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Introduction: Hurricanes are common disasters in US causing maximum damage in the coastal community. They are the worst and costliest of all national disaster and can sometimes extends to areas far away from the coast. Hurricanes are defined as giant, spiraling tropical storms, with a wind speed of over 160miles/hr. Force generated by the storm, can cause catastrophic damage to houses, buildings and causes landfall. It can kill humans, animals and destroy natural landscape. (Parker & Shapiro, 2008)
Hurricanes in US, has its origin ether in Atlantic or eastern Pacific Ocean. Hurricane season in Atlantic, begins in June and ends ...

Houston Insurance Holdings is a leading specialty insurer based in Texas, USA. However, its scope of operation extends beyond the United States of America and has offices in the United Kingdom, Spain and Ireland. The insurance company underwrites 100 classes of specialty insurance products in 180 countries around the world. The company has five underwriting segments namely: Professional liability, U.S Property Casualty, Accident and Health and U.S Surety and Credit International.
The firm engages in the diverse business portfolio in order to ensure consistent underwriting results irrespective of the market cycles. This has contributed to an impressive performance of ...

The Broader Context of Disaster Recovery

The Broader Context of Disaster Recovery

Introduction

Recovering from a disaster is one of the greatest challenges for communities in many parts of the world. People perceive it as a struggle against the adverse forces of nature, often condemned for the occurrence of disasters and the destruction associated with their occurrence. The stages of disaster recovery are often two. The first one occurs prior to the happening of the disaster of the disaster and measures the level of preparedness in the community with respect to absorbing the shocks associated with the occurrence of the disaster. On the other, the second stage defines ...

Behavioral interventions can be grouped as either antecedent-based interventions (ABI) or consequence-based interventions (CBI). CBI is a group of practices in which the problem behaviors are addressed by manipulating the reinforcement or punishment stimuli following an observed behavior, whereas ABI refers to a group of behavioral interventions that are concerned with the modification of environmental factors that are believed to precede problem behaviors (Tullis, Cannella-Malone, & Payne, 2015). Therefore, ABI strategies are implemented before the problem behavior occurs, so their unique quality is the possibility of problem behavior prevention, which makes the behavioral change easier to maintain compared to results ...

Introduction

The real name of Harriet Tubman at birth was Araminta Ross. She was one of the eleven children of Benjamin and Harriet. She was “hired out” as a nurse of a small child by one of the masters. She used to stay awake throughout the night to ensure that the small baby did not cry and wake the mother. When Ross fell asleep, the master would whip her. The brutal suffering she went through since young made her determined to gain freedom. She is remembered as one of the conductors who freed many slaves through the "Underground Railroad." In ...

Abstract

The American Revolutionary War began in 1775 and ended in 1783. Originally, the war was fought by the British on one side and the Americans on the other side, but developed into a war between the Great Britain on one side and United States, France, Spain and Netherlands on the other side. In 1783, the United States of America and the British government signed a treaty to cease fighting, and this marked the official separation of United States from the British rule; the treaty officially recognized the existence of United States as a sovereign state. From the onset, this paper examines the ...

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Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises represents a drunkenness-infused, dissipated, and tragedy-stricken collection of antiheroic characters, adequately deemed the Lost Generation. Their postwar plight for meaning in a desolate wasteland of existence is a futile one, painfully aware of the fact that no baptism would wash away their sins. The psychological structure of these characters is equally marred by their profuse alcoholism and debauchery, and their ultimate tragedy is that the all but subtle myth of the generation they belong to would keep them in a perpetual state of psychological hell.
The aftermath of the World War I challenged all the ...

Abstract

Mitigation emphases on decreasing damages of life and property while the recovery empowers the community to regain its normalcy and cope with the situation to continue with their lives. From that avowal, it is without a doubt that they are both central and fundamental phases in the management of adversities that might arise. The two play an essential role in helping the society members to respond and bounce back despite the loss of life and damage to properties. An attempt will be made to expound the mitigation and recovery disciplines of the disaster management plan as well as the ...

Despite the fact that the United States history has serious experience gained from the American Civil War till the famous speech of Martin Luther King, our society is still harmed by presence of destructive ideas of social inequality and division not by the social position or character, but by ethnicity and therefore skin color. This problem is one of the most painful for the contemporary American nation as it is the boundary on the way to social progress and development. It divides our society and creates imaginary warfare and the set of senseless conflicts.

For sure, it has ...

Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell To Arms.1995.
Scenes depicting the horrors faced in the Great War are evident in Ernest Hemingway’s “A Farewell to Arms.” The book contains five sections and provides a systematic narration of the life of one Mr. Frederick Henry. Serving as an ambulance driver with the Italian army during the First World War, the narrative shows Henry's quest to balance a love life and the ongoing war. Frederick Henry’s occupation as an ambulance driver exposes his character to many violent events that later lead to trauma. With Barkley, Henry attempts to find happiness and love ...

The Secret life by Walter Mitty is a humor short story by James Thurber concerning the people`s state of mind and the social reality facing them in life. By using an American context, Thurber shows how ordinary citizen`s especially during the Great Depression escaped realities by turning to Hollywood movies, and inflated imagination to escape the harsh realities that the world had to offer during these hard times. These period was characterized by a not-so-easy life where poverty, high prices of commodities and standards of living pushed the average middle-class Americans to the edge of their lives (Kaufman, p93). ...

The Name of the School

My Life as a Slave
My name is Elijah Johnson and I was born a slave. I say I was born a slave because that was what became my identity for the first fifteen years of my life. It did not matter that I was a boy, a child, a brother or a son. I was looked upon as a slave and treated like one all through my formative years. I was born in the year 1850, on the 23rd of October. I know because like every other child born on the plantation my birth was recorded too. Even ...

Why was there an absence of major slave rebellion in America?

Slavery in America was a legal institution that existed in the 18th and 19th century. It is great that in the 21st century, humanity can squarely face 19th century slavery. Nonetheless, it is also upon everybody to acknowledge the contemporary versions of slavery in the world beginning from our homestead. The current form of slavery is not as defined as it was in the olden days. During those days slaves were characterized by a number of cultures. The slave culture embodied elements of African and Christian cultures or values. Slavery also largely dependent on the systematic dehumanization and the dehumanization process ...

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Introduction

Perhaps no clause in the U.S. constitution has been so misconstrued and debated as the Second Amendment. In fact, even the Supreme Court could not make up their mind as to the true meaning of “A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed”. A decisive interpretation to this clause has been quite elusive. Since its ratification, only a few cases have found its way to the Supreme Court while the court’s decision has not helped clarify the matter more than being ...

The movie Thelma and Louise revolves around two women and tackles feminist issues. The set-up rotates within a couple of themes and characterizations. It opens up with two middle-aged ladies who are best friends; Thelma (Geena Davis) and her best friend, Louise (Susan Sarandon), start the movie with a plan to go away for the weekend and have fun. Louise works as a waitress, while Thelma, who is a housewife married to an abusive husband, is a carpet-seller. Both Thelma and Louise have problems in their marriages, and this happens to be the reason why they both want to take a break.
The major ...

Overview

The movie Thelma and Louise is a feminist movie that revolves around two women. The set up rotates within a couple of themes and characterization. It opens up with best friends, two ladies who are middle-aged; Thelma (Geena Davis) and her best friend Louise (Susan Sarandon) start the movie with a plan to go for fun over the weekend. Louise works as a waitress while Thelma, who is a housewife married to abusive husband, sells carpets. Both Thelma and Louise have a problem in their marriages and this happens to be the reason as to why they want to take a break.
The major effect ...

It might seem strange that a lot of Americans are not even aware of the second war for independence (that is the other name for the war of 1812). However if we think about it, one can find quite a few reasons that have caused such ignorance among people. The war of 1812 has a very compound roots, extremely confusing course, and in addition to all of it the outcome of the war is also hard to understand, as both sides consider themselves to be winners. The war happened during the so-called stagnation period in the history of the US, the period ...

The Brothers Grimm are responsible for some of the most famous fairy tales that are still read to children to this day. Although many of the fairy tales have been sanitized and changed for today’s children, the original stories are still masterworks of literature, often referenced and alluded to in other pieces of fiction and nonfiction. In “Rapunzel,” “Hans and Gretel,” and “The Little Peasant,” the Brothers Grimm utilize different types of symbolism, but regardless of the type and purpose of the symbolism, they use symbols that are easily grasped by the reader and serve to further the ...

In recent news, the Middle East has been reported to have been under conflict as many protests and violence had been recorded against the leaders of their governments. Many of the protests concentrated on pushing for political, social, and economic reform while others wished for their governments to be changed entirely to introduce democracy and an open government. It is notable that the trend of protest and calls for reform had emerged after the successful revolution in Egypt wherein the Egyptian public protested against the continuous ruling of 29 year reigning President Hosni Mubarak. Arguably seen as the beginning ...

In her novel, Not so quiet, Smith demonstrates the changing effects the Great War had on culture and identity by presenting contrasting perspectives of the war and the importance of national service
The theme of war is widely tackled in the book. Hellen Zenna Smith, through her diaries, portrays a scene where the negative consequences of war are explicitly stated. As an ambulance driver, she ferries soldiers who are victims of war as she worked at the French front (Smith 6). There are harsh living conditions and filthy environment that encourages the presence of lice. The women also have ...

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Hurricane Katrina touched ground in Louisiana in August 2005. The resulting lack of coordination in a catastrophe of this size by federal agencies led to large numbers of evaluations, reports, and recommendations for improvement. Particularly under fire was the FEMA organization tasked with management of the disaster operations. The inability to coordinate local, state, and federal resources lead to billions of dollars in waste and additional loss of life secondary to lack of food, water, and shelter. Government policies and restrictions in addition to complicated definitions of responsibility delayed relief for the stricken areas by as much as a ...

Conflict amidst nations is a historical issue. Almost each and every country around the world has undergone either internal or external conflict. Some of the conflicts have been the most useful platforms for reconciliations. Meaningful reconciliatory talks have led to magnificent developments in the countries that had huge war problems. Equally, there are some other countries that have continued to stay behind because of the never ending wars. The consequences are deaths, tensions and poor cross boarder relations. The paper will take an in-depth study of the North and South Korean wars. The Korean wars are primarily the political, ...

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Recent news of police engaging lethal force to contain seemingly non-dangerous situations has dominated headlines in the news. News such as the shootings of Kajieme Powell, Michael Brown and countless others and the seeming impunity that the system grants the accused proffer that the system will use any avenue to impose the upper classes’ will on the lower class in the guise of crime control. However, rather than project a racist slant, the research also looks on the possibility that the police officers, in the line of duty, must be given enough latitude in determining the situations that ...

Terrorism is one of the biggest Global threats. Terrorists are born out of communal discord, financial instability, oppressive governments etc. The Jehadi Terrorists are communal terrorists who fight for their own interpretation of Islam. The ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) is a Sunni extremist group, formerly known by the name of Al-Qaeda, renowned for its terrorist activities all over the globe.

The ISIS practices and propagates Jihad, a form or religious war against other religious and cultural states and uses extreme interpretations of the Qur’an as ...

Philosophy

The theory of situated cognition postulates that human thoughts are related to the environment in which we are situated. That what a human perceives, and how we conceive the activities we are involved in develops together with what we do physically.
Situated cognition suggests that the learning process of an individual is tied to the authentic activity, culture and context of an individual. I.e., it is difficult for a person to learn from unnatural activities for instance learning a foreign language by immersion is easier than having to learn a new language through secondary media such as textbooks and vocabulary appendices.
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Swanson (1) avers that the uses of drones have both positive and negative uses for the use of drones in both commercial as well as law enforcement applications. However, Swanson is stating that with the absence of any actions by authorities, on the state and the Federal levels, to enact any policies or legislation to regulate any of the flights conducted by these “unmanned aerial vehicles” in America’s skies as these operators see fit. Federal authorities allowed more than 30,000 drone flights; police departments, for their part, have used drones to a low altitude of 400 feet, ...

Introduction

Family is the most basic and fundamental unit of the society. The strength of the family units determines the overall welfare of the society. Social progress and the stability of the family units are inextricably intertwined. The health of the family determines the general welfare of the society. Rules and regulations have been promulgated in different jurisdictions to protect the family from unqualified medical practice. In relation to this, mental health practice for a long time had been encroached by quacks and untrained medical practitioners. For the last twenty give years, therapy has been confined to individual and family therapy ...

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When literature is translated onto a stage, it becomes a play; it takes on a facet of reality that merely reading the words does not bring to the reader. Not every story translates perfectly into the medium of the play; plays have to have a lot of interaction between characters and environments to translate properly into theatre. Although there are certainly plays where not much happens, these plays are few and far between; most plays focus on the relationships between characters and their environments-- including the other characters that are present in the play.
In theatre, the actors are ...

Sailing to Byzantium is one of the most famous poems of the stalwart literary artist, William Butler Yeats. The poem is one of the quintessential pieces in the history of English literature, and it lives on in the hearts of the avid readers transcending the effect of time. The poet utilizes his aesthetic excellence to reach out to the gazillion readers across the globe through this immortal work of literature. There are vivid imagery and other literary devices in the poem that bring out the central idea with clarity and quintessence.
The poem is a vehement statement of the ...

Introduction: Siddhartha Gautama

Buddhism is a religion or a way of life to about 300 million people all over the world. Buddhism was founded 2500 years in India when Siddhartha Gautama also known as Budha was enlightened. Buddhism is sometimes difficult to put into the box of religion or philosophy, because it lacks a central deity. The Buddha was not the creator of the universe; instead he achieved the highest personal actualization that a person can and was therefore “Enlightened.” That, rather than a creation story, is the central tenet of Buddhism. Buddhism then as a philosophy is not necessarily a religion, but in practice it services the needs ...

Introduction

Pesticides are substances or a mixture of substances whose main aim is to destroy, repel, prevent or inhibit the action of any pest. A pest is any form of an insect, plant pathogens, weeds, birds, mollusks, nematodes (worms), and microbes that destroy human foods while in the field, during transportation or in stores. In addition, a pest can destroy other human properties apart from food or help spread harmful diseases. Pesticides are classified into five categories: a chemical substance, a biological agent, disinfectant, antimicrobial and a device. Since pesticides find use in both our homes and in farms, they have the potential of causing ...

In the recent past, Alaska has experienced overcrowding in its correctional facilities. Although this is a problem that has been there for quite some time, the population growth in Alaska’s prisons sky-rocketed very fast as compared to the rates in other states. Though this is the case, it is very difficult to attribute this increase in incarceration to definite causes. As at now, Alaska is among the eight states of the highest growth in prison population. Currently, its rate is one out of 36. As at today, there are over 6000 people in prison, either on electronic monitoring or ...

Psychology: Behaviourism and Free Will

I. Introduction: Behaviorism and Free Will
Behaviorism (or learning theory) focuses primarily on overt or observable and quantifiable behaviors and excludes subjective phenomenon such as motives, feelings, and so on. It explains the processes, principles and laws by which learning occurs. Many schools of thought under behaviorism include Pavlovian, also known as classical or respondent, conditioning.
Under the basic tenet of classical conditioning, individuals learn by means of associating neutral stimulus with a meaningful response. Another behaviorism is Skinnerian, a.k.a. operant or instrumental, conditioning. Operant conditioning is the process whereby learning takes place when an action is done ...

Introduction

Sophocles’ play “Oedipus the King” and William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” impose philosophical discussions about fate versus divine providence, supernatural and they both set examples of tragic heroes dealing with tragic events. Although they share common themes and motifs, there are both similarities and differences between the two plays, which will be further explored within the current paper.

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Similarities and Differences
Both Oedipus and Hamlet are sons of kings, they are young princes, who become men by facing the vicissitudes in their lives. In addition, they both face the deaths of their fathers, but at this point a dissimilarity appears: ...

1. The name of the business is American International Group Inc., a leading international insurance organization that provides property casualty insurance, life insurance, retirement products, mortgage insurance and other financial services serving commercial, institutional and individual customers. The primary decision maker in the company is Mr. Bob Benmosche, President and CEO of the company. AIG’s mission statement states the following: “As a global financial services organization, we have committed our resources to developing products and services that address the needs of our clients as well as promote a corporate culture that values integrity, diversity, innovation and excellence." The company offers a wide ...

Introduction

In this paper, I would like to introduce Sarah, a 15-year-old girl, mid-adolescent, 9th grader, who seems to have a rather normal life on the surface, but is definitely in need of help if one examines closely. One of the attributes that is alarming is that she is extremely school phobic, which is perhaps understandable for a first grader, but unusual and wrong for a somewhat grown-up 9th grader.
Sarah is a high school girl studying in a co-ed high school in her town. She had to take a remedial course because of her struggles with school work. She has a distant dream of going to ...

Immunotherapy of Malignant Melanoma Using Dendritic Cells Vaccines

Abstract
5 research papers on dendritic cell (DC) vaccines for malignant melanoma (MM) were studied. Study designs, patient-specific vaccine preparation, pulsing of DCs and survival rates from different types of DC vaccines were analyzed. Patients with stages III and IV MM were included for trials in all the researches. DCs were pulsed with TRIMEL, tumor lysate, melanoma associated antigens: gp100, MART-1 and tyrosinase. Delayed type hypersensitivity (DTH) was studied to determine effect of the antigen. A positive reaction was considered to be appearance of eythema at the injection site. Pulsed DCs were selected by cloning and selection. ELISPOT ...

The study of critical mixed theory is not only a complex field of study, but also a field that must be examined in a multidimensional view. The mixed race theory entangles itself with political, social, and economic implication in the study of racial identities and the ‘race problem’. People with a multiracial background may experience difficulties in identifying with a particular class of people. This is because racial identities give a person the sense of belongingness. Moreover, one tends to develop a sense of self that is crucial to self-acceptance. However, even where there is a defined mixed race, a sense of belongingness can only be realized if ...

The oldest written Hindu scripture, the Rig Veda, dates from at least 1500 BC and perhaps even before the Aryan invaders from the north conquered the ancient Indus Valley civilization. Indeed, this civilization was perhaps many thousands of years older than any other known on earth and thought to be very advanced in science, technology, architecture, public works and metal working. According to some legends, it was even aware of flying machines, spacecraft, nuclear weapons and extraterrestrial civilizations. It also practiced the brahmavidya or supreme (God) science as revealed by a series of rishis, mystics and prophets, with the Buddha ...

Introduction

Hans Bellmar and Cindy Sherman are great photographs whose photographs change the photo industry and influence it in a variety of ways.

HANS BELLMER BIOGRAPHY

Hans Bellmer born on 13 March 1902 in a Kattowitz city, which by then was in the German Empire, but now is Katowice of Poland is a well-known German artist for the pubescent female dollies that he created in the mid-1930s. He started the doll project to be in conflict with fascism of Nazi’s by announcing that his work will not back new German public. A sequence of occasions in Bellmer’s personal life is what the catalyst to ...

The root causes of the Civil War can be traced back to the foundation of the country. When the Constitution was written, there were some men that wanted slavery to be banned at that point, but other representatives stated that they would refuse to sign the document if that provision was included. Therefore, the entire topic was just avoided in the document. The differences between the North and South continued to create a great divide, and the rift grew through the mid-1800s. The economic and social differences between the North and South were great, and the disparity grew as the ...

Aircrew Fatigue

When it comes to one’s safety and comfort while in flight, it is up to the aircraft crew and personnel to cater to their passengers once they step into the airplane. Each aircrew personnel have a vital role to making each flight successful and safe as one wrong move may cause the whole aircraft to plummet while in flight. There are many factors that can lead to a plane’s demise like technical malfunctions and human error. While technical malfunctions are rarely considered due to the constant check-up and maintenance of aircrafts and its machines, human error cannot easily be ...

Total war was the product of modern, industrial society and the tremendous advances in science and technology that were applied to the development of new weapons like the machine gun, the submarine, poison gas, the airplane and the atomic bomb. To be sure, warfare had always been brutal and atrocities were commonplace long before the invention of modern weapons, but in the world wars of the 20th Centuries, all of the industrial, scientific and economic power of advanced societies were applied to warfare, while the distinctions between civilians and soldiers disappeared as cities were carpet bombed out of existence. ...

What makes this book distinctly American Literature?

Several types of literatures exist in the contemporary world. This includes the different genres. However, most of the literature are classified or grouped together according to their origins and time. In this paper, we will analyze the novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao in a bid to categorize it as a distinctly American literature.
Before we get to analyze the book, it is paramount we understand the characteristics of American literature. Many writers added in to American literature between 1865 and 1914. Even though these writers came from various parts of the country and had dissimilar life styles, ...

Napoleon Bonaparte is greatly remembered for his impact on history of the 19th century. His hand was in every event that occurred in Europe during this dispensation. Napoleon underestimated and miscalculated his Russian expedition. He was able to capture most part of Russia with a large army. The sheer neglect of advice from the Generals and the harsh conditions compelled him to retreat. His army was almost wiped out as they surrendered back to France[ CITATION Cof02 \l 2057 ].

The Napoleonic regime which had banned trade between Russia and Britain inflicted a lot of pain on the Russians, and made them ...

Social injustice is one of the major challenges that the human kind has faced for long. This social vice has attracted quite a great deal of reactions from the oppressed and those in the rule. It has also attracted great scholars and philosophers. Socrates, one of the great philosophers is one such individual who suffered social injustice in Athens. Martin Luther King Junior was also faced by such a challenge in 1963 in his quest to see to it that racial segregation was abolished in the U.S.

The two had an ultimate quest to end injustice. This is because Socrates stated ...

Five Causes for the Public to Not Trust the Government.

The U.S. government has been the subject of countless conspiracy theories, controversies and slanders. For many, their trust in their government has faltered in recent years. This is largely due to the government’s handling of events such as 9/11, the war in Iraq and the financial recession: many Americans have been left deeply unsatisfied by the government’s handling of these events. Many even discussed the idea that 9/11 was operated by the U.S. government themselves: one site, entitled “911truth.org” even has a whole page dedicated to “The Top 40 Reasons to Doubt the Official Story of September 11, ...