Select two professional and/or scholarly journal articles from the Ashford University Library that relate to your Research Paper topic from the Week Two Assignment. Develop a four- to five-page summary of the main points made by the author(s) of each article. You must include an analysis of at least two perspectives/theories with concurring and dissenting reviews of the chosen articles.  Your paper must be four- […]

Outline Worksheet and Final Paper Pre-Planning  Building on your assignment from Week 2, this week you will expand on your topic and develop a thesis statement and an outline for your Final Paper.  Prepare: This is the second step in writing your Final Paper, so please be sure to re-review the POL201 Assignment GuidePreview the document and the POL201 Final Paper templatePreview the document within […]

Technological advances have enabled media to provide near-instantaneous coverage from every corner of the world. This first became apparent during Operation Desert Shield in 1990, when the public was exposed to images of U.S. military operations in Kuwait and Iraq with minimal delay. The technology continued to evolve, and during Operations Iraqi Freedom in 2003 and Enduring Freedom in 2001, broadcasts were real-time, and many 24-hour news networks […]

After reading the chapters and the unit lesson, you can see that statistics are a large part of the criminal justice system, particularly the study of criminal justice. They help us predict crime, analyze crime, and even prevent crime. In this assignment, you will be using the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) website to find your hometown or the city closest […]

American Federalism has been a very effective framework for sustaining our democracy. This overlapping and complementary system of government allows governmental leaders at all levels to develop their own political, social, and economic governance structures, and to provide indispensable goods and services to their constituencies. However, there are drawbacks to this multi-layered governance system as state and local governments often pursue their own goals and […]

 Draft a 750-1000 word policy memorandum from the perspective of either the Secretary of Homeland Security or the Director of National Intelligence to either the intelligence community or the homeland security enterprise outlining your recommendations for either for increasing the effective use of intelligence in homeland security or improving the analysis and dissemination of homeland security intelligence to homeland security decision makers and practitioners. 

 The Federal 5th Circuit Court of Appeals recently upheld a lower court ruling against the state of Texas, penalizing it for reducing spending on special education in public schools in 2012. A new case may be filed for similar reductions in spending by Texas in 2017. Research and explain the history of special education and its funding in Texas, including lawsuits and judgements against the […]

Pick a position in the Texas Government(i.e. Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General or any other position) and write a paper describing this person’s role, source of power, what does the person do, who does the person report to, who provides check and balance on this position. Also, describe how this position is filled, who is currently in this position, background information, goal, party affiliated to […]

Over the last couple years it seems the number and severity of natural disasters has markedly increased. Since the low point of the response to Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent legislation to fix the federal response to disasters, is the Department of Homeland Security doing better in its coordinated responses? Is the current National Response Framework working? How do we balance the response and the […]

As demonstrated by your assigned reading, government surveillance is a controversial subject.  Now that you have studied the subject, take a position on the question of what is appropriate and what is inappropriate in terms of domestic surveillance.  For example, are you willing to sacrifice privacy for security? if so, when is it appropriate?  When is it inappropriate?