What is Socialism? Has it proved itself a feasible economic and political system in both the past and present? Argue and explain.

Exam 3
Exam III-Final Exam Questions

III. Essay Topics: chose one topic / question from the list below to answer in your essay (5-8 pages).

I. Directions: Please complete a 5-10 essay response for any one of the following topics. Do use lecture notes, scholarly books and articles as well as documents for supportive data (100 points each).An additional response may be completed for 20 points additional credit for the semester grade.

1. What is Socialism? Has it proved itself a feasible economic and political system in both the past and present? Argue and explain. Are present day Social Democratic countries success stories regarding a commendable quality of life as well as strong economic input and output? Explain and give examples.

2. What is Marxism? How is it similar as well as different from Socialism? Illustrate and explain the effects of Marxism worldwide in both the past and present.

3. How and why is California important to both the U.S. and global economies? Explain the strengths and weaknesses of the said American state’s economic, political, and social systems.

4. Who was Joseph Schumpeter? What did he believe? How has his philosophy influenced modern day political economy? Explain.

5. What is Globalisation? Is it positive, negative or a bit of both for the world economy? Argue and defend your point.

Format
• Title page
• Double-spaced, 12 fonts , Times New Roman
• 5-8 pages per essay topic; 10 – 12 paragraphs
• Total of 10 – 16 pages for both essays topic
• First paragraph is introduction; needs to have a thesis statement
o Ideally 1, but up to 2-3 sentences for the thesis statement
o Thesis ought to be in the middle of the paragraph
• 1 – 2 sentences leading to thesis
• 2 – 3 sentences after thesis; explain what you further hope to illustrate – give insight to what you hope to talk about at the end of the paper
• The next 5 – 6 paragraphs should include primary source data
o Close w/ personal analysis
• The next 8 – 10 paragraphs must be strictly secondary sources
o Scholarly books/articles, lecture notes, textbook
• Conclude with 1 -2 closing synthetic paragraphs
o Make final comments about everything you’ve analyzed
• 5 – 7 paragraphs, must include information from class lectures; 5 – 7 must also include textbook data. Ideally, keep these sets of paragraphs separate.
o 5 – 7 paragraphs of textbook/scholarly info + 5 – 7 paragraphs of lecture/scholarly info
• Every paragraph must have analysis sentences; 5 -6 sentences of your own personal analysis
• This holds for both primary and secondary source data

Sources
• Each paragraph must contain information from a variety of sources
o Don’t use too much general information
o The main type of information in secondary sources paragraphs is information from scholarly books/articles and journals
• Use scholarly books/articles by economists, political philosophers, geographers, historians, and information from class lectures
o Minimum of 5 scholarly books, maximum of 8
• Use excerpts from books
• Don’t use same books on different essays
• Newspaper columns, articles and editorials by scholars
o 3 – 5 articles
• Keep primary sources at front of paper
• Secondary sources = books, articles, lectures notes
o Minimum secondary = lecture notes
o Scholarly secondary = books/articles
• Primary sources are first hand, raw data
o Scientific data
o IE a report on the economy by the Treasury, graphs on the GDP, charts – include these images in your paper
Footnotes
• Turabian style (what’s known as Chicago citation style)
• Stop at the end of last sentence, select footnote from Insert tab[1]
• Footnote everything that is not 1) common sense 2) your own ideas/ opinions
• First sentence must be indented
• You may need to use info from the same source more than once in the same part of paper (ie, three sentences at the end of one and beginning of next paragraph use same source)
o In this case, use IBID
• IE: (sentence 1)[2] (sen 2)[3] (sen 3)
• Only use when same source is used in consecutive sentences
Sources
• From a book: first and last name of author, Title, Place of publishing: pg #
• From a magazine/newspaper: First and last name/pseudonym of author, “Title of Article”, Name of Periodical: Place of publishing, Month Date, Year, page number
o example:
Schumpeter, “The 21st Century Currency Wars”, The Economist: London, August 24th-30th, 2014, p.75
Thomas Friedman, “The New Middle Eastern Currecny”, The New York Times: New York, June 18th, 2003, pg. 18
• From documents: Source of document (ie company, organization), Name of Document, Date
The British East India Company, 14 March, 1745 Tea Sales Record in London, 1745.
• The United States Federal Reserve, Government Bond Purchases, Summer 2010, [2010].

How to footnote Graphs:
The world trade originations, Graph from WTO report regarding Chinese currency manipulation, 2009,11. Geneva, Switzerland, December 9, 2011. P.89.

For info from the USA Department of treasury:
The US Department of treasury, Report on US Exports: 1935, Washigton D.C, November 17,1935, P.345.

And here how to footnote class notes:
W. Seay, “The Origins of political Economy” ECON101/ INTL102, Virginia Commonwealth University, September 15,2015.

Here is a website where you can read more about how to footnote in Chicago style:

https://www.ivcc.edu/stylebooks/stylebook5.aspx?id=14646

Hi there,

This assignment is for my International Political Economy
Class, I want from you to write the paper following the professor instructions below:

Here are the instructions from the professor:
Instructions of the exams

• For this exam you only choosing one question from the list (EXAM TOPICS)
• To answer the question, you need to follow the instructions bellow
• Answering the question that you chose should be from (5 to 8 pages)
• So the total should be about (10 to 15 pages) for the both questions
• The key important thing is using a footnote and using the lectures notes
• The textbook that we use is (Oatley, Thomas International Political Economy: 5th Edition.
• The Instructor:
W. Seay, “The Origins of political Economy”
ECON 101:Virginia Commonwealth University

The instructions of exam:

1- Introduction
The introduction should have the theses statement ( one sentence) no longer that 2 sentence.

2- each paragraph in the Body needs to have closing sentences with your analysis (from 5-8 sentences).

Exams in your response exams

Sources
1- the primarily sources data should be from
• 5 paragraphs from the lecture notes
• 5 paragraphs from the text book
• 5 paragraphs from scholarly books
• 5 paragraphs from scholarly articles

2- the secondary resources data from
• Magazine, newspaper and journals

3- use one of two graph

***NOTE THAT ALL DATA SHOULD BE FOOTENOTED AND ALSO THE DATA FROM LECTURES NOTE AND TEXTBOOK NOTES SHOULD ALSO FOOTNOTED.

Exam Completion: This information is from the syllabus

1-ALL EXAMINATIONS WILL BE RESEARCH BASED AND MUST CONTAIN DATA FROM SCHOLARLY BOOKS AND ARTICLES, DOCUMENTS, CLASS LECTURE NOTES AS WELL AS MAPPING ACTIVITIES.

2. STUDENT S WILL BE GIVEN AN ESSAY TOPICAL GUIDE FOR EACH OF THE THREE EXAMS

3. EACH RESPONSE IS TO BE 5-8 PAGE, TYPED, AND DOUBLE SPACED. DATA FROM CLASS LECTURES AS WELL AS THE TEXT ARE TO BE USED*****HOWEVER, STUDENTS MUST FOOTNOTE AT LEAST THREE BITS OF DATA FROM THREE SCHOLARLY SOURCES (THREE BOOKS OR TWO BOOKS AND ONE ARTICLE) TO PROVE THEY HAVE MADE THIS EXAM ASSIGNMENT ONE THAT IS RESEARCH BASED. THE PROFESSOR WILL ALSO RECOMMEND VARIOUS SCHOLARLY BOOKS CONCERNING IPE THAT STUDENTS SHOULD REFERENCE. YET PUPILS MAY USE BOOK SOURCES INDEPENDENT OF WHAT IS RECOMMENDED. *** DO NOT, HOWEVER, USE ONLY ONLINE ARTICLES. THIS WILL NOT MAKE FOR AN ACCEPTABLE EXAM.

**TWO OR THREE ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL DOCUMENTS MAY BE USED ALONG WITH OR IN PLACE OF ARTICLES. THE MORE DIVERSE THE RESEARCH, THE HIGHER THE GRADE A STUDENT MAY RECEIVE.

*** You are not allowed to use the following databases: Wikipedia, Secopedia, and any website similar to it.

4. AT LEAST 10-15 PARAGRAPHS IN EACH EXAM ESSAY SHOULD DERIVE FROM THE LECTURE AND MAP NOTES WHILST A REMAINING 10-15 PARAGRAPHS ARE TO BE BASED UPON SCHOLARLY SOURCE RESEARCH (BOOKS AND ARTICLES BY ECONOMISTS, GEOGRAPHERS, POLITICAL SCIENTISTS AND HISTORIANS AS WELL AS DOCUMENTS).
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I will attach the following:
– The exam topics.
– The format.
– The class note that I have.

In case you don’t have any access to the course book (Oatley, Thomas International Political Economy: 5th Edition) Here is a Google drive links where you will have access to the chapters that we have to use to write this essay exam.
Here is the links:
(Ch.5)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5PHEmJoUd4jeHRKaHo2MkhzRVU/view?usp=sharing

(Ch.6)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5PHEmJoUd4jSGRYZ1VDSUU3R2M/view?usp=sharing

(Ch.7)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5PHEmJoUd4jcEV4emFwSnREWTQ/view?usp=sharing

(Ch.8)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5PHEmJoUd4jbXpyRjh0RE5qck0/view?usp=sharing

• All reports will use Times New Roman font, 12 pitch and double line spacing.

**This will be checked on Safe assign, and multiple databases to prevent plagiarism. Please be careful**

I hope this is everything that you need. Please let me know if you need anything.

Thanks for your help!!