Category: Political Science

The Essay Structure
Section 
1: Introduction (about 350 words)
•Define the main concept
•What is the issue?
•A brief background of the issue
•Scope and aim
•Structure/Flow of the Essay 
Section 2: Literature review and research finding (about 700 words)
Using some themes to present at least 3 peer-reviewed scholarly articles to summarize in a coherent way about
(a) the theoretical perspective(s),
(b) the law
(c) the main conclusions of the references, and
(d) the research finding
•How do you make use of the literature reviewed/research finding in the following sections? 
Section 3: Critical analysis of the issue (about 700 words)
Analyze and compare with positive/negative arguments of the issue
Section 4: Conclusion (about 250 words)
What did you do?
Your final conclusion and any recommendation! 
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DONT USE AI & COPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I need a research paper, it is a political theory class, topic is” Asian Americans’ experiences of immigration and discrimination through political theory”. i post the outline and guidelines of the research paper. and there is an assigned citation as well. 

Final Essay (30%)
You will be asked to write a short essay on Plato’s and Aristotle’s critiques of democracy. You need
to explain in what ways are they similar, and in what ways are they different. Your essay should be no shorter
than 5 pages and no longer than 6 pages, double space, regular margins. You should be able to substantiate
your different definitions by citing the relevant passages from the different texts, but the core of your essay
consists in explaining how these definitions are different from each other and what are the political
implications of those differences.    

The paper must be 1800-2000 words, NOT including the reference list. The paper MUST be 
typed and double-spaced in a standard font. If it is not in the right format, I will apply a penalty.
Submissions that are too short OR excessively long will be penalized.
• The paper must have a clear thesis statement – defined in Webster’s dictionary as “a position or 
proposition that a person…advances and offers to maintain by argument.” State your thesis at 
the conclusion of the first paragraph and support it throughout. Your job is to convince your 
reader to accept your point of view. 
• You must use at least six (6) reputable sources other than the course textbook, such as primary 
source accounts of events, as well as secondary sources like newspaper or magazine articles, 
books, or academic journal articles. You may use content from legitimate sources found on the 
Internet, but private blog posts, amateur commentary, Wikipedia entries, and so forth, are 
prohibited. There are a number of good resources at the college library. Start there, bearing in 
mind the media bias chart in the Research Paper module. If you have a question about whether 
something is an appropriate academic source, check with me. 
• Use Chicago Manual of Style Author-Date format for all references page and in-text citations
(not footnotes or endnotes). I will count off if the paper is improperly formatted. There are
helpful links on formatting at the end of the instructions for Part 1 of the paper (see next page). 
• I will deduct points for poor writing, such as lack of strong organization, poor grammar or 
syntax, and excessive spelling errors. Avoid slang and use of first-person point of view. Use spell 
check and grammar check on your word processor. See the course Canvas Research Paper
module for resources on how to write papers in Political Science.
Attached files are part 1 and 2 of the assignment use the resources from those to complete the assignment.  
With the benefit of your prior work and my feedback, write the final paper. It would be a good idea to 
review the resource documents on how to write in Political Science. Also, before you turn it in, keep in 
mind:
• You need to review the rubric in the Research Paper module to make sure your paper meets the 
standards.
• Once again, you must use Chicago Author-Date Style (17th edition) to format your reference 
page and in-text citations. Review resources on page 2 for help.
• Be sure you use at least six (6) sources your paper and include all of them in your reference list. 
Only include references for sources that appear in the paper’s in-text citations. Do not include 
any annotations for the sources in your final reference list.

My professor was very vague and said we could make the subject of our paper about anything we discussed throughout the semester. I want this paper to include the history of the 10th Amendment, examples of its use at the state and federal level, its impact, and its implications. It should be pretty in-depth as it is a 300-level polisci course, but not nauseatingly verbose or overly written. Thank you so much.

The questions below require you to analyze data,
a quotation, or other stimulus and write a brief essay integrating your
analysis with your broader knowledge of U.S. politics. 

my paper was about how Obama’s administration was largely regarded as one of the worst presidential tenures in American history. Although most of the problems that occurred following his tenure in office were due to his decisions, there were some things that he tried to do but could not do. Because of this, the blame shouldn’t be placed entirely on him. I wanted to write about how the Republicans and many others used several tactics to stop him from even making any slight advancement or implementation of the policies he had in mind to help fix some of the issues during his presidency.
So I want to structure my paper first by talking about the problems he had to walk into even before he was elected just to give people reading my paper some background on what was going on. Next, I wanted to write what his intentions, plans, and goals were to fix these problems, After that, I wanted to talk about the ideal way everything would go if people bought into his policies or cooperated with his plan,  Then I wanted to speak about what actually happened and the obstacles he had to face that deterred his plans, Lastly, I wanted to say some of the things he was able to accomplish despite his significant failures. 
Include issues like the financial crisis in 2008, the banks failing, the high unemployment rate, the housing crisis, the war in iraq/ iran
PLEASE please please do not use CHATgpt or ai for the essay, the professor has ai detector and I will receive a 0 for it.

Your assignment is to explain a historical or current event in IR using the course concepts, models, and theories. Choose an event you wish to explain. Why did this event come about? Why did it unfold as it did? Answer these questions using IR concepts, models, and theories. Make a theoretically informed argument about the most powerful influences on state (and other actors, as relevant) behavior during this event. This argument must answer both of these questions: Why did this event come about? Why did it unfold as it did?
You will likely achieve clarity if you structure your paper to answer these questions. The theory/ies you choose will explain the causes of the event and/or how the event unfolded. Unfolded means how the event developed over time once it began. Example: the Cuban Missile Crisis after it began.
Make sure all of your evidence serves the task of speaking to (for or against) your answer.
This is a diagnostic paper, not a prescriptive paper. The diagnostic tools are the theories we covered in class.
Examples of events include but are from limited to the outbreak of a major war, responses to ethnic conflict, development initiatives, and creation and/or demise of major international institutions or treaties.
Spend some time in your paper developing the logic of your argument. Spend the most time providing evidence for your argument. Think hard about what kind of evidence will best support your argument. Spend some time discussing the most prominent contending explanations and explain why yours is the most persuasive. Argue clearly, but do not be over-simplistic. Use facts. Avoid assertions.  Avoid adjectives and adverbs. You will need to do independent research as none of our readings provide enough data to make a convincing argument that answers the above questions. 
ESSAY REQUIREMENTS
You are required to have six pages minimum of text, then a bibliography. You are required to quote material from at least six books or academic journals that you found in the library. Academic journals are defined as those containing at least 10 foot/endnotes per major article. Feel free to consult other sources; this is a minimum requirement.
Please note the following: Your paper is to be a scholarly analytical research paper which contains a firm thesis or research question and employs systematic argument, evidence, and analysis in support of your thesis. You are not writing an opinion piece and you are not blogging. You are expected to use MLA format for footnotes, or endnotes, and bibliography. Your bibliography should be drawn primarily from scholarly books, journals, articles and chapters, NOT journalistic or non-academic online resources. 

INSTRUCTIONS
Outline: For a maximum of 5 points, choose just 1 of the questions below and prepare
an Outline. This Outline should contain a thesis paragraph with your thesis position
statement and argumentative forecasting. It should also contain topic sentences for each
body paragraph. Finally, it should list the sources that you plan to use and a 1-sentence
description of why each source is useful to you. This outline should cover 1 singlespaced typewritten page with a 12 point, Times New Roman font. At the top of your
Outline, please include the question that you have chosen to answer for this Exam.
The Essay Question i chose #3 )The 13th Amendment states how imprisonment as a result of being properly convicted is an exception to the abolition of slavery. It says, “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” Imagine a hypothetical scenario where the only reason a person was convicted and sent to prison was because they were racially discriminated against by someone in the legal system (such as police officers, judge, or a jury). In that person’s case, do you think their imprisonment is a direct violation of the 13th Amendment specifically?
The template and the way to go about it is that i will place below what is expected, like how the Outine Essay  is supposed to look like. We are to also reference the notes from certain classes which I will attach below as attachmentss. Bu keep in mind this essay is more to asses our own opinion in answering the question so we o not need to break down each little if you know what i mean.  You did it well the last time, for the Midterm Outline Assigment.
Topic 3: Deciding whether imprisonment can be considered a violation of the 13th Amendment in cases where racial discrimination was the only reason for conviction.  Please look at the following class notes to reference (same way you did last time for the Midterm Outline) 
***Class 19 – April 2 – Thirteenth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment: Incorporation. (Important) 
Class 25 – May 2 – Fourth Amendment Search and Seizure 
Class 27 – May 9 – Legal System Definition of Crime (will upload today at 8pm) 
How to write an Outline for an Argumentative Essay
After you read this guide, I strongly recommend that you read the “RubricExplanation” guide to see exactly how I will score your Outline and Essay for each Exam.
Your Outline should contain three things which I will be scoring.
1) You need a thesis paragraph to start the Outline. This should contain a thesis position statement which is then followed by a statement of argumentative forecasting. A thesis position statement provides your opinion to directly answers the question you chose.  The argumentative forecasting statement initially provides the reasons that you have for your thesis position. It is okay but not necessary to have 1-2 sentences of introduction before providing your thesis position statement and forecasting.  You do not want to have more than 2 sentences of introduction since the thesis position statement and argumentative forecasting should be the focus of this paragraph.  If you do this thesis paragraph correctly for the Outline, you can actually use it exactly as it is for the Essay as well.
2) You need topic sentences for each body paragraph that you plan to use in your essay. If you have 3 arguments supporting your thesis position statement, you should have 3 body paragraphs.  Each paragraph should have a topic sentence that expresses your argument for that paragraph.  Your topic sentence should never include a quote or general reference information. It should always contain a sentence initially stating what your argument is.  You then spend the rest of the body paragraph developing that argument with your own points and then providing evidence that supports those points.  
3) You need to provide a list of sources that you plan to use for the essay.  Provide the name of the source, the author, the relevant pages, the date, and the URL if the source is a website. After you provide your list, you should provide at least 2 sentences for each source explaining how the information in that source helps you support the points in your arguments. If you are using my class notes, don’t just give me the overall session number.  Make sure to point out the specific pages from the class notes that you are using as evidence to support the points in your arguments.  Then explain how that information is relevant to your argument.  The same idea goes for any outside research.  Don’t just give me a URL or the reference you are using.  Tell me the section of the source and explain how you will use the information within that section to actually support your argument.
Suggested template for Outline
Let’s use a very simple question and demonstrate how to write an Outline for it.
Sample question (that I would never actually use on one of my college exams)
“What is your favorite season of the year?”  
Sample Thesis Paragraph:
The year consists of four seasons: winter, spring, summer, and autumn.  Each season has aspects that are positive and negative.  My favorite season is winter for a number of reasons.  I like winter best because I enjoy having winter break, prefer outdoor activities of that season, and enjoy the holidays that occur during that time of year. 
Sample Topic Sentences
Topic Sentence for Body paragraph 1:   One reason that winter is my favorite is because I typically get a month of vacation in between semesters teaching.
Topic Sentence for Body paragraph 2:  Another reason that winter is my favorite season is because there are certain outdoor activities that I enjoy doing.
Topic Sentence for Body paragraph 3:  The last reason I enjoy winter is because it starts with an assortment of fun holidays.
I use phrasing in my Topic Sentences that is similar to the phrasing I made in my argumentative forecasting statement but is not exactly the same.   It can be the same but topic sentences typically are a little longer and more detailed than forecasting statements.
Sample Sources
This is where I would list all of the sources that I use for my essay and then provide a 2-sentence description explaining how the information within those sources support the points in my arguments. I won’t go into depth with too many sources here given the rather simple subject matter of this sample essay, but here is one.
GH schedule:  www.ny.edu/academic-calendar
I will use this information from the Fall and the Spring schedules to show when my Fall semester ends and when my Spring semester begins. That way, I can illustrate the duration of my winter vacation which I have claimed is close to a month.  
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Also to avoid plagirm or how to properly quote i have shown below: 
Giving a source “credit” to avoid plagiarism means taking at least 2 of 4 actions:
It always means mentioning them on your Reference Page at the end of the essay.
It always means providing a footnote, endnote, or parenthetical citation in the actual essay which refers to the part in the source that you got the information from. 
This is an example of a sentence that uses parenthetical citation to give credit to the author.  
“In Federalist 10, James Madison said there were two sources of factions (Federalist 10).” 
I prefer parenthetical citation to footnotes and end notes but I do allow those if you prefer them.
It may mean using quotes if you are using the actual words from the source. If you use quotes within the essay, you ALSO have to use the methods 1 and 2 above.
You still have to provide citation if you use information or opinion from another author even if you do not use their exact words.  Any time you use information from another person in your essay, you have to cite them even if you aren’t using their words.  
For example, you may say: “Professor Reitzfeld said in Session 4 that the biggest problem in the American economy is that ghosts cause inflation.” (Reitzfeld, Session 4) 
Maybe you didn’t use the specific words I used, but you used my ideas. As a result, you still have the obligation to provide a citation. That is called “paraphrasing” which is completely legitimate but requires citation. You don’t always have to quote someone’s actual words if you put the idea into your words, but you still have to cite them.
You still have to give a source credit if you are using parts of an old essay that you wrote for a previous course.  You cannot submit an essay to me that has parts of an old essay you wrote without using citation.  You have to make clear what parts of your new essay actually came from the old essay.  It is plagiarism and academic dishonesty to present an old essay (or parts of one) as a new essay without citation. 

In this Civic Engagement Project, you are asked to develop a civic awareness presentation
on a social, economic, cultural, or political issue of your choosing.
The goal of the Civic Engagement Project is to encourage students to think more
proactively about how they can become agents of change in their communities. It is desired that
completing this assignment with help ignite your awareness and understanding that you have the
power to impact positive social change. The goal of the project is intended to expand your
thinking and connect a political framework to engage civically in your community.
please read the instructions in the PDF attached below:
TOPIC FOR THE PAPER WILL BE “CHILD POVERTY AND THE WORKING POOR”