisted until the present day? What has been the role of Christianity in the continuation of anti-semitism?
5. Examine in detail the major Jewish holy days in terms of their historical development and the significance they hold for modern practitioners of Judaism. How are they celebrated today?
6. Research the many interpretations of the story of Adam and Eve.
7. The Jewish scholar Moses Maimonides argued that faith and reason were complementary. Roughly a half century later, St. Thomas Aquinas held the same position in the Christian world. Compare and contrast the reasoning of these two thinkers.
How spirituality effects on our health and self-healing
$20.00How spirituality effects on our health and self-healing
The practice of health care providers at all levels brings you into contact with people from a variety of faiths. This calls for knowledge and acceptance of a diversity of faith expressions.
The purpose of this paper is to complete a comparative analysis of two faith philosophies towards providing health care, one being the Christian perspective. For the second faith, choose a faith that is unfamiliar to you. Examples of faiths to choose from: Sikh, Baha’i, Buddhism, Shintoism, etc.
In your comparative analysis, address all of the worldview questions in detail for Christianity and your selected faith. Refer to chapter 2 of Called to Care for the list of questions. Be sure to address the implications of these beliefs for health care.
In a minimum of 1,500-2,000 words, provide a comparative analysis of the different belief systems, reinforcing major themes with insights gained from your research and answering the following questions based on the research:
- What is your spiritual perspective on healing?
- What are critically common to all religions/beliefs spiritual components of healing, such as prayer, meditation, belief, etc.? Explain.
- What is important to patients of the faith when cared for by health care providers whose spiritual beliefs differ from their own?
In your conclusion, describe what you have learned from the research and how this learning can be applied to a health care provider.
Support your position by referencing at least three academic resources (preferably from the GCU Library) in addition to the course readings, the Bible, and the textbooks for each religion. Each religion must have a primary source included. A total of six references are required according to the specifications listed above. Incorporate the research into your writing in an appropriate, scholarly manner.
Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is required.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
Gender Inequality: The Mexican Context
$15.00Purpose Gender Inequality: The Mexican Context
To study the progress or setbacks of women in the last 20 years, in terms of employment.
According to the UN: “There are considerable differences in women’s and men’s access to and opportunities to exert power over economic structures in their societies. In most parts of the world, women are virtually absent from or are poorly represented in economic decision-making, including the formulation of financial, monetary, commercial and other economic policies, as well as tax systems and rules governing pay.”
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/directory/women_and_the_economy_3006.htm
Objectives1. To analyze the progress, or setbacks, achieved by women, in comparison to men, in aspects of employment, during the last 20 years.
2. To gain a global perspective of the situation of women around the world.
3. To discuss with classmates how women measure up to men in terms of employment in various countries.
ReadingsUsing the Human Development Reports, available online at http://hdr.undp.org/en/ and other sources from national and international organizations, your team will write a short report (about 1000 words). In this report, for your selected country, your team will consider progress or setbacks of women, for the last 20 years, in general aspects of employment. Tables from the 2014 Human Development Report to be considered include: Tables 1, 3, 4, 5 and 9. Use similar tables from other reports, as appropriate, in particular the 2011 Human Development Report and
the 2013 Human Development Report.
Other useful source to be used as a guide in updating information:
Neft, N. and A.D. Levine. 1997. Where Women Stand: An International Report on the Status of Women in 140 Countries. New York: Random House.
Your team should consider:
1. The examination of the Gender Inequality Index for your selected country, as explanations of gender disparities in employment
2. The economic activity by sector and by gender
3. The labor force participation rate
4. Gender differences in earnings
5. Is maternity leave offered?
6. Is child care provided subsidized by the government?
7. What are the gender differences in levels of unemployment
8. Child labor
9. Satisfaction with job
10. Any other issue of relevance
Supplement the data from the Human Development Reports with other national and international sources.
AssignmentsThe assignment consists of three parts:1. Your team’s report on the status of health for your team’s selected country is to be posted once on the Discussion Board under M3A3: 2. Employment, and each student is required to submit a copy of the team report to the Assignment Dropbox.
The team report should not exceed 5 double-spaced pages. The style of writing is that of your choice. A rubric is used to evaluate the work.3. Both members of the team will receive the same grade.
Portrayal of Buddhist Elements in Western Cinema
$15.00Portrayal of Buddhist Elements in Western Cinema
How have the religions of Asia shaped American arts?
World religions class:3.5 pages (exclude reference). double space, 12 Times New Roman.- Asia religions can be Buddhism, Chinese religions (confucianism, Taoism), or Japanese religions.American art can choose from movie, songs, fashion, building, opera,
1. why you think the things you choose is art?2. which does religion shape it ?3. how does this religion shape it?
– form: thesis statement sentence, discussion (need brief quotes), conclusion.- must have at least 3 citation from textbook. require MLA styleImportance of recognizing the signs of stalking
$12.50Importance of recognizing the signs of stalking Criminal definition of stalking for your jurisdiction (cite a relevant stalking statute)
When you were attending AIU, you thought of yourself being an undercover narcotics officer or working for a bank as a fraud investigator, but you were initially exposed to the role of a victims’ witness assistant during the Criminal Careers course at AIU. Then, your best friend became a victim of a crime of violence after being stalked for several months, and that incident changed your life. As you provided comfort and support to your friend during the judicial process, you were exposed first-hand to the role played by the victims’ witness assistant during the criminal judicial process. The role of the victims’ witness assistant changed you, and you decided then that you wanted to pursue a career as a victims’ rights advocate somewhere. It has been a year since you were able to start your career in the victims’ rights advocate position, and every day, you feel that you are making a difference in society and your jurisdiction.
The prosecutor for whom you have been working as a victims’ witness assistant has had several calls from victims of stalking. Some cases seem more serious than other cases; however, one case that no one in the office thought was serious resulted in the victim’s death. Everyone thought the couple was just going through a difficult breakup. This case had a tremendous impact on the entire office—especially you.
To help make sure that the office does not minimize a potentially dangerous situation again, the prosecutor has asked you to put together an intake, evaluation, and assessment instrument to be used in taking information on stalking situations. Be sure to check stalking statutes, and cite the elements of the crime of stalking in your documents. Complete the following:
- Create a topic paper (2–3 pages) in APA format discussing the following:
- Importance of recognizing the signs of stalking
- Criminal definition of stalking for your jurisdiction (cite a relevant stalking statute)
- Key facts that you felt all office personnel should know about stalking, such as the remedies designed to help a stalking victim
- Create an intake form in addition to the topic paper that can be used to get important information from alleged victims of stalking.
- The form should require information about the nature and frequency of stalking and should determine if the elements of the crime of stalking are present.
- The form should also ask questions that will elicit answers that help indicate what type of stalking situation exists, asking such things such as is the victim is acquainted with the suspect, and if so, how; if not, how does the victim think the suspect knows or has encountered the victim? It should ask for the frequency of the annoyance and if the victim is in fear and why. Most stalking statutes require a pattern of harassment or annoyance that would make a reasonable person afraid or seriously annoyed; the form should ask something that would capture that information. The form should indicate whether or not there is a pending divorce or other legal matters between the 2 parties.
- Create an evaluation and assessment form in addition to the topic paper based on the intake form you have created that will help rank the seriousness of the threat from the suspect who is stalking.
- The evaluation and assessment form should indicate your familiarity with the contemporary information on what constitutes the most dangerous threat to the victim and then provide a ranking accordingly.
Your forms should reflect contemporary information and the legal definition of the crime of stalking and what factors distinguish the most serious situations.
Culture undertook the creation of selected monumental work of architecture
$12.00Culture undertook the creation of selected monumental work of architecture
Question 1:
We have continued our study of the art created by cultures outside of the West. Like those we studied last week, many of the cultures studied this week also created monumental works of architecture, but often for very different reasons than what we saw last week. In 3 well-developed paragraphs locate 2 specific examples of monumental architecture created by 2 different cultures we studied this week and discuss:
- Why do you believe each culture undertook the creation of your selected monumental work of architecture and sculpture despite the difficulties of accomplishing them? What can we assume about a work of art without such knowledge?
- How do the reasons for their works compare with those of a more modern example of monumental art work, such as Mount Rushmore, the 9/11 Memorial, etc.?
Be sure to explain your ideas clearly and support them by discussing specific works of art that you have read about this week, talking about how they illustrate and support your ideas.
Question 2:
The tradition of mask-making and masquerade can be found the world over, but no place is it as pervasive, diverse and rich as found in the traditional arts of West and Central Africa. Although these masks are often seen as works of art in the West, they typically were not intended to be a work of art. Interestingly, in many African societies there is not a word for “art.” In 3 well-developed paragraphs select 3 different traditional African masks, each from a different African society. Discuss:
- How is the mask used and what is its purpose?
- Does putting the mask on display in some place like an art museum or gallery change what you think of it?
Be sure to explain your ideas clearly and support them by discussing specific works of art that you have read about this week, talking about how they illustrate and support your ideas.
Men are from Mars and women are from Venus
$5.00Men are from Mars and women are from Venus
Discussion Question 1
It is said that, “men are from Mars and women are from Venus.”
Using the South University Online Library or the Internet, read more about this statement. Based on your research and understanding, answer the following questions:
- Have you seen this kind of difference in communication style between men and women? Provide examples.
- How can this gender gap in communication be bridged?
Discussion Question 2
With a society that is so diverse in its own nature, issues pertaining to cultural diversity are bound to occur in the process of team management and leadership.
Using the South University Online Library or the Internet, research about cultural diversity. Based on your research and understanding, answer the following questions:
- How does having members of different cultures on a team affect the team’s performance?
- How would you incorporate a person from a culture of your choice into your team, keeping in mind communication differences within your and the chosen culture?
