National Incident Management

You will choose three U.S. presidents who have had a substantial impact on U.S. Foreign Policy toward the Middle East and provide a concise but thorough analysis explaining the impact of each president’s policy in the region or at home.  ***Caution—You may not write on the Barbary presidents, since we have already covered this issue….

Research proposal During the course of the semester you will each write a research assignment on a case study concerning a major disaster event international or local. Each student must do a pre-research and identify a disaster event (natural or man made) that has enough content to write on.   1st part of assignment  Post…

  Discussion: Analyze the effects of the historical, social, political, economic, and cultural forces on politics and government. For this discussion, we will consider how gerrymandering currently affects Texas politics, and how gerrymandering has been used historically in Texas politics. Gerrymandering is a political strategy to redraw Congressional districts in a way that engineers the…

  One of the dominant strategies in downtown development is to draw visitors (and/or residents) into the city. Cities have used a predictable playbook: constructing convention centers, stadiums, festival malls, etc. and using financial inducements (usually tax breaks) to draw in business partners. Examples from Memphis include Cook Convention Center, Redbirds/Forum, and Crosstown Concourse. Do…

In the readings thus far, the text identified many early American interests in the Middle East from geopolitical to missionary. Using the text and your own research, compare these early interests with contemporary American interests in the Middle East. In particular, how has becoming 1) a global hegemon after WWII and 2) the concurrent process…

  Is Texas so conservative- (at least for the time being)- as many pundits and observers claim?  Or is that just  an opinion not supported by analysis and facts? Not only does Texas vote Republican in many elections but has done so for many years.  It is also  a birthplace of the so called Tea Party movement and of…