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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 ...

Notification Services

take out the trash ("Memo to Me," 2007). Of course, many computers are equipped with remainder features that exist on software suc...

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...

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:...

Comparison and Contrasting Essay on California and Georgia

attacked poor drainage and low-lying areas particularly in or around Savannah, the Ocmulgee River, and the Toccoa Falls regions, w...

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 ...

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...

Dynamic Cybernetic Team Model

A scenario of disaster plan at a hospital is used as the basis for this essay. The scenario is described briefly, including commen...

The Elderly and their Needs

This research paper provides an overview of the various needs that society should address in order to order to provide comprehensi...

The Leadership Problems of BP in the Context of the Deepwater Horizon Disaster

well, which was located 41 miles from the Louisiana coast (Hoffman and Jennings, 2010). The disaster struck on 20 April 2010 durin...

Aspects of Stress

3). It is when stress exceeds the individuals ability to cope that it becomes destructive. These destructive effects can be modera...

Article Analysis Related to Environmental Psychology

she was pushing mud off the porch and wiping furniture. More volunteers followed helping all the people who lived on that street. ...

Reflecting on the Implementation of a Fall Prevention Program

The writer reviews a project from the perspective of a student, reflecting on the effectiveness of the project implementation. Af...

Oil Prices

The writer looks at the different events or influences that could result in oil prices increasing. Events such as war, natural di...

Site Selection for Business Continuity Planning

In a paper of fifteen pages, the writer looks at business continuity planning. Disaster recovery sites are analyzed in respect to ...

Government Agencies Coordinating

This paper begins by explaining the reasons it is difficult for different federal agencies and departments to operate with each ot...

2 Journal Articles on PTSD

In five pages this paper discusses 2 articles based upon Post Traumatic Stress Disorder as it relates to natural disasters and nei...

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...

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...

Legislative Process and Bill Tracking

In ten pages this paper tracks the HR 1469 bill in a process that includes controversy regarding 1996 and 1997 disaster relief vic...

Computer Systems and Disaster Recovery Plans

In a paper consisting of five pages computer systems protection through disaster recovery plans are discussed. Five sources are c...

On the Beach by Nevil Shute

In six pages this paper examines a nuclear disaster and how couples contend with the fallout as depicted by Nevil Shute in On the ...

Engineering Disasters and Issues of Ethics

In five pages the Heathrow Airport tunnel collapse is one of the engineering disasters considered in this ethical examination of c...

New York's History and Natural Disasters

In five pages this paper examines the early history of New York State and New York City in a consideration of natural disasters in...

The Challenger Tragedy from a Consultant Perspective

In eight pages this research paper considers how a consultant would examine the Thiokol and NASA structural organizations that wer...

Computer Failures and Disaster Recovery

and made a disaster recovery plan for if the computer suffered blackout time this would not have been a problem of the same magnit...

Analyzing Causes of Airplane Crashes

In fourteen pages airline disasters are examined through a discussion of possible causes, training procedures, industry regulation...

Terry Williams' Refuge A Story of Adaptation to Disaster

In five pages this paper compares the death of the author's mother to the natural disaster of wildlife refuge flooding. There is ...

Disasters of War and Francisco Goya

In thirteen pages this paper examines the Disasters of War print series of acclaimed Spanish portrait artist Francisco Goya. Eigh...