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The Devastation of Katrina

history of the United States, and New Orleans is still trying to recover from it. This paper considers three aspects of the storm:...

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...

Crises of Natural Disasters and Family Interaction

In five pages this paper examines what happens during a natural disaster to families and family relationship dynamics with coping ...

The Symbolism of Rain in Hemmingway's A Farewell to Arms

A 5 page exploration of Hemmingway's utilization of natural elements as symbols for human emotion. The universal themes of sorrow...

Advertising to the Global Community

segments, whatever those segments may be. Many nations have less well-developed sources of market information than are available ...

Toxic Waste Catastrophe of Love Canal, New York

In six pages this report examines the circumstances that led to this toxic waste catastrophe and considers the human impact as wel...

Government Application and Survival in Joseph Andrews, Brave New World, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

In five pages this paper considers the views of authors Henry Fielding, Aldous Huxley, and Mark Twain regarding a hypothetical sce...

A 1587 Chinese Emperor Recommendation

something about our vulnerability. It is also hoped that he Emperor will heed my warnings and take my advice on what should be don...

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...

The Dangerous Nature of the Earth's Energy

mean they are not dangerous. Earthquakes, which are natural occurrences, kill hundreds if not thousands of people and ruin homes,...

Disaster Preparedness and Environmental Psychology

certain cultural movements have made it such that the nature of risk management and disaster prevention in societies is now given ...

Guilt of the Survivor

In nine pages this paper examines the psychological difficulties that accompany surviving a catastrophic event such as war, a na...

Ancient Civilizations and Geography

subject to severe earthquakes and its climate is rather mild; Greece has mild wet winters, but dry hot summers (2001). Achi...

Agenda for American Civil Reform Justice A Response

Civil litigation is considered in this overview of six pages and incorporates examples to reveal civil justice inadequacies includ...

Freight Industry and the English Channel Tunnel

In sixteen pages the freight industry is discussed in terms of the role played by the English Channel tunnel and considers whether...

BTS Sky Train Disaster Financing

In five pages this paper considers the best way for the Bangkok government to deal with the financing which resulted from this dis...

Ecology of Fear Reviewed

use federal dollars to do so. Many feel sorry for them. But then there is the other point of view. Why build homes in such a place...

Hurricane Katrina and the Pakistan Earthquake Compared

building, there were 200 children killed as a result ("Pakistan puts quake toll at 18,000," 2005). One hospital collapsed as well ...

Delayed Government Response Times for Natural Disasters: A Proposed Solution

to this devastated area were, at least at first, characterized more appropriately as a series of errors and delays than as an effi...

An Exploration of Tsunamis

caused by seismic activity, by earthquakes and volcanic eruptions (Regulatory Intelligence Data, 1998). Tsunamis can also be caus...

Effective Managerial Communication in the Aeronautical Field

reports" (Subramanian, 2006, p. 1). It now includes things like the Internet, teleconferencing and other high tech communication m...

Managerial Communications in Aeronautics.

p. 1). It now includes things like the Internet, teleconferencing and other high tech communication methods (Subramanian, 2006). ...

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...

Union Carbide of India Ltd

by the government for UCIL where 50.9% of the remained in the ownership of Union Carbide Corporation (USA). This indicated the lev...

The Horrors and Hope of Hurricane Katrina

to those impacts than are others. The normative, i.e. not so unique, stressors of Hurricane Katrina are characterized best ...

Prevention or Minimization of Natural Disasters and Terrorism

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...

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 ...

Natural Disasters and Responsibilities of Employers to Employees

period that passed from the time the first warnings of Hurricane Katrina were sounded, and the actual landfall of the storm. It se...

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...

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...