The Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS) was launched in 2006 due to Presidential Executive Order 13407‚ which called for the United States to have “an effective‚ reliable‚ integrated‚ flexible and comprehensive system to alert and warn the American people in situations of war‚ terrorist attack‚ natural disaster or other hazards to public safety (Bristow 2011‚ para.3). Prior to IPAWS‚ emergency managers struggled to effectively and efficiently alert and mobilize the citizens in emergency
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contain dire warnings through time‚ do you agree with this statement? Evaluate how this message may be apparent in Frankenstein and Bladerunner. Texts entail values proportional to their milieu. Composers of each era analyze and inquire the potential consequences of what their societies deem as progress. Composers Mary Shelley and Roy Batty‚ in their respective texts‚ Frankenstein‚ a gothic-based epistolary novel‚ and Bladerunner‚ a post-modern sci-fi film‚ both stand as prophetic warnings to humanity
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Have you ever read any scientific stories? Many short stories give you warnings about modern society. Three short stories that give you warnings about society are Unwind‚”A sound of thunder”‚ and “There will come soft rains. The first book we read was Unwind. It warned us to be careful about abortion at any point. In the book Unwind‚ we were warned about young teens being aborted. Connor and Roland were unwind because they were bad. Risa was supposed to get unwind because she was a ward of the
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Ambition plays a major role in Shakespeare’s tragedy of Macbeth‚ and is presented as a dangerous quality that principally influences the characters to do wrong. This play gives off a warning of how ambition can affect people and their actions by its influence on Macbeth and his wife‚ Lady Macbeth. This disastrous story begins with the witches predicting that Macbeth would become Thane of Cawdor and then King of Scotland. Hence‚ Macbeth’s ambition emerges‚ furthermore persuaded by his wife and also
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Mor T Faye Hist 304: The US and The Vietnam War Prof. Nolan Spring 2013 The Quiet American: A political warning by Graham Greene The Quiet American by Graham Greene is a novel that depicts a love triangle between a British journalist‚ an American secret agent and a Vietnamese girl in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. It came out in the mid fifties when the American government was not directly involved in the War. The novel generated critics from both sides of the spectrum such as Walter
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In the future‚ the job of firemen morphs from putting fires out to burning books. The story Fahrenheit 451 revolves around this issue of book burning‚ but there is a deeper meaning to the book. Bradbury is warning that the monopolizing effect of social media will transform generations to come into a society with no genuine connections‚ no distinctive thoughts‚ and excessive reliance on technology. This book was written in 1951‚ and today‚ the propositions are no longer fiction‚ but are becoming a
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legislation Monday to create an earthquake-warning system that could give California residents up to 60 seconds advance notice when a temblor strikes. The initial cost estimate of $80 million would help pay for ground sensors and relays that could provide text and mobile alerts in the event of a quake on the San Andreas Fault‚ according to Caltech scientists in Pasadena and state Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Van Nuys). "California is going to have an earthquake early warning system‚" Padilla said at a news conference
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In his novel‚ "1984‚" George Orwell warns us against three things. He stated that people are only out for personal gain‚ and will use any means to reach their goals. He also warned against these types of people who are already in power. And lastly‚ he warns us against the lost of privacy through constant surveillance‚ and how we actually allow this to happen. If we all have the traits to become evil‚ why does it become a reality only in some? Before this question can be answered‚ we must first
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Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication Protocol for Cooperative Collision Warning Xue Yang University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign xueyang@uiuc.edu Jie Liu Microsoft Research liuj@microsoft.com Feng Zhao Microsoft Research zhao@microsoft.com Nitin H. Vaidya University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign nhv@uiuc.edu Abstract This paper proposes a vehicle-to-vehicle communication protocol for cooperative collision warning. Emerging wireless technologies for vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicleto-
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