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Social Media

Introduction

In the 21^st century, the advancements in the levels of technology have led to the rise of social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram among others which have boosted advertising of goods and services in the global market. Companies and big brands across the world have embraced the use of Facebook in advertising their products and services especially when they are targeting new customers mostly when introducing a new product or when increasing awareness of the existing ones. There are various advantages and disadvantages of using Facebook to advertise products and services.

To start with, Facebook has approximately1.13 active billion users. Thus, advertising products via Facebook ensure that you reach a very large audience. Your product or service gets exposure to millions of people across the world (Nadaraja, & Yazdanifard). Secondly, creating an advertising account on Facebook is free since there is no sign-up fees. Also, followers can easily share this information with others. Further, it increases brand loyalty, as customers who follow your brand are like to remain loyal to it. However, you can easily get negative feedback from unsatisfied customers. Again, use of social media platform is very time consuming, as you have to keep on responding to the customers.

Some of the products or brands that have benefited from advertising on Facebook are Qatar Airways, Oreo, and Starbucks who actively engage their followers by providing them with the latest information on their products (Turban, Strauss, & Lai, 2015). Finally, this avenue is effective for the success of a new product that is associated with an existing brand because customers tend to be loyal to a particular brand and they are likely to get more information on the product via Facebook.

References

Nadaraja, R., & Yazdanifard, R. (n.d). Social media marketing: Advantages and disadvantages. Retrieved from https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/c070/c908671a70dfb44a245be96ec4f54a47e98f.pdf

Turban, E., Strauss, J., & Lai, L. (2015). Social Commerce: Marketing, technology, and management. New York, Springer.

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Psychoanalysis of Montresor

It is important to understand the interaction of the unconscious and conscious elements in a person’s mind and try to use that to cure mental disorders. The short story by Edgar Poe explains about Montresor, who wants to sick revenge on his acquaintance, Fortunato. Montresor argues that he has been hurt a lot of times by his supposed friend and therefore, the only way to get back at him is by revenging and ensuring that he understands it is revenge (Poe 69). This shows that Montresor has issues he should first deal with, his need for revenge develops his reasoning, and he does not want to stop until he achieves this. This may imprint the notion that he is mentally unstable or he has some mental problems. This can be seen in the fact that he is willing to continue pretending to be friends with Fortunato so that he can be able to hurt him effectively.

Montresor knows that what he is doing is wrong. He even admits that trying to do something wrong to get back at someone who did something wrong, is not right (Poe 69). However, this does not make him stop or want to find another way to deal with the differences between him and Fortunato. Revenge is not a justified way to react to a certain situation, and Montresor clearly understands that, but he feels that it is the only way for him to feel content once again.

Montresor is determined to go to extremes to achieve his revenge plan; he uses Fortunato’s ego against him to make him go and taste his newly acquired wine. He tells him that he has a new wine, amontillado, and needs to go and ask Luchresi to taste it for him because he knows a lot about wines. This makes Fortunato explain that Luchresi does not know about wines and instead offer to help taste it. Whether Montresor has a psychological problem due to his urge for revenge, it is clear that he has a well-formulated plan and thus in a good state of mind to know which steps to take.

Montresor is willing to go at all costs only to assert his revenge on Fortunato. He pretends to like him and even offers him wine as he leads him through the vaults whereby he wants to make him suffer (Poe 70). This leads one to question Montresor’s state of mind, one can wonder whether he has been overwhelmed by his bid for revenge or he is a man who can go to every extreme to achieve what he wants. However, no matter the response to that, Montresor is consumed with the thoughts of revenge, that he acts indifferently, pretends to like Fortuna, offers him wine, and laughs with him only so that he can lead him to his trap (Poe 71). This begs some questions about Montresor’s sound of mind.

Montresor is mentally disturbed, and he has problems that made him do what he did. His bid for revenge made him proclaim death on a person who thought they were friends. When he locked Fortunato away, he had him cry and then go silent, but he did not want to set him free, and therefore he put the stones on the wall to ensure he could not get out (Poe 72). Montresor did this knowing that he was ending a person’s life but he did it anyway. This shows that he does not know how to feel, he is willing to go to the extremes to get what he wants without caring about another person’s feelings.

Montresor, far from having mental problems, also portrays the aspect that he is hypocritical. He pretends to like Fortunato and even shows him this while they are conversing. He tells him that he has been looking for him and says that he is glad to see him (Poe 69). However, Montresor is only glad because he is almost achieving his bid for revenge. He is not glad to see Fortunato, rather, he is glad that he has a chance to revenge on him. He achieves this by doing something so cruel; he leaves him behind the walls locked up in the cold to die. This act does not serve more as a revenge journey but a murder.

The character Montresor does not feel a pinch of guilt for his action. This is shown in the fact that even when he hears Fortunato cry one last time, he is aware that the cold may have contributed to that or death, but he does not care to open the crack again. He puts the last cover on the wall and walks away, and for half a century, nobody tried to touch or remove those stones (Poe 72). This summarizes the idea of Montresor as a person, and as a human, he does not possess many traits to show that he is human.

Works Cited

Poe, Edgar Allan. “The Cask of Amontillado.” Poe, Allan. Godey’s Lady’s Book. Godey’s Lady’s Book, 1864. 68-72.

Discussion Board 500 words with 2 reference

Literature review – Using quantitative study performing customer sentiment analysis based on feedback

For this Discussion Board assignment, review the research methodology sections of the peer-reviewed sources that you have collected as part of your literature review, and consider the following questions:

• Explain the differences between a research methodology and a research design.
• What research methodologies and research designs are researchers using?
• What types of study questions are researchers investigating using these methods and designs?
• How does the literature on your topic justify the research design you are leaning toward?

Access and complete an online version of the Stroop test from the Topic 1 Resource “Interactive ‘Animal Stroop’ Effect Experiment” or “Stroop Task.”

Post your scores in the discussion, then reflect upon the following:

• How do the Stroop results challenge the assumptions of behaviorism and support the assumptions of cognitive psychology?
• Could anything help someone do better (or worse) on this assessment?

Support your response with scholarly resources.

Interactive “Animal Stroop” Effect Experiment

https://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/java/readya.html

Stroop Task

https://www.psytoolkit.org/experiment-library/stroop.html#_run_the_demo

Identify and discuss one psychosocial issue in a school setting that could create a barrier to learning (e.g., bullying, substance abuse, homelessness, poverty, ADHD, conduct issues, spectrum disorders, poor health, domestic violence, and abuse in the home, parent or parents with addiction, etc.). In your discussion, address whether the school social worker, the school counselor, or the school psychologist would be the best professional to address this issue, or whether the services of all three would be required, and why. What external services might be recommended or even enforced? Your initial response should be at least 350 words in length. 

(My career selection is to obtain a degree in Human Services and
want to become a Family Service Worker and work with families
and children in a non-profit organization.)
Your summative assessment will require you to reflect on your future as a human
services professional. In your paper, you must comprehensively address the following:
1) Evaluate your career selection that was made in Week 1.
a) What populations do you want to serve and in what capacity?
b) What type of organization do you want to be working for in the future (or now if
you plan to stay with your organization as you advance)?
2) Appraise the past, current, and future societal issues facing the human services
profession with your chosen population and organization.
a) Evaluate a minimum of one historical issue related to your population.
b) What current challenges might your clients face and how might this impact your
organization as well as your work?
c) What future societal issues might your clients and organization face?
3) Evaluate how you might perform your role in this field.
a) How might you be supervised?
b) What might your working relationships be with your colleagues?
c) How will you maintain healthy boundaries with clients?
d) What other services might your organization offer and how might these services
interact with yours.
4) Assess the impact that the community will have on your clients and organization?
a) How will you work to serve your clients within the community?
b) How do you think you will have an impact on the global needs in terms of the
population you have chosen to serve?
5) Compare the human services organization where you currently work or might work
with a similar human services organization that serves the same population.
a) Outline the similarities and differences, evaluating which is more of an effective
model of a human services agency.
6) The My Future as a Human Services Professional final paper
7) Must be eight double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references
pages) and formatted according to APA Style as outlined in the Writing Center’s APA
StyleLinks to an external site.
8) Must include a separate title page with the following:
a) Title of paper (bold and with a space between the title and the rest of the
information)
b) Student’s name, followed by institution name (“University of Arizona Global
Campus”)
c) Course name and number
d) Instructor’s name
e) Date submitted

Respond to a classmate by further supporting his or her response or respectfully offering a differing perspective.

Qualitative and Quantitative and putting together

Mixed methods studies have been defined as studies that combine qualitative and quantitative approaches into the research methodology of a single study or multi-phased study and as a research design in which approaches are used in types of questions, research methods, data collection and analysis procedures, and /or inferences (Collins et al., 2009)

Types of research questions for mixed methods

The best type of research question for mixed methods is qualitative and quantitative. However, according to Johnson et al., (2004), mixed methods research can incorporate the strengths of both methodologies by utilizing quantitative and qualitative techniques within the same framework. Therefore, mixed methods have been defined as quantitative and qualitative data collection, data analysis, and mixing quantitative and qualitative approaches within a single study, with data integrated at some stage (Johnson et al., 2004).

Strength & Limitation One of the strengths of mixed methods is that they provide quantitative & qualitative research Johnson et al., 2004. Mix methods also use a diversity of methods for both quantitative & qualitative. One limitation of mixed methods is that they are time-consuming. When using mixed methods in your research, it requires collecting and analyzing data from both quantitative & qualitative.

Rationale against mixed methods Mixed methods can make data analysis difficult; sometimes, it can take time to understand. As stated by (Johnson et al., 2004). Qualitative researchers sometimes need to pay more attention to providing an adequate rationale for interpretations of their data. Qualitative methods of analysis too often remain private and unavailable for public inspection. (Johnson et al., 2004).

Reference:

Collins, K. M., & O’Cathain, A. (2009).  Introduction: Ten points about mixed methods research to be considered by the novice researcherLinks to an external site. Links to an external site. . International Journal of Multiple Research Approaches, (1), 2–7.

Johnson, R. B., & Onwuegbuzie, A. J. (2004).  Mixed methods research: A research paradigm whose time has comeLinks to an external site. Links to an external site. . Educational Researcher, 33(7), 14–26.

Scenario

You work as a Child and Family Advocate for the State of California. In your role, you promote and protect the child’s best interests in a parental rights and responsibilities dispute. This often involves evaluating the family’s circumstances and making recommendations to the court regarding the child’s care, contact, and guardianship.

You are frequently asked to explain whether a child has met developmental milestones. To assist with your explanation, you have decided to create an infographic that illustrates the major developmental milestones for children.

Instructions

In your infographic, identify and explain the physical, cognitive, and social-emotional development milestones for:

• Infancy (birth to age 1)
• Toddlerhood (age 1-3)
• Early childhood (ages 3-6)
• Middle childhood (ages 6-11)

Directions:

Parenting is influential in developing children. Parental responses shape attachment in infancy and continue impacting early and middle childhood development.

Initial Post

Define the four parenting styles: authoritative, authoritarian, permissive, and uninvolved. Select one parent style and create a scenario between a parent and child that demonstrates the parenting style. The scenario should include the actions or words of the parent and how the child would respond to this behavior and explain how the scenario fits into the selected parenting style.

Response Post

Reply to a peer whose definitions or scenario helped you understand the parenting style. Attempt to respond to a peer who chose a parenting style different from the style you selected in your initial post. What about the definition or example that helped you understand that parenting style?

Reply

What Are the Four Types of Parenting Styles?

The four parenting styles commonly used in psychology are authoritative parenting style, authoritarian parenting style, permissive parenting style, and neglectful parenting style.

Authoritative Parenting (Psychology Definition): “An authoritative parenting style is a child-rearing approach characterized by high responsiveness and high expectations. Authoritative parents are warm and responsive to their child’s emotional needs while holding the child to high standards. They set limits and consistently enforce the boundaries” (Li, 2023c).

Authoritarian Parenting (Psychology Definition): “Authoritarian parenting is an autocratic parenting style characterized by high demands but low responsiveness. Authoritarian parents require their children to meet high standards, yet they are cold and aloof to the child’s emotional needs” (Li, 2023a).

Permissive Parenting (Psychology Definition): “Permissive parenting, also known as the indulgent parenting style, is characterized by high responsiveness and low demandingness. Permissive-indulgent parents are very responsive to their child’s emotional needs; however, they do not set limits or are inconsistent in enforcing boundaries” (Li, 2023a).

Uninvolved Parenting/Neglectful Parenting (Psychology Definition): “Uninvolved parenting is characterized by low responsiveness and demandingness. These neglectful parents are uninvolved in their child’s life, and they do not meet their child’s needs, whether basic or emotional. They also do not set boundaries or discipline their children” (Li, 2023b).

Scenario: Permissive Parenting

Parent: I received an email from your teacher today, and she said you were acting out in class and being disruptive. Can you explain to me what happened?

Child: Mom, it was totally not my fault. I was sitting with a group of friends, and they were the ones that were acting up, not me. That teacher does not even like me.

Parent: Okay, honey, I am glad we could discuss it. Can you make sure to pick up your room before dinner?

Child: Sure, Mom, but I planned to spend the night at a friend’s house tonight. Can I clean it tomorrow when I get home?

Parent: Yes, honey, that will be fine, but you must clean it as soon as you get home.

This scenario fits into the selected parenting style because permissive parents will tolerate their child even when the child is wrong. They have little to no rules or have rules but apply them inconsistently. Permissive parents tend to reward their children even when they do wrong and do not enforce consequences for bad behavior.

Li, P. (2023b). Uninvolved Parenting – Why It’s The Worst Parenting Style. Parenting for Brain. https://www.parentingforbrain.com/uninvolved-parenting/

Li, P. (2023a). Permissive Parenting – Why Indulgent Parenting Is Bad For Your Child. Parenting for Brain. https://www.parentingforbrain.com/permissive-parenting/

Li, P. (2023a). What is Authoritarian Parenting? Does Tough Love Work? Parenting for Brain. https://www.parentingforbrain.com/authoritarian-parenting-tough-love/

Li, P. (2023c). What Is Authoritative Parenting? (Examples and Comparisons). Parenting for Brain. https://www.parentingforbrain.com/authoritative-parenting/

Reply 2

The authoritative parenting style is when a parent enforces rules and creates a positive relationship with the child (LCSW, 2022). The authoritarian parenting style is when the parent focuses on obedience and punishment is looked at before discipline (LCSW, 2022). The permissive parenting style is described as the parent who doesn’t enforce rules and believes in the saying “kids will be kids” (LCSW, 2022). The uninvolved parenting style is when the parent is not paying any attention, nurturing the child, or providing guidance to the child (LCSW, 2022).

Child: “I’m going to go to my friend’s house after school”

Mom: “Alright”

Child: *Doesn’t come home until 1 am on a school night*

Mom: “Goodnight, son”

This scenario is an example of the parenting style of not being involved. This shows the uninvolved parenting style because the mom doesn’t care that the child didn’t ask permission or when he came home on a school night.

Reference

Lcsw, A. M. (2022). The 4 Types of Parenting Styles and How Kids Are Affected. Verywell Family. https://www.verywellfamily.com/types-of-parenting-styles-1095045

In completing this course, you should now know more about your strengths and weaknesses, the causes of your happiness, and what kind of future self is worth pursuing.

Drawing from the numerous readings throughout the course, sketch out a vision of your current and ideal future selves.

• Part 1: Discuss the historical, sociocultural, and spiritual influences that have shaped who you are today.
• Part 2: Explain how your current self thinks and behaves.
• Part 3: Explain how your ideal future self will think and behave.
• Part 4: Describe the techniques from Positive Psychology that you can utilize to help you move from your current to your ideal future self.
• Part 5: How will your future self contribute to a better world and better social well-being?

Complete this assignment in six pages (plus a cover sheet and reference page)