Modern Studies | USA essays

Question 1

What is the first essay?

Answer 1

DEMOCRATIC PARTICIPATION

Question 2

What is the brief layout of the democratic participation essay?

Answer 2

INTRODUCTION | VOTING | STANDING FOR ELECTION | PROTEST | JOINING A POLITICAL PARTY | OVERALL

Question 3

What is the detailed layout of the introduction to the democratic participation essay?

Answer 3

THREE BRANCHES | MANY WAYS AMERICANS CAN PARTICIPATE IN DEMOCRATIC PROCESS | AMERICANS CAN PARTICIPATE AND MOST EFFECTIVELY DONE THROUGH VOTING

Question 4

What are the three branches of government?

Answer 4

EXECUTIVE | LEGISLATIVE | JUDICIARY

Question 5

What are the ways Americans can participate in the democratic processes?

Answer 5

VOTING | STANDING FOR ELECTION | PROTESTING | JOINING A POLITICAL PARTY

Question 6

What elections can Americans vote in?

Answer 6

COUNTY | STATE | FEDERAL

Question 7

What positions can they vote for?

Answer 7

LOCAL JUDGE | DOG CATCHER | SHERIFF | GOVERNER | SENATOR | PRESIDENT

Question 8

In the 2024 election how many votes did Kamala Harris + Donald Trump have? And what was the turnout?

Answer 8

OVER 150 MILLION CITIZENS VOTED (64% TURNOUT) | 74 MILLION VOTES (48%) FOR KAMALA HARRIS | 76 MILLION VOTES (50%) FOR DONALD TRUMP

Question 9

How many Americans do not have voter ID?

Answer 9

7% (THIS IS HIGHER AMONG BLACK AND HISPANICS)

Question 10

What can US citizens attempt to become?

Answer 10

GOVERNER | SENATOR | PRESIDENT

Question 11

What are the “qualifications” needed to become President?

Answer 11

BORN IN USA | 35 YEARS OF AGE | AMERICAN CITIZEN FOR 14+ YEARS | NO TELLING LIES ABOUT OTHER CANDIDATES

Question 12

How much did Biden and Trump raise for the 2020 election campaign?

Answer 12

BIDEN = NEARLY $1.7 BILLION | TRUMP = $2 BILLION

Question 13

What is the first Amendment?

Answer 13

PROTECT US CITIZENS’ RIGHTS TO ASSEMBLE AND EXPRESS THEIR VIEWS THROUGH PROTEST

Question 14

How many people turned out in how many places across the United States in the June 6th BLM protests? And how many reported to have participated at some point?

Answer 14

HALF A MILLION TURNED OUT IN NEARLY 550 PLACES | BETWEEN 15 MILLION AND 26 MILLION PEOPLE PARTICIPATED AT SOME POINT

Question 15

What was the prosecution of Derek Chauvin?

Answer 15

22 YEARS FOR MURDER + 20 YEARS FOR VIOLATING GEORGE FLOYD’S CIVIL RIGHTS

Question 16

How many and which States have laws against the right to protest?

Answer 16

45 STATES AND FEDERAL GOVERNMENTS INTRODUCED AT LEAST 253 LEGISLATIONS SUPRESSING PROTESTS | 20 STATES WHICHH ACTIVELY SUPRESS THIS RIGHT (FLORIDA, OKLAHOMA, IOWA ETC.)

Question 17

How many members does the NRA have and how much money do they spend yearly?

Answer 17

PRESSURE GROUP | ALMOST 5 MILLION MEMBERS | ABOUT $3 MILLION YEARLY

Question 18

What parties are in the US to join and how many members do they have as of 2020?

Answer 18

GREEN PARTY = 240,222 | DEMOCRATIC PARTY = 47,106,084 | REPUBLICANS = 35,041,482

Question 19

What is the detailed layout of the overall to the democratic participation?

Answer 19

THERE ARE MANY WAYS FOR US CITIZENS TO TAKE PART IN THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESSES | MOST SIGNIFICANT WAY AMERICANS CAN TAKE PART IN THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS IS THROUGH THEIR RIGHT TO VOTE | THIS IS BECAUSE… ALTHOUGH THIS CAN BE IMPACTED BY… | ON THE OTHER HAND, STANDING FOR ELECTION IS THE MOST DIFFICULT WAY FOR AMERICANS TO TAKE PART IN THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS BECAUSE…

Question 20

What is the second essay?

Answer 20

IMPACT OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC INEQUALITY ON BLACK AMERICANS

Question 21

What is the brief layout of the impact of socio-economic inequality on black Americans essay?

Answer 21

INTRODUCTION | INCOME AND WEALTH | CRIME AND PUNISHMENT | EDUCATION | HEALTH | OVERALL

Question 22

What is the detailed layout of the introduction to the impact of socio-economic inequality on black Americans essay?

Answer 22

FACTORS | THIS ESSAY WILL ARGUE SOCIO-ECONOMIC INEQUALITIY SIGNIFICANTLY IMPACTS BLACK AMERICANS IN NEARLY EVERY ASPECT OF THEIR LIVES IN A NEGATIVE WAY

Question 23

What percentage of America is black compared to the percentage of prison population? And why?

Answer 23

BLACKS MAKE UP 40% OF US PRISON POPULATION | BLACKS ARE ONLY 13% OF THE US POPULATION | THIS IS BECAUSE AFRICAN AMERICANS ARE 5X MORE LIKELY TO GO TO PRISON FOR DRUG POSSESSION THAN WHITES + INNOCENT BLACK PEOPLE ARE 12X MORE LIKELY TO BE CONVICTED OF DRUG CRIMES THAN INNOCENT WHITE PEOPLE

Question 24

As of 2020 what is the median household income of both black families and white families?

Answer 24

BLACK FAMILIES = JUST OVER $41,000 | WHITE FAMILIES = MORE THAN $70,000 | THE NET WEALTH OF A BLACK FAMILY IS 1/10TH THAT OF A WHITE FAMILY

Question 25

What had the imprisonment rate for African Americans decreased by?

Answer 25

34% SINCE 2006 (1/3RD)

Question 26

In 2022, what was the national average, unemployment rate vs. the black unemployment rate?

Answer 26

NATIONAL = 3.6% | BLACK = 6.2%

Question 27

What is the high school drop out rate comparison between blacks and whites?

Answer 27

BLACK AMERICANS = 6% | WHITE AMERICANS = 4%

Question 28

What is the percentage of whites and blacks that finish their degrees?

Answer 28

BLACK AMERICANS = 46% | WHITE AMERICANS = 72%

Question 29

What is the life expectancies of whites and blacks? And what are blacks more likely to get?

Answer 29

BLACK AMERICANS = 70.8 YEARS | WHITE AMERICANS = 76.4 YEARS | BLACK AMERICANS ARE MORE LIKELY TO GET HEART DISEASES, STROKES, CANCER, ASTHMA, INFLUENZA, PNEUMONIA, DIABETES + HIV/AIDS

Question 30

How much has Obamacare helped with insurance?

Answer 30

11% OF BLACK PEOPLE ARE STILL UNINSURED | 7% OF WHITE PEOPLE ARE STILL UNINSURED

Question 31

What is the detailed layout of the overall to the impacts of socio-economic inequality on black Americans essay?

Answer 31

BLACK AMERICANS ARE SIGNIFICANTLY IMPACTED BY SOCIO-ECONOMIC INEQUALITIES | MOST IMPACTED BY INCOME AND WEALTH | BECAUSE... | ON THE OTHER HAND, ALTHOUGH BLACK AMERICANS SUFFER INEQUALITY WHE IT COMES TO EDUCATION OTHERS EXPERIENCE IT WORSE (HISPANICS HAVE A DROP-OUT RATE OF 8%) | IN CONCLUSION, BLACK AMERICANS ARE SIGNIFICANTLY IMPACTED BY SOCIO-ECONOMIC INEQUALITIES

Question 32

What is the third essay?

Answer 32

EFFECTIVENESS OF GOVERNMENT RESPONSES TO SOCIO-ECONOMIC INEQUALITIES

Question 33

What is the brief layout of the effectiveness of government responses to socio-economic inequalities essay?

Answer 33

INTRODUCTION | AFFORDABLE CARE ACT (OBAMACARE) | FIRST STEPS ACT 2018 (FSA) | TEMPORARY ASSISTANCE FOR NEEDY FAMILIES (TANF) | EVERY STUDENT SUCCEEDS ACT (ESSA) | OVERALL

Question 34

What is the detailed layout of the introduction to the effectiveness of government responses to socio-economic inequalities essay?

Answer 34

FACTORS | THIS ESSAY WILL ARGUE THAT THE USA HAS ONLY TACKLED INEQUALITY TO A SMALL EXTENT, SOME HAVE SEEN SUCCESS, BUT MOST HAVE BEEN RELATIVELY INEFFECTIVE

Question 35

When was the Affordable Care Act introduced? And what was its aim?

Answer 35

INTRODUCED IN 2010 | REDUCE LEVELS OF HEALTH INEQUALITIES

Question 36

How many people never had health insurance before (due to it being unaffordable) Obamacare compared to after?

Answer 36

48 MILLION BEFORE | JUST UNDER 30 MILLION AFTER | DECREASING FROM 16% - 9%

Question 37

How much was advertising reduced by?

Answer 37

90% (alongside a reduce spending on women's health)

Question 38

What percentage of those who have received sentence reductions are black? And who was the first?

Answer 38

90% | MATTHEW CHARLES (HAD A 35 YEAR SENTENCE)

Question 39

How many major cities have broken annual homicide records in 2021?

Answer 39

AT LEAST 12

Question 40

In 2020 how many families per 100 received TANF assistance?

Answer 40

21 | PREVIOUSLY 68 IN 1996

Question 41

How long can TANF be used?

Answer 41

24 MONTHS

Question 42

How much did Trump reduce TANF in his previous term?

Answer 42

$21 BILLION

Question 43

When was the Every Student Succeeds Act introduced? And what was its aim?

Answer 43

2015 | AIMED TO TACKLE EDUCATIONAL INEQUALITIES

Question 44

What is the detailed layout of the overall to the effectiveness of government responses to socio-economic inequalities essay?

Answer 44

THE US GOVERNMENT HAS PASSED A NUMBER OF LAWS TO TACKLE SOCIO-ECONOMIC INEQUALITIES | THESE HAVE BEEN EFFECTIVE TO A SMALL EXTENT | EFFECTIVE = OBAMACARE | BECAUSE... | INEFFECTIVE = TANF | BECAUSE...

Question 45

What is the fourth essay?

Answer 45

POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS AND THEIR ABILITY TO DOMIINATE GOVERNMENT DECISION MAKING

Question 46

What is the brief layout of the political institutions and their ability to dominate government decision-making essay?

Answer 46

INTRODUCTION | EXECUTIVE | LEGISLATIVE | JUDICIAL | STATE GOVERNMENTS | CONCLUSION

Question 47

What is the detailed introduction of the political institutions and their ability to dominate government decision-making essay?

Answer 47

FACTORS

Question 48

How many executive orders has Trump signed? Give an example

Answer 48

MORE THAN 70 AS OF FEBRUARY 20TH 2025 | THE MOST A PRESIDENT HAS DONE WITHIN 100 DAYS IN MORE THAN 40 YEARS | HE SIGNED A TIKTOK 75-DAY EXTENSION IN JANUARY 2025

Question 49

What is one example of something that congress has blocked from Trump?

Answer 49

THE REPEAL OF OBAMACARE | HE VETOED THEIR BLOCK OF USING MILITARY FUNDING FOR HIS WALL

Question 50

What did the judges of the supreme court say about Trump?

Answer 50

"PRESIDENT TRUMP MAY BELIEVE THAT HE IS ABOVE THE LAW, BUT TODAY'S PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION SENDS A CLEAR MESSAGE: HE IS NOT A KING, AND HE CANNOT REWRITE THE CONSTITUTION WITH A STROKE OF A PEN."

Question 51

How many states have banned or limited access to abortions?

Answer 51

19

Question 52

What is the detailed conclusion of the political institutions and their ability to dominate government decision-making essay?

Answer 52

NO SINGLE INSTITUTION HAS CONTROL | GOVERNMENT DECISION-MAKING IS A COMPLEX PROCESS