Category: Psychology (Page 20 of 31)

Analyzing the Movie ‘Koran by Heart’

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Watch the movie  Koran By Heart on Youtube and give a short summary of the film, clearly specifying its main themes and topics. Describe how the film’s subjects define, understand, and relate to the Qur’an: what is its meaning for them? Reflect on the ways in which culture, politics, and gender inform the lives of the film’s subjects and their understanding of Islam. Continue reading

Analyzing 25 Years of AIDS

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The documentary ’25 Years of AIDS’ has 15 separate video installments that provide the viewer with an overview of the political, social, public health, and medical dimensions of the pandemic, both within the United States and globally. Clicking on the timeline: 25 years of AIDS provides a repository of documents, maps, and interviews with key informants that help in providing context to the video presentations.  What the documentary in the following links.

Video link: Part 1 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/aids/
Part 2 https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/aids/#video-2
Documents link: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/aids/

Answer the following as completely as you can, citing examples from the film to support your answers: Continue reading

A Linguistics Biography

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Find an informant with whom you can learn much about their life history and language history. You will want to develop at least ten questions to dig deep into their language history. What is their experience with language? Multilingualism, language socialization, focal vocabularies, prejudice, etc. You might explore second, third or fourth language learning of this individual. Heritage languages? Continue reading

A Survey Questionnaire

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Design  a basic survey questionnaire. Survey questions will be used to answer a research question you would like to ask the entire class. Your sample frame is all students in the class. Create a research question.  What do you want to know about UCB students? Consider which broader population you wish to generalize your results. Continue reading

Suicide in Young Adults: Mental Health

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The number of young people attempting suicide has drastically increased over the past two years making suicide one of the leading causes of death in the world today. Recent data from the National Institute of Mental health indicates that there’s a higher percentage of people aged between 18-25 that have suicidal thoughts compared to older people. Continue reading

White Patriarchal Capitalism

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Give examples in film history where the dominant ideology of White Patriarchal Capitalism in the United States was reinforced through specific films and their content. Limit your paper to a specific decade or social movement or war. Use references from notable authors, critics, and intellectuals. Continue reading

Self Management

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Read about Self Management from any book and write a reflective essay about this subject. The essay should detail your thoughts and feelings about the material you have read. Give a description of what you have learned from the book and how you might apply it in your life. Additionally, express how you feel about the content. Did it enlighten you? Was it not very helpful? Was it interesting? Continue reading

John, the Flirtatious CEO

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John is the CEO of ABC Company and has turned the company around. Prior to John being appointed as the CEO, the company had some financial problems. John came in, made the necessary changes that needed to be made and the company has not only turned around, but it also continues to prosper under John’s leadership. Clearly, John has the business acumen to run a company. However, the issue that has come to light is John’s character. John is married with children but is a flirt inside and outside the company. Within the company, no one has made any formal complaints (e.g., harassment), but everyone is well aware of his flirtatious character, and he does not try to hide it. Outside the company, John has been seen in social settings with other women behaving in a manner that does not appear to be platonic in nature. Continue reading

Socrates the Classical Greek Philosopher

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Articulate one particularly puzzling aspect related to Socrates, the classical Greek philosopher and explain how you were able to make sense of it.  Give an overview of what you are discussing- the “Big Picture,” so to speak- within which the more narrow issues rest. The body of the paper should be devoted to what was puzzling or confusing about the issue itself, or if one of the thinkers, offered a thought-provoking answer to the problem of change and opposition, this would be the space to explore those thoughts and to make sense of them. Continue reading

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