Juan Carlos Rodríguez 
a) Describe what ideology is in a brief paragraph (in your own words). 

Ideology is essentially who you are based on beliefs, those believes are often influenced by people in our lives from politics to morality. Ideology also helps us distinguish right from wrong. Same ideology is used by the government to distinguish right from wrong. Only differences is the punishment, which often leads to prison.

b) Give an example illustrating what you wrote in (a).

when you’re in school and you see someone misbehave and never follow the rules you start to believe that they’ll grow up to no good and often that is the case for people that don’t follow the rules have a higher chance of ending up involved in the criminal system. Teachers try to enforce good ideology on us by Setting rules in the classroom like raising your hands to speak or suspension or detention for those who speak without permission.

c) Write another paragraph (or two), explaining to your reader with additional details, how you understand ideology.

ideology is not just limited to behavior, but also your believes when it comes to freedom or equality as you start to develop your ideology, you fall into a certain group type, some end up conservatives other liberal etc.

(Question) How do you understand the difference between conservative and liberal ideology in US politics? What seem to be the big differences, the dividing line? Given an example to backup your arguments.

to me, liberal ideology is more focused on equality and higher taxes also benefiting from government involvement. Conservatives believe in the free market lets government involvement and often have religious beliefs like Catholics. There’s also a lot of diversity with liberals compared to conservatives usually conservatives have more money and usually dominated by one race.