The United States

Cultures using hyphenated forms of “American,” such as Mexican-American, African-American, Asian-American, Native-American and many more is a step in the right direction for culture acceptance. With this positive move in the world, there could be a change in how cultures view themselves, leading to how others view them. The multicultural society has to take into account for this change because without their acceptance it would just be hate. Bharati Mukherjee in her essay “American Dreamer,” asserts, “WE MUST BE ALERT TO THE DANGERS OF AN ‘US’ vs. ‘THEM’ MENTALITY.” Although Mukherjee has a great point here, I have to disagree. I don’t feel that we have to be aware of the ‘US’ versus ‘THEM’ mentality with the change in cultural acceptance.

The United States continues to be in the spotlight, especially during an election year and specifically when it comes to immigration. Most recently I was intrigued by an article I read, titled “ Article“that talked about the unprecedented number of unaccompanied children crossing our U.S. Borders illegally. What began as an intriguing subject that sparked my interest evolved into a desire to expand my knowledge on the subject of immigration, particularly these unaccompanied children crossing our borders? The article for all intent and purposes shed some light on the subject matter by providing numbers and statistics, however; it also left me with a plethora of unanswered questions regarding the livelihood of these lost children of our borders. What this article failed to mention is, what would prompt families to send their children, some as young as toddlers to an unknown country where the risk for their welfare is a precarious one at best and the barriers of language alone are substantial. Where are these children coming from and what transpires once they reach U.S. territory? Are they returned to their respective countries and what factors determine whether they are deported or are permitted to remain in the United States? Who assumes responsibility for these children, is there a final destination or perhaps, the hope relies upon that our system will locate a family member in the U.S. that would succumb to their rescue. The bigger question is what is the United States

The question of whether the government has a right to access unlimited amounts of information without public knowledge, has been a popular topic of debate among not only our nation, but others as well. This all started when Edward Snowden, a former National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance analyst, told the world that the NSA had a program that was using the servers of U.S internet companies to gather information. Snowden leaked a document, detailing his findings about the NSA’s PRISM program retrieving information from prominent tech companies. (“What is the NSA Controversy and what did Edward Snowden leak?”) PRISM or "Planning Tool for Resource Integration, Synchronization, and Management," is a government program which collects data from U.S. phone call records to search for possible links to terrorists abroad, and works on surveillance of online communications to and from foreign targets to detect suspicious behavior. (“What is the NSA Controversy…”) Many people were outraged with the government for keeping this a secret, while others thought that this technology could be useful. Regardless, mass surveillance is a problem in our society because it is a clear invasion of privacy, and it can be very dangerous if abused. Even though it may be for the best interest of our country, the invasion of personal privacy is borderline on infringing the right to free speech and privacy.

The government must safeguard the information these programs contain in order to keep the data from being accessed on websites such as WikiLeaks. National Security depends on the NSA and when their intelligence gathering operations are jeopardized, the security of millions of Americans is immediately compromised. Information released by BusinessInsider reveals that “[f]ive years into Obama’s presidency, government documents regarding the NSA were censored a record 98 percent of the time, as the administration cites the reason being national security” (Gillum par.17). This leads us to believe that the government is trying to repair the damage done by Edward Snowden and WikiLeaks. “Edward Snowden said he had no intention of taking military secrets, but statistics from the NSA reveal that he may have taken up to 31,000 military documents, and a whopping 1.7 million documents outlying our security programs in total.”(Kelly par.5) These facts indicate that his true intentions were criminal and that he was trying to harm the nation and explain why he has been charged under the United States Espionage Act, and faces 30 years in prison. Releasing these documents to countries such as Russia and China, as Snowden has done, gives “ [other countries] a road map of what we know…”(Kelley par.28). Although freedom of information advocates such as Senator Rand Paul praise the releasing of these classified documents, facts and evidence

​ In assignment one, I choose to exploration of country United States of America website. The website is divided into seven parts on the top of the website. The seven parts of the website which included: “government agencies and elected officials, health, housing and community, jobs and unemployment, money and shopping, travel and immigration, and more services.” In this website, it shows us how to find the government services and information by topic in the middle of the website. The amazing part of the website is we can contact government agencies and elected officials to the president, U.S Senators, U.S. Representative, federal agencies, governor, state

The United States has a below-average uncertainty avoidance score as people are not too much anxious about future uncertainties and risks, and many of the US laws rely upon the judges’ judgment. In addition, Americans tend to encourage innovative ideas and free expression. This type of culture determines that in auditing field, auditors need to use their professional judgment in many aspects of an audit. For example, when auditors are doing audit planning, they need to use their judgment to estimate financial ratios according to previous years’ data, and use current year’s actual ratio to compare to their estimation. In high uncertainty avoidance societies, such as Japan, their audit rules and laws are very strict and comprehensive, and

The Department was organized over two hundred years ago. As one of the largest law firms within the borders of the United States, the responsibility of the Department extends to both criminal and civil matters. It carries a mission that is dedicated to delivering justice and is consistently re-considering ways to measure performances within individual Districts in order to ensure all respectable aspects of deliverance are utilized. These considerations involve developing more action plans aimed at delivering higher standards of production while keeping the highest level of integrity intact. The Firm was created by a Judiciary Act to serve as the nation’s primary source of litigated actions.

early 1990s. As of 2008, over 5,000 people were registered with the project and in fact, it has helped more that were not accounted for prior to the registration. The goals of the program are to provide capital or income for people, feeding families and providing fresh produce based on organic gardening and micro-farming projects. According to Smalls the unemployment rate in South Africa is around 25%, which is significantly higher compared to the United States unemployment of 5.4%. So, if people who are unemployed are willing to put in the hard work than, Abalimi Bezekhaya is a good fit for them. In particular, women typically do more of the domestic care like cooking and so being a part of the Abalimi project is a way to make additional income for the family.

The September 11 attacks and the conflicts created by extremist groups in the Middle East demonstrate these terrorist organizations’ substantial capacities for destruction. To prevent potentially disastrous attacks on the United States the government must use preemptive measures to recognize and neutralize possible attacks before they can occur. Since then government surveillance has arguably developed a negative undertone due to the governments’ mass accumulation of the personal and communications data on millions of its citizens. In a survey conducted by the Pew Research Center from November 2014 to January 2015; 52% of Americans described themselves as “very concerned” or “somewhat concerned” about government surveillance of Americans’ data and electronic communications, compared with 46% who described themselves as “not very concerned” or “not at all concerned” about the surveillance (Rainie). These results validate a need to reassess the scope of the intelligence operations and the regulators that govern

In government businesses and agencies today, the architecture within their networks are rapidly changing and becoming more complex with new services, applications, servers, devices and connections. With the increase of vulnerabilities that can be exploited associated with the changes in the network architecture, data protection is a high priority. The government made the decision that private companies would build and own the key communication, transportation, and energy networks. Although, the networks are owned by the private sector, there is a need for the United States to protect their people from malicious attacks which include identify attack, cyber espionage and cyber acts of war. It is the government responsibility to protect the confidentially, availability, and integrity of all the data that relates to the U.S. and its people. In order to do this, the government believes they have to partake in ensuring the private sector networks are safe from unauthorized users. In this paper, I will discuss the positives and negatives of the government regulating how private industries organize or improve their cybersecurity and how they justify it.

Government espionage has been a natural part of the competition between countries. America like every other country had its own intelligence system, but it was not unit Edward Snowden’s leak of America’s surveillance program that the world saw the elaborate and extensive program running worldwide. Edward Snowden’s leak of NSA Surveillance Programs not only destroyed years of Government planning and espionage, but also tarnished the reputation of the American government, damaged relationships with allies, and allowed terrorists to regain an edge in the cyber-battleground of the War on Terror.

There has been a case similar to that situation when the US government used national security surveillance programs for the intent to protect Americans from terrorism and cyber-attacks. These surveillance programs were initiated by NSA to spy on telecommunication data and the internet activities. However, these programs were created for the purpose of maintaining the security of people. These programs are effective tools to confront the terrorist threat that the government been fighting. It gather and analyze communicated information on different mediums to find out if there is something suspicious then it tracks it to ease the national security job to stop newly discovered crimes and terrorists attacks.

Government surveillance directly increases the risk of criminal theft when it comes to internet surveillance. The FBI has insisted that companies, like Apple, Google, Yahoo, etc., should create a backdoor to products so they may access the information on them if needed. According to the source “New Technologies Should Not Facilitate Government Surveillance,” the research shows that, “Backdoors severely weaken cybersecurity, leaving users exposed to malicious hacking and crime.” These shortcuts that the government are demanding are just easy ways for

Hackers have been threatening people’s personal and private information for years, and companies like Apple have been aggressively developing and implementing better ways to keep digital information secure. If the government is successful forcing this backdoor open, hackers are sure to find a way into it which will threaten millions of people’s security. It will expose digital communication to identity theft, hackers, and government agencies overreaching their legal boundaries. Dan Costa (2016) in PC Magazine stated, “Thanks to Edward Snowden, we also have ample evidence that the United States government maximizes every opportunity to intercept communications in the name of national security” (p.6). Also, this is in direct violation of the 4th Amendment, which states that people have the right to be secure against unlawful seizures of houses, papers, and effects. According to an expert on human rights with the United Nations, David Kaye, a report for the United Nation’s Rights Council released in 2015 showed, “…encryption and online anonymity advance freedom of opinion and expression” (Kary and Pettersson, 2016). What is significant about this report is that it included the input from other countries, including Cuba, Lebanon, Kazakhstan, Sweden, Turkey, Germany, Ireland, and the United States. All of their input was taken into

Hackers have been threatening people’s personal and private information for years, and companies like Apple have been aggressively developing and implementing better ways to keep digital information securer. If the government successfully forces this backdoor open, hackers are sure to find a way into it which will threaten millions of people’s security. It will expose digital communication to identity theft, hackers, and government agencies overreaching their legal boundaries. Dan Costa (2016) in PC Magazine stated, “Thanks to Edward Snowden, we also have ample evidence that the United States government maximizes every opportunity to intercept communications in the name of national security” (p.6). Also, this is in direct violation of the 4th Amendment, which states that people have the right to be secure against unlawful seizures of houses, papers, and effects. According to an expert on human rights with the United Nations, David Kaye, a report for the United Nation’s Rights Council released in 2015 showed, “…encryption and online anonymity advance freedom of opinion and expression” (Kary and Pettersson, 2016). What is significant about this report is that it included the input from other countries, including Cuba, Lebanon, Kazakhstan, Sweden, Turkey, Germany, Ireland, and the United States. All of their input was taken into