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The Transformation of Ballot Initiatives In California

16 pages and 13 sources. This paper provides an overview of the transformation of ballot initiatives in California. This paper s...

The Patriot Act

vital to national security (Pike 1). The 9/11 Commission even pinpointed several failure of communication that occurred within th...

Massachusetts: Educational Funding

In short, Massachusetts failed to honor its own state constitution whereby the Encouragement of Literature clause pointedly held t...

Cause & Effect/Sexism

children (Briffault, 1927, p. 1415). This was the rule across Europe until the coming of Christianity and patriarchy. Patriarcha...

Buying Lonza

to a company which can be used to further the differentiation of a product or a service. Alternatively, the purchase of the compan...

The Energy Crisis in California and the Impacts on Education

with the state Capitol in order to "protect schools from shocks generated by Californias energy crisis" (Anonymous #2 PG). The ve...

Criminal Sexual-type Conduct Data

There have been a number of laws passed and numerous court cases regarding sexual harassment in the workplace. These span more tha...

Coordination for National Security

America was attacked on September 11, 2001. The many American agencies that gather and analyze intelligence had missed the cues. W...

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...

Disaster Communications

This research paper pertains to advancements in radar detections of tornadoes that has allowed forecasters to provide better warni...

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....

Disaster Planning and Response

The writer reviews the document “Dimensions of Crisis Impacts: Humanitarian Needs by 2015” and considers some of the potential pro...

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...

Use of Social Media during Disasters: Article Critique

This 3 page paper gives an analysis of an article focused on the use of social media and the earthquake in Japan in 2011. This pap...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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,...

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 ...

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...

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...