Pandemic

Fraser, C., Riley, S., Anderson, R. M., & Ferguson, N. M. (2004). Factors that make an infectious disease outbreak controllable. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 101(16), 6146-6151. This paper deals with the possibility of having to deal with what could and would happen if an infectious viral outbreak were to occur. Their main focus was on what would be the measures for publicly controlling an outbreak and isolating individuals and or groups and…

World War I is infamous for the excessive number of deaths that occurred during its four-year period. The battle with the most recorded deaths during the Great War is known as the Meuse- Argonne Offensive, which is briefly mentioned in Ernest Hemingway’s short story Soldier’s Home. The Argonne Forest is an area of land that is situated in France, about 150 miles away from France (The American Battle Monuments Commission). According to a New York Times columnist Richard Rubin, who visited the…

chapter 9, I think I would like to work with mental ill offenders. According to Seiter, “mentally ill inmates are more likely than other inmates to have disciplinary problems while in prison.”(P. 253) I think mental illness in prisons/jail has been a pandemic for criminal justice system in the United States for the past 10 years. Many offenders, who do not come in with mentally ill, will have some kind of illness at the end of their incarceration. That is why I think we should pay more…

by Playdek, a studio specializing in bringing existing tabletop properties to the iOS and computers, for the PC. Twilight Struggle resided atop boardgamegeek.com's highest rated games list for six years between 2010 and 2016 when it was usurped by Pandemic: Legacy. Does this card-driven tabletop simulation of Cold War political strategizing translate well into the digital space? Cold War Simulation In the board game world, it's more common to refer to a game's theme rather than its story (with…

Introduction Anne-Marie Slaughter is President and CEO of New America and this essay is adapted from her forthcoming book, “The Chessboard and the Web: Strategies of Connection in a Networked World.” Slaughter describes the international system as a web and the world as networks instead of states with boundaries. The main claim of her essay is to promote the United States to adopt a grand strategy of building and maintaining an open international order based on three pillars: open societies,…

Every four years somewhere in the world the summer Olympics are held for this reason countries around the world compete to see who has the best athletes. It’s a great opportunity for the hosting country to make so economic gains as well as being able to show the rest of the world their culture. Although the games bring many positives, this year 's games in Rio, Brazil are questionable because of the virus that has become viral and is spreading rapidly around the region. The Zika virus is spread…

Local governments can do a better job of protecting human health and the environment than can the federal government. In classic conservative political theory, the “most significant form of government is what is closest to the people” (Veith 2012). In other words, local governments, in which the citizens select their neighbors to govern the community, are the most important forms of government. As the levels of government become more distant from the people who elected them, political…

Homelessness in Portland: a Growing Pandemic Portland is having a crisis. With an estimated 1,900 people sleeping outside every night, sleeping bags and worn out tents litter the sidewalk. Portland mayor, Charlie Hales, has taken action by trying to manage camping throughout the city. With his new “Safe Sleep Policy” homeless people will be able to sleep overnight on sidewalks in a sleeping bag but only from 9PM to 7AM. Hales has also created over 400 shelters for men, women, and families…

Imagine having a terrible fever, your throat burning, not being able to get out of bed. This is what the black plague is like. Most people don’t even know they have the plague until it’s too late. Fortunately, there hasn’t been an outbreak of the plague for a while. Nevertheless, the plague is a very serious matter, is dangerous, spreads quickly, and is hard to cure. Firstly, to be able to understand the plague, a person must first know what it is. The plague is a disease that causes abdominal…

Hurricane Katrina Storms, they are one of many natural disasters that occur on our earth. Going deeper we see one of the storms known as" Hurricanes ". These are a much more intense and violent version of a storm. Hurricanes occur rarely but when they do occur it is devastating. The more commonly know storms like Hurricane Katrina or Hurricane Patrica are some of the more deadly and crazy known storms. As we go over what hurricanes are and a certain disaster be thoughtful that hurricanes…