Reflective Writing: Texas Legislative Branch, Redistricting, Campaigns and Elections under FederalismRequirements and Completion InstructionsWhen completing your essay, you must provide in-text citations for any work that is directly quoted or paraphrased. However, you do not need to put the direct citation next to each piece of information that you include in your chart. A bibliographic citations on your bibliography will suffice. When writing your essay, respond to the prompt thoroughly, and completely.Your response should be your own thoughts and analysis. Citations may be formatted in APA, MLA or Chicago style, as long as they are consistent throughout. Research and resources should be incorporated with scholarly application. I.e. used as examples or evidence to support your analysis. Make sure to use complete sentences, and proper grammar. Your response to the prompt should focus on analyzing the information you gather and use to complete the constitutional chart through application. Incorporate the information you gathered by using it to provide examples and support for your response to the prompt.Your analysis and essay must be at least 2 pages, in length. This does not include the bibliography. The bibliography should be incorporated, on a separate page, unless you are using Footnotes. You will upload your essay, and bibliography together, as a single file, to the designated link, in Eagle Online. File submissions accepted include .pdf, .doc, .dpcx files. Any other files, submitted, such as pages etc. will not be reviewed, and will automatically receive a grade of a zero, without re-submission.My expectations of a complete assignment are that information is organized clearly and in detail with specific examples. Quality is preferred to quantity.Prompt:Copy and paste the link below, to access and stream the movie The Big Buy: How Tom Delay Stole Congress, free online. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6rzv (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.Choose from one of the prompts below, to respond toThinking about federalism and the how power is distributed between multiple levels of government, including the federal and state level, identify current federal and Texas laws that regulate elections, such as those that provide for determining electoral processes, eligibility to participate in an election, selection methods, winning requirements, candidate qualifications, determining when and where election is held. Discuss inconsistencies and provide some possible examples to explain the potential effects these could have on electoral outcomes, of who is deemed winner, and ultimately achieving democratic representation of the appropriate people (constituents) who will be electorally linked and impacted by the winner of a political office.In your own opinion, is re-redistricting, before the decennial census, a crime, based on statutory and constitutional law? Or, given the nature and number of state level elections, across a wide geography made up of an extremely demographically heterogenous population, make it democratically necessary that re-mapping between census’s be a reserved power of the states, in order to maximize representative democracy. How could the remapping of Texas be applied to example and explain the state's Don't Mess With Texas, age old attitude, and individualistic political culture.How could you defend an argument that re-redistricting was not illegal, and how could you defend the argument that re-redistricting violated the Voting Rights Act. Despite, the Texas remapping controversy, should the federal judicial system be involved, in what Justice Felix Frankfurter called the "political thicket" of partisan redistricting? Especially, since the power to redistrict is a power reserved to for the state, and its people. If political gerrymandering is a problem, should its resolve be left to the voters, state by state, and jurisdiction by jurisdiction, or to the federal government (i.e. oversight, regulation, intervention, law...what do you think).

*Before completing this assignment, carefully and thoroughly read the Module One Essay Prompt. *This assignment must be submitted as a Microsoft Word document and formatted in Proper MLA Formatting (Times New Roman, 12 pt. font type, double-spaced, with appropriate heading information).In this assignment, you will be proposing the topic you wish to write about for the Module One Essay. Below is a small section of the essay prompt that explains what you may select as a topic.PURPOSE: The purpose of this assignment is to ensure that you have picked an appropriate topic that fits within the scope of this assignment. Often, students pick a topic that is too broad and would require a longer, more advanced essay than what is required in this module. Remember the importance of selecting a topic you have personal knowledge of and also a topic that is small enough that you can adequately and thoroughly discuss it within the essay length requirements. In your first essay, you will define the qualities necessary for a person to be a successful something--employee, boss, athlete, manicurist, teacher, student, pet owner, etc. You make this definition in your thesis sentence. Read through the full assignment to learn exactly how to write the essay. TOPIC CHOICE: You can choose what you want to write about, within the parameters of the topic. But you have to put it in the form of a thesis sentence that (1) identifies the successful type of person you are going to define and then (2) indicate the characteristics of that defined person. Here are some examples of thesis sentences: An effective and responsive teacher is respectful to students, reasonable, and demanding in a positive way.An exceptional nurse is compassionate, thorough, and knowledgeable.Employees are more likely to be successful working in jobs that allow them to be creative but also offer them a chance to serve others and grow personally.Satisfied partners build gratifying, enduring relationships based on mutual respect, a shared vision, and the ability to forgive and move forward after disagreements and challenges.HOW TO WRITE THE ASSIGNMENT:Minimum word length requirement: 250 words.Once you have selected a possible topic, please answer the following questions in complete sentences:Whom are you choosing to define? Why do you think your topic is important to define? What do you know already about the topic you selected, and/or what is your experience with the topic? (For example, if you decided to define the qualities of a successful concert pianist, what experience to do you have with this occupation that would enable you to speak knowledgeably about the topic?)What are some questions you have about your topic that you would need to research before writing the essay?Look at the thesis examples above, and write your own working thesis with three possible ways to define your topic.

Discussion: Your Personal Plan and Educational JourneyYou are coming to the end of your first course at Walden University and you are about to embark on a journey that will support and deepen your exploration of yourself, others, the world around you, as well as your chosen field of study. Are there any thoughts or reflections you want to share with your instructor or classmates as you begin the final week of this course? Feel free to use this space to interact with your fellow student travelers and congratulations on completing this crucial and important first step with us! As you read and consider the ideas in Sherman Alexie's essay Superman and me, think about your own potential contributions to your local community and to the global landscape.Alexie, S. (n.d.). Superman and me. Retrieved June 29, 2020, from https://umsl.edu/~alexanderjm/SupermanandMebyAlexi...By Day 3Post one or two paragraphs describing your reaction to Alexie’s memoir about learning to read and how he expresses his commitment to social change in his community. How is it the same or different from your own story of learning? Post an additional paragraph about your views on how technology frames our perspective. Comment on what you found the most or least surprising in the TEDTalk video on this subject.