Skim read and/or view the following assignments and sets of assignments.
Select any one assignment or set of assignments as a topic for your long posting due on Thursday.
Select a second assignment or single set of assignments as a topic for your short posting due on Friday.
Some assignments may include questions that you are being asked to address in a long or short posting.
All postings should include a focus on relevance of the assigned material to some aspect of planning and preparedness for homeland security and emergency management or planning or preparedness for homeland security and emergency management in general.
* If you have viewed and/or read some of the assignments before for other courses in the Emergency Management Certificate Program, please focus your comments in your postings on some some specific aspect of planning and preparedness or on planning and preparedness in general.
Walid Phares, author of The War of Ideas: Jihadism against Democracy and Future Jihad: Terrorist Strategies against the West, presentation at the Heritage Foundation, February 27, 2007.
Study either the video or the transcript and comment on the aspects of it that you find most significant with regard to planning and preparedness. with regard to planning and preparedness.
A long posting on this assignment should focus on the importance that understanding threats and challenges has on approaches taken to planning and preparedness.
"Our Own Worst Enemy ~ Asking the Right Questions About Security to Protect You, Your Family, and America", published by Grand Central Publishing January 28, 2008.
Study either the Video or the transcript and comment on the aspects of it that you find most significant with regard to planning and preparedness.
Donald M. Lumpkins, Esq., Branch Chief, National Planning Coordination and Assistance, National Preparedness Directorate, FEMA/DHS, EIIP Virtual Forum Presentation — January 12, 2011 .
Read the transcript of the presentation and consider the relevance of this presentation to the false alarm in Hawaii regarding a possible incoming missile.
Gail McGovern talked about the progress and challenges in Haiti one year after the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that killed an estimated 230,000 people, injured 300,000, and left 2 million homeless.
Jan 12, 2011. National Press Club | Luncheon Speech.
Study either the Video or the transcript and comment on the aspects of it that you find most significant with regard to planning and preparedness.
What were the differences and similarities regarding planning and preparedness challenges with regard the earthquake in Haiti and the 2017 hurricanes in Puerto Rico.
What lessons can be learned?
And/or compare and contrast the impacts of their recent catastrophes on their infrastructures.
In your long posting, discuss the key takeaways in this paper as you see them pertaining to any significant aspect of the subject matter of the course.