Writing Homework Help

1. Note: Use For Cause and Comrades: Chapters 11-12 to respond to the following question in essay form.

Were soldiers on both sides able to hold on to the motivations that compelled them to fight during the first few years of the Civil War in late 1864 and 1865?

2. Note: Use the Document Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union to respond to the following question in essay form.

There is an argument among many of us in society as to whether the Civil War was waged over the issue of slavery. After reading this document, as well as other books in our course, do you think that the Civil War was largely waged over the issue of slavery?

Note: Use the document Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union to answer any two TWO of the following questions in paragraph form.

1. What is the tone of the document?
2. Is there anything that stands out to you as interesting or informative?
3. What is the main reason South Carolina gives for seceding from the United States?
4. What is the strongest argument the document makes for secession?
5. Why does the author mention the American Revolution?
6. What is the irony of the document mentioning freedom and independence as a means of secession?
7. In your opinion, does the document make a successful legal argument for the right of states to separate from the Union?

3.Social Policy

Social policy is the area of public policy that the government utilizes to help improve or maintain the well-being of the citizens and residents of the United States. At the beginning of the country, this type of policy mostly focused on protecting property owners’ rights and policies to help expand and promote the population of the United States. There were some social policies in place to help veterans of war and widowed mothers. However, most charity was handled by private philanthropists or religious institutions. During and after the Great Depression, that all fundamentally changed. Franklin D Roosevelt worked to enact numerous laws and policies that would promote the well-being of struggling Americans.

FDR was very worried about the economy – but he approached the issues of the Great Depression by working to lift up people who were struggling financially through passing things such as the Social Security Act, the National Recovery Administration, Civilian Conservation Corps, and Aid to Families with Dependent Children to name a few. Lyndon B. Johnson followed up and added more programs, as did nearly every president after him. Now, in modern times, we take these programs for granted… as though they have always existed. Yet, even as recently as 2010, America saw a major new social policy created through the PPACA or the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act – colloquially known as Obamacare. As we move forward through time, more social policies are sure to be created and placed into action to continue to help American citizens and residents.

Information to help you understand social policy will be found in Chapter 16 of your textbook.

In order to take your accumulating knowledge of government “out of the classroom,” and place it into the world around you, you must begin analyzing and applying government content to contemporary news issues (within the last 3 months) in U.S. government and politics. The article cannot be an opinion piece, blog, or other personalized editorial and must be a reporting article. You will need to read an article having something to do with a Social Policy in the US and then discuss it using the following prompt.

For this week’s current event discussion, you can choose a news article about a Social Policy in the United States government.

In your original post you must:

1. Provide the title of the article, URL, publication date, and a 50+ word summary of the article in your own words.

2. Describe what the article explicitly has to do with either Political Parties or Elections in relation to the United States government in 50+ words.

3. What are your thoughts and feelings after reading this article?

Accepted Resources

Only news stories from the following sources will be accepted. Though these do not represent an exhaustive list of socially acceptable journalism, they provide a good cross-section, with most providing high quality reporting.

The New York Times (M)	CBS News (M)	The Guardian (M)
The Washington Post (M)	NBC News (M)	The Week (M)
The Los Angeles Times (M)	ABC News (M)	The National Review (C)
The Economist (M)	BBC News (M)	Houston Chronicle (L)
NPR (M)	The New Republic (sL)	The Fiscal Times (sC)
Politico (M)	The Associated Press (M)	The Christian Science Monitor (M)
The Atlantic (sL)	Newsweek (L)	The Nation (M)
Texas Tribune (M)	Time (L)	The Hill (sC)
The New Yorker (L)	Reuters (M)	Vox (sL)
Bloomberg (M)	Wall Street Journal (sC)	Slate (sL)
Forbes (sC)	CNN (sL)	The Guardian (sL)

L: Liberal sL: Skews Liberal M: Moderate sC: Skews Conservative C: Conservative

Post must also include:

• Works Cited at least 1 credible source—MUST BE credible source from the above chart.
• 150 original-content words (this means quotes do not count towards word count). This is to ensure you are providing enough DETAILS to support your discussion on this topic.
• Post must be written in paragraph format. Do NOT use numbering or bullet points. There is no need to include the original questions in your post.

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In your response to one classmate you must:

1. Respond to a classmate whose discussion you find interesting.
2. Provide supporting discussion on their topic/issue their news article covers (this means you should read the article they posted).
3. Find a different news article that covers the same topic/issue and provide a new fact that they did not discuss.

1. Discussion should be based on fact, supported with details, and be RESPECTFUL in nature.

Post must also include:

• Works Cited at least 1 source—MUST BE a credible source and different than the one(s) used in your original post.
• 100 original-content words (this means quotes do not count towards word count). This is to ensure you are providing enough DETAILS to support your discussion on this topic.

The classmate’s post to reply:

What is social policy? A plan of action implemented by government, business, or civil society for the purpose of influencing the structure of society, the distribution of resources in society, or the working of social institutions such as government, family culture, health care, education, or markets.

Obamacare was created 10 years ago for the people that couldn’t afford (low-income people) Medicaid. Former President Obama helped people between the ages of 18 and 64 that were not insured to be a benefit from the program. However, when Obamacare was approved by the Supreme Court about 13.3% of adults Americans fell and no longer could afford Obamacare.

Between the years 2013-2019 about 13 million Americans have been increased with Medicaid enrollment.

When the pandemic hit in 2020 Obamacare took action to help low-income Americans be prepared so they can take the COVID-19 tests without paying for them. Now that the vaccine is out, Medicaid still offers to pay for insurance for low-income people.

Goodnough, Abby, Abelson, Reed, Sanger-Katz, Margot, and Kliff, Sarah “Obamacare Turns 10. Here’s a Look at What Works and Doesn’t.” 2020, March, 23 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/23/health/obamacare-aca-coverage-cost-history.html