Who Controlls Your Member’s Vote?

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Who represents you in Congress? No, who reallyrepresents you in Congress? Who does your member of Congress answer to beyond soliciting your vote every two years (if they are even opposed at all), and every six years for the Senate?

For this discussion, let’s examine this. Please find your representative here (or if you’re outside the U.S., choose a member of Washington’s Congressional delegation, here) and identify one of the Political Action Committee’s or individual donor’s that has contributed to their campaign in the last campaign cycle that they stood as a candidate in.

Take a look at their voting record and provide your opinion on whether or not that donor or a Political Action  Committee influenced the way they’ve voted.

China-Russia Relations

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Title: China-Russia Relations

It must contain the following sections: title, abstract, introduction, literature review, research design, findings, discussion, conclusion, and works cited.

The Paper should be based on both logic and evidence. As a rule, students should avoid (1) choosing a topic about current or future events and (2) making the Paper overly complicated.

Each section of the Research Paper should be a complete whole that contains distinct information. In other words, writing the paper is like writing several smaller papers that are related. The best way to proceed is typically section by section. Attention should be paid to proper spelling and grammar. And all ideas should be expressed as clearly as possible.

The Research Paper must link theory and fact using one of the following

methodologies: case study, comparative, quantitative, or game theory. A theory must be assessed (or proposed if process tracing is used). The Paper must be double-spaced, include page numbers, and contain a minimum of 5,000 words. and it must follow the APSA Style Manual.

Describe how race, gender, and class are socially constructed identities. What factors contribute to their construction?

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This assignment asks you to describe how race, gender, and class have developed socially constructed identities. Using the materials covered this week, explain the concept of constructed identities, and conclude with a reflection on the importance of understanding generalizations and stereotypes in society.

Write a 1,050 word paper that includes or responds to the following:

  • Describe how race, gender, and class are socially constructed identities. What factors contribute to their construction?
  • Describe how generalizations and stereotypes can contribute to prejudice and discrimination against cultural groups.
  • Identify two cultures with which you are associated. Describe the cultural norms of each group, such as language, nonverbal communication, and morals or beliefs.
  • Determine if you have experienced prejudice and/or any discrimination that stemmed from the stereotyping of your cultural group. Provide examples of your discrimination experiences.
  • Analyze how the discrimination you experienced made you feel. What emotions did you feel? What was your primary reaction?
  • Assess if the discrimination you experienced could have been created from stereotypes portrayed in the media. What significance does the relationship between media production and media audiences have in terms of creating cultural generalizations?
  • Examine how you have worked to combat and/or change the various forms of discrimination you have experienced, based on generalizations and stereotypes that have been created about your cultural group.
  • Explain how understanding the creation of generalizations and stereotypes is essential to improving and diversifying cultural relations in society.

Format your assignment according to appropriate course-level APA guidelines

Anticipating Human Behavior in Disasters:

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Must be 5-7 pages in length and strictly follow APA 6th Edition format.  

Each paper must reference a minimum of three scholarly articles.  Three is a minimum; therefore, three is minimally meeting the standard (C – grade).  More than three is required for maximum.   Other sources should be evaluated for their credibility (just because it is on the web does not mean it is an accurate trusted source). I have given you a start with at least one scholarly article listed for each topic.

The issue must also be linked to experience in at least one critical incident as part of the discussion.  Previous incidents will be discussed in the scholarly articles; more information can be developed directly from AAR reports.  See the list of AARs that I have developed and please let me know of any others that can be added to the list.

The paper should also reference any relevant government policy.

For each topic I have given you a start with links to scholarly articles and one or more other important resources.  This is a start, if you write the paper from just the sources I provide it will be severely lacking.  Not all resources are directly available from the link.   I have not formatted these as APA resources; they are simply titles and links.  

Issue Paper #1: Topics

2)      Pro-Social and Anti-Social Behavior in Critical Incidents

Anticipating Human Behavior in Disasters:  http://media.wiley.com/product_data/excerpt/45/EHEP0007/EHEP000745.pdf

Looting and Anti-Social Behavior in Disasters:  http://dspace.udel.edu:8080/dspace/bitstream/handle/19716/590/PP205.pdf?sequence=1