Humanities Homework Help

1. Look age Table 1.2 on page 14 of our text. Which “Age Period” are you presently in? Read the following definition of your age period in the textbook. Do you agree with the textbook assessment of your age period? Why or why not? What are the pressing questions (personal or social) that you sense people in your “age period” are asking? Why?
2. On page 18 of our text, we discuss Sigmund Freud. “Freud emphasized the importance of early childhood experiences in shaping our personality and behavior.” Name 2 of your own early-childhood experiences that you sense deeply shaped your personality and behavior in the years that followed. Why were they so formative for you?
3. What (to the best of your knowledge) is your birth story? Were you born in the United States? Overseas? Where there any birth-complications (only share what you feel comfortable please)? Were there any family-related health conditions in your family history that factored into your genes?
4. (This will be an opinion/policy related question) Read. Box 2.3 which asks, Should Women Who Use Drugs During Pregnancy Be Arrested and Jailed? What is your opinion on the issue of women who use drugs or alcohol during pregnancy? Should they be prosecuted? Yes? No? Why? Do you agree with the mentioned 2014 Tennessee law that allowed women who illegally used narcotics to be prosected for assult? Is the issue of mothers using illicit drugs more of a legal or medical concern?

Link to textbook, here: https://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=773310795