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Culture and its Relation to Aviation Disasters

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

Continuity of Operation in Times of Disaster

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

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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....

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...

Professor Plagiarizes

In this case study, the psychology department was dealing with an ethical concern and were meeting regularly to discuss it. All me...

The Hellenistic Period

This paper explores the ways the ancient views of religion changed in response to the philosophical schools. There are three sour...

Practicing Interviewing Techniques

As the general population continues to age, we have many more people living into their late 80s and 90s. We can all learn a lot fr...

What to Do in a Flu Pandemic

This paper emphasizes that while vaccines are important, containing an outbreak depends on effective community response. There ar...

Was the Iraq War Illegal?

In 2003 the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia invaded Iraq. The war was controversial, justified to many of the ele...