United States Coast Guard

the passed decade especially, government funding. Building a U.S Coast Guard for the 21st century is much different than building the U.S Coast Guard in the very beginning. Today our nation seeks for the U.S than it ever has in history. The Coast Guard handles major demands like search and rescue, drug interdiction, and port security missions. These are just a few reasons why we should increase the nations spending on the U.S Coast Guard. First, a major issue to spend on, “The deteriorating…

operations. Nearby ships in the area close enough to assist in rescue operations had non-operational rafts and were virtually unable to help. The South Korean Coast Guard would be severely criticized by the public as well as the government. Former President Park would disband the Coast Guard announcing during a nationally televised speech that "The coast guard's rescue operations…

Going into the presentation, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. My husband served eight years in the United States Coast Guard. I had my own opinion about raising military children. I thought all of the presenters did a wonderful job sharing their stories. The presentation solidified my opinion, which is either military children thrives, like Kayla, or they struggle, like Mrs. Larson’s oldest son. I have not found of military parent that describes their child’s experience as a “normal”…

Missile Defense of Our Nation’s Capital Throughout our nation’s history, and even before, America’s militia has answered the call to guard and defend America’s citizens and way of life. Following the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, President George W. Bush authorized the activation of the Reserves of each military branch as well as the Army and Air National Guard. Initially, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld designated more than 35,000 reserve component men and women the task of…

after President Franklin d. Roosevelt issued Executive Order No. 9066. Executive Order No. 9066 Which stated that all Japanese American citizens living on the west coast from Washington to Arizona will be taken from their home and sent to internment camps during WWII(TYLER). More than 127,000 United States…

Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night shows a first hand experience of the atrocity that was the Holocaust. The Holocaust is the only name that comes to mind when most Americans hear the word “genocide”. These people show ignorance to the mistreatment of Americans that occurred in their own country. The internment of Americans of Japanese descent during World 2 was a clear example of racial discrimination. Although the death toll was no where near comparable to that of the Holocaust, it was still an unfair…

US Women World War II changed the lives of women in the United States because women had to do heavy duty jobs just to feed and support their children, while their husbands were at war. Many men didn’t think that women weren’t important during the war because men were the always the ones that did the work. The truth is that women were a very important part of the war. Since the men were busy serving at the war, the woman had to fill in for their husbands or even friends. These jobs include…

The Japanese arrived in the United States to be able to get more options to be successful, although when they made it to the U.S. No one knew how to speak Japanese, no one knew much about their culture. They were not accepted right away because people were very eerie of them. It was more of rude eyes staring at the Japanese, they’d have to go through a lot of discrimination while the other people in the United States are doing their own thing to not accept them. In these days of this generation,…

the state of Alaska, and around two and a half times larger than the state of Texas.3 Iran features a variety of terrain types, to include, mountainous, central basin with deserts, and plains. Its climate is mostly arid, but contains a subtropical zone along the coast of the Caspian Sea. It has a vast amount of natural resources, to include petroleum, natural gas, coal, chromium, copper, iron ore, lead, manganese,…

Republic of China (ROC/Taiwan), The Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia and Brunei. The China claims the territory through historical evidence dating back to the Xia Dynasty. The Philippines bases its claims to the islands on international law through the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). (Spratly…