Author: chris

FOR THE FIRST PAPER, YOU SHOULD USE ONLY THE CLASS MATERIALS PROVIDED. NO OUTSIDE SOURCES ARE ALLOWED EXCEPT FOR THE CURRENT EVENT DISCUSSED IN YOUR CONCLUSION.

 

MAKE SURE TO DEMONSTRATE THAT YOU HAVE READ THE MATERIAL and CLEARLY STATE YOUR THESIS IN THE INTRODUCTION AND THE CONCLUSION.   PLEASE WRITE: “MY THESIS IS” SO I KNOW THAT YOU HAVE ONE.

 

YOUR ESSAY SHOULD BE AT LEAST 6-7 PAGES DOUBLE-SPACED OR SINGLE SPACED (3-4 PAGES) WITH 1” MARGINS. YOU DON’T NEED A COVERSHEET.

 

Please Use Chicago Citation Style:  http://www.lib.subr.edu/Chicago.pdf.  Or go to Purdue Owl

 

MAKE SURE TO CITE YOUR SOURCES CORRECTLY—ANY QUOTES MORE THAN THREE LINES LONG SHOULD BE SINGLE-SPACED (BLOCK QUOTES, NO QUOTATION MARKS). QUOTES 3 LINES OR LESS SHOULD HAVE QUOTATION MARKS.  YOU SHOULD CITE THE SOURCES (HELLMAN AND VANDEN/ PREVOST/Hamilton) EVEN IF YOU ARE PARAPHRASING. YOU CAN USE FOOTNOTES OR IN-TEXT PARANTHETICAL CITATIONS IN YOUR PAPER (YOUR CHOICE).

Late papers graded down ½ letter grade for each day it is late

Check for grammar, spelling and structural errors in your paper—you will be graded down for such errors

 

 

 

MAKE SURE TO SUBMIT YOUR OWN WORK—KEEP IN MIND, TURN IT IN HAS ACCESS TO ALL PAPERS

 

 

According to Collier (Basta! Land and the Zapatista Rebellion, 1994),

 

When in 1992 President Salinas de Gortari brought land reform—the issue on which his party had originally risen to power—to a halt, he signaled an abrupt end to a traditional government covenant with the peasantry and deprived many peasants not just of the possibility of improving their livelihoods, but of their power as a constituency.  The Zapatistas are trying to reclaim that constituency  (Collier, 1994:8).

 

 

The above quote says a great deal about the relationship between the peasant sector and the Mexican state that emerged after the Mexican Revolution.  It also suggests a relationship between the economic restructuring of Mexico’s economy and the rise of the Zapatista rebellion.  Indeed, the transition to free market economic principles and the adoption of neoliberal reform

 

 

permanently transformed the lives of Mexicans in the urban and rural sectors of Mexico’s economy. Such changes were social, political and economic in nature.

 

With this in mind, discuss the significance of the Mexican Revolution to the transition of the New Economic Model (Neoliberalism) in Mexico.  How did the Revolution address the problem of “two Mexicos” that emerged under Diaz? What were the goals of the Revolution?

In what ways did meaning of the Revolution change with the Presidency of Salinas de Gortari?

How do the testimonials provided by Hellman demonstrate and provide insight into understanding how free market mechanisms (NAFTA) would influence the lives of individuals?   Were all sectors impacted the same way? (Hellman discusses this in her book) Has Mexico returned to an era where there are “two Mexicos”?  Where would you place Mexico today in the context of its political and economic development? Why? (Make sure to cite a current event to support your position, discuss it in the conclusion of your paper).

The Constitution:

1. Provide an introductory paragraph that briefly describes one strength and one weakness of the U.S. Constitution.

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2. Provide a paragraph that recommends one option to maintain the strength and one to correct the weakness.

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Reflect: Once you have completed these assignments think about how American politics have and could affect your career aspirations. The Founding Fathers created an amazing governmental structure that affects almost every aspect of our lives even today.

Write: In your initial post, based on your current academic major Business Admnistration; complete one of the following:

• Describe which actions of the Founding Fathers are continuing to affect your future career goals.
• Discuss how separation of powers is influencing your current or future job.
• Explain why checks and balances are important to know in your future employment positions.
• Expound on how the Constitution is still relevant to the career you want to pursue.

Explain why the separation of powers and the system of checks and balances are important for our democracy. Provide recent, real-world examples of the separation of powers and checks/balances in action (one example each). Also, discuss how the Constitution protects individual and group rights. Again, provide a recent real-world example of these Constitutional protections being applied here in the U.S.

Should substitute professionally trained jurors for the current “amateur” jurors as suggested by jury critics would produce a better or more just system?

Your superior has assigned you an unusual task in anticipation of an in-house training and development program. This task is focused on civil rights, but you have been asked to play devil’s advocate for a day. Your task is to present a memo that will be distributed to everyone at the training as required reading.

 

Your memo will be on the topic of how the criminal justice system might look and function if civil rights and civil liberties were not valued.

 

Your answer to the following question can assist you in developing your memo:

 

• If the criminal justice system employed a true public-order approach to fighting crime, what would agencies do differently right now?

  Assignment Guidelines

  Use your course materials, the library, and relevant Internet research options to research major Supreme Court cases that have impacted criminal justice agency policy decisions. For example,Miranda v. Arizona and its progeny changed custodial interrogations, and Terry v. Ohio changed stop-and-frisk situations.

  Address the following in 750–1,000 words:

 

• What landmark U.S. Supreme Court case have you chosen, and what criminal justice policy changed as a result of that case? Explain.
  • This is the starting point for this assignment. Once you understand how that case changed policy, then you can start to work on identifying how the criminal justice system might change its function if the rule of law established in that case was no longer a requirement.
• Do the decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court impact criminal justice policy decisions? Why or why not? Explain in detail.
• How might the affected criminal justice agencies perform differently if the rule of law in your chosen U.S. Supreme Court case was no longer a requirement? Explain in detail.

 

Political Theories

How did the ancient Athenian citizen oath address the issue of the governmental responsibility to future generations?

 

 

How do the theories posited by Edmund Burke, John Locke and David Hume relate to inter-generational government responsibility?

 

How does the aforementioned political theories associated with government’s responsibility to future generations relate to the contemporary issue of environmental policy in the United States?

List and discuss the reasons why environmental planning can be difficult to pursue?

 

How does federal environmental planning influence state and local environmental planning?

 

Discuss some examples in which the U.S. government has taken steps to address environmental planning.

 

What are some economic and political implications that can be associated with environmental planning?

 

Application: What Went Wrong at Abu Ghraib?

 

 

 

No one would question that the events that took place in Abu Ghraib in 2004 (Gilman & Lewis, 2005) were unethical, but when it comes to identifying the causes, opinions vary greatly. While individuals are ultimately responsible for their own ethical behavior, institutional and situational causes provide the breeding ground for ethical breaches to occur. It is important to explore historical situations that provide insight into how the abuse of power leads to unethical decision making.

 

 

 

The assignment (2 pages): Due by Sunday 10/25/15.

 

Identify one individual, one institutional, and one situational ethical breach that took place at Abu Ghraib.

 

 

 

For each identified ethical breach, suggest an underlying cause or institutional challenge.

 

 

 

Explain how insights gained from the Stanford Prison Experiment might apply to each underlying cause or institutional challenge.

Learning Activity 1:

 

Identify key external forces? Then interview–in person, by phone or whatever means practical–a former or current employer/boss about one (1) force that critically concerns the organization and explain it in a practical manner vis-a-vis opportunity and/or threats.

Note: Please ensure to properly cite your interview IAW APA guidance.

 

Learning Activity 2:

 

Explain the implications, effects or consequences of at least one of Porter’s Five Forces on an organization?