President Trump’s Address on Immigration/ Amazon coming to towns
President Trump’s Address on Immigration/ Amazon coming to towns
These are two separate questions, but they are for the same final. Please read each question carefully and answer accordingly. There are articles attached that have to do with each one. I don’t care how many sources are used. The whole thing total needs to be about 6 pages long. So about 3 pages for the first question and about 3 for the second question. Again, the questions are not related to each other and I will attach articles about each one. Question 1: On Halloween (which took place five days before the 2018 elections) President Trump gave an address on immigration. By the next day, reputable fact-check organizations had assessed the empirical accuracy of the claims he made. I have attached a copy of the address, which includes links to one fact-check group, and a second fact-check. For the purpose of this question, assume that the fact-checks are accurate. Given what you know about the history of attitudes about immigration among Americans, explain why the claims he made were persuasive among many citizens and voters. Then explain why they were still persuasive among those citizens/voters even after the fact-checkers had rejected the accuracy (“truth,” “alternate truth,” “truthiness,” etc.) of those claims. Question 2: At the beginning of the semester we watch a film about Walmart’s “invasion” of small-town America. One segment of the film focused on the processes through which policymakers not only allowed the invasion, they invited/supported it with tax breaks, spending on infrastructure (paid for by non-Walmart taxpayers), and so on. In general, research on these strategies indicates that they only very rarely pay off—that in the long term, and even in the short term, they harm a community and its funding more than they help. Recently, many major cities competed with one another to bring Walmart’s greatest competitor, amazon.com, to town, using many of the same strategies. But, some refused to provide the kind of incentives that were decried in the Walmart film. I have attached a couple of newspaper articles that summarize the incentives and the outcome of the competition. Given all that you know about organizations, rhetoric, and public policymaking, explain why many cities pursued amazon.com II, why some did not, and why some did, but didn’t offer Walmart-like incentives. What rhetoric was used by policymakers to justify their stance on this issue? Why, given what you know about cultural assumptions, rhetoric, and public policymaking, explain why the various policies were advocated
