...Successful completion of this assignment will help secure a solid foundation for AP World History. You will find that AP courses typically have fewer daily grades and more emphasis is placed upon major test grades. Successful completion of this assignment will have a positive effect on your first six weeks average. If you do not successfully complete this assignment, it will have a negative impact on your first six weeks average. Summer Assignment for AP World History Part I: Send Me an Email To be completed before the end of June Please give me your name, your email address and a parent/guardian name and email address as well as your cell phone number and a parent/guardian contact number. Please use the subject line: AP World History 2011-2012. You will email this information to me using the following email address: David.wolf@birdvilleschools.net This information will be helpful for us to communicate during the summer if you have questions regarding the summer assignment and will give me a way to get in touch with you and your parents to send information and grade reports. Mr....
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...ENG100 01/25/12 Dialectical Journal-Week 2 “Apes of Wrath” by Barbara Smuts “Quotes” | Responses | In such “females-bonded” species, females also form alliances against aggressive males. Pg.79 | This section was surprising because I never thought of a species doing this that human do. | “Among olive baboons, each adult female typically forms long-lasting “friendship” with a few of the many males in her troop”. Pg. 80 | I would bond with males to; it’s an easier way to get to know them better. If you hang around more males than females you’ll more in likely to learn them better. | “A man will sometimes beat his wife if he becomes jealous or suspects her of infidelity, but when this happens, onlookers run to tell her female kin.” Pg. 81 | I’ve been in a situation like this before, my best-friend saved because my kin didn’t want to get in the middle of it as they would say. | “In some societies a woman’s kin, including her father and brothers, consistently support her against an abusive husband, while in others they rarely help her.” Why? Pg. 81 | A father and a brother should always be there to help a woman is abusive situations. I understand some don’t want to get involved but it’s your family we’re talking about. Most fathers and brothers I know are very protective of women in their family. | “Like nonhuman primate females, many women form bonds with unrelated males who may protect them from other males.” Pg. 81 | Me personally I have plenty of male friends...
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...My topic of choice for this assessment is Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). I chose four online sources to help me to research it, being Sane Australia (informational site), Psych Central (informational site), YouTube (social platform) and Facebook (social platform). Sane Australia (SA) was a basic but factual site (SA, n.d). It has one page specifically related to BDP, which is clearly laid out with a concise (but very informative) overview of BDP. This assisted me in reading, understanding and assimilating my pre-existing knowledge and accommodating the new knowledge acquired (Atherton J.S., 2013). There was a podcast which was a reading of the facts set out on the page, which helped me to 'over learn' (Chew, S. L., 2011) the facts I had just read. This site is a reliable and credible online source as:- It is a professional organisation that has won a number of awards for its educational publications (SA, 2012); The site is approved by Health Direct Australia (trustworthy source); It complies with Health on Net standards, presenting a link to its HONcode certificate to verify same; It confirms that all information published on the site has been “approved by appropriate qualified medical practitioners” (SA, 2014, para.1); The editor in-Chief of the website’s content is a qualified psychologist whose credentials are listed on the site; and SA also has 7,959 Facebook likes and has a good presence on social media. After actively searching (Swinburne Online, 2013)...
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...Family Counseling Approach: Narrative Lisa R. Murray Liberty University Online Abstract Narrative therapy is a therapeutic approach that is used alone or in conjunction with other methods of therapy. This particular method of therapy is used in family therapy to help clients focus on gaining access to preferred story lines in reference to their lives and identities the family dynamics that may affect them. The preferred story line will replace the place of the previous negative and self-defeating narratives about themselves. Helping clients within a family counseling to begin to become the author of their own story is important in many cases to overcoming multigenerational affects. Narrative therapy aids in this process. This comprehensive evaluation of narrative therapy within the structure of family therapy and the integration of faith will be constructed in the following pages. Keywords: self-defeating, Narrative therapy, multigenerational, therapeutic Introduction Narrative therapy is considered apart of the Social Construction Model. This particular type of therapy, the counselor or therapist is not a dominant entity or focal point of the process. Instead the therapist is seen as an influential individual to the client. The counselor will aid the client with the process of internalization and the creation of new stories or narratives within themselves that help them to draw new assumptions about themselves. This is done through the process of the client...
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...Over the past five weeks, learning about leadership in a diverse society has given me clarity of the tools I need to become a more effective leader. In the short few weeks we focused on self-assessing leadership theories, management, time management, personality traits, conflict handling style, and emotional intelligence according to my type of leadership. Self-assessing each of these components has given me the proper tools to improve my leadership and I am intrigued about what I found out about myself on this journey to enhance my leadership skills. Discovering the tools needed from a combination of leadership theories management, time management, understanding my personality traits, understanding conflict handling styles, the importance of the emotional intelligence, using the instructor’s recommendations, and understanding the role of nurse informatics and its technology in healthcare has helped me better understand my leaderships strengths and how to repair my weaknesses. I have learned many different things about leadership, management, and time management. According to a 2014 article by MSc Nizar Said defines time management as, “The ability of a person to use the time function to accomplish the tasks in the exact timing” (Said, 2014). It is important to acquire effective time management skills to use time efficiently. This same article states, “Time management is recognized as an important component of work performance and professional nursing practice, as well as help...
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...Dialectical Journal #2 Quote: “She looks around to if anybody else is about to interrupt her, smiling as her head turns in her collar” Response: In this passage the Big Nurse, Nurse Ratched, excerpts her authority amongst her patients by demoralizing them without speaking or using force. I have been put in a situation in which a teacher was able to keep her cool and command authority by showing power even when the students were being difficult. This power allowed the teacher to control her class without showing a sign of weakness. Nurse Ratched uses this technique to subdue her patients into making them believe that she’s all powerful Quote: “He had come to life for may be a minute to try and tell us something, something none of us cared to or tried to understand, and the effect had drained him dry.” Response: A patient in the hospital had a panic attack and tried to tell his colleagues something but was unable to and passed out according to this passage. Many times our feeling and emotions make sense to us but we can’t always explain them to the people that surround us. I have often felt a need to express my ideas with family and friends but occasionally I do not express myself correctly. The effort needed to explain something only you can feel can drain your energy. Quote: “This world… belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak.” Response: The passage...
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...Communication Theory Nine: Two Robert T. Craig Communication Theory as a Field May 1999 Pages 119-161 This essay reconstructs communication theory as a dialogical-dialectical field according to two principles: the constitutive model of communication as a metamodel and theory as metadiscursive practice. The essay argues that all communication theories are mutually relevant when addressed to a practical lifeworld in which “communication” is already a richly meaningful term. Each tradition of communication theory derives from and appeals rhetorically to certain commonplace beliefs about communication while challenging other beliefs. The complementarities and tensions among traditions generate a theoretical metadiscourse that intersects with and potentially informs the ongoing practical metadiscourse in society. In a tentative scheme of the field, rhetorical, semiotic, phenomenological, cybernetic, sociopsychological, sociocultural, and critical traditions of communication theory are distinguished by characteristic ways of defining communication and problems of communication, metadiscursive vocabularies, and metadiscursive commonplaces that they appeal to and challenge. Topoi for argumentation across traditions are suggested and implications for theoretical work and disciplinary practice in the field are considered. Communication theory is enormously rich in the range of ideas that fall within its nominal scope, and new theoretical work on communication ...
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...biological and social factors of their case. Clinical psychologist work very close with their patients to help assess and diagnose which psychological disorder they are suffering from. Case Overview As we examine the case of Martha, who suffers from severe depression and borderline personality disorder, a clinical psychologist uses the Rorschach method to possibly provide treatment. Martha is 24 years old and a biracial women. Her psychiatrist has referred her for psychological testing. Martha has been in the hospital several times due to depression and suicide attempts. She has been diagnosed with major depression as well as borderline personality disorder. She is only taking test because her father and psychiatrist are in her words “making me do this”. Martha is given several cards to examine. Only one of the few tools helping diagnose patients. (Contemporary clinical psychology, 2011) Level Two Heading Replace the level two heading with the words for your heading. The heading must be in bold font. Interventions Major Depression Disorder (MDD) has symptoms that overlap with those of Borderline Personality Disorder, and generally co-occur. Furthermore; treating BPD has been proven to decrease the symptoms associated with depression. However, treating depression alone does not alter, or lessen the symptoms of BPD (Beatson & Rao, 2012). The interventions recommended for treating Martha’s major depression and borderline personality disorders are cognitive-behavioral...
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...Tribe Dialectical Journal Quote (page number) Analysis “The sheer predictability of life in an American suburb left me hoping—somewhat irresponsibly—for a hurricane or a tornado or something that would require us all to band together to survive. Something that would make us feel like a tribe. What I wanted wasn’t destruction and mayhem but the opposite: solidarity.” (pg. xiv) He in no way means that he wants to see devastation, but rather healing. Junger profoundly points out that destruction and mayhem bring unity and togetherness by forcing people together into community. I find it ironic that destruction can lead to healing, but then again rainbows come after storms. The uncertainty, devastation and lack of fortune break people down to their...
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...Volume 27.4 December 2003 939-41 International Journal of Urban and Regional Research Debates and Developments The Right to the City DAVID HARVEY The city, the noted urban sociologist Robert Park once wrote, is: man's most consistent and on the whole, his most successful attempt to remake the world he lives in more after his heart's desire. But, if the city is the world which man created, it is the world in which he is henceforth condemned to live. Thus, indirectly, and without any clear sense of the nature of his task, in making the city man has remade himself. The right to the city is not merely a right of access to what already exists, but a right to change it after our heart's desire. We need to be sure we can live with our own creations (a problem for every planner, architect and utopian thinker). But the right to remake ourselves by creating a qualitatively different kind of urban sociality is one of the most precious of all human rights. The sheer pace and chaotic forms of urbanization throughout the world have made it hard to reflect on the nature of this task. We have been made and re-made without knowing exactly why, how, wherefore and to what end. How then, can we better exercise this right to the city? The city has never been a harmonious place, free of confusions, conflicts, violence. Only read the history of the Paris Commune of 1871, see Scorsese's fictional depiction of The Gangs of New York in the 1850s, and think how far we have come. But...
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...Metaphysics From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to:navigation, search This article is about the branch of philosophy. For the work of Aristotle, see Metaphysics (Aristotle). |Philosophy | |[pic] | |Branches[show] | |Aesthetics | |Epistemology | |Ethics | |Logic | |Metaphysics | |Social philosophy | |Political philosophy | |Eras[show] | |Ancient | |Medieval | |Modern | |Contemporary | |Traditions[show] | |Analytic | |Continental | |Eastern | |Islamic | |Marxist | |Platonic | |Scholastic | |Philosophers[show] | |Aestheticians | |Epistemologists...
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...the perspective of two common mental health disorders; Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and Major Depressive Episode (MDE).. I decided to focus on these two common mental health disorders as both hold particular interest for me. MDE- What struck me most in researching this topic was the relative ease with which someone could find themselves diagnosed with MDE under current DSM-IV guidelines. Possibly without them having awareness of their impending path and journey into mental health difficulties. I was impacted by BPD in regards to its more challenging behaviours to the therapist, who may be dealing with a client existing between borderline and psychotic worlds. I will explore the application of two theoretical approaches, namely humanistic and cognitive behavioural in relation to these mental health disorders. I will also demonstrate the importance of cultural difference in relation to understanding mental health issues and I will highlight the role risk assessment plays in the provision of supports for clients and the therapists. I will also demonstrate the importance of supervision and record keeping and I will conclude the essay with a brief summary of my key learning, including my understanding of limitations and challenges facing me within the psychotherapeutic relationship. PSYCHOPATHOLOGY A helpful understanding of what pathology is and one that I agree with was suggested by Stirling, who contributed that psychopathology is, ‘The scientific study...
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...ebook THE GUILFORD PRESS DBT ® Skills Training Handouts and Worksheets Also from Marsha M. Linehan Books for Professionals Cognitive- ehavioral Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder B DBT Skills Training Manual, Second Edition Dialectical Behavior Therapy with Suicidal Adolescents Alec L. Miller, Jill H. Rathus, and Marsha M. Linehan Mindfulness and Acceptance: Expanding the Cognitive- ehavioral Tradition B Edited by Steven C. Hayes, Victoria M. Follette, and Marsha M. Linehan Videos Crisis Survival Skills, Part One: Distracting and Self- oothing S Crisis Survival Skills, Part Two: Improving the Moment and Pros and Cons From Suffering to Freedom: Practicing Reality Acceptance Getting a New Client Connected to DBT (Complete Series) Opposite Action: Changing Emotions You Want to Change This One Moment: Skills for Everyday Mindfulness Treating Borderline Personality Disorder: The Dialectical Approach Understanding Borderline Personality: The Dialectical Approach For more information and for DBT skills updates from the author, see her websites: www.linehaninstitute.org, http://blogs.uw.edu/brtc, and http://faculty.washington.edu/linehan/ DBT Skills Training Handouts and Worksheets ® Second Edition Marsha M. Linehan THE GUILFORD PRESS New York London © 2015 Marsha M. Linehan Published by The Guilford Press A Division of Guilford Publications, Inc. 72 Spring Street, New York, NY 10012 www.guilford.com All rights...
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........................................... 8 Implications af Kurt Lewin Model....................................................................... 12 Some Basic Concepts and Definitions ................................................................. 15 Transactional Vs. Transformational Leadership .................................................. 18 Theories of Change in Organisations................................................................... 21 Life Cycle Theory ................................................................................................ 22 Teleological Theories of Change ......................................................................... 25 Dialectical Theories of Change............................................................................ 27 A Dialectical Approach to Organisational Strategy and Planning ....................... 29 Limitation of Dialectics; DA and DI.................................................................... 31 Theories of Change in Organisations................................................................... 33 Application of Evolutionary Theory .................................................................... 35 Further Application of Evolutionary Theories..................................................... 36 Greiner’s Model of Organisational Evolution and Revolution...
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...How can I as an educator and Professional Development Manager working with teachers, support and enhance the learning and achievement of pupils in a whole school improvement process? Submitted by Michael Anthony Bosher For The Degree of Doctor of Philosophy of the University of Bath 2001 May 2002 Vol 1.1 Copyright ‘Attention is drawn to the fact that copyright of this thesis rests with the author. This copy of the thesis has been supplied on condition that anyone who consults it is understood to recognise that its copyright rests with its author and that no quotation from the thesis and no information derived from it may be published without the prior written consent of the author’. This thesis may be made available for consultation within the University Library and may be photocopied or lent to other libraries for the purposes of consultation. …………………………… Contents Tables and Figures 2 Acknowledgements 3 Abstract 4 Preface 5 Introduction 13 Chapter 1 A Cultural Context 18 Chapter 2 An Autobiography 25 Chapter 3 Methodology 40 Chapter 4 The School's Action Research Cycles 89 Chapter 5 School Effectiveness and School Improvement 107 Chapter 6 Vignette 1 Alan Shelton a Teacher 'Par Excellence' 120 Chapter 7 Some More Vignettes 158 Chapter 8 A Personal Development Review 184 Chapter 9 The Circle is Completed 190 References ...
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