Consider the short story “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway and write a brief response. What did you think of the story? Could you imagine the characters? What about the setting? When it comes to the conversation, what did the characters talk about?
Watch Course Related Videos: Throughout the course, you will be required to watch various course-related videos located in Canvas. Each one of the videos will help you understand Crisis Communication on a deeper level.
Sky Dust Stories Dr. Andrew Weiss of Thomson & Lee College maintains an astronomy site called Sky Dust Stories for the students in his class. On his website, he discusses many aspects of astronomy and star-gazing and shares interesting stories from the history of stargazing. He wants your help with one page that involves the Messier catalog, which lists the deep sky objects of particular interest to professional and amateur astronomers.
Dr. Weiss has already created the page content and layout but wants you to add some CSS graphic design styles to complete the page. A preview of the page youll create is shown in Figure 4-66.
Chapter 4 in your textbook goes over a wide variety of civil liberties. On pages 115-120, the freedom of religion is explained, with emphasis on the establishment clause and the free exercise clause. For this assignment, you will need to read the above-mentioned pages, in addition to the following web links and then answer the questions below in essay format:
1.) What do you think the founders original intent with the first amendment, specifically the freedom of religion, was?
2.) When Congress passed the RFRA in 1993, what was this designed to do? How have the many states reacted to this? Does Texas have any laws with regards to RFRA?
3.) In 2018, Congress introduced FADA. What is the purpose of this law? What current events and judicial court decisions may have lead to such a bill being introduced?
4.) What recent decisions did the Supreme Court make with regards to religion and politics?
5.) What civil liberty and/or civil rights issues may arise as a result of these most recent laws? In your opinion, are civil liberties/rights in danger?
6.) Now having a decent amount of knowledge on the 1st Amendment, RFRA and FADA, what are your thoughts on these laws and proposed bills? How might these impact our culture, politics, rights, etc?
This assignment must follow MLA guidelines, be typed in Times New Roman, 12 pt. font, and be a minimum of 1000 words with a works cited page. The works cited are not included in the minimum word count. Any videos/ articles given in the assignment prompt MUST be used within your paper and cited in your works cited. You must also use additional sources, as indicated in the prompt. For more information on these topics, view the 4th Amendment folder in the current news and controversies folder, under Student Resources.
