Category: Social Issues

What is it you are asking of your legislator- to support the bill, vote against the bill, add something that is missing in the bill, etc? What information do you need to provide to get them to “buy” your “product”? How can you tie this in with previous positions they have taken?

Policy Brief Assignment Part 4

What is it you are asking of your legislator- to support the bill, vote against the bill, add something that is missing in the bill, etc? What information do you need to provide to get them to “buy” your “product”? How can you tie this in with previous positions they have taken?

The nature of the issue (describe it, define it, what does it include?)
How widespread?

Who is primarily impacted?

What are the most recent stats on this issue?

How can you highlight the problem and making it relevant for the legislator.

Is there a price tag to this issue?

Is it pending, in committee – which committee, who introduced it and when?

Who is supporting it?

Has it been introduced before under a different bill number?
If so how many times has it died in committee?
Legislative options or possible policy alternatives to include:

what are the gaps in service or benefits or programs?

What is missing in the current approach to this social problem/issue?

How would this legislation work?

What resources or opportunities would this policy provide?

Who will be covered by the policy and how?

How will it be implemented?

Identify short comings of current approach to issue

Should it be voted in as is? If so summarize briefly why?

What are you asking your legislature to do?

Identify three lawmakers to send your policy brief. Include their names and contact information. Make sure if your policy brief is on a federal bill, that you choose your federal reps. If a state bill, you would choose your state reps.
Examples:
https://www.coastal.edu/media/academics/collegeofhumanities/ilpp/policybriefs/Domestic%20Violence%20and%20VAWA.pdf (Links to an external site.)
http://gph.ucsd.edu/cgeh/Documents/Campus%20Sexual%20Assault%20Brief.pdf (Links to an external site.)

(Links to an external site.)http://knowledge.e.southern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=undergrad_socwork

How widespread? Who is primarily impacted? What are the most recent stats on this issue? How can you highlight the problem and making it relevant for the legislator. Is there a price tag to this issue?

Policy Brief Assignment Part 3

Who is affected? How many are affected? How has the problem been addressed in the past?

Identify the cause(s) to which the problem is attributed and its consequences What causes this problem? What are the consequences/impact?

What is it you are asking of your legislator- to support the bill, vote against the bill, add something that is missing in the bill, etc? What information do you need to provide to get them to “buy” your “product”? How can you tie this in with previous positions they have taken?

How widespread? Who is primarily impacted? What are the most recent stats on this issue? How can you highlight the problem and making it relevant for the legislator. Is there a price tag to this issue?

Is it pending, in committee – which committee, who introduced it and when? Who is supporting it? Has it been introduced before under a different bill number? If so how many times has it died in committee?

Describe your efforts to create this brief? Who did you send it to? Did you get any response? What did you learn from creating this brief?

 Describe the important dimensions of racial and ethnic inequality in the United States. Out academic sources required. APA format required. Remember to include a title page, reference page and cite your sources.

Describe the important dimensions of racial and ethnic inequality in the United States. Out academic sources required. APA format required. Remember to include a title page, reference page and cite your sources.

How widespread? Who is primarily impacted? What are the most recent stats on this issue? How can you highlight the problem and making it relevant for the legislator. Is there a price tag to this issue? Current status of relevant legislation to include:

Policy Brief Part 2

Identify the way the problem is defined Who is affected? How many are affected?

How has the problem been addressed in the past? Identify the cause(s) to which the problem is attributed and its consequences What causes this problem? What are the consequences/impact?

What is it you are asking of your legislator- to support the bill, vote against the bill, add something that is missing in the bill, etc? What information do you need to provide to get them to “buy” your “product”?

How can you tie this in with previous positions they have taken? Background of the issue to include: The nature of the issue (describe it, define it, what does it include?)

How widespread? Who is primarily impacted? What are the most recent stats on this issue? How can you highlight the problem and making it relevant for the legislator. Is there a price tag to this issue? Current status of relevant legislation to include:

Is it pending, in committee – which committee, who introduced it and when? Who is supporting it? Has it been introduced before under a different bill number? If so how many times has it died in committee? Legislative options or possible policy alternatives to include: what are the gaps in service or benefits or programs? What is missing in the current approach to this social problem/issue?

How would this legislation work? What resources or opportunities would this policy provide? Who will be covered by the policy and how? How will it be implemented? Identify short comings of current approach to issue Then introduce idea of current legislation and what that is.

Your specific policy recommendations, and why to include: Should it be voted in as is? If so summarize briefly why? What are you asking your legislature to do? vote for pending legislation (so you should provide support to its passing), or, change pending legislation to include other suggestions (which you should outline and explain. Or, suggest a change for current law – to include new ideas (which you should outline and explain)

Examples: https://www.coastal.edu/media/academics/collegeofhumanities/ilpp/policybriefs/Domestic%20Violence%20and%20VAWA.pdf (Links to an external site.)

http://gph.ucsd.edu/cgeh/Documents/Campus%20Sexual%20Assault%20Brief.pdf (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)

http://knowledge.e.southern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgiarticle=1000&context=undergrad_socwork (Links to an external site.)

What are the structures of your society related to power, inequality, and marginalization? On what basis are these structures rationalized by members of society? What social behaviors, values, or assumptions hold such structures in place?

Questions about “the world”

What are the structures of your society related to power, inequality, and marginalization? On what basis are these structures rationalized by members of society? What social behaviors, values, or assumptions hold such structures in place?

What is your location in relation to each of these structures? What do you know about how people in your location are supposed to act with regard to others in the same location (location in relation to the social categories class, race, power, gender or other) toward those in other social groups?
Who benefits from such structural arrangements and who loses? How do you benefit or lose?

In what ways do your assumptions and activities contribute to the maintenance or transformation of such social structures?

What have you discovered (what can you discover) about the extended structural consequences of your social actions and that of others?
Questions about “your world”

What do you believe about yourself, your place in the world and about the place of people like or different from you?

What assumptions do you make and what values do you hold about your social world and its structures, including structures of inclusion and exclusion?

What is your understanding about how to act in relation to someone who belongs to a different class, race, status and so forth? And from what sources have you learned these social lessons?

Which of these structural arrangements have you internalized? How do you rationalize them? How do your actions reflect or repudiate these beliefs and values?

In what ways are your values, beliefs, attitudes, assumptions, and self-understandings reflections of economic, social, educational, or other systems?

To what extent do you accept or accept uncritically the values, beliefs, assumptions, and prescriptions you have received as a result of your socialization into particular communities?

To what extent do you accept the structures of your society as unproblematic, especially structures related to power and privilege? To what extent are you able or willing to raise questions about them?

Are there inconsistencies or distortions between your received beliefs/assumptions and the concrete conditions of individual and group life? How do you account for these contradictions?

In what ways are your perspectives, beliefs, values, and assumptions related to your self-interest and perceived needs?

Are there contradictions between your avowed intentions or values and the structural outcomes of your activities?

What is the emotional climate in the family, what they talk about and the way they interact during periods of calm versus periods of tension?

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Who sits close to whom?

Who’s farthest away from whom?

Does this proximity and distance reflect the level of verbal involvement between members or not?

Who talks to whom?

What is the emotional climate in the family, what they talk about and the way they interact during periods of calm versus periods of tension?

How is editing used to tell us about Tsotsi’s childhood?In what ways does Singin’ in the Rain poke fun at Hollywood?

On one page, you need to write about the film Singin’ in the Rain (1952) film to be exact. You need to answer this question with no plagiarism and citations. The Question you need to answer: In what ways does Singin’ in the Rain poke fun at Hollywood?

For the second page, you need to write about the film Tsotsi (2005) film to be exact. You need to answer this question with no plagiarism and citations. The Question you need to answer: How is editing used to tell us about Tsotsi’s childhood?

What do you wish someone had told you about sexual development when you were going through puberty? Were you told anything that was incorrect or misleading?

During puberty, what do you remember about your emotional ups and downs and how did you handle them?

In what ways would you handle these emotions now?

What are appropriate coping skills that teens today could use to navigate through puberty?

What do you wish someone had told you about sexual development when you were going through puberty?

Were you told anything that was incorrect or misleading?