Thursday, November 4, 2010

Are You Liberal or Conservative?


Follow the links below to two quizzes that will help you determine if you are liberal or conservative and where you fall on the spectrum:

When you finish taking the quizzes, make a list of three characteristics of your results that you agree with and two that you disagree with and explain why.

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Cabinet Assignment

Here are some resources for researching your Cabinet position:

The President's Cabinet Departments can be individually accessed via the Internet through the following homepages:
The President's Cabinet:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/government/cabinet.html
Department of Agriculture:
http://www.usda.gov/
Department of Commerce:
http://www.doc.gov/
Department of Defense:
http://www.defenselink.mil/
Department of Education:
http://www.ed.gov/
Department of Energy:
http://www.energy.gov/
Department of Health and Human Services:
http://www.os.dhhs.gov/
Department of Housing and Urban Development:
http://www.hud.gov/
Department of the Interior:
http://www.doi.gov/
Department of Justice:
http://www.usdoj.gov
Department of State:
http://www.state.gov/
Department of Transportation:
http://www.dot.gov/
Department of the Treasury:
http://www.ustreas.gov/
Department of Veterans Affairs:
http://www.va.gov/
Department of Homeland Security:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/deptofhomeland/

The White House and related executive Internet sites are as follows:
Welcome to the White House:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/
White House Press Releases:
http://sunsite.unc.edu/white-house/white-house.html
The White House: President, First Lady, Vice President, Second Lady
http://www.whitehouse.gov
The United Nations can be reached at:
http://www.un.org

Current news stories on events dealing with the executive branch can be reached through an Internet search and news services.

Examples of Other Resources :
-Daily newspapers and news magazines
-Library news services like Newsbank, which collect news stories from hundreds of news papers across the nation have search tools to find stories on related subjects from across the nation's newspapers.
-Daily news casts on commercial television, cable networks, C-Span and public radio/television news/public affairs programs are also important sources of information.

Welcome

Welcome to the ICSB Civics Class blog! I hope this site will be helpful throughout the semester as we explore government. We will use this blog for information on lessons, discussion and more. If you ever have questions, you can email me at kberliner@icsbudapest.org.