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I had a political science class "Post-Industrial Societies" - focused on the Western World - democratic, economically developed countries. Everything except the Soviet Union and third world, except where they were affected by the other countries.
Did include post-communist bloc countries. Like Poland.
Man, do I ever hate Poland.
Nothing against the people, I'm sure they're nice, but oh I'm still bitter about that paper.
Final was 20-25 page paper on a country.
Three part answer:
1. The social/political/religious/economic/etc. history. i.e. founding, history of their political parties, social developments, wars, etc.
2. Their current social/political/etc. status. i.e. current structure of government and political parties, modern economy, etc.
3. How we would "fix" that country's problems. This was a BITCH. Hello, we are just little undergrads and we're supposed to FIX a FREAKIN' country???
I was assigned Poland. I wanted to die - our Prof spoke 6 languages, including Polish, and was currently working on some serious research about that country. She had been there the previous summer.
I managed to get it done though. Didn't sleep but 3 hours for 3 days straight. God bless No-Doz. Pulled an A in the class (had done well on the midterm).
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