• 1-How Congress passes a budget, or fails to do so?
• 2-The impact of party polarization on the House and Senate?
• 3-Reforms to improve congressional accountability and representation?

Paragraph Question

1. Two recent trends in congressional governance are unorthodox lawmaking and partypolarization. First, define these trends and explain their link. Second, identify whethersuch phenomena are ultimately healthy or corrosive for democracy in America, and whyor why not. Be sure to provide specific examples and also to draw from at least threereadings when making your argument.

1) Discusses the Digital Divide in the in the U.S. and internationally.

2) The paper must include the background/history of the project. What are some of the causes of the divide? What efforts are engaged to reduce the divide? What are things you can do personally?

3) State whether you believe that there is a “digital divide” and why.

4) Write a one or two paragraph conclusion stating what would you say to a decision maker to persuade them to support or disregard the digital divide..

After reading these documents, viewing the videos and reading the articles, consider the overrepresentation of poor children in special education. What are the top three reasons for this issue? What is the percentage of students that have low-socio economic status, that are ELL, and that are culturally diverse from the dominant culture in special education in the district? What are alternative ways to support these students if support is actually needed? How can you advocate for appropriate placement of students in special education?

APA format

1250 words (essay body only)

title, abstract, resource page (not included in word count) must have 3 sources and include the quadrennial homeland security review

Discuss the systems perspective of homeland security and how it includes the five broad mission areas:

-preventing terrorism and enhancing security, –securing and managing our borders, —enforcing and administering our immigration laws, —-safeguarding and securing cyberspace, —–ensure resilience to disaster

identify components, relationships, and wholes, identify leveraging systems structure and patterns, understand emergence and unintended consequences, leverage of stakeholder participation,

Choose three questions from the list of five that will be provided. Each essay should be about 500 words long.

1.Evaluate the roles of women in Germanic society, in the light of contemporary societies.

2.How did the Indian Ocean trade effect the economic and political development of East Africa?

3.Discuss the religious beliefs of the Aztecs, and include how these beliefs affected their war with the Spaniards

4.Describe the four pillars of government used by the Ottoman Turks?

5.Why did the Atlantic slave trade emerge and develop?