Pike River Mining Disaster – A Case Study On the 19th of September 2010‚ what was to become known as the Pike River Mining Disaster began in the close proximity to the town of Greymouth. At an occupied mine of 31 miners and contractors‚ an initial explosion occurred in the West Coast Region of New Zealand’s South Island at approximately 3:44pm. Two were fortunate enough to walk away from the scene and were treated for moderate injuries at hospital‚ then later released the next day. It was believed
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Disaster Recovery Planning in Banking Sector Introduction On September 11‚ 2001‚ the terrorist attack destroyed the World Trade Center in New York‚ which was the most highly concentrated financial area. This attack not only destroyed the twin towers‚ but also ruined the financial system. Banks located in the World Trade Center went through an unprecedented disaster. The company’s back-up facilities which were too close to the primary facilities were disrupted as the primary facilities. Single
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Cause and Effect of Volcanoes Any natural opening in the Earth’s crust‚ called a fissure‚ where melted rock‚ ash‚ gases‚ and steam come out is called a volcano. Volcanoes look like mountains‚ but they are really flat land that is pushed upward because of the pressure below the earth. The pressure comes from hot magma and gases that build up below the earth’s surface and that work up to the surface through cracks in the earth’s plates. As it is forced up to the surface‚ the gases and magma push
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Loving a person isn’t about logic or reason. (Paradise Kiss) Is there a limit to how much you can love somebody? No matter how much I hurt him or get hurt by him‚ I find myself far from hating him‚ actually hoping that those wounds will scar‚ like burns…because then you can never forget me. Kamijou Hiroki (Junjou Romantica) Everyone goes around trying to find their soulmate‚ but no matter how hard they look‚ they can never find it. So instead‚ they force two bodies together. Everyone wants
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OUtLINING It might prove useful to organize the ideas that suggest themselves during the freewriting and clustering exercises into a preliminary outline form. It is possible to write a paper without an outline‚ but it might suggest that your paper lacks organization if it proves impossible to write an outline that describes the thinking process behind your paper. Outlining never hurt; how helpful it is depends on what kind of thinker you are. At the least‚ a tentative outline can suggest areas in
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Western Governor’s University Nurses play a major role in responding to natural or man-made disasters. They are often on the frontlines of the recovery effort. It is crucial to understand their role and how they collaborate with others on the response team to ensure a positive outcome. There is a definitive chain of command in the wake of a disaster. In our scenario‚ it is a three-tiered staff. At the highest level is the incident commander. No matter the size of
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Authorities End Crisis After a blockade by angry protesters‚ local authorities have made an agreement with the community. The agreement indicated that the waste that was accumulated throughout Bandung between Thursday and Saturday can begin to be cleaned up‚ although it may take time to eliminate all the waste from Bandung’s roads. Cece Iskandar‚ head of Bandung Sanitation Office said it would take at least ten days to freshen up the streets due to the limited amount of garbage trucks. People
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During the High Middle Ages‚ Western Europe developed one of the most impressive and successful civilizations the world had yet seen. One might have thought it was a civilization destined to continue essentially unchanged for centuries. But that’s not what happened. In the 14th century‚ a series of disasters shook Western European civilization to its foundations‚ eventually forcing major changes in Europe. The first disaster to hit Europe was famine. Some of the agricultural success of the High
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NATURAL DISASTER: A natural disaster is a major adverse event resulting from natural processes of the Earth. A natural disaster can cause loss of life or property damage‚ and typically leaves some economic damage in its wake‚ the severity of which depends on the affected population’s resilience‚ or ability to recover. TYPES OF NATURAL DISASTERS: 1-EARTHQUAKES: An earthquake is the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth’s crust that creates seismic waves. At the Earth’s surface
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Social Benefit or Social Disaster Shannon Pieczynski Principles of Management 300 CSU Global Professor Aguiar 8/11/13 Social Benefit or Social Disaster Over the past decade social media has become a booming phenomenon. At first it was instant messenger‚ Myspace‚ Facebook‚ and Twitter but over the past four years we have been introduced to things like Instagram‚ Snapchat‚ Vine‚ and Kek. The social media world grows everyday and
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