Review Essay Guidelines The assignment is to write a 3-page review essay, for a film, due on Sunday night of the week each film is assigned. Your essay should explore themes of power and justice depicted in the film, drawing on the theories and practices exploredduring the prior week. Obviously, you will have more material to draw from as the course proceeds, and you are […]

FIRST: Listen to this 35 minute program: https://www.npr.org/2017/05/03/526655831/a-forgotten-history-of-how-the-u-s-government-segregated-america (Links to an external site.) SECOND: View these maps of redlining in the Bay Area: https://joshbegley.com/redlining/ (Links to an external site.)  THIRD: Answer the following two questions: 1. What struck you the most about what you heard in the program? Answer in 2+ detailed paragraphs. 2. Based on your knowledge of housing prices and public schools in  the Bay Area, how […]

   Instructions   Write a paper on a current event article (not more than one-month-old article) from a reputable news source such as The New York Times or The Washington Post, that discusses restrictions on freedoms by a totalitarian state or an article on ethnic conflict within a nation.  ● Summarize the article describing all the main points in the article.  ● Explain why this […]

Getting Started Step 1: Choose Your Case Choose a case that has either been decided or will be decided this term: You can go to OYEZ.ORG 2013 cases for a list of current cases. If you decide to research some of the cases that have gotten a lot of press recently, you are welcome to choose one of these to research: Town of Greece v. […]

  Are developing countries with abundant oil resources cursed? Are  their societal, economic, and political structures doomed to be  malformed and detrimental to their own populations? As Bradshaw M. (2014: pg. 174) stated, it is the greed of the elite  and not so much a curse that hinders the resource rich developing  countries. The political structuring of these countries is designed to  dictate societal well-being […]

I’m having trouble picking a topic but the prompt is below. Please help with topic paper questions. Now, about your research: I. Your paper must be based on a topic that can significantly affect how your audience/readers think about the issue you will write about.  That means, for instance, for every topic, you must narrow your paper to a specific aspect of the topic.  For […]

   Q: Can there ever be too much regulation? Why or why not? In your response please state why government regulation exist according to the text. Regulations are used for diverting private resources to achieve policy goals. Federal agencies issue and enforce standards ranging from environmental quality to business and banking. Regulatory mandates often are very costly. I do think there are more regulations then […]

  Assignment 4: Argument Paper – Multiyear Plans and Analysis Due Week 10 and worth 220 points One conservative argument against Medicare and Social Security states that calling these programs “entitlement programs” is a misnomer and that they are actually the biggest income redistribution programs from the rich to the poor in the United States. Other conservatives state that stronger entitlement programs are nothing more […]

2 Discussion  Complete Discussion #2a— Please watch the following video and answer the following questions.  American History: The Greatest Speeches (1933-2008) (Links to an external site.) Minimize Video Reflect on the video , “America’s greatest speeches ,” Write a brief Political Science summary , be sure to include the following questions: Why political scientists argue that public speaking, speeches could be powerful to influence society as […]

  Choose any federal statute that is currently in the news. You will have to research that statute and at least two court cases pertaining to the statute. Then, prepare a PowerPoint Presentation of 6 to 8 slides addressing the following: Provide a summary perspective of the statute. From the two cases relevant to the statute you researched, analyze and evaluate each case separately by […]