What are gender roles? What is the difference between sex and gender? What is the difference between gender, gender identity, and gender roles? What are gender stereotypes? Summarize the nature vs. nurture debate and give an example. Which do you think is the most powerful? Nature or biology or nurture or socialization? What is socialization […]
Can you provide a general analysis of the El Salvador counterinsurgency (COIN) effort and assess how well the U.S. forces, U.S. country team, ESAF, and GOES did in relation to the COIN principles: Legitimacy, unity of effort, the primacy of political objectives, understanding the environment/culture, good intelligence, isolating the insurgents from society and security/the rule […]
An advocate’s Public Narrative Story must revolve around a specific issue – for this assignment, construct your ECE story (if you feel strongly that you want to focus on an issue other than ECE, speak to your professor). Draft your Public Narrative Story using the Institute for Change Leaders (2017), Building Skills for Change Teaching Guide, Chapter […]
Read the news on a regular basis with a focus on issues and events related to social justice and select a recent news story as your focus (within the last 6 months). You can search for a news story on ANY social justice issue or advocacy movement. Use keywords to search on Google News, for […]
Storytelling is an important part of advocacy and leadership work because it answers the “why” questions: why we care, why the work we do matters, and why we are organizing for change. The purpose of this assignment is for learners to develop their story following the Public Narrative Framework (ICL, 2017): Story of Self, Us, […]
What are the strengths of the stages model of the policy process? What are its weaknesses? How would you propose we improve on this model? 2) What are the strengths and weaknesses of any systems model of a political or social process? How might you overcome the weaknesses you have identified? 3) The trends […]
Explain what the difference is between Civil Liberties and Civil Rights. Where do each of them originate? Choose one of the Bill of Rights. Explain its history and original meaning/purpose. How has our understanding of this amendment changed over time? Lastly, how have policies such as Affirmative action, influenced the way people see the Bill […]
The Canadian Constitution is a mixture of written rules and unwritten constitutional principles. How well does this mixed constitutional system function in 2021? Would it be better to have only a written constitution? If so, why? Illustrate your answer with examples showing how the written and unwritten elements co-exist in the Canadian constitutional setting
The first Supreme Court case addressing the constitutionality of affirmative action examined admissions practices at the University of California at Davis. In Regents of the University of California v Bakke (1978), the court ruled that the use of race as the sole determinant of admission to medical school was unconstitutional. The intent of the program […]
What theory best explains the creation of ASEAN? Why? Given the theoretical approaches that we have read, do you believe that the members of ASEAN are likely to pursue deeper integration in the future? Why, or why not? In your post specifically address what impact (if any) China has had upon ASEAN.
