Describe a recent conflict or negative situation with someone you are in a relationship with something that really pushed your buttons.

We all have core fears, although we often don’t realize this. When we don’t learn to manage our own core fears when they have been provoked, we often find ourselves engaged within a tango of fear. We see this frequently in marriages. When one spouse’s core fear is set off, then the reactionary response to that personal fear often triggers the core fear of the other spouse. What results is a cyclical response, otherwise known as the Fear Dance (Smalley & Paul, 2006)?
1. Read Chapters 5, 6, and Appendix A from The DNA of Relationships for Couples.
2. Answer the two questions (Smalley and Paul, 2006, Appendix A) posed in Appendix A (the questions are taken directly from the text):
o, Describe a recent conflict or negative situation with your spouse or someone else you are in a relationship with something that really pushed your buttons. Choose the same person you are using for the Caring Day activity.
o What were the buttons that got pushed during the conflict? Another way to look at it is, How did what happened during the conflict make you feel about yourself? What did the conflict say about you? What was the message it sent to you?
Look through the following options and use them to fill in the blanks in the statement: As a result of this conflict, I felt ________ or feared feeling _________, or I thought _________ would happen.
3. Complete the Fear Dance worksheet (opens in a new window).
o On page 1, mark an X for your responses and mark an O for how you believe the other person in your conflict/relationship would respond.
o On page 2, input the top three for:
What did you feel (these are your buttons)?
What did you want?
What do I do (reaction)?
Then input the same information for what you chose for the other identified person in the conflict.
4. After completing the Fear Dance diagram, respond to the following questions. Each response should be one paragraph (5+ sentences) in length.
o Explain how the Fear Dance diagram helps to understand your own core fears/buttons?
o We can learn to end the Fear Dance by managing our own personal fears/buttons. We can tap into our self-responsibility and learn to use our thinking and actions to interrupt the dance. Describe what you can do to interrupt the Fear Dance in your relationship. How can you protect your buttons and identify when your fear buttons have been pushed?
o What will be the benefits to you and your relationship when you start managing your own personal fears/buttons better.

Write an annotated bibliography on “Should profanity be normalized?”

Choose a locality with an interesting climate. It can be drought, monsoon, tornadoes, hurricanes, rainforests, hot climates at high latitudes, or vice versa cold climates at low latitudes.

1. Explain where the location is geographically (insert maps etc.) and give an introduction to the country.

2. Explain which climate zone and which plant belt and why it is that zone (find a hydrothermal figure and explain what we see / what it tells us – https://www.klimadiagramme.de/all_eu.html)

3. What special conditions or interesting things happen climatically at the site?
a. e.g. tornado – what is a tornado, how is it formed and why? When in the year are they seen? Why? Why are there very specific areas that have tornadoes?

b. What influence does the phenomenon have on the locality and the local population? (hunger, refugees, war)

Chapter 8 discusses how our social world reveals itself in online dating. Take a look at data from OkCupid here (https://theblog.okcupid.com/archive/2021). These data points tell us a lot about contemporary social and cultural change, such as the embrace of Juneteenth as a holiday and shifts in ideas surrounding gender and sexuality. Look through this data and find two examples of data points that illustrate the formation of families and family structure.

In your post, explain how the data points demonstrate social patterns in marriage and family formation.

Discuss the difference in perception between the functionalists, conflict theory