Topic:

1. During the same-sex marriage debates of the late 1990s and early 2000s, what was the “slippery slope” argument, and how did it connect to the practice of polygamy in Bountiful, BC?
2. How does Canada’s immigration policies reproduce and sustains systemic discrimination and heteronormativity through the policing of “marriage fraud”?
3. How does neoliberalism connect with government sponsored marriage and relationship educational campaigns in the United States and Canada, and why do these campaigns ultimately fail their mandate?

• each question should not exceed 300 words.
• the material needs to be used from course content only no outside material and everything needs to be cites
• not AI language keep language very simple
• Your answers to ALL questions are expected to have in-text citations as follows:

To cite assigned readings or podcasts, please use the author(s) last name(s) and the page number (e.g. Whitehead, 146).

If you are citing an assigned podcast, please use the interviewee’s last name only. (e.g. Tallbear).

To cite lectures, please refer to the lecture date (e.g. Lecture, June 6).

To cite a student’s research video, please refer to the student’s first name and the video subject (e.g. Natalie, Oneida Complex Marriage)

If you use ChatGPT or any other AI technologies to assist you with this exam, you MUST provide the following information: the application, website or software you utilized, and the prompt(s)/question(s) you inputted. This information should be added in a Works Cited page at the end of your essay. Failure to do so will result in an automatic fail.

You Do Not have to add a Works Cited/Bibliography if you ONLY use course materials.

Although no outside/additional research is required, if you draw upon non-assigned material, please in-text cite using last name and page number, and add a Works Cited page that includes the full reference at the end of your essay.