• Write a ~500-word essay
• Based on the readings: Arnett, J. (2012). Adolescence and emerging adulthood: A cultural approach (5e).

Include:

• Main ideas from the chapters
• What you understood about adolescence
• Your opinion or example

Read Pages 60-93 Cognitive Functioning

Read Pages 104-125 Cultural Beliefs

Activity #13 (Extra Credit)

For an extra credit opportunity, please do the following by Friday at 11:59 P.M.

Comment on two peers presentation. When commenting on peer presentations, please address the following:

• What did they do well during their presentation?
• What is one question you have for them based off of their presentation?

Each response to your peers should be 4 to 6 sentences in length. Each response is worth 2.5 points of extra credit (5 points total).

Student 1 yaseen

Student 2 Abeer

• Write a ~500-word essay
• Based on the readings: Arnett, J. (2012). Adolescence and emerging adulthood: A cultural approach (5e).

Include:

• Main ideas from the chapters
• What you understood about adolescence
• Your opinion or example

Read Pages 2-26 Adolescent Development in Today’s World

Read Pages 38- 64 Biological Foundations

Peer Review:

Please review the person who posted above you on the discussion board. If you posted your presentation first, you can review the person who posted their presentation last. After reviewing your peers video, please answer the following prompts and comment your answers under your peers video:

1. What do you think they did well in regard to their knowledge and presentation of interpersonal communication? Make sure to be specific here and reference specific parts of their presentation as well as course concepts.
2. Where do you think they could improve in their presentation in regard to interpersonal communication? Again, be specific here and make specific references to their presentation and the course concepts.
3. Pose two questions you would have for them based off of the content of their presentation.
4. Your peer review should be about 12 to 16 sentences or 3 to 4 paragraphs

Student 1 Zainab

Student 2 Dylan

Hi, I wrote a story and have feedback on it. need to review and edit the story.

Discussion: Evaluating Proposal Arguments

In this unit, you have thought about some topic ideas for your proposal argument. In order to help you decide on a direction for your proposal, in this discussion you will analyze and evaluate some sample proposal arguments.

Your Post (Due Wednesday)

After reading the proposal arguments in choose one and analyze its argument. As you work, consider questions like the following:

• In your opinion, what did the writer do well in their argument?
• How does the proposal overcome objections to the solution?
• Is the solution feasible?
• What did the proposal do poorly?
• If this were your proposal, what would you change?
• Last, do you have any questions or concerns about the proposal argument so far?

Write up your analysis and submit it as a reply to this discussion.

esay to evaluated attached

Week 8 Discussion, Appreciating Diversity

For this discussion you will need to research or visit others of another culture, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity, organizations such as AA, BLM, LGBTQ+, Veterans, etc. or a combination of these.

Please give a summary of what you have learned, including reflection on what are your thoughts are about yourself/your beliefs based of what you have learned. You may include the following in your discussion:

1. What experience/place are you plan to research/visit?
2. What were your expectation before researching/visiting this experience?
3. What did you learn about while researching/visiting?
4. What are your thoughts about yourself, and your own identity based of what you have learned from this experience?

Write at least 200 words. Remember to read other students posts and reply to at least one of them to receive full credit. Please be respectful of other’s views, we do not all have to have same beliefs or values, but we all need to be able to agree to disagree.

Week 8 Discussion, Engaging in a Healthy Lifestyle

Chapter 11 contains health information for college students in the areas of nutrition, avoiding addictions, protection from disease, getting enough sleep, and dealing with stress. It is based on the premise that we will be living longer in the 21st Century. Also, a college education is a big investment, and it is important to enjoy the benefits over a long lifetime.

Here are some ideas for discussion, pick one or two. Reply to any of these topics in 100 words. Remember to read other students’ comments and respond to at least one of them to get full credit for this discussion.

1. These facts are well known:
Smoking causes lung cancer.
One out of three Americans is overweight or obese.
Illegal drug use is addictive and limits success.
Not getting enough sleep is harmful to health and learning.
Not practicing monogamous or safer sex can lead to STDs including AIDS.

Knowing this information, why do people continue to smoke, overeat, take illegal drugs, miss out on sleep or practice unsafe sex?

2. Assume that you are writing magazine article, “The Five Most Important Steps to Maintaining Your Good Health.” What ideas would you include in this article?

3. Share some of your intention statements for maintaining your good health.

4. You may watch this video and make a comment about it:

Identity, Intersectionality & Building a Critical Intersectional Lens

Due in Canvas: Wednesday, March 25 by 11:59 p.m. (30 points)

This discussion invites you to reflect on your own social identities and begin connecting this weeks key concepts to your lived experiences.

In their essay, Kirk and Okazawa-Rey introduce the concept of social location, the combination of identities such as race, gender, class, sexuality, ability, that shape how we move through the world. These identities exist within larger systems of power that grant or restrict access. Kimberl Crenshaws framework of intersectionality extends this idea by showing how multiple forms of inequality overlap and interact, rather than operate separately. Gloria Anzaldas How to Tame a Wild Tongue adds another dimension, illustrating how language and culture are integral to our sense of identity. Finally, the Combahee River Collective deepens this conversation through a Black feminist lens, emphasizing that true liberation requires confronting the interlocking systems of oppression based on race, gender, class, and sexuality.

For this module, I am asking you to engage with the Social Identity Wheel. However, I want to be intentional about your safety and privacy. While our college is supportive and there are resources available for undocumented students, ONLINE SPACES ARE NOT FULLY PRIVATE. Because of this, please do not write down or submit your immigration status or any aspect of your identity that could put you at risk.

I still invite all of us to reflect on this aspect of identity because it is deeply important. The place where we are born, something we have no control over, can significantly shape our access to resources, opportunities, and protections. For those of us who are U.S. citizens, this often comes with privileges that can be difficult to recognize, especially if we have always had them.

I share this with you from a personal perspective. I was born in another country, but I had a path to citizenship and the resources to navigate that process. That is not the reality for everyone. Because of this, I am very aware that the privileges I experience as a naturalized citizen are immense. At the same time, privilege can be hard to see when it has always been part of your experience.

To begin, complete the first page of the You may attach or upload a photo of your completed wheel to your discussion post, ensuring that you only include what you feel safe sharing. There is an example of my completed wheel in this week’s slides.

Write a 250-300 word post responding to three of the following prompts:

1. What did you notice about your social identities while completing the Social Identity Wheel? Which identities feel most central to your daily life? Which ones are easy to overlook or take for granted?
2. Reflect on how your own social location shapes your perspective. What parts of your identity make you more aware of certain kinds of inequality? What things might you not notice as easily because of your position?
3. According to Anzalda, how is language linked to Identity? Have there been times when the way you speak, write, or express yourself made you feel judged or excluded?
4. Both Kimberl Crenshaw and the Combahee River Collective argue that oppression must be understood as interlocking. How do their frameworks challenge the idea that social justice can focus on one axis of identity at a time (such as womens issues or racial justice)?
5. Gloria Anzalda writes about moving between different varieties of language and uses the term switching codes. In your own words, define what Anzalda means by “switching codes” and then reflect on moments in your life when you have done this. When and why do you switch between languages or ways of speaking?
6. In what ways do you feel caught between different social worlds, or in what ways do you “perform” different identities in different situations (what Alsultany calls “haciendo caras”)?

You must reference at least two of the assigned materials, including at least one reading and one video, and support your reflection with a direct quotation or specific example, including page numbers or time stamps.

Heres an example

2. Being Mexican, female, and lower class really does affect how I see things and what I notice as well. I feel as though Im more aware of sexism and racism because Ive experienced it. At the same time, I know there are other kinds of inequality I might not notice as easily, like ableism or what people in different situations go through. In the TED Talk Your Privilege Is Showing, Lillian Medville says at 0:48, I had been raised to believe that the way to be a good, not racist white person was to not see color which is unhelpful. If you cant see color, you cant talk about color, and if you cant talk about race, gender, class or ability you cant understand it.That part stood out to me because it shows how what weve been taught can affect what we notice or avoid. Thinking about my own social location helps me see both what I go through and what I might miss, and it reminds me that being aware of all this takes time and effort.

3. Anzalda shows that language is a big part of identity because its tied to who you are and how you see yourself. She says, Ethnic identity is twin skin to linguistic identityI am my language (p.39), which basically means you cant separate a person from the way they speak. She also points out how hurtful it is when people judge language, saying, So, if you want to really hurt me, talk badly about my language. That stuck out to me because it shows how personal it is. Ive had moments where the way I talk makes me feel judged, like people expect me to sound more proper, and it just makes me feel kind of out of place. Its like I have to change the person that I am just to fit in. All in all, shes saying language isnt just words, its part of your identity and how you belong.

5. I believe that she means to change the way you speak depending on who you are with or where you are as well. I believe she also means to not do this intentionally but more in a natural way, which I find myself doing sometimes as well. When I am with my friends for example, I talk more relaxed, less serious and use more slang language I would say. Although, when I am speaking to my teachers or even my parents, I speak more proper or more serious sounding just to sound more put together in a way. I dont even purposefully do this, it just happens. I believe I do this because I am just trying to fit into the kind of situation that I am specifically in at the time.

4.7 “FERAL CHILDREN”-(Click 3/23 to access graded discussion board due by 3/25)

This is a graded discussion on “Feral Children”. We have studied the importance of social interaction in order for humans to develop, thrive and survive. Your assignment is to go to Youtube.com, place “feral children” in the search box. Select/view 4-5 or more videos so that you can see the wide range of possible experiences. In approximately 3-4 paragraphs, describe in detail what the consequences are to humans who have experienced either very limited social contact with other humans or complete/lifelong social isolation, and your analysis of the damage to human development/life based on what you observed in the films. Clearly, there are a wide range of possible consequences depending on when social isolation started, how long it lasted, and what occurred or didn’t occur during a person’s experience. Consider/include the theoretical analysis of human development and the human need for social interaction provided by Sigmund Freud, Jean Piaget and George Herbert Mead when constructing your answer. Reply to at least 1 of your fellow students.