American Public University Homeland Security and Defense Essay

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Both assignments are for a Master Level Course, and below you will find all details. Please follow below details to ensure, all requirements are satisfied. Please save and return as two seperate documents. Thanks for your assistance.

First Assignment

You will prepare and submit an annotated Webography outlining seven (7) Homeland Security/Defense websites. Attached are the following documents to assist you in being set up for success for this assignment:

1. Document titled “What is a Webography?”

2. A generic Webography example titled “Webography Example” that will give you a good overview of what a complete Webography looks like.

3. A template example titled “Webography WMD Example” that will give you a glimpse to the start of what yours should look like. Note: these sites are not relevant to the web sites you will choose.

Additional Guidance/Tips:

• The websites may be federal, state, local, commercial, or private
• Do not pick all federal government cites. Change it up providing various perspectives of the issues.
• Don’t forget that you are reviewing website – do not pick documents on a website, that will not meet the intent of the assignment
• Catch the reader’s attention with dynamic photos (don’t forget to cite under them to give credit if they are not from the specific website you are reviewing. For example, on the cover page, you might use a picture you randomly found on the internet — make sure you cite to give credit where you got the picture)
• When you use pictures in your document, don’t forget to compress them (this is an option under “Picture Tools” and select “Compress Pictures” and uncheck “Apply only to this picture” in order to compress all the pictures in your document. Also select “E-mail (96ppi)” for best way to upload your work (note the steps may be different depending on what version of Word you are using)
• Don’t just tell what the selected website is about — explain what the strengths and weaknesses are that you identified
• Don’t forget the Table of Contents
• Don’t forget the Introduction — tell the reader what you are going to cover
• Don’t forget the Conclusion — tell the reader the key points of what you told them
• Finding the unique websites can make the assignment more interesting – this takes some effort. Don’t be afraid to think outside the box
• Don’t cut and paste from the website — put things in your own words. If you summarize the website material, then I would not expect to see a citation as I will equate that you are relating the material to the website you are reviewing
• If you use a direct material, then it is expected that you cite correctly and use quotation marks and the appropriate citation.

Technical Requirements

• Your paper must contain at least 7 websites.
• Include the Title and Reference pages.
• Type in Times New Roman, 12 point and double space.
• Students will follow the current APA Style as the sole citation and reference style used in written work submitted as part of coursework.
• Points will be deducted for the use of Wikipedia or encyclopedic type sources.
• All submissions will be graded using the assignment rubric.

Assignment 2

Through this assignment, we will explore trends concerning an individually selected area of policy and provide context on the public policy theory/theories at play. You will answer the following question: How has congressional agenda changed over time in regards to your selected policy topic?

To start, visit Comparative Agendas Project . Once on the webpage, click on Trend Tools (on the top right). Then, click select dataset types and policy topics on the upper left side. Then, Click on Budgets on the upper left side. Next, select United States. Then, select the specific aspect of the US budget you want to analyze. Then, in the bottom right, select Line for Chart Type.

Next, for Dates, select Year. Once you create two charts, or at least have the data points for two periods, then use export to integrate them into your paper. Then, analyze the two charts (ie, compare and contrast) in your paper.

For the purposes of this project, you’ll need to pull data from at least two different time periods to show any shifts in trends/attention.

Next analyze your findings through a 3-5 page paper (excluding cover page and references). You’ll want to cover the following questions:

• What is the history of this policy?
• What does the data say about the congressional focus of this issue?
• How and why are the charts different?
• What driving forces/actors would have had an impact on the congressional attention on this issue?
• Were there other events taking place that would explain a low in congressional attention on this issue?
• What theory/theories from our text could explain the history or trends of the issue? What contexts are applicable here?

Please include your charts in your essay. Note that the labels on the charts may be inaccurate, so focus on trends. Be sure to draw from our course readings and to utilize at least 3 scholarly sources. A list of good online journals is available in our online library. Here is a sample paper with proper APA formatting and citations from Purdue OWL.