Tag: Humanities

What are the management challenges raised by COVID-19 for local NGOs? Critically discuss how the NGOs deal with these challenges.

The paper should be written in English and should not exceed 2,500 words (excluding appendices and references). It should be written in an academic style, following the APA citation format.

Criteria of assessment of term paper by the tutor:

Ability to relate relevant theories and/or concepts to empirical observations

Ability to assess relevant issues on the management of human service organizations critically

Ability to generate insights on issues relating to the management of human service organizations

Ability to present the views and arguments in an organized and clear manner

The local NGOs means Hong Kong’s NGOs. This work should base on Hong Kong’s society background.

Apply an EDM to the case of Patrice (see below). Use the ACA or ASCA standards and EDM applies to your professional goals as a school counselor. As a school counselor, how would you handle this case as presented to you? Choose one depending on your specialty area.

Patrice: As a counselor, you begin working with a young African-American woman who came for counseling because her mother was worried about her perfectionism and her isolating herself sometimes for periods of time. The mother asked you to visit with her. Patrice is an honor student in high school and a good athlete. She works out for extended periods of time.

Patrice agreed to see you and said she does “worry about things” and she simply needs to “quit being so hard on myself.” Patrice has seen you over several sessions, talking about herself and her future, when she reveals some self-induced vomiting after meals. She sees herself as “fat,” and is really fearful of her weight getting out of control. You are not sure what this means, but you are wondering about an eating disorder. Patrice does not want you to share this with her mother, unless it is in a session with you. You don’t have any experience working with an eating disorder (Adapted from Remley & Herlihy, 2005. (Chapter 10: Ethics of Diagnosis)

These are some questions below you can answer in the essay, but not answering them all. These are just some ideas to write for the essay.

You might try organizing your writing into three or more paragraphs where the first paragraph introduces your object, the second provides an overall description of the object, and the third (and any additional) paragraph(s) introduce significant details or aspects, which you both describe and also analyze. You may also add a concluding paragraph that introduces further questions you have about the artwork that you hope to answer with your research.

Artwork is Winter Sunrise by Ansel Adam

Emphasis

1. What is emphasized? What is deemphasized?
2. What parallels or juxtapositions appear?
3. What is the viewer supposed to focus upon?
4. What is the purpose of the image?

Style

1. What is the style of the image?
2. What tone is created by the style? What contributes to this tone—color, composition, content, emphasis, medium, omission, etc.?

Medium

1. What is the medium?
2. How does the medium create emotional and/or logical appeals?
3. What emotional and/or logical appeals might have been triggered had the creator used another medium or style?
4. If looking at a photograph or a digital image of something created in another medium, how does this representation affect the image?

Genre

1. What is the genre—advertising, art, vernacular, snapshot, map, poster, graph, film, etc?
2. How do you define this genre?
3. How does the genre affect the meaning of the work or its affect on the viewer?
4. What are the normal conventions of this genre?
5. How does this conform to, or differ from those conventions?
6. How does the creator manipulate those conventions?

Framing

1. How is the image framed?
2. Does the entire subject appear inside of the frame or is there a suggestion of something beyond the frame?
3. Why is this framing used?

Identification

1. What is the viewer supposed to identify with? Why?
2. How does the creator of the image get the viewer to feel this identification?

Cultural Memory

1. What cultural and/or national memories does the creator try to trigger with this image?
2. How does the creator trigger these cultural and/or national memories?
3. Why does the creator trigger these cultural and/or national memories?
4. What logical/emotional/ethical appeals are made through triggering these cultural and/or national memories?

Narrative

1. What story is being told?
2. What does the creator want the viewer to think or feel by telling this story?
3. How does the creator tell this story?
4. Who benefits from this story? Who doesn’t? Why? How?

Point of View

1. From whose point of view is the image presented?
2. From what level?
3. What is the relationship of the bearer of the point of view to the content?
4. What does this point of view emphasize?
5. What meaning does it bring to the image?
6. Why is this point of view used?

Gaze

What gaze is being used?

Familial Gaze

1. What common notion of family does the creator want the viewer to see?
2. What does the creator want the viewer to understand about himself, herself, his/her (or another)
3. family, community, culture and/or nation?
4. Who benefits from this familial gaze?

National Gaze

1. What common ideas of nationalism does the creator want the viewer to feel?
2. How does national identity of the viewer affect the reception of this image?
3. What about national identity is invisible to those that subscribe to the same identity to which the image appeals?
4. What does the creator want the viewer to understand about their (or another) nation?
5. Who benefits from this national gaze? Who does not?

Racial Gaze

1. What common notions of race does the creator depend upon?
2. What common notions of race does the creator naturalize or challenge?
3. What does the creator want the viewer to understand about their (or another) race?
4. Who benefits from this racial gaze? Who doesn’t?

Gendered Gaze

1. What common notions of gender does the creator depend upon?
2. What common notions of gender does the creator naturalize or challenge?
3. What does the creator want the viewer to understand about their (or another) gender?
4. Who benefits from this gendered gaze? Who doesn’t?

Normalizing Gaze

1. What representation of the body is normalized or challenged in this image?
2. What does the creator want the viewer to understand about their (or another) body’s ability?
3. Who benefits from this normalizing gaze? Who doesn’t?

Omissions

1. What information/visual representation is excluded in this visual artifact?
2. How does the exclusion of information/visual representation add to or detract from the meaning/persuasive force of the image?
3. Why did the creator exclude this information/visual representation?

Privileging and/or excluding various positions or voices

1. How does the creator’s visual choices privilege or exclude different positions or voices?
2. How does this privileging/excluding add to or detract from the meaning/persuasive force of the image?

History

1. What is the history of this image?
2. What history bears upon the meaning of this image?
3. How does this history appear in the visual content of the image?
4. What is important about the relationship of this image to its history or other histories?

Theory

1. What theories or texts bear upon your reading of this image?
2. What appears in the visual content of this image that relate to this theory/text?
3. How can you see theory/text in use in the image?
4. How does theory/text point towards what is excluded from the image?
5. What does theory/text change about the meaning of the image?

Aesthetic Experience

1. What is beautiful about the image?
2. What about the image is difficult to describe in words?
3. What about the image defies meaning/reading?

Personal

1. When did you first encounter this image? Describe that experience.
2. Why did you decide to write about this image?
3. What do you want to prove about this image?
4. What work do you want this image to do?
5. What do you wish was different about this image?
6. What do you not understand about the image? What else do you want to know?

Submit here your thoughts on Citizen Kane (1941). Write in your own words for about two pages (more but no less, and APA style) with an opinion on the film and its place in the film canon. Do you think this film deserves its accolades, or is it a relic of classical Hollywood with no relevance to current cinema audiences?

Note: What we study about in this course:

Understand and articulate concepts regarding film studies and film history;

Explain the role which specific films have had on historical events and societal changes;

Critically evaluate a film, understanding not just the plot and story, but also the wider

implications of film production and exhibition;

Relate film production and exhibition to wider historical and societal changes, such as

modernity, racial segregation, feminism and the world wars; Explain the importance of film to a critical understanding of culture and society in North America.

I’m working on a sociology question and need an explanation and answer to help me learn.

1. What new learning did you acquire in the videos related to LGBTQ+ comminities in America?
2. What is the impact of homophobia and heterosexism on human lives, particularly the youth?
3. What concepts impact your understanding of the experiences of LBGTQ+ individuals the most?

videos:

https://youtu.be/SFnpfwMaIJc https://youtu.be/IYVfqvXo7WY

I’m working on a sociology question and need a reference to help me learn.

1. What have you learned about transgender identity?
2. In what positive ways can transgender individuals can be supported toward healthy human development?
3. a. What are the differences between biological sex, gender identity and expression, and sexual orientation? b. what is meant by gender fluidity and non-binary identity?

videos:

https://youtu.be/zPIgcmVZWx4 https://youtu.be/LTDikx-maoM

I’m working on a sociology question and need guidance to help me learn.

This time period marked the development of the Charity Organization Societies and the Settlement House Movement. How did these two develop? What were their views and approaches to the problems of poverty facing urban areas at the time? How have these two approaches contributed to the social work profession of today?  How were their approaches different?

Personal Leadership History Report

The personal leadership history report will review your leadership experiences and describes your leadership style during those experiences. Discuss leadership experiences, what you learned from them, factors that influenced how you led, and how you look back on that leadership experience. This does not have to cover your entire leadership experience but should cover enough to build an accurate profile of your leadership experience. It is important to note that you do not need to be a supervisor or manager of people to lead. Leadership roles can take place in other ways, such as volunteering with a religious or civic organization. This is an essay on leadership, not management; sometimes the distinction is a fine line.

Be sure to read the requirements for that assignment before you complete the Personal Leadership History Report. Be careful not to focus on a leadership style in general, but discuss specific personal leadership experiences, both positive and negative, successes and failures. This paper should review your leadership experiences and describe your leadership style during those experiences. Be sure that your conclusion focuses on summing up your points on leadership discussed in the essay, not just a style. This report will be used to compare to what you have learned from the Leadership Exercise Report, also known as an After Action Report (AAR).

The body of the personal leadership history report shall be 4-6 pages (1,300 to 2,000 word), excluding other material such as the cover page, table of contents, abstract, graphics and tables, and references. The paper shall be presented in the 7th edition APA format, all margins should be 1”, 12-point font, and be in either Arial or New Times Roman font style. In the following descending order of preference, information sources must be either peer-reviewed articles, government reports, or other sources approved by your instructor. Internet information sources from other than authoritative sources are discouraged.

I’m working on a political science question and need an explanation and answer to help me learn.

Class 8: October 26, 2021 (Group 6)
Interest Groups/Lobbyists/Media and Politics
DUE: Questions (7)
HOMEWORK:
1. Watch: Thank you for Smoking (2005)
a. Rating: R (sex and nudity (moderate), violence and gore (mild), profanity (moderate), use of alcohol,
drugs, and smoking (moderate), death and hospitalizations related to smoking, frightening and intense
scenes (mild))
b. Link: — PLEASE FIND THE MOVIE BECAUSE I COULDNT FIND IT
2. Read:
a. Michael Givel, Punctuated Equilibrium in Limbo: The Tobacco Lobby and U.S. State Policymaking from
1990 to 2003, 34 Policy Studies Journal 405 (2006).
b. Marie Hojnacki, and David C. Kimball, “Organized Interests and the Decision of Whom to Lobby in
Congress,” 92 The American Political Science Review 775 (1998).
c. Gregory Koger and Jennifer Nicoll Victor, Polarized Agents: Campaign Contributions by Lobbyists, 42
Political Science and Politics: American Political Science Association 485 (2009).

Learning Goal: I’m working on a political science writing question and need an explanation and answer to help me learn.

Learning Goal: I’m working on a political science multi-part question and need guidance to help me learn.

THIS FORMAT GONNA BE THE SAME EVERY WEEK!

*Goal: I know you have watched the film, read the articles, and analyzed both

Do’s:

• Try to complete watch the film and complete the reading before asking questions. Take notes and spend some time reflecting on both!
• Include Specifics (e.g. note on specific scene or scenes, insight from article, etc.)

Questions that lead to discussion, rather than simply a yes or no answer (i.e. How? Why?)

a. Remember, you will appreciate this when it is your turn to lead the discussion?

• What do you want to know more about? What do you want to hear your classmate’s opinions on?
• Compare to what you have learned in other courses or current events (news)
• Focus on the scholarship
• A part of the film that you found confusing and why

Comments:

• Personal insights (This reminds me of)(I thought that)
• Provide analysis
• Feel free to get creative! You could comment something such as, “If I were to recreate this film” or “If I had written this film…”
• This film/article taught me…
• How could this film be used to…?
• This film does not accurately portray
• The film’s use of x… (lighting, dialogue, etc.)
• The author of X article might state that…
• Based on the film, people may assume that… (can be positive or negative)
• The people/events portrayed in the film…
• Comparison to other films we have watched
• Critique: you do NOT have to like the film or agree with its point of view! We will always talk about both the positives and negatives
• Interpretation with context
  • I do not think this film portrayed X event well because…
  • The author of X article accurately analyzed the film…
  • The author of X article DID NOT accurately analyze the film…
• This film does a good job of explain X topic/politician/branch of government.

Don’ts:

• Do not summarize the movie or articles
• Do not ask biographical info. about the film (“Who directed this film”)
• Broad question: “What is the theme”
• Obvious answers (Is this film about Vietnam?)
• Ask the same question each week (I will check/know!)
• Ask questions before watching/reading
• Assume the film is a perfect representation of what it sets out to portray!