Category: Psychology

Essay Project Two

Civil Defense and Cold War Film Analysis

Between 1946 and 1991, the world stood in fear of a new world war that would have been fought with nuclear weapons. In the best-case scenario, such a war would have cost millions, if not tens of millions of lives, and would have rendered large areas of land uninhabitable and ill-suited for agriculture for years or decades. In the worst-case scenario, it could have led to global ecological calamity, and would have meant the destruction of human civilization as we know it. The 1950s were a time of particular terror, as your book notes, because of the occasional conflicts between the United States and its allies versus the communist world. Unlike any of America’s previous wars since the War of 1812, such a war would have targeted American civilian centers.
The following films were for the most part, made during the 1950s, and were designed to provide information to the public. On the other hand, in some instances, the information was targeted to certain audiences. Thus your assignment will be to watch several of these films, take notes, and address the following questions in essay form. You will only need to identify each video once by its full title, as I would like for you to address each one in particular. Some of the questions are more broad than others – bear in mind that one of the goals of this exercise is to have you examine these pieces of period documentary evidence. I hope that you get a sense of the past as you watch them.
Please begin with an introductory section – possibly after you have watched all of the assigned material (this means that you can watch the videos one by one, take notes and even write about the films, and add the intro last). Then proceed film by film. Please put the film titles in italics (Duck and Cover), and add the year in parentheses. For instance: Operation Cue (1955). If you are comparing films to each other, just use the film names in italics after you have already referred to the movie with the year.
Consider the following questions as you write your papers. You do not have to address each question for each video, but they should help you form your essay.

– Who is the presumed audience ?
– Who is included or excluded?
– What is the point, or the setting of the video?
– What is the thesis, or overall message of the video?
– Do any of these seem more or less realistic than others?
– What is the general sense, or emotional nature, that the filmmakers intend for their audience?
– What stands out to you most in each of the videos?
Note that Warning Red was a television dramatization of a nuclear attack – how does it compare to the other videos?

I have little doubt that a great communal groan has gone up – “FIVE films? He wants us to watch 5 FILMS?” Actually, I invite you to watch a sixth, and you do not have to put it in your paper, or even bother watching it, although it is kind of neat (it beats Taylor Swift in my book). Make sure that you have audio for it: Time-Lapse Map of Every Atomic Explosion Since 1945 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLCF7vPanrY It is a neat video and when multiple countries start testing, it is kind of musical! One question though: the map shows the date, nationalities, and numbers of tests, but what information does it not give the viewer?

As usual, consult your textbook for more information on the Cold War and the Atomic age.

 
This paper is an assignment comparing three readings and their authors for a Personality Psychology class. Below you will find the official instructions:

After reading “Psychological Data and Human Values” by Maslow; “The Necessary and Sufficient Conditions of Therapeutic Personality Change” by Rogers; and “Logotherapy and Existentialism” by Frankl, complete the following in 1,250-1,500-words

1. Summarize each article.
2. Evaluate how the article aligns with the theorist’s perspective Frankl/Existential Maslow and Rogers/Humanistic.
3. How could each of these research articles be applied today.

-Use your textbook to provide support for your statements.
-Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
-This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
-You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. Please refer to the directions in the Student

 
In Book I of the Republic Socrates analyzes various definitions or accounts of Justice, beginning with Cephalus’ and ending with his own. What are the four definitions? What is wrong with them, in cases where there is something wrong? How does the notion of self-interest help to explain the progression of the arguments/definitions?

What are the parts of the soul and how does Plato argue for them? How does he account for, i.e. define, the virtues in terms of a tripartite soul? If you can, explain how the education of desires helps him account for the virtues?

Each topic has parts, so please address them all.

aim of this assignment is to give students the experience of writing a psychological assessment report, similar to reports completed by professional psychologists. The preparation for this report will involve administering two psychological tests to a “client”, aged between 65-75 years, taking a brief, relevant history and observations during the interview, and conducting a literature review on the tests involved. The report will include a written description of the tests, their psychometric properties and any other relevant information (e.g. the effects of age on test performance), a description of the client’s relevant history, details of any observations during the testing session, a report of their test performance, an interpretation of their test performance and a summary.
This assignment will provide you with the opportunity to:

Conduct a literature review on the psychological tests and their psychometric properties
Administer psychological tests to an older adult
Score, and interpret tests scores appropriately
Write a psychological assessment report
Guidelines for the Psychological Assessment Report will be given to students in the course. There will be a lecture and practical session dedicated to the research report in week 7. Questions about the assignment should be posted on the corresponding Learnonline course forum.
Your report should be word-processed on A-4 size paper, font size 12, with a 3cm margin, and with 1.5 line spacing. All pages must be numbered. The word limit of the report is 2500 words without references. Reports exceeding the limit by more than 10% will be penalized at a percentage corresponding to the percentage of excess words (e.g. a 11% deduction for 11% excess).
Reports should conform to APA writing and referencing style. See: Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th ed, 2010, American Psychological Association, Washington, DC

The research proposal should be 4-5 pages long 2500 words before starting the dissertation

Dissertation introduction,
Literature & review
Research design & Methodology

The rest of the dissertation needs to be completed by 15th of JANUARY 2016, the rest will cover: data analysis, results, discussion etc.

Essay on Person Centred Dementia Care in the Prevention of Behaviours and Aggression
Length: 2000 words + or – 10%

Students are to write an essay on dementia and the application of person centred dementia care in the prevention of behaviours and aggression using the research literature.

Structures in details:
Please choose one behaviour to concentrate the essay on.

1. Introduction: 250 words = (10%)
Introduce dementia, behaviours, aggression and person centred care. How essay is structured

 My tutor’s structures for introduction:
– (Tell me what you are going to write about and how.)

2. Body: 1500 words = (60%)
– Integration and synthesis of literature to formulate an essay
– In depth integration of the literature into a relevant body of work on person centred care and behaviours and aggression
– Appropriate and evident paraphrasing and demonstration of understanding of person centred dementia care
– Demonstration of conceptual thinking of the topic material at a high level of abstraction
– Establishing and clear articulation of the significance of person centred care relating to prevention of behaviours and aggression

 My tutor’s structures For the body:
– (First 500 words – describe something about dementia, different types of behaviour and the specific behaviour you are going to concentrate on.
– Next 500 words – discuss person-centred care, what elements make up person-centred care and which PPW(s) you will focus on.
– Next 500 words – now discuss how the literature shows what management strategies have been used for the specific behaviour you have chosen and how the PPW you have chosen assists the management of the behaviour you have chosen. You can discuss the pros and cons of the different approaches and whether PPWs work better (based on the evidence in the literature).)

3. Conclusion: 250 words = (10%)
Effective and succinct summary of the main points made in the essay and implications for practice, education and research

 My tutor’s structures for the Conclusion:
– (Describe what you set out to do in the essay and how you have accomplished this. End with detailing how the PPW assists the specific behaviour you have chosen and how this might apply in your own practice.)

4. Organisation/structure = (10%)
– Clear, organised and structured presentation
– Use of appropriate headings
– Use 3rd person
– Spelling & grammar
– Font 12 point
– Spacing/margins
– Adherence to word limit

5. References = (10%)
• follow Flinders Uni- Harvard referencing guide
• Both text and list Referencing are required
• Age of references: references should preferably be less than 5 years old.

 

 

D. A very important research resource that you might benefit from for this essay and highly recommended by my tutor
There are many resources on the web for further learning and development. Recommended sites to visit include, but are not limited to:
– Alzheimer’s Australia
– Dementia Collaborative Research Centers
– Dementia Training and Study Centers
– Alzheimer’s Disease International
– World Health Organization
– Various government resources.

Dear writer, this assignment is worth 50% of final grade and I need to get a high mark on it in order to pass this topic. So please follow its structures & the Marking rubric.

In order to pass this assignment, students must successfully address each of the criteria outlined in the marking rubric. Also, the assignment should written in the 3rd person

I have uploaded all the documents that you need for this paper. Plus, some important resources.

Kindly see the attached files:
1st: Question and Marking Guide for Assignment 3
2nd: Resources for dementia
3rd: Come Into My World – How to Interact with a Person who has Dementia – pdf
4th: Dementia Powerpoint
5th: The referencing guide.

 

Health Policy Project Guidelines
The Primary purpose of the course is to develop a working knowledg
e of how health
policies are created and
the manner in which
nurses
, especially
advance
practice nurses
can
influence the process. The health policy project is an opportunity for the graduate
nursing
student to gain a first
–
hand enactment of the legislatio
n or the regulatory process and to take an
advocacy role in the process through the application of well
–
defined action plan.
The project
will involve full completion of a mock White House Fellowship Application.
The paper that
results from this p
roject is
due
Sun
day,
at midnight on
November
1
st
.
1.
Begin
your for the essay in this application by outlining
your informed position on
the legislation/regulation issue.
Answer the following questions and submit on
9/20/2015 at midnight, in writing
, via Blackboa
rd Safe Assign. Use APA (6
th
ed.) format.
a. Do
you support the legislation
/regulation?
b. W
hat would
you change to support your position?
c. H
ow
does your position impact advance practice
nursing
?
d. List the do
cumentation
(references) that will suppo
rt
your
position?
2.
Identify a local, state or federal health policy issue you are interested in. This may be a
bill being proposed currently under debate in the appropriate legislative, a law being
impl
emented pending regulations,
a proposed regulatio
n, or an idea you have for a bill
or regulation.
3
.
Define the issue fully explaining
:
1. Ob
jective and anticipated outcome of the
proposed legislation or regulation
2. B
ackground contributing to the legislation/regulation
formation
3. I
mpact of the l
egislation/regulation on existing health care policies
4. I
mplications of the legislation for
advance practice
nursing
5.
Identify position of stakeholders of legislation/regulation
6.
Obstacles and b
arriers
influencing
passage or implementation of the
legislation/regulation
7
. F
actors favor
ing
passage or implementation of the legislation/regulation
8. Discuss position of opposing groups,
against the legislation/regulation
; include
their views
9. Discuss
the economic impact of the legislation.
4
. In
formation for
the essay in this application
may be gathered from
(1)
peer reviewed
journals
(between
2010
and present)
;
(2)
analysis of government documents; (3)
interview of select interested group member

Human memory is fallible. Rather than being like a recording of events experienced, our memories are vulnerable to errors and misinformation. Though highly arousing events have been thought to be particularly accurate, this idea has been challenged. Events that are highly stressful may be particularly prone to error.
Design a study to test the idea that stress level impacts the accuracy of human memory. Be sure to develop a study that is ethically feasible.
Maximum of 1500 words including in-text references. Doesn’t need to conduct the research and develop the questionnaire. You are only designing a study. For the reference please use the APA 6th edition style.

Programming and planning: Identify some strategies to encourage children’s critical thinking around normalising discourses of gender and sexuality.
Working with staff, families and children: Identify some strategies to initiate and maintain an inclusive and continuous dialogue around issues, concerns and fears for social justice.

Please give a psychological analysis of this statement below……
I am going to address my own personal experience of living with Generalized Anxiety Disorder and how these factors affect my anxiety and my life.”Free floating anxiety must be accompanied by at least three of the following symptoms: (1) restlessness or feeling keyed up or on edge (2) being easily fatigued (3) difficulty concentrating or mind going blank (4) irritability (5) muscle tension (6) sleep disturbance”. I recognized at a young age that I suffer from major depressive disorder. It first onset at age 11 when I started experiencing suicidal ideations after being bullied for a long period of time at school. Looking back on my childhood now though, I realized that my anxiety disorder long preceded that. I recall having excessive worrying thoughts all the time about something bad happening: an attempted kidnapping, someone breaking into my home, anything that would separate me from my family. I have had night terrors from as early on as I can remember and they are always related to my deepest seated fears of something happening to someone I love, being chased or suffocated, trying to call out for someone but not being able to because fear has rendered me without a voice, someone breaking into my home, or something along those lines. Since I’ve had children, my dreams are now in regards to something happening to them. I wake up screaming, crying, or in a panic and it takes me a good hour or longer to calm down enough to go back to bed. I toss and turn and never feel like I get solid rest so I’m constantly exhausted throughout the day. Genetics definitely play a role in my comorbidity as major depressive disorder runs in my family on both my mother’s and father’s side. Stressful life events also play a huge role in exacberating my everyday symptoms, which are semi-managable, into something that can completely overtake my life. For example, I’ve always had anxiety when it comes to my husband’s job, he’s a law enforcement officer and he works a VERY rough area. He’s been nearly beaten to death, stabbed, hit by a car at about 45mph, and shot at multiple times in his near decade of service, not to mention that fights are almost a nightly occurence. Everything about his job scares me as he could be taken away from me and our three daughters at any moment. Recent events and this new war on cops has heightened my anxiety though, mostly due to the sense of lack of control. Law enforcement officers are being murdered and assassinated doing completely normal everyday things: pumping gas, eating lunch in their patrol car, going home. These are not things that the cops are doing wrong in their line of duty or anything that could have been avoided. That is what scares me the most. My husband works graveyards and I stay up all night, or nearly all night, despite knowing I have to be up all day with a toddler because I dread getting that phone call or knock at the door telling me something has happened to my husband. I avoid watching the news as it angers me beyond belief and makes my fears ten times worse. I watch the police funerals on tv and bawl my eyes out as my heart breaks for these families and I pray I’m not ever in that position. The constant restlessness, worrying, and lack of sleep makes it difficult for me to function during the day. I have a million things on my mind at any given moment, from bills, to school, to work, to cleaning the house, planning out dinners, therapy appointments, my husband’s work schedule, the kid’s school schedule, etc, etc. It never feels like there are enough hours in the day and I never feel like I get anything accomplished despite feeling like I’m running around like a chicken with my head cut off all day long. I am also extremely attentive to threat cues and have sensitive fear pathways, especially at night. I have an irrational fear that more crime happens at night, so while I’m attentive to threat cues during the day I’m ultrasensitive at night. I fear the night time because in the dark is where the unknown lies and that’s terrifying. Something could be lurking right beyond your vision and you would not be aware of it. These are the type of anxieties that I deal with. I prefer sleeping with the dogs in the house, my gun loaded on my cabinet next to my bed, and my daughter in bed with me on the nights my husband works. I feel like if someone was to break into the house the only way they could get to her is through me, in contrast to her being in her room down the hall where I would have to reach her before they did. Due to these fears I avoid things like scary movies and haunted houses at all costs. I try to avoid doing things alone in the dark, whether it’s going for a run or just going out to get the mail. When I’m walking to my car at night, I’m always prepared for someone to jump out and attack me so I keep a sharp key or object in my hand to use as a makeshift weapon if need be. I am constantly searching for threat cues because if I feel like I have an upper hand in the situation then I feel more in control or prepared and ultimately less anxious. I know that so many of these fears are irrational and my husband tells me all the time that I’m paranoid, which is completely true, but it’s something I’ve lived with and suffered through my entire life so even though I feel legitimately crazy about 99% of the time, I don’t know anything different.