Is private ownership of the media a strength, a weakness, or the lesser of evils? What might the alternative be?
Assignment details:
1.) This paper should be 5-7 pages long and well-researched using academic sources.
View John Oliver’s piece on corporate consolidation in local news media:
Is liberalism freedom?
Is native violence against settlers justified? What are its consequences?
Select an agency of the US government and a specific public policy issue. Discuss, in detail, the mission and vision of the agency. Why did you select this particular agency?
Broadly describe a current issue that your selected agency trying to solve. Make sure that you address the following questions:
What is the issue?
What evidence is there that it is an issue?
What are the players (both institutions and individuals)?
What are the possible solutions proposed?
What solution was selected and why?
What are the political implications of the public policy?
How does it impact our democratic system?
Are there any constitutional issues?
Please make sure that your paper has a thesis sentence and a conclusion.
8 pages
Describe a president who has been successful in influencing legislative decision making and discuss the major reasons for the president's success.
Write an essay in which you discuss the impact that presidents have on the congressional legislative process in terms of setting the legislative agenda, influencing Congress members' votes, and use of the veto power.
1.Do you agree with the statement “Those who have the ability to take action have the responsibility to take action”?
2. When does a group decide it is time to take action? How does it determine what action to take?
Background information
The movie National Treasure singles out one line in the Declaration of Independence as most important in driving the colonists toward revolution: “But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.” In other words, “Those who have the ability to take action have the responsibility to take action.”