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Domestic be compromised simply because there are looming threats. Irrefutably, there are other solutions. Other countries utilize more security measures centered on intelligence rather than physical prevention; racial profiling and checking passengers against criminal databases are more prevalent. This course of actions has proved to be successful, so why America has not implemented these measures or at least investigated alternate options in a more assiduous and public manner is baffling, and a concern that the public must raise in order to counteract the unjust nature of national security. There are already reports of the transfer of illicit items sewn inside bodies, which go undetectable in the full body scans and groin checks, but a danger that could be more effectively tackled with profiling, especially when the contour(profile) of a terrorist is confined, explicitly recognized, and determinable. Israel is one of these nations with an effective security force, and often branded as the safest in the world. Global Traveler has heralded El Al as the aviation industry’s most secure airline, despite that they remain a sought after target for terrorism. They have held terrorism in abeyance through a system of intelligence security that consists of interviews and extensive profiling. The probabilities of terrorist crumbling under such procedures is very high, as microexpression has been scientifically proven to be successful. This is not a recommendation for America to adopt Israeli’s system in its entirety, but rather assess and adapt some of its more beneficial techniques. Sidestepping the security inconveniences at U.S. airports is relatively easy, that is as long as you have the money. Rent a private jet. Flying private permits you to bypass almost all security measures. TSA does not require security action for private aviation operators, including large business jets. I do not want to give any ideas to all the Taliban that are reading this article, but with the current statute in place, terrorism could not be any more facile. If new security regulations are not amended, it is only inevitable that with time, America will be victimized by another devastating attack. Terrorists will view aviation as an effective means of attack, capitalizing on the lack of security measures on private airplanes. Amid the adoption of the threatening security procedures and the Thanksgiving holidays I am more cognizant than ever of my country’s indispensable virtues. I give thanks for our founding fathers, for rescuing our country from the wrath of the British. And I give thanks for the the fundamental cornerstone of our democracy, my freedom. HMR Molester, pervert, disgusting, an embarrassment, creep. These are all words I have heard today at work describing me, said in my presence as I patted passengers down. These comments are painful and demoralizing, one day is bad enough, but I have to come back tomorrow, the next day and the day after that to keep hearing these comments. If something doesn’t change in the next two weeks I don’t know how much longer I can withstand this taunting. I go home and I cry. I am serving my country, I should not have to go “home and cry after a day of honorably serving my country. I served a tour in Afghanistan followed by a tour in Iraq. I have been hardened by war and in the past week I am slowly being broken by the constant diatribe of hateful comments being lobbed at me. While many just see a uniform with gloves feeling them for concealed items I am a person, I am a person who has feelings. I am a person who has served this country. I am a person who wants to continue serving his country. The constant run of hateful comments while I perform my job will break me down faster and harder than anything “I encountered while in combat in the Army. ” 8 The Horace Mann Review | Vol. XX
Domestic I’ll be doing my shopping at TARGET! -SANTA Consumerism: Corrupting the Holidays by emily feldstein Welcome to the holiday season. Unfortunately, this welcome is belated. Recently, the holiday season, typically confined to December, has extended to include November and even October. Its encroachment on the rest of the year may seem undeniably fantastic– who does not want to start celebrating a little earlier? However, the holidays’ ever expanding domain attests to a growing trend plaguing our society: an emphasis on consumerism, society’s overwhelming desire to acquire goods. Commercialism, a focus on maximizing profits, spurs consumerism. Companies want more customers to increase their revenues. If more people buy more “stuff,” companies make larger profits. By starting the holiday season, and therefore holiday shopping, early, companies can increase financial gains. Modern day cupidity has distorted the true meaning 208.100.38.92 of the holiday season. Companies’ only reference to the sentimental importance of the holidays comes in their advertisements. The values of the seasons take on an entirely different meaning when hijacked by advertising agencies in the service of large companies. The cheer of the early holiday season, then, disguises businesses’ much more sinister and greedy motives. Consider Black Friday and its technological twin, Cyber Monday. Companies have taken the idea of giving during the holidays and morphed it into a competitive sport. Holiday shopping is less about a thoughtful manifestation of caring and more about getting the best deals. Of course, businesses use sales to incentivize consumption and increase profits. Now, the holidays are used in the service of consumerism. Every time we turn on the television, starting in November, we are bombarded with Christmas carols or other holiday songs used in advertisements. Target, for example, has a commercial in which a woman, dressed suspiciously like Santa Claus, records herself singing a Christmas song. This commercial aired before Thanksgiving, advertising Target’s Black Friday event. Of course, Target is not the only perpetrator; its advertisements merely exemplify the hijacking of holiday sentiments. Every year we lament consumerism’s corruption of the holiday season’s true meaning, and every year we are right. We rarely, though, consider another serious implication. Aside from the ethical and societal ramifications, there is also a serious environmental and ecological consequence. So, when buying holiday gifts, we may be contributing not only to a distortion of the holidays’ true meaning but also to global warming. Consumerism’s holiday dominance underscores a broader trend; with the encouragement of businesses, we now constantly feel the need to buy and to consume. Our consumption has drastically expanded, causing significant economic growth. In fact, in the past century, the global gross domestic product (GDP) has increased 40-fold while the population has only quadrupled. Seemingly, growth is just what the foundering worldwide economies need. However, there are a finite number of resources available on earth. The more we consume, the fewer resources remain. Thanks to increased consumerism at the encouragement of businesses, in one year we now use 1.4 times the earth’s ability to regenerate what we use. Unfortunately, the United States is the greatest offender in this overextension of earth’s resources. If the entire world consumed at the rate at which the U.S. is consuming, we would need, according to the Capital Institute, five earths. As consumption grows, our natural resources will shrink. Soon, perhaps, we will face food, energy, and water shortages, soil degradation, and even climate change. Considering these scary ramifications of consumerism, we should now take a step back. We don’t need to consume to have a special holiday season. HMR The Horace Mann Review | Issue 4 9
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