Final Paper Assignment The primary goal of your final assignment is to critically analyze the specific topic you have chosen regarding American national government. You have been preparing for this final assignment each week by constructing an Annotated Bibliography (Week 2) and a detailed outline of the Final Paper’s main points (Week 3) in which you focused on the following: Historical and constitutional basis for the American Government’s structure The system of checks and balances The various roles (e., public opinion, media, special interest groups, etc.) concerning public policy and elections The voting system and election process. In addition, you have read the course text and course readings, reviewed videos, and researched additional material for each week’s assignments and this paper. This week, you will put all of those outlines, readings, reviews, and research together to evaluate policymaking and government program administration into one Final Paper. As we wrap up our course, reflect on what you have learned about the key structures, systems, roles, and processes that embody our national government. Think about the strengths and weaknesses, advantages and disadvantages, and positive and negative impacts of these aspects of our democracy. Use what you have learned so far to evaluate a specific policy of our national government and recommend ways to enhance what works and repair what is not working well. It is important that your Final Paper utilizes your previous research and assignments, including the feedback that you received from the Ashford Writing Center in Week 4. The assignment should also showcase what you have learned in the course. While your previous assignments will serve as a strong base for this assignment, it is very important that you implement feedback from your instructor and the Ashford Writing Center, as well as further expand on the material. Appropriate transitions and headings are needed to ensure a cohesive Final Paper. The Final Paper should utilize the POL201 Final Paper template and be at least six pages in length (not including title page and references) and based on your previously submitted assignments. It is important to utilize APA Style Elements (Links to an external site.) headings for major sections of your paper in order to ensure that the paper is easy to follow. Scaffold your paper around the following outline: Title page (see Introduction to APA (Links to an external site.)) Introduction (half page) (see Introductions & Conclusions (Links to an external site.)) Describe the paper’s overall thesis. Provide an overview of main points. First Main Point (one to one and a half pages) describes the historical and Constitutional basis of American government’s structure and how this relates to the policy. Describe the main point. Support the main point with research. Second Main Point (one to one and a half pages) explains how the policy is involved within the process of checks and balances. Describe the main point. Support the main point with research. Third Main Point (one to one and a half pages) describes how the policy relates to public policy and elections and how the policy is portrayed by the media. Describe the main point. Support the main point with research. Fourth Main Point (one to one and a half pages) explains how the policy impacts voting and the election process. Describe the main point. Support the main point with research. Conclusion(see Introductions & Conclusions (Links to an external site.)) Review your main points. Review your overall thesis. References page (see Formatting Your References List (Links to an external site.)) The Final Paper Assignment Must be at least six double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA Style (Links to an external site.) as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.).

This week your project will continue a self-analysis of your own ecosystem by focusing on your micro and mesosystems. Besides detailing dimensions of each system, discuss how they are connected, identifying any familial patterns or behavior interactions that have impacted who you are as an adult. Make sure to use reference support in APA format to explain the networks and conclusions you have identified. This section should be done in 2-3 pages.

Write an essay analyzing one of our stories from this Unit that discusses why and how specific symbols, metaphors, or uses of irony are used to depict one or two of the themes from Unit 1 in a particular way. Your essay should incorporate details and quotes from the story (using parenthetical documentation with the author's name), and you should use your own words to elaborate on the meanings of the details and quotes you use as evidence. You will closely read your chosen story, considering its themes, characters, organization, dialogue, and other literary elements. Take notes to outline later.Read and reread the story; by paying attention to the varied features of the story, your awareness of these literary elements and how they build the story's meaning will grow. Start to compose your outline and working thesis about literary devices the author uses, and how they contribute to the theme or themes you've identified.See the Irony and Alienation in "Everything That Rises Must Converge" page as an example of how to approach your analysis. Take your working thesis and build your introductory paragraph, making sure to lay out your main points.Following your close reading of the story, draft your remaining paragraphs, providing textual evidence from the story to support each of your main points. See the Starting Your Short Story Analysis Essay page for an outline of how to proceed.Finally, write a conclusion, restating your thesis in such a way to encompass greater issues of time periods, cultural movements, or a lens of literary criticism through which the story and your identified theme(s) can be viewed.Be sure to maintain an appropriate academic tone (no slang, second-person ["you," "we"], contractions, etc.)When writing your essay, the goal is to demonstrate what spin the story has on a particular theme. Be specific about the ways the theme is used and how the story's use of symbols develops a deeper meaning to the theme. Provide details, including cited direct quotes from the story, but don't forget that you must comment on the quotes you use to explain why they are significant.Criteria on Which You Will be Graded:The specificity and development of your thesisYour supporting claims, logic, and organizationThe quality of your writing, to include paragraph development and organization: topic sentences, conclusions, transitions, etc. See Starting Your Short Story Analysis Essay.Your engagement with the text (how you explain your examples, your choice of supporting quotations)Format: You are required to use MLA style for all writing assignments. Proper MLA citation and a correctly formatted Works Cited page (12-point font, Times New Roman, double spacing, Last name and page number on each page, etc.). Please refer to the Purdue Online Writing Lab for MLA formatting and style guide.Academic Honesty (all sources must be cited)Length Requirement: 750-1000 wordshttps://ia800505.us.archive.org/2/items/RayBradbury-SoftRains/There%20Will%20Come%20Soft%20Rains%20-%20Ray%20Bradbury.pdf.