Family Assessment
  1. Definition of Family – Provide a brief description of your family of origin. How does the U.S. Census Bureau’s definition of family in Chapter 10 (p. 302) apply to your own personal understanding of family? Are there relationships that may be overlooked in the government’s definition and in what way does that affect your own family? 
  1. Discrimination, Intersectionality and Privilege –Provide examples of how members of your family experienced and coped with discrimination, oppression, and/or privilege (based on race, ethnicity, immigration status, physical abilities, income, gender identity and sexual orientation). 
  1. Diversity and Challenges to Family Life –Use Chap. 10 sections on Diversity in Family life: Diversity in Family Structures and Economic Diversity (p. 316-334) and Challenges to Family Life (p. 334-340) to identify/describe at least two characteristics that apply to your family structure. 
  1. Risk and Protective Factors –Identify and describe key risk factors and protective factors within your own family and their environment. 
  1. Key Concepts Related to Gender Roles, Transition Points, Stress and Coping Strategies –Describe gender roles in your family. Discuss whether traditional roles were ever challenged. Identify/describe any transition points that were difficult for your family and what helped your family adjust. Use the concepts of “normative stress”, “nonnormative stress”, and “stress pile up” to describe your family’s experience with stress. Describe any coping strategies that contributed to family resiliency or individual resiliency.
  1. Conclusion-How Your Family of Origin Shaped You –Describe how your family experience shaped you and contributed to the person you are today. Describe how your family experience impacted your biases. Describe how your family experience impacted your resiliency. Discuss what you need to help prepare you to work with clients who will have both similar and different experiences from you.

 

Water Consumption – Calculate your normal (average) water use using the USGS water calculator

Calculate your normal (average) water use using the USGS water calculator for one week of your life. Then calculate a practical, but much more conservative use of water for one week. Describe what you can realistically do to conserve water which you are currently not doing. For example, I normally shower 6 or 7 times a week, but to conserve water, I could practically cut this to 3 or 4 times a week without any real inconvenience.

How might a leader like Nooyi influence PepsiCo’s use of P-O-L-C tools beyond her obvious role in the leadership dimension?

Case in Point: Indra Nooyi Draws on Vision and Values to Lead

Assignment Content

How might a leader like Nooyi influence PepsiCo’s use of P-O-L-C tools beyond her obvious role in the leadership dimension?

Do you think Indra Nooyi’s vision of “performance with purpose” has been effective? Why or why not?

How does charisma relate to leadership? Do you think the CEO of PepsiCo possesses this characteristic?

What makes Indra Nooyi so successful at her job? Is it her level of authority, or is it something else?

What do the types of advisors that Indra Nooyi relies on upon tell you about her values?

How much passion does Indra Nooyi seem to bring to her role as CEO of PepsiCo?

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College Algebra

After viewing the exercises at the bottom of this discussion thread (TD), respond to the posts below:

1. A problem from the TD exercises along with the solution that you came up with. If you struggled at first, post what confused you about the problem and how you ultimately reached your conclusion.

2. A problem from the TD exercises which you cannot figure out. Post your thought process and what you have tried so far as well as where you “got stuck.”

3. A response to a classmate who did not understand a problem explaining how to do it. The TDs are a great way for us all to help each other learn.

TD 2 Exercises

Solve the following equations:

3(-x+4) = 20x-7 x-4 = 5-4(6-2x) 3x+5 = 4(1-x)+2

Solve the following inequalities:

2 (1-x) < 5+x 3x-1 > 7x+9 3-4x < 5x+ 2

 

Civilization, Culture, and Society

Compare and contrast civilization, culture, and society. Write four paragraphs one for each construct each one describing and explaining what civilization, culture, and society are. The fourth paragraph should explain why they’re all different while still defining by examples what they are and how they are all interconnected and how they depend on one another to be developed.. if you have done this right you will give a clear, concise description of each, and an example of each in it’s own paragraph and the fourth paragraph explaining how each differs from the other constructs.. compared and contrast each one with the others but do it within on paragraph.. Don’t just repeat what they aren’t. This assignment is as much about editing as it is about writing. Grading is based on grammar, spelling, syntaxes, construction, and mechanics of the paper as well as how well you covered the topics. No specific academic format.