There will be no midterm or final examinations in this course.

Final Essay Instructions
There will be no midterm or final examinations in this course. However, students will work
independently to complete one (1) final essay. Essay prompts have been pre-selected by the
instructor. Review page 2 of this document for the essay prompts. Students are allowed to
select one (1) essay prompt of their choice and complete a five (5) page paper. The paper
must include 1 cover page + 5 pages of writing + 1 or more ‘References’ pages. Please
upload your final essay as a Word Document on BlackBoard under the Assessments tab.
Papers should include:
● 1” margins
● 12 point Times New Roman font,
● and be formatted using Help write my thesis – APA (American Psychological Association) guidelines.
● No bold font
● Use italics sparingly.
● No visual graphics (i.e. colorful font, page borders, graphs, charts, photos).
● No slang or non-academic terminology.
Be sure to complete a spelling and grammar check. All students are permitted to submit papers
to the instructor in advance for a plagiarism check.
Essays must include the following three (3) parts:
I. Cover Page – 1 page
Students must include a creative title, name, date submitted, academic
institution, professor’s name. NO graphics or color on this page or any other
pages.
II. Content Pages – 5 TOTAL and FULL pages
● Background
This section should clearly state the political issue you chose, include information
on the history or background information.
● Assignment help – Discussion of your essay topic
This section should clearly discuss the political topic you chose, including
information on your answers to the questions along with scholarly references that
will help prove your viewpoints.
● Conclusion
In your conclusion, you must review the main/midterm points of the essay and
create a smooth transition to conclude the essay.
III. References Pages
Students are expected to use at least 5 scholarly sources in their essays. This
will be a part of your midterm essay grade along with the content of your essay.
Students are not allowed to use blogs, Wikipedia, or other non –scholarly/non-reliable sources
as references.
Please note: satirical news and podcasts among other related sources are not deemed
‘scholarly,’ thus they are not to be used as main or core sources. However, they may serve as
creative supplements to other scholarly sources in your essays.
Essay Prompts
1. Is it power alone that corrupts, or does powerlessness corrupt just as much?
2. In your opinion, which of the three branches has the most power?
3. Why does politics seem to be a source of disunity (as much or even more than
of unity)?
4. Why do class and ethnic groups radically diverge on their political ideologies
and philosophical stances despite sharing a common political system?
5. Is ‘citizenship’ strengthened, or weakened, by ‘globalization’?
6. How are conventional notions of civil rights, citizenship, and nationality
impacted by the presence of large groups of undocumented immigrants in
industrialized countries, such as the U.S.?
7. Can our country survive without political parties or are they an integral element
of contemporary political systems?
8. Why does it appear that injustice persists even under the best legal systems
and in the best governed nations and under the best constitutions?
9. If there was one aspect of the U.S. Constitution that you could change, what
would it be and why?
10.Is democracy necessary to bring development?

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Instructions for the Final Essay

In this course, there will be no midterm or final exams. Students will, however, complete one (1) final essay on their own. The essay prompts have already been chosen.

instructor. Review page 2 of this document for the essay prompts. Students are allowed to

select one (1) essay prompt of their choice and complete a five (5) page paper. The paper

must include 1 cover page + 5 pages of writing + 1 or more ‘References’ pages. Please

upload your final essay as a Word Document on BlackBoard under the Assessments tab.

Papers should include:

● 1” margins

● 12 point Times New Roman font,

● and be formatted using Help write my thesis – APA (American Psychological Association) guidelines.

● No bold font

● Use italics sparingly.

● No visual graphics (i.e. colorful font

,