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Meteorology

(vertical levels, horizontal grid spacing, and temporal), computational domain (what values go in the equations), and coordinate s...

Cause and Effect Used to Justify More Helicopter Services to a Pacific Island Prone to Natural Disasters

days, whereas for a flood or tsunami their may not be a warning at all. The immediate effects of a disaster can be mixed. If there...

Spike Lee's When the Levees Broke

Lee, what the victims share is that they had little before Katrina and now have nothing (Samuels 94). It should be noted, howeve...

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...

A Brief History on the Most Devastating U.S. Hurricanes

While a relatively weak hurricane would have done little damage in our earlier history either in terms of lives taken or in terms ...

Analysis of Large Non-Profit Organization

in the world. It is governed by a Board of Governors and operates under a legal Congressional charter. The Board conducts a self-a...

Natural Disasters

atmosphere and at the same time, it releases drier and cooler air into the atmosphere (The American National Red Cross, 2001). The...

Is Disciplinary Action Against Police Officers Who Deserted Tier Post After Hurricane Katrina Ethically Justified?

but is also accepted as a result of the consensus paradigm. The consensus paradigm means that there is a general consensus regardi...

Continuity Planning for Small Business

Though the sheer volume of information at the site is daunting, it is an ideal place to begin learning about disaster recovery in ...

An Overview of Hurricane Katrina's Wrath

Cause of the Problem Again, the cause of the storm is perhaps attributed to environmental issues and maybe tied to global warmi...

USING BAYESIAN THEORY TO DETERMINE A POTENTIAL OUTCOME

of a hurricane occurring to any degree of accuracy). The theorem helps us better understand what were up against and tries to elim...

FEMA’s Response to Hurricane Katrina

the public officials of those states and those in the federal government, particularly FEMA and the Bush administration. Differen...

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...

Hurricane Relief and Waterproof Fabrics

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Studying Hurricanes

month" (Klotzbach and Gray 1109). In light of this, the authors note that "based on hindcasting results from 1950 to 2000, 30%-75%...

Hurricane Island Outward Bound School Marketing

outside the boundaries of the United States, and certainly outside the boundaries of Maine. At present, the Hurricane Islan...

Data Mining and Hurricanes

and Peats (2000) river vortex example, they meet points of bifurcation requiring that they divert course in one direction or anoth...

Hurricane Impact of El Nino

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

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. ...