YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Unthinkable Surviving a Disaster
Essays 121 - 150
very good and it was, at the time, a more promising form of travel, for traveling across the Atlantic, than airplanes at the time....
to the belief that it was hydrogen that caused the flames and also because the United States and Germany were at a very tense posi...
a main area of study being the normative reaction to non normative events. The impact of stress created by disasters is argued to ...
blacks in the U.S. and the Caribbean alike (Everybodys: The Caribbean-American Magazine, 1998). Ebonics has invoked considerable ...
who have lost home and family to a natural disaster, the Red Cross provides relief and hope. The American Red Cross is...
A survey conducted in 1995 by ICR Survey Research Group regarding vulnerability of computers found that sixty six percent of respo...
minds of many - if not most - Americans was a part of the ongoing feud between religious factions in the mideast that occasionally...
specifically designed for such an occurrence. What is the single most important aspect of emergency management falls into category...
until the leaks had been plugged. A crisis management team was formed at the company headquarters in Ashland, Kentucky, and plans ...
reports" (Subramanian, 2006, p. 1). It now includes things like the Internet, teleconferencing and other high tech communication m...
p. 1). It now includes things like the Internet, teleconferencing and other high tech communication methods (Subramanian, 2006). ...
to those impacts than are others. The normative, i.e. not so unique, stressors of Hurricane Katrina are characterized best ...
throughout the first two-thirds of the twentieth century reflects a cyclical recoil of increased famine deaths rather than what on...
by the government for UCIL where 50.9% of the remained in the ownership of Union Carbide Corporation (USA). This indicated the lev...
caused by seismic activity, by earthquakes and volcanic eruptions (Regulatory Intelligence Data, 1998). Tsunamis can also be caus...
building, there were 200 children killed as a result ("Pakistan puts quake toll at 18,000," 2005). One hospital collapsed as well ...
bad occurs, but they hardly remember the times when imminent danger was in the air. Even before 911, the government would plan for...
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...
A decision support system (DSS) is software that is capable of using complex analytical models that can help support the decision ...
period that passed from the time the first warnings of Hurricane Katrina were sounded, and the actual landfall of the storm. It se...
wide range of potential categories of issues" (2002 LaRC Organizational Performance Survey, 2003; p. A6) such as was the case in t...
management of risk itself takes place in several stages. The first need to be the identification and assessment of the potential r...
briefest of abstracts is included with the article. The abstract gives only a small bit of information and makes no comment on th...
In five pages this Florida based investment brokerage and financial planning firm is considered in terms of a plan for disaster re...
in General Its a given that disasters are unpredictable; if we could predict them accurately they would be far less damaging, be...
of natural development are interrupted through the introduction of the urban landscape, but that nature inherently responds to the...
efforts of the international community" (Helton 192). The following examination of UN leadership looks specifically at its efforts...
Columbia disaster, it was determined that a multitude of the problem which had been uncovered during the investigation which took ...
Current Narrows Bridge is a great American saga. When Galloping Gertie splashed into Puget Sound, it created ripple effects across...
they work under this governmental model. The Commerce Clause says the government will have power: "To exercise exclusive Legisla...