AMST1001 Global Amercia : Take home EXAM solution / answers
Please answer 2 questions. Each exam answer should be between 500-800 words long, pleasemention books and articles you have read, but footnoting is not required and is a waste of the wordlimit space. Do not use quotes from other people as this is an exam so we want everything in yourown words. We are not expecting polished essay style writing so therefore spend most of your timeaccumulating thoughts and material to comment on in your exam answer. Your essays should beclearly based on readings from the set readings and other high-quality sources. Please avoid overlapand repetition in your answers.
ANSWER 2 questions in Essay Form out of the 13 questions below.Please try not to repeat materialacross your two answers.
1."Although America is still the most powerful nation in the world and one that non-Americans doneed to understand,America receives too much attention in our media and entertainment streams."Discuss
2."If you understand the American system of government, you can see how president Trump wasrestrained by the Congress and the judiciary when he was president and how a future Trumppresidency would be restrained." Discuss.
! 3."The term “American exceptionalism" is highly problematic and best not to be used" Discuss4. What is the so-called "US-led Liberal rules based order"and how "liberal""orderly" or "rulesbased" has this system ever been? Or has this always been an aspirational term?
5."Things are so desperate that the kind of nationalist and defense department driven response toGlobal Warming suggested by Anatol Lieven should be adopted."Discuss
! 6. Since the Trump administration came to power a tougher approach to China has been adopted by
the US. What has this meant in practice and has it been an overreaction to the rise of China as aglobal power?
7."In the novel The Sympathizer a case is made that the seemingly most critical American ideas -such as critical flms about the Vietnam war like Apocalypse Now - are the most effective forms ofAmerican soft power"Discuss
8."Kurt Andersen argues that Americans are particularly drawn towards conspiracy theories todaybecause of the continuing grip of religion on American lives and the rise of New Age spiritualityfrom the 1960s onwards."Discuss
! 9.What is intersectional feminism? How have black feminists like Kimberlé Crenshaw transformed
discussions about what feminism should be advocating for?
10. Is Trump's approach to campaigning and governing sensibly described as “populist,"
“authoritarian,""fascist" or something else?
11.James Poniewozik argues in the Audience of One that American television went from presenting the
least offensive television shows for prime time when there were three networks, to producing the mostoffensive television shows this century.Explain this argument and how it helps us understand theelection of Donald Trump in 2016.
12."“American police violence towards African-Americans is rightly highlighted globally and has a
strong impact (along with American gun violence) on creating a very negative view of the usinternationally. Has this global coverage helped create a global Black Lives Matter movement ordoes it lead to unhelpful anti-Americanism?"Discuss