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Issues Involving Hurricane Katrina and the Environment

Kennedy 183). The authors then illustrates how the efforts after this flood, in building levees, did a great deal in prote...

Critique of Hurricane Wind Shelter Construction for Existing Homes

Safe Room, the conclusion is that more individuals will be able to retro fit their house with this shelter. This would in turn al...

Hurricane Relief and Waterproof Fabrics

waterproof fabrics or creating a list of likely contributors to NGOs, which then will acquire necessary materials. Outdoor Fabrics...

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 ...

The Effects of Hurricane Katrina

there had been speculation as to the reason for the devastation, it does not appear to have been from global warming. Katrina was ...

The Lasting Effects of Hurricane Katrina

well be lost" (Kalb, Murr and Raymond, 2005). AIDS patients couldnt always get their medication, some patients vanished completely...

The 2006 Hurricane Season: The Importance of Predictions

managers. Pre-planning is one of the most critical components of disaster preparedness. Hurricane preparations must begin months...

A Brief History on the Most Devastating U.S. Hurricanes

While a relatively weak hurricane would have done little damage in our earlier history either in terms of lives taken or in terms ...

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 ...

Health Issues Following Hurricane Katrina

warns that anyone with an open wound or any cut, even the slightest should avoid brackish water and even seawater because this a c...

Hurricane Katrina: What Really Went Wrong?

could have packed a bigger wallop and even if the levees did not break, the people would have been devastated, but that did not ha...

The Impact Of Hurricane Andrew

scholarly catalogs; journals will include - but not be limited to - Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Journal of En...

Is Disciplinary Action Against Police Officers Who Deserted Tier Post After Hurricane Katrina Ethically Justified?

but is also accepted as a result of the consensus paradigm. The consensus paradigm means that there is a general consensus regardi...

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...

Administration of George W. Bush and Poverty

and around $1,200 in subsidized school meals for both children (Besharov 35). After taxes, this comes to around $21,000 per year. ...

Contemporary Applications of Andrew Carnegie's Ideas

to devote a tremendous amount of effort in this criticism. Everyone holds blame equally in this phenomena. The poor criticize th...

Contemporary Society and Alienation

of the coming expropriation of the expropriators" (Marx, 1983, p.75-76). Here, it is suggested that perhaps Marxs contribution was...

New Orleans' Rebuilding Costs

experience with moving from "home" to another place. Still, New Orleans very location was ill-advised from the beginning. ...

Bad Press Recipient Exxon Mobile

Standard Oil Company of New Jersey (Exxon) and Standard Oil Company of New Jersey (Mobile) (Exxon Mobile, 2005). CURRENT BAD PRESS...

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...

Cape Fear Water Quality and Waste Management

were more than 25 million gallons of waste involved (Mallin, 2000, p.26). This occurred on one particular day, but the days follow...

Ecological Crisis of the Earth

ozone layer is that portion of the Earths atmosphere that contains high concentration of ozone (Busman and Belen). This exists in ...

Cost Factors in the Construction Industry

box" home stores continue to affect building materials; and employment reached a record high (First Quarterly Cost Report 2006, 20...

Mississippi Coastal Improvement Program

This 15 page paper provides an overview of the Mississippi Coastal Improvement Program, or MsCIP, which was developed in response ...

Dyson: Come Hell or High Water

looks at it in a certain way-the way the media wants them to perceive it. In this case, the media has used this device to portray ...

Natural Disasters

atmosphere and at the same time, it releases drier and cooler air into the atmosphere (The American National Red Cross, 2001). The...

Continuity Planning for Small Business

Though the sheer volume of information at the site is daunting, it is an ideal place to begin learning about disaster recovery in ...

USING BAYESIAN THEORY TO DETERMINE A POTENTIAL OUTCOME

of a hurricane occurring to any degree of accuracy). The theorem helps us better understand what were up against and tries to elim...

Analysis of Large Non-Profit Organization

in the world. It is governed by a Board of Governors and operates under a legal Congressional charter. The Board conducts a self-a...

The Devastation of Katrina

history of the United States, and New Orleans is still trying to recover from it. This paper considers three aspects of the storm:...