OK so i’ve read Battle Royale, in translation, but I keep seeing the phrase in gaming Christmas advertising and have no idea what they mean by it. But it is a catchy phrase.
Pick a side, you get to choose, and write 300-400 words to convince your colleagues that either Quirk or Skowronek is correct.
Hi students of the American Presidency. I ask you to please introduce yourselves here in this forum. This way you can share your thoughts with one another. You are not required to post replies to these introductions, though you may if you find some common ground, but for the rest of these you will be asked to do so. If you are stuck for words, consider letting us know a little about you like where you live, what your learning goals are, what interests you about the presidency and so forth. Heck, tell us your prediction for the 2022 midterms! But, above all else, please ask one burning question you know you would like answered by the end of this course. This blog is open to our class only.
Please create a new post as way of introduction. You don’t need to make comments to this specific post; just see who your colleagues are. This is also practice for those of you who have yet to use WordPress. You need to be sure you can post and see your post in the correct place. I will not grade any posts that are not in the correct location. For help with WordPress please contact the Elearning experts, I am not, frankly, very good with technology and tend to only know what I need to know.
Have a lovely Labor Day weekend!
Debate #2 — Chapter 10 Debating the Presidency — to be answered here, after you complete the essay and submit it on Blackboard (though yes, the essay is voluntary but, note the ability to gain more points!) And, note two different due dates for your post and then your commentary for this debate. Your initial posts are all due by Thursday 15 October. All comments to be made and points finalized to meet the requirements by Sunday 18 October. Follow the pattern from the first Debate with an initial post and three required comments.
KEY DIFFERENCE IN THIS DEBATE: If your last name starts A-L take PRO (Kassup) and M-Z your initial post will be CON (Bauer).
So, with whom do you agree? Burdett Loomis who says “yes” or Byron E. Shafer who says “no” and why? Each of you will write 250-300 words explaining your choice and defending it. In your writing I require a single sentence reason you picked the side you did – make this sentence bold. This way though many of may choose “yes” or “no” you may do so for different reasons. I want to know the most significant reason you chose to respond the way you did.
You may use any information from our texts or if you do any online research you MUST include the full web address so we can read the article you did. (see format below to do this). Each student is responsible for responding in the comments to THREE other students’- with whom you disagree! – initial decision with a comment or question. Once someone has replied to your comment on his or her initial decision, you must respond to that person in the thread. Keep it polite, on topic, and honest in that you want to make a point so that we can all see and engage in the debate. Democracy can only function if vastly different points of view can come together to argue with and listen to one another. I trust you to do that here. I think there are enough students that we will have variety in our responses. If this model doesn’t work for our class in this first Debate I’ll design something different for Debate #2. (but it has worked in past iterations of the course).
Your initial posts are all due by Thursday 24 September. All comments to be made and points finalized to meet the requirements by Monday 28 September.
If you are making a point from an online article, to avoid clutter please do the following. In the text “I think that P. Mdede made the best point about popular elections when she compared Senegal to the U.S. arguing that we are a Banana Republic (1)” Insert a number at the end of your borrowed idea and then at the bottom of your paragraphs match the numbers to the websites.
text text text
(1) web address
(2) web address
Debate #3 — Chapter 13 Debating the Presidency — Clearly we just went through this issue area, once with the failed Merrick appointment under President Obama and the successful Kavanaugh appointment under President Trump. You are welcome to use either in support of your points (or any other judicial examples, although it would be great if you could use these two you have recently lived through). Two different due dates for your post and then your commentary. Your initial posts are all due by Thursday 15 October. All comments to be made and points finalized to meet the requirements by Sunday 18 October. Follow the pattern from the first Debate with an initial post and three required comments. KEY DIFFERENCE IN THIS DEBATE: If your last name starts A-M take PRO (Yalof) and N-Z your initial post will be CON (Maltese).
You have read about how and why we study the presidency in Chapter 1. Chapter 2 is an in-depth look at the development of the presidency and its relationship to the Constitution. Now is a good time to think through these two chapters and consider carefully why the new independent country of the United States moved from the Articles of Confederation to a stronger federal government with a singular Executive.
In this blog post, please use what you have learned so far to answer the question “Why do YOU think we have a president in the United States of America?” You may want to draw on the theories and ideas of governance in the Framer’s world or the governmental antecedents to the Constitution or federalism or a combination of all three or other material from the course. Just be sure that at the start of your post you have a thesis statement. This will be true for all your posts. In other words, answer the question posed in a single sentence then go on in your post to explain your response. Your title should also be evocative of what you think the answer is. Your posts need to be between 400-500 words and must use the material you have learned. They are due, Friday 4 September.