Drawing upon resource material provided and that discovered while conducting your own research, students are to develop a research paper of at least 5 full pages (not including title page and reference list) to provide scholarly responses on the following two topics (both must be addressed):
Topic 1: Fully describe the overall concepts of homeland security and homeland defense. Construct a response that provides the following related to both homeland security and homeland defense:
Primary missions, tasks, responsibilities, operations, etc. for:
Homeland Security and
Homeland Defense.
Highlight those areas that are shared between the two (what overlaps between HLS and HLD?)
Lastly, recommend a definition for homeland security.
Topic 2: Using the overarching themes of the National Security Strategy from 2017, provide your own recommendation for new National Strategy for Counterterrorism (it must be nested under the NSS according to the principle of strategic hierarchy). What key elements and focus areas would you suggest for the part of a new CT strategy that is domestic focused (homeland security, not overseas), and make sure to use the Ends, Ways, and Means strategy framework.
Sample Solution
This argument would back up the fact that there is now a difference between authentic needs and artificial needs. Products have added themselves to the âhierarchy of needsâ. This theory of a hierarchy was one created by Abraham Maslow in his 1943 paper âA Theory of Human Motivationâ (Maslow, 1943). He represents this theory as a pyramid with 5 levels: â Self-actualization â includes morality, creativity, problem solving, etc. â Esteem â includes confidence, self-esteem, achievement, respect, etc. â Belongingness â includes love, friendship, intimacy, family, etc. â Safety â includes security of environment, employment, resources, health, property, etc. â Physiological â includes air, food, water, sex, sleep, other factors towards homeostasis, etc. The idea is that you work up the pyramid in stages to obtain âhappinessâ. We could say that products have added themselves to the sphere of belongingness in society. However how would this creation of necessity be explained? Pierre Bordieu argues that it is taste and what he describes as habitus that explains the importance of consumption. Habitus, which are in fact habits, so a combination of taste, of ways of perceiving, of acting and of saying, and this will guide the choices of the individuals. Thus meaning the individual makes in a sense an unconscious act towards class distinction (Bourdieu, 1992). As the individual will make choices of products and taste will bring together individuals, creating a sense of belongingness. This means that nowadays the attachment to objects/products is in a way to create a sense of community. Inclusion. On the other hand, it could be argued that the attachment we have today for example with our phones is one that a child would have with a teddy bear, this idea was arisen during a philosophy class during my education. So another factor would be for comfort and security. Continuing on the idea of phones, the IPhone when first coming out was defined as in a sense something that wasnât truly needed. So how would it become the most needed necessity in society? That would be as a result to its promotion through advertising. Bringing us back to the idea on how advertising would employ psychology, what would be the underlining theme on what makes us essentially buy products? That would be fear. This fear would be incorporated in ads themselves, this is also the exploitation of a basic human emotion: one to belong.>
This argument would back up the fact that there is now a difference between authentic needs and artificial needs. Products have added themselves to the âhierarchy of needsâ. This theory of a hierarchy was one created by Abraham Maslow in his 1943 paper âA Theory of Human Motivationâ (Maslow, 1943). He represents this theory as a pyramid with 5 levels: â Self-actualization â includes morality, creativity, problem solving, etc. â Esteem â includes confidence, self-esteem, achievement, respect, etc. â Belongingness â includes love, friendship, intimacy, family, etc. â Safety â includes security of environment, employment, resources, health, property, etc. â Physiological â includes air, food, water, sex, sleep, other factors towards homeostasis, etc. The idea is that you work up the pyramid in stages to obtain âhappinessâ. We could say that products have added themselves to the sphere of belongingness in society. However how would this creation of necessity be explained? Pierre Bordieu argues that it is taste and what he describes as habitus that explains the importance of consumption. Habitus, which are in fact habits, so a combination of taste, of ways of perceiving, of acting and of saying, and this will guide the choices of the individuals. Thus meaning the individual makes in a sense an unconscious act towards class distinction (Bourdieu, 1992). As the individual will make choices of products and taste will bring together individuals, creating a sense of belongingness. This means that nowadays the attachment to objects/products is in a way to create a sense of community. Inclusion. On the other hand, it could be argued that the attachment we have today for example with our phones is one that a child would have with a teddy bear, this idea was arisen during a philosophy class during my education. So another factor would be for comfort and security. Continuing on the idea of phones, the IPhone when first coming out was defined as in a sense something that wasnât truly needed. So how would it become the most needed necessity in society? That would be as a result to its promotion through advertising. Bringing us back to the idea on how advertising would employ psychology, what would be the underlining theme on what makes us essentially buy products? That would be fear. This fear would be incorporated in ads themselves, this is also the exploitation of a basic human emotion: one to belong.>
