YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :1947 Texas City Disaster
Essays 211 - 240
incredibly shallow, supercilious and caught within such a fierce atmosphere of competitiveness that they use the millions at the d...
what actually transpired over the three-day conflagration and the resurrection that immediately followed. What transpired during ...
running is an understatement according to Rubin. "To explain his excitement in the context of physical factors--heightened energy,...
the work in the formal economy...These circumstances also increase the likelihood that the residents will rely on illegitimate sou...
to this devastated area were, at least at first, characterized more appropriately as a series of errors and delays than as an effi...
and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the South Pacific Division of the US Army Corps of E...
prescriptive because the focus is "on how decisions ought to be made" (Lahti, 2003). There are a number of assumptions underlying ...
take out the trash ("Memo to Me," 2007). Of course, many computers are equipped with remainder features that exist on software suc...
distractions are indeed rampant in our high-tech world. We feel the need to be in constant contact with others and consequently t...
Solutions to the Problem While the problem goes more to a lack of proper communication and decision-making, the truth is that t...
the other family members (U.S. Government, 2008). Other suggestions include ensuring that every family member has the phone number...
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 ...
A decision support system (DSS) is software that is capable of using complex analytical models that can help support the decision ...
bad occurs, but they hardly remember the times when imminent danger was in the air. Even before 911, the government would plan for...
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). ...
period that passed from the time the first warnings of Hurricane Katrina were sounded, and the actual landfall of the storm. It se...
blacks in the U.S. and the Caribbean alike (Everybodys: The Caribbean-American Magazine, 1998). Ebonics has invoked considerable ...
minds of many - if not most - Americans was a part of the ongoing feud between religious factions in the mideast that occasionally...
a main area of study being the normative reaction to non normative events. The impact of stress created by disasters is argued to ...
who have lost home and family to a natural disaster, the Red Cross provides relief and hope. The American Red Cross is...
be trying to use a 486 or even a Pentium I computer today, but nonprofit organizations dependent on donations or public entities w...
company was located. While no one was able to access the building, real estate sales continued in less affected areas of the city...
assume that a small company should outsource its IT services...2 The point that Childs and Dietrich (2002) seek to convey i...
It can be assumed that the company qualifies as a mid-sized one, however, given the number of employees at its headquarters locati...
to communicate with the customers, but for some industries, such as power, water and communications such as telephone there may ne...