Essays on Vulnerability

Essay

Needs Assessment and Rationale Falls are a serious public health issue in the United States because it is the main cause of trauma-related incidents and injury-related emergency cases, and the leading cause of unexpected deaths among the elderly. People aged 65 and above comprise the majority of casualties from falls (Al-Faisal, 2006). The prevalence of falls rises continuously with age irrespective of gender and racial/ethnic affiliation. As reported by Stevens and colleagues (2010), “each year, about one-third of all older adults fall. In 2007, an estimated 1.9 million fall injuries among persons aged 65 years and older were treated ...

The concept of clinical risk management is concerned with the aspect of making improvements to the quality and safety of health services in the mental health sector. As such, this achieved by pointing out the circumstances and opportunities that create risks to patients and staff and identify the approaches that can be adopted to prevent such risks through risk assessment and management. Risk assessment and management have become a primary element of mental health services in modern times, and the significance of good practice in this specific health care area cannot be disputed. The process of risk management and ...

Operating Environment:

Hardware: Laptop or Desktop Computers Software: Windows 8.1 Professional Description: This section deals with updating anti-virus definition files, configuring real-time scanning, full system scanning, fast or quick scanning for high vulnerability areas of the system, removable media scanning, and reviewing scan results in a Windows 8.1 system. Notes, Warnings, & Restrictions: Windows Defender is a sensitive utility used to perform system security tasks. Please exercise caution when using it.

Resources (Further Reading):

https://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/definitions/adl.aspx http://www.thewindowsclub.com/update-windows-defender-manually-windows-8 Procedures: Update Anti-Virus Definition Files This procedure guides the user on how to update anti-virus definition files on a system running Windows 8.1. Search for Windows Defender from Start ...

Vulnerability Assessments

There are various vulnerabilities and network security loopholes present within the organization’s network; Peer to Peer network, Netgear MR814 router, the type of cable modem used by the organization (Motorola SB3100), and Microsoft Outlook and web applications. These network security vulnerabilities present different security loopholes that can be exploited by malicious attackers to gain access to the organization's network and cause a series of unwanted effects [2]. The organization employs the use of a network topology that can be easily compromised by malicious attackers. The current peer to peer network configuration of the organization’s system presents a ...

ABSTRACT

Cloud computing employs the use of parallel and highly computed processors to virtually and remotely deliver services. This is an important factor forenterprises whose processing resources are limited and who suffer limitations on the manpower and data storage. This notwithstanding, cloud computing faces a serious threat in the area of data security. This is because the attackers have become very opportunistic and look for any slight loophole that will enable them to bypass the server securities within the cloud computing environment. It is thus important to come up with a systematic approach that can help in identifying the vulnerabilities ...

Background of the Study

The problem of HIV and AIDS has become a global one in the short time since the identification of the virus. Although there is no vaccine to protect against the virus, knowledge and education are two powerful shields against infection—and it has become clear in recent years that impoverished women in the developing world are particularly heavily impacted by HIV transmission and development of AIDS (UNAIDS, 2016). The goal of finding a way to slow or completely halt the spread of HIV and the development of AIDS has been an epidemiological conundrum for many years. Promoting health and ...

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Description of HIV

Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is a virus that weakens and destroys the immune system of the body so that the body cannot defend the infection. HIV positive person also possesses AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome), and if HIV is treated at its early stage, the risk of AIDS can be averted. If an HIV-positive person is diagnosed with AIDS, it means that the complete destruction of the immune system has been accomplished by the HIV and that increase the vulnerability of the patient towards various opportunistic infections. The ...

Introduction

Endpoint protection platform remains a security technology, which ensures that security of an endpoint device is superb in its functionality as a unit. The unit is composed of antivirus, personal firewall, anti-spyware, control application and intruded preventions styles, hosted in it. A number of Enterprise endpoint protection platforms (EPP) with higher advancement are combining patch, vulnerability and capabilities that manage configuration; this eventually enhances the protection. The current products of the EPP have included features of protection like data loss prevention, file and disk encryption and also device control, besides fighting malware. Higher number of EPP market focuses on ...

Contrast risk, threat and vulnerability.

The threat, risk, and vulnerability are terms that commonly used in the risk management. Even though they seem to be very similar, they cannot be used instead of each other, because in a theory of the risk management there a distinct difference between them. The threat is one of the factors that cannot be controlled or influenced directly from the perspective of the risk manager. It exists independently from the current situation and the main task of the risk manager is to identify the threat on time and come up with a plan how to avoid it, prevent it, ...

Fostering Successful Emergency Planning

Fostering a successful emergency plan ensures that the plan focuses on intensive training and exercises. In doing so, the plan reinforces emergency preparedness for a number of potential emergencies. The exercises that emergency planners can create to test their plans include trial or testing through prototypes and operations, rehearsing the plan and explaining the plan to others and memorizing it (‎Perry, 2016). The best way to access emergencies is through trials. I believe this is true because when accessing emergency systems using trial, one bases the trial on socialist systems. The use of socialist systems in responding to emergencies ...

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Write Out 2 Discussion Board

Introduction

In essence, threat modeling refers to the process through which a network security is optimized by identifying goals and vulnerabilities to the system. Furthermore, the procedure entails defining the countermeasures to mitigate and prevent the implications of the threats to a particular system. Notably, this essay presents a summary of the threat modeling approach for a fortune 1000 company located in San Diego. Also, the paper provides a description of the key terms, which include threats, vulnerabilities, and risks. The relationship between the terms and how they apply to the security plan is elaborated ...

Development of long-term recovery plan following a disaster is an essential and complicated process. Communities affected by a disaster need to measure its impact before formulating a plan. The preparation can last for several months since it needs enormous resources. Hurricane Katrina remains the most destructive natural disaster in United States' history. It affected several areas in the country (Pratt, 2016). Communities in New Orleans city were the most affected. The city is located along Mississippi River. Hurricanes and flooding are major sources of disasters. New Orleans has been affected by other hazards such as drinking water pollution and ...

Information Security Threats

Introduction Information is one of the most important assets for many organizations, as it acts as a differentiator and provides a competitive advantage. Loss of information such as patent information, proprietary processes, or trade secrets could prove to be very detrimental to a business. While there are many threats to the information security, this report focuses on three of them, which are 1) Denial of service, 2) Privilege escalation, and 3) Backdoor. This report provides measures that address, block, or removes these threats. Information about tools, products, or services that mitigate these threats is provided in the report as ...

Abstract

The report below provides a comprehensive analysis of Global Finance Inc.’s (GFI) network. It provides an overall description of the network based on the network diagram provided. The report also conducts a risk assessment on the network. The main purpose of the risk assessment is to discuss the risks resulting from the network design and configuration. In total, the assessment identified four apparent risks and the report provides proper mitigation techniques for the organization. The main purpose of the mitigation techniques is to improve network security and reduce financial losses resulting from network downtimes. The report also discusses ...

Source: InfoSec Institute Web article, January 2016

Summary: This article was about Information security governance and Risk Management in CISSP domain. In the article some basic guiding principles for the security are highlighted, the security's fundamental principles revolve around the CIA i.e. confidentiality, integrity and availability. Confidentiality confirms that the data is confidential through personal identifying information, integrity ensures the accuracy of the data and it is not modified by anyone else and finally availability ensures that whenever the data is needed, it is available i.e. no DOS attacks or any other attacks stops the access of the data. The risk management talks about the analysis ...

Information Security Governance and Risk Management

This is the foundational domain for professional information security work (Walsh). It provides standards and policies for monitoring information security programs. The domain ensures data quality necessary to support an organization’s objectives. This is critical especially to sensitive and critical information that an organization uses. Risk management is the identification and prioritization of all risks to confidentiality. The most important step in the domain is risk analysis. This involves identification of threats and vulnerabilities on applications and systems. The last phase in the domain is the implementation of the most appropriate and cost-effective security measures and controls to ...

Social protection is significant for minimizing poverty for families and children, also recognizing children's rights. In the present world, many children live in poverty and starving. They are also in the demand of elementary needs and rights. In many parts of the world, families with children are relied at the risk of poverty than other groups of the population with respect to the monetary terms. If a child falls into poverty, he/she will be poor for the lifetime. Only in rare cases, they get education or healthy life. Food poverty can be an obstacle to children's long-term development. Generally, ...

Natural disasters affect a large of people around the worked and this is rising because of climate change and the rising concentration of people inhabiting the areas that are more exposed to natural disasters. These natural disasters reduce the economic growth and a significant impact on poverty and social welfare, which affects the developing countries, and their most vulnerable populations. While natural disasters cannot be prevented, actions can be taken to reduce their human and economic costs. This paper looks at a large-scale natural disaster such as the Indian Ocean Tsunami of 2004, the effect it had on the ...

Introduction

The nursing profession is one of the chief cornerstones of health care delivery worldwide. The role that nurses play in delivering heath care to populations cannot be overemphasized, which makes the profession such an integral part of the medical sector. One of the basic tenets of the nursing profession is that it comprises an integrated approach to various nursing models that work to ensure the effectiveness of the professionals while ensuring patient safety. This paper explores the models and their importance to the overall health care delivery system. Specifically, it reviews journal articles that examine both the synergy and ...

Abstract

After the 9/11 event agro-terrorism has continually been recognized as a national security threat. It aims at depriving citizens off the confidence they have in the government. The act also endangers human life as the contaminated food is unhealthy. Agriculture has much vulnerability and although it does not have the shocking factors as other terrorist strategies it may be used as a secondary target. The US not having been a victim of a large-scale, successful agro-terrorism attack is not a guarantee that the nation’s agricultural and food processing systems are secure. Many policies have been implemented and initiatives ...

INTRODUCTION

Critical infrastructure can have a simple explanation of the wheel or more importantly, the backbone of the most technological economies in the world. It guides everything. It controls everything. It dictates the share which each person or a select community gets. It is simply the lives of most of the citizens in such nations. As such, the security of such systems is vital. Such systems will be prone to attacks and manipulations by people who are not contented or want a larger share than that they are already allocated. Some people will also like to cartel the follow of ...

Information System Security Plan for a Bank

Executive Summary The information security plan applies to AmeriBank, its auxiliaries, employees, information, system, processes, data, and networks collectively referred to as the Bank. AmeriBank is committed to protecting critical assets and securing information to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability (CIA) of the information, preventing damage to the network and systems that are vital to the bank’s business to ensure business continuity, and minimize risk to the businesses. This is achieved by implementing administrative, technical, and physical controls such as information security policies, software, and hardware controls, which have to be implemented, monitored, and improved upon to ...

Product Development is the design of new products, or new features in old products that is meant to offer better benefits to the target users (Ulrich and Eppinger, 2012). Product Development goes further to involve the marketing of the created product. Several factors determine the success of Product Development. Broadly categorized, such factors include type of product in question, state of the target market and economy, the characteristics of the target customers among other factors within and beyond the company. All these factors constitute part of the risks faced by company involved in product development (Towey, 2013). Factors that ...

Abstract

Web servers are the building blocks of this generation distributed systems and plays a major role in the enterprise application architectures. Due to the flexibility and openness that these Web server centric computing model offers, though makes this ubiquity possible, it also opens up corporate data and processes to security threats. This paper focuses on the security of the public Web servers. There are many different vulnerabilities such as exploits utilizing software bugs in the underlying operating system, denial of service, unauthorized access of confidential information, man-in-the middle attacks, subvert the Web server and use it as a bot ...

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Introduction: Domestic violence: profile of an offender

In the past, an act of domestic violence was not considered as a matter that merits the engagement of the law. Though men have pummeled, maltreated, and molested their intimate partners for years, the common comprehension of society was that abuse and maltreatment of women was as a part of the marriage. It was only to the end of the 1970s that domestic violence was understood as a criminal offense that warranted the involvement of the criminal justice system. However, there has been much contention as to the establishment of a general, universally accepted ...

Doing a market analysis. PESTLE and TOWS analytical frameworks

Launching a successful business in any industry requires doing a market analysis. The latter refers to the process of studying the dynamics, attractiveness and trends of a particular industry of economy. Market analysis is an integral component of an industry analysis. In practice, the majority of all market analyses facilitate in strategic planning and tactical execution of the strategy, supply chain management, designing and implementing marketing strategies and identifying the most appropriate targeting and positioning schemes. This entry analyzes the most essential components of a market analysis and provides basic insights into how to carry out them in tourism ...

Kh. & JA Discussion Response:

I agree with you that small towns should have their own HVA/THIRA and due to the rather small scope compared to cities, counties and regions, I believe that it should be tailored to the unique needs of the small town. According to Sund (2016), the best strategy is to analyze the local threats and hazards then break them down into three groups i.e. human-caused, technological and ultimately natural hazards. She also recommends that the list of hazards should be culled based on the probability of occurrence, or by referring to previous local hazards, and crossing off hazards that with ...

1.) Three primary operations security functions that an organization should implement are employee background checks and screenings, vulnerability testing, and access management. Background checks are fundamental because no matter how secure an organization’s operations may be, it can always be circumvented by a person with access. Edward Snowden is an illustrative example. Accordingly, background check insure that any threat confronted will be the result of an internal issue. Vulnerability testing is necessary because it provides information on where there are weaknesses in the system so that appropriate steps can be taken to resolve the insecurity. For instance, the ...

Abstract

This paper explores several peer-reviewed journals on already documented research about the relationship between the client and the therapist. Clients require a strong bonding relationship with the therapist before undergoing the actual treatment. . Clients must consider creating a strong alliance with their therapists/clinicians. This helps them to be sure and develops confidence in them. They should start the treatment without having any fear about the clinician involved. This creates a friendly atmosphere for them in attaining good therapy services. This work outlines the basic elements of the therapeutic alliance as a human service. It also further explains why these ...

Children's Bureau. Long-Term Consequences of Child Abuse and Neglect. Technical Report. Washington, DC: Child Welfare Information Gateway, 2013. Web. <https://www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/factsheets/sp_long_term_consequences.cfm>. The report addresses the life- long impacts of child abuse and categorizes the results into physical health, psychological, behavioral and societal. Abused children are at times inflicted with head injuries which may cause bleeding of the brain, which interferes with brain development. Relevant sections of the brain could also be tampered with hence causing incidences of long-term head trauma to the affected child. Child abuse according to the report is also linked to poor physical health where the ...

The objective of this paper was to carry out a comprehensive assessment of the possible security vulnerabilities that an organization’s computer and network operating systems may have; and also to provide appropriate techniques in order to boost protection based on the findings of the said assessment. The organization, whose computer and network operating system framework would be focused on, that was chosen is Target, operator of one of the largest network of malls in the United States’ retail industry. What makes this computer and network operating system security case analysis significant is that any form of risk involving ...

Critical Infrastructure Risks and Vulnerability

Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) consists of control systems deployed to monitor and offer surveillance of critical equipment with manufacturing or industrial sites. Such industrial components are the critical infrastructures whose collapse due to interferences is adverse to entire sectors of the economy. Examples of such infrastructures include telecommunications, water, transport, gas and waste control. The SCADA systems collect and interpret instant information for monitoring and control of the systems. The processed data is then continuously reviewed by the administrators SCADA systems in the USA are prone to threats by outsiders from different locations around the globe (Igure, ...

Question 1

Information is an important asset. The core goal of information security is to protect the availability, confidentiality, and integrity of the information. To build a secure organization, it is important to build a security program that protects the information assets of the organization. An important part of the security program is the risk analysis. The objective of a security program is to mitigate risks, which does not mean eliminating them but reducing them to an acceptable level. To ensure that the right kind of security controls are in place and controlling the risks effectively, it is necessary to anticipate ...

Introduction

Microsoft Office is one of the prized innovations made by Microsoft in the late 20th Century. It has more than one billion customers all over the world, and the numbers are increasing with every passing year (Arghire, 2012). Every few years, Microsoft updates its Office suite to improve customer experience and make the software compatible with upgraded operating systems. Microsoft makes Office available in both desktop and mobile version, which has helped in making the software popular and widely used. The Microsoft Office suite consists of Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access, OneNote, Outlook, Sway, etc. The latest Microsoft Office suite ...

Abstract

In this paper, the author identifies at least three security-related threats and various recommendations how they can be addressed. So far, there were three man security threats that were identified. The first one was the outdated-ness of GFI’s front end system. The recommendation for this was for GFI to invest more in the creation of a team that would develop a dynamic, high quality, and more secure front end system, one that is suited to today’s speed and design standards. The second risk was the presumed use of a common cryptographic passphrase for all of its departments. ...

Background

As a fast-growing medical research and development company, nothing is more important to Information Assurance Research than the security of the company’s proprietary information and customer and employee data. I am concerned that the company’s sensitive information stored at Reston Virginia and the data conveyed via the WAN is not well protected from web-based application attackers. My proposal is based on research on various web-based applications security software in different online fora. I have also explored various studies on different security software and their effectiveness as well as affordability. My insight has also been drawn from customer ...

Smoking is a learned habit that has existed in the society for long. This allows us to understand how the habit affects health and wellbeing both. Though the country may make millions of dollars selling tobacco, it spends several times more on treating diseases caused by the smoking habit. Explain why sociology is useful in helping us to challenge the dominance of biomedicine and understand health and health care as shaped by biopsychosocial factors. The society we belong treats scientific knowledge as proven and reliable information to improve once understanding about the world we live. Biomedical understanding of diseases ...

Abstract

Do the imbalances in current accounts still matter in today’s deep global financial markets that exhibit two-way gross economic flows that dwarf the new outcomes provided by current accounts? Contrasting the adult perception of the world and complete markets, extreme current account imbalances indicate severe financial and macroeconomic stresses, particularly as was the case in the mid-2000s. The increasingly massive valuation differences in nations’ net global investment standards and positions, as well as risk allocations, cannot be relied upon to offset the variations in regional wealth systematically as implied in the current accounts. The same conditions that warrant ...

Summary

Tan, Carol. The Syrian Refugee Crisis: Conflicts In The Making. Culture & Society. In IE Med.

The paper by Tan explores the growth of Syrian refugees as a result of the Syrian Crisis, the host countries of refugees from Syria, the effects of Syrian refugees on the hosting countries as well as the factors hindering the adequate solving of problems presented by the influx of Syrian refugees in those countries. The war crisis in Syria is in its fifth year since it arose thus attracting a lot of attention from international communities .The attention from the human communities is due ...

Introduction

The Badlock bug is a vulnerability that got discovered by Stefan Metzmacher, who works for Samba developers (Mimoso, 2016). Stefan has worked for Samba for a long period; since 2002 and he now works as a Samba trainer and consultant at SerNet. The Badlock bug is a vulnerability that affects various kinds of Windows operating system known as the DCE. The DCE is utilized by chairpersons around the globe to get to the most profitable resource on any Windows. The windows network is an Active Directory, which goes about as a system with advanced security watch permitting an association's ...

Possible infrastructure vulnerabilities:

A computer network is made up of two or more electronic media that are able to communicate with each other through a predetermined way. Computer networks are very important to the world at present. Network vulnerabilities can be described as any security exposure that exposes the network to undesirable activity or unauthorized access. Network vulnerability has the possibility to lead to unauthorized access to information and resources of the network, altering the activities of the networks and even to the total denial of the network (EC-Council Press, 2011). Network vulnerabilities can be categorized into two main categories; application or ...

Mitigation of cyber attacks

Introduction The development of internet technology has both advantages and limitations on global development. The major drawback associated with advancement in internet technology is the cyber crime, which is globally on a rise (Weimann, 2006). Cyber terrorism poses serious threats to the security of both private companies and government institutions. Cyber attacks involve unauthorized access to critical information as well as the infrastructure of business organizations and public institutions (Weimann, 2006). The resultant effects of cyber attacks are numerous, and they make both private and public entities more vulnerable to collapse (Osipenko, 2004, p 46). Thus, these institutions adopt ...

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Summary

The Tuskegee Experiment was a scientific research study conducted on 399 black men between 1932 and 1972. Starting in 1932, the U.S. Public Health Service started an experiment with a vaguely defined mission. Taking mostly illiterate and poor black men from a rural southern area, they offered the prospect of free medical care and described the medical attention as an effort to cure “bad blood”, when in fact all 399 participants were suffering from tertiary syphilis. None of the participants were ever told that they carried the disease nor were they offered any form of ...

Complex systems are currently a controversial issue which many authors and researches have discussed in their attempt to relate to its complexity. Mitchell (2006), for instance affirms that, “What has transformed historically and what has resulted in the topic being fascinating is the key technique for the study of complex systems is a simulation. It’s also because of this, powerful machines, particularly clusters, made way for empirical insight into this topic (p. 119).” The primary framework for the complex systems as a course is that it is impossible to illustrate, or comprehend the behavior of a system by ...

Corruption as a Political Risk in Business

The global economy has shown good signs of recovery from the previous recessions that have been witnessed by leading global economies of America, Russia, China and Japan. Despite this strong and healthy economy, there are emerging issues of vulnerability of the economy risks associated with foreign exchange transfer, political interference, legal and regulatory risks, supply chain disruption, political violence, sovereign non-payment, financial sector susceptibility, and the inability of local governments to provide stimulus. While the economic sector for both product and services continues to enjoy steady growth fueled by high levels of employment and consumption, the industries have been ...

The incorporation of security practices into business management enables the firm to reduce and control the overall risks. The implementation of the safety controls requires an efficient security management process that entails strategy, policy, compliance, awareness, monitoring, and access. The domain of safety management relies on the regulations that dictate the company’s standards regarding security. Without a stringent and adequate policy, no group or individual can be accountable and in charge of protecting the organization. This essay sheds more light concerning the security management procedure. The security management process in a corporation provides a thorough and accurate evaluation ...

Introduction: Smoking is a learned habit that has existed in the society for long. This allows us to understand how the habit affects health and wellbeing both in the short term and in the long term. This injurious habit of smoking has taken a commonplace in our culture. Tobacco, the key ingredient in cigarettes, is the leading cause of avoidable illness in the world. A person who smokes 2 packs of cigarette per day, spends ~ 3-4 hours per day on smoking and inhales 1000mg of tar each day. The health care cost is several times higher for smokers when ...

Carrying out a community health assessment is an important step that can be used in trying to have a better understanding of the level of health of particular communities and the factors that are likely to expose them to risky health behaviors. It is from such assessments that members of a particular community can be able to evaluate their health status which makes it easy for them to prioritize activities that will ensure their well-being is maintained. The purpose of this paper is to carry out an assessment of the District of Columbia state regarding the statistics on demographics, ...

Different cyber-crimes are a global threat in the modern world since the world relies heavily on the social life. The increase in the utilisation of the modern technology makes the organisational systems prone to cyber-attacks by hackers and non-digital criminals. Various research findings developed by different researchers reveal that there are different crimes best explained by several theories. Among the theories that explain the global rise cases of digital crime cases is the routine activities theory. Despite explaining digital crimes, the routine theory explains non-digital crimes. Another major theory that explains the occurrences of digital crimes is the Lifestyle ...

Introduction

Over the years, little has changed the way romantic relationships are formed. Both scholars and the average dater agree it usually begins with physical attraction and perceived similarity, and progresses in a somewhat predictable manner from there. Typically, this progression has followed theoretical frameworks such as Knapp’s stages of relational development and Taylor’s (1968) social penetration theory. What these theorists might not have accounted for in the 1970’s (and what seems to be transforming the way young people pursue relationships) is the invention of the Smartphone.

Literature Review

One of the earliest perspectives on communication during romantic initiation ...

Hazard Mitigation Response

Introduction Background The world’s history is full of natural disasters that caused the losses of both the life and property. The disasters can categorized in numerous categories such as droughts, earthquakes, heat waves, floods, hurricanes, landslides, thunderstorms, tornadoes, tsunamis, volcanoes, wildfires, winter storm etc. . The United States alone suffered from the ten natural disasters in 2015 including a drought, wildfire, winter storm, floods, and five severe storms. The estimated financial loss of each disaster is almost $1 billion with the total death toll of 155 . The mentioned losses do not include the damage caused by manmade disasters like ...

Challenges and opportunities arising at various levels emerge as upcoming trends in emergency management. Generally, the emerging trends, either posing as challenges or opportunities, constitute the factors that impact the future direction of emergency management. The emerging challenges and opportunities arise at the professional, national or the global levels. The paper provides a description of various elements as entailed within the Federal Emergency Management Agency – FEMA chapter 15 as follows;

Global Challenges

In the course of managing emergencies, there are a number of major challenges that are emerging globally. Among these challenges are global climate changes, cumulative risk aversion, increasing levels ...

Briefly, define and describe community resilience as it related to critical incident management. Include in your answer what is meant by “continuity of government.” Community resilience implies the measure of the sustaining capability to make proper use of the entire available resources so as to deal with the diversity of the adverse situations. Kean & Hamilton (2004) asserts that the communities may possess limited resilience if there is no intensity of readiness for catastrophes. Properly prepared communities are described as resilient due to their capability to offer assistance in the prevention of losses incurred as a result of a disaster. ...

Earth’s skin

Brooklyn Museum exhibits a work by a world-renowned artist from Ghana – “Earth’s skin”. It is an artwork of great interest in many ways, therefore it would be worthy to take a closer look at it and analyze from several perspectives. What immediately strikes a regular audience is the material used to create the piece. What at first looks like a giant curtain, turns out to be a mosaic of aluminum and copper wires. Use of such materials reflects the author’s interest in recycling and transformation of raw materials. This work is a combination of a western form – ...

Social vulnerability is defined as the organizations, people, and the societies’ inability to withstand negative impacts due to multiple stressors that they are exposed to. Such impacts are mostly coming from disasters and natural hazards that create risks and potential damages to properties and threatens the people’s lives. This writing will describe this terminology based on the demographics of the social vulnerability. This study will also explain how emergency managers can use such information to their advantage, especially during the response, mitigation, and recovery phases of emergency management. We argue that understanding the significance of social vulnerability will ...

Introduction

Global warming affects the lives of the people all around the world regardless of geographical location. Global Warming is a consequence of human activities and decisions that are mostly governed by self-interest and material gain. Therefore, as the population in different areas continues to increase, competition to obtain life’s necessities intensifies. In turn, the destructive activities of humans continue to contribute to of Global Warming. According to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Global Warming is defined as the rising average temperature of the surface of the Earth increases due to emissions resulting from different human activities, ...

The Proposal

Vulnerability increases the likelihood of particular persons acquiring illnesses. The susceptibility may arise due to genes, poverty, cultural practices, environmental factors, etc. In this particular case, this essay conceptualizes on the risks factors that make diabetes prevalent amongst minority populations. The burden of the illness is much greater amongst the disadvantaged groups. What increases their chances of suffering from diabetes? What measures can alleviate the groups’ vulnerability to the disease? The illness also presents a challenge to health care providers who are aiming to enhance the medical outcomes of diabetes and prevent the disease. Diabetes management and prevention require ...

Effect on Veterans

Effect on Veterans The effects of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder can affect many individuals in several different ways, but for war veterans the lasting effects can be extremely debilitating. How this differs from anyone else is that the average soldier who is sent to a war zone is indoctrinated from an early period during their service that they are being bred to serve their country in any capacity necessary. Unfortunately this can mean that they are in effect being trained to die in the name of their country and/or beliefs. Many soldiers are even told that they might not ...

It was not long after the social websites like facebook and Instagram were introduced that people are starting posting their personal information and pictures quite freely for their friends and acquaintances to see. To be fair, the motive of these platforms was to find a way to socialize with friends through the use of the internet and for the longest time; these sites also took care of that particular wish of ours. We also have to consider here that after these websites had come out, in the beginning, the better part of us had more faith that the parties ...

In the 21st century, climate change has emerged as one of the main threats to the environmental wellbeing of earth as a planet and the ecosystems. The National Academy of Sciences, in its 2009 Ecological Impacts of Climate Change stated that “Climate change is one of the defining issues of the 21st century. Therefore, humans are under a challenge to formulate guidelines, practices and behavioural standards that ensure that economic opportunities and improve quality of life are available to the human population in the long run and also climate and eco-systems are sustainably maintained. Notably, climate change and in ...