Describe Rituals of Bereavement.

Click on the links below and listen to the audio files on each. They all relate to loss, bereavement and grief.

a) Rituals of mourning

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1428103

b) Empty Room: Loss of a sibling

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3846373

When you have listened to all the audio clips, respond to the following questions:

1. What are the three things most significant things you learned from your course materials (readings and video clips) this week? Explain why you think they are important.

2.Select one of the conceptual approaches to bereavement on page 420 of the James text and demonstrate how it might help to explain the experiences of the individuals whose stories are contained in the audio clips.

How do members of the group define themselves; what is necessary to be considered a member of the group?

Paper should include:1. Group snapshot: Define the group: how do members of the group define themselves; what isnecessary to be considered a member of the group? Identify strengths the group has and why they are strengths. Identify challenges the group faces and why they are challenges. Identify current socio-demographics of the group, major trends. 2. A history of how the group has been treated in the United States. Include content on legal, political, economic, and educational oppression the group has experienced. 3. A review of the beliefs and stereotypes about the group throughout history and an analysis of how beliefs and stereotypes have been maintained and continue to thrive today. 4. Overview of values and norms. 5. Structural, Political forces, policies or laws that keep members of the group oppressed.

What would you do in the following circumstances?

Thinking about AdolescenceDirections: Answer the following questions using your knowledge of adolescents. 1. Write 5 insecurities that you remember you or your friends having as a teenager.2. Write 5 fears that you think parents have about having teenage children.3. Name 5 stereotypes of adolescents.4. What would you do in the following circumstances? Find online resources that may help. Provide actual names and phone numbers when possible.a. You know a runaway 15-year-old girl. She is undecided about whether she wants to return home because her father, an alcoholic, is periodically abusive.b. A friend of your younger sister has announced her plans to drop out of high school and begin an acting/modeling career. Because she looks up to you, the younger girl asks you for guidance.c. You learn quite by accident that an acquaintance has made an unsuccessful suicide attempt.d. You are a high school English teacher. A composition written by one of your students is very confused and emotional, but it leads you to believe that the writer may be a long-term victim of sexual abuse at home.

Do credible research on Jonas Salk.

Do credible research.How about you choose ONE of these biographical figures1.Helen Keller2.Florence Nightingale3.Galileo4.Jonas Salk5.Ida B. Wells6.Frederick Douglass7.Clara Barton