Introduction to Homeland Security

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Task one

Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 400–600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas:

  • Does the Quadrennial Homeland Security Review, which was published in February of 2010, effectively outline the strategic framework to guide the activities of participants in homeland security? Justify your reasoning.
  • What are the most valuable elements of the Quadrennial Homeland Security Review?
  • How does the Quadrennial Homeland Security Review of 2010 differ, if at all, from the 2007 National Strategy for Homeland Security?
  • Are there any specific policy differences in the documents? Explain.
  • How might these differences affect emergency management at the local level?

Task

You are the emergency manager in a city of 200,000 people in the southeastern United States. Your city manager has directed that you create an article of 500–750 words for the city’s Web site clearly explaining national and state homeland security and emergency management strategies and Presidential Decision Directives. You have been directed to focus on the following documents; however, your project is not limited to these documents:

Developing a Case Study Assignment

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Developing a Case Study Assignment

According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary, a case study may be defined as a published report about a person, group, or situation that has been studied over time; a situation in real life that can be looked at or studied to learn about something. For this particular assignment , this time, you will be required to develop a 250-word count case study scenario related to any of the below topic of choice:

  • Antitrust
  • Patient Consent
  • Separation of Powers
  • Professional Liability

***Please let me know which topic you feel comfortable writing before starting*****

Your case study must include at minimum three (3) accompanying questions.

Your submission must include an APA-formatted cover sheet.

Financial Reporting Problem II(no plagiarism)

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Purpose of Assignment

The purpose of this assignment is to expose you to the basic process involved in the analysis of the cash flow statement.

Assignment Steps

Resources: Appendix A of Financial Accounting: Tools for Business Decision Making

Note: This is a three part assignment.

Part 1

Answer questions A-F in problem CT12-1 in Financial Accounting (p. 640).

Provide a 12 to 15 slide presentation including an analysis of your findings.

Include conclusions concerning the management of the company’s cash.

Add detailed notes to your slides sufficient to explain your analysis and conclusion.

Part 2

Complete a 12 to 15 slide presentation summarizing the findings and recommendations from the following questions:

  • What is the par or stated value per share of Apple’s common stock?
  • What percentage of Apple’s authorized common stock was issued at September 27, 2014?
  • How many shares of common stock were outstanding at September 28, 2013, and at September 27, 2014?
  • Calculate the payout ratio, earnings per share, and return on common stockholders’ equity for 2014.
  • What can you conclude from the metrics you calculated? What reasons would you offer to support your conclusions about whether the stock is a good investment from th stockholder’s perspective?

Add detailed notes to your slides sufficient to explain your analysis and conclusion.

Part 3

Present ONE of the presentations in class using the guidelines in the Rubric. Your presentation should be 10 to 15 minutes with 1 to 2 minutes for Q&A. Your audience is company management.

Use the Week 5 Excel® spreadsheet and submit with your analysis and summary

Materials

Technology, law homework help

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You just got a job with a new start up law firm. Two lawyers, Dawn
and Karl, are starting a practice, planning to work in civil litigation,
family law, criminal law, and estate planning. They hired you as the
paralegal. Dawn has been working in a large law firm. She already owns
an Apple laptop she has been using since law school, an Apple smart
phone, and an Apple IPad.

Karl is a Microsoft fan. He worked for a small law firm and used a
computer running Microsoft Software, linked to a server, printer, and
scanner. He does not like multi- function machines that do copying,
printing, and scanning. He thinks the firm should have a very good
scanner with software, and that they are better than multi-function
machines.

Dawn and Karl are asking you to evaluate hardware and software based
on your text readings and on what you can find online. Take a look at
your state’s bar association website (or that of a different state) and
the ABA website and see if they have technology lists and
recommendations. Look at law office technology articles or blogs.

Dawn and Karl have asked you to recommend the initial hardware and
software to buy. Your budget is $10,000, but you may spend less. Use and
cite at least five different sources. Most of all, show your own
thinking.

Progress Monitoring at Florence School District 1 Florence, SC

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For this week’s assignment, you will be writing an evaluation of your school’s/district’s reading instruction and assessment techniques. Based on the session’s readings, you should evaluate the school/district on each of the following components:

  • Are the three main purposes of literacy assessment made clear to teachers in your school/district?
  • Are the 5 main assessment types and roles used in classrooms effectively? Or, is one type of assessment used far more than others?
  • Is Progress Monitoring used (even if it’s not called this, per se)?
  • If Progress Monitoring is used, do most teachers adhere to it’s principles?
  • Are literacy assessments used to monitor progress and inform instruction? If so, how?

The Ethnographic Essay, writing homework help

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Prepare a 5-6 page ethnographic study of a group or culture to which you belong

“Ethnography” –- the official name of this kind of research and writing – tends to call to mind distant cultures – the Bedouin of the Arabian Peninsula, or the natives of the Amazon rainforest. But we all belong to several cultures – and are surrounded by many, many more. Any social group will for its own culture – skateboarders, Facebook users, online gamers, athletic teams. Any of them (or almost any) can be fertile ground for an ethnographic study.

Note that, in an ideal world, you wouldn’t choose a group that you’re part of , since it’ll be harder to be objective. We will try to assure objectivity by including at least two secondary sources – books, articles, web sites, and so on.

Evaluation Criteria

Content: Analysis of group is based on sound research, including multiple sources of data, such as observations, interviews, and at least 2 secondary sources. (364-365).

Organization: Essay follows one of the three methods of development, and effectively guides reader through its analysis.

Style: Writing is clear and appropriate. Tone and language reflect the purpose and audience of the essay.

Mechanics: Free of grammar and spelling errors. All sources cited using MLA format.

Complete the Organizer

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Argument Organizer

Choose one of the following questions to answer for the argument essay in this module.

Does our state do enough to prevent distracted driving?

or

Can a Public Service Announcement (PSA) help reduce the number of distracted driving incidents?

Part One

  1. Write the claim you will present in your argument essay.

  2. Write the counterclaim that you will refute in your argument essay.

Part Two

Identify research sources that you will use in your argument essay. Include at least two primary sources and at least two secondary sources. Use MLA citations to document your sources here. Be sure to use an online source, such as EasyBib or Son of Citation to help create the citations. Your citations should be labeled as primary or secondary and include a link to the site. An example has been provided.

Primary Sources

  1. Example: “What Is Distracted Driving?” Distraction.gov, n.d. Web. 05 Apr. 2013. http://www.distraction.gov/stats-research-laws/fac…

Secondary Sources

Part Three

Submit the introductory paragraph of 7 to 10 sentences. Be sure to include your claim and briefly mention the counterclaim.

Part Four

Submit the body paragraphs. You must write a multi-paragraph essay, with no fewer than two body paragraphs.

Part 5: Write the essay based on the information in parts 1-4

Literature 221

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Write a 500-750 word essay on one of the following topics. The word count does not include formatting or the works cited page.

• Write a critical analysis of Emily Dickinson’s “I’m Nobody! Who Are You?” An overview of approaches can be found here, but many are quite straightforward. Psychological, gender, sociological, biographical, and historical are all approaches that many use naturally in viewing a work. However, if your interest lies elsewhere, feel free to choose another approach.

• Compare and contrast Edith Wharton’s Roman Fever and Mark Twain’s War Prayer. Be sure that you have isolated a strong and debatable thesis on which to build the essay. Simply pointing out the differences is not analysis. Toward that end, you may want to focus on a specific element of the stories.

• If there’s an aspect of the stories from these two weeks that particularly interests you, you may choose your own topic, but you must run it by me first to be sure it is headed in an analytical direction.

Your essay should be formatted in MLA style, including double spacing throughout. All sources should be properly cited both in the text and on a works cited page. As with most academic writing, this essay should be written in third person. Please avoid both first person (I, we, our, etc.) and second person (you, your).

In the upper left-hand corner of the paper, place your name, the professor’s name, the course name, and the due date for the assignment on consecutive lines. Double space your information from your name onward, and don’t forget a title. All papers should be in Times New Roman font with 12-point type with one-inch margins all the way around your paper. All paragraph indentations should be indented five spaces (use the tab key) from the left margin. All work is to be left justified. When quoting lines in literature, please research the proper way to cite short stories, plays, or poems.

Should you choose to use outside references, these must be scholarly, peer-reviewed sources obtained via the APUS library (select Advanced Search and check the Peer Reviewed box). Be careful that you don’t create a “cut and paste” paper of information from your various sources. Your ideas are to be new and freshly constructed. Also, take great care not to plagiarize.

Whatever topic you choose you will need a debatable thesis. Athesis is not a fact, a quote, or a question. It is your position on the topic. The reader already knows the story; you are to offer him a new perspective based on your observations.

Since the reader is familiar with the story, summary is unnecessary. Rather than tell him what happened, tell him what specific portions of the story support your thesis.

Write An Advocacy for The housing vouchers of Federal Housing Program addressing the homeless problem

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MOST IMPORTANT: PLEASE NOT PLAGIARIZE. I WILL USE TOOLS TO CHECK IT. IF YOU THINK THE BUDGET IS LOW, I CAN INCREASE THE BUDGET

The assignment is about An Advocacy for The housing vouchers of the Federal Housing Program addressing the homeless problem

It should be a multimodal composition. It should be formatted in MLA style, with parenthetical citations, a Works Cited page, and a descriptive academic title. The assignment should cite at least two sources. Two of them should involve complex, comprehensive arguments that substantively consider the obstacles at work in solving the problem of homeless.

I have already wrote two paragraphs of the assignment, so please continue.

Double-Entry and Triple-Entry Journal

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Complete the following journals. All the materials and explanation are attached below.

1.Double–Entry Journal, 3 quotes, on “What Virtual Reality is Good For”
2.Double-Entry Journal, 3 quotes, on “What Does Virtual Reality Do to Your Body and Mind?”
3.Triple-Entry Journal, 3 quotes, on “Pokemon Go May Increase Physical Activity and Decrease Sedentary Behaviors
4.Triple-Entry Journal, 3 quotes, on “Pokemon GO: Healthy or Harmful?

Double-Entry Journals

During this unit, one of the things we will be working on is incorporating information from the
readings into your writing as away of strengthening your argument. Double-Entry Journals (also
known as dialectical journals) will help prepare you for this while also providing you with away
of organizing and reflecting on what you read.

In particular Double-Entry Journals help you

1) Interact with new information in a variety of formats
2) Relate information to prior knowledge
3) Generate ideas for class discussions and writing assignments.

Your entries can include, but are not limited to, one or more of the following:

  • a quote, word, or phrase that is interesting or confusing
    • a paraphrase of a complex segment of text
    • a possible explanation of a confusing material
    • a main idea from the resource and why it is important
    • a strong positive or negative reaction and an explanation of that reaction
    • a reason for agreeing or disagreeing with the author/producer
    • a comparison and/or contrast of a passage with another resource or with prior knowledge
    • a prediction based on evidence from the resource
    • a question generated as a result of reading, viewing, or hearing the resource
    • a description of a personal experience that relates to the resource
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    The Text

    Write passages/quotes from the text below.

    Your Thoughts

    Below, respond to the passages or quotes you listed in the
    first column. You may wish to ask a question, evaluate,
    reflect, analyze, or interpret the passage in the left
    column—whatever comes to mind!