Explain the author’s thesis – the main point or points that he/she is trying to
make in the article. This is not a description or summary of the article; it is an
explanation of the author’s purpose; the central idea or ideas around which the article is
organized.
Critically analyse the ways in which organisations can use resourcing to ‘add-value’ and contribute to improved performance.
The Island of Doctor Moreau as a means to explain and critique (examine from a critical perspective) H. G. Wells’ ideas about human and/or animal nature. This requires you to ‘work outward’ from one piece of text and draw out all its significance, drawing connections from the passage to the text as a whole. Even though you are being asked to center your discussion of the text on one single passage, you may certainly draw in other quotes and reference other passages and aspects of the text. Choose a passage that offers rich matter for analysis and in which several threads of thought about human and/or animal nature come together.
In the 19th century, China and Japan both encountered the coming of the West (The Opium War
and the Coming of Perry). Describe the reasons for the coming of the West and articulate the two
countries’ different and similar responses to these challenges.
Imagine you recently transferred from a federal agency to work in Arizona state government. What would you observe as differences between budgeting at the federal level versus budgeting practices/processes in Arizona (or states generally)?
Intergovernmental transfers such as grants provide revenue from one level of government down to another. Locate a type of intergovernmental transfer in use today. Share your findings and discuss the program, funding source, recipient, and program conditions (the strings attached).
Discuss the factors outlined by Fisher that may result in local government spending increases in the future?
How have citizens impacted state-local government revenue generation choices?
