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Problems with Changing to the Year 2000

insight into how the Year 2000 problem will affect businesses, articles from Tech Europe and Industry Week have been selected. The...

Banking Industry and Preparing for the Year 2000

This paper examines how the banking industry can successfully address issues associated with the year 2000 with various Y2K compli...

Problem Definition and Solutions

In five pages this paper defines a Y2K computer bug and then considers some possible strategic development solutions. Three sourc...

The Vulnerable Planet by John Bellamy Foster Reviewed

In five pages this paper discusses the environmental catastrophes detailed in this text by John Bellamy Foster. One source is cit...

Toxic Waste Catastrophe of Love Canal, New York

In six pages this report examines the circumstances that led to this toxic waste catastrophe and considers the human impact as wel...

World War I - The Trenches

dreadful sound. The ground shook under the shock of the exploding shells."4 The battle of Verdun began with nine long hour...

United Kingdom Law and Nervous Shock or Psychological Harm Damage

There were many logical, if unfair, reasons for this stance. A claim for nervous suffering is less easily scrutinised, bring about...

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...

First Half of the Twentieth Century and 'the Age of Catastrophe'

In five pages the 'age of Catastrophe' is examined in an exploration of the events that took place between the years 1914 and 1945...

Humor in the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne / Humor Through Characterization and Contrast

In six pages this paper examines how humor is employed for contrast and in characterization in the 4 stories 'Mrs. Bullfrog,' 'Mr....

Overview of Liz Claiborne, Incorporated

In ten pages this essay presents an overview of the history, 1993 corporate catastrophe and subsequent recovery, SWOT analyses of ...

Lessons from the Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire

In five pages this paper considers these catastrophes within the context of contemporary fire code applications. Six sources are ...

Geological Disasters and Human Habitation

regard to changes in drainage patterns from building. However, even without specific knowledge of floodplains, it is possible to ...

Exxon Valdez Tragedy of 1989 and Its Impact Upon the Environment

Birds were hardly the only species to be impacted by the spill however. Million of fish joined the quarter million of sea bird ca...

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....

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...

Culture Clash and Paragon Case Study

new company. Much of this assessment is based on assumption, as the timings appear to match and there is evidence to suggest tha...

Trend of New Financial Instruments

specific tutorial language be given as an explanation of each document. Tutorial language is one of the new tools that should be ...

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,...

Four Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe

not something that had occurred to him earlier. The murder appears to stem solely from the fact that the narrator has the power in...

Interwar Years and the Crisis of European Capitalism

Examining how each of these separate entities ultimately contributed to The Age of Catastrophe helps one to gain a significantly b...

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 ...

Love Canal and Hooker Chemical

at using the site for urban expansion. When the city forced the sale of the site through "imminent domain," Hooker added a disclai...

1937 Occupation Of Nanking: Historical Revisionism

members who are still alive have eye witness testimony to state the contrary. However, to argue a claim is inflated to the point ...

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...

Drill Baby, Drill...Still?

In the 2008 Presidential campaign, Sarah Palin flippantly outlined her proposal for getting...

Managing Change

approaches are now part of modern management techniques. Peter Drucker states that a leader can not be defined by present personal...

DeParle/American Dream

Hauptmann School of Public Affairs defines "public affairs" in terms that underscore the significance of the inter-relationships t...

Environmental Risk Management

Environmental risk management is becoming in recent important within a commercial environment. This 14 page paper looks at a numbe...

Kolbert: “Field Notes from a Catastrophe”

work appears in the New Yorker; this book started out as a series of pieces she did for the magazine (Hayes, 2006). What gives Kol...