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The Potentially Catastophic Impacts of Technology

turns his attention to the educational situation in this country. Postman offers specific advice on the steps which need to be ta...

The Flea in History

interestingly enough to mean "wingless siphon" (Kettle, 1995). The flea is a highly specialized creature and subsists by sucking ...

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...

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...

Synthetic Fertilizers: An Alternative

spread between many. The salt water of the oceans, for example, interlace with the fresh waters which flow from the rivers to fo...

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...

An Exploration of Tsunamis

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

Peirce and Hume on Skepticism

director of our own narrative, but we can never say for certain how the story will end. Although we make plans, and try to foresee...

Cultural Influences Exerted by the Life and Art of Robert Frost

other poets of the time by rejecting modernism. As this poem demonstrates, Frost frequently drew his imagery from nature. While m...

"Titus Andronicus" as a Mechanism of Natural Selection

Revenge Plots The play abounds in revenge plots: Tamora wants revenge against Titus for having sacrificed her son Alarbus; Aaron ...

International Marketing

difficult competition a mature market in the home nation may push a company looking outwards towards developing markets. Opportuni...

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 ...

Natural and Legal Crime

that "natural crime" is a crime against the laws that were given to all men by God, whereas "legal crime" is "an act that violates...

Controlling Nature and Humans

who perish are less suited to the environment than those who survive (Charles Darwin and natural selection, 2006). In other words,...

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...

Tourism and its Many Forms

In addition it comprises the third largest retail industry (Williams, 1996). In 1995 it was estimated that international tourist...

Darwin's Theory and Genesis

occurrence of profitable variations" (Darwin IV). This offers the reader an understanding of how change and alteration creates new...

Issue of Mortality in Literature and in Life

is common knowledge. Who does not worry about death? Even children, from a very young age, often ask the ultimate question which i...

Evil in Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

Characteristic of humanitys constant quest for the concept of Gods existence and the problem of evil, the journey of understanding...

'Nature' by Ralph Waldo Emerson

my eyes,) which nature cannot repair" (Emerson). In this he clearly envisions nature as an entity that can fix all mans problems,...

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...

An Overview Perspective of Quebec

leading traders of the north even before European contact (Canada and the World Backgrounder, 1995). Utilizing their strategic lo...

Change Management and Organizational Behavior

consider some of the issues from a psychological viewpoint. Casual Analysis The most appropriate tool for analysis in this case ...

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...

Euro American and Native American Cultures Contrasted

certain representatives European origin made their way to the Americas. The exact time of the earliest of these encounters is con...

Overview of Politics, Environment, and Culture of China

the south side, the Pamir Mountains on the west side and the Kunlun on the north. The northwestern section of China contains the ...

Problems and Solutions for the Air Pollution Issue

being. While nuclear accidents are extreme situations, everyday life provides a myriad of pollutants in the immediate environment....

Natural World and the Contempt of Modern Society

In five pages this report examines the natural world and the contempt in which it is held by modern society. Five sources are cit...

Pollution and the Contribution of Human Habitation

In twelve pages this paper examines the devastating impact to natural resources as the result of human habitation and the pollutio...

Global Supply of Energy and Natural Gas

international trade in liquefied natural gas can be expected to increase and that by pipeline, to decrease. Costs of natural-g...