Supreme Court Rejects Death Penalty for Child Rape  WASHINGTON — The death penalty is unconstitutional as a punishment for the rape of a child, a sharply divided Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.  The 5-to-4 decision overturned death penalty laws in Louisiana and five other states. The only two men in the country who have been sentenced to death for the crime of child rape, both in […]

Thomas Friedman’s book, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century, contends that “the convergence of technology and events that allowed India, China, and so many other countries to become part of the global supply chain for services and manufacturing, [created] an explosion of wealth in the middle classes of the world’s two biggest nations, giving them a huge new stake in […]

Term Paper: Security Administrator HandbookDue Week 10 and worth 200 points  One of the responsibilities of a Security Administrator is to create and document policies that protect the organization and guide users to making smart decisions. In this assignment you will build a handbook that can be used for such a purpose. The NIST’s Special Publications Website, a government operated Website, provides several documents for […]

 I have no experience in program evaluation.  Program evaluation, according to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (2014, para. 2), “is the systematic, objective assessment of an ongoing or completed intervention, project, policy, program, or partnership.”  Although the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (2010) and Westat (2010) have similar definitions, Westat (2010) suggests that conducting evaluations for ongoing program operations produce the most valuable information […]

Consider this study on hand hygiene among college students (White et al., 2005).  The authors implemented a program of public awareness and education about the importance of hand washing (educational bulletin boards, for example) in two college dormitories.  They also had two college dormitories that did not get the awareness campaign.  Without telling the students that they had anything to do with the hand washing […]

Reflect: The executive and judicial branches of the U.S. national government often seem to operate independently and with little conflict. Many laws are signed by the President and then implemented without a word from the judicial branch. However, there are times when executive decisions are challenged by the judicial branch in a process called judicial review. In addition, there are times when a judicial review […]

To address the issues given in the scenario for the week 8 discussion, I would utilize the Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA) as well as the non-experimental design. According to McDavid, Huse & Hawthorn (2013) even though the cost benefit analysis has proven to be somewhat complex it has proven to be one of the most effective, and economic evaluation system used in environmental and infrastructure […]

For your final assignment for the course, you will complete a research paper on a topic of your choice related to emergency management. Start by reviewing the course concepts and determining your topic of choice. Below are some topics you might consider (you are not limited to those included below):  Disaster preparation and planning at the local and national levels  The transition of […]

 The USA Patriot Act came about after 9/11. The Act remains in use today with some slight modifications. On the other hand, FISA has been in use since the mid-1970s. Both Acts are highly controversial and are foreign to the average citizen. National security always requires a balancing act between freedom and security. As the saying goes, freedom is not free.

As I see it, Fiona was placed in a position that pulled at ethical as well as moral values.  On one side, because of incompetent campaign promises, the governor pointed a finger at an area that he felt he could retrieve money for the budget that he promised to balance (McDavid, Huse and Hawthorn, 2013).  On the other side, you have a deputy director that […]