Controversy: Gender Dysphoria- Should It Be in the DSM-5?, assignment help

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For this discussion, you will enter into a conversation on another ongoing controversy and contemporary issue regarding abnormal psychology. Specifically, should gender dysphoria be included as a diagnosis in the DSM-5? It is absolutely essential that you view the required video and read the required article and your instructor’s initial post before participating in this discussion.

As you enter into this conversation, carefully consider the historical information you read regarding the rationale behind excluding the DSM-IV-TR diagnosis of gender identity disorder from the DSM-5. Then, take a moment to relate this historical background to the current ethical, clinical, and social controversies regarding gender dysphoria and the DSM-5. Analyze this controversy within the context of how clinicians ethically identify and treat psychiatric conditions. Be sure to integrate knowledge of any appropriate cultural considerations psychologist must be aware of when diagnosing gender dysphoria. 

Must be 450-500 words.

Chong, Y. W. (2012). Beyond the gender binary: Yee Won Chong at TEDxRainier [Video file]. Retrieved from http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/Beyond-the-Gender-Binary-Yee-Wo

Optimal Order Quantities

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In your studies this week, you found that the optimal order quantity is achieved at the point at which inventory setup cost per unit of time equals inventory holding cost per unit of time. Knowing this, your employer, a manufacturer of office chairs, asks that you determine the optimal order quantity for two suppliers of coil springs.

Your manufacturing facility operates 50 weeks a year and requires a steady supply of 1000 coil springs per week. Supplier A charges $1 for each spring, and you resell them for $4 each. An inventory carrying charge of 25% is incurred.

In a two- to three-page APA formatted paper (not including the title and reference pages), provide the following:

  1. Complete the table and calculate the optimal order quantity for Supplier A:

    2. Units

    Setup costs

    Inventory carrying cost

    Show equation used with all above values filled in

    Optimal order quantity of springs
  2. Provide a similar table and calculate the optimal order quantity of springs for Supplier B. Supplier B offers a setup cost of $10. All other factors remain the same as Supplier A.
  3. The calculations assume that you are starting with a zero inventory balance. Discuss why zero inventory balance is or is not a desirable condition in most businesses. Be sure to include at least the three benefits of lower inventory carrying costs, having an inventory safety stock, and other potential benefits or risks.

Include at least two scholarly sources in addition to the text to support your discussion and findings.

Assigment 1

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Assignment 1: Gender Identity

We are socialized at every stage in life to conform to our gender identity. Societal reinforcement of tendencies of gender identity is relentless. For example, in hospitals, little girls are wrapped in pink and little boys in blue. This difference in colors influences how we learn and how we internalize our role in our society.

Girls tend to grow up to play feminine roles and boys tend to grow up to play masculine roles. This differentiation of gender identity has implications in social stratification. The videos given below will provide you with a better understanding of the differentiation of sexual identity from an earlier generation.

Search for and watch an episode of at least one of the following shows. You may find these videos using a variety of search methods including visiting your local library, using Netflix or your local video store, or searching on YouTube. If you have difficulty locating an episode of one of the following shows, contact your instructor for assistance in finding an alternative.

  • I Love Lucy
  • All in the Family
  • The Mickey Mouse Club
  • The Honeymooners
  • Leave it to Beaver
  • Father Knows Best
  • Gilligan’s Island
  • The Brady Bunch
  • I Dream of Jeannie

As you watch the video, ask yourself the following questions:

  • To what extent have things changed and to what extent have they remained the same in regards to gender roles, expectations, division, and identity from the time this show was originally popular and today?
  • How conscious and sensitive are the characters regarding gender prejudice, power inequality, and subordination?
  • Did they take inequality of the sexes for granted?

Based on your readings and understanding that you have gathered after watching the above-noted video, write a short biographical description of your life if you were to wake up tomorrow morning in the time period of the video you watched and find you have a different gender identity. Write a description of how you lived your life a day after your hypothetical change in gender as you answer the following questions:

  • Discuss how you would react on finding out that your sex is opposite. Would you feel a sense of relief, indifference, or elation? Why?
  • Discuss three ways your attitude towards the opposite sex was enlightened or would change as a result of what you learned from this project.  If you would not change your attitude, why?
  • Write down the ideas and attitudes you have taken for granted a member of your actual gender. Consider how your roles at home and in the office would change if you were a member of the opposite gender.
  • Relate the ideas of sexism and racism to the videos.  How do you think sexism and racism have changed since the 1950s? 

Due Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Assignment 3 Grading Criteria

Maximum Points
Expressed vividly and clearly how you would react on finding out that your sex is opposite, and whether you would feel a sense of relief, indifference, or elation.

20
Discussed three ways that your attitude towards the opposite sex was or was not enlightened or changed, and why.

20
Listed ideas and attitudes you take for granted as a member of your gender, and how your roles at home or work would change if you were a member of the opposite gender.

20
Discussed racism and sexism as shown in the videos and then explored how the concepts have changed since the 1950s.

20
Wrote in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrated ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; displayed accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.

20
Total:

100

Job Hazards Analysis

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Consider a task in your workplace that has led to issues, injuries, or near injuries. Perform a Job Hazards Analysis (JHA) for this task.

Upon completing the JHA, you will need to address the following items surrounding your workplace:

  • Describe principles of risk assessment and hazard analyses used within your occupation.
  • Explain how OSHA and other control methods are currently being used to prevent injuries and illnesses.
  • Critique current strategies in your workplace to combat the hazards surrounding the selected job task.

Your essay is required to be a minimum of two pages and follow APA guidelines. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

U S Constitutional law essay qstn min 500 words w/intext cit blue book format, law homework help

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Imagine you are a leader in post-colonial Africa, and you are considering what type of constitution your country should adopt. While you are excited about independence, your country faces several challenges.  Your country possesses an oil-rich north and a number of large cities in its south.  However, the population of your country is divided in three ethnic groups.  One ethnic group makes up 50% of the population and dwells in the oil-rich north of the country.  The second largest ethnic group makes up 47% of the population and this group predominately, but not exclusively, lives in the cities in the south.  The final ethnic group makes up 3% of the population, and this group cooperated with the colonizers.  Prior to colonization, the three groups did not live in one unified country.  During colonization, tension emerged between the three groups. In fact, a small civil war developed immediately after colonization.  Fearing retribution for cooperating with the colonizers, the ethnic group with 3% of population allied itself the majority ethnic group.  The majority ethnic group with its allies emerged as the winners of the civil war. 

1.If you wanted to maintain stability in the country, would you recommend that the country adopt a constitution similar to the United States Constitution or the British Constitution or another type of Constitution? 

2.What would be the essential elements of your country’s proposed Constitution? 

Those are 3 directions to respond. Avoid plagiarism. The due date is on Oct 30

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1. Given what you know about arguments for determinism, what problems do you see regarding moral responsibility, as well as praise and blame? Most of us praise others, and ourselves, for actions we deem praiseworthy; we blame others, and ourselves, for actions we find reprehensible. If it turns out that determinism is true, that people are not responsible for their actions, how might our evaluation of our own actions and the actions of others be affected? If people can not do other than what they do, should they be praised and blamed for their actions?

2. Rachels suggests that the case against free will appears to be a strong one. (We should not confuse the discussion of free will as being about political freedom, which is about the liberty that one has within a particular state.) Regarding the impressive evidence of modern psychology and contemporary biology, Rachels says the following: “As far as free will is concerned the overall trend is not encouraging. Each new discovery chips away a bit more of our confidence. The more we learn about the sources of human conduct the less room there seems to be for the idea of free choice.” How can you square this evidence with your feeling of freedom? If you think you have free will, how can you defend your position? Often in this discussion, students make claims such as “I have free will because I make choices” or “I have free will because I can do whatever I want.” But such responses commit the fallacy of begging the question. Essentially, such claims say ‘I have free will because I have free will.’ In your response, try to avoid committing this fallacy.

Works Linked/Cited:

Bennett, Bo. Begging the Question. Logically Fallacious. 11 Dec 2017. . Accessed 30 April 2018.

3. Watch the video below. Then, explain your understanding of compatibilism. What is your response to this theory? What problems do you find with it, if any?

Compatibilism: Crash Course Philosophy #25. YouTube video file. [8:54]. Crashcourse. 2016, Aug 22. youtu.be/KETTtiprINU

Writing Assessment

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Read the two documents in the attached doc (Washington-DuBois debate) and use them to answer the questions below.

1. Identify the ethical choices offered by the two speakers.

2. Discuss both sides of the ethical choices offered by the speakers.

3. Offer a personal evaluation of the ethical choices to be made.

4. Identified the pros and cons of both sides of the ethical choices to be made.

5. Indicate how the student’s own cultural background relates to the ethical choices proposed by the speakers.

6. Identify how the speaker’s point of view might be affected by the speaker’s cultural backgrounds.

7. Discuss how reading these two speeches allows them to relate to other cultures and helps them to understand and react to other cultures.

8. Indicate how reading these two speeches promotes their ideas of civic involvement in relation to the issues raised by these two speeches.

diagnosis of tuberculosis, Critical Thinking Questions homework help

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1. The diagnosis of tuberculosis involves the observation of lung structures called tubercles on an X ray. What immunologic process leads to the formation of tubercles, and what type of immune cells may comprise these lesions?

2. Individuals who smoke have much higher rates of lung infection. Explain which first-line defenses mechanisms may be impaired by smoking, allowing pathogens to more readily enter the lower respiratory tract.

3. Explain how super-antigens, such as toxic shock syndrome toxin produced by Staphylococcus aureus, often lead to the development of life-threatening symptoms in an infected individual.

4. Provide an explanation in support of or refuting the following statement: Humans would never develop natural immunity to a novel biological agent created in a laboratory

Ref.: Cowan, M. K. (2014) (4th Ed.). Microbiology: A Systems Approach, McGraw Hill

Please put reference under each question 

Unnoticeable “Lovely Writing”?

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The purpose of this assignment is to allow you to consider another astute reader’s response to a story after you have read it and formed your own (at least initial) opinions about it, to think critically about new perspectives on a story, and to respond to your peers to further your understanding about this story in particular and about literature in general.

Directions

  1. Read the following blog entry by Karen Carlson:
    • “Lorry Raja.”
      • “That’s what makes this story, as familiar as it is, work for me: it’s lovely writing. Yet I wonder, as I always do: when something stands up and announces itself as lovely writing, is it really lovely writing? Or is it one step removed from lovely writing, which would really be sort of invisible…?”

      • Pay close attention to the paragraph that begins:

    • Also note Carlson’s next paragraph, which describes the “heartstrings effect.”
  2. Write two paragraphs analyzing Vijay’s use of language in this story:
    • In the first paragraph, cite specific quotations from the story that you think contribute to lovely, or aesthetic, use of language. Does this writer use words similar to the way an artist uses paint? Are you able to picture what Vijay describes?
      • Provide at least two direct quotations from the story (with citations) as evidence for your claim.
      • Consider:
        • What effects arise from this “lovely” writing and the way it intersects with symbolism?
        • Do you agree that lovely writing should be unnoticeable?
        • Why or why not?
    • In the second paragraph, define what the “heartstrings effect” means to you (doing no more research than re-reading the blog entry and reflecting on your experiences of reading stories).
      • Cite specific examples from the story (direct quotations or paraphrases) that seem to be potentially overly-sentimental or emotionally manipulative.
      • Consider:
        • Is noting a heartstrings effect a valid criticism according to the way you read and make meaning of literature? Does it serve an artistic purpose?
        • Is it manipulative?
        • Should it be avoided?
        • If so, when and why?
  3. Post your TWO paragraphs

Analyze “We don’t need another hero” by Barara Kruger

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Analyze. Look at all the elements of the work and examine how they fit together. How does the choice of medium affect the work? What formal elements did the artist use? Assess the work in its context: Does it fit into a movement or time period (e.g. Impressionist? Abstract Expressionist? Contemporary?) Does it lead the way for a new movement or follow behind another movement? (Van Gogh was part of the Impressionist movement, but lead the way for the Fauvists movement) Consider its placement, both in the artist’s career but also in the art historical time line. If the work was created a long time ago, how was it received at the time it was created? How is it received today?