Describe your planning process

Blog Questions

1. Describe your planning process. How do you personally prepare for a writing assignment? Which points of the star do you consider when planning a writing assignment?


2. Choose one of the activities (pages 17 -27): brainstorming, listing, freewriting, questioning, or sketching to see how many ideas you can come up with in  5-10 minutes that relate to your topic. Post your discovery activity in your blog and a reflection on its effect on the development of your essay. (Visuals can be photographed and posted as pictures.) 

PowerPoint Presentation on the Legacy of the Progressive Era.

Legacy of the Progressive Era

Prepare a PowerPoint Presentation on the Legacy of the Progressive Era. Using resources from the Topic 6 Readings, including your textbook, materials provided by your instructor through class discussion, and materials from the GCU Library Guide for HIS-144 US History Themes, prepare your PowerPoint with the following areas of focus: Regulation of Business, Greater Democracy, Conservationism, the Rise of Professionalism, and Prohibition. The PowerPoint should be five to six slides (a minimum of one for each area) and include slide notes of 100-200 words for each. Additionally, include a title, introduction, and reference slide(s), which do not count toward the five to six slide totals. Each response should show good writing mechanics, grammar, formatting, and proper citations at the end of each question/response. 

Refer to the resource, “Creating Effective PowerPoint Presentations,” located in the Student Success Center, for additional guidance on completing this assignment in the appropriate style. 

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion of the assignment.

While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and in-text citations and references should be presented using APA documentation guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

Essay for religion | Literature homework help

For this essay, you must choose one of following topics and submit your response via the Assignment Dropbox.Your essay should be 750-900 words, double spaced, in 12 pt. font. You do not have to use external sources for this essay (the book chapters and the corresponding power point presentations should be sufficient). 

  1. Define the part of theology that is technically known as theodicy. Pick an example of extraordinary evil in the world and present it briefly. Use your example to explain the relevance of the problem of theodicy. Why is theodicy said to be more central to monotheistic religions than to other forms of religion? 
  2. What role does salvation play in religion, both for the individual and the whole community? Give an example of how an individual can perceive salvation and explain the ways he/she follows in order to attain it (for example, you can explain how a Buddhist perceives nirvana and seeks to achieve it by following the way of meditation).
Current event – local issue (political science)

Instructions
Find an article in your local newspaper about a local policy issue that affects you. For example, an article concerning your county’s decision to privatize your trash collection service. Summarize the article and explain how this issue affects you. Is the article neutral? Why or why not? How might you influence this policy in the future?

Be sure to include a scanned copy of the article in your submission in addition to citations. There are several free scannable apps on the market such as Scannable. If printing is an obstacle, you may include a hyperlink to the article. However, if the link breaks or can not be accessed the burden falls on you to produce that article or to risk losing points.

Articles may not be more than one month old.

Writing Requirements (APA format)

  • Length: 3 full  pages (not including title page or references page)
  • 1-inch margins
  • Double spaced
  • 12-point Times New Roman font
  • Title page
  • References page
Conduct an in-depth analysis and evaluation of an agency’s budgeting

Assignment Overview

As a consultant, you need to develop an in-depth analysis and evaluation of the selected agency’s budgeting, and then provide recommendations for improvement. Therefore, you will conduct interviews with agency representatives and research related academic sources and websites. The analysis will be read by the VP of accounts and client support, as well as by the leaders of the agency for whom you are working.

ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS

Write a 5 page paper in which you:

  • Analyze the agency’s (or department’s) budget by following these steps and including the results of the analysis in your paper by: a) identifying the agency’s budget as executive department or an independent agency; b) determining which of the appropriation subcommittees has jurisdiction over each agency’s budget request; c) determining where each agency’s operations fall in the functional classification of the federal budget; d) determining the budget authority and outlays proposed for the agency; and e) determining the actual outlays and budget authority for the agency in that year. Title this section Budget Overview.
  • Analyze two major political influences on, and primary accountability areas required of, program administrators after reviewing FY2012 regarding mandatory and discretionary budgets. Title this section Budgeting Assessment.
  • Explain which intergovernmental agencies contribute to and/or influence the budgetary decisions for the current and future budget over the next five years. Title this section Analysis of Budgeting Plans and Actual Expenditures.
  • Analyze the impact of international policy making on the current year’s budgets and its possible impact on future budget line items. Title this section Implications of Foreign Policy.
  • Recommend two robust ways in which the agency could improve the budget for the next fiscal year. Title this section Budget Request and Recommendations.
  • Provide the completed PAD599 Interview Template for 1–2 interviews, putting this information in Appendix under Interviews.
  • Go to Basic Search: Strayer University Online Library to locate and provide 4–5 academic sources and government websites you expect to access in your research. Include no more than one non-government website.

Note: Follow the Guidelines for Interview Assignments at Strayer University provided in the Assignment Preparation in Week 1.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

  • Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
  • Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, your name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The sections must have appropriate titles. The cover page, reference page, and appendix pages are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is:

  • Conduct an in-depth analysis and evaluation of an agency’s budgeting, and provide recommendations for improvement.
Research methods | Reading homework help

Using your text, Understanding Research Methods (topics 1 through 8), answer the following questions:

  1. What is the goal of research in the social sciences?
  2. How is theory defined?
  3. What is the difference between induction and deduction? Do researchers use induction or deduction to derive a hypothesis from a theory?
  4. What is the purpose of a non-experimental study? Are treatments given in non-experimental studies?
  5. In what type of study is random assignment used?
  6. Define causal-comparative research. Is it a type of experiment?
  7. Describe correlational research.
  8. Explain the difference between quantitative and qualitative research