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Small Business Disaster Recovery Alternatives

It can be assumed that the company qualifies as a mid-sized one, however, given the number of employees at its headquarters locati...

Windows Systems and Disaster Recovery

be trying to use a 486 or even a Pentium I computer today, but nonprofit organizations dependent on donations or public entities w...

Small Business Disaster Recovery

assume that a small company should outsource its IT services...2 The point that Childs and Dietrich (2002) seek to convey i...

Emergency Management

specifically designed for such an occurrence. What is the single most important aspect of emergency management falls into category...

Disasters and Their Psychological Impact

a main area of study being the normative reaction to non normative events. The impact of stress created by disasters is argued to ...

Global Community Assistance and the US

who have lost home and family to a natural disaster, the Red Cross provides relief and hope. The American Red Cross is...

Advertising and the Use of Ebonics

blacks in the U.S. and the Caribbean alike (Everybodys: The Caribbean-American Magazine, 1998). Ebonics has invoked considerable ...

Disaster Recovery Planning

A survey conducted in 1995 by ICR Survey Research Group regarding vulnerability of computers found that sixty six percent of respo...

Issues of Emergency Response Disaster Management

minds of many - if not most - Americans was a part of the ongoing feud between religious factions in the mideast that occasionally...

Emergency Preparedness and Governmental Crisis Protection

state, local and personal levels for survival during, and recovery after, a hurricane has passed through an area. On the federal l...

Piper Alpha Oil Platform Catastrophe of 1988

some of the fire walls and soon the stored oil was burning. In addition, the automatic deluge system which was supposed to spray w...

Neo Aristotelian Analysis of President Ronald Reagan and the Challenger Space Shuttle Tragedy

disaster. It was his administration, after all, that had been intent on having the Shuttle be declared operational while it was i...

Catastrophic Survival

be recognised, that need to be addressed, especially as the company holds a great deal of sensitive information. These may be comp...

Natural Disaster Aftermath and Transporting Clean Water to Those in Need

dependent they are on easy access to clean water until something prevents that access. The Impact of Natural Disasters Informati...

Article Summary/Veenema (2008)

The American Red Cross, after an extensive peer review of the program, which was conducted in 2006, adopted Veenemas curriculum as...

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...

Earthquake Planning and Decision Support Systems

A decision support system (DSS) is software that is capable of using complex analytical models that can help support the decision ...

GunnAllen Financial Contingency Plan

In five pages this Florida based investment brokerage and financial planning firm is considered in terms of a plan for disaster re...

Disaster of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge

Current Narrows Bridge is a great American saga. When Galloping Gertie splashed into Puget Sound, it created ripple effects across...

Disaster Preparedness for Travis County Texas

in General Its a given that disasters are unpredictable; if we could predict them accurately they would be far less damaging, be...

Disaster Relief and the United Nation's Style of Leadership

efforts of the international community" (Helton 192). The following examination of UN leadership looks specifically at its efforts...

Natural Disasters

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

Continental Airlines: Demonstrating a Link Between Ethics and Human Resource Management

was a role for Human Resources in this scenario. One technique used by Continental was to hire friends (Brenneman, 1998). This mig...

DISASTER PREPARATION AND THINGS TO CONSIDER

the other family members (U.S. Government, 2008). Other suggestions include ensuring that every family member has the phone number...

IT Security Disaster Planning

Solutions to the Problem While the problem goes more to a lack of proper communication and decision-making, the truth is that t...

Distracted Driving

distractions are indeed rampant in our high-tech world. We feel the need to be in constant contact with others and consequently t...

Applying Burke and Litwin's Model

that the space shuttle Columbia had disintegrated. All seven members of the crew were lost. The Columbia had launched on January 1...

Disasters

quake it was estimated that at least 400 people had died. The conditions were relatively dire as almost freezing temperatures at n...

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...

The Unthinkable - Surviving a Disaster

she was in the building in 1993 when another attack took place; and despite the fact that the building actually rocked from the fo...