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The Homeland Security Department consist of many agencies and other divisions. It provides the best security at major events, structures, facilities and most importantly, to the president of the United States. The Department of Homeland Security consist of many agencies and other divisions. The Directorate for National Protection and Programs work to reduce risk to facilities and services such as airports, roads, bridges, utilities, and computer system (Mockaitis). Another branch of the…

billion in aid to Britain. In exchange, Britain and the United States passed the 1940 Destroyers of Bases Agreement. 50 US Navy destroyers were transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy and the Royal Navy. Churchill also gave Roosevelt base rights in Bermuda and Newfoundland. This allowed British military assets to be redeployed in the region alongside US destroyers. B. Scale The wide range of countries that received aid from the United States through lend-lease is tremendous. The following table…

quantity of its products sold under the St Michael brand private label. The company also operates and owns nearly 100 stores in Europe, Hong Kong and Canada and franchises over 85 stores in the Far East, Australia, the Middle East, the Bahamas and Bermuda. The company also own the Brooks Brothers chain of men’s clothing stores which consists of more than 170 units sold in the United States and Japan. History In 1894 Michael Marks, born in 1859 in a Jewish ghetto at Slonim…

Within my second blog post I want to answer two questions which Jennifer Good our professor proposed in lecture. She referenced two questions which Harold Innis, a well known historian asked. The first question was “why do we attend to the things to which we attend?” The second question she asked was “why should we care?” To break this down into more understandable terms I feel Harold is asking why do we focus on the things in which we focus on and why is this important to us? “Why do we…

Jamestown Virginia was the first successful British colony in the new world this is because of the leaders and determination of the settlers. It took many failed chances from a lot of different leaders. It cost endless amounts of money and lives. The transatlantic area was still widely unknown and there was no way they could prepare for he challenges ahead. It took a lot of help from the local Native Americans however it also would be their conflicts with these Native Americans that made their…

Who Really Discovered “The New World?” What if Christopher Columbus wasn’t the first European to visit the North America? What if everything that has been taught about the pilgrims and Indians and the Mayflower is a lie? Who really “discovered” The New World? The answer may lie inscribed in a seemingly ordinary boulder also known as Dighton Rock. From the ancient Phoenicians to the Native Americans, from a Portuguese Scouting ship to the Norse Vikings, there are many speculations about where…

There are many interesting things about the book breakfast of champions, a distinctive way of author writing style that defies fictional conventions, social commentaries and the exploration of relations between the fictional and the determinate. But these ideas are held by a very weak history, making everything less than its parts separately. The story unfolds around a science fiction writer called Kilgore Trout, and a car salesman named Dwayne Hoover. Away from where we are given to understand…

Driving to your upstate to your grandma’s house, cooking a delicious Thanksgiving dinner, turning on the lights to light the dinner table, baking a pumpkin pie, turning up the heater to warm us from the cold freezing winds are all some of the daily activities that we do without thinking twice. However, these activities are slowly emitting a greenhouse gas called carbon dioxide or CO2. According to Merriam-Webster, a greenhouse gas is “any gaseous compounds that absorb infrared radiation and trap…

“Every moment counts. Every second matters”-Elie Wiesel. During WWII and the Holocaust, American politicians avoided and actively ignored the harm caused to Jews in Europe, delaying help. Instead of allowing more immigrants and creating plans for refugees, the State Department, supported by the majority of Americans, ignored the problem and made it harder for immigrants and refugees to enter America. They were unable to escape persecution through quotas and excessive screening just because of…

A. Population Growth 1. General trend and population changes 1.1. Japan Within Japan there has been a steady increase of the population in both sexes. This increase has been steady until 2015 where it dipped back down to 126’573 thousand people, which is just lower than what it was in 2005 at 126’979 thousand people (United Nations, 2015). Japan has one of the few countries with a decreasing population. This is a problem for the country and needs to be solved quickly. 1…