First Quarter Midterm Review
When: Friday, October 31
How long: 45 minutes
Format: Short answer & two short essays
What is on the test?
- Definition of Government
- Define autocracy, oligarchy, and democracy
- Define the two types of democracy
- Define logos, pathos, and ethos
- Define swing voter and target voter
- Define world view and how it relates to each of the cultural eras
- Define the five important cultural eras of the last 500 years:
- Renaissance
- Enlightenment
- Romanticism
- Realism
- Modernism
Notes
Government is a political association that does two things:
- It makes rules determining who will get the valued things of a society.
- It alone regulates the use of legitimate force in society.
autocracy – rule by one (also monarchy)
oligarchy – rule by few
democracy – rule by many (the people)
democracy — a form of government in which the people (citizens), directly or through their chosen representatives, regularly indicate their political preferences for how they are governed.
pure, or direct, democracy — the public participates directly in the making of public policy
republic, or representative democracy — the public elects leaders who represent them in governing bodies and decide policy through debate and deliberation
Logos: the logic used to support a claim; the reasons and evidence used support the argument
Pathos: the emotional or motivational appeals; vivid language, emotional language and numerous sensory details
Ethos: the source’s credibility or trustworthiness, the speaker’s/author’s authority
swing voter — a voter who has not made up his or her mind on a given issue or candidate, or a voter who could be persuaded to change his or her mind
target voter — the intended audience of a campaign marketing effort, usually a specific demographic group (e.g. white Republican women aged 40–60)
world view — underlying belief system that shapes how a person interprets the world and interacts with it
Posted by Justin Wells : 10/27/2008