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You are the emergency manager in Miami, Florida. Your city manager has directed you to act as a subject matter expert and provide the city’s webmaster with material that thoroughly discusses which types of natural and man-made disasters you think are the most significant or troublesome for emergency managers. In addition, your city manager wants to ensure that the citizens have access to the most up-to-date information about disaster response. The city council would like to have a bond election next year and hopes that your information will garner support for the issue.
What type of natural hazard do you think is the most significant or troublesome to emergency managers? Why?
What type of man-made hazard do you think is the most significant or troublesome to emergency managers? Why?
What do you think are the most significant specific response challenges associated with the hazards that you selected? Explain.

Scenario

Business continuity and disaster recovery plans are required to counteract interruptions to business activities and to protect critical business processes from the effects of major failures or disasters. The Payroll Department (“Department”) of ISO Company, Inc. is classified as a critical business process because of the sensitive, private, and confidential information it hosts. It would be disastrous for the Department if information gets lost or if its business systems go off-line, even for a day. During planning meetings, IT auditors kept the following objectives in mind: Are the Department’s business systems adequately backed up? Are backup copies of the Department’s data held in a secure and remote media store? Is there evidence that the current backup strategy works in practice? Is there an appropriate disaster recovery plan established as part of the company’s business continuity plan? Is the disaster recovery plan based on a thorough risk assessment?

Overview

As part of the IT audit of ISO Company, Inc.’s Payroll Department, IT auditors uncovered a number of problems with the company’s business continuity and disaster recovery plans and practices. While conducting the audit, IT auditors observed that the organization’s business continuity and disaster recovery plans, both established 10 years ago, have not been updated to reflect continuity and disaster recovery practices for the current environment. For example, although backup copies were made of the Department’s information, upon inspection, IT auditors discovered that those backups were not maintained at the off-site location where they were supposed to be stored. Moreover, when IT auditors asked for documentation supporting the tests performed of the Department’s business continuity and disaster recovery plans, they discovered that the Department had never tested the plans. The Department also had not conducted any risk assessment in support of the plans.

The Department’s information systems, Payroll System Application (PSA), is open to external attacks since it is interconnected through the network. A collapse of the PSA would bring dire consequences for the Department. In fact, in the event of a crash, switching over to a manual system would not be an option. Manual handling of the company’s payroll sensitive, private, and confidential information by staff personnel has resulted in previous loss of such information. Hence, the PSA must operate online at all times. The auditors agree that, based on the above observations, in the event of interruptions due to natural disasters, accidents, equipment failures, and deliberate actions, the Department may not be able to cope with the pressure.

Task
List the risks the ISO Company, Inc.’s Payroll Department is exposed to as a result of the observations. Also, document audit recommendations you would communicate to ISO Company, Inc.’s management related to the lack of continuity and disaster recovery procedures observed. Support your reasons and justifications with IT audit literature and/or any other valid external source. Include examples, if appropriate, to evidence your case point.

Deliverable

Submit a Word document with a cover page, responses to the task above, and a reference section at the end. The submitted file should be five (5) pages long (double line spacing), including cover page and references. Be ready to present your work to the class. Submit your paper to the Assignments dropbox titled for this activity by the date specified by your instructor.

The dimensions for the satellite will be constrained by ESPA ring attachment (4 point, ¼” attachments)
This mount is limited to 180 kg, 24 “ x 28 “ x 38 “. So, the satellite is an octagonal prism, 60 cm across, 90 cm in length. The solar panels stowed on the sides will be within the allowable envelope (72 cm) making them 60 cm x 90 cm panels.

This essay examines the development of logical positivism and how scientific methodology has become a basis for public administration thought. Please begin by watching the videos below.
1. Examine how twentieth-century logical positivism challenged many of the suppositions posited by earlier philosophers.
2. What aspects of logical positivism can you specifically identify within the field of public administration today?
Sources:
 https://youtu.be/DMlXmLbGKJY
 https://youtu.be/QQS9fFg0cGY
 https://youtu.be/ip6p6Y7IUrE
 https://youtu.be/4cnRJGs08hE
 Somerville, J., & Santoni, R. (2012). Social and political philosophy: Readings from Plato to Gandhi. Anchor.
350 words total
APA must use at least 3 sources including those provided. Videos count as one total.

ENGL1001
Essay II: Poetry
Assignment: Choose from any of the poetry we have read in class. Analyze the poem in depth
for your essay, being sure to include an argumentative thesis statement and textual evidence. You
will use your own close reading of the text to construct this essay — no outside research is to be
used.
Please do the following:
● Create a question about the text in relation to your topic and use your analysis to answer
that question. (Question need not be stated in the actual essay; use it as a starting point)
● Develop an argumentative thesis statement that clearly establishes your essay topic and
stance.
● Organize the essay around your argument in order to enhance a reader’s understanding of
the text.
● Use literary terminology and in your analysis when applicable.
You are free to develop your own topic on this essay, so please feel free to follow whatever topic
has interested you most in class. Here are some questions to consider as you explore and develop
your topic:
● What is the meaning of the poem?
○ Remember to go beyond the obvious. Saying that Emily Dickinson’s poem “Title
Divine is Mine” is about marriage is obvious and is not an argument.
■ Instead, think about what the poem is saying about that topic, or what
attitude it has toward the topic, and how it’s delivered for a more focused
analysis.
● How is the meaning of this poem conveyed?
○ How does the poet deliver the meaning of the poem? What devices and
techniques are employed? To what ends?
● What’s the weirdest, strangest, most confusing or mysterious part of the poem?
○ Sit in this moment. Just pointing out a confusing moment in a poem is not an
argumentative analysis, but providing clarity or making an argument for how the
poem should be interpreted is an argument.
● Do you notice any repetitions or emphases of concept or image, any pairings and
contrasts? What is the effect?
● What symbols or images are used in the poem? To what ends? What is significant about
the poem’s symbolism/imagery?
● How should the poem be interpreted?
Purpose: Produce an interesting and detailed analysis of a poem. Pose an interesting, complex,
significant reading of your chosen poem using textual evidence to support your argumentative
analysis.
Format: Standard MLA Style (8 th Edition). Double-spaced, 12 pt. Times New Roman Font, 1”
margins, MLA works cited page.
Research: None. Please do not use any research for this assignment. Rely on your own critical
thinking and interpretive skills.
Length: 3-4 pages double-spaced, not including Works Cited page; roughly 750-1000 words.
Due Date: The essay is due in the Canvas “Essay I” submission box at 8:00 am on Monday,
November 11th. You must also turn in a print copy. I will accept papers during my office hours
of 9:30-12:00 on Wednesday, November 13th with no late penalty. If your paper is not both
submitted to Canvas and turned in in print to me by the end of my office hours, it may be
subject to a late submission penalty.
You will receive a grade and written feedback on the paper copy of your essay you submit to me.
These comments will be useful in your future writing in this class, especially if you choose to
revise this essay later in the semester for your Revised Essay assignment. See Grading Rubric for
more information on evaluative criteria.
Additional Guidelines:
● Develop a clear, focused thesis that explicitly indicates your proposed interpretation of
the poem.
● You may need to provide a very brief summary to support your point, but you are not
writing a summary. Focus on analysis.
● For poetry, cite line numbers instead of page numbers. If you reference a word/phrase in
the third line, for example, cite it with “quotation” (Author 3).
○ (Exception: for Whitman, use both section and line number. For example, the
third line of section five would be 5.3; the fifteenth through seventeenth lines of
section 39 would be 39.15-17. Use page numbers for Citizen ).
● Use / to show line breaks when including quotations in your essay. For example: “You do
not do, you do not do / Any more, black shoe / In which I have lived like a foot” (Plath
1-3).
● Use present tense when discussing literature.
● Be sure to include the poem and the author you are using in the introduction of your
essay in addition to your thesis statement.
● Always be sure to “unpack” your quotations and to provide proper documentation. All
quotes used as support must be adequately explained, developed, and cited. A quote
cannot stand alone in an essay.
● Do not use first- or second-person pronouns. When it comes to a personal interpretation
of fiction, you are the authority; however, phrases that begin with “I believe” and “I
think” detract from your authority and familiarity with the text and make your
interpretation look like simple personal opinion rather than informed, supported analysis.
● A works cited page in 8 th Edition MLA is required.
Developing a topic / questions to consider as you interpret your poem:
● What poem are you writing about?
○ Which details or aspects of this poem will you be focusing on? (Ex: Symbols,
word choice, etc.)
■ Can you easily point out these details?
■ Can you explain their significance? What do they mean?
■ What are these details doing ? What is their purpose in the poem?
● How do these details contribute to the poem’s larger meaning?
○ What is the poem’s larger meaning?
○ Why are these details and the poem’s larger meaning so
important for a reader to understand? What is at stake?
● As you study poetry, any time you think “________ might be saying/mean _______”
you’ve already developed a hypothesis — change your wording to a statement and you
have the beginnings of an argument: “____________ is saying/ does mean __________”
● Any time you’re able to identify something like a symbol, and image, or an interesting
contrast, etc., within a poem, even if you’re not entirely sure what that detail is doing or
what it means, you can use it as a starting point for an argument. What is that detail doing
in your interpretation of the poem?