Describe one cost of using each of the following energy sources: oil, natural gas, coal, and nuclear power.
What will be an ideal response?
Answers include the following: Most oil is imported, making the United States rely on foreign governments. Natural gas is limited and not a long-term solution. Extraction of coal creates environmental problems, such as landscape degradation by strip mining. Waste from nuclear power plants has a large half-life and is dangerous.
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The Framers accepted the proposition that, unlike the bicameral legislature, the executive would contain none of the internal checks provided by institutional design or factions by rejecting the idea of a plural executive.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
What effect did the events surrounding the Vietnam War and Watergate have on the news media and their relationship to politics and the American people? Assess whether this was a good development
What will be an ideal response?
Researchers studying campaigns stress that campaigns have what three effects on voters?
a. selection, application, and alteration b. reinforcement, alteration, and adaptation c. activation, fortification, and collection d. reinforcement, activation, and conversion e. conversion, alteration, and revision
The news media's common-carrier role is based on the idea that
A. the press should not charge for public service announcements. B. the press should be patriotic in the reporting of the news. C. the news will be available to all citizens. D. various news organizations should interpret the news in nearly the same way. E. the press should provide a channel through which political leaders can communicate their views to the public.