Directions: Answer each of the following questions. Be sure to use complete sentences when answering the questions. Cite your sources as appropriate. Your answer to each question should be several paragraphs. Please double space your answers. 1. What is the difference between a home rule and a general law city? How do these forms … Read more
Directions: Answer each of the following questions. Be sure to use complete sentences when answering the questions. Cite your sources as appropriate. Your answer to each question should be several paragraphs. Please double space your answers. 1. What does the term plural executive mean? Who is in the plural executive? Why does Texas use … Read more
1. How could/would candidates fund their elections if outside group funding was not allowed? 2. Should outside funding such as PAC’s be allowed? 3. Does outside funding make a difference in political races?
“The location of district lines decide which voters vote for which representative. Changing the lines will change the relevant voters, and can change the identity, allegiance, and political priorities of a district’s representative, and of the legislative delegation as a whole.” To what extent should legislators use race when redistricting? Does Gerrymandering undermine democracy … Read more
Directions: Answer the following questions about the presidents found below and list the sources you used to complete the assignment. George Washington Franklin Delano Roosevelt Lyndon Baines Johnson Ronald Reagon Richard Nixon George W. Bush Barack Obama Questions 1. What challenges did this president inherit? 2. What were his major accomplishments? 3. What year … Read more
Answer the following questions. Remember that I want your representatives and senators from Washington, D.C. not the state legislature Congressional Assignment What Congressional District do you live in? Who represents your District in Washington? When did your representative take office? How long has your representative served in office? Who represents you in the U.S. Senate? … Read more
1. Identify the following: Jim Crow Laws, W.E.B. DuBois, Booker T. Washington, Malcolm X, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Brown vs. Board of Education, Plessy vs. Ferguson, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Voting Rights Act, Fair Housing Act, Redlining, Sundown Town, NOW, NAACP, LULAC, Mendez vs. Westminister, U.S. vs. Wong Kim Ark, Affirmative Action, Emmett Till, Frederick … Read more
1.Should bullying on the basis of a protected class or quasi protected class, such as gender identify, be approached differently than bully based for other reasons? Consider: Ninth Circuit backs student expulsions over racist Instagram posts Courthouse News Service (1 paragraph, 4-5 sentences, 1 scholarly reference) 2.Should bullying on the basis of a protected class … Read more
scholarly book review evaluating the content and merit of Mills’ classic scholarly piece concerning the power and influence of America’s elite. Does it add value to your understanding of power and influence in American politics? If so, explain how? Is Mills’ work still relevant today? What are the shortcomings of this classic work? 1500 chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://ia800102.us.archive.org/17/items/c_wright_mills_the_power_elite/C.%20Wright%20Mills%2C%20Alan%20Wolfe-The%20Power%20Elite-Oxford%20University%20Press%2C%20USA%20%282000%29.pdf
https://youtu.be/UcCxsLDma2o 1. What impact did the Jim Crow era have on African Americans achieving equal opportunities in the American society? 2. How has it affected the socioeconomic status and the ability to build wealth of African Americans? 3. How did the Jim Crow era impact the debate over affirmative action? 4. What affect did … Read more