In this assignment, you will be creating a hypothetical proposal for a case study that will focus on one country, excluding North America, and one major health issue that is related to the environment. Case studies are usually used to organize a wide range of information about a case/topic and then analyze the contents by seeking patterns and themes in the data and by further […]

Memo Requirements All students must submit a simulation memo through the Statecraft online messaging system before each turn ends—your instructor may ask you to focus on strategies for the upcoming turn, or reflect on the actions that just took place. These memos must be at least 300 words in length. Memos that are posted late or are too short will NOT be counted. Your memo […]

I have suggested that we should engage and be engaged by those persons who see and understand the world differently from those who sit comfortably within a dominant we society so that we might (re)imagine or discover a new place for democratic politics. And as film-goers who find ourselves more susceptible emotionally to the stimuli presented in a movie theatre, we can at times experience […]

The role of nationalism became a huge thing during the interwar period because of the growing feeling of a sense of independence wanted by many citizens.  There was a period of  “deglobalization” in which economic nationalism, or the belief that countries should be as self-supporting as possible, predominated (Shubert, A. & Goldstein, R.J. (2012)).  There was such a concern for famine that many governments imposed […]

Discussion Board Question 4: The films An Inconvenient Truth and An Inconvenient Sequelprovides the viewer with unmistakable, visual evidence of the effect of the heating of the Earth on our planet due to trapped greenhouse gasses. When presented with such obvious evidence, one would think that minds would be changed and the problem engaged, such as the banning of CFC gasses back in the 1980’s […]

Booker T. Washington was the most influential black leader and educator of his time in the United States. Develop an essay discussing his contributions in the areas of education, political and social rights as blacks struggled for equal rights in the American political system. For your discussion, you must read the autobiography, Up from Slavery chapters 1-8 and 9-17 and his speeches ( retrieve from […]

 Karen Scullion, seventeen years old, has been admitted for surgery to evaluate a soft tissue mass suspicious for sarcoma. Radical resection of the tissue mass along with extensive skin grafting was performed. While Karen was in the recovery room, the physicians saw her parents to inform them of the results of the surgery. They were understandably shaken. Both parents insisted that Karen not be told […]

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 […]

The founders of our Republic were keen students of Republican Rome. In fact, many of our institutions were deliberately patterned on Roman ideals about the virtues of military service. By law, the Roman army was a militia force comprised of citizen soldiers who were required to perform military duties as a civic obligation, a public service, before they could run for political office. The Romans […]

One of the challenges in modern democracy identified in the film is that there is a freedom recession going around in the world today, that we have the fewest electoral democracies since 1995 and the number of overall countries that are free have stagnated since 1998. Another one of the challenges stated in the film is that parties are supposed to be the conduit, the […]