Does your case study country use legislative or electoral quotas? Why do you think that is? Why do you think the US does not use gender quotas?

In unit 2, you learned more about the formal institutions of American government, including the legislative, executive, and judicial branches. In this assignment, you’ll practice what you learned about American government in this unit and compare it to the government of your case study country.
Instructions
1. Download and read through the following attachments:
Case study part 3 worksheet
Case study part 3 example
In a sentence or two, briefly describe how much control legislative representatives have over policy in your case study country
vii) Repeat steps v and vi for the United States
2) Does your case study country use legislative or electoral quotas?

Why do you think that is? Why do you think the US does not use gender quotas?

How is the protagonist tested by the story’s events, and what does this say about the protagonist’s character and personality?

American Short Story critical brief

Each Critical Brief should consist of THREE SEPARATE PARAGRAPHS, each one at least 75 words. Together, these three paragraphs should fit on one double-spaced page; they will add up to about 225-250 words. You are welcome to write more if you like.
PARAGRAPH 1 must answer the following questions:

(1) What point-of-view method is being used?

(2) Who is the protagonist , and why do you think so?

(3) How is the protagonist tested by the story’s events, and what does this say about the protagonist’s character and personality?

(4) How is the protagonist changed by the story’s events? Make sure you answer all four of these questions if you hope to receive full credit.
Questions for Paragraph 2, pick ONE to write your thoughtful reaction.
1. How is Charlie a living representative of the era during which the story is set—the early 1930s?  Offer examples from the text.

2. To what degree is Charlie ready, or not ready, to put the “bad old days” firmly behind him, for the sake of having his daughter returned to his care?  Explain.

3. Using this story as a lens through which to view the human experience of love, is there any cause for hope?  Explain.

4. Identify two quotes that might serve as the story’s primary theme; explicate them—that is, take them apart and explain how they work and what they mean.

Compare and contrast how these two settlements were representative of the period. In what ways were they different?

(1) We have made the case, very briefly, that Menander’s Dyskolos, exemplifies social life in the Hellenistic world broadly speaking. Develop this idea, linking specific things in the play with other kinds of historical evidence/texts that you have read.
(2) Define and characterize the following four kinds of sources available to
historians of the Hellenistic period: numismatics; literary texts; non-epigraphic documentary texts; epigraphic texts .

Choose at least one example of each type and explain how, as an individual source, it reflects the broader interpretive challenges associated with that type of source material and indeed the broader interpretive difficulties encountered by Hellenistic historians.
(3) There is an ongoing debate among scholars regarding the extent of “fusion”/mixing/merging of Greek and non-Greek cultures in the Hellenistic world. Taking one or more specific examples that you have encountered so far, discuss to what extent non-Greeks and/or Greeks assimilated to one-another’s culture. What is the significance of your conclusions on this matter for our understanding of Hellenistic society? To what degree do the documents you have read in Austin suggest integration or separation, cooperation or hostility between the indigenous and the newer Greek population in Egypt? In your
answer you might consider regional and temporal variation.
(4) Alexandria and Aï Khanum were two new foundations of the Hellenistic Age.
Compare and contrast how these two settlements were representative of the period. In what ways were they different?

How does Petrarch exhibit Renaissance Humanism?

Answer only one of the following four reading explorations. Be sure to support your answers from the readings. Your answers are due on Friday, February 25:

2. Read Leonardo Bruni’s Petrarca and the Art of Poetry. How does Petrarch exhibit Renaissance Humanism?

A minimum of one full paragraph per question is required.

 

Discuss how and why one can define the 1920s as the watershed decade in modernizing America. What factors contributed to this development?

1920s and emerging contemporary America

One can make an argument that the 1920s was a pivotal decade in creating contemporary America. From economics to politics, sex and entertainment, the post-WWI decade left a lasting mark on American society.

Discuss how and why one can define the 1920s as the watershed decade in modernizing America. What factors contributed to this development?

What was the republic like, and what caused it to become an empire?How did the Pax Romana help the spread of Christianity?

Graded Assignment

Describe the main events and leaders of each of the three Punic Wars.

Write a short paragraph that discusses how the culture of Rome and how it reflected life and values in the Roman Empire.
Why was there conflict between the Romans and the Jews? Be sure to include three supporting details in your response.
Think about the period of peace and prosperity in the Roman Empire known as the Pax How did the Pax Romana help the spread of Christianity?
In a short paragraph, describe the transition of Rome from a republic to an empire. What was the republic like, and what caused it to become an empire? Be sure to include six supporting details in your response.

Explain how the system has defined “accountability” and how right now prison is how we now hold people accountable.

The questions with the answers:

1: Describe the different reactions to the killing of Breonna Taylor in Kentucky and the killing of George Floyd in Minnesota. Was it gender based, or did the recorded video make a difference in the outrage and protests for change? In that scenario, do videos have a value?

2: Explain why Congress does not have the power to have applied the Religious Freedom and Restoration Act to state and local governments.

3: Can a person’s religious rights trump another person’s rights as a citizen?

4: Explain why police officers would benefit from more than 8 hours of de- escalation training.

5: The podcast mentions that a goal of a unifying set of standards and certification of agencies and licensing of officers would be a good way to mitigate the problems seen in policing today. Share your thoughts in 3-5 sentences.

6: Describe some characteristics of situations that public defenders encounter with their clients.

7: Explain how the system has defined “accountability” and how right now prison is how we now hold people accountable.

8: Explain what it means that anti- blackness doesn’t skip over Black immigrants or their kids.

9: Explain the foundation of the racial wealth gap.

10: How did Chief Justice William Renquist’s argument that the Miranda Warning had become embedded in American national culture effect Dickerson v. United States?

Summarize each of the programs.Discuss the pros and the cons of each program.

Write an approximately 1800 word, APA formatted, paper in which you analyze three common types of leadership learning programs you are familiar with or you research using our library. At a minimum, choose 3 programs to analyze. In your paper:

· Summarize each of the programs.

· Discuss the pros and the cons of each program.

· Recommend a model you believe to be the best fit for your organization or educational institution.

Support your paper and rational with a minimum of 3 scholarly resources.

Explain the receptions extended to the Spanish explorers by the Indians of Mexico, Peru, and Brazil and the tactics employed by the Spanish as they attempted to conquer the Aztec and Inca Empires.

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legitimate trade and smuggling under the aegis of the Dutch West Indies
Company. Politically, both France and the Netherlands wanted to weaken the Iberian hold on the Americas. The French actively contested Spanish power  by trying to establish a colony in Spanish Florida
After completing this chapter, you should be able to:
• Analyze the motives of such explorers as Christopher Columbus, Pedro
Cabral, Hernán Cortés, and Francisco Pizarro in venturing to Meso and South America and the motives of European monarchs in their efforts to reach the Indian Ocean by an all-water route.
• Explain the receptions extended to the Spanish explorers by the Indians of Mexico, Peru, and Brazil and the tactics employed by the Spanish as they attempted to conquer the Aztec and Inca Empires.
• Describe the complexities of the encounter of the Old World and the New,
including the exchange of crops, animals, and diseases, as well as the
experiences of the conquistadores and Native American as they interacted.
• Explain the dimensions of the Native American Holocaust and
Transculturation.
• Discuss the impact of the Columbian Exchange on both the Old and New
Worlds.