Week 8 Discussion Posts – Section 4

Instructions: Please review the two discussion questions below, provide a response for one of them. Response posts should be 2-3 paragraphs. After you post your response, please reply to a post written by your fellow peers (you can provide more than one reply if you wish). You may have to log on at a later time to post your reply to another student’s post. Please be considerate in your posts and replies.

Week 8 Questions

1) Policies can be made by government but also by nongovernmental institutions like corporations, churches, professions, charities, and schools. With this in mind, think of one policy that was created and put into effect. Describe what claims/problems led to the creation of the policy, what the policy was and what it was meant to do and any unintended consequences of the policy. Unintended consequences can be unforeseen harm or unforeseen benefits that policymakers did not take into account when putting the policy in place.

2) Thinking back to the documentary 13th by Ava DuVernay, what aspect or statistic or U.S. policy surprised you most? Explain why. What aspect or statistic or U.S. policy surprised you least? Explain why.