Category: Government

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Module 11 Discussion
Instructions 
For this discussion, you will read the documents and/or watch the videos, and then you will do an initial post of 200 words about your thoughts and opinions answering the questions below.  Additionally, you will be required to respond to two of your classmates’ answers with responses of at least 50 words each.  You will not be able to see other people’s responses until you post your own.  It is encouraged to express your opinion, but remember, this is a public forum.  It is fine to disagree with your classmates, but it is not ok to be disrespectful.  Maintain a level of professionalism in this discussion.  Finally, liking is enabled, so you can like each other’s posts if you agree with something that someone else said.
•    All posts and responses are due by Sunday at 11:59pm.
•    Canvas Help Guides:
◦    How do I reply to a Discussion? (https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Student-Guide/How-do-I-reply-to-a-discussion-as-a-student/ta-p/334)
Discuss: 
One hot topic of political debate at the present moment is student loan repayment. In August 2022, President Biden announced a program to cancel $10k in student debt, a controversial move that some individuals see as a positive while others see as a negative.  First, what makes this move controversial?  According to the articles, how has Congress granted the president authority to allow for student loan debt relief?  Second, do you think this is a good political action and why?  Does this solve the problems associated with student loan debt?  Feel free to explore this topic as you see fit.
Additional Resources: 
•    Is Joe Biden’s Student Debt Forgiveness Plan Legal? (https://www.politifact.com/article/2022/aug/30/joe-bidens-student-debt-forgiveness-plan-legal/)
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Economists take on Student Loan Forgiveness (https://www.npr.org/2022/08/29/1119988025/economists-take-on-student-loan-forgiveness#:~:text=Many%20economists%20agree%20that%20Biden’s,Indicator%20from%20Planet%20Money%20%3A%20NPR&text=Press-,Many%20economists%20agree%20that%20Biden’s%20student%20loan%20forgiveness%20plan%20is,loans%20for%20millions%20of%20Americans)
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Do Americans support President Biden’s Student Loan Plan? (https://www.brookings.edu/articles/do-americans-support-president-bidens-student-loan-plan/)
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How Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness Program will Work? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=–ixiTypG8g&t=36s)
– Video

Each student will prepare an 800-word memorandum addressed to the President of the United States of America or another high-level official of the federal government. The memo will examine an issue that concerns the United States- Latin American relationship in regard to questions of crime, drugs, violence, migration, and human rights. The aim of the memo is to teach students how to build a historically informed argument in relation to present-day phenomena that have a considerable impact on U.S. politics and policies. I will explain in class how to structure the memo but in general the document should include a historically informed explanation of the issue, a descriiption of what is at stake for the United States, and a policy recommendation on how to address the problem. In order for a memo to be effective, it should be succinct, clearly written, and policy oriented. Tuesday, May 7 is the deadline to bring your final project before 12:00pm.

Write a 150-word post answering the multi-part questions below. You can type your responses or, if you wish, you can upload a short video or audio file as an option (2-3 minutes).
Naming your thread: MLCDL_SFC_WOODARD_WEEK5
What is servant leadership to you? Is it the best way to lead at all times? Why? (M421)

Use your White Paper Outline to design your slides.
Naming Convention: MLCDL_SFC_LNAME_WP BRIEF
This assignment is a 2-3 min PowerPoint brief of your White Paper with voice-over added to each slide. You are using the presentation as if you are giving a military briefing to your commander about what your paper is about. You are presenting a problem, the reason the problem exists, and how you can fix it.
You should have a minimum of 4 slides. You start by introducing the topic of your white paper and your position (problem you chose to address). Then you introduce your evidence you used to support that position (reason the problem exists). Next, you present your solution to the problem (how the Army can fix it). Lastly you have a conclusion slide. The total audio should not exceed 2-3 minutes. You should use visual aids within the ppt presentation to enhance your information.
NOTE: Videos are authorized for use, but will not be included in the briefing time. Any slide that is full of words without pictures or graphs to help present information should be removed.

This is the assignments content.
Abortion has long been one of the most reliably contentious issues in American society. For five decades, a woman’s right to access an abortion has been upheld via Supreme Court ruling in the 1973 case of  Roe V. Wade. Since that time, access to abortion has been reliably upheld time and again, year after year, by justices from both the “left” and the “right”, and despite the desire by some more conservative groups to overturn that decision, had largely been considered “settled” and “precedential”, as newly appointed Supreme Court justice Ketanji Brown Jackson stated during her nomination process. The reason for this assumption is because the U.S. legal system is built up the concept of precedent, or “stare decisis”, a Latin term which means to “stand on decided cases”. What this means is that U.S. courts, including the Supreme Court, is beholden to consider not only previous decision by the court, but also the length of time, and the number/veracity of those challenges over the years. As previously mentioned,  Roe had been reaffirmed time and again by both liberal and conservative justices, but we now know that the court, driven largely by the new conservative majority within, has rendered an opinion that goes against previous precedent by citing that the original decision was arrived at via poor legal reasoning, and which has effectively overturned federal guarantees of the right to access an abortion at will. 
The reasoning given for this massive shift is that abortion was not part of the American legal fabric created by the constitution, but rather by improper interpretations of the rights conferred by the constitution at the time that the case was first heard. It should be noted that the Supreme Court ruling does not mean that all access will be denied, it only means that individual states will be allowed to determine how wide to grant access and under what conditions. For some women in more liberal states, they will likely find themselves less affected personally, while women living in states like Texas, Oklahoma, Florida, etc. will see their access significantly curbed to the point where some would consider it to be nonexistent since the restrictions put into place often require the services to be sought out before a woman may even know that she’s pregnant, and also by not providing for exceptions on issues of rape, incest, or other medical conditions which would result in a nonviable birth but which may not be life-threatening to the woman. This landmark opinion by the court also reverberates beyond simply the issue of abortion itself, given that it was overturned on the basis that there is no tradition of this practice being part of the fabric of American life at the time the Constitution was written. What do you think about this issue and the court’s ruling that overturns  Roe v. Wade, do you agree or disagree with it, and why? 
Articles must use one
What We Keep Getting Wrong About Abortion Liberty requires restraints on government power.Kimberly WehleThe Atlantic
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/11/14/texas-abortion-laws-lawsuit/
Lubbock County becomes latest to approve “abortion travel ban” while Amarillo City Council balks
Lubbock is now the fourth, and largest, county to pass the ordinance which would punish people through civil lawsuits for aiding pregnant women seeking abortions outside of Texas.
Jayme Lozano Carver
The Texas Tribune
More women join a lawsuit challenging Texas’ abortion laws
Twenty women are challenging the state’s abortion laws, saying they were unable to get the health care they needed for their medically complex pregnancies.
READ IMPORTANT!!!
Discussion board posts should be a minimum of 500 words and typed in 12-point Times New Roman font and should include at least one outside source other than the lecture materials which you must cite in APA formatting at the end of your post.  If articles are given for reading with the Discussion Board prompt, then you may use them as your required source material, provided that you cite the source used in your post.  All posts should be typed in a Word document to ensure proper length.

Question:
– What is at least one thing about the American political/governmental/economic system that (1) you find interesting, surprising, or shocking and (2) most people are not cognizant of? 
– Sources which can (do not have to) be used:
https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/people-dont-know-anything-about-the

Do Trade Agreements Lead to Income Inequality?

Creating ‘cruel’ welfare systems: a historical perspective

https://www.wetheveterans.us/news-and-events/is-the-us-a-democracy-its-more-complicated-than-you-thought?gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAAohmkMPxhM8mdek2R7gnLWYi0i-8h&gclid=Cj0KCQjwgJyyBhCGARIsAK8LVLOZpa9mZApqFV_yNZKU6kVpLSGs4FSXAp_mCh3QapoeKk6BdYaEoP0aArm5EALw_wcB
P.S. I know this is easy, but I have a broken right hand, and it is agonizingly painful. I have to keep my hand still and around or above chest level just to reprieve myself of the immense pain. I just don’t want you to think I’m too lazy to do this.*

M444 JPP Learning Activity
1. You will work on this practical exercise in five separate groups (Primarily within A365 in your broken down group) within your Week #4 Practical Exercise (See group breakdown below).
Group Echo: Construct the linear Line of Operation(LoO) for the overall 1st AD campaign, as well as the supporting Lines of Effort (LoE) (for Phase II) for the 1AD Campaign, utilizing the Atropian OPORD, as well as Phase 2 Significant Events material (M451)
2. Each group will balance their information against understanding the 1st AD OE in ATROPIA. Include information gleaned from previous lessons (Significant Event Handouts located throughout previous lessons)
3. Combine information into a presentation into your Group that presents a robust Operational Approach (OA) for your overarchng Line of Operation for the Campaign, as well as your supporting Lines of Effort. a. Information used to determine OA (Guidance, Higher HQ intent, Mission, OE variables, Stability Tasks, Problem Statement, etc.)
b. Ends, Ways, Means
c. Elements of Operational Design (Termination, Military End State, Objectives, Effects, Center of Gravity, Decisive Points, Lines of Operation/Lines of Effort, Direct and indirect approach, Anticipation, Operational reach, Culmination, Arranging Operations, Forces and functions) As required
d. A restated Mission Statement based on combination of above info.
e. An Operational Approach derived by combining the above info with your experience, intellect, creativity, intuition, education, etc.
You will utilize the groups established within A365 to collaborate and develop your LoO and LoE final product. It is necessary to use the Atropian Iron OPORD and all associated Annexes to gather the necessary information for your planning. It is necessary to refer back to either the lesson or JP 5-0 to determine the Inputs and Outputs for each step of the joint planning process. DIRECTIONS FOR YOUR LINE OF OPERATION and LINES OF EFFORT FINAL PRODUCT:
1. YOU WILL PROVIDE NO LESS THAN ONE SLIDE THAT DEPICTS THE 1AD LINE OF OPERATION AND YOUR ASSIGNED PHASE LINES OF EFFORT.
2. WITHIN YOUR SLIDE PROVIDED, YOU WILL ALSO PROVIDE (IN SUMMARY/NO MORE THAN ONE PARAGRAPH) THE ANALYSIS AND REASONING BEHIND, AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF YOUR GROUP AGREED UPON FINAL LINE OF OPERATION AND SUPPORTING LINES OF EFFORT AS IT PERTAINS TO THE 1AD CAMPAIGN AND PHASE BREAKDOWN. 3. ONCE COMPLETE, YOU WILL PRESENT YOUR FINAL LINES OF OPERATION AND SUPPORTING LINES OF EFFORT WITHIN THE WEEK #5 CLASSROOM COLLABORATION SESSION. THERE IS NO NEED FOR PEER REPLIES FOR THIS PRACTICAL EXERCISE.
This is your small group breakdown for collaboration on your JPP Practical Exercise project. After you have developed your group LOO and LOEs slide, create a final slide that depicts the 1st AD LoO, as well as your Phase supporting Lines of Effort. You will present/brief your slide in the Week #5 Classroom Collaboration Session.
Naming your File: M444_Group_E_Activity_Final (insert your group letter as shown)

Identify a current events article about policy related to the child welfare system. Describe the child welfare policy and practices in the news article. How does this policy uphold or conflict with social work ethics and values?
ARTICLE FROM THE STATE OF NEVADA/CALIFORNIA OR COLORADO..US STATES

GOVT 2305 Analysis Paper
Students are to complete a written assignment analyzing a 2024 Presidential Candidate. The student will analyze the following points: Name one specific policy supported by the candidate for the 2024 Presidential election. Name one specific policy supported by the candidate’s party? How do interest groups and public opinion affect this policy? What particular groups and individuals may support or oppose this policy? Please use APA for citation purposes, here is a link to help you format correctly: Click here.
Your paper needs to be font 12 in Times New Roman, Calibri or Arial with one-inch margins and double-spaced. Please provide a reference page as well as in-text citations. Minimum of 500 words.

2.How well did the United States constitution do in keeping the country together from the 1790’s to 1865? What are the strengths of the constitution and weaknesses if any.