Influence of Government Type on Policy Making

Influence of Government Type on Policy Making When a country has a democratic government, the process of implementing a law is extremely tedious compared to a monarchy.  In a monarchy,  the rulers word is law, and that law is enacted precisely when the ruler says it is, saving a great deal of time and work. However, the trade-off  is necessary,  especially in complex policy issues,  such as  foreign policy,  that relate  to war. When  entering conflict with  a  foreign nation,  it’s crucial for the survival of a nation. War is an extremely costly operation, one  that can cause substantial  financial damage to  a  nation. A democratic political system,  such as  in  the USA,  specifically prevents a nation  from  entering wars  for any defensive  or offensive  purpose  that is not publicly approved, because a mistake in such decision will impact the survival of a  nation. Even though there is a loss of efficiency, it ensures the survival of a nation. However, the main reason why extensive checks on policy is necessary,  is because we humans suffer from our own psychological bias.  In the book The Nudge, the author describes  Ã¢â‚¬Å"we human  can be manipulated by savvy architects of choice â€Å".  Referencing  that we human,  and  politicians  of course,  will sometimes makes incorrect decision or irrational decision based  on  psychological manipulation. A check and balance system  extensively  prevents that from happening in our government.  By making single sided and quick decisions virtually impossible from our policy making process. Despite the obvious loss  of  efficiency, this trade-off of speed for balance is essential. The framers of the American constitution knew well the results of absolute rule  and structured the nation they founded very specifically to avoid such tyranny. A somewhat clunky government is the unavoidable price of a multi-faceted government. In turn, public participation is encouraged under such a system, as people are made to feel that their efforts can make a difference, as opposed to the sense that a distant and unconcerned  monarch  will simply do as he  or she  likes regardless of public opinion and action. Using the United States as an example, the  president, head of the executive branch of government and holder of the ostensive title of â€Å"head of state,†Ã‚  has virtually no power to draft new legislation. In fact, his (or her) authority in this matter is entirely limited to effectively asking nicely for  Congress (which constitutes the legislative branch) to introduce the desired law. Political allies in the House of Representatives will certainly comply, but their opponents are sure to question and criticize the new law to within an inch of its life, insisting on amendments and modifications if they allow it to move forward at all. Assuming some agreement – often  taking a long time to  reach  and achieved only after the requisite rounds of political scheming and posturing – can be reached, essentially the entire process must be repeated in the Senate, where the unique balance of  senators may bring the bills future into question yet again. We can see that by allowing discussion and exchange between  the  Senate and  House,  the public participation in the political matter increases  as well. As each citizen  recognizes  that we elected our own policy makers,  every citizen makes a difference,  as opposed  to a monarch,  who often distances  him  or herself from the public when making public policy,  thus discouraging  public participation. One way to allow the public participation is  allowing public to form  special interest group to maintain their position in the government by lobbying  to  influence other people to support the organization’s position.  These interest groups  often testify in legislative hearings,  donate to  political candidates  (Www.opensecret.org),  and donate money to candidate or organization to lobby  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  politicians.   When special interest effects certain elite groups, the candidate of the elite group can spread their ideas to the  public  at large,  which results in  a  change  in  public opinion, thus ensuring their ideas and objective are in place in the society. Special interest group  are  formed  by groups of individuals,  and  the group’s ability to drawn in large  numbers  of citizens directly impacts the quality of policy,  because when implementing a policy, to satisfy its members,  the policy drafting procedure must ensure a common understanding of the law, must be readable (not overly complex),  and it must  achieve  the group’s social, political,  and legal objectives,  which are the criteria of a good-quality policy.  Reading) ( Think tanks are a wide range of institution that provides public policy research, advice,and analysis, while operating independently. They are non-profit  and  operate  independently  from political partiesand government. Their main goal is to help government officials  understand and make rational decisions  on different issues.  They support policy developments by  conducting research on  complex issues  with their expertise and present their extensive findings to  government officials,  such as congress and other officials. Think tanks  act  as  an intermediary  between knowledge and politicians. However, think tanks approach different issues differently. A scientific approach requires extensive testing  of  theories about the policy effects. A professional approach requires analysis of the  opportunity cost of different alternatives. And lastly a political approach requires support of  the  left or right-wing party. Although the description above summarizes different approaches  for different think tanks, the underlying  simultaneous approach requires think tanks to understand complex issues and to provide research and advice to  funders  or  political leaders  and together draft a quality policy that can reach different objective. To explain the difference between political vs economic model we can look at democracy vs communism.  To begin with, democracy is entirely a political model. In  the American sense, democracy is no economic model. It is a system in which the people at large vote upon voluntary candidates who have asked to serve as representatives in a variety of capacities, and once winning election, to decide policy as they see fit. As this structure the  administration of the country, with no necessary commentary upon economics, it is a political model. By contrast, communism is an economic model, though its nature does tend to favour a political structure. Communism is an extreme flavour of socialism that emphasizes the dignity of the common worker, who is credited with building and maintaining all human societies. As such, communism purports to establish an economy free of financial inequality, in which the workers – constituting most of the population – are all equal social partners. It is in this manner that communism can be mistaken for a political model, as such tight controls on societal resources all but require a strong centralized government to oversee distribution. But this is a consequence of communisms economic ideal, rather than a prescription. Communism is an economic model. Again, an economic model as rigid as communism tends to demand a powerful government, but ultimately it is a nations political model – not its economic model – that determines the selection of policies. This is only sensible, as policy should be set by a nations leaders – even if, as in the U.S.A  example above, those leaders are none but the people themselves – and not by directly by economic factors. I believe economic model should dictate policy making, because  economic model is  a much effective and less costly  way to  drive changes in the country.  When  we look at the  example of increase  alcohol tax  led to decrease in alcohol purchase.  We can see that economic policy  clearly influences human behaviour. Not only it decreases drunk driving accidents, it increases  productivity  and health gains. In the past we have seen example of political models in place to ban alcohol  (18th  amendment), not only it did not decrease  incentive to purchase  alcohol, it increase power, corruption within a nation  which  cause  more  social damage to a  nation.  Economic model has proven itself as the best model to drive changes in a country  and human behaviour. References Keilman, John. Higher Booze Tax a Lifesaver?  Chicago Tribune. Web. 1 Oct. 2014. Top Donor Profiles.  Center for Responsive Politics. 1 Jan. 2013. Web. 1 Oct. 2014. www.opensecrets.org>.Thaler, Richard H., and Cass R. Sunstein.  Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness. New Haven, Conn.: Yale UP, 2008. Print.

The dotcom bubble and the stock market fall in 2000-2001

Summary of the main points covered in my essay. How did the dotcom bubble burst contribute to the economic crisis of the 2008? Could we expect the similar crisis and how can it be prevented? What are the lessons that should have been learned from the dotcom crisis? When the global financial crisis occurred in 2008, both experts and general public started heated discussion as everyone was eager to identify the reasons for such a calamity. It is clear that nothing happens with no reason at all. Let's consider the famous speech1 of Ben Bernanke, who is the Chairman of the Federal Reserve System. In that testimony he tried to explain the causes of the recent financial and economic crisis to the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, highlighting the vulnerabilities in different sectors of economics. The idea of inadequate risk-measurement that he focused on is very important for us, as this particular issue makes the recent crisis akin to the dotcom bubble we are about to examine in detail. (The same idea is one of the major issues of the next Ben Bernanke's speeches, where he underlines the importance of reasonable risk management and possible destructive effects of being too optimistic about the future of the economic system). To sum up, experts claim that flaws in evaluating the perspectives of new technologies in the 90ies caused the dotcom bubble burst in 2000, while the inadequate risk-measurement of the financial instruments connected to mortgages led to the global financial and economic crisis in 2008. Could we have predicted the economic disaster coming in 2008 and which lessons could have been gathered from the dotcom crisis? These are the questions that make the topic urgent and exciting to examine. To begin with, let's define the key term. What is a dotcom? Dotcom is a firm conducting its business mainly over the Internet. They usually possess a Web site intended for business use. The term is based on the â€Å"com† that forms the last part of the address for most commercial Web-sites. Now, what were the reasons for the dotcom bubble burst and what actually happened? (We should mention that this phenomenon is also referred as the Internet bubble and the Information Technology Bubble in many articles). It all started during the mid 1990is. The Internet was extremely popular those days and the Stock Market soared on technology and Internet stocks. Stock prices were rising and it seemed there was to limit for their value to expand. The masses believed there was a new world coming and the Internet was for sure to become the future of business. The steady confidence took place that the e-companies would turn future profits and there is no limit for technologies development. These expectations were reflected in the NASDAQ composite index. The NASDAQ composite is a stock market index of the common stocks and similar securities, which are listed on the NASDAQ stock market. The index reflects the performance of stocks of technology companies and growth companies. From January 1994 to February 2000, the it rose from 776. 80 to 4,696. 69, a 605% increase, and was influenced mainly by prices of high-technology stocks. But these expectations turned out to be far too positive. The market became overvalued. The Stock Market crashed. The culmination happened on March 10, 2000, with the NASDAQ peaking at 5132. 52 in intraday trading before closing at 5048. 62. (see the graph 1) Graph 1. NASDAQ composite dynamics2 The period when the bubble expanded rapidly was marked by the founding of many new small Internet-based companies commonly referred to as dotcoms. Many of them failed in 2000. A very specific phenomenon could be noticed at that time – the way for a new unknown company to become prosperous was just to add an â€Å"e-† prefix to their name or a â€Å". com† to the end. One of the authors called it â€Å"prefix investing†3, as the result of this simple renaming was the incredible growth of stock prices. I suppose that was one of the first indicators that something was wrong and the calamity was coming. But everyone considered it the steady development of the market that has big future. Alan Greenspan (an American economist, the Chairman of the Fed in 1987-2006) in 2005 said, that â€Å"this vast increase in the market value of asset claims is in part the indirect result of investors accepting lower compensation for risk. Such an increase in market value is too often viewed by market participants as structural and permanent†4. However, the situation isn't unique and appeared to happen again. When in 2003 nanotechnology became the â€Å"hot† thing, everyone started to add a â€Å"nano† prefix in their name. It seems that the lessons that should have been learned from the dotcom bubble burst were forgotten. Let's turn to the term itself in its theoretical sense. What is the bubble in financial markets? In a word, we say that a stock market bubble occurs when there is a rise or boom in the share prices of stocks of a particular industry. Meanwhile, the rise in prices usually bears little relation to the intrinsic value of the asset. The term â€Å"bubble† may be used with certainty only in retrospect when share prices have since crashed, as it happened in our case. An important basic characteristic of a bubble is the suspension of disbelief by most market participants during the â€Å"bubble phase. They fail to recognize that all of them are engaged in a speculative activity. That characteristic describes the dotcom crisis as well, as we already found out. It would be interesting to mention that financial bubbles have existed for centuries and one of the earliest crises of the type in known as the Dutch tulip mania. In the 17th century prices for tulip bulbs rose and finally reached extraordinarily high levels and then collapsed in the blink of an eye. The same happened to the stock of e-companies in the late 90ies. I suppose we can refer to this case as to â€Å"the dotcom mania†. The speculators who represent all the people in the economy that what to get high profits very fast, note the fast increase in value and decide to buy stock in anticipation of further rises, not taking into account that the shares are overvalued. Consequently the rise happens responding to the high demand for stock and many companies thus become grossly overvalued. When the bubble â€Å"bursts†, the share prices fall dramatically, and many companies are forced to leave the business. In order to be more precise, we can name five stages of any financial bubble5: First. Displacement. When people, especially investors, get enamored by a new paradigm, such as an innovative new technology or dotcom companies, as in our case, displacement occurs. That is the first stage of a financial bubble. Second. Boom. At this stage prices rise slowly at first, following a displacement, but then they gain momentum. More and more participants enter the market. All of them are determined to get prosperous as soon as possible. In case of dotcoms, a huge amount of small companies appeared on the market. The low interest rates in 1998-99 helped to increase the start-up capital amounts. Not all of them possessed innovative ideas, but they were sure that in the wave of e-companies they must succeed. No wonder they all had the same business plan of monopolizing their respective sectors through network effects. However it was clear that all of them wouldn't become successful as the competition was tough. For many of them the â€Å"get big fast† plan would fail. During this phase, investors become even more enamored by the asset, considering it once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that increases speculation even more. Mass media also played its role. American respected business publications such as Forbes and the Wall Street Journal, encouraged the public to invest in risky companies in the wave of the wide-spread euphoria. As the result, many â€Å"ordinary† people became investors, some of them even gave up their job to become fill-time traders. Third. Euphoria. During this phase investors as well as the whole financial system forgets about prudence and asset prices skyrocket. During the dotcom bubble, the euphoria stage took place in the beginning of March 2000, when NASDAQ composite reached its top at 5132. 2 in intraday trading before closing at 5048. 62. This and the previous stages can be clearly revealed from the NASDAQ dynamics (see graph 1). Fourth. Profit taking. By this time the warning signs of coming debacle can be seen. This is the point when smart investors can make fortunes by selling out positions and taking profits. However, it is obvious that it's very difficult to estimate the exact time when a bubble is due to collapse. John Maynard Keynes once mentioned that â€Å"the markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent. As for the dotcoms founders, few of them made vast fortunes when their companies were bought out before the collapse. Fifth. Panic. In the panic stage, asset prices change direction and descend as rapidly as they had ascended. Investors and speculators are faced with margin calls, which are â€Å"demands on an investor using margin to deposit additional money or securities so that the margin account is brought up to the minimum maintenance margin†6, and the value of their holding plunge. Consequently, they want to liquidate them at any price. The supply overwhelms demand, and asset prices slide sharply. In 2000 the market index fell by almost 11% and NASDAQ fell by about 41%7. To explain the bubble applying the tools of mathematics, we'll apply the most common concept that shows the existence of bubbles8. Considering the most simple case of price of a single share, the mathematical definition of an asset price bubble uses the fair price of a financial asset as its starting point. The price of an asset is the present value of the future cash flows, generated by the asset. pt =Et(dt+1+pt+1)/(1+r), here dt is dividend, pt is the price of the asset at a certain time t, and Et(i) is the expected value of the expression in the brackets based on the information available at t time. If the interest rate (r) is held constant during the whole period, then share price at t time (pt) in a general form can be given as follows: The first part of the sum on the right, which is the discounted present value of dividends, is the fundamental value of the share (pt * ). The remainder (bt) is a deterministic or the stochastic component satisfying the condition bt = Et(bt+1) /(1 + r), which is the asset price bubble itself. So, if the price of an asset is formed as following: pt =p t*+bt, and if p =? p*, then in the mathematical sense an asset price the bubble is formed. To continue our analysis, let's describe the consequences of the dotcom bubble burst in 2000. Many small companies and some of the largest ones were forced to file for bankruptcy. Some of them ran out of capital, some of them were acquired, some were convicted of fraud in their financial statements. WorldCom, which was one of the leaders in the market was found practicing fraudulent accounting practices to exaggerate its profits every year. As it was revealed, it's stock price fell dramatically, and finally the company filed for bankruptcy. Other examples include NorthPoint Communications, Global Crossing, JDS Uniphase and many others. However, some of the e-companies managed to survive the calamity. Large companies, for example, Amazon. com and eBay, are quite successful nowadays. Google also survived the turmoil and became one of the market leaders. As many economists predicted, harsh recession began from 2001. The crash on the stock market of 2000-2002 caused the loss of $5 trillion in the market value of companies from March 2000 to October 2002: the market value of NASDAQ companies peaked at $6. 7 trillion in March 2000 and bottomed out at $1. 6 trillion in October 20029. The economic bottom was the followed by 9/11 terrorist attacks of the World Trade Center's Twin Towers. CONCLUSION After the case of dotcom crisis the word â€Å"dotcom† started to be used with unfavourable inflecton. It is frequently used to refer to a poorly thought-out unsuccessful businesses. Experts claim that dotcom crisis was one of the events that preceded the global financial crisis in 2008. It was kind of a â€Å"rehearsal†, as the global crisis also contained a speculative bubble, though it embraced a much wider variety of securities. Luckily, the recession following the bubble burst of 2000-2001 was not as deep as it could have been thanks to very aggressive interest rates lowering. However, a deeper downturn in the financial activity is much harder to overcome. The Internet bubble is also similar to the recent downturn because they were both preceded by inadequate risk-measurement and agents' overconfidence. The financial and economic crisis of 2008 could have been predicted, if everyone was more prudent and learned a lesson from the 2000 dotcom case. In conclusion, I'd like to address the issue of a new Internet crisis that is predicted by some economists. Nowadays World Web companies place their stock at unbelievably high prices. Can a successful Internet project cost more than a huge transnational oil company? The common sense says definitely no, but investors have their own specific point of view. For example, the shares of Groupon, a famous discount service, we evaluated at $12,7 trillions, despite the company's loss of $400 trillions the previous year and gross debt equal to $420 millions. This estimation is not reasonable and very far from reality. Meanwhile, the expected IPO of social network Facebook is evaluated at $100 trillions. It can be the beginning of the Dotcom Crisis 2. 0. On the other hand investors are optimistic about e-companies, as they survived the recent global crisis, unlike huge interconnected firms in other fields, such as financial, machinery and so on. However, if the case of Groupon is not unique (which is so, judging by the investors' optimistic mood) the crisis can occur once again. The most important thing in preventing the possible debacle is being prudent. Investors shouldn't be too optimistic and should be sensible when acquiring assets. PR and advertising can be astonishing, however being reasonable means evaluating the real business indicators to make rational decisions. Risk-management is the field that shouldn't be ignored if we want to avoid new crises.

Family Guy Travesty Essay

Scholars express the concern that the image of an American family is transitively evolving through time. The conceptions of denigrating the styles and beliefs of racial-ethnic, immigrant, gay-lesbian, and single parent families has been contended in the early nineties to be that which is not encouraging the veracity of portraying an American family but rather offers the otherwise. Hence, little has been known on the context of the eminent portrayal of an American family in television. Family ideology shapes the consciousness and expectations of those growing up the margin of the mainstream; nevertheless, this leads to the manifestation that the image of the aforementioned member in the community transforms as the market of media simultaneously evolves as well (Greenblatt, 1990). In essence, media is one of the most surprising sources of information in the society. The potential of television to negatively or positively affect attitudes, social behaviors, and other sort of the like has been studied and thrilling results were gathered. Same is true for the portrayal of families, age, sex, and race-role socialization. As a matter of fact, studies show that the images seen on television by its viewers somehow serve as an educational tool, with this, the threat of getting the â€Å"wrong perspectives† is uncontrollable and so are the views of those who have been touched by the influence of media (Fabes, Wilson, & Christopher, 1989). This then connotes the perception that the portrayals aired on television are products of the evolving sense of simultaneous reaction over the media and the society. In simple logic, what the society wishes to see are given by the media, therefore, the portrayal of an American family in the television nowadays are depicting â€Å"reality† so to speak. Of course critics often spur a fight with whatever is served on the table that is not a new thing. How media portrays an American family is an issue that comes along with societal changes (Lasswell, 2002). More specifically, the rise of â€Å"reality TV shows† could attest to that matter. 1950: The Black and White Medium Media in the fifties were not as influential as it has been today. Perhaps the barrier on this is the connotation that there were only few who has television in their household because TV shows were then new to them. In the light of portraying American families, the issue on ethics and morality then surfaces the scenario. Americans were still â€Å"conservative† in some point that showing the â€Å"bedroom† or love scenes would be considered as pornography. Basically, what most viewers would love watching are news about the war, or the commercials which are basically done on live stream. The scarcity of technology and celebrities keep the audience up waiting for their favorite show to air. As critics and normal citizens would contend, they consider the shows in the fifties as strict and politically correct; perhaps because television wanted to portray an â€Å"idealistic† form of family to attract audience whom as commended are experiencing several financial and social problems during that time (Lasswell, 2002). Popular shows in the fifties Something unique sprouted during the 1950’s in the vortex of television shows – the heroes were young men returning from war to a nation ravished and ripe for one of the greatest booms in civilized history, and the love stories that utterly triggers romance among its viewers. Few of the shows who topped are The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, I Love Lucy, Leave it to Beaver and the Lone Ranger. These shows were among the pioneers of the quasi-comic, quasi-drama shows that contemporary media are now pursuing. For Nelson and Harriet’s reality show, it portrayed the reality of being in a middle class family in the eyes of the masses. They were in the limelight and the story mainly revolved to them. It was the politeness of David and Ricky which captured the hearts of young women, and what amazes the audience all the more were the practicality of the show since they were all representing their real lives and their real names. Similarly, the Beavers in Leave it to Beaver belonged to the â€Å"elites† or the middle-class families. They were the epitome of nice individuals and they were living in Pleasantville. Airing for ten years, I Love Lucy was the representation of a typical American family. Unlike that of the Ozzies, there is a husband who frantically hates his wife’s dream of becoming famous and being a movie star but never left her despite the opposing poles. Not only that, there was a bond between Lucy’s family and the Mertz, it showed that a typical American family is healthy inside and outside the corners of their house (Casconi, 2008). 1960: Batman, Gilligan’s Island and the Addams Family Conceivably, the sixties is considered as the rise of â€Å"superficiality. † This is because the shows which topped the charts were owned by fictional characters and imaginary families. There came Batman, Gilligan’s Island and the Addams Family. Among the rest, these are few of the shows which are carried on in the 21st century. As a matter of fact, up to date, these shows have several renditions—movies, cartoon shows and theatrical plays—all of which connote one thing, that their influence is flexible. American families in such shows showed determination, passion for life and love for family. Still, explicitness was not very much present due to the fact that there have been regulations on the content of the shows aired. However, the question needs further deliberation as there are media laws and other forms of rules but then again, these are not properly implemented since these are tolerated (Casconi, 2008). Empowerment: The positive effect of media in the current schema For every human services organization, the empowerment both of its members and of its target population is perhaps at the core of its every endeavor. A compact and lively human service can only be thoroughly and truly achieve under the condition where the members and participants in the provision of human services are active and empowered. There are many ways to achieve this end, and perhaps the most recent of these ways is the trend of using video files for informing the public and the members of the organization (Coontz, 1998). Since empowerment essentially means â€Å"bringing people who are outside the decision-making process into it (Rowlands, 1995, p. 102). † Thus, it can be said that the empowerment of people outside of the inner circle in the provision of human services can be achieved through the actual mode of absorbing these people right into the heart of the decision-making process. This can be achieved through the help of digital videos where a careful elaboration into the processes of the provision of human services is done through moving images instead of the conventional paper documents and slideshow presentations. For example, the group of people who does not fall among the ranks within the circle of decision-makers in the human service operations can be empowered by giving them a thorough and lively presentation of what they will be doing. By making them fully aware of their tasks, they can be empowered in terms of preparing for what they should expect from the actual operations or field work. Digital videos can help strengthen such a drive for empowering the other members of the human services organization through the creation of visually stimulating videos or documentaries which are rich in content but are not presented in a stale and conventional manner typical to that of formal business corporate meetings. By using videos to stimulate the active participation of the organization members who are not essentially part of the decision-making body can lead to a more vibrant campaign for providing services to people. For instance, in organizational operations such as information dissemination, the human services organization can arrive at certain decisions such as what specific information should be given to the audience and what specific information should given more emphasis and how it can be achieved by taking into consideration the perceptions of the other members (Lasswell, 2002). One way to spur these members to contribute to the decision-making process is by showing them what the organization and the people expect from them through videos. By the time the other members are informed and have become acquainted with the expectations, they can further replenish the tasks and operations of the organization by sharing what they know to the decision-making body which the latter may not be familiar with (Okwumabua, 1999, p. 154). For example, after playing a certain digital video documentary, other members who are very much familiar with the topic viewed can be stimulated by the desire to share what one knows for the awareness and betterment of the organization. The Underprivileged: Their Dose of an Ideal Family in the Fifties The scenario in the fifties showed the following: acutely and chronically ill children were cared for in hospitals and other institutions with severely restricted parental visiting privileges; moreover, children with chronic illnesses rarely survived. But the otherwise are shown today, advances in health care have prolonged and improved the lives of children with chronic illness, and the majority of children are cared for by their families in their homes and communities. The first merger movement at the turn of the century led to significant concentration in some manufacturing industries, and less conspicuous inter-corporate links through family connections, financial houses, and interlocking directorates probably reinforced the trend towards concentration. However, there seems to have been little trend toward increased concentration since then, although average concentration ratios, however measured, show modest increases since 1945. Whatever the measures used, it is clear that oligopoly is prevalent in about one-half of American manufacturing industry, and that there remain sharp distinctions in concentration levels among industries. This does not mean that there have been no recent changes 1950; problems of housing, medical services, education and employment. And so majority of the families were in dire need of a dose of fantasy in their lives (Lasswell, 2002). If they were living in the underprivileged level of the pyramid, then at least they witness how Lucy and Harriet lived a life of fame and fortune. Sixties and Crossing the Lines of Mainstream TV Meanwhile, the expansion of schooling combined with growing affluence contributed to the emergence of a youth culture separate and apart from the family. Late-Twentieth-Century Families In 1960, 70 percent of American households consisted of a go-to-workdad, a stay-at-home mom, and two or more kids. By the end of the twentieth century less than 10 percent of American households fit that profile. But what makes the sixties fascinating in the world of media and broadcasting were the rise of â€Å"adventure† flicks and creative stories. Apart from the â€Å"usual† types of stories—which in one point are considerably idealistic—they crossed the line and took the risk of introducing superficial characters, and superficial kinds of families. 21st Century Warning: Explicit Content The presence of media as a tool of information dissemination has increased largely because of the technological innovations consistently being introduced not only in advancing the productivity rate of media organizations but also in expanding the capacity of the various media outlets to include a wider range of topics (Hudson, 1986). With this expansion, the subjects incorporated into the mass media has also been augmented (Graber, 1980) such that former topics that were once rarely untouched have now been constantly infused with unceasing publicity such as those that tackle Information and Communications Technology (ICT). The changes made by mass media are evidently found on a series of notions due to consciousness, certain perceptions on reality and the palpable alterations of the masses’ individual lives concurrent on what had reconstituted by the mentioned technological change (Palmer & Young, 2003). Technological or digital innovation dwelled on to by human beings had been observed to have been conducting a protective bubble of fixed racial, cultural and ethnic identity resulting to a sense of detachment which lies on the physical state of the screen persona as well as with the transcends in the reality of social culture (Barker & Petley, 2001). To thoroughly understand the representation of media of an American family, one must be enlightened of the status of real-life events. With this, an assessment on the trend of the shows shall commence. Perceivably, the five major parts regarding on the family status includes married, separated, widowed, divorced and never married. Their study showed that there is an increasing number of adults who are not presently married due because of separation of the partners. As expected, there was a variation of the proportion of the numbers of separated people in different cities of the country. Florida exhibits the highest rate of divorce while in Boston and California got the lowest proportion. This can be explained because of the geographic differences (D’Antonio, 2004). Gradually, television shows nowadays such as those which have been mentioned are almost synonymous in context and manner. Furthermore, American families differ from those of more educated families who typically were studied with regard to family interactions and adolescent autonomy issues. Inner-city African American families may experience age-condensed generations such that the generational boundaries are not as clear. Because the boundaries between the roles of mothers and daughters may be blurred, the need for a struggle over autonomy issues may be less salient because the authority differences were never as strong (Lawler, 1997). Additionally, autonomy issues may not be as pressing in a context characterized by preoccupations with the representation of media in such forms of distinction. How they portray and American family is no longer boxed in a certain class—Americans, for that instance—but their target market includes global viewers. Nonetheless, the diversity of characterization of the shows is proof that freedom in the vortex of media and entertainment has lesser rules and the core virtue lies in the truth of fame (Fabes et al. , 1989).

What Role Did Socrates Play in Ancient Greece - 1494 Words

| What Role Did Socrates Play in Ancient Greece? | Natalia Gonzalez | | Mr. Pellegrini, 2A | 3/24/2010 | [Type the abstract of the document here. The abstract is typically a short summary of the contents of the document. Type the abstract of the document here. The abstract is typically a short summary of the contents of the document.] | What Role Did Socrates Play in Ancient Greece? In the leading city of Athens 2,500 years ago during the Golden Age, a peculiar philosopher was born into the reign of Pericles. Socrates went against common religion, influenced social roles and people, and was the founder of the Socratic Method. Religious opinions affected Socrates’ life a great deal. Whereas most Athenians observed polytheism and†¦show more content†¦They were very popular but loathed at the same time because of the financial problems they were causing. For example, the most famous sophist was called Corax. He had a student called Tisias who refused to pay the fee for his classes, he said â€Å"Before I started, you promised you would teach me to persuade anyone to do whatever I wanted. Let me now persuade you not to ask for your fee. If you still demand it, you did not do what you promised, therefore I owe you nothing.† However, Socrates discredited this, â€Å"However, not one of these things is true; nor, if you have heard from anyone t hat I attempt to teach men and require payment, is this true.† (Plato, n.d.). Socrates irritated people by insisting things that could not be true. Critobulus, who was considered by many to be the most handsome man in Athens. However, Socrates, with his protruding eyes and large nose insisted he was more stunning than Critobulus. 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Why Everyone Is Talking About Cause and Effect Essay Ideas Topics and What You Need to Do

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Should Same Sex Marriage Be Legal - 2556 Words

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Cooperation among Organization in Education Sector

Question: Wwrite an assignment about the cooperation among organisation in education sector. Answer: Introduction In the modern-day competitive scenario, there has been an increased demand for establishment of strategic partnerships amongst organizations. Partnership is considered as an agreement wherein two or more than two parties work together towards the accomplishment of mutual partnerships. Strategic partnerships have further played a key role in the educational sector, which is characterized by cooperation amongst organizations. Educational partnerships are considered as a situation that is characterized by two or more parties coming together towards ensuring common good of schools as well as increase the level of student learning. The partners associated with forming educational partnerships might include anyone concerned with providing an enriching educational experience to the students, schools and community. In this regard; it is worth mentioning that strategic partnerships are at the forefront of place-based education efforts. Hence, it is vital to develop an understanding of forming partnerships in education (Kiely Nielson, 2003). In this context, there is a need to develop an understanding of the importance of forming partnerships in education, particularly in the context of place-based education. In addition to critiquing the role of partnerships in education, the essay highlights some of the recommendations for successful partnership and sustainability. Literature Review Educational Partnerships Education partnerships have played a key role in the development of children as well as schools that aim towards enhancing the growth opportunities for their students. Herein, it must be noted that education partnerships are directed towards providing the children with best possible level of education at all the levels. In addition, there is a need to emphasize on the fact that educational partnerships are created in order to foster public relations, working towards accomplishment of a specific goal, overcoming educational challenges and seeking additional funds, amongst others. Several school districts are associated with creating partnerships with their communities or family members with respect to their educational goals (Education Scotland, 2016). Benefits of Partnership in Education Partnership in education offers a number of benefits to the people and enables providing better educational possibilities for the children. Specifically mentioning, the partnerships are directed towards benefitting the school, community, teachers, family members as well as administrators. Partnerships in education provides benefits to the school in the form of enhancing communication amongst all the involved parties, enhanced level of discipline, lower amount of violence, proper working conditions, acceptance of diverse students, development of interpersonal relationships, increased family participation and increased level of communication amongst students, teachers and family members. In addition to providing benefits to school, partnership in education further offers benefits to families by providing them with enhanced understanding regarding education, establishment of closer relationships, foster community support, provide better communication facilities and ensuring high level o f knowledge regarding the manner in which children can learn. In addition, partnerships in education further provide the benefit of better understanding pertaining to instructions and curriculum. Correspondingly, it enables creating better opportunities to work in close coordination with the teachers, wider access to community resources and empowerment to take decisions, apart from creation of creation of better expectations pertaining to home learning practices (Victoria State Government, n.d.). Partnerships in education further offer numerous benefits to the students. Emphasis needs to be placed on the fact that partnerships in schools offer children with high level of motivation and achievement to learn, creation of a positive attitude towards school, foster higher quality homework and strong attendance rates, lower level of discipline problems, higher level of self-confidence and positive family relationships. With regards to benefitting teachers, it must be noted that partnerships in education offer a number of benefits such as improving the level of morale, enhancing positive teacher experiences, provide increased levels of support as well as appreciation from the family members and reduced discipline problems (Obrien, 2012). Correspondingly, partnerships in education further provides the benefits underlying lower levels of stress and frustration, higher level of awareness regarding stereotyping, stronger relationship with the students and higher level of expectations. Administrators further benefit from the partnerships in education through focusing upon establishment of better partnerships with the children, teachers and family, lower level of complaints, making proper use of resources, enhanced communication with the family members and fostering community and family support. Partnership in education further offers numerous benefits to the community since it enables students to work in collaboration as members associated with the society, fostering relationship with families who provide education development along with benefitting the schools that are associated with working over a broader community (Powers, 2004). Examples of Partnerships in Education There are a number of partnerships in schools that are determined on the basis of needs of the students. Although, educational professionals and families play a key role in establishment of partnerships in education, it must be noted that partnerships can also be formed with broader communities such as sports teams, media agencies, local corporations and citizens. Furthermore, there is a need to highlight the fact that schools and teachers must engage them in working in close association with the partners in order to focus on determination of goals, assessment of time required to implement a partnership and areas pertaining to the curriculum that aim towards taking advantage of partnerships. Community partnerships, family-school partnerships and professional education partnerships might be considered as some of the forms of partnerships in education (Smith Sobel, 2014). A number of characteristics can further be noted with regards to establishment of effective strategic partnerships in education. In this regard, due consideration needs to be placed on the fact that effective educational partnerships encompass characteristics such as respect, common goals, commitment, leadership, meaningful goals, linguistic differences and accountability, amongst others. Partnerships in education are created based on a mutual understanding, communication, respect and trust among all the involved parties. Cultural relevance and appropriateness of educational partnerships can play an important role in facilitating lifelong learning amongst the children (Crown, 2016). Educational Partnerships and its Types A partnership is regarded as the agreement amongst two or more individuals, which might be implicit or explicit in nature. In case of schools, it must be noted that the partnerships amongst communities as well as family members is considered explicit in nature. Specifically mentioning, partnerships in educations can be categorized into explicit, implicit and null partnerships. In case of explicit partnerships, the partners such as communities, schools and families focus upon explicitly highlighting strategies, written goals and outcomes that are associated with increasing the level of education amongst the children. Correspondingly, in case of implicit partnerships, communities, schools and family members are associated with establishing conversation with each other regarding common goals. However, there does not exist any specific outcome, goal or strategy. In relation to null partnerships, it must be noted that groups as well as individuals are associated with occupying the same pl ace; however, there does not exist any specific communication pertaining to specific strategies, goals and outcomes pertaining to the partnerships (Roberts, Downes, Cook, Heiner Caffery, 2014). It must further be noted that such types of partnerships in education results in the development of various types of collaborations that can be categorized into no-collaboration collaboration, one-time collaboration, arms-length collaboration, arm-in-arm collaboration and hand-in-hand collaboration. In case of no-collaboration collaboration, there is an agreement amongst two parties who are concerned with the accomplishment of individual wants, and hence, is also regarded as a partnership underlying convenience. In case of one-time collaboration, it must be noted that such type of collaboration is considered as a service offered for the rendering of similar services. These partnerships are short-lived and encompass limited amount of communication. Correspondingly, the arms-length collaboration is associated with ensuring that each of the involved parties in the partnership has some amount of contribution that needs to be offered. This type of collaboration further aims at creation of shared values amongst the partners (Rural Schools Collaborative, n.d.). The arm-in-arm collaboration is yet another significant collaboration wherein, the involved parties are associated with bringing and making use of complimentary resources that is further directed towards value creation. In this type of collaboration, there is an ongoing commitment with regards to development of a common goal wherein all the engaged parties consider that working together enables meeting mutual needs of the partners, rather than self-interests. Finally, the hand-in-hand collaboration is yet another important type of collaboration underlying partnership in education that is associated with focusing upon creation of shared products and values rather than emphasizing on the self-interests of each of the involved parties. It is further based on characteristics such as trust and respect that are considered ongoing for a continued period of time (Smith, 2002). Importance of Partnerships in School Partnerships have an important role to play in creation of awareness in schools that enables them to showcase a creative approach towards teaching and become innovative learning centers. It further incorporates participation from the parents, apart from highlighting education as the top priority. Teachers benefit from extending themselves in creating learning opportunities in classrooms, and are further able to gain appreciation with respect to rewards of teaching. Correspondingly, students benefit from learning that the community is aware about their education as well as their academic success. In addition to extending the classrooms, partnerships play a key role in bringing human and financial resources to schools that possess the capability of enhancing the ability of schools to offer quality education. Even if partnerships are not associated with the financial component, it must be noted that funding is considered as an important part of the partnership program. In addition, part nerships for learning further play an important role in offering personalized experiences to young people and children. Partnerships in education further have an important role to play in engaging parents and families in making positive decisions, creation of successful partnerships, develop partnerships at the community levels, school-college partnerships and offer support materials (Parker Vernet, 2009). In Australia, the Australian Council for Education Research published a report with regards to evidence base for National Australia Banks Schools First Awards. It provided an understanding of the fact that educational partnerships were capable of playing an important role in benefitting the children by making enhancements in academic accomplishments, development of reading skills, lower levels of drop-out rates, enhancement in students readiness to learn and increased levels of transition, development of learning opportunities, better access to targeted support and development of opportunities directed towards decision-making experiences. Multi-Academy Trusts (MATs) can further play an imperative role in the development of relationships amongst schools. MATs enable sharing the most appropriate teaching practices and economies of scale. Additionally, flexible staffing arrangements, retaining of most appropriate school teachers and development of school leadership roles further play an important role in development of school leaderships (Smith, 2013). Role of Place-Based Education in School Partnerships Place-based education enables associating students with the local experiences, culture, heritage and landscape that act as a foundation for the development of language arts, science and mathematics, along with other subjects. Specifically mentioning, place-based education plays an important role in providing encouragement to students regarding use of public lands, schoolyards and community, along with other special places that are aimed towards turning communities in classrooms. Place-based education has an important role to play in energizing teachers. Teachers are able to develop their leadership skills and confidence, apart from gaining a better understanding of the local community scenario. In addition, place-based education has a vital role to play in bringing transformations pertaining to school culture through integrating local nature centre and schoolyards with the classrooms. Students are further motivated to asking critical questions and develop new learning experiences. It further enables the students to learn and make association with their environment with regards to incorporating new experiences. Establishing connection between communities and schools is yet another significant role underlying partnerships in education (Sobel, 2004). In addition, place-based education partnerships further play an important role in enhancing students to become environmental stewards, apart from enabling students to become active citizens. Place-based education efforts are further based on a number of principles that are associated with fostering child education in classrooms. Herein, emphasis needs to be placed on the fact that partnerships in education are able to create a shared vision as well as accountability for results, strong partnerships, high expectations, develop community strengths and foster respect for diversity and decision-making. In addition, the benefits underlying place-based education encompasses development of community connections that enables involvement of parents in decision-making as well as share their experiences. Additionally, it creates a positive impact with respect to student learning since students feel more concerned regarding their feeling towards the community (Potapchuk, 2013). Challenges in Placed-based Education In addition to providing several benefits, place-based education encompasses a number of challenges that can be categorized into internal and external challenges. Herein, there is a need to note that teachers do not consider responding to changes and hence resist changes. In addition, the external challenge pertaining to place-based education includes an increased amount of risks since classes are operated outside the classrooms (Green, Somerville Potts, 2013). Another significant challenge underlying place-based education can be associated with absence of a set-structure. Parent backlash can be considered as another important challenge facing place-based education. Negative student behavior, weather and influence of outsiders can be considered as yet another significant factor underlying negative influence of place-based education. Improper implementation of student ideas and lack of time that can be devoted to implement changes in curriculum can be considered as other challenges f aced with respect to place-based education (Hall, 2015). Schools face the challenge of enacting such partnerships in the long-term scenario. Moreover, there is a need to develop an understanding of the fact that in several situations, there has been a negative influence upon educational partnership as a result of disconnection amongst teachers and parents, existence of stress pertaining to standardized testing, apart from negative information that is showcased in media sources. Arguably, miscommunication and lack of experience are considered some of the factors associated with hindering the establishment of strategic partnerships in schools. On a similar note, the diverse cultural beliefs pertaining to families and teachers, work obligations along with lack of time with respect to busy daily schedules further have created a negative impact on the establishment of strategic partnerships (Qiu, 2015). Synthesis and Critique Argument of Place Based and Standard Based Education For certain time, rural school supporters and investigators have pronounced anxieties over standards based education and place based education in schools. Most of the critique do not concentrate on setting severe ideals for students or even make schools liable for reaching rigours standards in education (Kannapel, 2000). Rather the critiques concentrate on the body that define standards and the way they are evaluated. Issues about who determine standards are dual. Some critiques fear that externally developed standards corrode local control and reject the society the prospect to define which the students should learn. The procedure of establishing standards in local society, make the objective of schools explicit and enhance the possibility of society members to a mutual comprehension of those objectives. The other critiques are concerned with the fact that externally resulting standards reduce local requirements and interests, and as they frequently request that tutors cover a wides pread level of education component, they also force out whatever locally derivative curriculum teachers formerly have utilised (Jennings, 2000). Anxieties regarding the objectives of standard based improvements worry that state standards homogenise what gets taught in schools and focus a curriculum geared toward educating students what they know learn and be capable of competing in the international field, rather than local stadium (Kannapel DeYoung, 1999). Although placed based education is not an exceptionally rural school occurrence, it is at the core of many rural school improvements. Since the year 1950, rural school have confronted persistent risk of closure and alliance. A closed school is frequently the first phase in societys demise, thus it is comprehensible the reason a curriculum which highpoints the significance of local school to its position and highlights for students the significance of supporting the local communities. Given the manners in which various rural education advocates and researchers define place based education, there is conflict with standard based education. The Rural School and Community Trust (2004) depicts the idea of place based education as the learning which is entrenched in local, unique history, environment, culture, economy, literature and art of specific place. The society provides the setting for learning, student performance concentrates on community requirements and interests and societal mem bers act as resources and associates in every facet of education and knowledge. Theobald (1997) states that place based education assist students to observe the interdependence of their lives and their societies and situations. The objective of place based education is to enhance students gratitude of their local environments with an ultimate objective of assisting students to study means to withstand their local atmosphere. Thus the students learning in different places will possess diverse characteristics and different intentions as the background of learning varies. The primary objective of place based education rests in the way it serves to strengthen childrens association to others and to the regions in which they live. By re-joining rather than unravelling children from the world, place based education serves both people and societies, assisting individuals to experience the value they hold for others and permitting societies to obtain advantage from the obligation and involve ment of their members. In this perspective, place based education not only utilises place as a background for education, but has the provision and sustainability of place as an objective. Given this aspect, state standards and evaluations are almost by definition adversative to place based curriculum (Jennings et. Al., 2005). Conceptualization of Place Although place is a core idea of geography and omnipresent in geography education, its meaning is disputed in the academic area (Major, 2010). On the basis of geographic encouragement, the description attributed to place can be extensively different. Massey (1994) frequently describe place as not territorially restricted, but open and absorbent. Place do not have sole identities; rather it has manifold, variable and contested identities. Place is not something static, but it is dynamic and always changing. She suggested that place should not be observed as points or areas in a geographical map, rather it is regarded as incorporations of space and time. There is no denying that place has certain significance and uniqueness. She argues that particularity of place depends in a mix of associations to that which lies beyond. In other words, places are determined by other places, developed out of a specific group of social relations, meetings and interlacing together, at a particular locus . An additional component of specificity of place is the added history of place, the outcome of layer upon layer of diverse set of connections, both local and to the broader world. Hence, the accumulation of procedures and connexions that build places, spread beyond the local, frequently at locations far detached in time and place (McInerney et. al., 2011). The conceptualisation of place is vital for comprehending place based education. It frequently signify local place as standardised, static and restricted; as leftovers of the past (Israel, 2012). Gruenewald Smith (2008) situate place based education as a portion of local movement to mitigate against the possibly damaging influence of globalisation. This critiques points out that every place has separate blend of extensive and more local social relationship that places are created by the network of power association and the uneven distribution of resources within and across places. However, McInerney et. al., (2011) pointed out that many urban and rural environments are far from pleasant places for students. It is easy to have feeling of strong sense of attachment to an appealingly lovely place, but it can be insecure for education, particularly which is broken by social, economic and racial divisions. From this viewpoint, location based education can attend to an international sens e of place and an understanding that place is both, internally manifold and a product of relationships which spread out way beyond it (Preston, 2015). Place and Education It is evident from the researches and various voiceprints that there is increasing attention, curiously and critiques on placed based education. Many researchers claim that place based education lack precise theoretical tradition due to its wider application to numerous fields of study. Place based education is regarded to not passably make link between the global and the local. However, this link observed to be indispensable if observing place based education as a reaction to existing economic, social and environmental concerns (Gruenewald, 2003). This argument and a distinguished lack of critical viewpoints in place based education are pooled by various academics. In the light of every aspect which has been introduced in the issues created by low level of clear definition for place based education, certain features are evident. Place based education do not appear like conventional education. In this kind of education, students act and converse in groups and habitually leave the sch ool itself, to involve in acts in the area of society. And the teachers do not focus on drilling students for high stakes examination, depending instead on forms of comprehension and knowledge which appear more progressively by actual life examinations and problem solving (Smith, 2007). It is characterised by interconnectedness of students, tutors, schools, society and local resources. It is chastised in resources, issues and values of the local society, designed to inspire school and society partnerships, which include environmental, cultural, social, economic and political viewpoints in formal and informal manners (Powers, 2004). Recommendations The review of literature have influenced that education should be undertaken as isolated effort, rather in order to make it sustainable, there is need to develop infrastructure comprising partnership between school and community. Thus, it is recommended that The trust should enthusiastically hold an incorporated model of place based education as one of the most powerful approach for nurturing in students the knowledge, feeling of personal liability, connectedness to society and readiness to perform that characterise efficient environmental factors There is need to make sure that place based education initiative reflect plans to establish reliability in local schools. Acceptance by the schools in the initial phase of application and institutionalisation. In order to be accepted by schools, particularly in the existing environment of high-stakes, consistent evaluation, place based education must be appropriately associated to specific learning goals within classroom and the schools over bending prospectus. There is need to make sure that the influence of place based education on students knowledge, approaches and activities is considerately evaluated and given the objective of increasing environmental stewards, that the portion of such an assessment explicitly addresses the influence of stewardship. Accountability in the form of thorough and thoughtful assessment will act to improve the trustworthiness of place based initiative. Trustworthiness makes it possible for a school to accept place based education as an instructional model. In order to sustain place based education, it necessitates bigger obligation on the portion of school. It is also recommended that the trust should make sure that the design of place based education acknowledges the significance of school culture and supports its development. A supporting school culture is geared to students who are active and intrusive learners, teachers, having access to proper resources and professional development and administrators who value pertinent, actual world learning and comprehend that societies are partners, rather than opponents in the delicate procedure of educating students. Culture in school is determined by rules, guidelines and relationship sand these aspects have significant influence on place based education. In particular, professional development and continuing support of participating teachers is crucial to the long run effectiveness of place based education. In this vein, it is recommended that there is need to ensure the design of place based education comprise a synchronised plan for the professional development of every involved teachers in participating schools. Such a plan must address the duties of the employees, leaders and administrators who work at local schools and the participating teachers Tutor who holds the place based education as instructional approach; require a specific kind of professional development. Thus, it is recommended that the professional development for tutors in support of place based education should be observed as a constant attempt which establishes their content information, skill in enabling students question and the capability to perform collaboratively and efficiently with society. There are various examples of efficient programs of professional development which methodically attend to many components of teachers practice. Leaders of place based learning face particular challenge as they require to address the aspects of tutors, students and the societies. Conclusion Partnerships in education have a key role to play in the development of students, schools, administrators and community. It aims at enhancing the level of learning and educational opportunities in schools. It further offers benefits such as overcoming educational challenges, accomplishment of a specific goal and seek additional funds, enhanced understanding regarding education, establishment of closer relationships, foster community support and provide better communication facilities. The study further highlighted partnerships that can be categorized into community partnerships, family-school partnerships and professional education partnerships. Partnerships in education have several characteristics such as respect, common goals, commitment, leadership, meaningful goals, linguistic differences and accountability. In addition, there are a number of challenges in place-based education such as miscommunication, lack of experience, absence of a set-structure, lack of time and lack of imp lementation pertaining to student ideas. References Gruenewald, D. A., Smith, G. A., (2008). 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