...support the veracity of polygraph machines. As Dr. Saxe and Israeli psychologist Gershon Ben-Shahar (1999) notes, "it may, in fact, be impossible to conduct a proper validity study." In real-world situations, it's very difficult to know what the truth is.” (American Psychological Association [APA], 2004) Polygraphs do not function as a lie detector. A polygraph only directly measures the autonomic responses of the subject. It measures reactions such as changes in skin conductance, pulse rate, blood pressure, and breathing while the subject is asked a series of questions. From that data, it makes an indirect assumption that positive physiological responsive indicate dishonesty and vice versa. When taking a polygraph test, proctors use several different tactics to elicit responses from their subjects. One is called the "relevant-irrelevant" technique, which mixes questions like "Did you steal the money?" in with questions like "Is today Tuesday?" Questions that are relevant to the topic are suppose to cause a jump within the subject’s autonomic system and in turn would produce results on the polygraph. Another tactic that is commonly used is "comparison questions" this process is similar to relevant-irrelevant questioning except all of the questions pertain to the subject at hand (APA, 2004). For example, in a sex-crime investigation a suspect might be asked embarrassing control questions such as "Have you ever committed a sexual act you were ashamed of?" along with questions pertaining...
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...etgggggggggggggggggWhen I made my choice of wanting to go to university after leaving sixth form, I made the decision of wanting to choose somewhere that was local, as although I want to move away and live there, I didn’t want to be too far from home. Therefore I started looking for university’s in Liverpool as this is local for me, and is not too long to travel when wanting to come back home, as I can do this by train, which also makes the expenses a lot lower than having to travel far.When I made my choice of wanting to go to university after leaving sixth form, I made the decision of wanting to choose somewhere that was local, as although I want to move away and live there, I didn’t want to be too far from home. Therefore I started looking for university’s in Liverpool as this is local for me, and is not too long to travel when wanting to come back home, as I can do this by train, which also makes the expenses a lot lower than having to travel far.When I made my choice of wanting to go to university after leaving sixth form, I made the decision of wanting to choose somewhere that was local, as although I want to move away and live there, I didn’t want to be too far from home. Therefore I started looking for university’s in Liverpool as this is local for me, and is not too long to travel when wanting to come back home, as I can do this by train, which also makes the expenses a lot lower than having to travel far.When I made my choice of wanting to go to university after leaving...
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...class taught by a computer. Yes indeed, they had changed my regular class to an online class instead. The principal had informed us it was last minute changes made by the school board. The school board had thought it would help us learn the material better. It took my classmates and me by surprise. I had never agreed to have this class online but had no choice but to stay in it. The counselors had advised me that I was not going to be able to move to a different class because they said moving from an honors class to a regular class would affect me. It would look bad on my transcript; therefore, it was not going to be recommended to move. As we started the class, I could tell this class wasn’t heading anywhere good. The way the system was set up was messed up. How it was set up so last minute everything was so unorganized. The program that we used for the class was confusing and slow. The teacher would have to assign each test/quiz/assignment to do them. It took forever to finish each assignment because the teacher was always so busy and each student would always be attacking her to assign the work for them. The principal felt bad about the decision that was made but could no longer do anything about it. I had to deal with the difficulty of the class but was still able to overcome it. The obstacles that I faced with this class were a lack of structure and not feeling respected in the learning environment; I overcame these obstacles by getting out of my comfort zone and seeking...
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...A Person Who Made An Impacted On My Life The person who made an impact on my life is my son. Emmanuel is the reason that my life is what it is now. If it wasn’t for him I would be somewhere doing the wrong things. Since Emmanuel is only two, he doesn’t understand the impact that he made on my life, but my family. My mother Melba Peterson and my two older brothers TraeVon McKinney and Michael Peterson, do know understand how Emmanuel made the huge significtly impacted on my life. My mother Melba can tell you a whole story about my life, but the most thing she likes to talk about is me growing up and becoming a respectful young lady by bringing my pride and joy Emmanuel in to world; he changed my life to give him a better future. My mother would tell all her friends about Emmanuel and how special he is to her. Her favorite story is the day Emmanuel was born. For some odd reason my mother and Emmanuel became real close after he was born. I asked my mother how Emmanuel made an impact on my life. My mother responded by saying, she don’t know how I graduated high school when I barely went before I had Emmanuel, but after I had him she made sure I went every day. My mother also talks about how I use to run the streets, get into fights with anybody, getting arrested more than 10 times and doing things that a girl my age at the time shouldn’t been doing. She would always want me to do well but I never did. She says when Emmanuel came into my life my behavior started to improve; I...
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...website www.travel.travelocity.com were $1195 with the duration of 29hrs. And on www.orbitz.com the price for the tickets was $1199 with a duration time of approximately 28hr 2min. Screenshot: Screenshot of flights on www.orbitz.com Efficiency Definition: Efficiency refers to the way a product supports the users when carrying out their tasks. Website: www.kayak.com Reason: When booking a flight on this website it was very efficient for it only required the least actions to perform a task. Where I only had to use a single button to book the flight. Example: When booking the flight, there was only a single button for searching for a flight which was “Search”. So there was single buttons that wasn’t complicated and allowed me to efficiently book a flight. Screenshot: Screenshot of when entering in what flights I am looking for Screenshot allowing the user to select which flight I would rather go on. Safety Definition: This involves protecting the users from any dangerous conditions and undesirable situations. Website: www.flysaa.com Reason: This site had the best security features when I had to enter in account details for paying for the flight. When entering in sensitive information like account details, I needed to be protected from any hackers...
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...up. Then, someone pulled my hood down from behind. Everyone started hysterically laughing and pointing at me. “Are you a boy?” an older girl had asked from behind. “Do you like girls?” a younger boy inquired. The kids were so unpleasant. I continued to keep my head up high and keep smiling. Bullying is an event that still occurs after high school. When I was in sixth grade, I had a circle of three best friends. We would spend every day together, hanging out, having sleepovers, etc. The third marking period, I started having problems. I had accidentally said a “bad word.” These three girls started to laugh at me. “You said a bad word” the girls joked as they pinned me against the gym wall. One of the girls tattled and told my teacher, and continued to antagonize me more. “I am sick” I told my mom when I woke up every morning. Eventually, my parents figured out that I was not sick and called the school. “We need to figure this out” my parents screamed on the phone with my school. A few weeks later, not only was the school involved, but the cops were as well. Not only did they talk to me, but they talked to the group of girls. The girls all tried to deny that they were bullying me. “We didn’t do it” the girls cried. “We never did any of that” they continued to whine. As the cops called in witnesses from class, the girls received detention strictly from the principal. This was the least of my worries. In middle school, I was an outcast. I sat by myself at lunch. I had no friends...
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...for their sins in order to be saved and be able to rejoice in the light of the Lord. There are many ways to interpret the passages in the bible pertaining to the last judgment. It mainly depends on the person and what he or she can draw from the passages that gives them the most meaning to their life and how to apply it to their current situation. I found a few passages that helped me get a better understanding of what the last judgment is about. I feel that, as with many things from the bible, people can take passages from the bible that refer to the last judgment too literal sometimes. Sometimes when I walk down the street, in certain parts of San Francisco, I usually end up running into someone who has a cardboard sign that says "the end is near." I believe that the last judgment is there, in many ways, to help make sure that Christians as a whole try to stay on a path of good. I felt that when I read passages that talked about the last judgment it made me think outside of my normal realm of thinking. This particular passage from Revelations 20: 11-15 that peaked my interest and caused me to reflect on it a bit: " Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. From his presence earth and sky fled away, and no place was found for them. And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what...
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...home and it gave me the foundation of the person I am today. With my mother working on the naval base and my father working in the police force, I was constantly around a military and law enforcement environment. Growing up in a culture that serves others, it became a part of me and close to my heart. This became a bigger impact on me when my brother left for the military when I was only eight years old. Even though I grew up in that culture, my brother leaving became personal and affected me more than I ever thought it would. It is through this sense of community and service, and the events that would unfold, that I know my future involves counseling military personnel. Just months after my brother left, my father was transferred to Bakersfield and I had to leave my friends and family. I had gotten over those losses and adjusted well to the “big city.” The summer between my freshman and sophomore year in high school my mother and I went on vacation with friends to their cabin. When we returned, my father had gathered his belongings and was gone. He said nothing of this to anyone and allowed us to come home and find out on our own. It was hard trying to wrap my head around being abandoned and also trying to focus on my volleyball season and school. After a couple months after this mess, I started seeing a counselor to help get through the difficult times. At first I was forced by my mom, but after a while I actually enjoyed going. My counselor helped me so much and I always...
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...THAT LET ME BE It is not too often that one is at that point when a crucial decision must be made; never too frequently that one is faced with a situation, which will have far-reaching life consequences. True, that for 23 years it never happened too customarily to me. But during those times they did, I felt, really, that I was standing in the middle of crossroads… feeling blank, empty and hollow. I was there standing. I came to a fork in the path and I was faced with the challenge of making the right decision. It was an opportunity for that inevitable change to strike my career, blow my happiness and shake my life. I knew I had to make them. I needed to; for by this chance, I am changing my always and shape them to what others say destiny. In looking back at those journeys I have taken, I am struck by the marginal crossroads I had to stand at. Each, I have gotten my feet one after another. These crossroads made me and surely let me be. And I will share them accordingly. First, I chose a pre-med course despite my intention to be that lawyer who I should’ve been. My folks nipped the budding lawyer in me because of its question on nobility as a profession. They grew the doctor in me instead. Their reason… they think it may grant us all sure slots in heaven… extending, saving lives. I ranted. I whined. But I was still the one who made that decision after all. So I had to do what I got to do. And I discovered it was not so bad. It was never bad at all. It taught me to be...
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...philosophy concerned with evaluating human action", (Wacker Guido, 2010, Chapter 1). I have spent a large amount of time reflecting on ethics as what ethics means to me, as well as, which values are the most important to me and how I live by them. I find ethics to mean who one feels about doing the right thing and accountability. Values are our characteristics that help us to be ethical. During my journey through the Ethical Lens Inventory, I had to ponder over the many stages and encounters throughout my life. I am amazed at how, so many small, and what I thought to be insignificant encounters, I had in my life has made a big impact on my values. The list of all the encounters is too long to provide here in my personal ethics statement. Therefore, this paper will focus on the encounters that have made the most impact on the most important values to me. As I reflect on my years of growing up, I remember my parents trying to teach right from wrong. My father seemed to teach right from wrong by always focusing on my wrongs as I cannot remember learning right from wrong with something that I did or did not do for the good. I was in fourth grade when I collected every student's pencils and kept them at my desk. Taking the pencils were considered stealing, and when my parents found out, the punishment made me think about what I had done and why it was wrong as how it affected everyone else involved. My grandfather was a Baptist Minister for many years before changing to a...
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...HOW I OVERCAME DEPRESSION I was born and raised in Indonesia, within a close knit family. Growing up, I was very close to my family even though life was difficult because of the economic situation in Singapore. Still we made do for a very long time. From a very young age my parents had high expectations of me and this put a lot of pressure on me to always be the best I can be. I started working at age 11 for my mother’s company while I was still in school. After I finished school, I got a job with a radio station in Indonesia that was lovely and exciting but I needed to do more. I had the opportunity to move to the United States to attend community college and therefore I took it. I felt very lucky for this, moving away from the pressures of home I felt was all I needed. I had started feeling lowly and unhappy at the age of eighteen, so I felt moving away was a perfect way to start over a new and wonderful life. When I got to California, I was excited and felt overjoyed. The first few weeks were exhilarating and I completely forgot my sadness. I was so involved in finding a job, starting school and everything was perfect. I liked the view from the apartment I got, and every day I would sit and stare out the window wondering how I got to be that lucky. Then slowly at first, my thoughts as I stared out of the window all had guilty undertones, I was mad and questioned myself on why I had felt happy leaving my only family behind. So I stopped going to the window, but the thoughts...
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...have shaped me into being me. Some have shaped my thinking or personality, while others have reared me into being a leader. But out of every event, there are three life occurrences that have had the greatest impacts on my life. These three events have had a profound influence on me and are my guiding forces in my current actions. These events include switching churches, going to Howard University for a year, and working at my current job. When I was in seventh grade, my mother informed me that we would be attending a new church. I was automatically distraught and very upset with her decision. The main reason was because I loved my old church. I loved that it was mainly family and friends...
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...In High school I hated reading and writing with a passion, I struggled with reading I would see words and have to sound them out and either the teacher or students would make fun of me because I didn’t know it which made me embarrassed so that made me not pick up books and read which I think I hurt myself in the long run, when I had to write a paper I would never do it because I didn’t know how to start or how to punctate correctly to be honest I still struggle with that today but I’m proud of myself instead of not doing it I try now. When I first stated Academic Literacy I felt stupid I was telling myself you should know this stuff you shouldn’t have to take a buildup class for English I I kept asking myself what’s wrong with you, I had to realize there’s nothing wrong it’s okay to get help in something this is preparing me for what’s to come and the fact I had a Professor who was really cool and she was always willing to help me and never turned me down no matter how simple the question could have been, she was the first person to tell me I was a good writer which was so shocking that made me feel great...
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...assisted me and made is easier to understand where I was making mistakes and how to correct those mistakes. Here is an example of a sentence I wrote in high school: Each of the students do a great deal of work in their class room. That sentence is grammatically incorrect. Now, I know how to correct the sentence. The corrected version: Each...
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...This semester I had the opportunity to do my service learning volunteering at two different places. One was Friends of the Night People and the other was Habitat for Humanity. I chose to do two different places so that I could get a different experience from both, however the Friends of the Night People was the one that had the most impact on me. Walking in I honestly didnt know what to expect. The other volunteers were very friendly and I immediately felt like this was going to be a good night. They put me on drinks to serve. However, as the night started and people began to pour in for food, clothes, and some warm shelter I was flooded by alot of mixed emotions. I immediately felt a sense of reward for helping those in need. I felt like they needed all of us and it also gave me a flash of what the world is REALLY like out there. The only goal i had while i was there was to keep a smile on my face and try to make people feel welcome. Here were people who have nothing and yet come in with a smile on their face and so appreciative just for the littlest things. While I was serving drinks I tried not to be judgemental and open minded. There were some great moments and also some sad moments. There was a few times where my heart would just break for them. A woman came in beaten up and still smiling and thanking me for being there. Several people came through in worse shape than most and carried everything they owned in just one garbage bag. That was the hardest...
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