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    Applied Ergonomics xxx (2012) 1e11 Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Applied Ergonomics journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/apergo Ergonomics issues in national identity card for homeland security Paul H.P. Yeow a‚ *‚ Y.Y. Yuen b‚1‚ W.H. Loo c‚ 2 a School of Business‚ Monash University‚ Sunway Campus‚ Jalan Lagoon Selatan‚ Bandar Sunway‚ Petaling Jaya‚ 46150 Selangor‚ Malaysia Faculty of Business and Law‚ Multimedia University‚ Jalan Ayer Keroh Lama‚ 75450 Melaka

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    occur during his life. Consider Sohrab‚ the only character of his generation; how is he different from the other characters and how are these differences a function of what he has experienced? Consider the idea of a homeland or "watan." How do you think the novel defines a homeland? Make sure to consider the opinions of Farid and Assef. Also‚ consider this question in terms of Amir and Sohrab‚ two characters who leave Afghanistan when they are still growing up. Even though countless events occur

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    Through contextualizing‚ structure‚ and rhetorical appeals‚ he gets through to his listeners by reminding us all‚ that keeping peace and freedom is not an easy job to do. He tells us how lucky we are to have freedom‚ and what we have to do to keep our “homeland” safe for our children of today. He speaks on behalf of his people‚ and what he will do to keep his people safe from our enemies who “hate” us‚ because we choose to be free! As President‚ he is sworn to protect his people‚ and to keep everything

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    operational priorities; “refocus the priorities of policing back to the Peelian principles‚ the main emphasis should always be the protection of life and property‚ the prevention and detection of crime” which the Department of Homeland Securities assist in this area. The Department of Homeland Securities interacts with local‚ state‚ and federal enforcement agencies by the developing‚ gathering‚ accessing‚ receiving‚ and sharing of information. To name a few of the systems

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    connection between DHS‚ law enforcement‚ and intelligence has practically demolished as some law enforcement departments are becoming more like intelligence agencies while the existence of foreign intelligence is primarily improved. The Department of Homeland Security‚ in hopes of improvement‚ has established the six-point agenda. The agenda begins with 1. “Increase overall preparedness‚ particularly for catastrophic events 2. Create better transportation security systems to move people and cargo more

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    In the article “Literature‚ Imagination and Human Rights‚” Willie Van Peer proposes that through excursions into the literary canon one can evoke their imaginative sense and ultimately escape an encapsulated society‚ through developing a higher ethical awareness. Further he notes the “Edification hypothesis” which articulates that reading literature makes the reader more socially tolerant‚ more perceptive‚ and more politically conscious. In other words‚ he emphasizes the role literature plays in

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    environments‚ they hang upside down during the day to sleep and they fly using their webbed arms to hunt bugs for nourishment. Nagel dismisses the idea that simply imagining what it would be like to do all of the things listed above would suffice in knowing what it was like to be a bat because all that would be accomplished when imagining this would be knowing what it would be like for you to be a bat when the question is essentially “what is it like for a bat to be a bat?”. All the

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    Global war is one of the defining features of twentieth-century experience‚ and the first global war is the subject of one of this period’s topics‚ “Representing the Great War.” Masses of dead bodies strewn upon the ground‚ plumes of poison gas drifting through the air‚ hundreds of miles of trenches infested with rats—these are but some of the indelible images that have come to be associated with World War I (1914-18). It was a war that unleashed death‚ loss‚ and suffering on an unprecedented scale

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    Experiment 2 conducted by Christine Weigel showed that imagining the situation happening in the future made people employ a different type of cognitive process which is more abstract… imagining the situation at a closer time gave the participants a more solid intuition. Their intuitions were changed by the manipulation of adding a time area. This concluded that people say

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    psychotherapy’. (Kirsch‚ 1996) Clinical Hypnosis is natural and safe. Hypnosis is essentially a cognitive (thought) process. It is a natural process which we all have engaged in‚ many times throughout our lives. An everyday example is reading a book‚ imagining a scene‚ becoming so focused on the images that you disregard what is happening around you. This often happens when driving or when watching a film etc. Other

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