2. ESSAY:
Using 3 or more articles and/or videos from assigned class material, as well as your actual experiences registering voters(I cannot voting because I’m not us citizen.so I interviewed serveral citizens to fill the voter forms) and interviewing non-voters, write an essay (500-700 words) explaining the key structural challenges in American Democracy
you need to connect these three articles with some actual experiences and situations of my interview. I interviewed some people in ceremony to vote for a party, but some of them unwilling to vote for any political party
List the three articles/videos you incorporated into your essay:
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Article/video #1: Title, Author:
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Article/video #2: Title, Author:
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Article/video #3: Title, Author:
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PASTE IN YOUR ESSAY BELOW:
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(# of words used in your essay below: ______)
“The Secret Lists that Swiped the Senate,” Greg Palast, Tuesday, November 18, 2014 (GregPalast.com) https://www.gregpalast.com/the-secret-lists-that-s”¦
Voting: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO), (Published on Feb 14, 2016)
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“Everything mattered: lessons from 2016’s bizarre presidential election. WTF just happened?,” David Roberts, Vox.com (Nov 30, 2016)
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/30″¦
“The Election Reform Moment,” John Nichols, The Nation (Feb. 18, 2013)
https://www.thenation.com/article/election-reform-“¦
“The End of the Solid South,” Bob Moser, The American Prospect (May/June,2013)
https://prospect.org/article/end-solid-south
“Fear of Diversity Made People More Likely to Vote Trump: The 2016 electionwas really a battle about having an open society,” Sean McElwee and Jason McDaniel, The Nation (March 14, 2017)
https://www.thenation.com/article/fear-of-diversit”¦
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“The System IS Rigged!The Electoral College and the 2016 Election by BobWing, Bill Fletcher Jr., Common Dreams (November 30, 2016)
https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/the-system-is”¦
“This is actually what America would look like without gerrymandering,” by Christopher Ingraham, Washington Post (January 13, 2016)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/0″¦
“The United States Senate is a failed institution: It’s a malapportioned, anti-democratic embarrassment,” Ian Millhiser, Think Progress website (April 6,2017)
https://thinkprogress.org/antidemocratic-history-o”¦
“Kabuki Democracy: And How to Fix It- Why a Progressive Presidency isImpossible, For Now,” Eric Alterman, The Nation (1/5/2011)
https://www.thenation.com/article/kabuki-democracy”¦
