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I’m working on a communications question and need an explanation and answer to help me learn. How do toxic / negative self-thoughts exacerbate stress? Give three examples of thinking patterns that produce and/or perpetuate toxic thoughts.  Back your response with arguments and examples from the textbook. In your opinion, how does Dr. McGonigal’s message about stress relate to cognitive restructuring? What point/s did you find interesting in Dr. McGonigal’s Ted Talk? Kelly McGonigal: How to make stress your friend | TED Talk 

This week’s readings focus on the interactions of government and various marginalized peoples. From the Black Live Matter to the Occupy Wall Street movements in recent years, we have seen how governmental outsiders—often underprivileged or marginalized groups—have taken action to try to change certain aspects of the government. The above-noted movements were less focused on […]

1. Historical demography works using data that predates natonal census, and at time registration systems. What are the data sources most frequently used by demographers? Check out how Dr. Louis Gates uses historical data in studying slavery in the U. S. https://www.theroot.com/slavery-by-the-numbers-1790874492 2.How have these sources been used in macrodemography, to examine fertility and the […]

I’m working on a communications question and need an explanation and answer to help me learn. 1. Explain to a non-demographer- the “take away” from the Internal Migration chapter. 2. How do you explain the differences in reasons for internal migration by educational level? 3. Citing specific internal migration issues from the readings, how has […]

I’m working on a communications writing question and need an explanation and answer to help me learn. Once again, think about the broader area in which you grew up. Can you identify a particular  part of that area that is identified with the LGBTQ+ community? What basis do you use to  identify this area? If […]

I’m working on a communications question and need an explanation and answer to help me learn. 1. Massey and Denton focus on the links between residential segregation and economic and social inequalities.  Describe the measures of spatial inequality that Saenz and Morales present? a. Dissimilarity Index b. Isolation index 2. What are the differences in […]

(Chapter 9. Infant Mortality, Frisbie and Chapter 10. Adult Mortality. Rogers, Hummer and Krueger) 1. Cite specifics from the assigned readings in all the responses. What is the Black infant mortality rate in the U.S., compare with the Hispanic, non-Hispanic White and Asian populations? 2. How is this difference explained by the readings? 3. What […]

How would you construct a study about whether gentrification is  occurring or has occurred in the town or neighborhood in which you grew up? What sorts of data  would you need? Does your answer to this question change any statement that you have made in  prior papers for this class? Why or why not?

I’m working on a communications question and need an explanation and answer to help me learn. In your opinion, do the descriptions of suburban development in your textbook serve to explain  the suburbs of New Orleans? Think about places outside of Orleans Parish: Metairie, Kenner, the  Westbank, Chalmette, among others. Are these areas sprawling examples […]