Essays on Homeland

Al-Qaeda

Thesis statement Al-Qaeda is a terrorist organization that is held as a threat to America’s homeland security. It has a strong foothold in Syria and Yemen and is responsible for terrorism in the Middle East, thus spreading its terrorist agenda to the homeland. The U.S strategy for counterterrorism should be to strangle the financial aid to the group, thus preventing its growth, however, the expansion of the group to parts of North Africa and in the Middle East is too vast. The dialog can be established, however, the risks involved are an agreement to unsuitable terms and conditions, ...

Homeland security is new and encompassed with many roles which are inclined to achieve the main goal: keeping the United States safe. The needs of homeland security have evolved due to consistent increase of issues that need to be addressed by the country (Lewis, 2014). This paper provides an insights on the functions that states and local police need to adopt to protect the country from any terrorist attacks. Homeland security is arguably important in avoiding and saving lives of many Americans (Lewis, 2014). The state police carries out strategies designed by the homeland security in order to achieve ...

Intelligence Community

One of the primary responses of the U.S. government after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 (9/11), in addition to declaring war on terrorism, was to perform an in-depth analysis of the intelligence community in order to: (1) understand the issues that prevented or hindered the intelligence community from knowing about, stopping or mitigating attacks, and (2) determine what steps should be taken to ensure that such and “intelligence failure” would not happen again. To be sure, in addition to a number of Senate and House inquiries into the intelligence community after 9/11, Congress also authorized the creation ...

The commonly believed beginning of the Israeli-Palestine conflict began with the founding of the Jewish nationalist movement known as Zionism in the late 1800 with the ultimate goal of establishing a Jewish nation in their what Jews considered their historic homeland, which included areas in present-day Palestine, which was then under the control of the Ottoman empire. Despite the fact that, their traditional homeland was under Ottoman rule, the early 1900s, so many Jews across the world who believed or followed Zionism or supported the establishment of a Jewish nation began to immigrate to Palestine. The local Zionist movement ...

The Armenian Genocide is one of the vigorously contested incidents of mass murder in the 20th Century. The Armenian Genocide is alleged to have been the Ottoman government’s systematic extermination of the minority Armenian population. This occurred in the historic homeland of the Armenians which is within the territory of present-day Turkey. In spite of the many claims, the Turkish government denies it was a genocide. They claim it was a war which involved the mass killing of Ottoman citizens including Muslims and Ottomans. The Turkish government also claims that the number of Armenians who died in the ...

Introduction

Terrorism has an enormous dependence on surprise. As a result, a terror attack has the massive potential of causing damages to an unprepared, as well as, unwitting target. It, therefore, follows that America through its agencies such as NCTC must take appropriate measures to avoid surprise attacks as the September eleventh one. For purposes of securing its homeland, setting up intelligence, as well as, warning systems which can detect terrorist activities before their manifestation has been instrumental towards curtailing the attacks in the United States. In essence, the discussion below will center on NCTC and ways of mitigating the ...

Risks emerge from the complex interrelationships between natural and manmade hazards and threats such as floods, terrorist attacks, material spills, power outages, hurricanes, etc. The vital infrastructure and key assets are vulnerable to the occurrences due to their virtual, physical, and geographical interconnections. CIKR protective measures balance the strength and resiliency of the United States during the adverse times. Through the utilization of preparedness, focus, risk-based protection, and prevention activities, the country can manage all the hazards they face. This article is a formal report directed to the Chief Police in Homeland Security and other top officers to expand ...

Criminal Infrastructure and Key Resources

Homeland Security: Criminal Infrastructure and Key Resources The national program has policies to unify infrastructure through enhanced protection under the National CIKR (Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources). The main purpose of the National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP) is to protect the United States against any possible attempts by terrorists trying to cause damage to National CIKR. Three legislative orders were created, which were the Patriot Act of 2001, the Homeland Security Act of 2002 and the 9/11 Commission Recommendations Implementtion Act of 2007. The goal was to make the United States a safer, more secure and more resilient country ( ...

Foreign policy is the way the United States interacts with other nations. It sets standards and rules of interactions for businesses and individual citizens. The official goal of the United States foreign policy is to build and sustain a better world for both American and international people. Foreign policy also dictates the use of nuclear technology and the use of nuclear hardware. This paper discusses the United States’ foreign policy, non-governmental organizations and their association with terrorism.

Terrorism

A main part of foreign policy has to deal with terrorism. Combating terrorism is a major objective for the United States. Combating ...

New York University

In pursuit of greater professional achievements I am aware of the need to be educated by the best academic institutions. This is the primary reason for my decision to pursue my higher education degree in the United States, and in the process reach my best level of competence. In this regard, my choice for the New York University as the institution to apply for a Masters degree in Occupational Therapy is indeed understandable, given the said university’s high esteem in the academe that it is regarded as among the top ten universities in the entire United States. Prior ...

Internet Security

Introduction There was an era when private companies developed internet credentials system with the capability to verify the identity of users in all online transactions. During the same period, the government implemented a federal employees system that will assist in the online identification of individuals. Currently, these employees utilize the microchip embedded ID cards that help them to access government buildings and specific websites through recognition at personal security clearance levels. The federal system was effective and efficient not until the government the Congress passed the Real ID Act that made it mandatory for all people to register themselves ...

Torture today is subject to diverse universal moral legal condemnation. Along with other vices like genocide and slavery, torture has been established to violate the primary customs of human rights. In both war and peace, most states have affirmed that torture is fundamentally illegal and wrong as it violates general principles of human dignity. However, this has not been the scenario in different countries based on security measures put in place. The story surrounding torture is one that involves the change of norms, practices and law of different countries and in this case the United States of America (Ackerman, ...

1. What is the purpose of homeland security education and how are you different now that you have completed the course?

The purpose of homeland security education is to teach and prepare students to become effective leaders and professionals in emergency management, disaster relief and counter-terrorism. Through the study of homeland security, I have seen and gained a better understanding that homeland security is not a one agency issue but one that affects and incorporates the work of a wide-range of departments including immigration, border control, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Understanding the complexity of it all is helpful in ...

The United States of America has remained as the top destination for immigrants because of the belief that the country can offer a new home, life and freedom they cannot get in their own home countries. Some would migrate to America because of the war, while there are a few seeking asylum from their respective governments or threats. Migrants come from all over the globe, especially in border countries such as the Latin American countries like Mexico. However, as the years progress, illegal immigration of immigrants, especially of Mexicans are increasing rapidly that raises the concern of many regarding the dangers ...

Immigration refers to the permanent shift of residence to a different state. In the United States of America the question of immigration is complex and delicate having assumed political, legal and economic characters. Currently, the incumbency has been grappling with legislation intended to provide order and tackle the attendant consequences related to immigration. It should be appreciated that immigration assumes two facets, that is, legal and illegal immigration. This paper would canvass the discourse on immigration with a bias on immigration by Latinos and Asians.

Perhaps an exposition on the motives of ...

Introduction

Leadership is a very diverse and risky social aspect that requires application of emotional intelligence for every leader to enhance social and economic justice. Emotional intelligence involves an individual’s understanding of oneself as well as recognizing the interests of others. However, the situation is usually difficult since it is not possible to attain Pareto efficiency in every decision that a leader makes. As result ethical dilemma arises among the leaders, citizens and the rule of Law. Ethics refers to the generally acceptable code of conduct that commits the leaders of all aspects to respect the rule of law and civil ...

ISIS is a Salafi group within Sunni Islam, which originally operated in areas inhabited by Sunnis (Stanford, par.14). More precisely, the creators of the Islamic State were Sunni Muslims, who primarily adhered to Hanbali, the most distinguished among the four existing schools of Islamic law in Sunni Islam, known for its rigor and discipline. They have played on these fundamentalist sentiments, which allowed them to get support of the Sunni population. Not because ISIS banned the teaching of biology, physics, music, social sciences (in particular, those connected with democracy), not because the members of this group cut off the heads ...

Slide No. 1

Public safety department is the umbrella organization of the government of the United States of America. Public safety department provides technical, economic and administrative services. Public safety departments are state and local. State public safety department act within states. Every state has a public safety department. Local public safety department are acting within cities and towns. There are not many of them, because in small towns they are substituted by local police offices. However, in some states police offices are only divisions of the public safety department. Hence, we see that the interactions between law enforcement agencies and public safety ...

Question 1

Ex parte Miligan was a Supreme Court case in the United States that ruled that applying military tribunals to citizens was unconstitutional, when it is evident that civilian courts are still working. The case was about Lambdin Miligan and four others who were accused of stealing weapons and invading Union prisoner of war camps. The accused person was arrested and in 1864 and was charged with aiding a confederacy, inciting insurrection and conspiring to free Confederate prisoners. Miligan was arrested in his home in Indiana by the Union general the accused person was active at the time in the secret society ...

- What does the USA PATRIOT Act permit with regard to the surveillance of suspected terrorists? Based on past experiences and ongoing public debate, what public criticism might arise if I speak out in favor of increasing the use of surveillance?

The USA PATRIOT Act, which stands for “Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism,” holds the explicit objective of expanding surveillance activities, as part of an immediate response to the September 11, 2001 (9/11) attacks (EPIC). Being a counterterrorist response by Congress, the USA PATRIOT Act was signed into law by ...

Introduction

The United States homeland security strategy is aimed at protecting and mitigating both domestic and international acts of terrorism that may take place in the nation. One of the key elements of this strategy is sufficient information sharing and flow between the federal, the state and the local law enforcement agencies. The importance of this element was accentuated by the 9/11 attacks that showed the country’s vulnerability to terrorist attacks. It emerged that for the country to protect itself from such future acts of terrorism, the government needed to facilitate the establishment of a “trusted partnerships” between ...

The deliberate hostile activity to cause physical harm or mass killing of a targeted population in places like schools, workplaces, places of worship, public gathering is a Hybrid Targeted Violence (HTV). The places of gathering where people have least option to shield themselves are the preferred locations for an HTV action. The weapons used in this kind of violence may be the conventional firearms or other explosive devices. These incidents of atrocity have multi-threat, and often go against the conventional procedural strategies of the relevant agencies of public safety to initiate a rescue or counter the violence. The initial moments are very ...

National security is the prime object and the most important purpose of government. Citizens get into a social contract to ensure that their life and property are safeguarded by the government. Public security is one of the most challenging issues that affect the governance of both western Nations and the developing countries. Without a peaceful and conducive environment the economy will not thrive, and the area will scare way investors. A case in point is Syria. When the Middle East country plunged into civil war, multinational corporations pulled out of the country. Syria is an illustration of a government that failed to ...

Friedlander, R. A., Levie, H. S., Musch, D. J., Alexander, Y., & Lovelace, D. C. (1979).Terrorism: Documents of international and local control. Dobbs Ferry, N.Y: Oceana Publications.

The main argument or topic in this source is the local and international control of terrorism. The author elaborates various ways in which terrorism can be controlled both at the domestic and international levels. The current strategies used to curb terrorism both at the local and international levels are well elaborated by the author. The authors develop their argument by linking their arguments and ideas on how various countries in various ...

The most vital agencies in the world utilize Continuity of Operations (COOP) systems and sites in order to safeguard the stability of their operations in case of a website crash and network disaster. It is assumed that businesses and agencies do not rely on uploading their data to their main domain site only and do not have just a single backup of information. In most cases high level organizations have an entire COOP protocol that includes a mirror site. COOP plans have become such a vital component of client service. Protected the established lines of communication between agencies and organizations is also a COOP ...

Persepolis is a comic autobiographical novel written by Marjane Satrapi. Marjane writes about her life from childhood to adulthood during the Islamic revolution in Iran. The novel is about the protagonist’s life and the challenges she faces into adulthood and how these hardships changed her identity. As the main character in the novel, Marjane is depicted as a tough and intelligent girl who followed in her parents footsteps. She was a young Iranian girl who had to overcome great obstacles in her childhood in order to become a great person in future. Marjane grew up in a difficult and complicated setting in Iran ...

One example of a terrorist group that supported nationalistic and ethnic separatist terrorism is the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) commonly called the “Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka” was known for being one of the most brutal and active terrorist organization in the international community (Pickert, 2009). The group originated from Sri Lanka with their group leader, Vellupillai Prabhakaran. They started engaging in warfare in when they detached the group from the Tamil homeland (Pickert, 2009). LTTE engaged in ground and sea attacks by using grenade launchers, rockets and other deadly weapons. In the article of Pickert (2009), ...

Bureaucracy is a managerial structure with a set of regulations formulated to govern activities within an organization. It aims at rationalizing the activities and ensuring that they get effectively and professionally executed. Its successful nature is bound to the state of the atmosphere within which it operates. A bureaucratic organization embraces strict guidelines and procedures yet its laxity to conform to changes is intriguing. Bureaucratic organizations advocated members’ duties to be clearly and confined allowing little chance for deviation. Its structure constitutes various levels of management with the leader, the president of the organization, at the top of the hierarchal ...

Please describe what inspires your decision for becoming an optometrist, including your preparation for training in this profession, your aptitude and motivation, the basis for your interest in optometry, and your future career goals.

My decision to become an optometrist comes from a strong family history in the field of medicine. My father is a physician and biochemist, and my mother was a nurse. Both of my parents motivated my desire to help people see the world become a better place. One of the most tragic things is the inability to see, to experience the world less clearly and brightly than others. Sight is ...

Hurricane Katrina is one of the worst disasters ever to hit the Americas. Though the country is endowed with much resources and great technological devices, yet it appeared as if the disaster got the nation by surprise. The response units seemed uncoordinated (Roth and Levine Para 2) while the rescue units took too long to respond to the disaster. Using the critical thinking approach, I could have taken a different approach to the disaster. This would be informed by the application of the analysis, assessment, and reconstruction of the problem (Critical Thinking Organization Para 2). Below is a description of the ...

Is Information Sharing Too Regulated? Has a Lack of Sharing Caused a Key Intelligence Failure?

Government agencies unanimously agree that they failed to know in advance the September 11th plot for lack of information sharing. The September 11th attack was the demonstration of the government agencies’ failure to have a network among themselves that would have enabled them to know the plan to attack well in advance and to actually to prevent the attack from happening. The U.S. Government admits that it could have prevented the 9/11 attacks if the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and state and local law enforcement had shared among themselves their knowledge about the hijackers ...

Abstract

The onset of immigration had long been a part of American history since its discovery in the 1600s and had shaped the country’s society and government throughout the years. In the early years, America had gladly opened its doors to the world without restrictions and some aided in the liberation of the country from English rule and into independence. However, as the years progressed, restrictions were imposed by the government due to the fear of these immigrants and eventually, due to the onset of illegal immigration. Reforms left and right were implemented to sustain America’s security, economy and ...

With the rise of new technology, the face and practice of terrorism has changed to a point that the groups are now recruiting and sending messages using the internet. The paramount reason of adopting this method is to avoid detection and achieve their aims within the shortest time possible. According to a paper written by the Homeland security in 2009, there are more than 7000 terrorist websites, which are used in sending messages and recruiting teenagers and young adults. Categorically, the terrorists disseminate propaganda and reports of some international journalists, which attract the attention of some young adults who form potential ...

Whalen, Ryan. "The U.S. Government as an Interagency Network." Inter-Agency Journal (2013): 70-80.

In this article, Ryan approaches the issues of inter-agency cooperation through a two threaded approach. One perspective evaluates the structure of the US government and the other perspective evaluating the methodological issues, which are relevant to inter-agency issues and inter-organizational network analysis. This study adopted the use of online data available in regard to inter-agency relations and inter-organizational analysis. There has been numerous studies in the recent past in regard to inter-organizational network studies based on the availability of data on the relations of organizations with each other. This article explores the inter-agency issues from the perspective of the government ...

In Frozen Moment Serves as a Reference Point in a Timeless Land, Emil Sher pens about the days he spent in Africa, away from his homeland, teaching children. He lived in the land of which the world was oblivious. Botswana, between South Africa and Zimbabwe, was his new abode where he lived in a shady hut and looked upon the life around which his keen eyes. The place he was dwelling in was very different from where he had grown up. He gives expression to his memories which he had preserved in the corner of his heart in this writing which was ...

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is a powerful agency in the U.S. government and is empowered to transform the country in the police state during times of actual crisis. Among its powers shall include the act of suspending laws, transfer populations from one place to another, carry-out warrantless arrests and detain citizens even in the absence of trial, seize properties, transportation systems and food supplies. FEMA has the power to suspend the Constitution and to establish emergency response plan in for every state or locality in times of emergency or crisis (Williams, 2007, p. 206).

The limitation placed on FEMA ...

Before I was introduce to the topic of homeland security, I thought it was a type of security which involve each and every individual’s homestead could not think of national security because of the word ‘home’ which means where people come from. This is most part which confuses me most. But I could figure out that it is something which involve the national government therefore I expected the government to be participating actively in it. Furthermore, the term was confusing since there is connection between homeland security and terrorism. One can think that it is the protection of ...

- United State Interest in Afghanistan

The Afghanistan war was conducted by the American soldiers in a bid to stamp out the terrorist group of al Qaeda. The group enjoyed support by the extremist leadership of the Taliban within Afghanistan. The first few years of the war provided success with the military group scattering and some of the members moving to the mountainous regions.

The presidential address showed that the group was regrouping which would be a problem to the homeland security (Military, P.3). The regrouping members of the terrorist group have been blamed for causing insecurity in Pakistan region. The group has started causing insecurity within ...

The Federal Flight Deck Officer (FFDO) program provides for the training and regulation of armed pilots. Legislation exists to support this program, in 2004 Congress considered, but did not vote on additional legislative efforts like the Cockpit Technical Corrections and Improvements Act, other legislation is pending Congressional action.

The United States Department of Homeland Security, Transportation Security Administration (TSA) maintains a section for Federal Flight Deck Officers (FFDOs). It starts with a description of what a FFDO is, how they work with the Federal Air Marshal Service and the history of when the legislation creating the creation of the FFDOs was signed ...

Visualizing Data

The visualization and presentation of data using illustrations such as tables, charts, and graphs makes research work easy to present and comprehend, as is the case in Dr. Hans Rosling’s presentation that shows the relationship between population and health in various countries as well as the changes in population and health as time in year’s changes. The initial presentation is a bubble chart that displays life expectancy at birth against fertility rate. Each bubble represents a particular country, and the size of the bubble is the population (Rosling, 2006). Next, he uses an area chart to show the distribution ...

In response to the 9/11 terrorist attack on the world trade center and the pentagon, the then president, George W Bush, developed a new organizational structure to ensure that the security of the American homeland was beefed up, he intended to achieve this by creating the office of the Homeland Security. In order for the Department of homeland security be able to provide for safe and secure environments, extensive researches are regularly done so to improve on our homeland security. In this paper, I will critically analysis and compare two reports that have been designed to improve on our homeland ...

Puerto Rico is an isolated United States territory within the Latin America. It is located west of the United Stated Virgin lands. It is a former colony of Spain which dominated it for a very long period of time. It was delivered from the Spanish rule by intervention of the United States troops during the 1898 Hispano-cubano-americana war. Outside observers view Puerto Rico as a dependent state that does not have her sovereignty or autonomy. This country shares citizenship with the United States which accords her citizens freedom of movement and can cross this country’s borders.

Currently, outside political observers view ...

Abstract

The God squad group, mainly made of boys in junior and senior years, uses the 9/11 attacks as a rallying point for combination of white supremacist, racist, anti-Semitic, ant-Islamic, anti-immigrant, ant-gay, nee-fascist dogma mixed with a good dose of anti-abortion and fundamentalist Christian diatribe. The group catches the attention of the administration when they show up at school all wearing their uniforms and distributes the first edition of their weekly "newsletter". The” newsletter” contains highly offensive diatribes on how it is the "the duty of all true Americans to fight against the forces trying to destroy our country". The ...

Although the most publicly well-known counterterrorist agencies in the United States are the CIA and Homeland Security, but the Department of State has also been playing an equally important role in counterterrorism for decades. Over the years, especially after the September 11 attacks, the role of the Department of State has gotten bigger and has become more visible ("State dept. official" 2012). Today, the Department of State is the leading federal agency that deals with and handles terrorist in foreign countries where the interests of the United States are involved. The Department of State takes the head role ...

Introduction

The Department of Homeland Security is tasked with ensuring that the citizens of the USA are provided with the security that is a right of theirs as per the constitution. They are to be protected by the government from all forms of danger by all means necessary that are under the law of the land. The government formed this department so as to prevent the atrocities that may have befallen such people are they were not safeguarded by their government. The department was tasked with ensuring that all forms of law breaking were prevented and if not prevented, they would ...

The U.S patriot act came into existence in 2001 instantly after the harsh terrorist attacks in America. The government viewed the act as a legal tool to help investigators and persecutors fight against any future terrorism. Different national intelligences such as the nation law enforcement, the national defense and the intelligent personnel shared the act to bring the terrorists and other illegal acts to justice. This is so because the act considered the realities and dangers originating from modern terrorist hence helping the identified bodies to dismantle, disrupt and punish the terrorist before they erupt (Shinder & Tittel, 2002). The ...

The US has several national intelligence sharing initiatives formed to coordinate security measures. Various law enforcement agencies have come together to coordinate intelligence sharing, with the sole purpose of improving the capacity to detect, prevent and solve crimes. Some of the initiatives include the National Criminal Intelligence Sharing Plan (NCISP) and Fusion Center Intelligence Standards Focus Group. The initiatives have been beneficial in helping security agencies to solve crimes committed within the states and in profiling individuals involved in criminal activities. For example, the NCISP has made it possible to link local, state, regional and federal databases making it ...

Brooke’s post:

Brooke’s post was excellent. This is mainly because Brooke’s forum post tackles some of the performance measures that I have mentioned in my original forum. The performance measure that I called performance measure 2 in my forum is cited in Brooke’s forum post. It talks about the percentage of federal executive branch civilian networks monitored for cyber intrusion with advanced technology (NPPD). In Brooke’s forum post, we have his document mentioning that the DHS is committed in increasing public awareness. The DHS wants the individuals in the private sector to be empowered about what to ...

Chemical and Biological Agents and Radiation

Hydrogen cyanide (HCN): HCN is a highly toxic chemical blood agent in the form of a colorless gas. Cardiovascular, neurological, respiratory and thyroid effects can occur as a result of chronic low exposure to HCN (Blanc, Hogan, Hryhorczuk, Hessl & Bernard, 1985). In case of exposure to liquid HCL, mild soapy water can be used for decontamination. Either sodium or amyl nitrite combined with sodium thiosulfate can be can be used as an antidote for the effects of HCN poisoning (USAMRICD, 2000). Treating patients with poor oxygen-carrying capacity can be a bit challenging because nitrite-induced methemoglobinemia can be harmful. (Chandra, Gupta, Bhargava, ...

It has been 11 years since the day “September 11, 2011” became synonymous to the term terrorism and the anti-terrorism campaigns of the international community. The attack became the start of the US’ fight against the various terrorist groups around the globe, targeting the higher ups of groups such as Al Qaeda and the Taliban. However, looking back on the day of the attack, one can wonder as to how the US federal government responded upon the attacks and how it utilized its forces to ensure the safety of the onlookers and the rest of the state. While ...

Question one: Explosives

The Oklahoma City bombing occurred at nine o’clock during the day in April 1995. It saw the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Building. Two critical safety steps that were essential in the management of the disaster entailed the establishment of a safety perimeter that would limit the extent to which the first respondents could reach and the immediate withdrawal of the trapped bodies from the danger zones. The former essentially contributes in accountability and management of the respondents. It should be noted that the respondents’ desire to save anybody in the disaster must never escalate to levels that ...

Sample portion of an emergency plan

Emergency planning is a very important part of public health intervention. It relates to keeping citizens safe when disaster occurs or developing a preventative strategy. This document will discuss the necessity of an emergency plan in communities and how they must be emerging from the background of a needs assessment. Fort Drum, New York is the community identified for this research and a sample emergency plan will be developed based on the evaluation of needs for that community.

Public Health: Emergency Planning Sample EOP

Introduction

Developing and maintaining emergency operation plans is a public health responsibility. Therefore, communities ought to always design measures either to prevent or deal with hurricanes, ...

Twenty years ago, on the morning of April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh set off a bomb in front of the Murrah Federal Building, Oklahoma City, killing 168 people. The attack represented a culmination of the domestic terrorism threat, and the beginning of the transformation the United States’ national security model that ended in the creation of the Department of Homeland Security. It remains the worst domestic terror attack in the country’s history, and it came barely two years after the 1993 Twin Tower bombing that claimed six lives. The perpetrators, Terry Nichols, and Tim McVeigh met seven years earlier at ...

The American Homeland Security Act contains a provision to arm pilots of commercial airlines and gives the deputy pilot the authority to use lethal force in protecting the flight deck against terrorism and other criminal threats. This act was later extended to include the cargo pilots as well. During the debate over the law, the opponents viewed such program as risky and expensive and outweighed the potential benefits suggested (Thurman 48). The proponents, on the other hand, saw the potential benefits of thwarting criminal acts outweighing the presumed risks associated with arming the pilots. In the wake of the September.11 ...

Abbreviated as DHS, the Department of Homeland Security was specifically created with the goal of responding to terrorist threats within the borders of the United States of America. The development rather the establishment of the DHS followed the terrorist attack that took place on September 11, 2001. Hence, the mandate of the DHS is primarily to protect the territories of the United States including its Ambassadors’ residences abroad. However, the mandate of the DHS extends beyond just terrorism to accommodate instances of natural disasters and man-made accidents (DHS, 2015). The annual budget of the DHS is estimated at between $ ...

Virgil’s Aeneid is a literary epic and the national story of the Roman Empire. The story is an attempt to link the history of the Roman Empire, and its emperor Augustus Caesar, to the ancient wanderings of the Trojan people to its establishment. By doing so, Virgil hoped to not only create a common national identity of his country’s people, but to link this identity to historical symbols that people would recognize, in an effort to legitimize the Caesar and his empire. By doing so, Virgil creates a story on a grand scale that encompasses not only the history of his ...

According to the American Constitution, the Congress possesses various enumerated and implied powers. Enumerated powers refer to the explicit powers granted by the Constitution, such as levying taxes and declaring war. Implied powers include the elastic clause, which allows the Congress to pass laws in order to fulfill its duties. The fundamental role of the US Senate is delaying the procedure of legislation by means of hearings, inquiry and debate, while simultaneously offering advice and consent. Other major functions of the Senate include sharing responsibilities along with the House of Representatives in the process of making laws within the ...

Homeland security has become a large concern of many US citizens ever since the tragic 9/11 act of terrorism. Given the endless possibilities of threats to the US soil, the concept of homeland security aims to secure the homeland and its borders against terrorism acts and disasters that might happen in the future. Eleven days after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Governor Tom Ridge of Pennsylvania was sworn as the first director of the then called “Office of Homeland Security”. This office organized the formulation of national strategy that can help in safeguarding the country against future acts of terrorism. Upon ...

The one-hundred twenty-four most densely populated cities of the United States house a Metropolitan medical Response system (MMRS). The programs are delegated the responsibility to develop strategies, handle training exercises, and stockpile drugs and equipment for personal protection in readiness for massive casualties as a result of an act of terrorism using a weapon of mass destruction (WMD)(Homeland Security, 2006). Originally called the Metropolitan Medical Strike Team, the name was changed to reflect focus less on chemical agents than on enlisting the assistance of fire, police, and emergency medical personnel (Manning & Goldfrank, 2001).

History of the Program

The concept of the Metropolitan Medical Response Systems ...

Crazy Horse was an Oglala Sioux Indian chief who was born in 1840 and under the Native American name Tashunka Witco near South Dakota. He got his name from his father, who was also named Crazy Horse after he showed the strong skills of a warrior. The Oglala Sioux Indian chief fought against the Black Hills reservations. He was known to be a fearless leader and remained committed to defending his people's way of life. The leader of the Lakota Sioux was also a legendary warrior who is known for his efforts to preserve Native American traditions and Lakota life that he was ...