Problem
According to the Civil Service Act of 1883 document, answer the following questions below. A written assignment that will cover the foundational component areas of critical thinking, communication skills, social responsibility, and personal responsibility.
1) Critical Thinking: To assess critical thinking, students will answer the following five questions:
• Who wrote the document?
• Who is the intended audience of the document?
• What is the author attempting to illustrate with the document?
• Why was the document written?
• What can be learned about the culture or mentality that produced this document?
2) Social Responsibility: To assess social responsibility, including intercultural competence and the ability to engage effectively in regional, national, and global communities, students will answer the following question:
There are several different cultural groups in the United States other than the one represented by the author of the document. These groups might be regional, national, or global in nature.
• Identify one or more of these cultural groups, and
• Explain how they might react to this document.
3) Personal Responsibility: To assess the ability to connect choices, actions, and consequences to ethical decision making, students will answer the following question:
• Describe an ethical situation presented in the document and
• Explain how the author proposes to resolve it.