Imagine you work for a local health care organization. Your CEO thinks that she should have more of an impact on the legislative process and would like to know how she can have a more active role in shaping policy. She sent you an email asking you to explain the relationship between agenda setting and legislation and to provide her with some practical ways your […]

List at least three provisions of the PATRIOT Act you think facilitate counterterrorism. Explain how these provisions function, which agency is most likely to utilize the provision, and why you think these specific provisions facilitate counterterrorism? Support your claims with examples from required material(s), scholarly resources, and or official government sources. Properly cite any references used in your post. 

Where is terrorism occurring around the world?Each year the Director of National Intelligence provides a briefing for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on the threats facing the United States. Please read the Regional Threats section (pages 12 to 27) of the “Statement for the Record” presented by Director James Clapper in January 2014 and also the State Department “Annex of Statistical Information: Country Reports […]

In a three to four page APA paper (not including cover and reference pages), create a public policy to address an issue you consider important.  Construct the details of the policy utilizing one of the models listed below.  Discuss the rationale of the policy and how your model will assist policy makers in their decision making and implementation processes.  Evaluate your model utilizing the general […]

The U.S. Supreme Court has granted lower courts the power to hear cases. This power is known as jurisdiction. You remain an investigator for the U.S. Attorney’s Office, and you have a suspect that is in the neighboring state. The U.S. Attorney wants to arrest this person but believes in training his investigators, so he has asked you to research the topic of jurisdiction. Then, he […]

Review the congressional ratings provided by Americans for Democratic Action (a liberal interest group) and the American Conservative Union (a conservative interest group). These groups cannot analyze every vote cast in every Congress, so they choose particular votes that they feel best represent their ideology. Compare and contrast the broad categories of votes each of these groups have analyzed in the two most recent years […]

Choose one thematic topic from the four choices below. Your essay should be two pages, double-spaced, in Times New Roman 12 point font. Create a reference page using APA style formatting to list all sources used. You will need to use a word processor, such as Microsoft Word or Google Documents (Links to an external site.) to write your paper for this assignment. 

Part 1.  Please write an essay of at least 750 words discussing how the distribution of the key world resources above, and the consumption of these resources by countries with the largest population may affect the international relations of countries in this century.  Full credit will be earned if the following information is included in the essay:  1. the world’s resources of minerals (mention at least […]

Go to http://www.isidewith.com/political-quiz  (Links to an external site.)and take the political quiz.  When you are finished you can see which presidential candidate you most agree with on the issues.  On that results page, click on the “party” tab to see which party you most agree with (sometimes the candidates take different stands on the issues than their party).

Adam Smith once wrote that “It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.”  This seemingly self-evident logic has helped propel economic liberalism as the dominant school of thought in the postwar period.  Is economic liberalism (aka free market capitalism) the most efficient and productive economic model […]