Category: World Affairs

Brief describe your home state’s hazard management policy. If you have had experiences involving these policies (for example, if you have been affected by a land-use policy) include this information as part of your response.

Brief describe your home state’s hazard management policy. If you have had experiences involving these policies (for example, if you have been affected by a land-use policy) include this information as part of your response.

What solutions are being proposed to address the climate emergency? Explain why these solutions are important and relevant (or not) Conclusion: (200 words)

Environmental sustainability in social and community work

For this assignment choose ONE of the following films to review. (They are available in the library ETV resources (https://massey.etv.org.nz/tv/vod )
Film

Climate change the facts: https://massey.etv.org.nz/tv/vod/view/170120

Bio – Featuring insight from some of the world’s leading climate scientist, Sir David Attenborough, who examines the facts behind climate change and potential solutions to this global threat

2040: https://massey.etv.org.nz/tv/vod/view/178667

Write an essay of 1000 words to address the following questions. You need to include 5 to 6 academic literature and research (e.g., academic textbook, academic textbook chapters, journal articles) to support your discussion. See recommended readings in Stream.

Why did you choose this film?

What did you learn from the film?
Content of the essay: (650 words)

Name a minimum of six impacts of the climate emergency – THREE globally AND THREE locally?

Explain which Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are related to the issue covered in the film?

What solutions are being proposed to address the climate emergency? Explain why these solutions are important and relevant (or not)
Conclusion: (200 words)

Your reflections on the climate emergency in relation to you and your local community.

Is colonization the most significant factor that has influenced development outcomes in Africa?Discuss. You can carry out a general discussion or focus on a single case.

Is colonization the most significant factor that has influenced development outcomes in Africa?Discuss. You can carry out a general discussion or focus on a single case.

List of possible sources:
Ake, C., 1981. A political economy of Africa. London; New York: Longman (chapters 2 and 3).

CASE STUDY Nii‐K Plange (1979) Underdevelopment in Northern Ghana: natural causes or colonial capitalism?, Review of African Political Economy, 6:15-16, 4-14, DOI: 10.1080/03056247908703393

Rempel, R., 2018. Colonialism and Development in Africa. In The Palgrave Handbook of African Colonial and Postcolonial History (pp. 569-619). Palgrave Macmillan, New York.

Explain how both worldviews specifically address the list of “Ten Ways of Looking at the World” in Understanding the Times: theology, philosophy, ethics, biology, psychology, sociology, law, politics, economics, and history. In that given order, compare-and-contrast both worldviews in each of the ten categories.

Explain why using logic (aka natural reason). In your explanation, give a logical presentation — without citing Scripture as supernatural revelation, nor personal experience — and a logical defense of your conclusions. Per a philosophy course, the demonstration of critical thinking and the use of natural reason are essential.

If you support the Christian worldview, why do you believe, for example, in the existence of God and Jesus as the Christ? What logic supports those essential and fundamental beliefs?

Explain how both worldviews specifically address the list of “Ten Ways of Looking at the World” in Understanding the Times: theology, philosophy, ethics, biology, psychology, sociology, law, politics, economics, and history. In that given order, compare-and-contrast both worldviews in each of the ten categories.

Define the central concerns, major themes, core ideas, and ultimate goals of both worldviews.

What is missing from both of the worldviews presented in “Cruel Logic”?How do you think the film would be different if a Christian, a Marxist, or a pantheist were included in the dialogue?

In light of this film, answer the questions after you have watched the video:

What is missing from both of the worldviews presented in “Cruel Logic”?

How do you think the film would be different if a Christian, a Marxist, or a pantheist were included in the dialogue?

Within your answer in the initial post, include at least one direct quotation from the video. To demonstrate the skill of collegiate-level writing, quotations should be woven into your answer’s naturally (rather than merely “stuck on” or listed).

Identify factors that influence the intelligence community. Be sure to include the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, Congressional relationships to the intelligence community, and the budgetary process that impacts the intelligence community.

Discussion forum

Identify factors that influence the intelligence community. Be sure to include the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, Congressional relationships to the intelligence community, and the budgetary process that impacts the intelligence community. Assess how intelligence is collected and analyzed by intelligence analysts.

Discuss situations that present legal, ethical, and social sustainability issues and develop solutions based on your understanding of Strategic Intelligence.

Iran Hostage crisis. (It’s effect on U.S politics)

Demonstrate critical thinking skills to analyze and apply the results of the collections and investigations.

Discuss situations that present legal, ethical, and social sustainability issues and develop solutions based on your understanding of Strategic Intelligence.

Apply effective communication techniques through discussions, writings, and demonstrations.

Demonstrate appropriate research methodologies by presenting case studies within identified crisis / culturally defining events.