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US and New Jersey's Capital Punishment History

the Supreme Court decision of Furman v. Georgia (Freitas PG). This decision stated that the death penalty constituted cruel and u...

Comparative Analysis of 2 Government Agency Websites

provide very recent information and its latest press release is dated December 19, 2001. The press release involves a campaign des...

A Livable Wage in NJ Case Study

that community is much higher than average. With the assumption that it is impossible to live on only twenty thousand per year in ...

Enterprise Rent-a-Car's Hackensack Customers

businesses of all kinds in Hackensack at the time of the 2000 Census (State & County QuickFacts, n.d.), but in 2007 the mean trave...

Business Law/At-Will Employment

someone worker through the harvest season, the landowners could not summarily fire him during the winter; and, likewise, the farme...

AN ORGANIZATIONAL ANALYSIS OF TURNING POINT DETOX CENTER

Analyzes Turning Point Detox Center in Verona, NJ by way of the Magnet Certification process. The bibliography lists 7 sources in ...

Nursing Wages/New Jersey

in metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas in every State" (Occupational, 2006). Annual wages were determined by "multiplying the ...

Strike of Middletown, New Jersey Teachers

fairly; they walked out on strike three years prior to this incident (Hanley, November 30, 2001). When the teachers decided they...

The Real Estate Section of the Local Newspaper

estate market is doing and more information about local news in the field. There is one article in the paper without a byline and ...

Now Night Nurses on an Intensive Care Unit

of this decision. Ecological theory is an attempt to bring in many different influences in order to understand how a society ...

The C.R.E.S.T. Warning System

al, 2002). It also aims to reduce the number of false tsunami warnings given by providing information to the warning centers that ...

The San Francisco Earthquake, 1906

800 rooms and rising an "impressive" seven stories.6 The hotel featured a "central grand court surrounded by tier after tier of co...

California's Emergency Response Plan

would be called OES or the Office of Emergency Services ("Californias Emergency Response Plan," 2003). OES is an office that helps...

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 ...

Statistics On Natural Disasters: China

throughout the first two-thirds of the twentieth century reflects a cyclical recoil of increased famine deaths rather than what on...

The Sichuan Earthquake and The Economy

the massive quake, more than 34,000 were declared dead and some of those were rescue workers (Ho, 2008). That was an early count. ...

The 1985 Mexico City Earthquake

is bounded by the Sierra Nevada on the east, the Sierra de las Cruces on the west and the Sierra Chichinautzin to the south" (Aqui...

Why California Won’t Fall into the Ocean

the "plate boundary" between these two (Louis and Anderson, 2001). Because the earth is still cooling, it is still releasing its i...

Disasters

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

Effects and Hazards of Earthquakes

to be the most damaging waves due to the fact that "buildings are more easily damaged from horizontal motion than from vertical mo...

Nineteenth and Twentieth Century U.S. Earthquake Activity

The Northern East coast has also experienced various earthquakes throughout the centuries. The New England area has experienced ma...

Earthquake Measurement

the news media is always quick to point out that it was this or that number (i.e. 3.5, 4.0., 5.7, etc.) on the Richter scale. Most...

Volcanoes and Earthquakes

brief understanding of what is involved in these types of volcanoes: "Shield volcanoes are formed by a very liquid lava rock. This...

Insurance for Earthquakes

(GAOR, 2005). When this occurs it not only severely hinders rebuilding in the region, but also the lack of available insurance ser...

Words of Light a Lasting Memorial to the Wreckage of the Hibernia Bank

capturing for all to see one moment in time that shall never change in the viewer (or readers) mind? To liken Cadavas words to th...

Learning Lessons from Whittier Narrows and Northridge Earthquakes

In fourteen pages these earthquakes are discussed in terms of the lessons learned from them in terms of safety precautions. Fourt...

Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 Explained by Philosophy and Science

mans attention. After running in fear from Jezebel, the Lord attracted Elijahs attention by using an earthquake. (1 Kings 19:11,...

Loma Prieta Earthquake of 1989

In eleven pages this October 17, 1989 San Francisco earthquake which registered 7.1 on the Richter scale is discussed in terms of ...

Seattle, Washington and El Salvador Earthquakes

This paper contrasts and compares the regional and economic impacts of earthquakes in this region in 6 pages. Five sources are ci...

Chile's Natural Hazards

In eight pages this paper discusses volcanoes, floods, and earthquake tsunami as they relate to the Chilean geography. Six source...