Assignment 1 Topic Suggestions- Writing Guide Write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which the student answers all of the following three (3) items below using headers to separate each item: STUDENTS: This is a list of possible topics you can use to address the 3 items for this paper. See the assignment document for more details of the paper requirements. (Note change of assignment instructions that are listed in Blackboard: You only have to write one example for each of the 3 category questions. I have updated the new instructions below. That means one example of either a civil liberties or civil rights event, one example of a media event, and one example of a difference between the parties.) Due Week 6 and worth 200 points Write a three to four (3-4) page paper that answers the following three (3) items using headers to separate each item: · Discuss either one (1) civil liberties or one (1) civil rights events. The event must be from within the last two years, or from the past. Select an event that has influenced a sense of social responsibility in the American government today. Provide examples to support your answer. In your response, consider how the event influenced the way state, local, or national political leaders or agencies responded in a socially responsible or ethical manner toward the community. Please cite your sources in APA style. · Discuss one (1) media event (past or present) that has positively and/or negatively influenced the public’s opinion of a government agency. The event can be within the last two years, or may be from the past. Provide examples to support your answer. Consider how a news story or media coverage of an event positively or negatively changed the public’s opinion (or perception) regarding how responsible a government agency should be towards meeting the needs of its customers (i.e., the American people). Please cite your sources in APA style. · Discuss one (1) difference between the Republican and Democratic parties that may have an ethical impact (positively or negatively) on the American people. Provide an example from the past 2 years to support your answer. Consider the different ideologies, values, morals, and/or goals held by the Republican and Democratic parties, and their different views on the ethically or morally right way to govern and make the best policies for the people they serve. Determine if your example presents any type of ethical concerns for or against the public’s best interest of the American people. Please cite your sources in APA style. In your research, you cannot use Wikipedia, online dictionaries, Sparknotes, Cliffnotes, or any other Website do that does not qualify as an academic resource. Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements: · Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and reference page must follow APAformat. Check the website for additional instructions and Grading Rubric score ch ...

1. Assignment 1 Topic Suggestions- Writing Guide
Write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which the student
answers all of the following three (3) items below using headers
to separate each item:
STUDENTS: This is a list of possible topics you can use to
address the 3 items for this paper. See the assignment document
for more details of the paper requirements.
(Note change of assignment instructions that are listed in
Blackboard: You only have to write one example for each of the
3 category questions. I have updated the new instructions
below. That means one example of either a civil liberties or
civil rights event, one example of a media event, and one
example of a difference between the parties.)
Due Week 6 and worth 200 points
Write a three to four (3-4) page paper that answers the
following three (3) items using headers to separate each item:
· Discuss either one (1) civil liberties or one (1) civil rights
events. The event must be from within the last two years, or
from the past. Select an event that has influenced a sense of
social responsibility in the American government today. Provide
examples to support your answer. In your response, consider
how the event influenced the way state, local, or national
political leaders or agencies responded in a socially responsible
or ethical manner toward the community. Please cite your
sources in APA style.
· Discuss one (1) media event (past or present) that has
positively and/or negatively influenced the public’s opinion of a
government agency. The event can be within the last two years,
or may be from the past. Provide examples to support your
answer. Consider how a news story or media coverage of an
event positively or negatively changed the public’s opinion (or
perception) regarding how responsible a government agency
should be towards meeting the needs of its customers (i.e., the

2. American people). Please cite your sources in APA style.
· Discuss one (1) difference between the Republican and
Democratic parties that may have an ethical impact (positively
or negatively) on the American people. Provide an example
from the past 2 years to support your answer. Consider the
different ideologies, values, morals, and/or goals held by the
Republican and Democratic parties, and their different views on
the ethically or morally right way to govern and make the best
policies for the people they serve. Determine if your example
presents any type of ethical concerns for or against the public’s
best interest of the American people. Please cite your sources in
APA style.
In your research, you cannot use Wikipedia, online dictionaries,
Sparknotes, Cliffnotes, or any other Website do that does not
qualify as an academic resource.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
· Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size
12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and reference
page must follow APAformat. Check the website for additional
instructions and Grading Rubric score chart.
· Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the
student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the
date. Include a reference page. The cover page and the
reference page are not included in the required assignment page
length. Have at least 3 references.
·
FOR QUESTION 1: HERE ARE SOME EXAMPLES OF
TOPICS you can write about:
A) Civil Rights:
Which means 'the basic right to be free from unequal treatment,
based on certain characteristics which we deem important, like
race, gender, and disability'. Civil rights include a class of
rights and freedoms ensure one’s ability to participate in civil
and political affairs without discrimination or repression.
· Laws ensuring peoples’ physical integrity and safety and laws

3. to make sure that people are not forced into labor.
· Laws protecting people from private (non-government)
discrimination (based on gender, religion, race, sexual
orientation, etc.)
· Laws providing equal access to health care, education, culture,
etc.
-Brown vs Board of education 1954 civil rights movement,
-American With Disabilities Act 1990
-LGBT Bathroom conflict between the federal Civil Rights Act
- protecting civil rights of LGBT people vs the State Laws
protecting the people’s right to privacy
-Equal Pay Act supporting equal pay for women
-Civil Rights Act 1964; and the Black civil rights movement,
Selma march and the Voting Rights Act.
-Any effort to support people to be free from discrimination, or
unfair treatment with regard to employment, housing, sexual
orientation, religious affiliation….
B)Civil Liberties
Any examples to protect people against government actions, or
relating to
basic rights and freedoms that are guaranteed in the
constitution, Bill of Rights and by Court Rulings.
Use examples where the government gets involved regulating or
ruling so that government does not step over the line into the
people’s right to:
· Right to privacy- Government restricted NSA National
Security Agency’s invasion of privacy
· Right to Privacy: Apple Defends Opposition to Helping FBI
Hack San Bernardino Shooter's iPhone
· Right to a jury trial
· Right to freedom of religion
· Right to travel freely
· Right to freedom of speech
· Right to be free from self-incrimination
· Right to bear arms: - Brady Bill limits that
· Right to marry – conflict between state laws and Federal

4. enforcement
· Right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures of
your property
· Right to freedom of the press
· Right to be free from cruel and unusual punishments: - no
water boarding
· Right to legal counsel- Miranda Rules
· Right to assemble peacefully: January 21, 2017, 2.6 million
people across the U.S. and the globe marched for the Women’s
March.
· Right to vote: Voting Rights Act; issues related to requiring
IDs to vote. can’t block anyone from voting.
· FOR QUESTION 2 HERE ARE SOME EXAMPLES OF
TOPICS
· Any of the Black Lives Matter incidents with the police and
the government investigations of Police departments.
· Rodney King incident and race riots
· Government response to Eboli outbreak, and the decisions of
the Center for Disease Control CDC.
· Attacks on 911 and government creation of TSA
Transportation Security Agency screening response
· Hurricane Katrina, Harvey, OR Irma; Government fast or slow
response.
· Edward Snowden revelation of Government spying on
citizens’ emails.
· Watergate break-in scandal, and government response
· Flint Michigan water contamination and government response
· -2007 Washington Post inquiry into medical treatment of
veteran soldiers
· Media coverage of the Viet Nam war in 1960’s
· Operation Fast and Furious
· “Muslim” Travel Ban; executive order 2017
· Charlottesville white supremacist protest 2017
· FOR QUESTION 3 HERE ARE SOME EXAMPLES OF

5. TOPICS
· The party’s different positions on social programs and
government services
· Minimum wage, or income inequality
· Equal pay for women, health care, govt influence on education
· Abortion, Death Penalty, climate change
· Support for poor, and middle class, deportation of immigrants
· Raising taxes for more social programs
· Different views on Supreme Court’s ‘Citizens United’ ruling
and the role of money in politics
· Affirmative Action
·
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Submitted by Steve Kolowich on October 6, 2009 - 3:00am
Course Hero or Course Villain?
Aside from the parties and networking opportunities, one of the
perennial perks of Greek Life has been the
coveted “test file” — a collection of past exams and papers
from various courses.
A new breed of study-buddy sites offers these resources to
everybody, not just those who have endured Greek
initiation rites. Companies such as Notehall [1], Knetwit [2],
and FindMyNotes.com [3]have long hosted online
markets [4] where students can buy or sell class notes. Now,

6. sites such as Course Hero [5] invite students to
post and download syllabuses, worksheets, essays, previous
exams, and many other course materials.
At Course Hero, a site that lately has been the subject of much
hand-wringing among campus information
technology officers, users can either shell out $30 for a month-
long subscription or pay in uploaded documents.
Forty documents equals one month of access to all the files
posted by the site’s users. The company says
millions have visited the site since it was unveiled a year and a
half ago. The purpose of Course Hero,
according to David J. Kim, the company’s president and CEO,
is to “maximize and accelerate academic
breakthroughs by students.” By providing a place where users
can share documents and communicate on
discussion boards, Kim said, the site allows students across the
world to leverage others’ knowledge in order to
deepen their own — like any study group, but exponentially
larger.
Some professors and administrators, however, have chafed at
the idea of a site that encourages students to take
professors' intellectual output, post it without permission, and
then allow a company to sell access to it for
profit. “If I put the time and effort into developing a brief

7. summary of a class I was teaching or a particular
lesson, I would be extremely disappointed if it were put on the
Internet and people were making a profit off of
it, especially without my permission,” said Gina Mieszczak,
who taught at DePaul University for three years
before joining the Illinois Institute of Technology as a network
security administrator. Tracy Mitrano, an
information science scholar and director of IT policy at Cornell
University, said it is likely that many professors
have legitimate copyright claims on materials that have been
uploaded without their knowledge. “If I’m going
to spend many hours writing up an exam, assuming it has
original work in it and it’s in a tangible medium, then
I as the creator of that work, under the traditional rules of
universities, own the copyright to it,” Mitrano said.
This applies to any original work, she added — even if it’s
scrawled on a cocktail napkin. Course Hero,
meanwhile, says it is not liable for any copyright infringements
because it explicitly exercises no oversight over
posted content. Like YouTube, Course Hero only takes down
copyrighted content if there is a complaint. (This
explains why certain documents found on the site — such as one
filed under a purported Benedictine University
offering called “Alumni 1962” — do not appear to correspond

8. to an actual course; contrary to the suspicions of
http://www.notehall.com/
http://www.knetwit.com/
http://www.findmynotes.com/
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/09/19/knetwit
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/09/19/knetwit
http://www.coursehero.com/index.php
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Submitted by Steve Kolowich on October 6, 2009 - 3:00am
some, Kim said the company is not using robots to crawl
university Web domains for electronic documents.)
“We take copyright and intellectual property infringement very
seriously,” said Kim. “However, as a user-
generated content site, we don’t review the content…
Unfortunately, at times we recognize that users may
submit materials that they don’t have rights to.” Kim said that
relative to the number of documents that have
been posted on the site (“in the millions”), the company has
fielded few complaints. He noted that while Course
Hero’s approach to purging copyrighted content is passive, it is
in compliance with the Digital Millennium
Copyright Act [6]. But Christopher W. Wessells, vice provost
and chief information officer at the University of

9. San Diego, said many college officials are still in the dark about
Course Hero, even as it has become popular
among students. "I recently quizzed 13 provosts and vice
provosts," he said. “They had no idea about these
services... I think in general higher education is just beginning
to look at this." For some, the question of
whether such a site violates intellectual property protections is
secondary; some officials have expressed
concerns over whether Course Hero’s efforts to create a
community of shared information might actually enable
cheating. “There are exams, quizzes, homework going up on
these sites that are really fertile ground for
plagiarism and dishonesty,” said Wessells.
Former user John Stacey, who said the site's resources helped
him complete homework assignments and study
for midterms before he graduated from the University of
California at Santa Barbara last spring, acknowledged
that “the concerns over plagiarism are well-warranted.” He
does, however, think the potential benefit of sharing
sites such as Course Hero outweigh the cost (enough so that he
contributed a glowing review to the site’s
testimonial page). “As long as the teaching communities,
students, and employees of Course Hero work
together to ensure that plagiarism and cheating, and material

10. that supports it, are absent from the site, it can
serve to vastly enhance the means through which students and
collaborate, teach, learn, and innovate amongst
themselves and those in surrounding communities,” Stacey
wrote to Inside Higher Ed.
Kim said Course Hero does have plans to “work with educators
and institutions in this vein” that it should be
rolling out by next spring, though he declined to offer further
details. Josh Baron, the director of academic
technology and e-learning at Marist College and a longtime
adjunct professor, said that while he considers
Course Hero’s systematic appropriation of copyrighted material
“unethical,” the idea of a learning-based social
networking site holds promise. “Imagine business students at
Stanford, Marist, University of Beijing and
University of Paris connecting up outside of their courses to
study together and maybe even work on team
projects,” he wrote to colleagues on an Educause discussion
forum. “This may become the ‘study group’ of the
21st century.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_Act
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_Act
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11. Submitted by Steve Kolowich on October 6, 2009 - 3:00am
Mitrano, the legal expert, said that she understands her
colleagues’ frustration as technology chips away at their
control over course materials. But she cautioned against
invoking copyright laws in an attempt to cripple Course
Hero or its cousins. “Copyright is supposed to be about an
incentive that you get as an author for a limited
period of time to enjoy the benefits of your creation — it’s the
[act of] creation that copyright law wants to
incentivize,” she said. “If now professors want to use copyright
as a means to maintain their control over the
classroom, I suggest that there might be something disingenuous
about that that might chafe with the values that
so many of us in higher education hold dear,” she said.
Source URL:
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/10/06/coursehero?w
idth=775&height=500&iframe=true
Questions for Consideration and Critical thinking & Writing
*BEFORE drafting a response use the Formal Essay Outline on
pg. 63* begin writing additional instructions
will be announced.

12. While most students know cheating (cheating in all of its forms)
occurs, do you understand the particular ways
academic dishonesty negatively impacts you?
What do you think about a student that achieves high marks or
honors in a collegiate/university system by
cheating in one form or another?
Is it realistic to trust that, “teaching communities, students, and
study-buddy sites will ensure that plagiarism
and cheating are not a common practice?
Can these online learning platforms serve to ‘vastly enhance’
learning or retention or do they really increase
cheating efficiency? Explain how or why not in your response.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/10/06/coursehero?w
idth=775&height=500&iframe=true