{"id":436647,"date":"2018-06-30T15:59:23","date_gmt":"2018-06-30T15:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essaypaper.org\/?p=30621"},"modified":"2018-10-24T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T09:00:00","slug":"political-science-paper-current-news-item","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/political-science-paper-current-news-item\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Science Paper-Current News Item"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Current News Item<\/h2>\n<div class=\"question-body\">\n<div>\n<p>Students are expected to follow current events by regularly following news coverage of current events from quality sources. It is crucial in helping you to understand and make sense of the issues covered in this course. Some quality sources that I would suggest to consider are the Economist (www.economist.com),<\/p>\n<p>the New York Times (www.nytimes.com), national public radio (89.3 FM), and KPFK (90.7 FM). As a portion of your grade, students will report on a current news item associated with the United States.<\/p>\n<p>To receive full credit, students must:<\/p>\n<p>[a] explain the item(5 points) and do it,<\/p>\n<p>[b] in their own words (5 more points). Finally, they must,<\/p>\n<p>[c] tell how it relates to a specific chapter in the text book (final 5 points). Items will come from the print or broadcast (electronic) media.<\/p>\n<p>chapters:<\/p>\n<p>ch1. \u00a0The Study of American Government and Politics<\/p>\n<p>ch2. \u00a0The United States Constitution<br \/>\nch3. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0American Federalism<\/p>\n<p>ch4, 5, 9: \u00a0\u00a0The Courts, Democratic Struggle, Civil Liberties, and Civil Rights<\/p>\n<p>ch6. : \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The United States Congress<\/p>\n<p>ch7. \u00a0The United States Presidency<br \/>\nch8. \u00a0The Political Economy of the United States and its Bureaucracy<\/p>\n<p>ch10 \u00a0Political Ideology and Culture<\/p>\n<p>ch 11, 12, 13: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Politics, Parties and Elections<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h6 class=\"text-info\"><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Current News Item Students are expected to follow current events by regularly following news coverage of current events from quality sources. It is crucial in helping you to understand and make sense of the issues covered in this course. Some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/political-science-paper-current-news-item\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-essay-paper-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}