Emergency Preparedness, Emergency Response and Management

before starting this project, you are required to read your Project One. You are also required to read the assigned reading, for the week titled "Emergency Preparedness, Emergency Response and Management" and all the lecture notes for this course. After reading the assigned document and doing your research, you should address the following:

Do a comprehensive comparison of THREE nations. In your comprehensive comparison, you should discuss

Introduction

• The population of each of the three countries that you select (Use information from project one)
  • The size of the population
  • Diversity
  • Religion
• The location of the nations that you selected (Use information from project one)
  • Where they are located
  • What are the hazards common to this location (natural, health-related and acts of terrorism)
    • Indicate the occurrence of any of the hazards
  • How the intersections of these hazards make the citizens of each of these nations vulnerable
• Thesis statement (this is the question that you are addressing in Project Two)
• The sequence in which you will address the thesis statement. Make sure that you tie in the new information that you address.

Discussion

• The legislative and judiciary systems (Use information from project one)
  • The structure of these systems
  • The role that the systems play in developing and achieving the homeland security policies and strategies in these nations
• Counter-terrorism laws
  • The laws and
  • The evolution of these laws (for example: if they had laws prior to the 9/11 event why did they have these laws)
  • (do some personal research and cite all your sources)
• Counter-terrorism strategy
  • The type of strategy (law enforcement or war-fighting or both)
  • Why are they adopting the strategy?
  • The type of policing strategy
  • (do some personal research and cite all your sources)
• Emergency preparedness, Emergency response, and Management
  • What role does the military play (if any)?
  • What role do NGOs play (if any)?
  • How are hazard events managed? (for example; the British Gold, Silver and bronze system)
  • What are the approached towards public education for preparedness and can such an approach be implemented in the United States?
  • (do some personal research and cite all your sources)

Conclusion

• See conclusion information below in the paper checklist.

Project Two Paper Checklist

Basic requirements: (40 points)

• Cover page (points)
• Minimum 15 pages double spaced (the cover page is not a part of the 15 pages) (points)
• Times New Roman 12 font (points)
• Page number bottom right (points)
• Grammar CHECK AND TRIPLE CHECK (your paper will suffer if your grammar is inadequate) (35 points)

Content Point distribution (60 points)

1. Introduction

• Paper has a heading stating “INTRODUCTION” (points)
• Paper explains why the topic is relevant to the Homeland Security discourse (points)
• Paper identifies the thesis statement: THE THESIS STATEMENT IS THE QUESTION THAT YOU ARE ANSWERING. (points)
• Paper identifies sequentially, how you will address the thesis statement in the paper. (points)

1. Discussion

• Paper has a heading stating “DISCUSSION” (points)
• Using bullet points, Paper follows THE EXACT SEQUENCE indicated in the introduction section, that the student will use to discuss the thesis statement (points).
• Each idea identified in the sequence (in the introduction), is an italicized subheading with subsequent discussion ideas (points)
• The analysis is supported by in-text citations in APA style (points)
• *****NOTE: DO NOT CUT AND PASTE. If you plagiarize or copy other students work, you will earn a ZERO in the paper and you will be reported to the University’s Academic Honesty body for disciplinary actions

1. Conclusion

• Paper has a heading stating “CONCLUSION” (points)
• Has points that relate back to the introduction (points)
• Has ideas that go beyond merely identifying the introduction topics and discusses the student’s opinion about what was learned and the relevance of what they learned. (points)

1. Reference

• Paper has a heading stating “REFERENCE” (points)
• All references MUST be in APA style. (points). Each reference MUST be cited appropriately in–text.