Write a researched argument about an issue described in the readings you have used for your first or second essays or an issue affecting your future career field, your major field, or your immediate community.

The Inquiry Process (Joining the Conversation) (5–7 pages)
About This Assignment
Write a researched argument about an issue described in the readings you have used for your first or second essays or an issue affecting your future career field, your major field, or your immediate community. This paper provides your own conclusions based on the research, but you should take into account what you have learned during this course: begin by showing the conversation your paper is responding to (“they say”), have a clear statement of your own argument (“I say”), include quotes and incorporate them smoothly, point out possible objections to your argument, use appropriate transitions, and explain why the issue matters. You might also consider adding metacommentary and finding ways to include your own voice, even though this is academic writing.
Grounded and Challenging Topics
Although you are generally free to choose your subject, I would like you to stay away from topics whose arguments are primarily focused on a moral, religious, or philosophical issue (speculative topics). Likewise, the following issues may not be selected: abortion, the death penalty, lowering the drinking age, legalizing currently illegal drugs, euthanasia, cloning, and violence on television / in video games. I think you will get more out of this assignment if you think a bit deeper than trite topics. Instead of taking the all-too-easy standard topic approach, seriously consider issues that speak to you personally, issues that awaken in you a sense of urgency, issues that inspire your creativity and originality.
Research and Format
You must use at least three outside resources in this essay. The sources will be chosen from the Annotated Bibliography assignment or from the library databases or book sources. No non-professional / non-academic websites may be used in this essay. At least four direct quotes must be used in the essay. You must include one visual element, including a chart, graph, an image, etc. The essay must be a minimum of five (5) pages, typed and double spaced. Cite and document sources using MLA format both in-text and on the works cited page.

Purpose To develop skills is analysis, research, synthesis of sources, and argument.

Grading
A Paper In an interesting, logical, persuasive, and well researched essay thoroughly explains the issue, its causes, and your response to the issue.

Essay is well researched, full of interesting, relevant, and persuasive examples, quotations, and statistics. Evidence comes from credible and reliable sources.

Quotes are gracefully introduced and correctly cited. Information from research is correctly documented. The essay draws on the required number of sources, and they are listed on the works cited page and correctly formatted.

Organization is strong and effective. Essay contains a well developed introductory paragraph with a clear, argumentative thesis statement. Body paragraphs have strong topic sentences that are ideas. The conclusion is thoughtful and well developed.

Describe how you will apply appropriate ethical principles throughout the penetration testing process.

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Rules of Engagement
Overview
Include a brief description of the penetration test project.

Scope
Discuss the scope of the penetration test (pen test).

Checklist
Provide a list of the testing requirements.

Ethical Considerations
Describe how you will apply appropriate ethical principles throughout the penetration testing process.

Reconnaissance Plan
Overview
Provide a summary of the Reconnaissance phase.

Reconnaissance Methods
Identify specific methods and demonstrate a structured and ordered methodology while gathering key information that could be used to penetrate the network and systems of Haverbrook Investment Group. Discuss in detail both passive and active methods of reconnaissance.

Scanning Plan

Overview
Provide a summary of the Scanning phase.

Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures
Outline and discuss specific use cases to discover and enumerate information that could be used for potential exploitation. Some examples of information that you are gathering from Haverbrook Investment Group’s systems are usernames, machine names, shares, and services from a system. Identify any software, applications, or scripts that will be needed and provide a description of how this software will be used to gather information about Haverbrook’s systems.

Gaining Access Plan

Overview
Provide a summary of the Gaining Access phase.

Vulnerable Resources
Identify the resources where vulnerabilities can be located and include a brief description of those resources. Be sure to include a reference to the vulnerability, i.e., NVD.

Techniques and Software
Provide the techniques and any software, applications, or scripts that will be used in gaining access to the network(s) or system(s) along with a description of each technique. Refer to Chapter 6 in the textbook for additional information.

Maintaining Access Plan
Overview
Provide a summary of the Maintaining Access phase.

Techniques and Software
Identify the techniques used to maintain network and/or system access. Provide a brief summary of each technique. Include any software, applications, or scripts that may be needed to maintain access in the network or system(s). Refer to Chapter 6 in the textbook for additional information.

Covering Your Tracks Plan
Overview
Provide a summary of the Cover Your Tracks phase.

Techniques and Software
Identify the methods, software, applications, scripts and any other means of covering your tracks. Provide a brief description of how each of these will be used to hide from the system administrator. Refer to Chapter 6 in the textbook for additional information.

Describe a plan of care to ensure nurses are prepared to provide optimal care.


A. Watch the presentation of emergency nursing and disaster preparedness. Submit a 1 page reflection on the role of the nurse during a global health disaster/emergency. As a disaster becomes more frequent, how has the role of the nurse changed? Choose a past or present global health disaster/emergency. Describe a plan of care to ensure nurses are prepared to provide optimal care. Are there any new technologies and resources available that can assist the nurse during that event? What are your feelings on how the current global health emergency has affected the way nurses provides care to their patients? What are two things you would do as a nurse working during these times to ensure safety and teamwork on your shift?

Explain how eyeglasses correct for these two types of deficiencies.

Make sure to include topics that are related to what we’re learning in the optics course — for example, show in some detail how the refraction equation is used to determine the path of light inside the eye for a distant source of light. Include explanations of what it means to be near-sighted or far-sighted, using equations and diagrams. Explain how eyeglasses correct for these two types of deficiencies. Also explain how and why people generally lose their ability to focus on nearby things as they get older, and the correction for this. There are various ways to diagnose the optical properties and deficiencies of the eye, and you could explain some of them (again, making contact with a quantitative treatment based on what we’ve been learning in the course.)

Locate Baraka reading his poetry on youtube.com. Write about his performance and the tone of the poems.

Select one Topic and Submit a 1-2 page paper on one of the following topics:
1) Locate Baraka reading his poetry on youtube.com. Write about his performance and the tone of the poems. Relate this to the current socio-political climate of the United States. Include answers to these questions in your paper: Has Baraka’s tone changed since his earlier writings (in the textbook)? Discuss the consideration to remove him from the poet laureate position. Is this a form of censorship?

2) Read and explicate Baraka’s 2001 poem “Somebody Blew Up America” available at http://www.amiribaraka.com/blew.html

Offer an argument about a primary text explicitly informed by one of the theoretical approaches you have read and studied in class over the term in Lois Tyson’s Critical Theory Today (psycho analytic criticism chapter).

Offer an argument about a primary text explicitly informed by one of the theoretical approaches you have read and studied in class over the term in Lois Tyson’s Critical Theory Today (psycho analytic criticism chapter). In addition to using primary textual evidence (close reading), the argument should integrate a minimum of six secondary, scholarly sources.

Discuss the formal and informal powers of the Governor Texas?

Objective: The objective for this assignment is for students to understand the critical linkage between participatory democracy (elections) and public policy in a representative democracy. It is the individual and corporate responsibility of the voters to make sure that elected officials implement public policy beneficial to the public and, if they do not, to remove them from office the next election. Students must explain how elected governors can use their formal and informal powers to influence public policy.

Congratulations! You have recently been elected the Governor of Texas. You built your successful campaign around promises to address four issues that are significant to the voters of Texas: controlling immigration from Mexico, upgrading the state’s roads and highways, making sure the death penalty is applied fairly and improving k-12 education. Please discuss each of these issues and focus on the following:

Why these issues likely helped get you elected Governor (refer to Campaign message and campaign strategy from Unit 2)? (Unit 2 Written Lectures, Slide 2-25)
Discuss the formal and informal powers of the Governor Texas? (Unit 6 Written Lectures, Slides 6-5, 6-6, 6-7, 6-8, 6-9, 6-10))
What is at least one formal power (do not use the same formal power all of the issues) that you can use to get each policy passed by the legislature? (Unit 6 Written Lectures, Slides 6-5, 6-6 & 6-7)
What is at least one informal power (do not use the same informal power for each of the issues)