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Essays 121 - 150
a main area of study being the normative reaction to non normative events. The impact of stress created by disasters is argued to ...
blacks in the U.S. and the Caribbean alike (Everybodys: The Caribbean-American Magazine, 1998). Ebonics has invoked considerable ...
who have lost home and family to a natural disaster, the Red Cross provides relief and hope. The American Red Cross is...
be trying to use a 486 or even a Pentium I computer today, but nonprofit organizations dependent on donations or public entities w...
minds of many - if not most - Americans was a part of the ongoing feud between religious factions in the mideast that occasionally...
state, local and personal levels for survival during, and recovery after, a hurricane has passed through an area. On the federal l...
dependent they are on easy access to clean water until something prevents that access. The Impact of Natural Disasters Informati...
be recognised, that need to be addressed, especially as the company holds a great deal of sensitive information. These may be comp...
prescriptive because the focus is "on how decisions ought to be made" (Lahti, 2003). There are a number of assumptions underlying ...
and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the South Pacific Division of the US Army Corps of E...
was a role for Human Resources in this scenario. One technique used by Continental was to hire friends (Brenneman, 1998). This mig...
distractions are indeed rampant in our high-tech world. We feel the need to be in constant contact with others and consequently t...
Solutions to the Problem While the problem goes more to a lack of proper communication and decision-making, the truth is that t...
the other family members (U.S. Government, 2008). Other suggestions include ensuring that every family member has the phone number...
to those impacts than are others. The normative, i.e. not so unique, stressors of Hurricane Katrina are characterized best ...
bad occurs, but they hardly remember the times when imminent danger was in the air. Even before 911, the government would plan for...
reports" (Subramanian, 2006, p. 1). It now includes things like the Internet, teleconferencing and other high tech communication m...
p. 1). It now includes things like the Internet, teleconferencing and other high tech communication methods (Subramanian, 2006). ...
throughout the first two-thirds of the twentieth century reflects a cyclical recoil of increased famine deaths rather than what on...
by the government for UCIL where 50.9% of the remained in the ownership of Union Carbide Corporation (USA). This indicated the lev...
has precedence over the states. In practice, it is cooperative federalism that has largely held sway. In Federalist 32, Alexande...
did X, Y would not have happened." Of course, they cannot know this for sure. At the same time, throwing up ones hands and claimin...
A decision support system (DSS) is software that is capable of using complex analytical models that can help support the decision ...
period that passed from the time the first warnings of Hurricane Katrina were sounded, and the actual landfall of the storm. It se...
take out the trash ("Memo to Me," 2007). Of course, many computers are equipped with remainder features that exist on software suc...
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...
building, there were 200 children killed as a result ("Pakistan puts quake toll at 18,000," 2005). One hospital collapsed as well ...
caused by seismic activity, by earthquakes and volcanic eruptions (Regulatory Intelligence Data, 1998). Tsunamis can also be caus...
A survey conducted in 1995 by ICR Survey Research Group regarding vulnerability of computers found that sixty six percent of respo...
to this devastated area were, at least at first, characterized more appropriately as a series of errors and delays than as an effi...