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read and analyze a recent article from The Wall Street Journal, each covering a different topic addressed in the course. You will then write a review of the article that is at least 300 words and in current APA format.

 

Access The Wall Street Journal either through the Jerry Falwell Library or through a personal subscription. Each unit will have a different list of topics to choose from.

 

Module/Week 5 Topic Choices:

 

Federal budget deficits

Mandatory government spending

Effects of the federal debt on the economy

Laffer curve

Crowding out

Automatic stabilizers

Expansionary fiscal policy

 

Make sure to select an article (300 words or more) that addresses all of the needed information below. Short articles will often not provide you with enough detail to write about. In addition, purely statistical releases of data are not wise selections either. The article must be no older than 2014. For your chosen article, do the following:

 

1. On the top of the page, provide the article citation in current APA format.
2. On the next line down, type the topic of your articles (from the list above) in all caps and bold format.
3. In a double-spaced document, briefly explain the author’s purpose for writing the article. One way to understand the author’s purpose is to ask yourself why he or she wrote it. (For example, consider current and future events, politics, or anything else that may have inspired the article.)
4. Summarize the article, focusing on the discussion of the topic the article addresses. Incorporate relevant economic theory that is present so that discussion of the article content is clear.

 

trace the development of a theme in American history from the Gilded Age through the twentieth-first century. Create a timeline in which you note between twenty and twenty-five events and individuals relating to this theme. How did the theme affect American society? How had the United States changed?

Choose one of the following themes:

• Native Americans’ situation in the United States
• women’s roles in society
• immigration
• environmental protection
• the development of technology
• economic expansion
• the changing role of the United States in foreign relations

 

There are one hundred points possible on this project. You will be responsible for:

• Key events that affected development of the theme. (20 points possible)

 

• Actions of key leaders and figures. (20 points possible)

 

• The importance and significance of each event and person in your timeline. (25 points possible)

 

• The impact of the theme you are discussing on American history. (25 points possible)

 

Proper convention and presentation. Your timeline should be free of spelling errors. Use proper grammar, punctuation, and capitalization, as well as complete sentences if they are appropriate. The outline/layout you use is up to you, but the project must be clearly and logically organized. Items in your timeline should appear connected to demonstrate change over time, but they should not appear cluttered. The elements you use (which may include headings, different fonts, bullets, images, text, etc.) should be effectively integrated with white space to make your timeline easy to understand

While it is traditionally held that Marx and Engels were against capitalism and thus the industrial revolution, an argument can be made that both men could believe industrialization was a positive development. Using The Communist Manifesto, explain how this argument could be true.

Discuss the following poems: “Lawrence Ferlinghetti,” “Constantly Risking Absurdity,” and “The Beats,” “Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton,” “Mirror,” and “Courage,” “Theodore Roethke,” “Cuttings,” and “Cuttings (later),” “Elizabeth Bishop,” “One Art,” and “Filling Station,”

• Barbara Goodwin’s Using Political Ideas
• Robert Eccleshall’s Political Ideologies
• Andrew Heywood’s books on: Politics; Modern Political Ideologies; and Political Ideologies: An Introduction

 

– Avoid Web sites as sources and only use Academic books and Articles.

 

*First part of assignment is to summarize key principles of the ideology of feminism. Avoid long lists of merely descriptive characteristics. Focus only on the two core principles of feminism. Try to capture the essence of the ideology. Not describing its history.

*2^nd part of the essay is to raise two objections (Patriarchy & Sex and Gender) to the ideology summarized in part one. Conservatism ideology will be used as a basis of criticism. Avoid own views on what is wrong with chosen ideology. Idea is to criticize the chosen ideology from the standpoint of another ideology