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Essay Instructions: Final Exam Essay

Respond to each of the following essay questions with a 3-5 page paper making clear connections to the course material, and supporting your responses with references from the textbook and other sources using proper citations.

An intelligence unit that is secure and maintained at all times is an absolute necessity for operational reasons. Explain in detail why this is so important.
You have learned that the analyst is confronted with many tasks including collecting, entering, analyzing, and visualizing investigative data. Often the analyst is asked to present his or her findings. Discuss in detail the guidelines for preparing an oral briefing and written report and how this benefits the investigative team.
When evaluating software applications for intelligence use, what types of questions should be asked of the vendor so that the application meets the needs of the unit? Provide five pertinent questions that could be used here.

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Essay Instructions: FINAL EXAM

In class writing assignment

Respond to the following series of comments and questions in a well-crafted, well-organized essay. Please don’t try to answer the individual questions in the order they are posed, nor try to respond to the comments in the order presented. Instead, read the following paragraphs and reflect on the overall meaning of the assignment. Use specific examples from the lectures and books to support your argument. You MUST use information from lectures. Using only examples from the book will result in a poor grade. Instead, try to use the books to compliment the themes and details raised in lectures.




Historians of the 1890s through 1950s focused their studies of the early republic on the story of an emerging democracy. They glorified the story of the common man, exalted the life and presidency of Andrew Jackson, and triumphed an American society and political culture that opened suffrage to the masses (always defined as white men). But, in the late 1960s a new school of thought emerged that focused on the early idea of republicanism. Ideas about classical republicanism rested at the heart of this new examination of revolutionary ideology. What was republicanism? What did it mean to early Americans? What aspects emerged in conflicts that broke out in the early years of the infant republic? From Shays’s Rebellion to the Whiskey Rebellion? Confederations to Constitutions? Banking Schemes to Sedition Acts?

While previous historians had examined the 1830s as the natural byproduct of a revolution about “taxation without representation,” younger scholars focused on the ways that republicanism colored the language independence and good governance. The 1830s were not a period of unbridled progress, they argued, it was a separation from revolutionary ideals as an ideological revolution gave way to an industrial one. Early Americans became befuddled by mysterious systems of credit, angered by seemingly intrusive government agencies, and annoyed by an increasingly mobile and immoral society. Some attempts were made to wed republican ideals to the new market systems. How did these attempts fail? How did Americans react to the perils of progress wrought by the Market Revolution? At the same time, internal pressures of an increasingly divergent society—north and south, east and west—threatened to tear the world asunder and expose the deep scars of slavery.

How has our new understanding of the period (clearly a more critical one) changed the focus of early American historians? Who now belongs to early American history? How is the rise of democracy treated? How are democratic politicians treated in the literature? Now, think about the events discussed in class in lecture and readings and imagine how the new framework has changed the way we look at these things.

Books that may be referenced are:

Slaughter, Thomas. The Whiskey Rebellion: Frontier Epilogue to the American Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. ISBN 0195051912

Freeman, Joanne B. Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002.
ISBN 0300097557

Johnson, Paul E. A Shopkeeper’s Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815-1837. New York: Hill and Wang, 2004 edition. ISBN 0809016354

Wallace, Anthony F. C. The Long, Bitter Trail: Andrew Jackson and the Indians. New York: Hill and Wang, 1993.
ISBN 0809015528

Cohen, Patricia Cline. The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century New York. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. ISBN 0679740759

Johnson, Walter, Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001. ISBN 0674005392

Essay Instructions: Final Exam - Book Review (5 - 7 pages) - 30 Points
Students should read The Brethren or A People's History of the Supreme Court and submit a book review.
The book review should include the following items: (1) A brief summary of the book. (2) A critical analysis of the author's presentation and the relationship of those ideas to the theories and ideas presented in Chapters 1, 2, 12 and 13 of your textbook
(3) Your reaction to the book.

Essay Instructions: Final Exam Essay
You have been selected to be the Chief Planetary Geologist on a manned expedition to a planet in a newly discovered solar system. Preliminary data suggests that it resembles the inner planets of our solar system and appears to have an atmosphere and hydrosphere. Your first task is to write a proposal that lays out a plan for a Phase 1 Investigation to determine the fundamental geology and geophysics of the planet. In the plan you need to discuss the critical features and characteristics of the planet you plan to search for and how you propose to search for them to determine their importance for the modern planet and, to whatever degree possible, the history of the planet.

Your vast knowledge of planetary geology and your understanding of planetary processes in our solar system is highly respected in the global Earth Sciences community. You are known as a person who knows how planets work and what to look for to discover how they work. Your colleagues respect you for being thorough and complete and employing your knowledge effectively. Your final report will be the cornerstone for further expeditions so it must focus on the fundamental nature of the planet and be a guide for further studies. Your report can be based entirely on what you learned this quarter and further research is NOT necessary, but if you have time a couple of planetary geology websites might definitely be an enhancement. Your report should be two to three pages long.