Exploring Environmental Issues

Unit 3 DB: Warriors in Environmental Activism (ENV110 – Exploring Environmental Issues)

Research and find an example of an environmental activist and how they worked toward conservation or preservation of a natural resource.  Discuss how you feel about this type of activism, and if you believe it is a valid environmental concern today.  Explain your reasoning.

Unit 3 DB: The Stakeholder Approach (BUS340 – Business Ethics)

What are the reasons for encouraging leaders to use the stakeholder approach in their thinking?  What might be some of the ethical difficulties if the stakeholder thinking was not used?  How might personal interest and the interests of others enter into the decision-making process?

Unit 3 DB: Does viewing violence lead to violent behavior? (PSY101 – Fundamentals of Psychology)

After viewing Bandura’s original video from his 1961 study above, complete the following for this discussion:

• Explain the basic concepts demonstrated in this study in regard to observational learning.
• Based on the video and your reading, do you believe that violence in television, media, or video games likely promote violent behaviors according to the principles of observational learning?  Please share your thoughts and examples.
• Additionally, discuss your own real-life example of the concept of observational learning by sharing an incident either witnessed personally or through the media.
• Discuss how observational learning differs from theories of learning that emphasize “conditioning” (classical conditioning and operant conditioning).  Use the example of how aggressive behavior may result from conditioning.

Be sure to provide the URL link(s) and/or title(s) to any resource used as reference in your post.

Unit 3 Discussion: Combining Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication (COM107 – Introduction to Communication)

Unit 3 Discussion: Combining Verbal and Non-Verbal CommunicationAfter reviewing the Free Hugs resources provided, first ask yourself what you liked about the verbal and non-verbal messages you saw and heard.  Then consider how your interpretation of the video changed after reading about it.  For this discussion, describe two situations in your own life (one verbal and one non-verbal) where you feel that you have communicated poorly.

Refer to specific information given in the text, videos, and web pages to discuss how you could have enhanced your communication in the situations you described.

Freehugscampaign.org (n.d.). Sometimes, a hug is all what we need.

Free Hugs Campaign – Official Page (music by Sick Puppies)