Chose two of the four prompts below and respond to them separately. Make sure to clearly indicate which prompts you are responding to. Your responses should be a combined length of 3-5 pages. Please submit your exam as a DOCX or PDF file. You are encouraged to argue in your own voice and to express your own views, but you must always offer support for your claims and arguments. Be sure to include a bibliography (works cited page) at the end of your paper, and your citations should be consistent with a common format of your choosing (Chicago Style, MLA, APA). Prompts (choose two):
1. In their article “Concentration and Commodification,” Ansell and Gingrich address two forms of growing inequality in the US: income inequality and regional inequality. How has the shift from an industrial to a postindustrial economy (and the changes in work associated with it) impacted both forms of inequality? Is the growth of these two forms of inequality inevitable?
2. How have the Republican and Democratic parties changed over the past few decades? What issues are these parties facing as a result of factors such as their structure, policies/strategies, internal conflicts and demographic trends among their bases of support
? 3. What is the War on Terror? Where has it been fought?
Who has been targeted? What are its results so far? How has it affected both the US and countries such as Afghanistan since 2001? 4. Is the US an empire in decline? Why or why not?
What are the major challenges facing American hegemony in the world today? Your exam will be evaluated according to three basic criteria:
(a) effective engagement with and use of appropriate sources for support;
(b) the clarity of your argument and a complete response to each part of the prompt;
(c) and the clarity of your writing and proper use of terms and concepts related to the course
