Find a journal article that reports an important specific stress related topic. The articles must be published in a professional journal within the past 2 years. Write a 2-page paper (double-spaced APA style) in which you do the following:
1. Give the complete citation of the article.
2. Summarize the findings.
3. Explain the most interesting elements regarding stress and how this could be useful information.
Attach a copy of the journal article.
Online Activity
Introduction:
Pick a particular cultural event that you’re interested in (quinceanera party for Mexicans, specific culture’s wedding, male initiation rituals) Write an introductory paragraph based on the research you find on the topic.
Body: (3 Paragraphs)
for the next three paragraphs find something from each one of the three readings that you can connect to cultural event you chose. Reference or quote what you find from each reading that connects to the cultural event in your three paragraphs. The three paragraphs should be about: 1- Language 2- Kinship 3- Gender.
Your 3 online sources HAVE TO BE VIDEOS. Provide the link for the video in the references sheet.
Conclusion
References:
Reference 3 online videos you used for the your essay.
Essay must be 5 paragraphs long and must follow the prompts above.
O R I G I N A L P A P E R
Undisclosed Paternal Identity in Narratives of Distress Among
Young People in Eastern Cape, South Africa
Mzikazi Nduna • Rachel Jewkes
Published online: 17 July 2010
� Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010
Abstract Life trajectories of children with no connec-
tions to support from their fathers have received research
attention. Within this group is a sub-group who do not
know their fathers and no research has attempted to
understand their experiences. We present accounts of how
young South Africans deal with and seek to uncover
undisclosed paternity. Forty young men and women aged
16 to 22 volunteered to participate in a qualitative study on
distress that was conducted in the Eastern Cape Province.
All interviews were conducted in isiXhosa, following a
semi-structured guide. Our findings show that interest in
father identity was motivated by harsh circumstances in the
maternal home, notably when financial difficulties, exclu-
sion from critical decision making and bullying by non-
biological siblings were felt. The search for father identity
was pursued in solitude by some participants: their fear of
elders’ response restrained them from asking. Some
thought that it would be interpreted as being disrespectful
and ungrateful to ask ‘such a question’, whilst others
worried that they might be victimized or, worse, thrown out
by their mothers or maternal guardians. We present
accounts of accidental disclosures by strangers and also
inadvertent involvement in an incestuous relationship.
Open and honest communication with children about their
paternal identity should be promoted to prevent the cur-
rents of silence, secre ...
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Why is it important to know what type of infection a patient has? An infection is an infection, is an infection. Does it matter where it comes from, why or why not, please explain?
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Your job is to make recommendations concerning which jurisdictions should file the charges on which defendants. You will need to evaluate the criminal statutes and penalties in each jurisdiction and even the rules of evidence to determine where your task force has the best chance of obtaining a conviction and in getting the punishment to fit the crime.
The memo that you receive from your Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) task force supervisor explains the situation:
MEMO
Re: Charging Decisions
You are the primary investigator in the cases against Jones, Smith, and Thompson. As I review your reports, it appears that each of these cases has strengths and weaknesses that we should evaluate before we determine whether to file charges in the U.S. District Court, the Sedgwick County District Court for the State of Kansas, or the Wichita Municipal Court. I will summarize those strengths and weaknesses here to make sure I am reading your reports correctly. I need you to give me advice on where you think these charges should be brought.
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How do you think we should proceed concerning Jones' February 6, 2005 cocaine possession? (30%)
He will probably plead guilty unless we send him to federal court. Where do you want to file the case? (20%)
Smith has sold cocaine to our undercover agents on two occasions: July 12, 2005 and August 3, 2005. We have found no prior record on this individual, bu.
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.
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Assignment Guidelines
Address the following in 900–1,200 words:
What constitutional issues are involved in the scenario that dictates what you can and cannot do related to the evidence of other criminal activity outside the scope of the original wiretap order? Explain.
If you arrest the other individuals for the crimes not associated with the reasons for the wiretap, what happens to any future evidence that might be obtained from the wiretap? Why?
If you fail to arrest the other individuals, are there any potential risks involved? Explain you answer.
Be sure to reference all sources using APA style.
.
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The memo that you receive from your Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) task force supervisor explains the situation:
MEMO
Re: Charging Decisions
You are the primary investigator in the cases against Jones, Smith, and Thompson. As I review your reports, it appears that each of these cases has strengths and weaknesses that we should evaluate before we determine whether to file charges in the U.S. District Court, the Sedgwick County District Court for the State of Kansas, or the Wichita Municipal Court. I will summarize those strengths and weaknesses here to make sure I am reading your reports correctly. I need you to give me advice on where you think these charges should be brought.
Jones has been working for you as a confidential informant because you have evidence against him for a February 6, 2005 third possession of cocaine after convictions in 1993 and 1994. He appears to have followed the terms of his deal with you to introduce our undercover agents to his dealer. We have promised not to prosecute for any drug offenses he may commit in the presence of our undercover agent while playing the role of our informant. His assistance has enabled us to get sufficient evidence on Smith and Thompson to obtain convictions. Based on Jones’ two prior convictions for possession of cocaine, we would normally want him to go to federal court, where the maximum sentences are available. However, because of his cooperation, we could file the case in the Sedgwick County, Kansas, and district court under state law. We could even change the charge to a drug paraphernalia offense and send his case to the city of Wichita.
How do you think we should proceed concerning Jones' February 6, 2005 cocaine possession? (30%)
He will probably plead guilty unless we send him to federal court. Where do you want to file the case? (20%)
Smith has sold cocaine to our undercover agents on two occasions: July 12, 2005 and August 3, 2005. We have found no prior record on this individual, bu.
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Assignment Guidelines
Address the following in 900–1,200 words:
What constitutional issues are involved in the scenario that dictates what you can and cannot do related to the evidence of other criminal activity outside the scope of the original wiretap order? Explain.
If you arrest the other individuals for the crimes not associated with the reasons for the wiretap, what happens to any future evidence that might be obtained from the wiretap? Why?
If you fail to arrest the other individuals, are there any potential risks involved? Explain you answer.
Be sure to reference all sources using APA style.
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Identify
your audience. Examples include the following:
Senior center
Middle school
A Workplace
Create
a 350- to 700-word resource as a way to share this information. Examples include the following:
A social media page
An information pamphlet
A presentation
Consider
the best method so it is crafted in an appropriate and understandable way for your identified audience.
Choose
from the two following options, which kind of diabetes you'll be reporting on:
Option A: Type I
How society views diabetes (what society thinks it is versus what it actually is, common beliefs and practices)
Signs and symptoms
Compliance with treatment regimens
Impact on health care resources
Option B: Type II
How society views diabetes (what society thinks it is versus what it actually is)
Preventive measures
Making the right decisions to live a healthy life
Compliance with common beliefs
Impact on health care resources
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xxxxx comment 1
xxxxx, I believe America only sees left/right, liberal/conservative, one's race/others' race, one's religion/others' religion, etc. To be fair, there are important issues that we do face but the media has pulled both further from the center. This is done to keep us preoccupied in conflict so we ignore what is being done in front of our faces, which is politicians/media/wealthy elites are controlling the government/financial system/media to mold the public's views and what they buy. By them focusing on these secondary issues and differences, we are missing the root problem: money in politics. These legal bribes guarantee that we are not represented in legislation unless enough people oppose the current law.
Comment 2
Nicely said, it is amazing how money can be used to basically buy anything in the world, even our politicians. The Presidency, our Senators and Congressman, Governors, Mayor's and more. This allows for things like the rich getting richer and the poor or course getting poorer. It almost seems like there is no middle class anymore. Money plays a huge role in everyday life. Don't get me wrong, money and politicians has definitely been used in some cases for the good or doing the right thing. We cannot base everything evil or not perfect on money. We just have to be more responsible.
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WWTC Active Directory Design
WWTC office at New York is largely autonomous and few IT personnel to take care of day-to-day IT support activities such as password resets troubleshoot virus problems. You are concerned about sensitive data store in this location. You want to deploy a highly developed OU structure to implement security policies uniformly through GPO automatically at all domains, OU, and workstations.
At this location Windows Server 2012 R2 is required providing the following
10 AD features
:
1.
Use BitLocker encryption technology for devices (server and Work station) disc space and volume.
2.
Enables a BitLocker system on a wire
d network to automatically unlock the system volume during boot (on capable Windows Server 2012 R2 networks), reducing internal help desk call volumes for lost PINs.
3.
Create group policies settings to enforce that either Used Disk Space Only or Full Encryption is used when BitLocker is enabled on a drive.
4.
Enable BranchCache in Windows Server 2012 for substantial performance, manageability, scalability, and availability improvements
5.
Implement Cache Encryption to store encrypted data by default.
This allows you to ensure data security without using drive encryption technologies.
6.
Implement Failover cluster services
7.
Implement File classification infrastructure feature to provide automatic classification process.
8.
IP Address Management (IPAM) is an entirely new feature in Windows Server 2012 that provides highly customizable administrative and monitoring capabilities for the IP address infrastructure on a corporate network.
9.
Smart cards and their associated personal identification numbers (PINs) are an increasingly popular, reliable, and cost-effective form of two-factor authentication. With the right controls in place, a user must have the smart card and know the PIN to gain access to network resources.
10.
Implement Windows Deployment Services to enables you to remotely deploy Windows operating systems. You can use it to set up new computers by using a network-based installation.
Other AD Deliverables
:
Create Active directory infrastructure to include recommended features
Create OU level for users and devices in their respective OU
Create Global, Universal, Local group. Each global group will contain all users in the corresponding department. Membership in the universal group is restrictive and membership can be assigned on the basis of least privileged principle. (For design purpose, you can assume that WTC as a Single Forest with multiple domains).
Create appropriate GPO and GPO policies and determine where they will be applied
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Wrongful Convictions and the Utilization of Eyewitness Accounts
Write a 2 to 3 page paper responding to the following: APA FORMAT
Identify the ethical issues within the field of criminal investigation as applied to wrongful conviction based upon tainted or faulty line-ups.
In recent years we have seen many criminal convictions overturned for various reasons. One such reason is the “Eyewitness Account.”
Address the ethical responsibilities of law enforcement in their requirements for fairness, and responsibility to ensure there are no wrongful convictions based upon false identification.
Identify the processes utilized by law enforcement in the identification of suspects.
Consider individuals making identifications, do so in error at times, others intentionally, or are led by law enforcement through improper actions i.e., prejudicial line-ups or photo arrays.
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Written Report on Documentary:
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
For this assignment view the video,
ENRON:
The Smartest Guys in the Room,
[1 hr. & 50 min].
Write a critique of the film in 4-5 page double-spaced paper.
Answer each of the following questions in your essay.
The written assessment of
Enron
is due according to Syllabus.
Submit a paper copy in class and also post it on BB website SafeAssign.
2.
Describe the dominant culture of ENRON and the subculture of Enron’s trading group.
3.
Do you believe that Enron’ failure is a result of the behavior of “a few bad men”, or a demonstration of the “dark shadow of the American dream”?
Explain.
4.
What did Skilling say is the only thing that motivates people?
Do you agree or disagree?
5.
Describe the PRC (performance review committee).
Why was it referred to as “rank and yank”?
What was its effect?
What is your opinion of the ethics of the practice?
6.
Describe Enron’s initiative on broadband technology.
7.
What was Arthur Andersen’s conflict of interest in regards to Enron?
What could have been done to prevent this conflict of interest?
8.
How did Skilling treat Fortune author Bethany McLean when she started asking questions about Enron’s financials?
Do you think this was a tactic, and if so, what did he hope to achieve by it?
9.
What are three important “takeaway” messages you learned from this documentary?
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Written Assignment:
Choose
a Part 121 air carrier
(such as American, Delta, Southwest, etc.) and provide data that shows how that enterprise has successfully employed competitive advantage obtained through the utilization of information technology to win and keep loyal customers or operate more efficiently in the reservations, maintenance, or operations departments. You may provide a historical example that would be found going back several decades. Learning from the past is a great way to succeed in the future.
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Written Assignment: Airline Product offering
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Europe’s Ryanair is well known for its cheap fares and bare-bones service. Europe’s old line network carriers including British Airways, Air France/KLM and Lufthansa, on the other hand, offer more choices and features within Europe and to major destinations worldwide. In Asia, low-cost-airlines are rapidly expanding in the marketplace. Air Asia and Jetstar are two of the larger LCCs (along with their various subsidiaries). Asia also is home to many full-service airlines such as Japan Airlines, Air China, Cathay Pacific, Singapore, and Korean Air.
In a short research paper, compare and contrast a chosen LCC with a full-service airline using Doganis’ 5 key product features as a framework (price, schedule, comfort, convenience, and image). Choose one or two city-pairs served by both carriers on which to base the comparison. Summarize your findings and emphasize critical differences. Extensive data, such as the ancillary fee structure, may be best presented in a table. Discuss the passenger segment(s) targeted by each airline. Next, compare the airlines’ profit history using a common metric such as margin on total revenue. Conclude with an evaluation of each carrier’s overarching business strategy. Explain your assessment of the most profitable strategy.
Upon reading the paper, a potential passenger should have the information needed to choose between the two airlines on the selected city-pair(s). Note:
Before beginning your research, ensure that the needed data are available from the airlines’ websites and other online sources.
Use APA style including a title page, table(s) or charts as appropriate, citations, reference list, running head, page numbers, and section headings. Of course, an introduction and conclusion are always appropriate. There is no page number requirement, but about six pages, not including title page, reference list, and appendices, should be sufficient.
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Writing Research Report: Based on a scientific article in a psychology journal . it should be no more than 2-3 pages in length. You are tosummarize and critically evaluate the article by:
- Identifying the purpose of the study (why did the authors conduct this study)
- Stating the hypotheses in the study
- Summarizing in sufficient detail the method used (procedure, materials, and participants)
- Reporting the results from the study and the general conclusions
Please try to choose a tobic that is related to
Memory
.
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Writing Reports
Which rules does an expert have to follow to prepare and submit a report?
What is destroying a report before the final resolution of a case called?
When writing a report what is the most important aspect of formatting?
Describe the guidelines for writing reports.
Explain how to use forensics tools to generate reports.
Explain the importance of reports.
All answers must be in complete sentences with references in APA format.
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Writing Assignment
Write approximately 1,750-2,000 words addressing the following questions:
•
How has globalization impacted health care in the United States?
•
In what ways and why are patients, workers, management practices, and health policies flowing across international borders?
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Writing Summaries of Secondary Sources
Summary Template:
In (
name of publication and date
), (
author’s name
) (
signal verb
, such as argues, promotes, claims—leading to statement of main argument or purpose) (
claim #1
) (
support of claim
) (
type of evidence or research for support
)
For book or academic article
In
The Cocktail Waitress: Woman’s Work in a Man’s World
(1975)
,
James Spradley and Brenda Mann
analyze
the gender roles within a middle class sports bar primarily from the perspective of the servers in the bar.
From their ethnographic research
,
Spradley and Mann
assert
that people’s behaviors and speech in the bar tend to promote traditionally masculine roles and values at the expense of both women servers and customers.
Spradley and Mann
support
their claims with evidence from Brenda Mann’s participant-observation as a waitress in the bar and through extensive ethnographic interviews with the waitresses.
For newspaper article
In
“How Suburban Design is Failing Teen-agers” from the New York Times, 1999,
William Hamilton
examines
claims from academic scholars and teenagers
that poorly planned suburban communities can lead to teenagers’ sense of alienation and disconnection from community.
Hamilton
reports
on the views of regional planners, adolescent psychologists, and architects as well as interviews with teenagers in troubled suburban areas such as Denver
to analyze
the implications of these problems
.
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1- Paragraph on the historical time and place to the quote.
2- Paragraph about the reason the person/character use the quote.
3- Paragraph on why you selected this quote.
Citation(s) for any material referenced.
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Written Assignment
Leadership competencies are among the many important topics discussed in the chapters read in this module. Click here for a list of 20 leadership and management skill areas.
For this assignment, please write approximately 1,750-2,000 words addressing the following prompts:
Part 1 (approximately 875-1,000 words)
•Select and assess three of these 20 skill areas in which you are strong and high-performing
•Select and assess three of these 20 skill areas in which you would like to improve and further develop professionally
Part 2 (approximately 875-1,000 words)
•Applying the list of 20 management and leadership skill areas, evaluate the roles that organizational leaders you know have played (positively and negatively) in influencing organizational culture, performance, and change
Below is a list of 20 leadership and management skill areas.
1. Patient-, family-, and community-centeredness
2. Knowledge of the health industry and responding/adapting to new developments
3. Leadership
4. Designing, structuring, prioritizing, and coordinating work to be done
5. Accomplishing goals by working through a diversity of others (e.g., diversity of professional levels, skills/knowledge/abilities, multicultural)
6. Professionalism, ethics, passion, compassion, and integrity
7. Communication (oral, written, listening), responsiveness, and trust-building
8. Motivating, coaching, training, developing, supervising, and handling multiple simultaneous responsibilities
9. Strategic planning
10. Relationship management and teamwork
11. Analytical/critical thinking and decision-making
12. Conflict management, negotiation, and resolution
13. Organizational analysis and improvement
14. Change management
15. Crisis management
16. Financial management and raising/managing capital
17. Computer skills and information management
18. Project management
19. Recruiting, retaining, applying, compensating, and evaluating human resources
20. Stress management
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Writing a participatory report on an Asian ethnic community in the region (4-5 pages, double-spaced, one-inch margin). It could be Chinatown, Japantown, or Koreantown in New York or any other community as long as it has a large Asian population living within the area. The report needs to discuss the spatial pattern, residential/commercial types, demographic information of residents, language spoken, and cultural landscapes of the Asian ethnic community.
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You are a community health educator and you have been tasked with developing a presentation to be given in a setting to educate an audience on one specific kind of diabetes.
Identify
your audience. Examples include the following:
Senior center
Middle school
A Workplace
Create
a 350- to 700-word resource as a way to share this information. Examples include the following:
A social media page
An information pamphlet
A presentation
Consider
the best method so it is crafted in an appropriate and understandable way for your identified audience.
Choose
from the two following options, which kind of diabetes you'll be reporting on:
Option A: Type I
How society views diabetes (what society thinks it is versus what it actually is, common beliefs and practices)
Signs and symptoms
Compliance with treatment regimens
Impact on health care resources
Option B: Type II
How society views diabetes (what society thinks it is versus what it actually is)
Preventive measures
Making the right decisions to live a healthy life
Compliance with common beliefs
Impact on health care resources
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You and your team have completed your fieldwork and have a handful o.docxShainaBoling829
You and your audit team have completed your fieldwork for an audit. As a senior staff member who may be promoted to manager, you need to instruct other staff on reviewing for contingent liabilities, letters from client lawyers, and subsequent events before issuing the audit report. This is to ensure nothing significant has occurred between completing fieldwork and reporting.
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The document discusses how technology and social media have increased media influence over what information the public receives and how they perceive events. It also notes that social media portrays false images that influence dress choices and cause some people to build their lives around social media celebrities rather than being themselves. The document advocates that people should not feel they need to follow the masses or media portrayals and instead be comfortable being themselves.
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Yes Richard I agree with you. The American Red Cross has been working alongside families and communities in Haiti for more than 10 years. When a 7.0 earthquake struck the country in 2010, Americans’ generosity has made this critical work possible. Thanks to donations from across the United States, American Red Cross continue to help Haitians recover from these disasters. They still provide food, water, medical care, sanitation and emergency shelter to families in need. Over the past seven years, they have funded more than 50 hospitals and clinics in Haiti and so much more.They continue working alongside the Haitian Red Cross to ensure that recovery is long-lasting and that families are prepared for future disasters that may come their way
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Wink argues that society creates the impression that some people are favored by God while others are rejected, based on attributes like appearance, wealth, gender, etc. There are benefits to going along with this system of unequal social hierarchies, but rejecting it challenges the entire structure. If God does not favor some over others based on accidents of birth, then the social order is a human construct established against God's nature of equality and justice for all.
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xxxxx comment 1
xxxxx, I believe America only sees left/right, liberal/conservative, one's race/others' race, one's religion/others' religion, etc. To be fair, there are important issues that we do face but the media has pulled both further from the center. This is done to keep us preoccupied in conflict so we ignore what is being done in front of our faces, which is politicians/media/wealthy elites are controlling the government/financial system/media to mold the public's views and what they buy. By them focusing on these secondary issues and differences, we are missing the root problem: money in politics. These legal bribes guarantee that we are not represented in legislation unless enough people oppose the current law.
Comment 2
Nicely said, it is amazing how money can be used to basically buy anything in the world, even our politicians. The Presidency, our Senators and Congressman, Governors, Mayor's and more. This allows for things like the rich getting richer and the poor or course getting poorer. It almost seems like there is no middle class anymore. Money plays a huge role in everyday life. Don't get me wrong, money and politicians has definitely been used in some cases for the good or doing the right thing. We cannot base everything evil or not perfect on money. We just have to be more responsible.
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WWTC Active Directory Design
WWTC office at New York is largely autonomous and few IT personnel to take care of day-to-day IT support activities such as password resets troubleshoot virus problems. You are concerned about sensitive data store in this location. You want to deploy a highly developed OU structure to implement security policies uniformly through GPO automatically at all domains, OU, and workstations.
At this location Windows Server 2012 R2 is required providing the following
10 AD features
:
1.
Use BitLocker encryption technology for devices (server and Work station) disc space and volume.
2.
Enables a BitLocker system on a wire
d network to automatically unlock the system volume during boot (on capable Windows Server 2012 R2 networks), reducing internal help desk call volumes for lost PINs.
3.
Create group policies settings to enforce that either Used Disk Space Only or Full Encryption is used when BitLocker is enabled on a drive.
4.
Enable BranchCache in Windows Server 2012 for substantial performance, manageability, scalability, and availability improvements
5.
Implement Cache Encryption to store encrypted data by default.
This allows you to ensure data security without using drive encryption technologies.
6.
Implement Failover cluster services
7.
Implement File classification infrastructure feature to provide automatic classification process.
8.
IP Address Management (IPAM) is an entirely new feature in Windows Server 2012 that provides highly customizable administrative and monitoring capabilities for the IP address infrastructure on a corporate network.
9.
Smart cards and their associated personal identification numbers (PINs) are an increasingly popular, reliable, and cost-effective form of two-factor authentication. With the right controls in place, a user must have the smart card and know the PIN to gain access to network resources.
10.
Implement Windows Deployment Services to enables you to remotely deploy Windows operating systems. You can use it to set up new computers by using a network-based installation.
Other AD Deliverables
:
Create Active directory infrastructure to include recommended features
Create OU level for users and devices in their respective OU
Create Global, Universal, Local group. Each global group will contain all users in the corresponding department. Membership in the universal group is restrictive and membership can be assigned on the basis of least privileged principle. (For design purpose, you can assume that WTC as a Single Forest with multiple domains).
Create appropriate GPO and GPO policies and determine where they will be applied
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Wrongful Convictions and the Utilization of Eyewitness Accounts
Write a 2 to 3 page paper responding to the following: APA FORMAT
Identify the ethical issues within the field of criminal investigation as applied to wrongful conviction based upon tainted or faulty line-ups.
In recent years we have seen many criminal convictions overturned for various reasons. One such reason is the “Eyewitness Account.”
Address the ethical responsibilities of law enforcement in their requirements for fairness, and responsibility to ensure there are no wrongful convictions based upon false identification.
Identify the processes utilized by law enforcement in the identification of suspects.
Consider individuals making identifications, do so in error at times, others intentionally, or are led by law enforcement through improper actions i.e., prejudicial line-ups or photo arrays.
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Written Report on Documentary:
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
For this assignment view the video,
ENRON:
The Smartest Guys in the Room,
[1 hr. & 50 min].
Write a critique of the film in 4-5 page double-spaced paper.
Answer each of the following questions in your essay.
The written assessment of
Enron
is due according to Syllabus.
Submit a paper copy in class and also post it on BB website SafeAssign.
2.
Describe the dominant culture of ENRON and the subculture of Enron’s trading group.
3.
Do you believe that Enron’ failure is a result of the behavior of “a few bad men”, or a demonstration of the “dark shadow of the American dream”?
Explain.
4.
What did Skilling say is the only thing that motivates people?
Do you agree or disagree?
5.
Describe the PRC (performance review committee).
Why was it referred to as “rank and yank”?
What was its effect?
What is your opinion of the ethics of the practice?
6.
Describe Enron’s initiative on broadband technology.
7.
What was Arthur Andersen’s conflict of interest in regards to Enron?
What could have been done to prevent this conflict of interest?
8.
How did Skilling treat Fortune author Bethany McLean when she started asking questions about Enron’s financials?
Do you think this was a tactic, and if so, what did he hope to achieve by it?
9.
What are three important “takeaway” messages you learned from this documentary?
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The document provides instructions for a written legislative profile assignment requiring the respondent to research and provide information about various elected officials representing their state and district. This includes identifying a US Senator and House Representative, as well as state-level Senators and House members. For each official, the respondent must provide biographical details, committee assignments, political views supported by quotes, and summaries of speeches found online. The instructions emphasize completing all questions, citing sources, avoiding plagiarism, and ensuring correct grammar, spelling and completeness.
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Written Assignment:
Choose
a Part 121 air carrier
(such as American, Delta, Southwest, etc.) and provide data that shows how that enterprise has successfully employed competitive advantage obtained through the utilization of information technology to win and keep loyal customers or operate more efficiently in the reservations, maintenance, or operations departments. You may provide a historical example that would be found going back several decades. Learning from the past is a great way to succeed in the future.
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This document provides instructions for a written assignment to write a 2-3 minute eulogy for a deceased or living person. Students are asked to write a manuscript as if transcribing what they would say at the eulogy, including an creative introduction, supporting details, and conclusion with transitions. They should not record a speech or provide an outline, but instead copy and paste the written word-for-word manuscript.
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Written Assignment: Airline Product offering
Airlines offer a variety of products ranging from the no-frills air transportation to international first class featuring amenity-filled cubicles with fully reclining seat/beds and attentive in-flight service. This assignment is intended to illustrate the variety of airline product offerings available and stimulate thinking about how best to serve the diverse wants and needs of passengers.
Europe’s Ryanair is well known for its cheap fares and bare-bones service. Europe’s old line network carriers including British Airways, Air France/KLM and Lufthansa, on the other hand, offer more choices and features within Europe and to major destinations worldwide. In Asia, low-cost-airlines are rapidly expanding in the marketplace. Air Asia and Jetstar are two of the larger LCCs (along with their various subsidiaries). Asia also is home to many full-service airlines such as Japan Airlines, Air China, Cathay Pacific, Singapore, and Korean Air.
In a short research paper, compare and contrast a chosen LCC with a full-service airline using Doganis’ 5 key product features as a framework (price, schedule, comfort, convenience, and image). Choose one or two city-pairs served by both carriers on which to base the comparison. Summarize your findings and emphasize critical differences. Extensive data, such as the ancillary fee structure, may be best presented in a table. Discuss the passenger segment(s) targeted by each airline. Next, compare the airlines’ profit history using a common metric such as margin on total revenue. Conclude with an evaluation of each carrier’s overarching business strategy. Explain your assessment of the most profitable strategy.
Upon reading the paper, a potential passenger should have the information needed to choose between the two airlines on the selected city-pair(s). Note:
Before beginning your research, ensure that the needed data are available from the airlines’ websites and other online sources.
Use APA style including a title page, table(s) or charts as appropriate, citations, reference list, running head, page numbers, and section headings. Of course, an introduction and conclusion are always appropriate. There is no page number requirement, but about six pages, not including title page, reference list, and appendices, should be sufficient.
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Writing Research Report Based on a scientific article in a psycholo.docxShainaBoling829
Writing Research Report: Based on a scientific article in a psychology journal . it should be no more than 2-3 pages in length. You are tosummarize and critically evaluate the article by:
- Identifying the purpose of the study (why did the authors conduct this study)
- Stating the hypotheses in the study
- Summarizing in sufficient detail the method used (procedure, materials, and participants)
- Reporting the results from the study and the general conclusions
Please try to choose a tobic that is related to
Memory
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Writing ReportsWhich rules does an expert have to follow to prepar.docxShainaBoling829
Writing Reports
Which rules does an expert have to follow to prepare and submit a report?
What is destroying a report before the final resolution of a case called?
When writing a report what is the most important aspect of formatting?
Describe the guidelines for writing reports.
Explain how to use forensics tools to generate reports.
Explain the importance of reports.
All answers must be in complete sentences with references in APA format.
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Writing AssignmentWrite approximately 1,750-2,000 words addr.docxShainaBoling829
Writing Assignment
Write approximately 1,750-2,000 words addressing the following questions:
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How has globalization impacted health care in the United States?
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In what ways and why are patients, workers, management practices, and health policies flowing across international borders?
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Writing Summaries of Secondary Sources
Summary Template:
In (
name of publication and date
), (
author’s name
) (
signal verb
, such as argues, promotes, claims—leading to statement of main argument or purpose) (
claim #1
) (
support of claim
) (
type of evidence or research for support
)
For book or academic article
In
The Cocktail Waitress: Woman’s Work in a Man’s World
(1975)
,
James Spradley and Brenda Mann
analyze
the gender roles within a middle class sports bar primarily from the perspective of the servers in the bar.
From their ethnographic research
,
Spradley and Mann
assert
that people’s behaviors and speech in the bar tend to promote traditionally masculine roles and values at the expense of both women servers and customers.
Spradley and Mann
support
their claims with evidence from Brenda Mann’s participant-observation as a waitress in the bar and through extensive ethnographic interviews with the waitresses.
For newspaper article
In
“How Suburban Design is Failing Teen-agers” from the New York Times, 1999,
William Hamilton
examines
claims from academic scholars and teenagers
that poorly planned suburban communities can lead to teenagers’ sense of alienation and disconnection from community.
Hamilton
reports
on the views of regional planners, adolescent psychologists, and architects as well as interviews with teenagers in troubled suburban areas such as Denver
to analyze
the implications of these problems
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Writing Reflection: 1-page paper reflection on this quotation:/ " If you don't like what's being said, change the conversation " The paper include 3 paragraphs.
1- Paragraph on the historical time and place to the quote.
2- Paragraph about the reason the person/character use the quote.
3- Paragraph on why you selected this quote.
Citation(s) for any material referenced.
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Written Assignment
Leadership competencies are among the many important topics discussed in the chapters read in this module. Click here for a list of 20 leadership and management skill areas.
For this assignment, please write approximately 1,750-2,000 words addressing the following prompts:
Part 1 (approximately 875-1,000 words)
•Select and assess three of these 20 skill areas in which you are strong and high-performing
•Select and assess three of these 20 skill areas in which you would like to improve and further develop professionally
Part 2 (approximately 875-1,000 words)
•Applying the list of 20 management and leadership skill areas, evaluate the roles that organizational leaders you know have played (positively and negatively) in influencing organizational culture, performance, and change
Below is a list of 20 leadership and management skill areas.
1. Patient-, family-, and community-centeredness
2. Knowledge of the health industry and responding/adapting to new developments
3. Leadership
4. Designing, structuring, prioritizing, and coordinating work to be done
5. Accomplishing goals by working through a diversity of others (e.g., diversity of professional levels, skills/knowledge/abilities, multicultural)
6. Professionalism, ethics, passion, compassion, and integrity
7. Communication (oral, written, listening), responsiveness, and trust-building
8. Motivating, coaching, training, developing, supervising, and handling multiple simultaneous responsibilities
9. Strategic planning
10. Relationship management and teamwork
11. Analytical/critical thinking and decision-making
12. Conflict management, negotiation, and resolution
13. Organizational analysis and improvement
14. Change management
15. Crisis management
16. Financial management and raising/managing capital
17. Computer skills and information management
18. Project management
19. Recruiting, retaining, applying, compensating, and evaluating human resources
20. Stress management
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Writing a participatory report on an Asian ethnic community in the r.docxShainaBoling829
Writing a participatory report on an Asian ethnic community in the region (4-5 pages, double-spaced, one-inch margin). It could be Chinatown, Japantown, or Koreantown in New York or any other community as long as it has a large Asian population living within the area. The report needs to discuss the spatial pattern, residential/commercial types, demographic information of residents, language spoken, and cultural landscapes of the Asian ethnic community.
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Find a journal article that reports an important specific stress r
1. Find a journal article that reports an important specific stress
related topic. The articles must be published in a professional
journal within the past 2 years. Write a 2-page paper (double-
spaced APA style) in which you do the following:
1. Give the complete citation of the article.
2. Summarize the findings.
3. Explain the most interesting elements regarding stress and
how this could be useful information.
Attach a copy of the journal article.
Online Activity
Introduction:
Pick a particular cultural event that you’re interested in
(quinceanera party for Mexicans, specific culture’s wedding,
male initiation rituals) Write an introductory paragraph based
on the research you find on the topic.
Body: (3 Paragraphs)
for the next three paragraphs find something from each one of
the three readings that you can connect to cultural event you
chose. Reference or quote what you find from each reading that
connects to the cultural event in your three paragraphs. The
three paragraphs should be about: 1- Language 2- Kinship 3-
Gender.
Your 3 online sources HAVE TO BE VIDEOS. Provide the link
for the video in the references sheet.
Conclusion
References:
Reference 3 online videos you used for the your essay.
Essay must be 5 paragraphs long and must follow the prompts
above.
2. O R I G I N A L P A P E R
Undisclosed Paternal Identity in Narratives of Distress Among
Young People in Eastern Cape, South Africa
Mzikazi Nduna • Rachel Jewkes
Published online: 17 July 2010
� Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010
Abstract Life trajectories of children with no connec-
tions to support from their fathers have received research
attention. Within this group is a sub-group who do not
know their fathers and no research has attempted to
understand their experiences. We present accounts of how
young South Africans deal with and seek to uncover
undisclosed paternity. Forty young men and women aged
16 to 22 volunteered to participate in a qualitative study on
distress that was conducted in the Eastern Cape Province.
All interviews were conducted in isiXhosa, following a
semi-structured guide. Our findings show that interest in
father identity was motivated by harsh circumstances in the
3. maternal home, notably when financial difficulties, exclu-
sion from critical decision making and bullying by non-
biological siblings were felt. The search for father identity
was pursued in solitude by some participants: their fear of
elders’ response restrained them from asking. Some
thought that it would be interpreted as being disrespectful
and ungrateful to ask ‘such a question’, whilst others
worried that they might be victimized or, worse, thrown out
by their mothers or maternal guardians. We present
accounts of accidental disclosures by strangers and also
inadvertent involvement in an incestuous relationship.
Open and honest communication with children about their
paternal identity should be promoted to prevent the cur-
rents of silence, secrecy and anxiety, and avoid unpleasant
surprises for the children.
Keywords Family � Father � Paternity � Youth �
South Africa
Introduction
Children’s experience of undisclosed paternity has
4. received no specific research attention. This phenomenon is
mentioned in passing with reference to absent fathers in
studies of family life, masculinity, fatherhood, orphanhood
and poverty (Denis and Ntsimane 2006; Eddy 2009;
Freeman and Nkomo 2006; Hunter 2006; Kane-Berman
2009; Madhavan et al. 2008; May and Norton 1997; Moore
1988; Ramphele and Richter 2006; Townsend et al. 2005).
Yet there is a difference between absent fathers and
undisclosed paternal identity. ‘Absent fathers’ is a broad
category, and studies from South Africa report on the
demographics, causes, increase and possible impact of
absent African fathers but do not report on the experiences
and how children are affected when paternal identity was
unknown to them (Coovadia et al. 2009; Denis and
Ntsimane 2006; Department of Health, Medical Research
Council, and Measure DHS? 2002; Department of Health,
Medical Research Council and OrcMacro 2007; Eddy
2009; Freeman and Nkomo 2006; Jewkes et al. 2006;
5. Kane-Berman 2009; Madhavan et al. 2008; Posel and
Devey 2006). Sometimes children with absent fathers may
not know their father and this causes problems. For exam-
ple, in a study conducted in the Mpumalanga province,
24% of the 315 children aged 10 and 11 did not have any
connection with their fathers, sometimes the biological
father was genuinely unknown to the mother, child, and
other kin (Townsend et al. 2005). In other cases a father
maybe known to the mother (and possibly more widely),
but he had never acknowledged paternity (Datta 2007;
M. Nduna (&)
Department of Psychology, University of Witwatersrand,
Private Bag X3, WITS, 2050 Johannesburg, South Africa
e-mail: [email protected]
R. Jewkes
Gender and Health Research Unit, Medical Research Council,
Pretoria, South Africa
123
J Child Fam Stud (2011) 20:303–310
6. DOI 10.1007/s10826-010-9393-4
Denis and Ntsimane 2006; Hunter 2006; Nduna and
Maseko 2008).
Research on adolescence shows this to be a time when
the need for family belonging and identity becomes par-
ticularly strong and children generally have a need to know
their parents (Plotnik 1999; Ramphele and Richter 2006;
Sebastian et al. 2008; Thomas 1992; Turney 2005; Weiten
2001; Zimardo et al. 1993). Evidence to support this comes
from qualitative research with adults in Botswana. Partic-
ipants said that where paternal identity was undisclosed,
they started asking questions during their adolescence
about their fathers and wanted to find them (Datta 2007).
Similar findings emerged from women in South Africa
whose children asked them to disclose true paternity (Denis
and Ntsimane 2006). However, there is limited under-
standing of the specific dimensions of family functioning
7. that prompt this. In this paper, through participants’
accounts, we demonstrate how maternal family circum-
stances breed a sense of both physical and emotional
insecurity for children who have no knowledge of, and no
connection with their biological fathers.
Method
We conducted a phenomenological study in distress in
Butterworth, a small town in the predominantly rural
province of the Eastern Cape in South Africa. This district
has three suburbs, seven townships, eight informal settle-
ments and 25 rural villages. Residents are mainly Black
Africans of the AmaMfengu tribe, mostly Christians and in
the low to middle class. We recruited youth aged between
16 and 24 who were either in or out of school. Volunteers
came to know about the study through a research assistant,
a study announcement made at two local high schools
through life skills teachers, and by word of mouth.
A snowball approach best describes the recruitment strat-
8. egy (Speziale and Carpenter 2007). In isiXhosa, we
described the study in information sheets as research about
young people and their life experiences; we described the
study selection procedures, its voluntary nature and meth-
ods of information collection. We sent information sheets
to the research assistant a month before field work began so
that they are distributed to potential participants. On the
day of data collection, we re-emphasized information about
the study in order to ascertain that volunteers were aware of
the details in the information sheets. All participants gave
written consent for the interview to be audio-recorded.
In September 2007 and April 2008 we interviewed a
total of 40 young people at venues as agreed with the
participants: either at school or in the researcher’s car. On
the few occasions when visual privacy could not be
guaranteed, auditory privacy was always ensured. We
conducted all interviews in isiXhosa following a
semi-structured interview guide. Each interview took about
9. an hour. We asked participants to recall and describe a life
experience that bothered them or caused them pain,
describe how they think the experience affected their daily
life, how others (family, relatives or anybody else)
responded and what attempts at resolution did they explore.
We transcribed interviews verbatim and translated them
into English. We obtained ethical approval for the study
from the University of Witwatersrand and we used
pseudonyms for participants during transcription.
During the research process we paid particular attention
to representing the participant’s experiences accurately.
The first author for this paper originates from the same
place, bringing a deep, insider view to the lives of the
people under study. This strengthens the validity of the
interpretation of findings (O’Connor and Gibson 2003).
Both authors have worked with young people in this area
on interventions and research, which enhances their cred-
ibility and cultural knowledge. After the initial preliminary
10. analysis, we run a workshop in Butterworth to present the
findings and see whether they fitted with the community’s
experience; this is called member checking and is a rec-
ommended way to confirm the credibility of qualitative
findings (Speziale and Carpenter 2007).
The sample consisted of 24 females and 16 males, half
under and half over 18. Twenty-seven of the participants
were high school students, 10 were enrolled at the
University of Technology and three were out of school but
unemployed. Eight of those in high schools were over the
age of 18. All were still under parental care. Thirty had
lived most of their lives in the townships whilst the other
10 predominantly grew up in villages. Sixteen were living
with a primary caregiver who was neither their biological
mother nor father. Five had lost both parents, 10 had lost a
father only and six a mother only. The longest period of
loss of a parent was 10 years and the shortest was 2 years.
Pain associated with the narration was deeply personal and
11. profoundly disabling for many participants, as it was in an
intimate arena of their familial lives. For some participants,
sharing their stories was seen as a journey of healing.
We offered a referral to the social workers for participants
who appeared extremely distressed in telling their stories.
None of them took the offer, a choice that was respected.
For some participants the pain remained intensely private—
not even to be discussed with closest of family and friends.
We analyzed the data following conventional qualitative
approaches and recommendations for phenomenological
studies (Babbie 2008; Speziale and Carpenter 2007).
During the process of coding we clustered together similar
elements from the narratives and labeled them as themes.
We identified the theme of ‘unknown father’ as dominant
in different narratives. Twenty-one of the 40 respondents
304 J Child Fam Stud (2011) 20:303–310
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12. spoke about absent fathers as their main source of distress.
At the time of the interview, some had hints about their
father’s name, clan, surname, and place of origin or work,
but had no connection with him. As this was a recurring
and pronounced theme, all narratives that referred to this
were further coded to look at meanings attached to the
experience and responses of significant others when the
question of father identity was asked. The focused analysis
resulted in this paper. We have presented exhaustive
descriptions of broader findings on distress from the study
elsewhere (Nduna 2010; Nduna and Jewkes 2010).
Results
We present findings on how participants approached and
dealt with the question of unknown father identity. Silence
from mothers about the identity of the father caused feel -
ings of insecurity, anxiety and frustration for the partici-
pants. Participants described how interest in their father’s
identity started in the middle to late teens, although some
13. learnt about their fathers from the village when much
younger. We also show how an inadvertent case of incest
was both an opportunity to discover the true identity of a
father and a bitter consequence of undisclosed true
paternity.
Motivations for Seeking Paternal Disclosure
Participants’ motivations for seeking to know their fathers
differed, but in the main, they responded to financial
hardships and physical and emotional abuse from maternal
relatives and stepparents. Financial contributions towards
clothes, food and education defined the material value of
the absent father, beyond identity completion. For example,
Sipho (male, 22), like others, worried about his mother’s
inability to raise money to ensure that he could complete
high school, and this prompted his questions about his
father. Sipho said:
‘‘…Last year here at school they were asking us for
school fees, R400…She [mom] said she did not have
money…I asked her ‘what about my father where is
14. he? You once told me he is a teacher’…’’
When we met him for the interview Sipho was among
the students who had not paid tuition fees for the current
year and possible school exclusion worried him. The theme
of hardships prevailed and it was a motivation for Phakama
(female, 18) to run away from her maternal home where
they would go ‘‘…without food and could not afford
school…’’. She was a maternal orphan whose maternal
grandparents would not allow her to know about her father.
Some of the participants did not stay with their mothers, or
the mothers were unemployed or had died. In the absence
of their mothers and with no knowledge of their fathers,
they often occupied a particularly low status in their homes
and had no one to stand up for them. This experience
motivated Phakama to follow leads as to her father’s
whereabouts, in the hope of breaking away from the pov-
erty of her maternal home. She discovered that her father
was a teacher, and so ran away to find him. Phakama was
living with her father at the time of the interview. Others
15. described times when they were bullied by cousins and
relatives. They talked about moving between homes to be
cared for by different uncles and aunts, resulting in dis-
rupted education. At homes they felt that they were asked
to do heavier work and were punished through severe
beatings, especially by uncles. They understood that the
fact that they ‘did not have a father’ explained the harsh
treatment they received.
Chuma’s (male, 17) father denied that he was respon-
sible for the pregnancy and left his mother unsupported.
She married another man. Chuma’s narrative focused on
his experience with his stepfather, who painfully and
consistently reminded him that he was not his father.
Chuma felt unloved and rejected, and he perceived his
presence in his home to be a source of marital conflict
between his mother and step-father. Even though his
stepfather had a job in the government as a civil servant,
they were short of money even for rent, and had to move to
16. a village. This was a sign of social demotion. Chuma made
money working as a vendor after school, selling sweets,
vegetables and other items, a source of both pride and pain.
As he said: ‘‘…I was playing a father’s role of making sure
that I support my mother to put food on the table…’’:
meanwhile she had not given him a clue about the
whereabouts of his father.
Not all were so disadvantaged and Nkosazana’s narra-
tive shows that where money was available and familial
kindness forthcoming, paternal identity was less of an
issue. Her maternal family was well placed to fully provide
support. Her maternal uncle, a teacher, met her financial
and emotional needs. She never enquired about her father
and did not keep his contact details even after she had met
him. She said: ‘‘…When we met I did not have any unmet
needs, I’m being provided with everything that I need…’’.
This contention was rare in the other narratives.
Status and Recognition in Maternal Homes
A socially recognized connection through paternity legiti -
mizes claims of belonging and improves the status of
17. children in their homes. Though the treatment of children
and their levels of involvement in decision-making vary
from family to family, we uncovered complaints of being
excluded from decision making by some participants with
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absent fathers. Others said they felt like outsiders and
during family conflicts they were sometimes told that they
did not belong to the home. This made them feel insecure
as they felt that their situation allowed them to be black-
mailed and abused. Some felt that they were being chased
out of the home and indeed had moved out. According to
Donga’s narrative conflict did not always evoke feelings of
being an outsider. Donga (male, 20) grew up with his
mother and was content with her financial and emotional
support. Donga had just come out of ukwaluka and was
ikrwala [a new man]. ‘Ukwaluka’ is a rite of passage for
18. amaXhosa boys that comprise a series of rituals in African
traditional religion upon which status change to manhood
is acknowledged (Mager 1998; Mavundla et al. 2009;
Mekoa 2003). The ritual involves sending boys, usually at
age 18, to a 4-week initiation school, after which they
should forsake boyish behavior and assume adult behavior.
The boy’s father, his male relatives and elderly men in the
community, as custodians of the tradition, play a significant
role in initiating the boy. Donga reflected on his father’s
expected role as someone who, he hoped, would help him
to enter manhood and ensure that his new status would be
taken seriously. He complained that in his maternal home
‘‘…Sometimes you find that there is umsebenzi [traditional
ceremony or ritual] to be done at home and find that I have
not been informed…at the end I am a man and I belong to
this home; there is no other home that I know of…’’. The
‘umsebenzi’ [traditional ceremony] referred to here was
held at his village home a few weeks before we met him for
the interview. These ceremonies are customary in the
Xhosa tradition and have significance for family members.
19. Usually sacrifices to the ancestors are made; those who are
present are believed to receive ancestral blessings. He felt
undermined as a man that his mother did not tell him about
it and he interpreted it in terms of his absent father and as a
sign of his unrecognized social status within his maternal
home.
Asking Questions
We asked participants if they ever asked their mothers or
other relevant adults about the identity and whereabouts of
their fathers. Most said that questioning mothers or other
guardians about paternal identity was uncomfortable.
Again and again they spoke about avoiding asking ‘‘such a
question’’. This quote from Donga supports this:
Sometimes you feel like asking the parent that you
currently stay with, in my case my mother but you
also have that fear and find that you are unable to ask
such a question so that’s what is really bothering
me…I just lock myself in my room thinking that if
20. my father was around things would have been dif-
ferent so I do cry sometimes but not loud…When I
see other [young] females don’t want their children
to know their fathers then I ask myself if that
particular woman knows the pain that the child
will go through because I know it from experi-
ence…I am here without the knowledge of who
my father is…
Participants instinctively felt that they might be looked
at and treated differently after asking such a question; or,
worse, they might be thrown out of the house for being
‘ungrateful’ to their single mothers. For example, Donga
said: ‘‘…I am avoiding my mother…so I am avoiding the
fact that when she sees me crying she would want to find
out why, then I would say it’s because my father…That’s
what I hate whereas she raised me alone up to this stage so
I think she would ask why am I only asking about my father
now…’’. For others it was a topic that had never been
discussed at home and so they were loath to raise it,
intuitively feeling that it was potentially explosive.
21. Interestingly, for males, a strategic opportunity arose to
ask. During preparations for ukwaluka (initiation school),
consultation with the father is important. Normally, imbe-
leko should precede ukwaluka. Imbeleko is a sacrificial
ritual in which a newly born child, as a new member of the
family, is introduced to a clan of ancestors (Kuckertz 1990;
Mkhize 2006). Boys raised by their mother’s family can
have these rituals done under the auspices of their maternal
family. When Donga (male, 20) and Sipho (male, 22) were
preparing to go to the initiation school, a traditional healer
advised that Donga’s father be involved in the initiation,
and asked who the father was. Sipho’s uncles suggested to
the boys’ mothers that it was important to invite and
involve the fathers, or their clan members, so as to initiate
connections with ancestors. Sipho’s uncle suggested that he
should have his imbeleko done first ‘‘…with the knowledge,
presence and participation of my father…’’. Both boys
were frustrated that their mothers neither heeded the call to
invite the fathers, nor disclosed their fathers. Donga’s elder
22. brother dismissed this question, saying that he too did not
know his own father and he were initiated by his maternal
family. Both Sipho and Donga were very appreciative of
their mothers, and ultimately they did not contest under-
going initiation under their maternal families. Thus, the
boys missed the opportunity provided by ukwaluka.
Donga’s mother was adamant about establishing her posi-
tion, and, in fact, she used the opportunity during umgidi
[the return from the initiations school ceremony] to pub-
licly announce that ‘‘…she is my mother and father at the
same time, there is no one else…’’. She clearly knew that
her son was waiting for her answer to the question posed by
the traditional healer and her making this statement
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publicly further restrained Donga from ever asking again;
as he said ‘‘…I decided not to ask any question again…I
never asked that at all…’’.
Open Secrets
23. Despite the frustrating and daunting silence, some partici-
pants stated that they felt that they were old enough to be
able to handle the truth even if they had to keep it secret,
and few asked either their mothers or aunts who their
fathers were. Responses varied, but after the child dis-
covered truth on their own some mothers said they were
‘‘waiting until the right time’’ to tell them. In an account of
undisclosed adoption, a drunken man told Nombeko
(female, 22) that the woman she knew as her older sister
was actually her mother (she was being raised by her
maternal grandparents). Nombeko did some research in the
village and among other things she leant who her father
was. Nombeko said ‘‘… each time I asked, my grand-
mother shouted or beat me…’’ for asking about informa-
tion she heard from the street. She said: ‘‘…By the time
I asked I needed to confirm something that I already knew,
I needed to hear it from an adult…from my own family…
so I gave up…’’ Nombeko described with bitterness how
her family’s response strained their relationship and caused
her more confusion.
24. In another open secret, neighbours introduced Phakama
(female, 18) to her brother, from another mother. Her half-
brother persuaded her to go 80 km to the town of Butter-
worth to meet their father because he ‘‘… needed…’’ her,
but he could not come and ask her grandparents because he
‘‘…did not pay damages…’’. ‘Damages’ refer to a tradi-
tional form of accepting paternity in the event of a preg-
nancy that happen out-of-wedlock. It is in the form of
payment due from a man to the woman’s family. Failure to
pay damages following pregnancy meant that grandparents
did not allow the father to come and visit his child.
Phakama’s paternal family lived in the same village but her
maternal grandparents would not allow them near her
because ‘‘…they would steal and take me to my father in
Butterworth…I didn’t know my father, I only heard from
people that he is Butterworth, he is like this and that…’’.
Phakama did not discuss her discovery of her father with
her maternal grandparents as she thought it would be
unacceptable; she and her step-brother ran away from their
respective maternal homes to stay with their father.
Participants invariably brought news they heard about their
25. father’s identities home. Nkosazana was aged 13 when she
went back home to ask her family about the man in the
street who told her that he was her father- her family
welcomed the discussion.
Incest: Discovering the Truth and a Bitter Consequence
of Undisclosed Paternity
There are many opportunities for sexual encounters among
the youth in the communities we studied, as they attended
the same schools, played in the same streets and used the
same shops. Phakama was in her early teens, and she said
she once overheard her father saying that he had fourteen
children; since she had not met many of them, she worried
about potential incest. Such worries cannot be dismissed,
as incest was a pathway to discovery of true paternity for
Siyabonga (male, 19). He said:
…My girlfriend came to visit me at my home and my
mother saw her and asked me if we knew each other,
I said yes. She said that ‘it is good that kids of the
26. same father know each other…if your father was still
alive he would be very happy to see you toge-
ther’…the girl and I had no clue what she was saying
about ‘your father’…
In hindsight he realized that, in the course of his long-
standing relationship with the girl, some villagers had made
suggestive comments that they looked alike, but they were
oblivious to the implications, as they had no clue to their
fathers’ identities. Siyabonga was conceived as a result of
rape, and his (late) father rejected responsibility, which
could explain why his mother kept this a secret. This
severely affected him. He lashed out at his mother and even
accused her of having killed his father through witchcraft;
later he displayed an array of behavioral problems,
including drinking, disappearing from home, pick-pocket-
ing and bunking school. He was angry with his mother for
not telling him the truth much earlier. He got confused
about different versions of the truth and even attempted
suicide.
27. Discussion
Our findings suggest that seeking paternal identity was not
only about establishing identity, as theories of adolescence
may suggest; rather, in the context of poverty, the primary
motivation was to get support from the father. In large
families where three generations often lived in one house
with no one working poverty and hardship were pro-
nounced. In today’s economic context, where 75% of
African children in South Africa are reported to live in
income poverty, financial hardship places extreme pressure
on families; this results in a lack of basic necessities such
as food and money for schooling (Eddy 2009; Mkhize
2006). As reported here, when resources were limited, and
family membership was viewed in terms of access to
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family resources this provided a motivation for restricting
28. family membership which generated intrafamilial conflict
and raises challenges related to family adoption for chil -
dren who do not know their fathers. In these circumstances
some participants responded at an intrapsychic level and
felt themselves to be additional and unnecessary burdens.
Other’s responses operated at an interpersonal level by
accusing their mothers of hiding information from them.
However, considering the broader context of poverty, the
suffering borne by the participants may not always have
been motivated by evil on the side of the guardians.
Families may have been ripped apart simply because they
had fallen on hard times brought about by illness, death and
poverty. This is illustrated in another paper (Nduna and
Jewkes 2010). These situations challenge the assumption
that a child born out of wedlock will be taken care of by
maternal grandparents, guaranteed lineage, social position,
ancestral protection and material support (Datta 2007;
Euler et al. 2001; Jewkes et al. 2009; Kaufman et al. 2001;
29. Kuckertz 1990; Malherbe 2006, 2007; Risseeuw and
Palriwala 1996), more so for children with no connection
and no knowledge of their fathers.
Physical suffering, emotional starvation, and the cold
absence of love, tenderness and care were some of the
motivations for seeking paternal identity as identified in
this paper. Participants talked about having nobody to turn
to and in their eyes this was personalized and they blamed
those who acted as their guardians for hiding their true
paternity. Failures by both the mother and the unknown
father to offer proper care to the children rendered them
powerless, voiceless and the most vulnerable members of
the extended family households where some lived. Harsh
treatment by relatives led to participants’ perceptions of
weakened family loyalties, and left questions about their
safety under maternal uncles. This increased their moti-
vation to want to know their own fathers. Psychological
theories contend that adolescence is a period of evaluation
30. when children start to monitor the social world around
them, interpret others’ behaviors and question intentions
(Plotnik 1999; Santrock 2005). Our participants interpreted
the actions of maternal relatives as sinister. We argue that
whilst participants were incorporated by their maternal
families, narratives of exploitation, differential treatment,
blackmail, abuse by relatives and loveless households that
were utterly characterized by conflicts posed questions for
assumptions about traditional and time-honored role of
families in protecting children. Supporting research
showing that security is not always guaranteed for children
in maternal homes (Freeman and Nkomo 2006; Risseeuw
and Palriwala 1996; Shaffer 2002) more so when they do
not have connection to their fathers.
On the male participants’ side, frustrations of undis-
closed father identity were rooted in tensions around
perceptions of their ‘adult’ status.The two males felt that
their age and the manly status acquired through tradition
31. entitled them to expect a more open adult relationship with
their mothers. They were disappointed that their mothers
were not ready to talk to them openly even when an
opportunity presented itself during preparations for ukwa-
luka. The desired role of the biological father in prepara-
tion for initiation school emanating from the belief in
ancestral protection (Datta 2007; Morrell and Richter
2006) was an opportunity that could have been utilized for
disclosure. The search for the father can be facilitated or
thwarted by different responses. The silence could also
speak volumes about the circumstances of pregnancy.
As children, participants did not have the authority get
adults to listen to them. Lack of communication can be
interpreted as a sign of negative family functioning. On the
child’s side, knowing one’s father might be expected to
heal the pain; children felt that perhaps this should start
with the mothers acknowledging the great wrong that has
been done by not disclosing father identity to their chil-
32. dren. Parents’ common response that they were waiting for
the right time—though these narratives came from children
older than the age of 18, which is considered the age of
maturity—reflected what has been identified as parents’
ambivalent feelings about their children being adults
(Santrock 1992, 2005; Shaffer 2002). However, the
extended family and neighbors helped participants in some
instances to discover the identities and whereabouts of their
true fathers.
These findings show that where lies were told, or truths
untold, the pain was significant for the participants. How -
ever, the silent search suggested that asking about father’s
identity required carefully balancing the need to show
respect and gratitude to the mother with the need to know.
Adolescence is usually presented as a stage characterized
by conflict with parents (Rice 1984; Shaffer 2002; Thomas
1992). These youths, by not asking, avoided conflict with
their mothers. We saw them display what (Santrock 1992)
33. and (Shaffer 2002) argue is an adolescent’s heightened
awareness of others and an ability to detect contextual or
situational variability. The following interpretation is
germane.
Firstly, they considered that they might be victimized if
they asked questions. Participants were concerned that
asking questions might be interpreted as disrespectful by
adults. And in African society, respect, expressed through
unquestioning obedience, is a very important value taught
to children (Jewkes et al. 2005; Mekoa 2003). The ‘respect’
expected of them functioned as psychological control to
constrain verbal expression of feelings, and induced feel -
ings of guilt on their side. However, respect did not stop
them from blaming their mothers for hiding the truth and
holding ulterior motives. The self-restraint displayed here,
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34. we argue, could result in suppressed anxiety and distress,
and, with no intervention, could contribute to serious
depression. Secondly, after evaluating the volatility of the
environment, some participants said they decided not to tell
at home when they discovered the truth. They used infor-
mation to create a sense of autonomy for themselves and
found ways to join their fathers.
Parents employed different strategies in dealing with the
question; most were not satisfactory to the children as dis-
closure was rarely an outcome. The question was dismissed
by parents as unimportant, invalidating the children’s
interest. And in response to not being told the truth, or to
inappropriate discovery of the truth, participants expressed
feelings of loneliness and sadness, of being unwanted,
unloved, uncared for, worthless, angry, confused and
rejected. These feelings were also associated with an
attempted suicide by the male participant who was involved
in an incestuous relationship, an indication that inappropri -
35. ate disclosure can cause a seriously distressing situation,
especially in a case involving social taboos and offensive -
ness around within clan sex (Guma and Henda 2004;
Niehaus 2002). How children and families handle undis-
closed father identity is very important in order to prevent
negative psychological impact. Feelings of isolation from a
clique that knows; being fearful and anxious; experiencing
rejection when one has finally asked; and lack of confidence
in people that one is emotionally connected to, such as
mothers, were all described in depth by participants and
these are ingredients that in the long term, these feelings
might lead to depression and suicidal behavior.
Limitations
This paper is based on a limited number of interviews from
a particular community and it is possible that more inter-
views could have reflected other issues surrounding
undisclosed paternity. One interview was conducted with
each participant, and these did not contain full life histo-
36. ries, which might have given more contexts to issues sur-
rounding undisclosed paternity and its implications. It is
critical that parents’ voices are also heard if we are to fully
understand the challenges faced by the youth. These find-
ings do not imply that paternal identity and disclosure are
always distressing experiences for youth, as it is possible
that youth who had smoothly resolved this did not volun-
teer for the study.
Conclusion
In this paper we have identified the ‘‘need to know one’s
father’’ as important in youth, but it is undoubtedly linked
to many other negative experiences in this setting. This
paper shows that the value placed by the youth on paternal
identity became especially important in the face of adver -
sity, conflicts in the maternal home, and a desire to improve
(often very difficult) financial circumstances. The implicit
universalizing and naturalistic assumption that the maternal
family satisfactorily provides a home for all ignores the
37. effect of poverty on some households in South Africa.
A real fear of asking mothers about fathers’ identity in a
bid to avoid conflict was notable here, suggesting that
families needed support to help them develop strategies to
dialogue the issue of paternal identity. It is highly possible
that embarrassments, distress, incest and some suicide
attempts could be prevented by early disclosure.
Acknowledgments This study was supported by funding
received
from the Ford Foundation through the Africa Regional Sexuality
Resources Centre, the Faculty of Humanities and the Carnegie
Fel-
lowship Awards received from the University of Witwatersrand.
We
thank all the participants who volunteered their time on the
project
and colleagues who provided feedback throughout the writing
pro-
cess, in particular Yandisa Sikweyiya and Lindiwe Farlane for
their
insightful comments on earlier drafts.
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