Universal themes like birth, death, desire, betrayal, love, and loss appear in every culture and every time period.Likewise, certain objects and character types also seem to transcend time and place, suggesting that deep down all humans are part of one tribe. The more we know about other cultures and other eras, the more connected we can see that we are. So for this discussion, you will need to reach out in time and space to find the universals in literature.Choose a culture that you know nothing about (Japanese, Samoan, Afrikaans, Cherokee, any culture).Search online to find some poems and/or stories created by that culture, and read them.Choose a time period in American literature Early American, Puritan, Colonial, Age of Reason, Enlightenment, Naturalism, Regionalism, Realism, Modernism, Post Modernism, Contemporary).Read some poems and stories from that American time period.Select one story or poem from your researched culture and one story or poem from your researched time period.Find at least one universal theme, one universal symbol, or one archetype they share (The more similarities, the better).Copy the literature (or the links to the literature) to a document.Write a one- or two-paragraph analysis of the universal concept that the two pieces of literature share.Support your analysis with quotes and examples.Suggest why you think the universal themes, symbols, or characters you noticed are present across cultural and temporal (time) differences.

Prior to beginning work on this Journal element, please select a professional position within a criminal justice agency/organization or a juvenile justice agency/organization. Then, locate an agency/organization that employs individuals within that position. For this journal entry, you will briefly explore (in one to two pages) a professional position within a criminal justice agency/organization or a juvenile justice agency/organization in terms of duties and responsibilities. As noted below, you will need to gather information from the agency/organization that you select in order to address the below elements. You will then need to address the following: Describe how employment criteria relates to individual tasks and to agency/organizational processes relevant to this position in approximately two paragraphs. For tasks, consider duties related to the professional position, and for processes, consider agency activities, purposes, or objectives. Describe how technology relates to at least one individual task and to at least one agency/organizational process relevant to this position in approximately one paragraph. Discuss a perspective on how this position may contribute to criminal justice objectives and your own professional goals in approximately one paragraph. To complete the above elements, you will need to collect information. You may choose to collect your information through one or more of the following pathways: Communicate with a person in the Human Resources department of the agency or organization. Communicate with a professional who holds the position. Research and collect the information from an agency or organizational website. Submit your journal through Waypoint.Carefully review the Grading Rubric (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.