Class Situation Analysis

The Washington Post is one of the nation’s oldest newspaper platforms for writers to inform their audience about problems in our country. One of America’s traditional practices is its bureaucratic system of democracy. In Sandra O’ Connor and Roy Romer’s article “Not by Math Alone”, the authors’ appeal to logical reasoning and emotion persuades the audience about the lack of civic education for students in school. Through well-detailed statistics and data, the authors attempt to impose rationality upon their readers regarding the importance of student participation for the government. According to the last national civics assessment in 1998, about “two-thirds of 12th -graders scored below proficient” while only “9 percent could list…benefits

He advances that people who are more knowledgeable in civic issues are more likely to take part in civic and political affairs as well as less likely to have a generalized mistrust and fear of public life. Realizing the role citizenship education can play in reversing this decline in citizens’ civic awareness and engagement, most developed and developing countries alike have embark on reviewing the curriculum so as to make citizenship education a core subject, particularly at basic education level (Keating, Kerr, Benton, Mundy & Lopes, n.d.; Finkel, 2000; Dahal, 2002). More so, the pivotal role that citizenship education plays in equipping the youth with knowledge, skills and the right attitudes for social roles in the society has attracted funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID (Finkel, 2011). The importance given to citizenship education is a sign that it is the panacea to reversing the low- interest shown in civic

The message emerging from a recent research series on youth civic and political participation is clear: today's youth are not disjoined from associational and small political life, but they are increasingly disenchanted with formal political institutions and practices. Children and youth under 18 have made sententious strides in recent years toward fuller involvement in democratic processes. These strides,

The Second option when dealing with this threat would organizing talks among many of the world powers and countries within East Asia in order to develop a bilateral solution to dealing with Korea. At this time it is evident the North Korea’s biggest ally,China has been distancing themselves either through heavy sanctions giving the U.S a window of opportunity where China may use its influence to force change in North Korea, if not to at least working towards other nations to form a solution.This solution lends to many problematic outcomes with the first being a non-guarantee in terms of reaching an agreement which looking at previous talks would be highly probable causing immense setbacks. Additionally agreeing to bilateral talks may put the United States in a position where heavy comprise may be necessary creating an agreement that does not fulfill our agenda to the fullest and may create an imagine where the U.S is seen as a subordinate.

Being politically involved at my age is rare nowadays. That is not to say that all teens are such nor does it spell out United States’ political fate in the near future. In the case of this year’s common reading, the selection was excellent. Not only did it spark my interest for politics, but it raised some personal thoughts that applied to some of Cicero’s suggestions. Albeit positive, Cicero’s suggestions can very well be applied to modern life.

This semester in Relationships class, I have learned more about relationships than I ever thought I would. Watching videos, class discussion, presentations, and even reading a book taught me so much information about relationships. This semester I have learned about love languages, apology languages, and "bids" for connection and how we can respond. With all the information I have learned, these three topics stood out to me the most. These three topics will help strengthen my relationships, and will effect it in many ways.

Whenever I first start a new class I look through the syllabus and pages of the book for the class to get an overall idea what will be the main emphasis/class. In SOCI 2001, it was a lot of what I expected yet the information about was more intense in regards to the history of how racial discrimination got started all over the world. Seeing that other nations were as bad to their own people as they were to immigrants astounded me. To read how countries cast their own people away like they meant nothing was a real eye opener.

They have tested two nuclear weapons and although it is believed that they do not have the capabilities to really launch them far or accurately, North Korea is close to two American ally countries that host American military. If North Korea were to hit Japan or South Korea (assuming they would aim for major population centers), one nuclear weapon could lead to anywhere from 125,000 to 400,00 fatalities/casualties.3 Due to North Korea's failing state it effectively needs to use its nuclear weapons to deter countries from moving in (though China would probably prevent deterrence anyway). The North Korea situation creates a unique but terrifying situation where at any point they could cause immense damage, where retaliation would be difficult as the main entry points could be annihilated. With China's desire to maintain North Korea as a (buffer-state) it is hard to say how China would

Principal of engineering was a course that seemed to always want to screw me over. One project in particular was the Marble sorter, the objective was to successfully sort four types of marbles all made of different materials. As the teacher assigned groups of three I willingly joined my group for some brainstorming. It didn't take long for me to not like or approve of our design but, I silently went along with it. Even though I didn't trust the ideas of my other group members I went home feeling okay. I was assigned to do the funnel where the marbles would enter, I came up with the idea to cut the bottom of a milk carton and turn it upside down. So after four class periods of being told what to do and have my ideas pushed off to the

Our world is constantly changing to where some old gender values are shifted for a new. Examples of those values might be women’s rights, rights for homosexuals and others that are part of the LGBTQ+ community, and other minorities in the world today. In four separate projects, our class analysed data collected by the entire class about 4 different aspects of gender roles and different races in our society. One fact that caught my attention came from the project asking on single question. The results of the question showed that people in our society today are possible more accepting of a homosexual being a doctor than a women. (Postel & Group, The Quandary) I plan to analyze the results of the question as well as other facts from the other

Teen pregnancy continues to grow in American society due to lack of background parenting information. The number of babies born each year to teen moms continues to grow but most lack understanding of care. Currently there are 12,771 babies born to teenage mothers in the state of Michigan each year. Lacking of understand surrounding parenting skills in young adults needs to be a yearly class for all high school students to help young adults reach a better understanding of how to care for children.

In conclusion, North Korea should not be able to make Nuclear weapons because they have no resistance in their system to stop them from striking the neighboring countries. The countries that are the possible targets for the nuclear bombs are the U.S, and South Korea, etc. In total The U.S would have 10 minutes to react and South Korea would have 6 minutes to react to the nuclear bombs. Many people would be killed and suffer from the bomb. The best thing to do now is for the issue to be addressed to the media which can get people to prepare for the

My first suggestion as a representative of the American government would be for the US to push for diplomacy. I believe that negotiations have not been fully exhausted yet and that it is the only hope for easing tensions between both countries without any unnecessary casualties. Instead of responding recklessly to North Korea's nuclear weapons tests with military exercises and more sanctions, the US should concentrate on keeping strong alliances with Japan and South Korea. In addition to that, the US should continue to work closely with its other allies to ramp up the pressure on NK, while it attempts to hold talks with NK. Talks with NK should happen regardless of their actions to lower tensions. Although there will be many topic on the agenda once NK agrees to the talks, the US will have to remain firm and insist for the nuclear weapons program to be at the top of the agenda.

The sanctions on North Korea have not been effective in the past. North Korea’s economy has continued to grow despite sanctions being placed on them. They have successfully continued to build their nuclear weapons arsenal and have carried out numerous nuclear weapons and missiles tests which show that they are getting closer and closer to developing nuclear weapons that could reach the United States. They have not been effective because Russia and China have wavered in implementing tough sanctions on North Korea because they are their biggest trading partners. Russia and China believe that the tougher sanctions would be considered an act of war by North Korea, which makes them hesitant to implement tough

     I think there are many things that the United States has to do in order to resolve the problems that are occurring and to prevent more problems from happening in the future. The first thing that I think the United States should do is to treat them as nicely as possible, even if it means going against what we believe and letting them get away with bad behavior. In the long run it might be a bad thing to do because it could influence other nations to think that they can walk over us and take advantage of us. However, I think it would be the correct thing to do right now because the last thing anyone wants is a nation that is angry with you that holds nuclear weapons. If, however, North Korea refuses to accept our proposal for negotiations and does not agree with anything that we have to offer, I think the only other option is to attack them with