Essay questions 

1. Think about the people you have dated (and other couples you know). How similar or different have they been in terms of race-ethnicity, social class, education, gender, and religion? Why do you think this is the case? Be as honest as your comfort will allow. 
2. Describe the social script for the first day of class in a college classroom. How is this script similar to the script you think people would follow for a first date? Also, how has the dating script been altered by the presence of communication technology? Speculate about two areas in which communication technology is likely to have the largest impact on dating in the next twenty years.
3. Declining marriage rates have led many to conclude that Americans no longer place a high value on marriage. Use the our class discussions to advocate for and against this conclusion. Also, describe the process of endogamy and exogamy in contemporary American marriages.  
4. Discuss the varied causes and ramifications of cohabitation among couples who choose it as a living arrangement before marriage vs. instead of marriage. Also, what do you think the rise of cohabitation means for the future of family life? Why?
5. In 10-12 sentences, please summarize and analyze the book, Grandmothers at Work: Juggling Families and Jobs by Madonna Harrington Meyer. In your own words, tell me what the book is about. Using specific examples, highlight at least 3 of the primary themes presented throughout the book. Also, you must connect two of those themes to some aspect of the course material and/or discussion. Lastly, offer your own thoughts about the book in question. Do you agree or disagree with the author’s overall premise/analysis (or is it somewhere in between)? Did you find the argument convincing? Why or why not? 

Not only do you have to prove to me that you have actually read the book, but I want you to articulate a cogent and coherent opinion about the book. Extra points will be given to those who can connect their response to the course material in a more detailed and comprehensive way. 

Each question can be answered in 4-5 sentence and the last question it states 10-12. Please have a separate paragraph for each question. 

Prior to beginning work on this discussion, read Chapter 8 and review Chapter 9 of the course text. Also, review the following resources:

Visual

• The Everyone Lives on Dollar Street (Links to an external site.) video
• The Dollar Street (Links to an external site.) webpage

Documentary

• Lewis Hine Photography (Links to an external site.)
• The Teaching With Documents: Photographs of Lewis Hine: Documentation of Child Labor (Links to an external site.)

Oral History

• The Story Corps (Links to an external site.) web page
• The Oral History Project of the Vietnam Archive (Links to an external site.) web page

This discussion supports your understanding and application of the quantitative method and qualitative method of research approach. In your initial post, address the following:

• Differentiate between randomized and nonrandomized approaches to sampling populations. Discuss the importance of the role of sampling when conducting research.
  • Snowball sampling is a form of sampling where participants recommend people they know as research participants. Explain one pro and one con to this approach.
  • Discuss the usefulness of pretesting, pilot testing, or field-testing a survey or interview questionnaire.
  • In some large-scale research projects the researcher is not always the one collecting data but is more heavily involved in the analysis and interpretation of the data. Would this create a challenge in a quantitative study where a survey was used for data collection? Would this scenario create a challenge in a qualitative study where a one-to one interview or focus group data collection method was used? Explain why or why not for both scenarios.
  • As you experienced in the Week 3 assignment, qualitative methods research can encompass some interesting forms of research approach to help us understand the human experience in society, such as ethnography. In the resources this week we asked you to review three other forms of approach that help us understand in unique ways: visual, documentary, and oral history.
  • After reviewing the resources provided, describe each form of approach. Explain their unique differences and similarities.
  • What is gained by conveying human experience via visual or audio as opposed to a written interpretation?
  • Which form of approach did you find the most compelling in sharing the experience of humans in society? Explain why.
  • Do you think that these forms of visual and audio data evidence could be more powerful for influencing social change and public policy than written or statistical data? Explain your response.

Your initial post should be at least 800 words in length. Support your claims with examples from the required material(s) and/or other scholarly resources, and properly cite any references.

To support your work, use your course and text readings as well as the South University Online Library. As in all assignments, cite your sources in your work and provide references for the citations in APA format. Patient or lay person medical information portals such as webMD, Medscape, Mayo Clinic, or any disease foundations, such as the arthritis foundation or the diabetic foundation, are not acceptable resources for your scholarly work.

Response #1 Post a response to one peer in your discussion group. In the post identify the organ damage that can occur as a result of Hypertension. Describe the pathophysiologic process of the organ damage.

Peer Post

Physiology of Blood Pressure Control

              The body’s blood pressure is a measure of the pressures within the cardiovascular system during the pumping cycle of the heart. The blood pressure or systemic arterial pressure refers to the pressure measured within large arteries in the systemic circulation.   Each heartbeat forms a pressure wave that travels down the arterial system. The peak of the wave occurs during systole when blood is under pressure from cardiac contraction making the arterial wall expand.  During diastole when the heart is briefly relaxing-the arterial walls recoil, delivering a pulse.  Systemic circulation provides oxygenated blood to all organs in the body. After perfusing the organs, blood is returned to the right atrium of the heart through the systemic venous system (Lowry, 2016).

              Cardiac output is a major factor determining blood pressure, however, as blood flows into the arterial system it meets resistance (in the form of friction) from contact with blood vessel walls.  The main resistance to blood flow occurs in the arterioles, which are smaller vessels formed from the branching of arteries (Lowry, 2016). Resistance from all blood vessels in the systemic circuit combines to produce the systemic vascular resistance, which increases blood pressure in the systemic arterial system.  These two factors together cardiac output and the systemic vascular resistance, generate actual blood pressure in the systemic arterial system (Lowry, 2016).

Overactivity of the Sympathetic Nervous System (SNS)

 Decreased arterial pressure is detected by baroreceptors, which trigger a sympathetic response.  This stimulates an increase in heart rate and cardiac contractility leading to increased blood pressure.  The sympathetic nervous system serves as the final common pathway for controlling the smooth muscle tone of the blood vessels.  Most of the sympathetic preganglionic fibers that control vessel function originate in the vasomotor center of the brain stem and travel in the intermediolateral column of the spinal cord and exit with the ventral nerves; they then synapse with postganglionic fibers in the paravertebral ganglia.  Increasing sympathetic activity causes constriction of some vessels, such as those of the skin, gastrointestinal tract, and kidneys (Porth, 1998).

Overactivity of the Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System (RAAS)

 The renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system is an essential regulator of arterial blood pressure.  The system relies on several hormones that act to increase blood volume and peripheral resistance.  It begins with the production and release of renin from juxtaglomerular cells of the kidney.  They respond to decreased blood pressure, sympathetic nervous system activity, and reduced sodium levels within the distal convoluted tubules of the nephrons.  In response to these triggers, renin is released from the juxtaglomerular cells and enters the blood where it comes in contact with angiotensinogen which is produced continuously by the liver.  The angiotensinogen is converted into angiotensin I by renin.  The angiotensin I then make its way to the pulmonary vessels, where the endothelium produces the angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE).  Angiotensin I is then converted to angiotensin II by ACE (Shahoud et al., 2020).  Angiotensin II is a potent vasoconstrictor.  It acts directly on the kidney to increase sodium reabsorption in the proximal convoluted tubule.  Sodium is reabsorbed via the sodium-hydrogen exchanger.  Angiotensin II also promotes the release of aldosterone (Lowry, 2016). 

A complex interaction involving insulin-resistance and endothelial function

 The endothelium, which lies between the blood and the vascular smooth muscle, serves as the physical barrier for vasoactive substances that circulate in the blood.  The endothelium plays an active role in controlling vascular function.  In capillaries, which are composed of a single layer of endothelial cells, the endothelium is active in transporting cell nutrients and wastes.  In addition to its function in capillary transport, the endothelium removes vasoactive agents such as norepinephrine from the blood, and it produces enzymes that convert precursor molecules to active products (Porth, 1998).

References

Lowry, M. (2016).  The Physiology of blood pressure regulation.  Retrieved on April 24, 2021 from  

https://www.nursingtimes.net.

Porth, C. (1998).  Pathophysiology: Concepts of Altered Health States. (5th ed.) Philadelphia,

          PA: Lippincott-Raven; ISBN 0-397-55413-3

Shahoud J, Sanvictores T, & Aeddula N. (2020). Physiology, Arterial Pressure Regulation.  Retrieved on       

              April 14, 2021 from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books.

You have been asked to lead a ten-person team within your department. You know that several of these team members have not worked well together on previous group projects, so you have decided to put the team through a series of team-building activities.

Select any one of the following starter bullet point sections. Review the important themes within the sub questions of each bullet point. The sub questions are designed to get you thinking about some of the important issues. Your response should provide a succinct synthesis of the key themes in a way that articulates a clear point, position, or conclusion supported by research. Select a different bullet point section than what your classmates have already posted so that we can engage several discussions on relevant topics. If all of the bullet points have been addressed, then you may begin to re-use the bullet points with the expectation that varied responses continue.

• ******Define your top three goals or objectives for the team-building activities for the scenario. Defend why those goals are appropriate. Also assess at least two other possible goals and justify why they did not make your top-three list.
• ******Select two articles that discuss whether team-building activities really help. Briefly note what you learned from the articles. Did they guide you to select the best activities, or did they warn you away from certain activities? Justify three best practices for team building activities that emerge from the articles.
• *******Team dynamics include both productivity (task) and cohesiveness (relationship) components. Identify three team building activities and assess the extent each influences on productivity and cohesion. Evaluate how cohesion and productivity are linked.

The final paragraph (three or four sentences) of your initial post should summarize the one or two key points that you are making in your initial response.

Your posting should be the equivalent of 1 to 2 single-spaced pages (500–1000 words) in length.

APA Format

1.   Assignment Information

1. Due DateFriday, June 22, 201811:59 PMPoints Possible10

Culture Shock Questions & Essay
Directions:  Answer these questions (to help you write your essay) and turn them in with your essay:
Questions:

1. What is a social scientist and what do the do?
2. In your own life, how does your culture affect your actions/behaviors and attitudes, for example in situations that may have been a cultural shock to you?
3. Think about how you reacted in that situation, what behaviors or attitudes of your culture was reflected in your reaction to that particular situation?
4. How did you deal with the situation and what were the results of your actions?  Was your reaction the best way to deal with the situation or could you have reacted in a different way?
5. Do your behaviors sometimes come in conflict with the mainstream
6. American culture or your parents? How do you deal with that conflict?

Write the Essay.  Use your responses from the questions above to help you write your essay:
Social scientists (scientist that study human interactions) are concerned with learning what people believe, rather than learning whether what people believe is really true; so
Why is it important to understand the cultural beliefs of different peoples? Give explanation with supporting evidence from your research and examples from the blog postings.