Midterm: The New Paradigm

On the surface level, Paul B. Wilson, Sr. and I possess a couple of similarities; we both grew up on Cherry Street in Mahoningtown and I aspire to enter the medical field and become a veterinarian. However, if one were to analyze our lives, they would find that we work towards the same morals of life. During my career as a student at New Castle High School, I have learned how to become a better student and to continuously grow as a person. This building has morphed my character in a myriad of ways. Overall, it has taught me on how to be a better student, achieve higher grades, and apply an abundance of work to accomplish my goals. Due to this, I have earned a 4.93 GPA and a membership in National Honor Society. However, like Mr. Wilson, I

Peter Drucker, an American Businessman once said, “The best way to predict the future is to create it”.

Mid-term exam, chapters 1-4 Please record your answer in the space to the right of the question (under “Answers”) or in the appropriate blanks provided (in the problems). Once you complete the answers, please submit the exam as an attachment. 150 points

pists reveal little personally/little reactions=transference of repressed issues with others onto therapist beginning issues to light)…listen, learn, interpret…intense & long (expect psychodynamic therapy)…Transference & Countertransference=useful in group work…Brief Psychodynamic Therapy (BPT) & Time Limited Dynamic Psychotherapy (TLDP)

Paradigms are an intellectual or theoretical view of a discipline based on universal beliefs and values shared by the practitioners. Paradigms are important in any discipline in that they help to answer questions and concerns of the discipline, shape practice, concept, and aid the formation of guidelines. Other

Humans look forward to the future. People, most of the time, imagine what will happen and we get

On average 77 percent of students are bullied mentally, verbally, and physically in the United States. Odd Girl Out by Rachel Simmons brings to light the hidden culture of aggression in girls. Throughout the novel, Rachel goes over every aspect of female bullying. She includes first person accounts with high school and middle school students and some of the pressures from classmates, friends, parents and teachers, and themselves. Every novel has its strengths and weaknesses.

Knowing the future can have good effects, such as leading to preventing bad decisions or diseases, however, the negative aspects outweigh the positive things because it would lead to stress and take the focus off of enjoying life. Destiny is inevitable. In Spielberg’s Minority Report and Sophocles’ Oedipus the King, the main characters learn what their futures hold. This causes fear and stress, as they do everything they can to avoid their fates. In “DNA as Destiny,” David Duncan wishes his DNA had not been tested. Although knowing the future can help lead to disease prevention, there are too many disadvantages of having this information, and causes a person knowing his or her fate more harm than good.

In this chapter he talks about the swine flu ‘epidemics’ of the late seventies and of 2009 serve as an example of how extrapolation can lead to improper predictions, particularly if you assume that things will keep proceeding as they have in the recent past. It notes that self-fulfilling and self-canceling prophecies complicate the process of determining the future, by altering which directions the given traits proceed and altering their progress. The efforts to change the progress of certain events, helping the good and thwarting the bad, mean that many traits change their course from their initial progress (as when the swine flu outbreaks were stopped shortly after starting). Self-fulfilling predictions can be caused by the sheer act of releasing the prediction. For example, when news about H1N1 flu is broadcast, more people go to doctors and more H1N1 is identified. Self-cancelling predictions can also occur. Navigation systems show where the least traffic is but simultaneously invalidate the route by sending all traffic there en masse. Chapter 7 deals with the dangers of extrapolation and overly simplistic assumptions, using misfiring flu-predictions as an example. Also discussed here are self-fulfilling and self-cancelling predictions. Often the very act of prediction can alter the way people behave (an observation that also John Adams makes with regard to risk - a form of prediction, of course -

Anti-Rightist Campaign: Spring of 1957; against anyone who did not support the CCP; rightist was defined however Mao saw fit; followed the 100 Flowers Campaign in order to purge the opposition.

More often than not, the outcomes of events that occur in a person’s life is the product of the idea of the self-fulfilling prophecy. It is that which “occurs when a person’s expectations of an event make the outcome more likely to occur than would otherwise have been true” (Adler and Towne, Looking Out, Looking In 66). Or restated, as Henry Ford once put it, “If you think you can, you can. If you think you can’t, you’re right!” This brief research paper touches on the two types of self-fulfilling prophecies, those that are self-imposed and those that are imposed by others. Additionally, it gives a discussion on how great of an influence it is in each person’s life, both positively and negatively, and how it consequently helps to mold

Nobody is perfect, so everyone all makes mistakes. Human created history and even historical failures. Some people believe that we usually repeat what we did wrongly before. It sounds similar to the British author George Bernard Shaw’s idea: “We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.” However, in my opinion, that idea is completely not correct, because we must learn something from the mistakes we made in the past, so that we would not do them one more time at the present or in the future.

The final main axis of PTSD is altered arousal. Generally those with PTSD experience hyperarousal, an unprovoked irritability and aggression towards others, but Melinda did not display this level of hostile sensitivity. Instead, her anxiety manifested more as a constant tension rather than an adrenaline-based reaction. Though she was largely lethargic, encounters with Andy could suddenly catapult Melinda into episodes of intense stress, causing her heart to “stop, then stutter and pump again” (Anderson 108). Another component of altered arousal is self-destructive behavior, which Melinda exemplified when she cut her wrists. Issues with sleep are also a telltale sign of PTSD, and Melinda has a constant desire to escape to her bed: “I just want

The results are a good way to know where you are standing in that class. You will see where you go wrong and what you need to improve on. Although midterms are a pain, it is very beneficial to us. It also counts towards our final grade, what better way to motivate yourself to do good on a big test? I am glad that I am able to see my mistakes and will have time to correct them as the year goes

Midterm Instructions: Answer each question below in essay form, based on the principles and cases that we have reviewed so far this semester (i.e., Recognizing the Opportunity, Marshalling Resources).