2306 Current Event Assignment 2 50 Points Total Written portion due October 16, 2018 Turn in written component via eCampus Oral Portion in small groups on October 18, 2018 Access a news article pertaining to your assigned topic concerning the Texas state government; topic selection will be in class. You need to analyze the article and make specific and direct connections to two (2) concepts […]

Compose two short essays on the following topics:  Analyze legal authorities for evacuation and the separation of powers in an emergency between the governors, legislature, courts, and local governments. (You may want to consider who needs to call for the evacuation, who should request aid, when these actions should be taken, etc.) MSE 5101, Legal Aspects of Emergency Services Management 6  Describe protections […]

Primary Task Response: Your first task is to post your own Key Assignment Outline to the discussion area so that other students are able to review your plan. Attach your document to the main discussion post, and include any notes you feel are appropriate. The purpose of this assignment is to help improve the quality of the Key Assignment Draft you will complete next week.

One conservative argument against Medicare andSocial Securitystates that calling these programs “entitlement programs” is a misnomer and that they are actually the biggest income redistribution programs from the rich to the poor in the United States. Other conservatives state that stronger entitlement programs are nothing more than schemes for younger taxpayers to fund retirees. Proponents argue that Social Security benefits matter in the overall federal […]

The purpose of this assignment is to help Mary develop effective questioning skills for surveys and interviews with individuals and groups. A researcher must select the type of survey or interview to conduct and develop questions to address Mary’s research being “Hispanic Women is politics”. It is important to understand the advantages and disadvantages of using surveys and interviews to collect data and the type […]

Discuss the recent public policy decisions made in Texas with respect to abortion. Find at least one Op-Ed on the issue and explain and assess the author’s arguments. Be sure to consider HB 2 in your post. What do you think are reasonable regulations with respect to abortion that the State of Texas should enact or has enacted? Why? What are some unreasonable regulations that […]

Using the fictitious entity created in the assignments for the first two weeks, you will continue to work with that agency for this week. Your fictitious agency has decided to start an internal audit function and hire an auditor. As the budget director of the agency, you need to determine the standards that will guide the auditor’s actions. Become familiar with the possible standards and […]

The purpose of this assignment is to help students recognize best practices in working with human subjects and the role of the institutional review board. You are expected to review a pinnacle case in the area of human subjects, the Tuskegee experiment. On the basis of what you learn about this experiment, you will discuss the importance of human subjects review boards and how things […]

In support of the Capstone Research Project, complete a literature review and identify your research variables. Prior to completing this week’s assignment watch the video Hypothesis 101 (and other Social Science concepts) (the discussion on variables begins at 4:40 and goes through 15:05) to understand the process for identifying variables and the relationship between the hypothesis and variables (transcript available here). Then read Chapters 3, […]

 Choose a major disaster of your liking (I chose hurricane Katrina) and write a 10-page paper which analyzes ways that the event impacted society. Using the feedback you received from your instructor on previous assignments, your paper should include the following elements: (1) Describe the disaster and the events that took place (including the survivor and responder behavior). (2) Identify the vulnerable populations and the […]