Assignment 1 ( create a question with a brief description):

Americas always think of the Presidential election when thinking about voting. However, there are countless other times voting is used in our lives. Think everything from voting for you school board, your local judge, or who has to go get the next round of beverages from the fridge. Ask questions about voting systems beyond the biggest elections. Ask you classmates which systems would be best in specific scenarios and why. Be specific when you set up your questions. Describe the types of candidates and how they are perceived by the voters. Or, ask you classmates which system they would use if they were seeking to get elected and why they would choose that system.

Please respond to the Student Response (50 words each:

* Lily B.

Do you think the President should win by popular vote or electoral college?

I have seen a lot of people saying we vote by people not land. Do you find it unfair if the presidential candidate receives the most votes of the American citizens but loses because of electoral college? Many people ask what the point of voting is when the electoral college mainly chooses. Donald Trump won from electoral college four years ago whereas Hillary Clinton won the popular vote. Do you think this is fair (don’t think about who you personally would want to win, but if you were not bias toward either person, would you consider this fair)?

* A. J M.

Why do we have an electoral college if the population is not proportional to its representation?

The electoral college was made to make the representation of all states equal but cities are populating much faster them when the electoral college was invented. So what is the purpose of the electoral college and is it fair in today’s society or does it need to be restructured?

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Assignment 2:

Create a question about the following paragraph below (50 words with a short description), and answer to 2 student response

Although some of the archaeological work in the early twentieth century examined the social and ideological aspects of past cultures, these types of studies have only become popular in recent decades. The new or processual archaeology that emerged in the 1960s tended to focus on ecology, but many archaeologists at this time also began to study social systems, attempting to identify social inequality and categorize societies into the classification systems developed by anthropologists. Identity and ideology emerged as a focus in the 1980s, associated with the development of postprocessual archaeology. Reconstructions of the social and ideological aspects of culture tend to be more difficult than those of culture history and ecological adaptations. Because most of what archaeologists excavate, including ecofacts and features, is directly related to ecological adaptations, it is relatively easy to make inferences about palaeoenvironments, settlement patterns, subsistence strategies, and diet. For example, inferring diet from plant and animal remains found in pots or a midden can hardly be considered a great intellectual leap. Using those same remains, usually people’s garbage, to make inferences about the social and ideological aspects of culture is clearly more difficult. It can be done; it just isn’t as easy. While inferences about subsistence and diet, for example, are made by identifying the remains themselves, the patterning of those remains tends to be more important to archaeologists interested in reconstructing the social and ideological aspects of culture.

Answer Student Response ( 50 words each):

Jessie C.

How are archaeology sites protected?

What methods are in place to keep people from destroying archaeological sites? There has to be many different protective layers to ensure that important artifacts and active dig sites cannot be tampered with. Especially with how detailed and delicate some artifacts are, how are they protected from the elements? Are dig sites often tampered with or effected by the weather?

Delia R.

Will a new legislation create opportunities for ecological restoration?

As we approach a Democratic presidency, many of us are wondering whether or not our government will make strides to repair ecological damage that has been done over the past four years and in decades prior.

Will a new president and legislation work to restore our environment? Though restoring an ecosystem to its preindustrial state is difficult (and sometimes impossible, as stated in the linked article) could new legislature be set in place to protect our current ecosystem?