Mid-Term Question: Individual and Society: 2000 Summer
Bahamas
Please answer any one question from the list below.
This essay is to be three pages in length.
1. How does the ideology of the Declaration of Independence relate to the reality of American life?
2. Discuss the leadership of Lenin and Stalin.
3. Are the ideas expounded by the Supreme in the case of Plessy v. Fegusson or the case of Brown v. Board of Education more consistent with American ideology?
4. How does slavery fit in with American ideology?
5. Marx believed that the economic structure of a nation will
dictate all others. Discuss.
6. Discuss the ideas that Karl Marx postulates in the Communist Manifesto as they relate to the relationship between society,
history, and law?
7. Compare and contrast the ideology of the Communist Manifesto with the ideology of the Declaration of Independence.
8. Discuss the case of Brown v. Board of Education.
9. Discuss the case of Plessy v. Fegusson.
10. Discuss the plight of political prisoners in Stalinist
Russia.
11. Using documents, discuss what are the essential features of
the American ideology.
12. Using quotes from key documents, discuss the essential features of Communist ideology.