Population and Revenue Projecting

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“Population and Revenue Projecting”  Please respond to the following:

  • After Reading the “2017 America First – A Blueprint to Make America Great Again” and based on your predictions for the years 2017-2025, discuss the impact of your state’s population increase on the three highest discretionary spending accounts.
  •  https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/omb/budget/fy2018/2018_blueprint.pdf

Summarize the website and describe the important information presented.

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Actual Assignment:

Discuss a Website Representation of Your Topic Case Study

Refer to the website you identified in Module 2 about the topic you have chosen for your Portfolio Project. Respond to the following:

· Summarize the website and describe the important information presented.

· Does this website depict your topic accurately?

· How does the information you find in the website compare to the information you have read in your textbook and discovered through your portfolio research?

Module 2:

Choose a current political leader. You will provide background information on your chosen leader, explain how they came to power, describe the source and extent of their power, describe their leadership style (i.e. transactional, transformational), and describe and evaluate at least two decisions they have made since coming to power .

I chose South Sudan’s president, Salva Kiir Mayardit, using the Encyclopedia Britannica as well as a few other sources. I wanted to start off with the Britannica because I do not know anything about South Sudan or it’s leader. I figured I could get a quick glance at Mayardit before digging further into his background.

Link to the website: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Salva-Kiir-Mayardit

Explain ALL of the different ways in which Californians can practice direct democracy.

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1)List ALL of the differences between the U.S. federal government and the California state government in terms of the three branches (legislative, executive, and judicial)and 2)Explain ALL of the different ways in which Californians can practice direct democracy.  

What are the goals of the movement?

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For this discussion you will examine one social movement, whether current or historical, and present what you have learned to your classmates. Once you understand the definition of a movement from your lesson and the chapter reading this week, be sure to search for additional information on the movement you have chosen. The previous page, called “Social Movement Examples” has some great videos on the gay rights movement, the environmental movement and the civil rights movement, so you can focus on these if you choose to.  I highly recommend watching the ACT-UP video in any case, because the video clearly addresses the series of questions you will seek to answer for the response to the AIDS epidemic or any other movement you choose to investigate.

You will have learned the definition of social movements offered in Chapter 8 of our textbook. Greenberg-Page provide an overview of the most important social movements in U.S. history. To present information on a social movement, you should be able to discuss:

  • What are the goals of the movement?
  • What are the tactics used?
  • Was the movement successful?  Why or why not?

You could also look for this information in your research:

  • Who participates?
  • How is the movement organized and what are some of the interest groups participating in the movement?
  • Who are some of the movement leaders?
  • What resources are available to the movement?

Depending on whether you are researching a historical movement or a current movement, you will need to consult different sources.  There is a lag time in the publication of academic articles, so if you are looking for current information, you will need to look to movement participants, investigative reporters or perhaps interest groups participating in a movement.

One good source is DemocracyNow!.org.  If you type the subject in their search engine, you will see many of the important leaders of the movement have been interviewed.

Similarly, the British newspaper, The Guardian, carries many stories about current movement and they have no paywall as many U.S. newspapers do.

  1. Use the following questions below to help you formulate your ideas in a 2-3 paragraph post. Your posts should be in your own words, well-organized and written in full sentences. Please don’t simply just answer the questions – try to create paragraphs with topic sentences and clear points to support your opinion!