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Redistricting and Gerrymandering

Redistricting determines what district people live in, and decides which political party controls those districts. It plays a major part in national, statewide, and local voting. Censuses help legislators redraw their district boundaries by providing them with information on the districts’ demographics. Without information from the censuses, legislators cannot redistrict, since they lack information about the population in a demographic. Gerrymandering is a process that legislators use to gain an advantage over another party. Political gerrymandering occurs when political parties pack supporters of the opposing political party into each district, so the opposing political party receives less House seats. Redistricting differs from gerrymandering in that redistricting is a fair way of representing the population, while the process of gerrymandering is used to manipulate the outcome of elections.

The 2020 census will help legislators determine the new districts affecting national, state, and local voting. Redistricting is expected to be challenging, with the recent population changes due to COVID-19. Based on the census, in 2022, Texas will gain two new congressional seats due to the increase in population. Legislators predict republicans will hold the majority of Texas seats for the next 10 years, holding 23 out of 36 seats.

In 2013, the Voting Rights Act was repealed, freeing the state from preclearance and possibly leading to an increase in gerrymandering. The Voting Rights Act was established 50 years ago to prevent legislators from gerrymandering. However, The Supreme Court ruled in Shelby County v. Holder that the act was unconstitutional and was removed (110). The Voting Rights Act required Texas legislators to bring any redistricting changes to the Supreme Court for permission, to reduce gerrymandering. I believe that repealing the act could lead to increased gerrymandering, since there is no way to restrict legislators from manipulating the districts in favor of him or her.

Due to the pandemic, the census was delayed approximately 4 months. Even with the census delay, the 87th Texas Legislative session was held on schedule, however, redistricting did not take place. Special legislative sessions were held afterwards to complete redistricting, but legislators are worried the 2022 election cycle might be affected by the census delay. In 2012, the deadlines were moved for potential election candidates. The setback doubled the length of campaigns and caused chaos for fundraising and the election. Legislators fear that history might repeat itself in the coming election.

As a Texas citizen, I believe that politicizing districts to garner votes from specific types of people is unjust. I think the government should reflect the population, and gerrymandering districts to gain votes is causing Texan legislators to not exemplify the residents of the districts they are representing. Congressional District 35 has been a leading example of gerrymandering in Texas, seeking out the places highly populated with Hispanics, and redistricting the county boundaries to envelope those areas. Dogget (D) raised the Hispanic population of CD-35 to 50% in an attempt to keep the district on the Democratic side.

My overall thought on redistricting and gerrymandering is that redistricting is necessary to evolve districts to reflect its residents, and gerrymandering prevents legislators from accurately representing the population. Without accurate representation in the House, Texas residents will not be able to influence decisions made in the House. However, I do not believe politicians should be taken out of the redistricting process since there needs to be fair legislators. Removing the legislators from the redistricting process would prevent residents from seeing which legislators want to represent the people, or care about publicity. I do believe there should be a process that the redistricting changes must go through before becoming final, such as a Supreme Court review process.

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Introduction– Discuss the purpose of the work, answer the following questions, State as accurately as possible the author’s purpose for writing the article, what key question/s is the author addressing?

Discussion– Discuss the author’s major findings as reported in the article, answer the following questions, The most important information in this article is what? (Figure out the facts, data the author is using to support his/her conclusions.), The main inferences/conclusions in this article is (are)?, (Identify the key conclusions the author comes to and presents in the article), The key concept(s) we need to understand in this article is (are)?(Figure out the most important ideas you would have to understand in order to understand the author’s line of reasoning), The main assumption(s) underlying the author’s thinking is (are)?(Figure out what the author is taking for granted, that might be questioned)

Reflective Commentary– As a student in the field of Legal Liability, what are your thoughts about this article? Answer the following questions, If we take this line of reasoning seriously, the implications are? (What consequences are likely to follow if people take the author’s line of reasoning?), If we fail to take this line of reasoning seriously, the implications are? (What consequences are likely to follow if people ignore the author’s reasoning?), The main point(s) of view presented in this article is (are)? (What is the author looking at, and how is she/he seeing it?)

Write this in your own words, first person. You may also relate to your own experiences, etc. when you are doing this critique. It should be no less than two full pages in length, double-spaced. Format of critique should include Introduction, Discussion, and Reflective Commentary

The goal of this project is to develop a data management plan (DMP) for either a research project or another client organisation, to be provided to the client for implementation.  You may otherwise solicit your own client (e.g., a current or previous employer, a personal project, an organisation you are familiar with, a company, etc)

If you choose the research data management plan option: You will interview a researcher (PI, principal investigator, or whomever is running the project) about their research plans, specifically probing to discover their data management needs. You will use what you learn from the PI to develop a funder-compliant data management plan that is compliant with the funder if there is funding. If the funder does not currently require a data management plan, ensure that the plans you develop adhere to the best practices in the PI’s field of practice.

In addition to an implementation-ready data management plan, you must prepare a “budget advisory” document and a timeline for implementation tasks. The budget advisory document must include an itemised list of all expected expenses for supporting the data management plan, including (but not limited to) the staff time, tools and infrastructure, licenses, and any other related fees. Note that you will not need to include specific Euro figures (although estimates are fine), but will need to specify every item that must be budgeted in order to fully support the data management plan as specified. The timeline of implementation tasks must illustrate when key tasks must be completed to fully support the data management plan as specified.

Your final project will include (I expect it will be about 12 pages + appendices)

• Analysis of the client and the project/organisation
• Your method/tools for getting requirements and your analysis of the client’s needs
• The tools you use for generating a data management plan and how you used them
• Your actual plan and recommendations
• Budget/timeline
• APA Bibliography

Service Evaluation Plan Using RISE

If you choose the service evaluation plan option:  Using the RISE framework, evaluate the institution you are working for to assess its current state of support for research data management. Using the RISE framework, your task is to set the scope/context, classify current support, design future services, and create a report and recommendations. You should interview as many stakeholders as possible to get a collaborative picture of RDM situation at your institution/organisation. You should interview at least one individual from two of the following groups: researchers, IT support, librarians, research officers. If you are working in one of these roles you can self-interview.  

The key component of RISE is benchmarking: Collaborative Assessment of Research Data Infrastructure and Objectives (CARDIO). Although it is focused on the UK, you can use the CARDIO RDM Matrix to select 1 from each group to evaluate in your organisation and to structure your conversations with staff: https://www.dcc.ac.uk/sites/default/files/documents/events/EPSRC-workshop/CARDIO_matrix_EPSRC.pdf

RISE citation. Rans, J and Whyte, A. (2017). ‘Using RISE, the Research Infrastructure Self-Evaluation Framework’ v.1.1 Edinburgh: Digital Curation Centre. Available online: www.dcc.ac.uk/guidance/how-guides

I’m working on a Research & Summaries question and need guidance to help me study.

Just looking for the key themes and a bit of a critique for this article:

Kovjanic, S., Schuh, S. C., Jonas, K., Van Quaquebeke, N., & Van Dick, R. (2012). How do transformational leaders foster positive employee outcomes? A self?determination?based analysis of employees’ needs as mediating links. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 33(8), 1031–1052. https://doi.org/10.1002/job.1771

Hi,

1. The topic and title of the research is ” The impact of Covid-19 and the quarantine on communication practices.” 

2. This research outline will have 2 major components: 1) an introduction (about 1 – 1.5 page) and 2) a review of the literature organized into subtopics. All evidence should be cited with proper APA format. Make sure you include a properly formatted References page. Please write in full sentences.

3. For the Introduction part, you will write a persuasive and evidence-based introduction (about 1- 1.5 page). The introduction should make a clear case for why this specific topic is important. All claims must be backed with evidence. The text should lead to a clear argument about who can use the findings from the research brief and how. sources cited in the introduction do not need to be primary research studies. All sources cited in the literature review, however, must be primary research studies.

4.For the literature review part, write independent summaries for each academic research article and it needs to be full sentence and for each article what you need to cover are really three things two things in particular, 1. Who did the research and why 2. how did they do the research 3. what did they find. (2-3 full sentences for each independent summary)

5. a conclusion, it doesn’t have to be very detailed and long.

I need my resume updated and edited to make it more appeasable to my professor. Moreover, I have included pdf files to explain the assignment and the grading and how it should be done. Please view all the documents. I need this done soon.

I’m working on a other question and need a sample draft to help me learn.

• Which stages of the writing process do you spend the most time on?
• Which stages do you tend to rush through or neglect?
• What are your strengths as a writer, and what could you work to improve?
• What do you think about the connection between critical reading and writing?
• How do you read, take notes, and generate material?

I’m stuck on a Market Research question and need an explanation.

Question #1:

Assess the usefulness of the SWOT framework in developing a market strategy. Provide an example of how you might use specific marketing research to formulate a strategic plan for your current or past place of employment. What marketing communication channels would be most useful in attracting buyers to an industry with which you are familiar?

Question #2:

What specific assignments or learning activities from this course did you find particularly beneficial? What do you feel you could’ve improved or added to your learning experience in this course?

I’m working on a other discussion question and need support to help me learn.

There are many technology tools used during the recruitment process. Human resource (HR) departments are shouldering the responsibility of employee recruitment. It is essential to stay up-to-date on the many recruiting tools and technology now available.

• Identify 2 technology tools, and discuss their use by HR during the employee recruitment process.