Conduct light background research using high-quality websites to learn the basic concepts related to Civic Society, Democratic Peace Theory, and a Harmony of Interests in the United States.

1. The Skeleton: Conduct light background research using high-quality websites to learn the basic concepts related to Civic Society, Democratic Peace Theory, and a Harmony of Interests in the United States. At this stage, read with “metacognition” and reflect, grasping this basic information will allow you to understand the material before delving deeper. Prework: informal research and background reading only. Example of a high-quality or reliable source: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

2. The Muscles: Access the Research Center tab inside the course and then click on the first link “Academic Search Complete.” Reminder: there is a highly detailed course announcement explaining how to use this tool. Locate and properly cite a minimum of one scholarly source obtained via the research center tool to meet the bare minimum research requirements. Look down the list, the search tool uses AI and is a bit too smart.

Writing suggestion: Introduction, with at least 2-3 paragraphs of content, and a source that has been properly cited .

General Reminders:

Be sure to follow all formatting guidelines provided in the syllabus. Your final work product must have in-text citations for each source listed on the works cited page, a word count, must be in essay format, and meet both the minimum writing and research criteria. If either of the minimum expectations is not met, the assignment will be marked incomplete. Be sure to provide proper citations using MLA format for all sources.

How would you respond in each of these situations that could arise in your group?

Group Counseling Skills: Leader’s Values vs. Client’s Values

Consider some of the following areas in which your values and those of group members might clash. How would you respond in each of these situations that could arise in your group?

1. A member discloses how excited she is over a current affair and wonders if she should continue staying with her partner.

2. A woman whose cultural background is different from yours and that of the other members in the group says she’s having difficulty expressing what she wants and in behaving assertively . She says she’s been taught to think of the interests of others not to be concerned about what she wants.

3. An adolescent relates that his life feels bland without drugs.

4. A pregnant 16-year-old is struggling to decide whether to have an abortion or give up her baby to an adoption agency.

5. A chronically depressed man says that at times he thinks about suicide as a way out of a hopeless situation.

6. A man says he is very unhappy in his marriage but is unwilling to get a divorce because he is afraid of being alone.

7. A member who is from a different culture than the other members says he is having difficulty in the group because he is not used to speaking so freely or openly about family problems.

How can you apply what you learned about change leadership in the course in the next 6 months to increase the likelihood of success for your career?

RESPOND OR FEEDBACK TO STUDENT POST FOR THE WEEK

• Which change leadership principle presents the most challenge to you? Why?

• What steps can you take to overcome that challenge?

• What are the benefits, challenges, and limitations of leveraging operations leaders to drive broad-based organizational change?

When operations leaders drive the change, who has lived and breathed similar projects in the past, they have a greater chance of success. They know what steps need to be taken and the best time to do so. They know how to get buy-in from the workforce and succeed at the communications plan. They understand the vision and values of the organization and can ensure the change project is in line with the long-term strategies.

• How can you apply what you learned about change leadership in the course in the next 6 months to increase the likelihood of success for your career?

 

What assumptions do you make and what values do you hold about your social world and its structures, including structures of inclusion and exclusion?

 “The world”

What are the structures of your society related to power, inequality, and marginalization? On what basis are these structures rationalized by members of society? What social behaviors, values, or assumptions hold such structures in place?
What is your location in relation to each of these structures? What do you know about how people in your location are supposed to act with regard to others in the same location  toward those in other social groups?
Who benefits from such structural arrangements and who loses? How do you benefit or lose?
In what ways do your assumptions and activities contribute to the maintenance or transformation of such social structures?
What have you discovered about the extended structural consequences of your social actions and that of others?

What is your understanding about how to act in relation to someone who belongs to a different class, race, status and so forth? And from what sources have you learned these social lessons?

World 

What do you believe about yourself, your place in the world and about the place of people like or different from you?
What assumptions do you make and what values do you hold about your social world and its structures, including structures of inclusion and exclusion?
What is your understanding about how to act in relation to someone who belongs to a different class, race, status and so forth? And from what sources have you learned these social lessons?
Which of these structural arrangements have you internalized? How do you rationalize them? How do your actions reflect or repudiate these beliefs and values?
Questions about the ways you understand “your world” and “the world”

Develop an email response. Use the three-step process for being assertive. Bob is one of your first-line supervisors and has been with the company for 20 years.

1. You have just been hired by Yummy Juicy, a national corporation that sells organic juices at most major retail stores. You have been hired as the West Coast Distribution Manager. After about five weeks on the job, you get the following email:
Sir/Ma’am,

2. Complete the following:

a. Develop an email response. Use the three-step process for being assertive. Bob is one of your first-line supervisors and has been with the company for 20 years. Mary, another supervisor tells you that Bob is just trying to bully you and that most other supervisors love the new processes.
b. Do you find it difficult to be assertive in your own life ? Why or why not?
c. What are the risks of being assertive with Bob? Make sure you utilize common course terminology when explaining the risks.
3. Mary comes to you later in the day and says, “Boss, Bob is trying to negotiate with you, he has a target in mind, and is not flexible, so his limit is not much different than his target.” Explain what Mary is talking about .
1. First Peer Reply: What specifically won’t work in your peer’s email to Bob? Make a recommendation on how to reword . This reply is due by THURSDAY at 11:59 EST.
2. Second/Third Peer Reply: Become Bob, negotiate with “boss ,” and make them see your point of view. Utilize course material in your reply. The reply should be formatted as an email . This reply is due by SUNDAY at 11:55 EST.

Discuss how this challenge has affected U.S. Diplomatic Relations with the opposing nation and provide a Diplomatic solution of your own design.

There have been many space-related diplomatic challenges facing the United States since the dawn of the Space Age in the 1950s. For this Essay, research some of the space-related diplomatic challenges that America has faced since 1990 and choose one that you consider to be quite significant. Do not use China or Russia’s space capabilities as the challenge you discuss. Instead choose a challenge posed by any other Nation or Entity. Introduce your Essay with an overview of the challenge you have chosen and explain why you consider it significant.

In the main body of your Essay, discuss how this challenge has affected U.S. Diplomatic Relations with the opposing nation and provide a Diplomatic solution of your own design. Be creative with your solution! Wrap things up by discussing how you think this particular challenge will influence U.S. Diplomatic Relations with other nations in the future.

Assess if the United States foreign policy during the 1930s helped to promote World War II. Could the United States have prevented the outbreak of World War II? If so, how? If not, why not?

World War II

Initial Post Instructions
For the initial post, consider three (3) of the following events:

Treaty of Versailles
Rise of fascism, militarism and imperialism
Failure of the League of Nations
Hitler and the Nazi Party
The Lend Lease Act
Japanese expansion and the bombing of Pearl Harbor
Based on your three selections, choose two (2) of the following and craft a response for your selections:

Assess if the United States foreign policy during the 1930s helped to promote World War II. Could the United States have prevented the outbreak of World War II? If so, how? If not, why not?
Explain if the United States, despite neutrality, aided the Allies against the Axis powers.
Analyze if the use of atomic weapons to defeat enemies in war is a setback for democracy .

Explain how each of your choices was an effective policy to thwart international communist expansion.

American Foreign Policy during the Cold War

Initial Post Instructions
Pick three (3) of the following American Foreign policies:

Marshall Plan
Berlin Airlift
Containment
Anti-Communist Freedom Fighters
Vietnam War
Détente’
SALT I & SALT II
Camp David Accords
Strategic Defense Initiative
Then, address the following for your selections:

Explain how each of your choices was an effective policy to thwart international communist expansion.
Based on your selections, analyze if the United States should have feared international communist subversion during the Cold War era .