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The Bill of Rights is not only included with the United States Constitution but also state constitutions. All states have provisions in their constitutions that protect individual rights. Go online and look up your state NJ constitution concerning amendments that are included in the Bill of Rights. How does your state constitution protect your individual rights?
Be sure to make connections between your ideas and conclusions and the research, concepts, terms, and theory we are discussing this week.
Week 7 Mini-Lecture: Without Due Process of Law
A central issue of our rights is what they mean in practice—whether government will take the steps necessary to make sure that people in fact can enjoy their rights.
Take the case of Clarence Gideon. He was on trial in Florida in 1961 for allegedly breaking into a pool hall and stealing a pocketful of change. Gideon had no money. And when he came up for trial, he asked the judge to provide him a lawyer. The judge refused. Gideon, an eighth-grade dropout, was forced to defend himself. He lost his case. The Florida judge sentenced him to five years in prison—the maximum allowable for the crime of which he was accused.
While in jail, Gideon wrote a handwritten note to the Supreme Court, appealing his conviction. The likelihood that the court would respond to such a note was almost infinitesimal. The court hears less than 100 cases a year out of the tens of thousands that are heard annually in federal court, and they’ve almost never taken a case on the basis of a handwritten note. To everyone’s surprise, the Supreme Court said, we’re going to hear this case. They provided Gideon with an attorney. And when his case came before the Supreme Court, his attorney argued that the right to counsel is fundamental.
How, he asked, can a poor individual like Gideon possibly win out in a trial against a trained district attorney? In rebutting that argument, the state of Florida said that its judges were fair minded and wouldn’t let anything but the evidence decide the outcome of a case.
The Supreme Court disagreed with Florida. It said that the 14th amendment due process protection included the right to an attorney and at government expense if the accused was too poor to afford a lawyer. In his retrial in Florida, Gideon’s lawyer expertly picked apart the state’s case. He showed convincing evidence that its main witness had actually been part of the crime, acting as a lookout while his friends broke into the pool hall. The jury acquitted Gideon of the crime of which he was accused. He was a free man.
In the Gideon case, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the ruling of a state court. There was a time in American history where that type of decision was prohibited. That’s because the Bill of Rights initially applied only to the national government. The First Amendment, for instance says, Congress shall make no law abridging freedom of speech, the press, and so on. It doesn’t say Congress and the state legislatures shall make no law. Thus, whereas Congress was bound by the Bill of Rights, state governments were not.
Today, nearly all the rights in the Bill of Rights are protected from action not only by the federal government, but also by the state governments and the local governments, which are agents of the state. The key to this change was the 14th Amendment, which was ratified after the Civil War. It reads, in part, “No state shall deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.”
Notice that the 14th Amendment refers to life, liberty, or property. It doesn’t say that no state shall deprive any person of freedom of speech or any other specific right listed in the Bill of Rights. And it was not until 1925, nearly six decades after the 14th Amendment was ratified, that the Supreme Court began to say what was meant by life, liberty, or property.
The breakthrough case was Gitlow vs. New York. It involved a man, Benjamin Gitlow, who had been convicted of violating a New York state law aimed at silencing political anarchists. In its ruling, the Supreme Court held that state governments are not completely free to decide for themselves what their residents may legally say. The 14th Amendment’s due process clause, said the court, protects free speech from action by the states. Then, during the next dozen years, the Supreme Court used the 14th Amendment to strike down state laws infringing on the remaining First Amendment rights– freedom of the press, religion, assembly, and petition. At this point, the Court stopped, choosing not to protect the other rights in the Bill of Rights from state action. Then, in the 1960s and early 1970s, it resumed the process, one by one, bringing most of the fair trial rights in the Bill of Rights into the 14th Amendment.
The Gideon case, the right to an attorney, was one of those landmark rulings. Other rulings addressed such rights as the right to remain silent which I hope youre more familiar with via TV and movies than your own experiences with law enforcement.
This process, whereby rights contained in the Bill of Rights are extended to the state governments by the 14th Amendment, is called selective incorporation. It is selective because only particular rights in the Bill of Rights are given protection, and it’s called incorporation because the process involves incorporating or bringing into the 14th Amendment rights that are contained in the Bill of Rights, thus protecting them from state action.
In the Gideon case, for example, the Sixth Amendment right to an attorney, which protects citizens from action by the federal government, was incorporated into the 14th Amendment, thereby extending the right to an attorney to cases involving state and local governments.
Selective incorporation is one of the most important developments in the history of American civil liberties.
Think about it for a minute. Which level of government is more likely to violate your rights? Is it the federal government, or is it state and local governments? Although many Americans are more distrustful of the federal government, the state and local governments are actually more likely to intrude on your rights. Well, over 95% of the court cases alleging a violation of constitutional rights originate with state and local governments. The major reason is that these officials have primary responsibility for policing and for maintaining public order, precisely the situations where citizens are most likely to come into conflict with authorities. Have you ever been stopped by a federal officer, such as an FBI agent? Probably not. Not many Americans have. But have you ever been stopped by a local police officer or the state highway patrol? Well, if you drive a car there’s a good chance you have. That’s why the 14th Amendment and the Supreme Court’s application of it to the actions of the states and localities has been so key in protecting Americans’ rights: theyre who you interact with more often—and if you do have an interaction, youre going to want those rights protected without having to ask what level of government theyre from.

Assume that you are the head coach at a brand new school. The school board and booster club contacts you asking about a list of equipment needs for your new program.
A: What sport are you most interested in coaching? Track and Field
B: Assume that there are ~100 students participating in your sport in grades 7-12. Use the website www.bsnsports.com (or a similar site if you do not find all of the items you will need) and compile an inventory of ALL player-related equipment you will need for your program (e.g., uniforms, protective equipment, game equipment, practice/training equipment, etc.). Provide an itemized equipment inventory, as well as a price breakdown for each item (you DO NOT need to include items for the field such as scoreboards, maintenance equipment, etc.):
C: What are your total costs?
D: Present a detailed fundraising plan for how your program/athletes could help raise money for those costs (e.g., what activities would you and your team do- what resources would you need to do those activities, and how much money do you expect to raise with each?)

This assignment you will be using ArcGIS. There is a trial version for 21 days.

Take the below scenario, complete the appropriate steps, and create a completed 8″ by 11″ map that you would provide to the requesting member.

A Criminal Intelligence Section member has come to you and indicated that he needs a map and crime counts for a specific area of the city from 2020/01/01 to 2020/12/31. He indicates that the area is bounded by 78th Ave to the South, 84th Ave to the North, 132nd St to the West and King George Hwy to the East. You will need to draw a polygon that generally fits this area and then use it to select offence data intersecting this graphic polygon.

The member has also developed intelligence that there may be members of the Skittles Gang living in the area. The member would like you to create a list of all the probationers in the area of interest who have a history of drug related offenses, so that he can cross reference with a list of Skittles members and associates.

Required elements:
Map of specified area showing Offences and the specified Probationers in the area
List of specified Probationers (as an excel table copied and pasted into your map layout)
List of the top 10 offences (frequency of occurrence) counted by crime type (as an excel table copied and pasted into your map layout and include ties if there are any)

When you have finished your map, please export the layout view as a PDF file, by clicking File -> Export Map

* You can use some of the upload files, “Demo 1”, “Demo 2”, “Introduction to ArcGIS”, and “Data_Format” to help you work through this assignment. *

This is for a political major epecially politically theory. I have
provided all readings above in order to help quickly figure out the
answers to each. basically, i have written in red on the question
documents how many words each response has to be. The bottom, you only
answer 1 question i put the red mark next to. Skip the other 2. However,
on top please answer all 5 questions with the red number of words next
to. please make sure to check spelling and grammer. Please add sentences
that are lengthy BUT NO RUN ON SENTENCES. for the bottom part whn you
pick a question, please add a thesis and clear paragraphs with topic
sentences. For the 5 questions make sure to get to the point and make
sure your answers are coming from the readings. please do not use
outside sources. Also, make sure vocabulary ussage is professional. Do
not use the words, they, thus, that, or it. please use professional
grammer and words.

Assignment #3: Ethnographic Interviews
The purpose of this
assignment is to develop listening and interviewing skills. Students are to
conduct ethnographic interviews on investigating the spread of Islam among
the Turkana People of Northern Kenya
Stage One: (Interviewing process) Write a 4-page paper
double-spaced
Read
through Spradley (1979) about the descriptive questions. Read carefully
the 5 types of descriptive questions.
Conduct
and record ethnographic interviews with at least 2 informants and use the
descriptive questions outlined in Spradley pg. 85-91.
Transcribe
the interview.
Send
the transcription and translation together with the interview guide
questions, which should be based on the research questions.
Stage Two: (Writing
up)
Write a 4-page paper
double-spaced and include the following 2 sections:
Emic description
-Describe as comprehensively as possible (but keep in mind
the number of pages of your write up) what your informants have told you about
the topic you are studying.
-Use direct quotes from your interview to support your emic
description. Do not overuse direct quotes; decide how many quotes you want to
include in your paper.
Etic analysis
-Interpret and analyze the description above from a
theological or missiological perspective.
Write a paragraph or two
about your experience as an interviewer: include some strength, weaknesses
you might have realized during the interviewing process. What assumptions
or preconceptions did you find that might have interfered with your
interview process? How can you improve on this?

Homework No. 1
Give your paper a title
750 words minimum (type the final word count under your name on your paper)
6 paragraphs minimum be sure to have an introductory paragraph and a concluding paragraph
FOR 24 HOURS ONLY, you will walk in a different pair of socio-political shoes. You can give yourself more socio-political power (privilege) or less socio-political power (privilege), its your choice. Remember, you are still the same person, with the same talents, abilities, education, skills, etc. You have the same family and friends unless they dump you. In the main, you simply look different than yesterdayif your body type changes to an extreme degree, you might have less (or more) physical ability or appeal to others in the wider society. With these changes, will the world treat the altered you with more respect or less? Explain why this would be so.
CHANGING YOUR POLITICAL PROFILE ONE DAY IN YOUR ALTERED LIFE
FOLLOW THE FORMAT PRECISELY
Put a space between each paragraph
Watch the films:
A Class Divided https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mcCLm_LwpE
Black Like Me https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7zj7rl
In Paragraph No. 1 summarize the A Class Divided. then give your responses to it. Be sure to include commentary on all three segments of the film: the third-grade classroom, the prison classroom, and the workshop training for the correctional officers. Did the responses of any of the participants surprise you? Why or why not? Be specific.
Paragraph No. 2 summarize Black Like Me. Its based on a true story. If Griffin were to repeat his social experiment today, do you think that it would be significantly different or has little changed? Take a position on this, then select at least two scenes from the film to support your position.
Paragraph No. 3 Who are you today? To establish a baseline profile for comparison for the next section, describe yourself. YOU NEED TO DESCRIBE IN DETAIL THE REAL, ACTUAL, YOU AS YOU ARE RIGHT NOW. Do not make this up. I need to know who you are, the real and actual you, before I can understand the changes you make.
IN BETWEEN Paragraph No. 3 and Paragraph No. 4, bullet-point and list the changes from at least 4 different categories on the list below (if you put four things about body configuration, for example: eye color, height, hair, IQ, mental/physical ability these only count as one because they are all from the same category)
John Griffin only changed his race. You can make changes from all 8 categories, if you like. You need to list the category and the specific change
Using this terminology, put your changes in a list that looks like this:
Change 1 (category) from what to what?
Change 2 (category) from what to what?
Change 3 (category) from what to what?
Change 4 (category) from what to what?
Examples: Change 1: Race, white to black (do not put light skin to dark, which could be a sun tan and is not acceptable you need to be racially specific)
Change 2: Body configuration, 55 to 65 (short to tall is not acceptable; be specific on the measurement of change or it wont count, and your grade will go down)
Pick at least 4 of these 8 political markers:
Race
Class
Gender/sexual orientation
Religion
Body configuration
Age
Political party
Immigration status
CONTINUE DOWN THE LIST FOR AT LEAST 4 CHANGES
Next, starting in paragraph three, after you have completed the minimum of four bullet-pointed changes. continue now in paragraph form and describe a 24-hour day in your new life. To get you started, think about these and other things:
Will you receive more respect from your family or less?
As you go about your day, will people in society give your more respect or less respect? Or the same?
Are you perceived to have more influence or less?
Are you perceived to have more leadership capabilities or less?
Where will you be welcome? Where will you not be welcome?
What relationships (family/friends/neighbors) might change?
How might a job interview go?
Would it be easier or more difficult to get a date?
Would it be easier or harder in your place of work?
Would shopping at the mall be different?
Or going out to a restaurant?
Or buying a car?
Or getting an apartment?
Or getting a taxi?
Or getting help if your car broke down?
Or getting assistance in a retail store?
Or you more or less likely to get pulled over in a car? Or no difference?
Will the changes you made be an overall socio-political advantage or a disadvantage? Explain why. You are, after all, the same person. Shouldnt the new you get the same treatment as the old you? If not, why not? Give lots of examples. Youre still you. From the time you get up and have breakfast to the time you brush your teeth and go to bed, what would change?
You must have a concluding paragraph that wraps up your 24-hour experience
THIS IS NOT A CREATIVE WRITING ASSIGNMENT
This exercise is designed to make you think of what life would be like if your political profile were suddenly different. On paper, you are following in John Griffins social/political footsteps. Just like the students in Jane Elliots class, you are the same person. You are still you on the inside. Only the perception of your exterior and the power and privilege it brings has changed.
Consider your life if you woke up tomorrow morning with:
A different ethnicity
A big change in your bank account (say a zero balance or a $1 million balance)
A different sex/gender (gay, straight, transgender, etc.)
A different religion (a new one, or becoming atheist, etc.)
A radical body change (i.e.: height, weight, disability, mega brain power, tattoos, etc.)
A significant change to your age (much older or younger)
A different party affiliation (Republican, Democrat, Tea Party, Communist, etc.)
What would your 24-hour experience be like? Would you like it, or hate it, or some of both?

Feature article about how covid 19 has affected everyone. For example people with low resources/ people’s mental health. Introduction- (use all of or a combination of a few of the following at the beginning of the article)- A shocking statement or statistic, a narrative that sounds like the beginning of a story, or a description of a scene, place, or situation. Body paragraphs- explain the situation, problem, or issue. Cite evidence and comment on the evidence (what does it mean? how do you interpret it? what does it show/ suggest/ prove?). weave in interviews if they are part of your research. Conclusion- what conclusion can you draw from all that you’ve read and learned? (use any combination of the following): refer back to the feature angle used in the lead, bringing the article full circle. use info from the paragraphs right before it and remind the reader of the story’s purpose by restating it. Use a play on words, alliteration, or a catchy phrase that leaves a lasting impression in the reader’s mind.

John Locke has been identified by surveillance video in the robberies
of several Subway restaurants. He is brought in for questioning, and
detectives conducting the interview are aware that he is a seasoned
criminal.
Based on the required reading, name and describe tactics used to develop rapport effectively during the interview.
Based on the article Developing Diagnostic, Evidence-Based Approaches to Interrogation, which of the approaches appear to be the best strategy for obtaining confession?
Link to article:
https://www-sciencedirect-com.csuglobal.idm.oclc.org/science/article/pii/S2211368116300651

Required: For each source, you need to write out a full APA bibliographical entry and write a brief 3-4 sentence overview of how the source helps to support your thesis.

For each source you need to discuss the following:
How will this source help to support your thesis?
How will you integrate the critical analysis of this source into your body?

Bibliography include a bibliography using proper APA formatting

Instructions
Although controversial art is not a topic exclusive to the 20th and 21st centuries, the distribution of information regarding controversial art has increased with the proliferation of media. Choose an example of a controversial work of art from the 20th or 21st centuries from any discipline of the humanities (music, literature, sculpture, film, television, etc.). Then, address the following:
Identify the work and the medium.
Based on your example, to what extent does this work of controversial art make a social contribution?
What aesthetic value does the work have? How does it reflect the human condition? How does it relate to your life?
Has this work ever been censored? If so, explain the circumstances.
Are governments ever justified in censoring art? Why or why not?
Examine some of the influences of this work of art.
Argue whether or not this work should be considered art. Explain why using terms learned in this course.
Include an accompanying statement from the artist(s) and a statement from a critic to support your points.
Writing Requirements (APA format)
Length: 1.5-2 pages (not including title page or references page)
1-inch margins
Double spaced
12-point Times New Roman font
Title page
References page (minimum of 1 scholarly source and 1 primary source)