Create a symbol for your political party and explain why you have chosen that symbol.

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LASA 1 Create Your Own Political Party

Scenario:

 

Your family has always been very politically active.  From a young age, you have been politically aware.  When you were young, you worked with your parents as they supported their political party and you even helped during campaigns for the candidates your parents supported.  In college, you were a leader of the organization on campus that was part of the political party you supported.  This could have been the Young Democrats or the Young Republicans or any college group that supported the political party of your choice.  Until your exposure at college, you always supported the same political party as your parents, but then your views began to change and you developed your own  ideas, ideals and expectations.  While you continued to remain politically active, you have become more and more disillusioned with the current major and third parties and movements on the political scene, having studied all thoroughly.  You have come to be completely discouraged by the state of the political process as it pertains to political parties.  In your opinion,  none of the major or third parties truly represents the best interests of the citizens, and you have decided to create your own political party.

 

 

Directions. In a 4-5 page Microsoft Word document, include the following:

 

  1. Name your political party and evaluate why you have chosen that name.
  2. Create a symbol for your political party and explain why you have chosen that symbol.
  3. Create a slogan for your political party and justify why you have chosen that slogan.
  4. Develop  a platform for your political party. A platform is a written outline and explanation of what your party believes in and why.  Your party can be a single-issue party, an ideological party, a splinter party, or a regular broad based political party.  Your platform must have at least four positions under the following topics.  Summarize each platform position.
    1. Social Issues
    2. Domestic Issues
    3. Foreign Policy
  5. Design a brochure or one-page flyer for your political party that you would hand out to voters to introduce and explain your party.  In this flyer you want to include the essentials of what your party stands for, points of your platform, and  the benefits of joining your party.
  6. Project what demographic groups would vote for your political party and why. What demographic groups will your political party reach out to and seek support from?
  7. Predict what regions of the country will support your political party and why? Or, what regions of country will your party win? Justify your claims.
  8. Compare the areas of support with those of other political parties.
  9. What main idea or belief is your political party based upon? Why? For example, in the 2008 election, the Democrats focused a lot on the economy and the war in Iraq.

 

Some links that may help you understand and assess current political parties, which in turn may help you to create your political party.

 

  • The Democratic Party Web site http://www.democrats.org/
  • Republican National Committee http://www.rnc.org
  • Politics 1 http://www.politics1.com/ (directory of U.S. political parties)

This assignment should be written in APA style with intext citation as well as have a Title page and a Reference page. The body of this paper should be 4-5 pages double space, Plagiarism FREE and free of Gramatic errors

Determine if any of the following occurs after the violent acts:

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Violence on Children’s TV

 

The National Television Violence Study found that in 1996-1997, 61% of television programs contained violence, and, of those selected, 75% showed no remorse, criticism of, or penalty for the violence. Forty percent of violent acts were committed by attractive characters.

For this assignment, you need to watch an hour of children’s television, preferably cartoons, and analyze the level of violence in the chosen children’s show.

  • Rate the aggressive acts using the following scale:
    • Mild: Verbal aggression with no physical contact
    • Medium: Physical contact with no blood, such as pushing, shoving, and hitting
    • Extreme: Use of force to cause bodily injury, such as guns, knives, and other weapons, where blood is produced
  • Determine if any of the following occurs after the violent acts:
    • remorse for the violence
    • criticism of the violence
    • any consequences of the violence
  • Analyze how the chosen show might influence the growing child, based on your readings. What messages is this show giving to the child?

1 Page APA format with intext citations

True or False: Binge drinking effectively poisons your body.

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University of Phoenix Material

 

The Etiology of Addiction Quiz Answer Key

 

  1. ____________________ serve as the chemical messengers of our brain.

 

  1. True or False: The area of the brain in which addiction develops is called the limbic system.

 

  1. The _________________________________________________ is considered one of the most important brain pathways of the addictive system process, because it is a major pathway for reward or punishment, pleasure or pain, motivation, and emotion.

 

  1. True or False: The medial forebrain bundle bypasses the cerebral cortex so the addictive process occurs at an unconscious level.

 

  1. The _______________plays an important role in recording and replaying the significance of prior drug use to the person.

 

  1. True or False: Neural pruning is a process in the brain that occurs as individuals age. This process is more active during the first few years of life with another spurt during adolescence. However, neural pruning goes on throughout life as humans learn new things and give up old habits. Researchers believe that the reason why individuals experience psychosis when smoking marijuana is that the natural human cannabenoid system is overwhelmed by smoking marijuana, which disrupts the dopamine system and the neural pruning process, leading to dysfunctional connections.

 

  1. _________________ occurs when higher and lower levels of dopamine caused by drug use establish a molecular memory of a drug experience leading to cravings and the belief that the person needs drugs.

 

  1. True or False: Binge drinking effectively poisons your body.

 

  1. True or False: There is no connection between genetics and addiction.

 

  1. There are pharmacological drugs that can help reduce drug cravings during withdrawal from certain substances. Name one and what it is used for. _____

Annotated Bibliography And Outline For PhD Doctorate

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Provide an annotated bibliography (750-1,000 words total) of the articles listed above. Including the following for each article:

  1. The article citation and persistent link. These are provided above for you to paste into the assignment and are not included in the total word count.
  2. A written summary of the key concept(s) of the article. Why was the study done? What was the population studied? What did the researcher(s) conclude? What other information about this study do you believe is unique or important to recall? Are there specific statements made by the author that you wish to retain?

Construct an outline for a paper that will explain and synthesize the articles you read for this assignment. The paper will require identification of themes common to the articles as well as a statement of the conclusions that can be drawn when the articles are taken together as a single entity You will be writing the paper in the next assignment.

PERSONALITY PROCESSES AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES

Fearless Dominance and the U.S. Presidency: Implications of Psychopathic Personality Traits for Successful and Unsuccessful Political Leadership

Scott O. Lilienfeld, Irwin D. Waldman, and Kristin Landfield

Emory University

Ashley L. Watts University of Georgia

Steven Rubenzer Houston, Texas

Thomas R. Faschingbauer Foundation for the Study of Personality in History, Houston,

Texas

Although psychopathic personality (psychopathy) is marked largely by maladaptive traits (e.g., poor impulse control, lack of guilt), some authors have conjectured that some features of this condition (e.g., fearlessness, interpersonal dominance) are adaptive in certain occupations, including leadership positions. We tested this hypothesis in the 42 U.S. presidents up to and including George W. Bush using (a) psychopathy trait estimates derived from personality data completed by historical experts on each president, (b) independent historical surveys of presidential leadership, and (c) largely or entirely objective indicators of presidential performance. Fearless Dominance, which reflects the boldness associated with psychopathy, was associated with better rated presidential performance, leadership, persuasiveness, crisis management, Congressional relations, and allied variables; it was also associated with several largely or entirely objective indicators of presidential perfor- mance, such as initiating new projects and being viewed as a world figure. Most of these associations survived statistical control for covariates, including intellectual brilliance, five factor model personality traits, and need for power. In contrast, Impulsive Antisociality and related traits of psychopathy were generally unassociated with rated presidential performance, although they were linked to some largely or entirely objective indicators of negative job performance, including Congressional impeachment resolutions, tolerating unethical behavior in subordinates, and negative character. These findings indicate that the boldness associated with psychopathy is an important but heretofore neglected predictor of presidential performance, and suggest that certain features of psychopathy are tied to successful interpersonal behavior.

Keywords: psychopathy, antisocial behavior, leadership, politics, personality

Psychopathic personality (psychopathy) is a constellation of personality traits encompassing superficial charm, egocentricity, dishonesty, guiltlessness, callousness, risk taking, poor impulse

control (Cleckley, 1941/1988; Hare, 2003), and, according to many authors (Fowles & Dindo, 2009; Lykken, 1995; Patrick, 2006), fearlessness, social dominance, and immunity to anxiety. In contrast to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disor- ders, fourth edition, text revision (DSM–IV–TR; American Psychiatric Association, 2000), diagnosis of antisocial personality disorder (ASPD), which is primarily a behavioral condition that emphasizes a long-standing history of antisocial and criminal behavior, psychopa- thy is primarily a dispositional condition that emphasizes personality traits. Nevertheless, measures of these two conditions tend to be at least moderately correlated (Lilienfeld, 1994).

Factor analyses of the most extensively validated measure of psychopathy, the Psychopathy Checklist–Revised (PCL-R; Hare, 2003), have often revealed two broad and moderately correlated dimensions. The first dimension (Factor 1) assesses the core in- terpersonal and affective features of psychopathy (e.g., guiltless- ness, narcissism, glibness), whereas the second dimension (Factor 2) assesses an impulsive and antisocial lifestyle that is closely associated with ASPD (Harpur, Hare, & Hakstian, 1989; but see Cooke & Michie, 2001, and Hare, 2003, for alternative factor

This article was published Online First July 23, 2012. Scott O. Lilienfeld, Irwin D. Waldman, and Kristin Landfield, Depart-

ment of Psychology, Emory University; Ashley L. Watts, Department of Psychology, University of Georgia; Steven Rubenzer, Houston, Texas; Thomas R. Faschingbauer, Foundation for the Study of Personality in History, Houston, Texas.

We thank Joanna Berg, Rachel Ammirati, David Molho, Gabriella Rich, Zack Babin, Marie King, and Barbara Greenspan for their helpful com- ments on previous drafts of this manuscript; Joshua Miller for his statistical assistance; Alan Abramowitz for his helpful advice; and Caroline Hennigar and Alyssa Redmon for their valuable assistance with data entry and library research.

Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Scott O. Lilienfeld, Room 473, Psychology and Interdisciplinary Sciences Building, Emory University, 36 Eagle Row, Atlanta, GA 30322. E-mail: slilien@emory.edu

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2012, Vol. 103, No. 3, 489–505 © 2012 American Psychological Association 0022-3514/12/$12.00 DOI: 10.1037/a0029392

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solutions). Although the PCL-R is a semistructured interview that incorporates file information, its two major dimensions can be closely approximated by scores on normal range personality di- mensions, such as those derived from the five-factor model (FFM) of personality. PCL-R Factor 1 is associated primarily with low scores on FFM Agreeableness, whereas PCL-R Factor 2 is asso- ciated primarily with low scores on both FFM Agreeableness and Conscientiousness (Miller, Lynam, Widiger, & Leukefeld, 2001). Most research demonstrates that psychopathy and its constituent traits are underpinned by dimensions rather than taxa (natural categories; see Edens, Marcus, Lilienfeld, & Poythress, 2006), offering empirical support for recent efforts to conceptualize and assess this condition within a general dimensional model of per- sonality structure.