Discussions are fundamental to shared learning, so please be sure to participate early and often!

After you have completed the Reading, and without reviewing your classmate’s responses, post your initial response to the following Discussion. Your post should be at least 350 words in length and should extend the Discussion of the group supported by your course materials and/or other appropriate resources.

After you have submitted your initial post, take time to review your classmates’ responses and to respond specifically and substantially to at least two of them. Refer to the Discussion Rubric in Course Resources for specific grading explanation.

Animal research is highly controversial, and yet it is often used when studying learning and behavior. How does animal research provide useful information applicable to human beings? Discuss the importance of animal research in better understanding any of the following issues (or provide your own example):

• addiction
• depression/anxiety
• phobias
• response to rewards or punishment

In this unit, you have explored the idea that learning serves a valuable purpose to the organism. It often increases survival and provides improved quality of life opportunities. In these ways, learning is “adaptive.” In this Discussion, describe an example of how learning can be “maladaptive.”

1.  Summarize in you own words the friction that has existed between religion and science (pg 20 and following). What questions do both religion and science seek to answer? What approach does science take in answering these questions, how does religion respond to these questions?

2. Why is it important to study Indigenous Religions that date back many centuries ago? How can this study assist us in understanding  the nature of religion in the 21st century

3. Define religion, and discuss why it is useful in society. Explain why it is important for you personally to understand the beliefs of other religious groups.

• Discuss the importance of efficiency and effectiveness as key managerial interests, and analyze the primary conditions for each.
• Assess whether or not the general systems model is a good approach for health services administration. Explain your rationale.

“Baroque Style” Please respond to one [1] of the following two [2] bulleted items in a primary posting of at least 200 words. In addition, please make a substantive comment of at least 100 words to at least one [1] of your classmates. Subsequent comments may be shorter.

Use sources under the Explore heading as the basis of your response:

• Listen to one (1) composition that demonstrates the qualities of the Baroque musical style. It may be from the Websites below or from this week’s Music Folder. Identify your choice, and describe it by relating key terms from the textbook to your selection. Explain what you like or admire about the work. Compare it to a modern soundtrack or song that evokes a similar mood.
• Select two (2) Baroque style paintings from the Websites below that no other student has selected. Identify each as to artist, date, and title or description. From the summaries of the Baroque style’s features in our class text, identify specific key aspects of each painting that fit the Baroque style. Explain why you selected each and what you like or dislike about it. Compare this style to a modern film, type of film, or to a modern situation.

Explore:

Monteverdi and Vivaldi

• Chapter 21 (pp. 707-710), Baroque music and composers; review the Week 1 “Music Folder”
• Monteverdi’s Orfeo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ll_u870PG8 (Monteverdi Tu sé Morta lyrics with translation: http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/music/kamien/student/olc/46.htm.)
• Vivaldi’s “Spring” from Vivaldi: A Man For All Seasons at http://www.npr.org/2011/07/18/104868631/vivaldi-a-man-for-all-seasons and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFHPRi0ZeXE (background and lyric translation at http://www.baroquemusic.org/vivaldiseasons.html)

Baroque Visual Arts

• Chapter 21 (pp. 689-691; 701-703) and Chapter 22 (pp. 715-720; 726-735); Baroque style and its characteristics; Baroque in the north
• Baroque samples at https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/monarchy-enlightenment/baroque-art1/beginners-guide-baroque1/a/baroque-art-in-europe-an-introduction; (also seehttp://www.artinthepicture.com/styles/Baroque/ and click on the names of the artists to see their works)
• Examples of Baroque paintings from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam at https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/explore-the-collection/styles/baroque (click on images; go full-screen; click “i” for info on the artist and date and painting)

For your initial post this week imagine that you are a lawyer arguing a case concerning federalism before the Supreme Court of the United States of America. This case has to do whether the power to create policy on a particular issue should be in the hands of the Federal Government, left to the States, or left in the hands of individual citizens.

Then, you must support your argument to the Supreme Court by finding and using an applicable part of the United States Constitution.

Select one of the following starters to start your argument (only do one):

1. May it please the court, the federal government, not the states has the power to legalize marijuana because …
2. May it please the court, the states, not the federal government, has the power to legalize marijuana because …
3. May it please the court, neither the states nor federal government has the power to legalize marijuana because …
4. May it please the court, the federal government, not the states, has the power to pass gun control because …
5. May it please the court, the states, not the federal government, has the power to pass gun control because …
6. May it please the court, neither the states nor federal government has the power to pass gun control because …
7. May it please the court, the federal government, not the states, has the power to pass education policy because …
8. May it please the court, the states, not the federal government, has the power to pass education policy because …
9. May it please the court, neither the states nor federal government has the power to pass education policy because …
10. May it please the court, the federal government, not the states, has the power to recognize or even restrict same sex marriages because …
11. May it please the court, the states, not the federal government, has the power to recognize or even restrict same sex marriages because …
12. May it please the court, neither the states nor federal government has the power to recognize or even restrict same sex marriages because …

-Select a type of organization (such as Financial or Health Care) and describe the legal ramifications of providing the security goals of confidentiality, integrity, and availability.  Include the challenges of providing these security goals.

-Select two different types of organizations (such as Financial or Health Care) and describe the similarities and differences with the types of computer and networking security protection, and security controls needed within the organization.

“Social Engineering and Social Media” Please respond to the following:

–   describe the threats and vulnerabilities of social engineering and social media; include how they are similar and how they are different.

–  describe the control measures that organizations and individuals need to implement to minimize the vulnerabilities associated with social engineering and social media.

Part One

Initial Post Instructions: Read the handout titled Basic Literary Conventions. In 5-7 sentences, summarize the material.

Part Two

Initial Post Instructions: “Sonnet 29” (page 235) and “Sonnet 130” (page 236) are both sonnets written by William Shakespeare. What is a sonnet? Choose one of the poems and explain why it is a sonnet. Use examples from the poem.

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