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The focus of this assignment is for you to research and to critically analyze the court system in your own community. The questions below will help you to guide your research and your response which you should construct in an essay format with sub-titles addressing as much of the following points as the information available to you. To successfully comment, you should first understand some basic demographics about your own community. For example, you should be familiar with the population of your community (city or county) and also the approximate race and age distribution of your community. This information may be available at a variety of sources ranging from the US Census reports to Wikipedia or the official website of your city or county. The next thing that you will need to research and to know about your community is some specifics regarding the court system. Use some of the guidance provided in the lesson as well as the internet to locate information regarding your local city or your local county judicial system.  In a last resort, if this information is not available to you, you should use information regarding your state court.  (If you are not from the US or not presently in the US, then you may also wish to provide a comparative analysis of your country’s court system to that of the US Courts.)

Since most students will be answering regarding your county court system, you should be able to find the information about local judges on the official county government website, under judiciary or court system. You may also be able to find out more information from local newspapers. I want you to research and become familiar with the chief justice or the president judge of your community court system. For some of you who might struggle with details on your community court system, because of either antiquated websites or huge bureaucratic court structures, then please pick any known judge in your community to research and respond to the following questions. You should know about the judge’s background and his/her age, race, education, experience, and ties to the community. You should also know about what type of criminal justice problems (crimes, issues, etc.) exist in your community. The majority of the following essay questions will ask you to provide some critical thought and response as to how your judge handles court case challenges and what specific improvements, enhancements, and alterations could be implemented to make your judge or your court system more efficient and effective for your community.

To complete this essay:

Describe your community by name, geography, and demographics.

Detail some of the specific criminal justice issues or problems which you know to impact your community.  Provide some basic examples from case studies or new related sources which demonstrate these issues or problems.

Write a brief biography on a court judge in your community.  This may be a chief justice, president judge, judge, or local magistrate.  Discuss their background and experience and using news articles and other sources, provide some commentary on how the judge is particularly perceived or involved in solutions to community criminal justice issues.

Comment on how you believe your community court system could be more efficient and more effective to the criminal justice system and to your community.

Part 2

Using the internet, locate a news article about a criminal court case that is under appeal and provide a link to that case study.  (Please read through the postings of your classmates to be sure there are no duplicates.)  In addition to posting the case study link, write a few sentences to describe the constitutional issue that is significant to the appeal and also comment in your own opinion about the merits of the appeal.  In your opinion and based on what you know about the criminal justice system, should this case be affirmed, reversed, or remanded by the appellate court?

The focus of this assignment is for you to research and to critically analyze the court system in your own community. The questions below will help you to guide your research and your response which you should construct in an essay format with sub-titles addressing as much of the following points as the information available to you. To successfully comment, you should first understand some basic demographics about your own community. For example, you should be familiar with the population of your community (city or county) and also the approximate race and age distribution of your community. This information may be available at a variety of sources ranging from the US Census reports to Wikipedia or the official website of your city or county. The next thing that you will need to research and to know about your community is some specifics regarding the court system. Use some of the guidance provided in the lesson as well as the internet to locate information regarding your local city or your local county judicial system.  In a last resort, if this information is not available to you, you should use information regarding your state court.  (If you are not from the US or not presently in the US, then you may also wish to provide a comparative analysis of your country’s court system to that of the US Courts.)

Since most students will be answering regarding your county court system, you should be able to find the information about local judges on the official county government website, under judiciary or court system. You may also be able to find out more information from local newspapers. I want you to research and become familiar with the chief justice or the president judge of your community court system. For some of you who might struggle with details on your community court system, because of either antiquated websites or huge bureaucratic court structures, then please pick any known judge in your community to research and respond to the following questions. You should know about the judge’s background and his/her age, race, education, experience, and ties to the community. You should also know about what type of criminal justice problems (crimes, issues, etc.) exist in your community. The majority of the following essay questions will ask you to provide some critical thought and response as to how your judge handles court case challenges and what specific improvements, enhancements, and alterations could be implemented to make your judge or your court system more efficient and effective for your community.

To complete this essay:

Describe your community by name, geography, and demographics.

Detail some of the specific criminal justice issues or problems which you know to impact your community.  Provide some basic examples from case studies or new related sources which demonstrate these issues or problems.

Write a brief biography on a court judge in your community.  This may be a chief justice, president judge, judge, or local magistrate.  Discuss their background and experience and using news articles and other sources, provide some commentary on how the judge is particularly perceived or involved in solutions to community criminal justice issues.

Comment on how you believe your community court system could be more efficient and more effective to the criminal justice system and to your community.

Part 2

Using the internet, locate a news article about a criminal court case that is under appeal and provide a link to that case study.  (Please read through the postings of your classmates to be sure there are no duplicates.)  In addition to posting the case study link, write a few sentences to describe the constitutional issue that is significant to the appeal and also comment in your own opinion about the merits of the appeal.  In your opinion and based on what you know about the criminal justice system, should this case be affirmed, reversed, or remanded by the appellate court?

Please respond to the following:
–Determine two potential risks that an employee might face by reporting a whistleblower offense.
–Analyze the circumstances under which the federal government could record or track calls without any search warrant. As a business owner, assess the implications to protecting your customers. [1-2 references]
Contracts
Please respond to the following:
–Distinguish between bilateral and unilateral contracts and how each might apply to a printing company that is contracting with an equipment vendor for the purchase of a new copier.
–Recommend how a company can protect its intellectual property during a major upgrade to its computer systems. . [1-2 references]

Contract Breaches
Please respond to the following:
–Propose how offers are terminated by acts of the parties and by operation of law.
–Distinguish among valid, void, voidable, and unenforceable contracts. Provide a circumstance in which each would be evident. [1-2 references]

Post an essay of 2,000 to 2,500 words in the assignment section of the website on this question, and use the material assigned up to this point in the course as evidence: What was the most important variable in determining immigrant success? You might consider such variables as immigrants’ attitudes and cultures as well as variations in how native-born Americans treated them as well as such variables as gender, social class, and age.

Required Texts:
Roger Daniels, Guarding the Golden Door: American Immigration Policy and
Immigrants since 1882, Hill and Wang, 2004.

Miriam Cohen, Workshop to Office: Two Generations of Italian American
Women in New York City, 1900-1950, Cornell University Press, 1993.

Ruben Martinez, Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail,
Picador, 2001.

William Kelleher Storey, Writing History: A Guide for Students, Oxford
University Press, 5th edition.

You will also be required to read an autobiography written by an immigrant (or the child of an immigrant) to the United States since the 1870s and at least five articles. You must do your own research to locate the autobiography and one of the articles.

About the Books Guarding the Golden Door focuses on immigration policy in the United States since the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. Roger Daniels is one of the most prominent historians of American immigration. This book focuses more on what immigrants faced than how they acted; it sheds a great deal of light on the changing nature of federal policies.
Workshop to Office is a specialized study, a monograph (based on primary and secondary sources) that is very well written and focused. It has a precise and nuanced thesis regarding Italian-American women’s changing commitment to their families. It shows how the nature of that commitment could change dramatically in a single generation while retaining much of its intensity.
Crossing Over is one of the most engaging and incisive books that I have read in the past couple years. Martinez is not an historian or an academic, but he did a great deal of personal research among Mexicanos on both sides of the border for this book, and he uses that experience to give readers a very personalized view of how migration to and from the United States affects people on both sides of the border.
Writing History is a brief but useful introduction to how historians go about conceiving, researching, and writing a research paper. If you have already written a major research paper for an upper-division history course, you may find this somewhat redundant. But every hour you spend reading this is likely to save you several down the road.

Week #3
Read/View: Weekly introductory lecture
Early Draft of Long Essay #1; Discussion #3:
Post an essay of 2,000 to 2,500 words on this question, and use the material assigned up to this point in the course as evidence: What was the most important variable in determining immigrant success? You might consider such variables as immigrants’ attitudes and cultures as well as variations in how native-born Americans treated them as well as such variables as gender, social class, and age.

Long Essays
Long essays (from 2,000 to 2,500 words) are assigned every three weeks or so during the term.
With the exception of the last assignment, it is sufficient (for all the essays posted in the discussions and the first two longer essays) to provide references only after quotations, with the editor and page numbers in parentheses. It is not necessary to list your sources at the end of the paper.
The last long essay should use the standard form of references (footnotes and a bibliography) stipulated in the Chicago Manual of Style by Kate Turabian. This system is summarized in Storey. A fuller version can be accessed through this link: (http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html). Each paragraph that presents evidence should end with a footnote that lists the sources of the evidence used in the paragraph, and the essay should be followed by a bibliography that lists all the sources used in the essay. This last essay must use the two articles specified above and at least three others from scholarly journals (such as the American Historical Review, the Journal of American History, the Journal of American Ethnic History) accessed via the Oregon State Library. Here is the link to the OSU Library’s page for Ecampus: http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/. This link provides access to such resources as: information on how to borrow books from the library (and others in the Pacific Northwest) without visiting the Corvallis campus; the general catalogue (useful for finding immigrant autobiographies); finding aids such as American History and Life (to use in finding articles relevant to the autobiography one selects); and e-journals (so that one can access those journals electronically).
Tips on Essay Writing
All of the essays, brief and more extensive, should be interpretive and analytical. I am not looking for a book review or a summation of what you found interesting in the readings. Rather, I am looking for an engaging and convincing answer to a thorny question.
The trick to writing a strong essay is to both construct an interesting argument that answers the question and to back it up with evidence. The evidence is of two general types: primary and secondary. Primary sources are documents (or maps, paintings, photographs) produced by the people under study, the historical actors. Secondary texts are written by scholars, by the people doing the studying. Diaries, personal letters, or census returns are primary sources. Secondary sources are attempts to make sense out of the past, usually by people with no first-hand experience of the period they are interpreting. Your essays should use evidence from both primary and secondary sources when both are available. I have provided an example of a brief essay at the end of this section. I wrote it many years ago in a class at Northwestern University on the colonial U.S. Notice the essay’s structure: the thesis is declared clearly (I hope) at the close of the first paragraph. Each of the next several paragraphs then supports that thesis by marshaling several pieces of evidence from an historical source. Each of these paragraphs begins with a topic sentence, a sentence that links the evidence (in the body of the paragraph) to the thesis (the sentence at the close of the first paragraph). The essay closes with a brief conclusion that restates the thesis and speaks to larger ramifications. I have also pasted an example of an excellent student essay written for this class from a previous year. It is important to be consistent–and being consistent is much harder than it looks. You will inevitably find that the body of your paper begins to drift from your thesis. Do not panic. Simply make adjustments. Revise your thesis or rework the body to fit it more closely. I expect the essays to be clear. Brilliance is not much use if no one can understand you. Strive for clear, concise sentences. Try to be sensitive to complexity in all of your essays. I often ask students to agree or disagree to an assertion. Take a firm stand in answering such questions, but the answer can be nuanced as well as firm, can, for example, agree in some respects and disagree in others.
I shall of course give you more detailed and particular feedback as we go along; the course is designed for that. I find that my own writing improves dramatically with critical feedback, and many students have said the same thing. Think of writing as being like marriage: an ongoing process. We never arrive at perfection, and we get closer to it by working hard, not by being innately talented. Online tutoring for writing is available at: http://ecampus.oregonstate.edu/services/student-services/online-tutoring/.

This final exam is worth 20 points/20% of your class grade. While you may use your textbooks and any outside sources as references, I would expect that since this is a test, you will be answering in your own words  (except, for example, if you list the Arabic names for each of the five pillars). Each of these four questions will require a response of at least four to five substantive paragraphs.

1. Regardless of denomination or sect, practicing Jews celebrate several religious holidays/holy days. Tell me about any four of them, describing activities connected with the time and its theological/religious significance. Why do you think anti-Semitism still exists in our world?

2. List and describe (very clearly) the Five Pillars of Islam. How does each function in a Muslim’s life? You can make a little chart for this question if that would help you organize the information more cleanly. In summation, tell me why Americans need to have a basic understanding of Islam.

3. How is Islam similar to Judaism and Christianity, its monotheistic predecessors? Elaborate upon some of the differences between these three religious communities. Feel free to discuss theological points, specific religious practices, views of heaven and hell, structure of clergy, etc.

4.  Present the basics of Muhammad’s life and the early history of Islam, including how/why the religion split into the two main sects existing today.

Answer each of the eight numbered items in atleast 100 words each with refences.

1. Organizational influences and project life cycle

2. Project integration management

3. Project stakeholder management

4. Defining project success

5. Understanding project management

6. General systems management

7. The stage gate process

8. Project life cycles

The objective is to complete a written plan that will suggest a practical Strategic Direction for a company.

This course requires the completion of a comprehensive Strategic Plan.

You have a choice to use either an existing company or a fictitious company. In either case, the Project is to complete a written plan that will suggest a practical Strategic Direction for the company.

The Plan will have 7 sections. The 6 sections will reflect each of the 6 TCOs plus a bibliography. Each section will be 2 – 3 pages in standard business proposal format.

The sections are:

1. Strategy (TCO F)
2. Core Competencies (TCO C)
3. Industry Dynamics (TCO A)
4. Technology Sourcing and Internal Innovation (TCO D)
5. Product Development Strategy (TCO E)
6. Strategy to protect innovations (TCO B)
7. A bibliography listing your references for the project

Section 1 – Strategy

TCO F – Given an organizational and industry context, identify and suggest a deployment strategy that will facilitate the success of a technologically driven organization.

This is the most important part of the project, because it sets the direction for all other sections. In this section, you establish the strategy for an organization.

Often people refer to this component as the “Vision” or “Mission” of a company, but it is not. The Vision for a company could be that you want to be a market leader. However, the technology strategy tells everyone how you will achieve that market leadership. The technology strategy tells the various stakeholders – employees, customers, community, and stockholders – what you are going to do to achieve that market leadership. This strategy should be very clear and easy to understand so that everyone will be “on the same page” when it comes to working together toward that goal.

In this section, you should describe what “SHOULD” be the strategy of a technologically driven company. You should focus specifically on the technology strategy. You should think about all the things we learned in the class that will determine a strategy that will help the company succeed.

Remember that you can use either an existing company or a fictitious company. If you choose to use an existing company, you can visit their web site to see if their strategy is listed. Or you can do a web search on their technology strategy to see if anyone has written any stories about their strategy. For a fictitious company, you should make up a technology strategy that fits that type of company.

Examples of a Technology Strategy:

• Verizon Wireless – Have the best network of all wireless carriers
• Honda – Build the best engines
• Keller – Deploy the best Internet based on-line and blended education technology, not build it, not own it, but use a 3rd party to provide it
• Intel – Have the fastest and most powerful CPUs

The key is to be able to describe the strategy in a 1 or 2 sentence summary and in detail as well. The description should start or end with the simple sentence statement of the technology strategy. However, there must be sufficient detail to explain why that is the right strategy.

Section 2 – Core Competencies

TCO C – Given an organizational and industry context, identify the core technological competencies of the organization.

Like all subsequent sections of the project, this section is based on the Strategy Section.

Example:

• Verizon Wireless Strategy is the having the best Network. Thus, the core competencies will be built around the network. Things like RF Engineers and wireless security experts would be detailed
• Intel’s strategy is to build the fastest most powerful CPUs. Thus their core competencies will be built around CPU engineering
• Keller’s strategy is to deploy the best on-line education technology. Thus their core competencies would be things like educational technology evaluation and on-line education curriculum development

The best way to do this section is to apply the three tests of a core competency (page 123) to the strategy that you detailed in the Strategy Section.

Section 3 Industry Dynamics

TCO A – Given a company situation be able to describe the industry dynamics of technological innovation.

Here you should take the strategy identified in Section 1 and describe in detail why that is the right strategy based on what is occurring in the industry. Provide as much detail as possible as to the industry trends and why you think those trends are important.

Section 4 – Technology Sourcing and Internal Innovation

TCO D – Given an organizational context, develop a plan to increase the innovative capabilities of the organization both through collaboration strategies and internal innovation.

Here you would offer ideas as to what is the best way to “Source” the technology that supports the strategy. A complete discussion about how best to manage the innovative capabilities of the company being described is required.

Section 5 – Product Development Strategy

TCO E – Given information about a company’s industry, and organization, formulate a technological innovation strategy through its new product development strategy.

Product Development is very important to an organization. This section will describe how the company will structure its product development. Obviously, the kind of structure will be determined directly by the technology strategy stated in Section 1.

Section 6 Strategy to protect innovations

TCO B – Given a company situation be able to determine whether and how to protect its technological innovations.

Using the things learned in the class, describe how you would use patents, trade secrets, copyrights, etc. to protect the Intellectual Property (IP) required to support the strategy.

See the Syllabus section “Due Dates for Assignments & Exams” for due date information. Submit your assignment to the Dropbox located on the silver tab at the top of this page.

Don’t forget to cite your sources properly, both parenthetically and in your bibliography/works cited. If you need assistance with proper citation, the following web site may be beneficial:

http://www.apastyle.org/faqs.html

Be certain to review the “APA Style Guidelines” Tutorial available from THE HUB’s Library Port.

It is common knowledge that Web server application attacks have become common in today’s digital information sharing age. Understanding the implications and vulnerabilities of such attacks, as well as the manner in which we may safeguard against them is paramount, because our demands on e-Commerce and the Internet have increased exponentially. In this assignment, you will examine the response of both the U.S. government and non-government entities to such attacks.
Write a three to five (3-5) page paper in which you:
Examine three (3) common Web application vulnerabilities and attacks, and recommend corresponding mitigation strategies for each. Provide a rationale for your response.
Using Microsoft Visio or an open source alternative such as Dia, outline an architectural design geared toward protecting Web servers from a commonly known Denial of Service (DOS) attack. Note: The graphically depicted solution is not included in the required page length.
Based on your research from the Network World article, examine the potential reasons why the security risks facing U.S. government Websites were not always dealt with once they were identified and recognized as such.
Suggest what you believe to be the best mitigation or defense mechanisms that would help to combat the Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) concerns to which the article refers. Propose a plan that the U.S. government could use in order to ensure that such mitigation takes place. The plan should include, at a minimum, two (2) mitigation or defense mechanisms.
Use at least three (3) quality resources outside of the suggested resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.
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 or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.
Include charts or diagrams created in Visio or an open source alternative such as Dia. The completed diagrams / charts must be imported into the Word document before the paper is submitted.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
Define common and emerging security issues and management responsibilities.
Evaluate an organization’s security policies and risk management procedures, and its ability to provide security countermeasures.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in security management.
Write clearly and concisely about the theories of security management using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.