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Assignment 1 Topic Suggestions- Writing Guide
Write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which the student answers all of the following three (3) items below using headers to separate each item:
STUDENTS: This is a list of possible topics you can use to address the 3 items for this paper. See the assignment document for more details of the paper requirements.
Assignment 1: Politics – Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Due Week 6 and worth 200 points
Write a paper with three to four (3-4) pages of text that answers each of the following three (3) items using headers to separate each item: You should have 3-4 pages of Text.
1. Discuss either one (1) civil liberties or one (1) civil rights events from the past. Select an event that has influenced a sense of social responsibility in the American government today. Provide examples to support your answer. In your response, consider how the events influenced the way state, local, or national political leaders or agencies responded in a socially responsible or ethical manner toward the community. Please cite your sources using Strayer Writing Standards. See below for details.
2. Discuss one (1) media events (past or present) that has positively and/or negatively influenced the public’s opinion of a government agency. This event may be within the last two years, or from the past. Provide examples to support your answer. Consider how a news story or media coverage of an event positively or negatively changed the public’s opinion (or perception) regarding how responsible a government agency should be towards meeting the needs of its customers (i.e., the American people). Please cite your sources using Strayer Writing Standards. See below for details.
3. Discuss one (1) difference between the Republican and Democratic parties that may have an ethical impact (positively or negatively) on the American people. Provide examples from the past 2 years to support your answer. Consider the different ideologies, values, morals, and/or goals held by the Republican and Democratic parties, and their different views on the ethically or morally right way to govern and make the best policies for the people they serve. Determine if your example presents any type of ethical concerns for or against the public best interest of the American people. Please cite your sources using Strayer Writing Standards. See below for details.
In your research, you CANNOT Wikipedia, online dictionaries, SparkNotes, Cliffnotes, or any other website that does not qualify as an academic resource.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
• This course requires use of Strayer Writing Standards (SWS) not APA. Include a reference page called, “Sources”. Please take a moment to review the SWS documents and videos which are located on the left side of Blackboard and in Week 6.
1. FOR QUESTION 1: HERE ARE SOME EXAMPLES OF TOPICS you can write about when you choose either a civil rights or civil liberties issue:
A) Civil Rights:
Definition: Which means ‘the basic right to be free from unequal treatment, based on certain characteristics which we deem important, like race, gender, and disability’. Civil rights include a class of rights and freedoms that ensure one’s ability to participate in civil and political affairs without discrimination or repression. This includes:
• Laws ensuring peoples’ physical integrity and safety and laws to make sure that people are not forced into labor.
• Laws protecting people from private (non-government) discrimination (based on gender, religion, race, sexual orientation, etc.)
• Laws providing equal access to health care, education, culture, etc.
Topic suggestions for government acting in a socially responsible way:
-American With Disabilities Act 1990
-LGBT Bathroom conflict between the federal Civil Rights Act – protecting civil rights of LGBT people vs the State Laws protecting the people’s right to privacy
-Equal Pay Act supporting equal pay for women
-Civil Rights Act 1964; and gov’t response to Black civil rights movement
-The Voting Rights Act of 1964 challenged today. Courts protect voters’ rights against voter repression.
-Brown vs Board of education court decision 1954 re: civil rights movement,
-Any gov’t effort to support people to be free from discrimination, or unfair treatment with regard to employment, housing, sexual orientation, religious affiliation….
B) OR Civil Liberties
Use any of the following examples which protect people against government actions or relating to basic rights and freedoms that are guaranteed in the Constitution, Bill of Rights and by Court Rulings.
Use examples where the government gets involved regulating or ruling so that government does not step over the line into the people’s right to:
• Right to privacy- Government restricted NSA National Security Agency’s invasion of privacy
• Right to a jury trial
• Right to freedom of religion
• Right to travel freely
• Right to freedom of speech
• Right to be free from self-incrimination
• Right to bear arms: – Brady Bill limits that
• Right to marry – conflict between state laws and Federal enforcement
• Right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures of your property
• Right to freedom of the press
• Right to be free from cruel and unusual punishments: – no water boarding
• Right to legal counsel- Miranda Rules
• Right to assemble peacefully: January 21, 2017, 2.6 million people across the U.S. and the globe marched for the Women’s March.
• Right to vote: Voting Rights Act; issues related to requiring IDs to vote. can’t block anyone from voting.
2. FOR QUESTION 2: HERE ARE SOME EXAMPLES OF TOPICS
– Rodney King incident and race riots and government response
– Government response to Eboli outbreak, and the decisions of the Center for Disease Control CDC.
– Attacks on 911 and government creation of TSA Transportation Security Agency screening response
– Hurricane Katrina, Harvey, OR Irma; Government fast or slow response.
– Edward Snowden revelation of Government spying on citizens’ emails which led to the New Freedom Act
– Watergate break-in scandal, and government response
– Flint Michigan water contamination and government response
– -2007 Washington Post inquiry into medical treatment of veteran soldiers and improvements
– Media coverage of the Viet Nam war in 1960’s led to changes
– Government’s implementation of Operation Fast and Furious
– Trump’s “Travel Ban”; executive order 2017
– Charlottesville white supremacist protest 2017-gov’t response
3. FOR QUESTION 3: HERE ARE SOME EXAMPLES OF TOPICS
– The party’s different positions on social programs and government services
– Minimum wage, or income inequality
– Equal pay for women, health care, govt influence on education
– Abortion, Death Penalty, climate change
– Support for poor, and middle class, deportation of immigrants
– Raising taxes for more social programs
– Different views on Supreme Court’s ‘Citizens United’ ruling and the role of money in politics
– Affirmative Action
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