the challenges and issues that the United States faces in both foreign and domes, assignment help

1.  In recent lessons, you have been
reading about some of the challenges and issues that the United States faces in
both foreign and domestic affairs. The following chapter highlights from Chapters
39–41 underscore some of these challenges:

• The high-tech boom
  began in the Silicon Valley in California, but the information economy
  soon shifted to a global phenomenon as U.S. companies began outsourcing
  production and services to other countries in order to reduce costs.
• Demographic trends
  brought increases in the numbers of immigrants, changes in their national
  origins, more frequent illegal immigration, and a graying of America as
  the general population aged.
• The North American
  Free Trade Act (NAFTA) intended to stimulate trade with Mexico and Canada
  also stimulated debate and controversy as some Americans lost jobs.
• President Clinton and
  his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, initiated an unsuccessful examination of
  health care and how it could be provided more equitably and efficiently.
• Vice President Al Gore
  took the lead in addressing environmental issues and global warming, but
  as of 2011, the United States has not ratified the Kyoto Protocol that a
  world meeting had intended to limit greenhouse emissions
• Cultural issues
  related to abortion, gun control, and gays in the military played out
  during the Clinton years with conflicts between liberals and conservatives,
  who brought differing perspectives to these issues.
• Osama bin Laden helped found al-Qaeda, whose goals included driving
  Americans out of all Islamic nations, destroying Israel, and toppling pro-Western
  governments in the Middle East.
• In response to the 9/11 attacks, U.S.-led troops invaded Afghanistan
  with the goals of toppling the Taliban regime and finding bin Laden.

Review the Looking to the
Future and Charting Future Courses activity sheets from the Divisions and New
Realities lessons.

Of all the challenges and
issues that the United States faces, which do you believe is the most serious
in terms of foreign affairs and which in terms of domestic affairs? Choose one
of each and write an essay that describes each issue and explains why you believe
it is the most serious.

There is no right or wrong
answer—you will be graded, in part, on how well you make the argument that each
issue you chose is the most serious. Refer to the rubric and scoring
instructions on the next page to see how your teacher will grade this
assignment.

Answer:

Scoring:

Your teacher will use the
following rubric and scoring instructions to grade your essay.