What do you consider to be the biggest threat currently facing the United States and (briefly) why? If you were a member of Congress (you decide with house, state, and party), what legislation would you propose to try to mitigate this threat and how would you guide your legislation through Congress to give it the best shot of passing?

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Political Science Question

1) What do you consider to be the biggest threat currently facing the United States and (briefly) why? If you were a member of Congress (you decide with house, state, and party), what legislation would you propose to try to mitigate this threat and how would you guide your legislation through Congress to give it the best shot of passing? What road blocks would you expect to run into and how would you attempt to get around those barriers while operating within the law. Who will have an interest in preventing the passage of the legislation and how will the author either bring those interests on board or get around them? In other words, how would you maximize your ameliorating effect on the issue? Your response should draw on topics covered in the course material Relevant units include but are not limited to political parties, the media, the Congress, and the Constitution.

2) . A transgender state employee sues his state because the state employee health insurance plan has a blanket policy of refusing to cover surgeries and medical procedures related to gender transition. The employee argues that the procedures are medically necessary for the treatment of gender dysphoria. Your essay on this prompt should take a position on whether a state’s refusal to cover these medical treatments violates the Constitution. To make your claim, choose 2 civil liberties or civil rights that might be relevant to such a case and evaluate whether and how the government is or is not violating those liberties/rights.

Write 2 double-spaced pages on expressing yourself in terms of politics or with current political events.

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Political science Blog – “Express yourself”

Write 2 double-spaced pages on expressing yourself in terms of politics or with current political events.

When you think of Oral History, what aspects of marginalized communities do you think about? Discuss the impact of oral history in light of ethnocide of indigenous material culture. The Master Narrative is represented in society as historically accurate, yet what does the examples of oral history presented in the case studies suggest?

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MA posc 124 Closing Remarks and Discussion/ Introduction & Concepts/ Closing Remarks

Part one

Oral History and Marginalized Communities

Closing Lecture Remarks

Overview and Criteria

Post by Thursday, Reply by Saturday

The three (3) steps to complete this assignment are explained below in more detail, but here they are in a nutshell:

    1. Pick 2+ course concepts.
    2. Answer 2+ question(s) or prompts.
    3. Leave 2+ substantive comments.

There are two (2) dimensions that add up to 30 total points possible from this assignment.

    1. Your Post : 25 Points Max
    2. 2+ Comments : 10 Points Max

You’ll be graded on your ability to utilize course concepts to critically reflect on the unit’s lecture material. You must closely follow guidelines to earn maximum points.

25 Points: Post Guidelines

Your post should be no less than 300 words in length.

Your post is worth up to 25 points. It should contain:

  • 5 pt: proper grammar. free of spelling errors, meets min. word count,
  • 5 pt: use proper in-text citations,
  • 5 pt: apply course concepts,
  • 5 pt: incorporate lecture(s) material,
  • 5 pt: directly address all aspects of the prompt(s).

10 Points: Peer Comments

Each comment you leave is worth up to 5 points (depending on quality of post). Being nice and respectful is important, but it doesn’t get you all the points. Your comments need to be substantive and expand on the conversation or original post in a meaningful way.

Comments should contain at least one of the following:

  • Comments should provide new information about the original post (“substantive”).
  • Elaborate on a point made by the Poster or someone else on the thread (“expand”).

In other words, compliments and salutations do not count as satisfactory comments.

Pro Tips

What mistake will cost you the most points?

Use of in-text citations for all prompts is required. Every student should develop the habit of attributing information to sources in college-level writing. You can use either APA or MLA style for in-text citations. An example of citing lectures in your text is as follows: (Fuentes, “Unit #: Name of Lecture.”). Both the green number and lecture title must be changed to the appropriate source for credit.

Continuing the Conversation

You have a voice; what’s your say?

Guidance: Select course concepts (2+) introduced in this unit to answer two (2) or more of the below question(s) or prompts according Professor Fuentes’ lecture materials. You can also incorporate your own personal experiences or recent events, but there has to be a clear connection to concepts and case studies.*

  1. When you think of Oral History, what aspects of marginalized communities do you think about?
  2. Discuss the impact of oral history in light of ethnocide of indigenous material culture.
  3. The Master Narrative is represented in society as historically accurate, yet what does the examples of oral history presented in the case studies suggest?
  4. Analyze oral history as a liberatory tool for the oppressed.
  5. How do oral histories presented in the case studies complicate your own awareness of American History?
  6. Discuss the “Illiteracy Problem” and domination of American English.
  7. What is another example of an oral history that describes the socio-political conditions of oppressed groups, their lived experiences, and stories of liberation?
  8. Add your own link to an IG post, tweet, or Tik Tok and explain how it is an example of oral history; OR Write your own question and incorporate course concepts to explain the importance behind your question (and the value of the potential answer).

 

Part two

Settler Colonialism: Natives turned Outsiders, Foreigners bestowed Citizenship

Settler Colonialism refers to a form of ongoing colonization in which colonizing powers create permanent or long-term settlement on land owned and/or occupied by other peoples, often by force. This form of colonization is an ongoing system of power that perpetuates the genocide and repression of indigenous peoples and cultures. Settler colonialism normalizes the continuous settler occupation, exploiting lands and resources to which indigenous peoples have genealogical relationships. Settler colonialism includes interlocking forms of oppression, including racism, white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, and capitalism. This is because settler colonizers are Eurocentric and assume that European values with respect to ethnic, and therefore moral, superiority are inevitable and natural. Understanding settler colonialism as an ongoing structure rather than a past historical event serves as the basis for an historically grounded and inclusive analysis of U.S. race and gender formation. The concept is linked to imperialism, an ideology of global empire building, and colonialism which is the external control of foreign territories and indigenous people by a European-derived system of domination.

Ethnocentrism is a concept used to interpret or evaluate groups of individuals and their cultures based in terms of one’s own cultural norms, traditions, customs, and religious systems. It views one own culture as “normal” and, perhaps, universal or correct. In this way, it centers one’s ethnic experience while displacing all other experiences by other ethnic groups as outside acceptable forms of culture. Ethnocentrism is responsible for creating the idea of outside groups that are less than “insiders” within the same environment. For example, Takaki explains early in A Different Mirror that early European settlers conveniently labeled Native Americans as “savages” in order to justify European domination and indigenous extermination. In other words, the culture and traditions of indigenous people are not worth preserving from a European with an ethnocentric view. The most common form of ethnocentrism in both colonial and modern history is Eurocentrism, which privileges European culture and identity above all other human forms of expression, tradition, and worldviews.

The White Spatial Imaginary refers to the principal way the “racialization of space and the spatialization of race” take place in the United States. (Lipsitz 2007). The concept is marked by “exclusivity and augmented exchange of value” (Lipsitz: 13). For example, the creation of “white-only” neighborhoods where the monetary value of houses is exponentially more than similar homes built in segregated or racially-mixed neighborhoods. The White Spatial Imaginary (henceforth, WSI) “functions as a central mechanism for skewing opportunities and life chances in the United States along racial lines. Whiteness, as used here, is an analytical category that refers to the structured advantages that accrue to whites because of past and present discrimination” (ibid). Furthermore, it must be noted, that “not all people who are white consciously embrace the white spatial imaginary, and not all whites profit equally from their whiteness, but all whites benefit from the association of whiteness with privilege and the neighborhood effects of spaces defined by their racial demography” (ibid). WSI was necessary to ensure the fulfillment of Manifest Destiny, a white nationalist protest mission to expand the U.S. across the continent, whereby Europeans took territorial possession of much of the continent without remorse or hesitation.

Sovereignty is an idea of organized territorial authorities (e.g. states, nations) with clear boundaries. Sovereignty is expressed in the various relations and activities by “nations” or “states,” and is arguably the most fundamental idea that outlines borders where each territory is expected to have a name and government. Sovereignty as a concept first emerged with exclusive application by European powers abroad. In other words, only European empires or kingdoms had a right to claim sovereignty over foreign lands and also to have such claims be respected or acknowledged by other European powers. In this way, sovereignty emerges as a conceptual tool used to confront the challenge for Europe’s division of the world for itself. The legacy of colonial powers and influences, and the importance behind efforts to decolonize, are embedded in the concept of sovereignty. All territorial authorities seek sovereignty but it was never designed to be achieved by all equally.

Citizenship refers to an individual’s status within the law and the rights, interests, and obligations that come with the institutional status. It also refers to the perceived, fantasized, and imagined social relation among strangers where personal identity intersects nationality. Citizenship is a form of political training at an early age which reinforces not only ideological distinctions but also responses of “insiders” and “outsiders” (Burgett et al. 44). It dictates social belonging as well as legal belonging, manipulating the narrative used to describe a nation’s history and those who contribute to it. In other words, citizenship directly influences what or who is spoken about in the Master Narrativeand how they’re represented within it. Race, class, gender, and sexuality are mechanisms by which to examine the uneven access to the full benefits of citizenship in the United States.

Begin to think and think again

You have a mind; what’s it thinking?

Instructions: Write 100+ words on one (1) course concept above.*

  1. Define what the concept means in your own words (3 pts).
  2. Think of a useful description or example of the concept (4 pts).
  3. Create your own reason that explains why this concept is significant to Ethnic Studies (3 pts).

Guidance: Follow the three (3) requirements above to receive maximum points. No other rules apply (citations, format, etc.). Base your response on what you already know, not the unit lecture. In other words, use your own knowledge to create knowledge about a concept: you can tie in your own personal experiences, stories, and examples. You can also use other concepts from this course to explain any aspect of your response.

 

 

part three

Settler Colonialism: Natives turned Outsiders, Foreigners bestowed Citizenship

Overview and Criteria

Post by Friday, Reply by Sunday

The three (3) steps to complete this assignment are explained below in more detail, but here they are in a nutshell:

    1. Pick 2+ course concepts.
    2. Answer 2+ question(s) or prompts.
    3. Leave 2+ substantive comments.

There are two (2) dimensions that add up to 30 total points possible from this assignment.

    1. Your Post : 25 Points Max
    2. 2+ Comments : 10 Points Max

You’ll be graded on your ability to utilize course concepts to critically reflect on the unit’s lecture material. You must closely follow guidelines to earn maximum points.

25 Points: Post Guidelines

Your post should be no less than 300 words in length.

Your post is worth up to 25 points. It should contain:

  • 5 pt: proper grammar. free of spelling errors, meets min. word count,
  • 5 pt: use proper in-text citations,
  • 5 pt: apply course concepts,
  • 5 pt: incorporate lecture(s) material,
  • 5 pt: directly address all aspects of the prompt(s).

10 Points: Peer Comments

Each comment you leave is worth up to 5 points (depending on quality of post). Being nice and respectful is important, but it doesn’t get you all the points. Your comments need to be substantive and expand on the conversation or original post in a meaningful way.

Comments should contain at least one of the following:

  • Comments should provide new information about the original post (“substantive”).
  • Elaborate on a point made by the Poster or someone else on the thread (“expand”).

In other words, compliments and salutations do not count as satisfactory comments.

Pro Tips

What mistake will cost you the most points?

Use of in-text citations for all prompts is required as you need to develop the habit of attributing information to sources in college-level writing. An example of citing lectures in your text is as follows: (Fuentes, “Unit #: Name of Lecture.”). Both the green number and lecture title must be changed to the appropriate source for credit.

Don’t want to lose your work?

Copy and paste your posts on Canvas, but write them elsewhere (Word

Links to an external site., Google

Links to an external site., etc.). Canvas logs users out with inactivity. If this happens, you aren’t alerted and your work will be lost even if you try to “save” or hit “submit.”

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Continuing the Conversation

You have a voice; what’s your say?

Guidance: Select course concepts (2+) introduced in this unit to answer two (2) or more of the below question(s) or prompts according Professor Fuentes’ lecture materials. You can also incorporate your own personal experiences or recent events, but there has to be a clear connection to concepts and case studies.*

  1. What are ways that settler colonialism and ethnocentrism affect our understanding of American History?
  2. Discuss the concept “Exiles from Ireland” (Ch. 6).
  3. How is the White Spatial Imaginary normalized and accepted in society?
  4. Discuss the causes and effects of Exodus From Russia (Ch. 11).
  5. How did political models of citizenship reproduce racism, racial power, or eurocentrism?
  6. Discuss the American (ethnic) dilemma of WWII (Ch. 14).
  7. From your own lived experience, what is another example of ethnocentrism or White Spatial Imaginary?
  8. Add your own link to an IG post, tweet, or Tik Tok and explain how it is an example of White Spatial Imaginary or ethnocentrism; OR Write your own question and incorporate course concepts to explain the importance behind your question (and the value of the potential answer).

Discuss if the court’s decision or holdings was for the plaintiff or for the defendant and what were the reasons for the decision? Discuss the concurring and dissenting opinions from the judge or if a jury trial, the jury.

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Week 6 assignment

Using the case outline (Part I: How the Courts Address or Respect Our Rights as Citizens) you submitted in Week 6, prepare and submit a presentation, which will either be a narrated PowerPoint, a Kaltura Video, or some other format as approved by your instructor. Be sure to verify the presentation format with your instructor before starting work on this assignment.

The presentation Point presentation will need to include:

Name the case
Discuss the facts of the case
Discuss the history of the case (what laws or legal action was taken)
Discuss the issues or the facts of the case and legal questions the court must decide
Discuss if the court’s decision or holdings was for the plaintiff or for the defendant and what were the reasons for the decision?
Discuss the concurring and dissenting opinions from the judge or if a jury trial, the jury.

Important: In this assignment, you are expected to elaborate the points you made in the prior assignment in Week 6. This assignment will be graded on your strength to elaborate and explain the facts of the case and proper use of visual aids, good narration, and presenting to the case and how well you stick to the case. For example, if you are using the PowerPoint, you are also expected to include proper visuals that are relevant to the case. Do not copy-paste the outline into this and call it complete.

What is the relationship between liberalism and utilitarianism as Mill and Rawls understand it?

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Relationship between liberalism and utilitarianism

What is the relationship between liberalism and utilitarianism as Mill and Rawls understand it?

What is the country? Briefly introduce this country. Why do you select this country? Why is this country important to the world? Why do we need to know more about this country?

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PS 2305 Federal Government

Introduction
1. What is the country? Briefly introduce this country.
2. Why do you select this country? Why is this country important to the world? Why do we need to know more about this country?
3. 1 page

The Politics of _________
1. What’s the political system of this country? Does this country have a federal system or a unitary system or something else? Is this country a presidential system or parliamentary system? Does this country have a fusion of power or a separation of power? What are other things you consider important for us to know more about this country?
2. Why did this country make this power arrangement? What did the founders of this country want?
3. Is this country a democracy? Or, how democratic this country is? What does Freedom House say about this country?
4. 2~3 pages

The Current Major Issues in _______
1. What is (are) the current major issue(s) in this country? What is the biggest challenge faced by this country? Is that a political issue or economic issue or something else? Is that an international issue or domestic issue?
2. 2~3 pages; you will need to read and use scholarly articles to write this section.

Discussion
1. Provide a brief summary. If a potential reader wanted to know more about this country but does not have time to read your whole paper, this is the section he/she needs to read.
2. Talk about the contribution of this paper.
3. 1 page

References
1. Citation style: American Political Science Association
2. Examples: Berger, Ben. 2009. “Political Theory, Political Science and the End of Civic Engagement.” Perspectives on politics 7(2): 335–50. Braun, Daniela, and Swen Hutter. 2016. “Political Trust, Extra-Representational Participation and the Openness of Political Systems.” International Political Science Review 37(2): 151–65.

Research any social, governmental, or political event that has occurred within 2023. You may find an event that has happened within any of these governments- federal, local or state within the

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GOVT2305 ques

WATCH THE VIDEO BEFORE STARTING

VIDEO LINK : https://youtu.be/Ow1Z3kHoNsY

Current Events Project: Research any social, governmental, or political event that has occurred within 2023. You may find an event that has happened within any of these governments- federal, local or state within the

You may not write about news outside of the U.S. You may not complete a current event on the following topics:

  • Abortion
  • Anything related to COVID-19
  • Monkey Pox
  • NRA or anything related to guns
  • Marijuana
  • LGBTQ+
  • BlackLives Matter/Back The Blue
  • DACA, Immigration or anything related to immigration

While these are all great subjects to discuss, you should think beyond these subjects and uncover a new topic.

Instructions on how to complete the Current Event:

  1. Using Microsoft Word, provide a summary of what is going on in your article (do not rewrite the article, just provide highlights of the main idea in the article. Do not use Google Drive, Box, Microsoft Edge to complete this assignment. I will only accept Word documents.
    1. Use reputable news sources such as mainstream news platforms like CNN, ABC, MSNBC, Texas Tribune etc.
    2. Do not use Wikipedia or any social media platforms.
  2. Connect something we have learned in class, lecture or that you have read in your text with the article.
  3. Detail your thoughts feelings and concerns with the source.
  4. You do not need annotate or have a word count. Simply, answer all the questions asked with full and complete sentences.
  5. Copy and paste your article link at the end of your article. Failure to copy and paste the article link is an automatic zero on the assignment.

What were the most effective government interventions in the global south that can be used to create a resilient food supply?

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 Resilient food supply

What were the most effective government interventions in the global south that can be used to create a resilient food supply?

Considering the widespread, but not universal, ratification of UNCLOS, could the provisions of UNCLOS regulating maritime zones and the capacity of islands to project maritime zones be considered customary international law? If so, are they opposable to Turkey?

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International Law , Maritime Law

The 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) is the global treaty regulating States’ rights on the sea. To date, it has been ratified by 167 States plus the European Union. Amongst the States that have not yet ratified it there are the United States, Peru, Venezuela, Turkey, Syria, Israel, several Central Asia States, and a few micro States.

On 27 November 2020, Turkey and the Government of National Accord (GNA) of Libya (one of the two factions claiming to be the legitimate government of Libya and the one that is militarily supported by Turkey) signed a Memorandum of Understanding between the Government of the Republic of Turkey and the Government of National Accord – State of Libya on delimitation of the maritime jurisdiction areas in the Mediterranean.

Under the Law of the Sea Convention (Art. 121.2) islands project all maritime jurisdictional zones, including the territorial sea, the exclusive economic zone and the continental shelf. As you can see from maps, all along the Mediterranean coast of Turkey there are Greek islands. The effect of the presence of these islands makes it so that Greece, relying on the provisions of UNCLOS, claims jurisdiction over most of the Aegean Sea and Eastern Mediterranean, hemming in Turkey.

Map 1

Map 2 below indicates the border between the Turkish and Libyan exclusive economic zones under the 27 November 2020 Memorandum of Understanding (red dotted line). As you can clearly see, Turkey and the Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA) claim areas of the Mediterranean that are claimed by Greece and also by Egypt.

Map 2

The conclusion of the Memorandum of Understanding drew immediate condemnation by the States in the region and the larger international community. According to the European Union, the accord infringes upon the sovereign rights of third States and does not comply with the United Nations Convention on Law of the Sea. Both Cyprus and Egypt dismissed the accord as illegal, while Greece regarded it as “void” and “geographically absurd”, because it ignored the presence of the Greek islands of Crete, Kasos, Karpathos, Kastellorizo and Rhodes between the Turkish–Libyan coasts.

You do not need to get in the intricacies of this dispute. All I want you to consider is the following: Turkey maintains that the Greek islands in proximity of the Turkish mainland sit on the Turkish continental shelf. Turkey maintains that Greece has no rights beyond the territorial waters of those islands (note that Greece claims a territorial sea in that region of only 6 nm, even though the UNCLOS says it can be up to 12 nm). Turkey insists that the continental shelf between the two countries should be delimited by taking into consideration only the Greek and the Turkish mainland, not their islands. That is the fair and just solution to the disputes caused by overlapping claims. However, that is not what the UNCLOS says.

Write a maximum 1,500 words essay answering the following three questions. If you need to, you are free to research and use facts from other sources. However, do not fall into the rabbit hole!

Can the provisions of UNCLOS be invoked against Turkey?
Considering the widespread, but not universal, ratification of UNCLOS, could the provisions of UNCLOS regulating maritime zones and the capacity of islands to project maritime zones be considered customary international law? If so, are they opposable to Turkey?
Can Turkey be considered a “persistent objector”, even though Turkey does not contest the application of the rules on maritime delimitation anywhere else in the world, including to its own islands in the Mediterranean and in the Black Sea, or to the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus?UN

In what ways is voting said to be a civic responsibility? What are the consequences of voting to your community? What are the consequences of not voting to the community?

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Civic Responsibility

Essay Two
POLS 2306 Texas Government

Guidelines:
Papers should be 2-3 pages long, double-spaced with 1 inch margins, in 12 pt. font. Papers will be submitted online, through blackboard. Late papers will be penalized 10 points for each late day. You must comply with UHD’s policies on academic honesty; any violation will result in a zero on this assignment and possible failure of the course.

You will be graded on whether and how fully you have answered the question, as well as the clarity of your writing. For a review of grammatical rules, Strunk and White’s Elements of Style is highly recommend. (There is a free PDF available here: https://faculty.washington.edu/heagerty/Courses/b572/public/StrunkWhite.pdf)

Prompt:
In your own words, answer the following questions.
§ In what ways is voting said to be a civic responsibility?
§ What are the consequences of voting to your community?
§ What are the consequences of not voting to the community?
§ How would you try to convince non-voters to participate, given possible differences in age, education, culture, etc.?