The book used Barbour, Christine. AmGov: Long Story Short, 2019, CQ Press.
At least 750 words on one of the provided topics (see below), as well as a works cited page with at least three sources containing information used in the essay (note: there must be a parenthetical citation at the end of each sentence that contains information from a source). The assignment is to be formatted according to the Modern Language Association (MLA) style. Students should research this style in order to properly format the assignment (see the Purdue Online Writing Lab).
Students should use 12 point as the paper's font size, double space the text, and create one inch margins on all four sides of the page. In addition, the writing assignment does not need to have a separate title page.
there is two part on this assignment:
part 1: answer the question below:
Which Tokugawa thinker(s) do you think most helped to lay the groundwork for the Meiji Restoration and its modernizing revolution from above in the 1870s?
part 2: read the article below and answer 3 questions below
District 2
Background
District 2 is located in the Southwestern United States, in a racially diverse but highly segregated urban area. Though the district is in a sanctuary state, immigrant enforcement has increased its presence over the last two years in the community. The district serves 25,000 students in grades K-12, and 25% are English learners. English learners are mostly from Spanish-speaking countries, such as Mexico and Central America. Teachers are primarily white or Latinx, few are bilingually certified given the states history of English-only instruction.
The schools in the district are highly segregat
As the coda to the modified course each student will be required to write a long essay reflecting upon how an existential threat like the current global pandemic that we are experiencing can highlight the strength and weakness of democratic institutions and capitalist economic structures, as well as the tension between capitalism and democracy.
This will not be a research paper but should be a reflective and exploratory thought piece that should seek to develop an answer to a specific and well-defined question or should to produce a clear and identifiable argument. The exploration could be theoretical or even philosophical. The conclusions could be ethical or moral. Students are encouraged to think about whether the global pandemic would produce the necessity and possibilities for systemic changes in the current structure of global political economy.
Keeping with the theme of the course the essay should reflect whether any particular exist
Research questions:
1. Migration processes in unified Germany
2. Key tendencies of the contemporary migration processes
3. Migration policy of the country
4. Reasons of revitalization of Arabic migration in the 21st century
5. Maintenance of traditions and customs inside ethnic groups
6. Influence of minorities on the political processes in Germany
7. Influence of ethnic groups on political elite of the country
8. Political-legal factors and migration
9. Evolution of migration policy in Germany
10. Minorities in the elective processes of Germany
11. Formation of new political elites
12. Functioning of ethnic groups in the light of peaceful co-existence
Write an essay (with introduction and conclusion) on the suggested topic.
Your introduction should include the thesis statement - main idea of the paper (here is more detailed explanation - https://essayshark.com/blog/how-to-write-a-thesis-statement-to-make-it-clear/). Don't include any new information in the conclusion. It should restate the thesis statement of the paper.
Support your ideas with relevant arguments and examples (in-text citations). List 2-3 sources in the references. Make sure you stick to a required formatting style. Get benefits of these sources citationmachine.net and easybib.com.
MLA format - https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/ https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/mla_in_text_citations_the_basics.html
Instructions
Research the background of your Congressional representatives based on your address listed with CU - two senators and a member of the House of Representatives. Find out about their previous occupation(s), political experience, family, income, education, and other relevant demographics. What percentage of the vote did they receive to win in their last election? What are two policy issues areas they are interested in? How do these areas reflect their ideologies?
Here is a link to get your started:
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)
Write an essay. Start by identifying all three of your representatives. Then, pick the representative you are most interested in and explain why they interest you. Present the information you found in your research required above in the essay.
References page (minimum of 2 scholarly sources beyond those provided)
How to analyse these questions:
First you have to know there are three schools of thought you need to keep in mind when answering these questions: Realism, liberalism, constructivism
Second thing you have to know is:
Kenneth Waltz gave these three levels of analysis and you have to know them to answer these questions:
1. Individual level analysis
2. State level analysis
3. System level analysis
Answer these 3 questions using the information above when relevant
A. New power generation: the world leaders of tomorrow
o Every politician talks of building a better tomorrow. To what extent do you think
policymakers individual attributes and motives can still (and will) influence foreign policy?
100 points
o Comparing the different schools in political science, what are the factors you think will
shape the new horizon of political leaders? Will they be more realist or idealist? Is the
rational model of decision making still valid?
This assessment task will require you to locate Google within a historic context and analyze its stated intentions, its concrete actions and means of affecting change in the social sphere.
Questions of the ownership and funding model and how this affects the organization and their actions should also be dealt with. What kind of power relations are entangled with the Google and their effort to influence society? What theories best help explain their actions? Critically evaluate how successful the group has been in affecting changes in the political organization of society.
Case study
A case study is about a research strategy/methodology used to examine a phenomenon/social problem/issue within its context. A case study is a perfect presentation of a depth analysis resulting from a good extensive research about one topic related to the subject you have learned in Digital Politics.
In your case, you are required to investigate your chosen topic through the theoretical fra
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(Quick outline of Module - Security and Insecurity in Global Politics is a module covering a range of conceptual, empirical and policy issues around the global organisation of 'security', broadly understood. It is not a module on war, although we do discuss varieties of political and organised violence. The main focus is instead on different theoretical framings of security, the history of security as an idea and a practice, and several of the many contemporary spheres of security. )
You have to choose one topic from the questions below and write an essay, please try to use different sources and provide sufficient arguments. Provide bibliography using Harvard Referencing style.
1) Is development a problem of security?
2) To what extent are environmental issues a matter of security?
3) What are the implications (and potential dangers) of securitising the environment?
4) To what extent do arms control efforts represent the changin
Submit a 2-3-page paper discussing how the practices of Constitutional Disenfranchisement impact young people in participating in civic engagement. Include in your paper the Voting Rights Act Amendments of 1992 and the NAACP Hearing and their impacts.
(Read the Congressional Research Service Report to Congress entitled The Voting Rights Act of 1965, As Amended: Its History and Current Issues.)
