Lanza v. United States and Heath v. Alabama.

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Using oyez.com and/or Westlaw, locate the U.S. Supreme Court cases Lanza v. United States and Heath v. Alabama. In a paper of at least 3 pages, analyze why the two criminal penalties in each of these cases do not violate the Double Jeopardy clause of the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Also in your paper, locate your states arson statute and determine whether arson, in your state, is or is not a lesser included offense of murder. Be sure to indicate citations to the murder and arson statutes in the paper and on the reference page for the paper.

In addition to fulfilling the specifics of the assignment, a successful paper must also meet the following criteria:

Your paper should include a title page and reference page and be in 10- to 12-point font (Arial, Courier, and Times New Roman are acceptable).
Viewpoint and purpose should be clearly established and sustained.
Assignment should follow the conventions of Standard English (correct grammar, punctuation, etc.).
Writing should be well ordered, logical, and unified as well as original and insightful.
Your work should display superior content, organization, style, and mechanics
Appropriate citation style should be followed.
You should also make sure to:

Include a title page with full name, class name, section number, and date.
Include introductory and concluding paragraphs and demonstrate college-level communication through the composition of original materials in Standard English.
Use examples to support your discussion.
List all sources on a separate reference page at the end of your paper and cite them within the body of your paper using APA format and citation style. For more information on APA guidelines, visit Academic Tools.
Directions for Submitting Your Assignment

Compose your assignment and save it in the following format: Course#_LastnameFirstname Unit # Assignment (example: LS507_SmithJohn Unit 4 Assignment). Submit your assignment to the appropriate Dropbox by the end of the unit.

6135 W2 DB

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This case comes from the authors of our text, under “Discussion Questions,” in an earlier edition of the text.

Steven F. Goldstone, former Chairman and CEO of RJR Nabisco (one of the four biggest U.S. cigarette manufacturers), said in a magazine interview, I have no moral view of this business. . . I view it as a legal business.  You shouldnt be drawing a moral judgment about a business our country says is perfectly legal and is taxed like crazy by it.”

Consider Goldstones statement in terms of moral awareness and ethical responsibility.  If we assume that the medical profession has provided ample evidence about the dangers that cigarettes pose to our health, do you think it is possible to make an argument that ethics should not play any part in a business, like cigarettes, that is legally sanctioned by the government and its courts?  Please support your arguments with appropriate references from our text or other sources.

How to use the Library to find evidence to inform your thoughts and scholarly writing

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Using the Walden Library
Where can you find evidence to inform your thoughts and scholarly writing? Throughout your degree program, you will use research literature to explore ideas, guide your thinking, and gain new insights. As you search the research literature, it is important to use resources that are peer-reviewed and from scholarly journals. You may already have some favorite online resources and databases that you use or have found useful in the past. For this Discussion, you explore databases available through the Walden Library.
To Prepare:
        Review the information presented in the Learning Resources for using the Walden Library, searching the databases, and evaluating online resources.
        Begin searching for a peer-reviewed article that pertains to your practice area and interests you.
Post the following:
Using proper APA formatting, cite the peer-reviewed article you selected that pertains to your practice area and is of particular interest to you and identify the database that you used to search for the article. Explain any difficulties you experienced while searching for this article. Would this database be useful to your colleagues? Explain why or why not. Would you recommend this database? Explain why or why not.

The Columbia Gas of Massachusetts case

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How this will be graded:

Structure, Organization, Ease of reading, Grammar: 2.5 Points

This Assignment had a very, very specific structure.  Identify 2-4 issues.  Come up with solutions for those issues and summarize them briefly. Provide a table with Pros and Cons for each, and wrap it all up with an overall (but brief) recommendation what could have been done to help prevent this disaster from a PM perspective.  DID YOU FOLLOW THIS STRUCTURE?
Did you follow the advice given in the lectures and From Your Instructor about the format?
Did you follow rules of English grammar, spelling, and syntax?  Did you fix errors pointed out via Words editing capabilities (e.g. squiggly blue or red underlined text)?
Content: 8 Points

Is it clear from reading your assignment that you read the case and understood what happened that led up to the mistakes that were made and that yielded the fires and explosions?
Did you dig deeper?  Some people identify very technical issues did you find the underlying reasoning – the project-level thinking that may have driven decisions to go a certain way technically?
Did you keep your writing concise and to the point?  Part of the intent of this assignment is an exercise in expressing important ideas in as efficient a way as possible.
Was there a logical flow from your Issue Identification to your Proposed Solutions, to your Pros and Cons and to your conclusion?
If you did have extra information to exhibit, did you put it in an Appendix rather than in the body of the text?  Again, the focus is on a concise, crisp presentation of your arguments.
References and resources: 1.5 Points

Did you provide several relevant references that helped make your points?  Of course you can use the main Case as a reference, but did you reach out and find out more about the Columbia Gas incident from other sources?  You really should at least investigate the references pointed to at the bottom of this Case at a minimum.
Other things to consider:

Did you add value from your own professional and/or personal experience?
Did you make appropriate use of figures and tables in an appendix?  Don’t substitute quantity for quality here – one good, relevant, and meaningful small table is worth 100 randomly inserted graphs and charts.
Did you really take on the viewpoint of a project leader here, and consider the way the team was motivated, the way the different stakeholders communicated (or didnt), the culture of the different companies?
Did you consider the different stakeholder interests?