Student Press Law Assignment (Part 2)

Student Press Law Part II

Assignment/Activity Title— Student Press Law Assignment (Part 2)

Year— Sophomore

Skill— Research; Writing

Portfolio Category— Critical Reasoning          

For this project, we had to find an issue in a public (or private school) regarding first amendment rights being violated. We were given 12 categories, including ones like 'suspensions resulting in off-school behavior' and 'dress codes,' and asked to look on the Student Press Law Center (SPLC) website to find a recent case. Additionally, we were supposed to pick a public school if we could find one, since private school operate under different rules than public ones.

CAP Foreign Policy Congress

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Assignment/Activity Title— Foreign Policy Congress

Year— Sophomore

Skill— Research

Portfolio Category— Critical Reasoning

           For CAP foreign policy congress, I had to research and give my opinion on multiple foreign countries. These conflicts included Israel/Palestine, the Afghanistan War, Iranian nuclear development, the Syrian revolution, the Egyptian revolution, and the expansion of Russia into Ukrainian territory. We were given three days to research, and we met on Thursday and Friday to draft U.S. policy regarding the six given conflicts.

         

            Now, we got this assignment on Friday. Since these topics were interesting to me, I decided I was going to look at the issues before we got to school, just to get good background knowledge. I ended up forming very strong opinions on these issues, however, and actually some that surprised me. With the Syrian revolution, for example, I favored U.S. intervention – and while America is split on this specific issue, my views on it leaned towards the conservative side. This was surprising to me, because I'm generally a liberal on most other issues involving military intervention, civil rights and economic policy.