Body Image

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Perception versus reality. In relation to weight and body image, perception and reality are often different. The average American woman is 5 feet 4 inches and weighs 140 pounds, while the average American model is 5 feet 11 inches and weighs 117 pounds. Which is a more realistic representation of a woman?

Contemporary advertisements and media can impact a person’s idea of body image as well as an individual’s culture and economic status. Think about the factors that influence the perception of body image. Consider how body image might affect an individual’s dietary choices and physical exercise. As you think about how perception and body image impact personal health, consider whether there is a genetic component to body weight and whether weight or body shape is a result of genetics or behavior.

To prepare:

  • Review Chapter 9 in Health: The basics, 13th edition. Consider the role nutrition plays in maintaining body weight
  • Review Chapter 10 in Health: The basics, 13th edition. Think about how a healthy weight can impact body image.
  • Review the article “Body image change and improved eating self-regulation in a weight management intervention in women.” Consider the impact of body image on dietary choices.
  • Review the media “Dimensions of Health Wheel.” Focus on how the perception of body image affects health and wellness.
  • Review the multimedia piece “Dimensions of Health Wheel.” Consider the role of genetics and behavior on body weight and shape.
  • Review the multimedia piece “Dimensions of Health Wheel.” Focus on how the perception of body image affects health and wellness. Also, consider the role of genetics and behavior on body weight and shape.

With these thoughts in mind:

Select one of the Questions.

Post three factors that influence the perception of body image and explain the reasons why. Then explain two ways body image might impact personal health and wellness.

OR

Post your position on whether weight and body shape is more of a factor of genetics or behavior. Support your position with references from this week’s Learning Resources.

(750+ words)

Sources to be used: (Please use the sources below esp. the textbook and required media).

Donatelle, R. J. (2019). Health: The basics (13th ed.). San Francisco, CA: Pearson.

  • Chapter 10, “Nutrition: Eating for a Healthier You”
  • Chapter 11, “Reaching and Maintaining a Healthy Weight”
  • Chapter 12, “Improving Your Personal Fitness”

Carraça, E. V., Silva, M. N., Markland, D., Vieira, P. N., Minderico, C. S., Sardinha, L. B., & Teixeira, P. J. (2011). Body image change and improved eating self-regulation in a weight management intervention in women. The International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 8(75).
Body image change and improved eating self-regulation in a weight management intervention in women by Carraça, E., Silva, M., Markland, D., Vieira, P., Minderico, C., Sardinha, L., & Teixeira, P., in The International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition And Physical Activity, Vol. 87/Issue 5. Copyright 2011 by Biomed Central, Ltd. Reprinted by permission of Biomed Central, Ltd. via the Copyright Clearance Center.

Required Media

Laureate Education, Inc. (Executive Producer). (2012). Personal Health and Wellness: Dimensions of Health Wheel [Multimedia], Baltimore, MD: Author.

  • Dimension of Health: Week 4

Vocks, S., Hechler, T., Rohrig, S., & Legenbauer, T. (2009). Effects of a physical exercise session on state body image: The influence of pre-experimental body dissatisfaction and concerns about weight and shape. Psychology & Health, 24(6), 713–728.
Note: Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

Protecting children from media

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For his 10th birthday, Greg was given a handheld videogame system. His parents allowed him to pick any two games. They knew the games might contain violence, because there was a violence rating sign posted on the games, but rationalized that they were only games and other kids play them. Greg would quickly finish dinner and run up to his room to play his games.

His parents were pleased to observe that Greg enjoyed their present so much. After a week, his parents noticed that he wasn’t turning off the videogames at bedtime, and had begun turning homework in late. He was up so late playing that he would not get up for school without argument. His parents decided that enough was enough and took the video games away. Greg threw temper tantrums and persuaded his parents to buy him a computer after convincing them that it was necessary to keep up at school. Greg soon returned to the same pattern of behavior where he spent long hours and late nights at the computer. This time, his parents felt a false sense of security that he was doing his homework. One day, his curious parents decided to scan the computer history to see what Web sites Greg was browsing. To their horror, they discovered that Greg was spending many hours online playing interactive, sometimes violently graphic, games on the Internet. He was also chatting with other “gamers”. Before confronting Greg about his behavior, his mother and father agreed to investigate what types of intervention strategies might be available within their community. They have come to you, a behavioral consultant, for advice.

Click to Read the Kaiser Family Foundation Study: Generation M2. Media in the Lives of 8- to 18- Year Olds.

Describe the issue of exposure to videogame violence in today’s society as related to Greg’s situation. Explore issues such as:

  1. Prevalence (e.g., age, gender, racial diversity, etc.)
  2. Given Greg’s developmental level, what are possible dangers of exposure to media violence? Be sure to address this in the context of his cognitive and socioemotional development.
  3. Risk and protective factors, including predisposition to violence (e.g., are all children who play violent videogames likely to become more aggressive? What protective factors might mitigate the possible outcomes for Greg?
  4. Discuss the possible outcomes if Greg’s behavior continues unchecked.
  5. Discuss types of intervention strategies you would expect his parents to find at a community level, such as in community centers, schools, and social service agencies, to assist children like Greg who are at risk due to ongoing exposure to media violence.
  6. What would be a good plan to recommend to Greg’s parents?
  7. Compare the dangers of exposure to videogame violence with other forms of violence. What are similarities and differences between videogame violence exposure and the other type of violence you chose to compare?
  8. What are the costs of videogame violence to the family and the community and society at large and the other form of violence you chose for comparison?

By the due date assigned, format your paper in APA (6th edition) style, using information you learned in your textbook and from the Kaiser Family Foundation Study to support your response. Your paper should be between 4 and 5 pages in length. Include a cover page, abstract, and reference list, which should cite any information used from your assigned textbook, Kaiser Family Foundation reference, and other sources such as online course content.

Assignment 2 Grading Criteria

Maximum Points
Discuss issues such as prevalence (i.e., age, gender, and racial differences).

16
Discuss dangers of media violence in the context of Greg’s developmental level.

20
Discuss risk and protective factors, including predisposition to violence.

20
Discuss possible outcomes of continued exposure to videogame violence.

20
Discuss the intervention strategies/services his parents could find at the community level.

20
Recommend an intervention strategy for Greg.

20
Compare videogame violence to another form of violence.

20
Discuss societal costs of videogame and other form of violence chosen for comparison.

20
Style (4 points): Tone, audience, and word choice

Organization (12 points): Introduction, transitions, and conclusion

Usage and Mechanics (12 points): Grammar, spelling, and sentence structure

APA Elements (16 points): In text citations and references, paraphrasing, and appropriate use of quotations and other elements of style

44
Total:

200

300 words and 2 sources cited

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Compare and contrast single-member districts and proportional representation (PR). How effective is each electoral system in representing its people’s interests? How do they support the party systems around which they arose?

This discussion question focuses on elections.

Along with your textbook reading for the week, here’s some additional reading to consider about elections:

Arend Lijphart, “PR v. Single-Member Districts in States,” FairVote.org.

http://www.fairvote.org/pr_vs_single_member_districts_in_states (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Please remember to use an outside source in the main post, which needs to be submitted on or before Wednesday.

Please also remember that the original post must be at least 300 words. Must use this book and outside scholarly source.

Describe six features of your community , assignment week 1 help

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Write a two- to- three- page paper (excluding title and reference pages) that identifies a problem faced by your community. Discuss how a model of community change could be implemented to improve the problem.

  1. Describe six features of your community (e.g., cultural make up, size, and locality).
  2. Define the problem (e.g., obesity, environmental pollution, teenage pregnancy, graffiti, truancy, gangs, drugs, child labor, or insufficient educational programs) and explain why the problem is detrimental to the community. 
  3. Select a model of community change identified in the textbook and explain how it could be implemented to improve the problem.
  4. Identify: 
    1. At least three aspects of the problem you think that the model will be most successful at solving and provide reasoning as to why.
    2. At least three aspects of the problem you think that the model will struggle to solve and provide reasoning as to why.

The bulk of your paper should focus on the third component above (the model of community change). Your paper must include a minimum of two scholarly sources and be formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

Write a proposal for the research essay.

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One paragraph will be enough

Objective: To learn how to compose an analytical essay with an evolving thesis with multiple sources and at least one application of your idea to your own evidence. You will learn how to create your paper by being able to the essaysthat you have written about the books that you have read this quarter, using the revised essay as one of two chapters for your research paper.

  • At least a paragraph describing what you will attempt to do. This paragraph will include an explanation of how you will take your essay on Blink, Gilead, or The Sixth Extinction and expand it to cover a more in-depth analysis which includes an application of your idea to your own evidence.
  • A working thesis.
  • A list of possible applications for your idea (possible evidence that is yours and not in the texts).

I will post another question after this one. That one will be the research paper. 2500 words

culturally different roommate, Writing Assignment Homework Help

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Select ONE of the following and provide a 200-300 word response:

A) You may have lived with a culturally different roommate in school or the military, or maybe you had a job where you either worked with someone from a different culture, or the customers were of various cultures. Describe an example from your own life experience when you benefited from an opportunity to learn something about a different culture; it could be a new holiday tradition, a new religious belief or custom, or a new delicacy that you only discovered because of your relationship with that person.

~OR~

B) Imagine that you’re working in the field for which you’re earning your degree. You’ve just been introduced to a new associate who recently moved to the United States from one of the countries in the Middle East. (Links to an external site.) Describe some strategies to lessen the impact of your own cultural influences in order to achieve cultural pluralism in your workplace. In other words, what steps could you suggest to help your group create an inviting multicultural workplace?

NOTE: You are to answer this based on your experience, not based on something copied from the Internet. 

Submission Criteria
Submission must be 200-300 words in paragraph format. 

outline that use we did topic before

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Bring your typed “rough draft” of Informative speech (including at least three cited scholarly sources) *must be typed and follow outline format to receive credit.

Must be typed

Must follow standard outline format

Must include at least three scholarly sources in outline and bibliography

“Here are the questions about effect of divorce on children:”(-use these infor we did last time )

  1. Which of the following is the right time for parents to tell their children about an impending divorce?
    1. When they ask
    2. Immediately after deciding the divorce
    3. When the parents are sure about the divorce and have enough information to answer questions
    4. Hold it till the last minute for their safety
  1. How should parents approach the children about the divorce to lessen its immediate impact on their lives?
  1. Politely
  2. By blaming the other parent
  3. By addressing the issue as it is
  4. By assuring the children that the divorce will not affect child-parent relationship
  1. Which one is the least likely long-term impact of the divorce on the children lives?
  1. Hate towards one of the parent
  2. Poor living standards
  3. Hate towards the children by the parents
  4. Low self-esteem

__________________________________________that would work for your informative topic–however, it might work better as a persuasive topic because it focuses on a problem. You might want to use that for your persuasive speech and choose another topic for your informative speech.

– that’s what the teacher told me so I was thinking a topic better then this one but similar

Plagiarism Spectrum, discussions help

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Review this infographic from
Turnitin called “The Plagiarism Spectrum: Tagging 10 Types of Unoriginal
Work.” http://turnitin.com/assets/en_us/media/plagiarism_spectrum.php

Think for a moment about where
you have seen these kinds of plagiarism in action in real life. Think
about the workplace, the news, music and the arts, and so on. Describe this case
of plagiarism in detail (including links to any relevant Internet sources you
used), which type of plagiarism you think it is, and why.

In your response posts,
explain how APA Style could have prevented this problem, as it was described in
the initial post. How could the plagiarizer have used proper citations or other
means to avoid plagiarizing?  should be between 250-300 words.


Read the article “Androgynous
Man” in Chapter 9 of your textbook (page 243-244 in the second edition).
What sticks out to you about this article? What do you notice
initially? Consider elements of writing such as tone, diction (word choice),
structure, organization, and so forth. Look at the author’s writing style. Then,
consider his use of outside sources to support his claims. Where do you see
this? Are these sources authoritative, in your estimation? Remember that you are
not reflecting on whether you agree with the article’s
ideas. should be between 250-300 words.

book pages attached

Criminal Justice Reading Assignment

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No Plagiarism Please! I provide an 18% tip!

Deliverable Length:2 – 3 pages, Times New Roman 12pt font. APA format and include a reference page.

Essay Questions:

  • Identify the four levels of measurement and give examples of each.
  • Explain the threat to validity.Cover the following threats:face, content, criterion – related, and construct.
  • Discuss the measures used to insure reliability:test – retest method, inter-rater, and split – half method.
  • Compare and contrast UCR and NCVS with respect to the type of crime data they collect and how they collect it.Identify strengths and weaknesses of each.
  • Identify the major efforts to gather information about drug abuse in the United States.How do these measures compare with one another?What are the strengths and weaknesses of each?
  • Discuss the validity and reliability of self – report measures.
  • Discuss the improvements that have been made to UCR through the NIBRS and the Redesigned NCVS.Predict whether these changes will make a major difference in our understanding of crime in America.

This comes from chapter 5 and 6 of the textbook which I will upload

Please use the textbook on the reference page.

Maxfield, Michael G. and Earl Babbie 2005.Research Methods for Criminal Justice and Criminology.Sixth ed. (required)

social gerontology

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In Chapter 5 of your textbook, you learned about the self-concept, which is how an individual thinks of herself or himself. Although the self-concept is something that is established early in life, it changes as one grows older through life experiences. After reading the chapter, address the following :

  1. Discuss the experiences that an individual may have in her or his later years that may alter that person’s self-concept. Be sure to discuss experiences that would both positively and negatively impact her or his self-esteem.
  2. Discuss how your own self-concept may change as your physical capabilities are decreased. Be sure to explain what positive and negative aspects you expect to encounter as part of your aging experience.

Your initial post should be at least 250 words in length. Support your claims with examples from the required material(s) and/or other scholarly resources, and properly cite any references