...FEMA and Federalism Deanne Norgaard POL 120 - American National Government May 26, 2014 Season Hoard FEMA and Federalism The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is a federal program designed to respond to natural emergencies and disasters all over our country. Its initial catalyst is a governor’s declaration of a disaster area. So when recent tornadoes touched down and cut a path of destruction through Illinois, particularly in the towns of Washington and Gifford, the governor made his declaration and FEMA was expected to spring into action. Upon examination however, FEMA ruled that despite seven fatalities and millions of dollars of damage, the area did not qualify for assistance. Both the Illinois governor and U.S. Senators were stunned and the state was left to respond to the emergency themselves. What is this federal policy and is it better than just having each state respond to its own issues? The qualifications to receive FEMA assistance are determined by the following: the amount and type of damage (major damage and number of homes destroyed); impact on the infrastructure of affected areas or critical facilities; imminent threats to public health and safety; impacts to essential government services and functions; unique capability of Federal government; dispersion or concentration of damage; level of insurance coverage in place for homeowners and public facilities; available assistance from other (Federal, state, local, voluntary organizations); and...
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...Tornado Tips and Safety Tornadoes cause major destruction across the nation. Some areas may seem to attract tornadoes more so than others but it doesn’t mean a tornado can’t strike an area just because of the geographical location. There is not a typical or specified season for Tornadoes to occur; however, if weather conditions are conducive, a tornado can possibly form. Tornadoes extend from severe thunderstorms and usually develop from the trailing end of a storm. It is possible and not uncommon for the sun to be visible or skies to be partially clear during a tornado. Some tornadoes are easily seen and detected, while others strike quickly with little or no warning. This is why it is so important to know what to do in case of a tornado occurs in your area. Tornados destruction depends on what categories they may fall into. The categories for tornados fall in categories between F0- F5. F0 means Gale Tornado Category between 40 - 72 mph--Light damage which could cause some damage to chimneys, breaks branches off trees, pushes over shallow-rooted trees, and damages sign boards. Or a tornado can be classified all the way to an F5 which means Incredible Tornado Category between 261 - 318 mph-Incredible damage which could cause strong frame houses lifted off foundations and carried a considerable distance and disintegrated, automobile sized missiles fly through the air in excess of 100 meters, and trees debarked. If strong winds and hail and debris start moving it may be...
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...NON SEQUITUR: President Barack Obama: “After all, oil is a finite resource. We consume more than 20 percent of the world’s oil, but have less than 2 percent of the world’s oil reserves.” The President’s numbers are correct; however, this is an example of a non sequitur fallacy because the information does not bare relationship to each other. Comparing the finite world oil resources to the amount of oil reserves gives an incomplete picture to how much of the oil resources (reserves and non reserves) that the United States currently has in stock. Obama, B. (2010, June). Remarks by the President on the BP oil spill. The White House: Office of the Press Secretary. Retrieved from: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-nation-bp-oil-spill FAULT ANALOGY President Barack Obama: “That's why, under my plan, individuals will be required to carry basic health insurance -- just as most states require you to carry auto insurance. Likewise, businesses will be required to either offer their workers health care, or chip in to help cover the cost of their workers." This is considered a faulty analogy because owning car insurance and health insurance cannot be compared. Millions of people can spend their whole lives without owning cars and using public transportation and will not have to pay for car insurance. Driving is a privilege and an option, and cannot be compared with living. Obama, B. (2009, September). Remarks by the President to the Joint Session...
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...James mincey Jones Fire Protection Mar 17, 2013 The Great Chicago FIre The Great Chicago Fire was a horrible and disappointing day in United States history. The conflagration burned from Sunday, October 8, to early Tuesday, October 10, 1871. It killed hundreds and rampaged just over 3 miles while devastating the entire city. Though the fire was one of the largest of the 19th century, the rebuilding that began soon after made them one of the most popular cities of America. The starting of the fire initially had everyone fooled. that a cow in a barn had kicked over a lantern, and things went a blaze.Though the barn owned by the O’Leary was the first to be taken over by the fire, the reporter came clean to exaggerating the story for sales. The barn was the start but the wood structures within Chicago, combined with a drought was no match for this fire. The wind carried ember from the fire toward the city.These factors didn’t even shake the residents of the Windy City. As the fire continued to grow firefighters responded, and were soon exhausted. The first alarm was received around 9:40 by the department when a fire alarm was pulled at a local pharmacy. This was when the fire was relatively small but when it got larger the guard took the corrective actions to send more people but it he sent them in the wrong direction. It was when the fire overcame a tall church, the flames crossed the river. Ships that lined the river, the city's wood-plank sidewalks...
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...Public leaders have to be persuasive and influential. They must have the ability to persuade constituents. Public leaders must also have a vision that is realistic. Rusaw states, “Leadership is Leadership is a process of envisioning the best outcome of a project, and crystallizing that vision into reality (2001). Leaders must assure constituents their intentions are pure and not devious or self-gratifying or motivating. Leaders are required to show interest in current issues that affect the public. President Obama did this by implementing the healthcare reform. He captured the attention of many citizens in the United States by addressing that insurance companies are too powerful, proposing the reform, imagining the end result, and implementing the solution. As a result, constituents are influenced by the possibilities of the healthcare reform. The following will be addressed: the various forms of persuasive leadership, ways leaders persuade and facilitate, and the way a leader is most persuasive and/or effective. Persuasive Forms of Leadership Trust is critical in public leadership; especially when there is a necessity for change. Constituents need to be assured that a leader can deliver on his or her promises. If a constituent distrusts or doubts a leader then the leader loses power and the constituents will cause problems for the public leader. Trust is a good way to build relationships, and when public leaders gain trust of constituents they both gain mutual satisfaction...
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...The “American Dream” has lots of clichés and can mean so many things to so many people. Whatever the meaning may be, it is deep within each of us. However, it often times seems as if the American Dream is simply political propaganda. Some days it’s as if the politicians, corporate leaders of the world and the media are trying to convince us that the American Dream exists. It does exist and it is clear in everyday success stories heard around the World. President Barack Obama is the epitome of someone achieving the American Dream. When it comes to the topic of the American dream, most of us will readily agree that in some degree, it does exist and that it is still alive. Where this agreement usually ends, however is on the question of how the American dream is obtained and if it is available to anyone. While some are convinced that you can achieve the American dream and secure a comfortable lifestyle for yourself by hard work and education alone, others maintain that no matter how hard you work and how far your education runs, sometimes you just simply luck up with various opportunities, blessings or good fortune in life. In Is the American Dream Over? Cal Thomas defines the introduction of the American dream as: For Generations, parents have told their children about “the American dream.” Basically it has meant building a life based on the foundational principles that created and have sustained America for more than 200 years. By doing so, one might reasonably expect...
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...Historical Visit The Windy City, was all that I knew of Chicago before my visit. As someone who never really traveled far, Chicago was no different as I had never really visited it. So when looking to complete my summer homework, I thought this, the Chicago Historical Society, would be the ideal place to broaden my perspective. The museum itself was a great place to be itself but what really caught my eye were the artifacts, especially those of the Great Chicago Fire and some of the great historical exhibits such as Lincolns Chicago, which detailed the Chicago that Abraham Lincoln grew up in; “one of a dynamic young metropolis on the verge of greatness.” The exhibits ranged from the earliest times of Chicago, building the city itself, until modern-day. Perhaps the most controversial topics within the museum were those of African-American rights, industrial workers, both male and female, and the growing cities criminal problem. The museum offered a large number of exhibits regarding industrial workers, as Chicago itself was an advancing society, the exhibits took you into the lives of the workers who spends up to 12 hours or more within the factories repeating task after task with little to no safety or rest. Due to these unsafe working conditions articles and novels such as “The Jungle”, by Upton Sinclair, were written to expose these issues. Work within the factories was popularized by media due to times of war, as well as being the most is the easily employable job; as the...
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...The great flood of 1993 that drowned the Midwest section of America was the worst flood in recorded history of the United States. It took quite a toll on the people, buildings, and land of the Midwest. Many things factored into the flooding, including: the previous’ year precipitation and weather, the current years’ precipitation, the deteriorating wetlands, and the increased amount of levees, dams, and people living in the floodplains. With above average amounts of precipitation in 1992 and cool temperatures, not much evaporation occurred that year. Without enough evaporation, the soil remained saturated, and when the extremely above average rainfall came in the summer of 1993 came, the water had nowhere to go but to the rivers and streams. These rivers and streams quickly filled up and by July were cresting at record highs all around the Midwest. Near St. Louis the Mississippi river crested at 19 feet higher than the flood stage and over 6 feet higher than the previous record. With flood waters of that magnitude, levees were easily broken and overtopped. The great flood caused around 15 billion dollars in damage and tens of thousands of people to be displaced, some temporarily and some permanent around the Midwest. Places such as Des Moines, Iowa were hit especially hard, as Water Works plant, the distributor of water in Des Moines, was flooded and taken out of commission. People of Des Moines went nearly 2 weeks without running water at all and nearly 3 weeks without drinking...
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...he left Chicago to study law at Harvard University. Here, he became the first African American president of the Harvard Law Review and received the equivalent of a Danish cand.jur degree in 1991 with top marks 10. Back in Chicago, Obama took part in work to get voters to register before he joined a law firm that works with civil rights. He also tought law at the University of Chicago. 11. Obama’s knowledge about his African father, whom he only met once again when he was in the States on short visits in 1971 12. They were engaged in 1991 and married on 3 October 1992. 13. The parents first daughter, Malia Ann, was born in 1998, followed by a second daughter, Natasha ( "Sasha") in 2001. 14. In 1996, Obama was elected to the Illinois state senate from the same area in Chicago, as he had in his time been working to improve conditions in. 15. 10th February 2007 Obama...
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...notarizing signing agents, consumer bankruptcy petition preparation, and a joint venture with bankruptcy attorney Sean Fleming to provide a complete debt elimination credit-rebuilding program. That is why I am calling the company "The Torres Networking Group" or TNG, LLC because it will be more of a consulting company with these services. This is a real world example; it is a company that I am launching, and by the beginning of 2013 when I receive my small business, funding the company should have a fully functional interactive website and a retail location in Elgin, Illinois (Welcome to the Illinois Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, 2011). My marketing plan is not just a project and an exercise it is a personal dream of mine that I have wanted to realize since 2006. Based on the research I have performed and the analysis I have decided to provide these services in the first marketplace such as Kane County in Elgin, Illinois. This would be a retail location with a photo and video studio included for consumers. At this location, we would offer services such as photo shoots, photo printing, and videos. In addition, I would tap into the wedding and sweet sixteen and the Latino sweet fifteen consumers. One of the reasons for offering the photo/video service is my background in photography and videography going back to when I attended Columbia College Chicago, which is a great school for world famous filmmakers and photographers (Demographic...
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...Tio Hardiman for Illinois Governor Tio Hardiman, a native Chicagoian, has thrown his name in the mix in running for Illinois Governor. Hardiman mentioned in a conference that he plans to provide more resources to schools, bring an end to corruption, create stricter laws for illegal gun trafficking in the state and reduce employment. Tio said in a conference, “I just want to let everybody in Illinois know that I’m dead serious about running for governor.” Tio believes we need fresh leadership, a Governor with a fundamentally different vision, the unquestioned integrity to lead Illinois toward shared prosperity, and equal opportunities in all parts of the state (Tio Hardiman for Illinois, 2014). Tio’s plans include the following: * Make affordable housing truly affordable for all income levels * Fund more programs for adult literacy and job readiness * Reduce poverty by creating good jobs with a living wage and paid sick leave * Help small businesses prosper * Put the public voice back into the public education * Improve government services like the DHS and DCFS * Reduce gun violence * Raise the minimum wage * Reduce wasteful government spending In an interview, Hardiman stated, “I didn’t make this decision overnight. There’s a lot of good work that I’ve done as a community activist” and that “I’m running for Governor because I’m tired of seeing people so tired. I’m a pure champion for the people. It’s time for the voices of the people to be heard”. Analysts believe...
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...Relationship duration: balance (past) and perspectives (futures). Risks of outsourcing from McDonald’s perspective and probability to put an end on the relationship. Martin Brower has been a supplier of McDonald’s since 1956. They started by delivering paper products to Ray Kroc’s first restaurant in Illinois, but have gown alongside McDonald’s and can now call themselves their biggest global supplier of food and service products. They have since 1972 offered delivery of the entire inventory the restaurants need. (http://martinbrower.co.uk/our-story.html) McDonalds now expect Martin Brower to keep being innovative and a part of their daily business, while limiting the environmental impact to as low as possible. (http://www.martinbrower-ensemble.fr/csr_dessin_eng_bat_web.pdf) The different risks of outscoring from McDonald’s perspective could be several losses. One concern that’s usually at the top of the list is the information system. Implementing a new information system can be difficult and result in irregular and incomplete information, which could increase the supply chain’s operating costs and reduced profits. They could lose the control of the supply chain and miss out on information about the market, resulting in miscalculating their objectives. Another risk contains service levels that can involve loss and damage issues etc. Even if it’s agreed upon that the responsibility of losses or damages of products (although the damages are out of the supplier’s control)...
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...Office for International Students & Scholars Housing Now that you have arrived, it is time to look for an apartment. Remember that the method of finding and renting an apartment in Chicago may be different than what occurs in your country. Searching for an apartment can be time-consuming and frustrating. This handout includes suggestions made by other international students to help you in your search. Good Luck! HELPFUL DEFINITIONS Landlord The landlord is the person from whom you will rent the apartment. The landlord may be a company or an individual. It is important to know the name of your landlord and his/her phone number and address. You will probably be contacting the landlord if there are any problems with the apartment during your lease. Lease A lease is the agreement between you and the landlord. You will sign a lease agreeing to the rent and rules for living in the apartment. In the U.S., most leases are for one year; however, it is possible to rent for a shorter amount of time. It is important to thoroughly read and understand the lease before you sign it. Don't hesitate to ask questions if you don't understand something. Security Deposit You will be required to pay a security deposit in addition to the first month's rent on a new apartment. The security deposit is an additional sum of money usually the equivalent of the first month's rent. At the end of your lease you will get this deposit back, provided there is no damage to the apartment. Make...
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...ECE 241 Advocacy Paper While doing research for this paper I found many great things that as an Early Childhood professional I will make known with colleges. I decided to write about “President Obama’s plan to provide high quality early education for all children.” There are 3 major points to Obama’s plan 1. “State-level standards for all learning; 2. Qualified teachers for all preschool classrooms; 3. A plan to implement comprehensive data and assessment systems.” To fulfill the “state-level standards for all learning” the President is asking for investments into state programs via grants from companies, investors, etc. in the communities or states. The President has proposed a cost sharing partnership with all 50 states to help stretch taxpayer dollars and so each state does not have to “reinvent the wheel” so to speak. This proposal also has incentives to the states to sweeten the deal for them to want to invest in their children’s education. For states to receive federal dollars, they will be required to meet benchmarks. These include: “*State-level standard of early learning. *Qualified teachers for all preschool classrooms. *A plan to implement comprehensive data and assessment systems. Preschool programs across the states would meet common and consistent standards for quality across all programs, including; *Well trained teachers who are paid comparably to k-12 staff; *Small class sizes and low adult to child ratios; *A rigorous curriculum; ...
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...they were at the level working with various clients in a paperless environment. All records brought in by clients were scanned into our servers and then given back to the client. They required that I have PDF files for all numbers that I used in tax return. Not just that but on a line by line basis per tax form used. The point I am trying to make is that I still needed discipline even though I was previously trained in tax accounting. Not just that you might have to adapt your discipline depending on the type of changes the company goes through with new technology advancements and improvements. According to the state of Illinois my trait discipline encompass the rules of professional conduct. People in the professional world that reside in the state of Illinois should use the professional conduct. Here is the general summary for the stats of Illinois: “The Rules of Professional Conduct are rules of reason. They should be interpreted with reference to the...
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