Write a demographic analysis of your hometown – to look up, present, and analyze data about the population using the U.S. Census Bureau’s

Demography, the study of human populations, is an important subfield within Sociology. This assignment requires you to write a demographic analysis of your hometown – to look up, present, and analyze data about the population using the U.S. Census Bureau’s web site. You will compare your home town with its state and with the United States. 1) List your hometown’s name (or census tract #) and its total population (Ex: ‘Anytown, NY: population 10,384’) 2) Find your data: Choose three demographic variables based on what you think will give insight into your community. *** Think carefully about which variables to choose, since you will write a paper about this data. You may choose: o Income distribution and/or median income o Percentage below poverty o Housing (e.g., percentage in owner occupied housing, median value of homes) o Education (e.g., educational attainment) o Employment (or unemployment) rate and/or Labor Force participation rate (make sure you understand the difference!) o Type of employment o Age distribution o Race/Ethnicity o Percentage foreign-born o Languages Spoken o Ancestry o Other variable of interest (But do not use the variable ‘sex’ ) To understand the data on your hometown, you will need to compare it with other regions. In addition to your own hometown, you will consider data for the entire United States and for your State, or another geographic area of your choice.

Discuss about Habermas (Special Interest) & Politics and style & The sinister side of the public sphere.

Habermas was concerned about the role of special interest groups in shaping public opinion. He described this as the “refeudalization” of the public sphere. Drawing on material from the weeks of Mar 4 (activism + social movements) and Mar 18 (lobbying), explain how special interest groups are affecting the contemporary public sphere. hroughout this course we have seen how political communication is as much about style(how messages are framed) as it is about content(ie. the substance of particular campaigns). Drawing on material from the weeks of Feb 25 (campaigns) and Mar 11 (populism), explain the role of style in communicating political messages.

Discuss the Battle of the Plains of Abraham .

what was happening in North America at the time the event occurred, or in the case of Brant, how did he get to be in the position he did as an important volunteer for the British army). 2. The major moments in the event itself, from first to last. Best approaching this chronologically, I don’t need to know all the moments of the event (or in that person’s life), but I do need to know about the major ones (a brief reading of the story you choose should reveal to you which moments are important ones that should be discussed in your paper). What happened, and what impact did they have on the event/person’s story itself.