Practical Book Review

PRACTICAL BOOK REVIEW INSTRUCTIONS

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This Practical Book Review provides an opportunity for you to reflect on, respond to, and evaluate the ideas, concepts, and techniques in Petersens (2015) Why Dont We Listen Better? based on your own life experiences and ideas from other course texts, and apply these to your interpersonal communication context. Begin the body of your paper with a brief introductory paragraph, then organize your review in 3 sections, using the headings Response, Critique, and Application, following the specific directions provided below. Your review must be well written and organized, free of grammar and other writing errors, and formatted according to current APA style. A title page and a reference page are expected, but an abstract is not needed. Also, you may use the first-person pronoun.

Response
Articulate a personalized response that demonstrates meaningful reflection on the core content. Describe insights you gained about your own communication skills, strengths, weaknesses, and habits. For example, what concepts and principles were especially enlightening to you? Were you reminded of any past conversations? Did you identify with any of the communication traps? Your response should be between 400 and 500 words.

Critique
Evaluate the book from your own point-of-view and based on its intended purpose. What did you identify as its most valuable contributions? Did you find any of the concepts unclear or insufficiently developed? Also, compare and contrast 3 of Petersens ideas with related concepts articulated in Stewarts Bridges Not Walls as well as in France & Weikels Helping Skills for Human Service Workers (and list these texts on the reference page along with the Petersen text). How are the perspectives of the three authors similar and/or different? Briefly analyze and discuss the relative strengths of each. Your critique should be between 700 and 800 words.

Application
Looking forward, apply what you have learned to your own interpersonal arena. Articulate the changes you need to make in light of the information gleaned from the content. Describe the specific strategies and techniques that you will implement in order to enhance your interpersonal communicationboth personally and professionallyand how you plan to do so. Your application should be between 400 and 500 words.

Research Paper

Choose any one of the following questions.
1. How and why were the British able to establish political control in South Asia?
2. Did the British westernize South Asia? Analyze this question in light of any two (2)
of the policies of the East India Company towards (a) land revenue, (b) law and the
judiciary, (c) the army, (d) the police, (e) the administrative structure, or (f) education.
3. How and why did the British manage to defeat the rebels in 1857? How would you
characterize the events of that year?
4. Why did reform and revival movements appear in South Asia? What were their
programs? What did they achieve? (Examine trends amongst Hindus or Muslims).
5. Did the British in any way make it possible for Indians to combine to form a
national movement?

Morphology of cell and how it plays in general function and structure. How Morphology of cells affects on of three disease listed bleow.

Discuss Morphology of cells and the factor it plays in general function and structure. Also, choose a condition from the following, Downs Syndrome Kleinfleters, Sickle Cell Disease, Chronic Myleoid Leukemia and discuss how cell morphology affects these conditions. 

Discuss the difference between various cells and the role these cells play in specific disease processes.

Motivation for the Europeans

When Europeans arrived the in the New World, it is said they were motivated by three things: God (the spreading of Christianity), Glory (the gaining of fame), and Gold (the gaining of fortune). Explain which of these three you believe is the most important or most common motivation for the Europeans.

Your response should be approximately one to two pages, double spaced. Be sure to include a complete and accurate citation for the sources you use.