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An Exploration of Tsunamis

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

Reefer Madness: Marijuana Use in the 1950s

of trepidation. Not only was the drug then illegal in all states, the government had effectively convinced the public that mariju...

Boeing vs. Airbus: The Question of Government Subsidies

of the latter company. Boeing, on the other hand, has relied more on internal strategy to keep the company afloat. The battle ha...

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 ...

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...

Tobacco Industry

any number of physical ailments, including halitosis and lockjaw throughout Europe (ASH, 2006; Randall, 1999). Sir Frances Drake ...

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 ...

Disaster and Continuity Planning

bad occurs, but they hardly remember the times when imminent danger was in the air. Even before 911, the government would plan for...

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). ...

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 John F. Kennedy Assassination Conspiracy

seriously injured Governor Connally. One bullet passed through the Presidents neck; a subsequent bullet, which was lethal, shatte...

The Sharing of Private Data Across Government Departments; Creating Efficiency of a Violation of Personal Liberty?

and hold personal information, the second is whether or not the system itself is right, with a concentration of data all in a sing...

Wright/Armageddon in Waco

presents views that see the tragedy at Waco as entirely due to the mistakes of government agents in handling the situations and no...

Native Americans and Government Policies

they were always taken advantage of in one regard or another. The native inhabitants of this country at the time of...

Falun Gong

falun, a spinning body of energy said to be located at the lower abdomen" (What is Falun Gong?, 2007). Followers of this disciplin...

Economy Of Nigeria

B.C. when it was a sparsely population area (Pearson Education 2008). The Nok culture is known to have resided there between 800 B...

Accrual Accounting in the Public Sector

and practices does not mean the movement to accrual accounting is not favorable for a public body (Chan, 2003; 14). The issue, as ...

The Anti-Gun Campaign in the UK

into a specific behaviour pattern. During elections may be are biased views of the electorate to favour the government, however wi...

Government and The Economy

influence on the American economy, exceeding that of the federal government (Mandel and Dunham, 2006). Just a decade ago, the U.S....

African American Generals

anonymity and confidentiality. In any research that is expected to be effective, informative, and beneficial in any way it is impe...

Decision Making In Kava

prescriptive because the focus is "on how decisions ought to be made" (Lahti, 2003). There are a number of assumptions underlying ...

Government Subsidies and the Nation’s Newspapers

took steroids the game would still not be even, however, comes into mind. Much of the intent of government subsidies is to give t...

Government Influences on Media News Reporting

ability to see the way that media reporting has some biases reflecting to apparent level of influence the government has over the ...

Gender Roles in American Culture

beyond the domestic sphere into virtually every profession and job category from which they were once barred, they have had to con...

Leadership and Management in Nursing

management, in recent years, has been quite extensive. This body of empirical evidence and commentary largely supports the concept...

Impact of Insured on St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

pay for treatment that is not covered by insurance and families without insurance are not required to pay (SJCRH, 2008). Furthermo...

Reparations for Slavery

track of who, precisely, in the American population is descended from slaves, and identification of race for government statistics...