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Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words: APA format with at least 1 intext citationConsidering the Code of Ethics of the American Association of Advertising Agencies, do you think ethical advertising is less effective, as effective, or more effective than unethical advertising? Why?

The assignment needs to answer four questions. 1.Please describe three different styles of Chinese Buddhist sculpture that appeared from the 3rd century through the 8th century. Please relate the formal features of each style to a particular work, identifying the work clearly.  2.How have Chinese works of art discussed in lecture articulated Buddhist beliefs about bodhisattvas and arhats? How do the works make those beliefs vivid to viewers? Please be sure to cite several works and note specific elements and/or features of those works. 3.Please characterize at least two different ways in which paintings of places (specific places or generic ones) have articulated Chinese Buddhist understandings about the world and how people relate to it (e.g with regard to their condition as sentient beings, how to escape that condition, etc.). For the purposes of this question, “the world” can include both the immediate environment in which people lived and the larger Buddhist world system or cosmos. Please be sure to support your answer by citing features of particular works that were presented in lecture. 4.Why do sculptures and paintings associated with Chan Buddhism frequently portray human figures who are not buddhas or bodhisattvas? What ideals do such works illustrate or express? How varied might those ideals be? Please be sure to support your answer by referencing specific examples from lecture and (optionally) the assigned reading. For question 3 and 4, you can only use the sources from: (and the screenshots I uploaded) 1.Dudbridge, Glen. “Buddhist Images in Action: Five Stories from the Tang.”  2.Pekarik, Andrew J. and Stephanie Stokes. “The Cave Temples of Dunhuang.”   3. Bloom, Phillip E. “Ghosts in the Mists: The Visual and the Visualized in Chinese Buddhist Art, ca. 1178.”   4.Brinker, Kanazawa, and Leisinger, “About the Essence of Zen,” “About the History of Zen,”and “Zen Aesthetics and Theory of Art.”  Read: Berger, Patricia. “Preserving the Nation: The Political Uses of Tantric Art in China.”

Write a two-page paper in essay format in which you reflect on what you think, know or feel about HIV/AIDS globally.Some guiding questions that you may use to structure your thoughts are given below.1. Why should we care about the HIV/AIDS epidemic outside the US?2. What do you think are the reasons for this epidemic outside the US?3. What should be done to control this epidemic worldwide?4. Why are you taking this course?There are no right or wrong answers at this stage. I am simply interested in your perspective. If you follow the formatting instructions below and submit by Jan 31, 11.59 pm, you will get full points. Yay!You are not required to put citations but if you do, they should be in correct APA style.More resources on APA style are available here: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/reference_list_basic_rules.htmlFormat: double-spaced, Times New Roman or Arial, font size 11 or 12, one-page margins. Submitted as a Microsoft Word document on BB. File name must include your last name. For example, if your last name is Washington, your file name will be Washington initial reflection.doc or Washington initial reflection.docx

Option #2: New Market Launch (Paper or Presentation)You are the leader of a team that has been tasked with deciding whether to launch their company’s top-selling product in a new geographical market. Factors to consider include the new market’s demographics, the company’s financial stability, production capabilities, and the available methods of distribution, to name a few. While the decision contains elements of both programmed and non-programmed decisions, which best describes the nature of the decision as a whole? Create a flowchart illustrating the steps you would follow and the processes you would use to arrive at an effective team decision. What questions would you as the leader ask along the way? How would the final decision be made? Use available resources to support the steps and processes you propose.Your completed assignment must adhere to the following parameters:Be a 3- to 5-page paper (not including title and reference pages) or an 8- to 10-minute presentation (presentation tools such as Prezi, GoogleSlides, PowerPoint, Keynote, or others can be used).Be supported by a minimum of three credible, academic or professional sources. Remember, you must support your thinking and prior knowledge with references, even in a video presentation.Include an APA style reference list at the end of the paper or with your presentation file.Review the grading rubric.Be formatted according to the CSU Global Writing Center (Links to an external site.).

Option 1: Traditional Recap AssignmentInstructions:After reviewing the material for the chapter, you are to answer the following questions in 5 to 7 sentence responses per question set (group of questions, #1, #2, etc.) . Please remember to consider all questions being asked and to use material from the chapter to support your responses.Your responses should demonstrate a clear engagement and understanding of the course material, critical application of the sociological concepts/theory and should include clear grammar and sentence structure. Please review the assignment rubric under ‘Course Resources’ for clearer indication of grading distribution and let me know if you have any questions/concerns.Questions:How would a conflict theorists explain the reasons why some populations are allowed to be more deviant and criminal than others? (think about race, ethnicity, gender, sex, etc.) How would a conflict theorist critique the fact that certain populations of color are over-represented in the US prison system? How could you apply this logic to the recent ‘Anti-Social Distancing’ ‘protest’ that have occurred around the US in recent days?To better understand the idea that race is a social construction and the real life impact that it has on individuals, I would like for you to research the effect that the corona-virus (Covid-19) has had on xenophobia, hate crimes and the perceptions of race in the US. Find one article or news story about xenophobia and the corona-virus. How does this article demonstrate the concepts of racialization, racial formation and racial projects? Now you should use one of the three theoretical paradigms to analyze the story. Please provide the link to the news story.Read the following scenario and answer the questions below. Your entire response for this question should be about 5 to 7 sentences in length (minimum)As usual, 24-year-old Carla left her apartment around 10:00 p.m. to jog to her boyfriend Casey’s apartment two miles away. She planned to spend the night with him and jog back home the next morning. Carla lived in a fairly safe neighborhood in Centerdale, but Casey lived in a dilapidated apartment complex that was mostly hidden off the main road, between a bar called Bikers-R-Us and a two-story county office complex used by probation officers and drug rehab counselors. Carla usually arrived between 10:15 p.m. and 10:30 p.m., but when she failed to reach his place by 11:00 p.m., Casey got worried. He started calling Carla on her cell phone, but the calls kept going to her voice mail. He called and informed the police. Before calling the police, however, he hid the methamphetamine that he had already prepared for a couple of Carla’s clients who were supposed to arrive at midnight. He also hid the marijuana that he was planning to smoke with Carla. The police found Carla’s body within ten minutes in an area covered with trees, between the main road and the apartment complex where Casey lived. An investigation showed that Carla had been sexually assaulted. She had died of strangulation. Task: What theories of victimology relate to Carla’s case of victimization? Use at least 2 different theories in critically analyzing Carla’s experience. According to you, which victimization theory is most relevant to this case and why? Do you feel that Carla precipitated or was partially to blame for the crime? Give reasons for your answer. How might a structural functionalist analyze Carla’s experience? (Use one structural functionalist theory in your answer)Option 2: Spotlight on Police BrutalityFor this option, you will do a short research project on the social/political implications of the police brutality. You should find some evidence of the impact of police brutality on particular communities and groups. Find at least two cases of police brutality within the last 5 years (please include a reference page with your source information). You can respond in the written form (minimum of 1.5 pages double spaced and include an APA formatted reference page, this should serve as practice for your essay), you can respond in a minimum 5 to 7 minute oral essay in which you answer the questions (you can record yourself via video/audio and upload your recording and you should still upload a reference page) or you could create a short 5 to 7 minute PowerPoint presentation in which you include the answers to the questions and provide some more insight. Your short presentation should include at least 8 slides of information and you should record your presentation and submit your file here.Describe what happened in each incident:Who were the people involved ?Why did the encounter happen?What was the outcome?What types of power dynamics were involved in the incidents?What law was broken?Why were the policed called?What race where the people involved?Were there other ways these incidents could have been handled?What does this incident say about the social construction of devi

Many people look at the “casualties” of war as simply the number of people killed. However, it is much more than a number of people who do not return to their homes. It includes the quality of life for people who survive including their families. Write a 1-2 page summary and use C. Wright Mills “sociological imagination” to describe what YOU also see in the video as the “cost of war” to our fellow men and women.

Read the files and answer the question(you only can use the sources that I give to you) 1. Socrates and the Buddha:  Drawing only on assigned course content, contrast their approach to teaching and their message on the ideal way to live. Which teacher presented the more challenging path?  Why?  (Up to 350 words) !!use “plato” and “the world’s wisdom”  2. Using your Perusall assignment (well-being) as a guide, briefly summarize the argument of the “Confucianism and Well-Being” article.  Then, contrast that article with guidance on well-being from two philosophical traditions in the Week 5 content. (Up to 350 words)  use “well-being” “Epicureanism reading 4.1 4.2 4.3” and “Stoicism 4.4 4.5” Only course-assigned material should be used in responding to the prompt, unless otherwise directed. Please cite your sources for all words, information, and ideas (videos, readings, weekly notes, etc.). Please use quotation marks when you are using someone else’s exact words. If you are paraphrasing, paraphrase completely, and cite your source. Your citation should include the author’s name and the page number, if there is one. If you are using course resources that were assigned to you, then you do not need to also have a Works Cited page. Note: If you do use sources from outside of the course, then you need to provide a full citation in a Works Cited page, using MLA format.

Select ONLY ONE of questions below and answer it completely. Cite your sources and use MLA, It should be between a paragraph and a page long.1) Explain the similarities and differences between deviance and crime, and provide examples.2) Explain the seven forms of transnational criminality that are in the wheel of terrorism, and explain their relationship to terrorism.3) Contrast the consensus model and conflict model of law and crime.4) Discuss Edwin H. Sutherland’s definition of criminology and why criminology can be described as a multidiscipline.5) Describe the seven basic requirements for a human event to qualify as a crime according to Jerome Hall.6) Explain what “typologies of crime” are, why typologies of crime are important, and provide examples that are discussed in the text.7) Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the Uniform Crime Reports, the National Crime Victimization Survey, and various self-report surveys in estimating the nature and extent of crime in the United States.8) Discuss the principles of classical criminology, making reference to the works of both Cesare Beccaria and Jeremy Bentham.9) Differentiate between psychological determinism and sociological determinism, including the scholars associated with each perspective.10) Emile Durkheim had a powerful influence on contemporary criminology. Discuss Durkheim’s influence on criminology, making sure to discuss his most important contribution.11) Discuss the psychoanalytic theory of criminality. Make sure to include a discussion of Freud’s contributions to the psychological perspective on criminality.12) Discuss the three phases of moral development and which phase is most related to delinquency and criminality according to Lawrence Kohlberg and his colleagues.13) The concept of “biocriminology” is offensive to many people. Discuss the criticisms of biocriminology.

Select ONLY ONE of questions below and answer it completely. Cite your sources and use MLA or APA style. It should be between a paragraph and a page long.1) Discuss and evaluate Merton’s theory of anomie and the five modes of adaptation.2) Social disorganization theory is one of the three major cultural deviance theories. Explain this theory, including criticisms or limitations.3) Compare and contrast strain theories and cultural deviance theories.4) Albert Cohen’s theory is responsible for major advances in research on delinquency. Discuss Cohen’s theory and then evaluate it.5) Marvin Wolfgang and Franco Ferracuti developed the subculture of violence theory to explain criminal behavior among young, lower-class, urban males. Discuss the subculture of violence, and then discuss tests of this theory.6) Traditionally, gang membership has been limited primarily to young, inner-city males. However, gang membership has been changing. Discuss what recent studies reveal about female gang members and middle-class gangs and gang membership.7) Explain why regulating smoking in public is an example of social control, and also give another example of similar social control either in your state or elsewhere.8) Explain containment theory and the criticisms that have been directed against it.9) Discuss three programs that have been informed by social control theory.10) Discuss the basic assumptions of labeling theory, and then evaluate the theory.11) Discuss the empirical support for the conflict model.12) Over the last decade, a number of important critical perspectives have emerged, including radical feminist theory, left realism, abolitionist and anarchist criminology, and peacemaking criminology. Discuss three of these perspectives.

This assignment is designed to help me effectively meet your learning needs. Think of it as giving me the information that I will need to be a better teacher for you.Content:Reflect on some of your past educational experiences (positive, negative or both). Identify and discuss some of your academic strengths and weaknesses. For example, writing has always been easy for you however, you may not feel confident about your critical thinking skills and analytical abilities. Include in your essay at least 2 specific goals that you hope to achieve in this course. Achieving a particular final grade CANNOT be one of your goals.Formatting:This is a brief (2 page) essay. You cannot adequately complete this assignment in less than 2 pages. Your essay should be double-spaced, with 1-inch margins, using Times New Roman, 12 pt. font essay. Please proofread and edit carefully.Assessment Criteria:a. clarity, relevancy, and specificity of explanations and examples of your academic skills b. writing skills that include organization, logic, clarity, and conciseness in addition tostandard rules of grammar, punctuation, and spelling.