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[summercomfort]

I'm so fucked for this test...

Sample question:

"The concept of equal opportunity has been a fundamental ideal of American democracy since it was proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence. Ever since, the proper role of government in ensuring equal rights and equality of opportunity has been a source of debate and contention in American life.
Using your knowledge of American democracy:

analyze one way in which the principles, structure, or process of government in the United States has fostered the ideal or equality; and

analyze one way in which the principles, structure, or process of government in the United States has restricted that same ideal"

I guess I can talk about the bill of rights promising the rights of trial to everyone, and the Constitutional power granted to people to elect the House of Representatives? And the fact that suffrage, until the various amendments, is left to the individual states. hmm...

Comments

[eptified.livejournal.com]

You can start simpler than that, with the basic principle of universal suffrage and equality under the law balanced against the garauntees of personal freedom which work against equality in the public sector. Then moving on to state's rights and how the federal enforcement of increasingly broad equality statutes have infringed people's right to self-determination. *loops off, brain chowdered*

I eagerly await your fifth post of the day.

[satyreyes.livejournal.com]

What a wonderful question :) You can talk about anything you want to, Sushu, since everything the US does ultimately traces back to giving people freedom (rare) or taking it away (e.g. making laws). What "freedom" is is dicey, of course, but you can hack it. For instace, say all you know about American government is that your divorcee mother made only $15,000 a year but didn't qualify for welfare because she was continuously employed. Now you can talk about how the principle of equal opportunity for all is expressed in part via the structure of the welfare system, the process of operation of which is complicated by the practical realities of the complex economic world of today.

[calligramme.livejournal.com]

If all else fails, you could talk about something cliched and easy like freedom of speech. (Under the constitution, everyone is given an equal right to voice his opinion, but the courts have placed some limits on this freedom by regulating speech that threatens public safety, like burning American flags, etc.)

[calligramme.livejournal.com]

P.S. Good luck on the test!

[sabvag.livejournal.com]

Suffrage and 3/5ths?

Don't sweat the test too much! From what I understand (which may be completely wrong,) they're looking for whether you can communicate information, not the nitty gritty details, cause that's what teaching is about.

don't worry...

[kitsuchan.livejournal.com]

If you can get As and Bs (even B-s) on UofC papers, you can fake your way through most standardized tests. Is this the citizenship test or the teacher test?

Either way, there are plenty of people who've passed both who you could write circles around. So don't assume you're in trouble, just keep studying.

[kimothy117.livejournal.com]

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