Questions and Topics We Can Help You Answering; 
1.    What is the common good? And why is it important to consider the public or common good rather than just individual interests?  Who is it important to?
2.    From the article by Valasquez, what are four obstacles to achieving the common good?  Why is it important to pursue the common good despite the obstacles?  
3.    Why is it important to participate in government as a private citizen? As an FCS professional?  
4.    What is public policy?  What are three ways that individual citizens can influence the development, formation, and implementation of public policy issues?

r    From the articles by Dickie and Merleman, R.  The Family and Political Participation (on Canvas)

A democratic society cannot successfully exist without political participation at the grass roots level.
1.    What is the relationship between the family system as a whole and the political system?
2.    What are the three ways that families influence political participation?
3.    Family life has a substantial impact on the way in which young people learn about political participation and on the way in which they relate to systems of government (relationship between family system & political system).  In what ways did your family life influence your political participation?
4.    Who are millennials and why it is particularly important that they be involved in the political process?
5.    What external factors or variables influence your political participation, political affiliation, or how and when you vote?  These answers are not related to a candidate nor to an issue.