Successful marketers will always recognize opportunity in national sentiments, especially in times of crisis. The marketers who seized the day very successfully in the 1950’s were those who campaigned for the necessity of fallout shelters during the height of the Cold War. It wasn’t a hard sell considering the United States government was caught up ...
From the 1940s through the 1980s, no threat caused more despair and terror in the world than the possibility of nuclear war. Nowhere was this more evident than in the large number of nuclear war films that cropped up during the last half of Cold War. Filled with terrifying imagery and frightening scenarios, these films ...
Introduction The field of emergency management is always evolving. Threats, technology and legislation changes make it impossible for the roles and responsibilities for emergency managers to be written in stone. Right now there are several key needs that have to be met by future emergency managers if the country is to be able to respond ...
Do you have a pre-paid legal plan that you’re paying a monthly membership fee on? Have you been using it? If you’re like most people then you’re probably not. We know that most pre-paid legal plans will give us help in just about every area requiring an attorney, but the question is do you really ...
The media has talked endlessly about several terms since the events of September 11. These terms are Homeland Security, FEMA and emergency management. Yet, very few people understand what exactly these things are, how they work and how they will protect them in the event of an emergency. In order to empower yourself in this ...