An Anthology of Ayn Rand Writings(you must do all of this if it is your choice)

find the link to US Supreme Court cases

You will be shown several ways to find cases; try several of them

You may also google any case and one of the hits will be the actual text of the decision.

Prepare a paper which includes the following:

1) The name of the case
2) The date it was decided by the Supreme Court
3) The facts of the case
4) The issue being decided
5) The decision of the court
6) The legal reasoning behind the case
7) The justice who wrote the decision
8) The vote
9) The concurring and dissenting decisions
10) Indicate whether the decision is still law of if it has been overturned

(one of these should be submitted each month of the term by email- the order in which you do them does not matter)

Locate the official website of the United States Congress

Identify each of the following:

Speaker of the House

Majority Leader of the House

Majority Whip of the House

Minority Leader of the House

Minority Whip of the House

the number of members who are Republicans

the number of members who are Democrats

the name of the member of Congress whose district you live in

and the committees that member serves on in the Congress

(look at the state district map at

President of the Senate

President pro temp of the Senate

Majority Leader of the Senate

Minority Leader of the Senate

the Florida members of the U.S. Senate and their party affiliation

Which Florida House District do you live in, and what is the name of the Representative

elected from that district?

Which Florida Senate District do you live in, and what is the name of the Representative

elected from that district?

a) click on 'other offices'

list five of the agencies of the Executive Office of the President

tell one duty of each

name the current official serving in that position

b) click on Cabinet

name each department, one duty of each, and the current head of each

c) click on Federal Agencies and Commissions

list five independent regulatory commissions

five government corporations

five executive/administrative agencies

(and identify the primary task of each)

Find each of the following on line:

Newsmax.com

The Drudge Report

World Net Daily

Rush Limbaugh.com

Fox news network

Forbes.com

Write a one paragraph description of each to an email which you send to instructor at

Project 4) Elections/FEC

what does it tell you about campaign finance reports and data?

what does it tell you about reporting and compliance?

what agency is this webpage?

what kinds of information could you learn from this webpage?

Class Participation

You will receive a grade based on two factors, your preparation and participation
in class activities and discussions. This will be primarily structured around your
attendance at class sessions and your ability to maintain proper decorum in that
setting. There is a strong statistical correlation of attendance, preparation,
and participation with grades which students earn, and this grade is also intended
to reinforce the practicality of regularly being in class. It is often not possible to make
up work that is missed in a class built around discussion. While the instructor will
work with the student who may have to miss a session, that should be avoided
to as great an extent as possible. Students must be courteous in the usage of

their computers and other electronic devices during class. Laptops are not to be

used for non-class related activities during class time.

About Your Instructor

Ron Ziegler taught high school in Detroit, Michigan from 1967 until his retirement
in 1999. During those years, he also taught adult education classes with the
Cass Outreach program, and Kettering, Hazel Park, and Monroe/Bedford adult ed programs.

Since 1982, he has taught political science, history, and economics
at Detroit College of Business/Davenport College, Wayne State University,
Macomb Community College, Monroe Community College, Florida Metropolitan
University, Keiser University, and Valencia Community College.

He earned his Bachelors degree in education and political science from Wayne State University in Detroit in 1968, where he also was awarded a Masters degree in political science in 1980. He
completed work on his PhD in political science and history there as well. He lives
with his three children, Alexander, 21, Sarah, 19, and Kalani, 16, in Kissimmee, to which they relocated following his retirement on thirty plus years of teaching with the Detroit Board of Education and following the passing of his wife in 1998.

Intellectual Honesty and Integrity

It is absolutely essential that each student maintain the highest standards
of scholastic integrity. That does not mean that students should not or may
not work together on some of their work in this class, but what is finally submitted
must be your own effort. Anything else is unacceptable. Any assignment on which
such standards are found to have been breached will be assigned a failing grade
without recourse of altering that grade. Plagiarism is unacceptable.