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What kinds of big ideas and questions does Socrates pose/examine?

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2 pages due 2 hrs

Assignment 2: Interpreting a Platonic Dialogue ( Discussion)
This discussion assignment is designed to help you understand how to read and interpret a philosophical text. Read the assigned readings from the textbook and the online lectures on Socrates and Plato as background before completing the assignment. Please complete the steps below and respond to all parts of the discussion by Saturday, August 5, 2017.

  1. Read pages 36–46 from Plato’s Phaedo (Online Library resource).
  2. Present a 2-page interpretation of one of these passages in your own words. You are encouraged to cite the original text, the online lectures, and the course textbook as support for your interpretation. Remember to cite your sources (including the passage you are interpreting) in correct APA citation.
  3. Compare your interpretation to at least one of the scholarly approaches outlined in the “How to Read Platonic Dialogue” online lecture.

Remember to comment on at least two of your colleagues’ posts and follow up to the instructor’s response to your post by the end of the course week. Here are some points to consider in your peer responses:

  • How does your peer’s interpretation compare to your own and the scholarly approaches presented in the textbook and lectures?
  • What kinds of big ideas and questions does Socrates pose/examine? Does he ever define these terms?
  • How does Socrates demonstrate that a given idea/definition is inadequate? Why might he engage in such an examination of ideas?

Submit your dialogue to this Discussion Area by Saturday, August 5, 2017.

A discussion of the effects on the environment when population change results in urbanization

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The Unit 9 Assignment challenges you to apply the three major theoretical perspectives of sociology to analyze the effects of population changes on the environment. For this Assignment, you will write a 3 to 5 page essay with the following elements:

he Unit 9 Assignment challenges you to apply the three major theoretical perspectives of sociology to analyze the effects of population changes on the environment. For this Assignment, you will write a 3 to 5 page essay with the following elements:

    1. An introduction that describes the forces behind population change.
    2. A discussion of the effects on the environment when population change results in urbanization.
    3. An analysis of the effects of effects population change from the structural-functional, social-conflict, and symbolic interaction approaches.
    4. A summary that reviews the major points of the paper and offers one suggestion for further study on the issues related to population change and the environment.
    5. Citations from at least two references. You may use the course materials as references for this Assignment.

The essay should be written in a logical, coherent, and organized manner using APA formatting and citation style. Include a title page, 3–5 pages of written text, and a Reference page.
Submit your completed Assignment to the Unit 9 Assignment 2 Dropbox by the end of the unit.

Discuss the differences between a criminal risk of dangerousness assessment regarding violent harm to others and a civil risk of dangerousness assessment regarding harm to one’s self.

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Assignment 1

The safety and protection of individuals and the community have been discussed and identified in earlier modules. The safety and protection of others are another significant responsibility of the forensic mental health professional.
Forensic assessments are often utilized in the environment of safety and protection services. This assignment highlights the context of such reports, and this information is directly relevant to the psycholegal assessment questions on the comprehensive exam.
Tasks:
Using resources from the professional literature, research forensic assessments. The literature may include online library resources, relevant textbooks, peer-reviewed journal articles, and websites created by professional organizations, agencies, or institutions (.edu and .gov).
In a minimum of 300 words, complete the following:

  • Discuss the differences between a criminal risk of dangerousness assessment regarding violent harm to others and a civil risk of dangerousness assessment regarding harm to one’s self.
  • Identify and describe assessment tools (psychological tests) for harm towards others and assessment tools (psychological tests) for harm towards self.
  • Be sure to focus on situations of violence risk that do not involve sexual behavior since risk assessment of sexual offenders is the topic

Identify two reasons that a forensic mental health professional would be called to complete a risk assessment for a sex offender.

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Assignment 2

Risk assessment is the process of forensic mental health professionals for determining the risk that a sex offender presents to the community at large.
Tasks:
Using resources from the professional literature, research risk assessment tools used with the sex offender population. The literature may include online library resources, relevant textbooks, peer-reviewed journal articles, and websites created by professional organizations, agencies, or institutions (.edu and .gov).
In a 3- to 4-page paper in a Microsoft Word document, address the following:

  • Identify two reasons that a forensic mental health professional would be called to complete a risk assessment for a sex offender.
  • Explain why risk assessment measures are widely used with the sex offender population. What do assessment measures hope to achieve?
  • Describe two types of risk assessment instruments or methods utilized with the sex offender population. What is the research support for utilization of these instruments?
  • Discuss the reasons that a sex offender is compared to other sex offenders when conducting a sex offender risk assessment.
  • Identify one or more specific risk assessment measures utilized for female sex offenders.