You will write a minimum 9-page research-based paper in current APA format that focuses on a recent, relevant criminal justice issue in the area of police, courts, or corrections. Topic examples include cyberterrorism, sex trafficking, terrorism, and intelligence. The paper must propose a solution to the assigned issue and include how this solution fits into the worldview as well as train criminal justice leaders to […]

Chapter two covers the founding of the United States, which includes the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. These documents are still relevant to understanding American government today. The Articles of Confederation, while no longer a governing document, provides a historic background to the division and sometimes still conflicting interests of the State and National governments. As you read chapter two, […]

Use the IRAC method to outline Duncan v. Kahanamoku. Produce a (5) five-double-spaced pages of analysis utilizing the IRAC – issue, rule, analysis, conclusion – method in the module 2 commentary. IRAC is a method used to deconstruct a judicial opinion, but it can be used for anything that you read. Identifying and assessing the merits of an argument or position are academic skills that you will continue to apply and […]

I have chosen film, cinema, in my work in order to theorize difficult questions regarding democracy and difference.  There are, however, many points of caution in choosing to use film.  Films often can reinforce and affirm stereotyped and demeaning images of others; that is, film is as effective a tool for installing as it is for challenging and overcoming oppression.  However, as I write in […]

In this class we have identified as one of our objectives the ability to fully engage, in critical ways, popular culture and its influence upon our political selves, our political sensibilities.  With our focus on “deep differences” we find ourselves examining both documentary and feature-length film texts.   In 300-500 words share whether or not you believe the assigned documentary film text has the potential to […]

Speaking from a liberal perspective, the threat of terrorism or an ethnic conflict can be vastly different depending on where you live. If you are a resident of France, you are much more likely staying awake at night worrying about terrorism. If you are a Rohingya Muslim in Myanmar, your primary fear is ethnic conflict. Of course, this question is posed as the largest global […]

The Cold War was a 44-year conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union, the two largest superpowers in the world when it began in 1946. At the end of World War II, the Soviet Union was in shambles. They had 20-27 million war-related deaths, and Germany occupied several of their republics, not to mention the damage to their economy (Painter, 1999, p. 5). […]

The collapse of Communism began with “deepening of respect of human rights” and the “creation of democratic institutions” (Thomas, 2005, p. 110). Liberalism began to shift people’s views from Communism. Poland, Hungary, East Germany, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, and Romania all started to turn away from those political governments ruled by Communists. There were civilian protests, which got violent in Romania. One of the reasons that Communism […]

  Political Ideology is defined as a cohesive set of beliefs that forms a general philosophy about the role of government.  It is essential to understand not only the basic competing ideologies in American political culture, but the nuanced application, interpretation and in fact, perversion of these terms and concepts.  It is important to understand these dynamics in order to make sense of the various political behavior […]

Country Election Case Study paper: Your final assignment for this class is to write a 4-5 page essay on the most recent election that has occurred in one of the countries we have covered this semester. You will look at an election that has already happened (not one that is on-going). This may be an executive or legislative election. You will describe how these elections occur […]