Essays on Catastrophe

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Introduction The concept of Homeland Security was precipitated by the terrorist attacks of 9/11 (Shawn 2013). According to the quadrennial homeland security review (2014), the goal of homeland security department and its partners is to build a safe, secure, and resilient nation. This goal is continuously threatened by the evolving nature of terrorism and natural disastrous among other risk factors. In order to mitigate the effects of the risks and threats to the safety, security, and resilience of the nation, the (Department of Homeland Security) DHS developed the five missions to help the department and its partners achieve its ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Q1 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 ...

Emergency management in health: key issues and challenges in the UK

The article selected is “Emergency management in health: key issues and challenges in the UK” by Lee et al. (2012). The study presents emergency management as only the practices and actions that relate to responding to the emergency situations. However, Lee et al relates emergency management to emergency planning and establishes that it includes a range of processes from training and preparedness, the business continuity management and planning, and emergency recovery. The article establishes that numerous questions are still unanswered like the ideal outline of emergency management systems or the techniques to catastrophe circumstances, which include top-down or bottom-up, ...

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The Hurricane Katrina is considered the most devastating storm in the United States due to its magnitude of destruction and the casualties involved. Though the weather forecasters had predicted about the storm, the American government had not put any measures to deal with the catastrophe. As a result, the Gulf Coast States that was hit hardest by Katrina lost properties worth billions as well as thousands of lives. The parties involved in the rescue process included the Army Corps, Coast Guards, as well as FEMA. The Katrina hurricane recorded the government inefficiency in two levels. The first one is ...

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 ...

Introduction

The sinking of the Titanic is one of the worst sea tragedies. The cause of the tragedy is believed to have been a collision with an iceberg in the near-freezing Atlantic Ocean, but forensic investigations revealed more flaws in the design of the ship. The ship was inadequately equipped with lifeboats and had initial design flaws which resulted in water flowing from one watertight compartment to another. Moreover, there were communication flaws which meant that distress calls could not be received quickly while other findings revealed that some of the structural components were too weak to sustain the freezing ...

Some places in Rwanda are prone to disasters. The most frequent natural disasters are floods and landslides, and both have a tremendous impact on human lives, property, infrastructure and the environment. For example, in May 2016, both disasters hit Gakenke and Muhanga, killing more than forty people. Rubavu and Ngororero were also hit, and seven people died in these places while others were left injured. Parts of Northern Rwanda are most susceptible to these disasters (REMA, 2011, 45). These include Rubavu Districts, Musanze, Nyabihu, and Burera. Although these are natural disasters, their magnitude is determined by a combination of ...

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 ...

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This project serves to focus on the country of Saudi Arabia and how the nation, handles school preparedness when it comes to disasters. Saudi Arabia is a developing country. The researcher argues that more need to be done in making sure children are protected in a developing society when a disaster happens. Some of the disasters explored in the discussion include fires, earthquakes, hurricanes and terrorist attacks. The researcher believes that while there is potential to rectify this issue, more future research needs to be done. In the exploration of the topic, the author found that there were vulnerabilities ...

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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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Do the imbalances in current accounts still matter in today’s deep global financial markets that exhibit two-way gross economic flows that dwarf the new outcomes provided by current accounts? Contrasting the adult perception of the world and complete markets, extreme current account imbalances indicate severe financial and macroeconomic stresses, particularly as was the case in the mid-2000s. The increasingly massive valuation differences in nations’ net global investment standards and positions, as well as risk allocations, cannot be relied upon to offset the variations in regional wealth systematically as implied in the current accounts. The same conditions that warrant ...

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Introduction The Murray Darling Basin as an ecosystem is the third largest river basin in the world and is divided into two sections that is the Darling system which is the northern basin and the Murray system which is the southern basin . The Murray Darling river basin has been a subject of concern over the deteriorating quality of its water and impact on the ecosystem services offered by the basin. This paper studies the various ecosystem services offered by the Murray-Darling basin and the respective value each of the services offers to the various components of the ecosystem. The ...

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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The United States was called to rethink its security strategies since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack. Immediately after this catastrophe, the various stakeholders failed to come up with an explanation of why the attack succeeded. Therefore, few months later the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was established in order to ensure a safer country that was protected from terrorism and other disaster. Since then the DHS made stride in meeting its mandate. One of those mandates is the protection of critical infrastructure since it is vulnerable as a target to attacks or disaster and such would cause immeasurable ...

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The Bhopal disaster is considered to be the deadliest event in the corporate history of the world. Due to the leakage of lethal gases out of the factory, there were around 4000 deaths within 72 hours, while the number surged to around 15,000 within few weeks. It has been estimated by that 200,000 people became permanently disabled due to this incident. This incident is a pure case of intense corporate negligence. This case caused a major foreign investment dispute between government of India and Union Carbide Corporation. This dispute arose from the notion that some companies have ...

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Air pollution as the name clearly suggests, refers to the accumulation of particles or impurities in the air composition. These particles could be dust, smoke, burnt fuel like diesel or petrol, and other burnt components. Air pollution, particularly in China, is a major problem or bottleneck that is more often than not ignored at the risk of the people’s health as well as that of the economy. Major health conditions especially, respiratory conditions like asthma, bronchitis and other perilous conditions like cancer could spell doom for the people of China (Ho, and Chris 115). Measures to curb the ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

4.0 Discussion 4.1 Introduction The primary goal of the present study was to investigate how manipulating anxiety can impact cognitive performance during acute exercise bouts measuring four minutes per stage on an ergometer. The ergometer measures muscle power. Five stages of intensities were applied during the exercise trials under two conditions. The five intensities are listed below.

60% Heart Rate Response (HRR) 80% HRR Cool down Post 15 minutes The two experimental conditions refers to the two types of stimuli. congruent stimuli, and incongruent stimuli The research was built from previous studies carried out by Gratton, Coles, and Donchin ( ...

The movie that is going to be discussed for the purposes of current critique paper is a documentary “Chernobyl uncensored”. Another name for the film is “The Battle of Chernobyl”. Using the testimonies of Chernobyl disaster’s witnesses, materials from video archives and the photographs of a famous Chernobyl photographer Igor Kostin, the creators of the film revisited the large-scale nuclear incident at Chernobyl power plant that took place in 1986. I chose the film for review due to two reasons. First of all, it is necessary to remember that the Chernobyl disaster was the most significant nuclear power ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

The most vital agencies in the world utilize Continuity of Operations (COOP) systems and sites in order to safeguard the stability of their operations in case of a website crash and network disaster. It is assumed that businesses and agencies do not rely on uploading their data to their main domain site only and do not have just a single backup of information. In most cases high level organizations have an entire COOP protocol that includes a mirror site. COOP plans have become such a vital component of client service. Protected the established lines of communication between agencies and organizations is also a COOP ...

Analysis of human failure contribution to process risk – The Case of Blowout in the Gulf of Mexico

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The Gulf of Mexico is considered to have accounted for roughly 90% of the complete offshore drilling in the United States of America in terms of the oil volume that is extracted. This number can be further equated to approximately one-third of the total production of oil in the United States of America. There are more than 50, 000 wells that have been drilled here since the year 1947 and of these 4,000 wells were dug deeper than 1, 000 ft. of water. As of date, more or less 80% of the total offshore drilling happens at a ...

The focus on this paper mainly highlights on the field of ethics and moral values in the society we live in. The paper will draw from different incidences in the history of humanity that led to calamities that would have otherwise been avoided through discipline and active carefulness by individuals involved in the incidences. The administration of any organization should always be held responsible for any shortcomings or disasters that occur at the work place due to negligence or assumption. It is their sole responsibility to cover their working staff y properly insuring and assuring their lives.

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The purpose and scope of this paper is to evaluate the leadership potentials that assisted Barack Obama to become president of United States in the year 2008. During, American antiquity there has been many significant leaders who have carried impartiality, self-determination, and transformation to its country. Several great leaders and lastly the head of the state of the USA Barack Obama, there have been many countless individuals who have completed history. As the first Black culture to turn ...

Introduction

Management is to an organization what a driver is to a car. The decisions made by the management team are vital in the direction that the organization takes. Any pitfalls that an organization might face are resultant from the decisions that management might have made or failed to make. It is therefore imperative that management assumes leadership styles that reflect an understanding of the important roles that they play (Keyton, 2011). This paper will analyze a case of management issues in an organization that have had far and wide reaching implications for the organization as a whole, the immediate surroundings and the globe.

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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The calamity at the Bhopal Union Carbide manufacturing plant in 1984 is still one of the world's deadliest modern catastrophes. It is settled that in its prompt outcome a large number of individuals passed away as a consequence of the inhalation of dangerous vapor. A great extent of these passings were most likely because of intense respiratory harm. The presence, nature and degree of ceaseless respiratory ailment in the survivors is far less entrenched. The consequences of the contextual investigation depicted emphatically in numerous reports, recommends that such illnesses exist independently of the foundation of infection in the city's populace. The ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

Not everybody knows what does the term “Surrealism” mean, what it consists of and what it`s appealing to. This art movement has always been associated with something unclear and mysterious; there has always been a riddle within the strange images and colors that were asking you to solve it and find your personal meaning of it. The genre wasn`t always popular among the masses, and the surrealists weren`t as well; however, the one among the other was always famous and well-known through all over the world, he has produced more than 1,500 works including paintings, movies, ...

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The 26th of April this year will be marked as the twenty-eighth anniversary of a disaster of a worldwide scale. So much time has passed after it and we still remember that fear of a nightmare of such a nuclear disaster that has changed millions of lives during a couple of days and it changed the nature itself, as well. The topic of our research is the Chernobyl Catastrophe (or “Chernobylska Katastropha” in Ukrainian); we`re going to describe its causes and consequences, the governmental meanings about it and how it changed the territory of Ukraine and the countries it affected. Let us ...

This year, it will be thirteen years already since the catastrophe of the ninth September 2001. Sometimes, it is difficult to realize that modern teenagers did not see the crash of the Twin towers. However, those, who are in a college or at a university, have experienced the feeling of horror. Some say that it is good that modern teenagers have seen the catastrophe in so young age. This helped them strengthen their character. Others argue that the event left a sore in their mind; it made it difficult to live and look at the world optimistically. I do agree with both ...

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 ...

The relationship between the revolution in France and Haiti

The Haitian Revolution resulted from a long fight on the fragment of the slaves in the French colony of St. Domingue, however was also driven by the free Mulattoes who had initially faced the prosecutions of being signified as semi-citizens. The revolution saw slavery to end and resulted to the establishment of the republic of Haiti. The colony of Saint-Domingue, geologically roughly the identical land mass that is currently Haiti was the lushest colony in the West Indies and perhaps the richest in the history of the globe. Driven by slave effort and enabled by rich soil and model climate, ...

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Roger and Me is a documentary film, chronicles of the efforts of General Motors, one of the world’s largest corporation. Michael Moore makes the social catastrophe, happened in his native city Flint (Michigan) as the theme of his first documentary. This catastrophe happened after the General Motors’ direction decided to close all their enterprises, situated in that city. The entire film Michael Moor chases Roger Smith, the head of this corporation to tell him about the consequences of this decision that led to absolute unemployment. It is hard to imagine, but over 30 thousand of people (from the 150.000 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

The concept of disaster bonds: Overview of catastrophe bonds

Capital markets experience a number of risks that cause investors huge sums of cash. Catastrophe bonds (cat bonds) are a form of principal-at-risk debt securities issued by insurance companies to investors that allow direct transfer of low-frequency, high-sensitivity risk to capital markets. Traditionally, debt securities only allowed insurance companies to repay full principal amount upon maturity of the bond. The introduction of catastrophe bonds solved this situation. Upon the occurrence of one or more catastrophe event, the outstanding principal of the insured reduces. Examples of catastrophe events covered by this bond include natural disasters (earthquakes, hurricane), deaths caused by an outbreak ...

- There were several human resource functions that were affected by the natural catastrophe in the form of Hurricane Rita. The major problem hiring and attracting new workers for the job. Everyone in the town was more worried about their homes, than turning up for the job. As a result, even large businesses were unable to attract and hire new workers. The major function of recruitment and selection was affected. Similarly, compensation and bonuses was also affected as there was short supply of workers, and their demand was huge. The third function that was affected by Hurricane Rita was the ...

Natural disasters occur in the planet from time to time. One of the greatest natural hazards that places on Earth can experience is the typhoon. A typhoon is a dangerous natural disaster which could bring great amount of devastation. In 2013, the Philippines experienced a major disaster due to the typhoon named Haiyan, based on its international name, which is considered as one of the strongest typhoons ever recorded. The purpose of this research paper is to discuss the hazard and impact of the typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. This paper also opts to analyze the mitigation strategy and the recovery ...

Sophocles was an ancient Greek writer, who along with Aeschylus and Euripides had a great influence on the development of the dramaturgy in general and became the forefather of the tragedy in particular. Those several dramas that remained till nowadays (“Ajax”, “Antigone”, “Electra”, “Philoctetes”) are the masterpieces of ancient Greek literature, and “Oedipus the King” is recognized as one of the peaks of the world drama and the crown of a tragic theater. On the first stages of Athenian tragedy’s formation and development Aristotle was one of the first philosophers who determined the features of this form of dramaturgy. Sophocles ...

The Importance of an Emergency Management Plan: Mitigation, Preparedness, Response and Recovery

It may not come as a surprise to say that, as humans reach out in search of food and shelter, it is the environment around them that is being abused. As man’s needs grow, so too does the pressure on the environment grow, as a result of which, an ecological imbalance is created unconsciously. And once an ecological imbalance occurs, a series of events are triggered that culminates in large scale loss of life and property. There is no doubt the importance the environment has on life on this planet, but man himself, pressed for space, finds no other option but ...

Introduction

The National Security Agency (NSA) is the largest intelligence agency of USA that gathers information to detect any potential threat to USA. Recently in 2013, it created a lot of buzz when Edward Snowden, a former NSA contractor, revealed to the media about the clandestine surveillance programs of the NSA (NCPA 2014). According to the documents leaked by Snowden, the NSA spies on over a billion of people worldwide by intercepting their calls. Not only that, the NSA has access to the phone records of all the American citizens for the purpose of mass surveillance. It was also revealed that PRISM, the ...

Jennifer Egan’s novel A Visit from the Goon Squad discusses, among other things, the passage of time, the dangers of obsolescence, and the way cultures grow and change as the years go on. Egan approaches the social trends and fads of American culture in A Visit from the Goon Squad with a jaundiced eye, allowing readers to understand the fleeting and often ignored nature of very serious problems in favor of trivia and pop culture. In the stories “Great Rock and Roll Pauses,” “Pure Language,” and “Black Box,” the environment of the Earth, as well as its culture, is ...

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 ...