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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,...

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...

Media Misrepresentation of Disaster: The Titanic

The sinking of the Titanic is one of the most well-known disasters in all of history. The unsinkable ship that now rests at the bo...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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....

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...

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...

School Nursing and Disaster Planning

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

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Brian DePalma's 'Carrie' A Cinematic Analysis

would become his own trademark. This film, along with Obsession (1976), further developed De Palmas expressive use of cinematogra...

Measles Infection and Immune Response

to the virus or whether they have had a vaccination or previous exposure to the virus. If a vaccination or a previous exposure is ...

Response to Peter Singer's Article 'The Singer Solution to World Poverty'

Peter to pay Paul" agenda that will thrust one global population into poverty under the guise of helping another out of poverty. ...

A Review of The Rocking Horse Winner

of trance, or opens himself to whatever psychic power he possesses at these times. But lets go back to the beginning. One of the ...

Discussion Questions from Week Six on Business Change and Leadership

groups. As market sizes diminish, businesses will need to implement changes that will provide more greatly detailed information a...