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Meteorology

(vertical levels, horizontal grid spacing, and temporal), computational domain (what values go in the equations), and coordinate s...

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...

Jazz and New Orleans

ongoing, carried in the people, but the symbols and landmarks, of the music and the culture it has influenced. The loss of the bui...

Critique of Hurricane Wind Shelter Construction for Existing Homes

Safe Room, the conclusion is that more individuals will be able to retro fit their house with this shelter. This would in turn al...

Cost Factors in the Construction Industry

box" home stores continue to affect building materials; and employment reached a record high (First Quarterly Cost Report 2006, 20...

Considerations in Emergency Management

between August 25 and August 30, 2005, was one of the worst hurricanes of history. Hurricane Katrina howled ashore destroying ent...

Cape Fear Water Quality and Waste Management

were more than 25 million gallons of waste involved (Mallin, 2000, p.26). This occurred on one particular day, but the days follow...

Ecological Crisis of the Earth

ozone layer is that portion of the Earths atmosphere that contains high concentration of ozone (Busman and Belen). This exists in ...

Bad Press Recipient Exxon Mobile

Standard Oil Company of New Jersey (Exxon) and Standard Oil Company of New Jersey (Mobile) (Exxon Mobile, 2005). CURRENT BAD PRESS...

Issues Involving Hurricane Katrina and the Environment

Kennedy 183). The authors then illustrates how the efforts after this flood, in building levees, did a great deal in prote...

PERCEPTION AND REALITY WHEN IT CAME TO REPORTING ON HURRICANES KATRINA AND RITA

Disaster," which was published on June 11, 2006 on the Social Science Research Councils Web site (www.ssrc.org). They Shoot Helico...

Natural Disasters

atmosphere and at the same time, it releases drier and cooler air into the atmosphere (The American National Red Cross, 2001). The...

FEMA’s Response to Hurricane Katrina

the public officials of those states and those in the federal government, particularly FEMA and the Bush administration. Differen...

Is Disciplinary Action Against Police Officers Who Deserted Tier Post After Hurricane Katrina Ethically Justified?

but is also accepted as a result of the consensus paradigm. The consensus paradigm means that there is a general consensus regardi...

Continuity Planning for Small Business

Though the sheer volume of information at the site is daunting, it is an ideal place to begin learning about disaster recovery in ...

An Overview of Hurricane Katrina's Wrath

Cause of the Problem Again, the cause of the storm is perhaps attributed to environmental issues and maybe tied to global warmi...

USING BAYESIAN THEORY TO DETERMINE A POTENTIAL OUTCOME

of a hurricane occurring to any degree of accuracy). The theorem helps us better understand what were up against and tries to elim...

Emergency Response Katrina

This paper discusses Hurricane Katrina that hit New Orleans in August 2005. The essay discusses specifically search and rescue ope...

Theoretical Foundation for Humanitarianism

This essay discusses a specific theoretical foundation for humanitarianism called the theory of obligation which, in part, propose...

Events That Damage a Business

Businesses are at risk for many different disruptions. Natural disasters like hurricanes and tornadoes and human-made disasters li...

Vulnerability and Disaster Response

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at disaster response. Hurricane Katrina provides an example of the role of community v...

Data Mining and Hurricanes

and Peats (2000) river vortex example, they meet points of bifurcation requiring that they divert course in one direction or anoth...

Do Humans Manage Information Systems or are Information Systems Managing Humans?

dependent on their computers could not work. Information systems manage us, not the other way around. Information systems affec...

Hurricane Outward Bound School Marketing

years later. 2.1 Current Market and Marketing The school operates in the outward bound market. Set up as a non profit making org...

Hurricane Island Outward Bound School Marketing

outside the boundaries of the United States, and certainly outside the boundaries of Maine. At present, the Hurricane Islan...

Studying Hurricanes

month" (Klotzbach and Gray 1109). In light of this, the authors note that "based on hindcasting results from 1950 to 2000, 30%-75%...

New Orleans' Rebuilding Costs

experience with moving from "home" to another place. Still, New Orleans very location was ill-advised from the beginning. ...

Hurricane Katrina Evacuees and Community Health

Demographically, the people who were evacuated to Houstons Astrodome are primarily the people who took refuge in New Orleans Super...

Children and the Psychological Effects of PTSD Associated with Hurricane Katrina

illness. Post traumatic stress syndrome can result from diversity of causes including the horrors of war, sexual abuse, or even s...

Contemporary Society and Alienation

of the coming expropriation of the expropriators" (Marx, 1983, p.75-76). Here, it is suggested that perhaps Marxs contribution was...