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The Need for Hard-Back Books

numbers. Sometimes, those who digitize these books number the paragraphs, but often they do not. Most of the books in Project Gute...

Beowulf v. Odysseus/Who is the most attractive?

announces to all listeners that this warrior has the skill to battle the monster that has terrorizing Heorot. Beowulf battles Gren...

Flood Stories Among the Toltec, Maya, and Navajo

(variously called Teocipactli) and Xochiquetzal survived to repopulate the earth (Leon-Portilla). In the Toltec version of ...

California's Emergency Response Plan

would be called OES or the Office of Emergency Services ("Californias Emergency Response Plan," 2003). OES is an office that helps...

Engineering Planning and Benefit Cost Analysis

In six pages the planning case study of the Yuba River Basin flood is examined in terms of a chart of benefits analysis, objective...

10 Strategies for Adapting to Climate Change

ocean of carbon dioxide within the large credit remains. The equatorial waters are likely to be the most viable for iron fertilis...

Australian Aboriginals

one or the other, is not making one culture look worse or better than the other, and is ultimately leaving any decision or opinion...

Questions on Hydrology

frequency or duration for use in a hydrological model. This is not the case when using an actual storm. Natural storms are...

Disaster Preparedness for Travis County Texas

in General Its a given that disasters are unpredictable; if we could predict them accurately they would be far less damaging, be...

Statistics On Natural Disasters: China

throughout the first two-thirds of the twentieth century reflects a cyclical recoil of increased famine deaths rather than what on...

Cause and Effect Used to Justify More Helicopter Services to a Pacific Island Prone to Natural Disasters

days, whereas for a flood or tsunami their may not be a warning at all. The immediate effects of a disaster can be mixed. If there...

Some Legal Aspects of Hoover Dam

lived nearby. Rationale for Hoover Dam The benefits that a dam on the Colorado River could bring to the southwestern United...

Article Analysis Related to Environmental Psychology

she was pushing mud off the porch and wiping furniture. More volunteers followed helping all the people who lived on that street. ...

DOE and its Illegal Actions

The United States Department of Energy, in its attempt to prop us a uranium enrichment company that was failing, arranged for enri...

2009 Fargo Floods and Emergency Management

In a paper of seven pages, the writer looks at emergency management. Effective strategies are pointed out by looking at the 2009 F...

Disaster Communications

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

Kouzes and Posner and Health Care

and they have their error down to just about zero (Rona 2005, p. 87). Different studies indicate that hospitals have about a 97.1...

Coordination of Aid Following the Floods in Pakistan

need for aid and the gap between the need and the response has seen uncoordinated aid from questionable sources. For example, in n...

Consequences of Destroying Wetlands

wetlands (Adler 1). The indiscriminate destruction of wetlands is having a devastating impact upon life and the environment, with...

Flooding by the Little Calumet River in 2008

after the incident perhaps caused such events, but the tasks seemed overwhelming at the time. Many people simply abandoned their h...

Natural Disaster Aftermath and Transporting Clean Water to Those in Need

dependent they are on easy access to clean water until something prevents that access. The Impact of Natural Disasters Informati...

Civil Engineering and Hydrology

In three pages hydrology is examined in a civil engineering context that includes such elements as precipitation, flooding, and se...

Case Study on Company Law in the United Kingdom

not surveying the land first, and take any necessary action. We may argue the reason behind the building of the course was known; ...

Community Concerns and Social Workers

operation on the top of a mountain. Standing nearly ten stories high, this machine is capable of leveling even the tallest of moun...

Chile's Natural Hazards

In eight pages this paper discusses volcanoes, floods, and earthquake tsunami as they relate to the Chilean geography. Six source...

Mozambique and Madagascar Floods of 2000

March 10th it was reported that water was still stagnant on rooftops ("U.S. aid reaches," 2000). Trees were still down and dead an...

Stories of the Great Deluge and Noah's Ark

In seven pages this paper examines these stories in a consideration of theory and scientific evidence that this flood actually too...

2 Perspectives on Hinduism

In six pages An Introduction to Hinduism by Gavin Flood and Hinduism The Anthropology of a Civilization by Madeleine Biardeau 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 ...

Terry Williams' Refuge A Story of Adaptation to Disaster

In five pages this paper compares the death of the author's mother to the natural disaster of wildlife refuge flooding. There is ...