Reading: Mon 3/31 and Tue 4/1

Textbook pages 108-115

Essay contest - cash prizes!

http://www.fedbar.org/Public-Messaging/FBA-Essay-Contest.aspx

Further Unit 9 review reading

Notes handed out in class: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1z770EeKCb9B4jrF5dwAZATVAKs5--vmGUlHKVkiTmNs/pub

Study outline: http://college.cengage.com/polisci/wilson/am_gov/9e/students/studyoutline/ch14.html

WOTD

pil·lo·ry

ˈpilərē/

historical

verb

past tense: pilloried; past participle: pilloried

1. 1.

   put (someone) in the pillory.
2. 2.

   attack or ridicule publicly.

   "he found himself pilloried by members of his own party"

   synonyms:

   attack, criticize, censure, condemn, denigrate, lambaste, savage,stigmatize, denounce; More

Unit 9 study guide/syllabus

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Yaj6iuTioux1qdfv253C6mKj1FQaqn1ome5FVndx59g/pub

The concepts section is unfinished, and there may be some more vocab words added.  But the bones are there.

Clarence Thomas's Disgraceful Silence - http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2014/02/clarence-thomas-disgraceful-silence.html

The Federal Reserve borrowing rate over time

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/31/Federal_Funds_Rate_1954_thru_2009_effective.svg

Ukraine crisis

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/03/ukraine-crisis-russia-control-crimea-live

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/3/2/live-blog-crisisinukraine.html

http://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2014/03/03/285271455/theres-a-recent-precedent-for-russias-action-in-ukraine

http://graphics.wsj.com/Ukraine-gas/?mod=e2tw

http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/america-tonight/america-tonight-blog/2014/3/4/georgia-moldova-commiteuropeukraine.html

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/03/russia-vladimir-putin-the-west-104134.html#.UxZsD-NdWSr

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/03/02/ex-cia-chief-why-we-get-putin-wrong.html

http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21597974-can-ukraine-find-any-leaders-who-will-live-up-aspirations-its-battered-victorious

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/02/27/world/europe/ukraine-divisions-crimea.html?_r=3

http://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2014/mar/03/ukraine-crisis-the-military-imbalance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eTuFAR169s&safe=active