What is sociology? What is the sociological imagination? Who are some of the founding members of the field. How did sociology as a field come to be? Why do we study sociology? How is it important? How does your "biography" intersect with "history?" How are your personal choices in life informed and influenced by social forces? How has a "personal trouble" in your life been distinguishable from society's larger social problem(s)? How has this "personal trouble" been interconnected with society's larger social problem(s)? If applicable, integrate race, class, gender, sexual orientation, religion, socioeconomic status, level of education, birth place, citizenship, country of origin, multilingual abilities, physical abilities, etc. into your understanding of yourself in relation to society. Select a current event that has taken place between December 20th, 2020 ~ January 10th, 2021 and discuss how this current event has affected, informed and impacted your life from a sociological perspective. How do you distinguish stereotypes from social patterns when trying to understand this particular current event and how it is affecting and impacting your life.COVID 19 First Mini Essay Prompt:Your mini-essay must be at least between 4 to 5 pages, typed, double-spaced, 12-font Times. The title page, works cited/bibiography, appendices, etc. will not count toward the 4 to 5 pages of content for this assignment. You are required to cite a minimum of 5 class varied sources from this class (e-lectures, readings, discussions, etc.) and at least 1 outside source (the current event you've chosen). You may cite other sources but only *in addition to * your required sources. You may go over 5 pages and you may cite more than 6 sources.

Prior to beginning work on this discussion, read the Rammstedt, Kemper, & Borg (2013) and Rodrigues, & Rebelo (2013) articles for this week, and review Chapters 7 through 9 in your textbook.For this discussion, you will be taking on the role of the career counselor in a university. In this role, you will facilitate the evaluation of a student based on a five-factor personality assessment, career goals questionnaire, school and work history, and an interview with the student to make recommendations on his potential career paths. Carefully review the PSY615: Week four career counselor-based scenario (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..In your initial post, evaluate the personality assessment instrument used in the scenario and research a peer-reviewed article in the Ashford University Library on this personality assessment. Using the required articles as well as your researched article to support your statements, describe the standard use of this personality assessment. Based on the scenario, evaluate the reliability, validity, and cultural considerations inherent to the personality assessment used and comment on the relevance of these elements within the scenario. Recommend at least one additional best- and worst-fit work situation for the student based on your evaluation of the personality assessment’s accuracy. Analyze and describe some of the potential ethical issues which might arise from the use of this personality assessment in the given scenario. Provide information from your research on the use of the personality measure, and assess the value of other possible instruments that could be added to create a more complete assessment of the student in the scenario.

Begin your rewrite. To do so, imagine yourself as a poet in the early twentieth century, and imagine your rewrite as an attempt to update the outdated elements of the nineteenth-century work you selected. Remember that modernist poemsCapture the cynicism and disappointment many people felt toward outdated nineteenth-century ideasFocus on the complexities of modern lifeHighlight the alienation of the individual in the modern worldBreak with past literary traditions and stylesEmploy references to diverse cultures, belief systems, and historiesUse experimental language and techniques, such as drawing a distinct line between the poet and the speaker and writing from multiple perspectives and in different voicesYour rewrite must incorporate at least three of the six listed characteristics of modernism. Here is an example of a modernist rewrite of the first stanza of Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”:Wordsworth’s First StanzaI wandered lonely as a cloudThat floats on high o’er vales and hills,When all at once I saw a crowd,A host, of golden daffodils;Beside the lake, beneath the trees,Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.First Stanza of a Modernist Rewrite of WordsworthI stood coldly alone, like a World War I flying aceWho cruises over the shells of bombed-out towns.As the black fog cleared, I saw a building,Ten thousand crumblecracking bricks;Beside a forsaken hospital, over a glass-strewn street,Sagging depressed during Tefnut’s shower.Part 4: Briefly Explain Your Modernist RewriteIn a response of at least two paragraphs, provide an explanation of the steps you took to rewrite the Romantic poem you selected. Your explanation should point out at least three typically modernist qualities in your work with regard to elements such as language, style, literary elements, and themes. Here, as an example, is a brief explanation of the modernist rewrite of the first stanza of Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”:In the first stanza of my rewrite, I tried to drastically change the mood of the poem. I did so by first changing the opening simile, linking the speaker (who is most certainly distinct from myself as the poet) to a World War I flying ace looking down on an empty town devastated by war. This image not only calls to mind the destruction that people in the early twentieth century witnessed, but also the loneliness felt by the individual when witnessing such devastation. I introduced ambiguity by not identifying the nationality of the pilot to whom the speaker compares himself: He may be a man seeing the destruction of his own town, or he may be one of the men who brought destruction on the town during battle.Then I decided to change the daffodils—a symbol of the beauty of the natural world in Wordsworth’s poem—to a crumbling building on an abandoned and ugly street. I thought these images helped convey a sense of loss. I used the word crumblecracking—an invented term—to call to mind how the broken bricks of the building look. This type of experimentation with language is typical of modernist poetry. Finally, I used the word forsaken not only because it suggests abandonment, but also because it calls to mind the last words of Jesus on the cross. This allusion then quickly blends into the reference to a mythological figure, Tefnut, the Egyptian goddess of rain and fertility. This allusion hints at the possibility of remaking a new world out of the fragments of the old, yet the “sagging” hospital attests to how hard such a restoration would be. Thematically, I was trying to depict the loneliness and the alienation of the speaker in this decrepit world.