Administration

Applied Aviation Safety The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has the mission of “providing the safest and most efficient aerospace system in the world” (FAA, n.d.). In order to accomplish this mission, they analyze information from many sources and determine where safety needs improvement in the aviation industry and then look for solutions to the issues. In 2006, the FAA wrote AC 120-92, Introduction to Safety Management Systems (SMS) for Air Operators, to establish a voluntary system…

What is Medicare and Social Security is a question some might ask. Different parts of Medicare cover different services. Medicare is the largest health program in the United States. It is an insurance program that covers 40 million people that are over 65 years old and over 8 million people with disabilities. Medicare is the federal health insurance program for people who are 65 or older, certain younger people with disabilities, and people with End-Stage Renal Disease. It has 4 parts to it and…

within DHS. I also needed to be familiar with the air surveillance responsibilities of inter-agency partners within the federal government. To get a better understanding their air surveillance responsibilities, I reviewed the Federal Aviation Administration National…

the odds and live longer, into their 90’s. Whether you choose to collect your Social Security at age 62, 67, or 70, by the time you reach the age of 81, your total dollar amount collected will be almost exactly the same. The Social Security Administration uses advanced statistical data to calculate the payment amounts, and like a casino the odds usually turn out in their favor. Let’s take at three examples of people who retire at each age, and live to be 81. We’ll just use $1,000 as a full…

SCORE is made up of retired and active business professionals who provide free and confidential business counselling. (www.score.org) SCORE is a partnership with the U.S. Small Business Administration. There are 11,000 volunteers providing services in over 1,000 communities. They have provided 263,425 mentoring sessions to 148,800 clients which has resulted in 56,079 new businesses being started. (SCORE NATIONAL IMPACT 2014) SCORE helps budding…

The nation 's inner cities and suburbs appear to be racially segregated because of the policies of Federal Housing Administration (FHA) and Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC) in the past. The HOLC was signed into law on June 13, 1933 by the request of President Roosevelt. HOLC devised an appraisal system that undervalued neighborhoods that were dense, mixed, or aging. In this appraisal system, the green A area, as the first grade, was a new, homogeneous, and suitable to live in; the blue B, as…

America, a land founded with opportunity and wealth in mind and while I believe our founding fathers wanted to see growth and innovation I doubt it was to be at the expense of its people. Today the typical view of crime and how it affects our economy is focused on street crimes, however what many don 't realize is the number of corporate crimes occurring today play a more detrimental role in our economy and creates more victims than street crime. The types of corporate violations are vast and…

Costly medication is sometimes prescribe by healthcare providers with no benefits to the patient’s health. This raises an ethical concern because the patients’ health is in jeopardy for taking medications that they do not need and they are now burden with the cost of that prescription drug. Often times, there is pressure on healthcare providers from the big pharmaceutical companies to sell their drugs to patients. Leonard J. Weber, a professor at the University of Detroit, talks about the ethics…

Logan Security Public Safety or Customs Arrivals/Departures Arriving at Logan Airport drivers are divided up into either one of two lanes, one being arrivals, and the other being departures. From that point there is lettered terminals arranged by Airlines and they range from Terminal A to Terminal E. As an SIE group our trip to London was a Delta flight we took Terminal A. Once reaching the Terminal there are designated areas for each individual airline in that terminal. For instance, once…

Franklin D. Roosevelt’s approach to the Great Depression was more widely accepted by the people, rather than Hoover’s every thing will work itself out belief. Roosevelt started immediately after he got sworn into office, to help the American people fight against the Great Depression. His three main points of the New Deal Plan were relief, recovery, and reform. His plan to was to reform the financial systems, and get the government more involved. Immediately after his First Inaugural Address he…