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Using APA 7th edition for the whole essay, in text citation and references.
Prepare a 850 word count essay discussing the political system of the United States.
Address the following questions:
1. Examine voting trends over time in the United States. Which groups vote? Which groups don’t vote?
2. What could be done to improve voter turnout? Be sure to discuss multiple groups by age, ethnicity, gender, religion, income, and education.
3. Summarize the functions of campaigns in the United States and what the process is to electing governmental officials in the United States both at the state and federal levels.
4. Explain how campaigns influence the public and how are they used to mobilize people. Use key Political terms and concepts to discuss the key components of campaigning and how they influence voters during elections.
5. What kinds of reforms could be made to make elections more free and fair?

America’s Gilded Age
W. A. Peffer, The Farmer’s Situation (1890s)
During the last half of the nineteenth century, the expansion of the railroads and development of large-scale farming led to decreased profits and lands for independent family farmers. Eventually, farmers organized into movements like the Grange and Populist cooperatives. As you read these two accounts, consider how the freedom of these farmers was being threatened by the power of monopolies. What could individual farmers do to combat unfair pricing and corrupt land deals made in Chicago or Washington?
Nothing has done more to injure the [Western] region than these freight rates. The railroads have retarded its growth as much as they first hastened it. The rates are often four times as large as Eastern rates. . . . The extortionate character of the freight rates has been recognized by all parties, and all have pledged themselves to lower them, but no state west of the Missouri has been able to do so.
In the early days, people were so anxious to secure railways that they would grant any sort of concession which the companies asked. There were counties in Iowa and other Western states struggling under heavy loads of bond-taxes, levied twenty-five years ago, to aid railways of which not one foot has been built. Perhaps a little grading would be done, and then the project would be abandoned, the bonds transferred, and the county called upon by the “innocent purchaser” to pay the debt incurred by blind credulity. I have known men to sacrifice fortunes, brains, and lives in fighting vainly this iniquitous bond-swindle.
Railways have often acquired mines and other properties by placing such high freight rates upon their products that the owner was compelled to sell at the railroad company’s own terms. These freight rates have been especially burdensome to the farmers, who are far from their selling and buying markets, thus robbing them in both directions.
Another fact which has incited the farmer against corporations is the bold and unblushing participation of the railways in politics. At every political convention their emissaries are present with blandishments and passes and other practical arguments to secure the nomination of their friends. The sessions of these legislatures are disgusting scenes of bribery and debauchery. There is not an attorney of prominence in Western towns who does not carry a pass or has not had the opportunity to do so. The passes, of course, compass the end sought. By these means, the railroads have secured an iron grip upon legislatures and officers, while no redress has been given to the farmer.
The land question, also, is a source of righteous complaint. Much of the land of the West, instead of being held for actual settlers, has been bought up by speculators and Eastern syndicates in large tracts. They have done nothing to improve the land and have simply waited for the inevitable settler who bought cheaply a small “patch” and proceeded to cultivate it. When he had prospered so that he needed more land, he found that his own labor had increased tremendously the value of the adjacent land. . . .
Closely connected with the land abuse are the money grievances. As his pecuniary condition grew more serious, the farmer could not make payments on his land. Or he found that, with the ruling prices, he could not sell his produce at a profit. In either case he needed money, to make the payment or maintain himself until prices should rise. When he went to the moneylenders, these men, often dishonest usurers, told him that money was very scarce, that the rate of interest was rapidly rising, etc., so that in the end the farmer paid as much interest a month as the moneylender was paying a year for the same money. In this transaction, the farmer obtained his first glimpse of the idea of “the contraction of the currency at the hands of Eastern money sharks.”
Disaster always follows the exaction of such exorbitant rates of interest, and want or eviction quickly came. Consequently, when demagogues went among the farmers to utter their calamitous cries, the scales seemed to drop from the farmer’s eyes, and he saw gold bugs, Shylocks, conspiracies, and criminal legislation ad infinitum. Like a lightning flash, the idea of political action ran through the Alliances. A few farmers’ victories in county campaigns the previous year became a promise of broader conquest, and with one bound the Farmers’ Alliance went into politics all over the West.
[From F. B. Tracy, “Why the Farmers Revolted,” Forum 16 (October 1893): 242–43.]
Farmers are passing through the “valley and shadow of death”; farming as a business is profitless; values of farm products have fallen 50 per cent since the great war, and farm values have depreciated 25 to 50 per cent during the last ten years; farmers are overwhelmed with debts secured by mortgages on their homes, unable in many instances to pay even the interest as it falls due, and unable to renew the loans because securities are weakening by reason of the general depression; many farmers are losing their homes under this dreadful blight, and the mortgage mill still grinds. We are in the hands of a merciless power; the people’s homes are at stake. . . .
The American farmer of today is altogether a different sort of a man from his ancestor of fifty or a hundred years ago. . . . All over the West, . . . the farmer thrashes his wheat all at one time, he disposes of it all at one time, and in a great many instances the straw is wasted. He sells his hogs, and buys bacon and pork; he sells his cattle, and buys fresh beef and canned beef or corned beef, as the case may be; he sells his fruit, and buys it back in cans. . . . Not more than one farmer in fifty now keeps sheep at all; he relies upon the large sheep farmer for the wool, which is put into cloth or clothing ready for his use. Instead of having clothing made up on the farm in his own house or by a neighbor woman or country tailor a mile away, he either purchases his clothing ready made at the nearest town, or he buys the cloth and has a city tailor make it up for him. Instead of making implements which he uses about the farm—forks, rakes, etc., he goes to town to purchase even a handle for his axe or his mallet; . . . indeed, he buys nearly everything now that he produced at one time himself, and these things all cost money.
Besides all this, and what seems stranger than anything else, whereas in the earlier time the American home was a free home, unencumbered, . . . and whereas but a small amount of money was then needed for actual use in conducting the business of farming, there was always enough of it among the farmers to supply the demand, now, when at least ten times as much is needed, there is little or none to be obtained. . . .
The railroad builder, the banker, the money changer, and the manufacturer undermined the farmer. . . . The manufacturer came with his woolen mill, his carding mill, his broom factory, his rope factory, his wooden-ware factory, his cotton factory, his pork-packing establishment, his canning factory and fruit-preserving houses; the little shop on the farm has given place to the large shop in town; the wagon-maker’s shop in the neighborhood has given way to the large establishment in the city where men by the thousand work and where a hundred or two hundred wagons are made in a week; the shoemaker’s shop has given way to large establishments in the cities where most of the work is done by machines; the old smoke house has given way to the packing house, and the fruit cellars have been displaced by preserving factories. The farmer now is compelled to go to town for nearly everything that he wants. . . . And what is worse than all, if he needs a little more money than he has about him, he is compelled to go to town to borrow it. But he does not find the money there; in place of it he finds an agent who will “negotiate” a loan for him. The money is in the East . . . five thousand miles away. He pays the agent his commission, pays all the expenses of looking through the records and furnishing abstracts, pays for every postage stamp used in the transaction, and finally receives a draft for the amount of money required, minus these expenses. In this way the farmers of the country today are maintaining an army of middlemen, loan agents, bankers, and others, who are absolutely worthless for all good purposes in the community. . . .
These things, however, are on only the mechanical side of the farmer. His domain has been invaded by men of his own calling, who have taken up large tracts of land and farmed upon the plan of the manufacturers who employ a great many persons to perform the work under one management. This is “bonanza” farming. . . . The aim of some of the great “bonanza farms” of Dakota has been to apply machinery so effectually that the cultivation of one full section, or six hundred and forty acres, shall represent one year’s work of only one man. This has not yet been reached, but so far as the production of the grain of wheat is concerned, one man’s work will now give to each of one thousand persons enough for a barrel of flour a year, which is the average ration. . . .
The manufacture of oleomargarine came into active competition with farm butter. And about the same time a process was discovered by which a substitute for lard was produced—an article so very like the genuine lard taken from the fat of swine that the farmer himself was deceived by it. . . .
From this array of testimony the reader need have no difficulty in determining for himself “how we got here.” The hand of the money changer is upon us. Money dictates our financial policy; money controls the business of the country; money is despoiling the people. . . . These men of Wall Street . . . hold the bonds of nearly every state, county, city and township in the Union; every railroad owes them more than it is worth. Corners in grain and other products of toil are the legitimate fruits of Wall Street methods. Every trust and combine made to rob the people had its origin in the example of Wall Street dealers. . . . This dangerous power which money gives is fast undermining the liberties of the people. It now has control of nearly half their homes, and is reaching out its clutching hands for the rest. This is the power we have to deal with.
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Read textbook Chapter 20.
2. Read the primary above.
5. Answer the questions that follow below.
One full single page or two full double space pages is required for Primary Source Exercises
. Submit your responses in the accepted formats and label your answers.
Questions to answer
:
What type of document is this? (Ex. Newspaper, telegram, map, letter, memorandum, congressional record)
For what audience was the document written?
What do you find interesting or important about this document? (Quote from the source to back your answer)
Is there a particular phrase or section that you find particularly meaningful or surprising?
What does this document tell you about life in United States at the time it was written?

In the case of Gregory v. Ashcroft on June 20, 1991,in the state of Missouri it was decided by a seven justice majority that mandatory retirement age for state court judges did not violate the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA) and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment (Gregory v. Ashcroft, 501 U.S. 452 (1991), n.d.). Would this case be cited if another suit was to be brought today?
Gregory v. Ashcroft, 501 U.S. 452 (1991)
. (n.d.). Retrieved from Justia Us Supreme Court: https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/501/452/

The right to recall elected officials allows the people to use their rights and use their voices to be heard to state their opinions on who should be elected. This gives the power to the people and allows their concerns to be heard and vote for what supports them. If there is ever a judge who seems to be unfit for the position they are in the recall of judges allows them to be reviewed or removed from their power. This can be seen when officials may not have the people’s best interests or if they do not have the mental stability to make the right decisions that abide by the laws. The initiative allows the people to add policies that may need to be changed on the ballot. I think all three of these “progressive rights” emphasize the people’s rights and decisions we get to speak up about for our communities. Which one do you think should be highlight more in your community? min 50 words or more

Giving power directly to the people in the manner listed in this DQ is generally seen as a benefit for all of society. Looking at it from the other point of view, might it be a detriment to give this much power to the people? In what ways? min 50 words or more
resources: DQ-wasArizona citizens retain several very progressive rights, namely the right to initiative, referendum, recall of elected officials, recall of judges, election of corporation commissioners and election of a state mine inspector. Please select three of these democratic rights and make an argument as to why giving power directly to the people in this manner is a benefit for all of society.

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Is the Big Five Factor model of personality or the HEXACO model of personality better? Critically discuss with reference to psychological theory and research, and psychometric properties of tests.

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Marigolds”
Your initial post (“create thread”) is due by
WEDNESDAY
at midnight and your responses to TWO peers are due by
SUNDAY
at midnight of the week.
Choose three questions and answer each in complete sentences. Your total response should be at least 300 words. Keep in mind, much is interpretation, so you cannot be wrong unless you fail to make a clear connection between details of the text and your interpretation.
1. What do the marigolds represent to Miss Lottie? What do they represent to Lizabeth?
2. What connection is made between poverty and destruction?
3. Paraphrase (use your own words) the narrator’s thoughts about innocence and compassion.
4. What is the climax of the story (be careful and use your Norton ch. 1 explanation of climax for your answer)?
5. What point of view is the story told in (use your Norton ch. 2)? How does that affect the story?
6. Explain the narrator’s meaning in “We children, of course, were only vaguely aware of the extent of our poverty” (1)? Why of course?
7. Explain the conversation that Lizabeth hears between her father and mother. Explain “The world had lost its boundary lines” (4).
8. Do you agree with the narrator that compassion and innocence cannot exist together? Why or why not?
9. Name two examples of figurative language (i.e. metaphor or similie) that you find effective and explain why. How do they support the meaning of the story?
10. One theme of this story is that everyone must deal with hardships in life. What does she mean, then, by the last line of her story, “And I too have planted marigolds”?
11. Collier says, “Poverty was the cage in which we were all trapped, and our hatred of it was still the vague, undirected restlessness of the zoo-bred flamingo who knows that nature created him to free.” In this metaphor, what does her comparison indicate?

Do women face barriers when it come to politics in Canada ? explain and cite in APA format. Are women treated fairly when in comes to politics.

Allowing the citizens of Arizona to have a say in the elections of state mine inspectors, the right to initiative, and the recall of elected officials are just a few of the areas where people choose to make a difference and have their voices heard. It is important for the electors of the state mine inspector to be properly chosen strictly due to the safety of the people working in these mines. These inspectors work together with Homeland Security to learn new methods for mining and keeping explosives used in mines accounted for while keeping people healthy and safe who work in or around the mines. Providing citizens the right to initiative creates the power to propose new law or bills. States have different issues and opportunities that may be different than another state. With the right to initiative, people can create new bills and pass laws that will support or help sustain citizens in the future. One way people can make their voices heard in a different way is recalling officials. If someone is placed into office that does not support the laws that are in place and the citizens are unhappy, they have the right to recall those who are not upholding their oath to do the best for the state. Comment as you see fit. Min 50 words or more