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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...

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...

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...

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...

School Nursing and Disaster Planning

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

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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....

Business Development in Fort Worth, Texas

In six pages this paper examines Fort Worth business development from a primarily optimistic perspective but does question how suc...

Successfully Using the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills

In six pages the TAAS and its successful uses are examined in a consideration of appropriate strategic evaluation that requires te...

Texas Concealed Handgun Law Controversy

In nine pages this controversial legislation and whether or not it should be repealed is examined from both sides. Seven sources ...

1993 Waco, Texas Seize and How It Went Wrong

it. While Koresh may be at fault for many of his actions, it is the FBI and the ATF who are at real fault for the tremendous loss...

Federalism and Texas Welfare Programs

This paper discusses different forms of federalism as they relate to the administration of social programs. This six page paper h...

Texas Flag Burning Case Arguments

In three pages this paper argues that the overturning of this decision by Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist was correct. On...

Emilio Zamora, Cynthia Orozco and Rodolfo Rocha's Mexican Americans in Texas History

their respective fields of historical inquiry. The fact that each essay was written by academic experts is no coincidence. The a...

Post 1970 Texas Law Enforcement Brutality

In twelve pages this paper discusses post 1970 police brutality as it pertains to the Houston Police Department's treatment of Afr...

Love Field Airport in Dallas, Texas

a historic site and seek funding to do so. If a commercial flight wants to enter this historic zone, after it is established it m...

Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission Annotated Bibliography

is a new TABC law that can deny permits to applicants that have not paid their taxes. This new law covers bars, alcohol retailers...

A Fictional Young Mexican Living in Texas During the 19th Century

me the story of my birth even though he wasnt home for the blessed event of his first child and only son. He had joined a local m...

DNA and the University of North Texas Center for Human Identification Project

so-called cold cases and have been on the books for a year or more (Eisenberg and Planz, 2008). Under current policies, some huma...

The Splintering of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas

violations; she had since retained a lawyer7. Bowman now leads the "breakaway" group called Friends of the Alamo8. The situation i...