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Events That Damage a Business

Businesses are at risk for many different disruptions. Natural disasters like hurricanes and tornadoes and human-made disasters li...

Vulnerability and Disaster Response

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at disaster response. Hurricane Katrina provides an example of the role of community v...

Emergency Response Katrina

This paper discusses Hurricane Katrina that hit New Orleans in August 2005. The essay discusses specifically search and rescue ope...

Theoretical Foundation for Humanitarianism

This essay discusses a specific theoretical foundation for humanitarianism called the theory of obligation which, in part, propose...

New Orleans' Rebuilding Costs

experience with moving from "home" to another place. Still, New Orleans very location was ill-advised from the beginning. ...

Funding for Disaster Relief and the Federal Government's Role

has precedence over the states. In practice, it is cooperative federalism that has largely held sway. In Federalist 32, Alexande...

Administration of George W. Bush and Poverty

and around $1,200 in subsidized school meals for both children (Besharov 35). After taxes, this comes to around $21,000 per year. ...

Contemporary Applications of Andrew Carnegie's Ideas

to devote a tremendous amount of effort in this criticism. Everyone holds blame equally in this phenomena. The poor criticize th...

Hurricane Katrina Tragedy and Race

one assumes, in moments of crisis like that that has befallen New Orleans" (Lowry, 2005). Jason DeParle sees things quite anothe...

Overview of Hurricane Katrina

show? The encyclopedia reports that Katrina was one of the most significant natural disasters in history in the United States ("Ef...

Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Children and Ecological Systems Theory

2005). The mesosystem layer connects the various components of the childs microsystem, perhaps a teacher with a parent, a church ...

Hurricane Katrina Evacuees and Community Health

Demographically, the people who were evacuated to Houstons Astrodome are primarily the people who took refuge in New Orleans Super...

Children and the Psychological Effects of PTSD Associated with Hurricane Katrina

illness. Post traumatic stress syndrome can result from diversity of causes including the horrors of war, sexual abuse, or even s...

Contemporary Society and Alienation

of the coming expropriation of the expropriators" (Marx, 1983, p.75-76). Here, it is suggested that perhaps Marxs contribution was...

Hurricane Impact of El Nino

Hemisphere (Jackson State University, 2005). Hurricanes form incrementally -- beginning as a tropical disturbance, then a ...

Do Humans Manage Information Systems or are Information Systems Managing Humans?

dependent on their computers could not work. Information systems manage us, not the other way around. Information systems affec...

Hurricane Relief and Waterproof Fabrics

waterproof fabrics or creating a list of likely contributors to NGOs, which then will acquire necessary materials. Outdoor Fabrics...

The Lasting Effects of Hurricane Katrina

well be lost" (Kalb, Murr and Raymond, 2005). AIDS patients couldnt always get their medication, some patients vanished completely...

The 2006 Hurricane Season: The Importance of Predictions

managers. Pre-planning is one of the most critical components of disaster preparedness. Hurricane preparations must begin months...

Ecological Crisis of the Earth

ozone layer is that portion of the Earths atmosphere that contains high concentration of ozone (Busman and Belen). This exists in ...

Bad Press Recipient Exxon Mobile

Standard Oil Company of New Jersey (Exxon) and Standard Oil Company of New Jersey (Mobile) (Exxon Mobile, 2005). CURRENT BAD PRESS...

Issues Involving Hurricane Katrina and the Environment

Kennedy 183). The authors then illustrates how the efforts after this flood, in building levees, did a great deal in prote...

Critique of Hurricane Wind Shelter Construction for Existing Homes

Safe Room, the conclusion is that more individuals will be able to retro fit their house with this shelter. This would in turn al...

Cape Fear Water Quality and Waste Management

were more than 25 million gallons of waste involved (Mallin, 2000, p.26). This occurred on one particular day, but the days follow...

Cost Factors in the Construction Industry

box" home stores continue to affect building materials; and employment reached a record high (First Quarterly Cost Report 2006, 20...

Mississippi Coastal Improvement Program

This 15 page paper provides an overview of the Mississippi Coastal Improvement Program, or MsCIP, which was developed in response ...

The Impact Of Hurricane Andrew

scholarly catalogs; journals will include - but not be limited to - Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Journal of En...

Dyson: Come Hell or High Water

looks at it in a certain way-the way the media wants them to perceive it. In this case, the media has used this device to portray ...

The Human Cost of Katrina

and trash everywhere (Ainsworth). To her right is her grandson, dressed in blue short and a white t-shirt; he appears to be about ...

Considerations in Emergency Management

between August 25 and August 30, 2005, was one of the worst hurricanes of history. Hurricane Katrina howled ashore destroying ent...