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Question: Assignment Objectives
Develop negotiative and leadership skills and understand the significance of power and influence in inter-agency relationships.
Leadership Versus Responsibility
Write 300-400 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas:
The U.S. Constitution clearly limits the authority of the federal government. The Stafford Act assigns primacy for disaster management to state and local governments, providing the federal government a supportive role. Is this appropriate for 21st-century risks? Does a terrorist attack require a different relationship and assignment of responsibility?
The incident command system (ICS) was born from the needs of the wild-land firefighting community. Do you think that it is applicable and useable as it exists for terrorist attacks and hurricanes as well?
The National Incident Management System (NIMS) established ICS as the incident management model that all jurisdictions in the United States should use. Though the federal government lacks the authority to mandate its use, Congress has repeatedly required that the adoption of NIMS and the use of ICS is a prerequisite for eligibility for all federal homeland security monies. Is this a fair practice?
The city of New York is the sole jurisdiction in the United States to design its own incident management system (city incident management system or CIMS). The federal government recognizes CIMS as an allowable incident management system under NIMS. Should other jurisdictions be allowed to create their own system or modify ICS to meet their needs as well? What are the benefits, and what might be the negative aspects of a patchwork of various versions of ICS being used across the nation?
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Force and total time required
: A 1200-kg car moving at 20 km/h is accelerated at a constant rate of 4 m/s2 up to a speed of 75 km/h. What are the force and total time required?
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Differences in the financial ratios
: Why might you expect to see differences in the financial ratios (E.g., debt ratios, current ratios, ROE, ROA) of firms in the banking versus the automotive industries?
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The length of the beam
: Consider a force F = 80 N applied to a beam as shown in Fig. 8-37. The length of the beam is ? = 5.0 m,and ? = 37°, so that x = 3.0 m and y = 4.0 m. Of the following expressions, which ones give the correcttorque produced by the force F? around point..
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Compare and contrast actual authority and apparent authority
: Compare and contrast actual authority and apparent authority. Does one carry more weight than the other? Why or why not? Must be 200 words and cited.
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Develop negotiative and leadership skills
: Develop negotiative and leadership skills and understand the significance of power and influence in inter-agency relationships
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A small statue recovered by an archaeological dig
: A small Statue recovered by an archaeological dig. its weight is measured to be 4.4 lb and its volume .008 ft^3. What is the statues weight density?
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Determine the temperature of the base of the iron
: A 1000-W iron is left on the ironing board with its base exposed to the air at 20°C. The convection heat transfer coefficient between the base surface and the surrounding air is 35 W/m2 ?c °C. If the base has an emissivity of 0.6 and a surface are..
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A modern-day zeppelin holds 9,030 m3 of helium
: A modern-day zeppelin holds 9,030 m3 of helium. Compute its maximum payload at sea level. (Assume the helium and air to be at 0°C and 1 atm. The answer I get is 9391.2 kg but seems to be wrong answer and I have run out of ideas.
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Discuss knowledge management technologies
: Describe and discuss information sharing and knowledge management technologies used to facilitate information sharing and intelligence gathering among Homeland Security agencies.
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