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Continuity of Operation in Times of Disaster

867 Natural and manmade disasters present many threats to governmental entities....

Culture and its Relation to Aviation Disasters

867 Humans, by their very nature, are not infallible....

Journalistic Bias, Disasters, Relief and the Media

role for journalists. Agencies such as the Red Cross and World Vision depend heavily of the power of visual imagery coupled with ...

A Fictitious Account of a Five Day Natural Disaster

though several bombs had exploded. The streets were virtually impassable with debris and broken glass and there were overturned c...

Greed and the Disaster at Mt. Everest

Consultants in order to consider the commercialization aspect of Everests summit (Magnuson , 1998). The expedition had paying clie...

Disaster at Floreffe, PA's Ashland Oil Company

until the leaks had been plugged. A crisis management team was formed at the company headquarters in Ashland, Kentucky, and plans ...

Mike Davis's The Ecology of Fear Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster

In five pages this paper discusses the city of Los Angeles and the mismanagement and misunderstanding that have led to its geograp...

Overview of the Hindenburg Dirigible Disaster

very good and it was, at the time, a more promising form of travel, for traveling across the Atlantic, than airplanes at the time....

Quantitative Survey 'Corporate support in the aftermath of a natural disaster: effects on employee strains' Review

briefest of abstracts is included with the article. The abstract gives only a small bit of information and makes no comment on th...

Paint Caused the Hindenburg Disaster

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...

Mike Davis's Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and The Imagination of Disaster

of natural development are interrupted through the introduction of the urban landscape, but that nature inherently responds to the...

Air Crash Disasters

management of risk itself takes place in several stages. The first need to be the identification and assessment of the potential r...

How Does Culture Affect Disaster Decision Making

This paper explores the relevance of culture and economics in mandatory evacuation and recovery efforts. There are four sources i...

Hurricanes and Disaster Preparedness

The news media is a necessary addition to the planning and regulatory agencies. It will be the medias job to make the public awar...

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...

Use of Social Media during Disasters: Article Critique

This 3 page paper gives an analysis of an article focused on the use of social media and the earthquake in Japan in 2011. This pap...

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....

Could the UK Realize a Similar Enron Disaster?

problems were already apparent. In the annual accounts, debts had been understated and profits had been overstated to the amount o...

Cattle Disaster in Europe

Sullivan (2001) noted, "The only problem with foot-and-mouth disease is that it weakens the infected animals for a period of time,...

The Buffalo Creek Disaster by Gerald M. Stern

In six pages this paper discusses the corporate world and its lack of social responsibility within the context of Stern's book. S...

Chicago Heat Wave in Heat Wave A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago

other words, events such as the many deaths as a result of the Chicago heat wave would not occur if society was more aware of the ...

Burke Litwin Model Used to Assess the Columbia Shuttle Disaster

wide range of potential categories of issues" (2002 LaRC Organizational Performance Survey, 2003; p. A6) such as was the case in t...

Disaster Funding and the Federal Government's Role

they work under this governmental model. The Commerce Clause says the government will have power: "To exercise exclusive Legisla...

Kennedy's Role in the Bay of Pigs Disaster

should never have been initiated in the first place. What occurred was that there was a desperate "last-ditch effort to support th...

Domestic Violence and the NYPD Response

strategy is not sufficient to help drive the organization towards meeting its goal, failure is the result. For law enforcement off...

Cogntiive Psychology

serious issue that has been proven in the courts. Hockley (2010) said that memory is generally retrieved due to some kind of reinf...

Reading and Perceiving Color

The time it takes individuals to enunciate a color when presented with the written word representing that color can vary according...

TOYOTA MOTOR CORP: ACCELERATION TO CRISIS

whether it has done well in handling the issue. Though Toyota has taken some important steps to ensure that quality can be built b...

Stone Age Subsistence v Contemporary Threats to the Amazon

The Nukuk-Maktu tribe of the Colombian Amazon is one of the last remaining hunter-gathering societies that still observe their tra...