Essays on Active Duty

Newspaper Articles on Policy Issues

Immigration Eid, T. A. (2017, January 14). Trump poised to reform America's failed immigration policies. Retrieved January 27, 2017, from http://www.denverpost.com/2017/01/14/trump-poised-to-reform-americas-failed-immigration-policies/

Abortion

McGinley, L., & Goldstein, A. (2017, January 23). Trump reverses abortion-related U.S. policy, bans funding to international health groups - The Washington Post. Retrieved January 27, 2017, from https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2017/01/23/trump-reverses-abortion-related-policy-to-ban-funding-to-international-health-groups/

Tax

Shear, M., Appelbaum, B., & Rappeport, A. (2017, January 26). White House Sows Confusion About Plan for a 20% Import Tax - The New York Times. Retrieved January 27, 2017, from https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/26/us/politics/mexico-wall-tax-trump.html

Federal legislation

Newly Signed Federal Law One of the bills that was recently passed by the House and the Senate and ...

Abstract

The Hurricane Katrina is considered the most devastating storm in the United States due to its magnitude of destruction and the casualties involved. Though the weather forecasters had predicted about the storm, the American government had not put any measures to deal with the catastrophe. As a result, the Gulf Coast States that was hit hardest by Katrina lost properties worth billions as well as thousands of lives. The parties involved in the rescue process included the Army Corps, Coast Guards, as well as FEMA. The Katrina hurricane recorded the government inefficiency in two levels. The first one is ...

I. INTRODUCTION Choosing a University can be a daunting task. For me, it was all the more difficult, because of my commitment to active duty in the Army. After perusing the programs at several different institutions, I happened to come across Excelsior – quite by chance. Of course, the term struck a chord right away. I knew that the word itself meant “excellence”, and Excelsior College has already lived up to its namesake. To begin with, I needed a college that was flexible, and one that was strictly online. Bingo. Excelsior not only accommodates students with real world responsibilities, but ...

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Hurricane Katrina touched ground in Louisiana in August 2005. The resulting lack of coordination in a catastrophe of this size by federal agencies led to large numbers of evaluations, reports, and recommendations for improvement. Particularly under fire was the FEMA organization tasked with management of the disaster operations. The inability to coordinate local, state, and federal resources lead to billions of dollars in waste and additional loss of life secondary to lack of food, water, and shelter. Government policies and restrictions in addition to complicated definitions of responsibility delayed relief for the stricken areas by as much as a ...

United States Air Force is a branch in the US Military (United States Armed Forces). It is amongst the seven American uniformed services entitled to offer aerial warfare services to USA. Of all the US Armed Forces, it was the last to be formed but again the largest. It is the best Air Force technologically worldwide. Like any other institution, the US Air Force makes both short-term and long-term budgets to aid it in achieving its short-term and long-term goals respectively.

These budgets are meant to assist this military arm to fully attain its capabilities, which include surveillance, reconnaissance and ...

I am currently serving my country in the Horn of Africa. In 2007, I graduated from Langham Creek High School. Unfortunately, I graduated at the bottom of my class because I never took school seriously and was not planning to go to college. It took several years for me to realize that I was, actually, wrong. I started to work full time early in my life, since my parents have left my brothers and me soon after I graduated. My only aim during that time was to work 40-plus hours a week to put a better roof over our head and ...

Commitment to Helping Children and Families

Commitment to Helping Children and Families Born premature four and a half months early weighing one pound 11ounces, many consider it a small miracle that I survived in that tiny body. Since my organs had not developed fully, I required special medical care in the neonatal intensive care unit. But here I am today, a healthy adult who has survived many challenges since the preemie stage of my life. Challenges that have given me an enormous sense of gratitude and motivation to serve as a social worker helping improve the lives of others. Why? Because during early childhood, my life was greatly ...

If you pay a visit to a preschool, you will see that morals and ethics are not innate concepts. You will see young tots grabbing toys from one another, crying when things do not go their way in games, and using violence to solve their problems a great deal of the time, at least until a teacher intervenes. Lessons like learning to share, having fun in games without winning, and negotiating your way out of an impasse all take time and reinforcement from older siblings, parents, teachers and other authority figures. The ways that authority figures intervene to teach ethics and morals change ...

Military personnel and their families are under continuous strain because of the still in progress operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. Combat exposure, physical injuries, multiple and long deployments, event PTSD and TBI are among the adversities that experienced by many soldiers. Another less common but integral concern is the use of drugs among soldiers. Generally, illicit drug use and tobacco use among soldiers tend to reduce over time. However, at the same time, the use of alcohol and prescription drugs among soldiers tends to increase to an abusive extent. In fact, the U.S. military personnel were using twice as ...

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The term retirement is the stage where a person discontinues employment totally but an individual may perhaps as well semi-retire by reducing the work hours. Numerous individuals decide to retire while they are qualified for public or private or public pension benefits, even though a number of them are obligated to retire when physical circumstances do not permit the individual to continue working any more either because of accident or illness or as a consequence of legislation with reference to their position. In the majority of nations, the thought of retirement is of recent derivation, after getting commenced in the duration of ...