Instructions to Follow For This Assignment:

To complete this assignment successfully, review the instructions for the Final Paper in Week Five. The intent of this assignment is to assist you in organizing and evaluating potential scholarly sources for the Final Paper.

Name of the article, including the complete bibliographic citation, using APA format.
Summary/abstract of the article – annotation (sometimes it is helpful to ask yourself the following questions in synthesizing the information:

Who? (author)
What was done? (for example, an experimental study investigating the interaction of short term memory and attention)
How? (was it done)
What were the findings? (identify the major ones)
Contributions? (New findings, applications, etc.)

How will this article support or dispute my thesis?

To conduct accurate research, you need to do research in peer-reviewed journals or other sources that are considered to have reliable information. In addition to your required course text, you need at least six professional scholarly sources, three of which must be peer reviewed journal articles found in the Ashford University Library. The paper must be formatted according to APA style and include a title page.

Instructions for the Final Paper in Week Five:

Since the September 11 attacks, the future complexion of terrorism has become quite ambiguous. Subsequently, counter terrorism strategies have evolved to address terrorist attacks of any form against the United States. For your Final Paper, you must address the following points:

a. Decide whether international or domestic terrorism currently constitutes the greatest threat to the United States. (Use historic, cultural, and diversity aspects to support your conclusion).
b. Summarize some of the strategies the United States can utilize to prevent future terrorist attacks.
c. Assess whether socio-economic strategies can be utilized to eliminate the motivation of terrorist groups or if military action is the only viable response to terrorists. (Use historic, cultural, and diversity aspects of the terrorist populations to support your conclusion).
d. Evaluate if future legislation or constitutional amendments could be utilized to hinder possible terrorist attacks.
e. Analyze if additional powers are needed by the federal government to protect the country from terrorist attacks.
f. Evaluate if the increasing of governmental powers is worth the potential erosion of civil liberties.
g. Infer what the future of terrorism is and whether the frequency of attacks will increase or decrease over time. Support your conclusion

preview of the answer..

There has been a lot of legislative changes in the war against terror following the 9/11 attacks. The article is a report by lawyers in which they examine the way in which legislative acts have led to the increase in the power of the government and, to some extent, a decrease in the people’s civil rights. In the war against terror, there is need for the government to be strong enough to protect its people and, therefore, need for more powers by the government. This article is important in the research as it gives the effects of the evolution in war against terror on the common citizen …

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