1. Why did Maria move to Rocinha?

She wanted to own multiple properties and rent some out, which was impossible back home.

She wanted to be a waitress rather than work in the fields.

There were no jobs at home and her brother seemed to be doing well in Rocinha.

She wanted to get away from her brother

2. How does Eric Obuh see scavenging work in the Lagos dump? Choose the BEST answer.

as a sad existence

as a stark indicator of his Nigerian poverty

as normal as an office job

as an opportunity to fund his dreams

3. How does the author characterize government and NGO attempts to interact with the favelas?

as disgraceful intrusions

as negligible toe-dipping

as top-down affairs

as community-empowered initiatives

4. Which of the following do the “bailes” in Rocinha BEST represent?

the state of capitalism in Brazil

the difficulty of favela life

the communal aspect of Rocinha life

the hollowness of partying

5. According to the author’s account, which of the following statements about Rocinha is true?

It is very difficult to make an honest living in Rocinha.

Everyone in Rocinha is desperately poor.

Life in Rocinha is sleepy and slow.

Rocinha began as an illegal squatter community.

6. How does Jane describe the cycle of poverty for girls who don’t go on to secondary school?

If they are not in school the girls will be pregnant within a year or two and unable to provide for themselves and their baby.

With only a primary school education, the girls are unable to educate their own children.

Without a secondary education, the girls are unable to get high paying jobs.

If they are not in school, the girls will move away from home, further depleting their villages of a labor force.

7. Which of the following is true about Malawi?

(under “Economy” ) The majority of the Malawian labor force works in industry and services.

(under “People and Society”) It is one of the top 25nations in the world in number of HIV/AIDS deaths.

(under “People and Society”) More than half of its population lives in urban environments.

(under “Geography”) It is located in northern Africa and borders the sea

8. Which of the following is one of the indicators of human development used to determine the Human Development Index?

short-term income for individual

so expected years of schooling

the rate of sickness and disease

access to fresh water

9. Which of the following statements describing China’s trajectory is true?

Income falls with literacy until 2000, when it finally stabilizes.

The relationship between income and literacy remains exactly the same in the country from 1982 to 2010.

Income rises at about the same rate as literacy until 1999, when the country hit 90 percent literacy; thereafter, income rises much faster than literacy.

Income rises at about the same rate as literacy until 1990, when the country hit 90 percent literacy; thereafter, literacy rises much faster t an income

 

10. Which of the following is true about India?

(under “Government”) It is organized administratively into 30 states and nine union territories.

(under “Economy”) Nearly half of India’s labor force works in agriculture.

(under “People and Society”) The majority of its population is Muslim.

(under “Geography”) Its land area is about two million square kilometers.

11. Which of the following statements summarizes the views of “health trap” skeptics?

Health issues are overrated in discussions about poverty.

It is not obvious whether poverty is caused by malaria or by cholera

It is the responsibility of NGOs, not local governments, to tackle health issues in developing countries.

It is not obvious whether poverty is caused by poor health or by poor governance.

12. Which of the following statements summarizes Rosling’s view on what constitutes a “developing” country?

Only countries with low literacy can be considered “developing.”

Asia and Africa are always poor, and Europe and North America are always rich.

In terms of economic progress, each country falls on a very long continuum of development.

There should only be two designations for countries: “developed” and “developing.”

13. What did the studies of bed net recipients through the TAMTAM program reveal about usage rates and bed net cost?

Usage rates went down when bed nets were given out for free.

Usage rates went down when bed nets were purchases at subsidized prices.

Whether or not bed nets were given out for free or purchased at subsidized prices had little effect on usage.

Usage rates went up when bed nets given out for free

14. Which of the following sentences summarizes the authors’ thoughts on the impact of “faith” on people’s health decision-making process? Choose the BEST answer.

Local leaders who instill bad faith in citizens are responsible for their citizens’ poverty and poor health.

People’s willingness to accept different health care options is limited by their faith in the ability of these various options to help.

A lack of faith that medicine does any good at all hampers many people’s health.

Faith can easily be overcome for most people, leading to better health care outcomes

15. Which of the following is cited as a benefit of the health investments suggested by the authors?

lower wages

stronger democracy

reduced illness and death

decreased rates of education

16. Which of the following is a common complaint made by critics of modern development, regardless of their ideological position? Choose the BEST answer.

Poor countries’ attempts to better themselves aren’t necessarily bad, but the form modern development has taken is.

The United Nations has consistently screwed up good development programs.

Developing countries need more intervention from developed countries.

The developing world is perfect as is, and should stay that way forever

17. What is the approach of this advertisement? Choose the BEST answer.

to show off the charity’s celebrity connections

to appeal to viewers’ emotions

to shame viewers into giving

to educate viewers about Ethiopia’s concrete plan for long term well maintenance

18. What distinction does Moyo draw between the Marshall Plan and typical development programs?

The Marshall Plan focused on food issues, but most development programs now focus on economic issues.

The Marshall Plan was implemented in Europe, whereas most aid programs are implemented in Asia and Africa.

The Marshall Plan was administered during the 1940s and 1950s, and things have changed a lot since then.

The Marshall Plan was a reconstruction program, not a development program.

19. How do the Peace Corps volunteers featured in this report describe their experience?

as an opportunity to do charity

as an opportunity to play and party abroad

as an opportunity to improve and learn about the world

as an opportunity to further American interests

20. Which of the following beliefs does Illich credit for motivating American volunteers to go to Mexico and help? Choose the BEST answer.

the idea that poor places in the world must become modern

the idea that the American way of life is indisputably best and, as a result, should be shared with the rest of the world

the idea that people in every part of the American continent North, Central, and South America should unite to build a better world

the idea that charity is required by Christianity and must be carried out by all believers

21. Which of the following statements about Chile’s economic progress is true?

It has one of the world’s most closed economies.

It has brought high wages to all sectors of the economy.

It has the lowest poverty rate in Latin America.

It has gone from debtor to creditor nation

22. Which of the following BEST describes Rwanda’s postwar development program?

expanded access to microloans

an acceleration in foreign investment

expanded state control of the economy

an increase in subsidies for staple crops such as coffee

23. What problem with the “scarf project” is underscored in the text? Choose the BEST answer.

There is no market for Rwandanmade scarves in the developed world.

Price shocks on wool have made profitability fluctuate wildly.

Its sustainability is questionable.

Few Rwandans know how to knit.

24. Which of the following statements about India’s recent information technology (IT) boom is true?

The IT boom has brought India to the very top of the development ladder.

IT jobs are significantly better than lows killed industrial labor jobs or farm jobs.

Few women have been benefiting from the IT boom.

The IT boom has occurred despite minimal connections with foreign countries. What does Sachs attribute China’s economic reversal of fortune to?

25. Which of the following is a reason given by the author for the reduction in the number of children born to Bangladeshi women?

New job opportunities in Dhaka have empowered women, giving them more control over how many children they will have and when they will have them.

Village elders have come to demand daughters in the village have fewer children.

The Bangladeshi government has waged a successful public relations campaign against having too many children.

Working in garment factories leaves women with no time to have children

26. Return back to the PDF page that breaks down MDGs success by region, “Millennium Development Goals: 2012 Progress Chart.” Most of the world’s progress toward Goal 1 has been made in which region?

Western Asia

SubSaharan Africa

Latin America & Caribbean

Eastern Asia

27. Which of the following statements regarding progress toward meeting this goal is true?

More women are a part of the wage-earning non-agricultural workforce than were a part in 1990.

Women are just as likely to own a business as men.

Girls are enrolled in secondary school at higher rates than boys.

Women are less likely to find vulnerable (temporary) employment than men

28. No one speaker or article can resolve such a complicated issue as development, but Novogratz reminds us of a few key points. Which of the following statements would she most likely agree with?

Change is possible, but will not occur overnight, and it will require a lot of informed actions by millions of people.

There is no hope the developing world will stay undeveloped as long as its people choose to be poor.

Getting people to change is easy the developed world just needs to be more forceful.

The solution to poverty is not hard to figure out: the world needs more highly trained experts to lead poor countries.

29. Which region has the fewest rectangles shaded green, indicating it has had the least amount of success of all world regions?

Oceania

Sub-Saharan Africa

Southern Asia

Western Asia

30. Which of the following is one of the Millennium Development Goals?

securing equal rights for women

penalizing developed countries for consuming so many resources

advocating for prison reform

advancing scientific knowledge

 

 

 

Target a multinational corporation/international company and the practice of “outsourcing” to third world countries. Some examples of MNCs (multinational corporations) would be Nike, General Motors, Ford, Qwest, and Fender Music. Research its effects on local culture. Write a summary and analysis of 500-750 words and include the following:

 

1. How does global stratification impact local culture? What are the positive and negative effects?

1. How does global stratification impact the United States? What are the positive and negative effects?

1. Who is the biggest “winner” in this situation? Explain.

Use the GCU Library to locate two to three academic sources to support your content.

 

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the GCU Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

 

You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. Refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.

Three parts:

 

Topic #1A: What is Abuse?

Family violence is a simple phrase, but it encompasses a horrifying list of abusive behaviors, both physical and psychological, inflicted by one family member on another…The list is endless. There is seemingly no end to the horrors some human beings can inflict on those whom this society calls their ‘loved ones.’
The American Medical News, January 6, 1992

 

Domestic violence is any repeated attempt to control an intimate partner using physical, emotional and/or sexual tactics.

 

In 1987 Ellen Pence, a long-time domestic violence advocate with the Domestic Abuse Intervention Project in Duluth, Minnesota, published a workbook entitled In Our Best Interest: A Process For Personal and Social Change (1987) (I’ve found this an excellent resource when conducting support groups for women). In this work Pence includes a diagram that has commonly come to be known as the Power and Control Wheel. This diagram is based on the feedback of hundreds of battered women and outlines the various controlling and abusive behaviors that perpetrators use to control their partners. The “Wheel” has become the signature diagram used to explain survivors’ experiences in abusive relationships. The tactics batterers use to control their partners are without limit. While some are certainly more dangerous than others, all forms of abuse have serious short and/or long-term consequences for the victim, and for those around them.

 

In reviewing the “Wheel” please note that the tactics within the spokes of the wheel actually work to support and reinforce the physical and sexual violence occurring in the relationship. In some abusive relationships, over time, the abusing partner may decrease the amount of physical violence and rely more and more on the non-physical tactics to control the survivor. This is not true for all abusive relationships, however.

 

Links for both the Power and Control Wheel and the companion Equality Wheel are posted below.

 

For the purposes of this discussion topic please complete the following:

 

1.  Identify a movie, TV program or book in which one of the adult characters is being abused by an intimate partner.

 

2. Using the Power and Control Wheel as a guide, list the various abusive behaviors and tactics exhibited in the movie. Give examples.

 

3. Respond to the following questions:

 

a) What is the survivor’s reaction to the abuse?

 

b) Is the movie, show or book accurate in its portrayal of an abusive relationship?

 

c) What is inaccurate?

 

4. Once you have posted your comments please respond to at least 2 of your classmates’ post.

 

If you’re having problems coming up with some movies the list below may help:

 

Gaslight (an early Ingrid Bergman movie and probably the first movie to actually address emotional abuse)
What’s Love Got To Do With It? (Tina Turner’s life story)
Provoked

 

Sleeping With The Enemy
The Burning Bed
The Color Purple
Enough
Fried Green Tomatoes

 

For Colored Girls
This Boy’s Life
Not Without My Daughter

 

You may also want to refer to Lifetime TV, Dateline, 20/20 or similar TV programs.

 

 

 

Power and Control Wheel   /content/enforced/50634-013924-01-2152-OL4-7980/BEHS 453 Power & Control Wheel.pdf

 

 

 

Equality Wheel   /content/enforced/50634-013924-01-2152-OL4-7980/BEHS 453 Equality Wheel.pdf

 

 

Topic #2A: Emotional Abuse

Emotional abuse is widely misunderstood in our society. Yet, for many survivors, emotional abuse is often described as equally painful, if not more painful, than physical abuse. To be emotionally abused may raise several difficulties for the survivor trying to reach out for help. First, if a survivor tries to get help and has physical signs of abuse then s/he can show that to someone. The questions arises, however, how do you show someone that you’re being emotionally abused? The marks that emotional abuse leave scar someone’s heart and soul and that cannot not be physically shown to anyone.

 

Second, the fact that emotional abuse leaves no visible wounds frequently makes it difficult for survivors to get the help they need when they reach out to others. For many, unless there are obvious physical injuries, the disclosure of abuse raises the question “Are they really telling the truth?” Often, it may come down to “he said, she said.” Third, many people minimize the impact that emotional abuse has on survivors and discount this form of as abuse as “less dangerous” than physical or sexual abuse. The reality is that emotional abuse has serious short and long-term effects on survivors, including, but not limited to, lowered self-esteem and self-confidence, depression, and suicide.

Another important factor when addressing emotional abuse deals with the manner in which this type of abuse occurs within the abusive relationship. Many physically and sexually abusive relationships actually begin with emotional abuse and, over time and with no intervention, will escalate to include other forms of abuse. If you’re working with a survivor that is being physically and/or sexually abused, the chances are great that s/he is also being emotionally abused. The reverse is not true however. Some relationships begin with emotional abuse and will stay at that level for the duration of the relationship.

The last important point I’d like to make deals with the manner in which survivors deal with emotional abuse. Since so many people in our society don’t have a clear understanding of the complexities of emotional abuse it is frequently difficult for survivors to actually name what they are experiencing as emotional abuse. While survivors may know that their feelings have been hurt, or that they don’t like what is being said (or not said) to them, it is rare to find a survivor who clearly states “I’m being emotionally abused.” Don’t get me wrong here. Some survivors are able to do this, but in over 25 years I haven’t worked with or witnessed many that have. As so many physically abusive relationships begin with emotional abuse, the survivor may not even realize they are being abused until the abuse escalates into physical and/or sexual abuse.

For the purposes of this discussion topic, please complete the following:

 

1. Interview 3 people about emotional abuse. This is a confidential interview so please do not identify the people you interview by name, address, or personal relationship with you. You will need to do the following:

 

• Identify the person’s age and gender (this is basic demographic data that may help us better understand the responses)

 

1. Ask the following questions:

 

1. How do you define domestic violence?
2. How do you define emotional abuse?
3. Please give some examples of emotional abuse.
4. Do you think emotional abuse is as damaging as physical abuse? Why or why not?

 

NOTE:  Do NOT ask the respondents if they have experienced abuse.  Asking this question requires some very special “set up” that we are not going to be doing for this assignment.

 

3.  Once you have completed your interviews please post the results in this conference.

 

4. Also post an analysis about the respondents’ answers. Postings that do not include an analysis of the responses will lose points.  Consider at least some of the following when writing your analysis:

 

• The analysis should be more than whether or not you agree with the respondents.
• Do all of the respondents have the same or similar definitions?
• Does it appear that the respondents are focusing only on intimate partners or  are they including all family members in their discussions?
• Are the respondents thorough in their definitions of domestic violence or are they leaving anything out?
• Are the definitions/responses inclusive of all types of relationships or just marital ones?

Topic #3A: Barriers & Help Seeking

One of the most common questions the general public asks about intimate partner violence (ipv) is “Why does she stay?” Several important factors need to be mentioned in this regard. First, women do leave abusive relationships. In fact, they leave and return multiple times. (Be wary of any resource that quotes an exact or average number of times that survivors leave. The reality is that we really don’t know, other than it appears to be multiple times for many women.)

Second, when someone asks “Why doesn’t she leave?” they are making the very dangerous mistake of assuming that to leave a violent relationship will cause the violence to cease. According to the American Psychological Association Presidential Task Force on Violence and the Family (1996), “Many people still believe that the problem of battering can be solved by separation, but the risk of serious or lethal violence may actually increase after separation” (39).

 

The greatest risk for serious injury or death from violence is at the point of separation or at the time when the decision to separate is made. Data from a U.S. Department of Justice national Crime Victimization Survey indicates that among women who were victims of violent assault by an intimate partner, women reported that the offender was an ex-spouse almost half as many times as they reported that the offender was a spouse” (American Psychological Association Presidential Task Force on Violence and the Family, 1996, p. 39). The reality is that for a large number of survivors to leave a violent relationship does not make things better, rather, it makes things worse. Please see the attached handout, Examples of the Types of Violence Occuring At Separation (linked below).

A third factor to be considered in this discussion involves the very nature of the question “Why does she stay?” Very rarely do people ask, “Why does he batter?, or “Why doesn’t he leave?” Many grassroots activists and feminists believe that to ask “Why does she stay?” is actually victim blaming and fails to hold the abuser accountable for his behavior.

In Module 1, Lawrence Green and his colleagues identified three types of factors that can affect the help-seeking process by either encouraging or discouraging action:

 

• Predisposing factors – attitudes, perceptions, or beliefs that either facilitate or hinder personal motivation to act
• Enabling  factors–factors that either help by their presence or hinder by their absence like the ability to obtain necessary assistance (limited facilities, inadequate personnel, lack of funds)
• Reinforcing factors – characteristics of services or attitudes of caregivers that assist in decision-making like the feedback or attention received.

 

Linked below is the handout Barriers to Leaving which outlines numerous factors or “barriers” that should be considered when examining the difficulties in leaving an abusive relationship. This list of barriers can be combined with Green’s et. al. work to help explain the challenges that survivors face in their help-seeking process.

 

 For this purposes of this discussion topic please complete the following:

 

1. Take a look at the Lisa Steinberg/Hedda Nussbaum Case Study listed in Module 1 along with the linked handouts to this conference topic.

2. Respond to the following questions:

 

a) Explain the issues affecting the help-seeking behavior of Hedda Nussbaum, including issues in the victim and offender response system that inhibited appropriate intervention

 

b) Do you think the question “Why does she stay is victim blaming? Why or why not?

3. Please support your response with resources (including in-text citations).

Examples of the Types of Violence Occurring At Separation /content/enforced/50634-013924-01-2152-OL4-7980/BEHS 453 Examples of Types of Violence Occurring at Separation.rtf

 

Barriers to Leaving /content/enforced/50634-013924-01-2152-OL4-7980/BEHS 453 Barriers to Leaving.rtf

 

 

 

Reference

American Psychological Association Presidential Task Force on Violence and the Family. (1996). Violence and the family. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.

 

Navigate to the CDC Website.

In the search bar type in, “Best Practices for Comprehensive Tobacco Control Programs“.

Please note, this assignment will require you to locate a document from the CDC (Centers for Disease Control). 

Now that you already identified possible barriers and obstacles in the Developing a Coalition assignment due in Week Four, you can organize and implement the Tobacco Program Coalition.

Use the Best Practices User Guide: Coalitions – State and Community Interventions document located using the CDC Website.

 

Create a 15- to 20-slide Microsoft^® PowerPoint^® presentation that describes the steps that you will take to develop the coalition, implement it, and make sure it is sustainable in the community and beyond.

Include the following:

• Explain the history and core values of the coalition.

• Describe the need that propelled this coalition.
• Describe the mission, vision, and purpose.

• Describe the steps you will take to develop the coalition.
• Explain how you will implement it.
• Discuss how you will sustain the coalition in the community.
• Discuss how this coalition will benefit other communities.

Cite at least two peer-reviewed sources.

Format your presentation consistent with APA guidelines.

 

 

Total Number of Slides: 15

Scored: 100%

 

 

Individual Effects of Dysfunction

Reflect on the similarities between the effects of substance abuse and the effects of being raise in an addictive family. Analyze the similarities and differences between what you have learned in this course and what is discussed in the article. Write a 5-6 page paper that briefly summarizes the findings of the article and compares the effects of abuse in the article with what you have learned in this course.  Make sure to address if you see signs of codependence in the article you have selected