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Disaster Planning and Response

The writer reviews the document “Dimensions of Crisis Impacts: Humanitarian Needs by 2015” and considers some of the potential pro...

The Buffalo Creek Disaster by Gerald Stern

Buffalo Creek survivors were well aware that politics in West Virginia, including the court system, were influenced?or outright co...

Fictitious Scenario in Which U.S. Nuclear Reactors Are Shut Down by Congress After a Disaster

In six pages this paper discusses a fictitious congressional response to a nuclear catastrophe by shutting down U.S. nuclear reac...

Fictitious Story Regarding Environmental Implications of the Chernobyl Disaster

In thirty pages this paper discusses the Chernobyl nuclear accident with factual information incorporated into a fictitious story....

1998 Article Review on NASA Decision Making and Spacecraft Disasters

the most stunning of NASAs space mission disasters. According to the 1998 article, "Mission Control: Politics, Not Size, is...

Business Cycle Dating; Purposes of the Fed

This is a high-level view, and one that works only in retrospect. As example, it is difficult to accurately proclaim when the nat...

Environmental Impacts: Water Consumption, Coal Emissions, and Nuclear Plant Disasters

surface stream that it contributes to. While a small stream might derive its water from an area as small as a square kilometer, a...

Budgeting Questions

well as the facilities to store the equipment not in use. Where there are a large level of physical assets the assets will also ne...

School Nursing and Disaster Planning

any incident that requires an increased level of response beyond the routine operating procedures" (NASN, 2006). Natural disasters...

California: Emergency Response by Law Enforcement at State and Federal Levels

(Ghilarducci and Guerin, 1999). SEMS incorporates the following: the "Incident Command System," which is the "field level" respo...

Canadian Culture

governmental funding for the arts and culture in Canada would lead to an influx of American and British cultural programming and a...

The Weight Watchers IPO

price is increased and were quickly trading above the $32 level (The IPO Reporter, 2002). Therefore, there was a general and we co...

Canadian Case Law, OHIP

than on the payment of premiums. As this suggests, the EHT funds are similar to the OHIP premiums in that these funds are likewise...

School Funding With Emphasis On Texas

a good ranking. Texas, like most states, has a number of special grants schools or school districts may apply for. One is the Opt...

Business Ethics Question; the Case of Flick

Friderichs. They may be argued that Flick violated Kants categorical imperative, and treating individual simply as a means to a pa...

The Politics of Globalization

Monetary Fund have exacerbated inequality in developed and developing countries. The IMF oversees the international monetar...

Florida Virtual School

the administration and staff of the school wanted this limitation in place (Office of Educational Technology, 2006). That suggests...

Digital Equality and the E-Rate

Consider, for example, the Universal Service Fund (the program more commonly called the E-rate program). The E-rate program was d...

Victim Compensation

Smith (2006) defines victim compensation as a "form of income redistribution designed to redistribute wealth from offenders to vic...

Why Ocean Exploration Should be Funded at the Same Rate as Space Exploration

food; they provide resources (such as oil and natural gas); and they are a "highway" for commerce among countries (Exploration of ...

The Functions of the Federal Reserve

equates to the setting of interest rates for federal and treasury securities (Federal Reserve, 2007). The impact is due to the w...

Banks' Involvement in the Subprime Meltdown

it over yet?, 2007). Angelo Mozilo, chairman and CEO of Countrywide Financial Corp., called the events and conditions that have l...

Case Study Analysis: "Time To Dig Out"

Moreover, taxpayers would also support changes in criminal sentencing that ultimately reduces prison population, inasmuch as there...

Tax on Goods

new cars. The federal excise taxes include a "gas guzzler" tax that is "imposed on new cars that fail to meet federal fuel economy...

Stem Cells and Their Uses

place, researchers injected a toxin into the monkeys brains, then transplanted "3 million cells into the brains of five of the mon...

Law, Policy, Research and Results in Domestic Violence

the use or attempted use of physical force or the threatened use of a deadly weapon (Section 922 (g)[9])" (Federal Domestic Violen...

Group Process/Nursing

(2003) gives the example of an nurse assigned to a busy intensive care unit (ICU) began experiencing clear signs of traumatic stre...

Analysis Of Business Plan - Froghop

company. The plan writers also provide information and data on advertising on the Internet and the emerging mobile advertising t...

Gilmer v. Interstate/Johnson Lane Corporation

law and made arbitration significantly stronger. In an interpretation, the ADR Institute explains the effect of Gilmer this way: ...

Environmental Policy: Should It be Made at the State or Federal Level?

Its therefore up to California to pass laws that deal with the problem, but before doing so, it only makes sense that California w...