Abstract Stephen Flynn believes that there are goals of homeland security that are crucial to America’s bureaucracies and he senses that the country is wasting the chance to really protect the United States. Stephen discusses two crucial mistakes that he feels America has made and the first mistake is that he discusses is how homeland security is separated from national security. The two key intelligence agencies are not communicating. The second issue, he discusses is how our infrastructure is penetrable. In this lesson Stephen Flynn sees a problem with tactical thinking within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).…
Howard Frank Mosher was an American writer that wrote literary fiction set in the North East. Mosher was born in Kingston, New York to Helen Emily Trapp and Howard H. Mosher. He referred to his hometown as a ghost town, a dying mill town where he spent most of his happy memories secluded behind his house catching trout from as early as four years. His father was a schoolteacher with wanderlust who moved the family more than ten times before Howard joined high school. However, the moving around had one silver lining as if they had never moved so much he would never have met his future wife in Cato, New York.…
America’s Greatest Threat Do you want to know what’s like to listen and evaluate the director of one of the most important sectors involved in America’s defense? On Monday, November 8th, the director of The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) came to Virginia Tech and spoke to a large audience in Mcbryde room 100. The audience consisted of mostly students, ranging from cadets to the ordinary student, who listened intently as Kenneth A. Myers III spoke about the purpose of defense against biological, nuclear and many other destructive forms of weaponry. He also discussed his involvement in the organization.…
Article: Halliburton upbeat on 2018 as oil recovery spreads Authors: Nivedita Bhattacharjee, and Liz Hampton In my chosen article “Halliburton upbeat on 2018 as oil recovery spreads” the authors’ used ethos, pathos, and logos throughout the entire video, for the sole purpose of convincing their audience. Ethos can be identified by the authors’ statement that “Halliburton quarterly revenue spurted nearly fifty percentage higher and met the rebound in the energy sector”. This gives the audience the latest facts and statistics about Halliburton.…
In the Introduction to "They Say/I Say": The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing, Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein give formats intended to make it simpler for students to compose their own particular essays easier. In particular, Graff and Birkenstein contend that the sorts of writing formats they offer helps the understudies assemble the paper's structure they need to start writing about. As Graff and Birkenstein themselves put it, "brilliant". As the authors themselves said on page 2: “But these deeper habits of thought cannot be put into practice unless you have a language for expressing them in clear, organized ways.” Although a few individuals believe that these templates will take away the creativity and uniqueness of their written work, Graff and Birkenstein demand that their templates will assist " writing become more original and creative, not less."…
The essay “Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner says it takes 25 years to obtain citizenship legally and just 13 years for illegal immigrants under the Senate bill” by Dave Umhoefer is very informative, and it helps the article readers get a better under standing of the immigration process. . In this article, Umhoefer gives the readers a summary of the goals of the immigration bill Jim Sensenbrenner wants to pass. Once the author explained the bill, he began to poke holes in the bill by giving information about how it would not favor all immigrants. Umhoefer goes on to explain that the bill would only positively affect 40 percent of immigrants who wanted to become citizens. The author stated that Jim Sensenbrenner’s bill is only half-true and that the outcome…
Tom Regan, truly illustrates how not to answer ethical questions by demonstrating to us whether the question at hand is even a moral conflict from the get go. He describes the difference between moral judgment and personal preference, stating that a moral judgment is a definitive statement that once is made you are discrediting the opposing side; on the other side a personal preference is a declaration in which opposing side due to the fact that is an opinion of preferring one side over another. Regan supports this claim by juxtaposing their differences in need in being justified. The author then claims that statistics are entirely arbitrary when it comes to making a sound moral judgment.…
Environmental historian and professor, Ted Steinberg wrote the book Down To Earth which presents American history through the lens of nature. Steinberg does an excellent job displaying the significant role nature has played throughout American history and his writing will forever change the way you perceive our country’s history. This book differs from your traditional American History books by uniquely linking historical events to their environmental counterparts. Down To Earth provides an insightful perspective on American History by highlighting the environmental impacts caused by our culture and making us question whether or not development truly meant progress.…
Harvey weinsteins fall opens the floodgates in hollywood. On october 16th harvey weinstein was publicly accused of sexual harassment. Unfortunately, weinsteins accusers were not alone in their experiences. Lupita Nyong’o Oscar-winning actress of “12 Years a Slave” recalls fearing that she had jeopardized her career by denying the sexual advances of what she called the “powerful Hollywood player”. on October 8, 2017, Weinstein was fired from his position at the production company that he co-founded, The Weinstein Company.…
Gun control has been a reoccurring issue in the Unites States for some time now. According to Paul Rosenzweig in his article, Guns: A Loaded Argument, he suggests that the issues related to gun control hardly has to deal with the amount of regulation, but more with how much power the government has to regulate individual conduct, which in his writing expresses that it should be fairly limited. Rosenzweig supports his claim by first saying that most people agree with some type of regulation on gun control whether they are for or against the issue. He also goes on to state, “Everyone agrees with some reasonable bounds, the government can and should regulate who owns which types of weapons.” Although he does agree with some regulation, he also believes that all American citizens have the right to own their own weapons.…
Tobias Wolff, at the tender age of 7, and his mother, Rosaline, are on the run from an abusive relationship. His natural father is rich but has wartime issues so his Mom and Dad are divorced and they have been left to fend for themselves with next to nothing. Leaving Florida and running from the abusive man named Roy, they search for fortune through a large part of the mid-west. They wind up in Salt Lake City where Roy finds them again and re engages his abuses as a restless whiner, “He would follow my mother from room to room, emitting one ceaseless note of complaint that was pitched perfectly to jelly her nerves and bring her to a state where she would agree to anything to make it stop.” (p. 24)…
Although Booth also explores this theme at the start of his article, his analogy of this traditional approach is rather disparate. Booth assumes that prior to the end of the Cold War, the main concern of security studies was based and focused on inter-state war and the deployment of weapons . Similar to the argument of Walt, Booth states that traditional security has been characterized by the three elements of military threats and counter threats, status quo, and state centrism . Consequently, Booth shifts and differs immensely from Walt, with a much more reasonable and relevant argument. Booth believes that although this was a well-focused part of the study of security, ever since the Cold-War has ended, the modern era has seen the decline in inter-state war, and the fact that will only fight if they or…
Northrop Grumman(NG) currently defines their business industry as “global security”. They have been through many iterations within the defense contracting industry and recently recognize the overlap in all these iterations by merging Information and Electronics Sectors into “Mission Systems”. The company’s organizational profile demonstrates a progressive, forward thinking, industry leading company. Wes Bush is the company CEO and his skill and understanding of the business come from having spent his whole career in the aerospace industry.…
“ By the 20th century, military organizations confronted the problem of not only adapting to technological changes in peace time, but also the fact that war itself has inevitably turned up the speed of technological change”. The first Gulf War constitutes a turning point in the history of modern conflicts essentially because of the integration of technology into all levels of military operations. War was always been a declaration of hostility between two opposing groups clashed over a battlefield in a duel with the ultimate aim to impose its will on the other. However, the advent of new technologies has completely changed these legendary and almost static clashes.…
Lockheed Martin Corporation SEC 10-K Paper Introduction This paper will analyze the financial statements of Lockheed Martin Corporation for the fiscal years 2015 and 2014. Lockheed Martin Corporation is a Fortune 500 company, currently at number 60 (Lockheed Martin) that is a global security and aerospace company that is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and services (Who We Are). The customer base for Lockheed Martin Corporation is primarily with the U.S. Department of Defense and U.S. federal government agencies.…