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Presentation on Threats to the Global Environment

Congratulations! The members of the United Nations found great value in the two analyses you provided. They are now asking you to develop a PowerPoint presentation that addresses four of the most critical threats to the global environment. Critical threats include:

Energy sources.
Globalization.
Lack of educational opportunities.
Inappropriate use of technology.
Civil war.
Poor health of entire population.
Cultural taboos.
Climate change.
Instructions
Step I. Narrow the List from Eight to the Four Most Critical Threats
To complete this step, complete the following tasks in order:

Review research on each of the eight threats.
Determine what you believe to be the current and potential future impacts of each threat on the global environment.
Choose the four threats that you see as the most critical by considering which pose the greatest or most immediate risk.
Step II. Create the PowerPoint Presentation
The completed version of this

Any topic (writer’s choice)


The information you provided in your PowerPoint presentation on Threats to the Global Environment has led to productive debates at the United Nations General Assembly! Hence, they are now asking you to create an additional analysis report to respond to the issues raised in these debates.

Your fourth project as a consultant for the United Nations is to develop a report that addresses the issues raised by some of the member states of the United Nations.

Instructions
Step I. Consider the Issues
In the Presentation on the Threats to the Global Environment, you were asked to create a PowerPoint identifying the four most critical threats out of eight threats provided:

Energy sources.
Globalization.
Lack of educational opportunities.
Inappropriate use of technology.
Civil war.
Poor health of entire population.
Cultural taboos.
Climate change.
There are four remaining threats that you did not discuss in your PowerPoint. This assignment wil

Toy Research Project

For this project, you will collect and analyze data on how race, ethnicity, and gender manifest in contemporary toys. You will need to go to an online retail site where toys are sold (e.g: Target.com, toysrus.com). Once there, you will record data about the toys you observe and later you will analyze, using course material and concepts, this data in your project report, drawing out deeper social themes and issues. In your report, you should briefly describe how you conducted your research (the location where you
collected data; how you conducted your data collection) and what you found in your research (i.e., the key patterns that emerged).

Things to consider:
1.How the racial and ethnic diversity of toy characters (and/or toy models) compares to the actual racial and ethnic diversity of the United States?
2. How race and ethnicity are encoded into toys
3. Whether and how racial and ethnic stereotypes manifest in toys and/or in the social roles embedded in toys
4.

Face Recognition Theory

Choose a conflict scenario and develop a comic strip using the likely (or most obvious) conflict management style. Write a paper analyzing the comic strip using Face-Negotiation Theory. Article information, scenarios and an example of how I want the paper, have been attached to files. Here a website to create the comic strip http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/ http://www.pixton.com/ or
Feel free to choose another website.

Opression in organizations

Overview

Look at the organization you currently work.  How does it oppress your clients?  In what ways can you improve this condition?  Use research to support your assertions.

Instructions

    Respond to the discussion topic(s) below.
        Your initial post should be a minimum of 500 words, not counting citations.
    Cite a minimum of three scholarly sources in your discussion posts.
    Make sure to follow standard APA guidelines.

Emile Durkheim and Karl Marx

Durkheim considered anomie and excessive individualism to be the central problems of the modern era while Marx focused on false consciousness and alienation.  Define these concepts and use them to explain the different orientations of the two theorists in their analyses of what ails the modern world. In your essay reflect upon the social climate of the times in which Durkheim and Marx lived that influenced the development of their social theories and explain their usefulness for understanding the problems facing individuals and society in 21st century USA.
The focus is on the theories and what the theorists wrote, not the theorists' biographies
With at least two references.

Emile Durkheim and Karl Marx

Durkheim considered anomie and excessive individualism to be the central problems of the modern era while Marx focused on false consciousness and alienation.  Define these concepts and use them to explain the different orientations of the two theorists in their analyses of what ails the modern world. In your essay reflect upon the social climate of the times in which Durkheim and Marx lived that influenced the development of their social theories and explain their usefulness for understanding the problems facing individuals and society in 21st century USA.
The focus is on the theories and what the theorists wrote, not the theorists' biographies

Crime and Inequality

For the writing assignment in this course, you should select one the topics below to write a 4-6-page essay in which you critically review the literature related to one aspect of your chosen topic using no fewer than 5 (FIVE) additional scholarly journal articles from the TWU Library website. If you wish to choose a topic outside of the list below, consult with your instructor. You may use readings from this course as part of your essay, but you must use the FIVE additional scholarly sources in addition to whichever course readings you wish to include. Newspapers, Wikipedia, Tumblr, Facebook, Buzzfeed articles, and all other non-scholarly sources are strictly prohibited. The topic you choose must relate to social inequality. The topics provided below are intended to be broad, giving you freedom to take your topic in the direction you choose.

Topics to choose from

Gender & Inequality
Race & Ethnic Inequality
Health & Inequality
Crime & Inequality

Sociological Perspective of The Wolf of Wallstreet

You are to write a [minimum] 5-7 page [maximum] analytical essay [1250-1750 words] reviewing a contemporary film, book, or writings from the list provided. You will not be writing a review regarding your chosen topic per se---I do not want to know, if for instance, you have chosen a film, what your opinion is of the acting, plot, writing or directing [a.k.a., it is not relevant whether you enjoyed the film, whether you thought it humorous, too stylized, insipid, too complex, etc.]. Rather, the goals of this assignment are threefold:

1) I want to you to apply the theoretical perspectives from weeks I & II to relevant elements within your paper topic. Pick out different concepts we have learned since the first two weeks [culture, self, socialization, class issues, stigma, social stratification, race/ethnicity, cultural hegemony, symbolism, ethnocentrism, relative deprivation, false consciousness, norms, deviance, ETC.] from your chosen topic, and analyze them in terms of the 3

sociological topic or concept related to social problems

The final assignment for this semester is to write an essay. You should choose a sociological topic or concept related to social problems as a title for your paper. This paper is an argumentative essay where you are exhibiting the critical thinking skills that you enhanced throughout the semester. Please follow the instruction below carefully:

Have a clear, precise topic.
Have a clear, strong thesis in the instruction
Underline your thesis.
Use the library and Canvas resources to construct your essay.
Your essay should include at least three scholarly references.
Your essay should be 2.5-3 pages, not including the cover page (if you have one) and reference page (625-800 words plus the reference page), typed, double-spaced, 12 pt. font.
Cite the sources using MLA or APA format (use in-text and full citation).
Use a word document format.
There is no need for an abstract