Now, you take this small minority group of Jews with their culture of education and high expectations, and you put them into a capitalist society like the United States. What happens? Despite anti-semitic conspiracy theorists may lead you to believe, "the Jews" are not a cohesive community ...
The European Societies series will help to fill this gap in the literature, and attempt to answer questions such as: Is there really such a thing as a 'European model' of society? Do the economic and political integration processes of the European Union also ...
Coming from the Third World, Alexis saw that rich people care about themselves, not about the multitudes who struggle to keep their families whole, and the privilege of voting indicates that everyone in the United States is entitled to a dignified place in society. I asked him why he was a...
All citizens who live in the U.S. are included in the first three words, “We the people,” of the U.S. Constitution's preamble. Question #4: What is an amendment? Answer #4: A change (to the Constitution); an addition (to the Constitution). The U.S. Constitution has more than...
In reasoning about birthright citizenship for the children of unauthorized immigrants, many of them may well have legitimate moral or humanitarian claims upon American society that Congress is obliged to take seriously, including obligations that Americans may have incurred by our own conduct: for examp...
Answer #3: “We the people...” All citizens who live in the U.S. are included in the first three words, “We the people,” of the U.S. Constitution's preamble. Question #4: What is an amendment? Answer #4: A change (to the Constitution); an addition (to the Constitution). ...
There are 100 questions on the U.S. citizenship test that an applicant must know the answers to in order to become an official American resident. How many can you answer?
to describe themselves. These differing visons for the role of scientific research in society call attention to the complex relationships between science, public goods, societal good, and public participation. They raise a key question: How much public input should go into deciding which vision of ...
They can examine how creators of existing comics think about the construction of the past, and then formulate their own ideas. There is no right answer here, rather, there is your answer and how you chose to justify it. As noted in the introduction, the notion of closure (McCloud,1994)...
This chapter explores the question of how educators ought to prepare future citizens for an ever-changing, culturally complex, globally connected democratic society. Through an interdisciplinary review of published research and scholarship, we discuss a model for civic communities of practice, its ...