Assessment Description: Research and write a report on the policy process using Australia’s Mandatory Detention policy as your policy for review. Utilizing your knowledge of the policy process and stages of policy formulation and implementation, critically discuss how this policy was planned, formulated and implemented. Explain whether any allowance has been made for the systematic evaluation of the policy. Pay particular attention to the issues of empowerment and participation during this process, and to equality, justice and fairness. If social policy is meant to produce greater equality, and to promote justice and fairness in society, explain whether this policy fulfills this objective.

After carefully selecting a central symbol in Alice LaPlante’s Half Moon Bay, how has the symbol informed your reading of LaPlante’s work?*3.5 pages of your very best sentencesü At least three outside sources. Research, remember, is your friend.ü An introduction paragraph that grabs the reader’s attention, provides necessary background, and focuses your readers’ attention to the thesis. Remember, my dear hearts, your thesis is the simple answer to the writing question. Right?ü Body paragraphs that have a single “point”, information, and explanation. Remember, summary is not explanation. Explain what you think.ü A conclusion that wraps up your essay, so your reader is satisfied.ü A cover page that will include the format requirements and a creative title. You can, if you wish, include artwork on your cover page; it would suggest effort.ü An MLA 8work cited page and parenthetical citation.color can be used symbolically in Half Moon Bay? Consider LaPlante’s description of Alma, “…Despite her [Alma] dark hair and skin, her eyes are a strange blue-green, very intense” (La Plante 67). Consider LaPlante’s description of Edward, “He [Edward]

Answer the questions listed under each assignment, citing specific examples from your child. Type up the answers in 12 point font, double-spaced, with a recommended 2-4- page length for each assignment. Add the questions and then the answers to the document. Check the rubric and examples to make sure you what is required.3 years, 11 months1. What activities and experiences you and your child have engaged in might be promoting healthy behavioral practices and an interest in physical activity?2. Describe the development of your child’s language and cognitive skills and discuss how these might be affecting his or her interactions with you & your responses.3. How well is your child adapting to social situations in the home and outside the home? Does your child have any behavior or emotional problems at this point? Why do you think these problems are occurring and what are you doing about them? -4 years, 10 months 1. How would you characterize your parenting style? How have your specific parenting techniques changed since infancy? In what ways do you think your parenting style, or any other aspect of your parenting, has been influenced by your cultural background or other experiences? 2. Describe three specific examples of changes in your child’s behavior at age 4 that seem to stem from growth in cognitive and language ability since the period of infancy (e.g., improvements in symbolic thinking, reasoning, knowledge of the world, theory of mind). 3. How would you characterize your child’s personality? Would you say that your child is primarily overcontrolled, under controlled or resilient? Support your argument. The program stated at the beginning of age three that the Virtual Child’s behavior at age 3 and 4 is designed to resemble one of three personality types. The personality types combine some of the temperamental traits with which you are already familiar. The overcontrolled category refers to a child who is cooperative and follows the rules, but is shy in social situations and anxious and clingy under pressure. The under controlled category refers to a child who is uncooperative or even aggressive, does not follow the rules, is not particularly shy in social situations, and has a tendency to become distracted and overly emotional, particularly when under stress. The resilient category refers to a child who is cooperative and follows the rules, is friendly, non-aggressive and outgoing, able to focus on tasks without being too distracted, has good regulation of his or her emotions, and is adaptable to new situations.