nUnderstanding Institutionalized Discrimination And Racism

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FIRST: Listen to this 35 minute program: https://www.npr.org/2017/05/03/526655831/a-forgotten-history-of-how-the-u-s-government-segregated-america (Links to an external site.)

SECOND: View these maps of redlining in the Bay Area: https://joshbegley.com/redlining/ (Links to an external site.)

THIRD: Answer the following two questions:

1. What struck you the most about what you heard in the program? Answer in 2+ detailed paragraphs.

2. Based on your knowledge of housing prices and public schools in  the Bay Area, how do you still see the impacts of this historical  injustice impacting local communities today? Answer in 2+ detailed  paragraphs.

*If you need more background to answer question 2 here are some additional resources organized by city of focus:

Berkeley: https://www.berkeleyside.com/2018/09/20/redlining-the-history-of-berkeleys-segregated-neighborhoods (Links to an external site.)

San Francisco: https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/San-Francisco-segregated-neighborhoods-redlining-10806723.php (Links to an external site.)

East Bay: https://bpr.berkeley.edu/2018/04/17/to-segregate-or-not-to-segregate-that-is-the-bay-areas-question/ (Links to an external site.)

Alameda: http://www.acphd.org/media/144733/lduc-segreg.pdf (Links to an external site.)

Oakland: https://www.kqed.org/news/11648307/has-oaklands-fruitvale-neighborhood-recovered-from-redlining

 

CIVil Liberties/Rights And Supreme Court Cases

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The chart below lists individual rights of Americans. Note: this list is NOT exhaustive.

Select ONE of the rights and corresponding cases from the list below. Follow  the link for case of your choice in the righthand column to learn more  about it. Then find the rest of the instructions under the chart.

Individual right
(Annotations from Senate.gov website)

 

Location in Constitution

 

Real World Case

 

Establishes religious freedom by prohibiting the establishment of an official or exclusive church or sect.

 

1st Amendment

 

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/supreme-court-sides-with-christian-baker-who-denied-cake-to-same-sex-couple (Links to an external site.)

Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission

 

Free speech and free press are protected, although they can be  limited for reasons of defamation, obscenity, and certain forms of state  censorship, especially during wartime.

 

1st Amendment

 

Snyder v. Phelps
Protesting at military funerals (Links to an external site.)  

 

The freedom of assembly and petition also covers marching, picketing and pamphleteering.

 

1st Amendment

 

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/supreme-court-voids-35-foot-abortion-clinic-buffer (Links to an external site.)

McCullen v. Coakley

 

Protects an individuals’ right to possess firearms unconnected to any service in a militia.

 

2nd Amendment

 

https://video.kqed.org/video/supreme-court-enforces-ban-on-straw-purchase-of-guns-1410213834/ (Links to an external site.)

Abramski v. United States

 

Applying to arrests and to searches of persons, homes, and other  private places, this amendment requires a warrant, thereby placing a  neutral party between the police and the citizen.

 

4th Amendment

 

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/what-the-supreme-courts-cellphone-location-data-ruling-could-mean-for-your-digital-privacy (Links to an external site.)

Carpenter v. United States

 

When the government seizes property to use in the public interest, it must pay the owner fair value.

 

5th Amendment

 

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/supreme-court-seems-divided-property-rights-dispute (Links to an external site.)

Murr v. Wisconsin

 

Neither bail nor punishment for a crime are to be unreasonably severe.

 

8th Amendment

 

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/law-jan-june05-death_penalty_03-01 (Links to an external site.)

Roper v. Simmons

Establishes that all citizens are entitled to “equal protection of the laws.”

14th Amendment

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/must-employers-make-special-considerations-pregnant-workers (Links to an external site.)

Young v. United Parcel Service

INSTRUCTIONS:

Now search for the actual record of this Supreme Court Case at https://www.oyez.org (Links to an external site.)

1. Find and submit this information:

a. Title of the case

b. Date of the case

c. Petitioner and Respondent

d. The outcome of the case

e.Do you agree or disagree with the outcome of the case? Explain your answer.

2. Search Oyez or google/search engine to find another SC case that  also interprets a similar constitutional question. Briefly summarize  that case, and say whether you believe there is a clear precedent  established regarding cases having to do with this right or section of  the Constitution.

Political Science

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Instructions
The Electoral College was created to protect US citizens against mob rule. Mob rule is the control of a lawful government system by a mass of people through violence and intimidation. However, some Americans question the legitimacy of this process. Pick one election where the outcome of the popular vote and the electoral college vote differed to create an argument in favor of or opposed to the use of the electoral college. List at least three valid points to support your argument. Present you argument in a PowerPoint presentation.

As you complete your presentation, be sure to:

  • Use speaker’s notes to expand upon the bullet point main ideas on your slides, making references to research and theory with citation.
  • Proof your work
  • Use visuals (pictures, video, narration, graphs, etc.) to compliment the text in your presentation and to reinforce your content.
  • Do not just write a paper and copy chunks of it into each slide. Treat this as if you were going to give this presentation live.

Presentation Requirements (APA format)

  • Length: 8-10 substantive slides (excluding cover and references slides)
  • Font should not be smaller than size 16-point
  • Parenthetical in-text citations included and formatted in APA style
  • References slide (a minimum of 2 outside scholarly sources plus the textbook and/or the weekly lesson for each course outcome)

Political Ideology Discussion

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The critical analysis questions are designed to stimulate thought, clarify concepts, explore course materials in detail, and to examine the course concepts from a new or different perspective.

Responses should be 500-800 words in total.

Questions

  1. In what ways does Michel Foucault’s conception of power differ from Althusser’s?
  2. What are the main characteristics of Foucault’s genealogical method?
  3. In what ways can his notion of genealogy complicate other ideologies we have encountered in this course?

Political Science 101

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Discussion 4(a)

Describe Political Ideology and Political Theory and how are they different?

*Include any sources you use.

 

Your initial post should be at least 100 words. Respond to at least one other student with 20+ words.

Graded Discussion – See Rubric

100 points · Due Aug 2, 2019 11:59pm

Requirements

Properly answering discussion question (50 points)

Response word count is 100+ words (20 points)

Respond to another student with 20+ words (30 points)

Organized Crime

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This assignment is to demonstrate how much you have learned about organized crime. You are to supply the called information and any additional information you believe should be included to make this assignment complete. Use APA format and include at least four references.

ORGANIZED CRIME

I. What is organized crime (not just a definition of organized crime but an explanation of what is organized.)

A. The origin of organized crime.

B. The place it first originated.

C. Who originated it.

D. Where did it first originate.

E. The parts of the world where “organized crime” is most prevelant

II. The name of the major organized crime group and location of their headquarters and major internal smaller locations. How is the internal organization identified? (by name.)

III. How do you become a member of an organized crime family?

A. initial entry into family

B. exit from family

IV. Choose three “organized crime” family. Supply the following information.

A. The major enterprises engaged in by the “Family”

1. legal

2. illegal

B. The history of organized crime in the U.S.

V. Name three (3) “organized crime” families and explain how they support it-self. (Its major activities)

The Electoral College System Good Or Bad?

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The Electoral College was created to protect US citizens against mob rule. Mob rule is the control of a lawful government system by a mass of people through violence and intimidation. However, some Americans question the legitimacy of this process. Pick one election where the outcome of the popular vote and the electoral college vote differed to create an argument in favor of or opposed to the use of the electoral college. List at least three valid points to support your argument. Present you argument in a PowerPoint presentation.

As you complete your presentation, be sure to:

  • Use speaker’s notes to expand upon the bullet point main ideas on your slides, making references to research and theory with citation.
  • Proof your work
  • Use visuals (pictures, video, narration, graphs, etc.) to compliment the text in your presentation and to reinforce your content.
  • Do not just write a paper and copy chunks of it into each slide. Treat this as if you were going to give this presentation live.

Write A Film Review Essay

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 Review Essay Guidelines

The assignment is to write a 3-page review essay, for a film, due on Sunday night of the week each film is assigned.

Your essay should explore themes of power and justice depicted in the film, drawing on the theories and practices exploredduring the prior week. Obviously, you will have more material to draw from as the course proceeds, and you are welcome and encouraged to draw on materials from earlier weeks, if they are helpful to you.There is lots of room for creativity here.  The goal is an interpretive essay, that links the film to the materials of our course –demonstrating to us that the materials are tools in your interpretation.

In your essay, be specific and give examples / scenes from the film that effectively illustrate the conceptsyou discuss in the essay.Your essays canalso include some personal reflectionon the larger meaning of the film, in the context of current events.

Essays should be 12pt font, double-spaced. Citations to course material should be parenthetical –for example (Douglassp. 13). You can use brief quotations, but are discouraged from using long block quotations which consume too much space.  It is your voice we are most interested in hearing!  The creative dimension of the essay is how you connect the materials we are exploring in class to the themes and actions of the film.To get you started, please find some questions and provocations below.  You do not have to respond to these(you can if you want!), but hopefully they can point you in fruitful directions.

13th(2016)

13th is a timely critical history of the American criminal justice system.  Here, you are asked to take a larger view of the film’s significance, connecting it to the themes of power and justice throughout our course.  You have great latitude here.  You can focus on themes of authority and discipline, as depicted by DuVernay in practices of law enforcement and incarceration.  You can focus on public opinion and complicity –for example how the “war on drugs” worked on public perceptions. You can focus on how the film itself constitutesan act of resistance?  What are Ava DuVernay’s justice claims?  Does she propose a Path Forward?  What does that look like?  You have great latitude in this paper, but be sure that you communicate clearly to your reader in the opening paragraph, what you intend to do.

Course material are attached, no need to read them all, just mention some of them in the essay and used for citation.

Some other Course materials:

John Stuart Mill, On Liberty – Chs 1-3

Frederick Douglas, The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro

Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

 

POLITICS

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Please answer  4- 5 sentences on  the following questions :How would you describe President Trump’s time in office? What, if anything, do you think needs improvement?

2. Please write 2-3 sentences responses for these two following discussions:

1. There are many people that hate trump, but they are also many that love Trump. Those who love Trump boast about his role in economic growth, his goal-oriented immigration policies, and his commitment toward making America great.Others think our President is a disgrace to our nation. I don’t know much about politics but hat I do know is a lot of these people who hate Trump are the ones that secretly voted for him. Trump, is somebody who has been in the inner circles of the elite to help expose their corrupt nature. He doesn’t care and says everything the way it is. That’s why the media portrays a poor image of President Trump, so people start disliking him. He does not get the coverage he deserves when he administers something good into congress. A lot of people who hate trump just try to fit in with the crowd. People are scared to say they voted for him since “everybody hates him”. There are many people that actually support Trump especially the rich people. I do agree that he could’ve handled certain things better. He definitely could’ve handled COVID 19 differently. I’m not supporting Trump but rather expressing what I believe is going on.

2. I feel like trump is a buisness man and he should have just stuck to that. I feel like he didn’t really accomplish much during his time in office. Even though there are several people who actually like him and voted for him I ultimately feel like trump has caused more destruction during his time in his office and it will continue if he gets re elected. I also feel like he is very unprofessional for the role of president, and an example of this would be his racial tweets on social media plat forms and using his twitter fingers to disrespect others and other presidents and have racist rants. I also feel like he is part of the main reason why a lot of the chaos with the pandemic is going on right now because he is unprofessional and doesn’t really care about his citizens he just wants checks. President trump actually made the country worse than it already was to be completly honest. I feel like there is a lot of things that need to be changed for America to get better, but the first thing we can do is elect better candidates, and vote for people who actually want to make a better change in the country. I also feel like there should be more diversed candidates for president, like people of color, or women, women of color, because it always seems like the options most of the time are two old white guy’s that don’t always have the best intentions or really know what they’re doing.

Public Administration Week 6 Discussuion Question

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According to the text, information and values are two issues that every decision-making approach must tackle. What does this mean? Are these issues in conflict? In your opinion, are there any other important issues that should receive equal weight?