For this discussion, you will visit Twitter (Links to an external site.) and click on the little magnifying glass on the left side of the screen to reveal the search box to search Twitter. Then, do the following:

• In the search box, type the words “predictive policing” in the search box and click “enter” to initiate a Twitter search.
• Scroll down the page and review some of the tweets that mention the term predictive policing. Choose two tweets that interest you. Choose different tweets from those your classmates have chosen. Therefore, this is a good activity to do early in the week. (Classmates tweets attached below. Make sure to look at them so you don’t choose the same).
• Share the links to the tweets in the discussion board. See below for further instructions on what to include in your discussion.
• If you do not have a Twitter account, simply click on the tweet and copy and paste the URL for the tweet. Share the link on the discussion board. See below for further instructions on what to include in your discussion.
• In addition to the links to the two tweets you chose, please address the following in your discussion:
  • Overall, what did you observe in reviewing the tweets from the Twitter search term “predictive policing?” For example, what concerns with predictive policing are addressed in the tweets?
  • Were you able to make sense of what predictive policing is based on your review of the tweets on this topic?
  • Based on your review of the recent tweets (in the past six months), did it appear that predictive policing is effective?
  • If you were to reply to one of the tweets you chose about predictive policing, what would you say? (Remember that you can use only 140 characters or less on Twitter so be clever in your tweet.)

Your initial post must be a minimum of 300 words. Support your initial post with examples from your required reading material and/or scholarly or credible sources, using the Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources (Links to an external site.) document for guidance. Please provide both in-text citations and a references list at the end of your initial post in APA style (Links to an external site.), as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.).

Topic: First Impressions of Sociology

A blog is like a journal designed to share information about some subject for a general audience. In this class, you will be generating and discussion four informed blogs about Sociological topics (I will provide the subjects/prompts). For your first post, I’m going to give you a little more structure and ask you to organize your blog post around the three following prompts:

1. Introduce yourself (one large paragraph). Here, I’d like you to take some time and reflect on the following questions: Where do you see yourself fitting in society (usually people envision some type of career or family role)? What are 2 -3 social problems, needs, or phenomena related to this role or position? What types of Sociological knowledge and occupational skills (specifically reviewed in Chapter 1 and Lecture 1) will help you obtain this position and manage these social problems/needs/phenomena?
2. Reflect Sociologically (one large paragraph). Using your own words, please describe the Sociological Imagination. Then, take one social problem/need/phenomenon that you listed above and describe how it can be treated as a personal trouble (i.e., applying the individualist perspective) AND as a public issue (i.e., applying the Sociological Imagination). In the U.S., is this social problem/need/phenomenon treated like a personal trouble or social problem? Defend your position using what you learned about the Sociological Imagination (e.g., think about blame, policies, stigmas, etc. related to this condition). You must referee an appropriate outside source here. Click here to read about credible outside sources. NOTE: Your work must substantively differ from the examples given in my lecture and the textbook!
3. Analyze Theoretically (one large paragraph). A theory is a way of understanding the world that guides how we study it and change it. Using your own words, please briefly describe the two theoretical perspectives below (assigned by last name). Then, analyze the social problem/need/phenomenon you’ve been discussing in your post from each of these theoretical perspectives. Compare them and describe which theoretical approach would be useful for understanding this problem/phenomenon and why.
   1. Last name starting with A – G. Analyze the social problem/need/phenomenon using a functionalist and a conflict theoretical perspective .
   2. Last name starting with H – O. Approach the social problem/need/phenomenon using a conflict theoretical and a symbolic interactionist perspective
   3. Last name starting with P – Z. Approach the social problem/need/phenomenon using a symbolic interactionist and a functionalist perspective.

Students post:

By the Pope publishing a document called the Papal Bull, written in 1484, it greatly attributed to the upsurge in witch hunts and persecutions through the 16th and 17th centuries. Before hand however, during the 15th century a change began in which many people in European countries culturally started to shift their thoughts away from the Roman Catholic church’s control. A professor by the name of Martin Luther encouraged the Reformation movement by posting his disputes against the church, called ’95 Theses’ on the churches door. The Roman Catholic Church played a crucial rule in the lives of Europe both spiritually and immensely politically, due to its unmatchable power and non separation of church and state. However when protestants came forward and ignited change gearing towards what is known now as the Reformation, the church began to lose it’s control over it’s regions and thus witch hysteria culture was born.

It was Witch Hysteria’s goal to inflict organizational fear upon it’s believing and non-believing people. The Papal Bull, was the first document to touch on the subject of witch awareness and also the first step in which the church made it’s first political moves forward to regain power. Next, the creation of the ‘Hammer of Witches’ document in which describes a handbook towards procedures of seizing and obtaining confessions of supposed witches, further instigating a new witch hunt culture and fear of being chosen or labeled as suspicious. Though both documents articulate that both men and women are possibilities for witch evil, it is thoroughly engraved in a handbook written by Heinrich Kramer, that women are the main source because they are “particularly susceptible to the crime because of their inability to control their passions, a commonly-held viewpoint,”(Kramer) and because roughly 75% of 40,000 persecutions were women, is it unequivocally true.

Bibliography

Kramer, Heinrich. Malleus Maleficarum. Translated by Rev. Montague Summers. London: J. Rodker, 1928.

Luther, Martin. 95 Theses. Fordham University. Internet Medieval Sourcebook. https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/luther95.txt (Links to an external site.). Sept. 2019.

Romanum, Bullarium. Innocent VIII: BULL Summis desiderantes. (Taurinensis editio) Medieval Sourcebook: Witchcraft Documents.[15th Century] Dec. 5th, 1484. Accessed at https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/witches1.asp (Links to an external site.)

Nider, Johannes. The Ant Hill. Ed. of Augsburg, Ca. 1476Lib. V. cap. 3. Circa 1437.

The Hammer of the Witches. (Malleus Maleficaru), University of Pennsylvania. Dept. of History, Philadelphia. 1486.

Consider the following: Many products, diets, and services are marketed to parents as beneficial to infant or toddler development. In order to increase sales to parents and caretakers, some companies use marketing strategies that make exaggerated, unfounded, or unrealistic claims about the effects of their product(s) on child development.

Select one claim that you suspect to be exaggerated or false (your research may in fact show the claim has validity). Describe in detail what the advertised product, diet, or service is supposed to do. Some examples include:

• Educational videos related to language development
• Effects of classical music on cognitive development
• Benefits of soy diet or organic food diet on physical and cognitive development
• Service promising to teach your 18-month-old how to read
• Any other claim made by a manufacturer or service provider, aimed at enhancing infant or toddler development

Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper addressing the following:

• What area or areas of development does the product, diet, or service claim to enhance?
• Use the University Library to investigate the claim. What does the published literature say about the issue you are investigating? What does the research reveal about how to promote healthy development in this area? What does this reveal about the necessity and actual benefits of the product, diet, or service?
• Is there any evidence to support the claim? Why or why not?
• Imagine that a licensed psychologist in your state publically endorsed a product with no empirical evidence supporting its claims. It was later discovered that the psychologist was receiving a percentage of money from the sale of the product to parents. Is this a violation of the APA Code of Ethics? Explain. Be sure to cite the appropriate section or sections of the Code in your response.

Investigate the claim using your textbook and a minimum of four additional scholarly sources (such as peer reviewed journal articles).

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

Note: You may not find a peer-reviewed journal article on a specific product, diet, or service. However, you will most likely be able to find peer-reviewed journal articles on the general issue that you are investigating. For example, if you are investigating educational videos that claim that cognitive skills in infancy are enhanced by using a particular approach or method, you can then review and evaluate studies that focus on enhancing cognitive skills in infancy. Review the evidence for and against the use of specific techniques and summarize your findings.

Please avoid plagiarism. Please use simplewords. Answer questions below. 3 sentences minimum.

Need ASAP. Thanks in advance!

DJCA 100: JOURNALQUESTIONS PART I

**For each question, pleaseanswer in AT LEAST three (3) sentences**

**Please include the question ANDanswer for each entry**

**Please spellcheck and PROOFREAD- points will be deducted for careless errors.**

LANGSTON HUGHES (1938)

1. According to Langston Hughes, who should sharethe American Dream?

2. Why does Hughes state several times that “America was never America to me?

ROUSSEAU (1762)

3. Rousseau says, “Man is born free, andeverywhere he is in chains.” Does he seem to be referring literally toslaves or more figuratively to people in general? Explain.

4. What does Rousseau mean by the “SocialContract’?

DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE (July4, 1776)

5. Why was the Declaration of Independencecreated?

6. According to the Declaration of Independence,from what source should the government derive its power? What should be doneif there is an abuse of power?

ABRAHAM LINCOLN: EMANCIPATIONPROCLAMATION (JAN 1, 1863)

7. PresidentLincoln chose not to endorse universal abolition in his EmancipationProclamation. How was this a strategic decision as both a military commanderand as a national leader?

8. Whydid President Lincoln feel that it was politically necessary in a document thatabolishes slavery in the rebel states to advise the slaves to remain peacefuland work where they were?

ABRAHAM LINCOLN: GETTSYBURGADDRESS (NOV 19, 1863)

9. What does Lincoln mean when he refers to thesoldiers not dying in vain?

10.President Lincoln redefined the Civil War not just as a war in support of theUnion, but for “a new birth of freedom.” What did he mean by thatphrase?

ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE (1835)

11. Why was de Tocqueville so fascinated withpolitical and social associations in 1830s America? Give an example of associations that provideservices to citizens that the government does not provide (i.e. an organization to which youor your family members belong).

12. According tode Tocqueville, what would happen if the government tried to take over thefunctions handled by associations?

HENRY DAVID THOREAU (1849)

13.What is civil disobedience?

14.Is it legally and morally correct to participate in civil disobedience if youfeel a law is unjust?

W.E.B. DuBois (1903)

15.What is the NAACP? What wasthe name of the NAACP magazine that Du Bois edited?

16.What does Du Bois mean when he states, “the problem of thetwentieth century is the problem of the color line?”

PLESSY v. FERGUSON (1896)

17.What does the legal doctrine “separate but equal” meanaccording to the case Plessy v. Ferguson?

BROWN v. BOARD OF EDUCATION(1954)

18. What ruling was established by the UnitedStates Supreme Court in Brown v. Boardof Education?