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200: What two financial aid programs are NON-means tested?
Social Security and Medicare
400: Which President signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act that ended the AFDC and list one other thing the act did?
Bill Clinton, Gave states more repsponsiblity for providing cash assistance to low-income families, placed limits on how long people can receive federally financed aid, Imposed stricter work requirements on non-aged, non disabled recipients of food stamps and cash assistance
500: In 1994, How many women on AFDC had been widowed or divorced?
¼
300: Describe the Servant/Master dynamic in England, France, and America
English treat servants with extreme haughtiness, French with Extreme Familiarity, Americans are in between
100: What was the ruling in Johnson v. Transportation
Supreme Court found that the Agency appropriately considered gender when hiring Diane Joyce over Johnson because it was a case-by-case basis
400: What were the 3 clubs mentioned when we talked about adult entertainment in Georgia?
The Taj Mahal, Boomers, and the Cyprus Lounge
100: According to Gerald Early, Americans will be known for what 3 things?
The constitution, Baseball, and Jazz
300: What is the minimum quota for a national sample of adults to include?
60% cellphone respondents and 40% landline respondents
500: Name America’s 4 Self-made Heroes
Benjamin Franklin, John D. Rockefeller, Ray Kroc, Thomas Edison
100: What are the 2 fundamental dilemmas that determine political thinking?
To what degree will the state involve itself in the economy and To what degree will the state involve itself in restricting or maintaining the personal freedoms of its citizens
500: What is the Philosophic Method of the US?
Escape spirit of system, Escape the yoke of habits, Escape family maxims, escape class opinion, ignore tradition, to be interested only in results
500: What are the 3 reasons for Muslim Power fading?
1) Successive stages of military defeats 2) Invasion of foreign ideas 3) Challenge to master in his own house: emancipated women/rebellious children, etc…
300: Name 4 of the 8 Qualities of a leader as found in Moran’d military booklet
Expertise, Integrity, Effective Communication, Friendliness, Ambition, Vision, innovation, command Presence
200: How is poverty defined?
3 times the cost of a minimally nutritious diet for a given number of people over a given period
300: Q: According to Miller v. California (1973), Material is obscene if…
1) its predominate theme is prurient according to the sensibilities of an average person of the community, 2) it depicts sexual conduct in a patently offensive way, and 3) lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.
200: What percentage of Americans think Poverty has been going up?
65%
400: Why was Paula Jones’ sexual harrassment suit asignst Bill Clinton thrown out?
1) there had been no sexual assault 2) Jones’ career had not suffered as a result of this 3) No emotional “outrage” (she had not sought counseling)
100: What are the three main factors that influence the accuracy of a sample?
1) Random Sampling 2) Size of the sample 3) Amount of variation in the population
200: Which founding father (that many other countries respected) did Tocqueville NOT mention?
Ben Franklin
500: What is the difference between the Wilsonian Vision vs. Rooseveltian?
International institutions and universal norms vs. the US acting alone as a great power
300: What 4 things can save America from being lobsters in a pot?
Associations, Mores(religion), Press, Judicial Power (and Lawyers)
200: Who wrote “The Roots of Muslim Rage”
Bernard Lewis
400:What 4 qualities are attributed to Individualism (2 good, 2 bad)
Equality and Freedom, Isolation and Distrust
100: What are the two reasons the 2016 Pre-Election polls were so wrong?
“shy” voters for Trump and Non-response bias
400: What are three modern attributes of Human Nature?
Meaning, Social Creatures, Polarization (associations lead to politics)