Blogging Schedule updated

Blogging Schedule

Here is our blogging schedule.  Because of some short weeks and holidays I had to double some people up.  Please plan accordingly.

Week 1 Oct 5 -9  Tyra C
Week 2 Oct 12-16  Jayda A
Week 3 Oct 19-23  Kaylin B
Week 4 Oct 26-30 Morgan D and Nicole T
Week 5 Nov 2-6 Nick D
Week 6 Nov 16-20 Chris G
Week 7 Nov 23-27 Shauna Hand Alex W
Week 8 Nov 30- Dec 4  Alysha H
Week 9 Dec 7-Dec 11 Chloe H
Week 10 Dec 14-Dec 18 Orzalo J
Week 11 Jan 4- Jan 8  Kearra L
Week 12 Jan 11- Jan 15  Aisha Z
Week 13 Jan 18- Jan 22 Kallie L
Week 14 Feb 1-Feb 5 Brittany L and Marokh Z
Week 15 Feb 22-25 Shivam P
Week 16 Feb 29-Mar4 Alexes R Alysha
Week 17 Mar 7- Mar11 Caden S and Easton L
Week 18 Mar 14- Mar 18 Kristina S Chloe
Week 19 Mar 21-Mar 23 Kalena S
Week 20 Apr 4- Apr 8 Aly S

Let me know ASAP if something needs to be resceduled.

Week 14: Feb 1-Feb 5

Is Liberalism a viable ideology?

Lecture/Discussion

Viable:  Practical/ Reasonable/ Realistic/ Attainable.

(Principles of liberalism: Individual rights & freedoms; democracy; free market)

• Recall what happens when liberalism is imposed onto others.

How does Government know what people want? 

→ Voting, economy, suggestions, protests.

• Are societal issues such as : Freedom VS Security, police abuse of power, environmental issues; being properly attended to  by a Liberal society?  

• Is the government serving or leading the people? ← (Important to consider when determining the viability of a liberal ideology.)

Parts of the essay. ASSIGNMENT

• When analyzing the source for an essay you should include in your paragraph:
• Identification of the source's main message
• Context of the source (Who? What? Why? When?)
• Discuss who would agree or disagree with the source Why? or why not?

LECTURE/ DISCUSSION

       Elements of a Democracy ⬅ Important to understand

• A political system used for choosing or replacing the current  government through Free and Fair elections.
• The active participation of the people as citizens in political and civic life

• Important to recall democracies stand for the protection of all human rights and  rule of law (to which the laws apply equally to all citizens).

• Rule of law: Precautions set to ensure there is not abuse of power by limiting everyone in society to well-defined and established laws.

How do democracies work in Canada?

EXECUTIVE (PRIME MINISTER)                  

                         ⬇

LEGISLATIVE(House of Commons)

                         ⬇    

JUDICIAL (Supreme court of Canada)

Canada's election process follows a strict code involving: All following under the Canadian Constitution and obeying Canadian rule of law.

-Independent election departments

-Secrets ballots

-Campaign spending laws

-Regular election policies (every 5 years)

-Representative government and the right for any citizen to vote.

Part of the essay. ASSIGNMENT

Part of the essay- Argumentation

When creating an argument in an essay you should include:

-Establishment of personal position (opinion)

-Development of 1+ arguments based on logic and reason  (main content)

-Creation of relationships between Positions, argumentative context and the ideological perspective identified in the source.  (connections to every idea in your essay, make sure not to include random, unimportant outliers!)

Introduction to Quiz Assignment:

‘’Men learn while they teach’’ -Lucius Seneca

Following the wisdom of Seneca, we created a quiz based on the information in Chapter 10. The quiz we created dealt with the following concepts:

Principles of Liberalism in Direct Democracy

• Canada’s Parliamentary Democracy
• United States Republican Democracy
• Proportional Representation
• Challenges to the will of the will of the people(voting apathy)

• Voter Turnout
• Elitism
• Lobbying/Special Interest Groups

• Referendum- A general vote by the electorate on a single political question that has been referred to them for a direct decision.

• Most common in Canada
• Always ruled by 50%+ 1 (Majority)

Additional Resources

January 19-22 end of cold war and imposing liberalism

How did the Cold War end?

Ronald Reagan                  vs.                       Mikhail Gorbachev

                          (conservative)                                     (last communist leader in Russia)

                                

Ronald spent a lot of money of arms for the United States which eventually led them into debt.

Russia had a stagnant economy. Mikhail implemented reforms that split up into two categories: Glasnost and Perestroika.

Overall, the US outspent the USSR.

Imposing Liberalism = Forcing Freedom

Reasons for Imposing Liberalism:

• Self- interest eg. 9/11
• Humanitarianism eg. Countries sometimes feel morally obligated to intervene in another country in cases such as, Genocide, Oppression, Human Rights Abuses, Crisis, Extreme Human Suffering.etc

Imposing Liberalism on Iraq:

• Invading Afghanistan, removing Taliban government who trained 9/11 attackers.
• In 2003, Iraq is targeted for ‘regime change’. Iraq’s dictator Saddam Hussein was seen as a threat to the US so a preemptive strike was ordered. A liberal democracy would be established.
• A democratic system was put into place in Iraq.
• US faced setbacks eg. Prisoner abuse and torture
• Resistance in Iraq led to instability (ethnic violence)

Exporting a Liberal Democracy has economic benefits. There has never been a war between a liberal democracy and a liberal democracy.