Test review

1. Go to test 1 review and use this in addition to your notes as a study guide for test on tuesday

criminal justice

Read Entrapment Defense. List 7 important elements to this defense; elements that you feel are vital for explaining the defense  to someone. This may also include things that are NOT entrapment

Read Story on Drone Strikes. Post a comment on this blog. Include your comparison between this policy and Pres. Bush's use of enhanced interrogation techniques. Comment should be about a paragraph. Go to youtube and view a drone strike; predator drone strike
The following tests may help you  decide which political party best reflects your views:
Take all three political party quizes:
1. Are you a republican or democrat?
2. What political party are you?
3. What political party is right for you?

Ideas on Government- What is the role of government?

Ideas on Government- What is the role of government?

1. Go to Political spectrum quiz
Take quiz. Post a comment on the blog summarizing the results of your quiz.
2. Go to liberal v conservative
Pick any four topics that are of interest to you. Read each competing view. On a piece of loose leaf write your own view of the topic. Explain your view and explain if you are liberal / conservative or somewhere in the middle. Each explanation should be about a paragraph or more in length.

Read section from Machiavelli the Prince Concerning the Question is it Better to be Loved or Feared answer the questions on the board

Criminal Justice

ReadPa Castle Doctrine summarize its content into a few sentences

The Nature of Mankind

The Nature of Mankind

Great political thinkers often look to answer the question of "what is the nature of mankind?" before they begin their thinking on what is the best way for a society to be governed.
Read What Makes Us Moral. On a separate piece of paper take notes on the each of the pages. Break down each page and list at least two bullets that capture the main points for each topic headline. Headlines are: pg 1 What makes us moral. pg 2 the Moral Ape pg 3. How we stay good. pg 4 Why we turn bad.

Read Household Debt article. Post a 2 sentence comment that summarized the article and gives your opinion of the problem.
Try to balance the federal budget by playing the budget game. 
Check stock portfolio. Find the stock that has been your best or worst. Scour the headlines and explain the following:
1.  What company made you the most money? (% and $ amount)
2. Based on research of headlines explain why your stock has performed the way it has.
 - cite the source / sources you used to come up with your reasoning

Great Recession

Read Great Recession to understand the facts and statistics behind the "Great Recession"
List 4 conditions that characterized the great recession
Then do the following:
1. Pick out any 4 stocks and answer the following questions about those stocks.
2. What was the stock's price in Dec  2007?

3 . What was the Price in June 2009?
4. What is the Price today?
Finally after researching 4 companies answer the following question
5. How do you think the data you collected on these stocks played a role in the Great Recession?