...Christine Hilty Discussion Board 2: English 101-D19 November 24, 2011 Stop the Catastrophe In Figure 8.3, Greenpeace presents a very convincing logical and emotional appeal to viewers young and old, as to the seriousness of deforestation when compared to a nuclear holocaust. The clearing of the forests is one of the most horrific feats of humanity during our lifetime. Forests are fast disappearing, as thousands of plant and animal species are expunged forever. The comparison of deforestation to the atomic bomb dropped during World War II is both realistic and compelling. That resulting implosion initiated a chain reaction killing millions of people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The aftermath has lingered more than 50 years later, as millions of individuals, worldwide, are still trying to cope with dramatic changes that were caused by this travesty. In this illustration, the dark and cloudy sky portrays a grim picture for the future. A single large tree shaped like an atomic mushroom, is carefully placed at the focal point, to represent the remaining world’s forests. The barren countryside is depleting of landmarks, so that this monstrosity is not linked with any particular country or region of the world. Therefore, all mankind is to blame for this outrageous act, regardless of culture, creed, education or beliefs. Mankind is represented by the “single axe man”, who stands at the base of the tree and is portrayed as the “root”...
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...NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA THESIS ANTHRAX VACCINE AS A COMPONENT OF THE STRATEGIC NATIONAL STOCKPILE: A DILEMMA FOR HOMELAND SECURITY by Thomas L. Rempfer December 2009 Thesis Advisor: Second Reader: Stanley Supinski Dean Lynch Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK REPORT DOCUMENTATION PAGE Form Approved OMB No. 0704-0188 Public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 1 hour per response, including the time for reviewing instruction, searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing the collection of information. Send comments regarding this burden estimate or any other aspect of this collection of information, including suggestions for reducing this burden, to Washington headquarters Services, Directorate for Information Operations and Reports, 1215 Jefferson Davis Highway, Suite 1204, Arlington, VA 22202-4302, and to the Office of Management and Budget, Paperwork Reduction Project (0704-0188) Washington DC 20503. 1. AGENCY USE ONLY (Leave blank) 4. TITLE AND SUBTITLE 2. REPORT DATE December 2009 3. REPORT TYPE AND DATES COVERED Master’s Thesis 5. FUNDING NUMBERS Anthrax Vaccine as a Component of the Strategic National Stockpile: A Dilemma for Homeland Security 6. AUTHOR(S) Thomas L. Rempfer 7. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES) Naval Postgraduate School Monterey, CA 93943-5000...
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...Prior to the beginning of World War I the attitude toward war was extremely positive. People were excited about the war and they greeted it with enthusiasm. In Europe they were told it was going to over by Christmas so people weren’t expecting it to be long nor brutal for that matter. The press romanticized the war with various propaganda; so many men enlisted and were very proud to serve. They viewed it as they were going to be heroes and a victory was on its way; and no men wanted to miss the action. War made people, men and women, feel very nationalistic for their country, thus making them eager to contribute as much as they could to the war effort. Some men felt war was going to be a “great adventure” and gave “the war an ideal and almost romantic character”. All of Europe also helped romanticized the war and heroism because the people no experience with a long bloody war, they didn’t know what to expect. Contributions other than enlisting in the war were numerous. They men and women wanted to help out with the war effort for their country because it made them feel proud and integrated with the war. Some people contributed with food rations and where they donated food to the soldiers. Others planted victory gardens and some women took over the jobs the men did. Women also joined the Red Cross to help out in the war. The wealthier people donated money to the war effort so they could contribute in a way. In that early stage of the war they didn’t know how bad, long and bloody...
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...Duck and Cover Nuclear warfare was something that could damage all of civilization within a wide area, to know that a bomb could be set off and at anytime with no knowledge of when is a little scary. I would personally want to have some kind of idea so that I could protect my family in some form or fashion. In the video duck and cover watching the kids walking down the street and the bomb going off is scary. The video was a good form of teaching children and parents how to protect themselves if a nuclear bomb was to be set off. When terrorism struck the people had no idea of what was happening. The fact that a person or group of people considers hurting the innocent is wrong. The people that were killed in the 9-11 attack were just innocent by standers that were targeted because one person was upset with something that a past president had done. I personally think that a problem should be resolved in a different way other than violence. Terrorism threats and nuclear war are both dangerous to civilization. They both hurt and destroy innocent people and things. Unlike terrorism threats a nuclear bomb can destroy a wide variety of things and can affect civilization longer because of radiation being released, terrorist threats like 9-11 can destroy a variety of things like a nuclear bomb but it takes more than just one bomb. Terrorist threats can also affect civilization for a long period of time also, the people that lose family members can never get over that pain no matter what...
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...INTRODUCTION 1. The military concept of Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) is theory about the future warfare. RMA are closely linked and combined with economics, politics, technologies, security and strategies for RMA to have it changes. The original theorizing about RMA was largely done within the American military, other nations are exploring similar shifts in organisation and technology. 2. Interest in RMA and the structure of future US force have made many other militaries have done researched and considered RMA as and organizational concept. 3. Malaysian Army also now in the planning to modernise it organisations after experienced in insurgency era to the conventional warfare (CW). The modernisation that planned to take place in Malaysian Army is logistic, weaponry, knowledge and doctrines . AIM 4. The aim of this paper is to highlight and discusses to give some understanding of RMA and how it relevant to the Malaysian Army. DISCUSSION TOPICS 5. The topics that will discuss are as follow: a. The Meaning of Revolution in Military Affairs. b. RMA Relevant To The Malaysian Army. c. Implication on Doctrine. d. Future Planning in The Malaysian Army. e. Conclusion MEANING OF RMA 6. Definition of RMA had been defined as the changes in the concept of warfare that brought by the changes in military doctrine, equipment, political and economy of a country . This revolution occurs when the application of new technologies into a significant number...
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...Ryan Canady 3/7/11 EWRT 1B A Soldier’s Burden Tim O’Brien is regarded as the preeminent American novelist of the Vietnam experience and his novels have gained widespread critical and significant popular success. His popularity can be attributed to his ability to translate the experience of wartime into perspectives on the larger questions of life and death. The three stories by O’Brien listed in the title are based on his own personal experiences and memories of his time in and after the Vietnam War. Although these stories are based upon real experiences, he embellishes some facts or puts instances from separate events into one timeline making his work is fiction. I believe that O’Brien wrote these stories not only as a therapeutic release for himself, but he is able to retell these stories and give an incredible insight to such a dark and controversial piece of American history. But his career has spanned a wider range of topics than his experiences from Vietnam. One consistent theme in his works is morality and the timeless struggle that humans have had with it. Along with morality, the amount burden that people carry, both physical and emotional, is a major theme in the stories I will be discussing. Another great attribute to O’Brien’s writing is his uncanny ability to blur the lines between fiction and reality. This style of writing is commonly referred to as metafiction; which is fiction that discusses the function and effect of storytelling. He believes that...
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...Six Young Men In 'Six Young Men' by Ted Hughes, a photograph is used to explore a more personal view of the effects of World War 1. This poem is about a group of six young men in an old photograph before they go off to fight in world war one. The photo was took in Cumbria, Lumb Falls. The men are all smartly dressed in the picture, there is now a memorial plaque in place. He explores the horror's of death in World War One. In this essay i intent to discuss the experiences and difficulties these men had to face. This poem covers the horror's of the first world war and what pain the six young firends faced, and how fragile life really is. I am going to show how Ted Hughes uses repetition and alliteration to describe the background. The first way in which Hughes sets the scene to show the horror's of war is alliteration to emphasise that the men all had friends and their own family, Ted Hughes want to show that people loved them. For example he uses "Shoe's Shine" to show they were ready and excited for life. We quickly realised that they are not going to survive as Hughes quote's in his last line, "one's own body from it's instant and death." In stanza 2 and 3, Hughes compare's the contrast of the horrors of war by starting by saying details about them but in Stanza 2 he makes us relise the reality by telling us how nice it is back home, "bulberried bank", this contrasts with Stanza 3. In Stanza three Hughes says, 'From potting at tin-cans in no-man's land, fell back dead'...
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...Squad Training Objectives I. Conduct Unit Operations a. 071-326-3013 Conduct a Tactical Road March b. 071-720-0015 Conduct an Area Reconnaissance by a Platoon c. 551-721-3348 Perform Duties as Serial/March Unit Commander d. 551-88N-3042 Plan Unit Move e. 551-88N-3043 Prepare for Unit Move II. Guard Detained Prisoners of War a. 181-105-2001 Enforce the Law of War and the Geneva and Hague Conventions b. 181-105-2002 Conduct Combat Operations According to the Law of War c. 071-430-0028 Consolidate a Unit d. 071-430-0029 Reorganize a Unit III. Treat Casualties a. 081-831-0101 Request Medical Evacuation b. 081-831-1056 Coordinate Medical Activity Support c. 081-831-1057 Supervise Compliance with Preventive Medicine Measures d. 081-831-1058 Supervise Casualty Treatment and Evacuation IV. Perform in a Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) environment a. 031-503-1001 Identify Chemical Agents Using an M256A1 Chemical-Agent Detector Kit b. 031-503-1005 Submit Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical (NBC) 1 Reports c. 031-503-1023 Protect Yourself from Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Injury/Contamination When Changing Mission-Oriented Protective Posture Gear d. 031-503-1053 Report Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) Information Using NBC 4 Report e. 031-504-1061 Conduct a Mask Fit Test Using the M41 Protection Assessment Test System (PATS) V. Implement Combat...
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...In this essay I’m going to look at some of the important elements in the short-story Wood Grouse on a High Promontory Overlooking Canada. The ones I am going to look at are: The setting of the short-story, a characterization of the two characters in the story, the theme(s), and the ending of the story. The story takes place on a high promontory, the two brothers Gary and Bud are fishing in the lake, but the fish don’t seem to bite. The promontory overlooks Canada on one side and the United States of America on the other. The scenery is peaceful and almost perfect, though in a realistic way. Bud is the younger of the two, being only 15 years old and seemingly an average active teenager. He seems carefree and happy. We are told that he likes baseball and that he likes throwing stones and that while doing so he imagines himself a hunter. Gary on the other hand is quite a bit older, I’d guess about 20-25, as he’s just returned from the war in Vietnam. Gary appreciates the peace around him and notices the beauty in the small things, unlike Bud who is more interested in throwing stones for fun. It’s not because Bud is evil, but simply because Gary has been changed by what he’s experienced in Vietnam. He carries a heavy burden around because of the war, but he doesn’t want to talk about it and when Bud asks him. He simply says to him that he wouldn’t want to know. It also seems like it’s hard for him to admit that he killed people in Vietnam when Bud asks, though I think...
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...December 7th, 1941 the United States was attacked at Pearl Harbor by Japanese forces. American forces already stationed in the Philippines as a deterrent against a Japanese invasion of the islands, were attacked by the Japanese hours after Pearl Harbor. With more than 72,000 American and Filipino soldiers fighting with outdated weapons, lacking supplies, stricken with disease and malnourishment were forced to lay down their arms to the Japanese on April 9th, 1942. This was due to the promise of reinforcements after General MacArthur and a few select officers evacuated the island on orders from the president. The Japanese however had only accommodated for 10,000 to 25,000 thousand POWs and the Us and Philippine soldiers were forced to march 60 miles to the Cabanatuan and Bataan prison camps. On October 20th, 1944 General Douglas MacArthur’s forces landed on Leyte, as Americans prepared for the main invasion of Luzon the Japanese captors continued to execute their prisoners. Several plans were submitted for possible rescue attempts of the prisoners but most fell through simply due to logistics or possible traders amongst the ranks of the Philippine guerillas. On January 26th, 1945 major Bob Lapham, the American US Army Forces Far East senior guerrilla chief and another guerilla leader Juan Pojota, traveled from his location near the prison camp to the Sixth Army headquarters. Lapham proposed to Lieutenant General Walter Krueger’s intelligence Chief Colonel Horton White that a rescue...
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...Anthrax Sindy Flores HCA 415 Community & Public Health Instructor: Tykeysha Boone November 9, 2012 Anthrax also known as Bacillus anthraces is an acute infectious disease caused by the spore-forming bacterium. Anthrax spores can be produced in a powdery form for biological warfare. When inhaled by humans, these particles cause respiratory failure and death within a week. Because anthrax is considered to be a potential agent for use in biological warfare, the Department of Defense (DOD), in 1998, announced it would begin a systematic vaccination of all U.S. military personnel. (DOD, 1998) Anthrax infection occurs in three forms: cutaneous (skin), inhalation, and gastrointestinal. What are the basic functions of the federal, state, and local level during this bioterrorism event? Preparing for and or recovering from a bioterrorism event, it is the federal government's responsibilities to helping to ensure the preparedness of emergency response providers for terrorist attacks, major disasters, and other emergencies, Working with other federal and nonfederal agencies to build a comprehensive national incident management system, and developing comprehensive programs for developing interoperative communications technology and ensuring that emergency response providers acquire such technology. ( CIDRAP) In a bioterrorism event, the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has special responsibilities, including detecting the disease, investigating the outbreak,...
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...Introduction On February 8, 1904 war was declared between Imperial Russia and Imperial Japan. Within 17 months, the war ended with peace talks (Treaty of Portsmouth) led by President Theodore Roosevelt following an impressive naval battle at Tsushima. After the Russo-Japanese War, both Alfred T. Mahan and Sir Julian Corbett provided their literary insights on the war and used the outcome to further illustrate their views on the role of sea power and its’ link to national greatness. Both strategic philosophers made credible justifications using the back drop of the war to support their theories, but only Corbett's analysis and previously published theories fully explained how an inferior force consisting of the Japanese Imperial Navy and the Imperial Army ultimately defeated the great power of Russian. Corbett's writings highlighted the need not only for a powerful Navy but also a powerful army to win a nation's wars. Corbett believed in a diverse naval force that would be used for battle, protection of commerce, protection of sea lines of communication, and commerce raiding rather than seeking a decisive battle. In contrast, Mahan believed in having full control/command of the sea to fight numerous battles using capital ships, ultimately culminating in a decisive battle that would tip the scales towards victory. Even though Mahan's theories were not completely supported throughout the Russo-Japanese War, many of his theories were applicable and still are today. ...
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...In 1949 the USSR developed their first nuclear bomb, and in doing so, entered the nuclear arms race, which would prove to continue for the following sixteen years. The United States had already developed their first nuclear weapons and were well on their way to improving and replacing them. The Soviets were well aware of this, and the missile race was created by the two countries wanting to constantly out-do each other. This race appeared to be based on having the best defences from opposition attack, however it was also somewhat of a childish competition between the two to see who could build the bigger bomb. The weapons being developed were never actually used militarily, only in test situations. Had they been used, the safety of the entire world’s population would have been at risk, as both sides had enough weapons to ensure that in the event of a war, there would be Mutually Assured Destruction. As the technology, and the weapons being developed with the technology, was getting more and more advanced, the potential for mass-scale destruction became very real. Bomb sizes, ranges and tactics were being improved at a vast rate, and this put a huge danger to the world. The volatility of these weapons can be exemplified by the USA’s Jupiter missiles, based in Turkey, which, more than once, were struck by lightning, initiating their launch sequence. The range of the missiles was one thing that changed drastically during the arms race. Originally missiles had to be fired from...
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...Smallpox Smallpox was caused by either variola major or variola minor which was an infectious disease. Variola vera or variola is a derivative of the latin varius, meaning “spotted”, or varus meaning “pimple”. In 15th century Europe “smallpox” was first used to separate great pox and variola. Exposure to the virus is followed by an incubation period, people may feel fine and do not have any symptoms. This incubation period averages about 12 to 14 days but can range from 7 to 17 days. People aren’t contagious during this period of time. Malaise, head and body aches, and sometimes vomiting, and fever are the first symptoms of smallpox. When you get this fever it’s usually very high at least in the range of 101 to 104 degrees Fahrenheit. At this time people are normally too sick to do or to carry on their daily routine. This lasts about 2 to 4 days and is called the prodrome phase. Over half of people with smallpox experience chills and vomiting. About 15% become confused. In the beginning a rash emerges as small red spots in the mouth and on the tongue. The red spots grow into sores which then open up and spread large amounts of the virus into the mouth and throat. This very person becomes most infectious, at this time. Sores in the mouth break down around this time. Then a rash appears on the face making its way to the other body parts. This usually happens within 24 hours. As the rash gets to increase, the fever starts to fall and the person starts to feel better. You get...
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...Jimmy Neutron Professor Rob Allison Philosophy 172 3 November 2011 Nuclear Bomb in Japan The atomic bomb that was dropped on Japan during World War II is still one of the most catastrophic events in history. This bomb obliterated the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and it is a major controversy of World War II. It remains a controversy because it questions the moral issue of killing innocent civilians to get the Japanese military to surrender the war. One British philosopher, AC Grayling, argues that the nuclear bombing of Japan was a moral crime because there is never a justifiable reason to attack civilians. The atomic bombing of Japan was unethical because it killed civilians, was a disproportionate attack for just conduct of war, and was a violation of human rights. It is immoral that United States targeted Japanese civilians with the atomic bomb to cripple the morale of the military. United States knew the bombs would kill hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but they still annihilated the cities to attain Japan’s unconditional surrender in World War II. It was disregard for the moral right and AC Grayling states, Deliberately bombing cities and towns to kill and terrorize civilians, not all of whom are engaged in manufacturing arms or aiding their country’s military, and many of whom were children and elderly folk - and at the same time destroying the culture and necessities of the people contravenes every moral and humanitarian...
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