These writing assignments are meant to help you think about the readings and to prepare you for class discussions. For that reason, when you write a response it is important that you give your opinions and that you relate your thoughts to the reading. Remember that these are exam questions and that they are graded as such. You ought to write them as though you are writing questions on a midterm or a final exam.

Respond to one of the following questions by writing a response on the class Discussion Board on Blackboard at least one hour before class on the date the question is listed. Put your name in the text of the question and give the question number as listed below. Without these I can't tell who wrote the question or what you are responding to. You then have until Midnight on the following Sunday of that week to revise your response if you wish to do so and to submit it for grading. To submit your responses, send them via email to milofsky@bucknell.edu.

Your final version of this question is due by midnight, Sunday, December 6.

27-1 What is ABCD and how does it work?

26-2 Why were citizens able to gain the cooperation of government in the Ilu Aga community?

26-3 Some theories of modernization argue that only once a certain level of economic development is achieved so that citizens have a less desperate relationship to resources and so that they gain a level of education and sophistication can you achieve democracy and civil society. What about the Ilu Aga case challenges these assumptions?