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    It struck on August 23rd‚ 2005 and was listed as a Category 5 hurricane. Much damage was made in New Orleans partly due to the fact that the levee’s broke because of the poor quality work done by the engineer. Not able to sustain any impact from the water bursting through in a matter of hours the city began to flood

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    The Intelligence Process Between Homeland Security Intelligence And State and Local Law Enforcement The Intelligence Process Between Homeland Security Intelligence And State and Local Law Enforcement The attacks on September 11th significantly impacted our nation in a number of ways‚ none more so than national security‚ our current procedures‚ and our way forward. The Homeland Security Act of 2002 established the Department of Homeland Security as an executive department with the primary

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    under The Department of Homeland Security I choose to research was the United States Secret Service. The USSS is a federal law enforcement agency that was operated under the US Department of Treasury before it was adopted by the department of Homeland Security. Many people‚ including myself up until now‚ just think that the Secret Service is the US Presidents personal guard. They have much more responsibility then that. Other then the President‚ they also provide security for past Presidents‚ Vice

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    During the Hurricane Katrina in 2005‚ it is believed that leaders decided to blow up the levees to save the cities and places that brought in the most money and instead try to direct the water towards the wetlands and marshlands. There are different ideas regarding this topic. It is said that leaders promised restitution to the people who would lose their homes. Many people heard explosions and reported it. Officials said they were transformers blowing up. There is more evidence that the levees were

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    people. The Department of Homeland Security was established in response to the biggest terrorist attack on U.S. soil on September 11‚ 2001. This attack sparked the nation and caused fear among citizens as well as opening eyes of the government to how much stronger the security level had to be in the country. U.S. officials began to reconstruct the Office of Homeland Security once they recognized their shortcomings. Eleven days after‚ following the attack‚ Tom Ridge was appointed from being the governor

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    Globalization has had an impact on homeland security because it has facilitated many threats or risks to reach many different parts of the world‚ where in the past prior to globalization it was very to reach. In our current time‚ globalization has become a necessity because that is how the commerce is able to move more effectively and efficiently‚ which has improved significantly the economy of many countries‚ such as the economy of the United States (Dunlap‚ 2018). One key component of globalization

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    summertime day. Now all the local media were buzzing with the new Katrina tracking information. Many people were going about their usual Saturday routines. Some were still oblivious to what was happening. Greg had the kids. I got up‚ cleaned the house‚ and washed all the clothes‚ so if we left (I hadn’t decided for sure yet)‚ I wouldn’t have to do it when we returned. I filled up at a nearby gas station and went shopping. There was an eerie feeling of nervous uncertainty in the air. Supplies were

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    Homeland Security: Necessary prevention or invasion of freedoms? “Our nation owes a debt of gratitude to the 9/11 Commission members for their valuable service and important recommendations to improve homeland security.”-Jim Ramstad The United States has for a long time developed many agencies with many different purposes. Some agencies moderate currency while other handle law enforcement. These agencies have always run as single entities within the governmental framework. On September 11‚ 2001 our

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    a woman‚ I found the discussion about gender discrimination to most interesting. Gender discrimination is prejudice based on a person’s sex or gender and mainly affects women. In the late eighteen-hundreds women began entering the workforce and immediately were discriminated against. Minority women entered the workforce because they needed to earn money for survival. Where they once were enslaved and living on plantations they were freed blacks and had to provide a living for them and their children

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    The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is structured to protect the United States and its territories against foreign and domestic terrorist. From the time the DHS has come into being it has implemented the US-immigrant and visitor status program. These two programs are capable of identifying and verifying all foreign travelers who have entered and exited the United States through airports and seaports. The major downfall of this program is it has a delay in its schedule‚ which in return causes

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