Essays on Disaster

During the early stages of the Exxon Valdez Spill, fire-resistant boom was placed on tow line and two ships were attached to the ends of boom; with slow movement of the ships, boom collected the oil which was then ignited. But this method was not useful due to the conditions of weather. Dispersants were also sprayed; with the help of booms and skimmers, mechanical cleanup was done. For the delicate areas, special cleanup techniques were approved. After more than two decades, when the Gulf of Mexico encountered an oil spill, the weapons available remain the same (Houston Chronicle, 2013). ...

If a case is not filed within the appropriate statute of limitations, the case will be dismissed regardless of the merits of the case.

All federal lawsuits must be filed within one year of the date of the cause of action arises.

The doctrine known as laches requires plaintiffs to present written claims to defendants prior to filing lawsuits.

An efficient tickler system is essential for keeping track of time limitations on cases.

An attorney or paralegal should not make direct contact with an opposing party who is represented by an attorney.

Paralegals should never give factual information to clients, as it may violate ethical rules.

An attorney can commingle his or her own personal assets with ...

Question#1

The anecdote shows exceptional scenario or rather very unusual event- luck at its very best. To back up my point, I will give data on the deceased and causalities for the occupants not having their seat belts buckled up and the ones that have their seat belts on.

In the earliest thirty years, the road carnages are leading cause of loss of lives in America. In 2009, over 70% of occupants in the vehicles and the trucks were involved in a road accident killing about thirty thousand passengers with over two million people in the name of injuries.

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Describe the business? What do they do?

Riverside Electric, Inc. is reportedly a full service electric contractor that allegedly provides professional lighting solutions to diverse types of business organizations . According to its official website, the list of services include: lighting management programs; on-call services; Green Technology; Photometric Study; generator sales, installation and services; and electrical services . Being a full service electrical contractor, the organization boast of offering diverse electrical services from installation, maintenance, to repair. Likewise, their pricing strategy was disclosed to be competitive and could fit the budget of those who aimed to avail any of the needed services. Specifically, the organization itemized the following ...

Question #1

Three main layers of the interior of the Sun are convection zone, radiation zone and the core.The central part of the Sun with a radius of about 150-175 thousand km (ie, 20-25% of the radius of the Sun), in which are thermonuclear reactions, called a solar core. The density of material in the core is about 150 000 kg / m ³ (150 times higher than the density of water and ~ 6.6 times higher than the density of the densest ...

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is a powerful agency in the U.S. government and is empowered to transform the country in the police state during times of actual crisis. Among its powers shall include the act of suspending laws, transfer populations from one place to another, carry-out warrantless arrests and detain citizens even in the absence of trial, seize properties, transportation systems and food supplies. FEMA has the power to suspend the Constitution and to establish emergency response plan in for every state or locality in times of emergency or crisis (Williams, 2007, p. 206).

The ...

Political science

Response to Carine’s Forum Post

The main reason for the formation of FEMA was provide assistance to all citizens of the United States in case of a disaster as clearly defined by the Stafford act section 302. However, FEMA is also supposed to build on the government’s preparedness to manage disasters. The state and local grant assistance program have not always favored FEMA.

When catastrophic events occur, FEMA finds itself at loggerheads majorly due to its unpreparedness and financial constraints. However, years back, the organization was highly accused of misusing disaster management funds. For instance, when Florida ...

- Where in the Galaxy is the solar system located? a. in the nucleus, b. in the halo, c. in a spiral arm, d. between two spiral arms, e. in the central bulge

Our solar system is located in one of the two major spiral arms of the disk-shaped Milky Way Galaxy. It is not located in the center or nucleus of Galaxy because the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*, because of its tremendous gravitational force, make it possible for clusters to remain intact. In the halo of a galaxy, there are mostly spherical distribution of globular clusters, dark ...

Question 1

The solar system is situated in the outer reaches of the Milky Way Galaxy. The Milky Way Galaxy is a spiral way and is made up of over two hundred billion stars. The Milky Way Galaxy has many arms which are named for the constellations seen in those directions. Examples of the spiral arms within the Milky Way galaxy include the Sagittarius arm, Centaurus arm, Perseus arm, Cygnus arm and the Orion Spur arm. Our solar system is located in a spiral arm that is called the Orion Spur. The Orion Spur is named after the constellation “Orion the ...

The study conducted by Drake, O'Neal, & Wallach (2008) provided a detailed analysis of co-occurring substance abuse along with severe mental illnesses which were explained through Psychosocial interventions. The initial process of the study was to identify 22 experimental and 23 was the experimental studies where a total of n=45 was obtained in order to conduct a psychosocial dual diagnosis is intervention on the basis of multiple search strategies. Contingency management, group counseling and residential dual diagnosis treatment were used as different interventions in order to show the impact of the rehab treatment and various observations related to case management, ...

OBJECTIVE/THIRD-PERSON POINT OF VIEW

Lucy looked through her windscreen at the snow-covered road. She noticed the tracks of other cars as she turned the ignition. Driving carefully, she eased her way down the steep hill to make her usual turn into Main Street. As she put her foot on the brakes to steady the car downwards she noticed something was wrong. Lucy was pressing the brakes, but instead of slowing down the car was picking up speed. She slammed the brakes, but the car just moved faster. The tyres had no grip on the road. The car was skating. She had lost all ...

INTRODUCTION

Civil Engineering (CE) is a career in existence since 4000 BC, where human beings begun changing from a nomadic lifestyle, to construct shelters (Narayanan 2003). Construction, design and maintenance of the structures has been made possible through the study of CE, to share scientific and physical principles. Currently, CE applies physics and mathematical principles in the study of design and construction of roads, bridges, buildings, dams, and canals (Narayanan 2003). The disciplines under the study relate to material science, soil mechanics, hydrology, geography, environment, design, and structures. To be a civil engineer one must pursue ...

- Paragraph one, sentence three – the author uses description well; he allows the reader to visualize vividly how the boy comes into a room when he is late. The reader can see the door pushed open and swinging back with so much force it slams on the wall, rattles the glassware and frightens the cat to run for safety. Paragraph –five explains what the sixties were like; it was a colorful time when extremely bold colors, if worn now would be grounds for rediclude, were acceptable. One dressing with such boldness was thought of as being chic.

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- What is the difference between energy security and energy infrastructure security? Elaborate.

Energy secured is said to be achieved when a continuous and uninterrupted availability of energy is provided. Moreover, the cost incurred for fulfilling the energy needs is within reasonable limits such that it is affordable for all . There are several aspects of energy security that can range from short-term to meet the immediate demands to long term to satisfy the present as well as future demands while keeping the reliability, economy and environmental parameters in consideration . Energy security focuses ...

The manufacturing company is responsible for the injuries of the pilot. The manufacturing bears the sole liability because it offered the contract to the subcontractor who provided equipment with flaw that led to the air crash injuring the pilot seriously. The liability is transferred from the subcontractor to the manufacturing company because it the one which offered this contract to the subcontractor. The manufacturing company may make a follow up for compensation from the subcontractor to compensate for the failure of the equipment which caused the failure of the aircraft. The company is suppose to compensate he pilot for ...

Introduction

This photograph shows the loaded with log at a location near the blue mountains in the north eastern region of Oregon. This gives an account of the transportation department in Oregon. This photograph was captured and placed in the Oregon State archives in 1937.This photograph gives us the way in which logs were transported from the mountains to the factories for further processing to make other wood products.

Very tall trees are seen from the scene showing clearly that it an area where the main activity is logging for the purposes of timber and other wood products. The trees ...

While driving, you hear a recognizable voice, it is the ringtone of your phone, and someone is calling you. You try reaching the phone, but it seems not to be where you kept it. You continue searching for it while you try keeping an eye on the road still not finding it. The phone is still ringing but when you find it, it is already a missed call. You decide to return the call. You start dialing the number at the same time trying to focus on the road. Does this ring a bell in your mind?

Cell phones ...

I have learnt that there is need to always communicate when a terrorism event or a natural disaster occurs. This is because the organizational members and the public at large have the right to be informed on the status of the crisis and to know what the disaster team is doing about the disaster, which has occurred. When a crisis occurs, people normally get confused while others begin to fear for their lives and so they need an assurance that everything is under control.

Another thing, which I also noted as important, is that failure to plan is planning ...

Posse Comitatus is a Latin term that translates to ‘Power of the County’ in reference to the period in time when sheriffs could recruit able-bodied males above 15 years of age to help keep public order. The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 was initially enacted to minimize the influence of federal troops on domestic affairs as well as prevent the possibility of having the military under civilian control. Prior to the enactment of the Act, the use of federal troops to maintain order in the various States was an accepted feature for example, the federal troops were used to ...

During disasters, many people that happen to be at the nearby, both the injured and the soundly safe, experience panic. For the fear of losing their life, they all rush to nearby hospitals in search for treatment. This overwhelms these hospitals that should be treating the truly injured (De Lorenzo & Porter 1999). The principles of successful triage states that casualties should never be moved backwards against the influx of patients, patients who are in critical conditions should never be held back, life should be salvaged over limb, and that one should not stop to treat a patient and finally ...

The Stuxnet is believed to be a computer worm that surfaced in the mid 2010 year. It revolutionized the world of cyber-attacks which represented a major development in the cyber war battleground. This infamous computer worm was/is known to initially spread via an operating system mostly the on the Microsoft Windows with an objective target on industrial software systems and equipment.

The Stuxnet worm is believed to have been developed and created by the United States and the Israel to facilitate attacks on the Iranian nuclear systems, and facilities via the use of systematic step by step programmable and ...

Introduction:

When we speak of the public sphere, we think of public opinion and this is borne out by Jurgen Habermas accordingly in his various books and scholarly articles. The transmission of news is essential to development of public opinion due to the fact that this opinion is constantly shaped by what is fed by the news cycle and the media networks. Habermas points out various ways how the news cycle affects public ...

Risks and Hazards share a very confusing relationship as they are thought to be same by many hence they are used interchangeably. Bit practically, Risks and Hazards are quite different from each other. While a Hazard is defined as the potential for harm to people, property, or the environment; a risk is defined as an estimate of the probability of a hazards-related incident or exposure occurring and the severity of harm or damage that could result (Manuele, p. 111, 2004)

The definitions quite clearly and vividly the difference between these two terms.

In simpler terms while Hazard is a potential danger, risk measures the possibility of how much and how much ...

Overview of Disaster Relief: Organizational Structure of Relief Organization / SLP

Purpose

The primary purpose of Disaster Response Plan is to coordinate community proper care operations during typhoon or earthquake. Community proper care includes sheltering, feeding, first aid at mass proper care facilities and family well-being inquiry. Disaster response plan's designated as the guide for coordinating community proper care. Disaster Response Plan is responsible for coordinating all community proper care administrative, control, organizing, education, readiness, and response and recovery exercises. Disaster response plan is supported and harmonizes with the American Red Cross, local community authorities and volunteer relief agencies to meet essential human needs like shelter, food, clothing, query and ...

Abstract

Arnez is an agent of ABC Tire Corp, the company had hired him for the position of travelling sales representative. Anerz represented his employer and if he contracted it would bind them. Arnez hit Thomas’s tractor while speeding on his way from visiting a friend.ABC Tire Corp did not send him to that part of the state, and cannot pay Thomas for the damages due to the negligence of Arnez .He was carrying out personal errands when he was involved in the accident.

Arnez was an agent of ABC Tire Corp. According to Clarkson et al (2009), he ...

Mars is being explored by the space vehicle Curiosity rover. It has the size of a car and is equipped with the most advanced technology for space exploration. The vehicle is powered by a radioisotope power system that will provide energy for about 14 years. Curiosity has six wheels and a sophisticated suspension system so as to drive across the Martian landscape. It is equipped with state of the art computers, navigation and telecommunication systems, high resolution cameras, an infrared laser, a x-ray spectrometer, a radiation detector, a microscope and a multiple joint robotic arm which is able to ...

Part I

Does the addition of fertilizer increase crop production? Farmers are very interested in the amount of fertilizer used versus how much yield a crop can give. Fertilizer costs money and determining the amount of fertilizer that will maximize production is very important. My hypothesis is that the addition of fertilizer will increase crop yield.

I predict with the addition of more fertilizer, the production of corn will increase. The dependent variable is tons of corn produced in an acre field. The independent variable is the addition of fertilizer to the field. There will be experimental plots (each ...

Japan, a well-developed country, which is geographically located in East Asia, between North Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Japan, is one of the most influential countries in Continent of Asia. Many Western Countries are well developed as well like The United States, Australia and other European Countries. In response to the question if Japan is ...

Introduction

Transgressive system tracts [TST]

It is formed by the rise in sea level over the shelf edge and the general conditions of the transgressions. Sediment deposited on the shelf and slope sedimentation moves toward the continent as a transgressive series. TST presented retrogradatsionnym package parasikvensov characterizing transgression as the shelf and in the coastal lowlands. In zashelfovoy area due to lack of precipitation formed clay-fused incision [condensed-section deposits]. The foot of the front surface is called transgressive [transrgessive surface]. It represents the maximum flooding surface, which marks the beginning of transgression, reflected in a shift of the coastline in ...

What have been the concerns?

Civil liberties and security concerns of terrorism have existed in America for many years. The 20th century saw major security threats against the American people, which included WWI, WWII and the Cold War. For example, during WWI, the Sedition Act of 1918 led to many prosecutions for those who were against the war effort. Among the Sedition Act’s provisions were restrictions against the use of the postal service and free speech (Sauter & Carafano, 2005). During WWII, when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, the War Relocation Authority directed the evacuation of about 100,000 people of Japanese ancestry, who were ...

Module 8 Geology: Coastal Processes and Terrain

Sediments are transported along coastlines by several processes. Rivers deposit sediments as they enter wetlands and oceans. Tidal fluxes are constantly depositing and eroding sand while waves erode sand and deposit it somewhere else. Wetland and coastal dune vegetation retains sediments. Storm surges can dramatically erode coastal sediments. Coastal sand transport by all these methods are complex. But, the issue has become more complex with human impacts on the natural processes. Flood control measures and the damming of rivers decreases the downstream deposition of sediment. Sediment starvation of these areas typically results in our replacement of sand on our ...

According to the first respondent, Cold War was the persisting state of dispute, confusions and threats. It took place between the end of World War two in the year 1945 and the beginning of fall of Berlin Wall in the year 1989. It involved the Soviet Union, the United States and their respective alliance. Several nations joined together to fight their common enemy. It majorly involved the systematic use of spies to get military or political secrets, threatening, communism, propagandas, and competition in technology and space races. Technology competition was based on developing massive conventional and nuclear arms (James, ...

Recent decades brought a lot of changes in businesses. Information security has become very essential to the companies and ensuring this safety has become a big problem. Nowadays, information is mostly saved in electronic form on computer hard drives, but this is not the most secure way. The problem is that computers can break down, they can be stolen, hardware or software failure can cause damage or loosing important files or even the user can delete important files by mistake. Along with development of computers, people started to think how to secure the information. The best way to prevent ...

Income support policies are those that are available for individuals who are in need of financial support in order to pay for rent and other necessities. There are a lot of policies for those who are considered to be earning below what is needed to support their families. Social Security protects those who are disabled and unable to provide for themselves. However, there are some insurance premiums that allow for people to maintain their standard of living even after disablement.

Total and Permanent Disability Insurance

The detailed meaning of Total and Permanent Disability (TPD) insurance differs in each policy that is availed of by ...

Chevron Petroleum is a multinational energy company headquartered in California, USA. Chevron ranks among the six top most oil companies in the world. The corporation is actively operating in about 180 countries. The company is engaged in the various aspects of energy production; these aspects include geothermal, oil, and gas. The company undertakes power generation, exploration, refining, production, chemicals manufacture, transport and marketing.

Chevron is considered the third-largest oil producer in Nigeria and it is one of the largest private investors in Nigeria. The corporation operates as a joint venture with the Nigerian ...

A natural disaster occurs as the effect of natural hazard. The UN office for co-ordination of humanitarian affairs, defines natural disaster as the “consequences of events triggered by natural hazards that overwhelm local response capacity and seriously affect the social and economic development of a region.”. According to the UN office definition, not all natural phenomenons that occur on planet earth can be termed as natural disasters. A natural phenomenon becomes natural disaster when it proves uncontrollable during its occurrence. For instance, when hurricanes strike an uninhabited island, such a phenomenon cannot be termed as a natural disaster. In ...

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 ...

This very magnificent 2008 documentary, which has been acknowledged by various film institutions and award giving body, humbly portrays the true to life ordeal when the natural disaster Hurricane Katrina hit the New Orleans. It is all about the redemptive story of an aspiring artist, Kimberly Rivers Roberts, and Scott Roberts who overcame the “troubled waters” and fought a new life beginning. They fought against man and nature in this story.

After the disaster, the nightly news showed various robberies and lootings. The situation was hardly managed by the government. The two heroes have witnessed ...

For quite a long time, the issue of nuclear weapon development efforts by Iran has been on the political spotlight. This has to be related to the nuclear proliferation Act that was signed after the World War II where the nations of the world agreed that they needed to control the development of and ownership of weapons of mass destruction by different countries. This was in a bid to ensure the security of all the inhabitants of the world, mainly because if all the nations had such weapons and a third world war arose, that would be the end ...

The book is based on acceptable risk, ethical issues in international business, ethical treatment of employees, ethical issues in information technology and, marketing and disclosure of information. In the workplace, hazards can be found in different forms, including physical, chemical, psychological, biological, nonapplication of ergonomic principles and many others. Because of the number of hazards in most workstations and the general absence of consideration set to health and safety by many businesses, job-related diseases and accidents remain to be severe problems. Hence, trade unions have to insist that businesses regulate hazards at the inception and disallowing workers operate in ...

1) At the present time, I would not report this situation to anyone else.

2) I have already spoken to my Area Manager and to the company’s owner to report it, and I do not yet know what the company’s response will be. Even though Mr. Lord was fairly gruff in his response, it may be that a cleanup will follow. Mr. Rivieria’s answer is the most instructive – if I keep my area clean, then I should be able to avoid the hazard of an explosion. Even though wood dust can be explosive, I do not ...

Discussion of Results

All teams have played the same number of games. LA Galaxy is the best team in terms of win because it has the highest Z-score value of 1.988. Z-score for LA Galaxy for losses is the lowest at -1.84, which means that the team is has lost least in all the 34 games it has played. Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation Coefficient between wins and losses is -0.7, which means that there is a high correlation between the two variables, but in the opposite direction. This makes LA Galaxy to be the best team with respect ...

1.The values and beliefs held by a nurse in community health influence the nurse""? s ability to be an advocate for clients. Discuss your values and beliefs about rationing health care and how they affect your ability to be a patient advocate.

Rationing health implies restricting health care services only to those that can afford to pay for the high costs associated with health care. Those who are too poor to pay for health care, those who are not insured and those who are not willing to purchase any form of care are devoid of health care. The ...

Introduction

A. Role of Public Health personnel during disaster

The role of the public health personnel inclusive of the Public Nurse is crucial in the twenty-first century nursing practice. According to a position paper written by the Association of State and Territorial Director of Nurses (ASTDS) Public health nurses have specific skills for intervening in times of disaster. Actually, they can be considered first ...

Chemical and Biological Agents and Radiation

Hydrogen cyanide (HCN): HCN is a highly toxic chemical blood agent in the form of a colorless gas. Cardiovascular, neurological, respiratory and thyroid effects can occur as a result of chronic low exposure to HCN (Blanc, Hogan, Hryhorczuk, Hessl & Bernard, 1985). In case of exposure to liquid HCL, mild soapy water can be used for decontamination. Either sodium or amyl nitrite combined with sodium thiosulfate can be can be used as an antidote for the effects of HCN poisoning (USAMRICD, 2000). Treating patients with poor oxygen-carrying capacity can be a bit challenging ...

Introduction

Central Intelligence Agencies are capable of making predictions about terrorist attacks in communities. However, accuracy of predictions is always the greatest challenge. The same is true of weather reports that foretell earth quakes, tornadoes, flooding, hurricanes, fires, and the list can become expansive. This is why emergency response management is so essential in disaster preparedness for communities. Therefore, the community health nurse must be ...

Question one: Explosives

The Oklahoma City bombing occurred at nine o’clock during the day in April 1995. It saw the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Building. Two critical safety steps that were essential in the management of the disaster entailed the establishment of a safety perimeter that would limit the extent to which the first respondents could reach and the immediate withdrawal of the trapped bodies from the danger zones. The former essentially contributes in accountability and management of the respondents. It should be noted that the respondents’ desire to save anybody in the disaster must never ...

Sample portion of an emergency plan

Emergency planning is a very important part of public health intervention. It relates to keeping citizens safe when disaster occurs or developing a preventative strategy. This document will discuss the necessity of an emergency plan in communities and how they must be emerging from the background of a needs assessment. Fort Drum, New York is the community identified for this research and a sample emergency plan will be developed based on the evaluation of needs for that community.

Public Health: Emergency Planning Sample EOP

Introduction

Developing and maintaining emergency operation plans is a public health responsibility. Therefore, communities ought to always design measures either to ...

Computer forensic refers to the preservation, identification, extraction, interpretation and documentation of computer evidence (Wiles, Cardwell, and Reyes, 2007, p.2). Such evidence retrieved is usually aimed to be used in a court of law. Electronic crimes increased in the 1970s especially in the financial sector. These crimes resulted because people saw an opportunity of making money by manipulating computer data (Nelson, Phillips, and Steuart, 2010, p.5).

According to Mohay (2003, p.113), computer forensics was first used in the 1970s by the US military and intelligence agencies. Daniel (2011, p.14) notes that computer forensics began in 1984. During this year, ...

Part 1: Hazard Adjustments

Fort Drum County is in the northern part of Northern New York. The county is bounded to the east by the Saint Lawrence River and to the west by Lake Ontario. To the east and north Jefferson County is bounded to three other counties namely Lewis, Saint Lawrence, and Oswego.

Fort Drum is highly susceptible to three main hazards. This includes Atmospheric hazards (such as storm, extreme wind, and winter storm) hydrological hazards (like Ice Jams, floods, and drought) and other hazards such as wildfires. Fort Drum County for a long time now has been ...

Security requirements are crucial to the effectiveness and efficiency of a program or system. There are so many ways of obtaining standard security requirements that can be adopted and used. Such requirements can be drawn from the readily available security frameworks that have set standards that are internationally acceptable. They can also be company requirements set by the members.

Why are protection profiles reusable?

A protection profile gives an outline of standards, objectives and prerequisites for products that concern security requirements as regards various users. However, the requirements for protection profiles are entirely independent of the implementation process they are available for the public ...

1. Contingency planning requires an understanding of the crises that are most likely to occur, the potential impacts of those events, the resources that are needed to address those situations, and the most efficient means of accessing those resources. How has the center addressed each of these concerns?

YNH-CEPDR provides a complete solution to create a proper contingency planning system which includes risk mitigation planning and based on the anticipated impact the actual steps are planned and there are proper guidelines that are created and shared with the operations team so that the business continuity efforts can be in place, ...

Technology as a tool in disaster management has its disadvantages, which can have serious consequences. Every shred of technology in existence today came to be as a result of man’s discoveries and invention. Man by nature is a creature bound to make mistakes from time to time thus any technological equipment has its loopholes which cannot be realized immediately if several tests are not carried out. Technology keeps changing as man discovers advanced way of improving the performance of technological devices that had been previously invented. Technology therefore is vulnerable since it gets replaced by newer and faster ...

Introduction

According to research, cultural background heavily influences tendency toward optimistic bias. Scholars find that optimistic bias is based on whether cultures have an independent construal of self, as Western nations do, or an interdependent construal of self, as Eastern countries do.

General Influence of the Southern United States’ Culture on Optimistic Bias

America is a Western culture, which defines “the independent construal of self as characterized by a bounded and autonomous sense of self that is relatively distinct from others and the environment” (Heine & Lehman, 1995, p. 596). According to Chang, Sanna, and Asakawa, “for most Westerners it is the attainment of personal happiness . . . ...

Human service professionals learn practical skills, techniques and strategies so they can successfully intervene when families have been impacted by a crisis. A crisis may be in the form of a natural disaster such as a tornado, hurricane and/or flood. Each family is unique, therefore the way they handle the trauma of a crisis will be different for each family and for each family member. Predicting what the needs of a family will be if they experience a crisis is almost impossible. A crisis intervention professional has many resources available; a crisis intervention model is ...

For each stated objective / learning outcome statement below explain which are attainable (and why) and which are measurable (and why). (Be aware that attainable need not necessarily be readily measurable and those objectives that may not be easily attainable could possibly be measurable.

1. There will never be any accidents on this job.

Accidents are unavoidable. They are not anticipated nor expected to happen and therefore it is impossible to predict whether or not a workplace will have an accident or not. This makes this particular objective unattainable.

Although it seems that this particular objective is measurable, the ...

The paper of Chuck Huff, fellow of the Psychology Department, St. Olaf College, entitled “Unintentional Power in the Design of Computer Systems” discusses on the problems that occur in the design of a computer system which results to harm, destruction or even instability. As the title says, the design glitch was done unintentional or simply, the author doesn’t know about it in the first place. His paper was a wake-up call to everybody in both software and hardware developers to be very careful in the design aspect of their modules. This is to help ...

Kinetic theory of matter tries to explain all molecules in terms of motion. The theory posits that every substance consists of many small particles referred to as molecules. Substances in this case are called matter and are in three forms; solids, liquids, and gases. Solids have molecules that are closer to each other by intermolecular forces. Liquids on the other hand have molecules slightly far apart with gases the furthest apart. Furthermore, according to this theory all the molecules are in constant random motion referred to as Brownian motion (Chang, 2004).

The study of heat relates to kinetic theory ...

Energy is the ability to produce change in a system. It can easily be converted from one form to another. The process of changing one form of energy to another is called energy conversion (Sorensen, 2007). This paper is therefore devoted to the analysis of how energy can be converted from one form to another. Also, it presents a clear elaboration on what fossil fuels are and why they are becoming attractive energy sources.

Three different ways can be used to explain energy conversion. Energy can be converted through action of forces, when atoms emit or absorb photons of ...

Disaster recovery plan: ABC Corporation

Surrounded with a beautiful and friendly environment, ABC Corporation is located at Jacksonville across the St. Johns River and just very few minutes from Atlantic Ocean. ABC Corporation boasts of recognition in the Florida region. The ABC Corporation deals with insurance services to millions of employees. The products they concentrate on are heath cover for employees. It has many branches in Jacksonville.

ABC Corporation has heavy reliance on information systems and information technology. As a requirement for most modern organizations, there is the need to have a strategy that will be used to recover the systems and the operation ...