Catastrophe College Essays Samples For Students

Berwick Hospital System Memo

The purpose of this memorandum is to conduct a risk assessment and recommend a continuity plan for any disaster the hospital might face. The memorandum will make an effort to look into the ways through which the hospital system can be more prepared to deal with catastrophes.

Risks associated with continuity of operations during an environmental catastrophe

Hospitals face a host of challenges when a natural disaster occurs. The challenges include the threat to the staff and patients, but also an increase in the number of patients from the surrounding area. There is, therefore, the need to design and upgrade business continuity plans for hospitals. The first step that ...

Blanchard, as cited by (Demiroz and Kapucu, 2012), notes that in managing catastrophic disasters or extreme events a leader should possess three critical competencies, leadership and team building, political, bureaucratic and social context, networking and coordination (p.96). During a crisis, a leader should be able to rally all agencies involved in the emergency with a shared vision and mission of success (Lester and Krejci, 2007).
There are common traits that leaders should possess in order to effectively handle a crisis. However, differences in competencies are seen in how leaders are able to; make decisions and coordinate the implementation of ...

Introduction

It is known that our country has faced many catastrophic events that Americans had to challenge during the centuries. And the number of such catastrophes as tornados, earthquakes, floods, tsunamis and hurricanes has doubled during the last decade. These disasters can be predicted with the help of modern technologies and special radars, although the outcomes for people, cities and nature are unknown until the catastrophe occurs. This inability to be absolutely ready and well-prepared, as well as the general defenselessness of social masses and local specialists for the possible damages and their aftermaths is the main reason for creation ...

Nature She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Throughout the life and whole cycle of biological development, an individual is exposed to ionizing radiations both natural and manmade. However, the mankind discovered this fact just a little over one century ago, when in 1895 Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen revealed the X-rays and right after that their side effects, like skin burns, lesions, and finally cancer, were discovered. Provided that it took several decades until and after the World War II to unravel and control the radiation effects based on the studies ...

How inequality and inequity impacted death rate and government response with the eruption of Nevado del ruiz volcano?

This paper analyzes how inequality and inequity in the developing countries like Columbia contributes to vulnerability during the natural disasters. In relation to Armero, the government failed to provide the necessary information before the eruption of the Volcano. The government failed to provide the necessary facilities and resources to rescue the victims of the volcanic eruption. The unequal distribution of resources in Columbia led to poor action and response to disasters like the volcanic eruption. Poor or little investment in disaster management made Columbia fail to predict the dangerous volcanic eruption in Armero. Columbia failed to allocate adequate resources ...

Introduction

The government, among other duties, protects citizens in the nation and promotes their well-being. In many occasions, the government works together with the private sector groups with the aim of managing emergencies. The private sector plays a major role before and after the incident (Sylves & Clark, 2015). Before the incident, the sector provides protection to the welfare of the employees in the workplace. The private sector is also involved in the decision-making process on how to thwart emergency. The non-governmental organizations play a major role before, during and after the incident. For instance, many NGO’s provide shelter, food ...

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Based on the best quote, “Take whatever idiot they have at the top of whatever agency and give me a better idiot Give me a caring idiot, give me a sensitive idiot, just don’t give me the same idiot” by the president of the Jefferson Parish, Aaron Broussard and the words from James Lee Wit that states “we promised to make an agency that could deliver on the political promises” (Cooper & Block, 2006). This suggests that FEMA was expected to provide the best services that were related to homeland security, for instance dealing with disaster, Hurricane Katrina ...

Dust Bowl is an environmental catastrophe that occurred in the Southern Great Plains of U.S.A. The top soil in the great plains, literally flew away in the wind created a dust cloud in the region. The wind erosion was so intense that it almost smothered human, animal and plant life in the process. Following the incident, the land became a barren landscape and unsuitable for human inhabitation. Farmers and families were forced to leave the land and settle elsewhere as the dust made it difficult to breath.
Many agricultural experts blame over cultivation and draining of soil resources as ...

Communication is vital in every organization, and more so in the inception and incorporation of disaster management. Different modes of communication instigates collaboration in various operations. There are different methods of communication, they involve techniques such as; physical interface, which is commonly referred to as face-to-face communication, and online communication. (Whybark, 2007). Online communication is the most popular and highly utilized form of communication in the world today. It is in this perspective, that online communication has been widely embraced and popular across the world, allowed to the vast and fast growth of technology over the years. There are ...

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Renaissance Diseases

Several centuries before the development of antiseptics (i.e. soap), diseases were often a death sentence, resulting in huge populations being wiped out from a single pandemic. Despite the huge strides in science and culture, the Renaissance had a lot of downsides regarding health and wellness. This was in part due to religious practices and the refusal to allow various sorts of medicines and surgical treatments to be tolerated, despite having the potential to save the patient(s). Regardless, the “why’s” are not the matter of importance, here. What is relevant, however, are the diseases themselves, including how they ...

Engineering

The role of an engineer is to respond to a need by building something as per a set of specifications. It is important for the device, plan or creation to function without failing because a disaster could be costly in terms of life and effort. There have been catastrophic disasters in the past in various fields of engineering: infamous ones include the sinking of the Titanic, the explosion of Space Shuttle Challenger, the oil rig explosion of British Petroleum and the Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster. Second only to the medical profession, engineers are held in high esteem by society, and there are ...

PEOPLE:

Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart was born July 24, 1897, to a lawyer's family. Her love for aircraft came during the World War I. Amelia was a nurse in the hospital next to the airfield. Not long before the round the world flight Earhart wrote that her two biggest desires were: to be the first woman in transatlantic flight (at least as a passenger) and the first woman-pilot to cross the Atlantic. Both her wishes came true. In June 1928, she flew from the U.S. to England, as passenger. And then four years later, May 20, 1932, she has repeated the same ...

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Social, economic and environmental effects of Fukushima Nuclear Accident

The year 2011 has been a year of extensive natural environmental disaster. Not only the Japanese Earthquake and consequent Tsunami have caused destruction, the following incident of Fukushima nuclear power reactors affected and implied a societal and economic disaster. A big question is that how Japan will fully recover from this environmental, social, agricultural as well as economic calamity? Destroyed buildings, ruined farmlands, collapsed economy and the threat of nuclear radiation in the air, how long it will affect the Japanese population (Hasegawa, 2013).
The double disaster ...

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Introduction

Dooms day for mankind has been one of the most famous themes in science fictions whether in movie or in print. Such themes create interesting scenarios on how society would react when it faces extinction. As depicted in the novel World War Z (WWZ), the threat of human extinction was characterized by an infectious disease that turns normal people into flesh eating zombies. Just like most zombie genres, the infection can only be transmitted through biting and perhaps intravenously. Fear factor is also apparent since zombies can only be terminated when their brain is destroyed. The zombie is a ...

Czeslaw Milosz, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980, was a Polish writer who emigrated to the United States. He lived and taught in the United States for over forty years, from 1960 until his death in 2004, at age ninety-three He is best known as a poet, but he also wrote many books of nonfiction. A recurrent theme in his work is concerned with the struggle of an individual to maintain humanity in a world of senseless brutality. The piece of his writing entitled “American Ignorance of War” is a small excerpt from his nonfiction book, The Captive Mind. That ...

In order to answer all the questions of the DHS and the United States’ emergency paradigm, this paper will lay out definitions of terms and ideas that will be used in our study of the United States’ internal security preparedness as well theories that explain this policy. Thereafter, the paper will focus on examining the success of the Homeland security, and its failures. The conclusion of this paper is a suggestion that a new paradigm in the understanding of security and emergency preparedness is required to lay emphasis on security threats that are most likely to happen. While the war on ...

Themes. One of the biggest catchphrases of the 21st century is globalisation. Corporations use it in their mission statements, governments in their press releases and nearly every major event reported in the media that does not involve violence makes a reference to the term. Thomas Friedman, in his book, The World is Flat, throws light on this complicated term from various parts of the world through the perspectives of people that outsource their skills to America and other countries, through corporations and institutions that have evolved in wholly new ways, through economies that have taken leaps towards the ideal of ‘ ...

Obstacle to Sustainable Development

It is proved that in places where people litter, take the environment for granted and where people do not appreciate natural resources, the atmosphere is not at all happy ((Blakely, Haley and Woodward). In 2014, the United Nations on the basis of three indicators such as life expectancy of citizens, availability of education and standard of living (poverty or affluence), calculated the index of human development in 190 countries around the world. It is not necessary to prove that the index of human development greatly depends on the ecology of the environment - in other words, to prove that ...

This story happened not with my family, but they often remember it as an example of men’s inattention to their health. My parents were friends with a family (I will call them Dolans) near 10 years ago. They will be the main characters of this story, where a local catastrophe and person’s attitude could lead to a severe harm to health. Fifty-five-year-old Peter Dolan was the only man in the family – he lived with wife and two adult daughters. The family had a garden plot 30 minutes away from home. The garden community had general pipe for ...

Geography

2016-06-22

Introduction

This paper is devoted to the issue of Chernobyl nuclear disaster. This accident has happened in 1986, 26th of April on the eve of the May Day holidays. It has happened on the territory of the former Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (now it is the territory of Ukraine).
The place of the accident is the Chernobyl nuclear power plant that is located three kilometers from the city Pripyat, eighteen kilometers from the city Chernobyl and eighty three – from Kiev, current capital of Ukraine. According to the official data more than 600 thousands of people have been injured by ...

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9/11 is one of the most terrifying acts of terror during modern times leaving causalities that reached up to 2,977 overall including the twin towers, the Pentagon and the airliner crash in Shanksville.(Kevin McCoy, 2015).

The World Trade Centre Site:

It all started on a clear Tuesday morning at 8; 45 am to be more specific, when a Boeing 767 crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Centre (WTC). The first crash was followed by a second one 18 minutes later targeting the South tower. At 9:45 am exactly, when people were still in shock watching the collapse of the ...

Analysis and Comparison of two Climate Change films: “The Day After Tomorrow” and “Beasts of the Southern Wild”

“The Day After Tomorrow (TDAT)” refers to an American climate change film that was directed by Emmerich Roland in 2004. The film focuses on the disasters caused by global warming. “The contest over global warming is a challenge for the referee because it's a tag-team match, a real free-for-all” (Al Gore, 2011 p.2).In the movie, the weather scientist Dennis Quaid tries to warn people on the issue of climate change, but he fails. Quaid finds themselves horrified after finding out that all their predictions about global warming were coming true faster than they could imagine. According to the ...

Introduction

This paper aims to discuss how the different innovations in the modern society made us look like we have reached the pillar of modernity with all the fabulous results, while the overall consequence is destruction. In the book Short History of Progress, the historian and author Ronald Wright, implied that the modern society is trapped into problems that came about as people, through their ingenuity, worked towards the betterment of the lives and the society as a whole. The author suggested that the common people, as well as those in the position to impose societal policies are always eager ...

The two towns Herculaneum and Pompeii together with some other small towns and villages that were located south of Italy were covered in 24 hrs by disastrous eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The catastrophe terminated the life in the cities but preserved them and they were later rediscovered approximately 1,700 years later. Arguably, these were ordinary roman cities that ended in an extraordinary way and therefore they have become a reflection through which historian can view and understand the entire roman civilization.

According to Capasso and Gabriella (996), the history of Rome together with its empires covers thousands years. ...

Research Motivation

The reason I wanted to research this topic is due to the fact that I was born and raised outside of Nashville, TN, and throughout my childhood and high school years there, I was aware of a potential for an earthquake in Nashville. In my community, we had learned early on about the possibility for earthquakes in places like California and Japan, but the thought of an earthquake here in my home town was really an afterthought. My sole opinion as well as opinion of many other citizens in the area was not directed at the threat of an earthquake ...

The United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development (1987) defined Sustainable Development as “the development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” But Sustainable Development is more complex than this simplified definition. Sustainable Development has many issues concerning it such as development of underdeveloped nations, climate change, environmental damage, environmental regulation, addressing the problem of world poverty, population control, sustainable tourism, ecosphere preservation, urbanization, and conservation of earth’s resources. Sustainable Development is truly a challenge that is global in nature as it concerns the earth’s ...

Abstract

Experts tell that the twentieth century was the century of brutal man-made natural and environmental disasters. Often, we hear reports about falling missiles, planes, explosions on environmentally hazardous industrial objects, about the collapse of buildings. The main reasons of these tragedies are design errors related to insufficient knowledge of the laws of mechanics with the incorrect use of mathematical models. To prevent new disasters, we just need to look into the past and draw conclusions on the basis of the occurred accidents.
Tacoma Washington Bridge Disaster (1940)
Suspension bridges have a number of advantages in comparison with the ...

The family is a perennial topic in disaster films, where individuals struggle over moral and ethical decisions that continuously bother their conscience throughout the narrative. In the conventional collapse of modern society in disaster films, the family is oftentimes the only institution left that can withstand the chaos that ensues as a result of government failure. Where there is no community or social structure whatsoever to turn to, the main characters within the disaster narrative resort to forging their own relationships with the people they come into contact with, whether it is based on blood relations, an identical purpose, or a similar ...

Introduction

US have been involved with more than 50 military actions in the past half century. On average, this means that they are involved in military action to other countries every year. Countries that have experienced significant fighting are Afghanistan, Vietnam and Iraq, while countries like Bosnia, Libya, Haiti and Kuwait have experienced lesser incursion. This total does not count simple military action like the airstrikes it carried out to suspects Taliban rebels in the Middle East. Throughout history, US have often deployed their army to other countries. US have been recorded as victors in both world wars, but they ...

Today, we are facing a very perilous situation. Indeed this is because terrorism has advanced from cells into armies. It has moved from targeting hotbeds to countries thus affecting their destiny as they focus. Terrorism has spread to reach countries like Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq, Libya and Syria. These threat calls us to come up with swift and crucial measures and decisions to curb this threatening catastrophe with full force. In addition, we need to accelerate our efforts with both time and consequences of inaction in our hearts and minds. From this perspective, it is indeed true that the war on ...

Spacehas captivated our imagination right from childhood, and recently, we were privileged to have Mr. Gordon Leon, an expert with over 30 years experience in space programs, give a lecture on Satellite programs on January 16, 2014. Between 1978-2007, Mr. Gordon Leon worked at the Boeing Satellite Development Center, working under various capacities including those of Chief Engineer and Project Manager. Currently, he spends most of his time in technical and management consulting services for small and mid-sized technical companies. He has degrees in communications and management, and also one in Environmental Sciences. Thereafter, Mr. Gordon Leon completed his Masters ...

Introduction The Eurozone crisis also known as Euro crisis is an ongoing crisis since late 2009 after the great recession of 2009 affecting the Eurozone countries. This was after a New Greek government revealed of the previous government misleading reports on government budget data higher than expected deficit levels. The result was devastating eroding the investors’ confidence hence the bond spreads rose to unsustainable levels. Moreover, the countries fiscal position and debt levels of some member countries escalated to unsustainable levels (Vittori, 2013).As the threat of debt default by the government rose, the Greece government in May 2010 received ...

Istitution

Introduction
The purpose of this treatise is to analyze the difference between famine and food insecurity. It is apparent that they both pertain to one of the principal necessities of life: food. In order to define food insecurity it is necessary to initially define food security. Scholars and researches have defined food security as access by all individuals during all periods of time to a sufficient quantity of food for an active healthy life. In contrast food insecurity signifies inaccessibility to an adequate amount of food.
A famine is usually defined as a severe shortage of food that in ...

Introduction

Displacement refers to the situation where people are forced to leave their homes due to violence, natural disaster, persecution, conflict and human rights violation. Forced displacement is the most common form of displacement imposed by government and international bodies as and when untoward situation arises. More than 40 million people are currently displaced from their homeland or displaced due to armed conflicts (iDMC Publications 2013). These types of displacements often done on emergency basis are many a time executed in a complete unplanned manner. Any plan related to rehabilitation or mitigation of social impacts is taken into consideration after the displacement. ...

The aim of this essay is to present you with the answers to the following questions deriving from the book ‘The Song at the Scaffold’ written by Gertrud Von Le Fort. As one can get informed by the relevant link on the Wikipedia regarding the biography of this writer ‘Gertrud Von Le Fort was born in 1876 and died in 1971. She was a popular and widely acknowledged writer of novels, poems and essays.’ (Wikipedia, Gertrud_von_Le_Fort). Her novella ‘Die Letzte am Schafott’ being translated into English under the title ‘The Song at the Scaffold’ is a book which has been greatly ...

Many authors use science fiction and fantasy to explore complex and difficult themes and issues that may be invisible in the everyday world. In both Ray Bradbury's “A Sound of Thunder” and Robert Heinlein's “--And He Built a Crooked House--,” the authors use the hypothetical science fiction worlds and technologies that exist only in the abstract to discuss issues and themes that apply directly to the current day. Both Bradbury and Heinlein are masters of the science fiction genre, creating worlds and scenarios that are both whimsical and impactful to the present day.
“A Sound of Thunder” follows a corporation ...

The expansions of the US both geographically or environmentally have been contributed by several factors. Amongst the factors that led to the expansion of the US are the 1849 California gold rush and the bowl dust in 1930s.
One of the most significant expansions of the US borders westward was the California gold rush. Before the discovery of the gold, the United States was beginning to take shape. With the purchase of Louisiana, the country was stretched all the way to the pacific and the conclusion of the Mexican American war in which California was ceded to the ...

According to Bible, we human will be accountable for our each and every word of speech on the Day of Judgment. It is the human nature to be afraid of an inevitable doom when he knows that he is wrong in his deeds. The human nature is to seek pleasures, and for this, he can go to any extent, even to the extent of destructing his own surrounding nature. The same nature that gives him a sense of euphoria in his childhood when he see the first rainbow in the sky, collect the conch shells from the sea shore and ...

Profession

Introduction
Lessons from historical crisis management scenarios
Lesson that are most important to consider in crisis action planning include the impacts of catastrophes on the shareholder and the crisis as opportunity. The consequences of catastrophes appear to be the most significant element to consider in the effective management. One of the effects that are as a result of catastrophe is the stock price. For example, the catastrophe would result into an increase or a decrease in the stock price in the market. This would of significant value to the crisis manager when they are formulating an action plan

Considering the abnormal to be normal

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Except from “The Catastrophe of Liberation” by Herbert Marcuse

Marcuse pours scorn on the notion of liberation. He seeks to digress from the discourse on liberation and instead inquires of the audience to exercise a critical thought as to the benefits of liberation. Critical concerns that Marcuse raises include whether the people are better off and whether the victims and collective sacrifice made in defence of the standard of living are worthy. He inquires of man and nature have effectively reconciled and gotten to the point of no return. One only needs to think within the confines of Marcuse’s philosophy to understand his frustration with life. Indeed, he ...

Bordentown is a city in Burlington County, New Jersey, US. The city, located at the convergence of Blacks Creek, Crosswicks Creek and Delaware River had a population of 3,924 as of 2010 (city-data.com, 2012). New Jersey has a climate that is relatively comparable to most other states. Other than experiencing higher levels of precipitation; Bordentown’s all other significant statistical climate determiners are relatively similar to other states. The town has four main highways, water, rail and bus services. This transport system serves long distance trips between the southern and Northern areas of the state. Several aspects of Bordentown’s geographical ...

The government of the United States of America (US) gives paramount treatment to the safety of Americans. A noteworthy area in which that importance thrives in is the realm of disaster evacuation. Federal policies on evacuation aim to streamline evacuation processes in the federal, state and local levels. On the other end of the spectrum, inefficiency ultimately affecting the safety of disaster-afflicted Americans has characterized those policies. Nevertheless, federal-level policies on disaster evacuation provide substantial guidance to state and local governments.
Policies on evacuation are important to ...

Nuclear Power: Pros and Cons

US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (2011) defines nuclear energy production of energy through either splitting of atoms or combination of elements or atoms. Fusion is combination of atoms or elements with fission being splitting of atoms. Fission is the commonly used in energy production. The steam produced is used to drive turbines which produce electricity for both domestic and industrial use. The process releases neutrons which are used to repeat the process over and over. The process is referred to as chain reaction. Common examples of elements used to create nuclear energy include Uranium, and ...

Arguably, most of the countries in the world are experiencing the migration spring. Individuals migrate for various reasons, this reasons included labor, war, economic crisis, and business. Migrations have different types of impacts, which include political, economical, and social. As a matter of fact, GCC (Gulf Co-operation Council) are unique in different ways, but above all they have one most striking aspect, this is their enormous stock of migrant population comprising approximately half of the entire regions population. GCC countries include Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia. These nations are all rich in the production of ...

Arguably, America as a nation has been formed by the events and people who were leaders in the past. Fire in the triangle shirtwaist company is one of the disastrous events that had major negative consequences in American history. As a matter of fact the fire at the triangle factory became an important event which led to changes in the policies formed by American government on safety of fire (Broyles, 2004). Additionally, it became a catalyst for the numerous labor reforms in America. It was on 25 March 1911, a horrible catastrophe struck the city of New York, fire broke out in the ...

1.0 Introduction

Across global boundaries, America is known by millions of people as the paragon of the most affluent society in the contemporary world. With the widely believed concept of the American dream, the country is perceived as the proverbial Promised Land which hosts tons of millionaires and where even the lower classes live comfortably with superb rags to riches tales. This picture might be true but a plethora of research studies and surveys have also shown it is a superficial picture which does not wholly portray contemporary America. Recent surveys have established that currently an approximate forty million Americans live ...