National ID Card There has been much discussion over the issue of a national ID card. Can it guarantee national security? Can it even improve the current state of security in the US? Is implementation feasible? Is it an invasion of privacy? These are just a few of the questions that surround the issue of a national ID. The scene that the NID evokes in me is from the movies of the forties and fifties. The security officials from some eastern European country move from passenger to passenger in a train demanding “Papers please.” The US citizenry have never been subject to that kind of open scrutiny before and it is disturbing to contemplate the implementation of such a draconian system. Consideration of a NID system deserves to be isolated (at least initially) from the emotive imagery that many critics would bring to bare. So the first question to tackle is that of the necessity to national security. What can an NID system do to protect the US from its enemies? It could be added to the screening process at the airports. Each passenger could be made to swipe his or her card through a card reader as the pass through security. In order to actually verify their identity passengers would have to have to be scanned by a biometric device; the data taken on site then being compared to recorded information. The question of the security of the card will be taken up later, but it is far from certain that the stored information could be made both secure and available in the nation’s airports. Every US citizen would, presumably, posses a NID card, including those who work in sensitive places. The corruption of information on a single NID card would lower threshold of areas that defined as ... ... middle of paper ... ...rth date. Security: Creating the NID card would breach more security then it would protect. If an NID card were taken at face value by even the lowest level security, its user would have a foot in the door and would be able to exploit it. Privacy: The only area where the NID card excels is in the violation of privacy. Currently the average identity thief has to work a little to get information on a victim, and he still has to find a gullible credit card agency to gain access to the victim’s money. The NID card would allow a thief access to the victim’s most secure information and assets. Cost: Business interests are the only ones to gain from the NID. If the offer by Scott McNealy (Sun Microsystems CEO) is taken at face value it still means a government contract with Sun, or at worst, a huge contract for an industry which is currently lagging.
Large businesses could benefit from this because it would prevent them from engaging in settlement deals after a breach that might affect important data of its customers. As the trend continues to expand, the risk of individuals getting hacked of their personal data increases and without a designated department to help trace and capture hackers, I believe it won’t reduce the eagerness to be a part of the trend, but it would increase the likelihood of being a victim of it.
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...e administration plans to introduce legislation that would alter the N.S.A’s privacy breaches and end its illegal data collections. Citing an identical argument, that the government cannot indicate terrorist attacks that have been stopped by the intelligence gathering programs, a review group of the Administration “called for major changes to the program; the latter also concluded that the bulk collection is illegal.”3
There are many famous authors such as, Shakespeare, Dante, and Dickens that stands out in American Literature history. However, there is one particular author that will catch your eye for his inimitable style of writing. Samuel Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, is one of the greatest authors that we learn about in school. His most famous works include, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, along with its sequel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Lyttle 123). He was not just known for his unique writing style, but also his sense of humor. The writing style that Twain wrote in, would not be tolerated today, considering there are numerous punctuation errors that show up in his work. He spoke with such big vocabulary that many people did not understand at the time. His writing style and the type of stories he wrote is what made Mark Twain stand out to the world.
Reading is a fundamental aspect of the educative process, however differences in comprehension are extensive and potentially impacted by mind wandering (McVay and ...
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As a resourceful poet and artiste during the Enlightenment Age; Goethe’s poetry debates on the far-reaching theory, that man is willing to go above and beyond to achieve his goals. According to Adina Bodrogean, “Enlightenment meant in the English literature a disruption from the previous trends in the literature and cultural philosophy, stand point and ideas. The new spirit of the age was the strong belief in light and culture as the only means of influencing the nature of man.”(Bodrogean). Faust himself represents the Enlightenment; in his pursuit of escaping his tasteless life.
Just like many college students, Dana and her friends decided to go to a bar one Saturday night. The problem: Not everyone in their group was old enough to enter. The solution: Use fake ID obtained through a friend. So Dana and her friends used fake IDs to enter the bar without a problem, or so they thought. Later that night, police raided the bar. Dana's ID was confiscated and she was later arrested.
There are many quotes to describe a classical American author, but Ulysses S. Grant describes one particular true American author as “. . . the simple soldier, who, all untaught of the silken phrase markers, linked words together with an art surpassing the art of schools and into them put a something which will bring American ears, as long as America shall last, the roll of his vanished drums and the thread of his marching hosts.” (American Experience, Grant’s Memoirs) Mark Twain is this simple soldier who is a true American author who expressed America with his writings. He fought for America in his writings as he did when he fought in the Civil War; the realistic literary time period. And his travels around the nation and life-changing experiences influenced him to write for the American readers to imagine what he viewed. Twain is a true American author due to his life events that influenced him to share with his beloved readers.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the brilliant mind behind the 17th century’s “Faust”, illustrates a combining structure of desire and self-indulgence. As a brilliant poet and artiste during the Enlightenment Age; Goethe’s poetry debates on the far-reaching rationalism that man is willing to go above and beyond to achieve his goals. All throughout the poem, Goethe projected a sense of unrelenting dissatisfaction of how a man’s sense of inaccessibility, and his emotional need to come to a realization of the world he lives in.
The more obvious aspect of her tragedy is that she is seduced and abandoned by a lover above her in rank. Faust is another of the well-meaning but undependable heroes of the bourgeois tragedies popularized in Germany by Lessing , and indeed the Gretchen tragedy is the most compelling example of the genre in Germany. Goethe himself had Werther commit suicide with a copy of Emilia Galotti open on his desk, so it is hardly far-fetched to see Faust in the role of Lessing’s indecisive prince, torn between ...
“To be ourselves causes us to be exiled by many others, yet to comply with what others want causes us to be exiled from ourselves” (Estes). Mahmoud Darwish could relate to this quote on a very serious level. He was exiled from his homeland, but stayed true to himself and his family. Darwish was born in a Palestinian village that was destroyed in the Palestine War. He became involved in political opposition and was imprisoned by the government. He was later forced into exile and became a permanent refugee. Around 1975, Mahmoud wrote a poem titled “Identity Card”. Mahmoud Darwish writes using diction, repetition, and atmosphere to express his emotions towards exile. He expressed his emotions through poetry, especially “Identity Card”.
Mahmoud Darwich was one of the Palestinians who spent his life defending Palestinian problem through his political activism and his literary writings. Identity Card by Mahmoud Darwich, written in 1964, is a poem about Palestinians’ feelings and restrictions on expulsion. He’s expressing in this poem, the spirit of resistance of Palestinians in the face exile. It is extremely praised in Arabic poetry because it demonstrates emblems of the association between identity and land. Fadwa Touqan known as the “ Grande Dame” of Palestinian letters or the “Poet of Palestine” is one of the best contemporary poets. She wrote I shall not weep in 1968 when she went to Yaffa to meet the other resistance poets. One of them was Mahmoud Darwich. These are
...ccordance with international law, it is demonstrative of treating others as you wish to be treated.
Identity cards vary, from passports to health cards to driver licenses. Each play a different role, one will be used to travel another used when individuals seek care and another simply to drive around town. Identity cards serve as a form of surveillance to insure the wellbeing within a country against danger. This brings me to say, is monitoring an individual’s life going to insure their safety? Forms of identification can offer security, freedom as well as accessibility to North American citizens.