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Weakness of Character in The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky

In three pages character weakness as it results in disaster is examined within the context of the novel by Dostoevsky. There are ...

Analyzing Causes of Airplane Crashes

In fourteen pages airline disasters are examined through a discussion of possible causes, training procedures, industry regulation...

The 1999 Anatolian Fault Catastrophe

News). And despair and depression: You are all alive enjoying your cup of tea on a nice summer night, and the...

IT System Contingency Planning Process

The paper presents a process which may be used for disaster recovery and contingency planning, focusing on IT assets and systems. ...

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 ...

An Exploration of Tsunamis

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

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...

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 ...

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). ...

Dynamic Cybernetic Team Model

A scenario of disaster plan at a hospital is used as the basis for this essay. The scenario is described briefly, including commen...

The Elderly and their Needs

This research paper provides an overview of the various needs that society should address in order to order to provide comprehensi...

Counselor as First Responder

What role does a crisis counselor play as part of a multidisciplinary first response team? What services can a crisis counselor pr...

GunnAllen Financial Contingency Plan

In five pages this Florida based investment brokerage and financial planning firm is considered in terms of a plan for disaster re...

Need for Continued Service Protection

to communicate with the customers, but for some industries, such as power, water and communications such as telephone there may ne...

Earthquake Planning and Decision Support Systems

A decision support system (DSS) is software that is capable of using complex analytical models that can help support the decision ...

Prevention or Minimization of Natural Disasters and Terrorism

did X, Y would not have happened." Of course, they cannot know this for sure. At the same time, throwing up ones hands and claimin...

Natural Disasters and Responsibilities of Employers to Employees

period that passed from the time the first warnings of Hurricane Katrina were sounded, and the actual landfall of the storm. It se...

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...

Disaster Relief and the United Nation's Style of Leadership

efforts of the international community" (Helton 192). The following examination of UN leadership looks specifically at its efforts...

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...

Culture and Organizational Communication of NASA

Columbia disaster, it was determined that a multitude of the problem which had been uncovered during the investigation which took ...

Funding for Disaster Relief and the Federal Government's Role

has precedence over the states. In practice, it is cooperative federalism that has largely held sway. In Federalist 32, Alexande...

Disaster of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge

Current Narrows Bridge is a great American saga. When Galloping Gertie splashed into Puget Sound, it created ripple effects across...

Emergency Management

specifically designed for such an occurrence. What is the single most important aspect of emergency management falls into category...

Disaster Recovery Planning

A survey conducted in 1995 by ICR Survey Research Group regarding vulnerability of computers found that sixty six percent of respo...

Issues of Emergency Response Disaster Management

minds of many - if not most - Americans was a part of the ongoing feud between religious factions in the mideast that occasionally...

Small Business Disaster Recovery

assume that a small company should outsource its IT services...2 The point that Childs and Dietrich (2002) seek to convey i...

Small Business Disaster Recovery Alternatives

It can be assumed that the company qualifies as a mid-sized one, however, given the number of employees at its headquarters locati...