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    Introduction The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) defines food insecurity as “limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods or limited or uncertain ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways.”1 Nearly 12% of people living in Virginia are considered food insecure, and these rates are even higher in the southeastern portion of the state. The cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth have food insecurity rates close to 19%.2 Many of these…

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    Virtual Conflicts

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    The compositional dichotomy of virtual space creates a dynamic that, among other things, can cause states to lack a unified language and vision of virtual warfare. A large part of this division is driven from their divergent interests and relative power. An anecdote of this was showcased at the Budapest Conference on Cyberspace (2012) as well as the World Conference on International Telecommunications in Dubai (2012), when both conferences were back-to-back episodes of continual disagreements…

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    Natanz nuclear facility (Hayden, 2016). Decreasing enrichment efficiency by approximately 30%, this was the first instance of a cyber version of August 1945 when the United States decided to drop two nuclear bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima (Holloway, 2015). Without losing a single soldier on the battlefield, a (speculated) nation-state was able to set back Iranian nuclear efforts for years, sending a strong signal to Tehran and the rest of the world that cyberspace is open for…

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    Joint Force Disadvantages

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    Instability and insecurity in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia is accelerating at a dizzying pace due to violent extremist organizations (VEO), poor governance, humanitarian crises, sectarian violence, advanced weapons proliferation and a myriad of other reasons. This situation, along with national budgetary pressures, has caused U.S. strategic leaders to earnestly consider how the Joint Force 2025 must be rebalanced to meet these 21st century threats and to fully support our…

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    Military Spending Essay

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    to harm the US. We need to be at the top of this chain, and military spending cutbacks will only set us back further. There are many threats that face the united states each day and these threats are getting stronger by the minute. North korea, a very scary country with a very unpredictable leader, Kim Jong Un, is hostile the United states and we can’t him and his military cause harm onto our great nation. North korea launches nuclear weapons into the sea of Japan to assert the fact that they…

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    FSMA Regulations

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    Over the past decade the United States has made efforts in keeping food safe for the consumer. Specifically by enacting the 2011 Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), the U.S Food and Drug Administration (FDA) amended the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic act.1 Since nearly 80% of food supply in the U.S is controlled by the FDA,1 preventable problems arise daily including food-borne illnesses and contaminated food. Shortly after these reoccurring events, consumers convinced congress to put into…

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    During my time at Sandia National Laboratories, I interned under the department of WMD Threats and Aerosol Science. I saw men and women using their scientific and engineering backgrounds to study and understand systems that can be used to counteract chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction. It was incredible to see and work on various projects that allowed for counter-terrorism. One of the biggest projects I worked on was our "Spray Knockdown System" it is a massive, almost…

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    Crime data, crimes committed in the United States and the data collected of those crimes, are collected by two major systems and sources: The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, which is also known as the UCR/NIBRS Program, and the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) headed by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). The UCR/NIBRS Program This national system of uniform crime statistic (UCR) data collection was developed in 1930, and it the main source…

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    Fifteen years ago, the United States wasn’t officially engaged in any wars. Few of us had ever heard of al-Qaeda or Osama bin Laden, and ISIS didn’t even exist. We deported half the number of people we do today. Our surveillance state was a fraction of its current size. And — perhaps hardest to believe — we didn’t have to take off our shoes to get through airport security. America’s involvement in the War on Terror — prompted by the 9/11 terrorist attacks — resulted in a dramatic change in our…

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    Effects Of 9/11 Essay

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    all Americans have experienced in one way, is the dramatic spike in increased Transportation Security Act agents, security in the airports and overall thoroughness in air travel. If this traumatic event never occurred, American lives, the outlook of how the world views America and…

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