Write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which the student answers the following three (3) items using headers to separate each item: (Note change of instructions: You only have to write one example for each of the 3 category question. 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.) Discuss either two (2) civil liberties or two (2) civil rights events (past or current) that have influenced a sense of social responsibility in the American government today. Provide examples to support your answer. Note: In your response, consider how the events influenced the way state, local or national political leaders or agencies responded in a socially responsible or ethical manner toward the community. HERE ARE SOME EXAMPLES OF TOPICS you can write about: A) Civil Rights : W hich 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 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 enforcement · Right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizure.

1. Write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which the student
answers the following three (3) items using headers to separate
each item:
(Note change of instructions: You only have to write one
example for each of the 3 category question. 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.)
Discuss either two (2)
civil liberties or two (2) civil rights events (past or current) that
have influenced a sense of social responsibility
in the American government today. Provide examples to
support your answer. Note: In your response, consider how the
events influenced the way state, local or national political
leaders or agencies responded in a socially responsible or
ethical manner toward the community.
HERE ARE SOME EXAMPLES OF TOPICS you can write
about:
A)
Civil Rights
:
W
hich 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.
·

2. Laws ensuring peoples’ physical integrity and safety and laws
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

3. 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
·

4. Right to bear arms:
- Brady Bill limits that
·
Right to marry – conflict between state laws and Federal
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
·

5. Right to vote : Voting Rights Act ; issues related to requiring
IDs to vote. can’t block anyone from voting.
Discuss two (2)
media events (past or present) that have positively and or
negatively influenced the public’s opinion of a government
agency
. Provide examples to support your answer. Note: 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.
EXAMPLES:
-
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

6. -
Hurricane Katrina; Government 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
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Media coverage of the Viet Nam war in 1960’s
-
Operation Fast and Furious
Discuss two (2)
differences between the Republican and Democratic parties
that may have an ethical impact (positively or negatively) on

7. the American people. Provide examples to support your answer.
Note: Consider the different ideals, 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 interest of the American people.
EXAMPLES:
-
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
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Abortion, Death Penalty, climate change
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Support for poor, and middle class, deportation of immigrants
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Raising taxes for more social programs
-

8. Different views on Supreme Court’s ‘Citizens United’ ruling
and the role of money in politics
-
Affirmative Action